one of the cool things about the LIGO and Advanced LIGO organization (what just announced the detection of gravitational waves) is that they have a team whose job is to insert fake data into the stream generated by the instruments. They then see if the rest of the team picks up on the signal and analyses it properly. So they can essentially run checks on the human components of the project.
one of the cool things about the LIGO and Advanced LIGO organization (what just announced the detection of gravitational waves) is that they have a team whose job is to insert fake data into the stream generated by the instruments. They then see if the rest of the team picks up on the signal and analyses is properly. So they can essentially run checks on the human components of the project.
there was a false positive recently (or maybe like a year or two ago?) because of this i think
they were all like WOO WE FOUND SOMETHING
and what they found was a fake signal planted to make sure they could tell the difference
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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Speaking of Ben Kingsley playing Persians if you haven't watched House of Sand and Fog go do that now
Apparently Phil Spencer of XBOX and some guy named CrapGamer are now feuding on Twitter a little. Because Quantum Break got announced as coming to PC as well, and apparently this is a betrayal of Xbox gamers. Phil Spencer rightly pointed out "You cancelled a pre-order for a game you want to play because someone else get's to play the game on Windows?"
XBOX gamers are apparently very salty that there's becoming less and less of a reason to actually own a console.
Yeach. How dare others have an experience I desire on a different platform.
A Kickstarter I backed just added some stuff to the base level that was included at a higher level because the designer really thought they made a huge difference and the big capital costs were paid for. He put out an update saying that and asking for feedback. I'm amazed at the people who were all aggrieved that he wanted to reduce his profit margins on some games to make it better in a way they also already got (as a small portion of the more money they spent.)
Happily the majority of comments were all positive and the creator is even allowing folks to downgrade pledges.
Inspections are the #1 reason I want to own a home.
I'm a clutter bug (shit is all over my table) and I hate having to clean my clutter.
WHERE AM I GOING TO PUT ALL THIS JUNK MAIL HUH!?
The trash? Pft, no way that's silly!
Your apartment gets inspected?
vat is dis?
My current one doesn't.
My previous one would announce random searches twice a year, then do a yearly one around your renewal date.
It was annoying. I was paying like $700 a month for a 1 bedroom. But they also did section 8 at this complex, so my neighbors typically were not the kind of people you wanted to associate with. The day after I moved out, someone set fire to the building because he was fucking crazy.
It was a high school coming of age show set in 1997.
And then everyone graduated and it was for a little bit a college coming of age show set in 1998.
And now it's timeskipped and it's 2005 and everyone has come of age but it just keeps on going.
what
what are you watching?
BuffY?
Answer Me 1997, kdrama
It was a HS romance
Now instead it's a "reconnecting with that old HS friend that things never quite worked out with" show
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
It is interesting, in board games about lying and betrayal, when people are genuinely upset by being fooled
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
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I think the first Resident Evil movie is actually pretty decent.
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Apparently Phil Spencer of XBOX and some guy named CrapGamer are now feuding on Twitter a little. Because Quantum Break got announced as coming to PC as well, and apparently this is a betrayal of Xbox gamers. Phil Spencer rightly pointed out "You cancelled a pre-order for a game you want to play because someone else get's to play the game on Windows?"
XBOX gamers are apparently very salty that there's becoming less and less of a reason to actually own a console.
Yeach. How dare others have an experience I desire on a different platform.
A Kickstarter I backed just added some stuff to the base level that was included at a higher level because the designer really thought they made a huge difference and the big capital costs were paid for. He put out an update saying that and asking for feedback. I'm amazed at the people who were all aggrieved that he wanted to reduce his profit margins on some games to make it better in a way they also already got (as a small portion of the more money they spent.)
Happily the majority of comments were all positive and the creator is even allowing folks to downgrade pledges.
Maybe it's more "I spent $450 on this thing because you told me these games were exclusive, and now you've changed your tune and I have basically wasted my money because I already have a PC"?
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
Inspections are the #1 reason I want to own a home.
I'm a clutter bug (shit is all over my table) and I hate having to clean my clutter.
WHERE AM I GOING TO PUT ALL THIS JUNK MAIL HUH!?
