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just because all mechanically propelled vehicles require tax and insurance here, and you can't tax or insure an electric scooter
yes those are illegal
Do they get used despite their illegality?
yes, and they get confiscated
Or do they just not exist really in Ireland?
someone went to court recently
like a month ago
got 5 points on their license for using one
because that's what you get if you drive a car without insurance
our laws aren't up to date enough to deal with it
what if, and hear my out, you use a brushless DC motor directly to each wheel
then it's not mechanically powered
if it goes on its own, it's an MPV
aw
the only thing that doesn't count is that pedal assist thing for going up hills on a bike
I mean, you'd be going downhill
yeah it's a device that gives your pedalling more oomph
you still have to pedal
yeah but it's still a motor
what if you made the assist SUPER strong
hahaha, no, they thought of that
Are these kinds of electric bike still illegal? They can do 100% of the pedalling so your feet just sit there
bastards
yes they are illegal
i think ireland is just making it illegal to look like a bit of a twat
people thought you could get away with it if you had to push start the scooter
but that's been proven wrong by the courts
also no, it's not that they made it illegal
it's that the laws are oudated
They could surely just choose to not apply those laws too rigorously
this is ireland
that's not really how laws work
unless you're a traveller, then that's how laws work
haha
they chained a foreign woman to a bed to force her to give birth
yeah
that's what started the abortion debate here
nice one fucking ireland
we have abortion now
it seems like we'll get legalised electric mopeds here this year
but it seems like they will also require a full car drivers' license
which is nuts
Do you have the same thing as here where all you need to drive a normal moped is a CBT?
impossible to fail test
if you have a petrol moped or a pushbike or something then no license is required
although the petrol moped needs to be below a certain speed rating
and you end up with fucking twats on the road because of it piers
16 year old little shits practically killing people
our law says that anything up to 49cc doesn't require a license
yeah
that's kinda crazy
the other thing is that I'm not sure an elecric scooter at that low a rating would actually last long enough to get me to work anyway
there are some other nuances to the law as well
my quad is registered as a "mini tractor" which means I can drive it without a license even though it's 750cc
but I can't go over, like, 60km/h or something
you can't drive a quad on a road here
Its a giant faff to do it legally here as well apparently
however, the indicator itself is in mph so for the longest time I drove at 60mph
thinking 60km/h is a lot faster than it actually is
yeah that's almost 100KM/h haha
always thought "wow, 60km/h seems a lot slower in cars" and attributed it to, like, being "in the open" on a quad
the main reason I wanted a moped in the first place was because I didn't need a license
and then learning that the renewable option is entirely illegal
I just
goddamnit haha
How do you currently get to work?
I just get the train... it's free, fast, and always on time
I get a lift from my parents
as I am in school
Scooty
tinnitus is the absolute epitome of mildly infuriating - I really hope theres a cure one day
I wouldn't count on it, but I could use it, too
oh yeah, i only get short ones, from times to times, a few seconds, every other month or so, but i can see how a full time one could be really maddening
That's fairly normal, but those are luckily louder and different from continuous tinnitus I hear
I have it too but it's not prominent at all for me, I only really notice it in bed at night
Mostly tuned out otherwise
I don't even notice it really except when I'm trying to sleep - but in the last few days I feel like its getting worse
My hearing is noticeably damaged in general. I have issues following conversations when there's any other source of sound (or just a chaotic conversation with more than a few individuals). It's worse if I can't rely on visual clues to help me (darkness).
I just tune out
I've pretty much had it my entire life so I don't find it annoying
I only hear it when I either think about it or absolute silence
Yep that's basically it for me too
Why do so many have it here
It's fairly common
I thought it was ~5%
A lot of people don't know they have it
I only realised that's what it was like two weeks ago
I realised a month ago
It took me a week to not constantly think about it and just send myself into a negative spiral
But my hearing is already pretty weird
I can hear some kinds of electrical plugs when they're turned on for example
Mines been slightly bad from birth, I can't compare it to anything so it's fine for me
Wait can't everyone hear that?
