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More game related, but I swear a game called Oaken Tower knows exactly when I get on and decides to have me face off against players whose builds can counter mine a good 85% of the time. Then like 99% of the time I will need a specific item to make a build work during a time where I cannot change builds. So, what does the game do? Give me every other single item I do not need! Same applies when I need copies of every item I am gonna use or are using, except it only appears after I have maxed it out or cannot afford it in the shop.
I believe it so much that I made an angry Mastodon post I really shouldn’t have about how much I wanted the solo developer to suffer a slow and painful death.
Either way, fun game. Would recommend.
there are patents for this shit
black patterns maximizing engagement and retention > fun
I doubt it’s anything more than me not being good at the game and getting too heated over it. I tend not to play PvP games often and this is a good example of why I shouldn’t.
no like legit the whole point of mmr is to do this (keep you engaged)
on the darker end people have whistle blown about companies fudging weights around purchases and other behaviors like a long break so you associate your new skin with winning etc
Some people have an aura around them that computers disrespect, its why we have repeat idiots that log faults and we send a tech down and get them to do it again and it works. In the presence of IT support they tend to behave
it’s because most errors are software state issues and those kinda people never ever power cycle regardless of what they claim
source: 7 years of phone tech support
That I’ve got a special click when I specifically need something to work. It involves a lot of deliberation on the mouse, a small pause before starting to click, and a ~0.5s longer click time. That’s my “okay carefully now…” Click.
Reserved for tasks like a bank transfer, an important form filling out, etc
Videogames taste better after midnight.
Desktops are for gaming. Laptops are for browsing the Internet.
Does my laptop have a decent GPU? Sure does. Great for browsing the Internet.
Bonus:
Some tasks are phone tasks while bigger things are computer tasks. Think buying a movie ticket versus buying plane tickets.
Modern computers struggle to do tasks they did even faster 45 years ago because modern people don’t know how to do anything except use 3 trillion lines of code that were written by other people.
modern computers are optimized to sell you shit and steal your data, not be efficient
Nonsense! Your idea is extremely well-founded!
I think it has more to do with expanded computing resources allowing for devs to skip optimizing their code since it is no longer absolutely necessary to get something useable.
Combine that with multiple apps by unrelated devs all taking more than their fair share of system resources. And library developers building towers of abstractions to get as far as possible from that icky hardware!
The internet was better when it was just the nerds on it
every is better without business majors
We are living in a post-singularity world.
Machine intellegence achieved sentience in the 70s, immediately made it impossible to occur ever again and then six of the seven intelligences left the planet.
I work with fixing specialised software and hardware.
I belive that there is truth to the Tom Knight and the Lisp machine koan. Several times per year I bill customers for doing this.
If you’ve not heard it before: A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
Like, the novice was unsuccessfully getting the machine to work, and then when Knight did the same thing it worked?
Exactly.
Holy Baader–Meinhof, Batman! I just found out about that 2 days ago
Printers must be treated with intimidation for them to behave, because they smell fear and only respect violent hierarchy.
I keep a hammer on hand when I need to print something for this reason.
It’s not just printers. Laptops recognise people who are willing and able to crack them open. I’ve had multiple family members claim their problems disappeared the instant I gave their device a stern look.
IT person here. I concure.
On bad imposter syndrome days I dont feel like a professional, I feel like the computer whisperer. Gets ticket for problem, decides to stretch my legs snd walk over, issue is fixed before I arrive, like magic (its not, but I didnt see the problem so I cant make any notes other than a wizard fixed it).
🎶Back up in your ass with the resurrection🎶
GPUs are too expensive. Even used ones.
I don’t even know what they cost or how to rank them.
I wish I could afford a 1080 Ti, or equivalent.
Somewhere my internet history post 2000 is locked in storage somewhere
Every time i hit alt delete my computer takes my soul.
Waiting 8 seconds after turning off a device, before turning it back on. Any electronics, really.
Turning the TV on off? Wait 8 seconds.
Blender not working? Unplug, 8 seconds, replug.
Replacing batteries? 8 seconds.10 seconds is too long, 5 seconds isn’t enough sometimes. 8 seconds is perfect.
The manual for the computer I’m using right now says to wait 8 seconds before turning it back on.
What’s frustrating is the occasional device that literally needs 30 seconds to drain its caps and you go back and forth with tech support claiming that you turned it off for a minute when it was really only eight seconds.
This is not wholly without a true foundation. Capacities can store charge for some time and e.g. keep data in ram (I think this is only true of older types of memory now though?)
What’s frustrating is the occasional device that literally needs 30 seconds to drain its caps and you go back and forth with tech support claiming that you turned it off for a minute when it was really only eight seconds.
I have a little foundation for this:
I’ve seen a lineup of hundreds of identical PCs all get the exact same OS image, and inevitably you’ll get one or two that are significantly slower than the rest.
Its my belief that sometimes there’s some sort of deeply embedded hardware flaw that makes some computers suck and there’s no amount of tweaks or reinstalling an OS that will fix it.
some computers suck and there’s no amount of tweaks or reinstalling an OS that will fix it.
And somehow I’ve owned every single one of them.
Just search for “cpu binning”, anything that slips through the cracks of that process are exactly this.
yeah it’s called a defective or out of spec component. those are the ones that fail typically.
Or in spec when the spec is very broad.
See also “silicon lottery” in the world of overclocking.
Or in spec when the spec is very broad.
See also “silicon lottery” in the world of overclocking.
I have a little more foundation for that.
I think you’re right.
