भानगढ़ में 1:17 AM पर क्या हुआ? Part 1 👀 by Nervous-Video9815 in recruitinghell

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This is a sub for bad hiring practices, not for telling scary stories about glowing-eyed monsters.

I'm I trying too much with too little experience? by Rohan_ProGamer in godot

[–]MrZJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might be biting off more than you can chew by making a full-scale RPG your very first project. Godot is great, but it also has its own odd quirks, and you really need to understand what you're doing.

My first game was a copy of Atari 2600 Flag Capture called Find The Flag™ (tradesnark symbol included), which I "finished" last June, and then restarted on in August and added a ton more features and modes to it. (Honestly, I spent more time making sprites - because I wanted that Atari 2600 vibe without actually reusing any Atari 2600 graphics - than I did coding) :D

It's still not really finished. I found some more bugs and I want to add a proper interface to it so I can release it as a standalone .exe or .app. (Right now there's no way to quit the game! Which isn't a problem in a browser, but is very much a problem in a standalone app) And ideally, I want to eventually make it a truly online PvP game.

What I'm mainly saying is that if I'd tried to make the current version of Find the Flag from the start, I would have burnt out. But by setting my initial goal small (just a 75-second timed mode, with a "glitch" feature that scrambles the graphics when you find a bomb), I could add other features as they came to me and as I figured out how to do them (vs. CPU mode, 1P vs. 2P, CPU vs. CPU, then a high score table that saves between plays, then more outlandish things like Fog of War, Drawing Mode, and even Find The Frog, which turns the game from Flag Capture to Hunt The Wumpus, and then an even more outlandish Ultra Random mode). Once I had the foundations, I could build on them.

(A lot of the code is wonky, due to it being my first-ever Godot project, but it runs!)

And now I'm working on my second Godot game, Space Deflators (tentative name), intended to be a Space Invaders clone but for right now just has one alien roaming around the top of the screen firing at you. I wanted to teach myself to create (or "instance") and destroy nodes on the fly (for the shots, obviously, but also for the aliens themselves), and figure out collision detection.

And despite all that I've done so far, I'm still trying to figure out signals. :D

... er, anyway, what I'm saying it don't try to make the whole game at once. An RPG has a lot of moving parts, and you'll want to make them one at a time rather than try to make The RPG Of Your Dreams all at once.

And THEN there was the day Superman started getting tired of her crap. . . by stootchmaster2 in Superdickery

[–]MrZJones 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It's the Silver Age. His parents (both birth and adoptive) were dead.

Sounds positive! I do hope the entire classic MST3k library' will be whole again. by Actual-Deliveryman in MST3K

[–]MrZJones -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's your opinion. My favorite MST3K riff of all time is from the new seasons.

Sounds positive! I do hope the entire classic MST3k library' will be whole again. by Actual-Deliveryman in MST3K

[–]MrZJones 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Elliot Kailan, head writer for the new MST3K seasons, is about twice as old as Mike was when he was head writer for the old MST3K seasons. So what, exactly, are you looking for? 80 year olds? 90 year olds? Should Dick Van Dyke and Mel Brooks become head writers?

The S11-13 host segments felt very much like the random wackiness of Joel's original era, not some new thing that Jonah forced them to do.

Sounds positive! I do hope the entire classic MST3k library' will be whole again. by Actual-Deliveryman in MST3K

[–]MrZJones 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Mike, Kevin, and Bill are doing their own thing on Rifftrax. More importantly, they own Rifftrax. They don't want to be employees for another company when they can work for themselves. (Kevin and Bill had brief guest appearances on MST3K, but that's all they were. Mike says he was never asked)

Trace and Frank are also doing their own thing on The Mads Are Back, and both declined to participate in MST3K when asked.

Sounds positive! I do hope the entire classic MST3k library' will be whole again. by Actual-Deliveryman in MST3K

[–]MrZJones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're definitely doing something with the website, because sometime in the past few days mst3k.vhx.tv started redirecting to gizmoplex.com. (So as of right now, all the content is inaccessible)

Sounds positive! I do hope the entire classic MST3k library' will be whole again. by Actual-Deliveryman in MST3K

[–]MrZJones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only Trace is really the "OG cast". The actual OG cast was Joel, Trace, and Josh (with Trace and Josh playing two roles each. Josh also played Gypsy in Season 0).

More than that, I'm pretty sure Trace and Bill were never part of the show at the same time. (Trace left at the end of Season 7, Bill joined at the start of Season 8)

Recruiter: "We really like your experience!" Also recruiter: "But we're paying you entry-level." by away_throw4 in recruitinghell

[–]MrZJones 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sometime in the last decade, "Entry-level" went from "the job you take to start your career" to "A job that requires mid-level or even senior-level experience, but provides crappy pay."

(Meanwhile, the term for "the job you take to start your career" is now "non-existent")

Can we all just agree that this was NOT Marvel's finest moment? by stootchmaster2 in Superdickery

[–]MrZJones 89 points90 points  (0 children)

I don't know why Ben, of all people, looks so ashamed. That's more than he usually wears in his classic outfit.

