The Official Status Thread
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@error Yet another reason I own multiple wheeled conveyances.
Sure, in a pathological case I might end up driving a commercial truck to work, but at least I don't have to deal with cow orkers
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
FUNNY.
http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nelson-haha1.jpg
Sorry :(
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Remember those Kings of Wall Street have all the money because they're so much smarter than us!
Oh. No. They were actually pumping up Nintendo's stock price without realizing that Nintendo doesn't own or profit from Pokemon Go. (Other than the licensing fees.)
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@blakeyrat clickbaitey title. What they announced was that the projected profits are already included in their estimates
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@blakeyrat Top reddit comment which, I think, hits the nail on the head:
This is a trashy headline. People aren't stupid in the fact that they don't know who owns the products they are investing in. The stocks dropped on the one little line that says earnings from the game are already included in their income forecast.
-/u/codesign
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
profit from Pokemon Go. (Other than the licensing fees.)
Also in the somewhat pointless handwavy way of 'brand recognition' - old people who don't normally care are playing something with the Pokemon name now, which can only be good for them I imagine.
In other news:
Status: By the end of the day, I'll likely have bought a Vita to play dumb JRPGs on.
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Eh, except PoGo isn't at all similar in terms of how it works compared to the other games. And the other games don't play on your phone (but rather require a $200 system that takes up more space in your pocket). So I don't expect there to be a lot of crossover from the PoGo players that are "new to the universe" into Sun/Moon - between the people who see the price tag of a 2DS/3DS and walk away, or the people who research what the hand held games are and say NTY.
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@izzion It will sell toys, and it will make parents more willing to buy their kids those games, because they're familiar with the franchise.
You haven't posted anything I don't know, or that matters at all.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
driving a commercial truck to work
Heh...I remember driving to work.
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@boomzilla @Luhmann it was her own door.
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@FrostCat How did she know you'd be in there?
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@boomzilla Lure module!
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Status: 9:03 I tell a customer I can meet at 10:00. 10:07 she includes three other people on an email and says "should we meet in my office?" 10:15 I say "let me know when you're ready and I'll send you the meeting invite."
It's 11:10 now and I haven't heard back from them. Good thing I had something else to do, and that apparently the problem wasn't a big one.
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@Magus Difficulty: I am yet to find ANY Pokemon merchandising.
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@Weng Perhaps you should wander on in to a K B Toys, if you can still find one[1], or a Toys R Us, instead of wherever you're looking now.
[1] I don't even know if they still exist.
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@Weng Have you tried looking in places other than under the rock you live under?
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Status: Secret shop this year is quite mediocre.
This crossover is pretty good.
Oh good, oneboxed images still DoS servers :/
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
next-door neighbor's wife just knocked on the door, and then said in a falsetto, "hello, I'm a Pokémon, come catch me!"
those porn movie scripts are getting stranger and stranger ...
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@FrostCat Oh. I mostly restrict my toy shopping to that which is available in the claw machines at the bowling alley.
Which actually tracks quite well. There were even Trump campaign hats.
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@JazzyJosh does that mean Slark is Undyne?
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@ben_lubar Probably. He fits the design the most.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh. I mostly restrict my toy shopping to that which is available in the claw machines at the bowling alley.
Which actually tracks quite well. There were even Trump campaign hats.That's amazing.
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@JazzyJosh Naga Shyren
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Status: Well, glad to see my work computer has the gumption of my laptop and is so well synchronized that its hard drive is also failing...
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@Tsaukpaetra
This is what happens when you buy your electric infrastructure from @Lorne-Kates. He gets money and you get fuk'd.
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@Tsaukpaetra That's an average bootup for my work machine. Been like that for years.
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@ben_lubar She's not, really blue. More green.
And she has 0 legs.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh. I mostly restrict my toy shopping to that which is available in the claw machines at the bowling alley.
Which actually tracks quite well. There were even Trump campaign hats.That's amazing.
The Trump hats or doing my toy shopping out of claw machines?
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar She's not, really blue. More green.
And she has 0 legs.
Did I say Naga Undyne?
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra That's an average bootup for my work machine. Been like that for years.
This kind of thing wasn't a problem until they started force-rebooting our machines every day....
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@ben_lubar Oh I thought you were making a witty pun. Didn't realize that monster's name.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
The Trump hats or doing my toy shopping out of claw machines?
The Trump hats being in a claw machine at a bowling alley. I nearly want to go to Pennsyltucky just to see this. I feel as though when we open the gates to hell, they will open at the nexus of such an occurence.
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@Polygeekery It was truly majestic when they were first stocked in.
There are only a few left now.
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@Weng In apparent recompense, they were just stocked with an item that I like to call the LGBTQ Football. It's a football. With rainbow stripes. Ribbed for her pleasure. Made out of what passes for the same rubber you use for sex toys.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
hard drive is also failing...
This is going to be a long day...
Maybe I might try cloning the installation to the other partition....
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@Tsaukpaetra Look at it this way, you just need it to survive til October.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Look at it this way, you just need it to survive til October.
Agreed, but performance is so bad I'm seriously considering moving the installation to a USB disk at the moment (which, coincidentally, probably won't work because mounting USB drives is forbidden by some program or other)...
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@FrostCat Hendoo vs Boddist: Fight on!
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@FrostCat agnostic isn't a religion any more than "off-" is a distinct color.
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@ben_lubar Again, the guy wrote Hendoo and Boddist. You're giving him too much credit.
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Status: http://www.strawpoll.me/10831203
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@Magus Uh. Are you looking at a different picture?
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That is the least homeless looking homeless guy.
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@Weng Weird, looking again, I no longer see those, and just see 'pagan' as being hilarious. though he still spelled Buddhist wrong.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: http://www.strawpoll.me/10831203
Really? That's like, the first time ever I've seen context-sensitive advertising work properly...
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Searched for 'mybatis varargs' for some reason. Third result:
E_WRONG_FACEPALM_NODEBB
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@Tsaukpaetra Free chips and guac link plskthx
EDIT: Found it
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Searched for 'mybatis varargs' for some reason. Third result:
E_WRONG_FACEPALM_NODEBB
Fixed.
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Status: Support (which has recently been thinned down) has decided development is available 24/7.
We have 3 developers. My manager has his phone on silent at night, and I don't have a work phone to begin with. So last Saturday 5am they called my colleague, who did have his work phone turned on. He was not amused.