Rysky |
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G'Morning Rysky,
Heard from Madokar. He says he's got some depression issues, so I sent him to the Mental Health of Gamers thread. Just in case he wants to talk to someone. As for me, I'm getting better day by day. Yesterday, in this thread, I was able to make jokes like I used to.
John
Yay!
*hugs*
Solnes |
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Solnes wrote:It's been five months? It feels both much longer, and surprisingly much shorter since you declared not smoking on fb, and the progress of time spend without smoke.captain yesterday wrote:Congratulations! I myself quit almost ten years ago. Keep at it!Thanks! Its been almost 5 months.. I am super happy!
July 24th 2016 at 5pm... that was my last smoke. :)
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Drejk wrote:July 24th 2016 at 5pm... that was my last smoke. :)Solnes wrote:It's been five months? It feels both much longer, and surprisingly much shorter since you declared not smoking on fb, and the progress of time spend without smoke.captain yesterday wrote:Congratulations! I myself quit almost ten years ago. Keep at it!Thanks! Its been almost 5 months.. I am super happy!
February 12th 1997, sometime between 9-11 p.m.
I went out the next morning and spent all my money on Rifts RPG books so I wouldn't be able to afford smoking for at least 12 days.
Congratulations again! Every day it gets easier. :-)
John Napier 698 |
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John Napier 698 wrote:Hey, Everyone!
I just found my D6 (West End Games) Star Wars books, from when I moved in June. To be specific, I've got: The Role Playing rulebook, the Star Wars sourcebook, the Imperial Sourcebook the Death Star manual, Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and the Last Command sourcebooks.
Huzzah!! Thrawn Trilogy Titles!!!
switching to a Nathan Explosion lyrical progression
Go forth / Play Star Wars / Play it tonight! // Preach it / Thrawn's gospel / For Disney has lied!!
proceeds to headbang with lightsaber mohawk and Force lightning pyrotechnics in the foreground
And, they're still in excellent condition, with only slight wear on the bindings.
John Napier 698 |
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I am glad for all the quitting of smoking...
My first cigarette was also my last one since it nearly killed me.
My mother was like that, too. One day, she suddenly became severely allergic to cigarette smoke and quit cold turkey. But then, Turkey is cold this time of year. :) This was in '65, I think. A year or two before I was born, she said. Me, I never started. Having seen both my mother's parents use Oxygen was good incentive not to.
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Darth Terrigan, Sith Marauder wrote:And, they're still in excellent condition, with only slight wear on the bindings.John Napier 698 wrote:Hey, Everyone!
I just found my D6 (West End Games) Star Wars books, from when I moved in June. To be specific, I've got: The Role Playing rulebook, the Star Wars sourcebook, the Imperial Sourcebook the Death Star manual, Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and the Last Command sourcebooks.
Huzzah!! Thrawn Trilogy Titles!!!
switching to a Nathan Explosion lyrical progression
Go forth / Play Star Wars / Play it tonight! // Preach it / Thrawn's gospel / For Disney has lied!!
proceeds to headbang with lightsaber mohawk and Force lightning pyrotechnics in the foreground
meh. I didn't care for the trilogy. Zahn's works were in serious need of editing and also needed a better font. Squinting at those tiny letters put me to sleep and Jesus, the man could drone on and on and on...
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John Napier 698 wrote:meh. I didn't care for the trilogy. Zahn's works were in serious need of editing and also needed a better font. Squinting at those tiny letters put me to sleep and Jesus, the man could drone on and on and on...Darth Terrigan, Sith Marauder wrote:And, they're still in excellent condition, with only slight wear on the bindings.John Napier 698 wrote:Hey, Everyone!
I just found my D6 (West End Games) Star Wars books, from when I moved in June. To be specific, I've got: The Role Playing rulebook, the Star Wars sourcebook, the Imperial Sourcebook the Death Star manual, Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and the Last Command sourcebooks.
Huzzah!! Thrawn Trilogy Titles!!!
switching to a Nathan Explosion lyrical progression
Go forth / Play Star Wars / Play it tonight! // Preach it / Thrawn's gospel / For Disney has lied!!
proceeds to headbang with lightsaber mohawk and Force lightning pyrotechnics in the foreground
No, Freehold. These aren't the novels. These are the WEG Star Wars Game sourcebooks. The print quality was up to standards. Sorry about the confusion. :)
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Well, let's see. Since graduating High School, I was in the Army, was building maintenance ( i.e. Janitorial ) and at the same time the Assistant cook at a small Pittsburgh restaurant. Then, finally, a Security guard. For the past nineteen years. So all this adds up to me being, let's see, ... 49. I can does math too. :)
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I sooo hate double shifts, especially doing security. I've lost count of all the times that I had to limp home from all the blisters on my feet. Aranna, if you're able to take regular breaks, take the shoes off during them to let your toes expand and relax. It helps, trust me.
