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| Topic | Fuck Disney give me the SNES version of Aladdin |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 9:18:12 PM #14 | I did play and enjoy SNES Aladdin as a kid and the Genesis version doesn't seem better by looking at it but haven't played it so not sure. --- |
| Topic | Steam's Library Update |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 9:08:33 PM #32 | Lokarin posted... but now the play button is partially hidden due to the large graphic assets and low contrast. hmmm... can you screenshot it? I have a large bright lime green play button that is twice the size of the old one. it has more contrast than the old one and is larger and is not hard to see. there is also a large green Play menu item at the top of the context menu if you right click an entry in the list. --- |
| Topic | Bed of Chaos is a trash tier fight in a top tier game. |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 9:04:39 PM #14 | Lokarin posted... Navigation and Puzzle Solving (Bed of Chaos) - "small monsters" and "large monsters" is waay too vague a categorization of the game's enemies - 4 kings being about timing is definitely hard to agree with. 4 kings is normally thought of as a DPS fight. either you can DPS them fast enough to not be overwhelmed or you can't. if you're saying you can fight them even when they've all spawned, and you can survive because you know the right timing, that might be interesting. - but even then, timing is not particularly specific to 4 kings. timing is a fundamental part of everything the player does, from movement, to all forms combat, to healing, etc. every single thing the player does is about timing. a problem here is that at least 2 of these 4 bosses are broken. none of them are designed well at all, and so they end up being about nothing. 4 kings is about DPS. Seethe is about nothing since he's too easy. Nito is maybe about dealing with adds and AOE, but he's also kind of about nothing since he's too easy since his HP is so low. Bed of Chaos is about nothing because it's just throw yourself at RNG till you win (with maybe a little bit that blocking, caution, and timing can help, but usually not.) --- |
| Topic | Steam's Library Update |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 8:33:59 PM #29 | what are the arguments against it? resource usage and stability are problems, but not really interface design problems. what's wrong with the interface compared with before? the old style had almost no options or ways of paring down your list of games. --- |
| Topic | Why so much hate for Candy Corn? |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 7:27:03 PM #19 | never had them, but wondering what are they actually like? I assumed they were crunchy hard candies from their appearance, but maybe they're like those marshmallow candies like marshmallow bananas? or what other candy are they similar to? --- |
| Topic | Terminator: Dark Fate MASSIVELY BOMBS with 27M opening!!!! |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 7:12:00 PM #26 | Jen0125 posted... Nothing about this movie screamed "woke" to me. Movies can have a majority female cast and not have it be for whatever negative reasons men on the internet like to complain about. I generally agree, and I don't want to get bogged down in an argument about it, but the little I know is that there were "phony" tweets from reviewers (at least 10) that were all obviously copied from the same studio talking points. the main talking points were: - best Terminator since T2 - women kick ass even more than Arnie - does to Terminator what The Force Awakens did for Star Wars and of course no mention of: - what was the movie like? - how was the story? - anything positive to say about Arnie? (note: this is not really a reason for me to dislike the movie or avoid seeing it) (also note: it's maybe not suspicious for one or two reviewers to say this. it is definitely suspicious for 10 reviewers to all tweet basically the three top points verbatim while avoiding the three bottom points.) (final note: that the movie was "marketed" this way doesn't mean the movie was produced with similar intentions; I'd have to see it first) --- |
| Topic | Steam's Library Update |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 6:22:52 PM #26 | Sahuagin posted... it'd be nice if I could give a shelf its own filter I see now that you can create a "dynamic category", which is basically a saved filter. then you can add a shelf that's bound to that category. yeah, so... this is how this kind of thing *should* be designed. this is fantastic. --- |
| Topic | What temp is your heater set to in the daytime during winter? |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 5:49:55 PM #7 | my sleeping temperature is like 22.5C (72.5F) and my daytime temp is like 24C (75.2F). it varies a bit though since I have issues with my furnace, the thermostat is on an outside wall when it shouldn't be, and this place has terrible insulation. --- |
| Topic | when do the clocks change |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 2:54:25 PM #7 | I had the same issue where I missed the time change and then didn't know which 1:30 am it was. turns out I had already gotten my free hour. oh well. --- |
| Topic | ITT: We rate the above Simpsons clip! |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 3:37:24 AM #244 | 6/10? hard to rate since I've never seen it before getting too hard to confirm if this is a dupe, especially with the new embed weirdness (just realized your first post was springfield gorge which I browsed through the entire thread for and thought was safe to post but missed it in the OP >_<) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiAaEPcnlOg --- |
| Topic | What's with These Simulator Games? |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 2:57:27 AM #5 | depends what kinds of games they are. there's full sims like X-Plane 11, or Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations. or there's like the Tycoon games that are more just for fun. a full sim of 911 operator would be great. same with construction and airport, though exactly what that would be simulating is a bit iffy. Truck Driving sims, I sort of agree. Unless maybe if it was extremely detailed, there's not a lot going on there. The one I've tried was not that great. Might be better with a wheel. Would also be better if you were driving around areas you new IRL. --- |
