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Tippis posted:Vista finally forced anyone wanting to work in the Windows eco system to learn about permissions and user spaces, and at least make some vague attempt at trying to stick to the reservation as far as where to put what data. Even so, opening up your %USERPROFILE%\AppData and see the torrent of assorted junk that gets thrown in there with no rhyme or reason, or looking in the HKLM\Software and HKCU\Software branches of the registry, and you'll quickly realise that the dumb is not gone — just mildly reined in. I encountered this just yesterday when I was wondering why the gently caress my partition just for the windows install was almost full when it had not started out that way. Apparently Spotify just shits out endless amounts of music caching into its folder there. There was almost as much just random Chrome stuff in there. This is why all Windows installs inevitably end up bogging down with files just lying around all over the place. Installing something will end up with files spread around in 50 different folders, registry entries, and who knows what else. And the uninstallers never properly clean up everything. 
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Feb 9, 2020 18:25
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I'm sure the answer is hilarious but why, exactly, are Citizens hating on literally the only good hard scifi show in decades?
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Feb 9, 2020 18:55
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Dwesa posted:These idiots just can't let go. This is such a funny little dumpster fire. It brings a smile to my face picturing Lando and Chris, both clearly fans of the show, stuck in a place where they can’t tell their manbaby battalion to SHUT THE HELL UP YOU IDIOTS YOU’RE MAKING US LOOK LIKE LUNATICS because this is exactly what they’ve trained them to do, and CIG needs the manbaby money far more than they care to protect their brand.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Still get a chuckle from the SC patch notes to delete your user folder. Recently some Ubisoft game update occurred or other, and people couldn't launch their game. Hundreds of posts, eventually the solution was shared: reinstall the launcher. The actual cause was a corrupt cache file - nothing more. A reinstall just winds up removing the offending file while tossing the baby out with the bathwater. Even better is when the uninstaller doesn't remove the cache file, so the person thinks there's something wrong with the PC, since the app never works again even if removed and reinstalled. Then they're off the the races going deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole trying to find increasingly unlikely and esoteric causes for their problem. Nearly every time this occurs you can point the finger squarely at bad app development. In TYOOL 2020 is it really ultra-critical that I have registry entries in place to play Doom? That's where you're storing the super-important shooty-mans data - the operating system registry? Star Citizen doesn't even do that properly - their registry entry is a raw GUID with pointless data in it. I've worked with different bizarre operating systems over the years (OS/2 being to me the oddest) and Windows winds up getting the lion's share of the hate, and I think it's because the OS is far too permissive with what it allows app developers to get away with. You can install an innocuous app and wind up with cache files filling up 5 different spots all over the place (as pointed out earlier) and it takes its toll. Portable apps are the poo poo and there aren't enough of them.
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Feb 9, 2020 18:58
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precision posted:I'm sure the answer is hilarious but why, exactly, are Citizens hating on literally the only good hard scifi show in decades? Association. They're legitimizing themselves as equal to it by engaging with it.
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Fidelitious posted:I encountered this just yesterday when I was wondering why the gently caress my partition just for the windows install was almost full when it had not started out that way. Apparently Spotify just shits out endless amounts of music caching into its folder there. There was almost as much just random Chrome stuff in there. Good old CCleaner is your friend, definately look it up. Won't do poo poo about SC, though.
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Feb 9, 2020 19:15
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Doc M posted:Goddamn it DF why are you letting let Alex shill for this bullshit, you should be so much better than this
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Feb 9, 2020 19:21
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precision posted:I'm sure the answer is hilarious but why, exactly, are Citizens hating on literally the only good hard scifi show in decades? In order to be an SC zealot at this point involves being quite myopic, among other things. Clearly SC is the BDSSE, clearly it's just a matter of time, and clearly every person/media/property/etc. I engage with feels exactly the same way. So when this balance is upset by sempai noticing that SC is bad; you have to make room in your mind that they are clearly wrong and were always wrong.
