🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Bad idea: Trying to car jack a car moving at high speed.
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Man, I wish that went on a few seconds longer, either to see the guy's reaction, or to see him beat on the prankster.
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Apparently creating ~10M files in a single directory. There are interesting hickups where the program creating the files stalls for a few sec every 500k files or so.
Alas, what I'm really wondering is whether or not anything down the chain will explode (like backups, somebody accidentally opening that directory in a GUI viewer, or something?)
Filed under: Not the most elegant solution, but the most straightforward one.
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Like...I get the underlying thought...and the annoying self righteous tone...but this is seriously asking for abuse of the spirit of the thing. I mean...when I was in college I would have abused it just on principle and for my own amusement.
I am going to start using the women's restrooms then. They have candles and couches and sometimes after a particularly strenuous poo (Indian and/or Thai food), I need a little rest.
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I don't normally need much effort to poo post-Indian.
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Alas, what I'm really wondering is whether or not anything down the chain will explode (like backups, somebody accidentally opening that directory in a GUI viewer, or something?)
Windows? Try opening it in Explorer...
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Bad Idea: Attempting to play Civilization: Beyond Earth with a measly GTX 460 for a graphics card. I guess I'll go do other things instead.
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It's on a headless linux machine. I could probably get somebody with Windows to mount it etc etc tomorrow, but meh.
(Also, for performance reasons I probably need to take a different approach. Probably one that involves fewer but bigger files.)
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That's fine, it's basically Civ V with less stuff and a different research tree.
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Except Civ V sucked compared to IV.
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Perhaps, but I didn't have IV, and V is good enough. Either way, BE is a straight downgrade.
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I've heard the same about it.
Civ V was made by the guy who did the last couple DLCs for Civ IV. He's a uber-geek who LOVES:
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Micromanagement
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Extremely obscure game mechanics that interact with each other in vague ways
Which are basically the two things I like least.
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I spend most of my time watching videos on another monitor while playing V, since most units will just go do something and not tell you about it if you ask them to. But admittedly I'm relatively bad at it.
The thing with BE is that you don't have eras or ages or anything, you just have a circular skill tree. The standard victory types involve researching things there, and then finishing some building. There's no culture or religion at all. I like the way units upgrade and are based on how far into an alignment you go, but it feels like there's nothing to do. After about two games, I was done.
In V, at least it was fun to try Austrian-style purchasing every city, or dominate with culture as Polynesia, or have far more gold than everyone as Venice. BE has none of that.
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I spend most of my time watching videos on another monitor while playing V,
In V, at least it was fun to try Austrian-style purchasing every city, or dominate with culture as Polynesia, or have far more gold than everyone as Venice. BE has none of that.
Great, but here's a quiz; Civ V has religions. What good are they? How do they interact with other game systems?
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Great, but here's a quiz; Civ V has religions. What good are they? How do they interact with other game systems?
In general, they're pretty nice. Their bonuses are typically mild, but they can give you a nice income or boost your productivity or growth rate. They also help a lot with cultural victories.
But typically, they're mostly a nice-to-have more than a necessity. You just don't want anyone else to be the one getting tithes from your city.
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Well I did like 4 playthroughs and I couldn't tell the difference between the Civs that got religion early, or the Civs that got it super-late. It could be I'm an idiot.
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Great, but here's a quiz; Civ V has religions. What good are they?
Did they change a lot from IV (which had religions). I haven't played V, but they definitely do stuff in IV. It's been a while, but you definitely got culture boosts. Plus, you could send missionaries to help you undermine other civs. I think some other stuff, like religious based great leaders or something?
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In IV, all the mechanics are easily explainable in a few sentences. Well, except some of the stuff in Beyond the Sword-- but again, that was made by the guy who later went on to be lead designer of Civ V.
The problem is Civ V is cram-packed with mechanics that either do things so subtle they have no apparent effect, or are impossible to explain to the user without 27 spreadsheets, or a combination of both. Then they also made combat far more irritating without making it correspondingly more fun, and... basically Civ V was a huge disappointment among me and my friends who play it.
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It depends on how your religion works, really. Some of the perks just give like 1 of every resource, which is useless. I'd always pick modifiers like tithe, which give 4 gold per follower, and then focused on spreading my religion as wide as possible. Lots of city states will just suddenly become friendly when you convert them, and then you get more boosts. But again, it's typically small stuff. But it takes time to build influence, and helps you get some early-game buffs to food (fertility).
Plus, you could send missionaries to help you undermine other civs. I think some other stuff, like religious based great leaders or something?
You can use missionaries to spread, inquisition to destroy, and Great Prophets to do both, on a city. Prophets can also build monuments which provide faith and culture, and faith can be used to buy great people when you get certain perks.
But overall, Blakey's core issue still stands; religion isn't a major thing, and you aren't likely to win or lose a game specifically because you chose some perk. I personally don't mind that, but I can see how someone would be unhappy with it.
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OT...
Pass lambdas between collection items during compareTo.
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But again, it's typically small stuff.
Some of the religion perks are very useful for a cultural victory, but that's one of the more boring types.
What really irritated me was being unable to stack units. And none of the wonders in Civ 3, 4 or 5 have ever felt as satisfying to get as the ones in SMAC/SMAX. Unleash my quantum shard copters of doom!
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One positive thing I can say about BE is that spies are much better. They can even call sandworms on your foes!
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I was a huge fan of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and Beyond Earth attempts to be a spiritual successor to that game. It does pretty well, too. I haven't played a "proper" Civilization game since Civ3 so I can't compare it to the newer ones.
