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Sarcasthma posted...

Hey mods, my backyard is full of weeds.

Come fight me I bet you wont.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Roundup-Roundup-for-Lawns-1-Ready-to-Use-Wand-1-33-Gal-Northern-438501005/300386639
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I haven't been in a bowling league since high school, I have been tempted to join one again.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I found the radio-controlled plane and flight school missions to be way more annoying and bullshit than the train ever was.

I agree on the radio-controlled plane one, I think that mission took me something like a dozen times to get through because you had to be SOOO accurate to beat it within the time limit. Even if you did the mission perfectly you usually only had a few seconds remaining.

Flight school I never had much trouble with, partially because the controls weren't so touchy like in the radio-controlled plane, but also because I grew up playing flight simulators on a keyboard as a kid. Playing a flying section with a controller is awkward, but I can manage (as long as the plane doesn't go wildly out of control from the slightest wiggle of the thumb-stick).
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Other: It is a custard.



First 15 seconds of the video.
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DDirtyDastard posted...

dedbus posted...

So this is what pyramid head was up too before he was bfing the mannequins and and James' mind.

wtf are you talking about?

Silent Hill 2

Which as much as a fan as I am of Silent Hill, it was the farthest thing from my mind when I watched the trailer.
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I like beer, never had a hard seltzer, sounds like it would taste like Zima and Zima was nasty. Also:

Zangulus posted...

Hard cider.

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The first computer I had as a kid was a Atari 800XL, which had cassettes for the computer tutorials. I don't think we had any cassette games though, most of the games were on floppy or cartridge.

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Caitlyn_Jenner posted...
I'm glad there's finally some female representation in this otherwise sausage-fest of a series.

Pretty sure they have had females in the series since the start.

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Yep, my father and grandparents still live there. Well, the house I was in from 4 till adulthood anyways, the duplex my parents lived in when I was born was a rental, but still exists today. I even drive by it once every couple of years to see how the neighborhood is doing.

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Sahuagin posted...

I don't think QBasic has anything like pointers, but it does have peek and poke which can be used to read and write to memory addresses. (which incidentally is very dangerous).

And coincidentally you kind of fell into why most programming languages don't let you do a lot of stuff with pointers. Don't get me wrong, pretty much all of them use pointers, but they don't let the user manipulate them since they could cause all sorts of problems. Like in your example above if I was to do this:

y = 30;

Now y is pointing to memory address "30", and I can do whatever I want to it. Or if I do something like this:

y = &x;
*y = 2 ^ 128;

Now I am writing outside of the boundary of an int and into whatever is using the extra memory I just overflowed into. That is why most modern programming languages handle all the referencing and de-referencing of pointers internally and don't give the user that much control.

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I am so glad I work in a field where Bachelors is pretty much the highest education you need unless you want to get a job as a professor (and even then you can become an Adjunct with enough professional experience). I don't think I would have survived a Master's program, I was climbing up the walls to enter the workforce after my first co-op block.

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My current job I got when a recruiter contacted me and said he thought I would be a good fit for, and he was right. Granted I had dozens of others before him contact me with crap I knew I wouldn't even get past the tech screening for, it is just a matter of waiting for the right opportunity and crafting your profile so it best describes your skills and abilities.

I actually had a discussion with one of my co-workers about it yesterday, and we both said that we ignored the "buzz words" and other fluff people put on LinkedIn because all someone is going to do is ctrl-f and look for certain keywords for the job they are trying to fill. Putting all that extra stuff in doesn't help for the most part because a recruiter isn't reading it.

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Didn't have any pain before, they were just coming in impacted and needed to be removed. I got them taken care of before they caused any problems.

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Long story short I have been calling them up to cancel my service (because they are $10 a month more then the other 2 options in my area, despite the fact they were $5 less when I was with the company they bought), and for the last 3 times the following has happened:

1) Transferred me to the north west division who is unable to cancel my service (I am in the north east)
2) Got the "we are currently off hours" message despite the fact it was over an hour before they officially closed
3) Had the woman tell me I needed to talk to their sales department to negotiate a new contract then hung up on me

Gonna try calling them again tomorrow during my lunch break, but I get the feeling that it isn't going to go much better. I already canceled my automatic payments and notified my bank to block them from charging my account so they aren't getting any more money for me. This is just so I don't have to deal with some credit agency.

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Thigh, mostly because it is essentially a leg with twice the meat.

