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2024.05.13 22:59 SweetBearCubI have a CarlinKit box wired to my car, but whenever Google Maps starts navigation, it triggers my car to appear to listen for voice commands, stopping all other audio, and looping if I cancel it.
If I press cancel on my steering wheel, it brings up a google assistant prompt on top of the (dimmed, but still active) navigation. Dismissing that ends up in a loop, triggering the car's native voice commands prompt. The car doesn't actually appear to hear or respond to any voice commands when this happens, but it does appear to be listening, as even my AC fan speed drops as it would if I triggered google assistant intentionally with my phone wired in via android auto. For now, my phone is not connected at all to the box. This is the box that I'm using - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BPHNNNHR
2024.05.13 22:58 Positive_Guarantee20RO water fine for (leaky) coolant system? 2008 Subaru Outback
I have RO water at home, system is well-maintained (serviced annually). Our well water is VERY hard, but goes through a whole house filter, water softener, and then the RO filter. It's basically "dead" water at that point. The auto parts store was selling deionized water for $7 CAD / gallon (?!) so that would practically eliminate any savings I'd get from buying concentrated coolant. What do factories pre-mix the 50/50 ready-to-use coolant with? Should I buy distilled or dionized instead? For context: my 2008 Outback (3L AT) has some head gasket infiltration, so definitely want to keep the rubber seals free of any particulates / ions as much as possible. There is a bit of sludge in my coolant reservoir anyways (I should clean that out...) so maybe not an issue. thanks!
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2024.05.13 22:49 LPK94Can't seem to get my navigation bar to appear horizontally, can anyone help me determine the styling rule that's preventing this?
I really appreciate any help with this. As of now my navigation bar is a centered vertical list with bullet points on the far right. I can't seem to find what is causing that. html
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2024.05.13 22:48 captfitzAbsolute simplest, most lightweight CRM for small business
I know this sounds like a very googleable question, but I've been looking for an hour now and am struggling to find a good recommendation. I run a little office/coworking space, we only get 1-2 leads a week (almost entirely inbound) and do not need the majority of features that even the "small biz" focused CRMs offer. Here's what I do need:
A system that makes it dead simple to mark a new email conversation as a lead and keep a list of active leads, with the ability to add notes and status if needed
The ability to initiate automations for a lead (pretty much just drip campaigns) and then auto-interrupt them if the customer responds
Is there a CRM out there that does the above without a bunch of additional complexity geared toward dedicated sales people (which is what I keep finding), or do I just need to string together a couple of non-crm products?
2024.05.13 22:44 NameUnspecifiedDoes this Brazilian(?) designer sound familiar?
Hello! I know this is a long shot, but I figure everyone here would be the most able to help me solve this. I came across a website via Instagram on Thursday that had incredible dresses/gowns but I can remember the name or website. Before you ask, yes - I’ve tried literally everything to try finding the website including getting a file download of my data from Meta but my browser and social settings were so strict that nothing is ever saved. I’d be in your debt with gratitude for anyone that may happen to help solve this. Below is what I do remember about the site/designer.
I believe it was a Brazilian designer. The website seemed to be in Portuguese. Near zero chance it was Spanish. I couldn’t find a language toggle on their website, but Google Translate auto converted the text. Very well-built website.
The “theme(s)” for their current collections were “fire” and “water” when translated and was a single designer’s collection rather than being a boutique site that sources clothes from different vendors.
I believe it was only women’s clothing
All of the dresses/gowns I saw listed mentioned being made upon purchase. For most, numerous colors were offered but only the main colorway had photos.
One featured dress in particular was solid red with a very large/thick bow on the front chest that looked similar to two triangles pointed at each other (no “ribbon” hanging from the bow)
Price point for each dress was between R$4000-R$7000 ($750-$1400 USD)
2024.05.13 22:43 ClericKyanAssistance in reading dmp file for NETIO BSOD event
I've bene trying to troubleshoot BSOD errors for a friend and I've been trying to isolate the issue from the minidump files using WinDbg. The motherboard had already been replaced through warranty due to similar networking issues, however the NETIO BSOD has returned. Previously to the new motherboard I had done numerous things including a Reset then USB reinstall of Windows. Troubleshooting thus far post-new motherboard: SFC /Scannow System Restore As indicated by Research- uninstalled AVG VPN, Auto Driver Updater Programs in use: AVG, Zone Alarm As it has returned it would seem to indicate that a security program is at fault or, perhaps, there is some 'toe stepping' on memory access. Most recent research as also indicated a uninstall reinstall of NIC drivers. I don't often go Dmp diving. I hope someone with more experience in this area can assist in locating the culprit for the NETIO. I hope its something glaring that I'm just missing. If possible could the reading for the solution be explained so I have a better idea of how to procced in the future in these instances. Thank you for your time and efforts. DMP File
2024.05.13 22:38 SolidProceeding25AI User Assistance SaaS has 20M Users
This is the journey of CommandBar, a user assistance platform that helps tech products improve user retention. They have used white-labeling to grow to 20M end users. I'll focus mostly primarily on building their product but will speak to their growth near the end. It all started from a hatred of popups. "We wanted hovercrafts, they gave us popups." Pop-ups proliferated and users soon despised the intrusive ads. Today, most browsers block pop-up ads. But pop-ups aren’t dead. They litter the products we pay for to “help us”. Users hate modals (another name for popups) even more than autoplay videos, making them the most hated form of advertising. Yet, pop-ups somehow remain the go-to of digital adoption software: Software products dedicated to helping software companies make their products easier to use. It’s time for a, non-annoying approach to helping users use software — an approach that follows the golden rule: “Give our users an experience we’d like to have”. Hello, user assistance. The folks at CommandBar believe to actually help users, you need to put their interests first. Hence, user assistance. To define what that looks like, imagine a human user assistant whose helps users use software — a kind of software butler. The assistant sits behind the user (without breathing down their neck), watching them use the product. Here’s what the user assistant would do:
Listen to the user's intent
Intervene at the right moments
Adjust to every user
They built a suite of products that follow this model of user assistance, and they take 3 forms:
Copilot — a natural language interface where users can chat with an AI-powered assistant. The assistant can answer questions, but also complete actions on behalf of the user, and trigger walkthroughs. It’s the closest thing to the human user assistant we have.
