totm nov 2023 Thread to discuss negative things in a very general way, just see where it goes y'know?

[WinkAllKerb'']

24 minutes ago, richfiles said:

Regarding the cart sizes, many companies have actually been avoiding the 32 GB carts for cost reasons, however the Witcher 3 appears to be using a 32 GB cart, and Pokemon is a game that very often sells two copies to hard core players (there are always exclusive Pokemon that have to be traded between the two games). The prices of those 32 GB carts seems to be finally coming down, and with a mass seller like Pokemon, they certainly could justify it.

Really, what it comes down to, is if Gamefreak were actually any good at coding, they could probably actually fit the game on a 16 GB cart. Their code, models, and textures are historically observed to be extremely inefficient. Even if the weren't the case, the sheer size of the franchise more than warrants the extra expenditure. They've always sold their games for $40, and this time around, they will be $60 each. That alone is an extra $20 per game, which easily absorbs the expense of the more expensive memory. It's just a bad situation, bad coding practice, and years of getting away with anything, cause the fans were rabid, and would put up with it.

the more they are the more they are series ? while each team lack coder tester and all and while many ceo  and investor don't loveing care breaking some of their teams lives ?

 

Edited June 13, 2019 by WinkAllKerb''
welcome to 2019 gaming market ...

[Chel]

I got doxxed on discord and banned from a server. Woke up to find over 20 people had DMed me, ranging from 'sorry that happened' to 'f you kid lol', and two death threats. Oh and i've only had 3 hours sleep, and I have an exam today. Come December I'll either be gone or in a very, very bad mental state

Edited June 14, 2019 by The_Cat_In_Space

[Bill Phil]

33 minutes ago, The_Cat_In_Space said:

I got doxxed on discord and banned from a server. Woke up to find over 20 people had DMed me, ranging from 'sorry that happened' to 'f you kid lol', and two death threats. Oh and i've only had 3 hours sleep, and I have an exam today. AND I'm changing schools next week. Come December I'll either be gone or in a very, very bad mental state

I don’t really know what to say but a lot of forum members here are more than willing to help if you need it. I am as well but I’m not really sure how to. 

[WinkAllKerb'']

sound totally legit to me

[Guest]

2 hours ago, The_Cat_In_Space said:

I got doxxed on discord and banned from a server. Woke up to find over 20 people had DMed me, ranging from 'sorry that happened' to 'f you kid lol', and two death threats. Oh and i've only had 3 hours sleep, and I have an exam today. Come December I'll either be gone or in a very, very bad mental state

May I ask what the reason was? People don't usually get doxxed for nothing.

 

Anyways, if I were you I'd assume a new identity on the internet. Abandon any accounts that had the same name as the one you got doxxed on, and use a new alias (taking care NOT to publish potentially identifying personal information)

Edited June 14, 2019 by Guest

[Chel]

1 hour ago, Aperture Science said:

May I ask what the reason was? People don't usually get doxxed for nothing.

 

Anyways, if I were you I'd assume a new identity on the internet. Abandon any accounts that had the same name as the one you got doxxed on, and use a new alias (taking care NOT to publish potentially identifying personal information)

That's what I'm planning to do. But making a new email... xbox, steam, it's all going to take time. And time is something I don't have at the moment. Spent 2 hours with the school counselor, doing my history exam on Monday

[WinkAllKerb'']

6 hours ago, Aperture Science said:

May I ask what the reason was? People don't usually get doxxed for nothing.

 

Anyways, if I were you I'd assume a new identity on the internet. Abandon any accounts that had the same name as the one you got doxxed on, and use a new alias (taking care NOT to publish potentially identifying personal information)

dropping most of my old avatar and net id from the last 20 years ... and swtiching back to this: wince v.vince

while 4 artitistical value ...

and yup W v v in the W ink (kraken)

WAK wake etc.. i don't even see myself all the layers: "what's in a name" series sometime i discover some layers afterwards

w kinda make me feel like cerberus in mass effect 3 ... then come  the genome X Y WXYZEN(tehn)A

and i keep Selfhi Pathkeeper little ranger with "snare and pull"  in heart from everquest no more ranger tank heal dps now (last time i really checked at least this evovle as wll since wow slowly fade up, i can't just play anymore any mutliplayer game due to griefer / harrasser / drama ratio and my lite autism)

and vv esa launcher twr etc.&etc. always "n" dim. stat and proba with who, just brain stck endless loop with that ...and etc and etc ...

not even speaking my typo winking all the time ^^ , ) ; ) etc ... & romlaglog and etc ...

 

 

Edited June 14, 2019 by WinkAllKerb''
figurative & artistic name

[Geonovast]

I have two upstairs bedrooms.

I have two breakers labeled "upstairs bedrooms"

One of them likes to pop when I'm playing KSP and my daughter's xbox gets turned on.  After some poking around tonight, I determined that both upstairs bedrooms are on one breaker, and literally nothing is connected to the other one.  At least, I shut it off and no lights or outlets lost power.

I am so sick of this house.

[GearsNSuch]

On 6/16/2019 at 9:47 PM, Geonovast said:

and literally nothing is connected to the other one.  At least, I shut it off and no lights or outlets lost power.

