I have also been relearning how to tell people off when they mistake my gentle demeanor and desire to let people have their say for being a passive victim they can abuse.
So in XCOM 2, it turns out that with silent killer, the chances of reaper detection go up if you shoot a priest to what would be death, but he does stasis
SOMETIMES it turns out that this awakens a group of enemies with a purifier and a MEC III, led by a sectopod
SOMETIMES you're also in range of a pod containing a heavy lancer, a MEC II, and a leader that's... a second sectopod
If your reaper is really far away and all alone and completely in the open because you misunderstood the mechanic, your first soldier going to help might run into three archons and an andromedon
I'll uh
I'll see how this goes
Ironman mode means I live with this now >.>. At least it's avenger defense so I have 12 guys.
Nope I got shot exactly once, due to a preventable fuckup involving mistiming mind control. What even are tactics, what kind of clownshoes operation am I running.
you should for sure be playing on 3 (commander or whatever), although it's probably satisfying/fun to play on 2
Ironman commander feels beatable but also takes effort and you will likely have to restart a few times (I got to a stable point at the end where I'd killed all the chosen, or maybe 2 of the chosen, but then I for whatever reason just stopped playing rather than seeing out the campiagn--I think cause lfx wrapped up his ironman commander run before I did and I didn't want to play xcom alone)
I feel like the avenger defense mission is one of the ones where you can definitely lose, since you have less of a sense for how many pods there will be and what will be in them
So in XCOM 2, it turns out that with silent killer, the chances of reaper detection go up if you shoot a priest to what would be death, but he does stasis
SOMETIMES it turns out that this awakens a group of enemies with a purifier and a MEC III, led by a sectopod
SOMETIMES you're also in range of a pod containing a heavy lancer, a MEC II, and a leader that's... a second sectopod
If your reaper is really far away and all alone and completely in the open because you misunderstood the mechanic, your first soldier going to help might run into three archons and an andromedon
I'll uh
I'll see how this goes
Ironman mode means I live with this now >.>. At least it's avenger defense so I have 12 guys.
Nope I got shot exactly once, due to a preventable fuckup involving mistiming mind control. What even are tactics, what kind of clownshoes operation am I running.
Tactics are for suckers who didn't bring enough grenades.
21st bought me XCOM 2 a few months back and I still need to get around to playing it because I've already got a ridiculous pileup of games I need to finish. EU/W is one of my favorite games of all time, I really need to get to 2.
Its impressive. I was struck by how much better the original me1 (pre glow up) looks than Andromeda. It really wasnt nostalgia me1 really looked better.
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21st bought me XCOM 2 a few months back and I still need to get around to playing it because I've already got a ridiculous pileup of games I need to finish. EU/W is one of my favorite games of all time, I really need to get to 2.
it's one of my favorite games of all time, especially with WotC
it is just...basically perfect at doing what it wants to do. Like I cannot point at an element of the game I'd like to change (ok fine the writing is dumb, but it's totally serviceable and also not important to the game)
Do each of you have a major skill you’re working on in life
I don’t follow
Example?
I guess I wasn’t thinking of a specific category of skill. It has struck me recently, though, how helpful it is for my mental health to be working towards a skill (or to be honing one I possess). I find that a lot of ‘grand’ skills (playing an instrument, speaking a language, running long distances etc) can be so broad that it’s hard to mile-stick progress and thus derive emotional satisfaction along your journey. But if you do manage to break it into smaller checkpoints (or it’s a more specific, focused skill like painting miniatures), I have personally generated a lot of mental wellness from such pursuits
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Do each of you have a major skill you’re working on in life
I don’t follow
Example?
I guess I wasn’t thinking of a specific category of skill. It has struck me recently, though, how helpful it is for my mental health to be working towards a skill (or to be honing one I possess). I find that a lot of ‘grand’ skills (playing an instrument, speaking a language, running long distances etc) can be so broad that it’s hard to mile-stick progress and thus derive emotional satisfaction along your journey. But if you do manage to break it into smaller checkpoints (or it’s a more specific, focused skill like painting miniatures), I have personally generated a lot of mental wellness from such pursuits
painting minis is a weird kind of mental health baromoeter for me. For whatever reason when my depression is bad I just cannot bring myself to do it. When I'm doing better I can. I was doing a lot better recently until a couple weeks ago I fucked up something with my sciatic nerve in my left side. Made it really painful to sit in a chair which made work and most things I like doing really hard. And feeling like I'm doing poorly at work is one of the main triggers for depression for me. But its getting better now. Been doing a lot of exercises the physical therapist gave me.
