Random thought thread!

Staff_Sergeant · 2011-02-13T09:11:11.000Z

It also makes a big deal what you’re doing. I probably put in 50+ hours a week a couple summers ago on a shit job which sucked, but I easily spend like 80 hours a week in classes and doing group work and individual work at my house now and I enjoy it so there’s no reason to complain.

ckessel · 2011-02-13T09:22:34.000Z

Enidigm:

But just 50 hours a week? (not that this is some barrier of entry to the honored rolls adulthood, or that it’s an ideal number, ect) /Snortle.

I’d think someone that considers 50 hour weeks normal would need to reevaluate their priorities in life…

But hey, that’s just me, a guy that’s only very sporadically worked more than the normal 40 hour week his whole ~20 year career and cherished having enough time and energy for his wife, kids, games, friends, etc.

But I’ll preface all that with a snortle, so we’re all good.

ckessel · 2011-02-13T09:25:29.000Z

Enidigm:

But just 50 hours a week? (not that this is some barrier of entry to the honored rolls adulthood, or that it’s an ideal number, ect) /Snortle.

I’d think someone that considers 50 hour weeks normal would need to reevaluate their priorities in life… I cherish having enough time and energy for my wife, kids, games, friends, etc. People wear overtime, particularly free overtime when you’re salaried, like some sort of masochistic badge of honor.

But I’ll preface that with a snortle, so we’re all good.

Edit: “Jerry Weinberg has an answer of sorts: He suggests that we don’t work overtime so much to get the work done on time as to shield ourselves from blame when the work inevitably doesn’t get done on time.” – Peopleware, by DeMarco and Lister

Bahimiron · 2011-02-13T09:52:55.000Z

Enidigm:

Like i prefaced my original comment with…

God, you’re a douche. But is anyone surprised?*

Still, I shall now apply your awesome rhetoric to every post I come across.

Nixxter:

Here’s to the most craptacular 7 months of health I’ve had in my adult life,

Sorry but lol. Try 13 months.

Omniscia:

I have 20 Danish kroner in my desk

Sorry but lol. Try 47 kroner and 70 Øre.**

*No, no one is.

**And the two ten Øre coins aren’t even worth anything!

ckessel · 2011-02-13T10:41:52.000Z

Dilbert is always apropos:

Raife · 2011-02-13T11:58:42.000Z

Dilbert? Pish. Try Python.

ckessel · 2011-02-13T12:26:18.000Z

Raife:

Dilbert? Pish. Try Python.

Pulling a topper with a video about the silliness of toppers. Well done sir, you win this round!

Jazar · 2011-02-13T12:31:31.000Z

ckessel:

Pulling a topper with a video about the silliness of toppers. Well done sir, you win this round!

That’s nothing! I knew this one guy…

Creole_Ned · 2011-02-14T14:36:50.000Z

You ever get an unexplainable urge to re-install an old game?

Some recent discussion of the original NWN inspired me to load it up again. I have the Platinum edition, which includes the two expansions. I also have an Excel file with all of the CD keys for my various games in it, just in case. NWN Platinum requires three keys, one for the original campaign and one each for the expansions. To be doubly safe, I have kept the (spiral bound!) manual that also contains the keys.

I pop in the DVD and open the Excel file. Hmm, no NWN keys in there. I was pretty sure I’d put them in. Oh well, I’ll just get them from the manual…

…which has mysteriously vanished from every conceivable spot it might be. I search all over to no avail. The manual has hidden itself beyond my means to find it.

So I take the now useless DVD out and silently curse key-based copy protection.

Then I ate some chocolate.

This probably counts as several random thoughts that aren’t altogether random, anyway, but in lieu of a general ‘rants about games’ thread, I figured this would do.

Sarkus · 2011-02-14T14:39:38.000Z

I just ate a bowl of bran flakes for lunch. Plain. As in no milk, just dry bran flakes in a bowl.

It might be time to go grocery shopping.

AaronSofaer · 2011-02-14T15:03:48.000Z

Ned: This is what keygens or bypass hacks are for. I think even on Qt3, people aren’t going to assert that using a keygen to bypass copy protection for a game you’ve purchased is somehow immoral.

jerri_blank · 2011-02-14T15:11:11.000Z

Dammit, I hate MS Publisher and the fact that it won’t import a Word document with footnotes/endnotes intact. And I hate that the learning curve for REAL DTP software is so steep.

Eilonwy · 2011-02-14T17:51:07.000Z

Godiva chocolates are sooooo much better than flowers.

Creole_Ned · 2011-02-14T21:26:16.000Z

The chocolate I had was probably better than NWN, too.

balut · 2011-02-14T21:36:09.000Z

Gigi Edgley could probably play a decent Harley Quinn.

Thoro · 2011-02-14T21:49:26.000Z

balut:

Gigi Edgley could probably play a decent Harley Quinn.

Wait, she could play a decent anything?

Marcus · 2011-02-14T21:59:47.000Z

Creole Ned:

You ever get an unexplainable urge to re-install an old game?

Some recent discussion of the original NWN inspired me to load it up again. I have the Platinum edition, which includes the two expansions. I also have an Excel file with all of the CD keys for my various games in it, just in case. NWN Platinum requires three keys, one for the original campaign and one each for the expansions.

Then I ate some chocolate.

This probably counts as several random thoughts that aren’t altogether random, anyway, but in lieu of a general ‘rants about games’ thread, I figured this would do.

No to be a downer but if you registered them on the bioware site you would have them and not need the DVDs.

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2011-02-14T22:15:29.000Z

I’m going to have a peanut butter sandwich.

Because tomorrow I may die and won’t be able to enjoy one.

Omniscia · 2011-02-15T06:40:59.000Z

OMG, one-half of Hall & Oates is coming to my town on June 3!

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2011-02-15T17:44:37.000Z

I could watch a show with Nonchalanto as the star.