@Wipqozn I just don't understand how so many companies (ISP's and TV bundles etc) can give all these offers to new customers, but loyal customers get shit
phone carriers don't seem to do that, but others do
there should be a price match option for phone carriers, lol
unless there's a catch, I can get S10+ from Rogers for less money upfront ($0) than the price of S10 ($219.99) from Bell and save money on monthly bill
To upgrade my equipment at a blacksmith shop, I need to get materials somehow. I found some bones, stone and wood on the map, but that almost nothing.
I know I can also get a little bit of materials from disassembling items but even with these two way materials seems very hard to find.
Am I doi...
Alright so, I am trying to boot up minecraft, 1.7.10. I have forge and alot of other mods. it crashes when I start it up then says "game crashed sorry for the inconvenience" It doesn't give me a crash report so I don't know what the problem is anyone know what the problem is?
unfortunately, for ISP's we only have Bell and Rogers here and Rogers is absolute garbage and tbh, Bell lowered our monthly cost by 10$ for no reason and we're paying less for more speed than the equivalent package has
so, as an ISP, Bell is pretty good around here it seems
like I said, Bell as an ISP does somewhat reward loyalty
my internet speed is faster than the package that we are paying for and last year they called and lowered our monthly bill by 10$ just for being loyal customers
it's my phone that I am having an issue with right now
the mobile plan we have is not available anymore and not eligible for a phone upgrade. The equivalent plan is 20$ more for a total of 125$/mo and I still have to pay over 200$ upfront for S10 or 350$ for S10+
and it seems that Rogers is offering me S10+ with nothing upfront for 115$/mo
the only reason why switching could be complicated is that we have 2 numbers on the account, one being the fancy expensive one and the other is mine, 40$ with shared data from the other number. If I can get the 115$ plan from Rogers and something for 40$ or less for 2nd line, we'll be switching
I'm trying to downgrade my Steam version of Stardew Valley from 1.3 to 1.2 on Linux (for the .xnb mods), and I stumbled upon this tutorial, which explains how to downgrade, but has the Windows version AppID, DepotID, and ManifestID. Does anyone know the AppID, DepotID, and ManifestID for the 1.2 ...
So a few days ago my pc broke down competely. I tried everything but i think my pc is gone for good. Is there a way to recover your minecraft worlds from a broken pc or no? I would really appreciate an answer.
After breaking the 200k rank barrier (I'm about 190k now) I feel as though I've hit a bit of a wall. While I can see small improvements in certain game aspects, I feel like I'm still playing the same star ratings and not improving much overall. Gaining ranks has also become a bit of a struggle as...
I've lately been wondering if it was possible to make a sword (or other weapons) that bans the player being hit from the server permanently. I tried searching it on Google, with a few different phrases, but to no avail. I found nothing. It seems no one else in the history of ever wants to know. I...
@Sterno because thou aren't worthy to wield Mew Mew
@Sterno yeh, no idea where google is getting the date from given that the articles saying it wasn't march was saying that it was google saying the 14th
I made a 3 by 3 portal with End Portal blocks and eye of the Ender in each block but it doesn’t work. I did this many times in Creative mode, with and without a friend
Let's say that I have an item which allows a player to summon blaze fireballs (minecraft:small_fireball) and shoot them where they are looking. Is it possible for me to somehow attribute damage done by these fireballs to the player that shot them?
When a blaze shoots the fireball and kills a pla...
I use a mod that lets you set a predefined inventory upon world startup. The thing is... I use mods in one version that aren't in another, and most of these mods don't have versions released for the other. And the mod uses the config file to save the inventory set, but the problem is the mod uses...
In Khrumbul-dun I got daily amounts of metal. This haul I took over to the Isle of Awakening. But as gold was the last one and I was going on with the story and they stopped bringing up metals for me.
How can I get easily gold now? Because mining it is kinda hard as the blocks are hard to break....
The receiver looks exactly like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Official-Wireless-Gaming-Receiver-Windows/dp/B000MGVAAQ
When I plug it, the slit-like LED light does not turn on.
