Same kind of people who lie all the time to look good to others. Some people want to be awesome but know they suck, or even more pathetic don’t suck but can’t stand not being the best, and cheating is their pathway to getting the social results of being awesome without needing to develop the skills.

The way I’ve seen it for ages now, being a loser isn’t just about losing games, it’s how you handle losing games and how much you internalize that. I see it as short for “sore loser”. Cheaters are losers in that sense.

Though it makes the idea of them still losing despite cheating even more hilarious, which is why I love the idea of games that detect cheaters but stick them in cheating queues instead of just banning them.

There’s another whole category that also doesn’t care about what the game is running on the kernel: seperate device cheats. They act as a man in the middle for the input and output signals, and can auto shoot when you’ll hit or adjust your aim if you’re close but not quite there. Or just play for you entirely if it’s that good at processing the output.

And blocking that isn’t likely possible without killing streaming for the game or convincing all users to get input devices with encrypted connections or they can’t play your game.

I’d respond to the original comment that anyone who doesn’t have server side cheat detection isn’t serious about stopping cheaters. In any case, I just removed that game from my wishlist. Not that I needed another survival builder game anyways, though they do tend to catch my eye.

He must think his god is very weak if all it takes are magnets to… uh make you forget about him? What exactly does he even mean by magnets sucking god from people’s minds? Wait, maybe it’s a bad attempt at a blowjob joke?

Windows 10 had a better kernel than 7. Unfortunately, that kernel was packaged with the rest of windows 10.

Also Kill Bill Vol. 1 didn’t have him. But Vol. 2 does.

Oooh, I see, you meant text alternative in the post. For some reason, my mind went to a service like imgur but it uses something to fallback to text, assumedly in part to display an alternative to an image to avoid the UK nanny laws instead of needing to back out entirely. So that’s where the whole “that won’t avoid the issue” response came from.

I remember being annoyed that I had to install yet another launcher and make yet another account when I was installing portal. But I didn’t know at the time that this was the launcher to end most other launchers and accounts, or at the very least made most of that transparent other then adding an extra click to launch some games.

Iirc, Blizzard had just replaced the wow in-game patcher with a launcher (though I don’t recall if they had a unified launcher for each game, if they all had their own at that point, or if it was just wow), Oblivion had a game launcher, and I think there were a few others. Some of them even needed to be installed separately iirc.

Steam is nice because, being the launcher for most of my games, it’s just always open and helps organize my games. And it doesn’t feel like its main purpose is to make money, with everything else just being about opening pathways to that money. And even though it is meant to make Valve money, it’s the lack of blatant dark patterns and constant upsell attempts that makes it feel better than most of the rest of the commercial world.

Except that wouldn’t make a difference as far as the children data protection bit is concerned. It goes WAY beyond porn and governs the handling of any data that can be tied back to a child, including IP address, online aliases, and email addresses.

And it’s not even just about selling it, but processing it and storing it at all. There’s technical necessity exemptions, like routers aren’t subject due to handling the IP address for routing, but stuff like logging the submitting IP address with an image to be able to handle abusive submitters would count. While it is a legitimate use, part of the UK law is requiring consent for doing anything with the data of someone under 13, and the current legal situation is “well, most sites probably break the law but you can trust us that we won’t go after you if you give it your best shot”.

I’m surprised more sites aren’t pulling out of the UK with a law that seems designed for selective enforcement to get rid of sites the government deems “bad” while letting the ones it deems “good” or “harmless” serve as examples that they are trying to be reasonable with the law that basically makes websites illegal because 12 year olds can use browsers and might go there without parental consent.

Also handing the ones that do check age even more information, but it’s OK because once you become an adult to do whatever with that information.

One has a function that takes the next node as an argument, another just sets that up in a loop. Personally, I found the loop one a bit easier to visualize and debug via stepping through code, though admittedly the difference isn’t huge.

At one point I developed a habit of converting any recursive algorithm I was writing into a loop instead, since I knew function calls have overhead and all recursion really does is lets you use the calling stack and flow control as an invisible data structure.

Then I got a question about parsing brackets properly during an interview and wrote a loop-based parser to solve it and the guy had to fish for a bit before I remembered recursion and realized that’s the answer he was looking for. My mind just wouldn’t consider using a whole calling stack when an integer would do the trick faster.

I have a convection toaster oven/air fryer, and even that is way better than my oven.

Whatever the baking instructions are normally, I can cut 25% of the time off (actually have to or it will burn), plus I don’t have to bother preheating it, unless the cook time is very short.

Plus it uses way less power than the fullsize oven. The one I have takes forever to preheat and has to be set 25 degrees higher, and the convection function doesn’t seem to make any difference because the fan blows. As in it sucks, and I don’t mean the air behind it.

Ok, first take a deep breath and calm down. Airspeed low is a good thing, you need to take this slowly! If the shaking of the steering wheel bugs you too much, they are adjustable, you just need to push it away from you.

Now one of the biggest dangers to planes flown randomly around the sky is other planes, so you need to get on the radio with air traffic control and request permission to crash and they can give you a clear vector from your current position to a suitable crash site.

