The Whiteboard

this is a really long gif

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Warning: watching it may induce diabetes

there finally got to the end

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@MichaelT I really want cake now.

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@AshleyNunn It is a lie.

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12:18 AM

Well, I don't have any cake, so I suppose so

@MichaelT We don't have any cake but I could go to the urinal. The cake is a lye.

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facedesk

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Btw, @psr Darkest Dungeon is final release (as in "we're done balancing - this is it").

@MichaelT I just read about the (possibly only) guy who finished nethack without any spoilers (other than the guidebook and wizard mode). It took him about 2000 games over 4 and a half years.

@MichaelT I spend almost 0 on games. Would you rand Darkest Dungeon above Dungeons of Dredmor?

(Also don't have time for very many)

Which is sad. I really like games. Sigh for games.

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@psr I think Dredmore is in the top tier of rogue likes (and not kind of rogue likes - but actual turn based dungeon crawl akin to the original rogue). The character generation and crafting trade offs are wonderful. Darkest Dungeon is a brutal and dark party based dungeon crawl that has lasting effects between individual crawls.

12:31 AM

we badly need more 10kers voting to delete stuff, about half of the questions listed under recent delete votes in the 10k tools are ones only I've voted on (meaning the votes before mine have aged away)

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@Ixrec delete votes never age away.

I could've sworn there were half a dozen questions where the tool said there's 2 recent delete votes but when I click through to the question there's only 1

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The lasting effect aspect of the game is one that really makes it shine. That you have to be rotating the party roster so that people don't go, well, insane.

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And its indeed brutal. What it lacks from the more traditional rogue likes is an emphasis on inventory management - you don't have the "do I take A or B" choices that you find in Dredmore or Netback or Angband.

@MichaelT That sounds possibly fun, but the whole brutal and dark part sounds less fun. Dwarf Fortress style emo crazy sounds maybe fun.

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12:34 AM

The permadeath aspect of it is also different from traditional rogue likes. A character may die, the party may lose... but there are more adventures to draw from.

@MichaelT Inventory management is not my favorite. I mostly do wizards in nethack because they are good at teleporting so there is less grind.

Which do you have more fun playing?

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@psr the 'brutal' aspect of it was where it got a bunch of negative reviews. When you kill something, it may leave a corpse. That may mess up your strategy. There's a ranged enemy behind two corpses and you can only target the first two things... got to get rid of those corpses.

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And some of the negative reviews were "you are mutilating corpses of your enemies! You're bad people!"

The Gamers Dorkness Rising - Bards Suck

►

"Hide behind the wall of dead bards"

At last it's a game mechanic

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The dark aspect is a "you are dealing with undead" and a lovecraftian style of "you are going to go insane" with your characters.

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12:38 AM

I mean... shoot... one of the healer-ish range-ish guys is an occultist

Darkest Dungeon - Release Trailer [OFFICIAL]

Detailed insanity mechanics could be fun. This guy is afraid of the dark, this guy of spiders, this guy wants to be a spider so really avoid spiders...

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@psr not quite that detailed, but yes...

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They are listed under quirks

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Fear of beasts means that you take more stress damage when fighting a beast type monster. Fear of mankind means you take more stress damage when fighting a human.

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And then when you take too much stress damage, that character can get a bit erratic, or nutty... or actually better.

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12:42 AM

The combat skills / preferred position (in that quirks link) shows where they prefer attacking from. Most of their skills work from the 2nd position, with one of them not working as well in the first. THere's a heal that affects all positions (the green ring). And this character can target any of the enemy positions with different skills.

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One of the characters I have is a kleptomaniac and when you find treasure, he's got a good chance of saying "nope its mine" and not letting the party get it. Rather annoying.

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Some of the 'quirks':

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> Fear of Mankind: When fighting humanoids, -15% Stress Resist and -10 ACC
Fear Of Unholy: (Monster Type Unholy) -15% Stress Resist -10 ACC
Flagellant: In town, will only Flagellate for stress relief
Flawed Release: -3% Ranged CRT
Fragile -10% MAX HP
Gambler: In town, will only Gamble
God Fearing: In Town will only Pray for stress relief.
Guilty Conscience: Bears the crushing guilt of deeds real and imagined.
Hagiomania: Obsessed with sainthood.
Hemophilia: -20% Bleed Resist
Hieromania: Experiences religious visions and delusions, prone to investigate worship curios

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As to the tone of the game:

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1:07 AM

@MichaelT Nice look, but trailers make almost everything seem terrible.