When I turn my Xbox 360 wireless controller on, it blinks normally, and then I press that synchronization button, it...
I am trying to play NWN 2, multiplayer. To that end I downloaded clientextension_latest.zip. I'm having trouble understanding the ClientExtensionReadme.txt. I can't figure out exactly how to implement strings like, "NWLauncher.exe +connect mynwn2pw.example.com" or "NWLauncher.exe -dmc +connect...
I'm trying to setup a dedicated server for CSGO. I've successfully navigated getting the proper login token and I've got ports 27015 TCP/UDP NAT'd to the local address of the server.
When I try to connect from my client, it loads then just kicks me off to the main menu:
Connecting to public(...
I installed VioLens from nexus but I can't customize my kill moves 😭. whatever I choose wont enable . for example i choose grab stab but when i kill an enemy my character just cut his head off . no matter which kill move i enable , my character just cut enemy's head .can someone please give me ...
@Sterno Back when EA started they were aiming for fall for the full release. Not sure if that's still accurate.
@Sterno Main reason I haven't bought it, and I'm just going to borrow from a friend instead. I really dislike all the additional stuff added in between combat, starting with awakening.
I have a cactus farm which perfectly work when I'm near. But there isn't any cactus which grows when I'm disconnected or far away from the farm.
I know that's because the chunks are unloaded, so I test to set the spawn just next to (because chunks are loaded at the spawn), I also test the comman...
> Epic offered the studio a minimum guarantee on sales “that would match what we’d be wanting to earn if we were just selling Ooblets across all the stores,” which takes the looming existential uncertainty associated with modern game development off the table. This also means the game’s two-person development team can hire an additional programmer and “ramp up our development resources,”
Yeah, I don't blame any devs for taking the terms Epic offers; the odds of becoming a breakout megahit are probably lower (not that they're actually good on other platforms), but it also eliminates the much larger chance that no-one will see your game and you'll starve.
That said, "you're not allowed to be upset about [thing] because you should be spending all of your emotional energy on [other, more important thing]" is always bullshit and they should have omitted that paragraph.
@Kevin even if you're a big dev, it's a pretty appealing deal for any game that doesn't have a large existing fanbase you're confident will buy it. You're just more likely to be able to survive the loss if you decide to roll the dice anyways.
IMO any blame here rests entirely with Epic (for leaning entirely on exclusives at the expense of adding actual features to the store or launcher) and Steam (for letting things get bad enough that what Epic is doing works in the first place)
> In a dozen interviews conducted by Polygon over a period of several months, current and former employees say they regularly worked in excess of 70-hour weeks, with some reporting 100-hour weeks.
for indie devs where there's a limited budget I can understand a lot of crunch happening (but am still against it), but for epic? a company that makes millions every day? They can easily afford many, many more devs.
@Ave Just wanted to drop in here and say that AB actually fired those people because they were looking a fiscal year with a markedly lower revenue, because Blizzard doesn't release a full game this year
So they fired those people not to present profits as higher, but rather to prepare for a fiscal year with less income
@Nzall this seems like a distinction without a difference? They still get revenue (from subscriptions, back catalogue, etc), firing people reduces expenses much more than it reduces revenue (in the short term, anyways), so their reported profit is greater than it would be otherwise.
