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| Topic | if antifa is terrorists doesn't that mean George Washington was terrorists? |
| Sahuagin 06/16/20 10:01:47 PM #32 | Lokarin posted... I don't know if the national congress had a draft, but would a mandatory draft to raise an army be considered 'targeting civilians" since the recognized government at the time was Britain?targeting with *attacks*. *attacking* civilians. going out of ones way to kill and maim civilians as a means to your end. --- |
| Topic | if antifa is terrorists doesn't that mean George Washington was terrorists? |
| Sahuagin 06/15/20 11:17:46 PM #27 | Lokarin posted... what's the difference?I don't know the details but it should be something like that a "terrorist" is someone who intentionally targets civilians. George Washington was a rebel who led an army against an empire. there's definitely a murky grey area somewhere in between, but there's still a difference, too. --- |
| Topic | So why does duckbear make these topics...? |
| Sahuagin 06/14/20 11:50:18 PM #6 | some people have "issues". when you meet such a person in real life, it can be difficult to come to the conclusion of "oh... they're not well". you tend to keep trying to make sense of their nonsensical behaviour; once you understand what's actually going on, it makes a lot more sense. --- |
| Topic | Recipe sites that claim I can make things ingredients already in my kitchen |
| Sahuagin 06/14/20 11:45:22 PM #13 | you should be able to enter all the tools and ingredients you own and then search for matching recipes. I guess that'd be a lot of work and data though. --- |
| Topic | How many alts does Zeus actually have? |
| Sahuagin 06/14/20 11:42:28 PM #41 | Revelation34 posted... Shit. Guess I'm an alt.it's not that by itself, it's being supremely suspicious and phony in the first place, and only then also having no "alibi" so-to-speak. I guess I shouldn't have said it's the "way to tell". it's more like confirmation on top of the fact that they're blatantly phony. it's not absolute either. I would never have thought komaiko was real without all the video evidence. it is easier to believe someone is posing than that they really are that... special... --- |
| Topic | Whats your favorite meal of the day? |
| Sahuagin 06/14/20 3:03:17 PM #14 | JixHedgehog posted... Breakfast!are you me? 8) --- |
| Topic | movie reccom |
| Sahuagin 06/13/20 10:21:25 PM #3 | some maybe less obvious recommendations would be: First Blood (Rambo 1) Falling Down Collateral The Hudsucker Proxy Shutter Island Dark City The Thirteenth Floor Flatliners (original) A Walk Among the Tombstones The Untouchables Bicentennial Man Galaxy Quest Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Judgment Night Everest K2 --- |
| Topic | Meanwhile in Canada: Officer wrongfully fired for NOT killing babies wins |
| Sahuagin 06/12/20 2:41:49 AM #3 | Lokarin posted... Not intented as a clickbait, but there's simply too much info for the title, it's baby BEARS "Meanwhile in Canada: Officer wrongfully fired for NOT killing bear cubs wins" seems to only be 76 characters --- |
| Topic | Any programmer dudes on here? |
| Sahuagin 06/11/20 7:55:55 AM #9 | Lokarin posted... could be just 'cuz I'm tiredmay not be the best article. I would try using the wikipedia article. but if you look at his pseudo code, "children" are neighboring nodes, "child" is the next neighbor we're checking, and the line "child.g = currentNode.g + distance between child and current" is where your weight would go. "distance between child and current" means "the weight to the neighbor node from the current node". --- |
| Topic | Any programmer dudes on here? |
| Sahuagin 06/11/20 7:42:26 AM #7 | what example are you using? take for example, the pseudo code on wikipedia. you have gScore which holds the cheapest path found so far for each place on the map (defaulting to infinity for each point), and you have d(current, neighbor) which is a function that computes the weight of moving from one point to a neighboring point. (if it doesn't make a difference what terrain you started on, then just return the weight of the destination (neighbor)). the whole algorithm is based on the cost of moving from point to point so I don't see how you could even fail to be able to incorporate your own weight values. it just goes into the d(current, neighbor) function. --- |
| Topic | Any programmer dudes on here? |
| Sahuagin 06/11/20 7:31:36 AM #4 | what do you mean by "weighted grid"? from the sound of it, A* already uses a cost function that should include varying terrain difficulty. --- |
| Topic | Shouldn't we be the "Actual Poll of the Day?" |