God no
Huh
It's so annoying too
None of my plugs do it but some people have things that do it
It's usually cheap stuff that does it
Or speakers if you don't turn them off when you're not using them
I can also hear that sometimes
Yeah, I have it with poor quality lipo charger (think drone batteries) or some phone chargers
Yeah
I assumed it was just the age difference
Yeah
Reminds me of that stupid ringtone they had at school
The teachers were mostly too old to be able to hear it becuase it was so high pitched
But we could all hear it
So a lot of people used it as their message tone
So annoying
Good idea
It's a good idea until everyone starts doing it
I have never seen the point of a ringtone unless you have a handbag
If you're in school it's always near you so vibrate is fine
I don't know what my volume is
On my last phone it used to blare a solo saxophone and it made everyone jump out of their skin
This one is a bit less crazy
Haha
We once had someone who put the minions theme tune on their ringtone
Rang in french class at 100% volume and the teacher was laughing whilst confiscating it
Haha
We had a teacher that had the policy that the first time something happens, that time is free
So the first time a phone went off in the class was free
The camera on my phone went off on its own in my pocket, a clamshell with a screen on the back for selfies
So I got away with that one
Ours is whenever the teacher finds it annoying or you are completely gone from your work
Someone else had an ipod start playing music on its own
Good times
Otherwise they were strict, don't use a phone or they'll take it, sound or not
Haha
My old school banned phones alltogether
You had to have it switched off in schooltime
When instagram was the primary form of communication it can get tricky
My school also banned phones altogether - actually seems pretty effective
They didn't really know how to tell so they let me use it if I was done my work
Banning phones is meh in my eyes
It works pretty well
We'll just find another way to annoy teachers
For us if we didn't distract ourselves with phones it was pushing everyone around and bottle flipping
As long as teachers don't power trip on it, it just lets teachers shut down annoying pricks with one less argument
One of our teachers designed the uniform
And he was strict about people wearing it properly
So one day everyone in our class turned up our collars going into class
Entire room of 40 people with our collars up
Haha
We where going to do that for something similar
He was pissed but he couldn't put us all in detention
They made a very stupid uniform enforcement so we where planning for own clothes but because we where all 8, parents shut it down
The uniform we had was kind of crap
Blue jumper, white polo, grey trousers, all pretty low quality
Girls had the option of a grey skirt and black tights
Yeah
The skirts weren't elasticated or anything so a lot of them elected not to wear it
Although they did have pockets!
However they were quite short and ended up being removed from the uniform
We just have some trousers, a shirt and a blazer that is just another school's with a replaced pocket with badge
I knew a girl in America that was named Kyra, went to a Jewish school
And they had to wear like, microskirts, sleeveless blazers.. It was weird. And inappropriate.
School uniforms, if not expensive, are fantastic
We had the odd non-uniform day, otherwise they were strict about it
A good comprimise could be having the school embroided onto own clothes so they are comftable for the person but still "approved" by the school with identification that comes with having uniforms
Well the point of a uniform is that people aren't trying to out-dress each other
Theres no downside to uniform, but multiple upsides
The standard here is generic trouser/shirt+ a blazer
so its pretty hard for that to not be as durable as you want
Like, you can get the trousers/shirts in Tesco
Only upsides I can think of are kids not flaunting their parents money and unification in school
We had to get the jumper and shirt from a specific store because it had the crest on it
Only one store in town was allowed to sell it
Some of us realised the shirt didn't matter because it was under the jumper
Upsides:
- Makes the school look smarter and more professional
- Uniformity amongst kids helps prevent bullying, and has other upsides
- A standard uniform allows schools to easily financially support parents
Was going to say
What're you smoking my dude
Its not uncommon for schools to give free uniforms
Blazers are £80 unless you are low income
You couldn't get a chewed toffee from the schools in Ireland
But yeah, the inverse is also a downside
And you could just give own-clothes a set budget
Or have a set of approved clothes
"Blazers are £80 unless you are low income"
You could buy a crest and embroider it yourself
For 50 euro
Plus the cost of the actual item of clothing
Ours doesn't really have a crest
It was actually cheaper not to do that
When my laptop screen died they did let me take one of their old monitors
Pretty sure the shirt cost more than they paid for it though
It's late, I need to sleep, haha
Oh huh it's the 11th
hahahahah
welcome to discord.py where everyone is toxic as hell
I think my cause of death will be bad posture
thanks for the reminder to sit up straight
not even reminders work on me
:c
so, @fallen sparrow, I'm a bit curious
what's the story behind your profile picture?
hmm there's not really a story, just a photo of a highway I took from an observation tower
ah, I see
just picked a random photo from my pictures library lol
this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down
would you like to take a minute?
