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Lotish posted:Not the worst crash, but perhaps the most stunningly stupid. Woulda been better if they straight backed the truck into the bridge imo
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Apr 30, 2016 14:18
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I presume they panicked after realizing it was a one-way street and that led to more bad decisions.
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Apr 30, 2016 14:23
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Murphy Brownback posted:I'm mostly surprised at their restraint and not doing what I thought he was initially doing and blowing them away with the guns on top of the vehicle. I guess they figured they were stuck in an allahu ackbar loop and weren't much of a threat anymore. They might have all been medics, in which case "Opening fire" means "It is no longer a war crime to attack me; please continue shooting at me."
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Apr 30, 2016 14:37
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The Guardian newspaper did a big expose on how nationwide chemist/pharmacy chain Boots is acting shadily and ripping off the taxpayer and their employees. (http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/13/how-boots-went-rogue) A couple of days later they received an impassioned letter from a an independent pharmacist defending Boots: quote:"Submitted this week by a self-described “independent pharmacist”, the letter takes issue with the Guardian’s “portrayal of Boots” for doing “damage ... to a profession I love”. Well... someone forgot to delete markup, comments and hidden data from the file... and it turns out the letter was pretty much written by Boots. quote:"Kaye said he submitted the letter on 21 April to another senior executive at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Tricia Kennerley. It seems to have been passed on to Vergani, and edited the next day over what appears to be at least two sessions. The letter was submitted to the Guardian on 24 April. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/29/boots-investigation-independent-pharmacists-letter-edited-by-head-office lol
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Apr 30, 2016 15:36
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Merijn posted:The laptop is on its way now and we sent the shoes back with a note basically saying Dang, was hoping the shoes were makeshift packing material for the laptop
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Apr 30, 2016 15:55
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I personally can't wait for the 11'8" "self-driving truck" videos in the near future.  Although if I was on the programming team, avoiding that intersection that would probably be one of the first lines of logic I wrote for the AI. fullroundaction has a new favorite as of 17:20 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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Apr 30, 2016 17:12
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fullroundaction posted:I personally can't wait for the 11'8" "self-driving truck" videos in the near future. Just needs a sensor on top of the cab that can detect height-restricted passages in sufficient time as to be able to reroute. Or else marking height restrictions on even consumer GPS.
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Apr 30, 2016 17:44
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http://espn.go.com/espnw/culture/the-buzz/article/15433088/softball-team-loses-championship-walk-premature-celebration?ex_cid=espnfb The best.
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Apr 30, 2016 18:09
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Gstu posted:http://espn.go.com/espnw/culture/the-buzz/article/15433088/softball-team-loses-championship-walk-premature-celebration?ex_cid=espnfb The dancing dads in the bleachers 
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Apr 30, 2016 18:33
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For gamers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz3wZKbb0Pc
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Apr 30, 2016 22:53
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I didn't understand any of it and I play games online.
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Apr 30, 2016 23:01
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A Valve Anti Cheat (VAC) banwave occurred. They used to be pretty common but there hasn't been one in a year(s?) or so. People who are VAC banned lose basically everything on their Steam account. This appears to be a video of a hacker group panicking/whining about being caught in a banwave.
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Apr 30, 2016 23:08
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This poo poo is some Anonymous levels of hacking.
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Apr 30, 2016 23:09
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Paladinus posted:I didn't understand any of it and I play games online. Kids are mad that valve got off their asses and banned a bunch of cheaters http://www.ugcleague.net/forum/showthread.php?48559-Lmaobox-Premium-Detected Bunch of people banned with 5-6k$ "worth" of virtual hats in their inventories and getting banned means you can't trade them anymore.
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Apr 30, 2016 23:09
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Well, at least they have time to go through puberty now.
