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wwinterj25 posted...

"Just a bit".... yeah I beg to differ.

according to the article he only smoked it once and that's enough to deny him
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I don't know much of anything about the genre, but the main things I've noticed and liked without looking for it are:

Dr Dre:
Still Dre
Forgot about Dre
The Watcher
What's the Difference

Eminem:
Rap God
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porsche? ferrari?
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at 19 he needs a *double lung transplant*?! how the heck does that happen?
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it gets better. it's worth the slow start, IMO anyway.
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mostly recognizing patterns and choosing the right dice to reroll, going for the right thing at the right time.
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actually, the ('type data.txt') can be reduced to just (data.txt), no reason to run the type command for will already just process a text file that way

for /f "tokens=1,2 delims= " %a in (data.txt) do rename %a %b.jpg

note, though that windows might not sort files numerically, even if you number them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. they will still be sorted alphabetically, where "10" is alphabetically before "2", etc.

testing this out, doesn't seem to be an issue in windows 7, which is not something I knew. in the event that you had that problem, you can get around it by using leading zeros.
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can probly do it in one line at windows command prompt (remember that if you put it in a .bat file you have to double all the % signs)

closest I got so far is:

for /f "tokens=1,2 delims= " %a in ('type data.txt') do rename %a %b.jpg

this is assuming a data file that looks like:

asdf.jpg 1
fdsa.jpg 2
somethingelse.jpg 3

tricky thing with this is that it's hard to undo if you get it wrong. well, actually no it isn't, because you can just swap the arguments to rename.

explanation:

for /f loops over things (type for /? to see help)

"tokens=1,2 delims= " says we want the first and second item after splitting with space

not sure how it works exactly, but using %a means that the tokens will be in %a %b %c, etc... using a different letter doesn't work

('type data.txt') allows for to loop over each line in the file. a really useful one is ('dir /ad/b') which lists all directories in a plain format

rest is self explanatory
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BTB posted...

There are roughly 300 monsters in the game, about 64 of which are humanoid. I opted to only give the humans things to steal so it would be far less balance work. Plus with a skill like steal, players get really burnt out stealing from *every* new enemy they run across - having a clear indication of "this enemy has something to steal" such as "two legs" means that they're much more likely to try.

I think I'm with you up to there.

I suppose it's a side-effect of not being able to change things except at a certain points, so it's not like you can filter the enemy selection or something.

I think I would have just put a really obvious message somewhere "don't waste your time stealing from monsters", and then make it miss 100% of the time on them. even without the message, it would start to be pretty obvious after a while.
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

and yet, they've obviously found a way to defeat that if the NSA still exists, and continues sucking up all the data despite encryption.

well, your assumption there is that the NSA has 100% access to all data... that is not necessarily true, why do you assume that?

but as far as I know, the US government has secret dealings with Microsoft, providing backdoors into Windows and other shady things that we can only guess at. they don't get around it with magic, they get around it with subterfuge.
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helIy posted...

with locky, probably the most common encryption ransomware, it stores the encryption key locally because it doesn't contact a server anymore to retrieve it.

well, then it's not as bad as it could be then
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WarGreymon77 posted...

I don't understand this. With today's technology, there's got to be something that can fix that.

you have it backwards. "with today's technology" you can irretrievably encrypt things. this is why this kind of malware is so scary.

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/3043/how-much-computing-resource-is-required-to-brute-force-rsa

the search space of RSA-1024 is about 1.9x10^302
the number of atoms in the universe is about 10^80
as the answer above states, even if every atom in the universe was a computer that tested one possibility every millisecond it would still take ~6x10^211 years to brute force. (the current age of the universe is only ~13.75x10^9).
(and this is for 1024-bit, with each bit past that doubling the complexity, and it's expandable to 4096+)

(mind, this is to brute-force when normally you'd use some kind of exploit to lower the time it takes)
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helIy posted...

it did, it encrypted image files, of all things.

so what is your magical way of retrieving encrypted documents?
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it sounds like you don't know what encryption is
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helIy posted...

you literally never have to pay them. you can easily get your data back

so now you know more than the entire computer science and engineering department and systems administration staff at a major university...?

do you even understand the concept of encryption? do you know what RSA is?
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cuz it sounds cool?

liberate tuteme ex inferis
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helIy posted...

you gonna try semantics here huh

not sure what you mean, but I mean that the "bad" kind of ransomware is the kind that encrypts your data with strong RSA. something that you can't fix no matter what.

about 6 months after taking Systems Administration at the University of Calgary*, and having discussed this issue at least a couple times, they *got* one of these and had no choice but to pay the ransom, and that's a university.