@ToxicFrog Not exactly. During their earnings call, they gave their earnings for the fiscal year 2018, which were very high, and the wages they paid for those people were for FY 2018. For FY 2019, they expected far lower earnings based on the declining userbase for Blizzard games and the lack of a major Blizzard release, and apparently they though the best way to compensate was layoffs
In Belgium, we have a special regulation for what's known as "conjunctural unemployment", where you're technically still employed, but you don't go to the office, you don't do any work and you get a replacement income based on how many hours you didn't work. However, I don't think the locations where Blizzard employs people have such a system
Essentially, AB during FY19 has a situation where they didn't need as many staff in supporting rolls like QA and CS, and at the same time had less income due to lower player counts and a lack of released games. For them, the economically most sound way to deal with that was to fire people and then rehire for those same positions a couple months later
Because if you don't need to pay 800 people for 3 months, that's a major savings
Again, I think it's scummy too and they should have found a different way to deal with it, but I can somewhat understand their logic
@Nzall "didn't need as many staff in supporting rolls like QA" yep, we'll see if cutting Quality Assurance will make Diablo Immortal a better game. or if they're just going to throw Early Access on it
"Oh hey, I'm already rich beyond what I can spend in this lifetime, I'm ostensibly responsible for this business's well being, let's cut this years bonus and instead not fire people"
There, problem solved, assuming you're not amoral scum
@Kevin I'm sure those millions of dollars didn't wander into the pocket of the board but also a lot of normal workers. (Idk how blizzard does it but that's how most companies work)
Cutting bonuses for every employee isn't much better.
30 million will pay for 800 employees for a year. Also reminder: They're re-hiring for the same positions about half a year later (said two months earlier, was wrong)
@Kevin It's not that easy. For starters, those bonuses are meant as a reward for a well completed fiscal year, so taking them away isn't that easy. Beyond that, the way double bookkeeping works is that it's not really possible to transfer profit from one year to next year's revenue, at least if I remember high school bookkeeping properly
@Kevin here is the thing though: that 30 million dollar bonus is a cost for 2018, not 2019. That's just 30 million that was removed from the bank account and moved to dividends, essentially. If that wasn't paid out, it wouldn't have reduced the costs for 2019
Also I don't see how you're amoral scum if you take your bonus (no matter how large) if you're successfully running one of the biggest gaming companies in the world
"Hey, instead of me, the CEO, taking the decision to fire 800 people, I am instead going to not accept this bonus/return this bonus and not fire 800 people."
@Kevin The relevance is that Blizzard would have lower revenue in 2019 regardless of whether Kotick got his bonus or not. And they needed to compensate for that lost revenue somehow in the fiscal year 2019.
there are rules for double bookkeeping: at the end of the year, you put whatever profits you made towards 1 of 3 goals: downpayments on loans, dividends, or monetary reserves. After that, you close the fiscal year and revenues and profits start counting again. Nintendo did end up taking lower profits that year too
But Activision does whatever it can to appease shareholders, and they mostly care about profits
There is a difference though. The bonus cut that the CEO took was for a fiscal year that was already meager due to the failure of the Wii U, and the years after didn't seem like they'd be any better, so he took a paycut for those years too
And both of those did have an impact on the costs for the relevant fiscal year
And yes, in this case Bobby Kotick could have taken a paycut for the fiscal year 2019, but he didn't, and that was mainly because of a cultural difference between the USA and Japan
@Nzall That cultural difference being a major misunderstanding of the narrative of the 1987 film Wall Street.
@Nzall Well, Blizzard's outlook doesn't look much better for the next year or so. I don't think they have anything in the pipeline other than Diablo Immortal, right?
@Nzall This expansion isn't done yet, is it? I imagine there's at least two raids left: N'Zoth and Sylvanas. Although I suppose Blizzard could shaft the Horde yet again by not only making the Warchief the bad guy but also not even give them raid end boss status.
So that means one of three things: N'Zoth isn't the end boss (and we fight him in the next expansion or something), N'Zoth possesses Sylvanas so they're both technically the end boss, or now we have an Old God who isn't an end boss.
I have a realm that i'm trying to make a welcome message appear only for the player who joined, each time they join. I've looked at some old videos and tried to update the code, but to no success. The best I could come up with is: /execute if score @p[scores={JoinGame=1}] JoinGame Ive already cre...
I was playing terraria, and "Travelling Merchant has arrived!" appeared. I was happy, so, having no recall potions/magic mirror (early-game) quit the world, then rejoined at my spawnpoint. The travelling merchant was gone. This happened to me before, but I used a magic mirror, and he was gone too...
