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| Topic | How do you brush your teeth? |
| Sahuagin 04/03/20 4:04:47 PM #14 | Flappers posted... Actually, I didn't brush my teeth for like, half a year one time. If you have healthy genetics you don't need to slather your teeth and hair in all that stuff every day. I'm not saying it isn't good for you -- just kinda unnecessary. Some people are predisposed to unhealthy teeth and gums and some aren't. Once had a hygienist tell me that she had a patient with perfect teeth who never brushed, and a patient with horrible teeth who always brushed.not sure it's genetics, it depends which strains of bacteria have made their way into your mouth. read an article once saying that we could theoretically immunize ourselves to tooth decay by immunizing ourselves to specific kinds of bacteria (though I think they were probably exaggerating how possible it was to actually immunize people to it.) so if you happen not to have encountered particular oral-decay bacteria (yet) in your life-time, maybe you won't have much tooth-decay. I don't think that's a good reason not to brush and especially floss though. --- |
| Topic | Post your recent playlist. |
| Sahuagin 04/03/20 5:26:54 AM #7 | some random things I've listened to recently include: was just reminded that this exists; hadn't heard in like 20 years (lots of different versions on youtube, none official I don't think, this is just one): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdQbb3FXSEI awesome chanting from doom eternal (there's another version where the voice sings the doom song Sinister, but I can't find a good version on youtube yet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac9rlZmwJPo good song from tetrisphere (one of many good songs from that game) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMum40OPp4Y there's now a second doot animation video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsjHbxVI3EI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqnZgCSwOsw --- |
| Topic | What movie in your opinion has the most fitting sound track? |
| Sahuagin 04/02/20 1:43:06 AM #13 | hypnox posted... For me I would say Tron Legacy.that's definitely a good answer for something not already said, I'll say The Rock --- |
| Topic | lmao how is that TRASH Octopath Traveler beating Undertale |
| Sahuagin 04/01/20 5:57:49 AM #11 | haven't played either but OT definitely seems like a way better game --- |
| Topic | I wish I knew how many of these topics I've done now |
| Sahuagin 04/01/20 5:50:06 AM #117 | *cough* was wondering where this went >_> --- |
| Topic | What are some Funko Pops you want? |
| Sahuagin 04/01/20 3:20:35 AM #37 | those are almost neat but I don't think I like the big-head part --- |
| Topic | goodnight springton |
| Sahuagin 04/01/20 3:15:56 AM #4 | ok --- |
| Topic | Whenever I play a game online I realize how much I suck. |
| Sahuagin 04/01/20 3:12:30 AM #12 | blu posted... I feel extremely incompetent at any game i play online. Less than one minute of gameplay on"one (after many hours with friends) and Im like Ill never be able to reach these skills.it depends on the game, but it's not always as hard as it seems. often, becoming good at something is discovering how easy it actually is. the trick is not getting discouraged during the learning phase. but then, there definitely are certain genres that I will never be good enough at to compete online (RTS and fighting games) --- |
| Topic | goodnight springton |
| Sahuagin 04/01/20 3:06:01 AM #2 | I just watched that recently... did you post it? --- |
| Topic | COVID-19 ALERT: US death toll passes China's... |
| Sahuagin 03/31/20 11:26:26 PM #51 | OhhhJa posted... The state of Texas alone can also house Italy 2 times over. And America has about 6 times the population of Italy.I know, so when this is all said and done, USA numbers will dwarf everyone --- |
| Topic | COVID-19 ALERT: US death toll passes China's... |
| Sahuagin 03/31/20 9:56:44 PM #45 | wolfy42 posted... Get back to me when we pass Italy's numbers, which we will, easily.did you mean to say South Korea or something? Italy is known for being the worst prepared country by far, though they're starting to get it more under control now. and what do you mean by "pass Italy's numbers"? USA has almost twice as many cases as Italy. But then Italy also apparently has a huge death rate at almost 12%, which hopefully USA will never get close to. (ok I guess this topic's theme is death toll. yes Italy has 3x the deaths as USA right now, but USA is just getting started and growing exponentially at 20-30k new cases per day. that's ~1200 new future deaths per day at a 4% rate.) --- |