Spotlight — in some situations, search is a more convenient entrypoint for intent than chat. It’s faster to provide a few keywords than type out a question, and results are also faster. Spotlight. Think Spotlight on MacOS, but in any app.
HelpHub — a customizable resource center that lets users search through existing help content.
The second part of their product is called nudge. Visually, these look like popups (gasp 😱). And some of them are, we admit, popups in geometry. But the key difference between a nudge and a popup is that nudges are personalized and obey by guardrails to ensure they are not annoying. They perfected their product over the course of several years, and they some of the best reviews I've seen: https://www.g2.com/products/commandbareviews But the real secret to growth is their white-labled software. Big companies install it and all their users interact with CommandBar without ever knowing it. Maybe you have too. Have you ever used Gusto? ConvertKit? Angel List? Clearbit? Yotpo? OneSignal? Bet you haven't felt stuck while using any of these ;) Congrats to 20M users, CommandBar. To read more of these, keep browsing reddit. I don't have a newsletter.
2024.05.13 22:36 WutermellunGodAffordable Laptop for Accounting Major that will last for remaining 2 years of college. Ideal Budget <=400. Mainly used for Microsoft Excel, Microsoft word, and Chrome.
Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: 400 USD (USA) Are you open to refurbs/used? Yes, would very much be open for used or refurb. How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Would prefer the laptop to last me around 6 - 8 hours for classes. Performance would be a plus, mainly to have many browsers open as well as **Microsoft Excel**. How important is weight and thinness to you? Not too important but would prefer light and thin. Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. N/A Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. Occasional games such as league of legends or Minecraft if any at all. If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? Medium Graphics at 60 fps. Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? A nice keyboard to type on with a number pad. Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. I would be willing to increase the budget to 500 if the options really are limited.
2024.05.13 22:36 ThatsagoodcardRending Volley Is Exceeding Expectations Against The Format's Top Decks! That's A Good Card
This emerging instant spell has been on the rise in many tournament CEDH lists, and being able to remove the top three(4) commanders in the format has a lot to do with it! This week, Kyle tries to convince Do that this sticky removal spell is the perfect tech against the titan decks of the format: Tymna/Kraum, Sisay, and Kinnan! https://youtu.be/w46a0nwNkLs?si=D8aOfOD1Q-0a7NzY
2024.05.13 22:35 RemoveOptimal8342Looking for an extremely-specific alarm clock
I’m posting in digitalminimalism because, I guess, a true alarm clock is a minimalist product in this day and age. Here’s what I’m looking for and why: my cat requires a medication three times a day at specific times. I have an automatic feeder that holds wet food and dispenses medicine mixed with food at specific times. The goal is for him to independently recognize that the feeder has gone off and eat his food with medicine, so that I can leave my house for more than 8 hours at a time. He currently only is able to do this independently about 50% of the time. The feeder makes noise when it goes off, but not a lot. If he is sleeping or doing something else in a different room, he may not notice that it has gone off. Otherwise, I have to pick him up and put him in front of it, and then he eats it. I had the idea that an alarm clock coupled with the system might help him recognize that it’s time to eat his food. Here’s a kind-of-ridiculous list of features I’m looking for with an alarm clock: 1. Has an auto-off feature for the alarm sound (necessary, but it would be really cool if he could learn to paw the snooze button) 2. Allows for at least 3 programmable times 3. Uses a gentle noise, or allows you to select a noise, that wouldn’t annoy a cat (like a loud beep, for example) 4. Is battery-powered rather than plug-in (not necessary, but preferable) I’ve looked a lot of alarm clocks online, and I haven’t found any that even explicitly describe all of those 4 features. It seems like something that could only be sussed out in pdf manuals or YouTube reviews. There are so many alarm clocks out there that seem like garbage. I wanted to throw this out to the internet at large to see if anyone has an alarm clock, or has heard of one, that fits the bill. Thank you!
