The Official Status Thread
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Are notifications broken again? I did not get them for the replies to my thread.
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Status: I made a fairly large software change, and it Just Worked. My mind can't fathom that I somehow did it right the first time.
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Status: A few minutes ago it was sunny. Now it is dumping probably the hardest rain I've seen since moving to WA.
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Found it
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Status: I made a fairly large software change, and it Just Worked. My mind can't fathom that I somehow did it right the first time.
When I was a kid and I was writing shitty games for Mac Classic, I once wrote this long function that did a pretty complex visual fade effect, and it worked on the first try and I was really impressed.
IIRC it divided the screen into a bunch of tiles, gave each tile a different random number from 0-255, and faded to the second image on a curve where the 50% fade mark was the random number and the rest of the curved "smoothed" to fit. (So some of the tiles in the grid faded really quickly and some really slowly.) And that was on 256-color hardware, so mixing colors was a bitch.
It worked but it looked kind of dumb and was really slow, so I think I replaced it with a simple dissolve later.
Still that's like the only time in my life I wrote such a complex function (and in C! To boot!) and it worked fine on the first try.
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run you fool!
whenever i make a large software change and it Just Works i fear that something somewhere blew up. likely a house in guatemala or something
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Getting sick of waiting for Windows 10 and Surface Pro 4. GIVE ME THE NEW THINGSSSSS
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Status: Clickteam Fusion 2.5 just £12 on Steam?
*buys*
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Status: Just finished catching up on Freefall
I know i told @frostcat i could do it wquicker but once it started getting really good i decided to slow down and enjoy it.
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Burger King's toy is from this thing called "Slugterra", and the poster is this teenager-looking dude holding a gun in one hand and in his other hand he's holding out an orange slug, and the slug has a face and Goku hair and I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS
LOOK AT IT
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When I was Googling for that image I saw another one where he SHOOTS THE SLUG FROM THE GUN. LIKE A SLUG BULLET.
(Although the slug apparently isn't super-saiyan in that picture, because the hair is gone.)
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Hell in a handbasket. That is where modern culture is going.
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I LOVE IT.
I wish I had slug-gun cartoons when I was a kid.
Although we did have stuff like Thundarr the Barbarian, so. That's pretty close I guess.
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Slugterra is a Canadian animated television series
Canada is apparently turning in to Japan.
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Although we did have stuff like Thundarr the Barbarian
Also see: Thundercats
Thundercats was pretty fucking insane, if you think about it.
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It started pretty normal, but got batshit insane about halfway through.
Thundarr was batshit insane from day one. Hell, from the TITLE SEQUENCE.
Do you remember that one where the sheriff was a cow?
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Thundercats
I've been meaning to get a picture for ages, but the guy across the street from me has the Thundercat signal on his car. Also a giant Autobot symbol on the hood.
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the guy across the street from me has the Thundercat signal on his car. Also a giant Autobot symbol on the hood.
Well, that's...interesting. I suddenly feel better about my neighbors.
All except for the cunt next door that calls the cops on me for...living.
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Thundarr was batshit insane from day one. Hell, from the TITLE SEQUENCE.
Do you remember that one where the sheriff was a cow?
Holy crap. I had forgotten how batshit crazy that show was. That show may be why I am the way I am, not that it has been pointed out to me. Shit like that has to be psychologically damaging.
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IIRC, there's an episode of Thundarr where they fight a giant ape robot that was going to be used to film the next King Kong movie before the comet destroyed everything.
http://www.thedailycrate.com/2015/01/30/opinion-saturday-morning-memories-of-thundarr-the-barbarian/
Within the first few episodes they fight against the Statue of Liberty, rob a train and disrupt a group of ape guys from reconstructing a giant robot resembling King Kong. Yes King Kong, an enslaved beast who is made to do the bidding of his oppressors. Does Thundarr free him? Being a one time slave himself? Nope. He slices him up with his Sunsword. Thundarr is truly stepping on some post-apocalyptic toes here. Don’t give me that, “but he is just a barbarian” bit either. He can figure out complicated technology in a snap. He flies helicopters and airplanes without evidence of previous training. Get some gat-danged cultural sensitivity Thundarr.
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IIRC, there's an episode of Thundarr where they fight a giant ape robot that was going to be used to film the next King Kong movie before the comet destroyed everything.
I feel like there was a lot of heavy drug use during their brainstorming sessions.
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>Get some gat-danged cultural sensitivity Thundarr.
I don't know, I think it sounds awesome as is.
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They obviously had just finished watching Star Wars, too. Since the "sun sword" is just a light saber and Ookla is basically Chewbacca.
I wish I could remember the insane plots better. There's one episode where there's like two techno-wizards fighting each other and they get turned into werewolves? Or something?