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A few, and yea they can get awkward depending on the person. That is why I stopped doing them years ago, because you never know how someone is going to react.

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Another thing to consider is that for a long time YouTube wasn't making any money. Up until about 2015 Google hadn't broken even on its $1.2 billion purchase of YouTube, and during the whole "Adpocalipse" YouTube was loosing something like $2 million a day. It wasn't until they started focusing on a more corporate friendly model (the thing that people complain the most about YouTube) that they actually started turning a decent profit.

Now consider trying to start your own video sharing site WITHOUT a huge corporation shoveling millions and millions of dollars into making you popular. It may have worked 15 years ago, but it certainly isn't going to today.

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HornedLion posted...

If all this is true... why doesnt someone create a different site like it?

They have, most have failed. Because you are going up against YouTube.

The current competitor now seems to be BitChute, which is decent but also far from having the kind of popularity it would need to compete with the likes of YouTube.

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I have listened to Heaven and Hell more, but I think Mob Rules has the better songs.

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I might switch from full-time work to part-time contract work in about 10 years, but if I am going by how my family operates I probably won't retire until I am 85. Then I will complain every day that I am bored because I retired.

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Speaking as a Software Developer (but not a Game Developer), one of the biggest problems studios have nowadays is bad project management. If anything, Kickstarter makes it even worse especially when you are asking for money for a game to be released in a year, and include tons and tons of stretch goals to try and entice people to give you more money. That just screams not thinking about how much time and effort goes into making a game. You can't just throw more money at a problem and think everything will work out because there are numerous things that money can't solve in a software project. If a company is forcing it's employees to work more then 40 hours a week, then management isn't doing their job properly. They either underestimated the amount of time something would take or overestimated the abilities of their team members.

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xjayguyx posted...

Bottles have a return deposit, straws don't.. so people are more likely to return bottles and straws get tossed out. Make sense?

In my area though (and most from my understanding) the return is 5 cents, regardless of size. So I have to keep the bottle around for months until I gather enough to warrant returning them so I can get like $2-3 back? Not worth it. Most times I just throw them in the recycling bin and let the pickers deal with them.

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I love old Ad-Lib music.



That is funky as hell.

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No, but I have thought about it a few times. However, right now I have enough furniture. If I want to get something, I would need to throw something away, and there is nothing I want to throw away.

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argonautweakend posted...

I dont know if there is enough here to justify a purchase soon. Im going to wait until I can find a steam sale with it at $5.

Good luck with that, Square Enix is notorious for not giving huge discounts on their JRPGs. From what I can remember there has only been once that any of their JRPGs were below $8, even the stuff like FF7 and 8 which already had PC ports before Steam.

But their Eidos properties? Those will go under $5 so fast your head will spin.

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captpackrat posted...

So basically everyone got fired, lost their insurance and any accumulated time off, and now they're being "rehired" as "freelancers" with no insurance and no time off.

In some ways it can actually be more beneficial to the employees, as they can demand way more pay that more then makes up for the no insurance and no time off. I have known plenty of people who do that (my current situation was essentially that when I got fired, AND they had to pay me 6 months of severance so I got 2 paychecks instead of one).

All depends on how you negotiate your contract.

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8.93 mi (14.38 km)

I actually used to live closer, but bought a house further away.

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No, only time I had cable was the basic cable that came with my apartment (and by "basic", I mean the local networks, 2 shopping channels, and the weather channel). Now I have Netflix, WWE Network, and Youtube Premium (comes free with Google Play Music). I honestly could get rid of Netflix and WWE since I barely watch them anymore. Most of my viewing is through Youtube and BitChute.

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As someone who doesn't really like MMOs and has only played at most a couple of hours of any one MMORPG, it felt like an MMORPG with an empty server. Plus the Gambit system (at least in PS2 version, can't speak for the newer versions) made it so you could pretty much automate the game to the point you never had to do anything except walk from one encounter to the next.

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A couple of the mods I made got overturned, it does happen.

Soup_or_Science posted...

What is this "new moderation system"?

He means the new dispute system. Before you only had 1 other moderator (and 1 lead and 1 admin if you kept escalating it) handling your disputes. Now all of the moderators can vote on your moderation and decide if it should be upheld or overturned.

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I think there are two tied at about 45 - 50 minutes, but the one when I was in Syracuse was longer (35 miles one way vs. around 30). However the other one sucked more because I was working 6 days a week at that one, and for longer hours. So basically I got home, had dinner, played video games for a couple of hours, then went to bed and did it all over again. Plus I was getting payed crap back then (but gas was only $1.20 a gallon). At least with the one in Syracuse I had time to actually do things during the week.

