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I do not know if any Obsidian officials ever stated it directly, but it is standard procedure in the entertainment industry, not just for game developers. Here is Neil Gaiman's explanation on why he does not read unsolicited pitches (public pitches make the situation worse) and blocks people who repeatedly send him any. It includes an anecdote from the Babylon 5 production too, and with intellectual property rights being what they are, this is no different for game pitches. Pitching games to studios is barely possible (in general) without being part of the industry yourself. The only way to get your game idea made is to either do it yourself, or start working in the industry to a point where you can pitch your ideas to either studios or game designers directly on a trusted basis. Royalty lawsuits happen all the time, and even if the sued party can believable demonstrate to not have copied ideas from (unsolicited) pitches, it usually is not pretty.

Well, not a Nordic country here, but a similar concept to what we employ here I'd wager. Owning non-controlling minority shares (sometimes known as blocking minorty) in companies that serve public interests (education, energy supply, healthcare, infrastructure, etc.) allows the state to block any actions taken by the majority of shareholders that it perceives as against public interest. One of the reasons, amongst others (dividends), why Austria is holding more than 30% shares of the OMV concern.

My customers are always very impressed by showing them the hackers with netstat. I mean... uhm... nothing to see here!

Time for something else than Eurodance trash. Have some 80ies music! Edit: Maybe I should add a disclaimer, this is safe to click on. Really. No hidden silly hardstyle remix and no Scooter or anything.

Fun fact: Fact or Fiction was so much more popular in Germany than in the US that some seasons actually premiered in Germany. In spite of being dubbed.

That's fine, the thread moved beyond prebuilts already as @Hurlshort is going to build a new PC with his son. As for using Linux, wow, I haven't used Linux since installing it on an old machine to use it as software router. I actually had to fix the code of a network card driver because kernel compilation did not go through. It was one of those cheap cards where changing the interrupt settings required DOS software. I plugged it into the old computer only to find out I had to change the configuration of the card from IRQ 7 back to IRQ 5 (I used the card in my regular computer and while it was IRQ 5 by default, that's where my Sound Blaster Pro lived), then was left with compile errors, fixed those, and I got lucky that it worked, because I had no real idea what I was doing. That was before 2.2 came out, or perhaps close to the actual 2.2 release, and a couple of years after my first attempts to get the system to work like I wanted it to. Good old times. Nothing beats that lovely KERNEL PANIC prompt after you've successfully ruined your installation by going through an insane configuration file (or an even worse guided text prompt where you had to go through the 500 options every time you wanted to change something) to add a driver you wanted. The most fun thing I managed was to make IE 4.0 run with Wine, then I had to run away from the Linux missionaries because they kept yelling BURN THE HERETIC.

At first I had a large reply in mind, but then I did not write it, and now it'll be a lot shorter. I agree with the observations, not really with the conclusion. I wouldn't call the the first season a strong start, at least not compared to Game of Throne's, which is what this ought to be compared to. House of the Dragon had, warts and all, certainly a better first season than much of the other series I've watched recently (particularily a certain Tolkien fanfiction that turned out to be a complete travesty), and with that as a point of comparison, then yes, the first season was mostly good. It had some really strong moments, but overall, everything is just a tad less good than early Game of Thrones was, and outside of Matt Smith, who really grew on me after the first episode (which was, stupidity from Cole and that ludicrous Stepstones battle aside, probably the worst episode of the season), there's not really any character that is even close to being a break out, while GoT had more than one, even. I also disliked the uncanny feel much of the CGI left. I also felt like the actresses for Rhaenyra and Alicent got worse with the time skips, but it at least removed the 'just look and act like Emilia Clarke so we can bank on similarities' problem early Rhaenyra had (pretty much a subjective issue). I appreciated that the series eventually stopped yelling 'this is a GoT spinoff' at me. Still don't like the looks of the dragons, Caraxes most of all. Fitting for Daemon, perhaps, but that dragon looked as if it was perpetually inebriated - or maybe the animators were.

If only Microsoft would own Github, then they could just... wait a minute...

A turn's worth of damage from a single archer on Unfair. Or less, in case they crit. That bug keeps happening every now and then, ever since the game was released (and probably in the betas before that). You're lucky to have only stumbled upon it now.

But, but, but... something about translation vs. localization something something! Still waiting for someone to make a perfectly literal fansub to remove all the pesky localization from it. Imagine people greeting each other with "It is early" in the morning, "as for this day" during the day and "as for this evening" during the evening hours and wishing each other a good night by saying "(your) honorable rest".

Buy a cheap OEM key. Companies get all sorts of keys they don't use and therefore have leftovers to sell, which is legal in the EU. As long as you're making sure you're not getting keys from any Chinese volume licensing program or from a company that sells the same key multiple times they're fine and work. However, I am not sure how the legal situation is in the Land Of The Free And Home Of The Brave (tm), where companies are given much more leeway in squeezing their customers in the name of freedom (or whatever ). There's also the Microsoft Workplace Discount Program, should your employer participate (I don't see a reason why Cali would not, but who knows), so maybe ask about it, and as Zoraptor said, there might be chance you can get a free key, just pretend it's you using the key, not your son. Has the advantage of costing nothing. My condolences.