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Unleash my quantum shard copters of doom!
I usually rushed the Secret Projects which provide the Psi offense/defense bonuses, then equip everything with Psi shielding and Psi weaponry. So I was into the quantum Psi gravships of doom!
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@dkf said:
I think that was due to a proprietary name that “went native”…
Maybe? AIUI both names are contractions of the longer, chemical name, that I CBA to look up; just they used different pieces of the word there v. here (and that's all I know on the subject).
If both acetaminophen and paracetamol are contractions of the longer chemical name, that must be one hekuva chemical name.
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So I was into the quantum Psi gravships of doom!
The psi stuff only really worked at its best once you were really quite late in the game. Shard copters were a bit earlier and cheaper; you didn't send one, you sent 20 or 30 and chewed apart those Morganite scum in a few turns…
(The Cloning Vats turned the Cybernetic Consciousness's main disadvantage into a huge advantage. Totally broken in a fun way, provided you could win the race to the project. )
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If both acetaminophen and paracetamol are contractions of the longer chemical name, that must be one hekuva chemical name.
Had to scroll a bit to find it in wikipedia, but: "The words acetaminophen (used in the United States,[16] Canada,[16] Japan, Venezuela, and Colombia)[15] and paracetamol (used elsewhere) both come from a chemical name for the compound: para-acetylaminophenol and para-acetylaminophenol." The original article, which is trivial to find via your search engine of choice, shows the two shortened derivations in bold, but I CBA to put in the right Discobbmarktml.
Wait, fuck that, have a screenie:
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Yeah, they changed a lot from 4. To me 5 felt like the dumbed-down toddler's version of Civ. Fairly disappointed honestly.
@Magus if you get the chance 4 is a helluva lot of fun to play. There are some pretty fantastic mods for it too (FFH/RifE and Realism Invictus come to mind, would provide link but mobile)
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para-acetylaminophenol
Pretty close to what I would have guessed from the two contractions. Of course it's easy for me to say after the fact, but I really did guess that, or something pretty close to it, before I saw your answer.
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@blakeyrat said:
You are the worst, and @mikeTheLiar you're the one where you get one with the power of telepathy has dire consequences for every one of our time! It's much more than me. But ask yourself this: why *should* you know it. You haven't even had my coffee yet.
From the REAL (actual) THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Auuuuugh!
UPDATE 9/9: Detroit Man Caught Nude In Bed With Daughter Charged With Assault
PONTIAC (WWJ) – Police in Oakland County say a man was stabbed by his father-in-law after finding the 47-year-old nude in bed with his wife — the man’s own daughter — and the older man is now behind bars.
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The 24-year-old woman told police that she and her father were out drinking and when she arrived back at the house, she passed out. She did not know what had happened until her husband woke her up, police said.
I'm sure it was all a misunderstanding.The woman told police she had reason to believe that she was sexually assaulted and was examined by hospital staff. She was transported to the Haven START Program for further examination before being taken to a relative’s home.
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Don't make up shit and put my name on it. I'll shank you, Ben L.
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I'm sure it was all a misunderstanding.
Don't make up shit and put my name on it. I'll shank you, Ben L.
whoa, really?
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The original article, which is trivial to find via your search engine of choice, shows the two shortened derivations in bold, but I CBA to put in the right Discobbmarktml.
highlight, view selection source, copy, paste was too hard?
para-acetylaminophenol and para-acetylaminophenol
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Well, I'd rather do that than take a print screen and crop it.
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Well, I'd rather do that than take a print screen and crop it.
Snipping Tool FTW!
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Re: uroClub
It could double as a hand warmer in colder climates.
Aside: I once left a damp towel in my golf bag from Autumn until Spring. What would a a tube of 4 month old stale piss smell like?
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Bad idea: doing drugs.
"Lien has a criminal history that includes aggravated assault, resisting arrest, evading arrest and reckless endangerment"
Interesting comments--I never knew she had been fired from Voyager, nor that the guy who played Harry was going to get the ax instead, until People had an article on him (assuming that's true).
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Speaking about bombs and clocks
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### Did not get me suspended from school By Arturo Cruz on September 16, 2015
I wanted a long weekend break from school. So I purchased this clock
in hopes that if I brought it to class, it would eventually land me in
handcuffs and subsequently suspended. I had already made plans to go to
Disneyland for the week and went so far as to buy a 5-Day pass for,
something like, seven thousand dollars. Brilliant plan, right? WRONG! My
school district proved to be competent and was not fooled by my
trickery. They didn't even bother calling the police department on me. I
had to call them myself. As the police officers pulled up, they were
welcomed by me sitting in the parking lot with the clock in plain view.
"This will surely get me arrested and thus, result in a lengthy
suspension", I thought to myself. NOPE! The cops asked if I knew what
the emergency was and I said "yeah, I brought this clock that look like a
bomb...what you going to do about it, piggies!?" They gazed at me in a
bewildered fashion and then looked at each other and then just walked
away. Now it's Wednesday and I'm stuck in physics and not riding space
mountain.
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Bad Idea: Doing this.
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Totally. TRWTF is using "mam" instead of "ma'am."
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Seems like a bad idea
It looks as if "whispers" could be over-simplifying what is needed. I propose the following functionality...
"Whispers": The person you reply to sees the post as normal. If there's a reply chain then the people up the chain see the post but embedded in small tags - the further up the chain you are, the more small tags. People outside the reply chain do not "hear" the whisper.
"Secrets": Only the person you reply to can see the post. They can then use the "Blab" tag to make the secret publically viewable.
"Rumours": The reply is visible to all but it is not linked to any user.