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North Korea basically ups the rhetoric any time western media starts seeping through their iron curtain to try and distract people from how shitty their lives are by comparison. I am guessing the new Wonder Woman movie started showing up on their black market so now they are all: "Uh...uh...LETS NUKE GUAM!!!!"
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I loved AM2R but that battle honestly felt tacked on and just some Super Metroid fan service. Easily one of the worst parts of the game.
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crinalex posted...

I'd say middle class but some would call them rich. Mom's a doctor and dad's head of information security at a large firm. Never had trouble with money but wouldn't say that we were living an excessive or lavish life.

Sounds like your parents valued saving and investing more then spending. I would hope they instilled that same lesson into you.
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I would let them play, but I would say only an hour or so a day at most (probably just before bed). The rest of the time they should be outside burning off energy or in the play room if the weather is bad.
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Smarkil posted...

good?

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Sell me on why I need this without resorting to invectives or excessive hyperbole for comedic effect.

Because what I'm reading on that page is a ton of effort for no discernible payoff.

People tend to do this because they think watching streams installs a bunch of crap on your computer. And they would be right...if it was 2008. Nowadays the only thing you need to install is Java, which most people have on their computer anyways.

Plus I wouldn't use VLC anyways, it seems to be a giant memory hog. I don't know what they have done to it but I honestly prefer the video player that comes with Windows 10. Never had a single problem with it and it seems to play just about anything I throw at it.
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EightySeven posted...

TheCyborgNinja posted...

I had a level 80-something barbarian in Diablo II with a whole bunch of awesome stuff... I log in one day to find a handful of potions. It was hundreds of hours of fun that ended in misery. My necromancer, who was my primary character, was untouched, but I just didn't feel safe after that.

Did you have an authenticator?

If it was Diablo II, it could have been before Blizzard had authentication for Battle.net.
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mastermix3000 posted...

Linkedin is already valued pretty high, I'm honestly surprised they were looking to sell (I don't see anything referencing Microsoft being interested in Linkedin to be honest)

Typically if a company gets too big it is usually a good idea to sell if you aren't that familiar in running large businesses. Running a startup with half a dozen employees is nothing like running a business that employs hundreds. Best to sell and get a huge payout then keep it going and potentially watch it slowly devalue.
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I was in a hotel once and I swear the people in the room next to me where having sex right up against the wall my headboard was against because I heard them about as clear as if there were sitting right next to me.
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Not super poor, but definitely poor compared to a lot of my friends. When Starcraft first came out my friends wanted me to get it. I asked if my 486 could play it and got laughed at.
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No, but if people get high and mighty with me about pirating I will remind them that it is the record companies who make money off of the albums and not the artists. Artists make most of their money from touring or merchandise sales.
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Doom (1993)
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China seems to love to try and hack my Yahoo e-mail. I have it set so that my password is sent via text message to me so it makes it VERY hard to hack. I get a text every time they try though. In fact, I don't think they have tried in almost a year so they probably gave up.

Someone from Russia managed to get my Origin account, but it was only for about 2 hours, and all they did was play some Dead Space 3 multiplayer. I didn't have a credit card associated with the account so they couldn't buy anything. Fixing that one was a HUGE pain though, they managed to change all of my security questions so I had to get EA to reset them through customer support.

And someone got into my Stem account, but I literally noticed the second they did and kicked them out before they even had a chance to do anything.

No one has tried to hack my shit in a while though, in each of those cases I made sure to turn on 2 step authentication so it never happened again.
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I spilled beer on a controller once. I took apart the entire thing, cleaned it up (I thought), and dried it off. The buttons still stuck for a good month or so before it eventually worked it's way out of the mechanism.

So good luck with that.
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DorkLink posted...

I played like one "world" of that game a while ago and got bored of it. I'm not really interested in console games that look and play like Flash games

It is a Flash game.

In fact, it was a Flash game 2 years before it was released on consoles and PC.
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adjl posted...

GanonsSpirit posted...

It was the second statistic that got me to make this topic, because I'm unclear on what anyone's supposed to do with it.

Question it, mostly. Ask what factors are involved in that disparity, because it's a pretty major disparity, and consider how it might be possible to fix it. A whole lot of people just throw up their hands and say "it's just a biological difference, nothing we can do!", but I'm far from convinced. Whatever biological influence there is can't really be changed, but the social and cultural factors absolutely can, and should be for the sake of ensuring equal opportunity for everyone.

OK, but it is not like STEM fields are something that haven't been around for as long as 2nd wave feminism (which was about women entering the workforce), and people have been trying to get women into STEM for just as long. At some point you just have to accept it and spend your resources towards more fruitful endeavors.

