โญ๐ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
-
This is a masterpiece, actually. Not a wtf, but it fucks your brain if you eat the right kind of mushrooms.
-
One of these days Valve is just going to replace Steam summer sales with a single white page with a single button in the middle that says "Give Valve money", a point counter and a daily scoreboard. For every $10 you give, you get one point. If you can make it to the daily top 1000, you get a silver badge, if you get to the top 100 a gold badge, and if you get to the top 10 a diamond badge.
And they will make millions a day, and when I tell people online that they're idiots for spending so much money on Steam to get nothing in return they'll get angry and tell me that it's their money and they can spend it any way they want.
-
-
To be honest, there are a lot of games which basically force you to spend over a thousand dollars to get the
bestrelatively competitive stuff. "$5 boosters with a 0.2% chance for a top tier unit" is a common trope, particularily in Mobage games.Alternatively, you can spend a whole week glued to the phone, with exactly calculated breaks for sleep. Did it once, won't recommend.
Filed under: and I thought Magic: The Gathering was bad, at least I have some cardboard out of that
-
To be honest, there are a lot of games which basically force you to spend over a thousand dollars to get the best relatively competitive stuff. "$5 boosters with a 0.2% chance for a top tier unit" is a common trope, particularily in Mobage games.
Alternatively, you can spend a whole week glued to the phone, with exactly calculated breaks for sleep. Did it once, won't recommend.
Micro-transactions = I don't play it. Period. There's already more games I like than I have time to consume. Getting rid of wallet leeches is a no-brainer decision.
-
Micro-transactions = I don't play it.
There are quite a few games about that support microtransactions, but which are enjoyable without paying real money. Just refuse to give them any money, and accept that you may be spending some timebattling the RNGgrinding.
-
TF2 has microtransactions, but they don't affect gameplay.
-
Bad idea du jour: creating a "Funny Stuff" forum on TDWTF and a week later there are still no threads other than the closed one announcing the forum's existence.
-
I could always piss people off and move this thread over there....
-
There are quite a few games about that support microtransactions, but which are enjoyable without paying real money. Just refuse to give them any money, and accept that you may be spending some time [s]battling the RNG[/s] grinding.
I generally pay for a single microtransaction if I enjoy the game. I consider it my one-off payment to the developers.
-
I generally pay for a single microtransaction if I enjoy the game. I consider it my one-off payment to the developers.
I do like a microtransaction here and there, mostly because my cellphone plan leaves me with a lot of unused credit each month, so I can get that +2 Awesome Super Thingy with no hard feelings.
Credit card transactions? Thanks, but I have better uses for that money.
Filed under: namely, food and liquor
-
-
>Filed under: namely,
foodblow andliquorhookersFTFY
FTFTFY
Filed under: don't mix your psychoactive substances kids
-
At this point we need TDEAF - The Daily Economy Argument Forum.
Just head over to Zero Hedge.
-
Wanting to ban internet porn in a western country.
The options being considered, [...], include blocking the IP addresses of known porn sites and making it illegal to use credit cards from Iceland to subscribe to X-rated sites.
-
As usual people making law is not having an idea of how internet works.
"At the moment, we are looking at the best technical ways to achieve
this. But surely if we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to
tackle porn on the Internet."
-
Wanting to ban internet porn
Ok, stupid but not surprising.
in a western country
Ok, now it's a bit surprising.
Iceland
What in the actual Intercourse ???
-
-
Jacob's Rest campaign: The marines can stand on the white arrow outlines:
Area 9800 campaign: The marines can stand on the white arrow outlines:
-
This reminds me of the scene from Blazing Saddles where Cleavon Little tells everyone that if anyone moves, "the nigger gets it!" Except it makes less sense and is mostly kind of sad.
-
Wish I could find an article on this, but evidently a payday advance loan company in Britain, Wonga.com, was sending threatening letters from "Lionel Hutz, Attorney at Law" to marks.
-
Yup, and while they purported to be an actual law firm, their letterhead said in very small writing "Wonga.com t/a whateverthehellthelawfirmwas". The Law Society, with whom I have had dealings, were apparently none too impressed by it.
-
This?
Either you're remembering it slightly wrong or my Google-fu is weak tonight.
