/tg/Station 13

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If you wrote that unattended macbooks would be upgraded to windows 10, you run the risk of people purposefully leaving their macs unattended to get the upgrade.

I shudder at the thought of losing your android or ios phone though!

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Nothing major changed between win 8 and win 10, just the issue came to light. It's one of those things which has existed for a while, and adding options to disable it made everyone explode. I dunno, it's weird. Basically what they're gathering is usage and telemetry to see how the OS is actually use...

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... Let's not go there, because I agree with you that privacy is important, except on the specific concern that people care about your porn habits in any particular way. The privacy issues with win 10 have however been overblown far out of proportion. I keep a fairly close eye on windows update and...

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which you aren't

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Struck a nerve? Yes. Enjoy the fact you have a better life, but please don't talk down to those who don't. In other news: NOBODY gives a shit about your porn history. That's only one step below from saying: IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE... I didn't mean it in that wide a context, I meant it specifica...

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That was uncalled for.

In other news: NOBODY gives a shit about your porn history.

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Use this opportunity to remove the annoyance. Obviously nobody cares.

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Daily reminder that you stop getting prompted as soon as you upgrade

I've been on Win10 for about 8 months now and have had zero issues.

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do you guys remember when hornygranny rallied his coderfriends to demand that we oust Errorage from the community... I actually don't remember HG being involved in that.... not that I would know, of course. secretly permaban 6 people As good a story as that may be, it's still false, just like the s...

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That sounds like beardbeard except in funny and forgivable. It does, but beardbeard plays the game on alternate accounts. About 2.5 years ago I looked into beardbeard's activities on the server. He was unbanned a few times on his main account, giving a pretty good starting point to match other acco...

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At this point I don't think Tonto is one person, probably a bunch of people who wish to troll and don't want to be incriminated. If everything we attribute to "Tonto" was actually done by one person, then that is the most disturbed person around. I mean people do get enjoyment from this so...

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Eh, stuff having to get the designer's approval just adds more bureaucracy onto already overhead-heavy pull requests. I have a feeling that this will only come into play for a small percentage of more-or-less randomly selected pull requests. And the amount of input will be in the style of "I se...

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The effect I'd be more concerned about is between two crew members, who are expected to cooperate. Say two engineers. If each is paranoid of the other, they will not cooperate or roleplay. You can see a bit of the effect already in how the CE, CMO and RD begin the round by first determining whether ...

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Speaking as someone who defected to Goon for 6 months and they're basically dancing on a knife's edge with how deadly everything is, it's a shitload of fun. The antags have a ton of extremely deadly toys, but so do you, and you get the throw what you have at them. It's great. There's nothing wrong ...

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Paranoia is the antonym of roleplay. You can target one or the other, but you can't have both. Nobody will roleplay if they are suspicious of everyone.

OpenSS13 of 2007/08 was 'balanced' for paranoia, and it was great. But there was no roleplay to be found.

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Adminhelps parse names, ckeys and such already. It isn't a difficult problem to solve, assuming the number of things it checks for is low, since it IS an O(n*m) process, n being the number of words in the statement and m being the number of words to compare with. If you want to compare phrases you j...

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Is the purpose here to update the voting system or to entice someone to learn MySQL and TGUI?

If it's the former, I'll do it. Quite happy to do this for $200.
If it's the latter, I'll offer assistance to anyone who wishes to learn the technologies.

Relevant:

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See, Takeguru, you have a point, but they do as well. I heard their chief marketing officer interviewed, he basically said that they are aware that they are being pushy, but that alternatives have simply not worked. They are experimenting with how pushy they can be, how many people they can get to u...

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Don't you think it's possible that your client performed a quick format during windows installation and blamed it on an error?

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Also is collection of ANY data on opt-in basis so unreasonable now? Is this the world we live in? As a professional game developer, formerly software developer, allow me to inform you: It is. Data collection is an omnipresent thing, and the added value it gives companies is so great, none of them w...

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It gives you the option to disable everything people find problematic I like how you moved the goalpost from disabling collection of data, to disabling collection of data people find problematic. That's how you spot a shill. That's an unreasonable expectation, unfortunately. All software, including...

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It's a general incremental improvement on most fronts and is essentially a bit better across the board. It also runs much better than the previous versions. If you want a point-by-point breakdown of why it's better, take a look at something like http://www.zdnet.com/topic/windows-10/ or https://www....

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I upgraded to Win 10 more than half a year ago and haven't looked back. It's better than win 7 and win 8.1. All the cries and complaints I hear tend to be about minor things, which you can easily deal with. Most complaints really remind me of TGS' general outrage over every minor change ever. Win 10...

