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Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 10:58 pm
by TheGildedGoose
DirkGently wrote:
2 years ago
Finally got an online game of Diablo II going with my girlfriend after much network wrangling. And amazingly, thus far it seems like she likes it! We got as far as the A1 monastery last night.
I am so excited for D2R even if Blizzard is terrible. I've been playing Project Diablo 2 (and Path of Diablo before it) casually every other season or so and I am hyped beyond belief to finally play the core game again. It's my favorite game of all time. I'm going to Corpse Explosion all the things.

In other news I was deeply saddened by Norm Macdonald's death. He was profoundly influential on my sense of humor.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:44 am
by RxPhantom
TheGildedGoose wrote:
2 years ago
DirkGently wrote:
2 years ago
Finally got an online game of Diablo II going with my girlfriend after much network wrangling. And amazingly, thus far it seems like she likes it! We got as far as the A1 monastery last night.
I am so excited for D2R even if Blizzard is terrible. I've been playing Project Diablo 2 (and Path of Diablo before it) casually every other season or so and I am hyped beyond belief to finally play the core game again. It's my favorite game of all time. I'm going to Corpse Explosion all the things.

In other news I was deeply saddened by Norm Macdonald's death. He was profoundly influential on my sense of humor.
Norm was one of the few to got better and better as he got older. His single season show on Netflix and his most recent special were really terrific. What a loss.

@Sanity_Eclipse: That's happened to me before. I hope your insurance company took care of you!

I've started giving COVID shots to people who are being compelled by their jobs, and the ill-informed, self-righteous, batcrap complaining never ceases! Some guy came in yesterday to get his second shot. He has a mask hanging around his neck that looks to be made of battered cheesecloth:

Me: I'm gonna go ahead and give you this mask.
Him: Oh I've got this one.
Me: Yeah, but I can see through that one.
Him: This is a KN97! It's better than that one. This is a $50 mask!!
Me: *trying to calmly convey that I'm going to stay civil but this exchange is an insult to both our intelligences* ...Alright [with insincere tone]

When I went over to give him the shot, he was wearing the mask I'd given him and didn't complain any more. I have had it with these people.

If I had one general piece of advice for the world right now, it would be "Please keep yourself open to the possibility that you are wrong. It's okay to not know everything."

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:46 pm
by pokken
DirkGently wrote:
2 years ago
Finally got an online game of Diablo II going with my girlfriend after much network wrangling. And amazingly, thus far it seems like she likes it! We got as far as the A1 monastery last night.
man I played the %$#% out of that game back in the day. Online, I had this hacked chest piece I want to say that had several pieces of equipment merged into it, and my paladin dude was basically unkillable with the life drain setup =P To give you an idea of how long ago this was, I traded some MUD equipment for that hacked piece.

The online "meta" for diablo II was basically "let's do the cow level for gear over and over and over and over."

But the best times we ever had were multiplayer LAN games at my house back when I lived with my buddies, just going through the base game together and having fun.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:16 pm
by Sanity_Eclipse
RxPhantom wrote:
2 years ago

@Sanity_Eclipse: That's happened to me before. I hope your insurance company took care of you!
Put in the claim yesterday, gonna call and follow up on it today. We'll see!

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:44 pm
by Lifeless
RxPhantom wrote:
2 years ago
If I had one general piece of advice for the world right now, it would be "Please keep yourself open to the possibility that you are wrong. It's okay to not know everything."
It is in fact very ok not only to learn but to change your mind about something when presented with new information. Best of luck with these wackos.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 3:40 pm
by TheAmericanSpirit
TheGildedGoose wrote:
2 years ago
In other news I was deeply saddened by Norm Macdonald's death. He was profoundly influential on my sense of humor.
...or so the Germans would have us believe!


Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:22 pm
by Toshi
TheAmericanSpirit wrote:
2 years ago
TheGildedGoose wrote:
2 years ago
In other news I was deeply saddened by Norm Macdonald's death. He was profoundly influential on my sense of humor.
...or so the Germans would have us believe!

