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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-23 03:23:15
October 23 2012 03:19 GMT
#1
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Have you ever ripped up a diary before? It's like in StarCraft when you build tonnes and tonnes of zerglings in single player just to nuke them. It's vaguely satisfying, and then you think about what a huge waste of time it all was. I've done that twice now. Let me give you another example. Suppose you're playing an 8 player FFA on BGH, and for whatever reason most of the other players are not really concerned with you, so you're left to your own devices to build whatever super-army you want, but instead of doing that you start making SCVs play follow the leader around various formations of buildings and minerals and geysers hoping that one day someone is going to see all that shit and think "By the keyboard of Boxer, what the Hell is going on here?!" Only before that can happen everyone kills each other or gets frustrated and leaves, so you're just left with this stupid replay of you making SCVs play follow the leader by yourself. And most likely no one is ever gonna watch that replay anyway.

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Now imagine for a moment that somehow employers were suddenly able to and cared about looking up the replays of potential employees just to make sure they were on the level, like they do with Facebook pictures. Suddenly you're worried your potential money machine is gonna find this replay of you making SCVs follow the leader by yourself and think you're mentally unstable. You'd wanna destroy that replay, right? That's how it is with ripping up a diary. Eventually you've written so much crazy weird crap that it just becomes a huge liability to keep. But at the same time, you gotta watch that replay one more time. You gotta see just how long you managed to make SCVs follow the leader without anyone knowing. It kinda takes a long time. You made a shit load of SCVs follow each other around buildings. At some point even you begin feeling weird about it. I made them do that? Why? But others you're kind of proud of, for being ingeniously clever. Ever make SCVs follow the leader in a figure eight? No, because it's impossible. But let's just say somehow you did. Still, no one would understand why that was so beautiful, they'd just see more SCVs playing follow the leader, and the really crazy person who kept making them do it. Oh sure, we've all obsed a replay once or twice and made them do that, but what kind of nut job makes a whole society based on follow the leader?

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That's when you gotta say to yourself: enough is enough. You delete that shit off your hard drive and forget about it. But computers are weird. Do things ever REALLY get deleted? They get super fragmented and bizarre, but certain kinds of software can sometimes recover them, if not in their entirety, at least in some parts. Too much effort for an employer, but you hope, some day, maybe a really bored person, or an archaeologist will uncover them and find your magnificent follow the leader SCV society, maybe even uncover the figure eight, the game of follow the leader that was thought to be impossible! Actually, maybe that is possible. I am pretty sure I made them do that once. Pretty pathetic.

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Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
October 23 2012 03:24 GMT
#2
What prompted this, out of curiosity? Have they come for you? D:

Though I suppose the solution is to melt the whole thing down, or use the hammer method (but I am informed by reliable sources that it is actually possible, if the information is worth a dollar value in the millions, to repiece a smashed hard drive that way, so melting it all down is probably the safest solution apparently).
Jim while Johnny had had had had had had had; had had had had the better effect on the teacher.
HULKAMANIA
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States1219 Posts
October 23 2012 03:25 GMT
#3
Keep on keeping on, Chef! You're fun to read.
If it were not so, I would have told you.
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
October 23 2012 03:30 GMT
#4
I can imagine some archaeologist in a thousand years, exploring your drive, finding this .rep file that you obviously hid in a special location, figuring out what it is, gathering a team of experts to write code to run the file with the hope of making a ground breaking discovery, and after years of hard work, watching in disbelief a shit load of SCV circling around a command center.
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
October 23 2012 03:53 GMT
#5
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Reformatting your HDD typically just wipes the partitioning table. The raw data is actually still there until you start writing new data to the sector.


Can't really say I've done such a thing though. I got bored and started a diary a few years ago just for kicks but then I got too lazy to keep it up to date after like a week lol.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
October 23 2012 03:59 GMT
#6
I keep the weirdest stuff to pen and paper, personally.
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
October 23 2012 05:07 GMT
#7
On October 23 2012 12:59 thedeadhaji wrote:
I keep the weirdest stuff to pen and paper, personally.