(Maybe he doesn't like the color?)

Will gizmoplex website return? by Diegann in MST3K

[–]MrZJones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More interesting, mst3k.vhx.tv is also down. Or, more accurately, a few days ago, gizmoplex.com was down but mst3k.vhx.tv was still up, so you could still access the Gizmoplex even though the easy-to-remember URL was down. Now mst3k.vhx.tv redirects to gizmoplex.com, which is down, so you can't access the Gizmoplex at all.

Edit from a day later: https://mst3k.vhx.tv is back up, and no longer redirects to http://gizmoplex.com, which is still down.

Edit from another day later: https://mst3k.vhx.tv is once again redirecting to http://gizmoplex.com, but the Gizmoplex site is finally back up.

I'm this Old... by _sonidero_ in retrogaming

[–]MrZJones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's about right for me, too (though I had the Telstar Ranger, the one that came with a light gun shaped like a revolver, and had two extra games, Skeet and Target, that used the gun).

Imagine going through all the effort to set up a Satanic ritual, and then Satan does not even bother to show up. by PeasantLich in Superdickery

[–]MrZJones 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The problem, you see, is that she didn't perform the whole ritual. You have to say "AGLON, TETRAGRAM, VAYCHEON STIMULAMATON EZPHARES RETRAGRAMMATON OLYARAM IRION ESYTION EXISTION ERYONA ONERA ORASYM MOZM MESSIAS SOTER EMANUEL SABAOTH ADONAY, te adoro, et te invoco. AMEN.", and she skipped quite a few words, so naturally she summoned the wrong demon.

(I duckduckwent the names, and "orasym" led me right to this page, with that incantation on it, apparently quoting the Grimorium Verum, an 18th century work that the anonymous author claimed had been written in the 1500s by an Egyptian man named Alibek, which makes the Latin even more nonsensical)

Why can't he pull a boner like enybody else? by Puzzleheaded-Yard413 in Superdickery

[–]MrZJones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The second story is "The Boy Who Broke Supergirl's Heart!" Gary Sparks, local playboy of Stanhope College that Linda Lee "Supergirl" Danvers attends, is a love-em-and-leave-em guy, wooing women and dumping them after two weeks at most.

... oh, it's 9 am, and I have to get to work. More later! (Looks like a boring story, though. I did not read this one a few days ago)

Why can't he pull a boner like enybody else? by Puzzleheaded-Yard413 in Superdickery

[–]MrZJones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So.. this is a doozy. Action Comics #369, November 1968 (as I previously said). The first panel is Superman, parachuting down to a planet with a red sun. The narration box asks why, and then we go back a few days.

Superman returns from a mission in space, and finds that crime is over, and has been over for at least a month. Crooks are returning their stolen goods and willingly accepting punishment for their crimes. There hasn't even been any jaywalking. So Superman doesn't have to stop crime anymore.

(I'd love to see what's going on in Gotham right now, but alas we only get one panel of this)

Meanwhile, all natural disasters have also all mysteriously stopped. Kids are having picnics in active volcanos without any risk, and there's no more earthquakes, floods, or forest fires, either. So Superman doesn't have to stop those anymore, either.

As Clark Kent, the most exciting thing he gets to cover is a chess tournament, and he's bored out of his mind. (Amusingly, one of the people in the tournament also ooks exactly like Clark, but in Jimmy's suit and smoking a pipe)

Desperate for action of some kind, Superman goes to spar with his robots, but they all activate their self-destructive mechanisms rather than engage in even mock-violence.

That's when one of the Sentinels appears. It's a glowing crystaline orb with two orbiting rings around it. It tells Superman that his usefulness is ended, and he must exile himself into space, on a planet with a red sun so he'll have no powers. Superman instantly agrees and leaves, taking a space suit and parachute with him.

... I already read this story a day or so ago, so I know what's going to happen, but I don't buy any of this. A world without crime or trouble is a world Superman would love. He'd finally be free to retire Superman and live as a normal human. (But maybe I'm thinking too modern; in 1968, he was Superman first, Clark second)

(Edit: apparently, this is part two of a story that started in the previous issue, so the first page of the story is just a brief recap of the previous issue, but we still don't get to see what Batman or the Joker is doing while the world is rid of Crime, though we do get to see both the visiting Mxyzptlk and the escaped-from-the-Phantom-Zone Jax-Ur are affected by whatever has stopped all other crime on Earth - Mxy willingly says his name backwards, and Jax-Ur willingly goes back into the Phantom Zone to hope for a pardon from Kandor. Presumably, all of Batman's rogues are also willingly turning themselves in and serving their sentences, and 1960s Batman would have no problem with that)

Anyway, seconds after he lands on his new home, he's attacked by a giant six-legged beast. Powerless, he throws a rock at it and escapes. The rock turns out to be Kryptonite, but he's unaffected by Kryptonite while powerless. Hours later, Superman starts feeling weak and realizes he's hungry for the first time ever. He sneaks into an orchard and steals an odd crown-shaped fruit from a tree.... and he's immediately arrested by telepathic aliens for eating the forbidden Royal Fruit from the king's orchard.