2024.05.13 22:31 KingOfWerewolfssolstheim music keeps looping on skyrim ae latest update
I have a suspion that its the legacy of the dragonborn but I'm not entirely sure I have no idea what it is also lotdb started playing dungeon music after I did the robbery quest which usually happens after completing it I pulled my load order from loot so maybe one of yall will have the answer also I tried the music removal command but it persists I don't mind lotdb interior music messed up but hearing solstheim music on a loop in regular skyrim is annoying especially the same song over and over again the only thing I did was add community shaders recently for parallax heres my load order 0 0 Skyrim.esm 1 1 Update.esm 2 2 Dawnguard.esm 3 3 HearthFires.esm 4 4 Dragonborn.esm 5 5 ccasvsse001-almsivi.esm 6 6 ccbgssse001-fish.esm 254 FE 0 ccbgssse002-exoticarrows.esl 254 FE 1 ccbgssse003-zombies.esl 254 FE 2 ccbgssse004-ruinsedge.esl 254 FE 3 ccbgssse005-goldbrand.esl 254 FE 4 ccbgssse006-stendarshammer.esl 254 FE 5 ccbgssse007-chrysamere.esl 254 FE 6 ccbgssse010-petdwarvenarmoredmudcrab.esl 254 FE 7 ccbgssse011-hrsarmrelvn.esl 254 FE 8 ccbgssse012-hrsarmrstl.esl 254 FE 9 ccbgssse014-spellpack01.esl 254 FE a ccbgssse019-staffofsheogorath.esl 254 FE b ccbgssse020-graycowl.esl 254 FE c ccbgssse021-lordsmail.esl 254 FE d ccmtysse001-knightsofthenine.esl 254 FE e ccqdrsse001-survivalmode.esl 7 7 cctwbsse001-puzzledungeon.esm 8 8 cceejsse001-hstead.esm 254 FE f ccqdrsse002-firewood.esl 254 FE 10 ccbgssse018-shadowrend.esl 254 FE 11 ccbgssse035-petnhound.esl 254 FE 12 ccfsvsse001-backpacks.esl 254 FE 13 cceejsse002-tower.esl 254 FE 14 ccedhsse001-norjewel.esl 254 FE 15 ccvsvsse002-pets.esl 254 FE 16 ccBGSSSE037-Curios.esl 254 FE 17 ccbgssse034-mntuni.esl 254 FE 18 ccbgssse045-hasedoki.esl 254 FE 19 ccbgssse008-wraithguard.esl 254 FE 1a ccbgssse036-petbwolf.esl 254 FE 1b ccffbsse001-imperialdragon.esl 254 FE 1c ccmtysse002-ve.esl 254 FE 1d ccbgssse043-crosselv.esl 254 FE 1e ccvsvsse001-winter.esl 254 FE 1f cceejsse003-hollow.esl 9 9 ccbgssse016-umbra.esm 10 a ccbgssse031-advcyrus.esm 254 FE 20 ccbgssse038-bowofshadows.esl 254 FE 21 ccbgssse040-advobgobs.esl 254 FE 22 ccbgssse050-ba_daedric.esl 254 FE 23 ccbgssse052-ba_iron.esl 254 FE 24 ccbgssse054-ba_orcish.esl 254 FE 25 ccbgssse058-ba_steel.esl 254 FE 26 ccbgssse059-ba_dragonplate.esl 254 FE 27 ccbgssse061-ba_dwarven.esl 254 FE 28 ccpewsse002-armsofchaos.esl 254 FE 29 ccbgssse041-netchleather.esl 254 FE 2a ccedhsse002-splkntset.esl 254 FE 2b ccbgssse064-ba_elven.esl 254 FE 2c ccbgssse063-ba_ebony.esl 254 FE 2d ccbgssse062-ba_dwarvenmail.esl 254 FE 2e ccbgssse060-ba_dragonscale.esl 254 FE 2f ccbgssse056-ba_silver.esl 254 FE 30 ccbgssse055-ba_orcishscaled.esl 254 FE 31 ccbgssse053-ba_leather.esl 254 FE 32 ccbgssse051-ba_daedricmail.esl 254 FE 33 ccbgssse057-ba_stalhrim.esl 254 FE 34 ccbgssse066-staves.esl 11 b ccbgssse067-daedinv.esm 254 FE 35 ccbgssse068-bloodfall.esl 254 FE 36 ccbgssse069-contest.esl 254 FE 37 ccvsvsse003-necroarts.esl 254 FE 38 ccvsvsse004-beafarmer.esl 12 c ccBGSSSE025-AdvDSGS.esm 254 FE 39 ccffbsse002-crossbowpack.esl 254 FE 3a ccbgssse013-dawnfang.esl 254 FE 3b ccrmssse001-necrohouse.esl 254 FE 3c ccedhsse003-redguard.esl 254 FE 3d cceejsse004-hall.esl 13 d cceejsse005-cave.esm 254 FE 3e cckrtsse001_altar.esl 254 FE 3f cccbhsse001-gaunt.esl 14 e ccafdsse001-dwesanctuary.esm 254 FE 40 _ResourcePack.esl 15 f Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch.esp 254 FE 41 unofficial skyrim creation club content patch.esl 254 FE 42 Unofficial Elven Hunter Armor Patch.esl 254 FE 43 Unofficial Daedric Mail Armor Patch.esl 16 10 MajesticMountains_Landscape.esm 17 11 LegacyoftheDragonborn.esm 254 FE 44 MajesticMountains_Moss.esp 18 12 ApachiiHair.esm 19 13 Skyrim Extended Cut - Saints and Seducers.esp 20 14 RealisticWaterTwo - Resources.esm 21 15 Water for ENB.esm 22 16 RigmorCyrodiil.esm 23 17 Midwood Isle.esp 24 18 BSAssets.esm 25 19 BSHeartland.esm 26 1a BS_DLC_patch.esp 27 1b Campfire.esm 28 1c RaceCompatibility.esm 29 1d Falskaar.esm 30 1e JSwordsD.esm 31 1f Phenderix Magic World.esm 32 20 DBM_CC_HallOfWonders.esp 33 21 Wyrmstooth.esp 254 FE 45 KittySpellPack01.esl 34 22 evgSIRENROOT.esm 35 23 Schlongs of Skyrim - Core.esm 36 24 wraithguardvaultfixer.esp 254 FE 46 StormCalling.esl 254 FE 47 TrueHUD.esl 254 FE 48 Ghostlight.esl 37 25 High Poly Head.esm 254 FE 49 EVGAnimatedTraversal.esl 254 FE 4a Supernova.esl 254 FE 4b Aero.esl 38 26 DynDOLOD.esm 39 27 SkyUI_SE.esp 40 28 Immersive Sounds - Compendium.esp 41 29 TrueStormsSE.esp 42 2a Obsidian Weathers.esp 43 2b SMIM-SE-Merged-All.esp 44 2c Weapons Armor Clothing & Clutter Fixes.esp 45 2d JKs Skyrim.esp 46 2e Landscape Fixes For Grass Mods.esp 47 2f Cutting Room Floor.esp 48 30 AI Overhaul.esp 49 31 Helgen Reborn.esp 50 32 Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp 51 33 MrissiTailOfTroubles.esp 254 FE 4c