The Official Status Thread
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I didn't even know you could "win" Pokemon
Turns out you can. A little harder than winning The Sims, but you at least see the credits screen when you're done.
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Which is why I made my point about ORAS. There are at least two sets of credits, and the thing that triggers one set has multiple difficulties, depending on whether or not you've seen the other credits.
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@blakeyrat said:
I thought you just kept playing until you collected all of them and then seppuku time.
In a fair and just world, that would be true.
mini-IJIJ's have already noticed that you just keep playing... and playing... because the Pokeman-R-Us people just keep making more and more Pokemen.
Apparently the little yellow rat thing that everyone is supposed to like is around #62 out of at least 600+ of the silly things?
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#25
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Everyone liking Pikachu? Well, while it might not be canon, it's definitely at least fanon.
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That looks awfully appetizing to me!
Some of us prefer our burgers not to look like clown vomit.
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Everyone liking Pikachu? Well, while it might not be canon, it's definitely at least fanon.
I forgot where I was.
IMBNH.
Stats***mispeledtext: EOD: outta-here
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At least there, they have to 'discover' new ones. I mean, sometimes you have magic fairy ones that suddenly appear, or ones that are attached to meteors, but they have to show up through some kind of plot.
I like Digimon, even now, but they come from some ungodly interaction between the internet and childrens' imaginations. They don't need reasons to make new ones, or recolor old ones.
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That was amazing...ly bad. The fake laugh track they added didn't help either.
I think dubbing is a universally bad idea. After a short while with sub-titles you just don't notice them at all. I watched Appleseed at a friend's house in the dubbed version and it was just painful, I know what the characters voices sound like and it was just jarringly wrong.
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Hey, if a teacher got away with* showing her class ABCs of Death , I think you're safe.
(*) She didn't actually get away with it.
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Actually she didn't get away with it.
But if it wasn't for those meddling kids and that dog!
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Status: sitting in bosses office listening in on a conference call about organizational shenanigans. At one point it devolved into a shouting match Between boss and boss+1.
Mobile keyboards suck.
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The apostrophe should be before the 's', because 'children' is plural. But I don't care enough to go back and fix it.
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Status: Trying to debug another company's VB.NET application. By default, I can't see the values of any****strong text properties, due to the liberal application of
DebuggerHiddenAttributes
on all the getters. I got tired of manually removingDebuggerHiddenAttributes
. Since the changes I make won't ever be propagated back to the original company, I thought I would go ahead and remove them all to make my life easier.
I have been taking notes. This project will make a fine front page submission some day.
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VB.NET application
front page submission
Which OPTIONs does it use? Was it migrated from VB6?
The one I work on is plagued by ZERO TYPE SAFETY. If I switched on Option Strict, it'd take multiple days to get to compile, probably.
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This one gets type safety in the Option Strict sense right, thankfully. The problems lie elsewhere. For example, this application is a database viewer and it assumes that the data it receives will never be null. In fact, there isn't a single DBNull check in the entire codebase. This application, combined with the database itself, has made my professional life very unpleasant these past few weeks.
Here's one of the more easily anonymized patterns I keep running into.
Try Dim list As New List(of SomeType) Catch ex As Exception TheirLog.Error("Failed to create list of SomeType") End Try
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Status: Level of dissatisfaction with having to badger other teams to stick to the fucking agreed upon spec instead of cutting corners and dropping features has reached maximum overkill. I have literally done nothing else for weeks.
My favorite argument is "well your team would have to implement an API for that and you don't have time and resources for that!" to which the answer is unrelentingly "we already did hence why I reminded you of the API endpoint in the previous email".
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Why is there no BED emoji?! WTF!?!?
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isn't good enough?
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Status:
Sunk two carriers and a battleship in the lowest tier destroyer.
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Status: I was the player that was affected by the most combined bleeding, poison, burning, and so on. Yay for cloth tank! (Here's my character's build for anyone who plays GW2)
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Did you hear about my destroyer?
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Yes, but swimming around in the water.