(* which included a tour of their data centres, which is one of the coolest things I've ever done)
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beach I guess? bridge, park, or building, will likely be replaced eventually. mountain, more than likely would be in the middle of no where.

a beach... more than likely lots of people will use it all the time, and it isn't going to be replaced. (though, I suppose there *are* beaches no one uses in the artic or greenland or whatever, but I think the odds of being used are still better than with a mountain.)
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so if you try to steal from a monster you just die? that's supposed to be an improvement?
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helIy posted...

the shittiest type

helIy posted...

it's easy enough to just get rid of if you know how

you do NOT have "the shittiest type" if you can just casually get rid of it. "the shittiest type" is the kind that you CANNOT FIX EVER even if you had all the time in the universe...
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yes, all the time. these are all on my phone (all available on iTunes)

Jets 'n' Guns


Dungeon of the Endless


Doom 2016


FTL


Crashlands

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I once played through Super Mario World in one sitting and ended up with *96 at the end (ie 100%d it). took like an afternoon, IIRC, but can't remember exactly.

other than that, just random short games like Batman (NES), Starfox, Megaman 2, etc.
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adjl posted...

Figured out a way to shuttle their staff around that didn't involve kicking customers off of planes they've already boarded

this
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I think I would want a line drawing tool and a measuring tool before I did ones that size. way too much time is spent painfully counting to find overlaps otherwise.
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if I'm reading that correctly, the chance is 50% in both cases, because you've given them no information that is relevant to any unknowns. this is not at all analogous to the original question.
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helIy posted...

i would think "neat" and wonder how i'd be able to get them to deliver to me

this
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nope

don't think I ever did though
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it seems hard or impossible to be overpowered. you get a lot more experience when underleveled and a lot less when you start to be normal level. (not even really sure how much of a difference level makes anyway.)

aoe is definitely important to be able to increase the amount of damage you do in one turn, especially when a lot of the fights have so many enemies. there are a lot of fights, especially near the end, where all I could do is just try to be patient and wait for my dps to slowly chip away at the enemies till they die one by one. (one area at the end is especially problematic this way...)

it's kind of disappointing, because the fights don't feel hard or epic, they just feel frustrating. even when you do one-shot regular enemies, it still feels so slow. it could really use faster pacing in the battles.

(one thing that could be contributing, but I'm not sure, is the use of health bars. I remember in the game Breath of Fire that having health bars really made fighting the enemies feel more frustrating than it would have. hitting an enemy and seeing only 1 or 2 pixels of health come off their meter is an extremely frustrating visual experience. I think hiding the enemies health might actually help alleviate that feeling, or even showing a number instead of a meter.)
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for the combat difficulty, the first game was not really that hard, though there was the odd fight that started to be problematic. your party size fluctuates all the time, and I noticed that having fewer party members puts you at a significant disadvantage. there was one part where you had to fight a boss monster with only two characters, and it was pretty hard mostly because of the small party size.

random tips:
use CP effectively. remember that regular attacks will increase rather than drain your CP, so don't be afraid to regular attack if spending 20 CP isn't going to be that much more effective. casting offensive magic also generates CP; casting defensive magic does not.

pay attention to enemy's elemental resistances and weaknesses

note that "impede" means "spell interrupt". hitting an enemy in the middle of a cast with an impede will stop the cast.

