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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 10, 2013, 12:09:41 pm »
Wasn't the "Bless You" thing due to your soul being vulnerable to demons in the moment you sneeze?
Was explained to me (the one time it ever came up) that it was 'cause your heart skipped a beat or somethin' when you sneezed, so the bless you was something along the lines of asking god to keep the ticker going afterwards.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: AI War: Fleet Command, Need more AI fodder
« on: August 10, 2013, 09:48:06 am »
Maybe? Probably got something happening, but I don't know when or how long it'll take. Will hop into the chat room when available.

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Is Spelunky on roguebasin? Yes. Good enough for me. Is roguelike enough, moving on.

I think some people take the "is/isnt roguelike" thing far too seriously. Discussions moving towards Orwell suggest that to me, at least.
Yeah, pretty much. Generally on the side of "isn't a roguelike", though, which generates silly stuff like "not like Rogue = not roguelike". I'll admit I've never really figured out why there's such insistence on exclusion, though. Bringing more awesome games into the roguelike umbrella is pretty nice. I like seeing a little genre expansion, here and there.

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Just do what I do and assume it'll be out by Tuesday. While conspicuously failing to stipulate which Tuesday that entails. Y'can't be wrong, barring a sudden calendar change or development discontinuation.

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There we go!

Now to begin formulating proper husbandry patterns for creating fertile offspring.

I think the proper thing to crossbreed with a girdle would be a sock. Maybe a hat.

... nah. Hat can be, like, second generation. Or whatever. Girdle/sock, then Girk/hat. Or I guess Sodle/hat. Not sure which is a more amusing word.

Soon, the hybrid Girk swarms will infest and overrun the world of fashion! And maybe Oceania or something.

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But what category does a bodice fall under? Does it count as a garment or accessory? Like. Is it more a shirt or a belt? My exhausted aching brain requests a thoroughgoing textile taxonomy.

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A GIRDLE
... and now I have this incredibly strange mental image of a giant tying a bunch of people together and wearing them as a girdle. MZ would be the littlest giant of them all, so it'd only take like three novels to complete the... garment? Accessory? What do girdles get classified as, anyway?

Headache+sleepy+minor hunger=the mind wanders.

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... Crys? Apparently welsh for... a shirt?

Shirt into your arms. I'm not sure how this works, but... MZ, I think novel is trying to gift you clothing. No clue what this entails.

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I'll throw In. Cheers, Script.

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... has mentioning gaming as a hobby stopped being a sure-fire way to get your application rejected? I've definitely had a few warnings over the years to, like, not mention that. But things change, I guess.

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... and be sure to tick the little "Show Processes From All Users" option. People seem to miss that, I guess? Task manager has something similar under the processes tab.

E: Also might need to tick on a few extra columns. Same deal with task manager, there's a lot of information that's hidden by default.

I'm never entirely sure which it is that's eating up RAM, anyway. Working set? Private bytes? Pretty sure it's not virtual size. I just turn on most of it.

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Yeah... what exactly would rioting accomplish? We've already got fairly large protests, we've got plenty of signalers coming from the population they're not happy with things. Larger protests with added violence would do... what? Damage some infrastructure that would do jack shit to the people causing the problem and likely massively inconvenience folks who are just trying to get by? It'd get plenty of people thrown in jail where they wouldn't be heard from for years (or ever), it'd cause superficial infrastructure damage to infrastructure the corrupted parts of the system basically have no interaction with. Maybe it'd have a modicum of political effect, but... the kinds of pressure rioting puts out is pressure we're kinda' already exerting, just without (as much of) the useless (and possibly counterproductive) waste of resources and lives.

It's... hard to see how violence would improve the situation. Kick Obama out (and how the hell are we going to do that to begin with?) and... then what? Who goes back into his place? How do you stop the situation from going right back to where the hell it was?

What exactly is throwing a tantrum going to accomplish? Yeah, we're pissed. Yeah, most of us are pissed. Yes, the people in power are aware of this. Undirected violence isn't likely to accomplish much, if anything, besides put a drain on people and things that might actually be directed toward beneficial change.

As for complacency... it seems to me it's less complacency than it is lack of options, and lack of a means for the wider population to determine what the right path forward is. Confusion and a dash of impotency. Quite fortunately, most people aren't yet willing and/or stupid enough to just lash out, but the lack of other means of influence does seem to have led to a sort of decision paralysis. S'a lot of people just kinda' going, "What the hell do we do?" and holding off on doing anything until they figure that one out. And, of course, for many (most) people, "What the hell do we do" has that rider, "And how am I going to feed my family while doing it", which massively complicates things.

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Other Games / Re: FTL-Likes?
« on: August 09, 2013, 12:34:26 am »
... maybe? Does look like the dev's back in communication on their forum for the first time in a while. Whether that means anything... *vague shrug* The last version was released back in december.

It would be pretty neat if it did kick off development again, though. Transcendence is a rather nice game. Especially with some mods to flesh it out a bit more.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 08, 2013, 08:16:34 pm »
Yeah, yeah. Sometimes, when you get really big zombies, you need a really big saw. And, like. Zombies move, so the saw has to come to them.

Neatest thing is I think you can see a little person by the treads. It's really rather quite large.


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Other Games / Re: Dota 2
« on: August 08, 2013, 08:08:53 pm »
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