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I forgot my [Petty Complaints] at home
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NipplesThe EchidnaRegistered User regular
NipplesThe EchidnaRegistered User regular
I don't actually have any petty complaints at the moment, but I very much enjoy hearing about everyone else's!
My only complaint really is more just me being lazy and having no motivation whatsoever to clean up my apartment, which desperately could use a deep scrubbing.
My only complaint really is more just me being lazy and having no motivation whatsoever to clean up my apartment, which desperately could use a deep scrubbing.
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PSN:Furlion
My petty complaint is that planned obsolescence is bullshit and I can't do anything meaningful about it
The thing is the burrs are an obvious wear and tear part. They need regularly replaced. They even sell replacements! If I could get the new ones on there it would work as good as new for another probably ten years or however long eclipse had it before me.
I've had it six times, including once after having both shots of the vaccine, when my back surgery relieved twenty years of pressure on nerves in my leg.
Entering and leaving buildings can result in loading screens that are - I shit you not - upwards of two to three minutes long.
And yes, I am playing it on an SSD.
If that solves your problem and you still want to use VSync while actually playing the game, there's a mod for that.
VSync. It synchronizes the frame rate with your monitor refresh rate. Resulting in *rolls dice* several minute long loading times?
Still, it's pretty annoying that you can't do it in the application. I had to disable it using the nvidia control panel.
Not to mention the game's other problems. I've had to reload after getting stuck numerous times in a "moving to terminal" animation that just never ends and can't be cancelled.
Triple A game indeed.
That's just computer bugs in general. There's numerous recorded instances where things like a singular orange or something else completely mundane is literally keeping the entire game from crashing and no one knows why
I can scrap an entire house but I can't clean up the huge pile of dirt in the middle of the floor? I can't get rid of the millions of scraggly weeds and bushes clipping through every building?
What about the corpses of all those ghouls I killed when I first cleared out this settlement? Those will disappear eventually, right? No? Alright then I guess my settlers will just live with ghoul corpses in their house.
There is one bridge leading into your home settlement, the place you will come back to over and over to restock and repair and move the main story along. Directly at the foot of that bridge is a dead raider and a dead dog with a tire iron stuck in its ribs. You can take the tire iron and strip the clothes off the raider if you want, but the bodies will be there forever. Throw them in the river, reduce them to chunky gibs with man-portable atomic weapons, painstakingly drag them for an hour to a cemetery and deposit them in an open grave, doesn't matter. Every time you come home, there will be a dead dog and a dead man lying in the middle of the road. The dead man will eternally be in his underwear if you thoughtlessly stole his shitty clothes the first time you saw him.
The whole game is built like that.
It's so close to being a good game, especially if you can view the minuteman stuff as building a mutual aid network
I bought it new and had it for about 2 years before it headed your way, I'm surprised the burrs are so worn down they already need replacing. Sorry about that!
Oh don't feel bad. It was your daily driver I'm sure you were getting a lot of good use from it. Well loved you could say.
I'm sorry I wanged it so bad
My petty complaint is that second train was running so late, that if the first train had the same delay I would have made it with fifteen minutes to spare -_-
The sucky thing is I'm now in on the burrs and need to somehow get the last screw out of the top and get a new bottom burr carrier. So to get it up and running again is going to cost a screw extractor and high power corded drill and vice grip Plus the cost of the bottom carrier.
I'll get it back in order eventually I'm sure. The motor itself is still built like a tank after all.
PSN:Furlion
Not sure the pool contractors accept membership to the Jelly of the Month club as payment
"one time I accidentally bought a pool" with zero follow-up seems like a really good "please share a fun fact about yourself" kind of thing
The purchasing of the pool was planned, but it was supposed to be a 4 month payment plan. Apparently the buy now button was located just beneath the payment plan button and she hit wrong one. Also to be clear, this is a $400 Walmart above ground pool, not like a $20k actual pool.
PSN:Furlion
Oh, that one's easy to explain, and way more frequent than you might expect in game dev.
First things first: multi-threaded code is hell. Imagine you have one piece of paper and four guys writing and erasing from it at the same time, and if anyone looks at a box with a number in it while someone else is erasing or writing it, they just assume that whatever they can see is the real value. It makes some of the hardest-to-diagnose bugs in computer programming (for instance, ones that straight up don't happen while you're in "slow down so I can see what's happening" mode, because the bugs arise from trying to do everything all at once).
So most places don't even bother! For anything but absolutely mission-critical performance code, everything is done on one thread. Including, in this case, loading the game files. Rather than try to coordinate which files are loaded and when they're available, they just do all loading on the main thread so there is no "guy looking over your shoulder and writing on the same paper". However, loading all the files would take way longer than one of your main update loops, making it look like the game has locked up until loading finishes. They get around this by loading one file at a time per update loop. It looks just fine as long as your framerate can float: you load a file, update a few tiny pieces of information, draw the next frame of the load screen, and repeat until the game's loaded.
But then you turn Vsync on, and you can only render sixty frames per second. Which means that now your process is 1) load a file, 2) update the progress bar, 3) render the frame (wait for the next 1/60th of a second), 4) repeat. Loading finishes in, at best, (# of files) / 60 seconds.
Another game that you can see this in in Control. I found that if I alt-tabbed out of the load screen, it'd almost always be instantly loaded when I came back, because I'd sent it to the taskbar and it skipped all the rendering code so it just loaded everything immediately instead of waiting for the frame to render.
I'm "kupiyupaekio" on Discord.
Me want load faster.
I had to turn vsync back on since turning it off broke other things inside the game.
And I'm at the point where amputation is a good fantasy atm
You could get it replaced with a Swiss army finger
Actually, I have a company issued Mastercard from work, I wonder if I could get them to let me put it on that and just dock my wages. That's probably a weird conversation to have.
Petty complaint: There's a line between "say nothing" and "torrent of words" and I can never fuckin' hit it.
Fair cop, though: it would have been better to say "I know this", which is deceptively like it being easy.
I'm "kupiyupaekio" on Discord.
Ahhh that sounds horrible, I hope it's not too badly fucked
Yesterday, in an attempt to get something to last longer, I got some LED replacements. Took about 2 hours to finally come all the way on, and now they flicker when I hit the switch.
Also, I don't use Apple products. Not really for any reason other than when I got into gaming it was PC or nothing and that led to Android and by the time things became easy to transfer I was already in the PC ecosystem.
Anyway.
My Mom's iPhone 6 finally went to shit. Losing battery in like an hour. She wants a new phone and I navigate Verizon's offers and get her an iPhone SE which looks like the middle of the road when it comes to current iPhones.
So I come over to transfer her settings to find out that her iPhone 6 is like...years behind on iOS updates. Somehow, she's not even signed into her Apple account? What the fuck? I have to update her old phone first and then transfer settings over and Jesus Christ this has already taken like thirty minutes.
Summer Games Done Quick started today and I am trying to watch the stream live on twitch. I put it on my TV and the fucking app will not work at anything higher than 480p. I know it's the app because I can stream other stuff like YouTube and Netflix at 1080 no problem. I can watch it on my phone and cast it to my TV at full resolution. Cheap motherfuckers.
PSN:Furlion
Do you have a dimmer switch? I know CFL bulbs don't like dimmers, nor do LED bulbs if they're not designed for dimmers which is what that behavior sounds like.
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I don't know shit. I possess no special knowledge or training. So every time a problem is brought to me I have to sit there and figure it out. Google it. Maybe watch a YouTube video or something.
All the while wondering why they can't do same.
Then when they're like "How did you do that!?" it's just, "Well, I applied thought and effort."