Trailers in general. This one as well.

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BioShock Infinite was so much better in that first trailer

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Its not 'dark' as in 'emo' its dark as in 'Cthulhu' and 'you will have characters die and/or go insane (while dying)'

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So, Dredmore is IMHO a "you should buy because it is great". Darkest Dungeon is "it is good and a much better rogue like than the vast majority that make a claim to that title" - if you're not sure on Darkest, wait until another sale.

1:37 AM

I just lack any understanding of BioShock's interest from people.. the artistry seems so rehashed-90s, and yet the game lacks much of interest beyond the artistry; it seems to be what people like I think

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@JimmyHoffa it's cheap philosophy that makes people think they have more moral agency than they do

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And yet that's precisely the point of the first game

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Gameplay peaked in the second game, Infinite was too "multiplayer"

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2:23 AM

@Ampt halt or significantly decrease, yes.

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Reverse? No.

well obviously it's not going to put my nickel plating back

but it doesn't leak, and it doesn't decrease the thermal efficiency

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right on both

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Did the OEM shoot down your request?

the only concern I have is further dissintigration and that leading to pump failure

not yet

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2:24 AM

but they're being difficult

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:26964613 funniestmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/…

JK Suzie may be mean but she's not that evil

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I don't think that the pump will fail before the channels / seal fails.

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@Ampt Have you read the theory that Frazz cartoon is Calvin grown up?

2:25 AM

the flaking is almost exclusively limited to the center of the block IE high flow areas

the areas in and around the seals are pristine.

@MichaelT I have not

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Frazz

Frazz is a syndicated comic strip by Jef Mallett that, on the surface, is about school custodian Edwin "Frazz" Frazier and the school where he works, but which, according to Mallett, is really about discovery. The strip debuted on 2 April 2001. == Style and themeEdit == Mallett has explained that the strip is about discovery, and not merely learning. Frazz's job is just the surface. He reads everything from Milton to Hiaasen to bike racing magazines, he writes, he races, he’s an athlete, and he’s a songwriter, discovering the value of a day job. When songwriting started going well, he kept his...

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>
Because of similarities in calligraphic style, Frazz's physical appearance, his station in life as a brilliant underachiever, and his age relative to Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes, speculation arose that Mallett was actually Bill Watterson, or that Frazz was an unauthorized sequel to Watterson's strip and that Frazz is Calvin as an adult. Some other characters that are similar are Miss Wormwood and Suzie Derkins in Watterson's strip to Mrs. Olsen and Miss Plainwell in Mallett's strip. In a May 2006 series of strips, Frazz and Caulfield invent a game called "Bedlamball" that, like "Calvinbal…

@GlenH7 this is good news... I have some more faith in my blocks. I'm not going to install them back in until I have no other options though

I just got done re-installing the stock heatsink on one

so that I can test my other new parts

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don't want the return period on my CPU/mobo to expire before I even boot it up

that'd be awkward

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2:27 AM

Or one for @ThomasOwens ...

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user41796

I'd probably do the same thing. Leave the water-cooled blocks be until you hear back from the OEM

@MichaelT that looks far too close to calvin and in the same style to be a coincidence.

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Very heavily influenced, no doubt

@GlenH7 The problem is that they are based out of eastern europe so their prime time for responding is opposite of mine

they ask for info, I send it, and wait a day

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2:28 AM

The cynic in me says they wait until the end of their work day to respond to you just to drag it out. :-)

Ugh, totally could be.

that's my latest feedback

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So I made "clean out the pantry" chili tonight. Pretty damn tasty if I do say so myself.

I provided the order number from the place I ordered it - cuz they don't ship to the US so I used a distributer

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:26964704 Erm, info leakage

@GlenH7 got it ;)

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2:29 AM

yw

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@GlenH7 You've got Mrs. Wormwood-ish, Calvin-ish (the underachiever janitor who knows no rules) who is now dating a teacher (Suzy-ish)...

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HIS NAME ISN'T ...

pretty sure you guys could figure that out already

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:-)

so yeah - it's been interesting. I currently have 3 computers worth of parts sitting all over our living room

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2:31 AM

Glance through jefmallett.blogspot.com/2009/12/product-placement-edition.html

My GF is not amused

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@Ampt Just let her know that this is how it will always be...

@GlenH7 The only reason she's putting up with it is because one of them will eventually be hers

when I get it put together

it's usually confined to my office

but taking my behemoth apart requires more... space

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space is good

and if I'm doing one out here... well... might as well do them all!

