KoboldKomrade [he/him]

Really should be called Summer/Winter timings or something. A Schedule, B Schedule even.

DST being an abbreviation and Standard Time not being one also is a massive failing. Can’t do ST either because it could be a misinput time. EST being STANDARD while EDT daylight makes it even worse.

But like real Americans, we casually accept a subpar system from 100 years ago because we’re fuckin’ lazy.

I was about to say Florida already dropped DST right after I left, but nope they didn’t (Just said they would if congress would???).

States in the south, especially Florida would benefit most from DST. Especially for more touristy and “youth” (<30) areas. (Living in a college town was nice because some businesses would be open to 10pm especially during the longer days.)

I live in the North now, and people/scientists say Standard would be better for health, but honestly, 9-5 jobs/school is still going to be fucked either way.

Either you get an hour of natural light before or after being in a building all day. I’m a night owl so I’d benefit from the DST afternoon hour. My coworker whose a morning gal would benefit from the extra morning hour (likely).

Probably the best solution would be to pick Standard time and force companies to let you come in an hour later/earlier then usual. And let you switch/pick every like 3 months so you can adjust for youself. School requiring busing and scheduling throws a massive wrench in a “good” solution too.

Anyway, we’re likely going to get permenant DST with nothing else. Morning people will complain, people in the middle will support them overall or say nothing, it will be reverted back to switching twice a year, and no one will be happy again.

Listen, I agree I like noon at midday. But I cannot support morning people getting another societal W and the sun setting at 4pm in winter.

Throw us night owls a bone pweeeeease.

In Communist Germany, they central government dictated to factories that workers must take only approved days off.

Just feel like shit. Want them back.

(Too young, barely, to be alive while they were here and I still miss them.)

I cant/dont believe it, but if it somehow is true that Trump called the UK PM and told him to sit and he sat it might be the funniest shit ever. Like it would be such an easy W to turn it around and “be strong” on Trump/American dominance. Can still frame it as “I’m willing to work with America, but the UK people will decide not Americans.” Bunch of libs here would respectfully nod. Like you couldn’t ask for an easier poll boost.

If he rolls over, the UK is so over cooked, they’re officially a part of Anglo cuisine.

No central leadership

Uncritical support to our anarcist algae comrades.

I support the algae in their war against carbon dioxide and the American empire.

If you earned a million dollars every second, it would still take you (nearly) 12 days to equal his wealth.

If you earned a million every year, for a million years, you would have 1 trillion. 1 million years ago hominids had just figured out routine use of firemaking/keeping. Neanderthals had yet to develop. Human “behavioral modernity” is still around 900,000 years away.

If you earned a “more reasonable” 100k a year, it would take 10 million years. 10 million years ago is around the time humans, chimps, and bonobos split from gorrilas. The chimp-human divergance is ~2 million years away.

If you are more of a biblical literalist and the earth is ~6000 years old: You would need to earn over 166,000,000 every year from the time big G rested on sunday till now to earn the same amount.

Wildly swings. (At least from my experience, starting in ~2006 up until ~1.5 years ago.)

Most of the “Jmods” (devs/admins) are decentish usually. Not too outwardly shitty at least. Had pride stuff and stood by it when they got criticism. (Sadly didn’t push in last year’s pride event when their new owners told them to axe it.) Did a woke patch where they smoothed over some of the things that were questionable or bad. (Ex: A quest involving middle-eastern coded peoples had everyone named “Ali” as a joke. You’re looking for a prince named “Ali” and everyone in a town conspires to be THE Ali you’re looking for. After the patch, characters in the town would “revert” to their ‘real’ name after finishing the quest.)

A few (bad) weirdos and creeps over the years;, their communication varies wildly (going from being very open to stupidly hostile for little reason); they’ve had to deal with being british and being fantasy. But overall OK.

The players are usually pretty decent to be around if you’re fairly chill and have a decently strong sense of humor. Like, lots of stoners and (good) weirdos. Some MMO classics like people picking moderately crude names, general anti-social behavior and grifting, being so bored they start acting horny over a tree. But usually not extremely bad. Sometimes though they pull up and do some shit. Lots of people stuck acting both 15 and 35.

There isn’t a culture of “help the noob” ingame, but people generally love to see people doing weird or un-optimal stuff. Lots of resources developed outside the game. Things get documented pretty quickly so it was fairly easy to stay moderately up to date with some of the meta and discussions. (Ex: I made like 10m (a modest but decent amount) off of flipping items because I’d read the reddit and kept up with some market trends/upcoming updates.)

RS definitely isn’t unproblematic, but for being a near 30 year old british fantasy mmo, its MUCH better then you’d expect. Heck, you can change gender and the makeover mage changes to be the opposite of your gender (not exactly omega levels of ‘woke’, but I remember it being fairly casual and chill about the character too.) A quest even forced you to become a female (if male). A free (optional) reversal was offered too. (I think the quest might have changed at some point semi-recently to not force a gender swap.)