MajesticMountains.esp 52 34 SU04SachilFollower.esp 53 35 AX ValSerano.esp 54 36 Wintersun - Faiths of Skyrim.esp 254 FE 4d DBM_CC_SunderWraithguardPatchV4.esp 254 FE 4e CC Misc Patches - Saints and Seducers.esp 254 FE 4f DBM_ISC_Patch.esp 55 37 ZIA_Complete Pack.esp 56 38 No Werewolf Aggro SE.esp 254 FE 50 JKs Skyrim - AI Overhaul Patch.esp 254 FE 51 DBM_HelgenReborn_Patch.esp 254 FE 52 DBM_CC_DivineCrusaderHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 53 BSHeartland - Unofficial Patch.esp 254 FE 54 Water for ENB - Patch - Beyond Skyrim.esp Bruma - iNeed Patch.esp 57 39 Immersive Weapons.esp 58 3a WZOblivionArtifacts.esp 254 FE 55 DBM_OblivionArtifacts_Patch.esp 59 3b RigmorCyrodiilPatch.esp 60 3c Arcanum.esp WACCF_Survival Mode_Patch.esp 254 FE 56 ECSS - Staff of Sheogorath Patch.esp 254 FE 57 Innocence Lost - Quest Expansion.esp 254 FE 58 Landscape For Grass Mods JK'S Skyrim.esp 254 FE 59 DBM_CC_RareCuriosHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 5a DBM_CC_FishingHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 5b DBM_IW_Patch.esp 254 FE 5c DBM_CC_GhostsoftheTribunalHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 5d DBM_Wintersun_Patch.esp 61 3d Fossilsyum.esp 62 3e HearthfireMultiKid.esp 254 FE 5e Honorhall Fixes and Expansion.esp 254 FE 5f Infiltration - Quest Expansion.esp 254 FE 60 Wintersun - Mrissi Patch.esp 254 FE 61 The Heart Of Dibella - Quest Expansion.esp 254 FE 62 DBM_JKSkyrim_Patch.esp 254 FE 63 DBM_CC_TheCausePatch.esp 254 FE 64 DBM_CC_TheContestPatch.esp 254 FE 65 DBM_CC_DuskDawnHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 66 DBM_CRF_Patch.esp 254 FE 67 ECSS - Shadowrend Patch.esp 63 3f Convenient Horses.esp 254 FE 68 DBM_JaysusSwords_Patch.esp 254 FE 69 DBM_CC_GallowsHallPatch.esp 254 FE 6a DBM_Fossils_Patch.esp Water for ENB - Patch - Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods.esp 254 FE 6b DBM_CC_SaintsSeducersHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 6c DBM_CC_LordsMailPatchV2.esp 254 FE 6d DBM_CC_GoldbrandHOWPatch.esp 64 40 The Paarthurnax Dilemma.esp BSHeartland - Arnima Patch.esp Falskaar - iNeed Patch.esp 65 41 qasmoke aecc cheat room.esp 254 FE 6e DBM_WACCF_Patch.esp 254 FE 6f SUDs.esp JKEEKBanneredMare - Skyrim Unique Drinks Patch.esp Lucien-AnniversaryEdition-Patch.esp Water for ENB - Patch - Beyond Reach.esp Water for ENB - Patch - JKs Bannered Mare.esp 254 FE 70 AX ValSerano-USSEP.esp Water for ENB - Patch - JKs Ragged Flagon.esp 254 FE 71 Landscape For Grass mods - Helgen Reborn Patch.esp 254 FE 72 DBM_ZimsThaneWeapons_Patch.esp 254 FE 73 DBM_Falskaar_Patch.esp 66 42 morthalbarrow.esp 254 FE 74 AI Overhaul - Cutting Room Floor Patch.esp 254 FE 75 JKs Skyrim_RWT_Patch.esp 254 FE 76 Majestic Mountains - Creation Club Landscape Patch.esp 254 FE 77 CC Misc Patches - Dead Man's Dread.esp 254 FE 78 DBM_CC_Cause_CuriosAddon.esp 254 FE 79 DBM_CC_AADragonplateHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 7a DBM_CC_DeadMansDreadHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 7b DBM_CC_DMD_OAPSynergy.esp 254 FE 7c DBM_CC_StendarrsHammerHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 7d DBM_CC_NetchLeatherArmorHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 7e DBM_CC_StaffOfHasedokiHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 7f DBM_Wyrmstooth_Patch.esp 254 FE 80 DBM_CC_SaS_CuriosAddon.esp 254 FE 81 DBM_CC_GoblinsHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 82 DBM_CC_TheBowOfShadowsHOWPatch.esp 254 FE 83 DBM_CC_Fish_CuriosAddon.esp 254 FE 84 DBM_CC_RedguardEliteArmamentsHOWPatch.esp 68 44 Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim.esp 254 FE 85 DBM_CC_MyrwatchPatch.esp 254 FE 86 DBM_CC_FarmingPatch.esp 254 FE 87 Falskaar - Fast Travel.esp 254 FE 88 DBM_CC_HendraheimPatch.esp 254 FE 89 DBM_CC_TundraHomesteadPatch.esp 254 FE 8a DBM_CC_ShadowfootSanctumPatch.esp Water for ENB - Patch - The Isle of Valefrost SE.esp Water for ENB - Patch - The Republic of Maslea Chapter One.esp Water for ENB - Patch - Vominheim.esp 69 45 Veydosebrom Regions.esp 254 FE 8b HIMBO.esp 254 FE 8c RaceMenuMorphsHIMBO.esp 70 46 DiverseDragonsCollectionSE.esp 254 FE 8d Additional Dremora Faces.esp 254 FE 8e SU04SachilFollower - LegacyoftheDragonborn.esp 254 FE 8f SU04SachilFollower RaceCompatibility Dialogue.esp 254 FE 90 Dremora Lines Expansion.esp 254 FE 91 Airgetlam.esp 71 47 Attack_MCO.esp 254 FE 92 Frost Meshes Patch.esp 254 FE 93 ZimsImmersiveArtifacts_WACCF_Patch.esp 254 FE 94 CuttingRoomFloor_WACCF_Patch.esp 73 49 aessmeltingandtanninglevelsmithing.esp 74 4a aessmeltdown.esp 75 4b New quest sound pc.esp 254 FE 95 HelmetHider.esp 76 4c RaceMenu.esp 77 4d XPMSE.esp 78 4e SOSRaceMenu.esp 79 4f Summermyst - Enchantments of Skyrim.esp 254 FE 96 Phenderix Magic World - 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2024.05.13 22:30 thetrueltabCAN 14+ in. Travel laptop - Basics or Game-capable?