(I've also used every piece of tupperware to hold screws)

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2:33 AM

Was futzing with the solenoid valve on my humidifier tonight

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Can't wait for the replacement....

(I don't think she's noticed yet... shhhhhh)

@GlenH7 I read that as water heater at first and got very concerned

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Oh, she noticed. She merely chose not to say sh!t

I've seen enough mythbusters to know how that ends

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Yeah, I'm a bit annoyed. Took the whole thing apart and nothing appears to be wrong.

2:35 AM

well... that's weird

is it not humidifying? or just not turning on

yikes yikes yikes

I'm a little closer to the max power rating of my PSU than I thought

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1WP - stupid bluetooth won't connect to the stereo.

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Anyway - the valve won't let water through at all.

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I can hear the valve click as if it's turning on, but no flow

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I should have checked the ports more closely when I had it disassembled

hmmmm

bad relay perhaps?

or do you hear a mechanical click?

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2:41 AM

I hear the mechanical click

well... it would be hard to differentiate those

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very little build up in the valve seat area itself

mechanical relays sound like mechanical clicks lol

although it probably doesnt have a mechanical relay

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The relay is pretty well separate from the valve, and I was able to put my ear right next to the valve

what model is it?

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2:43 AM

Image here

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Kip inc valve on a honeywell humidifier

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Can't find a direct replacement from Kip, but I may not actually want that anyway. It's been problematic ever since I got it.

oh damn - you have a serious humidifier

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yeah, this is a whole house model

wow ok yeah

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2:44 AM

although I'm using a stand alone thingy as a backup currently

thats what we always had

water supply isn't clogged up, right?

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If it is, it's in the inlet tube

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but I disconnected the supply from the valve and turned it partially on to make sure it was flowing

Could you visually inspect the valve when you had it opened up?

see if it was activating?

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No, because I had it disconnected from the power supply and relay

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2:50 AM

I guess I could try that, but leaves me a bit leary

take it out

hook it up to an external supply

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the electromagnet sits in the top part where the label is. The valve is in the lower assembly. And the valve is screwed into the lower assembly

pretty sure it's not switching off of 120V

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No, it's 24V AC

the relay switches off of 24V AC?

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2:51 AM

yep

what in the actual fuck?

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But I'm not certain that the plunger would act as expected outside of the housing

thats.... bizarre

hmmm

well, no water flow seems like something that would be fairly intuitive to diagnose if you've got the time to dick with it

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And I don't know that I want to be holding it at the same time. And I'd pretty much have to hold it as there are two other switches (air flow vane and humidity sensor) in line

get one of the kids to do it

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2:52 AM

@Ampt I'm hoping the new valve I ordered is good enough

that's why you had them, right?

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No, no, I like them.

And here I was gonna say, I'm pretty sure that's why my family had me

but now I just feel sad

lol just kidding

Settle down there bud, you've already revealed that you have a whole home humidifier. That's enough personal info leakage for one week from you ;)

you're the most secretive of all of us

I like to imagine you're lex luthor or something and this is what you do with your downtime from fighting super man

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@Ampt Bah! He's mere child's play!

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And being secretive lets me pretend that my life is more interesting than it really is.

2:58 AM

I choose to believe that it is, too :D

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Thanks! Every vote of confidence helps...

gah... think I could get away with buying a larger PSU without the GF noticing?

I'm at an 850 and pc part picker is quoting my power consumption at 764W... without my watercooling loop

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In other news, Crown 75th anniversary is pretty tasty and a worthwhile drink. Crown XO is good but flirts a bit too much with sweet.

and the pump alone is 18W at max...

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She'll notice.

2:59 AM

ugh

of course she will

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Is that peak power consumption?

yeah

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Or RMS?

oh no

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Meh, if it's peak, I wouldn't sweat it

3:00 AM

well

I don't know - that's just what they quote. Like the 780ti's claim 40-250W

not sure if 250 is peak or RMS

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I personally would like a bit more hedge room, but I certainly wouldn't risk relational strife over the matter

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I'm willing to bet that's peak

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That's a lot of juice for modern electronics

oh... and I have 2 of them

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Most car stereos can't put out 250 W RMS

3:01 AM

there goes 5/8 of my PSU for the graphics cards

then 140W for the CPU alone

then.... 8 fans

How much do power meters cost?