[00:06] Piers Morgan: Its not uncommon for schools to give free uniforms
woah
that's.... very much the opposite of what parents deal with on a regular basis
ahhhhhhhh
microsoft's on the crack again
Looks like it made a meaningful decision anyway
just do nothing and ship the shit off to the end user
here, you handle with this, I'm out of here
we've been trying to converts accounts from a distribution group to a shared mailbox for like 2 weeks
and keep running into different errors
this is a new one though
oh no
the database number has GONE DOWN
39970 to 39958
is.... is someone destroying microsoft?
39957
another one gone.
this feels like a support call job :/
wtf, it's telling me accounts is already in use now
poor guy in arizona wished for british weather
every time i say "good luck" i feel like i'm being a dick
because british people never wish people luck positively
I find myself saying it all the time in a mostly sarcastic way
which is obviously a pretty annoying trait
i mean, that's our cynical nature
like "that's brave" etc
it most certainly isn't brave, it's fucking stupid.
Thats brave is another favourite of mine. Although that one is pretty much never used un-sarcastically
wth is a forkbomb
hah
something i'm not allowed to show you how to do
it's a self replicating process that replicates until resources on a system are exhausted
looks something like that
They are pretty easy to make, just create a process that fork itself at soon as it start
Yep
Although are they really dangerous, apart from potentially crashing the machine?
I thought it had to do with github 
Lolbombs are more like DDoS attacks
Spam a service with thousands of packets, so it can't work properly anymore
BTW, my school has been the target of a DDoS attack since December 11th, the school just told us
they're not really dangerous beyond resource exhaustion
it's DoS if it's not distributed btw Akarys
so a lolbomb would just be a DoS
hows that one with zipped files called
zip bomb
I'm a genius tbh
"lol bombs" are also called XML bombs
LMAO
From the definition of the lolbomb that I've found, multiple persons are spamming one person
Oh
I've found this https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3Fterm=Lolbomb&=true
To send multiple text messages, from different people, that contain the message "lololololol"...etc. at the same time.
Fuck you amp
I will be doing Jackbox yeah
that's not a lol bomb
if @sand goblet is definitely running it?
that's just spamming people
Yeah I looked up for XML bomb, works better haha
it's just because "lol" is the common example of an XML bomb
so, what are you guys doing in this godless year of 2020
@undone berry If all goes to plan, yes
i'm at work.
and typing on discord smh
ooooh, a single ticket.
arrrgggg
exchange 2016.
why did they make the admin panel a web app
Because it is faster to develop and then cost less, and it is microsoft? 
it already integrates with AD and they already had something else that worked.
i suspect it's because of Office 365
time to get better at exchange shell i think
icht nichten lichten I fuckin died for some reason
:D
you ever watched The Day Today?
i highly recommend it
the news stings are fucking chefkiss
Based on the clip above it looks fantastic. But I can't find any easy way to watch it
whole eps should be on youtube
oh nice, a whole ESXi host has gone offline
that's...
way not sESXi.
bisk is doing Celery. i'm doing RQ. what're the chances... 
it was hungry? ESXi.mode = Tamagotchi
hah
@gentle moss what was that website that made like cyberpunk posters
not cyber punk but synthwave or something
@modern island what part of "no" isn't clear?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
@modern island we don't shrug at admins when they tell us what's up.
we say oh yeah sorry about that you're right posting a forkbomb is pretty stupid I won't do that again.
forkbomb?
a process which forks itself recursively
Yeah, absolutely no forkbombs
Someone will run it and then wonder why they can't use their machine anymore
Tried to make one in bash as short as I could figure out without looking online, ah well
@tame terrace yeah, alright, sorry
so this is the staff chat now
Yes
yup
there are more users than usual
am I staff
the administration went wild
hey guys, my admin role got taken away for some reason
yes
I'm still able to access staff chat though
Can I have my admin role back ty
yeah i'm going to need admin back to be able to administrate chat
and execute wrongdoers
yes
wha-
Animal style
!ban Tron 20y
wrong prefix
Requesting to be an admin
So I can "check something"
yes
Hey fellow staff, looks like I got my ban permissions removed
@vestal briar 
hello fellow stafferino.. I have the same issue
must be some kind of bug...
