Low Priority games now have to be won in order to count. Fixed a bug that could cause periodic hitching. The number of Low Priority games needed to complete has been reduced.
On October 22 2015 23:58 Alaric wrote: I know it, but it's a literary term in French (mulâtre), deprecated and all. It's probably offensive in the same way nigger would be deemed offensive, because it was the term commonly used to refer to mixed-race people at a time when they and black people were still being looked down upon. Talking about a "nègre" (literally the same as nigger, in the context of what it points at, regardless of how it's perceived) in France probably wouldn't be as offensive as in the US though. I'd want to say it wouldn't be offensive period, but I'm not sure and I do find it a bit dumb (I don't know the "recent" history of its usage in the US/English language, but here if you use nègre most people will first be surprised that you use such an out of fashion word, then maybe they'll find it offensive (I'm not sure whether it's because of the perceived meaning of the word, or because it's perceived as deliberately using an obsolete term to drill a point across)).
There's an extra level of tiptoeing around racism towards black people because of slavery in the US.
As for school stories, there was a programming class I took in highschool(largely basic and visual basic) and I finished the entire semester's work in 2 weeks and then sat on the internet for the rest of the time. Meanwhile people had trouble finishing half of the work in total.
Do people seriously have issues with programming? It's seriously the easiest shit and you can learn 90% of what they teach you in school from Google. The are only a few things that I took from college courses that I couldn't look up again on Stack Overflow or w3school.
Short answer: Yes, programming (especially good programming) is hard, unintuitive for most, and difficult to teach. If it was easy you and I would be earning minimum wage.
Long answer: Story time.
Freshman year a friend of mine who was also a CS major called me up for some help. I was effectively a year ahead of him due to AP courses and such so we weren't in the same classes, so I saw no issue giving him a little help.
His homework assignment was to take X/Y inputs from a couple of fields on a webpage and draw a rectangle when a button was pressed, and he was having trouble. After a minute or so I realized the problem was that he didn't understand parameters.
I spent 4 hours teaching him what the hell a parameter was.
He simply could not make the connection that the values he was retrieving from the inputs could be saved to variables and/or passed into a function. He kept hard coding numbers into his function for drawing the rectangle.
I tried everything. Explaining the concept failed. Demonstrating the concept failed. Walking him through the solution failed. Metaphors, analogies, examples, and anything else I could think of failed. I don't even remember what eventually did the trick I was too busy being grateful it was over. He simply needed a mental bulldozer to break through one of the simplest and most basic aspects of programming.
Why was someone like that a CS major? He liked computers so he thought it might be nice.
Basically any 101 course for programming is primarily made up of people who like computers and don't realize that programming is way, way different from browsing the web. You also have people like Gahlo who vastly outskill the course and people who will actually learn a lot from it and do well, but most introductory courses are filled with people who think programmers smash their keyboards for a few minutes and then play video games all day.
to be honest i think at that point it is the profs fault. it took me 3 different professors before i felt like i understood and could write recursive functions.
the hardest part of my cs degree so far(3rd year) has been the math requirements and the computer architecture class. the programming itself has been the easiest bar far.
So, if you guys weren't aware, the entire country of Malaysia is covered in smoke from Indonesian forest fires. People are wearing masks, public schools have been closed for four days, it looks like its foggy outside but its not a cloud of water its a cloud of dead tree ash. Sometimes you can smell it. It smells awful.
I've made a couple silly joke posts about it. It's sucked because its made it hard to take pictures of stuff, I didn't go to the petronas towers because of it, blah blah. But in general I've been able to carry on with my vacation because most of what I've wanted to do in Malaysia is history/culture related, so museums and restaurants and temples and mosques and things that are generally done indoors. If hasnt been perfect but I'm still enjoying myself.
However, tomorrow I'm supposed to take a day long train into southern Thailand and go to the beach.
And as of today I'm reading in the news that this haze has gotten there as well. News is saying its the worst Thailand has had ever.
I'm not going to go relax on a beach that's covered in a toxic cloud of ash. I will change my plans, come back to Kuala Lumpur and then fly home early.
The problem is that I don't want to do that, and I can't confirm how bad it is on the island that I want to go to. The news I've found is for Koh Samui, and I'm going to Koh Tao, which is close by but slightly farther north.
So if aaaaaaaanybody can find me concrete news as to haze conditions on Koh Tao specifically, or if anybody has a friend or a friend with a friend who is there and can go take a picture of what it looks like outside for me, I would really really appreciate it.
Pretty hyped. If they can pull it off I'll be looking forward to landing my Cutter on the surface of some worlds and then jumping over it in a SCV.
Also if you have the credits the Imperial Clipper, courier and Eagle are all on sale without needing rank and at a discount that stacks with Li's discount so you can currently grab a Clipper for around 15 million in Kamito or Arjung systems.
On October 23 2015 10:49 Crusnik wrote: LD is pretty salty as well, I just find it amazing that they did it. Not that I ever get it, I got in once, before they changed it to all random for abandoning, like a year and a half ago, but that was it.
