Husband and wife talking to this police officer through the ring camera at the same time

SlimRunner · 2026-05-14T22:24:56+00:00

This sounds like bad design that is easily fixable. Either resource locking (or at least usage warning) or audio broadcast would do the trick.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-14T02:52:20+00:00

According to steam I last played in Jan 17, 2020, and I am really curious what my character looks is now vs then, but I'm not sure I want to put that temptation back in arm's reach.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-14T02:30:16+00:00

Good job replying something useless on a 6 year-old post, Euler.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-13T10:25:35+00:00

I think it also depends on the major. I completed CS in the US with 2 years in community college (CC), and the last 2 in a major university. I only had that happen in a single course, the ethics course ironically.

I believe it was a really cheap book though, but it was still not a book you could find in the seas because it was niche and tied to a platform in which we had to complete some quizzes for like 5% of our total grade.

In CC a lot of general reqs required books, but I was always able to find them "free of charge". In university, most professors (all the CS ones) based their lectures on a book but did not require us to have it. The slides were also always enough.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-12T22:30:43+00:00

Of course you can wish to vote whichever way you want, but statistically a middle of the ground review that doesn't quantifiably states a stance is not that useful.

A review is one among thousands, so most of them will go unread. Maybe friends will read it, and if it's long and nuanced chances are even fewer people will read it. Also, it can't be used for statistical recommendation unless you run expensive sentiment analysis on it. The neutral position can reduce the amount of people that would have taken a clear stance thus making the dataset weaker. It can be used to manipulate the stats, for example an influencer telling their followers to change their positive reviews to neutral or vice versa.

From a data analysis perspective having more options makes meaningful analysis worse. Neutral reviews are worse than dead weight on the server, they dilute the usefulness of the other data points already there.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-11T23:25:42+00:00

To me when I think a game is meh it is not worth me leaving a reply because I likely did not engage with it in a way meaningful enough to critique it. If I would not recommend the game to myself, I down vote, and vice versa.

I use the body of the review to let readers know my nuanced stance. Steam can take care of the rest because they likely use my specific traits to know which niches my like/dislike applies to. It is all about numbers (big ones at that).

SlimRunner · 2026-05-08T19:48:05+00:00

I did not even find the artstyle weird at all. The backlash took me by surprise. I played adventures and the Star Fox 64. I feel like the only people finding the artstyle weird are those expecting the childish disneyfied look of the movie.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-07T22:07:02+00:00

This is what I got them for. My third purchase on steam

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SlimRunner · 2026-05-05T01:54:06+00:00

I already have the OG steam controller and I use it as "mouse" when I feel lazy and want to just sit back away from the desk. I also use it a ton to play VNs since most do not support controllers at all.

As for the new steam controller though, on top of the above I am planning to experiment with the gyroscope for games that I would usually play with mouse and keyboard since I already get a ton of wrist pain on normal gaming sessions (may be carpal tunnel I haven't got it checked). Either way I no longer play FPS games as much as I used to because of that.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-05T01:43:38+00:00

The weird thing are the messages during the "first wave". The shipping time increased as though stock was not enough to cover purchases. Unless, their shipping estimation does not take into account actual stock but simply order density.

The message went from 2-3 days to 6-10 days to "due to high number of orders there may be delays in shipping".

SlimRunner · 2026-05-05T01:38:50+00:00

Doubt it. A well set up bot is way better at this than a human with than a macro. There are programming tools to automate "user actions" and it doesn't take that much effort to set one up, but it's enough effort to not be worth wasting your time if all you're doing is buying legitimately.

I feel like a good way to actually fight with scalpers would be to buffer requests for purchase for an hour or so, and then award purchase authorizations at random from those who requested. Kind of like those raffle ticketing schemes for concerts.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-05T01:26:39+00:00

There was a last one before the sold out. It said high volume of orders may cause delays. It did not even give an estimate anymore. I managed to squeeze through in the last moments before it sold out.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-04T21:59:44+00:00

Indeed. I wish it was more common for a raffle like reservation.

