Lurker > TheMikh

glorified frat bros (good company actually), psychopaths (good company until they screw you sideways), and the rare humble self-made man that came from nothing (good company)

bump, will reply later, been bogged down to hell and back with work. stumbled on an interesting distributed sqlite dbms a day or so ago.

what happened

SpawnShadow posted...

i guess i've only seen the director's cut

be careful!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4f29f779.jpg

i was born and raised in portland, so i found myself there a few times during my early years. haven't been there in over twenty years though.

i feel like it's reversed over the past decade-ish, where traditional checkout is preferred

self-checkout is overcrowded and often malfunctioning, or has odd stipulations like requiring an attendant if you don't want too many items bagged, and you end up to wait/ask for assistance as a result

of course i just order my groceries from the next town over these days because my local grocery store is way too much of a hassle - understaffed, overcrowded, plus the stuff i mentioned above, plus the milk seems to be spoiled half the time

lane pryce's suicide in mad men
ricky's murder in boyz in the hood

i was just thinking about him earlier today. hope he's doing alright.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Lmao @ at that toast topic

what's this?

s0nicfan posted...

Why not reach out to the guy who runs the gamefaqs archive (that we can't direction mention on the boards)? They've already got DB support and like... 10+ years of archived content so they clearly have the storage space.

Roadhogg's account has not been signed into since 2008 and the archive itself seems to have been broken for a few years now.

Trumble posted...

I run the Lemmings Forums. Much smaller, but it runs alongside several insignificant sites on a $12/mo Digital Ocean droplet. SSL is free via LetsEncrypt. A domain is maybe $20 a year. We might need a higher value droplet if it gets really active, but the costs are completely feasible.

I could fund a domain if needed. Had no idea there were free SSL services, but I'll keep that in mind.

Getting someone to make the damn thing is the biggest obstacle. I'd like to say I would, but my track record of finishing projects is kinda poor and PHP is not something I do overly well with. The old clones had bugs (GameFAQ++ had one that literally allowed any registered user to moderate messages lmao) and are written for outdated PHP versions, so wouldn't be the easiest things to bring up to date.

Agreed. The old codebases (especially GFH and WF forks) had a frightening number of security vulnerabilities, with a few quality exceptions that might have enjoyed a bit of security by obscurity (aURL, EGFC). Some developers wrote vulnerabilities into their own software for personal amusement.

I'd be open to building within the constraints of my time, though I need to brush up on the landscape of libraries I might want to use for the concept I proposed.

If we did theoretically opt for a LAMP-based forum, it would be extremely easy and there's a lot of secure boilerplate that didn't exist back then, but I remain queasy about long-term uptime assurances. Even if fully paid for into perpetuity like a number of my AWS-based sites, the Amazon baremetal the instances live on occasionally degrades after a while and then the cloud instance goes down, which means needing to actively monitor things and also potentially have periodic backups. Set and forget preferred.

save us allen

Tyranthraxus posted...

What you're trying to conceptualize is effectively Bitcoin but with mandatory messages attached to each transaction.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Bittorent or serverless IRC under the hood if I can help it. Blockchain is overkill for this use case, even if feasible (esp within an application-specific EVM network), since data organization is a pain in the behind without making things more needlessly complicated.

Robot2600 posted...

i can paint, write, and design. ive coded an Atari 2600 game from scratch in Basic. im not a pro software engineer or anything.

Design's an incredibly valuable skill. Many software engineers have zero design sense as it relates to human user interactions; just look what Session Buddy did to their extension lately.

CRON posted...

I've mentioned it before but the easier solution might be to just use something like ProBoards.

A forum-as-a-service platform is an option since many of them have remained online for decades, but they don't offer much developer control, and are ultimately at the mercy of the whims of the forum administrator(s) and the service provider. What I'd like is something that is indistinguishable from GameFAQs and runs forever so long as just one person cares to keep things going.

Harpie posted...

I run a few websites already. It'd be interesting to make a site dedicated to keeping the old internet style forums, and it could easily be done for under $50/month including domain, hosting and ssl cert costs.

A simple donate button would hopefully be enough to fund it without ads, like how adblock does it.

Hosting, SSL, and donations will be important, whether for a full-fledged old style forum/site or a trusted webclient.

MacadamianNut3 posted...

This topic just triggered anybody who spent even a second as a computer science major

I hold a CS degree and have been working in various corners of the industry for north of a decade. Forgive me if I use jargon.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

That would be fantastic, since I have a terrible eye for style and frontend design.

s0nicfan posted...

You'll never get them to agree on a framework. Half will demand Angular. The other half will demand React. And then like... 3 guys in the corner will insist on VUE.

If it's open source, they can all manage their own approach based on some common data interchange standard. With this in mind, I'm mostly concerned with the backend architecture.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Web dev here.

If you buy a hosting site and pay me, I will gladly put a forum on it for you.

Or you know.... There's another option. We could also just use a forum that already exists.

If I wanted launch and host a GameFAQs clone forum on a LAMP stack, I could easily have a concept up and running by this evening, but I'm trying to conceptualize something a little more ambitious and robust which isn't at the mercy of a single administrator's whims or capacity / lack thereof for long-term infrastructural upkeep, but is still responsive to / upholds community values, if that makes any sense.

bulldryer posted...

This is an overkill solution for a very simple problem.
Do not write off just hosting stuff in a database

I'm not opposed to the use of a database; I just have reservations about a central one since I've seen many spinoffs and other websites come and go over the years, and would like the community to be able to collectively keep things going. With a more legacy architecture, administrators eventually go MIA, shut things down, deal with hosting infrastructure issues (e.g., db/instance failure without backup), etc.