And again, I still have no idea what the social and cultural factors even are. Is it that we are viewed as nerds? Hell, tons of women are "nerds" and you don't see them getting treated any differently then other nerds. Sexism? Again, I have never seen it in this field (especially compared to other male dominated fields). Even the article that was posted about computers being a "male" thing was long since gotten rid of and it still hasn't changed things.
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Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
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There is a Mexican place next to my work called Hot Rosita's.

It is like Chipotle but with more options, better food, no hipsters, and no food poisoning.
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Medium, I will listen a little louder if I am mowing the lawn so I can drown out the lawn mower.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

Duck-I-Says posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

My experience with engineering firms is that many are still good ol' boys clubs.

It's weird, I keep hearing this but have never experienced it despite having worked for three separate engineering companies. I'm starting to think this used to be the case, but is incredibly overstated today.

My experience was from 3 - 7 years ago and there were improvements made in that time as many of the old engineers retired. But it takes a long time to actually get people into those experienced positions. Your perspective and experience working under an old boys club will be vastly different if you're a male, you're not subject to the same treatment. Listen to the women in the industry.

When people say this it almost feels like reverse gender discrimination. "You don't understand because you aren't me. "

Well, then help me to understand. What is this behavior you are experiencing? I have worked in Software Engineering for 12 years, and before that I worked in a machine shop. The machine shop was definitely a boys club and was exemplified by the fact that in the 3 years I worked there, only two women every worked on the floor. Once was the owner's daughter, and the other was her best friend. Neither of them stuck around for more then a month or two. Conversely, I have worked at 2 different companies (one small and one large) and neither of them show any signs of being a "boys club".
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Doctor Foxx posted...

Dikitain posted...

So the article mentions that there are many reasons for it, and while the reason it gives is a interesting one I think it kind of misses that everyone started using computers in 2000's, it wasn't just a thing that "boys" did anymore.

Tech fields are still heavily marketed to men. Look at what happens when you point out that most gamers are women... They get called casuals and not really interested. Yet they're still the ones using the tech. It's a rather discouraging environment, and over time women drop out after feeling they don't fit in or aren't taken as seriously. The same is true of many STEM fields. They can be outright hostile to women in the working environments. I've met many women that completed STEM degrees and went back to school to do anything else rather than have that be their working life. My experience with engineering firms is that many are still good ol' boys clubs. Obviously not true everywhere, I was just a bit taken aback witnessing the behavior (particularly from the very old male engineers). Good on the people that tough it out and I can't fault anyone for not wanting to deal with that treatment forever.

It would be interested to see what you consider to be "boys club" behaviors because in my experience most of them are traditional office jobs (which if they weren't STEM would primarily be dominated by women). If anything, the "boys club" stuff was more common in the 60's and 70's, and stared phasing out once Computer Science went from a hobbyist field to something more professional. If anything, STEM fields are very welcoming of women when they show up. Most of our management tends to be women who started as grunts and worked their way up. The key though is "when", as in you honestly don't see very many showing up. My office has 3 developers who are women and 2 who are managers, compared to 50 male developers and 1 male manager.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

Relating to the Google situation and fewer women in programming today

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding

That wasn't always the case. Keep in mind this article examined the situation years before this happened.

So the article mentions that there are many reasons for it, and while the reason it gives is a interesting one I think it kind of misses that everyone started using computers in 2000's, it wasn't just a thing that "boys" did anymore. Therefore, we should see that line going back up, but it doesn't. I went through computer science classes and can even confirm that the introductory classes are pretty close to split half and half with men and women. Fast forward a year or two though and you are lucky if you have more then one or two women in a class.

As sexist as it sounds the nature of the work is probably part of the reason, and there really isn't a way you are fixing that. Even correlating it to that graph, programming saw a major shift in the 80's from the procedural "follow the line" programming style to the Object Oriented and event driven style of today. Hell, one of the biggest programming languages that created that shift (C++) was released in 1983, one year before you saw that line starting to drop.
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MegaButterfree posted...

Olives + cheese = the best.

http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/bloguploads/simpsons-fire.gif
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Poll, what poll?

There is no poll on this site.
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Speaking as a man, I like a girl who knows she is hot. Much better then a women constantly calling herself fat and being a downer most of the time.
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Kana posted...

