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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: September 17, 2012, 08:36:45 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on September 17, 2012, 08:29:13 pm
Hacking webcams like that is very possible, but yeah, unless you have someone with a vendetta against you, no one is going to be spying like that.
More of a state of the union thing, kaij, I think. I'd be going serious data hole if I was actually feeding the paranoia more. As is, taping over the webcam is sort of a minor "Up yours NSA" thing that takes like, no effort. Makes me a little more comfortable without going balls-out crazy over things, so I guess it's an alright indulgence.

Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on September 17, 2012, 08:35:56 pm
There's actually a whole subreddit on Reddit where people post connections to hacked webcams.
Though hey, maybe it's a decent enough precaution anyway. Maybe I'll figure out how to disable the mic next :P

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General Discussion / Re: [WAN WAN WAN] Things Yasuna kept doing too long again thread. (HAPPY THREAD!)
« on: September 17, 2012, 08:33:07 pm »
Hey, I have. Violently sick thereafter! Though it was more like lowered appetite for a while, then the stuffs, then gorging (i.e. a day's worth of food in one go), then stomach rebellion. Makes me feel incredibly miserable~

Though I lost the ability to really eat like, a decade ago. One day I just stopped being able to eat as much without getting sick enough to put me down for the rest of the day. Smaller portions since. Less grease, too. Some days I miss regular fried food. Then I bake something and all is well~

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: September 17, 2012, 08:27:49 pm »
Paranoia is a hell of a drug. Just put a little slip of duct tape over the webcam on this laptop. Feel kind of odd about it, sorta'. Never going to use the thing and having a camera pointed at me (especially one that could be made to turn on by itself, from what I understand) makes me a bit jittery anyway, but actually going out of the way to cover the thing up just feels... weird, I guess. A little. Other than the obvious abnormality of it compared to the general population -- which I really don't give a shit about it, but recognizing it's going on is important -- I'm not sure what about the act is throwing me off.

It's easier (and seemingly more effective, as far as functionality goes) to feed the paranoia the small things, though. Usually.

Quote from: MaximumZero on September 17, 2012, 08:24:45 pm
Gonna have to wait longer to fix my car.
Ouch. Feelin' for yeh, just found out today mine's not cranking. Looks like it's not the battery this time, though! S'something. Really need to at least crank the thing more often but, damnit, I just don't use the thing regularly :-\

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General Discussion / Re: [WAN WAN WAN] Things Yasuna kept doing too long again thread. (HAPPY THREAD!)
« on: September 17, 2012, 03:32:53 pm »
Quote from: Truean on September 17, 2012, 03:28:54 pm
Quote from: RedKing on September 17, 2012, 03:26:38 pm
Wife got a raise. At a state job. Be on the lookout for airmobile porcines.

Congrats! [hugs] I admit I had to look up what that was
Which... which that?

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General Discussion / Re: Egypt and the world and Libya
« on: September 17, 2012, 03:20:42 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on September 17, 2012, 03:13:18 pm
Speech doesn't have to have a point or be constructive. Whistleblowers are totally irrelevant to this and your assertion that they should be protected in lieu of offensive things is hypocritical. All speech has to be protected for there to be freedom of speech.
Um. Libel? Slander? Perjury? The whole "Fire!" thing? Not all speech, no. There are, actually, limits to the freedom of speech.

Not saying the arsehat that's being discussed was outside of those limits, but all speech certainly isn't protected by the concept of freedom of speech, and the freedom of speech isn't impugned when certain types of speech are suppressed or punished. I guess those speaking against the dude are saying that the fellow was getting close to the limits, if not actually stepping over them.

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General Discussion / Re: [WAN WAN WAN] Things Yasuna kept doing too long again thread. (HAPPY THREAD!)
« on: September 17, 2012, 12:19:04 pm »
Computer! Wheee!

Downside: CPU's a bit weak. Dual-core 2.1ghz, according to dxdiag. It's an HP pavilion laptop, which makes me kinda' go ugh, but...

Upsides, it's got two more gigs of ram than I've ever had access to (i.e. 4), roughly double the VRAM I've ever had access to (i.e. ~1 gig), and a good half terabyte harddrive (The semi-dead laptop has... 140 gigs. Roughly), which is a nice multiple of, well, anything else I've ever had access to. A good chunk of it combined. So it's mostly an upgrade!

