The Official Status Thread
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@ben_lubar nope
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@JazzyJosh brb SIGSTOP-ing your instance so it dies in a fire.
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@FrostCat 11:45 I go home for lunch. I get back and there's an email from 12:00 saying the email I sent them way back at 9 with a possible fix worked.
Well that's great, but you could've said something earlier.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Agreed, but performance is so bad I'm seriously considering moving the installation
You could always try to get a new or or unused machine.
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@ben_lubar Why are you telling me? I'm not the guy in that picture.
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@Yamikuronue I had a couple of assholes instead of friends in college, and they realized the texts were only charged to your account if you opened them, and that you could preview precisely 13 characters without opening the text.
They only texted each other with the system, but they did it for free. At the price of their sanity, natch.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Hendoo and Boddist.
In what alternate universe do you see that?
It's clearly "HINDU". Compare the I in that word with the E and I in ATHEIST. Even if you were right, it would have been HENOO not HENDOO because there's only 5 letters.
BUDDIST is wrong, too, sure, but I'd argue it's their own fault for having a spare letter there. They probably got that idea from the English and their habit of unnecessary letters.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
That is the least homeless looking homeless guy.
You should see all the "homeless" guys at every intersection of major streets in Dallas. They've almost got a uniform: shoulderish-length hair, short beard, long-sleeve shirt & jeans, and a cardboard sign. It's almost like there were focus groups.
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@Tsaukpaetra Might be a coincidence--I got an ad for HP and another for Chrome.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
So last Saturday 5am they called my colleague, who did have his work phone turned on. He was not amused.
WHAAARGARBL.
WHAAARGARBL
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@FrostCat Maybe you should read posts, like the one where I looked again and agreed with you. Idiot.
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Then I opened the email and it turns out it actually was a "buy a pizza for $10" offer.
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@Magus Awww, who's a crankypants? Nobody reads the entire thread before replyin!
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@FrostCat You up-chevronned the post in question.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@JazzyJosh brb SIGSTOP-ing your instance so it dies in a fire.
oh shit I killed the wrong instance. brb.
@JazzyJosh if you post now, does it show the correct image?
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
You up-chevronned the post in question.
So maybe I thought it was funny, even if it was wrong. I can downvote it if you'd prefer.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
That is the least homeless looking homeless guy.
Nobody said he was homeless.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Might be a coincidence--I got an ad for HP and another for Chrome.
wats an ad
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Then I opened the email and it turns out it actually was a "buy a pizza for $10" offer.
Any company that uses an emoji in their email subject can fuck off and die instantly.
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@Lorne-Kates all 3 of the big pizza chains love the Unicode emoji.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates all 3 of the big pizza chains love the Unicode emoji.
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I need a ruling. I slept with a chick who is directly credited in a production role in a Kevin Bacon movie. Grainy cell phone video was taken but has long since been eradicated (mobile data wasn't a thing at the time, nor were phones with wifi or Bluetooth, so I am very confident of this)
Does this mean my Bacon Number is 2?
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
So maybe I thought it was funny, even if it was wrong. I can downvote it if you'd prefer.
So posts where I say I'm wrong are wrong? I'm always right? I mean I'm okay with that, but...
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I went to Visual Studio 15 Preview because my Visual Studio 2015 was broken (and two reinstalls didn't fix it).
Today Visual Studio 15 is showing the same symptoms.
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@error Your computer is broken.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
So maybe I thought it was funny, even if it was wrong. I can downvote it if you'd prefer.
So posts where I say I'm wrong are wrong? I'm always right? I mean I'm okay with that, but...
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devenv /clearcache devenv /updateconfiguration
Didn't save VS 2015 but appears to have worked for VS 15.
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@error I didn't want to see this...my VS2015 broke today too, and it's taking all afternoon to reinstall.
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@mott555 If the reinstall doesn't work, try nuking the appdata, both local and roaming (keep a backup, obviously), and running the above incantation from VS command prompt.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Agreed, but performance is so bad I'm seriously considering moving the installation
You could always try to get a new or or unused machine.
Sure, if I want to get laughed at.
I know nobody reads threads, but not too long ago I mentioned I'm being laid off. I'm sure they'll rush at the chance to help me...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I mentioned I'm being laid off.
I missed that one. That bites.
