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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: June 08, 2021, 05:17:16 pm »
Cheerfully stuck UWU on a work related order form today. This is what happens when you make young people in pain choose arbitrary code designations that don't have any meaningful import. You get uwu in your company's workflow.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: June 07, 2021, 08:27:22 am »
Soreness is about all I've heard reported (and experienced) for the first dose. Personally was bad enough I really didn't want to do anything with that arm for a while, but it wasn't debilitating or anything.

Second's likely to be fairly rough, though, yeah -- I'd plan on being down for at least a day or two.

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: June 06, 2021, 08:49:10 pm »
Quote from: EuchreJack on June 06, 2021, 08:04:25 pm
In truth, the terms Alpha and Beta related to whom was able to view the game.  Alphas were always internal until Toady One released DF with the alpha label.
Beta was traditionally the first version that would be shown to playtesters.
There were totally public alphas prior to DF, though? It's only been public since '06. Don't ask me to recall titles 'cause we're talking like fifteen years ago, but I'm quite sure I got involved with some well before DF released.

I think there used to be a point I thought the terms alpha or beta actually meant anything in terms of game development, but after a good twenty years and change mucking about with indie games and whatnot, I've been disabused of the notion. They're functionally nonsense words with no consistent meaning, used haphazardly by dilettantes and professionals alike. Treat them as such :P

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: June 06, 2021, 07:24:57 pm »
Plenty of betas that don't have a continuous development thing going on change radically prior to release (if they ever release), or are missing major features. There's also alphas that are largely feature complete. So on, so forth. Practically, there's not really a "supposed to" in regards to alpha/beta/whatever features, least not that I've noticed.

Not that that's really a surprise, exactly. The person who decides something is an alpha or beta is whoever it is that's naming the versions, not some kind of central authority. Dev cycles are like gods, everyone worships their own conceptualization of them :P

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: June 06, 2021, 06:52:47 pm »
Sure? Pretty sure Aurora does something similar, and as a general thing long term passion projects by solo or small team devs have a tendency to work roughly like that. DF isn't unique in its release/development cycle, just in how it hasn't keeled over dead yet :P

The alpha/beta/whatever terminology isn't particularly consistent, though. I wouldn't get hung up on that, what counts as that is calvinball with the dev making up the rules.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 06, 2021, 06:46:15 pm »
Quote from: MrRoboto75 on June 06, 2021, 06:17:07 pm
Quote from: EuchreJack on June 06, 2021, 06:12:19 pm
Just stay out of the basement at work and you'll be fine.

The alamo doesn't have a basement...
That would be why you need to stay out of the basement, yes.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: June 05, 2021, 12:05:06 pm »
It'd be a solid jive, but what you really want to do is mandate every president has to change their name to that of a previous president while in office. Nevermind A. Bliken, they will all be George Washington, or whatever.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: June 04, 2021, 06:49:22 pm »
The point then is eating a delicious burrito and not having a mess varyingly literally on hand. It's a good point, tasty with extra time to eat more burrito instead of dealing with a fuckhuge mess.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 03, 2021, 03:51:09 pm »
Quote from: methylatedspirit on June 03, 2021, 06:58:19 am
Maybe hair, but you tell me if anyone's used human hair as fur.
Sure they have? Fur, pillow or otherwise stuffing, whatever. Reusing human hair for other things isn't super common outside wigs (mostly because we just don't have particularly great fuzz for other stuff, far as I'm aware), but it shows up occasionally. Idle google check to see if there's any dedicated vendors (didn't see any, but I also didn't look too hard) shows there's currently ongoing research into potential uses, commercial and otherwise, as well as occasional projects or historical artifacts that use human hair as a material.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 03, 2021, 03:50:32 am »
Well, if interested in the comics and not in yar-haring them, do consider checking with your local library. They may have or be able to request copies!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you laugh today: 11000 laughs, somehow
« on: June 03, 2021, 02:38:39 am »
Quote from: Beneath the dragoneye moons, chapter 38
I flushed in embarrassment again. Did she have to point that out in front of everyone!? Locking eyes with her, I drew my knife, bunched my hair up, and in one sharp move cut it pixie-short, like hers.

[*Ding!* Congratulations! [Pretty] has reached level 94!].

 

Still staring at her, I dropped it in the fire.

“No!”

“Not the fire!”

“Arrrrrrgh!”

Small bits of flaming hair went everywhere. Whoops.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 03, 2021, 12:19:49 am »
The comics got pretty wild, at times. Still sorta' remember that time metal knuckles and metal sonic threw down, or the time snively just sorta' murdered robotnik.*

Also one of them was literally the first thing I ever read cover to cover. Pretty sure it was an early one with a sports event in some kind of stadium thing. Chicken bot was involved!

Old SatAM sonic cartoons were solid stuff, too. Some of the others weren't all that bad, either, if generally not as serious.

... I'd also be one of the ones that unironically enjoyed the smb live action movie. It wasn't amazing or anything, but it was solidly enjoyable b-tier work, at the time. something something walk the dinosaur something

* also shut up I know that's a family name and we all know who I'm actually talking about so don't even start

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: June 02, 2021, 05:18:01 pm »
Bends like that in tree species that don't do so normally is usually a sign of past illness or damage, mind. Some it doesn't make much of a difference if they survive whatever caused it, others can have weight concerns that causes future problems/breakage (the latter the tree will probably survive alright, but you might not want trees cosplaying a drop bear in your immediate area). It's indeed not necessarily a problem if the tree's still growing alright or otherwise healthy, but it's also not, like, a good sign or somethin', in most (though not all) tree species.

I wouldn't worry about it, but that's mostly because I give negative shits about the immediate health of trees that aren't in position to fall on top of things I care about :P

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General Discussion / Re: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"
« on: June 02, 2021, 01:47:19 pm »
I'm not gon' lie, I've started to wonder if that's actually turning into some kind of mating ritual or other sort of social interaction. It'd explain a lot if some bird species are turning roadkill olympics into some sort of bird sport.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 01, 2021, 08:58:46 pm »
Acorn squash is entirely too enthralling when rolled around. It's apparently like roly poly catnip for frumples...

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