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[Superdorf]

From the Wikipedia article for Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County:

Upon discovering a French translation of this story, Twain back-translated the story into English, word for word, retaining the French grammatical structure and syntax. He then published all three versions under the title "The Jumping Frog: in English, then in French, and then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil".[6]

[Max™]

May have told this once but given my nagging tooth I'll take laughs where I can get them in this stupid godsforsaken country, and it got a good hearty chuckle when it popped back in my head earlier today.

Her: so why doesn't Rick just wear VR if he's such a shy pooper?
Me: Well, he'd still be pooping wherever he was.
Her: *imitating fast food worker* Sir, there's not many things you can't do at Hardee's, but this is one of them.
Me: *same fast food worker* Did you not see our sign that reads 'PLEASE stop shitting in our booths!' on the wall?
Her: *as Rick* So wait, what's the other thing you can't do at Hardee's?
Me: *as fast food worker* Human trafficking.

[McTraveller]

Was just watching a play through of WorldBox (Nookrium).  He plopped down a snowman, and on the screen popped up some text:

"Snowman, he knows nothing."

Made me grin, because for once I knew the pop-culture reference.

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 Just put 'Jon' at the front...

[Caz]

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[MCreeper]

how do you know that i was a dolphin in sorcery bastard

[Egan_BW]

How could I not know?

[Iduno]

The makeup work for this joke is amazing.

[Bumber]

whodunnit: The murder mystery style. Rather strong. The main problem with this is that the AI has no plot for it, and then new corpses will just keep popping up...

[methylatedspirit]

So, uh... tried to change resolution in VMware, didn't really work out too good. This only happens when you set a resolution of 1366x768; every other resolution displays fine.

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[Kagus]

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[Iduno]

So, uh... tried to change resolution in VMware, didn't really work out too good. This only happens when you set a resolution of 1366x768; every other resolution displays fine.

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I'm am curious who realized "Hey, what if this screws everything up so bad they can't even see/read the message? Should we have it revert automatically after X seconds just in case?" Because it certainly helps sometimes.

[scriver]

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Javerts less famous little brother

also upon quoting, I saw what you did there

[WealthyRadish]

So, uh... tried to change resolution in VMware, didn't really work out too good. This only happens when you set a resolution of 1366x768; every other resolution displays fine.

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2D arrays (that store things like pixel data) are usually stored as a single dimensional array where the position 'arr[c][r]' is instead calculated as 'arr[width * r + c]'. If something's wrong, i.e. the calculation is actually 'arr[(actual_width + error) * r + c]', then querying 'arr[0][1]' for example would give the value expected in 'arr[error][1]' instead.

Graphics drivers, however, are designed to handle accesses to a 2D image outside its bounds by tiling the image (by default), so rather than crashing horribly the out-of-bounds accesses of that program's texture just make a neat shearing pattern that loops on the edges instead.

[Imic]

This made me laugh harder than I've laughed for a long time. I may have a problem.

[AzyWng]

Griftlands is a great game.

One of the flavor texts (for a card named Cavalcade, gain defense equal to the damage of your next attack) reads:

“You just hit them so hard that they all leave you alone, it’s science.”