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The only fair way to vote in this (given the limitations of ingame polls) is to give everyone as many possible votes as there are candidates, a vote meaning "I am fine with this person representing me." Someone whose whole opinion is "I don't want this person to represent me" can...

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I think it'd be better if they weren't required in that process at all, outside of deadlocks. Gives them time to do the job of administrating the admin team - something that requires attention and is, in my opinion, done fairly poorly today.

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On a serious note, I think we should redefine what a headmin is meant to actually do. Headmins shouldn't be admins++, there is no need for this. What I think headmins should be doing is being the "admins of admins". Basically whenever someone in the admin team misbehaves, they should look ...

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There are two important roles that need to be filled: - The joke vote - The "nobody wants this guy to win" vote The former is sort of an inevitability, the second is the person who other candidates all rally against to attract more voters: "IF YOU DON'T VOTE, THIS PERSON WILL WIN! :o&...

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Just a reminder that the white/black divide is not an omnipresent thing everywhere in the world. I don't know whether or not this applies to Tenerife or not, but things you may confuse for blackface, racism or racial jokes, may be interpreted differently in the culture they are from.

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It's such a pleasure to use a half decent IDE and strong typed language when you need to do refactoring of this sort. Right click > rename > enter > DONE!

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>smart watches My workmates keep asking me for the time cause their smartwatches are flat What is this madness, it doesn't even tell the time well It's never gone flat on me. Maybe your co workers need a bit of self control. I like it a lot, since I can have my phone perpetually silent and still re...

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wow look at liam here dictating to you the job requirements for disliking a game I stand by my opinion ... --snip-- While that is a perfectly reasonable excuse, when one's played the game for 160 hours, I really don't think the excuse applies anymore. One can spend their time chasing the promised f...

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I stand by my opinion that If you've played a 14 dollar game for 160 hours, you lose the right to give it a negative overall rating in good conscience. Were it a 60 dollar AAA game, then you might have a point, but for a 14 dollar game - no. Spending 160 hours on a game (which means spending lots of...

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Starbound is the 14 dollar game which everyone played for 160 hours and gave a negative review because.

In other words, it's fine.

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I'm learning java java's dead Quite far from it. It's in quite severe decline on the consumer side - even on Android, where C is taking over. Most of the stuff I do for mobile now are written in some sort of language like C# or javascript and then converted to C or that interpreted language thine, ...

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It might not work if you redirect your browser traffic via proxy or VPN, if you have some dumb corporate network settings, if you use ipv6, if someone's doing a MITM on you, etc. Basically the network rules you use to connect to the website need to be the same as the network rules used when connecti...

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How does it convert into dollars from my UK min wage? Also shame it doesn't adjust for location. Another question is what is the "percentage of your time alive playing" based on? World average life span? country average life span? MY life span(because you know)? But also nice tool/calcula...

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Hunger was a bad idea from the start. All it did in regard to roleplay was break roleplay sessions elsewhere on the station because "BRB need to eat because hunger broke my legs". There is no reason to make everyone on the station need to suffer with some dumb mechanic just to make one inh...

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I'm making things, that's why :D It now shows the percentage of time you've spent playing TGS13! :D http://liamlime.com/content/ss13tools/connectionlookup/ I'm interested in knowing how many college degrees I would have gotten with the time I wasted here. Added! Along with how much money you'd've ea...

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other stats: on average there are 72.080 connections per round. Average population is 37.86666667 Meaning on average, people make 1.90 connections per round. Average round length is about 50 minutes. Can't be bothered to calculate this one precisely and PKPenguin321 says it's 50 so it's 50. :D Never...

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I made a thing in like 5 minutes, while waiting for someone to return from the toilet so we could play not-ss13 video games. You can use it to check your connections for yourself: How many connections do I have? I'm also very surprised by how few connections I have - not the 16, that's actually roug...

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I really wish people would read up at least a little bit on the Bartle test . Yes, yes, I know you yourself are a super special snowflake who is inbetween all the categories, but the sort of classification tends to work well in practice, no matter how snowflaky you think you are. People who do valid...

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Don't forget to do the other fun calculation! Divide the number of hours by 40 to get how many working weeks that is, and then multiply by an appropriate wage you'd get wherever you live!

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Lumbermancer wrote:I had an idea once to delay giving out antags, or informing chosen antags that they are antags until 10-15 minutes into the game.

Good idea, but would only work with a subset of antagonist types.

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SS13 has a lot of replayability, but it isn't infinite. Eventually you run into the situation where you've experienced everything you want to experience. The same applies to most games, but while people are happy if they get 10 hours off of some Steam game, they get sad or upset when that happens in...

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Learning your first language has some degree of difficulty. Learning your second language is usually more difficult than your first, because you tend to do it before you've mastered the first one, and you've also taken some quirks from the first language for granted and adapting can be hard. All lan...

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