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Feb 9, 2020 19:22
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Bronze Fonz posted:Good old CCleaner is your friend, definately look it up. Fill out a trouble ticket.
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Feb 9, 2020 19:26
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Someone in the ResetEra thread dared to be critical and the guy who made the video came in like a bit whiny baby defending this crap. Yeah the OCS use and volumetric scale have never been done before apparently Citizens are patrolling the gate now quote:Maybe this series isn't for you?
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Feb 9, 2020 19:33
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Someone in the ResetEra thread dared to be critical and the guy who made the video came in like a bit whiny baby defending this crap. Yeah they do that. This guy (Alex) and the other guy in particular (John?) has had several meltdowns on Twitter when he receives pushback, eventually caused me to unfollow as it was such a constant cringe stream of how mean everyone is.
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Aw, John does that poo poo as well? I haven't paid much attention to Twitter in a long while, but that's unfortunate because I really like his content. The DF guys probably receive a bunch of lovely comments from idiot fanboys who get mad about their comparison analyses so I understand not wanting to deal with that, but if they get mad about legitimate criticism that really sucks.
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Feb 9, 2020 19:49
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monkeytek posted:gently caress, am I doing? Even without the names I know who these people are. I need a few minutes to reassess my life brb. ‘Gift’ is when you hand someone money. ‘Donation’ is a gift that you can claim tax back on. ‘Investments’ vest over time and you’re supposed to declare those on tax forms, because there is an expectation one way or the other that money will happen. These people are loving idiots that believe you can massage semantics to mean anything. If you happen to be at the Nanog 78 hackathon. Come say hello. I’m wearing a grey Panoptes shirt.
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Feb 9, 2020 19:54
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Quavers posted:https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-star-citizen-tech-focus-alpha-3-point-8
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precision posted:I'm sure the answer is hilarious but why, exactly, are Citizens hating on literally the only good hard scifi show in decades? cause primes cost like a hunnert dollahs an books am hard.
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Doc M posted:Aw, John does that poo poo as well? I haven't paid much attention to Twitter in a long while, but that's unfortunate because I really like his content.
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Quavers posted:https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-star-citizen-tech-focus-alpha-3-point-8 Has this guy never heard of ED, NMS, Kerbal, Universe Simulator, or others?
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I found the missing WTF. Beginning at 03:59 this self fisting inbred troglodyte exploits science about real loving life and death. You are not smart and you make anyone dumb enough to watch and take you seriously even dumber. Go the gently caress away.
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El Grillo posted:What the christ is this. This is awful "One way around the dilemma would be to keep all the assets in memory all the time" Yeah, CIG tried that, then invented some tech that has been invented many times before to solve it... but their new version didn't work as well as other devs did it. Oh, wait... he said "it does it efficiently".... Ok, i dub this one to be a paid shill or a heavily invested backer. EDIT: Oh my god, he played the "never been done before" card! When talking about rendering large volumes of dust/gas. My shillometer just exploded. I'm wondering, when backers watch this sort of thing, and believe what the person is saying, do their memories just self-wipe any facts that might contradict what is being said. Like, do they just forget whole games that have done things like SC is doing from their memories? Or do they file it under "Ah, but nobody has done this with X, Y, Z, on this particular scale, in this particular genre, using this particular engine before", and therfore have enough cavets to say its never been done before (exactly like this). Agony Aunt fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Feb 9, 2020 |
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Way worse than Alex from what I've seen, albeit in a slightly different way. He doesn't seem to be that...stable, I mean I would last prob 10 mins dealing with fanboys too as I would just respond with pigpoopballs.jpg constantly, but he was constantly posting how the criticism was basically driving him to self-harm and no one understands how hard he works. Again, his content is really good and he genuinely does put a shitton of work into it, especially DF Retro, but if he treats all criticism like personal attacks I can see that getting annoying.
