HERE'S WHY I HAVEN'T SHOWN UP FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS

[Golddollar]

I got the new computer this evening and Best Buy really did a good job transferring everything from my old computer to the new one. With the solid state drive vs. the hamster driven hard drive the difference in operational speed is amazing. Trying to use a cellphone as a computer just didn't cut it.

 

[rwsmith]

My newly repaired laptop......

...has been fried. I'm on the desktop.

 

[venomballistics]

Long ago, a friend and I set up a LAN for multi player combat sims.
It always seemed to take a solid 45 minutes of mildly fatal network floggings to get things rolling.
Now, some twenty odd years plus later, we did it again over internet with a sizable squad.
The 45 minutes worth of mildly fatal network floggings really brought back fond memories of our greatest hits.
"Is the router even plugged in dipchit?"
"This was just working last weekend"
" Dude, you exported the mission without anything playable again"
And many many more...
Back then I'd hack these games and modify weapons and equipment. I considered it the game within the game. A nuclear 1911 is always a crowd pleaser.
Looking back, sifting through hundreds of lines of code and cobbling together class derivative flow charts was quite the impressive feat.
The current version of me is far less willing to dive into such endeavors. In fact, the current version of me is only aware that it's a thing at this point.
I'd likely brick the installation going in now.
That's part of the problem we face with technology.
No matter how savvy we might have been, we're just tired of dealing with the man behind the curtain if we're even off to see the wizard at all

 

[Golddollar]

Long ago, a friend and I set up a LAN for multi player combat sims.
It always seemed to take a solid 45 minutes of mildly fatal network floggings to get things rolling.
Now, some twenty odd years plus later, we did it again over internet with a sizable squad.
The 45 minutes worth of mildly fatal network floggings really brought back fond memories of our greatest hits.
"Is the router even plugged in dipchit?"
"This was just working last weekend"
" Dude, you exported the mission without anything playable again"
And many many more...
Back then I'd hack these games and modify weapons and equipment. I considered it the game within the game. A nuclear 1911 is always a crowd pleaser.
Looking back, sifting through hundreds of lines of code and cobbling together class derivative flow charts was quite the impressive feat.
The current version of me is far less willing to dive into such endeavors. In fact, the current version of me is only aware that it's a thing at this point.
I'd likely brick the installation going in now.
That's part of the problem we face with technology.
No matter how savvy we might have been, we're just tired of dealing with the man behind the curtain if we're even off to see the wizard at all

Does this flowchart template look familiar?

 

[venomballistics]

Does this flowchart template look familiar?

that might have been useful at the time.
Class derivative is kinda like sorting out nature into categories.
Nature is your first block which splits into living and non living .... living splits into plants or animals .... no not a lot was really needed. just had to see where the stuff came from in the family tree.
If I really really really really really had to, I could probably do it again. the real mystery today is why I ever wanted to in the first place

 

[ACORN]

Long ago, a friend and I set up a LAN for multi player combat sims.
It always seemed to take a solid 45 minutes of mildly fatal network floggings to get things rolling.
Now, some twenty odd years plus later, we did it again over internet with a sizable squad.
The 45 minutes worth of mildly fatal network floggings really brought back fond memories of our greatest hits.
"Is the router even plugged in dipchit?"
"This was just working last weekend"
" Dude, you exported the mission without anything playable again"
And many many more...
Back then I'd hack these games and modify weapons and equipment. I considered it the game within the game. A nuclear 1911 is always a crowd pleaser.
Looking back, sifting through hundreds of lines of code and cobbling together class derivative flow charts was quite the impressive feat.
The current version of me is far less willing to dive into such endeavors. In fact, the current version of me is only aware that it's a thing at this point.
I'd likely brick the installation going in now.
That's part of the problem we face with technology.
No matter how savvy we might have been, we're just tired of dealing with the man behind the curtain if we're even off to see the wizard at all

Is Google Translate able translate “Geek” to English?