| Sahuagin 06/11/20 12:07:22 AM #9 | we already are the real one. they aren't so they need to add "Actual" to their name to make it sound like they are. (I suppose this is contradicted by various celebrity twitter names who need to prefix their name with "real" or "thereal", presumably because the proper one is already taken by a random user.) --- |
| Topic | What are you listening to? Vol. IV |
| Sahuagin 06/10/20 11:52:58 PM #14 | I found this recently, which is apparently insanely popular and now I see references to it everywhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A it fits so great as work/study music because it's relaxing and soothing and also doesn't draw your attention or use any mental resources. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 10: What's with obscure hidden mechanics in RPGs? |
| Sahuagin 06/10/20 11:27:51 PM #6 | reading a PDF of the manual, here are some quotes. these are not very specific, but they give you the gist: Reputation meter: This meter shows what the people of the area think of you. You may play Ogre Battle without regard for the opinion of the populace, but the storyline will be adversely affected if the meter falls too low. there are small tutorials for each mission up to Stage 6, and there is a map of all the stages and how they link to each other and where the shortcuts/secrets are. it tells you the various factors that affect the ending, including the fact that you have to get all of the secret items to get the best ending. I know that it gets two things wrong here, which me and my brother learned just by playing: 1) killing lower and higher level enemies changes your alignment, not your reputation. 2) *standing* in a city is enough to affect your reputation based on the army's alignment, not just liberating it. my brother figured this out, whereas I had played it thinking that it was just liberation that mattered, and had a frustrating time trying to keep my rep up. --- |
| Topic | An ex police officer explains why cops are bad |
| Sahuagin 06/10/20 10:24:07 PM #10 | it's a little bit too left biased, but otherwise it's definitely interesting, and it does definitely seem like this problem is a lot worse than most people thought. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 10: What's with obscure hidden mechanics in RPGs? |
| Sahuagin 06/10/20 10:12:29 PM #4 | Lokarin posted... In Ogre Battle there's lots of hidden mechanics, like how the day/night cycle affects combat, compatability values (for the most part), Golem upgrading in OB64I don't know Ogre Battle 64, but everyone keeps saying that Ogre Battle (SNES) doesn't tell you these things, but I knew about them before the internet, at least partially. I think the info was just in the manual and other charts that came with the game, not in the game itself. (I don't think it told you very *thoroughly*, but it was definitely mentioned enough that you knew what to look for and what to do while playing, with the ability to work out the details more specifically by paying attention to what changes.) I could also be wrong, too, because I haven't played the game in 20+ years; it's possible that I knew this either solely by playing the game and figuring it out, or else maybe from a different source like a Nintendo Power or friend, but I don't remember that. (It's also possible it *is* in the game and you guys are exaggerating this...) (even just the word "compatibility"... I'm pretty sure that word comes *specifically* from the game content. even if the word doesn't, it does specifically tell you that you probably don't want to use misaligned units together, I just can't remember how. Isn't the first mission basically a tutorial or something?) --- |
| Topic | C/D do you want smell'o'vision for video games? |
| Sahuagin 06/10/20 10:02:38 PM #16 | may or may not be a good idea, but you guys are acting like it would be required to provide any and all smells no matter how unpleasant. you don't *have* to provide never-ending poopy smells. bad smells could smell more or less neutral. (though I think in many cases it's actually an association with health/disease that actually makes something smell "good" or "bad". a strong smell that's associated with health smells good regardless, and vice-versa for rottenness and disease.) the closest I've seen to this was Earthbound, which IIRC came with scratch-and-sniff stickers. there were a couple enemies you could scratch the sticker of and get a scent to associate with that particular enemy. I could see it being a plus if done right. --- |
| Topic | Poliception |
| Sahuagin 06/10/20 12:28:30 AM #13 | Lokarin posted... cops bust nut of their sensitivity trainerwas wondering what you meant by "bust nut"... yeeouch --- |