@rough sapphire I saw that.. 
why dont you make these channels like in "Together Java" that it says "free" when a channel is free, and nothing when occupied?
there is the !free fetaure
but sure one could probably build it like that, make an issue in the github
@near hill There's a project for another help channel system.
@oak tangle isnt the java system a bot that checks the last msg on each channel, and if has been a while, the bot changes the channel name?
@placid torrent Probably, that sounds like the way to do it.
We've considered similar systems, but they have some drawbacks
We've got something else in mind, though
It needs to be implemented and then taken for a trial period
Is it the "one channel per person" system, or something totally different?
That's part of it. There's a rough design, but I'm currently not at home, so it's a bit difficult to discuss it right now
It's just a name
we're all staff
Names are changed automatically every day
What is the best way to put multiple bootable OSs on a USB stick
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ @wheat lynx i use this
Looks perfect, thanks
np
Okay guys, I just started to do some very Cty stuff, and that is fa being my understanding. I have the following piece of code
int main() {
// Initialized stack limit
mp_stack_set_limit(40000 * (BYTES_PER_WORD / 4));
// Initialize heap
gc_init(heap, heap + sizeof(heap));
// Initialize interpreter
mp_init();
const char str[] = "print('Hello world of easy embedding!')";
if (execute_from_str(str)) {
printf("Error\n");
}
}```and I want to be able to use the first command line argument instead of the constant `str`, so I did this
```c
int main(char *argv[]) {
// Initialized stack limit
mp_stack_set_limit(40000 * (BYTES_PER_WORD / 4));
// Initialize heap
gc_init(heap, heap + sizeof(heap));
// Initialize interpreter
mp_init();
// char str[] = argv[1];
if (execute_from_str(argv[0])) {
printf("Error\n");
}
}```Which (surprise) does not work at all, but do you have any idea what my stupid mistake is?
@rough sapphire really? Posting in one ot channel is enough
Staff do keep logs!
oh then you did
haha
You just ninja-ed my C related question though :/
that's how you know it's C
Me too, that's the problem
tf is C
What do you mean it doesn't work?
segmentation fault (core dumped)
I can't begin to say what the problem could be
Wdym? I am that bad at C?
Ah okay :D
nah, he's probably busy actually
he's coming to my house on saturday though
so if it isn't solved by then
haha
I hope it will be haha
If someone here know C : https://discordapp.com/channels/267624335836053506/463035241142026251/666031416429117445
@solid pollen Use a debugger. argv[0] is the program name
you're just loading the program name in memory and trying to execute that as what I can assume is a function, which is UD.
urban dictionary.
undefined dichotomy
haha, alright
Universiteits Bibliotheek.
you probably want argv[1] instead of 0
beware that each word is a separate null-terminated value in argv (unless spaces are escaped)
so use quotes
It should be noted that argv[0] holds the name of the program itself and argv[1] is a pointer to the first command line argument supplied
Quotes? Where? On the command line call?
I see argc, argv used everyhere.
./myprog "this entire thing is in argv[1]" argv[2] argv[3]
Okay
you should also include argc and check it before doing anything with argv
argv stands for argument vector, til
argc is the arg count which goes before argv
oh yeah, I missed that it was missing from the signature entirely
that's.. probably not healthy
zoMg I have staff chat acces Yes
Also I just got a BBC micro:bit go today
I'm quite happy
"zomg" is not something I've heard in a long time
@rough sapphire since I suppose you're somewhat used to programming in C, is the C workflow as bad as people say?
that word brings back nostalgia
like the days of xanga
@rough sapphire lol
@golden walrus people say the C workflow is bad?
