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Post by Youngster Joey on Sept 27, 2020 16:16:31 GMT -5
Yeah, it ended up being a much larger, apparently well-documented issue with The Sims 2 and modern video cards, even if I was running on Windows to begin with. I eventually threw in the towel. I'm much less satisfied about wasting my time than I was yesterday, since ideally I'd would have liked to have completed the task and then thrown away my work. C'est la vie.
Bummer. Guess I'll get back to my dreadful unit tests for work.
What games are you playing nowadays, Derman?
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Post by Derman on Sept 27, 2020 17:34:39 GMT -5
Making unit tests is either the most relaxing or most painful part of the job. Usually the latter...
I don't play that much games these days. Had a couple of weeks of fun with SMT 4, and before that I was injecting nostalgia straight to my veins by playing super nintendo games that I played as a kid, mainly Final Fantasy 6 and Donkey Kong Country. Now I'm playing Control, but because I spent so much time messing with the controller, I haven't actually played it much yet.
You trying to get old Sims games working reminded me of Finnish shareware games from the 90s. There were a lot of small, simple, but surprisingly fun games. I should find some of them and see if they still hold up.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Sept 28, 2020 8:37:57 GMT -5
I don't mind unit tests if it's not testing data. I'm pretty sure that if I go to hell, I'm going to be spending my damned eternity mocking up data for complex SQL queries...
I'm curious, how did you get access to Finnish shareware games back in the 90s? I got a lot of my games through cereal boxes. They used to include CDs sometimes for some reason.
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Post by Derman on Sept 28, 2020 10:46:24 GMT -5
I don't mind unit tests if it's not testing data. I'm pretty sure that if I go to hell, I'm going to be spending my damned eternity mocking up data for complex SQL queries... I'm curious, how did you get access to Finnish shareware games back in the 90s? I got a lot of my games through cereal boxes. They used to include CDs sometimes for some reason. That is a good question... I wasn't alive for most of the 90s, so what I remember is from around 2000-2005. By then the games had been around for a while and they just were there, sitting in other people's hard drives. Usually people shared them in floppy disks or CDs, and at some point you would just download them from the internet. I never questioned the actual source of those games, I just accepted the fact that almost everyone I knew who owned a computer had one or two of those games. Cereal box CDs were a thing here as well, but I doubt they came from there, since the contents of some of the games were a bit questionable.
For me, the unit tests I hate are for things which have a million dependencies on other objects, which you have to try to mock to be able to test anything relevant. It'll probably get better once I figure out how it's supposed to be done, but for now it's something I keep pushing further away until I have absolutely nothing else on my table. Data tests are fine, although the test I've done have mainly been for binary data. Mocking data for complex SQL queries doesn't sound quite as fun.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Sept 29, 2020 15:38:22 GMT -5
There's no way we're not going to have a contested election. No way.
Sigh.
Someone remarked it is like watching the fall of the Roman Empire. It's a very apt comparison. Claims of voter fraud is what Hugo Chavez and Vladmir Putin used, too...
Where did the US go wrong?
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Sept 29, 2020 15:46:24 GMT -5
I blame social media. Seriously, I think the negative impact of social media on the human brain cannot be understated. It has retarded the capacity for individual thought. I would love for some studies to be done on how it physiologically impacts the brain, because I could absolutely see it having a similar impact as some kind of drug.
I agree though, I think things are going to get very nasty come November. I almost never think that things would come to violence, but this is one case where, depending on the outcome, I can see it coming to that. Say, for instance, he contests a disfavourable result and the newly-stacked court backs him. Granted, I highly doubt they would, but the fact that any of this is even within the realm of plausable is beyond horrifying.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Sept 29, 2020 16:25:14 GMT -5
Yeah, but it's not like the United States is unique in having social media. I mean, you don't see Finland's prime minister refusing to leave =P
I wonder what people will do if he refuses to leave? I was talking to someone today who asked me if I would consider moving to Canada, because he would. I normally hate the inevitable "I'm moving to Canada!!!!" whinging every election. I think my eyes rolled back into my head for the 2004 election, when kids in junior high claimed they would move to Canada--yeah, you got a job lined up, twerp? But meh, I wouldn't blame anyone for doing that this time around.
Canada's kinda cold, though.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Sept 29, 2020 23:57:13 GMT -5
I decided today to do something I've never had any interest in doing. If Arizona is actually going to be a genuine battle state, then god dammit I'm gonna do my part. Ladies and gents... I'm gonna register to vote.
FML.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Sept 30, 2020 11:22:37 GMT -5
I don't know if you saw the debate last night, but HFS.
Please vote in person instead of mailing in, because you know every single mailed-in ballot is going to be called into question.
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Post by Derman on Sept 30, 2020 11:54:54 GMT -5
You don't see Finland's prime minister refusing to leave, but there's definitely been a shift in how politics is being done. True finns are still unable to work together with other parties, and they are gaining more and more support. They are now one of the biggest parties. So things are starting to look a bit more "us vs them", where the issue only has two sides. And similar things are happening in other countries, UK and their brexit being a good example. Populist politicians turning complex issues into a binary debate, where only one side is absolutely right, and the other is absolutely wrong.
