The Official Status Thread
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Gee, I don't remember authorizing any of these.
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editing photos gets boring/tiring. that is all
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have a weakness for bladed weapons, decorative or functional. Sigh.
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The black one is a good blade, the others are pot metal (and way less expensive). I have a dagger upstairs.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What is this new-age thinking?
Yeah, but it seems to work for my kids. The glitter-bottle thing is indeed effective.
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@anotherusername I appreciate the joke, but huge minus points for not using Airwolf.
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To all those in the community who are fathers--Happy Father's Day. To all those who aren't, but wish they were--Happy Father's Day to you too.
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@benjamin-hall I'm neither. I feel left out. :/
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall I'm neither. I feel left out. :/
Same here, TBQH. But that's fine. You and I can have a perfectly wonderful Sunday without needing it to be a set-aside day.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Phone is updating to Android Oreo, fucking finally. It's only been ten months. Never get a Verizon-locked phone, people.
Is that 8.0? AT&T just updated mine 3 days ago.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: apparently Google Drive paid version is being renamed to Google One.
What is it with companies and the word "one"?
Obviously trying to confuse OneDrive users...
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@dcon Yes it is.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have a weakness for bladed weapons, decorative or functional. Sigh.
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@ben_lubar That's definitely a decorative weapon. Got too many blades on it for me--sharpening that thing must be a pain.
And why is the model always pictured in minimal clothing?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
minimal clothing
For maximum effect, of course.
Well, weapons are more effective against unarmored people, and unclothed people are the extreme case of that. Unless of course they're barbarians or monks. Or have magical protection, etc.
Yes, I'm mixing my game universes here a bit. On purpose
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar That's definitely a decorative weapon. Got too many blades on it for me--sharpening that thing must be a pain.
And why is the model always pictured in minimal clothing?
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_Wiki:Weapon_formatting#Screenshots
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Unless of course they're barbarians or monks.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/images/d/db/Monks.jpg
You get one of these guys with 55 health and a few specific enchantments and they are literally unkillable.
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God damn it. I'm pretty sure this problem started when I took the latest Windows update.
I might just replace the audio card anyway. I fucking hate Realtek and the fact you can't get it to switch to the headphones jack unless you have their stupid fucking application installed. I don't really know what good alternatives are for audio cards these days, though.
Edit: Looks like Creative/Sound Blaster is still a very good brand, looking at reviews. It's pretty unusual for peripheral manufacturers to have that much staying power. If I were okay with using USB, this looks pretty useful:
It'd be useful both as a portable headphone splitter (with no loss, since the two outputs are on separate circuits) and as a USB DAC. The thing is I'm going to run out of USB ports eventually, and also if it's not built in to my desktop it's just another thing for me to keep track of.
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Excuse me. There's literally a giant USB3.0 device dangling from my face.
Why the fuck can it not bring it's own god damned Bluetooth controller?
And speaking of running out of USB ports... Yeah. I alerady had to unplug shit to make room for the headset.
A bluetooth dongle is NOT going to improve matters.
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Steam. I don't have a Vive.
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@weng Your PC seems to be generally drunk.
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For those on the side of the planet where it is still Father's day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=159&v=lzfy_I-WV9Y
I'm not usually an emotionally mushy person but this one is good.
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@stillwater Not really. Valve is just incredibly obtuse and doesn't bother trying to detect what your hardware is
If you're using Mixed Reality gear instead of a Vive, you have to install a separate app.It does, however, successfully detect some sort of VR gear and nag you about installing SteamVR itself, which only supports the Vive out of the box.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
I might just replace the audio card anyway. I fucking hate Realtek and the fact you can't get it to switch to the headphones jack unless you have their stupid fucking application installed.
It's 2018. Buy a USB headset. USB headsets are their own sound cards, it'll solve all your problems.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
To all those in the community who are fathers--Happy Father's Day. To all those who aren't, but wish they were--Happy Father's Day to you too.
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall I'm neither. I feel left out. :/
Same here, TBQH. But that's fine. You and I can have a perfectly wonderful Sunday without needing it to be a set-aside day.
Today is a quiet day all to myself. I spent time with my kids yesterday; alas, it was not entirely pleasant.