| Topic | Bed of Chaos is a trash tier fight in a top tier game. |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 2:15:27 AM #9 | Dynalo posted... just brute force throw myself at the boss until it works. yup Cruddy_horse posted... This sounds like a bunch of bullshit you hear on a YT theory vid. What do the others represent then? or what are the "4 aspects of gameplay"? --- |
| Topic | Why do people stan Tom Bombadil again? (LotR book spoilers) |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 2:06:23 AM #18 | Bulbasaur posted... i remember this happening though k some of it is my mistake and some if it is real differences. (note that I read this 22+ years ago). I forgot the tower is named Orthanc not Isengard. Isengard is the name of the walled area surrounding the tower. nevertheless, rest of the differences: movie: book: --- |
| Topic | Why do people stan Tom Bombadil again? (LotR book spoilers) |
| Sahuagin 11/03/19 12:19:12 AM #15 | Muscles posted... it's about wanting Tolkien's masterpiece to be the same in the movies as they were in the books there are parts where I'd agree, like for me one of my most anticipated scenes (I suppose this is technically spoilerific) was (all of this is from the 2nd book) I also wanted to see the Huorns those are all very plot relevant details. Bombadil though is like injecting another story into the middle of this one. (indeed reading about it, much of that stuff that happened in the Shire (Barrow Downs, Barrow Wights, Bombadil, Old Man Willow) was apparently borrowed from some other source and included only to have a place to continue those ideas of his. So they are literally injected out of nowhere. (Though I personally really liked the Barrow Downs and Barrow Wights).) --- |
| Topic | Favorite type of sushi... |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 11:07:49 PM #51 | wwinterj25 posted... I've never had sushi but I don't like seafood in general so none. sushi is kind of different. it's food specifically designed to be delicious. --- |
| Topic | Nothing makes me feel more brain dead than my financial accounting class |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 7:56:16 PM #7 | this is why you become a programmer, so that you can make the computer do all of the tedious things while you focus on the larger more interesting problems. --- |
| Topic | Big three announcements Blizzcon |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 7:44:05 PM #18 | Zikten posted... talk to Chromie and she time travels you to an expansion. any of them from Burning Crusade to Battle For Azeroth. then you level up to 50. during this time you can talk to Chromie again anytime and try a different expansion. do whatever you want. then at levle 50 you enter the Shadowlands and level to 60 and endgame hmmm... tempting... --- |
| Topic | Big three announcements Blizzcon |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 7:35:29 PM #16 | Diablo 4, looks great but won't be out for forever so no point in thinking about it. I would buy it immediately if it was available. WoW Shadowlands, it would be fun to play a good WoW expansion at the right time, but the last good expansion was maybe Pandaria, with more recent ones seeming terrible, (can never get past Draenor) so not confident enough in it to actually want to play it Overwatch 2 I might play it someday just like I might play Overwatch more someday --- |
| Topic | In general are you a fan of thin crust pizzas? |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 7:31:12 PM #3 | they're good, mouthful of toppings, though it maybe slightly feels like overpaying to have that much less bread. --- |
| Topic | Why do people stan Tom Bombadil again? (LotR book spoilers) |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 7:27:22 PM #7 | ^ yeah that --- |
| Topic | Why do people stan Tom Bombadil again? (LotR book spoilers) |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 7:08:58 PM #2 | soon as I heard there was a movie I figured he wouldn't be in it. he's an interesting side experimental story, not a part of the main plot. I also knew they'd not have the barrow downs, which I was a lot more disappointed about. --- |
| Topic | 1GB of Data... |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 7:06:58 PM #4 | zebatov posted... switching back to Telus eh... lesser of two evils I guess... --- |
| Topic | Steam's Library Update |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 5:43:47 PM #21 | Revelation34 posted... perfection there was definitely nothing "perfect" about managing a large library of games. I can see some small improvements to this so far, like better contrast for installed games, larger cleaner font, and better Recent grouping. ...and, wow, ok I see that you can now filter your list by genre...! so that's a huge improvement right there. can also filter by tag. the shelf thing seems cool, but it'd be nice if I could give a shelf its own filter. also would be nice to be able to remove What's New at the top. would be nice if you could wheel through a shelf. --- |
| Topic | fuck race conditions. |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 5:39:26 PM #17 | Lokarin posted... I'm a dullard, but maybe this will help? that problem seems more related to networking. at lower levels, sending packets uses UDP (nicknamed "unreliable data protocol") where there is never a guarantee that anything you send will be received at the other end, and in fact you will never know if it was or wasn't received. built on top of this is TCP, which is a reliable protocol and has features designed to fix this issue. (in particular, confirmations that messages are being received, as well as timeouts so that if a confirmation is missed, the message can be sent again, as well as sequence numbers so that messages arriving out of order or with duplicates can always be properly assembled and any missing pieces can be re-requested.) --- |
