The Official Status Thread
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
the geography does not match reality
Try finding an ultra-large Earth map. The positioning of the civs will probably still be wrong (unless you play a full Earth-based scenario) but it won't be quite as bad.
Still not as good a game as Alpha Centauri.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Try finding an ultra-large Earth map.
Meh. It's not worth that much effort. I just say and laugh. My son, however, has decided he can never stand to play it.
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@dkf Beyond Earth definitely was no Alpha Centauri.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Beyond Earth definitely was no Alpha Centauri.
QFVST
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status: natural awakening process completed. Beginning daily startup routine...
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Beyond Earth definitely was no Alpha Centauri.
I saw the reviews, decided not to buy, and quietly wept…
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@dkf
Sadly, I purchased it, tried to play a few games, and died inside
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@dkf no, you should only weep if you try Sid Meier's Starships on the basis of 'this is what they're calling a Sid Meier game now?' Civ:BE is merely an 'oh...' moment.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Try finding an ultra-large Earth map.
If I remember correctly the original civ had that as a default, including mostly-accurate starting placement.
I own alpha centauri, including the 200+-page manual, but for some reason the disk isn't readable anymore
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@HardwareGeek
Steam workshop has very good ones only a click awayBuut. Half of the fun in civ games is discovering the geography
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Try finding an ultra-large Earth map.
If I remember correctly the original civ had that as a default, including mostly-accurate starting placement.
I own alpha centauri, including the 200+-page manual, but for some reason the disk isn't readable anymore
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@Dreikin 'd me to posting that.
The manual is awesome and it indicates how much care went into Alpha Centauri's design.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Try finding an ultra-large Earth map.
If I remember correctly the original civ had that as a default, including mostly-accurate starting placement.
I own alpha centauri, including the 200+-page manual, but for some reason the disk isn't readable anymore
I have that, too! I found that the faction-specific bonuses and disadvantages are saved in plain-text .ini files in the game folder. That made it really easy to make my favorite side super-powerful. I had to tone down some of the strengths for other win-cons so I could play as I wished.
(I believe it also worked just fine with a disc image. That's what a backup is for. Not that I'm advocating piracy. You should have your own CD-key.)
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@izzion The 'ocean cities' update thing helped it become about a 16% better game. So it's still pretty bad.
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@Magus
Wait, AC 2.0 shipped without ocean cities at all? Who greenlit this monstrosity? And why did I give him my money to roll his marijuana in??????????
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@izzion Civ:BE is practically a reskinned CivV. Which isn't the worst thing in the universe because CivV wasn't a complete crapshoot (eventually)... but it's no AC, even if it's trying to be the spiritual successor.
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status Figured out how to create my svn repo on a simple file share. (haven't migrated yet, but I know how!)
It's just me, so I'm not worried about access. And my server is Window Home Server. WinServer 2003 based. XP based. None of the svn or git installers I have will run there, so I'm stuck on a really old version of svn server (I'm using VisualSVN server).
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
And my server is Window Home Server. WinServer 2003 based. XP based.
Uh, interesting choice. I'm guessing the server's been around awhile, because otherwise
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@Dreikin I am still running win 2003 on my home server, I can't be arsed to upgrade and it works.
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Status: all the computers are Grumpy at me today!
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@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin I am still running win 2003 on my home server, I can't be arsed to upgrade and it works.
Which is why I phrased it that way. For home use, I'm not terribly surprised a server's not been upgraded for a while. But from the context I can't tell if that's actually the case.
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
And my server is Window Home Server. WinServer 2003 based. XP based.
Uh, interesting choice. I'm guessing the server's been around awhile, because otherwise
It has. It's an Acer headless box that came with WHS on it. There's no real upgrade path for it. It works, so there's been no reason to change it. (Plus the hardware probably couldn't support win10 - it's an Atom processor with 2G memory)
I use it primarily for system backup, file server, and svn server.
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Status: Just got back from my mom's "birthday eve" dinner (she has a busy schedule, and we usually eat out on Saturdays). Anyway, here's an excerpt from the menu:
GRILLED CHICKEN SANDWICH Plain or marinated grilled boneless chicken breast, served on a pretzel bun, with chipotle mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato and scallions. Can be made as a wrap. 9.00
WORKS BURRITO refried beans, Mexican white cheese, onion, tomato, black olives, and sour cream 6.00
CHICKEN BURRITO salsa chicken, Mexican white cheese, onion, tomato, black olives, sour cream, and avocado 8.50And our orders:
works burrito
works burrito, no onion
chicken burrito, no sour cream, no guacamole
grilled chicken sandwich, substitute rye bread for pretzel bun, remove all ingredients other than chicken, bread, and tomato, add potato chipsAnd a conversation that happened after we were served:
Ben, do you have onions in yours?
No, I don't think I do.
Let's switch. I think I have yours.
Wait, there's meat in mine.
I thought this tasted like not-chicken!Also, the waiter said "I'm French" which I assume was his name, but I don't want to make assumptions.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Atom processor
Yeah, that probably doesn't have PAE or NX, so on that...
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
his name
Phreintch?