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I think I need this game. But I'm unsure of I'll ever have free time to play it.
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Status: @blakeyrat was watching me play Guild Wars 2. Here's how I left it when I logged off:
I was so close to getting a cupcake, but I guess I'll have to wait until the god of war and fire stops having a tantrum.
That entire area is covered in a firestorm (think of a hailstorm but with fire instead of ice) and has zombie wizards that summon more zombies every time you kill half of the ones they just summoned. There's no way I'm getting through there at 04:45 UTC on a European server. It takes three different event chains to even start an attack on that place.
Filed under: although it is kind of cool that you can see the statue of Balthazar from the world map
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I think dubbing is a universally bad idea. After a short while with sub-titles you just don't notice them at all.
I generally agree with you. The only time I prefer dubbing is if I want to watch something casually, not really paying attention, while doing something else. With subtitles, I have to give what I'm watching my pretty much undivided attention.
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With subtitles, I have to give what I'm watching my pretty much undivided attention.
Subtitles are way better when you know (even if just a bit) the language being used. Very few dubs get the tone of voice really right (especially for news reporting). But the most annoying subtitles/dubs are when they're on someone speaking your own language and they've been put on because the speaker has a heavy accent…
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Status: So this is back on Wikipedia...
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Status: Wishing I was a bass instead of a baritone so I could sing like this:
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Subtitles are way better when you know (even if just a bit) the language being used.
Yes, definitely. I always enjoy picking out what words I can, even if it's only one here and there. The best, of course, is that very rare occasion when I can get enough of the dialog to catch a mismatch between the spoken words and the subtitles.
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We'll never run ads
Huge ass ad.
Fun fact, there's only four spaces between those two quote blocks.
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I always loved PBS in the US, "we never run ads" (each show separated by 13 "sponsored by" messages.)
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Status****strong text: One of my tweets was just retweeted by @blakeyrat. #StarStruck
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Status: this is fucked up.
Everybody intelligent knows that polygraphs are complete bullshit pseudo-science. They aren't admissable in court for that very reason.
But you can get 2 years in prison for teaching people how to "beat" them? That's grossly unfair.
If they are possible to "beat", that just means: they're stupid and useless and people should STOP USING THEM. Instead of killing the messenger, maybe listen to the message.
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they're stupid and useless and people should STOP USING THEM.
But then what will happen to all those sweet, sweet polygraph no-bid contracts? And highly paid polygraph operator consulting fees? And expensive polygraph training seminars?
Won't you PLEASE think of the cronies?
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I always loved PBS in the US, "we never run ads" (each show separated by 13 "sponsored by" messages.)
I haven't watched broadcast TV in a really long time, so I can't say about PBS, but on public radio, at least the sponsorship messages are only 5 – 10 seconds, vs. 15 – 60 for commercials, and usually not more than two, one of which is "listeners like you." It really does leave more time for programming. When KING-FM went from commercial to listener-supported, they said it added up to a half-hour a day, or something like that. (Of course, they make up for that with their week-long pledge drives three times a year. TANSTAAFL)
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"The great TV auction" is when my PBS station starts selling random crap by having disinterested people wave their hands near certificates for discounts on coffee or paintings by an artist nobody's ever heard of.
"We interrupt our regular scheduled programming to bring you a low-tech version of ebay."
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@Lorne_Kates said:
One of my tweets was just retweeted by @blakeyrat. #StarStruck
Blakey is a legend in his own mind.
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Status: installed NVIDIA driver update. Computer crashed. Went to event viewer for more info. Found this:
Also:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000119 (0x0000000000000700, 0x00000000035c816e, 0x00000000035c8173, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 092315-28250-01.
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DON'T PANIC EVERYTHING IS PERFECTLY FINE!!!!!!!!!
Filed under: "Body is invalid. Try to be more descriptive." Sorry, Discourse, the Trans discussion thread is over there...
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**Status:**strong text Unable to pay my Internet bill because the billpay website's "Pay Now" button has been broken for a week now. No JavaScript errors or anything, it just doesn't work.