| Topic | How do you convert seconds to microwave time? |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 10:52:51 PM #6 | pastyD posted... What the heck kind of microwave do you have where a minute reads as 00:60?any microwave I've ever seen will allow you to enter a number of seconds from 60-99 --- |
| Topic | Coronavirus seems like it's over. |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 10:19:18 PM #28 | Sahuagin posted... adjl posted...reading about it, as I was thinking the flu at any time is only alive in a subset of the human population. when it's not "flu season", there are still a handful of people out there that have the flu and are spreading it, it's just that most people are resistant or immune to that version of the flu, and it needs to evolve a bit or our behaviours need to worsen a bit for it to gain some traction again and cause a new outbreak. *but*, theoretically, if human behaviour changed enough in the right ways in the right places, maybe it could lose its grip and have such a reduced ability to spread that it actually ends up eradicated. it "should" be possible, though I don't exactly expect it to happen, but it would definitely be a nice side effect of this whole crappy situation. --- |
| Topic | How do you convert seconds to microwave time? |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 9:53:49 PM #4 | I assume it just uses a simplified algorithm. it's not really a "clock", it's more like two numbers that count down, with the rule that if the seconds hit zero, then the minute is decremented and the seconds reset to 59. if the seconds hit zero, *and* the minute is also zero, then it's done. actually it's maybe even a little different than that, not really even having separate minutes and seconds holders, just 3 or 4 decimal digits: decrement the ones-place once per tick when the ones-place hits zero (or really, passes zero), reset to 9 and decrement the 10s place or if the 10s place is also zero, then decrement the minutes and reset to 59 or if the minutes are zero then done all of the digit places *can* have 9s in them, but the decrement-minutes step just resets it to 59 instead of 99. --- |
| Topic | Megaton in Fallout 3 |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 9:44:02 PM #8 | TigerTycoon posted... Most games give you very little actual incentive to be evil when it exists as a choice, which is a problem in my opinion, most of the time the evil choice in games is pretty much "for the lols".I was thinking of this, and I liked how in Mass Effect you could take either the calm and patient ("paragon") choice, or the impatient angry ("renegade") choice, because they often both felt like valid reactions, or sometimes one was more appropriate than the other. but then, the problem there became that by giving rewards for maxing one side or the other, the game *encouraged* you to play only one of the two sides, effectively removing a large role-playing element from the game. --- |
| Topic | Don Jr spent 75,000 of TAXPAYER MONEY to KILL a Large ENDANGERED ANIMAL!!! |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 9:37:05 PM #11 | Zeus posted... Which is a little embarrassingnice try --- |
| Topic | Don Jr spent 75,000 of TAXPAYER MONEY to KILL a Large ENDANGERED ANIMAL!!! |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 9:04:37 PM #6 | Full Throttle posted... Jr and his son Donald Trump IIIha, had no idea DT's kid had the same name, and that he has a grandkid also with the same name --- |
| Topic | PotD's favorite Resident Evil game? |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 9:02:14 PM #7 | loved 2 hated 4, so 2 --- |
| Topic | How many alts does Zeus actually have? |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 8:51:52 PM #28 | I think he's being a bit too transparent lately. He's obviously a complete fabrication. I would wager that he's one or both of JanwayDahl and MarioFanatic. easiest way to tell they're phony is that they should have no gaming identity. you can "fake" being an asshole on a forum, but you can't fake a $2000+ game library or 2000 hours of gameplay (unless they really are that deranged which wouldn't be that surprising either). --- |
| Topic | Coronavirus seems like it's over. |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 5:33:59 PM #23 | adjl posted... I can guarantee that a whole lot of people are going to get sick of obsessive hand-washing between now and then.I dunno, it sort of becomes habit. just to get a coffee at work, I have to wipe everything down with clorox both before and after I use the machine, which was annoying at first, but just my new normal now. adjl posted... In theory, but a lot of that will depend on whether or not people continue being good about hygiene when flu season rolls around.I guess it depends where those kinds of viruses "go" when they're not actively widespread. I'm not sure how that works. where is the flu right now and what is it doing? --- |
