TET: With Great Power & All That Jazz

[Rojava Free State]

So to recap last night, me and my bro went and grabbed up our friend Brendan, and we stuffed his bike in the back of the car trunk before taking it to his house and throwing it on the driveway. We then drove out to Great Lakes Crossing Outlets, but the mall closed at 7, and we ended up missing it anyhow and ending up in Pontiac. We turned around and ended up going to this park in Macomb Township where we walked up the trailer and got eaten by mosquitos and then we stopped by a liquor store and bought six mikes hards. We threw Brendan behind the wheel and headed to Utica where I chugged three of those shits in like 10 minutes and Josh had 2 before having the third on the walk. And basically we ended up with this: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBiOSKog83z ... q82mk3ce29

[Rojava Free State]

Oh and before all that, I got this stupid letter from T Mobile about their worst outage yet: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBgfaiylkz ... kkx1pgl21i

[The Free Joy State]

Film adaptations rarely match up to the books in my experience (this is most true, I find, if it's a book you love). To fit the length, they always have to cut storylines, merge characters, change things that you find vital for the plot (although, TV adaptations that allow for expansion can match expectations: The Handmaid's Tale series was much better than the 1990 movie; and I still hope for a series adaptation of the Wicked Years series by Gregory Maguire, rather than a glossy film).

There are some film adaptations of books that are very good (I think Dickens, for most modern audiences, works better adapted), but some others range from "fine" to "why, God, why did you let them do this" (the 90s adaptation of Brave New World springs to mind)


I hope it goes well. Stay safe.

Thanks, I am wandering aimlessly about the city today.

So far the bus is empty.

I'm glad the streets don't sound too busy.

Film adaptations rarely match up to the books in my experience (this is most true, I find, if it's a book you love). To fit the length, they always have to cut storylines, merge characters, change things that you find vital for the plot (although, TV adaptations that allow for expansion can match expectations: The Handmaid's Tale series was much better than the 1990 movie; and I still hope for a series adaptation of the Wicked Years series by Gregory Maguire, rather than a glossy film).

True, but it still baffles me, because source material ought to be simple in this case to adapt.
Especially if you focus on first book and not like try to nuclear fusion 2-3 first books of the series into single 90min movie.

Mind you, adaptations where you think it should work well as a fairly simple direct book-to-screen adaptation are sometimes the ones where filmmakers screw up the worst.

Sometimes, screenwriters seem to think, "Meh, I could do better."

Again, I cite the adaptation of Brave New World -- whole plots deleted, new plots added, characters written out, characters written in, characters made homicidal. I'm sorry to mention it twice but... I'm not even sure the screenwriters read the book for that one.

[Izandai]

The thread's been locked now, so I think it's okay to show this off for us to laugh at? I just... Why would you post in a thread this old? How do you FIND a thread this old? It simply baffles me.

I'm going to guess, one of the bots (Bing, Google, etc...) was probably scanning that thread when someone checked the "Who Is Online" page, and someone looked at the thread and posted (not realising how old it was).

It's a mistake that's easy enough to make, if you don't realise the bots go through the site's ancient history (on the other hand, the bots sometimes boost some quite entertaining threads if you're just bored and browsing).

Always advisable to check the last date of the last post, of course; but I can see how it might be done.

Ah, I see. Never looked at that page before, but I get it now. What are those bots? Are they just the crawlers the search engines use to do what they do?

[Immoren]

Summer vacation started now.

[The Free Joy State]

I'm going to guess, one of the bots (Bing, Google, etc...) was probably scanning that thread when someone checked the "Who Is Online" page, and someone looked at the thread and posted (not realising how old it was).

It's a mistake that's easy enough to make, if you don't realise the bots go through the site's ancient history (on the other hand, the bots sometimes boost some quite entertaining threads if you're just bored and browsing).

Always advisable to check the last date of the last post, of course; but I can see how it might be done.

Ah, I see. Never looked at that page before, but I get it now. What are those bots? Are they just the crawlers the search engines use to do what they do?

Yep, as far as I can gather, the bots just create searchable indexes of webpages for the various search engines.