The trash? Pft, no way that's silly!
Your apartment gets inspected?
vat is dis?
My current one doesn't.
My previous one would announce random searches twice a year, then do a yearly one around your renewal date.
It was annoying. I was paying like $700 a month for a 1 bedroom. But they also did section 8 at this complex, so my neighbors typically were not the kind of people you wanted to associate with. The day after I moved out, someone set fire to the building because he was fucking crazy.
It is interesting, in board games about lying and betrayal, when people are genuinely upset by being fooled
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
most of the time when people are genuinely upset by being fooled in board games about lying, it's not for any reason as thoughtful and legitimate as that?
it's just an incoherent reflexive irritation at someone who lied and screwed them over, a failure to take their lumps as agreed, their disappointment at their failure leaking through mental firewalls into aggressively lashing out
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It is interesting, in board games about lying and betrayal, when people are genuinely upset by being fooled
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
you know that card game BS where you say you are laying down two kings or whatever but you instead laid down deuces and they have to guess what you laid down?
my way of cheating at that game was to line up 3 or 4 cards tightly together and then put them down and say '2 sixes' and the top two cards would be sixes...
anyway, i think it's kinda funny that i cheated at a game where the core tenet of the game is to cheat and lie, yet i cheated outside the scope of the cheating parameters
I liked Prince of Persia, but yes the lack of actual Persians was problematic
It's par for the course
I can't begrudge Ben Kingsley though, he is the epitome of ethnically ambiguous
From his goddamn wikipedia page
Kingsley's father, born in Kenya, was of Gujarati Indian (Ismaili Muslim Khoja) descent.[8] Kingsley's paternal grandfather was an extremely successful spice trader who had moved from India to Zanzibar, where Kingsley's father lived until moving to Britain at the age of 14.[9][10][11] Kingsley's mother was British; she was born out of wedlock, and "was loath to speak of her background".[12][13] Kingsley's maternal grandfather was believed by the family to have been of Russian- or German-Jewish descent, while Kingsley's maternal grandmother was of English background, and worked in the garment district of East London.[14] Kingsley stated in 1994: "I'm not Jewish... and though there might be some Russian-Jewish heritage way back on my mother's side, the thread is so fine there's no real evidence
That entire paragraph is just bananas, but "an extremely successful spice trader who had moved from India to Zanzibar" is just amazing.
Inspections are the #1 reason I want to own a home.
I'm a clutter bug (shit is all over my table) and I hate having to clean my clutter.
WHERE AM I GOING TO PUT ALL THIS JUNK MAIL HUH!?
The trash? Pft, no way that's silly!
Your apartment gets inspected?
vat is dis?
My current one doesn't.
My previous one would announce random searches twice a year, then do a yearly one around your renewal date.
It was annoying. I was paying like $700 a month for a 1 bedroom. But they also did section 8 at this complex, so my neighbors typically were not the kind of people you wanted to associate with. The day after I moved out, someone set fire to the building because he was fucking crazy.
https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=VywdH7lrn3s
(this one happened 2 years earlier actually, but fuck that place, bunch of fucking crazies and they're basically slum lords)
Holy crap. 3 inspections would be super annoying, but fucking hell if fires are breaking out like crazy, I'd be doing inspections too.
Wouldn't help if you have crazy people setting fire to their walls.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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Apparently Phil Spencer of XBOX and some guy named CrapGamer are now feuding on Twitter a little. Because Quantum Break got announced as coming to PC as well, and apparently this is a betrayal of Xbox gamers. Phil Spencer rightly pointed out "You cancelled a pre-order for a game you want to play because someone else get's to play the game on Windows?"
XBOX gamers are apparently very salty that there's becoming less and less of a reason to actually own a console.
Yeach. How dare others have an experience I desire on a different platform.
A Kickstarter I backed just added some stuff to the base level that was included at a higher level because the designer really thought they made a huge difference and the big capital costs were paid for. He put out an update saying that and asking for feedback. I'm amazed at the people who were all aggrieved that he wanted to reduce his profit margins on some games to make it better in a way they also already got (as a small portion of the more money they spent.)
Happily the majority of comments were all positive and the creator is even allowing folks to downgrade pledges.