TL;DR: I hate San Francisco in just about every possible way, and wish it were geologically possible for at least that part of California to fall into the ocean. I also hate T-Mobile.
You may recall my post on Thursday about T-Mobile's website being broken. As of yesterday morning, my phone was still not working. That made some parts of yesterday's experience significantly worse.
Corgi Con was at Ocean Beach yesterday. All I really knew was that my son and I were supposed to meet my daughter at Ocean Beach at 11:30. We were running very late because raisins, and it was probably about 12:30 when we got there.
Since I was coming from the south, not surprisingly Google Maps gave us directions to the south end of the beach. Ocean Beach is over 2 miles long, and it turns out Corgi Con was at the far north end, but we didn't know that until multiple phone calls (my son's phone) to my daughter, because she didn't really know where she was, either. So we had to drive the full length of the beach in traffic that was moving about 5 MPH, when it was moving at all. Once we got close to the right part of the beach, it took 10 minutes just to turn into the parking lot, because the cars looking for parking places were simply stopped; nobody was moving at all. Get in the parking lot; drop off my son and the dogs to go find my daughter, while I find a parking place. My son leaves me his phone so he and/or my daughter can call me from her phone when they meet up.
I finally park and go to meet them. I have a general idea where they are, because there are booths and stuff in the Corgi Con area. I walk, I dunno, at least 1/4 mile on the paved walk, then down and across the soft sand. I walk all over the Con area a couple of times. His phone is in my pocket; eventually I pull it out and look at it. There are at least one text and four missed calls from my daughters phone; over wind blowing, people talking, dogs barking, I can't hear it. And I can't do anything about it, because I can't unlock his phone. I put it back in my pocket and walk around from then on with my hand in my pocket, so that at least I can (I hope) feel it vibrate the next time it rings, even if I can't hear it.
A couple minutes later, it rings and I answer it. They're waiting for me to head back to the car, because she has to leave. So I trudge back across the sand, up the stairway to the pavement, and down to where they are. I'm in a really foul mood at this point, and so is my daughter. One of them says something to me critical of being late, or something like that, and I just lose my shit. I throw the stuff I'm carrying and start screaming about hating San Francisco and never wanting to set foot there again and wishing it would fall into the ocean and take all the people with it. It was not one of my best moments.
This may have been before or after one of them pointed out to me that there was a big blob of white stuff on the front of my shirt that might have been seagull poop. Or it might have been sunscreen, because the bottle leaked all over everything. I never did figure out which, because it didn't really have any identifying odor.
Walked to the car, slowly, because
and I wasn't feeling good, and neither was my
dog. We started across town. We needed to go to her apartment because there were friends coming to hang out with her and her boyfriend, and the four of us (me, son, daughter, boyfriend) needed to change clothes and go to my nephew's wedding (leaving the dogs there for a few hours). Cross-town traffic was also, predictably, utterly horrible (and made worse, we eventually discovered, by a stalled car blocking one of the two lanes on the street leading to the freeway). An hour and a half to get to her apartment.
I drop the kids and the dogs and go to park (because there is absolutely no public parking whatsoever in her entire neighborhood). She gets there just as the friends are leaving. She's not happy.
My son has already mostly changed clothes by the time I get there. I change in the living room while daughter is doing hair and makeup, and boyfriend is getting dressed in the bedroom. Leave for the wedding. If we're lucky, we'll just barely get there on time.
There's an accident on the freeway. And it turns out my son put the wrong address into Google Maps, so we're at the hotel where wedding guests are staying, not at the ceremony. "Why are they getting married at a hotel?" "Oops, my bad. They're getting married at <other address>." Get back in the car; fortunately, it's only a mile or so away. We get there about 10 minutes late. Oh, yeah, bought the wedding present online while driving down the freeway, so no (physical) gift and no card.
Ceremony was nice, if disappointingly secular. (The groom's family, at least, is staunchly, if nominally, Roman Catholic.) Outdoors. Afterwards, it's nice catching up with my ex-wife's family, who are very gracious and welcoming despite the divorce (ex-wife is half a continent away, and didn't fly back for the wedding), and who I hardly ever see anymore.