| Topic | To those who have to work (essential) during the Outbreak... |
| Sahuagin 03/31/20 8:11:22 PM #9 | captpackrat posted... They're generally scattered around various offices and after being up all night working on the server I'm not about to run back and forth all over the building. And besides, most of these sites have horribly slow networks, the more stuff I try to do at once the worse it gets.when I have a lot of devices to setup at the same time, I usually try set them up all on the same table/room if I can, and perform the same step on each of them in sequence so that they're all showing the same thing. though I guess it's a lot easier with tablets or laptops or credit card machines that have their own screens. I guess for desktops you'd need a lot of monitors or a bunch of kvm switches or something. (even more advanced setups would use scripts and things to have completely unattended and consistent installations but I guess that's more for when you're installing dozens or hundreds of stations). --- |
| Topic | To those who have to work (essential) during the Outbreak... |
| Sahuagin 03/31/20 7:33:26 PM #6 | captpackrat posted... Each workstation takes about an hour to complete and it gets slower as more stations come online.don't you do them "in parallel"? depends what you're actually doing though. --- |
| Topic | 30 days to slow the spread. |
| Sahuagin 03/31/20 7:10:13 PM #18 | Judgmenl posted... 100k-200k projected total deaths.200k is *if* USA enacts excellent quarantine measures immediately *and* the virus has only a 1% fatality rate. neither of which seem to be the case. --- |
| Topic | COVID-19 ALERT: US death toll passes China's... |
| Sahuagin 03/31/20 6:46:12 PM #39 | FYI, while it's definitely right to suspect CCP of lying, there's supposed to be nothing suspicious about their numbers. they follow similar patterns and rates as other countries. it seems more like it's their ability to enact extreme measures (which could even include executing infected) that has allowed them to significantly slow the spread. Yellow posted... Good video on this (by a real scientist)+1 for posting potholer, though note that he's not a scientist, he's a science journalist --- |
| Topic | My family is about to get coronavirus. |
| Sahuagin 03/30/20 8:03:57 PM #8 | THEGODDAMNBATMA posted... fucker gave us two boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios when we specifically ordered two boxes of Cheerio Oat Crunch.they often make substitutions since not everything is necessarily available. if you want you can request "no substitutions" and then you just don't get it at all instead. --- |
| Topic | Doom. |
| Sahuagin 03/30/20 5:24:19 AM #23 | finally finished today on UV. amazing game. I hear there's multiple story-based DLCs coming as well which will be great. I'm tempted to start again on a harder difficulty, but I don't want to be dragged into all that draining gameplay again. --- |
| Topic | In a world of magic, what must it be like to invent a new 'element'? |
| Sahuagin 03/30/20 5:19:04 AM #3 | are elements even used as part of the narrative? maybe they mention them off-hand, "just use fire you dork", but not often as part of the story. (though I don't play many jRPGs these days so who knows) the effect, I guess, would be to have sudden new defenses and offenses to certain other enemies, which could turn the tide of a war, or give an old enemy an opportunity to start one. a story idea I always think would be good to implement in an RPG would be the invention of healing magic. healing is taken for granted in so many games. it would be good if there was a game where the invention of healing itself was the driving narrative, since it makes such an enormous tactical difference and would be a world-shattering technology. --- |
| Topic | The US Now Leads the World in Confirmed Coronavirus Cases |
| Sahuagin 03/28/20 10:14:04 PM #63 | in a week or two, coronavirus will be the leading cause of death in USA, and it will only get worse from there, doubling many times past that. --- |
| Topic | why are sequels to scary movies almost always awful |