Here you are: Googlebot.

[Izandai]

Ah, I see. Never looked at that page before, but I get it now. What are those bots? Are they just the crawlers the search engines use to do what they do?

Yep, as far as I can gather, the bots just create searchable indexes of webpages for the various search engines.

Here you are: Googlebot.

Huh. I'm a bit surprised the forum is able to detect them like that. Weird.

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

Yep, as far as I can gather, the bots just create searchable indexes of webpages for the various search engines.

Here you are: Googlebot.

Huh. I'm a bit surprised the forum is able to detect them like that. Weird.

It wouldn't be hard to, the forum would just need to detect an HTTP request from an IP belonging to a known Google spider. (In other words, the computer that runs the forums can detect whether a computer trying to access it is a Google bot.)

I think there's a bit more going on than that, though. The forum is probably using a plugin that implements specific functionality for Google.

[Auremena]

Oddest thing about my new laptop is I can pick it up without it falling apart...
I've like, not put the RTX to good use yet, not really got any software to do it with.
Probably just FS2020 when it comes out. Ray tracing on that is gonna be fabbbbbb

[Dumb Ideologies]

Oddest thing about my new laptop is I can pick it up without it falling apart...
I've like, not put the RTX to good use yet, not really got any software to do it with.
Probably just FS2020 when it comes out. Ray tracing on that is gonna be fabbbbbb

ray just messaged me, he doesnt want to be traced

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

Oddest thing about my new laptop is I can pick it up without it falling apart...
I've like, not put the RTX to good use yet, not really got any software to do it with.
Probably just FS2020 when it comes out. Ray tracing on that is gonna be fabbbbbb

ray just messaged me, he doesnt want to be traced

Perhaps he's willing to be cast then, in order to create the graphics of Doom.

[Valentine Z]

ray just messaged me, he doesnt want to be traced

Perhaps he's willing to be cast then, in order to create the graphics of Doom.

Oh good, I hope it won't be Eternally long.

[Hurdergaryp]

ray just messaged me, he doesnt want to be traced

Perhaps he's willing to be cast then, in order to create the graphics of Doom.

Modern day Doom or nineties Doom?

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

Perhaps he's willing to be cast then, in order to create the graphics of Doom.

Oh good, I hope it won't be Eternally long.

It probably won't, but it will almost assuredly be Ultimate and/or Final.

Perhaps he's willing to be cast then, in order to create the graphics of Doom.

Modern day Doom or nineties Doom?

90s Doom used ray casting to create pseudo-3D graphics.

[Rojava Free State]

You ever tell yourself you aren't upset about something but you are and you're just lying to yourself?

Last night my brother was talking about this girl he's been seeing named Melissa, and I told him to just jump into the sea of flames and say fuck it. He said "Mark, you're always just going straight to sex. With you and Xhuliano, it's immediately you're fucking the girl on the first date." I laughed and we made it seem like this comical moment but in my head I thought "honestly this is the best I feel like I can expect at this point man." Me and Brendan (the other guy with us who doesn't share blood relation of any sort with me) have basically just given up on this fairy tale romance shit because let's be honest, it's just not realistic.

The best I can expect is the relationship my friend Violette has with her boyfriend, which is turbulence mixed in with some tender moments. They love each other but God they can be so chaotic when put in the same place. They've fallen in and out so many times I can't even count. If I took a shot of just plain old Bud Lite for every time they had issues, I would die of alcohol poisoning right there. That's the best I can expect which is what I thought my previous relationship was (I highly doubt at this point that my last girlfriend had real feelings for me and wasn't just using me which is why I say I thought it was like that). It isn't that I'm "not good enough." No one is. No matter how attractive or intelligent or nice or funny you are, love isn't a fairytale. And people who even have an imperfect but overall happy relationship are honestly a minority.

I've mostly come around to the idea that the sweet tender shit you see in the movies is crap and isn't real and I should just be glad I got friends, but part of me still wishes it was. Idk, I'm just that guy that wishes he lived in a better world. This romance crap isn't even the worst of it. So I say "man I aint even bothered," but deep down yeah I'm still kinda bothered by it. But you can't change reality so there's no point in complaining about the inevitable now is there?