Cocktails, followed by sit-down dinner. Unfortunately, just about the time to sit down for dinner, the sun goes down, temperature drops, and the wind really picks up. The temperature isn't really all that low, but the wind just cuts through everything, and it feels cold; everybody who has sweaters or jackets is going to their car to get them. More pleasant conversation, but between the cold wind, the earlier screaming, and trying to talk over the music and other people talking, I start losing my voice. Finally leave.
Go back to the apartment; pick up dogs. There's a wet spot on the floor; maybe pee; maybe drool; not sure. I spill dogs' water bowl all over the carpet. Walking to car, one dog pees in the hallway. Shout "No!" and drag him outside. He finishes peeing on a bush, and the other dog leaves a big puddle in the parking lot. Walk to car with the dogs while my son brings the other clothes and stuff. Dog poops on the path, and I don't have any bags with me. My phone is finally working, and I call my son just as he's leaving the apartment and tell him to bring a bag and where to find the poop as I finish walking to the car.
Drive home. Feed and walk dogs. Go to bed after midnight.
And that was my quasi-Father's Day on Saturday.
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@hardwaregeek Umm. At the least, it was very eventful. Happy Father's day!
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@hardwaregeek You sound like you've stolen something from the Treasury of the Fates.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
It's 2018. Buy a USB headset. USB headsets are their own sound cards, it'll solve all your problems.
Very, very good suggestion. Had a Vengeance 2100 I loved for a couple years before it bit the dust just recently and I still have its USB extender sitting on my desk. Don't know why I didn't think of that. I'll probably get a cheaper one this time around though.
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So my company is trying to woe a wunderkid. 20 years old, just started college. He has 2 years of work experience, in 4 different companies.
All his job titles are some kind of "architect". His first job out of HS was "Security Architect", for fuck's sake.
WTF is with that?
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@cartman82 I know 22 year olds who are Solution Architects!
These things usually don't mean shit.
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@thegoryone said in The Official Status Thread:
20 years old, 4 jobs, 2 years, not finished his studies.
Textbook Rockstarninjaawesomeness programmer.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
ninjaawesome
so ... he is so ninja that you don't see his awesome ... sounds about right!
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
So my company is trying to woe a wunderkid.
Sounds like you're the ones who will be full of woe if you succeed in wooing him.
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@bb36e I wonder how many Americans saw your post and thought "your application is completely broken; that should be cold wave!"
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@bb36e A heat warning for 30 degrees? Please tell me you live in Antarctica.
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@bb36e What's a humidex
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@pleegwat
Based on context, I assume "Humidity index" - or "Heat Index" -- how hot it "feels", given the humidity and other factors.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
that should be cold wave!
I'd say neither warm nor cold. More like a chilly spring day.
EDIT: Obviously I'm intentionally pretending the unit is degree Fahrenheit.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@bb36e What's a humidex
It's like a Rolodex, but for cigars.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
that should be cold wave!
I'd say neither warm nor cold. More like a chilly spring day.
If 30 degrees is "chilly spring day" for you, I don't want to know what summers look like over there. I'd probably melt down in 4 minutes.
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@bb36e 30 degree Celsius is a heat wave?! Where in the world is 30 degree clesius considered a heat wave?
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@stillwater In NL and other European countries where such temperatures are typically accompanied by high humidity, making for an unpleasant combination.
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@pleegwat also, most of Europe has at least a few weeks of snow every winter. 30 degs would probably not feel that bad if it was all year round instead of couple days a year.
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@thegoryone Just looked it up, over here it's a heatwave if 5 subsequent days are all above 25°C, and at least 3 of those are above 30°C. In De Bilt, of course, since that's the only place in the country whose weather matters for the record.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@bb36e A heat warning for 30 degrees? Please tell me you live in Antarctica.
I think he's in
which is almost the same but with more apologising.
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These numbers are real low. The temperatures around here are 85 to 100 degrees in the summer. That's 30 to 38 in Celsius. A really pleasant day would be something like 27 C / 80 F
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I'm dying here. By these definitions I ve lived in a heatwave most of my fucking life.
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@stillwater Humidity (because what actually matters is the rate at which you lose heat, not the temperature as such) and architecture matter a lot. If everything is built to handle those temperatures, it's much easier to withstand than if you're somewhere where the normal temperature problem is being too cold and where, as a consequence, buildings are made to keep heat in as much as possible.