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Apr 30, 2016 23:11
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The only hack I ever suffered was being given a trillion or so in GTA5 cash
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Evilreaver posted:A Valve Anti Cheat (VAC) banwave occurred. They used to be pretty common but there hasn't been one in a year(s?) or so. People who are VAC banned lose basically everything on their Steam account. You pretty much only lose access to VAC secure servers and games. So I guess if you play a lot of TF2 it's a big deal.
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Apr 30, 2016 23:28
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a bunch of people who got banned were pro tf2 players, so they're probably pretty pissed about it!!
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Nuebot posted:You pretty much only lose access to VAC secure servers and games. So I guess if you play a lot of TF2 it's a big deal. http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=&sort_order=0&category2=8&page=2#sort_by=_ASC&category2=8&page=1 DOTA 2 and the Call of Duty games are also on that list.
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wakeboard easily claims 3rd place
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You Are A Elf posted:Pompous Del Taco manager working the drive-thru treats customers like poo poo after they ask for sauce they never received, customers record manager's arrogant attitude. When I did POS support this was literally every single Del Taco manager. Incredibly rude, demanding, and wouldn't let me remote in to fix the issue. Just yelling at me to fix it without granting me access. I am using "literally" correctly. All of my staff hated seeing "Del Taco" pop up on caller ID. To add some Schadenfreude, I once got to tell a manager/owner at a Del Taco that I couldn't talk to them unless they renewed their support account (several thousand a year), or I could charge them hourly at $175. They acted just like that guy. "Don't you know who I am! Let me talk to your manager! I drive a Dodge Stratus!" I handed him off to the Director of Support and Service who told them where they could stick it. So satisfying. It's nice to have a boss that has your back. He paid, we fixed it.
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I always thought people trying to prove their worth by letting you know what midrange car they drive was STDH, but sure enough a couple years ago I saw someone pull "I drive a Miata!" in real life
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Gstu posted:http://espn.go.com/espnw/culture/the-buzz/article/15433088/softball-team-loses-championship-walk-premature-celebration?ex_cid=espnfb I'm unclear, I thought I knew the rules. Why wasn't the game over when the 2nd base player touched her base? Isn't that a force out? The article says she didn't "record" it. Explain pls. Looking again, is it that the runner got to 2nd base first? Edit: yeah, that's what happened. I just got thrown off by the "recording a force out" line.
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Nuebot posted:You pretty much only lose access to VAC secure servers and games. So I guess if you play a lot of TF2 it's a big deal. You lose all the items in your inventory which can be traded for real money. Some of these people lost hundreds or thousands of pounds in tf2/csgo items.
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Courtesy of the OSHA thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JenZv9VDKI0
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How bad would it have to get before you took the cow costume off?
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Jippa posted:How bad would it have to get before you took the cow costume off? That man is a professional mascot, he'd face death before breaking the Mascot Code and removing his costume head in public 
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Jippa posted:You lose all the items in your inventory which can be traded for real money. Some of these people lost hundreds or thousands of pounds in tf2/csgo items. I have a vac ban and can still buy, trade and sell poo poo. Or at least I could before they started doing the stupid mobile confirmation poo poo and that's just too much effort to bother with for the pittance my inventory's worth.
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Nuebot posted:I have a vac ban and can still buy, trade and sell poo poo. Or at least I could before they started doing the stupid mobile confirmation poo poo and that's just too much effort to bother with for the pittance my inventory's worth. I think they can't legally take the item away if you bought it with real money from the steam store. All the people in the video are traders though. All their stuff would have been exchanged. Apparently one kid had an unusual hat worth $20 k.
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Lol, from the comments: quote:Was that furry porn at 0:02?
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Jippa posted:Apparently one kid had an unusual hat worth $20 k. Jippa posted:hat worth $20 k. Jippa posted:worth
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And it's not even an actual physical hat? Like an ushanka knitted out of nun pubes?
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It's a virtual hat that doesn't even have any in-game effect. It's purely cosmetic.