-
Campaign brainstorm:
Weird, Discourse won't onebox it without percent-encoding the
โฝ
-
Weird, Discourse won't onebox it without percent-encoding the โฝ
I'm guessing there are two problems causing it. One of them will be regex... (The original URL before @system got there was
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BenLubar/swarm-addons/master/campaign-untitled10/We have a planโฝ.png
for those wondering)
-
Succumbing to road rage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV8NBaqlPYo
Filed under: and not wearing leathers
-
Doing an 20 minute educational video for the NSPCC called "Kids Can Say No! [to child abuse]," (then getting found guilty on 12 counts of doing exactly what you were railing against nearly 20 years later, some of which predated the video concerned.)
-
Leaving install DVD as a source in
/etc/apt/sources.list
after explicitly ejecting it and telling the user to remove it at the end of the installation procedure.Edit: Oh. It does comment it. Then adds another one. Exactly the same. But not commented.
Also:
root@initrode:~# vim install.sh -bash: vim: command not found
Filed under: Don't ever tell I don't bash on things I like, Debian, not Ubuntu. Noobs
-
I hate fresh installs that don't have
vim
by default.vi
is so.... lacking.
-
I hate fresh installs that don't have vim by default. vi is so.... lacking.
Forgot to even try
vi
. I know Debian comes withnano
by default so I just used that.Also, guess what the first lines in the install script (after comments) are?
apt-get update # update the repository and package information apt-get dist-upgrade -yย # install system updates # Install basic tools apt-get install -y vimย
I should really read my own scripts...
-
nano
? Are you some kind of barbarian โฝ
-
Using an air horn to prank the boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCFUwyU9ZWA
Filed under That's just the noise my PC makes when it passes POST
-
-
Yes?
-
I hate fresh installs that don't have vim by default. vi is so.... lacking.
Look away now then:
[pjh@lenovo 20140612]$ ls -l `which vi vim` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 12ย 2011 /bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 12ย 2011 /bin/vim -> /etc/alternatives/vim* [pjh@lenovo 20140612]$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/vi{,m} lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 20ย 2013 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim-enhanced* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 20ย 2013 /etc/alternatives/vim -> /usr/bin/vim-enhanced* [pjh@lenovo 20140612]$ ls -l /usr/bin/vim-enhanced -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2063456 Aug 19ย 2013 /usr/bin/vim-enhanced* [pjh@lenovo 20140612]$
-
There are some distros (probably created by emacs religious nuts) that have an actual vi and no vim. Or busybox distros with only vi as part of the busybox binary.
I haven't checked, but I think even in systems without vim by default, once installed it takes over the original vi as well.
-
-
This actually belongs in the evil ideas thread.
Filed under: BOFH
-
@ender said:
alias vim=rm -f
This actually belongs in the evil ideas thread.
I'd install this on my own account. I always typevi
(knowing it's actually linked tovim
). If it seesvim
, it's probably not me at the keyboard.
Filed under: :tinfoil: And if I'm coerced to open a file, I can just type
vim
.
-
But doesn't vim sense when it's opened from a link named vi, and disable a bunch of the features to make vi compatible? The way bash does with sh?
-
But doesn't vim sense when it's opened from a link named vi, and disable a bunch of the features to make vi compatible? The way bash does with sh?
Not AFAIK. I personally always start it with
vim
, but a co-worker usesvi
and I never noticed any difference when Ihijacked his screencame to help him.
-
Ah, I see now. I was confused by my cygwin install at work - but it has a separate vi, not a symlinked vi. Verified my mint install at home works as described.
-
I blame Jeremy Hardy.
-
-
-
The vagina will not have it for breakfast
wtf?
-
> The vagina will not have it for breakfast
wtf?
Perhaps Indian vaginas are more dangerous than their western counterparts? @nagesh, can you shed any light?
Filed under: It's the teeth you've got to be careful about
-
You can find more on Dr. Watsa over here --> http://drmahinderwatsa.com/questions
-
Perhaps Indian vaginas are more dangerous than their western counterparts? @nagesh, can you shed any light?
I am complete virgin. Thx.
-
Engineering a flu virus that can evade the immune system!
Filed under: What could possibly go wrong? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it