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I had to clean a whole bunch of shelves today (utterly pointless waste of time, most of said shelves were above customers' eye level and thus never in need of cleaning at all) and at one point shifted a couple of half-body mannequins so that I could clean where they'd been sitting.

I entirely forgot to move them back, and later realised that they were still up there in their slightly altered positions, quite close and appearing to be pressing salaciously against one another. Whoops. Naturally I entirely ignored this and did nothing to remedy the situation, since I couldn't be arsed dragging the ladder out and climbing back up there.
I'm not back in 'til Monday so it is officially somebody else's problem. *shrug*   



Does that count?   

1) Put child in car
2) Drive to babysitter's place
3) Go to work
4) Realize I forgot step 2

5) Introduce child to new babysitter, the break room.

Nah, I know it's dumb. My facepalm for this week consists of

1)Think I need to call bank
2)Take final
3)Forget to call bank
4)Do everything else

Stop.

Power down the vm.

Create a new vm, boot it from a linux rescue cd, and attach the vhd/img/whatever for your linux vm as the disk image.  Install extundelete or something similar.  (rescue CD will use a ramdisk, so this is safe.) 

Undelete your files someplace safe. (Network share or something.)

ptw

From my understanding, Bethesda has been tacking things onto the same engine ever since at least Oblivion.  Clearly that would have required internal changes and updates during that period, but they're still apparently ignoring the ominous creaks and groans issued from the foundation as they pile ever more things on top.  I have no personal experience with it, but a friend told me of some of the hilariously backward ways they twisted the engine around to work for Fallout 4, where the radio stations were apparently some kind of badly repurposed "spell effects" that could cause the editor to crash if you set them up in something other than the most perfect way.

I believe Skyrim's engine, the Creation Engine, was created for that game. If I'm not mistaken though they used the same engine for Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.

This was all marketing lies. They lost the license to use the Gamebryo brand, but they still owned their engine, so they just called the updated version "the Creation Engine".

In truth Bethesda is still using the same basic engine as they did with Morrowind, not just Oblivion. Updated, sure, and with lots of new features built into it, definitely. But at the core it's the same engine. This is why you can still sometimes experience the exact same bugs you did nearly 20 years ago. Ah, the nostalgia!

I know that perhaps people rag on Americans and their knowledge of European countries way too much, and it comes off as a bit hypocritical when said by someone like me, considering I'm not exactly a paragon of geographical memorization, but I was watching a video made by a certain creator (rather popular too, mind you), and it was honestly physically painful to endure him try to guess which country went where. And you know, to each his own, it's not a big deal in the first place and it's frankly none of my business, but the real kicker was when he announced that this was okay because non-Americans wouldn't be able to name five states. I mean, I'm not sure what bizarro world some people live in, but I'm fairly certain most of everyone could name you five states in the USA. I'm not sure why, but that really just made me actually facepalm.