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After beating the main quest at the hard level, I restarted a new character in Survival mode[^].
This is so much fun, and much more enjoyable; at first I thought it would be too difficult, as I am not a hard-core player, but all the new restrictions (eat, drink, getting sick, sleep to save..) makes things a more interesting by forcing us to take our time instead of rushing in to do quests.
They did not only added difficulty (bullet sponge), but made the player more powerful (and more with the automatic "Adrenaline" perk).
I just finished the Corvega question at level 11; and I cannot imagine, at this point, do the more battle oriented quests later on (for example the Gunner Plaza area)
I'd rather be phishing!
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The most stressful game I play on the computer is Spider Solitaire. At the easiest setting. (It's the XP version because the Win7 version is butt-ugly.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Spot on. I've got "Favourite Solitaire" on my (android) phone, and I only play Algerian Patience on it (because it's the one at the top of the list).
Stress from work?
OK, it's bound to happen.
Stress from the (ex or otherwise) Missus?
OK, it's bound to happen.
Stress from family events/occurences/tragedies?
OK, it's bound to happen.
Stress from Playing a game?
What the frock are the game developers thinking!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't get me started on spiders (shudder and run away and scream like a little girl)
I'd rather be phishing!
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There are twenty-three million games out there*. Why play one more than once?
* OK, I confess: I stopped counting at 21,753,647 -- but there were plenty left to count.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Because out of those 23 million games:
7 million are so old that they don't even run anymore
4 million are just more clones of Match 3, Sudoku, 2048, etc
3 million are pseudo-games that only exist to generate micropayments
2 million are non-web versions of stupid Facebook games
1 million are just [Name] [Sport] 2016, which is just [Name] [Sport] 2015 with different characters
5.99 million just plain suck.
That leaves about 10,000 good games on this planet... If you actually manage to find one, you stick with it until you've squeezed every last ounce of enjoyment out of it.
Disclaimer: All numbers were pulled from a [name] [orifice] Simulator 2016, and have no bearing on reality
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Lookit, if you haven't played and Beaten The Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max Hit the Road, you don't get a say in this.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ian Shlasko wrote: If you actually manage to find one, you stick with it until you've squeezed every last ounce of enjoyment out of it
Like cough 700+ hours on Civ5 or 500+ hours on X3 or 300 hours on Hearts of Iron or .... cough, cough?
Sometimes I wish Steam didn't keep track of how many hours I've spent playing a game.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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It's currently my favorite game.
I've played it before, but had to stop because it was just too easy for me, and I strongly dislike easy games. Now, with the Survival difficulty, it finally feels like a proper game, with enough mechanics to keep it challenging.
This time, I only had to nerf my character slightly (1 END, 1 STR) and didn't even need mods to artificially crank up the difficulty, so yeah, pretty happy about it.
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Password requirements and complexity have been around long enough now I wonder if there is a standard code to represent them.
For example, a lot of scheduling tools support CRON. The CRON entry to schedule something for every day and every hour at the 15 minute mark is "15 * * * *". Is there something similar for password complexity instead?
I have to add password complexity requirements to our web app (ASP.Net) and it needs to be configurable. Rather than do it all from scratch I was curious if there was something to give me a head-start.
Cron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^].
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Explore OAuth[^], reasonable place to start.
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Surely you could just plug in a regex.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Surely you could just plug in a regex. Oh, God! You have no idea how those word haunt me!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I got one of each of the following today
- One with the obligatory suspicious file attachment, and the subject line of "Build Assemblies"...
- From "NYC National Lotto" declaring that my email address was randomly selected and I won $5.2 million. No file attachment, but wanted some personal info.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So presumably you forwarded the attachment from the first to the address from the second, with a message telling them your info was attached?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Evil!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I hadn't thought of that, but I will certainly try it. Usually, I can't respond to these kinds of emails.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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What a Superb idea.
Having his drives encrypted may well dissuade scammers from repeating their tricks.
I shall start saving the e-mails.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: I shall start saving the e-mails. I'm doing the same, and feeling so delightfully wicked!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 11-May-16 19:25pm.
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We should all do it. It could lead to the death of the "unsavvy" spammers and thieves, who just download or copy malware, thinking it will make them rich.
We'll still have to worry about the guys who know their way around a computer, but we'd have to worry about that anyway.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Done!!!
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I got the Build Assemblies one too.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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How thick (or blind with greed) do you have to be to believe you won a good prize in a raffle / lottery that you never entered?
I'm tempted to say that spammers here are doing the species a favour by impoverishing the stupid to the point where they are unlikely to breed...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sorry, but lack of funds does not stop people from having children.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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