| Topic | fuck race conditions. |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 5:30:43 PM #16 | Lokarin posted... Interesting, but it seems like outcome dependent events should be single-threaded for that exact reason... even if it creates a small bottleneck for the multithreading events before it any time two processes try to share a resource (usually memory), the same problems emerge, so it doesn't necessarily require multi-threading Judgmenl posted... You cannot guarantee that everything is single threaded. what language and API? not the best solution, but a starting point, can you just spin with "while file exists" or something? are you sure there isn't a callback function you can pass, or a promise or something (or use await, depending on the language)? --- |
| Topic | Terminator: Dark Fate MASSIVELY BOMBS with 27M opening!!!! |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 5:15:26 PM #7 | faramir77 posted... Advertising is probably its biggest issue. I literally have never heard of this movie. partly the opposite problem. there was a lot of obviously phony/manufactured reviews of it. --- |
| Topic | Steam's Library Update |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 4:21:41 PM #18 | I don't know if I like it or not but it was long overdue for some improvements --- |
| Topic | fuck race conditions. |
| Sahuagin 11/02/19 12:15:45 AM #10 | Lokarin posted... I don't understand the usage of race in this context. if you use multi-threading, or other scenarios where the same code can be executed more than once simultaneously by two difference threads/processes, the actual order in which the instructions execute is unknown (each execution context will occur in its own order, but they will all be interleaved together in some random way). in particular this means that you can't rely on a read of a variable staying true until the next instruction (at least if there are also writes to that variable, which is one reason why immutability (readonly variables) is desirable). race condition specifically is saying "whoever gets there first wins", and the problem is you never know who will get there first. --- |
| Topic | What are some good recent/semi recent sci fi movies? |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 11:40:04 PM #32 | dragon504 posted... Watched Infinity Chamber, I didn't really dig it either. Seems like a lot of these sci fi movies are made just to show a concept, but the entertainment part of the movie often gets left behind somewhat. what exactly are you looking for? reading the first post again, you said you watched the Martian multiple times; I wouldn't exactly call that amazing entertainment. --- |
| Topic | diablo 4 baybeee |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 9:58:06 PM #51 | this doesn't even have an approximate release date yet, so I'm going to try to forget all about it for now --- |
| Topic | Mark Zuckerman: It's O.K. to run factually unveridical ads on my Site. |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 9:43:17 PM #14 | OniRonin posted... afelony: a-felony ---- without felony; a common description of crimes which do not rise to the level of a felony. that does not seem to be a real word --- |
| Topic | diablo 4 baybeee |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 9:36:57 PM #45 | Miroku_of_Nite1 posted... Addiction, and the fact that many have already put years of their life into it and don't want to walk away from all they've done. no, some WoW classes are just fun as heck to play. leveling an undead rogue or mage up from scratch will always be something I find enjoyable. --- |
| Topic | Why the fuck is Link right handed in BotW? |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 9:12:07 PM #26 | Bulbasaur posted... it's just like anything, you do it often enough and you get good at it. you don't need a useless arm and hand, train it, and have two superior arms and hands I think I assumed that one's off-hand was permanently inferior. maybe you could train it to be better than it is now (it's recommended to do 10% more reps on your weak side for example), but it will always be your off-hand and never really work properly compared to your main hand. from the sound of it, no, either hand can do anything you train it to do. there's just a tendency to default to training your right hand up first, and your dominant hand will tend to always be better, but only because it will tend to get more practice automatically, even if you train your off-hand too. --- |
| Topic | Why the fuck is Link right handed in BotW? |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 6:03:17 PM #20 | ParanoidObsessive posted... 90% of the time, someone who's ambidextrous is just someone who was born left-handed, and who was forced to use their right hand as a child, so they sort of became equally proficient with both. I knew that most ambidextrous people were really left handed people that are just good with both (have had many left handed friends at least one of which was ambidextrous). I didn't know anyone could at any time just train themselves to be though. like that we, at this moment, have the option to upgrade; our single-handedness is an unnecessary limitation that we just put up with and could move away from if we tried hard enough. did not know that. --- |
| Topic | Yaknow... not a fan of Beethoven |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 4:37:10 PM #15 | k np, you don't *have* to, just that if you definitely find nothing of interest there that would be interesting. I think that Beethoven has a kind of extremely emotional personality, and he makes very emotional music. I can relate to having extreme emotions so relate to his music a lot, so maybe someone with weak or no emotions would get nothing out of it. (not a dis just an interesting theory). (and if nothing else, at least listen to 9th symphony 4th movement) --- |
| Topic | diablo 4 baybeee |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 4:34:08 PM #16 | damn, blizz is already known for amazing cinematics, but that one's still even better --- |