Sorry, guy.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
but not too long ago I mentioned I'm being laid off.
My condolences. I highly recommend you take care of removing that 'off'. Should be much more entertaining.
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Status: lolololol someone must have complained that the site title text is pointless. Now it's uber awesome on small-width mode.
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@Tsaukpaetra You're always mocking us for our small phones. My phone has a 5.5" screen and 1080p resolution. Why does it look so shitty and cramped on my screen and so spacious on yours?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Might be a coincidence--I got an ad for HP and another for Chrome.
wats an ad
I deliberately opened the page in a non-adblocking browser to see what would happen.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Does this mean my Bacon Number is 2?
Yes, even though it requires "knowing her in the Biblical sense" instead of "was in a movie with her." Unless she's a dog or something.
Your case would've been significantly stronger if you'd kept the video, btw.
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@Magus going back up to check what happened upthread is a to .
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Status: So I played some Starbound yesterday. Apart from an apparently unskippable infinitely long cutscene at the start, I was starting to enjoy the game.
Then the fact that you drop items on death started to become important, when suddenly every enemy could 2shot me and even logging out leaves you underground. Ugh. I'll figure something out, I'm sure, but it's really a pain right now. Especially since all the crafting benches are now 2-3x the size they all were.
Status2: I will probably buy a Vita today. And play Cyber Sleuth. I suspect a certain rodent-named being will appear soon to insult me for willingly electing to buy something to play a JRPG.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I know nobody reads threads, but not too long ago I mentioned I'm being laid off.
That's why I said it!
More seriously, there's probably decent odds of finding a working existing machine that's not being used.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra You're always mocking us for our small phones. My phone has a 5.5" screen and 1080p resolution. Why does it look so shitty and cramped on my screen and so spacious on yours?
Because your phone thinks it has a 3 inch screen. DPI works wonders!
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Apart from an apparently unskippable infinitely long cutscene at the start, I was starting to enjoy the game.
It wasn't that long, and you skip it by checking a box when you create your character, I think. Not terribly intuitive.
Especially when the death scene explicitly says "esc to skip"!
I "like" how there's twice as many workbenches now.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I know nobody reads threads, but not too long ago I mentioned I'm being laid off.
That's why I said it!
More seriously, there's probably decent odds of finding a working existing machine that's not being used.
Currently soliciting for a spare drive and permissions to clone to it.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
It wasn't that long, and you skip it by checking a box when you create your character, I think. Not terribly intuitive.
Not that one, the one at the gate. I liked the other one. It got me a cool cape!
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
I "like" how there's twice as many workbenches now.
I'm okay with that, but they're larger, which annoys me.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Not that one, the one at the gate.
Oh. I found the gate but only have...17?..core fragments or shards so far. Haven't even made a bow yet--busy wandering around (mostly) the surface.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm okay with that, but they're larger, which annoys me.
I found a nice 3-story ruin so I have room.
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@FrostCat Yeah, I finished erchius and went to another planet, but it's really not fun losing everything constantly on low-level planets.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
losing everything constantly
FIrst off, you probably need more weapons and/or armor if you're dying early on. That aside, if you build containers, which you can now, you can--just like in Minecraft--theoretically keep going back to base periodically to store your stuff so that doesn't happen. Except for pixels. Goddammit.
Also, there's modes now, so maybe on whatever they call easy, you don't lose pixels on death.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, there's modes now, so maybe on whatever they call easy, you don't lose pixels on death.
The last time I played starbound you could still run your spaceship on wood, so my knowledge is out of date. There used to be 'easy' where you lost pixels, 'hard' where you lost items, and permadeath where you lost your savefile.
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@FrostCat You can also expand your ship now, so if you don't mind things being cramped, you can fit everything you need on the ship.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
FIrst off, you probably need more weapons and/or armor if you're dying early on.
I have the best armor I can make at the moment, and a nice fire axe and a couple really good guns. But bandits with rocket launchers kill me in one hit.
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
f you build containers, which you can now, you can--just like in Minecraft--theoretically keep going back to base periodically to store your stuff so that doesn't happen.
Okay, yes, but lets say you're underground. You have to get back to the top to escape to your ship, and are likely to lose it all down there. Or if you're doing a quest on the surface? You have to turn in your item, but instead you will die. Definitely.
Just makes me hate everything. This is not a singleplayer game.