The Official Status Thread
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
what extraneous GE I'm taking this semester.
Don't take programming. It's not worth it. Trust me.
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Status: Wondering what Bobby1 is transmitting at such a metered pace...
Thought you could get around IDS, huh?
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
"Yeah, just let me sign the order form. I don't need the rest of the sales spiel."
"You don't need to sell me on your product. I want to buy your product. Do not make it difficult for me to buy your product."
Come to think of it, they're probably going to go various delivery services/extended warranty routes to try to squeeze more money out of you. That makes more sense than them hindering the sale for no reason.
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Thinking about getting a NUC kit or something small on which I can put a minimal domain controller/ePO. Was thinking of building something, but I'm not convinced it's going to end up cheaper than pre-made and it's looking like I can't build something smaller than mini-ITX or so, which is still relatively large by the standards I'm using for this.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: got sick. I'm tired all day, don't eat anything but chocolate, and have strangest thoughts. Like, for example, since the suffix "-ess" is used to create feminine versions of masculine base words, every time you write down "address" as "addr", you're reinforcing patriarchy.
Another "sick" thought: caress.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Thinking about getting a NUC kit or something small on which I can put a minimal domain controller/ePO. Was thinking of building something, but I'm not convinced it's going to end up cheaper than pre-made and it's looking like I can't build something smaller than mini-ITX or so, which is still relatively large by the standards I'm using for this.
I was experimenting with a Latte Panda for this. Had to get the 64 Gb version because that one had true 64-bit booting. IIRC it seemed to work fine, if a bit slow (which is fine if you're not doing much, like I do in the home).
It's basically just a bit bigger than an rPi.
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Status: ok I beat XCOM 2
Spoilers ahead
The last boss fight consists of killing 3 enemies. Simple enough.
Those 3 enemies spawn one at a time, and they have a mechanic where they teleport randomly after being shot.
It ended up that I shot them and they teleported next to one of my soldiers that had action points left EVERY SINGLE TIME. I don't think a single one of my soldiers was wounded during the last part of that mission.
Here comes the part I don't like:
After the 3 enemies there is no more gameplay. Killing the third enemy instantly ends the mission, shows a cutscene, then the credits, and then the game ends.
There's no way to continue fighting the aliens even though the ending cutscene heavily implies the war is still going on.
The only thing I can do to continue the game is go back to my last autosave, which is one turn before the game ended. Even if I went back to the hard save before I started the last mission, I can't do anything other than start the last mission again. I'd have to go back two missions to continue playing, and there wouldn't be anything for me to do other than do the last two missions or stall until I decide to do so.
Here's a list of games I've played, sorted by time, with the games I've completed in bold, and games I've almost completed in italics:
(I've skipped games that are mostly or entirely multiplayer competitive gameplay)
Guild Wars: 5059 hours (4833 EU, 126 NA, 110 original)
Alien Swarm: 900 hours (732 original, 168 Reactive Drop)
Portal: 507 hours (185 original, 322 Portal 2)
Skyrim: 360 hours (310 original, 50 SE)
Dark Souls: 170 hours (27 original, 12 II, 131 III)
Half-Life: 155 hours (24 original, 10 update, 50 HL2, 14 EP1, 57 EP2)
XCOM: 93 hours (49 Enemy Unknown, 44 XCOM 2)
Undertale: 40 hours I have not completed the genocide route
Magicka: 30 hours (15 original, 15 Magicka 2)So the lesson I've learned from this is to only ever buy games that don't end, or games with easily-added community-contributed campaigns.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: got sick. I'm tired all day, don't eat anything but chocolate, and have strangest thoughts. Like, for example, since the suffix "-ess" is used to create feminine versions of masculine base words, every time you write down "address" as "addr", you're reinforcing patriarchy.
Another "sick" thought: caress.
I don't know about you, but I'd much rather go to work in a hug than in an automobile.
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@ben_lubar I don't know about you, but I don't have work.
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@ben_lubar also. You have 360h in Skyrim but haven't completed it? I know the main quest is boring as hell, but come on.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar also. You have 360h in Skyrim but haven't completed it? I know the main quest is boring as hell, but come on.
I completed the main quest but not all of the other main quests.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar also. You have 360h in Skyrim but haven't completed it? I know the main quest is boring as hell, but come on.
I completed the main quest but not all of the other main quests.
If you do only the main quest and ignore the other stuff in the game, it's like 4 hours tops.
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Status: @Tsaukpaetra likes the fact that I don't have a job.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: @Tsaukpaetra likes the fact that I don't have a job.
No, I'm providing subtle moral support.
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@tsaukpaetra a financial support would be better.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra a financial support would be better.