I'd really appreciate automatic bleeping. If you're doing something a little more "family friendly" and partying up with viewers it removes risk, allows you to use in-game voice chat with randoms at ease, etc. Those levers are something else, though.
I'm morbidly curious about all the "variations". How many they came up with. Also, how they came up with them. Whose job it was to sit down and figure out just how many ways you could say that word. Did they go around the office asking for help. Did there need to be a company-wide announcement, Bill is going to be compiling a super offensive list, please stop reporting him to HR.
I'm morbidly curious about all the "variations". How many they came up with. Also, how they came up with them. Whose job it was to sit down and figure out just how many ways you could say that word. Did they go around the office asking for help. Did there need to be a company-wide announcement, Bill is going to be compiling a super offensive list, please stop reporting him to HR.
I'm morbidly curious about all the "variations". How many they came up with. Also, how they came up with them. Whose job it was to sit down and figure out just how many ways you could say that word. Did they go around the office asking for help. Did there need to be a company-wide announcement, Bill is going to be compiling a super offensive list, please stop reporting him to HR.
once I worked on a natural language processing project where people were looking for possible HR violations among other stuff, and the people on another contractor team were doing a regex/search-based solution and compiled a list of racial slurs and sexually charged terms to search for
it was pretty funny to read
Do each of you have a major skill you’re working on in life
I don’t follow
Example?
I guess I wasn’t thinking of a specific category of skill. It has struck me recently, though, how helpful it is for my mental health to be working towards a skill (or to be honing one I possess). I find that a lot of ‘grand’ skills (playing an instrument, speaking a language, running long distances etc) can be so broad that it’s hard to mile-stick progress and thus derive emotional satisfaction along your journey. But if you do manage to break it into smaller checkpoints (or it’s a more specific, focused skill like painting miniatures), I have personally generated a lot of mental wellness from such pursuits
Yeah I should probably try to be more proactive with this kind of thing...I’ve had several knitting projects “in progress” for over a year because I just never have the desire to work on them instead of doing literally anything else.
I’ve tried to get a few rows each day but I’m also beginning to think I’ve either developed ADHD in middle age, or i always had it but I was never diagnosed because I didn’t exhibit any of the behaviors that typically get a kid looked at for a diagnosis.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I'm morbidly curious about all the "variations". How many they came up with. Also, how they came up with them. Whose job it was to sit down and figure out just how many ways you could say that word. Did they go around the office asking for help. Did there need to be a company-wide announcement, Bill is going to be compiling a super offensive list, please stop reporting him to HR.
If they didn't consult linguists then they're going to have a bad time.
The Avalanches finally put up for preorder the four LP deluxe reissue of Since I Left You they've been teasing for half a decade. Its $64. The email arrived at 7:45 tonight. By 8 they had sold out. The pre orders are already on ebay for $250+...
this 3 part series about the battle of midway is one of the best war documentaries I've ever seen. because of the effort made to focus on exactly what was known to each side and when. to get an idea of how and why the commanders made the decisions they did based on what was known at the time rather than by perfect hindsight.
Biggest issue is they can't detect the difference between talking about, say, the Fag Rag, and calling someone that.
there are nlp techniques that can tell by incorporating surrounding context, but they require a lot of training data, and a simple search/fuzzy match will certainly not do it
I'm morbidly curious about all the "variations". How many they came up with. Also, how they came up with them. Whose job it was to sit down and figure out just how many ways you could say that word. Did they go around the office asking for help. Did there need to be a company-wide announcement, Bill is going to be compiling a super offensive list, please stop reporting him to HR.
once I worked on a natural language processing project where people were looking for possible HR violations among other stuff, and the people on another contractor team were doing a regex/search-based solution and compiled a list of racial slurs and sexually charged terms to search for
it was pretty funny to read
This seems like it's something that could get very awkward very fast when one of the team is suspiciously good at coming up with slurs.