BFTs aren't supposed to be your main character, you hire them as a replacement for Nenio that can bring overpowered buffs to your already ridiculous main character and give out 24 hour Hastes and what not.

Yeah, SDHs are subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, i.e. they're not in the same language as the video, unlike closed captions, although that difference in naming conventions is not even upheld by some streaming services or other companies. One gets English SDH subtitles with House of the Dragon, for instance - as if the few sentences of Valyrian in the show make it have a different video language. I think that is because of legislation that requires programming to always ship with an English CC option. From there it is a fairly easy move to dropping regular subtitles for the sake of convenience and cutting workload (and cost). Personally I don't care too much as long as the captions are not in the way of the dialogue. There's worse, like forced overlays on text in a foreign language on screen, bonus points when they flash to let one see what is written in the original language below or otherwise create artifacts or aliasing during camera pans.

Because they're closed captions, rather than pure subtitles. They're meant to help the hard of hearing understand what is going on beyond subtitling dialogue.

1.(9) + 2 = 4. 2 liters of water + 2 liters of sand = 4 liters of wet sand. Wait a minute...

Came from talking about having terrible handwriting with someone, took a picture of mine from a long while back. Even found an ancient math exam from '93. A rather simple problem: suppose someone buys a car for the amount of X, 20% is paid up front, the remainer in 40 monthly installments. Assuming there is no interest rate, calculate the monthly rate and how much, in percent, one mothly rate is of the total buying price. Calculated the monthly rate just fine, then copied a terribly written 0 as an 8, then my first attempt at getting the percentage that a monthly rate is of the total buying price looks wrong, figured my approach to calculating the number was wrong (checking the result of the first calculations showed it was correct - except for the copied value, which I did not notice, several times), so I came up with a different one by multiplying 0.80 by 0.025 (4/5 divided by 40 -> 4/5 * 1/40 -> 1/(10 * 5) -> 0.02). It's 2%. 80% of the 2.5% that a monthly rate is of what's left after the up-front payment. Teacher left a note: Brilliant train of thought, but you'd have an easier time and get better grades if you worked on your handwriting. Well, it was always something. Either something was unintelligible or I skipped half the steps because I didn't want to write so much. Math teachers really like to make sure you present them with a step by step record of how one arrived at a result, just in case one might copy 10 + 10 from their neighbor, I guess. Good old times. Edit: For the fossils among us. Heh. STOP RUN.

He also said fun things like he'd want his son to have a fatal accident if he were gay, and that Maria do Rosário isn't worth raping because she's so ugly. Wonderful human being, that guy. I'm pretty sure that Trump and Bolsanaro whack off to pictures of each other.

The Japanese, at the very least. Sorry. Six years past our supreme court annulled an entire election based on irregularities that happened during the counting of the mail-in ballots. The irregularities amounted to less than the total lead of the winning candidate, so even if they all had been manipulated in favor of the winner of the election and all of them would have gone to the other candidate instead (which was highly unlikely with an almost even 50:50 split), he would still have won. What kind of irregularities you might ask? Why, they were counted on Election-Sunday, while election regulations state they must be counted on the Monday after. Which some smaller districts opted not to do because there the counters have actual day jobs and aren't full time politicians. All the counts were signed off by members of the losing party's candidate, and the party elected to throw the signees stating that regulations were upheld under the bus and file for annulment (causing cases to be opened against people whose 'crime' was counting votes earlier than allowed, with full knowledge of the parties in question and auditors of every party present). Early counting of mail-in ballots has always been done, and every party knew it, and everyone was happy with the way it worked, until it became convenient to have a close election repeated. The voters proceeded to thank them for having to vote again. I know, we're roleplaying Bruno here.

Past two days have been a trip down memory lane. I'll probably spend the entire next week in the sort of depressive episode nostalgic reverie that always comes any time that happens.

Maybe Bolsonaro is right when even police stop people from voting for radical leftists their ?

Assuming our news coverage is correct, by now Lula's leading by more votes than Bolsanaro could realistically still get. Good on you Brazilians, did you bring unmarked white vans with extra ballots and manipulated some voting machines too? Should have stopped the steal earlier. Jokes aside, I hope nobody's going to try and pull a Trump, but with Bolsanaro that is far from a given.

They made The 7th Guest, the game with the legendary soup can puzzle. It took some serious moon logic to create the riddles for The 7th Guest. I guess as much as making the deduction that someone has a point just because he spent a lot of money on it, so I figured you made adventure games in the past.

Bonus points when the relevant skill is only used once and never brought up again. Like Ami's ability to seal off a bubble of space time to lock away the bad guys in the manga.

Fixed that for you. Heh, you always claim to be a banker, but in reality you're either Robert Stein or Rob Landeros, right?