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I drove 4 hours to see Smashing Pumpkins a few years ago, so no. If you like the band and that is the closest they are going to be to you then why not?

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My mom was into games like Tetris and the like. Also card game.

My father mostly preferred flight simulators, but he also played a bunch of FPS games. He actually beat Redneck Rampage long before I did, and we used to see who could get through Doom levels the fastest.

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You never hear much about the county fair in my area. In fact I just checked and it literally happened last weekend and I never heard a single thing about it on the radio.

The state fair is a big deal though, and it is in Syracuse, the next city over. I have been a few times, but it is not something I would go to regularly. If someone asked me to go with them though I would.

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I was lucky that my last apartment came with in-apartment washer and dryers. Before that, I had to use a community washer and dryer, and yea it was not fun. I feel bad for the people who have to do that, especially if there is only one set of washer and dryers for 6-8 units (like my place was).

Now I have a house with my own washer and dryer. Even had to replace the belt in my dryer a couple years ago, which really is something every home owner should learn how to do. If you can't do that then you are going to have trouble doing a lot of things around the house.

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EvilMegas posted...

Also, its oily as fuck.

That is my main complaint. I love the Cajun style, but the fries are so oily half the Cajun seasoning ends up on my fingers, in the bag, and all over my napkins.

Also the price, burger and fries are supposed to be cheaper fast food, not $17 for a meal. I can go to a local chain and get the same meal for half the price, and it is arguably much better.

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I always preferred Saturday because less people are out then. Fridays are just too busy, everyone wants to go out on Friday. Saturday has some activity, but not so much that it is annoying to be out.

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Aaantlion posted...

Does de-listing mean you also lose the ability to re-download a purchased copy?

Can't speak for consoles, but on Steam and GOG no. It just means you won't be able to buy a copy anymore. I own a few de-listed games and I can still download, cloud save, and all of the other stuff you would expect from a digital game. Only difference is no one can buy it.

And the thing I don't like about digital is that it's only as good for as long as the platform exists which, as we've seen with movies, is no guarantee. (Although UV users made out fine for themselves since I think all of their titles connected to VUDU.) I know that there's no guarantee of permanent ownership with physical copies either (breakage, theft, loss, etc), but it seems like it's more in your hands.

It usually isn't a big deal because most of the time you still get access to all your stuff, I can't think of an instance where a platform ceased to exist and everyone's library became useless as a result. Most of the time the games just become DRM free or get moved to another platform. People thought that is what would happen when Games for Windows Live went away, but all those games got patches that let them still work without the service.

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I have got a notice for jury duty 3 times in the last 10 years. I swear they watch for the earliest time they can send me a notice and do it the first day they are able. Thankfully, I have never had to answer a question:

The first time I got a notice was for town court (which REALLY sucks because you don't get any time off of work for it unless you work a night shift since they usually start at 7PM). I actually had to go down to the court house because they don't have a "number", they just mail notices out to 50 people and pick jurors out of the pool. Thankfully both cases they were selecting for got settled while we were there, so it was just half an hour of my night wasted. The funny thing is the judge was trying to make everyone feel better by saying "well, at least you didn't have to go downtown for county court!" despite the fact I worked right across the street from the county court house, and it would have been WAY more convenient for me...

The second time was for county court, but my juror number was like 750, so I never got called in.

The third time was for district court, which is like one step below Grand Jury in the "This is just going to consume your life for a while so deal with it" spectrum. Basically they put you "on-call" for the next 6 months and can send you up to 5 notices for cases. They sent me like 2 notices, but I never had to go in for questioning on any of them because they all got settled before jury selection.

Come to think of it, that last one was a year and a half ago, so I am probably about due in a year or two...

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I just picked it up today not because I heard the news, but because I saw it is currently only $3.75 on Steam. Glad I did.

rexcrk posted...

Digital master race, right?

Digital is kind of weird in many ways...

On the one had, the games last WAY longer then they would in the physical sense, and no I am not talking about things like disk rot. I mean that a digital game will be on a storefront for years while a physical game will only be in print for a month or two on average. Even de-listing is kind of a rare thing and most games will be available in some form for pretty much ever. Also, digital games always tend to lower in value over time while physical games can go up and down depending on demand and rarity.