Maybe it's more "I spent $450 on this thing because you told me these games were exclusive, and now you've changed your tune and I have basically wasted my money because I already have a PC"?
The step is 20 and includes a bunch of other stuff. They're talking about less than a dollar in vacuum formed boxes.
Oh, wait, on the Xbox thing. Eh. I sorta get that but not really. If you didn't realize after hearing the hardware specs that practically every console game is gonna end up on Windows, especially Xbox ones, then I don't know what to say.
It is interesting, in board games about lying and betrayal, when people are genuinely upset by being fooled
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
most of the time when people are genuinely upset by being fooled in board games about lying, it's not for any reason as thoughtful and legitimate as that?
it's just an incoherent reflexive irritation at someone who lied and screwed them over, a failure to take their lumps as agreed, their disappointment at their failure leaking through mental firewalls into aggressively lashing out
I'm just theorizing. My gaming group is a harsh and unyielding landscape where only victory matters and no one can be trusted, so when we are fooled by someone we excoriate ourselves for believing their stupid, ugly, lying face in the first place
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
It is interesting, in board games about lying and betrayal, when people are genuinely upset by being fooled
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
you know that card game BS where you say you are laying down two kings or whatever but you instead laid down deuces and they have to guess what you laid down?
my way of cheating at that game was to line up 3 or 4 cards tightly together and then put them down and say '2 sixes' and the top two cards would be sixes...
anyway, i think it's kinda funny that i cheated at a game where the core tenet of the game is to cheat and lie, yet i cheated outside the scope of the cheating parameters
huh, that was a commonly accepted (and often used!) strategy when we played
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
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Ben Kingsley's early life reads like something you'd read as the backstory on a Steampunk RPG character sheet.
It is interesting, in board games about lying and betrayal, when people are genuinely upset by being fooled
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
most of the time when people are genuinely upset by being fooled in board games about lying, it's not for any reason as thoughtful and legitimate as that?
it's just an incoherent reflexive irritation at someone who lied and screwed them over, a failure to take their lumps as agreed, their disappointment at their failure leaking through mental firewalls into aggressively lashing out
That seems like a very uncharitable view of humanity
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
It is interesting, in board games about lying and betrayal, when people are genuinely upset by being fooled
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
most of the time when people are genuinely upset by being fooled in board games about lying, it's not for any reason as thoughtful and legitimate as that?
it's just an incoherent reflexive irritation at someone who lied and screwed them over, a failure to take their lumps as agreed, their disappointment at their failure leaking through mental firewalls into aggressively lashing out
I'm just theorizing. My gaming group is a harsh and unyielding landscape where only victory matters and no one can be trusted, so when we are fooled by someone we excoriate ourselves for believing their stupid, ugly, lying face in the first place
have you played blood rage again or was the taste of their defeat so memorable that they won't get back on the horse
It is interesting, in board games about lying and betrayal, when people are genuinely upset by being fooled
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
most of the time when people are genuinely upset by being fooled in board games about lying, it's not for any reason as thoughtful and legitimate as that?
it's just an incoherent reflexive irritation at someone who lied and screwed them over, a failure to take their lumps as agreed, their disappointment at their failure leaking through mental firewalls into aggressively lashing out
That seems like a very uncharitable view of humanity
Having met the kind of people who play board games,
It is interesting, in board games about lying and betrayal, when people are genuinely upset by being fooled
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
It is interesting, in board games about lying and betrayal, when people are genuinely upset by being fooled
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
most of the time when people are genuinely upset by being fooled in board games about lying, it's not for any reason as thoughtful and legitimate as that?
it's just an incoherent reflexive irritation at someone who lied and screwed them over, a failure to take their lumps as agreed, their disappointment at their failure leaking through mental firewalls into aggressively lashing out
That seems like a very uncharitable view of humanity
naw
Just people aren't robots and board games that require people to not have emotions or to control them well are board games that cause hurt feelings sometimes! Know that and either accept the hurt feelings, only play with very particular groups, or don't play them. Le'chaim!
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Yeah. It was kinda weird.