If there was ever a time to sandbag at work, it's the "say all the slurs you can think of" meeting.
Been reading about covid vaccine rollout in the area
man there is some contention on local facebook that is I guess the way to say it is people trying to be woke and having their heart in the right place but at the same time like man that is a minefield NO ONE should wade into save that shit for statisticians, doctors and politicians.
Incidentally the Racist Thesaurus was part of a three volume set sold door to door in the 60s that also included The Whitest Dictionary Ever and Time-Lifes Kitchens and Bathrooms
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Fire Emblem Three Houses has a staggering number of bars to fill up
"Peckerwood is a slur? Who the hell has ever used that in decades outside of using it to refer to their dick?"
"No, we are not banning the words Oreo, Pepsi, toad, and twinkie"
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you should for sure be playing on 3 (commander or whatever), although it's probably satisfying/fun to play on 2
Ironman commander feels beatable but also takes effort and you will likely have to restart a few times (I got to a stable point at the end where I'd killed all the chosen, or maybe 2 of the chosen, but then I for whatever reason just stopped playing rather than seeing out the campiagn--I think cause lfx wrapped up his ironman commander run before I did and I didn't want to play xcom alone)
I feel like the avenger defense mission is one of the ones where you can definitely lose, since you have less of a sense for how many pods there will be and what will be in them
Just going to screw the corners together, we found a YT video of a design we liked were going with that.
I should start an ironman campaign RIGHT NOW at 1 AM on a worknight
wait no I should not do that!
Its impressive. I was struck by how much better the original me1 (pre glow up) looks than Andromeda. It really wasnt nostalgia me1 really looked better.
The one inch punch
it's one of my favorite games of all time, especially with WotC
it is just...basically perfect at doing what it wants to do. Like I cannot point at an element of the game I'd like to change (ok fine the writing is dumb, but it's totally serviceable and also not important to the game)
I guess I wasn’t thinking of a specific category of skill. It has struck me recently, though, how helpful it is for my mental health to be working towards a skill (or to be honing one I possess). I find that a lot of ‘grand’ skills (playing an instrument, speaking a language, running long distances etc) can be so broad that it’s hard to mile-stick progress and thus derive emotional satisfaction along your journey. But if you do manage to break it into smaller checkpoints (or it’s a more specific, focused skill like painting miniatures), I have personally generated a lot of mental wellness from such pursuits
painting minis is a weird kind of mental health baromoeter for me. For whatever reason when my depression is bad I just cannot bring myself to do it. When I'm doing better I can. I was doing a lot better recently until a couple weeks ago I fucked up something with my sciatic nerve in my left side. Made it really painful to sit in a chair which made work and most things I like doing really hard. And feeling like I'm doing poorly at work is one of the main triggers for depression for me. But its getting better now. Been doing a lot of exercises the physical therapist gave me.
once I worked on a natural language processing project where people were looking for possible HR violations among other stuff, and the people on another contractor team were doing a regex/search-based solution and compiled a list of racial slurs and sexually charged terms to search for
it was pretty funny to read
Yeah I should probably try to be more proactive with this kind of thing...I’ve had several knitting projects “in progress” for over a year because I just never have the desire to work on them instead of doing literally anything else.
I’ve tried to get a few rows each day but I’m also beginning to think I’ve either developed ADHD in middle age, or i always had it but I was never diagnosed because I didn’t exhibit any of the behaviors that typically get a kid looked at for a diagnosis.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
If they didn't consult linguists then they're going to have a bad time.
there are nlp techniques that can tell by incorporating surrounding context, but they require a lot of training data, and a simple search/fuzzy match will certainly not do it
This seems like it's something that could get very awkward very fast when one of the team is suspiciously good at coming up with slurs.
If there was ever a time to sandbag at work, it's the "say all the slurs you can think of" meeting.
man there is some contention on local facebook that is I guess the way to say it is people trying to be woke and having their heart in the right place but at the same time like man that is a minefield NO ONE should wade into save that shit for statisticians, doctors and politicians.
Slurs against groups you have never ever heard of
"No, we are not banning the words Oreo, Pepsi, toad, and twinkie"
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And compiling the racist thesaurus
getting mad at video games
I might have woke up the neighbors with laughter.