Lol. Excellent point. I played before I knew how to program. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it
Posts made by KillaCoder
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RE: Video game spotlight thread
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
Misread "ISS" as "ISIS", and wondering who was making appliances for the Caliphate :)
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RE: Setting Fire To Sleeping Strawmen (now with extra Toniiiiiiiiiight, you're right, you're right, you're right)
If we (humans) keep getting richer and more educated, birth rates will decline in the poorer parts of the world (as they have in the richest parts) and we will reach a stable, rich, healthy and educated population. With technology constantly improving and getting more efficient.
To me it, seems like an attainable stability that leaves humanity AND the planet pretty well off.
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
@Intercourse said:
I needed a bottle of Jack Daniel's
Heh. I like the honesty. You didn't want one you needed one!That's true of the entire state! In large swaths of it, you don't NEED it for enough of the year to be worth it.
The concept of houses needing AC was really weird to me initially. AC was always in my mind as a big bulky machine that only factories and the largest offices and shops needed. We're more concerned about heating here :) -
RE: Video game spotlight thread
I played the hell out of that game but ended up giving up after the RNG screwed me over way too many times. I have my suspicions for how random it actually is...
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RE: Next game in Batman Arkham line
@Intercourse said:
Basically you are saying, "The USA is less bats hit crazy with regards to sports." But the whole concept is still bats hit crazy to me. It is just a game and people are still just watching it and it still means fuckall in reality.
Yeah the actual sports are completely meaningless, it's just about tribal behavior and belonging. Same reason fanboys go nuts about Xbox vs Playstation or Unix vs Windows or whatever. It could be thimbles vs conkers, so long as there were clearly defined sides/teams to belong to or hate.
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RE: Setting Fire To Sleeping Strawmen (now with extra Toniiiiiiiiiight, you're right, you're right, you're right)
Places with high rates of population growth are just going to get more and more grindingly and miserably poor. This has nothing to do with me being a murderous bastard or otherwise, it's just how ecology and capitalism work. It sucks, but there's very little I can do about it.
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
The best thing about Far Cry 3 was the Blood Dragon “expansion”. It was absolutely barking, a glorious homage to '80s tough guy action movies, and one of the absolutely best games of 2013.
Yeah that was amazing. Truly epic dialogue.Wounded ally - "Tell my wife and kids I died for my country..."
You - "You'll tell them that yourself when we get home! Come on!" -
RE: Setting Fire To Sleeping Strawmen (now with extra Toniiiiiiiiiight, you're right, you're right, you're right)
I have a hard time taking any Chinese engineering seriously after that fine piece of hardware.
You dismiss the engineering abilities of 1/5th of the world's population based on a single bad experience?
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
Until you damn
YanksIrish decided to takeit allmost of it for yourself, and declare independence!
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
I love it. Not sure if you played Far Cry 3 but it's basically that game, in a beautiful new setting, with more content. More animals to hunt (rhinos and elephants!), more weapons and mods, more sidequests and stuff to do, more unlocks, skills, vehicles, sidequests etc. I could see someone being disappointed that it's similar to Far Cry 3 in most ways, but I adore that game too so... perfect for me
My favorite addition is the new Hunter enemy. You can't tag him, he moves stealthily, can climb and use ziplines, isn't easily led astray by thrown rocks, uses silent bow and arrow attacks, can start fires, and set predator animals on you. It's pretty much like fighting another human player, he uses every strategy and system in the game against you. Very challenging and rewarding to fight.
I play absolutely everything I can with gamepad so I'm the wrong man to ask. I had no issues so far though, and have been able to snipe birds in flight for instance, with no problems.
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
"I'm from Gloucester"
That's another fun one. The Brits (or whatever they want to be called :) ) gave the exact same names to the New World as the Old! I have a friend in Gloucester, England, so that's the one I think of first.
Of course there's multiple Gloucesters in England, America, Canada and Australia!
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
Playing Far Cry 4 on PC. Using a game pad. Sometimes I accidentally brush the mouse which switches all the UI interface reminders and hints to mouse + keyboard icons... until I press something on the game pad to switch it back to Xbox icons.
A minuscule inconvenience, easily and instantly remedied, only comes about because the developers made controller input switching instant and seamless, only occurs when I'm playing an awesome game on my gaming PC and big screen TV... and it still bothers me.
Can't get much more first world problem-y than that :)
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
I can't even comprehend the minds that get upset about this sort of thing... minorly "ugh, that's annoying" sure, but the crazy religious war thing is... odd.
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RE: I'm gonna play Skyrim!
If speed and accuracy are very important to the game design (as in competitive FPS games) you need a mouse.
Otherwise pads are fine. Playing Far Cry 4 with a pad, aim assist off, and it's perfect (for me anyway).
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
Bonus round confusion!
I remember in school being told that you guys island was "Great" Britain to distinguish it from "Little/Lesser" Britain, aka Brittany in France.
