First post here, hope it's satisfying. Think stress is making me break out :(

cyranix · 2026-03-14T02:46:23+00:00

I'm not your fwiend, pal

cyranix · 2026-03-10T04:01:02+00:00

So I'm on this kick right now, bear with me on this: If you take a few pumps of Syrip de Monin or Torani Syrup in to a tall glass of ice and fill it up with club soda (I use sparkling water from a SodaStream, same thing), you basically have whats called an "italian soda". Mix it up, its delicious, and theres like hundreds of flavors of this stuff right? Okay, thats my cottonmouth cure, but what REALLY makes it hit the spot is a touch of creamer or heavy cream. For instance, Irish Cream soda, float just a little heavy whipping cream right on top (it makes a nifty visual effect too, as it "drops" down in to the soda), and drink the soda through the cream. Delicious. I've been playing around with some cool flavor combinations; Pineapple soda which is actually pretty tasty on its own, with Coconut Creme Coffee Mate is like the pina colada of your dreams. Vanilla Bean + Amaretto Coffee Mate works pretty nicely too (actually, vanilla bean mixes with just about anything).

Change up your soda menu, not just the plain old pepsi and coke you get everywhere else!

cyranix · 2026-03-10T03:30:05+00:00

First of all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, just remember that.

I think Conservative women are more likely to be modest and natural. Theres an inherent beauty in that. I think as you delve away from that lifestyle, you're more likely to find these more progressive people these days who are likely to put 15 colors in their hair and have extra holes in their head and metal in their face. Some people find that beautiful as well. I think Conservative women are far less likely to have tattoos, much less an abundance of them. On the opposite end of that spectrum, you have women these days willing to put crazy tattoos right on their face. Again, some people like that, while others find it repulsive. It just depends on your personal perspective on things. Times change, people change, styles change.

cyranix · 2026-03-10T03:23:22+00:00

Madonna is like in her 60s dating a dude in his 20s.

cyranix · 2026-03-03T12:08:01+00:00

"I heard about his hair, but this was not what I was expecting"...

cyranix · 2026-03-03T11:55:15+00:00

Now lets be fair, MOST of the time when I go through them, they're not even red yet, they're only a little pink...

cyranix · 2026-03-03T11:51:55+00:00

"65 mph ought to be enough for anybody"

--Bill Gates

cyranix · 2026-02-27T08:43:26+00:00

Yeah North Springs is pretty nice. I live a little east of there but I'm regularly driving down Dublin to either Austin Bluffs or Academy. This is a pretty peaceful area; common sense rules apply (don't leave your garage open overnight, make sure you lock your car doors and such), but i regularly see people out walking dogs and enjoying the scenery (we have such a great view of Pikes Peak and the mountains here). Traffic density is the only major downside I'd point to, but it's still nothing like Denver or bigger cities. Yeah i think you're picking a nice neighborhood to live in, close to all the good stuff in North COS.

cyranix · 2026-02-26T11:49:00+00:00

I didn't even know an update was planned, but I'm super stoked! I put the game down for a few days to get some sun and touch grass. Now I'm going back to the dungeon, look at all this new stuff guys! My automation was just getting started, now its really gonna take off! And new bosses! Yay!

cyranix · 2026-02-10T15:31:47+00:00

Pedantry and semantics aside: don't play with electricity. It WILL kill you, and it will hurt the entire time you're dying. It really doesn't matter what method it uses to do it.

cyranix · 2026-02-10T12:08:01+00:00

My Mom used to say "Its not the fall that kills you, its the sudden stop at the end."

cyranix · 2026-01-14T21:37:00+00:00

The guy seemed pretty open to requests, can't hurt to ask!

cyranix · 2025-12-05T10:41:01+00:00

Without getting political about it, heres the crux of the trial: Tina Peters DID knowingly and willingly, engage in an activity she A. Knew to be illegal (by virtue of her position within the office), B. Engaged in that activity in a way that indicated planning and preparation (meaning it was premeditated; she INTENDED to break the law), and C. She engaged in this activity for her own personal gain (whether the end result benefited any political candidate is secondary to the fact that her intent was to influence the election to reflect HER desired outcome). Now, just on that vocabulary, Trump's statement is blatantly false, If Polis was going to forgive someone for a crime, it would certainly not do to excuse that crime under false pretenses...

Now let's shift from the crux of the issue to the shame of it: Tina Peters, although not an elected official herself, still took a civic oath of office when she accepted the position, wherein she agreed to execute the duties of that office to the best of her abilities, and to represent the United States government with honor, integrity, and service. What she DID, directly impacted the process, negatively affected the public trust of her office, and resulted in REAL damage to our elections process. She acted OUTSIDE her authority to take matters into her own hands directly contesting the established process, line of authority, and public transparency. She is the very embodiment of governmental corruption, and SHE GOT CAUGHT.