| Topic | Yaknow... not a fan of Beethoven |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 4:16:54 PM #13 | so, of what I posted, it still "just doesn't do anything for me"? cuz that would be interesting... --- |
| Topic | Jesus Christ, it's like no one is acknowledging that XIII remake is coming out! |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 4:02:52 PM #12 | you're too early, it doesn't have a release date yet, it just might come out in 2020. --- |
| Topic | I Back to the Future... |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 4:00:34 PM #21 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... And the other 2 siblings faded out of the photograph before that because... other than it's an indication of the severity and completeness of the changed course of events (Marty only made a subtle change, not an extreme one; he didn't *kill* his dad or something), it could also indicate something like that they still ended up together somehow later in life and had one kid instead of three. also notice that in the BttF universe, there seems to be little to no "butterfly effect". things tend to stay as much the same as possible, despite changes. (or in other words, something like changes only have the minimum necessary side effects.) --- |
| Topic | Favorite type of sushi... |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 1:55:24 PM #15 | the only one I've tried and liked is California --- |
| Topic | Yaknow... not a fan of Beethoven |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 7:54:24 AM #5 | Random asides: while playing Exile 1 over and over, I listened to Beethoven's 9th Symphony over and over since the game had very little sound Moonlight Sonata 1st movement is one of the only things I can play on the piano --- |
| Topic | Yaknow... not a fan of Beethoven |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 7:49:50 AM #4 | seriously??? 7th Symphony - 2nd Movement  9th Symphony (fast forwarded to 4th movement but really should listen to the whole thing)  5th Symphony - 4th Movement (not sure but I definitely get John Williams vibes from this)  6th Symphony  --- |
| Topic | Why the fuck is Link right handed in BotW? |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 7:49:31 AM #16 | SunWuKung420 posted... Master sword persons are ambidextrous. I wasn't aware that you could train yourself to be ambidextrous, but apparently you actually can. still not sure of your above statement though. --- |
| Topic | I Back to the Future... |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 6:12:56 AM #17 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... So it would have just been a photograph of a well? Or something else entirely? The camera would have been owned by an entirely different person than the one taking the photograph originally. it would make no sense to show the photo in the movie transitioning into some random photo taken by someone else. a picture of a well with no people gets across the message to the audience. SKARDAVNELNATE posted... How are some transported objects permanent while others aren't? changing the series of events changes (apparently) the states of the objects, not which time they currently exist in. no objects *move* because of time-travel related changes. --- |
| Topic | New trailer for The Witcher series coming to Netflix |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 2:28:21 AM #2 | I have only played Witcher 1 so far (well and a few mins of 2), and love the character of Geralt a lot. That looks great and will definitely be watching it. --- |
| Topic | Why the fuck is Link right handed in BotW? |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 1:55:42 AM #10 | SunWuKung420 posted... he's ambidextrous, as any master swordsman would be ? --- |
| Topic | What are five things you'd like to do but can't because of money? |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 1:54:10 AM #3 | answer will vary wildly depending on if "because of money" means "because you don't have infinite money" or "because you don't have a little more money". if I had infinite money, obviously there's all kinds of things I'd do, like buy a mansion in a warm climate or something if I had a little more money, it wouldn't make much of a difference --- |
| Topic | I Back to the Future... |
| Sahuagin 11/01/19 1:35:19 AM #6 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... As the photograph is fading how did Marty's sister exist as 2 legs without a connecting body, and later just a pair of shoes? it's in between two states, as the timeline transitions Both the photograph and Marty's memory are forms of storing information. If the photograph was changing to fit the new timeline why didn't Marty's memory of his siblings fade along with the photograph of them? more than his memory was fading, his entire existence was fading. the photo is transitioning from one state to another because it still existed in the new timeline. Marty didn't have a second state to transition into and was being removed altogether. Why do George and Lorraine wait until their 3rd child to name one in honor of the person that helped get them together? doesn't really need an explanation In part 2 Doc says if they go to 2015 again it will be a different 2015. So why was Biff able to return the Delorian to the same timeline he left from, after his actions in 1955 created a new timeline in which Doc never built it? to be able to get the time machine back so that Marty and Doc could use it (ie: plot reasons). note that old Biff is erased from existence moments after arriving. Marty traveled to 11/5/1955 and stayed until 11/12. Future Biff travels to 11/12/1955 and returns the same day. Marty had 7 days before the timeline changes reach his departure date in 1985. Why don't Biff's timeline changes take 14 days to propagate to 2015? probably just plot reasons What happened to the original Jennifer when the timeline she was left in got overwritten after Marty burned the almanac? yes? can't decipher what you're asking. she would have transitioned from one state to another, or something, yes. --- |
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