"faint" is basically stun

take note of the critical modifiers (icons next to the turn sequence in the top left). you can steal a crit from the bad guys by changing the combat order. main two things that change the combat order are using an "s-break", which is using one of your 100 CP abilities with the orange button, which interrupts the flow and uses it immediately, even during the enemies turn.

the other way to change the combat order is by casting a spell, since your character will take a turn to cast. you can choose slower or faster spells to try to change when your spell will fire to adjust whether or not you might steal a crit (or give one away). (you can lose the game in one attack if you let the boss have his mega-AOE crit when you didn't have to.)

most of the time, harder fights comes down to whether or not you can heal against the enemy's DPS while dishing out enough DPS of your own to actually finish the fight before you run out of healing. sometimes you're only just able to stay alive, but are barely doing any damage, and the fight drags on and on. try to find the attacks that actually do significant damage in that fight, and devote the character that can make those attacks towards making them as often as they can. there's not always a great way to do tons of damage, in which case you just have to whittle them away slowly while hopefully keeping your health up.

other than that, there's the odd fight that happens to have tons of status effects. you can equip accessories to prevent particular status effects. the spell "curia" can cure conditions, and is definitely useful, but a lot of the time it seems pointless if the enemy is inflicting the status with every attack. way more effective to just be immune to the effect altogether.

another random thing is to note that often healing items are a lot more useful than healing spells. healing items are used immediately, although the target has to be in walking range. healing spells have infinite range, but can take a while to actually get cast. pay attention to the combat order and if a strong enemy goes next, you might want to use an item instead of a cast.
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culture_den posted...

Haven't quite figured out how the quartz system works

every character has "lines". if you look at their orbment, there is a center socket. a "line" is a pathway that extends from the center. so if there's three "branches" extending from the middle, they have three "lines". the center socket counts for every line.

lines basically nerf magic abilities, and are mostly or completely a bad thing. a character with 1 line is a more powerful caster than someone with 3 lines. it sort of determines their class, in a way. 1 line -> caster. 2 lines -> hybrid. 3 lines -> fighter.

each quartz you install gives you some number of elements (1 fire or 3 water, etc.) your total number of elements determines what you can cast, with each spell having some requirement (listed in the journal). except that your number only sums for each line. (so if you have 1 line, you get the sum of all your quartz. if you have two lines, it's split in half, etc.). choose which quartz goes on which line to get the right number of elements to be able to cast the right spells. (you can see your totals in the top right. each slot is also color coded so you can tell them apart. if you see two green, two blue and two red slots, for example, they have three lines. if it's all one large yellow block, they have 1 line. (I don't think the color actually matters, except that some slots will randomly have a restriction one the color of quartz they can use.))

also there is the "elemental efficacy", which is just how resistant or vulnerable something is to an element. 100% is normal, larger means more vulnerable, smaller means less vulnerable. something with fire 50% takes half damage from fire. something with water 200% takes double damage from water, etc. these only apply to fire/water/wind/earth (red/blue/green/yellow respectively). as far as I know, the only way to change this on your characters is to equip certain accessory items that make your attacks elemental; quartz doesn't affect it.
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it's not really that long, but it's also a trilogy that seems more like one really long game. (first game took me 50 hours, while missing a lot of the side quests.)

the combat is a little underwhelming (though far from bad), but as you correctly noticed, the writing is superb
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one kind I used to eat a long time ago (was just called "yaki soba") was made by frying it in a small amount of water. you then added the sauce after the water was all absorbed/boiled away.

(ok I guess it also says chow mein)

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Amuseum posted...

drop the hads. they don't help.

Susan herself had to quit
but she benefited from

apparently "had had" will have a better effect on the teacher
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DarknessLink7 posted...

-Since the odds of both of them being girls is 50% in each of these scenarios, and these are the only possible scenarios, the odds must always be 50%.

you don't know which one of those scenarios you're in. you have to combine their odds somehow. in fact, you're kind of showing the exact problem: given that kid A is a girl (more information than you have), the odds of the other child being a girl is 50%. you have *less* information than that.

normally to combine the two scenarios would be 50% * 50% = 25%, except that lowers it too far, because as soon as we know that A is *not* a girl, we know that B *is*.

basically:
if we don't know anything about the genders: 25% of GG
if we know A is a girl: 50% chance of GG
if we know B is a girl: 50% chance of GG
if we know that either A is a girl or B is a girl (IE: that A and B are not both boys): 33% chance of GG.
this is not surprising because it's between 25% and 50%, and we have more information than the 25% case and less information than the 50% case.
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isn't it an insta-ban or something to claim to be someone you aren't?

bernieflanders posted...

yup i'm ziggi! the secret is finally out, ok?

if you aren't modded for this, then it is you unless the rules have changed
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how in the fuck is this news
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yes, he apparently loves being retired
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shadowsword87 posted...

