THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@boomzilla Which happens first - death by asphyxiation or immolation?
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@boomzilla It is people like that who cause me to be unable to take a gas canister along to Corsica this spring.
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@pleegwat It might have to do with some local Corsican customs as well (i.e. blow up stuff from "dirty colonialists from outside the island").
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@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla Which happens first - death by asphyxiation or immolation?
CO
poisoning.
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@benjamin-hall said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
That's WotC IP, so it's original. Completely made up from scratch.
I think it existed long before WotC bought rights for DnD, and who knows where Gygax and his friends took that from? Also, wasn't there a Doom monster that looked a bit like this? (but it might have been lifted from the DnD one...)
Also also, there might be some inspiration from Argus in the Greek mythology, although I don't think he has ever been portrayed as anything but a (giant) human.
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@remi it's a D&D IP (dating back to 1e IIRC). I was talking about present ownership really. It will predates doom, who "borrowed" it, making enough changes to be legal.
Specifically, the unique part is the extra eyes--floating eyeballs are common. Floating eyeballs with extra eyes on stalks that shoot beams is more unique.
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@pjh said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla Which happens first - death by asphyxiation or immolation?
CO
poisoning.Wow, I think we've discovered an even more complicated schrodinger's paradox...
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@boomzilla
Filed under: #definitelynotarson
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An idea that definitely belongs in this thread: Loaning my ex-wife money.
I wrote up a formal, legally binding loan agreement drawing from various templates I found on the web — amount of the loan, repayment terms (which are very generous), default, enforcement jurisdiction (Small Claims court in my county), which state's laws would govern (since she's moving out of state), binding effect, amendments, severability — the whole nine yards. Without such a strong agreement, I don't think I would have much chance of being paid back; even with it, I half consider it a gift. She didn't think it was necessary, but she didn't balk at signing it; her only complaint so far has been that I forgot to attach it to the email.
The big though, is that although her husband stands to make more than $1M from the sale of his (not their) house when they move, she can't borrow $500 from him.
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@hardwaregeek said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
she can't borrow $500 from him.
It's all going into Bitcoin, baby!
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@hardwaregeek Are you willing to take her to court if she fails to pay, given that it usually takes at least $50 to file in small claims court?
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All costs, expenses and expenditures including, without limitation, the complete legal costs incurred by enforcing this Agreement as a result of any default by the Borrower, will be added to the principal then outstanding and will immediately be paid by the Borrower.
I don't want to have to do that, but if I do, that gets me the court fee back (assuming I win, and further assuming I manage to collect).
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@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It's all going into Bitcoin, baby!
From what I've heard, he seems more like the "build a compound in Waco, TX" sort than a crypto-coin investor.
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@hardwaregeek said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The big though, is that although her husband stands to make more than $1M from the sale of his (not their) house when they move, she can't borrow $500 from him.
That sounds like she wants to accumulate more "ex"s. (Or he wants to create more, whichever...)
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@remi said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Also, wasn't there a Doom monster that looked a bit like this?
That is a cacodemon: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Cacodemon
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@dragoon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@remi said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Also, wasn't there a Doom monster that looked a bit like this?
That is a cacodemon: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Cacodemon
Note the presence of only one eye, the lack of an antimagic field emanating from that eye, and the radical lack of attitude. Oh, and those horns.
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@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@pjh said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla Which happens first - death by asphyxiation or immolation?
CO
poisoning.Wow, I think we've discovered an even more complicated schrodinger's paradox...
If someone is intentionally killed by carbon monoxide inside a business in Colorado, does CO stand for Carbon-Oxygen, Corporation, or Colorado?
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@benjamin-hall said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dragoon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@remi said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Also, wasn't there a Doom monster that looked a bit like this?
That is a cacodemon: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Cacodemon
Note the presence of only one eye, the lack of an antimagic field emanating from that eye, and the radical lack of attitude. Oh, and those horns.
Amusingly, the wiki page says it was originally inspired from cropping a picture of another monster from the cover of a ADD book. So while it's not the link I thought, there is a connection with D&D!
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@ben_lubar said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@pjh said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla Which happens first - death by asphyxiation or immolation?
CO
poisoning.Wow, I think we've discovered an even more complicated schrodinger's paradox...
If someone is intentionally killed by carbon monoxide inside a business in Colorado, does CO stand for Carbon-Oxygen, Corporation, or Colorado?
At least we know that the processor was working…
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a restaurant named Lipids, Sodium, and Disaccharides
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@ben_lubar
Going there would be such a bad trip
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@boomzilla said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
[ambiguously coloured shoe]
Amarklor shoes with kalish laces.