Likewise. It just makes sense to.
minimalistic
Profile Joined August 2010
Hungary157 Posts
October 23 2012 06:19 GMT
#8
I work as a data recovery expert, and I have to say the stuff I find on a daily basis on clients hard drive is mezmerizing.
"A baby Gracken dies every time you use Ghost + Mech" -unknown chat user
CakeOrI)eath
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States327 Posts
October 23 2012 06:20 GMT
#9
That is why you write about on an internet blog. It will now be forever remembered. Ripping it up is no longer an option.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Trozz
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3454 Posts
October 23 2012 07:26 GMT
#10
Nice obfuscation.
Exposure is a weakness.
Metaphores are strength.
A build is not a guess, an estimation or a hunch, a feeling, or a foolish intuition. A build is a dependable, unwavering, unarguably accurate, portrayer of your ambition.
Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
October 23 2012 07:38 GMT
#11
On October 23 2012 16:26 Trozz wrote:
Nice obfuscation.
Exposure is a weakness.
Metaphors are strength.

Fixed that for you :D

<3 Trozz, as always! ^^
Jim while Johnny had had had had had had had; had had had had the better effect on the teacher.
Zariel
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Australia1285 Posts
October 23 2012 07:43 GMT
#12
I work as a computer technician catering my local area. You get to see some weird shit people put on the computer and websites they go to. Seeing an old guy's browsing history filled with 'sexy asian whores' it's no wonder he got a virus.

On my computer, I have the most scattered hard drive. my data is literally everywhere. Duplicates, triplicates of the same file.
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Denzil
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom4193 Posts
October 23 2012 09:07 GMT
#13
On October 23 2012 12:59 thedeadhaji wrote:
I keep the weirdest stuff to pen and paper, personally.


Easier to destroy without leaving traces
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felisconcolori
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States6168 Posts
October 23 2012 09:21 GMT
#14
A ball peen hammer and ten minutes in the oven, and your magnetically stored data has been destroyed beyond the capabilities of 99% of companies to even attempt to recover. And the other 1% will charge millions, and guarantee nothing, because odds are they can't recover it either.

Or, y'know, you could just set up an industrial strength degausser, mount your computer next to it, and hit it with a pulse that will flatten the case and anything in it.
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Marti
Profile Joined August 2011
552 Posts
October 23 2012 10:41 GMT
#15
On October 23 2012 18:21 felisconcolori wrote:
A ball peen hammer and ten minutes in the oven, and your magnetically stored data has been destroyed beyond the capabilities of 99% of companies to even attempt to recover. And the other 1% will charge millions, and guarantee nothing, because odds are they can't recover it either.

Or, y'know, you could just set up an industrial strength degausser, mount your computer next to it, and hit it with a pulse that will flatten the case and anything in it.


Very creative, but you could also use eraser which has the benefit of letting you keep a functional HDD after you've cleaned up whatever it is that you wanted to clean up.
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Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
October 23 2012 11:44 GMT
#16
Is this a warning not to post drunken escapades on facebook?
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Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-23 11:57:47
October 23 2012 11:53 GMT
#17
but instead of doing that you start making SCVs play follow the leader around various formations of buildings and minerals and geysers hoping that one day someone is going to see all that shit and think "By the keyboard of Boxer, what the Hell is going on here?!"

I played a 2v2 random WC3 once where my opponent made a wedding theme. He had a priest presiding a chapel, footmen on patrol moving up and down. I can't remember who he used for all the roles, but it was damn funny.
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elt
Profile Joined July 2010
Thailand1092 Posts
October 23 2012 12:03 GMT
#18
On October 23 2012 12:59 thedeadhaji wrote:
I keep the weirdest stuff to pen and paper, personally.


Same. I set my first on fire.

I bought a Moleskine notebook a year or two ago to start a new one and to keep myself honest to myself.
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GolemMadness
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada11044 Posts
October 23 2012 12:04 GMT
#19
5 stars.
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Snorkels
Profile Joined May 2011
United States1015 Posts
October 23 2012 15:01 GMT
#20
You ever write a crazy blog post and tease everyone with stories of the weird replays archive to wrap-up with pictures of a cat? Did you still somehow manage to make the crazy work? Have you ever talked to a tree for 45 minutes just to see if it was shy? Did you ever start a diary's first entry with "Dear Diary, I'm going to kill you"?

