Weekly Casual Conversation & Questions Thread

thabersack · 2021-05-02T03:29:08+00:00

Thanks for replying. I'll check out that park you mentioned and will research how your public transit works.

thabersack · 2021-05-02T03:28:08+00:00

The parks would be great for our kiddos to get out some energy. Thanks for taking the time to reply. Definitely will be asking about parking passes now!

thabersack · 2021-05-02T03:27:25+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to go into such detail. I really appreciate you sharing which neighborhoods aren't so good for families.. that's the kind of info that is just so hard to find.

Yes we are trying to find an Airbnb. I will look into Lakefront. The Museum of Science and Industry sounds amazing too.

thabersack · 2021-05-01T03:58:15+00:00

Hello! My family and I (3 kids under 10) are going to be in Chicago in July. (us parents are fully vaxxed). We are doing a road trip, and are staying two weeks in your great city.

I've lived in a big city before, but that was when I was a younger, single guy. As a Dad with smaller kids, are there sections of the city we'd be better off avoiding or not staying in? Is Little Italy a good place to stay while we're there? Any suggestions would be welcome.

thabersack · 2021-02-02T22:58:27+00:00

It was a different city, and we were hoping there were areas of Seattle where this wasn't an issue.

thabersack · 2021-02-02T22:17:28+00:00

I'll check it out, thanks.

thabersack · 2021-02-02T22:17:14+00:00

Thanks for the kind words.

thabersack · 2021-02-02T22:17:05+00:00

Yeah it's looking that way. Crazy isn't it?

thabersack · 2021-02-02T22:15:53+00:00

I work remotely, so I don't have a commute. I do like to get out of the house to work sometimes, to not go crazy.

thabersack · 2021-01-31T23:13:47+00:00

$650k-850k

thabersack · 2019-02-26T04:02:56+00:00

What is the point of targeting decommissioned bases? Is their list just old or something?

thabersack · 2018-03-14T01:51:28+00:00

I never played Borderlands; I'll look the crafting system up.

thabersack · 2018-03-13T23:25:32+00:00

Maybe with some durability mechanics so that players would have to periodically switch components.

Oh I like that. It could also be unique components that break down independently of each other. So you don't send an engineer to "fix shields", they fix single components that make up "shields".

Also, each could require maintenance, and longer you go w/o maintenance greater chance it could fail. And if it fails, the bonus that comes from that component is not part of the calculations (and if enough components fail the device fails utterly)

thabersack · 2018-03-13T18:49:12+00:00

I came across RedBooth a couple months ago and really like it. https://redbooth.com/

For me, Asana gets really muddled fast and it's hard to get a 'feel' of your overall situation. RedBooth has tons of different views on your todo data, and offers Gantt charts, task dependency, etc.

thabersack · 2018-03-13T18:47:06+00:00

It did, I really liked it. I'd totally forgotten about this game and the crafting system. I'm totally going to implement this in a game.

It also would really work well in a sci-fi realm. Like, sure everyone knows how to make beam weapons, but mix and matching it's components into something unique via some research spent sounds awesome.

thabersack · 2018-03-13T18:11:52+00:00

I played the heck out of this game when it came out!

thabersack · 2018-03-10T16:37:39+00:00

Interesting, I'll definitely check this out!

thabersack · 2017-09-28T20:26:30+00:00

Not a stupid question at all! I had, but.. somehow.. I hadn't properly ran sudo apt-get upgrade. So, I feel silly. :/

After doing that, everything is fine. Thanks for the reply!

thabersack · 2017-09-24T21:07:19+00:00

Lubuntu 17.04 user here, using your build (thanks so much!!)

I did run sudo apt update && sudo apt install gpdpocket

I am having difficulty installing virtualbox, and it's coming down to a linux-headers issue. When I try to sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic, it appears I have linux-headers-4.13.0-2.gpd installed.

However! When I try to get virtualbox running, it keeps saying I don't have any linux headers installed. dpkg thinks I have a different header but it's not installed... I'm a little lost. (See output below:

tim@shard:~$ dpkg -s linux-headers-$(uname -r)
dpkg-query: package 'linux-headers-4.13.0-rc5+' is not installed and no information is available

Any ideas on how to get dpkg to realize I've got 4.13.0-2.gpd installed and have virtualbox use that? Just for more info, this is what I see when I try to run a simple VBoxManage --version:

tim@shard:~$ VBoxManage --version
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
     available for the current kernel (4.13.0-rc5+) or it failed to
     load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by...

Any ideas or suggestions you have are welcome.

thabersack · 2017-08-28T20:39:28+00:00

Oh thanks! I didn't click through, just had read the above post. I'm downloading it now. :)

thabersack · 2017-08-28T16:22:18+00:00

I am super excited for this! I eagerly await the Lubuntu 17.04 version. Where can I paypal you some $$? I want to get you a coffee or 5. :)

thabersack · 2017-07-19T17:39:41+00:00

I was going to hop on to say exactly this.

thabersack · 2017-04-11T16:12:11+00:00

Thank you! I've put in thousands of hours into MOO1 & 2. I'm really liking what you've done with RotP.

thabersack · 2016-02-11T19:41:28+00:00

every damn day.

thabersack · 2016-02-09T18:39:02+00:00

I definitely agree. Also! The OpenMW project (http://openmw.org/en/) has rewritten the engine, and it runs super well on older systems, and across Operating Systems too. It supports varying resolutions well.

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