@Arantor The good news, at least, is that I've successfully transferred yon lurking fear. In my defense, if I hadn't meant for that to happen it would be bad news.

@Arantor step 7, just... oh. Well, close enough.

@LaoC also not Herzog, then? I was kinda hoping it was somehow both. In related news, I am considering learning audio adversarial nets in order to make a more entertaining voice for yon computer. I wonder if I should let the subject know, maybe they'll want to film it or sue me or something.

@boomzilla said in The official 2017 death pool: @Gribnit welcome, time pod traveller! I had him in 2017 and I stand by my loss.

@The_Quiet_One Would have turned 100 on 17 January. So close.

Well, I need to continue this thing (which I have). But, parallell to me developing a system, my DMs house rules are evolving into their own system too by him taking bits and pieces from other systems and swapping out parts of DoD '91 with them. So the experience system and weapon skills from Mythrax are the latest, and apparently the combat system from Pendragon (cannot confirm if and how much, as I have never played it). I have noticed this needs some tuning, as stuff has ended up weird. There is now action points, so can do several things each round of combat. We figured that unlike Mythrax, there was no benefit to saving any action points for defense as defending against attacks is now automatic. So just all out offense with the actions. There are weapon styles, so one skill for three weapons. Right now this seems to be a package of melee weapon, dagger, ranged weapon and a special ability. The concept could work, but the current iteration does not. Especially not the abilities. The one who lucked out on the character (we got premades, and picked at random) got the heaviest hitting weapon (2H sword) and a special ability of "gets one free attack every round of combat". I also got a 2H weapon but a glaive, with ability "every round of combat, get a free attack on any enemy in melee range that is not focused on you". And the one who got the worst character sheet also got the worst combat ability with spear "get a free attack on the first round of combat if the enemy isn't also wielding a spear". Seems a bit... unbalanced. The next part are the combat rolls themselves. Both the attacker and defender does a skill check vs weapon style. Like DoD you want to roll equal of below your skill level for success. Whoever wins does damage to the other. Both fail, nobody does damage. Both succeed, whoever has the least difference between skill level and roll wins. So the best is rolling exactly on your skill, which counts as a crit and doubling the damage dies. This also leads to a situation in where both have a decent chance of succeeding, the one with the lower skill has a higher chance of winning as there is a smaller span between 1 and skill level for them. If the attacker wins, full damage roll to the defender. If the defender wins, half damage roll to the attacker. So, if one has slvl 16 and the other 12 and both roll a 5, the one with 12 will win because 12-5 < 16-5. It just seems very backwards to me.

@boomzilla said in Benefits of the repeal of Net Neutrality: @LaoC said in Benefits of the repeal of Net Neutrality: So that's good. How did that go? We all died. It was terrible. @Mason-Wheeler and other net neutrality kooks hardest hit. So exactly as predicted.

@Gąska said in Where did @fbmac go?: And fuck your avatar that looks like layouting glitch. This. I actually posted that to a bug thread the other day.

@GOG said in Stillwater retires from IT: @stillwater said in Stillwater retires from IT: @GOG said in Stillwater retires from IT: but rather due to the fact that a lot of the pre-flight resources have been taken out, meaning you either bring in outside knowledge, or you're stuck wondering what the hell is going on My only Flight sim knowledge is "pull that lever thingy all the way down and then press the nose up button and the flight takes off. Fly around till you crash" Is there no in game tutorial? How the fuck am I supposed to learn how to fly? Okay, I've had a gander at the training modules and it isn't quite as bad as I make it out. I haven't actually gone through the tutorials, but they've got modules for Basic handling, Take-off and landing, VFR navigation, and Airliner training (the last consisting solely of take-off and landing in an A320neo). At the very least, you should be able to learn to get up in the sky and come back down again. There's still nothing on managing complex aircraft, navigation instruments, IFR, and all that jazz, so it's not enough to turn you into a serious simmer, but I guess it should be enough for casual flying. Since I've been suddenly reminded where I put this (thanks, ), a quick update - actually, not so quick, 'coz it's the biggest update to the game so far. But anyway, they put in a bunch of new stuff (including a Super Hornet, which is still a lot of fun) and there's now an IFR tutorial available, as well.

@Gomesz785 said in big brain af but doesn't this violate a google ads policy?: @Carnage THat's where the author said it not me. Yes.

@dkf Strangely, they have no users. Can't have users when they can't be fussed to register.

@Tsaukpaetra said in Pawwgers: Is it SFW?: @Zerosquare said in Pawwgers: Is it SFW?: I have to say, @Tsaukpaetra's way of getting people to send him NSFW pictures is pretty clever. Sadly, there's no code that actually uploads it to me. Would be fucking awesome though. The data stays completely clientside. Aw. I only get off on having remote processors have to examine filth. Pass.

