The Official First World Problems Thread™
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When I skip commercial breaks on my DVR sometimes I skip too far and I need to 'rewind' a bit.
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@Parody said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
The Google Play store likes to hide programs that it decides aren't compatible with the current device
It does have a web version though, which lets you buy and push to any supported device you have linked to your Google account
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@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
When I skip commercial breaks on my DVR sometimes I skip too far and I need to 'rewind' a bit.
I like uVerse's remote for that. In addition to FF/fast-back, there's a jump. Forward goes about 30 seconds. Back goes about 5. (I hit FF 3 times, wait, see movie, hit play, 50% of time hit jump-back)
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Without going into one of the bedrooms (where my wife's asleep) or its attached bathroom, I counted 25 light switches in the two-bedroom suite we're staying in (some of the switches control fans or the fake electric fireplace). And not all of them follow the usual "up = on, down = off" convention. And I still haven't found a switch that controls the lamp to my left -- all of the other lamps are controlled by switches.
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@anotherusername said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
And I still haven't found a switch that controls the lamp to my left
Have you tried clapping?
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@anotherusername said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
fake electric fireplace
What kind of cheap hotel is that that can't afford a real electric fireplace?
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@anotherusername said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
And not all of them follow the usual "up = on, down = off" convention.
I've usually seen switches like that in an XOR configuration. Less often have I seen them with AND or NXOR.
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@djls45 yeah, I think the one that I thought was weird turned out to have a 2nd switch in an XOR arrangement -- neither of them was in the most sensible place, relative to the light (the switch that's closest to the light operates the garbage disposal -- which is at the opposite end of the kitchen counter). When both switches are down, the light is in fact off, so that at least does make sense.
I figured out the lamp situation, too... I think someone moved it from one corner of the room to another. The outlet it's currently plugged into isn't on a switch, but the outlet in the other corner is (which I figured out by trying to plug something in it, when the switch wasn't on) -- and that switch also controls the lamp on the other side of the fireplace. So both lamps on that side of the room would be controlled by that switch if the second lamp was still plugged in there.
The most bizarre, though, are two switches that both control one light (NXOR this time -- with both switches off, the light is on) -- I can literally reach both switches, at the same time, without stretching. They're basically right next to each other. Why?!
They're the two switches that are flipped up in this picture:
Oh, and I counted the switches in the master bedroom and attached bathroom -- they bring the total to 32.
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At my D&D group yesterday we failed the first quest in our (my first ever) campaign. We did so by accidentally killing a prisoner in the tower we were exploring, who (we were told after he died) was someone important who we were meant to rescue. We all wanted to help him when we found him but were too afraid of his captor (and one of his fellow prisoners) to do anything just then, but we might have found a way to do so when we passed that level again on the way back down.
I'm kinda gutted, partly for failing and also because I have problems with empathising way too much with fictional characters and I feel really bad for the guy (who was being horribly tortured, though I suppose at least he isn't suffering now). And it was kind of my fault.
On the other hand, if you're gonna fail, there are worse ways to do it than by blowing up the whole tower in a nuclear* explosion, escaping moments before the blast in a spaceship*. Right after filling our boots with some seriously cool loot.
*Magical equivalents, of course. But that's what the DM called them.
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@CarrieVS I mean, at least you're not playing Impossible Mission? ;)
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@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
At my D&D group yesterday we failed the first quest in our (my first ever) campaign.
My son's second (third?) quest of his first ever campaign, they marched into Hell to recover the soul of one of their dead companions. The first thing he did upon entering was to roll a perception check to see if there were any dangerous monsters nearby. That is not a situation in which you want to roll a critical fail. Guess what he rolled.
IIRC, their first combat ended with one more dead and two with < 10 HP.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
That is not a situation in which you want to roll a critical fail.
I prefer to roll mine on Disarm Trap checks. And the rest of the party still haven't learned to stand back.
In addition to all of this, the phrase 'Vorpal buttplug' has been added to my vocabulary. And some rather graphic description.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@CarrieVS I mean, at least you're not playing Impossible Mission? ;)
Yeah, it looks less fun.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
the phrase 'Vorpal buttplug' has been added to my vocabulary.
Thank you soooooo much for adding it to mine.
@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
And some rather graphic description.
Please don't share. Thank you.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Please don't share. Thank you.
No! Belay that! We need to know!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
We need to know!
No. No, we don't. Imagination is sufficient — more than sufficient. Way more. (Why is there no :pain: emoticon?)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Why is there no :pain: emoticon?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Why is there no :pain: emoticon?
could work as a substitute.
Could also work as :constipated:
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@HardwareGeek
There is:
= pain in French
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@Luhmann But then I'd have French on me. That would be too ful.
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@HardwareGeek
How French can it be? It's not even
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
We need to know!
Well it started as an anecdote, I think about some past game. In the context of 'no you can't have one'. It became a running joke.
Then,
We found this large (almost the size of a 500ml water bottle) red crystal, under heavy guard and therefore presumably valuable and/or important. The guy who'd said it, who plays a Sorcerer, called dibs and grabbed it. It burned him on contact.
He took it with him anyway, and eventually ended up with it fixed to the end of his staff. Coincidentally the miniature he's been using has a large red crystal on the end of its staff, but that's by the by.
Next encounter we're fighting trolls. After a Fireball that did more damage to his allies than the foe, he ran round behind a troll and said "I shove the crystal up his backside." We all fall about laughing that our running joke has actually happened. Thankfully, he missed and we finished the fight before he could try again.
The next session, we end up considerably outnumbered by drow and taking a heavy battering. While all the rest of us are fighting for our lives, one of them engages the hapless Sorcerer in melee. At this point, I should add, the player wasn't here (he was busy and turned up for the end of the session, just after the fight) and the character was being controlled by the DM if it was sufficiently obvious that he'd be doing something, such as defending himself when attacked.