I've heard quite a few times it's "slow", like you need to do a bunch of small tasks
and I did work with C many many years ago in college
it wasn't horrible but it wasn't pleasant, I feel I would need to automate some things
hello
Haven't noticed that. Sure, it's slower than Python (which is why I prefer it over C for prototyping and scripting), but vscode (my C editor of choice) has excellent integration, even with some pretty unorthodox makefiles
makes any difference negligible to me imho
But you do need to be seasoned for this to hold true, I suppose
I prefer headers, tbh
I find them extremely convenient when browsing foreign code, for example. Makes using libraries easy, as you have the function signature and its return type (and usually comments) in one place
I've built my c extension, it's kinda working. It tests whether the passed number is prime or not. When I import the module to Python and test some big primes it works and is fast. But if I put it in loop Python just crashes with no message.
# Crash
for i in range(1, 50):
is_prime(i)
# Works
is_prime(982451653)
If I decrease the for loop to just 20 then it works but anything over it crashes.
Idk why would this happen.
you probably have a memory leak
ye I googled and they said that but I have no idea how or where 
it's not even a big function
where could leak happen
static PyObject *method_is_prime(PyObject *self, PyObject *args){
int number, i = 2;
if(!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "K", &number)){
return NULL;
}
if (number < 2){
return Py_False;
}
for (;i<sqrt(number)+1; i++){
if (number%i == 0){
return Py_False;
}
}
return Py_True;
};
@jagged fog you might need to decref args after using it
oh oke I'll try.
(if that's the wrong idea you'll get a segfault 😆)
well, time for gdb i guess 🙂
you'll need to build python with debug symbols, and same for your extension, and then start it, when it segfault you should get a traceback and which line caused it

oki thanks I'll look that up.
😦
me every day
something i'd wanted to do for some time, used xargs to paralellize my tool that scans the network to find my tv and send commands to it 😄 sequencial scan was too long even with a short timeout, now it's the duration of one timeout, not of the accumulated timeouts, and i can allow for a longer timeout rather than a value dangerously close to the minimum 🙂 ```sh
probe() {
curl -X GET http://:56790$NETWORK$1/dd.xml --connect-timeout 0,5
}
find_tv() {
IP=1
INC=32
export -f probe
export NETWORK
while true
do
# use xargs to try connecting to a bunch of addresses at the
# same time, if any succeed we'll get its ip in "res"
# for each ip in the bunch
# start a bash process to run a probe on the ip if successful,
# echo the ip
res=$(
seq $IP $((IP + INC)) \
| xargs -n1 -P $INC -I {} bash -c \
'probe "$@" >& /dev/null && echo $1' \
_ {}
)
if [ $res ]
then
echo "$res"
break
fi
IP=$(((IP + INC) % 128))
done
}
echo "looking for tv"
IP=$(find_tv)
echo "found TV on $IP"
(yes, i also have a python/kivy version to use on my phone, but i like the bash version to use in cli on my laptop)
I would love to git revert my day
@frosty berry ah thanks for decref tip I didn't know it was a thing. I actually needed to INCREF for all of my bools but your advice led me to the right path. Danke
does anyone know how to use an fx cg50 calculator
Does kaggle own the source code if you compete?
I am guessing no, but I can't find it under their FAQ either
@jagged fog ah, Py_True and Py_False? I didn' t think it was needed, seems like these should be special singletons…
the weird thing is, they are statically allocated
i guess there's no way to bypass the refcount machinery for static objects
same with py_none
Yes I though the same but after adding that it works flawlessly
Docs mention it but I'm blind without examples
i guess if you use them without doing the incref, maybe they automatically get a decref at the end of the function, and as soon as you get to 0, despite a lot of things still requiring them, you get a crash.