As a German, i'd like to have you believe he will be missed and has brought much joy into my life. Thoughts with his family, friends and peers.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:24 pm
by Lifeless
Great comedian. Very much one of a kind. I'm really saddened by his passing.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:31 pm
by Legend
RxPhantom wrote:
2 years ago
If I had one general piece of advice for the world right now, it would be "Please keep yourself open to the possibility that you are wrong. It's okay to not know everything."
You should take your own advice.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:28 pm
by cryogen
Lifeless wrote:
2 years ago
RxPhantom wrote:
2 years ago
If I had one general piece of advice for the world right now, it would be "Please keep yourself open to the possibility that you are wrong. It's okay to not know everything."
It is in fact very ok not only to learn but to change your mind about something when presented with new information. Best of luck with these wackos.
Ooorrrrrrrr.... I can just double down on my assumption of correctness.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:06 pm
by Legend
cryogen wrote:
2 years ago
Lifeless wrote:
2 years ago
RxPhantom wrote:
2 years ago
If I had one general piece of advice for the world right now, it would be "Please keep yourself open to the possibility that you are wrong. It's okay to not know everything."
It is in fact very ok not only to learn but to change your mind about something when presented with new information. Best of luck with these wackos.
Ooorrrrrrrr.... I can just double down on my assumption of correctness.
Which you guys are definitely not doing.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:59 pm
by lyonhaert
This beef is very vague.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:01 pm
by DirkGently
I'm not even 100% sure I know who's on which side.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:03 pm
by Lifeless
lyonhaert wrote:
2 years ago
This beef is very vague.
It must be from Arby's.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:05 pm
by TheAmericanSpirit
All I know is that I am totally opposed to the entire situation and all its participants, whatever it is.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:21 pm
by tstorm823
Lifeless wrote:
2 years ago
lyonhaert wrote:
2 years ago
This beef is very vague.
It must be from Arby's.
I like Arby's, but kudos on this zing.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:27 pm
by DirkGently
tstorm823 wrote:
2 years ago
I like Arby's, but kudos on this zing.
I do miss their classic roast beef. Everything else is pretty bad but the roast beef is solid.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:36 am
by Hermes_
DirkGently wrote:
2 years ago
tstorm823 wrote:
2 years ago
I like Arby's, but kudos on this zing.
I do miss their classic roast beef. Everything else is pretty bad but the roast beef is solid.
I got the taste for arby's in high school but now I have to be in the mood for it

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:36 pm
by cryogen
I can definitely pound a 3 for 5 roast beef from there, and their Greek gyro (i don't know what the actual name is) is also decent. I'll pass on the fries though.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 7:43 pm
by Lifeless
I actually had Arby's for dinner last night, lol. I just couldn't resist the low hanging joke.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:19 pm
by pokken
Thanks again to everyone for the positive vibes about the new job, bout to start week 4 next week. So far I've written over a thousand lines of code, improved our data migration process for new reference data between environments and identified some code fixes for that, and developed a really good understanding of the core application and infrastructure. It's going awesome and I love what I'm doing - so much more hands on and effective than my the ivory tower IT Architecture role I was getting shunted into.

I ordered myself a kind of ridiculous over the top present to celebrate :P It's got to ship from Ireland and it's going to take forever (2 months). Pretty stoked though. It's a massive upgrade over my rainsong for me personally as it fixes all the ergonomic flaws with it and adds stainless steel frets to alleviate my nickel allergy some.

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And I also am now hopelessly incapable of remembering to use CTRL or CMD (ALT) for shortcuts because of working full time on a Mac. It's damn near unbearable, I might need to switch my personal computer :P

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:55 pm
by cryogen
That's pretty, pokken.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:51 pm
by toctheyounger
pokken wrote:
2 years ago
Thanks again to everyone for the positive vibes about the new job, bout to start week 4 next week. So far I've written over a thousand lines of code, improved our data migration process for new reference data between environments and identified some code fixes for that, and developed a really good understanding of the core application and infrastructure. It's going awesome and I love what I'm doing - so much more hands on and effective than my the ivory tower IT Architecture role I was getting shunted into.

I ordered myself a kind of ridiculous over the top present to celebrate :P It's got to ship from Ireland and it's going to take forever (2 months). Pretty stoked though. It's a massive upgrade over my rainsong for me personally as it fixes all the ergonomic flaws with it and adds stainless steel frets to alleviate my nickel allergy some.

Image

And I also am now hopelessly incapable of remembering to use CTRL or CMD (ALT) for shortcuts because of working full time on a Mac. It's damn near unbearable, I might need to switch my personal computer :P
It's beautiful. I'm jealous that you get to play, I've almost forgotten how at this point.

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:20 am
by DirkGently
Whelp, I preordered D2R. Heaven help me (literally).

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:05 am
by RxPhantom
Slightly random question. Can any of you think of any non-creature, red or green cards that depict apes? I'm considering Gruul apes as a theme for my Jumpstart cube, but the only thing I can think of is Bestial Fury.