You have a Patreon? I have room for a few more dollars...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You may be building up some sort of an idea of her work ethic
No, just of the fact that you're a massive dick. Especially since it turns out to be your fault so the "not an idiot" part is falsified
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@tsaukpaetra Patreon requires doing something creative. So no, I don't. I have Paypal though.
But seriously. I'm pissed off by the fact that I've spent 8 months job hunting and didn't get even a single offer. With 3 years of experience, I should have had more than 3 interviews by now. C++ isn't that uncommon, right? I feel like a total failure. The best thing I can do right now is go back to the pishole I came from, procrastinate 10 more months until the beginning of the new school year, finish my 2 years of uni and get the B.A., and hope my green card won't get revoked in the meantime (which most likely will be).
If I wasn't so stubborn and gave up a couple months earlier, I could have shorten the process above by a whole year.
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@jaloopa Eh. I had had the SAT score reporting confused/combined with the AP score reporting in my mind. It's her job to help newbie students who don't understand the university system (like me). And she took two and a half weeks to tell me what could have been accomplished in a day (maybe two).
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
C++
I have a feeling you might have been helpful tracking down the Engine freeze in UE4 that's been plaguing us ever since 4.17. They've released 4.18 and its still not fixed, but we do know that in a certain async wait loop if we tell it to not wait indefinitely it only freezes for the wait time. And the issue is highly random in time to reproduce, but it's 100 percent reproducible.
Maybe you might also have been helpful in getting Oculus working correctly with SteamVR in the Unreal engine, but that's an even bigger bag of moldy worms...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: @Tsaukpaetra likes the fact that I don't have a job.
No, I'm providing subtle moral support.
I'm always hesitant to like posts on Twitter where someone is talking about some tragedy. That's why this forum's system of arrows that point up or down is better.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: @Tsaukpaetra likes the fact that I don't have a job.
No, I'm providing subtle moral support.
I'm always hesitant to like posts on Twitter where someone is talking about some tragedy. That's why this forum's system of arrows that point up or down is better.
In fact, it should extend even further, make them "reactions" where users could pick an emoji instead!
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status: phone hard rebooted and got stuck in boot, was nearly soft bricked there... :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
what extraneous GE I'm taking this semester.
Don't take programming. It's not worth it. Trust me.
Inro to CS (CS 46A) is in fact exactly what I'm taking. There's no way to test out of it. At least it's in Java, so I can continue not learning JavaScript.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I was experimenting with a Latte Panda for this. Had to get the 64 Gb version because that one had true 64-bit booting. IIRC it seemed to work fine, if a bit slow (which is fine if you're not doing much, like I do in the home).
Looking at this and a bit concerned by the mixed reviews but willing to give it a shot. The 2/32 looks ideal for me to minimize my investment, but does that version not have "true 64-bit booting"? Wondering what you mean by that.
Edit: Ended up ordering a NUC kit; I found a model very much within my price range. A little more comfortable with that, should be more availability of hardware drivers, and I don't need the hobbyist stuff on the board.
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Status: Operation Christmas Decorations, Phase 2: Complete.
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No, I don't think I want to change a grammatically correct sentence to a grammatically incorrect sentence, Word, but thanks for playing.
(I keep forgetting to mention in the Bugs forum that file uploads don't work in Edge.)
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
but does that version not have "true 64-bit booting"? Wondering what you mean by that.
Yeah, the 2 GB version has a 64 bit CPU, but a 32 bit UEFI , and it's a bitch to try getting 64 bit Windows (like Windows server) booting on that.
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status: who the fuck?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
who the fuck?
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@tsaukpaetra
Not sure what you expected when you posted the identifying part of your phone number where this crowd of miscreants could see it...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra
Not sure what you expected when you posted the identifying part of your phone number where this crowd of miscreants could see it...Oh, I'm overjoyed that communication is occurring. But... Who is it? And what is this claim about lockscreens? I don't have any new notifications, so....
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@tsaukpaetra Well now we all have their number too, so text away I guess.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You may be building up some sort of an idea of her work ethic
No, just of the fact that you're a massive dick. Especially since it turns out to be your fault so the "not an idiot" part is falsified
Sure, that totally justifies her taking several days to reply to every email, and sending him on several different wild goose chases, instead of just telling him "you said you got 5 on the AP test? Well, it's not letting you enroll because your AP score isn't on file... can you please have them send the official copy over to us, or come in and show it to me and we'll get you credited for it in the system".
Is it so much to ask that she actually read his whole email (in a timely fashion), actually look at his student account, and correctly identify his problem? I mean, it's only like helping students enroll is her fucking job.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Who is it?
After careful consideration, the following meta attributes have been assigned to this entity:
- User found Post, which occurred in the thread 16 days or 319 posts before present, indicating a lurker or user that otherwise tends to lag behind certain threads.
- Image sent is Rin Kaenbyou (orin), a cat from Touhou
- Assuming message was sent during standard waking-non-working hours, tentative timezone estimated at GMT+1?