NOOOOOOO
So you see where the problem started
That smile
That Damn smile
except there aren't 13 reasons why
there was 1 reason why
it was too thicc
i grew it back to prove it's too thicc
that's how you grow a beard btw
you furrow your brow and force it out
Ahh i am too young for a beard still have a patchy beard
that got shaved off cuz i had a nasal operation a day before yesterday
it's been growing like this since i was 14, sometimes genetics.
oof
well, keep trying at beard
sometimes there's always an inbetween phase
even if it is patchy, maybe it looks good when it grows out
who knows
my mom hate my beard
forces me to get it removed
but keep my mustache
and yeah i don't shave i do whats called is removed by zero blade
whaaaaaaaaaat
well if you can grow a full stash
maybe you should own it
go full marc rebillet
he's the man
Can I git revert your beard?
My barber says should i put blade on it , it will grow better if i say yes and put blade i have to continuously shave
which i really can't cuz i am a school boy
cutting a beard doesn't make it grow faster
make it less patchy
that's not how beards work though
shit, might need some @tame terrace beard backup
i looked up beards / shaving so much when i started going clean shaven
there is so much to know about beards
growth directions, growth speeds in different areas, how to trim them to keep them neat, all sorts
today was the laziest of beard trims. the one size all over.
i just noticed that my bottom lip beard looks like it's greying
hrmph
a pair of scissors also attaked my beard last night, but to be fair it was starting to get wild, needed a bit of taming
shaving does not make a beard grow faster. that idea is absurd. it's like saying eating more meals makes you lose weight.
wanna grow a long beard? all you gotta do is nothing
now keep doing that for a year or two and your beard will be long.
I think you know what is zero blade ?
sorry, no.
i think it's like an old timey razor
like a shaving knife?
btw @gentle moss I do not approve of your trim, your beard was just starting to look interesting and then you went and ruined it.
did it itch constantly
no, it was pushing into my face when i was laying down
it's itchier when it's shorter
because it curls it makes springs
haha
every time I close my god damn jacket
it's also difficult to drink from the tap without getting my entire beard wet
cause the beard kinda pools into the sink
no zero blade is like a shaver
that's a unique beard problem
but not any sharp object like a knife
the "spring uncomfort" stops happening at a certain length.
to uniquely springy beards
we've been through this, it NEVER STOPS
it turns into a mattress of hair
it also helps if your beard is soft enough.
coils on coils
sure doesn't look like it
if you don't wanna shave on daily basis and get your beard tight , you use zero blade
I still don't really understand what that means
that's just an old timey razor
this is not a zero blade
I have the one blade from Philips it is quite handy
i've looked up zero blade
Sounds like something from an anime
No, it is a one blade
wait
i wouldn't put that near my face
It is pretty handy tbh
@rough sapphire i have one of these old times, and i don't shave often, but now i don't shave anymore, i just trim
the best way to shave is a single blade razor
and do 3 passes
with the grain, across the grain, and then against the grain
wtf is that advertising
I don't know whats its called online but in locality it is called zero blade
no its
not
"LOVE HURTS, SHAVE YOUR BEARD"
i trim with scissors, it doesn't hurt at all
nice OTN I Shave electric
Haha
i scissor my moustache but i hair clipper my beard
my beard is far too important to entrust to my own clumsy hands. I only let professionals trim it.
hipster
Touché
I'm good at other things. for some reason I've never been particularly motivated to master hairdressing.
but hey, if that's your thing, good for you
I can afford the 30 euros a month I spend at my barber
with the grain, across the grain, and then against the grain ymmv... the only time i can safely do against the grain shaving is when the hair is longer. short + against the grain = lower face becomes pimples galore for a week.
just because you lose the change in your beard and the hairdresser takes it
with the grain, across the grain, and then against the grain
This sounds like a terrible idea.
against the grain shaving is widely considered to be a bad idea.
it's how you're supposed to clean shave to perfection
you've gotta use the right shit
need to make sure you've moistened the hairs so they're softer etc
yes. i looked weird for like 4 months while temp working for a corp
it's like that weird smooth. skin should nearly always have hair
OMG, if i have to sit through another telephone interview with some who is going to waffle their way through every answer with bearly understandable nonsense, i'm gonna scream.
that's how you get maximum smoothness, but yeah, it's easy to cut yourself this way
i got super good at it
and looked super weird
lemon is right, that level of shaven is so unnatural
Tyrell Wellick smooth
Swedish manbaby smooth
I love the end of this video haha https://youtu.be/DIBXg8Qh7bA
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@gritty mulch nice name
Thankyou. It came out of my brain
Can you change it please?
