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troyunrau, 2 months ago

We called it “Beetle Bump” but same thing.

After the release of the redesign, it sort of stopped. Only really made sense for the classic version.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Oilers cup run – was absolutely glued to the 1990 series after they beat my Jets in the first round. Was much younger than 12.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

“The Transporter Refueled”. Living in a smaller city in Northern Canada with three screens… We had a Tuesday night cheap movie night group that would go to whatever was playing, then to the pub afterwards. Small city – something to do. We had seen a lot of bad movies as a result, but this was the worst. At the end of the movie, everyone had left except our small group. We’re masochists, apparently.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Easier to infiltrate terrorist networks – networks are, well, networks. Most school shootings are independent actors, even if radicalized online.

Now, if you’re asking about why they haven’t implemented decent gun control laws…

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Brains are sexy

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Do it with leaves next! Or macaroni!

troyunrau, 2 months ago

I’m not rich. But I was born poor and am no longer poor. The Birth Lottery blessed me with a brain, and with that as my only asset, I learned esoteric skills which I can parley into a niche career.

But more importantly, the social safety net in my country allowed me to get an education without becoming a wage slave for the rest of my life. Without that, I couldn’t have pulled this escape from poverty off.

I now run my own business. We have no employees – only owners who have self-invested. Our business is growing and I anticipate a comfortable retirement. Haven’t got rich off the working class either.

So, thank you Canada for the opportunities. I’ve tried to make the most of them.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

No. I was pumping socialism as an alternative to birth lottery. Enjoy your day :)

troyunrau, 2 months ago

I bet this is a falling out with Hasbro execs on royalties. BG3 royalties were a cash cow this year for Hasbro, pushing Wizards (as a division) to be quite profitable, while almost all other divisions in their company lost money.

So now the agreement is over, and Larian is like: we will own the IP on our next project instead of paying $90M to Hasbro… And fair enough – they’ve shown they can kick ass. Hasbro is probably gambling that it’s the IP that made the money, and not Larian being magic in a bottle as a developer. So they’ll kick tires on selling BG4 to another studio.

BG3 will go down in history as the legendary game before enshittification. Larian will make a few great games that don’t sell as well – before selling out to a whale that dumps money on the owner’s front lawn (see also BioWare). The devs who made BG3 will found indie studios and make cool shit for a decade or two. So the wheel turns.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Keep going, I’m almost there

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Balrog could be the hot one in the first row too ;)

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Oooh! I grew up in a town like that. No school dances, cause it was a sin… Public school, but the school board dominated by Mennonites due to being the local majority, so…

troyunrau, 2 months ago

That reminds me…

In circa 1995 I was running a dial upBBS service – as a teenager. So if course, it was full of bootlegged video games and such, and people would dial in, download a game, log off.

Someone uploaded Descent or something like that. But they had put "deltree /y C:" or similar into a batch file, used a BAT2COM converter program, then a COM2EXE program, then padded the file size to approximately the right size with random crap (probably just using APPEND)… And uploaded it. Well, fortunately for the rest of my users, I say the game and said: oh, that’s neat, I should try it and copied it to another computer over my internal network and launched it. It started deleting files right away and I hit CTRL-C to abort. I lost only a few dozen files.

Banned the user, deleted the package. Got lucky.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Network interruption would cause it to run then. Or an API change. Dangerously causing it to actually run.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Just make it ridiculous. Like instructions to get an artifact that will resurrect you from a museum in France… Then if it goes off by accident, it is comedy.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Cryochamber test #42. Patient still dead.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

BOFH vibes haha

troyunrau, 2 months ago

I had a null result for my MSc thesis. My supervisor lost interest immediately, and my funding went away. No interest in publishing a failure on his side, because the premise was flawed and he provided the premise. I dropped out and went to industry rather than be student poor with no funding.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Looks very similar to Canada. Just different prices.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Depends on the province. Health is provincial jurisdiction, so things will vary. In MB, the packages have the graphical warning on the packages, but the stores all look like this (no packages on display).

troyunrau, 2 months ago

I still go to Reddit for some communities that don’t have critical mass on Lemmy. Sure you can talk about programming or Linux here, but the more niche ones (like specific mods for specific games) are entirely absent.

But when I want to post something or create content, it goes here.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Until copyright lapses anyway

troyunrau, 2 months ago

And losses in the inverter.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Wildass hypothesis I just pulled out of my ass with an undergraduate degree in applied physics: maybe interaction with particles emerging from quantum vacuum?

Okay, that sounds like great technobabble. I’m going to watch star trek now ;)

troyunrau, 2 months ago

So, this just popped. livescience.com/…/james-webb-telescope-confirms-t… which may be relevant. Haven’t read it yet.