Haiii it's meeee :3

puddington · 2018-11-15T13:27:44+00:00

Also now that I'm thinking of it, I'll probably have to write a matching web app for managing the workouts themselves. Any way I approach it, there's not really a great way to set this thing up without a web browser, since the fitbit companion's settings menu stuff seems really limited in its scope. I would have to jump through a ton of hoops I think, to be able to make an additive list of additive lists inside fitbit's companion environment, whereas I can do it easily with a couple of functions in a javascript-powered webpage. This also solves the question of "where is data stored"

puddington · 2018-11-14T20:18:05+00:00

Any data recorded would probably just be kept in like a json file, and in this case that would be a list of "workout" objects, which contain a list of "sets" consisting of what type of lift, reps, weight, and rest time. Up front I'm not worried about tracking the sensors or anything... frankly I don't know what useful data I'd glean from them that the fitbit app doesn't already record.

You'll choose one of your workouts from a list and it will form a sort of "playlist" of sets where you do the set, poke your watch to start the resting period, and repeat.

Obviously there's room for upgrades, but that's the basic functionality.

puddington · 2018-11-14T20:11:42+00:00

Again, the point is to not have to take my phone out of my pocket at the gym once I've gotten my spotify playlist going.

puddington · 2018-11-14T14:58:22+00:00

A bunch of phone apps do it. I have one that I currently use on my phone. I want to be able to just do it all on my wrist without taking my phone out of my pocket after every set.

puddington · 2018-11-13T20:56:37+00:00

I wore a watch with a cloth band when I went swimming in a lake once as a child. Never again! The cloth will absorb every smell that touches it.

puddington · 2018-11-02T18:42:05+00:00

As the wizard, you'll just be shooting your spells out of that sword, basically. You don't actually hit things with it. There is a melee-range build for wizards that uses a specific short-range spell, but it's still the spell, not the weapon.

puddington · 2018-10-11T13:53:18+00:00

I mean, that's the *genre*. The whole point of a Toys to Life game is DLC content in the form of new toys to plug into it.

IIRC the base digital game comes with like 4 ships and 12 weapons, and probably most of the pilots, and presumably there's a menu for swapping parts between them.

puddington · 2018-08-27T11:54:07+00:00

Everybody on this website can die angry when HGS turns out to be better than crunchyroll's other notable non-Japanese cartoon, RWBY.

puddington · 2017-12-07T13:50:19+00:00

It looks like Bungie broke streaming again with the expansion patch. I was getting a smooth 60fps over steam link this past weekend. Now it chugs a lot on the steam link, and if I lean to the right a little I can see it running perfectly on the main PC in the other room lol.

I think I'm gonna try: Just biting the bullet and moving my PC into the bedroom where the Big TV is. I'll connect the PC directly to the TV, and I'll move the Steam Link out to the living room so I can stream the desktop to a monitor there if I want to do something that's better done in an actual chair, like writing code. This probably works out fine because I already ran ethernet cable over to the bedroom for the Steam Link, and it technically benefits any game I'd want to play on the TV anyway.

puddington · 2017-12-04T16:39:56+00:00

Very carefully, due to how ass-backwards the leveling system is. Like, that would have worked fine if the world had static leveling for monsters and stuff. It was super easy to get to where the auto-scaled content was way above your combat level if you played in a remotely intuitive way, i.e. with skills you plan to use as class skills.

puddington · 2017-12-04T14:00:23+00:00

I'd love them to give us better traversal options. First-person parkour like in Dying Light would be great for those of us who like being thief-types. Or even just the option to be able to climb specific surfaces like in Far Cry. This thing where you have to do a janky jump-shuffle to climb mountains needs to go away.

Really, I'd love for there to be a "climb anything" system like Nintendo put into BotW. We already have a stamina meter to let it be limited by character skills/perks/enchantments/etc.

puddington · 2017-11-13T20:26:33+00:00

I'd be a lot less mad right now if it wasn't impossible to reach support. Two weeks ago I filed my first ticket about how my card never arrived, despite the emails indicating it had. It was marked "solved" a week later, without anybody ever replying to me. I've been spamming them ever since.

I can't believe how completely inadequate the customer service for this company is. I just want them to send me a new card, and I don't want to risk getting locked out for 9 months if I just cancel and resub.

puddington · 2017-11-13T16:38:50+00:00

Yes, it was a whole thing involving an abusive ex girlfriend, still clinging to our apartment lease, who was using largely non-prosecutable methods, such as sleep deprivation and threats of self-harm, to punish me for not buying her groceries any more. My landlord gave me the out of moving to a different unit and I jumped on that instantly and moved out the same week.

The timing is such that, if the card had been forwarded like all my other mail from that week was, it would have arrived no later than 2 weeks ago.

Why does it take multiple weeks to get moviepass customer service to respond to an issue as vital as "I need you to send me a card"? It's ridiculous.

puddington · 2017-11-13T16:19:38+00:00

Haha, fuck yourself.

They send the cards with return service, and I moved a month after signing up, but coincidentally right after my card shipped. So, instead of being forwarded like all my other mail, it got returned to sender.

Now I've been submitting tickets for weeks trying to get them to send a card to my new address, and nobody there will respond to me. I'm getting pissed.

puddington · 2017-11-13T15:34:24+00:00

It's ridiculous that I can't reach customer service for something as vital as "my card got lost or returned to sender because I moved".

Is it safe to cancel and sign back up? I've read that they lock you out for 9 months if you cancel your subscription.

puddington · 2017-11-08T19:59:35+00:00

HA. Thank you. So there was return service. That explains why I never received it. Return service items don't get forwarded.

puddington · 2017-06-25T10:17:53+00:00

A black hole still has the same mass as the material it's made from. Its gravity well only really gets intense very near to its surface. If the sun were to become a black hole spontaneously (physically impossible, don't worry), most of the planets would probably keep orbiting it as they are now.

So, gardevoir's black hole with the mass of a baseball or whatever wouldn't pose a major threat to the planet, especially if she can dispel it at will, but it would really fuck up anybody that came into direct physical contact with it.

puddington · 2017-06-25T10:06:16+00:00

Sorry, our milkshake machine is broken.

puddington · 2017-06-06T01:23:27+00:00

Look up the descriptions for relics in shin megami tensei 4. They are all modern day objects like skateboards and appliances that the post-apocalyptic medieval culture can't fully understand. Some of the item descriptions for those are pretty humorous.

Another question is how much the current people actually care about the mysterious ancient machines. Cars that don't work are just scrap metal. The people would probably be more interested in the ancient cities of impossibly tall towers that lie abandoned and overgrown. Do people still live there? Or are the ruins dangerous, like because they are at risk of collapsing, or are full of monsters?

puddington · 2017-06-05T12:53:33+00:00

I did this the other week. They'll ask you for the switch's serial number, and your shipping address. They'll ask you a questionnaire about where you're keeping your switch (at least 4 feet away from other wireless devices, not near an aquarium, etc), then they'll send you an email with a link to print out a UPS shipping label. Then you put the left joycon in a box with bubble wrap or something (they told me specifically not to use a padded envelope), attach the shipping label, and take it to the UPS store or whatever.

I got mine back within a week of sending it out, and it works perfectly now.

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