"He uses his vorpal buttplug," says the DM. He rolls an attack with the staff, which hits, but then makes a second roll of some kind to "see if it penetrates." It doesn't, and he just hits the drow with the staff. I don't know if he awarded any extra damage for the burning crystal.
Next round, he tries it again. This time he makes the attack roll and the "penetration roll." Cue graphic description of the effect on the hapless antagonist and I at least am not laughing any more. I have a pretty vivid imagination and a dysfunctional degree of empathy even with entirely fictional beings.
I don't know how the damage was determined, it being behind the DM's screen. I think it was an actual amount of damage rather than an instant kill, but it must have been quite a lot and it certainly did finish the unfortunate drow off.
So it's not really a buttplug or a vorpal weapon. But that's what it's now being called.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
But that's what it's now being called.
Unique solutions to curious problems, I suppose. ;)
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FWP: My home theatre system's shuffle button isn't clever enough to avoid picking the same song twice in a row. This never comes up when my roommate puts "all the music we own" on shuffle, but my playlist of "the five Christmas albums" is small enough to exhibit the problem.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
my playlist of "the five Christmas albums" is small enough to exhibit the problem.
Clearly, you just need more Christmas music.
We need a little Christmas...
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@Yamikuronue I always thought all Christmas albums contained the same 20-40 songs, and all they did every year was make new cover art?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I always thought all Christmas albums contained the same 20-40 songs
That many? I'm pretty sure there are 10-15 songs at most. Then there are covers. Then there's cover art.
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@anotherusername Well, there's the traditional American ones ('Baby boomer's Christmas', I've heard it called). Then since RPU is in the UK, there's Christmas carols. I'd rate those at 10-15 each.
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lists 85 carols just in English. Admittedly, not all of them are on the list of popular ones that you hear repeated ad nauseum, but there is more variety than you think. Also, that only includes carols; it doesn't include other popular Christmas songs like "White Christmas" or "Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer." Nor does it include all of the carols that have non-English origins but whose English translations are well-known. (It includes some, but other familiar ones are missing.)
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@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
In addition to all of this, the phrase 'Vorpal buttplug' has been added to my vocabulary. And some rather graphic description.
"Vorpal" is a made-up word with no clear meaning. Like "runcible".
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@da-Doctah It has meaning in DnD: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Vorpal
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
other popular Christmas songs like "White Christmas" or "Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer."
That's kinda what I meant with baby boomer's Christmas. This lists 20, though not being American I only know a couple of them.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@da-Doctah It has meaning in DnD: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Vorpal
So it was a head-severing buttplug.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
no clear meaning. Like "runcible"
Runcible Babbage
The Babbage model is designed for the stylish experimenter and for the early adopter alike. This is a full-spec Runcible brain with a durable, organic feeling back made from reclaimed ocean plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Plastic Island.I don't see the point of going all the way to the Pacific to rescue discarded plastic (except virtue signaling) but I might buy one anyway.
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@mott555 Not exactly, but insta-kill. The actual concept was that it would rip your guts out. I'm not certain whether the object we're now referring to by the term actually does that or just deals a very large amount of damage.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@mott555 Not exactly, but insta-kill. The actual concept was that it would rip your guts out. I'm not certain whether the object we're now referring to by the term actually does that or just deals a very large amount of damage.
Ever heard of Mr. Hands?
(probably NSFW... definitely NSFL.)
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@anotherusername said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Ever heard of Mr. Hands?
I think most people have here - we've discussed him previously:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/search?term=Pinyan&in=titlesposts&showAs=posts
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@anotherusername said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Ever heard of Mr. Hands?
There are no references in local memory regarding that artifact.
@PJH said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I think most people have here
So I must question myself: Is it an intentional erasure, automatic trivia purge, or simply never received? Hmm...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
So I must question myself: Is it an intentional erasure, automatic trivia purge, or simply never received?
Neighhhh....
Well, it makes a change from "yes" to that sorta question on here.
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@Tsaukpaetra given that you're a MLP fan it's probably for the best that you don't know
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@Tsaukpaetra It's a guy that took a horse cock in his ass and died of perforated colon.
There, was that so bad?
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@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
When I skip commercial breaks on my DVR sometimes I skip too far and I need to 'rewind' a bit.
I used to run a DVR box that I built myself. I don't remember the software that was on it, but it would post-process after it was finished recording and remove all of the commercials automatically. Pretty nifty little feature.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
It's a guy that took a horse cock in his ass and died of perforated colon.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra It's a guy that took a horse cock in his ass and died of perforated colon.
Oh, that guy? I didn't know that was his name!
Wait, what was his name again? (scrolls up)... Huh.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
When I skip commercial breaks on my DVR sometimes I skip too far and I need to 'rewind' a bit.
I used to run a DVR box that I built myself. I don't remember the software that was on it, but it would post-process after it was finished recording and remove all of the commercials automatically. Pretty nifty little feature.
Yeah, all my tools broke when people stopped posting updates to the decrypter libraries...
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@Polygeekery said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
it would post-process after it was finished recording and remove all of the commercials automatically.
How could it tell?
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@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Polygeekery said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
it would post-process after it was finished recording and remove all of the commercials automatically.
How could it tell?
Timing mostly, combined with scene change detection.
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@Tsaukpaetra Sound volume might also be a clue as commercials tend to have very little dynamic range, turning up the volume to 11.
That leaves channel programming ads, but those might be done using the heuristics you talked about.
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Also, in Poland, most stations show the logo during the actual program, but not during the commercials or channel ads.
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@Maciejasjmj That's probably the best way to detect it, yeah.