- Phone number registered as California from Verizon Wireless, so perhaps GMT-8
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
what is this claim about lockscreens?
Reviewing the thread around that post, I guess this means that the action of texting me was meant to put a notification on my lockscreen? But sadly, my phone does not do such things. I do suppose the Hangouts text message does count as a notification though, so
Hmm...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: who the fuck?
You did post everything but the area code, so I doubt it was that difficult for someone to figure out. (Can't recall whether you have also posted your general whereabouts, but probably because I probably haven't been paying very close attention.)
It's kind of a dick move to post it without censoring the person's phone number, though... or at least the last 4 digits. Even though whoever it was probably should've been smart enough to use a throwaway number.
Anyway, did you try searching for that phone number in Facebook? (edit: I tried it, no results)
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And what is this claim about lockscreens?
I seem to remember you saying that you never had any notifications on your lock screen, or something to that effect. The person who texted you probably assumed that they'd generate notifications that displayed there.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: who the fuck?
You did post everything but the area code, so I doubt it was that difficult for someone to figure out. (Can't recall whether you have also posted your general whereabouts, but probably because I probably haven't been paying very close attention.)
It's remarkably easy to find my info, my GeoIP s accurate to 2.7 miles, and there are really only about 4 area codes popular in that area so you have a really good chance of being right.
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
It's kind of a dick move to post it without censoring the person's phone number, though... or at least the last 4 digits. Even though whoever it was probably should've been smart enough to use a throwaway number.
Ah, yeah, editing images on mobile is difficult. Flagged.
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyway, did you try searching for that phone number in Facebook? (edit: I tried it, no results)
Can you... do that? I didn't know that was a thing.
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And what is this claim about lockscreens?
I seem to remember you saying that you never had any notifications on your lock screen, or something to that effect. The person who texted you probably assumed that they'd generate notifications that displayed there.
Yes, see my realization later on.
I've been getting better though, I subscribed to a few hundred YouTube channels, so now I get YouTube notifications! Yay!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Can you... do that? I didn't know that was a thing.
Yeah. It only works if they have the phone number on their profile, but a lot of people do. I'm inclined to think it might work even if they have their number set to private or friends only. It's one reason why I always use a burner number when I post an ad on Craigslist.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra a financial support would be better.
You have a Patreon? I have room for a few more dollars...
@Gąska has a new job!
Gaska is nowentertainer at WTDWTF
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
You sing Gloria Gaynor songs in East Europetaniastan? Weren't you enslaved by the commies when that song came out or something?
We were, but Gloria Gaynor's art was strong enough to transcend the iron curtain.
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Status: Wondering if Steam cares we're uploading the nightly to their servers.
Nobody uses the nightly.
It's currently not downloaded at all.
It may be used if we ever actually get a user base.
Each upload (due to the stupid way packaging an Unreal game seemingly always results in the pak files never being aligned with a previous build, despite that content not changing) results the full files usually ending up getting uploaded despite their chunking and hashing mechanisms designed to aid in that problem.
So each day another 5-10 Gb of data is going up there.
Hmm...
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Status: Tried one last attempt to revive the board of my 3D printer using an Arduino as an ISP to upload a new bootloader.
Seems there's something else wrong because I only get timeouts. Oh well. I got some silica gel packs to store the remains of my PLA so it doesn't draw too much water and will wait for the delivery of my original Prusa.
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@anotherusername Guilty. It was posted as a challenge, I'm just extremely lazy.
And I don't care if my number is censored or not.
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Status: resisting temptation...
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STATUS: Well, fuck.
Did some troubleshooting of the phone line in my house, as my modem can't connect. First: whoever installed the extension to the upper floor didn't know how to phone and connected the cables wrong. Oh, well. That was gonna get removed either way.
Still can't connect. Friend comes over to help check. No power from the phone socket. Weird. We trace the cable backwards some more. It exits the house near the door, but can't see any cable on the outside... Uh-oh. More investigation reveals that the previous owner apparently removed the phone cable from the entry point to the roof. No wonder the modem was unable to connect, as there is literally no physical connection at all.
Now, I wonder who will be responsible for paying the repair costs. If it ends up me it's really not worth it and I'm better off getting fiber asap. Asap in this case being whenever the snow has melted and the ground has thawed, as it's kinda hard to dig a trench through a frozen lawn with icy snow on top.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
dig a trench through a frozen lawn with icy snow on top.
Maybe one of these might help?
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska has a new job!
Gaska is nowentertainer at WTDWTF
.Did you write that as if it was a Dwarf Fortress announcement on purpose?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska has a new job!
Gaska is nowentertainer at WTDWTF
.Did you write that as if it was a Dwarf Fortress announcement on purpose?
I was thinking Pokémon, but sure, that works too.