Just speaking about what's on my mind and all. Overall things are pretty good now for me but that has me a little perturbed.

[Valentine Z]

Finished one homework. Now onto the rest, I suppose. Better early than late. I got 4-5 assignments left.

I don't feel too accomplished finishing that Homework, but there're always next ones! Should have used that time to do my work, but ah, I slept heavily.

[Hurdergaryp]

Modern day Doom or nineties Doom?

90s Doom used ray casting to create pseudo-3D graphics.

And you had to buy the game on floppy disks back in those days, CD-ROM versions of the game were only released years later.

[Auremena]

90s Doom used ray casting to create pseudo-3D graphics.

And you had to buy the game on floppy disks back in those days, CD-ROM versions of the game were only released years later.

I even remember the 5.25" even though at my age I definitely should *not.* I found most 3.5" cases to be rather rigid and the 5.25" to be the "actual" floppy one (yes I know it was about the internal film disc)
Should put all my DOS games on the SD card in my A: slot. Sould be appropriate. What's the highest capacity 3.5" I've ever seen... *maybe* 2.something mb? Yeah this shit's a 64gb (tiny and not very) floppy in that A: drive...

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

90s Doom used ray casting to create pseudo-3D graphics.

And you had to buy the game on floppy disks back in those days, CD-ROM versions of the game were only released years later.

Personally I got the game by illegally downloading Ultimate Doom and installing a source port on my computer.

[Hurdergaryp]

And you had to buy the game on floppy disks back in those days, CD-ROM versions of the game were only released years later.

Personally I got the game by illegally downloading Ultimate Doom and installing a source port on my computer.

And then you became Hackerman and hacked time/space itself in order to send Kung Fury back in time.

[Valrifell]

Accidentally shared my NationStates tab on a lab meeting with the research professor who pays me to analyze data

brb gonna kill myself.

[The Village Green SSR]

Accidentally shared my NationStates tab on a lab meeting with the research professor who pays me to analyze data

brb gonna kill myself.

Please don't end your life, Valrifell.

[Valrifell]

Accidentally shared my NationStates tab on a lab meeting with the research professor who pays me to analyze data

brb gonna kill myself.

Please don't end your life, Valrifell.

I'm being facetious. I'm not the kind of depressive to openly contemplate about it otherwise.

[Heloin]

Spending the day drinking in St. Augustine with friends. Everything’s is great!

[Luziyca]

If it's a WebEx lecture, I do. I don't do as well if they're like "here's the material we didn't cover, here's the essays due, read on your own, and we'll give you final exams :3" like my profs did when my uni switched to online learning at the start of this.

I do prefer in-person classes, and I hope in January 2021, I can go back to campus and learn in person, because that way, I won't be as distracted by the internet. That is also why I don't do well notetaking on a laptop during class.

Well, at least with WebEx you can replay the lectures if you miss something on one hearing right?

This gives me nightmare flashbacks to law school. It was such a struggle in so many classes to stay awake. Somehow I still graduated. Bad times though.

Yeah. For the WebEx lecture for my class last month, I mostly just listened to it while playing some games on a different tab, only checking back whenever the WebEx icon flashed to get my attention. Somehow, I got a 75, though having an open-book exam did help.

If it's a WebEx lecture, I do. I don't do as well if they're like "here's the material we didn't cover, here's the essays due, read on your own, and we'll give you final exams :3" like my profs did when my uni switched to online learning at the start of this.

I do prefer in-person classes, and I hope in January 2021, I can go back to campus and learn in person, because that way, I won't be as distracted by the internet. That is also why I don't do well notetaking on a laptop during class.

I am so glad we didn't have e-lectures back when I was a student. Internet distractions were enough of a problem during all my assignments, and my dissertation.

I hope you can get (safely) back in the class soon. University education is expensive enough as it is.

I hope so: I don't think my classes will be going back until January at the earliest, and I hope they do, if only because of that stats class I need to take for my degree.

Anyway, the weather's forecasting some showers today, and I really need to get the lawn done. I just don't want to.