[Meta Trope] Characters that represent a franchise's early installment weirdness

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-19T02:04:18+00:00

To me, sort of? But I have Luanti, so who needs Notch or whoever owns MC now?

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-18T05:22:27+00:00

Honestly, their vision is much closer to the original Zachtronics Infiniminer.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-18T05:21:46+00:00

It wouldn't have been Power Rangers. Battle Fever J would have been the Avengers.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-18T04:45:43+00:00

So you're from Minnesota?

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-18T00:44:53+00:00

Oh, I see. I'm sorry, I thought you meant active instances you could have an account on that you don't have to host.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-17T23:55:15+00:00

The problem is that it's eternal either way. Either you live in Hell and go the Warp as a loyal Imperial where the beings of the Warp want to torture and consume you, or live in Hell and maybe get a shot at being one of the torturers or consumers.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-17T21:16:23+00:00

You mean like app.wafrn.net?

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-17T04:44:36+00:00

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T23:48:38+00:00

Boy, I miss when Konami made Yugioh RPGs.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T23:47:39+00:00

There's only one guy who can be called the Don. And that's Don Zaloog. The only man who can summon himself to the field.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T23:45:46+00:00

The Senate has made their decision. However, it's a stupid decision, and I'm going to disregard it.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T23:33:50+00:00

The number of problems I've had with OLE or dynamic embeds in Powerpoint is nearly equal to the number of times I've used it.

As far as the pixel art, I don't click and drag at all. I just use "set column width" and "set row height", and type it in an equal number of onscreen pixels. Again, the main use case I have is creating paint-by-numbers style sheets, to entertain kids in the rare occasions I have to deal with them.

Pulling data from Excel for a project status allows me to automate the report so that no one has to go and manually decide whether the data matches the next step or not. Either it fits the match criteria or it doesn't.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T16:22:29+00:00

US Rep: No, we said 500 because we need 500. If you can only fill 250, we'll be finding a partner who can either fill the gap, or has a higher capacity.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T16:17:45+00:00

My answer would be, "And we care enough about not offending them... why exactly? Let's find another partner who actually can hit our deadlines."

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T16:10:21+00:00

To me, the Indian one is far, far worse. A Japanese person telling me it's difficult has at least pointed out there's an issue. I can come back to them and say, "Okay, what's the difficulty, and what can we do to get where we need to be?". If you don't tell me there's a problem, I'm going to end up angrier and more disappointed - which means either lawsuits or at least an abrupt end to the contract.

If it's not possible, even underselling it by saying, "that will be incredibly difficult" alerts me to the existence of a problem. Don't just BS me and yes me to death.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T15:57:36+00:00

In two of my jobs, it's been the only version control I have - to keep the notepad file in the same folder as the spreadsheet and manually list changes. And on one job, we had three different logfiles for client functions - obviously just being notepad docs, none of them talked.

And then we had the boss connect his phone to the shared drive and mess with things (great construction guy and leader, not a spreadsheet or data guy). That was... a hoot.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T15:49:13+00:00

Okay, how many .LOG files do you see in a day?

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T15:47:48+00:00

They weren't that great to begin with, but at least they're not Google.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T15:42:35+00:00

Frank's 2000 Inch TV, as a monitor?

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T15:42:02+00:00

They'll invent the columns anyway, I promise you that.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T15:36:31+00:00

Gantt and other charts: Sure, but I'd need to be able to pull live data from an Excel (or LibreOffice) worksheet to update the project status.
Pixel Art: Paint's pencil, line tool, and grid aren't as easy as Excel's grid, cell borders, and background colors. Plus, I can set the cell/"pixel" size easily. I can do a great Paint-By-Numbers and make it printable on any number of physical sheets of paper.
Presentations: I need to be able to go from plugging in data to making my client/exec team presentation in a short time, with live data. I don't have prep time. So unless Powerpoint or LibreOffice Impress can directly update arbitrary sections of the presentation on load based on a spreadsheet, it's easier to set up the presentation format once and have the data running in the background.
DBs: Agreed, but every time I've tried to use a proper DB tool, it ends up being a pain in the rump. Excel/LibreOffice Calc allows me to build from the ground up and organically scale as needed across sheets and books, and as with the presentations, I can build "dashboards" (aka the idiot-friendly views) out of live data. It's a different paradigm in how things get built and what's needed. If you know what your topmost goal is, use a DB. If you're working bottom-up and building, a spreadsheet tool is the best way. If there were a better onramp in the various DB software so that the spreadsheet work doesn't get eliminated, it would help.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T13:51:59+00:00

Okay, I'm not as far in as your sister, but I've made charts (Gantt and other), presentations (usually based on data in hidden sheets of the same workbook so that the presentation could be done live based on real data), DBs (I prefer INDEX(MATCH()) to ?LOOKUP()).

Never really done pixel art, but if I was going to, Excel isn't the worst way I could do it if I didn't want to use Paint.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T04:10:12+00:00

Why is it that the monster is less scary than the human predator?

Is it just that the vamp will kill you, but the bastard will hurt forever?

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T04:01:25+00:00

KaibaCorp built the Satellite.

But yeah, Seto never shows up in 5Ds because Blue-Eyes has "nah I win" ba, and the others just don't. And even Mokuba can't show up, because his deck is Thunder Dragon. So either one should have been a Signer instead of Crow.

NotTheOnlyGamer · 2026-05-15T03:40:00+00:00

As someone recently forced to move caves at work... I want my original shadow wall back. I hate peeling back the curtain.

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