From what I understand from people in the engineering community (which most of you aren't part of, let's be real), the issue with what the dude said is that he basically created a hostile work environment, and anybody who would be in charge of assigning him would now have difficulty with doing just that. Keep in mind also that he was a fairly low-ranking engineer, so he was never really calling the shots in the first place. You can say whatever you want in private but he put it up as an internal company memo.

if an engineer's job in the first place is to take a look at a problem and find a solution, how is an examination of said problem "creating a hostile work environment" in the first place? if i find a bug in someone's code and edit that to make the code work, did i "create a hostile work environment" and devalue the engineer that wrote bad code's worth as a person? no i was just doing my job. why then do we take interpersonal issues and put so much more weight upon them that anyone that doesn't regurgitate HR's buzzwords by rote is to be shouted down, re-educated, or just plain run out of town on a rail? if anything, this kind of batshit lunacy seems more counter-productive than not. i don't ask a car engine how its feeling when it needs an oil change.

It is also worth noting that the people who made the decision of firing him were management and HR, not actual Engineers.

But again, keep your mouth shut because being a voice just leads to bad things.
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XlaxJynx007 posted...

Dikitain posted...

WhiskeyDisk posted...

A large part of the point that fired Google engineer was making is how you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. You can keep shouting buzzwords like "diversity" from the rooftops as loudly as you like and stifle any reasonable discussion on the issue, but it doesn't change the fact that "patriarchy" isn't the main or only issue there at all.

The guy wasn't wrong in theory, but anyone who has worked in an office will tell you it is best to just roll your eyes and keep your mouth shut. The only thing that is going to happen if you speak up is you are going to get fired or have to take a bunch of BS "Sensitivity Training" classes.

That said, I have seen it first hand. My little cousin used to ace every Science and Math class she ever took, loved Technology and the stuff I do for a living, and we thought she would become a Marine Biologist or a Software Engineer.

She graduates high school next year and is going to nursing school. Not a bad career choice, but odd considering what her interests are.

Have you asked her why she chose that route instead of STEM?

I'll be honest, it's not the fault of men that women don't pursue STEM fields.

She feels she can help more people in nursing then any other field. I mean, she is right, but I look at it as I would rather do something more coinciding with my interests rather then something where I would help the most people. That is probably where the gender differences come into play.
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Oddly, my current situation is a job I love for 100K a year, and my situation in college was a job I hated for minimum wage.

I guess I would go with the job I love. I was damn near suicidal and an overall dick when I was doing the job I hated. What is the point of 100K if you are constantly trying to kill yourself?
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

A large part of the point that fired Google engineer was making is how you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. You can keep shouting buzzwords like "diversity" from the rooftops as loudly as you like and stifle any reasonable discussion on the issue, but it doesn't change the fact that "patriarchy" isn't the main or only issue there at all.

The guy wasn't wrong in theory, but anyone who has worked in an office will tell you it is best to just roll your eyes and keep your mouth shut. The only thing that is going to happen if you speak up is you are going to get fired or have to take a bunch of BS "Sensitivity Training" classes.

That said, I have seen it first hand. My little cousin used to ace every Science and Math class she ever took, loved Technology and the stuff I do for a living, and we thought she would become a Marine Biologist or a Software Engineer.

She graduates high school next year and is going to nursing school. Not a bad career choice, but odd considering what her interests are.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

the stench of a pot of black coffee being brewed is horrible.

Joke post, coffee is one of those things where the smell is almost universally better than the taste

I hate coffee and even I acknowledge that the smell is usually pretty good.

I say usually, because the coffee in the office smells like burnt hair when it is being brewed. Probably tastes just as bad.
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Mead posted...

TigerTycoon posted...

The reason nobody does anything about North Korea is because of China.

China keeps North Korea around so people have someone else to think of when they think of that "evil communist government".

Every country's government knows why China keeps North Korea around and plays along because you don't piss off China.

Pretty sure China keeps NK around because they do a ton of trade with them.

Actually they keep NK around because if NK opens up their boarder and let refugees out, the first place they would go is China. The last thing an overcrowded country needs is millions of refugees flooding their boarder.
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8/10. Gross to look at, but a situation I would love to be in when I am old.
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Veemon_X posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

Veemon_X posted...

Will this effect the ABC shows?

Affect

Ah too late to edit, but thanks for the point out.

Anyhow, will their move to have their own streaming service affect streaming of ABC shows? I'm asking because Disney owns ABC.

It depends.

CBS doesn't put any of their stuff on Hulu because they have their own streaming service, but they put a bunch of their stuff on Netflix.

The article doesn't really go into detail about how much Disney is going to move exclusively to their streaming service. Could be just their "Disney movies" or it could be anything under the Disney brand.
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Cacciato posted...

Dikitain posted...

Cacciato posted...

Dikitain posted...

SushiSquid posted...

The reason to not invade North Korea is because the entirety of Seoul will be destroyed immediately if you do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul

Apparently that's about 10 million people in the city, 26 million in the surrounding area. Are you cool with that?