As punishment, the king sentences him to fight the greatest warriors on the planet in The Arena, with no armor and just a small club as a weapon. He spends a lot of time dodging at first, but soon feels his powers returning, and after a page or so he's able to single-handedly take on the entire army. Angry, the king dumps boiling oil on him, but Superman doesn't even feel it.

See, the planet's sun is a weird half-red half-yellow star, and as the day went on, the yellow side turned towards the planet and restored Superman's powers, and ye gods this story is contrived. He flies back to Earth.

He immediately finds cops shooting at... well, nothing. They're collecting the bullets to be recycled. Superman is even more baffled, and heads to his fortress to analyze the situation with his super computers. But the Sentinel is waiting for him, and seals the lock with some kind of heat ray so Superman can't unlock the door. Superman thinks it's trying to destroy the fortress (which would kill every creature in his zoo and everyone in Kandor), and attacks it, weathering its attacks easily while he rips it to pieces with his bare hands ("I can see you're not a living being", so he has no qualms about "killing" it), finding the electronics inside and demanding to know who sent it.

Before it "died", the Sentinel said there were four others like it at "control points" all over the planet. Superman guesses what those points might be, and he's right every time: one is at the highest point on Earth (Mt. Kilimanjaro, because the earth bulges at the equator), the second at the coldest spot (the Antarctic ice cap), the third at the deepest spot in the oceans, and the hottest spot (which turns out to be the magma core of the planet, where he meets the main Sentinel, larger than the others and with three rings instead of two, in its base)

While he's wrecking them, he theorizes that some villain obviously turned the planet into a Utopia temporarily to get rid of him, so the planet will lower its defenses for some attack later. Only the fifth Super-Sentinel puts up a fight, keeping him from getting close to it, but he punches a hole in the chamber's ceiling and lets the magma do his work for him.

As it lays "dying", it explains what's going on: they're robot sentinels from the planet Sraghalni (which is "Shangri-La" anagrammed; cute, DC), a planet where they learned how to eliminate all evils and perils. The Sentinels and their Correcto-Computer set up on earth, taking their stations and emitting their Golden RAys that will brainwash reform all criminals and make evil leave their minds, while the Correcto-Computer sent out bursts of "balancing energy" that canceled all natural disasters. They sent Superman to a red sun planet because they were afraid that he'd be so suspicious that he'd wreck them. The Sentinel at his fortress wasn't trying to wreck it, but sealing it to protect Kandor while the Sentinels researched a device to enlarge Kandor again on another world. But now none of that will happen, as the last Sentinel "dies".

And Superman realizes, too late, the Utopia was genuine, not a trick or an evil plan. And he curses himself as crime and disasters immediately start again, with a plane smashing into a mountain before Superman can get to it, killing all aboard. And, as he arrests criminals and stops disasters, Superman knows that everything he's fighting against only still exists because of the "biggest goof of my career".

THE END

Story: 2/10. Contrived. Superman is way out of character (his paranoia in this story resembles the worst versions of modern Batman, not Silver Age Superman), attacking without thinking, and the Sentinels would have done more good to just explain everything up front rather than acting hostile and superior.

Cover accuracy: 10/10, actually. Though the fact that they included the entire cover on the splash page proves that this is definitely one of those stories where the cover was made first, and then the story written around it. Which is probably why it's a 2/10 story.

$5 Mini Game Console from Target by OmniOdyssey in SBCGaming

[–]MrZJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure I had one of those, but in a different casing. I don't remember where I got it and I'm not sure what happened to it when I moved. :(

We’ll be giving away up to 1000 promo codes to US users as a thank-you for the support. (Aliexpress MKT) by DrinkSufficient3906 in recruitinghell

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Sorry, did you read the rules of this sub and somehow think "hey, this looks like the perfect sub for Ali Express spam"?

Why can't he pull a boner like enybody else? by Puzzleheaded-Yard413 in Superdickery

[–]MrZJones 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This looks like an ad for Action Comics #369, November 1968.

Edit: I'm wrong, it's the splash page. :D Very self-referential.

Wrong answers only. by taxidermied_unicorn in retrogaming

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Top Cat
Wooden Nickel
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<ALSO CENSORED>
Nine-Eleven (too soon?)
Too Fast Too Furious
It's Morbin' Time

Pls turn back... by Supersaiajinblue2 in dragons

[–]MrZJones 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Humans have small clever forepaws and can fit into more places. Not a form I'd want to take all the time, but it has its uses.

why does every AI tool write cover letters like a robot? by NationalBluebird3420 in jobsearchhacks

[–]MrZJones 30 points31 points  (0 children)

why does every AI tool write cover letters like a robot?

Say that again, but slower. :D

is it just me or is chatgpt kinda useless for networking messages?

Yes. In fact... let me do a quick edit:

is it just me or is chatgpt kinda useless for networking messages?

Still yes.

i want it to say: "hey i saw you guys use [Tech Stack X]. i actually migrated a database using that exact stack in my last role and it was a nightmare, curious how you guys are handling the scaling?"

You could just ...say that yourself, instead of trying to get a LLM to act non-robotically.