BlackOmnimon posted...

didn't we have several gamefaqs clones back in the day?

Yes, there was a rich ecosystem of them twenty years ago, which tended to run on LAMP stacks but were only online so long as they were managed by their administrators. Now they're mostly gone, because the administrators stopped caring or the sites got hacked.

In light of recent developments, let's hammer out a specification for a satellite/lifeboat CE community.

While there is a decent number of CE discord servers, they tend to be siloed and their cumulative network effects are hampered by the fracturing of communities and discussions within these respective silos. The subreddits also have this same issue.

What I would like to build is a forum with the following characteristics:

• Has functional and aesthetic parity with the GameFAQs message boards.
• Ideally functions in a peer-to-peer manner such that the state of the forum and its messages live not on a server (which could prove to be a central point of failure in a number of ways), but rather on the local machines/clients of users, with updates synced through a gossip protocol which users could be encouraged to passively contribute to through an opt-in background daemon.
• From a user experience standpoint it should be an open community, such that anyone can join and post without getting banned over historical interpersonal squabbles, but:
• With moderation mechanisms to discourage spam, abusive behavior, illicit conduct, and other things broadly undesired by CE as a community and by GameFAQs moderation standards, including but not limited to the ability of users to block and ignore other users and render their posts inaccessible to such, similar to how CE functions now, and perhaps to have custom filters they can share and/or opt into.

From a technological standpoint, details to be considered are:

• The ideal application stack for a system/platform like this.
• How to accomplish this in a cross-platform manner with negligible platform-specific development overhead - no apps, but rather browser-based with caching is the ideal. Ideal targets would be Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

NeoBasilisk posted...

so who is creating CELinks?

CE has a healthy number of web developers and I could absolutely see the CE spinoff to end all CE spinoffs being a trivial project to ship.

jesus christ

i have a post by my first account from 20 years ago on an old pc game board

SHRlKE posted...

The fact there were four separate warring groups and at no point did I know who was who or who was the good guys / bad guys really ruined it for me as I spent most of the film trying to work that out.

haven't seen it yet, but despite the film's purported lack of plausibility or worldbuilding, that's precisely how civil wars tend to be

Junthor posted...

IMO this is a softball attack meant to save face to the Iranian people yet allowing Israeli and US defenses to protect their assets.

my thoughts exactly, basically the same style response as in 2020 after trump assassinated soleimani

but i doubt israel's going to respond to what is tantamount to a symbolic retaliation with the same restraint as the usa did back then

andel posted...

ayatollah khomeini was lucky his regime survived the blatant attacks on women that could have toppled it a year ago.

khomeini died 35 years ago, you're thinking of khamenei

MAR10_KarT posted...

I find Papa Johns as bad as Little Caesars

For those that mention local places, they are good but too pricey to eat often

college was the last time i had either, but papa johns could at least reheat decently

little caesar's consistently tasted like cardboard if it wasn't fresh out of the oven

ClayGuida posted...

Pizza hut is legit the worst.

their pizza is meh, but their pasta is pretty alright; i sometimes order it as an excuse to also buy their brownies (which are godtier btw)

TimeForAction posted...

they've improved dramatically since the 00s, but the food is still at the mercy of the standards of the shop preparing it, and at their best they're still eclipsed by more local chains and small shops

it's not disgusting, it's just incredibly bland and mid

i remember there being extensive news coverage about it, but i was too young to really follow or care

that rapper friended me on facebook back in the day

this topic turned around quickly

gaming died when the industry went crazy with drm, dlc, and digital distribution in general

Aztex posted...

noice

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

i chuckled

Jupiter posted...

Wtf did I miss?

my thoughts exactly

i love falling into wikipedia rabbit holes

ProfOaksAide posted...

During totality its safe to look without glasses because the sun is 100% blocked. The corona is just a bunch of gas, it doesnt harm your eyes.

ah, that's good to hear. it really was an awe to behold.

the real eclipse was the friends we made along the way

it was cloudy as hell here, so i took the risk at total eclipse even if it meant a little potential damage (i seem to be ok though)

phenomenal

otherwise wore authorized glasses for most of the viewing

mannn just yesterday i opened my garage to toss some stuff in my car before going somewhere and as i was about to walk around to the other side to get in i saw a loose pitbull poking its head into my garage and starting at me

had to rush back into my house until it either went away or its owners retrieved it

people need to get their damn pits under control

1337toothbrush posted...

Company execs are among the dumbest motherfuckers and they're the perfect candidates to be replaced with the fancy pants autocomplete we currently know as "AI".

based on my working experience, inward-facing execs could absolutely be automated since they're glorified analysts, though the outward-facing ones would be tricky since they're glorified politicians

having worked a decent bit with both autocomplete algos and deep nets back in the day, hard pressed to call the gpt3.5+ class llms fancy autocomplete though, cept bard which was trash

Compsognathus posted...

They are both terrible, but Steven Crowder is much much worse.

crowder is an a-hole, but shapiro wholeheartedly defends and supports israel's crimes against humanity in palestine; would consider the latter worse

neither

i wanna be ben shapiro's brother-in-law >_>

years, probably as a kid

fish and chips are another story

water
gatorade
triphala

i hear circus ladies ain't monogamous

i had no idea there were that many sequels

only seen the first one to my recollection

if the company isn't small enough for the ceo to buy/pour you a drink sometime, it's too big for me

boyz n the hood