@HardwareGeek said in Analog hobbies: the chimney is in entirely the wrong place... Fixing this would require modifying and reprinting the chimney and two roof sections (fixing the hole where the chimney is, and making a hole where it's supposed to be; ... the kitchen windows are too big... Fixing this involves modifying and reprinting one wall section ... and the associated windows, window frames, and window "glass". Maybe a half-hour to fix and 6-ish hours to reprint (10-15 including the roof and chimney). I fixed these and reprinted the wall and roof sections (the second roof section is still printing). The roof sections are pretty big and take up most of the printable area; I can fit a few small things on the printer build surface with one, but not the kitchen wall. So I tried rotating it 90°, standing it on its end, because it has a smaller footprint that way, and I could fit it and the walls into a single print run. (A second run is still needed for the other roof section.) It needs lots of supports, no matter which way it's oriented, and there's no apparent reason it shouldn't have printed in that orientation just as well as in the usual orientation, but for some reason it did not like it at all. It looked more like the roof of an old, collapsing barn than the roof of an inhabited, well-maintained house. So I used the walls from that print and printed the roof again, with other, smaller stuff filling the remaining printable space. I am also learning more about what my printer can and can't do. I'm printing some of the interior walls, and printing walls that are accurately scaled down from their IRL dimensions (1.52 mm thick) is possible, although they're too thin to successfully print holes through the walls to run wires/fibers for lighting. Doors, however scale down to about 0.44 mm thick; that's too thin. They print, but they're so thin, they're flexible and warped. Hmm, maybe the dimension compensation I turned on for the airbrush adapter is thinning them more than necessary; I should try turning that off.

@Jeffrey-Hatley Did you try to switch their cables around? This sounds like Windows can't tell them apart, so it's just placing them in the order it found them. So, in theory, if you switch the ports around, the discovery order should also get changed.

@cvi said in Resolved: Indexing: pedantic sort of englisher I am in this post, and I'm ok with that.

@blek said in Hail Caesar!: Decimate the frontend web developers. Ave!

Robots are tools, not people, and can never have any legal standing except as property. If you manage to make one that raises the question of whether that's tantamount to slavery, you must have been trying specifically to raise that question, so fuck you, you now own slaves. Well, except not, because they're still not people. But if the onus could exist, you have it.

No-one has ever convinced anyone of anything that person didn't convince themselves of. seem safe enough? This one pisses people off the most.

@Gąska said in 8 Values: @zecc said in 8 Values: I support single-payer, universal healthcare. What's that, a single person paying for everyone's healthcare? I don't want to be the one who supports that! You tried to make a joke, but the reality is exactly that - in single payer system, there is one entity that pays for everyone's medical bills - it's called the state, and it's funded entirely from taxes. Could be treasure or tribute. We don't do a lot of those these days, but all three Ts are technically on the menu.

Alright, well, it's CAp, I can say that with measured confidence. And yeah, I guess that's it. Beyond it being severely ambitious, and still so far having risen to its goal. Some concern if arithmetic is overturned. Also some dependence on other lemmae. I only hope that I do not fully transubstantiate until after deployment. During would be showing off, and before would add unacceptable risk.

@accalia said in Let's all play 'Guess What the Hedgehog is Saying in Japanese!': @Magus said in Let's all play 'Guess What the Hedgehog is Saying in Japanese!': I only mentioned her because of the occasional kitsune comments. Little old Moi? Some sort of inhuman spirit? Flattery will get you.... Almost, but not quite, anything really. *sighs in wistfulness*

@Luhmann said in TAG CLOUD PAIRS: @Zecc Disappointed by the lack of pineapples and pens Be the change you want to see in the world.

@DogsB said in Prayer Wheel: If you give an nft per prayer I'll offer five Hail Marys. Running 5 Hail Mary for this thing is like a unit test... if you need 5 million let me know, and that's still pretty titchy.

@Zenith said in Thoughts/Experiences with WACOM-style drawing tablets?: @Gribnit said in Thoughts/Experiences with WACOM-style drawing tablets?: @Zenith said in Thoughts/Experiences with WACOM-style drawing tablets?: @Gribnit So would a Crayola light table that you can pick up for $25 at Walmart. Sure. That wouldn't ding the players verisimilitude at all, if they're robots being trained to play D&D with the spastically violent or something. Cost well cut. @Gribnit said in Thoughts/Experiences with WACOM-style drawing tablets?: An overhead projector with transparencies would let you do full cel/sprite animation. Are you going to do animation in real-time? Because that would be perfectly cromulent. Yes. Shitty animation, to be precise.

I remember being impressed by this software when I was new to web development: https://www.tigercolor.com/ColorImpact.htm It uh. Hasn't aged well. Filed under: Nor have I. Edit: In addition the Color Composer requires that you have Internet Explorer version 5 or later with the Flash plug-in.

@error Update: They failed to mate in captivity.

@dkf said in TDWTF neighbors: Bloody regular or...

@Gribnit Also no, fuck that, if I want to drink imaginary alcohol I want it to actually contain imaginary alcohol.

@TheCPUWizard said in Come up with your favorite MENMONIC.: And hear I was looking for MENMONIC, but only found mnemonic... This misspelling seems most common in... medicine! Sleep tight. Runner up, blockchain.