| Sahuagin 03/28/20 10:07:53 PM #2 | I think in general "here's a new concept that we'll cover from scratch" is always a lot easier to execute than "here's a concept we've already covered, watch as we try to find new ways of approaching it that are just as if not more interesting than what you've already seen" for one thing, it doesn't lend itself quite as well to beginning-middle-end as the first. I guess you need to separate the story from the setting, so that you can tell an interesting story without having to rely so much on the establishment of a novel setting being what drives the entertainment. and I think probably hollywood relies a *lot* on "novel setting" as the driving force of most of their movies, rather than actually having interesting stories. --- |
| Topic | Italy's death count is over 10k, holding at over 10% of people who contract it. |
| Sahuagin 03/28/20 7:33:00 PM #15 | papercup posted... DPs do you seriously think that if 10% of the population just up and vanished that everything would be okay? There's no possible way it would be. And many MANY more would die from the fallout. Please try to know what you're talking about.it's worse than "up and vanish". people will be dying at home and there will be no one to collect the body for weeks or months. --- |
| Topic | Italy's death count is over 10k, holding at over 10% of people who contract it. |
| Sahuagin 03/28/20 6:54:43 PM #13 | streamofthesky posted... I hope Japan does ok.Japan is doing fantastic considering its population density. probably helps a lot being an island I guess. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html --- |
| Topic | Aside from social distancing, is there anything we can do to help (COVID-19)? |
| Sahuagin 03/27/20 1:30:10 AM #4 | StackExchange blogged about a few things: https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/03/26/ways-to-help-the-fight-against-covid-19-from-home/ stuff they mention includes: devote computation time to searching for cures: https://hackaday.com/2020/03/18/join-team-hackaday-to-crunch-covid-19-through-foldinghome/ play a protein folding game that somehow helps research: https://www.ipd.uw.edu/2020/03/play-foldit-to-help-stop-coronavirus/ a help wanted board for covid-related projects: https://helpwithcovid.com/projects?skill=Software&filters_open=true some hacking events but I don't know how they help: https://hackquarantine.com/ https://globalcovidhackathon.slack.com/ --- |
| Topic | Doom. |
| Sahuagin 03/25/20 3:39:15 AM #5 | Yellow posted... And you have to use the right weapons/mods or you're screwed.yes definitely Yellow posted... I don't know how I could have made it this far if I didn't pick the sticky bomb mod.I also use that constantly. I feel like the auto might be good if you had lots of sources of ammo and the reflex to refill it fast at the right times, but yeah I haven't gotten much good use out of it either so far. --- |
| Topic | For you lot who code, what is the line-count of the last project you worked on? |
| Sahuagin 03/25/20 3:04:13 AM #4 | depends what you mean by "project". my main codebase which consists of dozens of "projects" (~150 if you count individual dlls and exes) has around 200-300k I think. --- |
| Topic | Anyone good at crane games? |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 10:27:59 PM #4 | amy wong --- |
| Topic | Is there anything you like the fake flavor more than the original? |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 10:27:26 PM #24 | definitely banana. bananas are ok at best, but banana flavor is amazing. --- |
| Topic | America will REOPEN soon after Trump said ECONOMIC PAIN is WORSE than COVID-19! |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 10:20:23 PM #18 | it's tricky. without a vaccine, it seems the extreme precautions we're all taking are really only delaying the inevitable. but at the same time, the *rate* at which it all happens is going to matter a lot, too. the virus has a 2-4+% death rate. that's millions dead in the US over the next two months if you let it run wild. --- |
| Topic | GameTok with Lok: For your amusement, here are my top pick no-reason games |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 8:29:31 PM #5 | Lokarin posted... Aerobiz Supersoniccool, good pick. I have yet to try playing that as an adult. have you played other Koei games, particularly Uncharted Waters 1 or 2? Lokarin posted... TrackMania 2 Lokarin posted... The Creeper World series also good picks. Creeper World 4 coming soon. TrackMania 2 Stadium seems to be the peak of those games though with Valley and Lagoon being a little on the mediocre side. --- |