Make sure the toilets still flush, the radio still works, and the sun still shines. 

 

You never can can be too sure when a psychiatrist and a plumber did the wiring. 

[Superfluous J]

On 6/16/2019 at 9:47 PM, Geonovast said:

I have two upstairs bedrooms.

I have two breakers labeled "upstairs bedrooms"

One of them likes to pop when I'm playing KSP and my daughter's xbox gets turned on.  After some poking around tonight, I determined that both upstairs bedrooms are on one breaker, and literally nothing is connected to the other one.  At least, I shut it off and no lights or outlets lost power.

I am so sick of this house.

If I trip the GFI outlet in my upstairs bathroom, it takes the downstairs bathroom's light and the garage light out. Nothing else. I feel your pain.

[cubinator]

I decided to watch the news footage of the Apollo 11 landing, and found it striking that the newscasters had actually read the mission plan prior and knew all the major acronyms and order of operations in the mission, and were in general extremely knowledgeable about what was going on.

Oh, how far we've fallen.

[Delay]

19 minutes ago, cubinator said:

I decided to watch the news footage of the Apollo 11 landing, and found it striking that the newscasters had actually read the mission plan prior and knew all the major acronyms and order of operations in the mission, and were in general extremely knowledgeable about what was going on.

Oh, how far we've fallen.

Yeah, SpaceX loses a fairing, with the technology of recovering them in the first place still being in a very pre-alpha state  "suffers a million dollar catastrophy"!

[Flibble]

10 hours ago, 5thHorseman said:

If I trip the GFI outlet in my upstairs bathroom, it takes the downstairs bathroom's light and the garage light out. Nothing else. I feel your pain.

Half my kitchen is on one breaker, half is on another. They are both shared with other parts of the house.

[Geonovast]

19 minutes ago, Delay said:

Yeah, SpaceX loses a fairing, with the technology of recovering them in the first place still being in a very pre-alpha state  "suffers a million dollar catastrophy"!

It's weird how things shift, isn't it?  I was legitimately upset when I found out that the booster being used for the in-flight abort test was guaranteed not to survive.  Yet just a few years ago it was assumed that all rockets were guaranteed not to survive, and that was just what it was.

[Superfluous J]

57 minutes ago, Flibble said:

Half my kitchen is on one breaker, half is on another. They are both shared with other parts of the house.

Here too. Though it's not half, just 2 outlets. One outlet in my (downstairs) living room is on an upstairs breaker, the other is with the kitchen outlets (instead of one of the kitchen ones).

[Geonovast]

I realize household wiring isn't trivial, but c'mon.

Wouldn't it be better to just leave the breakers with their numbers, and label each outlet with their breaker number?  They layout might not make as much "sense" as labelling the box, but at least we would know what's going on.

I really wish I was in a position to build my own house.  Expense be damned, the wiring would make sense.  Outlets on opposite sides of a wall wouldn't be on the same breaker just to save a few pennies, they would be on the actual breaker for the room they're in.  Seriously, having two bedrooms share a single 15 amp is just.. not enough.  If I cared enough about this pile, I would have an electrician out here to, at the very least, see if the wiring would support a 20 amp circuit.  Preferably fix it correctly, but I have a feeling that would involve pulling out walls.

[Flibble]

My house needs rewiring, it's going to happen in the next few years I think. As you say though it's messy as you have to carve open the walls.

[Mukita12]

Operation Market Garden has got to be the biggest YOLO moment in history

AND IT FAILED Miserably

[Delay]

Matching up the camera settings and perspective of a real scene and a virtual camera so that you can overlay a 3D model on it is a pain. The same angular size can be achieved at any distance given correct zoom settings.

Foreshortening really is the only reliable perspective hint there is, right?

[Flibble]

1 hour ago, Delay said:

Matching up the camera settings and perspective of a real scene and a virtual camera so that you can overlay a 3D model on it is a pain. The same angular size can be achieved at any distance given correct zoom settings.

Foreshortening really is the only reliable perspective hint there is, right?

Pretty much, this is why things like kinect used a depth camera as well as a normal camera.

[XB-70A]

6 hours ago, Mukita12 said:

Operation Market Garden has got to be the biggest YOLO moment in history

AND IT FAILED Miserably

 

I mean, it was the Monty touch... and he is still admired by many historians today.

[Geonovast]

Blender's about to make me through my computer out the bloody window.

[Guest]

On 6/20/2019 at 1:49 PM, Delay said:

Matching up the camera settings and perspective of a real scene and a virtual camera so that you can overlay a 3D model on it is a pain. The same angular size can be achieved at any distance given correct zoom settings.

Foreshortening really is the only reliable perspective hint there is, right?

I think you gotta know at least one of the scene's dimensions, for example the side of an object, then scale everything accordingly

[GearsNSuch]

@Geonovast

If you aren’t already, perhaps try using the Beta. It’s still Blender-y but actually has the vestiges of a normal user interface rather than the traditional “un-terface.”

Blender is a unique creature, but hey, it’s free. 

[Delay]

ARGH!!
I am SO close to getting it right!

The yellow net is the culprit, and it matches other pictures well the way it is right now.
Edit: I'm done, this is good enough!
 

Spoiler

...Hopefully.

Edited June 23, 2019 by Delay