Then you get games like this:

https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/19000/?snr=1_7_

It has been on Steam for over 10 years, has horrible reviews, never goes down in price, yet somehow still remains on the storefront because the company who made it just abandoned it altogether.

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My current D&D party can be described as "try to make everybody at the table laugh uncontrollably for the duration of the game". Like my Drow assassin is currently a vegan gardener who plays a hill giant in a traveling performance group that ends every show getting pants-ed and mooning the audience. And I am the relatively NORMAL person in the party.

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wolfy42 posted...

Why don't people use electric razors/shavers?

Mead posted...

It is weird how many people still use shaving cream and razors. It makes sense if you want your face to be super clean shaven down to the pores, but for a standard shave electric works just fine

For me specifically, electric razors just don't work. My hair is just too thin/fine so they don't cut it properly unless I go over the same spot several times, and in that case I am just better off using a manual razor.

As for Dollar Shave club being a reason... Gillette has their own service like Dollar Shave club, they have had it for years now. Granted, it is more expensive but a lot of people will say that the quality is much higher and worth the price. Their marketing plan was just poorly thought out, especially when their customer base is made up of people who don't really pay attention to the brand of product they are using, just grabbing whatever off the shelf. I didn't even realize the razor I had used from the time I was 14 until I switched to Dollar Shave club was a Gillette until I saw this topic and checked.

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They are actually coming to my town in a couple of days. I thought about going, but at my age if I spent the night in a mosh pit I probably wouldn't be able to walk the next day.

I am not too heart broken though, they were never one of my favorite punk bands. Plus I get to see Smashing Pumpkins on Saturday night!

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There are 3 foods I strongly dislike (Olives, blue cheese, and coconut) that no matter how much you try to hide them, I can taste them in anything. Younger me used to immediately spit out the food when I tasted them and stop eating it altogether, but older me will usually still eat it, just comment on how horrible the dish is the whole time.

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Yes, when I had to decide on my health insurance I had a choice between getting the same crappy coverage I had at my last company but not paying anything for it, or paying the same amount I payed at my last company and getting way better coverage. I went with the latter, even though I haven't really used my health care in about 5 years (except for some nasal steroids I needed last year for a sinus infection).

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LinkPizza posted...

Depends on the color...

And the dye job.

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Nah, I had a bunch of posters, but they were mostly bands I liked. I think I had a Bush poster, one or two Smashing Pumpkins posters, an Offsping poster, a Greenday poster, maybe more. I also had a Ren & Stimpy poster. The only video game poster I had was the one that came with Ultimate Doom.

Doesn't seem like a lot, but I had a small room and I liked making sure all my posters were fully visible.

Edit: Now that I think about it, they are all still hanging up in my room today, as my dad hasn't done anything with my room since I moved out some 15 years ago.

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So in Software Engineering, customers are...weird. It is not like retail where literally any person off the street is a potential customer, the people we deal with are usually payed way more then us, way more educated then us, and as a result think they can do our jobs a lot better then us.

My first job out of college I never had to deal with customers, they were usually dealing with people several levels higher then me and I was only at the job for 2 years so I never got trusted enough where they would have me interact with the customer.

My second job (and the one I worked at for almost 12 years) our customers where law firms, usually the partners since they were the ones who bought our products. It was pretty rare that we would talk to them directly (although I was involved in a couple of conference calls with them), usually we interacted with them through sales people. Most of them had law degrees (but usually weren't practicing lawyers or be part of the bar in their jurisdiction), which meant they thought they could just know how complicated it would be to implement new features. What they didn't know was how complex the system was, or how much time and effort it would be to implement their wishes. It was even more frustrating considering I worked in the Machine Learning part of the system, so every little change they wanted for one thing could have a ripple effect on literally every single thing we processed. Trying to explain that to them usually took several meetings and hundreds of man hours to prepare for those meetings, only to have the work scrapped when their next big idea came about.

In my current job, my manager(s) are usually the ones who deal with the customers who "pay the bills", however since I am a contractor pretty much everyone except the 6 people on my team are my customers (and even person #6 could be considered a "customer"). That said, I actually don't have any real complaints about them other then the fact I feel they are under-utilizing me. Although I also understand that part of that is they have a lot of work "in the future", it just isn't ready for me to work on.
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I haven't yet, but ever since I played Valkyria Chronicles last year I have had an itching to try more Strategy JRPGs like Fire Emblem. Might pick it up in a few weeks when I will have time to play it.
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