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ToxicFrog posted:It's a virtual hat that doesn't even have any in-game effect. It's purely cosmetic. If anything they had a detrimental effect because most of the unusual effects were bright, gaudy ones you could see from pretty much anywhere which made it super easy to aim for a headshot. A literal flashing, neon target. It even gave away spies since, IIRC, because when you went invisible for a while the particle effect would still be hovering around thin air. But of course people never shut up about them. No poo poo, one server I played on had a guy who bragged about spending literally two hundred dollars for a hat. He threw a fit every time someone told him to shut the gently caress up and play the game, and since he was friends with the admin he got a ton of people banned for killing him while he was showing off his hat.
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Nuebot posted:It even gave away spies since, IIRC, because when you went invisible for a while the particle effect would still be hovering around thin air. I don't remember that, but I do remember when spies couldn't use an unusual effect in a disguise. It actually made it a little easier spychecking if they were disguised as someone on your team you knew wore an unusual.
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Nuebot posted:But of course people never shut up about them. No poo poo, one server I played on had a guy who bragged about spending literally two hundred dollars for a hat. He threw a fit every time someone told him to shut the gently caress up and play the game, and since he was friends with the admin he got a ton of people banned for killing him while he was showing off his hat. Didn't he know that you could craft hats out of useless finds?
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Stex T posted:Didn't he know that you could craft hats out of useless finds? You can get regular hats that way, but the only way to get the fancy glowy hats requires spending real world money in a crate-based lottery system. Spend 2.50 for a 1% chance of getting one. Or, trading for one, but people won't sell it unless its also for real world dollars. It's pretty nuts how skewed the whole market is based around bright particle effects.
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This turned out to be a lot longer than I thought, so just jump to the bottom if you don't care much about game development issues. In more nerd schadenfreude, someone wrote an article last month about the problem of 'crunch time' in video game development (that is, mandatory unpaid overtime towards the end of development for a given product). It's been a huge issue in video game development (and other software development too) for almost as long as programming has been a thing done by people not living in their parent's basement. For example, here's an essay from 2004, written by a programmer's wife, about how much it damages employees, the people around them, as well as both workplace culture and employee retention in the industry. In some cases, this 'crunch time' can extend for months, as employees are rolled into other urgent projects as soon as their current one completes without any kind of break from (remember, completely uncompensated) 70+ hour work weeks. The gist of the article is that there is some movement on the issue and that it is starting to be addressed, though slowly. Anyway, about a month after that first article came out, Alex St. John (the guy who made DirectX and then became involved with a bunch of companies that made lovely mobile games) wrote a rebuttal. It's kind of bizarre in its hatefulness, chiding programmers as 'wage-slaves' who are just 'pushing a mouse around for a paycheck' whilst going on tangents about how entrepreneurial he was, how he got everything he had by sheer hard work after growing up in the Alaskan wilderness, something something bootstraps, something something lazy kids. Understandably, a lot of people got very angry. This a fantastic line-by-line response that goes through the many and varied problems of St John's views better than I ever could. Shortly after he published the response, someone found his guide to hiring programmers on his blog that advises 'churn and burn' tactics, and that hiring autistic nerds with no social lives is good because you can convince them to just work forever. Also, promote women out of technical areas and into roles that emphasize their 'stronger social skills', because gently caress them if they want to do software engineering or something! One of his biggest critics is his own daughter, who works in tech herself and (privately, but now publicly I guess) told him to go gently caress himself long ago. Ironically, St. John himself burned out of his job at Microsoft, destroying his marriage in the process. Short memories, huh? His blog can be found here. Read about him doubling down on his comments and how he's a REAL MAN who does REAL WORK, unlike those LAZY MILLENNIALS that bitch about being VICTIMIZED who are all vegan or whatever and want work-life balance for some ungodly reason. tl:dr - old video game programmer tells current video game programmers who do shitloads of unpaid hours to suck it up; entire industry (including his daughter) pays him out. He also turns out to be a sexist, racist, ableist, hardcore libertarian rear end in a top hat!
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