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  • Let's take this discussion offline.

  • Circa 1997 I was making some innovative new games, employed by a dude who'd put millions of his own money into the company. He was completely nonplussed when I brought him 20 CDs in a sealed box to remove from the building and store off site. He thought I'd lost my damned mind and blew it off as ravings of a stressed dev. I pointed out real threats to our IP including the hardware failures and even so far as the building burning down. 2 years of custom art and code gone. "Unlikely. Relax."

    After I moved on... an ex co-worker who's still a longtime friend, tells me a different division lost a huge amount of FMV over some whoops-I-destroyed-the-wrong-drive blunder. 20 days to render on an 8 or 10 machine farm. Poof - No backups. In 1997 even with top-of-the-line gear it took an insane investment to render quality 3D.

    The friggin' carelessness irks the shit out of me as I type ahah

  • Yeah it's a 45-minute unbreakable opening tutorial sequence that is totally unskippable and totally unnecessary.

    Oh Lord I hated everything about that game, but I don't want to go off LOL

  • It's just an incredibly soulless game, towns are filled with cardboard cutout npcs, there's generic guard, wandering peasant, blah blah blah

    Fighting, even on Blood level, is trivial

    "Searching" around with witcher senses is an absolutely pathetic mechanic

  • A card game called "asshole" requires no skill and gets everybody laughing.

  • We're not acting superior.

    This game is beyond stupid, is basically witless, and completely unfunny.

  • I'm saying this based on personal experience, having gone through a really bad hygiene phase when I was extremely depressed.

    It took me a long time to figure out why the stink was not coming out of my clothes despite repeated washings, vinegar/borax/alcohol/etc treatments, everything I could think of.

    I ended up using cheap pet odor enzyme spray. Have since learned there are other more expensive enzymes, but I'm happy with the pet spray cuz it works.

  • I just have to jump in here.

    The lingering B.O. in clothes is dead bacteria which still stink - you need enzymes to actually accomplish anything.

    Vodka and vinegar are useless except for certain applications and for "fresh" sweat.

  • To cure hiccups:

    Hyperventilate for about 30 seconds; breathe out until your lungs feel like they're going to implode; Without intaking breath, smoothly chug a 12oz glass of water.

    It will "reset" your spasming diaphragm and stop the hiccups.

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  • Literally the exact same thing my sister said to me.

    My response was "no actually, nobody can possibly know what you mean when you don't even know what you mean"

    Obviously, that went over like a limestone glider.

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  • My sister. The same person who insists "I won't allow chemicals in my home". I asked her if Nitrogen was allowed on her lawn (ya know, from rain) and she exploded.

  • Welcome to the block list, child

  • I managed buildings. There is no scenario anywhere where anybody would be allowed to linger in a common area

  • I saw a commercial in the 70's for Starburst. All of them were the same pattern: Person pops candy into their mouth, next scene is them taking off hang-gliding.

    I thought if I ate a Starburst I'd get sent flying off a mountain like the hang gliders. Not in a fun way... eat this candy and you're getting flung to your death off the top of a mountain. (I didn't understand what a hang glider was either)

  • Fact: STFU because you're a mentally imbalanced half-wit.

  • Agreed, and this article is written backwards.

    Problem: Audio is a low power (relatively low data) signal that goes over wire. Audio data (not audio) sent via USB needs decoding into audio before it gets sent down the headphone wire. Implementation fails due to insufficient bandwidth. Graphs and textual details go into details about the bottlenecks.

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