The Official Status Thread
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Ah. I don't know much about Dark Souls, either, but what I do know (play as cursed undead character) doesn't interest me.
The key things about this game are that:
- Combat is hard, punishingly hard. You really have to get good at reading how the opponents move, which can be nasty the first few times against a new opponent type. (The bosses of note are almost all unique opponent types.)
- You have a map, but it shows almost nothing until you find a map stele, and even then the only map markers are ones you put in yourself. Areas are often inaccessible due to cliffs and chasms.
- Your horse is part goat. You can jump into some interesting places. Don't forget to look up and down.
If your schtick is exploration and difficult combat, this game is great. (You might need to adjust graphics options to get things to mostly run smoothly. I see occasional stuttering; it appears to be mostly due to background asset loading, but I've a really quite old graphics card now.)
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Um...
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@Zecc ...And it's back. As well as the site I actually wanted to access.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Germanic languages have masculine, feminine, and neuter
Sometimes even more; I know Swedish has two neuter genders.
I know it's not a popular fact but Sweden was made up to hide Danish gold. The rest of it was a joke that has outlived being funny.
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we have new code for you to mangle.
*happy noises*
no one has touched it since it was written early in the previous decade.
We differ significantly in what the word new means.
I meant newer and new to you.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Germanic languages have masculine, feminine, and neuter
Sometimes even more; I know Swedish has two neuter genders.
I know it's not a popular fact but Sweden was made up to hide Danish gold. The rest of it was a joke that has outlived being funny.
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we have new code for you to mangle.
*happy noises*
no one has touched it since it was written early in the previous decade.
We differ significantly in what the word new means.
I meant newer and new to you.We should reintroduce the danagäld, speaking of that.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Combat is hard, punishingly hard.
Combat difficulty alone would be passable, eventually. It's the fucking drudgery about it. Souls are Nintendo hard. For all I think they're much more carefully designed than most other games, it's just not my cup of polonium-210. I play video games to escape from the inevitability of unwelcome consequences of all my physical and mental deficiencies.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Um...
CloudFlare went out on a spirit walk to try and find itself.
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Status: Apparently
ssh
doesn't like being called in a parallel loop.Adding
sleep "$(($RANDOM % 4)).$(($RANDOM % 10))s"
fixed it.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Combat is hard, punishingly hard.
Nope, I'm out. I do not play games to get frustrated. It can be too easy, of course. In a couple of the games I play regularly, my character is leveled-up so much, it can kill any enemy in the game without taking any significant damage, unless I get careless; that gets boring. But dying again and again and again with almost no chance of winning? Not my cup of tea.
Status: Drinking my cup of tea with (almost) no sugar. Bleah. That's not really my cup, either.
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Status: Got a (almost certainly) spam call from a random number, so I searched the number
xxx-yyy-zzzz
. Got a couple expected results, as well as one withMissing:
xxx-yyy-zzzz| Must include: xxx-yyy-zzzzThanks Google, very helpful. What would make a search result that explicitly doesn't contain my query relevant?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I do not play games to get frustrated.
The other thing to note about Dark Souls is that it is the literal poster child for the 'git gud' folks to rally under, where the punishing difficulty is kind of the point, but also it comes with a level of toxicity about game difficulty.
Suggest, for a moment, that the game could use an easy mode and rabid fanbois will descend to point out how the problem is that you aren't enjoying the game correctly. Furthermore you will then be righteously mocked for 'you cheated not only the game but yourself' type stuff.
Imagine the sort of game where you could leave notes for each other, in an effort to be helpful, but simply leave a 'just jump' note on the side of a cliff.
At least Souls difficulty is not because a) the designers can't code properly so difficulty is the product of bad implementation or b) the product of 'gotta milk the gameplay for all it's worth' the way 80s games did... it's very intentional to be what it is, and it's not for everyone. I just wish the vocal minority of their fans weren't such asshats about it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking drudgery
Paging @Tsaukpaetra
When you've been doing it so long you can't even feel that you're still going through the motions...
