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whitequark

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catgirl shaped object

"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."

✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧
✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦
✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶
✷ nothing else matters ✷

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astrid, to random
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headmate who fucks up your termios after fronting and doesn't clean up after themself so you have to deal with corrupted output until you call reset or stty sane

whitequark,
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@astrid toothsplitting

whitequark, to random
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the clone(CLONE_VM) syscall creates a headmate

mcc, to random
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Been trying to figure out—in principle, the reason StackOverflow is CC-BY-SA is to allow for community mirrors, right?

Is there any way that I could just get a total local mirror of StackOverflow and search that locally, instead of having to visit StackOverflow which really doesn't deserve my support?

…Or does SO ban scraping, and the only reason for CC-BY-SA was so StackOverflow could (now that the rugpull's happened) claim the right to block u from delerng posts?? CC for them but not for us?

whitequark,
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@mcc https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

whitequark, to random
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why is postgresql so miserable to use

whitequark,
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@4censord literally anything

how do i get a list of tables in the current database? fuck you that's how

whitequark,
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@4censord what was wrong with show tables; again?

whitequark,
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@4censord see the problem with postgres people is that they think unix is a great idea and create commands like "\dt". which i deeply resent having to ever touch

whitequark,
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@bamfic mysql is better

whitequark,
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@bamfic postgres can't even run a count(*) and the losers who develop it deny that it's a problem

get a grip

whitequark,
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oh, right, i forgot: a big part of why postgres is miserable to use is the userbase that denies that there is a problem

typical unix software

whitequark, to random
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batch files are truly a nightmare https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72155863/how-to-process-pathnames-with-within-an-for-f-loop

whitequark, to random
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today's helldivers 2 discovery: it has an unlockable revolver. makes sense, right? lots of games do.

you fire six out of six shots and reload. your character uses a speedloader. makes sense!

you fire two shots and reload.

  • if you're in a fight, your character uses a speedloader, and you lose four
  • if you're not, they reload it round by round, and you lose none

this is an incredible level of attention to detail holy shit. nobody does this!!

whitequark,
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@azonenberg huh, that's pretty impressive actually

whitequark,
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  • with rifles, if you reload, you discard your old magazine. nobody has time to repack rounds when you only have 40 minutes to finish it all
  • but with a shoulder fired autocannon, you load it with clips! so what happens is: if you fired every round, you load two clips into it and then charge. if you fired over five, you load one. if you fired less, you can't reload it
  • this matters a lot
whitequark,
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  • every single reload animation is comprised of multiple steps (remove old mag, insert new, charge if necessary) and you can interrupt it at any point to e.g. switch to your secondary. the game remembers the state of your weapon; e.g. if the only thing remaining was to charge it, your character will just do that
  • Nobody Models This
whitequark,
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@skaverat for sure!

whitequark,
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@azonenberg that's amazing

whitequark,
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  • to call in support, you use a beacon that you configure by pressing UDLR. if your teammate does this, you can see their character using their finger to type it in
  • the beacon is a proper physics object. it bounces, rolls, and drops. think about where you're throwing it!
  • the physics, needless to say, hates you
  • both your character and every one of your enemies are modelled down to the level of individual limbs, with movement actuated by moving said limbs. no limb = less movement
whitequark,
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  • the game features a decent amount of terminals. you configure most of them with a touchscreen. if someone shoots you in the middle of using a terminal, the current state of a terminal, including an unfinished command, remains there and your teammate can finish your input
  • have i mentioned that everything in the game is trying to kill you? it's so good. i use it to relax before sleep. gives me way fewer nightmares
whitequark,
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@porglezomp I think it got more common recently, yeah. I don't actually play a lot of games with firearms so I don't have broad exposure. it's just that I know the older ones don't

whitequark,
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@aud you can solo it too if you REALLY hate yourself. i generally only play with friends because a bunch of people get Weird about all the satirical patriotism they don't realize is satirical

whitequark,
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  • it has the roguelike difficulty curve. the difficulty levels are 1 to 9. i can reliably solo 2/9. i can reliably do 3/9 with one teammate. i can sometimes do 4/9 with one teammate.
  • the game hates me every single step of the way i love it so much T____T
  • the jump in difficulty from 1 to 2 is staggering. so is from 2 to 3. so is from 3 to 4. i've never even tried difficulty 5 because after playing a single round at difficulty 4 i'm covered in so much sweat i need to shower
whitequark,
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@aud solo is quite rewarding too, I play solo a fair bit

whitequark,
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@mindfuck_inc yep!

whitequark,
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@azonenberg amazing!!!

whitequark,
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@jcmrva @aud very doable

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