If you’re lucky, there will be a nearby deserted island, in which case surviving the crash will make a much more interesting story than a plane crashing on a deserted island and everyone dying (or maybe the island will be purgatory or something and you really did die, or maybe purgatory will be a version where you didn’t crash… Be prepared to be very confused, especially since you won’t get to see any of the flashbacks that gives context to everyone who will lie about everything, even stupid shit like miraculously being able to walk again or other things that would be cool to talk about).

Oh, that is unless you’re one of the few adults on a plane full of kids, in which case, sorry, you’re fucked.

Yeah patient gamers check in!

When you feel like it, that is, assuming checking in lives up to any of the hype or seems fun at all.

For impatient gamers, pre-order checking in right now and I, uh… And my LLC pinky promises that checking in will be amazing, so you better give me money to reserve it now in case we run out of check ins by the time you get to the front of the line. You don’t want to miss out on something great, do you?

It could also mean something like, “I am going to challenge your opinion but don’t intend it as a challenge to your position”. Or even, “I respect your opinion and think you might be right, but I don’t understand it, so here’s the thing that has me confused so we can clear it up and get on the same page”.

Lol thanks for the reminders with the corrections. Funny thing was I had started with S, then remembered shi, so switched to T. Should have done K instead. T also has tsu instead of tu, so even S would have been more correct than my “correction”.

I think I might have initially had katakana written down but second guessed (though I did initially misspell it again right here, so it was probably another one that started wrong and was corrected wrongly).

And yeah, the origin of hiragana has a story of overcoming oppression. From women not being allowed to use katakana to them just deciding to invent a new alphabet so they could write anyways, and apparently being better at it because that’s now the main alphabet, it’s like the hero’s journey.

Looking back at the thread, bans were mentioned, but the context that I was following looked like it was about wanting to go beyond what’s banned because the industry just rotates in variations of the chemicals whenever specific ones are banned.

Yeah but if I use stainless steel pans, I can use stainless steel wool to clean them, so the sticking doesn’t really matter aa much when it does happen, plus cooking techniques can reduce or eliminate sticking even on stainless steel. So I’ll adjust to say I’m not losing anything I value.

And I don’t have a huge issue with it being used on things that doesn’t touch our skin or food/water often. And my goal is to minimize exposure in this plastic world. I understand that at least some restaurants (if not most that use pans) probably use nonstick pans and that I’m getting exposed to BPA every time I touch a receipt. So I don’t use those pans at home and don’t let receipts linger in my hands and use gloves when going through a bunch of them.

How is it an overreaction if it can be done without losing anything in life? I retired all my pans with non-stick coating years ago and haven’t missed them a single time and appreciate that it makes it easier to minimize the number of plastic cooking utensils my kitchen has, too.

I started learning Japanese and it quickly became clear where that accent comes from. This comment is about the mechanics, as I understand them, so skip if you dgaf.

Most of their consonant sounds are paired with a vowel sound that follows, eg: ta (tah), te (teh), ti (tee), to (toe), tu (too), though they aren’t always audibly pronounced (eg, in Naruto, Sasuke is the spelling, but it’s pronounced like Saskeh). That’s where the “su” sound sometimes replacing an “s” sound at the end of words comes from, or “ru” replacing an “r” sound. It’s correct with and without audibly pronouncing the “u”, so Japanese speakers might add or omit it based on preference.

They also don’t have all of the consonant sounds we do. Most notable is their lack of an “R” or “L” sound, but they do have a sound that is like a mix of the two. Sasuke’s voice actor pronounces “Naruto” with that sound instead of an “R” sound. It’s like an R with a slight roll, not as pronounced as in French, but from making an R sound and briefly touching your tongue to your teeth as if you were making an L sound.

They are also missing the V sound, their closest would be the B sound. Their word for GPS navigator is “Nabi”, for example.

And they have so many loanwords from other languages that they even use a seperate alphabet (katanaga) for them. It’s a one-to-one translation from their other alphabet (hiragana). Though even two alphabets wasn’t enough and there’s kanji on top of that, which is another set of over a thousand symbols that help disambiguate their many words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently (basically which syllable the rise in pitch changes to a drop in pitch).

Also, their sentence structure is very different. Like a typical english sentence might go: Subject verb object. Jaoanese sentences are more like: Subject object verb, though, like English, their grammar allows for many variations, and also omissions. Like they can drop the subject entirely from the sentence. Like I could introduce myself as “Buddahriffic desu”, but I could introduce you as “SaraTonin desu”. A direct translation would be “SaraTonin is” or “Buddahriffic is” and you’d need to figure out who the subject is using context.

The end result is that I’m impressed with any Japanese person who can speak english well enough to communicate, let alone if they are fluent, because it’s a lot more than I was able to do with theirs, unless the necessary communication is very basic.

Oh one more tidbit: the Japanese use “ne” (neh) similarly to how Canadians use “eh”, which works like adding a “right?” to the end of a statement (or an audible extra question mark to a question).

I mean, if you’re bored with life, an expensive and time-consuming hobby might be exactly what you need.