I've been in once too, cuz my PC has had overheating issues, so for a couple of weeks I was flirting the lines with abandons. It was pretty magical tbh.
The fix pertaining to "hitching" made me double check 'cause I read it as "itching" at first. It's related to issues joining the games upon being matched?
On October 23 2015 10:43 Crusnik wrote: So, this is a thing now.
Low Priority games now have to be won in order to count. Fixed a bug that could cause periodic hitching. The number of Low Priority games needed to complete has been reduced.
On October 23 2015 10:43 Crusnik wrote: So, this is a thing now.
Low Priority games now have to be won in order to count. Fixed a bug that could cause periodic hitching. The number of Low Priority games needed to complete has been reduced.
On October 23 2015 10:43 Crusnik wrote: So, this is a thing now.
Low Priority games now have to be won in order to count. Fixed a bug that could cause periodic hitching. The number of Low Priority games needed to complete has been reduced.
On October 23 2015 20:07 Numy wrote: Don't really know how people get low priority. I've got like 2.5k games and never gotten it. Even just quit some games straight.
When i first played dota i had a computer that crashed every now and then. DC'ing from 3-4 games out of 70+ was enough to get me a ton of low priority games
On October 23 2015 20:07 Numy wrote: Don't really know how people get low priority. I've got like 2.5k games and never gotten it. Even just quit some games straight.
When i first played dota i had a computer that crashed every now and then. DC'ing from 3-4 games out of 70+ was enough to get me a ton of low priority games
Didn't guys pause? Maybe since I'm always with 1/2 buddies who pause when we having issues and back then guys were chilled about waiting I haven't encountered it. My pc used to blue screen and I had some internet issues yet majority of games I got back before 5 minutes. I honestly haven't bothered with dota in the last year or two so don't know how much people have changed.
On October 23 2015 20:07 Numy wrote: Don't really know how people get low priority. I've got like 2.5k games and never gotten it. Even just quit some games straight.
When i first played dota i had a computer that crashed every now and then. DC'ing from 3-4 games out of 70+ was enough to get me a ton of low priority games
Didn't guys pause? Maybe since I'm always with 1/2 buddies who pause when we having issues and back then guys were chilled about waiting I haven't encountered it. My pc used to blue screen and I had some internet issues yet majority of games I got back before 5 minutes. I honestly haven't bothered with dota in the last year or two so don't know how much people have changed.
Dunno, it was a really bad computer, took 3-4 mintues for me to be rebooted and back in the game + steam was having some issues at the time where you had to try a bunch of times to connect before it let you sign in. So i think i triggered abandons a few times?
I was generally getting mass flamed/reported upon reconnecting though, even for the games I didn't abandon.
Was kind of annoying that having issues in like 3% of my games gave me so many low priority games though :<
Before creation there were primordials, beings that were the living embodiments of elemental forces and concepts. Through their immense power they formed creation, and created the Gods to be their servants. The primordials then left creation to the Gods while they themselves played the Games of Divinity.
The Gods wanted in on the Games of Divinity, but were bound by oaths to never raise a hand against the primordials. However, they found a loophole and with the help of Autochthon, the primordial of invention, and Gaia, the primordial of life, created Exaltations.
Exaltation grants mortals a portion of godly power, and the mortals were not bound to the same oaths as the Gods. These mortals, the Exalted, overthrew the primordials for the Gods. They killed most of the primordials and imprisoned the rest both physically and with oaths so that they could never seek vengeance.
However, the dying primordials placed the Great Curse on the Exalted, dooming them to eventual madness. This curse is intricate, complicated, and subtle, effecting different Exalted and different types of Exalted in vastly different ways. Very few in creation are actually aware of the curse, and its effects were not seen for many centuries after the Gods gave creation to the Exalted to rule.
The curse fell heaviest on the Solar Exalted, the chosen of the Unconquered Sun. They became increasingly violent, despotic, cruel, and otherwise abusive of their godly and political powers. The Lunars, their mates and bodyguards, were not much better off. Eventually a tipping point was reached and, with the help of the Sidereal Exalted, the Dragon-Blooded Exalted deposed the Solars, slaughtered them, and trapped the Sparks of Solar Exaltation to prevent any new Solars from being born/reincarnated. Those Lunars that were not killed fled to the wilderness.
Meanwhile, the primordials that were killed found themselves unable to truly die, for they were anchored to Creation. These primordials, the Neverborn, began plotting to destroy all of Creation and thus allow themselves to sink truly into death. After millennia of planning they broke the prison that contained the Solars' Exaltations. Half of these they managed to recover for themselves, but the other half escaped. With the captured Exaltations the Neverborn created the Abyssal Exalted, dark reflections of the Solars.
The Dragon-Blooded aren't too happy about the return of the Solars and hunt them down. That and the machinations of the Neverborn are the primary sources of conflict in Exalted, though there are many, many others.
And that's the tip of the tip of the iceberg. I didn't even cover stuff like the Wyld, Yozis, Dragon-Blooded society, what the hell the Lunars have been up to all this time, magical materials, manses, the Celestial Bureaucracy, or a billion other things.
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