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@boomzilla is this another "the dress"? I saw the dress as black and blue, and I see this shoe as light blue and light gray. Both photos have terrible lighting...
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@lb_ I see a pink shoe with white highlights and laces.
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@lb_ I see a pink shoe with white highlights and laces.
Right, so it's definitely a "the dress" thing. I and a couple other people in the same room as me looked at it on the same screen and we disagreed about what the colors were.
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@lb_ said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@lb_ I see a pink shoe with white highlights and laces.
Right, so it's definitely a "the dress" thing. I and a couple other people in the same room as me looked at it on the same screen and we disagreed about what the colors were.
Remember that time when we had a "how many circles are in this pink image" and depending on your browser it would actually be a different number of circles?
Anyway: It's literally gray and anyone telling you otherwise is suffering from human eyeballs.
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@lb_ I see a pink shoe with white highlights and laces.
I see a pink shoe with cyan-ish highlights. But GIMP clearly shows the shoe is gray (hue ranges from yellow to blue, with saturation between 0 and 11%). The laces and highlights, however, are clearly cyan (hues mostly cyan, with a few blue and green; saturation between about 15 and 25%).
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@ben_lubar said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
What version of GIMP is that? That's not what my color picker looks like.
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@hardwaregeek You probably have 2.8, while @ben_lubar probably has 2.9. Edit: or 2.10
Edit: I noticed my version of 2.9 is different from Ben's.
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@zecc I should check gimp.org more often. GIMP doesn't nag you check for updates, and I didn't realize how old my installation is. Well, I guess not updating for almost 4.5 years counts as a bad idea. Downloading 2.10.0 and reading the release notes now.
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@ben_lubar said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Anyway: It's literally gray
@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Grey!
Ha! fucking called it!
@ben_lubar said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
and anyone telling you otherwise is suffering from human eyeballs.
hey now, let's not be too hasty...
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@hardwaregeek said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
2.10.0
Oh, so that's a thing.
I should check gimp.org more often. GIMP doesn't nag you check for updates
Unified transform tool? About damn time!
And they pulled up the command by typing its name in a text input. Nice.
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@zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Oh, so that's a thing.
Yeah, as of last Friday, apparently.
And I noticed 2.9.x was an unstable development release, so I was really only a few patch releases behind. Well, until last Friday, anyway.
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@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@ben_lubar said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Anyway: It's literally gray
@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Grey!
Ha! fucking called it!
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@hardwaregeek said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@zecc I should check gimp.org more often. GIMP doesn't nag you check for updates, and I didn't realize how old my installation is. Well, I guess not updating for almost 4.5 years counts as a bad idea. Downloading 2.10.0 and reading the release notes now.
Mine gets auto-updated by Otter:
# Chocolatey { Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: chocolatey, Exists: true ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: chocolatey-core.extension ); # Virtualization { Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: docker ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: docker-machine ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: virtualbox ); } # Version Control { Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: git.install ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: git-lfs.install ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: hg ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: svn ); } # Programming Languages { Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: cmake.portable ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: golang ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: graphviz.portable ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: mingw ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: nodejs-lts ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: nuget.commandline ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: strawberryperl ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: python2 ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: python3 ); Chocolatey::Install-Package sphinx ( Source: python ); } # Desktop for role Desktop { Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: 7zip.install ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: dropbox ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: gimp ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: obs-studio ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: SublimeText2 ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: sysinternals ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: upack ); Chocolatey::Ensure-Package ( Name: wireshark ); } }
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GIMP
belongs in this thread
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@hungrier said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
GIMP
belongs in this thread
Honestly, the more I learn GIMP, the less bad it is. Got a strong learning curve, but I'm getting much faster with it.
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@hungrier said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
GIMP
belongs in this thread
I tried to use GIMP yesterday to quickly crop an image on a Linux system. It wouldn't let me save the JPEG image as a JPEG. Eventually I found out you have to use "export" for that, not "save", because the common convention that "save" saves to your existing file is too radical for the GIMP devs.
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GDPR
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@boomzilla Ugly ones.
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
the common convention that "save" saves to your existing file is too radical for the GIMP devs.
Ha.
Repro steps:
- Crash a program.
- Let Visual Studio launch itself to try to debug it.
- Visual Studio says it can't without symbols, so close it.
- What are you saving? Well, the solution of course!
- What solution? Oh, didn't you know? We created a fake one since you're debugging something. Because raisins.
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- Profit?