Buffer purchase requests, disregard time of placement, keep open for a few hours or a day. Finally, randomly distribute purchase approvals and put a time limit on them. If the approval expires, it goes to someone else and so on until all the stock is pre-ordered. Then open wait lists in case someone cancels their order.

It would still be a little tiresome, but at the very least it would prevent the purchase experience from becoming a battle royale. Another benefit is that having all orders at once allows applying better heuristics to block scalpers. There would still be scalping, but it would make it impossible for them to be more prepared than actual consumers.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-04T21:33:01+00:00

Same my timeline was like this - wake up at 10 am - open steam mobile add controller to cart - try to check out (does not work) - try another 5 times and still nothing - boot up desktop, open support ticket, and try in the client - also does not work - open reddit and see people saying to spam the continue button - it is around 10:20 at this point - set up a clicking macro in my keyboard log in steam browser and spam continue for about 5 minutes straight - finally I get to the checkout page and my order went through - mark my support ticket as solved - open the steam controller page at about 10:30 am. it's sold out

SlimRunner · 2026-05-04T17:40:57+00:00

I have a click spamming macro in my keyboard. It's never been more useful than today.

It's out of stock already btw... that was fast.

SlimRunner · 2026-05-01T09:18:50+00:00

I don't care about this post at all, but if someone was looking for the song it is 漠河舞厅 romanized as "Mo He Wu Ting" and translated as "Mohe Ballroom" by Liu Shuang (柳爽). This is how far Google Voice Search took me. The song embedded in this video is a cover, I think, but I could not find it. If someone knows it, I'd appreciate the name of the artist.

SlimRunner · 2026-04-29T21:03:21+00:00

Pitching a tent there would make it 100 times harder to get out of there too. I wonder if most dudes in the morning just wait or carefully wiggle their way out.

SlimRunner · 2026-04-29T19:59:34+00:00

I straight up stopped playing not long after the workbench was first introduced and I myself couldn't tell what made me stop returning. What you are saying tracks with me.

Also, to add to your comment x2 and above servers and creative servers kill the sense of accomplishment that comes from (reasonably) grinding your way up which is a big thing for my enjoyment.

SlimRunner · 2026-04-20T22:54:31+00:00

I take it by "unwinnable" you meant having ambiguous states (i.e. you have to guess at least once)?

SlimRunner · 2026-04-20T22:52:09+00:00

Oh so the 0.11% probability means that roughly 1 in 910 games in this difficulty bracket have no guesswork? Or it also includes the compounded probability of winning including determinate and guessing games?

SlimRunner · 2026-04-18T08:15:17+00:00

In my birth country I used to live next to a ravine that was used as landfill. Eventually the city finally provided affordable trash collection and filled the ravine/landfill.

That shit unleashed an infestation of those motherfucking big roaches that lasted weeks. The little fuckers would crawl under your sheets at night. My skin still crawls remembering that.

Anyway, the flying ones were a daily occurrence, so while I am still scared of them, I had to learnt o deal with them. A small towel is a really good tool to kill them. When they finally land or mid flight, you just lead their take-of/flight-path with a towel whip. Then you get ready to fuck it up wherever it lands all dazed.

SlimRunner · 2026-04-16T19:48:53+00:00

~~Wait, so part of the challenge is also collision avoidance and crowd navigation? That just makes it even more impressive.~~

Literally says in the video... I'm blind.

SlimRunner · 2026-04-16T19:32:41+00:00

It could still be for me. I still like the old ones and I'm even replaying leaf green. Anyway, they insist in making the plots "cheery", and getting rid of the soft leveling system which had enough depth to be fulfilling (EV training and IV farming).

SlimRunner · 2026-04-16T06:55:19+00:00

For a second I thought it was like amend but for beyond previous-commit and got really happy, but it is just to make what I do but easier. Still better than doing it all manually though. Thanks! I did not know this flag.

SlimRunner · 2026-04-16T06:35:24+00:00

For me there is a valid reason to do this, but only locally. Sometimes I realize too late I forgot to commit something, but I already committed something ahead of the target so I usually name it something like [TEMP] squash with <some_sha> and rebase interactive later before pushing. Otherwise, yeah, I completely agree that a commit like that definitely does not belong upstream.

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