The Official Status Thread
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Also, the first movie is bad SciFi in it's own right. Now, if it didn't even try to throw technobabble around, fine, dumb action movie IN SPAAACEEE!
But no, they tried. And the amount of bullshit beats Voyager's worst episodes. Yes, it beats Paris and Janeway becoming liz...
Ok, mosts. Most of the Voyager's worst episodes.
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Star Wars: European Union?
Boy, we could go nuts with the racial and ethnic stereotypes on that one...
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hardcore Star Trek: TOS fan
There are two theories of time travel:
- The multiverse. In the multiverse theory of time travel, when you travel back in time and alter history, you create an alternate universe. The original universe still exists, but has become inaccessible to yo because of your actions.
- The boxed universe. In this theory of time travel, time is essentially fixed. Traveling to the past may be possible, but attempts to alter the past will fail, and may actually cause the undesirable events to transpire (think how Fry is his own grandpa in Futurama).
Since events were changed in the latest Star Trek movies, this means that time travel must have occurred according to the multiverse theory. This means that your beloved Star Trek: TOS universe still exists, undisturbed.
You're welcome.
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Since events were changed in the latest Star Trek movies, this means that time travel must have occurred according to the multiverse theory. This means that your beloved Star Trek: TOS universe still exists, undisturbed.
So? It's still a shitty movie.
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But then there's the Doctor Who theory of time travel, in which you can actually do more or less anything you like, and the Universe sorts itself out; it self-corrects. However, there are certain things that must happen, so-called 'fixed points', like the Vesuvius eruption; change these, and you wreck the Universe.
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So? It's still a shitty movie.
I wasn't trying to say anything about the quality of the new movies. I was merely trying to give a small measure of comfort to @mott555 regarding the continued existence of his beloved TOS universe.
Filed Under: JJ Abrams can't take TOS Away
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But then there's the Doctor Who theory of time travel, in which you can actually do more or less anything you like, and the Universe sorts itself out; it self-corrects. However, there are certain things that must happen, so-called 'fixed points', like the Vesuvius eruption; change these, and you wreck the Universe.
Well, yes, but I was talking about actual theories, not fantasy theories. ;)
Filed Under: Why is time broken? Explain it to me in words I can understand.
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Can we even classify them as such, in all honesty?
Pendantically? No. But I was just using the terminology as communicated by physicists who should be in the know. Not my fault if they use the wrong terminology.
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And then I wonder how the word got so mangled in common use...
Fucking scientists.
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Status: today I released an update to my mod that adds a new way of making ceilings and bridges and other solid stuff you can walk under. But I'm terrible at mapping and I only know of one person actively working on an Alien Swarm map right now. Here's a screenshot they posted today of their map:
So no, I'm probably not getting to demonstrate the new ceilings.
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So, they took a photo of their aquarium and said, "Let's roll with this..."?
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I've never seen a laptop that wouldn't work plugged in even without a battery.
I have. The power supply was dead. ;P
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I quite like the JJ Abrams Star Trek films though…
I kinda do as well. At least, I like the characters better. There's only one character I like at all in TOOS. The rest either get on my nerves or don't really qualify as characters, they're purely there to be [insert minority]. Whereas I rather like most of the reboot characters. But, the nonsensical 'science' babble really gets on my nerves.But then I also like Enterprise better than TOS. Actually, I like every version of Star Trek I've yet encountered better than TOS. I expect I'd have liked it rather more had I been around to see it when it was new; I don't think it's aged well.
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Status: set my system to point to testing repos.
Result of
aptitude update
Fetched 18.1 MB in 1min 2s (291 kB/s) Current status: 49710 new [+13000].
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Apparently I'm the first person in the history of the company to request a 1/4 day off.
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Apparently I'm the first person in the history of the
companyworld to request a 1/4 day off.
Who asks for a quarter-day? Seriously; normally, it's half or whole days
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What can I say? I'm a loose cannon who doesn't play by the rules, and if those stuffed suits at city hall don't like it, they can go to hell.
Actually I just have 1/2 a day holiday left and need to leave 2hrs early on 2 days. Is that OK Massah?
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Status: Dissapoint at fake RTL in topic title...
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Status: Once again, hating Open Source. I've encountered a bug in Jenkins, and web searching brings me to a bug report from 2011! Not only that, but someone fixed the bug and there's a pull request in the bug topic, but it never got accepted.
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I'm a loose cannon
So @Boner is really @sloosecannon? Or @sloosecannon is @Boner?
Filed under: Inheritance or composition?
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Shirley he's @aloosecannon.
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Status: — finance.yahoo.com
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Hey, that's just like my name!
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set my system to point to testing repos.
Do it fucker. Live on the fringe. You know you want to go through with that update.
And if you do, please time to see how long it is before everything goes up in smoke.
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No updates, it says.
The system chickened out. :(
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Apparently I'm the first person in the history of the company to request a 1/4 day off.
TRWTF is having to request and get approval to just kick off a little early. It is only 2 hours...
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Boo. Surely there must be a force switch that you can pass in as an argument?
I kind of want to do this to a VM now. Load it up with all the things and then update everything to bleeding edge of broken.