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As compared to brand new PSUs and CPUs? Not all that much

user41796

You're in relativistic economics now, not absolute

see, that's the kind of answer I like to hear :D

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yw

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but seriously, it doesn't matter if the meter is $50 or $75 or $100 when you compare that to the loss of the mobo & cpu or PSU

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3:04 AM

or all of the above

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And then we can factor in the emotional anguish you'll experience when you realize the equipment is fried

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Or the amount of time you'll spend trying to accurately determine what the root issue is

lol

I'm just gonna buy a whole new one and call it a day

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There ya go

it helps that my PSU is a corsair

I think they make the best on the market - so that 850 is a solid 850 RMS

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3:08 AM

I'd believe that, yes

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Oh wait

oh wait?

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You've got an 850 RMS PSU and your peak consumptions are adding up to the RMS power? Quit worrying

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@psr oh, part of the darkest aspect of the game - the light level is an important mechanic.

@GlenH7 errrr why?

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3:09 AM

Peak values always exceed RMS values

user41796

If your PSU truly provides 850 RMS, then it's peak amount is much higher

yes - I follow you so far

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effing chat rate limiting me.... grrrrr. Gonna go suspend Community

so if my component peak is lower than my PSU RMS...

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Then you're completely fine

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3:10 AM

compare apples to apples

yeah - but I can't get RMS out of the components

just numbers

no clue if those are RMS or peak

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If all you have is component peak, and that's lower than your PSU RMS, then you've got nothing to worry about

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I'm willing to bet they're peak

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250W continuous is a nice little whole room heater

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500 W continuous even more so

3:11 AM

it does that, yes

fuck it, we're just gonna see what happens

brownouts will brown out

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I'd do a bit more digging into the actual specs of your PSU then

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Nah, that level will just trip a circuit

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and a normal 15A breaker can easily handle 1800 W

I mean if the PSU can't keep up

it'll likely just brown out, no?

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yes

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3:14 AM

cpu has a minimum voltage before it just turns off

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Voltages will droop

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Fans and cpu will slow

ok, another data point - I was using all of the big stuff on this PSU already - all I did was upgrade mobo/cpu/ram

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likely not that much difference

3:15 AM

I went from a 95W CPU -> 140W

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mobo draw is minimal

I think that's the biggest difference

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yeah, that's a bump

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but again, that's going to be peak power off of the CPU

yeah

provided I don't OC it... which I probably won't do yet

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3:16 AM

they don't run that hot all the time unless you're running 24x7 rendering

nope - just when I'm gaming

now that I have to pay the power bill...

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You'd think that there'd be some software that could track the CPU power consumption....

there is - on the newer PSUs

corsair i series (how original)

I have the series before that one (of course)

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Well now there's reason to buy a new PSU... :-)

Quit trying to get me in trouble :P

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3:18 AM

Just like Verizon suggesting I buy an Android phone based upon my "previous purchases." Fecking idiots.

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@Ampt Hey now, I've been nothing but good about keeping you out of that trouble

@GlenH7 til you start agreeing that I need newer, shinier things

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precious. my precious.

I know enough! He said you killed him!

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Gollum was a bit anti-social in that regards

3:21 AM

it's 4:20AM in slovenia - 5 hours and maybe Roman will think about responding to me :D

@GlenH7 Wait, Gollum wasn't Frodo's father?

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@Ampt nah, he'll reply in 12h 39m just as he's walking out the door for the day.

@GlenH7 Don't give him any ideas.

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And you think mods are evil.... Sheesh. Just ask 1st and 2nd level support.

I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to move further in the script until I said I had done that.

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ah, stories from a bygone era

3:28 AM

level 3/dev? I'm glad I don't have that haha

no one's going to be calling this guy

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It wasn't that bad

It's ok, this is a safe space

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I was never on call there, so I didn't mind so much

you can tell the truth

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Well, the truth is that my brain has just about shut down for the evening. So I'm going to listen to some music while I sip on the remainder of this glass of wine and call it an evening.

3:31 AM

Have a good night

Thanks for tempting me with the dark side

Aaron Hall

4:27 AM

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@AaronHall Quit drinking by yourself superman

Aaron Hall

He's not by himself, he's surrounded by other people, who don't seem to care.

Mathematics

8:24 AM

Morning all

why negative vote ? is this too board for SO ? should I move it to programmers.SE ? — Please Teach 26 secs ago

Mathematics

@Duga huh ?

Q: Can one or two emoticons be used in a PhD Thesis?

9:15 AM

well, they don't appear to have reasked it on PSE at least, whatever it was

Lightness Races in Orbit

10:51 AM

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I have a very dumb :-) question: Are emoticons (if rarely placed - one or two times) in a PhD thesis considered unorthodox? I have an introduction where I give an apt example and appended some small footnote where I make fun of the author (that's me) and I was so laughing when writing this I al...