Are there even bad monitor brands anymore?

I would never intentionally buy ANYTHING made by HP
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I still stay for the ~1% of videos that are actually made by James. You're right that it's starting to be less and less worth it.
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Solid Sonic posted...

sites that then guilt-trip their users (or worse, berate users who circumvent their ads) or outright deny use of their site

yup, no way in heck I'm using their site after that. you don't want me to use your site? wish granted.

Solid Sonic posted...

I'm not opposed to de-blocking a site that has their shit in order

I used to be 100% against ad-blocking, but now I do instantly anywhere that the ads are interfering with the site.

actually it's kind of like ignoring trolls. once I've had enough icoyar, off to ignore. but then at some later time, I'll empty my ignore list and start all over.

and then, that in turn is kind of like tit-for-tat. when someone betrays you, turn off that line of communication. eventually turn it back on and try again. repeat.
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DorkLink posted...

Lots of stuff gets moist in a fridge, it doesn't mean Subway's veggies don't suck

no, the fact that they don't suck means they don't suck 8)

but really, it obviously depends on the particular store and the particular management. some of them are so penny pinching, they use the same bucket of lettuce for two days. others strictly toss out anything that's more than X hours old, etc.
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Lightning Bolt posted...

the writer of it later admitted that, depending on assumptions, it could be ambiguous. I really don't see the ambiguity but whatever.

it says "depending on how you found out that one child was a boy". (gender is swapped in the wiki version). which again means it's only 50% if you know the gender of a definite child. (if you saw one of them or something.)
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Revelation34 posted...

Which doesn't matter. There are still only two people.

and you don't know anything in particular about either of them
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the best monitor I've ever had is Acer
some ok monitors I've used are Samsung and LG
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Revelation34 posted...

and you know the gender of one of those people

you don't know the gender of a definite person, you know the gender of an indefinite person; it could be either the older or younger of the two who's gender you know.
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honest question: why do we care about bears?
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actually, it reminds me of the problem I always have with them. how do you store them in the fridge? there's SO much moisture in there that if you keep it enclosed in the bag, it all soaks into the bun and you end up with a pretty mushy sandwich the next day. I tried leaving the bag open once, but then the bun just goes stale; mushy is preferable.
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yutterh posted...

But that is already cut down because we know one is a girl. GB is the exact same as BG, you guys are adding to much complications on to this. Who ever is the first born does not matter. Why are you guys bringing that into this?

because we're talking about the chances of having given birth to children with respect to gender. GB and BG are differently gendered outcomes... even if you consider them to be the same thing, you'd still have to give it 50% of the odds vs GG and BB, because GB/BG (considered as the same thing) is twice as likely to have occurred as GG.

GG 1/4
BB 1/4
BG/GB 2/4

remove BB, which is what the question really says, and what are we left with?

GG 1/3
BG/GB 2/3
chance of GG = 33%

whether or not you consider them the same thing, flipping Heads/Tails or Tails/Heads is twice as likely to occur as flipping Heads/Heads.

yet another way to say it is:
there is equal chance of the siblings being different as there is of them being the same. what is the chance of them being the same if we rule out one of the ways in which they can be the same? (BB).
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I think Calgary's more known for being dry than humid
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DorkLink posted...

I'm confused about the use of the word "fresh" here... is it as in "fresh out of the food dehydrator"?

are you asking me? (I think I'm the only one who used the word fresh)

It must be the difference. For me, when I get Subway, it's as fresh as it could be, as if I just bought it myself from a supermarket and sliced it all up. Nothing "dehydrated" about it.
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