| Topic | Coronavirus seems like it's over. |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 5:31:08 PM #20 | THEGODDAMNBATMA posted... Fake news. Those are weekly totals. Michigan only had 200 this WEEK.Michigan seems to have had an issue with their reporting in the past few days. their numbers (# of new cases) are something like: June 2: 199 June 3: 304 June 4: 206 June 5: 284 June 6: 0 June 7: 5,900 --- |
| Topic | Coronavirus seems like it's over. |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 5:22:10 PM #16 | WastelandCowboy posted... Not really. Second wave incoming and youre arrogant if you think otherwise. People arent going to listen or stay inside so it could be worse.it's looking like maybe there won't be a second wave (very hopefully). european countries have gotten under control, and are staying under control, even after more or less resuming normalcy. (probably people are smart enough not to go back to germ-spreading behaviour and are still taking anti-viral measures, regardless of regulations.) (as an aside, I wonder what affect this will all have on 'normal' viruses. theoretically there should be a huge decline in cases of colds and flu.) --- |
| Topic | Coronavirus seems like it's over. |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 4:11:24 PM #2 | depends on the state. New York and New Jersey are just starting to be under control. California is just taking off. --- |
| Topic | Megaton in Fallout 3 |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 4:02:32 PM #5 | it's so easy to repair you can practically do it accidentally, and it makes zero sense to detonate it. I've only blown it up specifically on an evil playthrough, but it's definitely not satisfying to do so. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre: What are your favourite strategy games (outside of their MP) |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 3:59:10 PM #18 | Zeus posted... I'm also going with Tactics since I'm not much of a strategy fan and, tbh, I hadn't much considered FFT a strategy game.@Zeus oh, so you do game. are you on steam by chance? --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 9: How does Pokemon Conquest play? |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 3:57:26 PM #10 | Lokarin posted... Actually, what's the deal with Romance of the 3 Kingdoms? There's like 13 of them, but it's a historical game...I got into one of the RotTK games a little bit as a kid, but not very much. someday I plan to tackle the KOEI games again as an adult and give them proper playthroughs. actually I did do that with Uncharted Waters 1 a few years ago. I basically mastered the game; I could sail anywhere and fight anyone and win. the problem ended up being, the game didn't end. I just did quest after quest after quest after quest, and none of it mattered anymore since I was already as strong as possible. I got so bored I decided to attack the Turkish fleets, which was a bit of a mistake. I could take on a few of them, but maybe not the entire Turkish navy, so that save file is kind of ruined. At this point I'm not even sure if you *can* beat that game. Either you just have to do a ridiculous number of quests, or else maybe you have to wait until enough game time passes, not sure. (didn't really want to look it up due to spoilers.) --- |
| Topic | Fuck I'm bored, rate my new shit |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 1:58:36 AM #7 | DeltaBladeX posted... Lego The HobbitLego games are both surprisingly good and surprisingly bad. they're almost as shallow as a game can be, but they do at least hit all the right points in terms of content. but then, The Hobbit doesn't seem like an IP worth getting excited about either. (strongly recommend Lego Marvel Heroes). I don't recognize anything else. --- |
| Topic | Poliception |
| Sahuagin 06/09/20 1:34:49 AM #9 | |
| Topic | Man that garlic sauce from dominos is offensive |
| Sahuagin 06/08/20 11:41:16 PM #14 | with papa johns, I can't not eat the pepperoncino, even though I regret it every time --- |
| Topic | Does your employer pay you for unused vacation days after you leave? |
| Sahuagin 06/08/20 11:34:48 PM #20 | Zangulus posted... Its required by law here. Dynalo posted... By law they are required to, so yes. --- |
| Topic | Do you enjoy going to the Zoo? |