Fortunately being a supervisor means I get to retreat to my desk to do important things periodically like kick my shoes off or post to FaWtL. But I still fear for my toes. [joking] I wouldn't be surprised if the next uniform decision by our corporate masters was to make us all wear playboy bunny outfits. it would fit their warped sense of practicality. [/joking]
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There's also a baby shower frenzy time around the end of February and beginning of March. The Easter frenzy, the late spring trampoline frenzy, the new toys frenzy in July, the back to school frenzy, the Halloween frenzy in early September, the got to get the hot toy for the Holiday season so I can hoard it and try to victimize last minute shoppers frenzy, the got to get a Power Wheels vehicle before winter so I have an excuse to not be able to park the SUV in the garage so I have a flimsy pretext to spend the winter in the garage frenzy in late September, the oh shit the costume I got in September is ruined/not current, junior needs a new one frenzy, the holiday season frenzy...
Well, you get the idea, consumers gonna consume. :-)
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There's also a baby shower frenzy time around the end of February and beginning of March. The Easter frenzy, the late spring trampoline frenzy, the new toys frenzy in July, the back to school frenzy, the Halloween frenzy in early September, the got to get the hot toy for the Holiday season so I can hoard it and try to victimize last minute shoppers frenzy, the got to get a Power Wheels vehicle before winter so I have an excuse to not be able to park the SUV in the garage so I have a flimsy pretext to spend the winter in the garage frenzy in late September, the oh s&#~ the costume I got in September is ruined/not current, junior needs a new one frenzy, the holiday season frenzy...
Well, you get the idea, consumers gonna consume. :-)
Especially if the toys are "engineered" to not last very long.
*grumble, Stupid spring in my Christmas X-Wing in '77 broke after a couple days. Stupid, shoddy manufacturing. grumble*TriOmegaZero |
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I sooo hate double shifts, especially doing security. I've lost count of all the times that I had to limp home from all the blisters on my feet.
I recall a particular snafu that messed over one of my sergeants. We had to man tower guard shifts for Bagram, divided into 8 hours each. But the bus took almost an hour to make the circuit on shift changes. So it was anywhere from 8 to 10 hours on the tower.
Since ours was the afternoon shift, we'd show up at 1230, and usually get back around 2200. Only the morning after he went on, we saw him walking back in full gear as we were finishing PT at 0730. Turns out the unit that had the next shift had changed, and the new units detail didn't report in that night. So our man had to pull two 8 hour shifts until the next shift came in. So instead of just having the morning off, he crashed out for the day and reported back in the next day.
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Rysky,
Found the source code for my Starchart mapping program. It's a bit longer than just "a couple hundred lines." There's four hundred and nine lines of code, but it's still trivial. I wrote it in 2009 - 2010. :)
LOL. I have about that many lines of comments in my code, even for simple scripts.
I was trained at a place where the technical documentation was quite literally generated from specially-tagged comments in the code, so you learned to comment everything very very thoroughly...
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captain yesterday wrote:Next you'll tell me that nineties were more than 10 years ago?!captain yesterday wrote:Congratulations! I myself quit almost ten years ago. Keep at it!I's is good at with math.
The General helpfully pointed out it was actually almost twenty years ago.
F+#! you time!
This still surprises me, It only feels like 10 years ago.. or so. And then I remember that I graduated in 2000.. and that was like a loooong time ago,
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Hey, TL.
I've got some very GOOD news. Someone scanned the strategy guide and placed it in a set of cross-linked pages. They can be found here.
P.S. I've also found my Hint Book for Secret of the Silver Blades. When you're ready for that game, let me know.
Forgotten Realms Archives Collection II is on sale now. Contains Pools (of Radiance and of Darkness), Curse, Secrets, and Adventures Unlimited (adventure builder!) plus some other games I never played...
I am not sure if I am sad or happy that my PayPal is empty...
Ah, well, they offer sales for FR archives from time to time, so it's not like the last chance to get them cheaper.
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Speaking of coding, and since I have 5 minutes to spare, even though I work for a megalithic software corporation and see many, many stupid engineering or design decisions every day, some continue to baffle me.
Such as Microsoft Window's unbelievably irritating algorithm that it MUST use a wireless network, no matter how tenuous the connectivity, in preference to a hardwired network, no matter how robust.
Oh, many people will claim that this isn't how Windows works, but try it yourself: Take a Windows 8 or a Windows 10 machine, go somewhere where your wireless connectivity is only one or two bars, hardwire the machine to a 50-100 Mbps line, boot up, and try to do some downloads.
If you're anything like everyone who's visited my house with such a machine, your download will peak at around 1.5 Mbps, IF you're lucky. Hit the "disable wireless" button, and suddenly your download spikes to 50+ Mbps.
WTF, Microsoft?!?!!?