Now it's a matter of getting all the goodies on this thing, stripping out all the frufru stuff I have zero interest in, and doing some varying tests to see what can run on it. Then either getting ahold of a external dock whatsit for hard-drives or seeing if the semi-dead's hard-drives can fit in this thing. Being able to retrieve all my junk from the last computer would be... blissful. My roguelike folder was incredible :P

Also...
Quote from: Solifuge on September 17, 2012, 01:56:57 am
Just to make sure I'm not dating myself yet... you guys have all played FF6, right?
Lagging behind, but I don't care! Strago's theme is best theme! And then people do things like this and it's all yaaay. And this. People seem to generally dislike strago's theme for some reason, but they're all crazy. More needs to be done with it!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Tech Support RRAAEEGG Edition
« on: September 16, 2012, 05:55:57 pm »
They're all made better by artillery, directed earthquakes, and respawn. Folks need to hurry up with that inexpensive, easily used VR system so we can have some proper sports on this planet. Stuff with explosions and a goalie with force choke.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: September 16, 2012, 03:35:17 pm »
Most of my dreams are... generally kinda' awesome. Interesting scenarios, good music, etc., so forth, so on. It's like taking a break from the noise of reality to watch an actually good short play or somethin'. Occasionally shit gets weird/terrifying(/perspective character gets shot and bleeds out or somethin'), but on the net it's a positive experience. Wish I remembered more of 'em. Vaguely stressed as I tend to be awake (paranoia, whee), my subconcious is apparently fond of me. Or at least fond of impromptu world building. Either/or.

I blame copious amounts of fanfiction, I think. Plenty of fodder for the subconcious. Sadly, I never seem to get "normal" dreams. No flying, or odd social anxiety stuff, or falling, or whatever. It's all pretty coherent and unusual, at least compared to the sterotypical stuff you hear being bandied about. Giant rainbow toucan, bringing music and magic back to the land~

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: September 16, 2012, 11:13:53 am »
Police. Poleese. Pole lease. Pole lice. Stripper parasites, enforcing the law.

It's... close enough to accurate to be somewhat worrying. Maybe?

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General Discussion / Re: [WAN WAN WAN] Things Yasuna kept doing too long again thread. (HAPPY THREAD!)
« on: September 16, 2012, 11:12:03 am »
Looks like ipad for laptop swap is indeed going to go through. I'm torn between feeling tingly and laughing like a madman. Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea, ahahahaheheheheeee.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: September 16, 2012, 08:12:05 am »
Name by function. "Acceptance Test (Working Title)"

Then conveniently forget to think up a better one. If you're being graded on it, you're being graded on the code, not the file name.

Uh. Hopefully. I'd think it wouldn't detract from the grade unless it was a completely nonfunctional title (Such as "2006 Tax Returns" or something).

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General Discussion / Re: [WAN WAN WAN] Things Yasuna kept doing too long again thread. (HAPPY THREAD!)
« on: September 16, 2012, 01:21:14 am »
Quote from: Skyrunner on September 16, 2012, 01:05:52 am
...How?
Dodge charms. I'm not entirely sure of the exact method, but it's done with dodge charms.

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends Updated! - Late August Patch - 1.0.0.146
« on: September 16, 2012, 12:15:06 am »
Yikes. Something broke hard. They've apparently resorted to disabling all the queues :o

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Other Games / Re: The "Forgotten the name of this game?" thread. Ask here to prevent clutter.
« on: September 15, 2012, 08:05:41 pm »
Can't help with the spoiler stuff, but the platformer with the rabbits is Jazz Jackrabbit. There was (at least one) sequel.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Tech Support RRAAEEGG Edition
« on: September 15, 2012, 04:45:14 pm »
... have we somehow managed to violate the firmament of reality and make unnatural preservatives? I was under the impression that that which exists in nature (which is, y'know, everything that exists :P) was natural.

Strictly those that form without human intervention? Is that what that's supposed to mean?

I sorta' get what it's getting at, but "natural" has always seemed a bit of a nonsense qualifier to me. Preservative is a preservative, whether it's made in a lab or plucked out of the dirt doesn't necessarily make the molecular structure any different...

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