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got a (almost certainly) spam call from a random number, so I searched the number
xxx-yyy-zzzz
. Got a couple expected results, as well as one withMissing:
xxx-yyy-zzzz| Must include: xxx-yyy-zzzzThanks Google, very helpful. What would make a search result that explicitly doesn't contain my query relevant?
it appears you are looking for a phone number. Would you like more information about phone numbers?
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
the literal poster child for the 'git gud' folks
Yeah, like my Steam profile says, I'm a "very casual gamer." Maybe not quite as casual as when I wrote that a few years ago, but I still play on the easiest mode available, because I want to have fun, and I frankly don't care if I ever "git gud". If I'm having fun, I've gotten gud enough. If I can't beat even the easy enemies, as far as I'm concerned, that's a game design (or implementation) issue, not a "me not gud" issue. If it's not fun when I start playing (and hopelessly dying in every combat is not fun), then I have no interest in grinding enough for it to become fun, maybe, someday.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking drudgery
Paging @Tsaukpaetra
When you've been doing it so long you can't even feel that you're still going through the motions...
There's a pretty great Universe next door.
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@HardwareGeek Souls occupies a rare space where it's harder than average and for a larger than expected samplesize, the repeated failure mode is still fun enough to keep going.
I'm personally not one of those people but I can see the appeal is broader than usual because failure does look like, from what I've seen, like it really does manifest in a 'OK, that didn't work, what next?' kind of way.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
it appears you are looking for a North American phone number.
would you like to know
- the IEEE name for that kind of number
- the area code category of the number
- the RFCs relevant to that kind of number
- the LEC category, if any, of the number
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I just wish the vocal minority of their fans weren't such asshats about it.
Cuphead
is pretty vicious but I don't think it has large enough integer players for a viable toxic fraction.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
still fun enough to keep going.
You might be right, but I'll take your word for it. Even if it's true, as I said before, the basic plot of the game doesn't sound like something I'm interested in, so I don't really care whether the mechanics might be fun.
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@HardwareGeek Seems fair enough. I'm not actually a Souls player for the same reason, just that's what I'm given to understand by those that are.
On that note I should get back to Guild Wars 2 to continue my progress in the expansion.
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Re-installing Windows
Because I had Kaspersky antivirus installed.Now I've downloaded the Windows media. 21H2, because that's all MS would offer.
So I formatted a stick into exFAT, and copied the files over. Put the stick in and booted. And it failed to recognize it as a bootable stick.
MSI X570 BIOS doesn't support exFAT. It wants either FAT32 or NTFS. And Windows installer hasn't fit on FAT32 for years.
Fine. I format the stick into NTFS. I copy the files over. This time it finds the stick. And starts. And then I get a broken screen. And then a screen full of just MS crappy blue. Flat blue. Obviously the installer is frozen.
And now I'm left wondering is wrong. Does it want GPT instead of MBR now, or something?
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And now I'm left wondering is wrong. Does it want GPT instead of MBR now, or something?
You want the Windows Media Creation Tool, which downloads the FAT32-compatible version of the image (split WIMs).
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@Tsaukpaetra I'm creating the bootable media on Linux. The Windows partition was not trustworthy anymore. And I already gave it the dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=1 to avoid accidental carryover during installation.
...Aaand I seem to have solved the issue by using GPT. Or at least the installer started properly now. Let's see how this goes.
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Besides, the one time I ever tried the official tool, it didn't accept any of my USB sticks.
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I think the installer just slapped Windows Boot Manager on top of my Linux disk, even though I told it to use the other disk, which is a whopping 1TB, so there's no lack of space.
I'll have to install Linux again after this too.
One of these days I really will splice the drive power cable so that only one of the two can get power at a time.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And I already gave it the dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=1
Shouldn't you have used
shred
? You know, just to be sure?
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
I think the installer just slapped Windows Boot Manager on top of my Linux disk, even though I told it to use the other disk, which is a whopping 1TB, so there's no lack of space.