How?

I mean yea it makes sense for North Korea to pick the capital city of their closest enemy as a target but how would North Korea destroy the "entirety" of Seoul? The south has people guarding the boarder, and any missiles are going to be noticed long before they hit their target (if they even do, North Korea hasn't even shown they can fire a missile far enough to hit Seoul). At best they will cause some serious damage, but no way will they entirely destroy Seoul.

Do you not watch the news?

That's not an answer.

I'm just not understanding how you think they can't hit Seoul.

I am not arguing that they can't hit Seoul, I am arguing that they can "entirely destroy" Seoul. Nothing outside of a hydrogen bomb can do that and North Korea certainly doesn't have one of those.
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Cacciato posted...

Dikitain posted...

SushiSquid posted...

The reason to not invade North Korea is because the entirety of Seoul will be destroyed immediately if you do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul

Apparently that's about 10 million people in the city, 26 million in the surrounding area. Are you cool with that?

How?

I mean yea it makes sense for North Korea to pick the capital city of their closest enemy as a target but how would North Korea destroy the "entirety" of Seoul? The south has people guarding the boarder, and any missiles are going to be noticed long before they hit their target (if they even do, North Korea hasn't even shown they can fire a missile far enough to hit Seoul). At best they will cause some serious damage, but no way will they entirely destroy Seoul.

Do you not watch the news?

That's not an answer.
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SushiSquid posted...

The reason to not invade North Korea is because the entirety of Seoul will be destroyed immediately if you do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul

Apparently that's about 10 million people in the city, 26 million in the surrounding area. Are you cool with that?

How?

I mean yea it makes sense for North Korea to pick the capital city of their closest enemy as a target but how would North Korea destroy the "entirety" of Seoul? The south has people guarding the boarder, and any missiles are going to be noticed long before they hit their target (if they even do, North Korea hasn't even shown they can fire a missile far enough to hit Seoul). At best they will cause some serious damage, but no way will they entirely destroy Seoul.
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Judgmenl posted...

helly posted...

probably because whatever you watch is stupid

The 100+ asmr subs I have are stupid?

Yes, yes they are.
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helly posted...

only time i've had it crash was PC version, which is probably one of the most terrible ports i've ever seen

No argument there. I got it for $1 so I can't complain too much. But considering I had to modify con files and hack the game just so I could aim my gun more then 20 degrees above my head tells you how bad the port was.
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helly posted...

deadly premonition

Deadly Premonition: Actually Fucking Works Edition

Not to say I dislike the game (I actually love it), but I don't think I went 30 minutes without that game crashing or having some kind of insane bug.

I would love to see the first two thief games remastered. The Dark Engine had awesome level graphics, but the character models made Morrowind look like 4K Crysis. Wouldn't even need to redo the cinematics since they were all hand drawn and still look amazing.
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Nope, I am a tea person. And I am not even British.
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Guess I better watch Rogue One before it goes away.
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My god that face is hideous.

Nice body though.
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Zangulus posted...

Hardcore anal sex whilst wearing a pig costume and screaming DAFFY DUCK SENDS HIS REGARDS!

I think you mean "A-D-A-D-A-DAFFY DUCK SENDS HIS REGARDS!!!"
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I think it was the Resident Evil/Dead Rising humble bundle. Had some of the games already, but I only had 4 and 5 on PC.
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RCtheWSBC posted...

Oh btw this topic is gonna head straight for the trash can cuz ICOYAR will blow his load all over it

Eww, did not need the visual on that one...
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I think if you took @Judgmenl, made him British and unemployed, then you would get wwinterj.
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I get the feeling people remember how awesome the games were for the Dreamcast, but forget that the console itself was kind of crappy. The controllers were poorly made, the UI was ugly, the memory cards were crap, and the thing didn't have any copy protection. In 1999. I mean it makes sense for consoles made 5 years earlier because CD-R drives were still somewhat expensive but in 1999 you could buy one for less then a Dreamcast.

Unless they magically hired the people who made the Genesis, I have no faith in a Sega console to be decent.
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That guy looks like a forever alone who hasn't seen a vagina since he came out of one.
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The biggest problem I had with Origins was the bugs and the bland voice acting. Since they fixed most of the bugs I would probably change my review to an 8/10 rather then a 6. I didn't have nearly as much fun with it as Asylum or City though.

Haven't played Knight yet.
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Smashing Pumpkins
Motorhead
Benny Goodman
Rancid
Led Zeppelin

I like a little bit of everything, so I just decided to put my favorite band in the 5 main genres I listen to. Smashing Pumpkins is my favorite band of all time though.
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