I really don't think it goes against any rules tho
The word Racism is not racist
wait how do you have 2 steam account linked at same time @gritty mulch
Rule 2 of the nickname policy No slurs or other offensive sentiments, it is an offensive semtiment IMO
it's not offensive at all
at least for me
i find it unsettling too
@plucky ridge you say is that offensive ?
If theres an argument about whether its offensive name. It probably is
I don't find that to be a fair assesment
i was on the fence about saying something about it first time i saw it
If that is offensive then mentioning it also should be offensive
And even if not offensive, its definitely cunty
I mean at this point, if it's causing this much of a fuss
Yeah
I'm not really in agreement that it's offensive
But at this point, to save me some headache, would you change it to something less touchy?
@gritty mulch change it
AG, you're not a mod
Your concerns have been brought to the staff's attention, we're addressing it
it's probably easier to find something else than to debate if that's really offensive, the fact is that racism is a bad thing, i think we can agree on that, and making a bad joke is probably not worth the ambiguity
Let's not mob on this
right
*If that is offensive then mentioning it also should be offensive " is the dumbest argument. He's not trying to provide insight or discussion with a name like that, just trying to bait people
Which you guys are falling right in to
Yeah
Again, move on, I'm addressing it
ok i think that was actually stupid argument
I don't mind being baited occasionally
i'm an ape, i have 10 fingers
i'm pretty sure thumbs are fingers
I get so much mocked on this one
@undone berry I don't like that accusation
Alright
I could say the same for you. Piers Morgan is a twat
It's done and over with
A thumb is a digit, but not technically a finger. Many people don't make the distinction between thumbs and other digits.
``` google says this
"having 10 thumbs" is a way to say someone is useless with their hands
Roger
ok
Yeah. This name is to bait people, although less extremely than yours
Now back to the monkey hands
Dont make me laugh
thumbs are cool though, but 10 is probably too many of them
Says you
don't be a ten thumb thomas
Honestly just having thumbs on the opposite side of the hand as well would be rad
isn't it ?
it's not.
Yeah seemed legit and British
is cunt a slur in UK ?
oof
yes, it's a slur but it's used in a jovial manner most of the time
not like in the US where it's a serious slur
But still pings us, yes
i had trouble being in NYC
Soooo
Sorry mods
it's just as bad as fuck, shit, piss, etc
but some nations haven't caught up to the UK in terms of using abuse against each other
I don't even speak english still one of the first slur that comes in my mind when am angry
It suits their accents TBH
plus, if you're british, you know when you're being called something in hate
rather than in jest
delivery is important
Said the doctor to the woman in labor
rofl
did they give her a C-word section?
sorry for caps
Oh dude
AG, better leave discord
Oh don't worry, I'm sure my jokes will start to fall flat here shortly
my nose is hurting now
FUCK
I'm confused how those are related
funnily enough we discussed something in ot0 that could help with that
he's had surgery
Ohhh right right
get yourself some lidocaine AG
smear it all around the inside of your nose loads
will numb it to fuck
That sounds horrible
I will just snuck up some anaesthesia
i used to swill lidocaine before going to the dentist
would numb the shit out of my mouth
drugs with some extra steps
lidocaine is of the same family as the bad one
A drug is simply something that has an affect on the body
yeah, it causes an adrenaline rush
increased heart rate is what people also enjoys
A drug is simply something that has an affect on the body.
That definition always seemed waaaay to broad to me. It seems like it includes food and water to me
Had that
is that pinging mods ?
yes
No
lidocaine is what they use at the dentist to numb you
nice we can talk about drugs
and it causes me to freak the fuck out because it causes an adrenaline rush
which triggers fight or flight stuff
I thought it was novacaine
novacaine isn't used anymore iirc
Oh huh
That was the one they had to inject, right?
Where as lido is the one what can be used topically?
Like the thing they put by injections ?
anything can be injected if you're brave enough
i think nova fell out of use because it had more adverse reactions
PAIGE NO
STOP
Makes sense
Still my nose is blocked so no use
Would be an odd choice
fuck sake
Most likely Blue Shift?
p.s. i really enjoyed blue shift
Opposing Forces?