When learning country names in Irish, Wales translates to "Bhreatain Bheag" which literally means "Small/Little Britain". No clue what Brittany would be in Irish, probably yet another god forsaken variation on the same thing with slightly different meaning!
This would all be so much easier if Germany won WW2. We could all just be Reichskommissariat West...
Edit: And of COURSE the TV show "Little Britain" was popular at that time, so inevitably some asshole would talk about the TV he liked in Irish, and say"Bhreatain Bheag" and some other asshole (the teacher) would act mock surprised and say he didn't realise there was a TV programme called "Wales"... I hated school
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
Really? So Northern Irish people are of British nationality despite being in the UK but not Britain? I'm FROM Ireland and thought I knew all this stuff haha. Yeah I really can't blame Americans for not knowing this stuff :)
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
If you identify as English, fine. But England is part of Britain, and as England is not a sovereign state and English person's legal nationality is British, so if you are English you are British, even if you prefer not to mention it.
Just to continue stirring this meaningless pot:Britain is NOT a sovereign state either! The United Kingdom is... so you can be English, British, and... United Kingdom-ish?... all at the same time
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RE: Hungarian Notation Flamewar
have your hungarian if you want but starting a variable with a <kbd>$</kbd> in a language that does not require it is EVIL and gives me PTSD flashbacks to the days i had to deal with PHP
(apologies to PHP lovers out there. it wasn't PHP's faunt, but that of the apps i had to support)
I remember back when I was first getting into programming, I was confused by all the dollar signs everywhere. Learning that sometimes they represented functionality, sometimes they were required for names, and sometimes they meant nothing at all BUT were still thrown in for fun... that kinda turned me off for a while -
RE: 🚀 The Kerbal Thread - Share Your Kerbal Creations
Dafft Duck doesn't die when he gets shot, he just turns black and makes a funny face.
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RE: Star trek: the animated series has cool aliens (the blakeyrat is watching star trek thread)
It's always amusing to see where people's suspension of disbelief occurs with a show like Star Trek.
Picard has the wrong accent‽ How outrageously stupid!
Well suspending disbelief doesn't really apply to something that's just plain wrong.
I can buy into all their fancy tech and whatnot as something that "might" happen, but French dudes are never going to sound like Englishmen. -
RE: Firefox Nightly: "you know that new and buggy feature you disabled?...
Have they now finally became the uglier, more bloated version of Chrome?
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RE: Star trek: the animated series has cool aliens (the blakeyrat is watching star trek thread)
Not really Treknobabble, but the bestest line ever uttered in a Star Trek episode (Voyager, episode "Scorpion"):
@Chakotay said:According to my calculations, neither of us has eaten since last night.
Wut??
Sorry, the best Star Trek line ever is clearly when Riker's dad beseeches him to "Lower your shields!" (translation: talk to me) -
RE: Star trek: the animated series has cool aliens (the blakeyrat is watching star trek thread)
He seems limited, but when he's doing Dr. Soong and Lore it's clear the guy knows how to act.
Lore is fantastic. And scary.
@mott555 said:My only complaint about him was he was a Frenchman with a strong British accent.
Who drank Earl Grey tea
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
(2) The island known as Ireland was traditionally divided into 26 counties, but also four larger divisions, of which Ulster was one. The region now known as Ulster is just six of the nine counties that made up the traditional Ulster.
Minor corrections:The entire island of Ireland is divided into 32 counties. 26 are in the Republic, 6 in the North. You are correct about the 6 out of 9 part: they took the 3 Protestant and 3 mixed counties of Ulster to make Northern Ireland, and left the 3 Catholic counties in the Republic. However, Ulster still refers to the 9 counties. It just happens to be spread between two nations now (The Republic of Ireland has 3, the United Kingdom has 6)
Also those 32 counties historically were actually divided into 5 provinces. The current 4 (Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connaught) while the 5th (Meath, consisting of the counties of Meath and West Meath) was absorbed into Leinster and Ulster. Not that it really matters, since they aren't used for any real reason anymore except sports teams!
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RE: We searched Medline, Embase and Cochrane for the phrase bots are not funny
Maybe that's the real lesson here... don't be a douche despite being able, be better than that. (Yes, I know about the 'you're better than that' debate. Here I feel it is warranted)
What about when being a douche is absolutely hilarious? I wouldn't enjoy/am not smart enough to be an epic troll myself but laugh my ass off at the likes of MorbiusWilters (who was FAR harsher than Blakeyrat ever was)After all, it's the internet, and there's a good chance that most of us are bots, dogs or dogbots :)
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RE: Star trek: the animated series has cool aliens (the blakeyrat is watching star trek thread)
Why would you put the correct order if you want to start a war? :P
Sticking Voyager at number 1 "cos Janeway rules!" is a good way to start one ;)
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
You forget that 'Asian' is the PC codeword for Muslim in (certainly UK) newspaper headlines and articles.
Is it? I thought Asian would mainly refer to the Indian population.
In the US people would think you were talking about Chinese or Japanese people.