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John Napier 698 wrote:Ooo.Rysky,
Found the source code for my Starchart mapping program. It's a bit longer than just "a couple hundred lines." There's four hundred and nine lines of code, but it's still trivial. I wrote it in 2009 - 2010. :)
What can I say? I got bored at work. Wrote it over a couple of days. The mathematics part was easy. Getting it to properly read and process the input files took longer. :)
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Drejk wrote:This still surprises me, It only feels like 10 years ago.. or so. And then I remember that I graduated in 2000.. and that was like a loooong time ago,captain yesterday wrote:Next you'll tell me that nineties were more than 10 years ago?!captain yesterday wrote:Congratulations! I myself quit almost ten years ago. Keep at it!I's is good at with math.
The General helpfully pointed out it was actually almost twenty years ago.
F+#! you time!
If you graduated any time after 1990, you're still a wee youngster.
John's catching up with me.
And let's hope Haladir or TFY don't show up. (The only two people I know on the boards who are older than me, though I'm sure there are many more in hiding...)
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John Napier 698 wrote:Rysky,
Found the source code for my Starchart mapping program. It's a bit longer than just "a couple hundred lines." There's four hundred and nine lines of code, but it's still trivial. I wrote it in 2009 - 2010. :)
LOL. I have about that many lines of comments in my code, even for simple scripts.
I was trained at a place where the technical documentation was quite literally generated from specially-tagged comments in the code, so you learned to comment everything very very thoroughly...
I comment all my code. I read somewhere that you should program "as if the person who inherits your source is a psychopath who knows where you live". And as an example of non-trivial code, my pet project is modifying the old MS-DOS Small-C compiler to be able to handle structs, unions, and enums. Got a good framework for the structs.
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Solnes wrote:Drejk wrote:This still surprises me, It only feels like 10 years ago.. or so. And then I remember that I graduated in 2000.. and that was like a loooong time ago,captain yesterday wrote:Next you'll tell me that nineties were more than 10 years ago?!captain yesterday wrote:Congratulations! I myself quit almost ten years ago. Keep at it!I's is good at with math.
The General helpfully pointed out it was actually almost twenty years ago.
F+#! you time!
If you graduated any time after 1990, you're still a wee youngster.
John's catching up with me.
And let's hope Haladir or TFY don't show up. (The only two people I know on the boards who are older than me, though I'm sure there are many more in hiding...)
Hardly a wee youngster... but not exactly an old fart either :P
Happily in my mid 30's.
John Napier 698 |
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Speaking of coding, and since I have 5 minutes to spare, even though I work for a megalithic software corporation and see many, many stupid engineering or design decisions every day, some continue to baffle me.
Such as Microsoft Window's unbelievably irritating algorithm that it MUST use a wireless network, no matter how tenuous the connectivity, in preference to a hardwired network, no matter how robust.
Oh, many people will claim that this isn't how Windows works, but try it yourself: Take a Windows 8 or a Windows 10 machine, go somewhere where your wireless connectivity is only one or two bars, hardwire the machine to a 50-100 Mbps line, boot up, and try to do some downloads.
If you're anything like everyone who's visited my house with such a machine, your download will peak at around 1.5 Mbps, IF you're lucky. Hit the "disable wireless" button, and suddenly your download spikes to 50+ Mbps.
WTF, Microsoft?!?!!?
This is what happens when non-programmers decide program features. Someone should boil programming tutorials down to a liquid so they could be used in IV bags.
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Tacticslion wrote:Tacticslion wrote:Tacticslion wrote:Rawr! wrote:Tacticslion wrote:Thanks for keeping the fires burning! :DTacticslion wrote:PAGE THREE BUMP-BA-BUMP-BUMP~!Tacticslion wrote:Oh! And reminding FaWtL to sign up for taig's Twelve Days of Third Partymas Year Two! Make it less likely (statistically) that I'll win anything and more likely (statistically) that you will*!
* By virtue of the fact that, at present, if you're not signed up, you're at 0%, and, therefore, any chance whatsoever increases from that. XD
NEW PAGE BUMP~! Doooooooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiit~!
(If you want to.)I'm glad to!
(Subtle part four bump!)
Return of the bump part five!
Also, thank you all for your prayers and well-wishes: it means much to her.
EDIT: spelling!
PART SEVEN!
(There is nothing else. I have been shamed by maybe missing a page. I dunno. But it's shameful that it might have happened.)
Eight is enough~!
... but not really. See you all next page~!
(Though I'll likely trim the pyramid a bit...)
So sign up, or share this link with your fellow Paizonians!
Free stuff for people! AWESOME free stuff!
If you keep telling people about it I'm going to have to keep increasing my odds.
Puts on bunny ears, a cute little bunny nose, an adorable cotton tail, and grabs a carrot.
That's okay, dignity is overrated anyway.