Looking for a travel laptop to carry around in my backpack and use mainly in airports/planes/hotels to remote desktop into my home PC and some light internet use. However, I am considering another option of getting something slightly beefier that can handle a few games as well, so open to opinions and options around that. Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Not sure what you can get these days, I was thinking ~400 CAD for this but could go up if that is not realistic, or for the game-capable option. Canada. Are you open to refurbs/used? Prefer new, but if the refurb is a good deal... How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Ok build quality to stand up to rigors of travel, performance depends (see later question), battery should last a few hours but doesn't need to be super long since I mostly intend to use it while plugged in. How important is weight and thinness to you? Prefer lighter (<4 lb.) since I'll have to lug it around a few hours at a time, doesn't have to be super thin though. Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. 14+ in. preferred. 13 might be fine. Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. This is where the decision I'm looking for opinions on comes in. At base, no, it's basically for internet and streaming my home desktop, but I'm considering a stronger laptop that can also play some games if that wouldn't be a huge increase in price. If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? Factorio, League of Legends, maybe the occasional other light game around that level of resource need or lower. Medium or even low settings is fine, 60 fps. Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? No touch-screen strongly preferred. Decent build quality as mentioned above. Bluetooth to connect to my airpods would be nice to have. Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. So yeah, not really sure what's available these days, but either a super-basic browser + terminal for my desktop or a slightly more ordinary laptop that can support some light games too. High preference for being able to get it from a store instead of online too. Thanks!
2024.05.13 22:29 goodnewsjimdotcomGAME RELEASE! Starfighter General first official lasting MMO patch. Space is boring, so you must design around making it fun, and all good mmos now are designed around end game.
I'm trying to make the spiritual successor to Xwing for 90s DOS everyone craved, but Lucas Arts never delivered. I was also inspired by Wing Commander Privateer who's title led me to imagining building a giant fleet by buying more and more ships and making friends. It has a bunch of bugs but these will be fixed in a week or two. It's still pretty fun and a base by which a HUGE HUGE potential WOW killer will be made on. fairly long patch notes of a subset of what I plan on doing in the future are at the bottom.
I'm exhausted... I spent close to a year on this patch... And the last 3 months was nothing but sleep, code, sleep, code, body necessities, balanced against being stress sick, normal sick, and trying not to break down due to being isolated non stop working... About 2000 hours in this patch alone, on top of 10,000 hours in the past 6 years before that, and I use an anthology of game resources that took me 20,000 hours to make. There's some bugs due to Unity compiling standalone improper from editor, but they'll be fixed, as well as the story line not in... It's a spoiler, but people say my SCI FI is better than any scifi man's ever written, it's at least good:
Cut scene spoiler of next patch assemble link by hand:
rum ble.com /v4tf892-spoiler-female-ai-voice-all-of-starfighter-general-mmo-patch-1-quests.html
-> What's next timelinie
NOTES:COMING SOON, AND FORECAST->Story missions non stop, techs around em, story's awesome!
Future Patches ->Non Stop Missions in Star System Sol until that story arc panned out and the next enters. ->Bounty System:Allows Player vs Player... Except people who don't want to be doing PVP will get insurance refund money of damages if/when the offending player pays up or gets captured as Bounty. ->70,000ish star stystems per core, 24 cores to dive. ->Warp drive lets you see actual stars warp by you that exist, aim for the star you want to explore, hit warp. ->Space Opera of partially Ai driven, partially Next Gen personality Memento system to have realistic aliens who grudge match you or befriend you. ->Unlimited player MMO ->Fleet building and Fleet Destroying, soft perma death hardcore means its a thrill of the rise and thrill of fall, rinse and repeat! Aim for higher personal bests of fleet sizes -> Star System capture, control, taxing, law imposing. People can challenge to take over your star in an 2 hour window where your friends are on... If they're not on, AI will use their craft. So build big alleginances for star control power. ->Better UI hull/shields/armoetc such as NES style Brick Icons for stats ->Transfer between shields/thrusteweapons power ->more sanity loss special effects ->Radar ->Better targetting ->Multi Targetting of friend/foe/neutral/quest... ->Fleet General Commands to allies of flight style: ie defend me, skirmish(fight optimally), attack target, bomb target, evasive manuevars, flee(rout) ta ->Weapon escalation: I) rockets/homing missile/cluster rockets, rocket spam mitigated by chaff, ECM, or a bold force shield ejection II) Lasers will always hit, and heat up your ship, so you're encouraged to rotate your ship's sides to absorb heat in multiple places. III) Bombs you need to travel in a straight line without much damage for 7 seconds ->very long range for shelling bases out of turret range IV) Rail Gun V) Destroyers/Capital Ships VI) ->Bounty Combat PVP system ->Magic enabled ->Cockpit overlays ->Custom Attribute Allocation to stats you prefer from leveling up. ->96 most bilious bosses ->More Galactic News Network tickers ->Enable reduction in manueverability based on encumberance, volume limit of cargo ->Crafting based on real world Molecular structures, make materials out of periodic chart elements, and use those materials to make gears, levers, switches, interchangeable parts of a variety of styles. .Hopefully this becomes educational to people entering Chemistry Class later and beneficial to humanity. ->Favorite foods, drink, sanity preservation ->Elaborate 16 supernatural elemental magic systems ->traders and galactic encounters randomly, get cosmos gems to access untold areas, maps of places no one can get to... ->Secret, get ingame podcasts when available by hitting alt+p, ALT+P AGAIN CYCLES THROUGH THEM, CTRL+P CLOSES EM, -Memento system -Scientific items system elaborations evident -power recover of various systems rates, shots costing powers -Allegiance & Dark Allegiance system where by helping others or the illusion of helping them raises your power, fame, and status in the Galaxy. -Live Omnipotent roleplay --MMO Mode leaderboards such as EXP --More enemies with fun catch phrases? --what ASPECTS DO YOU WANT WORKED ON MORE? Send ideas and buy