TLDR: Runescape is a land of contrasts.

Oh my god, the 3rd reply to the post about this on gog’s forums tried to post the title and couldn’t. So they either blocked some/all unicode (probably a smart/good idea), or already were blocking it (for being nazi or to head off people calling them out). Either way, extremely funny.

To add to it, 4 days ago they released fucking hatred (the edgy spree shooter game with ties to reactionairies). https://www.gog.com/en/news/release_hatred_with_additions_to_the_gog_preservation_program (Title sounds like one of the “RELEASE THIS GAME PLS!!” things but also has a link to the store in there.)

Really cool things going on at gog.

A redditor said they subbed to the email in English, so they got the email in Germany. They were just checking language (which is semi-reasonable from a “do this quick” logic). But is a really funny way to do compliance.

“Yeah this might be illegal in X country, just check if that country’s language is used and comply with the bare minimum. Surely no one outside the country speaks that language, or someone inside speaks another language.”

Loony Toon from Crackermas county. Can’t make this shit up.

Clackamas is close enough

Listen, Eddy is a scammer, a freak, a piece of shit, an abuser of friends, and the embodiment of capitalism.

But he would never actually believe ‘ai’ is human. He might try to sell it for a quarter, but he wouldn’t believe. He’d say as much. And he’d move on at the end of 13 minutes.

Kevin is the one who would believe unironically. Dork.

Good.

I feel like the whole “its a secret teehee” thing was always weird. Like denuvo can easily tell what changes you made (I’ve even thought about doing a bit comparison of some cracked games before but I’m critically lazy and don’t care about learning whats different that much). They know exactly what their software does. Surely they can figure out the general plan you’re using. Whatever process/tools/logic you’re using doesn’t matter as much as whatever hole you’re exploiting.

Like I’m a bad programmer with very little graphical coding experience. I looked at zoo tycoon code like 6 months ago out of curiousity. Even I was able to figure out some of what they were doing to render animals. Same with looking at some old MMO’s code (I wanted to see how they were rendering their sprites and also rip them. They were doing some wild shit, and I had their (public) source.)

I looked at bypassing some games patreon shit. I was able to follow SOME of it despite it being a cluster (and not wanting to do a full decomp/debug). Same with some of the helldivers work arounds.

If I can figure out some of whats going on in like 2 hours while stoned, surely denuvo can figure out what you’re doing in a few weeks with a team or two. I understand not blabbing about it everywhere or very publically, but cmon. I’m 99% certain how was public knowledge, no one wanted to do it.

Should be charged with attempted murder.

Biden invading would have locked us in. Trump invading has gotten enough push back we had/will have to back out.

Either way everyone loses. :(

freeze peach is when a statefunded institution can unilaterally decide what its “independent” press can print.

Setting variables to 0 was something I remember doing during Calc 1. Like, with guidance of the teacher/book. Just to see what would happen or reason about it, etc. (Technically doing more limit -> 0 stuff, but functionally the same.)

So kinda funny to do the equivilant of finding my notebook from that class and saying “hm yes, these private notes of a math student dicking around aren’t completely 100% correct. Therefore they must know no math.”

What’s more important is how you interpret all those “Divisions by zero”. Some were valid, but others failed. Sometimes you CAN figure out what n/0 means. Like, even if the actual value is undefined, you can reason “it would be X if it didn’t go off to infinity”. (Think about a graph that gets close to 0 but never reaches it for example. If infinity were a number, then the function would = 0 at that place. Asymptotes if you can recall that concept.) Sometimes it behaves badly and you can’t pick a value it’d get to.

Its neat because the first part of the class is saying we only work with well defined functions with a lot of rules, and then at the end you get to break some of those rules and see why you have them for the basics.

Calc 1 is great btw. Should be a required class (maybe without ALL of the proofs). Sucks 99% of professors make calc 2 a failure pit.

Also super interesting/funny to hear that the English were still so bitter about Leibnitz like 150 years later that they were behind continental math progress. Leibnitz notation stays winning, suck it Newton.

People over on were pissing themselves over this. Saying Russia was going to invade Germany now.

As if 5000 of America’s finest were holding back the Barbarian Steppe Hordes. Russia really shaking in its boots until 1/10th the population of any one of the biggest colleges in America left Germany. Most of the big sports stadiums can easily hold 2-10x the number of brave men and women that were holding off Putler.

It really is astonishing that libs still think Russia is mere seconds away from sweeping down to Berlin. Reminds me of Parenti saying something like “it would be disrespectful to the American navy to imagine (the Vietnamese) getting in their PT boats and somehow invading California.” Really embarrassing to imply that “our allies” would collapse if it weren’t for 5k guys standing around doing jack shit.