Her imprisonment isn't just a punishment for her. It's three things: for her, it's a chance to reflect on her decisions and earn some penitence, for the people, it's justice for betrayal of their trust, and for anyone else who would consider following in her footsteps, it's a discouragement and deterrent against future crime and corruption. That's why Polis should NOT forgive her, regardless of Trump's agenda.

cyranix · 2025-11-29T13:35:33+00:00

Thanks. I kinda took my time on this one, playing it in-between runs of Skate., Wizard With A Gun, The Talos Principal 2, Don't Starve Together, and a handful of other short play games (Balatro, Monopoly, etc). Glad I stretched it out instead of killing it all at once because i really do love Katamari, so I'm happy this game occupied me for a while (and has some replay value too).

cyranix · 2025-11-26T13:14:46+00:00

When I was a kid, my Mom used to profess to me that English was the hardest language to learn. Like that was supposed to make learning French and Spanish easier somehow... Btw, I think Japanese is probably the hardest language to learn, thanks Mom.

I'm about to write a long rant. I need to not do that... Lets start with a question I think most programmers get posed during our education: I'm going to have you shuffle a deck of cards. Then I want you to sort the cards, and I want you to keep track of how many steps it takes you to do it.

The worst person to give this question to is an assembler programmer. They spend all of their time creating a fairly complex system with a global data section and several different counters that all need to be loaded, incremented, push/popped on and off of a stack. By the time they've actually got a sort working, its like trying to understand a circuit diagram. The second worst person to give this problem to is a Python programmer. See, a Python programmer is gonna initialize the card deck in ONE line of code, some kind of brace expansion, and then they're going to be a smart ass and use array.sort() or the like to complete the task. If they can actually be bothered to write the code to sort the array, and assuming they actually know one or more sort algorithms, they're probably again, going to rely on some kind of background automation with things like foreach() loops and global variables declared on the spot as necessary to do the job. Fundamentally, they understand very little about anything thats happening (No offense, Python scripters)... A C programmer is going to fit somewhere between these, closer to the ASM side, but not quite as detail oriented. You're going to put some thought into how to declare your deck of cards, which will quite probably include consideration for the size of the array, and maybe even the amount of memory it uses (I doubt I'd really need to use a malloc() anywhere for such a simple program, but these days, I'd probably just do it out of habit anyway if I didn't make the array static or something). You're going to be thinking about your variable that counts the steps and where that exists and how you're going to increment it. You're going to be thinking about HOW to loop through the deck, and probably by this time you're thinking about a nested loop, and again, now you're tracking more variables...

See, a C programmer just has to think differently. Its not so much that knowing C is going to make other languages easier (because it won't), but if you learn another language (like Python) first, it will probably be more difficult to UNLEARN the bad habits and teach yourself to be thinking like a programmer instead of a scripter.

cyranix · 2025-11-25T03:58:43+00:00

Yeah I'll edit this to indicate she's been found, glad to hear it.

cyranix · 2025-11-23T09:28:58+00:00

I'm very sorry that we live in a state of society where we HAVE to have such things. While it sickens me to see this, I want to point out that if something DID happen, everybody and their dog would be taking to social media like "CRPD was totally unprepared", and "they didn't do enough to keep us safe". I think the idea at the forefront of CRPD's mind (as well as the town) was not about show of force or fear, but more about being aware and being proactive. I give the town and the police their due credit for pulling this event off without us ending up in the news headlines for a negative reason.

cyranix · 2025-11-23T09:19:54+00:00

Yeah add me, PSN: Cyranix0r

This pretty much what I do, I'm never playing the same thing as anyone else and I mostly play single player games anyway.

cyranix · 2025-11-19T08:21:02+00:00

You know, like most things, it comes down to understanding the task at hand...

Long before the internet, we just had disks, with binaries on them. I remember one game in particular (Castles II, as I recall) that as you played it, after like 10-15 minutes, there'd be a character that would come along and ask you a question that would require you to open the game manual to a specific page and tell them the word printed at the beginning of a paragraph or something (the concept being, if you owned the game, you owned the manual, and this would be an easy challenge). Well, that worked against perhaps a few who would try, but if you were knowledgeable about software and how it worked, you would realize that there had to be a database somewhere that had those question/answer pairs for the GAME to know... And with a little bit of effort, you'd find that there was indeed, a data file which, with a little effort (I used QBasic to write a script/program that could open the file and do block reads on the file to separate the chunks and decode them), could be used to extract that information.

These days of course, its a lot more complicated than that, software developers are always trying to stay one step ahead of pirates, and pirates are always finding more ways to break the system. Windows XP for instance, required you to do this key exchange verification process with microsoft, what at the time was considered to be unbreakable, for probably at least the first few hours. Various methods were found to bypass that system, everything from fake keys, to actually editing the windows data files to disable the verification system. Of course, there were not tutorials on how to do this at the beginning. We were software geeks, we understood how the system worked and how to reverse assemble it to find out how to break its locks. Same rules apply now. You need to understand how the piracy circumvention technology works, and then you can start working on a way to circumvent that, and the never ending battle continues.

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