The world is confusing :) -
RE: Game Deals Thread
Ugh, how can anyone be a fan of Sonic? He's basically the definition of empty comity-engineered corporate mascot. And his games suck too.
There's many great Sonic games, even some of the newer ones are great fun. Sonic Generations springs to mind. -
RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
Soccer is a good example of something we have separate teams for each country, same with rugby, cricket and a few others.
For rugby, Northern Ireland's team is unified with our team in the Republic. Of course for soccer we have separate ones... I don't really blame Americans for not keeping track of this stuff. They do get it spectacularly wrong regularly though!http://www.newstalk.com/reader/47.301.343/34209/0/
"In one of the more bizarre interviews you will see for quite some time, IDA Ireland Chief Executive Martin Shanahan made an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box business show [...]
Some of the eyebrow raising questions include: Why have the Euro in Ireland? What about Scotland? Northern Ireland’s the pound? It’s sort of the same Ireland, isn’t it?"https://www.newstalk.ie/In-bizarre-US-interview-Irish-tourism-chief-asked:-Theres-no-plans-of-Ireland-leaving-the-UK-is-there
" In a moment that is both uncomfortable and confusing an American radio host asks Niall Gibbons, chief executive of Tourism Ireland:“I don’t want to put you on the spot here, Niall, but I want to find out; there’s no plans of Ireland deciding to leave the UK, is there?”"
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RE: Video game spotlight thread
I don't, that's my point.
Weren't you buying and playing terrible sims? Wood Chopper Sim or whatever? Or were they demos/gifts/free in some way?
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RE: Discourse is slow on Android. Why?
This is perfectly valid JS that works fine and performs reasonably on many platforms and browsers.. with the single exception of Android, where we see pathological 5x - 10x slowness.
Your users won't give a damn it's an Android thing though, because other sites will work ok for them. It's YOUR application that they'll see as the slow and horrible experience. Shrugging and pointing at Google isn't going to make them happier. Do you have any strategy to improve the Android experience in the mean time, until (or if) Google fixes this? -
RE: Anybody else been noticing the fairly frequent 504's over the past few days?
I'm sure turning off the application breaking logging level is on the to-do list
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RE: Anybody else been noticing the fairly frequent 504's over the past few days?
From someone else's application? I don't want their junk clogging up my server. That's absolutely unacceptable.
Well (as we all know!) Discourse isn't some finished product, it's a work in progress that the Daily WTF is helping test and track down problems. Considering that, I think the logging level is understandable. The devs KNOW they will need to solve problems that folks here find so why not have detailed logs available? -
RE: Anybody else been noticing the fairly frequent 504's over the past few days?
@Intercourse said:
The bigger question is why is Discourse logging so much shit that it fills up so quickly? Is this what happens when software is designed by megalomaniac control freaks?
> Must log all the stuffs.
That's a little bit harsh surely? I'd rather have too much logging info than too little! -
RE: Mott555's TDWTF writer submission
It actually had a warning not to use it on your lap
Enjoy your new laptop!
(Note: Please do not place laptop on top of lap, doing so WILL result in death) -
RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
My one: forgetting which games I own on disc, which on Xbox Live, which on Steam/Origin/UPlay/GoodOldGames.
I believe I own the Knights of the Old Republic games at least 3 times, without ever playing either of them.
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RE: Hiring quality senior developers
Not to start off with, obviously. But in theory, you could punt that type straight into midlevel work and have a senior built to order in a year or two.
Where I work, "senior" is based on skill level, not time served. But there's still no seniors with <10 years experience. You need a hell of a lot of time and experience to be able to describe yourself as senior, imo. Just being able to code day to day is fine for a young dev (like myself :) ) but I'd be lost with some of the tricky problems and architectures the senior dudes work on.
Of course, it's also possible I just suck
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
BIRDMAS for us:
Brackets
Indices
Roots
Division
Multiplication
Addition
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RE: Is Bootstrap a programming language?
a "ProductAorBorC" class
Oh dear. Why couldn't he just define the same rules for 3 different classes A, B and C? -
RE: Is Bootstrap a programming language?
CSS is simple and fun, a nice break from programming to goof around with colours and stuff.
This whole thread is just weird. Ids are fine, so are classes, !important is a bit of a headache if you can't avoid it, but apart from that, this ain't C++ here people :P
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RE: No shit, Sherlock
@Intercourse said:
Someone is trying to unseat @blakeyrat as King of the Assholes.
Or unass him as King of the Seatholes? -
RE: You have got to be shitting me... links stop being links?
Driving Discodevs to (digital) suicide is a barrier to Discourse?
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RE: Closed Poll: Testing an intern's mettle part 3
I taught myself programming with Atari Basic, an Atari 400, and a pile of ANTIC magazines. Sucks to be y'all.
I knew absolutely nothing about programming until I got to college. How much do y'all hate me
(I should also mention I really enjoy Javascript for some reason!)
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RE: 'Need you to work this weekend' advice
Just say no.
Literally, it's that simple. They have ZERO right to expect it, ZERO ways to demand it, and if they insist just shrug and repeat. No.