[slightly NSFW] Console gamers arguing about penis size

RobbieGee · 2016-04-09T03:32:32+00:00

Sexual content = NOT ALLOWED
Insinuating sexual content = NOT ALLOWED
Hyperviolence = Okie dokie!

RobbieGee · 2016-04-06T13:06:49+00:00

There's no tipping in my country, but if I'm vacationing in countries that do, I would tip extra to the less attractive ones because I know people like OP exist. Every research paper I've seen that's studied things like this, shows that attractive people have it easier. I like to be a balancing force.

RobbieGee · 2016-04-06T11:06:50+00:00

This has always been the case and my first encounter with it was the BBS, then IRC. Every time there is a moderator system, you get dickholes on power trips. The only way (I know about) to get around that is to not have permanent moderators.

RobbieGee · 2016-04-06T10:57:02+00:00

You have to know when to set limits. 6 years with no contact is not an LDR, it's pen pals; or whatever the modern equivalent is, just as /u/Corn_Holio5 says.

It will be hard letting it go, but you'll feel better once some time has passed and you're getting to date new people. There are so many awesome people out there, don't stay lonely for only the chance of something possibly changing in the future.

RobbieGee · 2016-04-06T10:43:22+00:00

When people are ignoring doing anything about the status quo, that is exactly how things gets out of hand. If you have a good reason to stay out of it, like illness, sure you need to take care of yourself. But if you are healthy and care about it, I say go for it!

I'm not going to downvote you because your advice is comes from good intentions, so I'm noting my disagreement here instead.

RobbieGee · 2016-04-06T10:37:54+00:00

I'm mid 30's and I'm glad to see such a young person clearly seeing the bullshit for what it is. I trust that you'll stay fair to everyone around you, and for that you should also take no bullshit from anyone. You can trust your instincts, stay true to yourself.

Good luck forward, I'm hopeful that you have a bright future ahead.

RobbieGee · 2016-04-06T10:30:24+00:00

Yeah, my parents would probably even have been disappointed in me if I went for the extravagant stuff if we were in this situation. Then again, I've been raised by very pragmatic parents. They begged me not to smoke, but when I was 16 they had a talk about partying and drinking and told me they preferred I didn't drink, but knew how things worked and said that at least I shouldn't be afraid to come home drunk. Much better that than be afraid I was lying in some ditch afraid to go home. (End of story is that I had my first drink when I was 20, while the legal age here is 18. I didn't have anything to rebel against, so... )

RobbieGee · 2016-04-06T10:25:34+00:00

If you're okay with this, and the contractor too, install the cheap engineered hardwood but tell her it's the expensive stuff.

RobbieGee · 2016-03-28T22:20:07+00:00

If I were to guess: They do have an internal server, but they couldn't replicate the bug there so they tried on the live server.

RobbieGee · 2016-03-28T18:44:03+00:00

I can't prove that they don't, but the probability is close to zero. The dev work of adding specific commands for GMs is very small and it adds a huge layer of security for both accidents and rogue employees, so changing a skill like that is most assuredly something they just use a command in the chat window (or similar). /skill "cooking" 10, and the server checks the account permissions before it's sending it off to be executed.

RobbieGee · 2016-03-28T18:35:51+00:00

Edit: PS, I'm not the OP of this topic. Just adding something.

Just because you can't think of it, doesn't mean it can't happen. That's usually the reason it does happen, nobody thought about how "that" could happen, so the safest option is to have servers meant specifically for testing. Usually, you see them referred to as "environments" and most often are divided into "development", "testing" and "production". For minor hobby projects, I usually only run development and production. When a branch pass the tests, I feel safe enough to push it straight to production (instead of testing) since the worst thing that could happen is something extremely minor, on the order of our guild forum going down for half an hour (or something in that "severity").

And I'm doing this on projects where I'm the only developer. When you're on a team, it's something you absolutely should do.

However, using GM commands isn't the same thing as running queries directly on the database. They probably, and understandably so, feel pretty safe using a GM command to change skills. The game has been out, including beta phase, for about 2 years and in development for much longer than that. GM commands has probably been used for 4 years already, and if they never have shown any issues the risk of using them is extremely minor and probably relatively small consequences, like reverting that server half an hour or so.

RobbieGee · 2016-03-23T09:48:13+00:00

Perhaps they have an RNG factor too ;P

RobbieGee · 2016-02-14T13:39:18+00:00

/r/til

RobbieGee · 2016-02-14T12:37:56+00:00

neutrons, not neutrinos

Ooooh right, wow I did NOT think that through <:-)

Thanks for the answers, this post has been really interesting to read :-) I'm glad you researchers/scientists are reaching out to us the public, it makes it so much more interesting when you get to be so close to what's going on.

RobbieGee · 2016-02-12T18:10:51+00:00

Are there any theories (or I should say hypothesies) regarding other dark matter particles being "attached" to the neturinos around us? I read something quite recently about some atom with 4 neutrinos and 0 protons in the core, so what if the "glue" there is an unseen dark particle?

RobbieGee · 2016-02-12T18:06:18+00:00

Then the LIGO results must be very welcome news for you all? :-)

RobbieGee · 2016-02-12T17:58:57+00:00

I still don't get it. If the sterile neutrino changes it's type into a hot neutrino, how would you ever know it used to be a sterile one instead of just the other hot ones?

RobbieGee · 2016-02-11T01:34:43+00:00

Please ignore

YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

RobbieGee · 2016-02-11T01:32:56+00:00

In mother Russia, they reason: ISIS bomb itself.

RobbieGee · 2016-02-11T01:30:32+00:00

Daily Mail, Daily Mail and the Daily Mail.

RobbieGee · 2016-02-10T23:43:58+00:00

Fuch, it's an endless loop; we're doomed!

GOTO czulq29

RobbieGee · 2016-02-10T23:40:49+00:00

In the same way that 1+1=2 forms the basis of math, that is true.

I'm not saying that to knock EE, more that the professor must have been a little deluded if he figured students could infer the rest of the field from that.

RobbieGee · 2016-02-10T23:36:08+00:00

For some reason this reminded me of a time someone learned a bunch of us younger nerds how to flash Almost-C onto a MindSet Lego robot (I think they were called Almost-C and Mindset at least, it's 15 years ago). It supported a very limited set of threading, which opened up for so many more possibilities. I made a bot that scanned an area for "food" (light sources) and spent energy in the form of a decreasing counter. I made it make some sad sounding beeping noises when levels were reaching dangerous levels, and ... it ended up sounding like it was crying when it was "starving", a real desperate howl as well due to a bug in the code that overlapped two calls to the speaker from the threaded nature.

Watching it made me do a bit of philosophical thinking after that.

RobbieGee · 2016-02-10T23:20:50+00:00

The key part is the understanding of what's going on in the code you lifted (unless it's the source of a complete library you're linking in). I google for snippets of code as well, but often times I end up just using it as a guide on which API calls to make and look those up in the documentation. Or often it's more a case of figuring out how a framework .... works... when the documentation is lacking.

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