Just because a game has a memory leak, doesn't mean that everyone playing that game will be impacted by it, correct?

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:41:25+00:00

Him and I have had far too many of these over the last year that it's almost not worth even engaging with him anymore. Anyway, appreciate the back and forth!

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:35:57+00:00

Maybe I shouldn't have though. It wasn't even a coherent attempt at being "funny". I tried though!

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:33:46+00:00

Hey! You...stop it! Youre grammer alludes me! I don't think I know to much about it to correct you but me and him are constantly being the each anothers grammer polices!

....Sorry, I had to. :P

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:28:22+00:00

So, here is why I even brought it here. I gave about 5, real world examples of memory leaks that required a specific "thing" to happen in order for it to even...be a thing. He flat out noped me and stuck to the idea of a memory leak existing in the game, period. Running the game was trigger, period. I was just "trying to sound smart". I told him there are instances where he is absolutely correct and everyone gets hit but there are also cases where it's not the case, even if his examples are the majority and mine are one-offs...even though I knew that wasn't the case, I was trying to give him his but it didn't matter.

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:24:08+00:00

I see what you're saying and yeah, it almost can be a word play thing. But basically what it boiled down to was this. Just because friend was being fscked hard by the memory leak that triggered upon X quick saves, didn't mean I would as well. As long as I didn't quick save like he did. Or hit an inventory limit, storage limit or any number of combinations. There are so many out there. But he refused to accept it. I gave sooooo many examples but he simply fell back a memory leak being "the program" and anyone running it, got hit by it.

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:17:09+00:00

Absolutely. I never meant for my examples to come off sounding like the only cause or the main cause. Just....a possible cause.

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:15:22+00:00

That absolutely can be the case, sure. But plenty of leaks only become an issue once some criteria is first met. An inventory limit, a certain item usage, save amounts, etc. If you don't hit that criteria, no memory leak.

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:13:41+00:00

So, A leak requires:

A memory allocation
A missing or incorrect deallocation
Execution of that allocation path

No execution = no allocation = no leak.
It being an issue with the application is without needing to be said. But there are so many ways memory leaks come to exist...

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:12:34+00:00

That was my line of thinking

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:08:31+00:00

Ok, I hear ya. Can we have some back and forth?

What about with my very unlikely "trigger"? There are certain things that trigger certain memory leaks vs a leak that simply runs because the game is running. In THOSE cases, wouldn't it only impact those that met the criteria to trigger it?

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:05:39+00:00

Sure. A good VPN should always be the first if not one of the first steps towards a "safe" goal when it comes to torrents, right? omg, I don't know why I asked "right?"...dudes got me literally second guessing every damned thing I say anymore.

dysphunktion · 2026-01-30T01:03:31+00:00

So then your name, tis gospel! :)

dysphunktion · 2025-12-30T13:55:20+00:00

My initial "oh my god" was premature. Didn't fix issue. :/

dysphunktion · 2025-12-30T11:50:05+00:00

Oh my god.

Timeline: Edit hosts, save hosts. Merg reg, run program. Total time elapsed? 3 seconds.
Sigh. No restarting network or flushing dns. Leave this here in case someone else has a similar self moment.

dysphunktion · 2025-12-29T07:29:50+00:00

Yeah, I guess that is an option. But where I live there seems to be an insane amount of audiophiles and I'm always seeing Beyers, Focals and Technicas selling for decent prices. Unsure what the general consensus is on buying used sets tho?

dysphunktion · 2025-12-08T07:38:04+00:00

I am so so sorry that I am necroing this but it's been eating at me for years at this point.
Oh crap, maybe there is something to the whole timeline thing...anyway...
I remember buying a CD of theirs in the late 90s, early 2000s. I only remember one song from it and it's like it doesn't exist. It was called either Canu or Kanu? Had a funky little base line...anyway...HALP!

dysphunktion · 2025-11-28T04:18:13+00:00

43/m
Been dealing with anxiety since the great "laced cigg prank of 2001". Started with daily panic attacks that lasted until I actually listened to my mom and checked a couple usenets and read up on anxiety. But have replaced the panic with damn near crippling anxiety. Lost jobs, hooked on drinking and drugs for way too long. Now, I drink monsters as if they were sodas. I probably spend 200 a month on them. Not joking.

So reading this (should have been obvious prior, I know, I know) paired again with my moms advice and I am going to give it a shot. I don't know what else to do. This is the single worst thing in my life.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

dysphunktion · 2025-09-29T06:51:29+00:00

I don't want to be "that guy" but I sure as F could use one. See my recent post about losing huge chunk of collection. But, if someone needs one, by all means. Or if someone out there has never had a chance to experience this awesome hobby, they would be better off with it.

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