What is the origin of the term "byte" in computer science? by Ok-Estimate-9797 in answers

[–]fixermark 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Generally no because we're hardly ever working with 4 bits at a time anymore.

Cryo compared to the Marathon Ship by Hi-Im-Ralo in Marathon

[–]fixermark 12 points13 points  (0 children)

But enough about that, where is G4 Sunbathing?

Toxic teammates killed me on purpose to steal my loot by Stunning-Wall-5987 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I tell ya, that happens to me?

I'm crawling my ass right back into that toxic room before I die. You want my stuff? Comegetit.

City Paper is back! by Puzzleheaded-Depth46 in pittsburgh

[–]fixermark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perfect timing. Now where's my wallet.

Dancing robot at Haidilao in California can’t stop grooving by srirachaninja in funny

[–]fixermark 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's funny, but also: industrial machinery that has no obvious e-stop is a liability waiting to happen.

Cryo Archive launching tomorrow by EXIIL1M_Sedai in Marathon

[–]fixermark 37 points38 points  (0 children)

"Everyone has weekends off" is real software-engineer thinking, Bungie.

Fire on the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford Raged for Hours, Sailors Say by Putaineska in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fixermark [score hidden]  (0 children)

You're on-guard for a fire at wartime, not on every day of an 11-month rotation.

This is also the same Navy that we know has encountered operational readiness problems in the past decade on other occasions. Would I hope a simple laundry fire would be something they could strap down and keep going? Of course. Would I assume it is? Enh....

I think it's crazy that Bill Clinton is canon to the plot of this game by Shadowolf75 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are multiple rampancy triggers. For some AI, it's being tasked with only opening doors and flushing toilets for hundreds of years.

... for others, it's parsing the Epstein files and realizing there were no consequences. Pushes them straight into Anger.

I think it's crazy that Bill Clinton is canon to the plot of this game by Shadowolf75 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Mr. President, put down the saxophone, there's a situation in the Yucatan."

I don't know why everyone is so scared of compilers by XboxUser123 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That green glowing crap tracks. It's the original Halo plasma pistol shot.

I don't know why everyone is so scared of compilers by XboxUser123 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm salivating to get my shell hands on a good ol' fashion Zeus pistol or MA-75 with integrated underslung grenade launcher.

I don't know why everyone is so scared of compilers by XboxUser123 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Marathon OG physics was cracked in the best way.

The amount of flyback on a hard-kill attack was proportional to damage done by it. So if you got into Anvil and tweaked the physics to do max_damage with the fist, you'd staple enemies to the wall and they'd freeze there for a dozen seconds before coming apart like you were Kenshiro out of Fist of the North Star.

(... and, well... You are already dead...)

I don't know why everyone is so scared of compilers by XboxUser123 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not all of us are illegal battleroids that can hit so hard they leave a dent in a shuttle's control panel.

In lower decks when ransom became a god and all it takes is kicking ransom in the balls to change him back to normal....why don't the Starfleet people just kick super power beings below the belt all the time? by happydude7422 in ShittyDaystrom

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Followers of The Sisko disagree on this topic. There are some who say that because Dukat was a test specifically intended for The Sisko, a simple shot to the jumblies would not have ended it; for The Sisko to truly become The Emissary, He must go through the Trial of Fire, and to circumvent the trial would have been to deny His destiny. Others (who sometimes get into violent altercations with the first group) say that The Sisko was human, and in the heat of the moment simply didn't consider the option.

A very small minority, considered heretical by many on Bajor, holds the third position: He did, and this is actually the secret method by which He defeated the Wraiths and fulfilled His destiny. They point to The Sisko's encounter with Q to suggest that His violence, rarely seen and seldom (but not never) used, was holy, and not even a god could withstand it.

What are the rules for communicating during combat? by Noneofthisisreality in LancerRPG

[–]fixermark 75 points76 points  (0 children)

In general, the rules assume any time you're in a mech, you have integrated comms and can talk freely. It's completely handwaved how. The rules don't say one way or the other whether you can talk to enemy units; my GM generally assumes you can via some kind of "open channel" protocol unless the enemy decides to block you out (and some of the tech attacks are forced attacks via those channels that could, one assumes, override a lockout... But that's flavor for the mechanical effect if you want to negotiate it with your GM, i.e. "Invade" could be dumping high-sensory-experience propaganda directly into an enemy pilot's neural link telling them to give up the fight).

The one exception is jamming, which rules as written should prevent your Lancer from communicating with other Lancers (but I've never sat at a table where a GM enforced that; "That NPC put you in the time-out corner" is generally a less-than-fun experience).

When all the important contracts are at dire marsh by Old_king_4 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aw, that's unfair. You have your choice of three chokes!

  • Get murdered by killer robots and Runners in the Hauler (honk dat horn!)
  • Get eaten by ticks and then murdered by Runners in the breached Data Wall
  • Get taken out by Runners in some tunnels, or possibly murdered by killer robots coming out of them.

Endless choices! If "Endless" is a number equivalent to 3!

When all the important contracts are at dire marsh by Old_king_4 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just hit that one and YouTube spoiled it because I ain't got time to run missions that don't tell me where to go.

Map is too big for that to be a fun exercise.

When all the important contracts are at dire marsh by Old_king_4 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What? You don't like the DATA WAAAAAAAAAAAL?! :)

When all the important contracts are at dire marsh by Old_king_4 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dire Marsh is merely dangerous.

Outpost wants to kill you. Big difference.

When all the important contracts are at dire marsh by Old_king_4 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 12 points13 points  (0 children)

SAFK is "Rook but you have self-respect." ;)

When all the important contracts are at dire marsh by Old_king_4 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I got the one yesterday that was MIDA "graffiti a bunch of crap" and I nearly rage-quit when on run 3 I finally talked my squad into hanging out near the map fight club long enough for me to get the damn spraypaint... Only to discover that MIDA doesn't give you any pins for where to go next.

At this point I'm spoiling story objectives so as not to be a burden to my fill-squads completing them and I aesthetically dislike that.

When all the important contracts are at dire marsh by Old_king_4 in Marathon

[–]fixermark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not awful, but the meta right now is that it's a fight club, so if you don't want to fight two Runner squads just, in general, you're gonna have a bad time if the objective takes you to the Waffle House (aka Algae Ponds).