| Sahuagin 06/08/20 9:36:19 PM #26 | I went for the first time in decades with my sister and nephews some recent winter (can't remember which year). It was pretty cold, but otherwise it was fairly awesome. I was like 10 years old the last time I'd been there. the main thing I noticed was how much smaller it felt. as a kid I had no grasp of the size, it might as well have been infinitely big, but as an adult it was obviously just a small park. the best thing we saw was probably the penguins. ice cold in the room, but it was filled with maybe 50 or so penguins of all different kinds, and they were practically right in front of you, separated only by a glass "fence" that was around head height. the penguins were either standing above you on the rocks, or swimming in the water behind the glass at eye level. the only other thing I remember clearly were snow leopards (my nephews call every large cat "cheetahs" and I always have to correct them; I had to look around for the sign to know what to call them because I never seen these things before). I think there were ostriches or emus or something, and some kind of Ibex like thing that I never heard of. --- |
| Topic | Is it true that the corona virus can destroy your immune system like HIV? |
| Sahuagin 06/08/20 9:32:56 PM #13 | Gaawa_chan posted... I don't mean to be rude but no shit? That's whAt it's like to be immunocompromised in general. You're inherently more vulnerable to most things and diseases that won't kill most can kill you.afaik, it was more or less the reverse with the spanish flu. it was actually your immune reaction that tended to kill you, so people with strong immune systems were more likely to die. (not sure of the specific numbers). --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 3: Why Ogres? |
| Sahuagin 06/08/20 4:12:13 AM #8 | it reminds me of Blizzard, who kind of takes existing mythology and then mixes it up. the one that always annoyed me was that WoW wyverns are manticores, not wyverns. --- |
| Topic | Liberal Family says FAREWELL USA and Hello to CANADA after child gets DIABETES! |
| Sahuagin 06/07/20 11:25:07 PM #8 | Revelation34 posted... How didn't they notice before she was 9 is my question?reading about it, average age of diagnosis is 14, but can develop as late as 40 and in rare cases later than that --- |
| Topic | How many people here have actually played....Superman 64? |
| Sahuagin 06/07/20 10:53:01 PM #6 | I seen it for rent a million times but I never tried it. then I heard later how bad it was. --- |
| Topic | Liberal Family says FAREWELL USA and Hello to CANADA after child gets DIABETES! |
| Sahuagin 06/07/20 9:18:34 PM #6 | Lokarin posted... As unintuitive as it sounds, sugar intake is not a contributing factor to diabetes - excluding where it causes weight gain which IS a factoreither way, that is for type 2 diabetes not type 1 --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 3: Why Ogres? |
| Sahuagin 06/07/20 8:15:46 PM #6 | I would say maybe they softened "demon" in translation or something, but I guess there are already demons, devils, and imps or something IIRC. "ogre" just means something different in the ogre battle world. reading about it, they are more like demon princes than standard ogres. --- |
| Topic | How much weight have you put on since Covid-19/quarantine started? |
| Sahuagin 06/07/20 5:38:28 PM #19 | I was already higher than I'd like before this happened, and I'm still at the same place now. I don't have a proper space devoted to using my exercise gear so I haven't exercised much in the past few years. --- |
| Topic | Fun with random Wikipedia articles |
| Sahuagin 06/07/20 4:08:13 PM #2 | problem is there are too many mundane places and people Brigadier-General John Atom Kpera (born 3 January 1941) was the first Military Governor of Anambra State in Nigeria from March 1976 to July 1978 yeah, like that --- |
| Topic | Is there any story about joining a cult but you don't know they're a cult? |
| Sahuagin 06/05/20 5:25:33 PM #2 | Deus Ex 1 could roughly fit that description --- |
| Topic | Which ramen brand do you think is the best? |
| Sahuagin 06/05/20 1:57:49 AM #12 | Ichiban, though I can't say I've tried much else besides Mr Noodles Ichiban Yaki Soba is the best, and then probably Ichiban Shrimp --- |
| Topic | Question: Would you consider a "coupe" to be a high-end or luxury car? |
| Sahuagin 06/04/20 9:19:05 PM #4 | from what I've heard, 2-doors are technically considered "sports cars" and will have higher insurance than the same sedan. dunno about the MSRP though, but there are definitely cheaper ones and more expensive ones. --- |
| Topic | croutons in a salad are |
| Sahuagin 06/04/20 3:22:37 AM #15 | I find they add way too much salt. if there's anything you shouldn't have in a salad, it's tons of salt. --- |
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