Opposing Forces
I think I liked it more than the original
i liked how the 2 expansions gave you different perspectives
i have basicaly no recollection of blue shift i think, only some of opposing forces
and just being a regular security guard was like
Exactly
what is blue shift ?
Weren't you specifically Barney?
I don't wanna google it
Ah, gotcha
an half life extension
^
ahh
Also a more complicated thing in physics
valve half life ?
Yes
Half Life had you playing as a materials scientist in a research lab who then turns into a world saving super man
Opposing Forces was a marine who was trying to shut down the whole thing
Blue Shift was just you doing your job
Exactly
That's what I loved about it
never knew about it
What am i doing with my life
;-;
don't worry, we were being young when we discovered these things too
"surrender freeman!"
Back when Sierra was like "eh, fuck it, let's make expansions for these games"
Hellfire, THAT was good
still no episode 3 for hl2
^makes me mad
"with episodic content we'll be able to bring you more of the story more often"
I don't think I ever beat HL2
I really didn't like it that much after Ravenholm
i loved ravenholm
That was the highlight for me
I never did beat it
its color scheme make my mind hurt
What
and speed running i managed to finish that whole section in like 2 minutes 30
How the crap
hl2 is nice
flying allowed for big skips
i beat it on wine, it was hell, at some point, it was freezing every few steps i did wrong (some place on the beach)
no, beyond that
had to save every step
if you "pick up" an object and put it under your feet
you're standing on something
so you can jump
Right
then the object follows you
and you can jump
so you can literally fly around levels
different objects are better at this than others
only if you spam it
Well sure
duh
if not it falls down
GRAVITY
i took the click out of my mouse's mouse wheel
then added weights
so i could do one big spin and spam jump
🎵 Gravity its working 🎵
i also used old Joysticks with "turbo mode"
So jump was assigned to the wheel itself?
yes
turbo mode was neat. it basically spammed the keypress ever ~75ms or so
so i'd have my foot on a joystick button
and when i needed to do a rapid uphill bhop or fly
i'd press it with mah tooooes
The lengths we went to
SDA eventually said "well i guess using AHK to replicate that isn't tool assist"
then revoked that
so a whole run became tool assist rather than "natural"
well the difference is minor on a segmented run between the tool and the hardware
SO minor
yeah, that was the argument put forward
on segmented it just means taking more time to release the same thing
p.s. that's how i did ravenholm in under 3 mins
segmented
memorised that shit back to front
drop down stairs loading zone, pick up saw blade, kill zombie, bunnyhop down other steps, look left, shoot cinderblock off the post so it rebounds under my feet, climb up wall
I'm trying to think if there's anything I've memorized to that amount of completeness
i probably played HL2 SP daily for about 2 years
maybe 2 1/2
the physics engine was a fun toy
if you gravity gun'd a physics object before trying to wallclimb (flying against a wall) with it
i still play it really frequently
it'd make you climb faster
ABH is fun
because the physics object was "unstable"
at least that's how i'd put it
discovered that one 👌
I like that bonking NPC's heads makes the move faster
literaly teleport
early HL2 versions had a good bunnyhop too
every jump added velocity
"No, bad Alyx, go over there" -bonkbonkbonk-
so if you spammed jump fast enough up a ramp
you'd gain SO MUCH speed
and floor clips are everywhere
now we have ABH
engine tries to stop bunnyhopping by adding negative velocity
yes
however there's no lower limit
it was a HILARIOUS fix
so if you turn around, it just keeps accelerating you backwards
They make interesting choices in their designs
there was many lol's in the speed running community when they threw that patch in
runners had to do runs on a locked version so essentially had to pirate it
too many run breaking patches
an annoying problem that never used to exist, i guess
had to pirate it
steam should include the option to revert to earlier patches of a game
i agree
i'd love to play HL2 unpatched again
but i have to steal it
but i guess i own it so...
fair use
you wouldn't download a half life
well cs go have that feature
cs:go can't have that feature
it does
it doesn't.