Not all of it is on social media specifically, but it has changed how we interact with each other and how we consume information. The main issue is just internet in general, and the personal bubbles being easily available. Before internet, it wouldn't have been possible for something like MV-lehti (a finnish "news" site that was shut down a while ago for publishing blatantly false information and inciting violence towards specific groups of people. It was relatively popular with certain extreme of the political spectrum) to exist because it wouldn't have taken off in the first place. Internet allows that kind of community to stay alive and grow. Things are going to hell everywhere, because you no longer have to tolerate differing opinions, and don't have to question your own position. You can just read what you want, and believe what you want. And I'm guilty of that too, even though I try to not fall into that same trap.
But that's just how I see it. Maybe it's always been like this, and internet has nothing to do with it. I haven't lived long enough to tell. Which is why I'd like so see some studies, or otherwise a more objective take. I'm not ruling out the idea that it's just the natural cycle of life for people to forget history and elect someone who's definitely not suited for the job.
US definitely has been hit the worst though. Waking up in the morning and reading the news and workplace slack, I didn't expect the first debate to get that much attention here. It sounds like it was a s**tshow.
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Post by Umbra on Sept 30, 2020 19:20:57 GMT -5
Good job, Grain, on registering to vote. You can now write in the name of any person you wish to become president, such as Vermin Supreme, if he's still running of course.
Always a fun day at work when someone on your team calls out, you have more work than usual, and your boss has to hop in to get your team caught up. Apparently there was a bomb threat at the other Target in town which caused that store to shut down and probably resulted in sending customers (and online orders) our way. Yeah.
But at least today wasn't as bad as yesterday, as I was...still recovering from a bender. Should've never trusted that Voodoo Ranger. Six pints in, "Oh, let's give that Voodoo Ranger a try." Several minutes later, "Oh, shit, it's 9%." Dead.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 1, 2020 8:03:20 GMT -5
Yeah, I suppose the ease of accessing information does create a death cycle loop. No matter what your opinion is, you can find someone on the internet who has it too, and that validates it.
This can be a great thing--would LGBT or trans rights have picked up in the way it has without the internet?--but...
The question is, how do you solve it? I don't think you can. For one, it's a slippery slope--it's not like all of the polarization comes from crazy far-enders--and, secondly, I think it's a bit of a game of whack-a-mole. Other sites will fill the void. I guess maybe the difference is that popular sites can serve as a gateway to that kind of thinking for people who wouldn't have sought it out directly, but then get turned onto it through exposure. I dunno.
This is why I don't use Twitter, though. I feel like it's the definition of a curated microcosm. At least with Facebook, you can write longer-form, and it generally includes a broader social circle (family members with different POVs, coworkers, etc). Twitter is just the people you want to follow, and its character limits reduces everything to extremely simple utterances with no nuance.
Blah blah blah blah.
I haven't been leaving the house much, let alone my room. I've been too sad to. I left the house on Tuesday for the first time in a week. The leaves have changed a lot. I was really looking forward to fall and had plans of hiking and outdoorsy things, but ... whatever.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Oct 1, 2020 17:32:54 GMT -5
Get outside Joey. Even if it's just a little bit, do what you can. I started walking again at dusk, because even if it is 110 degrees I feel so much better having been outside than I do when I'm cooped up all day. Plus, I don't need to tell you the chemical benefits of sunshine. It won't make your problems disappear, but gradually you'll start to feel less like a nihilistic void.
One of the weird parts of metal are the band names. Sometimes I see a name and think, "good god, I bet they are sh*t". Nine out of ten times, I'm right. But today I finally broke down and decided to listen to some Cattle Decapitation, and damn if I don't really like them. With a name like that, I figured they were a shoe-in for poorly thought out, scream-into-the-mic-while-drums-shred-your-ears trash. Nope, good shite. Plus apparently their name is an open protest to animal abuse in the meat industry, so even that is more thought out than I gave them credit for.
Congrats guys, you are the 1[0]%.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 1, 2020 21:04:03 GMT -5
Yeah... meh, I ended up doing no work today (literally), feel a little bit better now, but hey hey hey, how do you like that post-nasal drip, would you like a cold?
My friend listened (maybe she still listens, I haven't inquired about her music tastes in a long time... kinda doubt they've changed) to screamo death metal with the most ridiculous names. Things like "Aborted Fetus" or like that. Kinda comical, really.
I think one of my favorite things in video games is when you have 3 people for a 4-player game, and thus you're relegated to playing with a computer... and all hatred is funneled towards the clearly cheating CPU. It ceases to become a competitive game, and instead a cooperative game towards curbstomping the audacity of this smug little Terminator who thinks it's gonna win.
Got our asses kicked in Uno on Clubhouse 51. EVERY TIME my friend had a Draw 2 or Draw 3 and tried to use it on the CPU, that motherf**ker had another Draw 2 or Draw 3, so I'd have to draw 32598329582958923085 cards. f**k you CPU.
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Post by Umbra on Oct 1, 2020 22:47:39 GMT -5
One day I'll wake up and thank God I don't have to go to work in my hometown and deal with grown women treating me like an 18-year old because that's what they see. Oh, and I'll have phone numbers on me phone other than Mom, Safeway, and 18002738255.
Apparently my bass guitar atecraprecently. Didn't find that out until after I'd brought it into the guitar store to try out an amp and realized I couldn't.
Bought some cigarettes today and smoked 2. I have this habit of buying a pack of cigarettes, smoking them, and then not smoking for like a year.
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