triderium. Forums or email is cool. --multi drops, more rares, uncommons --more advanced inventory->Scroll deeper, limited by volume, weight slows your thrust + adds collision damage & kickback, sort with different filters, better descriprtion, items catch on fire in inventory, emit toxic gases, melt, get destroyed by oncoming heat attacks or collisions --Ability to dimensionally recover items picked up previous session... You have em saved on server, just can't see when you load until next patch.... Use upgrades when you got em! -Conquer Stars and setting taxes and laws -story history replay dialogue -more achievements -Asteroids properly breakinto more than oen -Give android race an android sounding voice --Three forms of Ground Combat: GROUND COMBAT FORM I) One is a classical First Person Shooter (FPS) with vehicles. GROUND COMBAT FORM II) One is tactical Real Time Turn Based Game(RTTG) from top down, almost isometric. RTTG will give you the feel of a classic orthogonic chess like game with cover, vision and such, yet everyone plays at the same time. RTTG mode happens when you enter populated towns, not because the server can't handle infinite players in a small zone, but because it feels more intense when any action and fight can start from the shadows. Movement is freer and faster when no one has fights going on nearby. GROUND COMBAT FORM III)One is a 3d Fighter Game you'd see in Arcades from the 90s, but with the ability to change targets. Starfighter General is the Everything Game. And it's for real. Let me know what you want me to dev next. Virtual Goods buys lets me sub contract parts out to make the game faster. Talk about what you want, and if you got the money, be a driver, push this game's development faster. I'm a 64x coder, people who meet me don't believe people like me exist, so I get things done... I just have literally 0$ funding at the moment. You'll see things in Starfighter General you thought were impossible and things never done before... Be a believer, or heck, just play and enjoy. KNOWN BUGS: 1) Iron ore is called a book 2) Collision detection on giant space ships is clunky and can be very annoying if you get close 3) Vision obscuring of mesh fog in junk yard 4) Laser angle not straight 5) TEXT RENDDER DEPTH of chatting aliens, or targetting computer needs fixed so always visible. Enable Prime Skils(21): Attribute is the attribute that influences the skill, Min Int is the minimum intelligence to acquire skill, skill point costs is the number of skill points required (each intelligence you get 1 point), and the name, well, that's the Name: Mining ships, transport friggates, shipping containers, tugs, destroyers, capital ships, limi Closing about determination and the long play... If you're of meager means like myself... You can enjoy the challenge MMODE over the long haul... Always getting stronger, never weaker, the ship upgrades, your level, your ascended masteries, your money, your credits, and most of all your own skill level and reflexes that you don't notice but is always increasing. Name:"Munitions Motorhead" //assault damages Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Fleet Architect" //general gains to larger fleet Attribute:intelligence MinInt:13 PointCost:10 Name:"Quarry Champion" //mining bonuses Attribute:intelligence MinInt:9 PointCost:6 Name:"Pet Sympahthyry" //charm pets, higher battlemon fight with you, higher morale, Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:5 Name:"Merchant Maestro" //merchant Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Diplomatic Impunity" //diplomat Attribute:charm MinInt:12 PointCost:4 Name:"Space Speed Ace" //go fast Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Universal Researcher" //science-shield Attribute:intelligence MinInt:16 PointCost:5 Name:"Intruder Adept" //sneaky Attribute:stealth MinInt:11 PointCost:3 Name:"Astro Archaelogist" //relic finder Attribute:intelligence MinInt:12 PointCost:4 Name:"Midnight Star Drifter" //preserver of self Attribute:agility MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Mixmaster Mechanologist" //crafter Attribute:intelligence MinInt:15 PointCost:6 Name:"Celestial Trailblazer" //explorer Attribute:intelligence MinInt:9 PointCost:2 Name:"Gangster of Smug" //running contraban, con artist Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Cuthroat of the Constellation" //assassin +crit hit Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:6 Name:"Seeker of Destiny" //find magic, starts weak due to 10 missing Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:10 Name:"Wing Broman" //buffs//alliance//loyalty Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Dimensional Void Shifter" //cult of the cloak, friends up phantasms dimensionally more Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:5 Name:"Racing Destruction Vet" //Ex destruction derby guy Ram Offense/Defense Attribute:endurance MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Motley Steward" //Friends with Disgraces in Underground Places...Rowdy good for nothin but keeping company with other rowdy good for nothins:+Hires +Recruit enemy Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Trash Baron" //+1 tractor beam lolz extra drops Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Enable Flex s(66) Name:"Combat" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Electronics" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:13 PointCost:3 Name:"Cyborgs" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:17 PointCost:4 Name:"First Aid" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:9 PointCost:3 Name:"Surgeon" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:17 PointCost:8 Name:"Androids" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:17 PointCost:4 Name:"Weapon:Plasma Bolts" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Greater Reasoning" //core Attribute:intelligence //order MinInt:9 PointCost:1 Name:"Decipher Codes" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:12 PointCost:1 Name:"Martial Arts" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Chemistry" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:5 PointCost:3 Name:"Forage" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:1 :Name:"Quick Draw" //core Attribute:dexterity //blade MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Taunt" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Annoy & Pester" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Lie" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Politics" Attribute:charm MinInt:12 PointCost:3 Name:"Disguise" Attribute:stealth MinInt:9 PointCost:2 Name:"Critical Hit" //core Attribute:luck //chaos MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Atomic Energy" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:18 PointCost:4 Name:"Pulse Engineering" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:16 PointCost:4 Name:"Fly Aircraft" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Drive" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Pilot