Where am I?
Derrida
Profile Joined March 2011
2885 Posts
October 23 2012 16:54 GMT
#21
#1 Grubby Fan.
Bobo_XIII
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
United States429 Posts
October 23 2012 18:41 GMT
#22
I like reading your blogs and comments, Chef. Your name is one of the few on this website I can associate some semblance of personality to, and one of the fewer I can say I legitimately respect. You're a thoughtful and clever person, and I want to lightly caress your cheek. I mean shake your hand.

This was a great and relatable blog.
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it... and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit, and it goes by the name of Reddit.
r.Evo
Profile Joined August 2006
Germany14080 Posts
October 23 2012 19:06 GMT
#23
On October 23 2012 12:30 endy wrote:
I can imagine some archaeologist in a thousand years, exploring your drive, finding this .rep file that you obviously hid in a special location, figuring out what it is, gathering a team of experts to write code to run the file with the hope of making a ground breaking discovery, and after years of hard work, watching in disbelief a shit load of SCV circling around a command center.

Considering how our archaeology works today it will most likely be called "some sort of cult thing", that's what we do whenever we can't explain things.

"The people around the time back then worshipped small virtual creatures gathering minerals and gas, supposedly symbolizing their economic struggle. Entire countries have been developed to glorify those little virtual things."
"We don't make mistakes here, we call it happy little accidents." ~Bob Ross
snively
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States1159 Posts
October 23 2012 23:22 GMT
#24
eheheh i liked the last pic
kind of cuute
My religion is Starcraft
shizaep
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada2920 Posts
October 24 2012 01:04 GMT
#25
I remember when I was playing SC2 heavily, sometimes I'd hit up games against the computer just to practice my macro, right?

And I'd set the enemy AI to "very easy" and 50% handicap. Then I would go on just to practice my builds and not give a shit about the AI.

Except sometimes, I'd get bored and start fantasizing that I'm playing against NaDa or something like that. I frantically micro my units all around the damn map. I'd be like "HOLY FUCKING SHIIIT!!! THERE'S A DOUBLE DROP IN MY MAIN" and I'd run away all of my workers and bring some of my army back. Then I'd be like "WHAT DAFAQ!!! MY THIRD IS UNDER ATTACK!! THAT NADA'S MULTITASKING!!! FUCK!!" and I'd go defend it. And I'd actually snipe my own third with my own units and try to rebuild it elsewhere. The whole time I'd be running my units all over the damn map.

In the end, all my units would be dead, my base would be in shambles after all those insane drops going on all game long. (actually just my own units attacking my buildings and each other). At last, I'd muster up what I had and push Nada's base, only to find out he has like 1 marine and 6 SCV's.

And then I realize how huge of a waste of time that was. TT
You mean I just write stuff here and other people can see it?
Rollin
Profile Joined March 2011
Australia1552 Posts
October 24 2012 03:47 GMT
#26
A slow format writes 0s to every sector of the drive. Unrecoverable except through black magic.
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stenole
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Norway868 Posts
October 24 2012 12:57 GMT
#27
On October 24 2012 12:47 Rollin wrote:
A slow format writes 0s to every sector of the drive. Unrecoverable except through black magic.


The thing is that the medium, although it stores 0s and 1s logically, in the physical domain it is less digital. If a hard drive writes a logical 0, it only pulls the bit to the polarisation of logical 0. It does so quickly and imperfectly. So if you uniformly write 0s on the entire disk, with special equipment you can still read where you have ~0.1s and ~0.2s giving you an image of where you had logical 0s and 1s before. With enough iterations of random writes, you will able to make the data unrecoverable, though. Or you could be more direct about it by physically destroying the hard drive.
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19288 Posts
October 25 2012 14:55 GMT
#28
I fear for you the day you start keeping your diary as daily blogs on TL. No way to wipe it from here. Although we may all enjoy your weirdness.
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Vertig0
Profile Joined March 2009
United States196 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-26 17:50:02
October 26 2012 17:49 GMT
#29
You can make SCVs follow the leader in a figure eight! It looks like this (1:29):
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Portvilla
Profile Joined October 2012
United States42 Posts
October 28 2012 01:04 GMT
#30
You mean like this right?

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Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?.....and yeah all that <3 Yoona + Tiffany shit bla bla bla
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