Yeah, that was probably his name.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
And a conversation that happened after we were served:
I take it that got his order 100% right.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
And a conversation that happened after we were served:
I take it that got his order 100% right.
They got all the orders right, but the burritos were given to the wrong people at the table.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Finished the tutorials and started playing a real (single-player) game. CivV is fun
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@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin I am still running win 2003 on my home server, I can't be arsed to upgrade and it works.
luddite. what happens when you can't see Grumpy Cat?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, the waiter said "I'm French" which I assume was his name, but I don't want to make assumptions.
Sorry about him, he's from Spain.
Also =( RIP Manuel.
(Rip Manuel, but que, Meester Faulty, no rip, jacket is good. Ees good)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Plus the hardware probably couldn't support win10 - it's an Atom processor with 2G memory
I mean it could support 10. It would be slow, and the server editions would be right out, but it could support it.
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I want coffee but I have no milk because I bought it on Amazon instead of a normal supermarket and apparently "1-day delivery" means "3-day delivery oh wait there's the weekend in there make that 5"
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Status: probably wasting my time. For reasons, I want to play a game that was shipped made in Java. It's not Minecraft. Since Win10 doesn't come with a JVM and I don't exactly want a JVM on my laptop unchecked, I'm currently waiting for Ubuntu to download so I can put it in a VM, and install the game in there and wait for it to fail.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: probably wasting my time. For reasons, I want to play a game that was shipped made in Java. It's not Minecraft. Since Win10 doesn't come with a JVM and I don't exactly want a JVM on my laptop unchecked, I'm currently waiting for Ubuntu to download so I can put it in a VM, and install the game in there and wait for it to fail.
"You can't just expect failure to happen, you've got to make it happen!"
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@Dreikin and it did, because even after I got Ubuntu installed, and then the JRE installed, the game still failed because the weird graphics library it's built on demands DirectX.
-sigh- Guess I'm either not playing the game, I'm installing the JRE on my main laptop, or I'm creating a Windows VM...
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@Arantor So I figured, I have an AV, and I can always uninstall the JRE if it doesn't work.
Well, it didn't work, the game crashed with a different exception this time. Guess I really am destined not to play this game. Oh well :(
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Status: Put some of our Xmas decorations up (the ones that require me to be up a ladder) because we've got visitors the next two weekends.
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status: reading TDWTF with a black pussy on my lap
Cat: ,; çààààààààààhbnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoklivvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Luhmann: stupid cat ... get off the damn keyboard
#BlackPussyMatters #BlackCatLiveMatterToo
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@Arantor Whats the problem with installing JVM anyway?
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@Adynathos aside from Java being comparable to Flash in terms of vulnerability vectors?
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
aside from Java being comparable to Flash in terms of vulnerability vectors?
But that does not force you to run every Java program in the world. It is equivalent to:
"I will not install the interpreter/runtime for language L, because someone could make a malicious program in language L"I want to play a game that was shipped made in Java
If the game was a binary executable, it could do everything that a Java program can do and even more.
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@Adynathos I realise that, however adding something to my machine that I don't need generally - and one that exposes it in a lot of ways it currently isn't... that's not a good thing.
Same reason you don't leave compilers and things on production environments - you reduce the general attack surface.
By your argument, I should install the runtimes for every language on the basis I might want to run programs in them, and it won't be a bad thing.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
however adding something to my machine that I don't need generally - one that exposes it in a lot of ways it currently isn't... that's not a good thing.
Sure, in the general sense more software is more complexity which means less security.
But there is always a tradeoff between security and usability (perfect security = never turning the machine on).
My claim is that installing a runtime for a program you are going to run gives more usability than it reduces security.I guess in the end it comes down to the personal preferences placed on usability vs security ratio :)
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@Arantor Don't install the browser plugin. Chrome and Firefox it is disabled by default.
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@lucas1 I didn't install the browser plugin and since the game still didn't work, I removed it again. The uninstaller appeared to have removed everything, too.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just ordered a new motherboard, case and water cooler. My PC was really annoying me when I would max out all 8 cores on a compile cycle and the fans would ramp up to full speed. Let's see if a 240mm radiator can fix that issue.
All this shit better fit when I move to AM4, or I am going to be pissed come Q1 of next year. The water cooler and the case that is. I would get a new motherboard...
I spaces it and ordered a conventional BIOS motherboard, my Windows 10 install is on UEFI. I was really hoping to be able to just swap the SSD and get back to work after some driver updates.
So how do I fix that? Will startup repair solve it? Or will I need a full reinstall?
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@Polygeekery Are you sure you can't enable UEFI on the board? My motherboard is about 3 years old and has UEFI.
You can try using recovery mode by the looks of it, but tbh if you are doing a reinstall from a usb stick it probably less effort.
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@lucas1 I am sure. I totally hosed it on ordering the motherboard and it is BIOS only. It is an ASUS M5A78L-M. My old motherboard is an ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0.
Fuck.
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I cannot find a single Micro-ATX motherboard for Socket AM3+ that has UEFI.
The new Zen platform better breathe some life in to AMD, because they have been too stagnant for too long.