I'll have to install Linux again after this too.You just (re)learned the #1 thing about dual booting Windows and another OS: never, ever let the Windows installer see that other OS. Because it will gleefully obliterate its bootloader. It's been like that since Windows 95, and it's by design, according to Raymond Chen.
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
One of these days I really will splice the drive power cable so that only one of the two can get power at a time.
If you want something less invasive, using the BIOS to disable the SATA channel to which the other drive is attached should work, too.
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@Zerosquare If the installer does that, then what keeps Windows from messing with the other disk for shits and giggles during normal operation?
Also, Windows just installed Nvidia Control Panel automatically. From the Windows Store, I think. I'd check whether it managed to install a driver for the GPU too, but the Start menu stopped working.
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Now to remove the weather applet.
And the ads from the Start menu.
And install tools...
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare If the installer does that, then what keeps Windows from messing with the other disk for shits and giggles during normal operation?
Technically? Nothing.
In practice, once installed it normally doesn't. Or at least it used not to ; can't promise anything in this Windows 1x era
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@Zerosquare I'd just re-installed the Linux side, too. Just a couple of months ago. It had started to inexplicably fail. Crashes and such. At the time, I blamed it on hard-drive failure, since it was still on spinning rust. But now...?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Next is
bargainingbug abuse.Let's be honest.
I initially read that as
drug
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Thanks Google, very helpful. What would make a search result that explicitly doesn't contain my query relevant?
Duh. .
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Because it will gleefully obliterate its bootloader.
Yeah but at least you can get Grub to put the Linux one back and then generally Windows doesn't further shit on it.
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Now to remove the weather applet.
And the ads from the Start menu.To remove the included MS Store apps (the ones MS will let you remove) in one go run this is an elevated Powershell window:
Get-AppxPackage | Remove-AppxPackage
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
To remove all included MS Store apps (the ones MS will let you remove)
How do I remove the ones MS won't let me remove?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
To remove all included MS Store apps (the ones MS will let you remove)
How do I remove the ones MS won't let me remove?
format %SYSTEMDRIVE%
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status I think I figured out why my router kept rebooting. UPS battery needed replacing. Since I took the UPS out, no more reboots. A new battery is on order...
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Genesis Adaptive mirror of Ubuntu seems to be down. I cannot find any info about it though. The repo URL returns 404 but the root folder is still accessible, except empty. Could be an outage, could be discontinuation. It makes me sad because the next best mirror is 10 times slower for me.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare If the installer does that, then what keeps Windows from messing with the other disk for shits and giggles during normal operation?
Technically? Nothing.
In practice, once installed it normally doesn't. Or at least it used not to ; can't promise anything in this Windows 1x era
It only does its meddling during the in-place upgrades every half year or so. And in theory only when it wants to update the pretty boot animation or whatever.
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Status: 2x playback speed and autoplay of next video. I love this corporate training website.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I love this corporate training website.
Filed under: things you don't hear often
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@Zerosquare you want something even more shocking? A company culture training that's ACTUALLY USEFUL.
An in-depth dive into the differences between American and Indian ways of working and communication. Full of useful instructions how to interact with "the other side", with realistic examples of potential problems.
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Wait. Now you're really stretching our suspension of disbelief.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
But dying again and again and again with almost no chance of winning? Not my cup of tea.
Fun fact: ending #1 was something like the forty-somethingth I unlocked.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
So I formatted a stick into exFAT
No. Do not.
EXPLAIN.
I have an external drive formatted in exFAT, though I haven't touched it in a while.
Edit: oh, did you mean for creating Windows installation media in particular, not in general?
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
So I formatted a stick into exFAT
No. Do not.
EXPLAIN.
I have an external drive formatted in exFAT, though I haven't touched it in a while.
Edit: oh, did you mean for creating Windows installation media in particular, not in general?
Coprrewcaaeg..aeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaa
Edit: That is to say, "correct". Thanks, bitch, for jumping on my keyboard.
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@Zerosquare, it looks like @Tsaukpaetra needs to be rebooted. Again.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare, it looks like @Tsaukpaetra needs to be rebooted. Again.
No, just need to discourage the bitch from trying to suck face when I'm typing.