I know associates who bill out at 210 bucks an hour who would gladly hunt for that dollar
there was a false positive recently (or maybe like a year or two ago?) because of this i think
they were all like WOO WE FOUND SOMETHING
and what they found was a fake signal planted to make sure they could tell the difference
bring a box of kleenex
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Yeach. How dare others have an experience I desire on a different platform.
A Kickstarter I backed just added some stuff to the base level that was included at a higher level because the designer really thought they made a huge difference and the big capital costs were paid for. He put out an update saying that and asking for feedback. I'm amazed at the people who were all aggrieved that he wanted to reduce his profit margins on some games to make it better in a way they also already got (as a small portion of the more money they spent.)
Happily the majority of comments were all positive and the creator is even allowing folks to downgrade pledges.
My current one doesn't.
My previous one would announce random searches twice a year, then do a yearly one around your renewal date.
It was annoying. I was paying like $700 a month for a 1 bedroom. But they also did section 8 at this complex, so my neighbors typically were not the kind of people you wanted to associate with. The day after I moved out, someone set fire to the building because he was fucking crazy.
(this one happened 2 years earlier actually, but fuck that place, bunch of fucking crazies and they're basically slum lords)
Answer Me 1997, kdrama
It was a HS romance
Now instead it's a "reconnecting with that old HS friend that things never quite worked out with" show
Because it's like they have seen, even in a trivial context, how easy it is to dissemble and deceive, and it shakes them, or because they are upset by how a specific person is adept with dishonesty and they can't shake the influence of that knowledge in future interactions
On the one hand, there is a separation between game and reality, but on the other hand... Maybe you SHOULDN'T trust someone who's really, really good at lying as much as you did before.
not anymore i have been working but Sierra Madre
And will apparently take any job.
Maybe it's more "I spent $450 on this thing because you told me these games were exclusive, and now you've changed your tune and I have basically wasted my money because I already have a PC"?
I thought the first Silent Hill movie was pretty decent. Don't hit me!
most of the time when people are genuinely upset by being fooled in board games about lying, it's not for any reason as thoughtful and legitimate as that?
it's just an incoherent reflexive irritation at someone who lied and screwed them over, a failure to take their lumps as agreed, their disappointment at their failure leaking through mental firewalls into aggressively lashing out
you know that card game BS where you say you are laying down two kings or whatever but you instead laid down deuces and they have to guess what you laid down?
my way of cheating at that game was to line up 3 or 4 cards tightly together and then put them down and say '2 sixes' and the top two cards would be sixes...
anyway, i think it's kinda funny that i cheated at a game where the core tenet of the game is to cheat and lie, yet i cheated outside the scope of the cheating parameters
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
This is a guy who wins all kinds of oscars and acclaim and shit and will still say,
"Blood Rayne? Sure, why not."
From his goddamn wikipedia page
That entire paragraph is just bananas, but "an extremely successful spice trader who had moved from India to Zanzibar" is just amazing.
Wouldn't help if you have crazy people setting fire to their walls.
I actually don't disagree. It's one of my wife's favorite horror films funny enough.
Ben Kingsly is who what the characters in Being John Malkovich think John Malkovich is.
The step is 20 and includes a bunch of other stuff. They're talking about less than a dollar in vacuum formed boxes.
Oh, wait, on the Xbox thing. Eh. I sorta get that but not really. If you didn't realize after hearing the hardware specs that practically every console game is gonna end up on Windows, especially Xbox ones, then I don't know what to say.
I'm just theorizing. My gaming group is a harsh and unyielding landscape where only victory matters and no one can be trusted, so when we are fooled by someone we excoriate ourselves for believing their stupid, ugly, lying face in the first place
huh, that was a commonly accepted (and often used!) strategy when we played
That seems like a very uncharitable view of humanity
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
have you played blood rage again or was the taste of their defeat so memorable that they won't get back on the horse
Having met the kind of people who play board games,
Nintento won the console wars.
I never trust Deebs
ever
He's a fucking spy
NNID: Hakkekage
naw
Just people aren't robots and board games that require people to not have emotions or to control them well are board games that cause hurt feelings sometimes! Know that and either accept the hurt feelings, only play with very particular groups, or don't play them. Le'chaim!
If anything consoles seem to be the winning horse?
Again.