| Topic | People are driving like absolute morons right now. |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 7:49:21 PM #43 | Kyuubi4269 posted... How is that different at 70? Tremendous crashes happen at high speed, this is just as valid a reason to ban driving all together. You won't get more crashes, particularly during quarantine.because the damage caused increases faster than your speed, and the likelihood of losing control also increases. increasing speed approaches death, no matter how you look at it. Kyuubi4269 posted... So you're basing your whole arguement on the maybe 1m wide, clearly-marked median every now and then and completely disregarding the literal thousands of miles of crash barriers down these roads? That's ridiculous. That would be like setting the speed limit to 5mph in cities because theoretically a toddler could walk out from in front of a parked car 3ft in front of you."my whole argument"? you asked me a question that I said I didn't understand and I gave you a basic answer; that wasn't an argument. *you're* whole argument seems to be that accidents can happen at any speed, therefore speed is irrelevant to danger, which is ridiculous. --- |
| Topic | Doom. |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 3:01:35 AM #2 | Ultra-Violence for now. Can't imagine how hard Nightmare must be. I was expecting Doom 2016 difficulty, but this is on a whole other level. It's great, but it's also exhausting. --- |
| Topic | People are driving like absolute morons right now. |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 2:57:45 AM #36 | Kyuubi4269 posted... At higher speeds you have aerodynamic stabilization. What you mean is people panic at speeds faster than they're comfortable with. It's a speed limit, not a mandatory rate.I'm not talking about the speed limit. you should watch car crash videos if you don't already, it only takes a bit of lateral momentum shift to seriously lose control, and the faster you're going, the less shift it takes and the worse the result. another thing I would mention is about making mistakes. before you make the wrong mistake, the feeling you have is that as long as you know what you're doing, you're ok, because you know not to make the wrong mistake. the problem is that you can make a mistake that you don't realize you're making. as in, you can unexpectedly and unknowingly have the wrong mental picture of the situation and do the wrong thing at the wrong time. this is not something you can prevent or avoid; it's to some degree inevitable. in other words, your perception of the situation is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate at all times. no matter how careful you are, you'll miss something eventually. Kyuubi4269 posted... what happens when you move an object perpendicular to the direction of travel? How much energy do you bring with you? Because that's the only way you're getting a meaningful crash outside driving recklesslynot sure what you're saying here. you either roll or if you have enough grip you transfer your momentum into the new direction. it's actually a pretty common crash for a car to go perpendicular and then drive straight into the median. at excessive speed though you'd roll and then practically disintegrate. --- |
| Topic | People are driving like absolute morons right now. |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 2:28:47 AM #34 | Kyuubi4269 posted... why would faster be different?1: it's much easier to lose control at higher speeds. 2: the kinetic energy increases with the *square* of your velocity... --- |
| Topic | People are driving like absolute morons right now. |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 2:07:12 AM #30 | Kyuubi4269 posted... It's "insane" because you tell yourself it is and government advertisements say to slow downno, it's insane because one mistake and you're hamburger. and hopefully not anyone else. --- |
| Topic | People are driving like absolute morons right now. |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 1:00:06 AM #27 | Miroku_of_Nite1 posted... I did 130 on the H3 in Hawaii back in 2016.it's not impossible, it's just unwise to say the least --- |
| Topic | People are driving like absolute morons right now. |
| Sahuagin 03/23/20 12:19:01 AM #23 | Kyuubi4269 posted... 120 mph ain't shitare you serious? that's almost 200 kilometers per hour, that's an insane speed. I've gone ~160kph/~100mph but only on a clear day with open road on a particular section that's flat and between two hills. and even that is kind of stupid. --- |
| Topic | So what is your work from home setup looking like right now? |
| Sahuagin 03/22/20 3:44:25 PM #5 | similar to that picture but more space, less tidy, less fancy. I even have the same lamp. --- |
| Topic | What are you reading? |
| Sahuagin 03/21/20 3:52:24 PM #10 | The Clean Coder, Robert C. Martin --- |
| Topic | This coronavirus shit is getting out of hand with the way people are reacting. |
| Sahuagin 03/20/20 9:42:43 PM #75 | UltraKev9 posted... There's ONE case in my city now. One. In a city of 220,000 people there's ONE person with this virus. The reaction of the State doesn't warrant this level of lockdown and hysteria.this is definitely a case of "where there's smoke there's fire". if there's 1 case, then there's really a helluva lot more than that. and since viruses spread exponentially all of these measures are well worth it. controlling the rate at which it spreads has huge effects down the road compared to ignoring it. overkill is what we want here. honestly I'm pretty impressed by how diligently the world seems to be approaching this. for once this isn't a case of "we all know what we should be doing but no one is actually doing it". --- |
| Topic | Just rewatched Temple of Doom and damn that movie is actually pretty awesome |
| Sahuagin 03/20/20 12:16:18 AM #3 | FrozenBananas posted... i think my order now goes Raiders > Temple > Crystal Skull > Last CrusadeLast Crusade is on the wrong side --- |
| Topic | pro tip: do not drink a bunch of pure lemon juice |
| Sahuagin 03/19/20 9:11:33 PM #12 | captpackrat posted... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A2VDVC4-nM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KDLsnY7DLc --- |
| Topic | I've got symptoms, man |
| Sahuagin 03/18/20 1:03:33 AM #48 | dancer62 posted... Coronavirus: 5000 cases, 61 deathseven using the higher number of deaths and lower number of cases puts your numbers for the flu close to 1 order of magnitude behind. (like 0.153% flu VS 1.22% corona). and corona actually seems closer to at least 2-4%. --- |
| Topic | What's a good way to heal frozen/cramped/trapped traps? |
| Sahuagin 03/15/20 3:15:00 PM #2 | thought you were asking about lats at first stretching traps I've actually never done I think so I couldn't say beyond what you find googling working traps you can do by shoulder shrugs. hold a very heavy weight dangling in your arms and then lift your arms using nothing but your traps. --- |
| Topic | Those of you men who shave, what shaving soap/cream/gel do you use? |
| Sahuagin 03/14/20 2:43:07 PM #15 | BeerOnTap posted... Barbasolhaven't heard that name in over 20 years, but I think I used to like that one. these days I just use an electric trimmer, so no shaving cream necessary. over vacation I tried shaving off the beard and definitely ended up having this result: https://imgur.com/dZ5ENZK took so long to come back too --- |
| Topic | Weird Gamefaqs glitch... |
| Sahuagin 03/14/20 1:43:34 PM #3 | yes --- |
| Topic | One of the good Fallouts. |
| Sahuagin 03/11/20 9:17:09 PM #15 | 1 and 3 in different ways --- |
| Topic | Which Mario character is your all-time favorite? |
| Sahuagin 03/10/20 9:12:01 PM #37 | Koopa Troopa --- |
| Topic | RPGs so hard that they made them easier. |
| Sahuagin 03/10/20 12:58:28 AM #3 | it wasn't really too hard, but IIRC Dungeon Siege 1 became easier by installing the expansion. (Basically modified base damage given by +25% or enemy hp -25% or something.) And unfortunately the game comes with the expansion already installed these days. (the game was its best on hard without the expansion installed.) --- |
| Topic | dude is there a hotkey for skipping back or forward 5 seconds on a youtube video |
| Sahuagin 03/08/20 2:58:33 PM #4 | left and right arrow keys skip forward and backward 5 seconds on a youtube video. up and down is volume. you can also use < and > (really , and .) to skip forward or backward 1 frame. --- |
| Topic | Greenhouse gas emissions down in China due to coronavirus |
| Sahuagin 03/08/20 2:53:22 AM #2 | so we're accelerating ever so slightly less towards doom. yay? --- |
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