EDIT: actually Wikipedia has just enough description of each episode's plot to get the sense of the peyote-like experience of watching the show:
The evil wizard Crom threatens a tribe of humans at the Alamo. They can protect themselves by using a sophisticated Guardian machine that utilizes flying robot drones that can disable the wizard's laser tanks. However, it blows a circuit and cannot be replaced as circuits are no longer produced. Their only hope is to infiltrate Crom's lair in order to use his moon dial, which sends them to Old Earth. In the 20th century, Thundaar, Ookla and Ariel are aided by a little girl named Samantha, who helps them obtain a fresh circuit. The trio return to New Earth and prepare for battle with Crom, but are glad they had a chance to see the preapocalypic world.
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The series ran 2 seasons, 1980–1981 and 1981–1982. Action figures of the three main characters were released by Toynami in 2004.
For the sort of people who buy Amiibos in their 20s, I assume.
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... there were action figures in the 80s too, but I guess that isn't worth mentioning? Or...
WTF Wikipedia.
I like the factoid at the bottom, that he appears in a Harvey Birdman, Attorney episode despite... GASP! ... not being a Hanna-Barbara character!
EDIT: Amazon will burn Thundarr DVDs on-demand at $20... http://www.amazon.com/Thundarr-Barbarian-Disc-Bob-Ridgely/dp/B00466X70Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1434745005&sr=1-1&keywords=thundarr&pebp=1434745092683&perid=0S56WT6M0VSRT3EH970H
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(Although the slug apparently isn't super-saiyan in that picture, because the hair is gone.)
Maybe it's just slicked back from the wind.
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It's still not XSS unless you can run Scripts using it.
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Status: I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm sick of video games.
Got to find something else to do tonight.
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If you ever get the chance to try Forbidden Traveler Apple Ale...don't. Mix Everclear with blue toilet water. It will taste better.
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How about Dwarf Fortress? It's not technically video or a game. To paraphrase the words of the creator, it's a cheap fantasy world generator with a game-like interface. Or if that's too boring, you could try reading a randomly selected volume of the encyclopedia from cover to cover.
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Status: ? A Discourse feature that actually helps me read a forum?
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Status: My American-made Chevy pickup uses metric bolts . My made in Thailand Honda motorcycle uses a mix of metric and SAE bolts, with no apparent pattern.
Actual Status: Covered in used motor oil, grease, dirt, and sweat. And a spider. I wonder how long he was sitting on my knee?
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Status: My internet connection is usually pretty awesome (50/50 mbit, 4ms to AMS/IX) but today it was down for 2 hours. Least that tells me GOG will run games even if it's offline.
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GOG games have no DRM; they'll still run long after the human race has obliterated itself ;)
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Status: Just left BestBuy where they were demoing Mario Maker for WiiU and Zelda Tri Force Heroes for 3DS.
Mario Maker feels like, well, playing whichever Mario game the level makes you. You have to hope the level making side has a great online component. Though, now seeing an ad for it, I don't feel it should be a full price game.
Zelda Tri Force Heroes is, effectively, the new "Four Swords" game, except with 3 players instead. It is 1 or 3 players only. If you liked the Four Swords games and A Link Between Worlds gameplay, it's fine.
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Status: My American-made Chevy pickup uses metric bolts . My made in Thailand Honda motorcycle uses a mix of metric and SAE bolts, with no apparent pattern
Two of my engines use Russian Metric which is neither (integer) Metric nor Imperial. I've had to resort to molesting spanners in the mill.
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Russian Metric which is neither (integer) Metric nor Imperial.
Russian sizes, or just poor quality control?
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I think it's Russian sizes. The fittings do all measure the same. These are 1960's bits though, maybe things have standardised a bit more since.
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All being the same size means nothing. It may just mean that all of their machines were setup off of the same wrong standard.
It does remind me of working along side a mechanic friend of mine. I asked him what size he thought a nut was. He stroked his beard, thought for a moment and said, "Looks like Crescent to me."
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Status: started a project. It's going to be virtual graph paper that you can scribble on that gets saved on Google Drive. So far I haven't added the ability to edit documents yet, so it's kind of missing some important features. https://benlubar.github.io/graph-paper/
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I was told by an AMM that Russian Metric was a thing. Its certainly a possibility that is is just bad tolerances though. Apart from the weird sizes it is a lovely engine to work on, the engineers really thought about how to get to all the fittings without having 6 hands or a spanner with 0mm wall sizes. Some of the American engines have fittings that are nearly impossible to get to, definitely a case of design without consulting production.
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Some of the American engines have fittings that are nearly impossible to get to, definitely a case of design without consulting production.
Or the assumption everyone has a socket set ;)
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It would still have to be a 0mm wall socket set with a 270 degree bend in the drive ;)
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Yeah well, we kicked their asses in the Cold War, so there.
Actually Russia's military equipment was probably exactly on par with ours the entire time. And they've always been damned good with tanks. And submarines, although they never had enough of them in service.
But still.
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Status: playing a game called Organ trail, which is apparently a parody of the game Oregon Trail except with zombies. You have to drive a car across the US to reach the west coast.
The car broke down. OK, no problem, use scrap to repair it. Each scrap has a 20% chance of successfully repairing it, so the came says. So it should take on average 5 to repair the car.
I had 23. All of them failed. Complete fucking bullshit that is.