@Benjamin-Hall Reminds me of TORG in some ways. You have people walking around from different realities, and they bring some of that other reality with them, so you get magic or sci-fi blinkenlights that can violate the local laws of physics. The Realignments, in particular, remind me of how the various realities on TORG convert normal people into their reality. (In TORG, everything happens on Earth, with various realities invading Earth and converting areas into their reality.)

@Benjamin-Hall said in A Challenge: Only Gratitude Allowed: Day 3: I'm grateful for music. Both listening and singing. I almost always have to have music of some sort going while I'm doing anything solo. And it needs to have words. Even if I don't understand the words, I need there to be other voices besides the ones in my head. As most of you know I'm quite religious. My strongest "feelings of the divine" come as I listen to sacred music. Not just of my own (narrowly-considered) tradition, but of others as well. One that always gets to me is the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) from John Rutter's Requiem mass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnwLGZxWy3Q On the flip side, I also enjoy metal and rock and alternative. Of many types. Not so much the screamo-types, but things with lyrics and music that blend well. Or topics that hit me For our <censored> friends, here's one I like on that front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGtEH1i78sI You might enjoy "Right In Two" by Tool.

@Gribnit said in Speak Aramaic? Prone to violence?: If you've got a black coat and white shoes too, you're in on the strength. We're looking for time bombs. Cadillac not required. https://youtu.be/2WOx4U3sCuQ

@Tsaukpaetra said in What is the largest amount of code you added before testing/running anything?: What's a you-nit test? A test was run and it found that I don't knit.

@El_Heffe You make a very adulterous point. I encourage people all damn day at work already.

@M_Adams said in Write your own obituary tagline: @Gribnit said in Write your own obituary tagline: "This site is considered a biohazardtoxic waste dump ." FTFHg.... Deface my effigy, will you? Not complaining, that's just my new effigy.

@Zenith yeah, but "oops, something happened" isn't what's being proposed. That's the other end of the spectrum to a complete stack trace, memory dump and full version of every component installed on the system. Somewhere in the middle, where a user readable cause and what the user can do to fix it (whether that's trying a different bank account, trying again in 30 seconds and hoping connectivity has been restored, or emailing support) is the holy grail

@Zenith said in Re: government is really unattractive now: Even on the rare occasions an internal job is posted, it's basically already earmarked for somebody's friend. IMO this is the case for lots of other government as well. Say in Hong Kong, government posts are supposed to be recruited publicly. However they make sure every candidate except the one appointed-to-be to fail their interview. Since interview score is given objectively, there's no way to really complain for that.

@Rhywden I never did nmr, but xrf (x-ray resonance fluoroscopy) has a similar issue. Except with the heavier metals, especially lead. Any lead on the sample will drown out anything else because it's got spectral lines everywhere, and bright ones.

@Watson said in The official 2020 death pool: @remi said in The official 2020 death pool: Then by virtue of being the widow of a Civil War veteran, she's (was...) a Civil War widow, Yes. That's the bit I'm talking about. It's a common-speech shortcut for "widow of someone who fought in the Civil War." Sounds cromulent to me Would you prefer "widow of a Civil War veteran"? That would be but longer, so when using language informally (i.e. in this specific instance it's not a status with a precise definition, just a way to describe her late husband) I'm not really shocked by "Civil War widow."

@Atazhaia said in An epic application: I’d stay away from the game development (Fortnite) side of Epic. It does not sound like a healthy work environment. FTFGD

@Mason_Wheeler said in CodeWars: reach 75 honor Trophy earned.

14 miles. New personal best. Man, I'm going to gain like 10lbs this Thursday.

@El_Heffe Dibs on @boomzilla's lawn.

@izzion said in My rap name: @Karla said in My rap name: @error said in My rap name: @Karla said in My rap name: I have performed under the name DJ Kitty K Awesome; which strip club? Silly, DJs don't strip, that was a different name. Or they're just jockeying something else that's off by one THAT's not stripping

@remi said in PokéVanity: Why the fuck do we have at least 3 almost identical emojis with 3 bars (  ) FontAwesome does aliases for stuff like that.

:@anonymous234:: Posts a link to the neural network cats thread that's been dormant for years : Makes a necropost with the meme Everyone:

@JBert said in So *that's* where they got it from!: @Kamil-Podlesak said in So *that's* where they got it from!: Maybe it works only for closely related languages. My Indian colleagues can fluently mix English and Hindi during their conversations so it's not as if they need to be related. It's actually slightly disconcerting overhearing them because you frequently think "I know some of those words". I hear that with a lot of Spanish speakers around here.

Here we go! Packaging seems ok Seems legit! No lies, that's aluminum! Looks like a decent grind to me. Looks like we got a winner!

@boomzilla should have waited a bit longer to get a FBMAC banner in here

@Gąska said in Do other (non-D&D) game systems have problems with people ignoring anything non-mechanical?: I have no problem calling it intelligence. For some games I've played, calling it AS would be far more accurate.