11:30 AM

@Mathematics Duga is a bot which attempts to identify when people refer to this site. We use it as an early alarm system because the fast majority of user referrals are baaad.

12:21 PM

While not bad, this is probably not the type of question that should be asked on stackoverflow. Programmers might be a better place. — IInspectable 6 secs ago

12:49 PM

meta.stackexchange.com/posts/42919/revisions

Mathematics

1:07 PM

where should I convert IEnumberable to Table ?
or should my repo return me a table
I have a extension method
maybe I need to add another extension project

1:25 PM

[programmers](programmers.stackexchange.com) might be a better place to ask this question. :) — hamena314 37 secs ago

1:55 PM

Happy Coffee Day

@Ampt you just got new bits and bobbles? You mentioned being in the market, but that was fast. What'd ya get?

Team success: First production release is this Sunday.

What happens if it goes wrong?

No one is there to fix it. You should release to production on like...Wednesday.

we're supposed to be congratulating her!

but yes it is a good idea to do prod releases when people are in the office

@WorldEngineer so BioShock is popular because of some caricature of a philosophical perspective that it portrays in a way people find interesting? Not because it's actually a fun game itself? I mean, I guess that might do it for some... Doesn't do it for me. Then again I'd probably think a game that was an expression of Blake's works and philosophies would be very interesting, but that's just because he's an idol of mine. No, games trying to sell philosophical analysis don't sound like my cuppa.

@Ixrec Congratulations are waste. They don't add value to my process. I have leaned them out.

2:04 PM

@Ixrec nonsense, prod releases should only be done at 2am on a holiday like Christmas or Thanksgiving.

wait, someone claimed BioShock was popular because of the Ayn Rand connection? blargh

it's popular because it had a very unique and memorable setting along with pretty decent FPS gameplay, and that famous plot twist everyone loved

@Ixrec There's a connection between BioShock and Ayn Rand? Admittedly, I've only played the first one.

Ayn Rand is also stupid. I couldn't make it 100 pages into the first book.

the premise of the setting is that some guy who has (supposedly) a very similar philosophy to Rand's tries to found an underwater utopia city

@ThomasOwens I'll presume you're kidding because not recognizing the value of morale in process is a grave mistake

being a video game, you show up after it is no longer a utopia and everyone left is trying to kill each other

2:07 PM

@JimmyHoffa Yes, I am kidding.

the Randy stuff (pun not really relevant) mostly comes in the form of dialogue and audio logs explaining what the society was like before it went to pot

Ah. So nothing truly central to the plot, or I'm not remembering it if it was.

central to the backstory, but not the plot you actually play through, yeah

also, it's the only reason most gamers including myself know what "art deco" looks like

@Ixrec you know what, I think you just nailed it. It's an age thing. The game is an absolute rehash of 90s FPS mechanics, concepts, and artistry, but to a number of folks who didn't game in that era it must be fresh gameplay. I couldn't get into it because it felt like games I got bored of ages ago.

If you think gameplay is why people liked it, it just means they weren't playing FPS' in the 90s

agreed, the gameplay was good but not at all unique, except maybe in the combination of non-unique gameplay elements it presented

2:10 PM

which is sad because I don't ever want to blame something on my age. I'm just a young punk, somebody tell me to get off their lawn before I lose it

Infinite is much the same way: gameplay's nothing to write home about but still fun, and it's all about the setting/plot

@Ixrec I only meddled in a bit of 1 and 2. Infinite actually looks much more interesting regarding the artistry and setting.

it's certainly a very different setting from the first two, arguably an even better one

Infinite also has a significantly more complex and timey-wimey plot (albeit very back-loaded), if that matters to you at all

You know what was a bloody awesome FPS on rails? No One Lives Forever. A game on rails really needs to stand out somehow if it's going to be completely linear, BioShock 1/2 just don't stand out.

are you talking about a literal on-rails shooter or just one with linear level design?