Or maybe Discourse has made me cynical, and it will all go relatively fine?
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I've been on testing for ages, no problems. Experimental... not sure.
All I wanted was XFCE 4.12, really. Had to use other methods in the end, dependency problems. Now I'm missing some applets and still no taskbar plugin...
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You're right, of course. Allow me to bore you with the details.
Normally sloping off early isn't a problem, my boss is great about it and understands stuff comes up IRL. This week however we're very low on numbers, and are a support dept, so need to maintain minimum staffing levels.
We're a smallish office/dept attached to a huge factory/warehouse, and these areas absolutely need to maintain minimum staff numbers, otherwise the production plan falls apart. So there's a company wide rule that no more that X% of an area can be off at any time, TRWTF is that this rule is applied to the offices aswell, which is dumb because our departents ar way smaller. An additional WTF is that if we're seen to be breaking this rule then people complain (imagine serving dessert for your kids and giving out different portion sizes, THAT sort of complaining). So I've had to do everything by the book and HR can deal with the shit if it appears.
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Status: Hey, Office 2016 looks cool, let's update and try it out.
One hour later:
Status: Everything Office related immediately crashes. Safe mode, repair, and re-install don't fix it. Damn it.@sloosecannon, you should know better than installing beta software
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Think Hungarian notation. @sloosecannon is obviously a string, set to @boner?
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ClassCastException: Unable to cast @sloosecannon from type "me" to type "@boner"
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ClassCastException: Unable to cast @sloosecannon from type "me" to type "@boner"
Funny. Maybe 'string' does not have the same connotations in english as it does in swedish, because here it is rather often associated with a boner.
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A cast is really not the best way to get a @boner though, IMO.
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Maybe 'string' does not have the same connotations in english as it does in swedish, because here it is rather often associated with a boner.
Eeek, I'd rather pass on boners in strings.
Or any boners, really. But particularly in strings.
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A cast is really not the best way to get a @boner though, IMO.
You're right. A toss would be better.
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Isn't Alien Swarm always a top-down perspective? I'm not sure your idea works in that game.
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It may take a little digging, but I am pretty sure I can figure out who it was anyway so the customer gets to fire someone and I stay in his good graces.
Update: So, the DVR was not down. The NIC had simply went down. All the video footage was there.
Also, I found out exactly where the money was. It was...exactly where it should have been. It was in the safe, in the accountant's office, and the accountant was who put it there. Literally, the video footage was business as usual. Accountant goes in the morning and picks up the cash drop from the drop box, brings it back to her office and puts it in the safe...then I guess she completely fucking forgot about it?
No harm, no foul, may need to check an accountant for early-onset dementia.
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Status: need to wait on a co-worker to either approve a PR, or do a merge between his branch and the PR branch before I can do any productive work.
So.
Just sittin' here.
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My mod supports top-down perspective and first-person perspective on the same server. Each player can choose separately.
Basically, the new ceiling thing I added is always opaque for first-person players and top-down players that are above it. It fades out if you're lower than it and playing in top-down view, so you could have something like a bridge that you cross and later go under or buildings with roofs that get removed in third person.
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Oh that's kind of cool but... isn't it a really shitty game from first-person perspective?
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It's definitely a lot harder because the drones can sneak up behind you. In top-down, there is no "behind" you.
The base game is shitty in first-person because they fucked up all the code that manages aiming and stuff while they were trying to get the top-down perspective. I've fixed most of it in my mod.
There are still a few graphical things where you can see through the underside of platforms or past where the ceiling should be on maps that don't have ceilings (read: all of them). And the depth blur is set based on the assumption that your character is pretty far from the camera. It'd have to be fixed on a per-map basis, since depth blur is done based on settings set by a mapper.
There are a few really good campaigns with crappy texturing or whatever. I think I might eventually go through and do a "HD remake" of some of them. Research 7 springs to mind.
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It's definitely a lot harder because the drones can sneak up behind you. In top-down, there is no "behind" you.
Right.
The only game I've seen really successfully pull-off allowing two camera angles is Mechwarrior Online, after that update about a year ago where they added 3rd person via "camera drones".
It's balanced because, while it's easier to navigate, see around corners, and plant your mech's feet in 3rd person, aiming is shit. You pretty much have to be 1st person to use any weapon with a range over about 300m. Also it adds the little hovering flashing-light camera drone which is likely to give away your position, compensating for the fact you can place your feet more precisely.
So the modes play very different, but neither gives you an absolute advantage. I really like how the 3rd person camera is actually a physical object modeled by the game, too. Really fits in that game environment/setting.
Skyrim allows 3rd person play, but it's pretty crappy in 3rd person.
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A cast is really not the best way to get a @boner though, IMO.
Agreed. However, there are some who would disagree.
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ClassCastException: Unable to cast @sloosecannon from type "me" to type "@boner"
There are pills for that now. Talk to your doctor.
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There are pills for that now. Talk to your doctor.
But watch out for this list of severe and possibly fatal side effects.....
Also, seek immediate attention if
@boner.duration.hours > 4
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Also, seek immediate attention if @boner.duration.hours > 4
I suspect @boner's age is greater than 4 hours. I guess he needs to see a doctor.