New Testingstan

Did some updates, fixed email notifications (which broke at some stage).

Also Sufficient Velocity is almost ready to update to XenForo 2

adr-admin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:07 pm lol without email notifications i don't notice most things here.

I think email notifications are working now. Had to request de-listing in a few places

This change was like 4 years overdue.

Now on the latest phpbb forum with shiny features that no one will use.

Email notifications are somewhat fucked.

And I pruned like 10k spam signups, so after updating I installed some additional spam signup protection stuff

I still run https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com

Also discord over irc anyday.

^This. I was super interested in this game and then it came out and it's essentially a door opening simulator. Seriously don't bother. I saw a bunch of people rave about it, and all I could see out of it was a thematically okish waiting simulator while you wait for the invincible plot device to mov...

It looks like the register page didn't like one of the php updates.

How much would it really cost to put in key mapping? joviwan's reply is really good. There is also the additional aspect that consoles have a fixed hardware, so companies build for maximum bling which works on that hardware and almost nothing no more . This can mean that the infrastructure to chang...

Jesus. no key customizations for The Stick of Truth on the PC. Goddammit! What do you expect for an Ubisoft game (after THQ imploded)? It is not that Obsidian Entertainment doesn't know how todo a PC game, but publisher requirements (either THQ or Ubisoft) can really shape how the game develops. An...

God damn backup script wasn't pruning old backups like it should have been.

:edit: Backups only keeping so many on-box is working now

Also played around where the website's temp files where kept. Next step is to ensure the backups are stored on a separate file system but don't have the time yet.

Flagg wrote:

Dude wrote:Liberal Hate Machine right?

Yeah, but it's kaput, I had XON delete it lol.

I didn't actually delete it, but managed to blackhole traffic to it by mistake (lol complex routing & networking). Only just fixed the mistake a few days ago.

joviwan wrote:It's super awesome. I just wish I was good enough to beat it.

Make sure you can get 60 FPS or a bunch of the QTEs/boss fights end up near unplayably hard.

I get the impression a major media company didn't like their content on there (like SG-1 ) and I heard that streaming is not fully as sound a business model as "physical" media. Major media companies where locked in at sane rates and terms from Netflix's end. But when the contracts came u...

Darksi4190 wrote:Is it just me, or does it seem like Spacebattles has been down more than usual lately? I wonder if its servers are housed anywhere in the U.S. where there's really shitty weather.

The server is vastly underspeced for the load it has. So when backups run the whole thing slows to a crawl.

Please note the https instead of http for accessing testingstan.arsdnet.net

It Should Just Work!™

xon wrote:Well SB appears to have gone away for the time being. It isn't even responding to pings.

So DMCA takedown again, or hardware failure.

And it was a DMCA takedown.

This time of a a meme macro made from a Toucan.

Well SB appears to have gone away for the time being. It isn't even responding to pings.

So DMCA takedown again, or hardware failure.

they broadcast or put online all the last four episodes yesterday. They also had a double bill to start with and a couple of weeks ago. They've really been trying to get them out as quickly as possible for some reason. This kinda sounds like they expect it to bomb and want to replace it with someth...

i only ever heard neurotypical used as a slur by what i could only describe as autistic separatists so i'm not exactly sorry to see it go I've seen it used by some members of the lesswrong.com community, but they might as well be members of a modern iteration of the Cult of Reason. But without self...

From that quote, all I can take away is that Pinker has a rather delusional and limited view of captalism. "The transparency and intelligibility of a country with a free market economy.." Why don't he just confess he wants to say the "invisible hand" of the freemarket? Also, what...

adr wrote:

Asynchronous (overlapped) read and write operations are not supported by anonymous pipes.

ugh windows i love you but sometimes you make my life hard

Just use named pipes with a unique name.

I've never really considered it to be "toxic," but then again i'm male, and have only rarely played games with females, so I really don't know what the experience is for the average female gamer. Have you recently tried to play team cooperative shooters or DOTA-clones as a solo individiua...

timmy wrote:

xon wrote:Yup it was Farscape, all the blue makeup for the character Zhaan fucked with Virginia Hey's kidneys.

Well thanks Xon, I've just lost half an hour looking up yt clips of childhood-era Aus tv shows.

It's the makeup I tell ya. A lot of makeup is really fucking horrible for your health. I remember hearing the case of that actress, I don't remember from which series, who had to desist from her contract because the makeup they were using caused her severe allergic reactions. Yup it was Farscape, a...

evilsoup wrote:wow so I've actually finally written something for my fanfic again. Should have the next chapter up today or tomorrow. Feeling pretty good about it.

So going to publish it here or on fimfiction.net?