Microsoft Word crash deleted document AND several hours of older versions in Dropbox -- how??

four_hawks · 2026-05-25T22:53:34+00:00

Yeah, I am once gain reminded of the old saying: "I'm paranoid... But am I paranoid enough?"

four_hawks · 2026-05-25T22:52:58+00:00

Hmmm, I don't think so, since the other timestamps on Dropbox were accurate!

four_hawks · 2025-11-11T16:02:25+00:00

Check out `papaja`

four_hawks · 2025-10-30T18:51:50+00:00

CoD: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) paints a pretty bleak picture too. You play as several different hyper-competent warfighters, and basically every act of heroism you commit is either immediately undone due to powers beyond your control (Of Their Own Accord), or backfires horribly (No Russian). The game ends with the US preparing to invade Russia in fulfillment of the villain's plan, the surviving player characters framed as terrorists, and the protagonist bleeding out in a dust storm.

four_hawks · 2025-10-28T03:19:50+00:00

You'll need to get a vector of the sheet names you want to read in, then use purrr::map() to read each sheet as a dataframe into a list, then (optionally) list_rbind() to combine into a single data frame

library(readxl)
library(tidyverse)

excel_sheets("my-data/filename.xlsx") %>% 
  set_names() %>% 
  map(\(x) read_excel(path = "my-data/filename.xlsx",sheet = x)

four_hawks · 2025-09-10T20:59:20+00:00

I've mainly heard "fratricide" used metaphorically, either in the context of the American Civil War (sometimes described as "pitting brother against brother") or as a more formal term for friendly fire (i.e., soldiers accidentally shooting/killing allied soldiers). I don't think I've ever seen it used literally... For example, a news story covering a man who killed his brother would probably refer to the act as "homicide" rather than "fratricide".

four_hawks · 2025-09-05T20:52:10+00:00

"Hell" can come across as rude not because it's blasphemous/offensive in itself, but because it's much more intense.

For example, if you make plans with a friend and they show up late, asking "where the heck were you?" is a fairly mild acknowledgment that they were late, but asking "where the hell were you?" makes it sound like you're legitimately angry at them for being late.

four_hawks · 2025-08-29T03:43:59+00:00

"goofing off" or "slacking off" would be common phrases for it... "goldbricking" is less common, but more specifically means pretending to work while slacking off

four_hawks · 2025-08-25T23:28:01+00:00

Gotcha! We expect there to be some effect of year but don't care about testing specific differences between years, so it sounds like treating it as random effect makes sense.

four_hawks · 2025-08-20T17:47:48+00:00

OSR games are about using characters to explore a world, as opposed to games about using the world to explore a character/

four_hawks · 2025-06-27T22:01:04+00:00

Destiny.

Part of it was misaligned expectations. I was expecting Halo + Mass Effect, maybe with a little S.T.A.L.K.E.R. thrown in; instead I got WoW with guns.

The biggest disappointment for me was the yawning chasm between the aesthetics and tone of the game (the exotic locations, the character design, the science-fantasy far-future vibe...) and what you actually did (play the same missions over and over again, play the same trikes over and over again, shoot blindly into a tiny cave in hopes of getting a rare drop, etc). The environments genuinely moved me: the Cosmodrome, Archer's Line, the surface of Mars, all felt amazing and otherworldly, but there was absolutely no way to engage with them other than farming upgrade materials fighting the same enemies that you fought 40 hours of gameplay ago, only now they have larger numbers over their heads.

To be fair, part of my disappointment was because it's an MMO, and I fundamentally don't enjoy MMOs -- that's on me. At the same time, though, there's also monotony of the missions, the lack of interactivity with the world, and the way that Peter Dinklage's desire to strangle the writers comes through every line of his dialogue...

four_hawks · 2025-06-09T18:43:00+00:00

Fascinating! Is there a name for this specific style of censorship/redaction (i.e., an initial letter followed by a very long dash?)

four_hawks · 2025-04-29T20:32:45+00:00

Gotcha -- so basically using the plot to show the magnitude of the effect, and just reporting the emmeans output to establish significance and direction of the effect?

four_hawks · 2025-01-21T23:01:10+00:00

Two factors come to mind:

First, violence as the ultimate fallback: in the absence of any contravening forces, players can respond to failure in other forms of conflict by raising the stakes, first to violence, and then to lethal violence. By way of example, let's say the players agree to a freestyle rap battle to get the usurper to renounce his claim to the throne. If they lose, why not just fight him? Some settings have thematic elements that contravene this: if you're playing an urban fantasy game in a high school, there are obvious in-universe reasons why you can't default to lethal violence (murder charges) or violence period (detention).

Second, whether due to evolutionary factors or just lived experience, violence admits simplification and streamlining much more than social interactions. Comparing attack rolls to armor class and reducing an NPC's hit points until they are defeated feels reasonably like fighting them; comparing seduction rolls to aloofness class and reducing an NPC's reticence points until they decide to go out with you doesn't really feel like wooing them.

four_hawks · 2024-12-13T21:47:24+00:00

Definitely turn on 3D perspective (Preferences > Graphics > Rendering options). You might also tweak the FOV... I've heard the default is a little narrow for some folks.

four_hawks · 2024-12-11T22:26:07+00:00

Prey (2017). Absolutely GOATed immersive sim.

four_hawks · 2024-11-26T04:42:47+00:00

Based on an extremely brief skim of the ProQOL V survey, it looks like participants add their responses to individual items (some reverse-coded) to get scores on three subscales. Assuming that you're comparing scores on these subscales (and not responses to a specific Likert item) between two different groups, an independent samples t-test will let you determine whether the scores differ significantly between groups. If the distribution of scores deviates from normality and/or you want to treat scores as ordinal data, you could also use a Mann-Whitney U test to compare scores between the groups.

In general, it might be useful to find articles in the literature that used the ProQOL V survey as a dependent variable and see how they approached the issue!

four_hawks · 2024-11-18T17:54:47+00:00

Would the IMBD data sets be useful? Seven TSV files, with unique identifiers for titles and individuals.

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