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Dwesa posted:The saga continues  :I think it's ironic how "gamers" have such a shallow understanding of the industry. The Expanse is little more than glorified fan fiction. Even as an unfinished game, SC has a bigger army. I think that's why expanse fans are mad
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ClownBobo posted:I found the missing WTF. Beginning at 03:59 this self fisting inbred troglodyte exploits science about real loving life and death. You are not smart and you make anyone dumb enough to watch and take you seriously even dumber. Go the gently caress away. This isn't Reddit and you're not actually responding to the person in question
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"Chris Roberts is a bi-polar sociopath delusions of grandeur crack head." & other refreshing zephyrs of Aussie wisdom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tobAxtM1iSs Reaction to Uncle Toucher's Island of Misfit Producers video is hilarious. The why Crysis Planet Theater Wars will fail just like AC and SM did before it makes some sense and may be worth a listen. Star Citizen: Why anyone who ever received a participation trophy shouldn't be in charge of anything.
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Agony Aunt posted:Has this guy never heard of ED, NMS, Kerbal, Universe Simulator, or others? I am sure he has. But those probably have not donated to his patreon.
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Hav posted:‘Gift’ is when you hand someone money. You left out 'Pledge' my friend.
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That Citizen Tech Talk video was not at all what I expected. This is full on heretic content. This is DSmart levels of FUD.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Someone in the ResetEra thread dared to be critical and the guy who made the video came in like a bit whiny baby defending this crap. yeah it's not the first time. dude's a full Citizen
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IAbsolveMyself posted:That Citizen Tech Talk video was not at all what I expected. This is full on heretic content. This is DSmart levels of FUD. Value for your attention paying dollar.
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IAbsolveMyself posted:That Citizen Tech Talk video was not at all what I expected. This is full on heretic content. This is DSmart levels of FUD. What the world needs is a DSmart bobble head.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Someone in the ResetEra thread dared to be critical and the guy who made the video came in like a bit whiny baby defending this crap. 2 pages in. "As you can see from his post history...." What is it with these guys and post-history stalking? The redditors do it too. And they openly brag about it?
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Sample_text posted:2 pages in. TO BEAT THE MAN YOU HAVE TO CHEAT THE MAN (out of his argument with slander)
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Sample_text posted:2 pages in. yeah we may stalk people but we know we're scum
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Scruffpuff posted:There are so many bad IT people out there, and many of them work for very high-profile companies. Next time you wonder how Huge Company X got all their client's data stolen, don't. You already know exactly how it happened. 2001: "I installed something at random from the internet!" - an idiot who risks getting fired for incompetence 2020: "I used docker and it just works!" - a creative genius who's really going places It's not surprising anymore. If modern security experts were trying to secure a house they'd have you cement over tiny windows and post snipers above them while leaving the front door wide open. While it takes a whole new level of incompetence to gently caress up a windows install, which random unpaid devs on the internet manage to work out, the "fixes" do not surprise me in the slightest. Agony Aunt posted:Or do they file it under "Ah, but nobody has done this with X, Y, Z, on this particular scale, in this particular genre, using this particular engine before", and therfore have enough cavets to say its never been done before (exactly like this). First you say it's never been done before, which to the cult and anyone barely paying attention to games sounds reasonable. If someone contradicts this you say it's a matter of scale, which may/may not be true depending on the subject matter. The final mic drop moment is dreams.txt, which absolutely no one can argue against because CIG is still in business and therefore anything is possible.
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Agony Aunt posted:Has this guy never heard of ED, NMS, Kerbal, Universe Simulator, or others? A crucial part of being a true Citizen is not having played a video game since 1995. Related: claiming the most popular currently active sci-fi franchise is fanfiction.
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ClownBobo posted:I found the missing WTF. Beginning at 03:59 this self fisting inbred troglodyte exploits science about real loving life and death. You are not smart and you make anyone dumb enough to watch and take you seriously even dumber. Go the gently caress away. Your posting doesn’t make a lick of sense.
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Dementropy posted:So, does low level troll still a thing in 2020 ? 2021?... no doubt about that at all But yet so, so far away. Edit: it's pre-alpha, I'm a dummy
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