@GnomeSlice I haven't tried Tinder yet. From what I understand, you shouldn't bother unless you're in the top 20% of good looking men, because the hottest 78% or so of women only swipe right on those men
And if you're in the bottom 80% as a man, you're stuck with the 22% least hottest women
That weird monster with the exposed brain in the first couple of episodes is a result of him cramming a bunch of superpowers in one body, which can't handle it and it goes crazy.
When praying to a spirit in Sky: Children of the Light, there is an option to spend candles to upgrade expressions. I upgraded my "wave hello" expression to level 2 as a test, but I don't seem to be any better at greeting people.
What does upgrading an expression do?
@GnomeSlice Yep, the "quirkless" guy originally had the power to pass along his (otherwise non-functional) powers to someone else. But by granting him the addition ability to get stronger over time, the One For All quirk was created and could be passed along to multiple people.
@GnomeSlice it is like when you neglect the rest of a healthy relationship, like common interests, your partner's interests, treating each other with common decency, wanting her to stop taking hormones because they have side effects you don't like,...
On top of this it hurts our visibility as people end up thinking that it's just a sex thing (as they ignore our struggles and simply sexualize us), which is a thing that hurts social progress and actually contributes to some if not most trans murders.
also, listening to this discussion about Tinder Chasers, it makes me somewhat uncomfortable since it makes me realize that if I'm not careful, I might end up like one too if I ever got into the dating scene
@Nzall Dating is going to involve uncomfortable or awkward situations no matter what you do, don't add a worry about what other people think about you on top of that. Don't feel bad about your preferences either, if you have specific ones.
@Ave I mean, true, that's not what you're supposed to do, but I also feel like it's important that people are open and honest about themselves and don't e.g. hide they're trans because they're worried it might invite chasers or scare people away
It's been a few times already that I stumbled upon this black box with an eye on it:
I have no idea what it is. It appears as a small black square on the map, it is probably indestructible, and also pretty spooky. I've tried to destroy it in many ways:
Punching it
Stabbing it
Shooting it wit...
Some people only want to engage in sexual activities with someone with certain bits. that I can understand at least. Pretty rude way to try and find out though. There are other ways to gauge interest and compatibility
I'm usually really honest with people on tinder because nobody likes to waste time. If I am not what they are looking for then there's no point in us continuing
When I was in an open relationship I didn't really mind spelling out my situation and what I was looking for to avoid any confusion with any potential matches
Some people were like 'that's fucked' and unmatched me. Well, whatever, wasn't going to go anywhere anyway in my view
I’ve noticed in a YouTube video that a guy had full diamond hearts. I don’t know if it was a temporary potion or if he used something to permanently increase his health. I mean after using life crystals and life fruits.
My Petra is an assassin, doing a very good job of her role.
While looking at her stats, I noticed some of them have blue text, rather than black text, notably her speed and defense.
At first I thought, that must be the max stat this class can get.
However when I went into battle she leveled up...
So, I am making a server and I am using skript. I am trying to make a command that brings you throughout dimensions. Here are my commands: /overworld /nether /end Here is the script:
command /overworld:
description: go to the overworld
aliases: earth
usage: /overworld
permission:...
They've suppposedly added the ability to gift Battle Passes to other players -- I saw this feature before I bought the Battle Pass in Season 10, and then bought it for myself. Now the option to gift it no longer seems to be anywhere, not on the Battle Pass screen or even the Item Store.
How do y...
Does Fortnite Battle Royale or Fortnite Save The World share any cosmetics or microtransactions? If I buy skins, dances, or pickaxes in Battle Royale, can I use them in Save the World?
I have learned where the name "red rabbits" comes from (NYC DSA's Marshal team). The packet has a watership down quote which kicks ass:
> All the world is your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.... Be cunning and full of tricks and your people will never be destroyed
Can I visit your town or be friends?
I just recently figured out how to remove the parental restrictions on my 3ds
I feel dumb that it took me this long :")))
But um
I would really like to see what other people's towns looks like !
Or maybe vice versa?
You can come visit my town ^_^ if you...