Shuttle" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:12 PointCost:3 Name:"Read Instruments" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Navigate" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Remember" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Pick Lock" Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Ambidexterity" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Pick Pocket" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Distract" Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Explosives" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Construct Trap" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Fire Artillery" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Fortitude" //core Attribute:endurance //body MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Interrogate" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Law" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:13 PointCost:2 Name:"Popularity" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Confidentiality" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Sport" Attribute:agility MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Facilitate" Attribute:luck MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Gamble" Attribute:luck MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Cheat" Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Deceive" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Intimidate" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Space Craft Repair" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:14 PointCost:2 Name:"Aircraft Repair" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Automotive Repair" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Labor" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Advanced Mathematics" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:12 PointCost:1 Name:"Detective" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Perception" //core Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Soliciting" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Rapid Fire" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Safe Crack" Attribute:stealth MinInt:9 PointCost:3 Name:"Auto Mechanic" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Investigate" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Forensics" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:13 PointCost:3 Name:"Survival" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Lore" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Butt Kiss" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Insult" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Hardware" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Bureaucracy" Attribute:charm MinInt:9 PointCost:1 Name:"Leadership" //CORE Attribute:strength //earth MinInt:13 PointCost:4 Name:"Solicitating" //core Attribute:charm //storm MinInt:7 PointCost:1 Name:"Negotiation" Attribute:charm MinInt:14 PointCost:3 Name:"Vetinarian" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:13 PointCost:3 Name:"Junkyarder" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Tactical Analysis" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Resourceful Mining" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Evasive Manuevars" //core Attribute:agility //water MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Nanotech Engineering" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:17 PointCost:4 Name:"Astrobiology" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:17 PointCost:3 Name:"Metallurgy" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:14 PointCost:3 Name:"Infiltrator" Attribute:stealth MinInt:14 PointCost:4 Name:"Stealth Ops" //core Attribute:stealth //dark MinInt:9 PointCost:2 Name:"Tough Grit" //core Attribute:willpower //fire MinInt:0 PointCost:2 //LOWER EFFECT OF SANITY HITS, lower hungewater costs lacking/etc Low coolness Upgrade the targeting computer:3 target classifications:Enemies/Missions/Allies:With allies, you can then send fleet commands to them. Encounter rates-Different random encounters in space ---upgrade ideas ->NEW ITEMS ->nEW CATCH PHRASES ->IDEA FOR PROGRESSION OF MOBS gnn MISSIONS
2024.05.13 22:28 Lord_Long_RodHunting Sasquatch for Communists, Featuring Ms. Anna Conda
During the course of my career as an alpha Sasquatch hunting, Dogman destroying, pussy crushing, luxury watch loving dude, I have run into this particular woman a few times. She is one part uber sensuality, and the other part deadly. Yes, I am speaking about the lovely, Anna Conda. I bring her up because I had another run-in with her last year.
Anna and I first joined forces, so to speak, when she acted as a go-between in my business deal with the Chinese to sell them bigfoot parts. See, I would hunt and kill the critters, cut them up, deliver the parts to Anna, who in turn gave me a suitcase containing unmarked American hundred-dollar bills, then she would transport the bigfoot parts to the Chinese. I was never really sure of what the sneaky-ass Chinese were doing with the body parts. All I knew for sure is that they are extracting certain materials from them, then synthesizing them with some other shit, creating some sort of drug. Whether it then becomes a bio-weapon or a dick stimulant, I do not know. Neither do I care. As long as they kept the hundies coming, I was good.
Now, while Anna is of Russian descent, she is a freelancer. She will work for any sick, skeevy motherfucker out there. She does not care. She has no conscience, at least not in the traditional sense as we understand it in western civilization. Today she is working for the Chinese, and tomorrow she may be working for Hamas. She is a slippery motherfucker.
So here is how it went down. At 11:32 p.m. on a Friday in September of last year I get a call on my cell phone. When the call came in I was balls deep into this hot little lass I picked up at the bus station a little earlier in the evening from an old swarthy chap named “Colorado Joe”. He wanted to sell me the girl. I was assured she was over 20 years old. I told him I needed to take her out for a test ride, which he agreed to.
So, there I was, balls deep in “Bing Bang Yun”, and my phone rings. Of course, I silence all incoming calls not in my contacts list. Thus, I knew that I must know the caller. In mid stroke I reached over to the nightstand to retrieve my cell and looked at it. It was a call from “Sergio”. I thought, “Oh shit…. I am going to have to cut the Oriental bang circus short.” When Sergio calls, I have to respond…immediately. He has the best blow on the east coast!!
“Hey, Serge! What’s up?”, I asked. All he said was, “Hooters. 2:00 a.m.”, then hung up. This was obviously the rendezvous for the transaction. Now, understand that Serge was not talking about the chicken wing restaurant. Hooters was code, in case the feds were listening in on the line. “Hooters” meant the titty bar out on Highway 69 called “The Plump Rump”. We had a communications code we used.
It was a long haul to the titty bar, so I needed to get moving. I had no time to return the girl to Colorado Joe, so I took her with me. I had her blow me on the way to the meeting with Sergio, telling her that her performance would make the difference on whether I save her from Joe or not. Of course, after she was done I tossed her out of my speeding truck and down, over the bridge, and into the Wendigo River below. I did not need any complications in my life right now.
I arrived at The Plump Rump at 2:00 a.m. on the dot. I saw the manager, Lou Skunt, sitting at the bar when I walked inside. I nodded. He walked over and said to me, “Use my office for the meeting The parties are already in there waiting for you.” I nodded and then headed to Lou’s office. Then it hit me: Lou said the “PARTIES” are already here. That is, parties, meaning more than one person. It was not just Sergio. It was 2 or more people! Lou was probably in for a cut of whatever was about to go down.
Something was bad fucked up!! I know for a fact that Sergio never brings anyone with him on a deal, at least not with me. He is too distrustful of people to do that, and too fucking mean to need protection. Something was wrong. I was just as likely to get whacked when I enter Lou’s office as anything else. I needed a moment to think things through.
I took a spot in front of one of the performance poles to watch a young, swarthy Mexican lass perform. My mind quickly strayed from the problem at hand to this brown chick’s ass and tits. She was not a great looking chick, but her body was smoking!! I quickly became aroused. I thought to myself, “Goddamn Asian bitches!! They are just like Chinese food – after 2 hours you are ready for some more!!”
When the little Mexican chick went on break I motioned her over to my table. “Hola Senior!!”, she said. I pulled out a clear plastic baggie of blow and dropped it on the table. Her eyes grew wide and slobber starting falling from her mouth. Blow is like catnip for strippers. Thus, she fell under my spell immediately.
The next thing I know, this brown girl was on my lap, dry humping me like a feral bitch dog in heat. I had to bang her. I NEEDED to see my wang penetrating her. Just then, someone taps my shoulder hard. I look up to see Lou standing over me. He bent down and said, “Did you forget about my office, asshole?!?!?!” I replied, “Damn, Lou!! You read my mind!!!” I arose, with the little Mexican bolted onto my mid-section, and hastily retreated to Lou’s office. I figured Lou would prefer me to stain this chick in private rather than out in the open.
The door to the office opened easily. The lights were on inside. In a lustful haze, I set the little Mexican chick on her back across Lou’s desk and started pumping the shit out of her, completely unaware of the others in the room with us. In a moment I heard someone call my name. I twist my neck around to see Sergio sitting on Lou’s jizz crusted couch. I think to myself, “Oh shit! I forgot about that shit!”
I figured I would just move forward with the deal as it was proposed to me. “Hey Serge! What ya got for me, dude?”, I asked. He replied, “I have a very special deal for you. I need, uh … yeah, ……Hey, Rod, you want to stop for a moment so we can talk?” I picked up the little tamale and laid her down onto Sergio’s lap as I continued to plow her. She stayed on my cock the whole time. I told Sergio, “No, man. I’m good! Lay it on me!” Slowly, Sergio lowered his face into his palm.
Then it happened. The voice cam from behind me, in the dark corner of Lou’s office. It was velvety yet hard as steel. “Rod. Went need to talk”, it said. Even though I did not stop pumping the little brown chick, a chill went down my spine when I heard those words. It was the thick timbre of the voice, I think, that alerted me.
I turned to look across the room. There, sitting in a red leather captains chair against the wall was the source of the sultry voice: Anna Conda.
I picked up the little taco yet again and turned her around so I could face Anna as I continued pumping her. At this point the Mexican girl was merely a masturbation toy I was using. I increased my pump so I could dump my load and get this over with. Then BAMM!!!, it was over. I removed the lass from my huge rod, after which her body crumpled to the floor. I did not know if she was dead or injured, or what had happened to her. But I did not care either, so I did not dwell on it.
I tried to compose myself the best I could, then walked over to stand before Anna so I could get to the bottom of all this business. “Well, well, well. Anna Conda. We meet again. Tell me, what brings you here, to my little neck of the woods?”
Anna replied, “Rod, put your dick away.” I looked down and, indeed, I had forgotten to stow my cock. Out of pure curtesy, I packed it away. Then I returned my attention to Anna. “Alright, Anna, what’s going on here?”
Anna launched into a startling tale about what brought her to me. As she spoke I became lost in her wanton beauty. She got up from her chair and walked about the room as she relayed her story, presumably to make it more dramatic and demonstrative. I got a full-on view of her body, and it was fantastic!!
She stands 5’10’’ and weighs 105 lbs. She is lithe. She was showing it off too, wearing a black, silk dress that landed just about her ankles. The top was low-cut, betraying just a bit of cleavage from her C-cup wineglass titties. She was not wearing a bra. Anna never wears a bra. Her nips were perfectly outlined through the silk. In fact, I think her nips were hard. It was probably something she did on purpose in an attempt to influence me. It was working.
Anna’s ass was perfect. It was not at all fat, but round enough not to be skinny. It was a fit figure skater’s ass. As she walked, I could see a tiny bit of jiggle emanating from her ass flesh, and then reverberated in the silky black dress she wore. My cock began growing hard again.
Her face was beautiful. Think Scarlett Johanson and Phoebe Cates rolled into one. But any sweetness this may evoke is quickly dispelled by Anna’s throaty voice with its thick Russian accent. I have known Anna for 20 years. Yet, she still does not look a day over 25. Jesus Christ!!! If ever there was a chick to die for ….. If I was one to delve into the belief of the paranormal, then I may conclude that Anna made a deal with the devil. But, I am not such a person. And literally, