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Topic | narrowly avoided getting attacked by a pitbull this evening |
TheMikh 04/22/24 11:52:20 PM #3 | FolkenRawr posted...
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Topic | narrowly avoided getting attacked by a pitbull this evening |
TheMikh 04/22/24 11:48:01 PM #1 | went to pick up a package from my front doorstep, and lo and behold the neighbor's pit was loose in my yard again and charged at me
was holding my laptop in my other hand since i was in the middle of a call, so i was a bit slower than usual in picking up the package and closing the door, but i managed to get back in the house and slam the door like a split second before it got to me disappointing, can't even go for walks in the neighborhood without worrying about them, since that's not the only house in the neighborhood with pits that get loose periodically wasn't long ago someone got attacked in the area, albeit by a pack of huskies; seems like too many people lack the sense of train or properly secure their dogs --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Are you a believer in the Paranormal? |
TheMikh 04/22/24 4:43:59 PM #55 | paranormal = that which is beyond the normal or our scientific understanding
given the limited scope of human knowledge relative to what fully encompasses reality, it would be irrational not to believe in some abstract notion of the paranormal. i'm confident there have been paranormal or otherwise emergent phenomena which have not been scientifically explained yet, but that does not mean they aren't real before that point. that's not to say i believe in the specifics of things typically associated with "the paranormal" though. --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Trump gets convicted....then what? |
TheMikh 04/22/24 4:36:27 PM #37 | DipDipDiver posted...
Twitter fingers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cby0XBZKs1s --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Do you have a side of the family you dislike? |
TheMikh 04/22/24 6:17:00 AM #19 | i don't dislike any side of my family but i kinda favor my paternal grandmother's part of the family because i spent more time with them growing up
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Topic | Anyone here got a bachelors in Computer Science? |
TheMikh 04/22/24 4:32:27 AM #8 | i have a bs in cs but i can't comment with confidence about the state of affairs for entry level jobs these days
between the giants hemorrhaging talent into the labor market over the past couple years and companies generally being reluctant to invest in new hires out of paranoia about them job hopping once they've picked up enough credentials and experience, the landscape seems a bit cynical doesn't mean it's an impossible job market though, especially if you go beyond coursework with respect to extracurricular projects and skills development and are open and ready to work in unlikely corners of the industry early in your career, and it's definitely valuable knowledge base / skillset to have in general some additional advice:
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Topic | What will be the next porno trend after incest loses its novelty? |
TheMikh 04/21/24 9:29:39 PM #19 | pov: you are an indie photography business owner in arizona in the early 2000s and are about to strike gold (try not to misfile your annual business tax returns or regulatory compliance paperwork)
ProfessorKukui posted... but in all seriousness, this --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | I'm for $60 billion aid to Ukraine but we could also use the same amount to help |
TheMikh 04/21/24 1:01:05 PM #65 | Haejin posted...
$60 billion to homeless could go into a various number of programs... like food bank services, temporary shelters, drug treatment, ad other resources not just "FREE HOUESS!!!11"you could build 2.4 homes for each homeless person in the country at the median american home price, or almost 9 homes for each homeless person at the approximate going price for a manufactured home going with the latter, you could build a home for every homeless person for the country - and fund services for them. --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | What have you done with your Saturday? |
TheMikh 04/20/24 10:24:12 PM #11 | desk cycling while scrolling phone, called family, worked
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Topic | How many steps do you guys take per day? |
TheMikh 04/20/24 7:12:34 PM #13 | trying to get my count up since i'm pretty sure it's been below a thousand since i started working from home
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Topic | Is that... Vanessa Hudgens :o ? |
TheMikh 04/20/24 12:01:14 PM #4 | yeah, looks like her
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Topic | Do you know any CEOs socially? What kind of people are they? |
TheMikh 04/19/24 7:27:43 AM #9 | glorified frat bros (good company actually), psychopaths (good company until they screw you sideways), and the rare humble self-made man that came from nothing (good company)
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Topic | Web developers of CE, get in here. Now. |
TheMikh 04/18/24 3:49:46 AM #59 | bump, will reply later, been bogged down to hell and back with work. stumbled on an interesting distributed sqlite dbms a day or so ago.
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Topic | Dude really got banned for that? |
TheMikh 04/17/24 11:38:55 PM #5 | what happened
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Topic | Did you like the ending of The Butterfly Effect? |
TheMikh 04/17/24 11:34:10 PM #3 | SpawnShadow posted...
i guess i've only seen the director's cut --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Abigail Shapiro |
TheMikh 04/17/24 3:50:37 PM #28 | be careful!
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Topic | Post your face when you get purged and locked out of CE |
TheMikh 04/17/24 5:27:45 AM #73 | https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4f29f779.jpg
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Topic | Have you been to Seattle? |
TheMikh 04/17/24 1:14:07 AM #18 | i was born and raised in portland, so i found myself there a few times during my early years. haven't been there in over twenty years though.
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Topic | self checkouts are a godsend for introverts |
TheMikh 04/17/24 12:04:43 AM #22 | i feel like it's reversed over the past decade-ish, where traditional checkout is preferred
self-checkout is overcrowded and often malfunctioning, or has odd stipulations like requiring an attendant if you don't want too many items bagged, and you end up to wait/ask for assistance as a result of course i just order my groceries from the next town over these days because my local grocery store is way too much of a hassle - understaffed, overcrowded, plus the stuff i mentioned above, plus the milk seems to be spoiled half the time --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | What are the most unsettling deaths in TV/film? |
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Topic | I haven't seen that one guy in a while. Libertarian guy |
TheMikh 04/15/24 9:42:23 PM #24 | i was just thinking about him earlier today. hope he's doing alright.
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Topic | Current Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board. Part 2 |
TheMikh 04/15/24 9:34:01 PM #315 | DKBananaSlamma posted...
Lmao @ at that toast topicwhat's this? --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Web developers of CE, get in here. Now. |
TheMikh 04/15/24 6:29:16 PM #38 | s0nicfan posted...
Why not reach out to the guy who runs the gamefaqs archive (that we can't direction mention on the boards)? They've already got DB support and like... 10+ years of archived content so they clearly have the storage space. Roadhogg's account has not been signed into since 2008 and the archive itself seems to have been broken for a few years now. Trumble posted... I run the Lemmings Forums. Much smaller, but it runs alongside several insignificant sites on a $12/mo Digital Ocean droplet. SSL is free via LetsEncrypt. A domain is maybe $20 a year. We might need a higher value droplet if it gets really active, but the costs are completely feasible.I could fund a domain if needed. Had no idea there were free SSL services, but I'll keep that in mind. Getting someone to make the damn thing is the biggest obstacle. I'd like to say I would, but my track record of finishing projects is kinda poor and PHP is not something I do overly well with. The old clones had bugs (GameFAQ++ had one that literally allowed any registered user to moderate messages lmao) and are written for outdated PHP versions, so wouldn't be the easiest things to bring up to date.Agreed. The old codebases (especially GFH and WF forks) had a frightening number of security vulnerabilities, with a few quality exceptions that might have enjoyed a bit of security by obscurity (aURL, EGFC). Some developers wrote vulnerabilities into their own software for personal amusement. I'd be open to building within the constraints of my time, though I need to brush up on the landscape of libraries I might want to use for the concept I proposed. If we did theoretically opt for a LAMP-based forum, it would be extremely easy and there's a lot of secure boilerplate that didn't exist back then, but I remain queasy about long-term uptime assurances. Even if fully paid for into perpetuity like a number of my AWS-based sites, the Amazon baremetal the instances live on occasionally degrades after a while and then the cloud instance goes down, which means needing to actively monitor things and also potentially have periodic backups. Set and forget preferred. --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Howdy |
TheMikh 04/15/24 4:29:10 PM #196 | save us allen
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Topic | Web developers of CE, get in here. Now. |
TheMikh 04/15/24 4:26:08 PM #26 | Tyranthraxus posted...
What you're trying to conceptualize is effectively Bitcoin but with mandatory messages attached to each transaction.I'm thinking more along the lines of Bittorent or serverless IRC under the hood if I can help it. Blockchain is overkill for this use case, even if feasible (esp within an application-specific EVM network), since data organization is a pain in the behind without making things more needlessly complicated. Robot2600 posted... i can paint, write, and design. ive coded an Atari 2600 game from scratch in Basic. im not a pro software engineer or anything.Design's an incredibly valuable skill. Many software engineers have zero design sense as it relates to human user interactions; just look what Session Buddy did to their extension lately. CRON posted... I've mentioned it before but the easier solution might be to just use something like ProBoards.A forum-as-a-service platform is an option since many of them have remained online for decades, but they don't offer much developer control, and are ultimately at the mercy of the whims of the forum administrator(s) and the service provider. What I'd like is something that is indistinguishable from GameFAQs and runs forever so long as just one person cares to keep things going. Harpie posted... I run a few websites already. It'd be interesting to make a site dedicated to keeping the old internet style forums, and it could easily be done for under $50/month including domain, hosting and ssl cert costs.Hosting, SSL, and donations will be important, whether for a full-fledged old style forum/site or a trusted webclient. --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Web developers of CE, get in here. Now. |
TheMikh 04/15/24 3:57:35 PM #12 | MacadamianNut3 posted...
This topic just triggered anybody who spent even a second as a computer science majorI hold a CS degree and have been working in various corners of the industry for north of a decade. Forgive me if I use jargon. [LFAQs-redacted-quote] That would be fantastic, since I have a terrible eye for style and frontend design. s0nicfan posted... You'll never get them to agree on a framework. Half will demand Angular. The other half will demand React. And then like... 3 guys in the corner will insist on VUE.If it's open source, they can all manage their own approach based on some common data interchange standard. With this in mind, I'm mostly concerned with the backend architecture. Tyranthraxus posted... Web dev here.If I wanted launch and host a GameFAQs clone forum on a LAMP stack, I could easily have a concept up and running by this evening, but I'm trying to conceptualize something a little more ambitious and robust which isn't at the mercy of a single administrator's whims or capacity / lack thereof for long-term infrastructural upkeep, but is still responsive to / upholds community values, if that makes any sense. bulldryer posted... This is an overkill solution for a very simple problem.I'm not opposed to the use of a database; I just have reservations about a central one since I've seen many spinoffs and other websites come and go over the years, and would like the community to be able to collectively keep things going. With a more legacy architecture, administrators eventually go MIA, shut things down, deal with hosting infrastructure issues (e.g., db/instance failure without backup), etc. BlackOmnimon posted... didn't we have several gamefaqs clones back in the day?Yes, there was a rich ecosystem of them twenty years ago, which tended to run on LAMP stacks but were only online so long as they were managed by their administrators. Now they're mostly gone, because the administrators stopped caring or the sites got hacked. --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Web developers of CE, get in here. Now. |
TheMikh 04/15/24 2:46:22 PM #1 | In light of recent developments, let's hammer out a specification for a satellite/lifeboat CE community.
While there is a decent number of CE discord servers, they tend to be siloed and their cumulative network effects are hampered by the fracturing of communities and discussions within these respective silos. The subreddits also have this same issue. What I would like to build is a forum with the following characteristics:
From a technological standpoint, details to be considered are:
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Topic | Oh FUCK! Current Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board |
TheMikh 04/15/24 1:55:34 PM #287 | NeoBasilisk posted...
so who is creating CELinks?CE has a healthy number of web developers and I could absolutely see the CE spinoff to end all CE spinoffs being a trivial project to ship. --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Oh FUCK! Current Events got the LUE treatment and is now a private board |
TheMikh 04/15/24 1:35:02 PM #233 | jesus christ
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Topic | Post the oldest post of yours that you can find/remember. |
TheMikh 04/15/24 2:20:59 AM #3 | i have a post by my first account from 20 years ago on an old pc game board
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Topic | I thought Civil War was great |
TheMikh 04/14/24 12:31:59 PM #27 | SHRlKE posted...
The fact there were haven't seen it yet, but despite the film's purported lack of plausibility or worldbuilding, that's precisely how civil wars tend to be --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Iran drones currently en route to Israel. |
TheMikh 04/13/24 9:00:31 PM #95 | Junthor posted...
IMO this is a softball attack meant to save face to the Iranian people yet allowing Israeli and US defenses to protect their assets. my thoughts exactly, basically the same style response as in 2020 after trump assassinated soleimani but i doubt israel's going to respond to what is tantamount to a symbolic retaliation with the same restraint as the usa did back then andel posted... ayatollah khomeini was lucky his regime survived the blatant attacks on women that could have toppled it a year ago.khomeini died 35 years ago, you're thinking of khamenei --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | No cap, i can't believe people are still eating papa johns pizza |
TheMikh 04/12/24 3:07:27 PM #54 | MAR10_KarT posted...
I find Papa Johns as bad as Little Caesarscollege was the last time i had either, but papa johns could at least reheat decently little caesar's consistently tasted like cardboard if it wasn't fresh out of the oven --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | No cap, i can't believe people are still eating papa johns pizza |
TheMikh 04/12/24 1:17:29 PM #47 | ClayGuida posted...
Pizza hut is legit the worst. their pizza is meh, but their pasta is pretty alright; i sometimes order it as an excuse to also buy their brownies (which are godtier btw) --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | No cap, i can't believe people are still eating papa johns pizza |
TheMikh 04/12/24 12:24:11 PM #41 | TimeForAction posted...
they've improved dramatically since the 00s, but the food is still at the mercy of the standards of the shop preparing it, and at their best they're still eclipsed by more local chains and small shops --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | No cap, i can't believe people are still eating papa johns pizza |
TheMikh 04/12/24 12:18:13 PM #38 | it's not disgusting, it's just incredibly bland and mid
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Topic | Did you watch the oj simpson trial in the 90s? |
TheMikh 04/11/24 8:09:29 PM #25 | i remember there being extensive news coverage about it, but i was too young to really follow or care
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Topic | I wanna fuck Bulma cause she got some big titties |
TheMikh 04/11/24 12:45:12 PM #5 | that rapper friended me on facebook back in the day
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Topic | WARNING!!! You will blush upon seeing this video |
TheMikh 04/11/24 11:30:11 AM #88 | this topic turned around quickly
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Topic | What are your unpopular gaming opinions? |
TheMikh 04/11/24 2:37:25 AM #44 | gaming died when the industry went crazy with drm, dlc, and digital distribution in general
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Topic | WARNING!!! You will blush upon seeing this video |
TheMikh 04/10/24 11:46:32 PM #82 | Aztex posted...
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Topic | Can someone explain tipping tattoo artists to me? |
TheMikh 04/10/24 2:22:30 PM #13 | RetuenOfDevsman posted...
i chuckled --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | WARNING!!! You will blush upon seeing this video |
TheMikh 04/10/24 12:01:42 AM #40 | Jupiter posted...
Wtf did I miss?my thoughts exactly --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | Wikipedia |
TheMikh 04/08/24 4:02:38 PM #3 | i love falling into wikipedia rabbit holes
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Topic | I looked at the eclipse without glasses |
TheMikh 04/08/24 3:38:12 PM #22 | ProfOaksAide posted...
During totality its safe to look without glasses because the sun is 100% blocked. The corona is just a bunch of gas, it doesnt harm your eyes.ah, that's good to hear. it really was an awe to behold. --- http://i.imgur.com/A0TAfek.png |
Topic | What is your reaction to the eclipse? |
TheMikh 04/08/24 3:31:24 PM #13 | the real eclipse was the friends we made along the way
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