2:19 PM

@Ixrec I mean as opposed to something with open-world elements where you can independently explore etc

oh, I would say they both need to stand out because both kinds have been done to death

lol

@Ixrec yeah but with open world elements I can at least go entertain myself a bit in the game even if it's fairly bla. Without that, if the game is bla I'll just drop it very quickly

I know open world is like that for a lot of people but the idea of having random junk to kill time with in a video game usually feels to me like giving up on making the core part of the game fun to play

I might try to deconstruct the growth system if it has non-linear growth available, try to see what happens if I grow my character a ton before starting anything, or see if I can get my character into troubles meant for much further along - just to see what happens. Open world done badly still provides a lot more choices to just try enjoying the game vs. a linear game done badly

the worst example for me would probably be Assassin's Creed 3, which might as well have been a linear game with mandatory "run from A to B" segments in between all of the real content

2:23 PM

@Ixrec haha I have only heard bad things about AC3 and beyond which stinks because I loved 1 and 2 with all the expansions (which were as big as the full-games)

same, AC1 was cool, AC2 fixed all its problems, and then they just haven't changed anything of consequence since

the only open world game I played that actually benefitted from being open world in my opinion was the original Mercenaries

That said, the open world mechanics meant in all the Assassins Creed games I did actually go out and grow my character a whole bunch doing things like capturing every tower etc before going back to the main quest

because in that game driving from A to B was fun because I'd get in random skirmishes and maybe even stumble across one of my targets and the combat was fun enough that random firefights with no purpose whatsoever were actually enjoyable

getting all the shops, gaining lots of money and buying the best equipment before really moving on in the main quest etc. Everytime it moved me to a new city I would capture every tower to open the whole map before even starting the quests

emphasis on "the combat was fun enough that random firefights with no purpose whatsoever were actually enjoyable"

most open world games don't even try to come close to that

AC especially since you're supposed to be an assassin

2:26 PM

@Ixrec meh. So, did you play Morrowind until your eyes bled? Because if not, I can't talk to you anymore. It would just be untoward :|

you seem to be citing a lot of RPG mechanics, which might also be relevant, as I personally dislike those kinds of mechanics which encourage grinding for upgrades over just learning to play well

never played any of the Elder Scrolls games, everything I've heard about them implies they're exactly the kind of open world games I would not enjoy at all

Jan 15 at 18:34, by Jimmy Hoffa

This might be a better fit for programmers.SE. It's off-topic for here though. Oh, and one question per question in the future please. — j08691 33 secs ago

I was not comparing Elder Scrolls to AC3

castleinthedarkness.mattkap.net

I just started playing that. It's exactly what I was looking for in a pick-up-and-play experience. ah, the good old days.

2:37 PM

@Ixrec A non-linear RPG isn't at all about grinding though, it's about designing and strategizing your build. It's a linear RPG where every build is exactly the same that causes it to be a focus on grinding. That said, I suspect you'd like FarCry 3 (and probably 4) a lot if you like random firefights where the fighting mechanics are actually great

This game does a great job of remaking the old NES experience while avoiding the common NES annoyances. It's probably the only modern retro game I've played so far that actually succeeds at this.

@MetaFight it's interesting how big retro has become

@JimmyHoffa interesting how poorly it's usually implemented.

Abyss Odyssey: Extended Dream Edition

@MetaFight in the same vain of a fun pick-up-and-go game, you could check out Abyss Oddysey

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My theory is that (some) people prefer low res graphics because it forces them to fill in the blanks with their minds (ooh, imagination). HD graphics are too much for me. Too much to take in in too little time. Stresses me out.

2:41 PM

it's got fun local co-op my kid likes while being a neat side-scroller with mortal-kombat meets mario type gameplay

@JimmyHoffa I think my brother recommended this one.

This gem nails the smash-bros type experience. The visuals are nice too and kind of aim for an early 90s arcade vibe.

store.steampowered.com/app/251470

I like that they kept the old 3:4 aspect ratio.

Simple game play, lots of action, great balancing system so that nobody ever dominates... and a decent story mode too.

@ThomasOwens That's precisely why we're doing the release on Sunday. Lowest traffic. We have a backout plan too!

@GlenH7 yuck, rye. It's all too sweet, with a tinge of inexplicable tanginess. Bleh.

user41796

@JimmyHoffa I liked it

user41796

Not enough to run back out and buy more bottles at the fire sale prices, but definitely didn't regret the purchase

2:53 PM

yeah, most people like Crown... I just can't tolerate Rye, it's worse than bourbon with that odd cloying aftertaste

user55340

All prod deployments should be at 4pm on Friday.

Did I ever mention the time I accidentally dropped the production database at 4:30 on a Friday?

user41796

@KitZ.Fox How much bribing did it take to get back in the good graces of everyone else?

user55340

Go to the dba. Say "So, hypothetically... If I were to drop the database, how long would it take to recover from... Say... The most recent backup prior to an hour ago?"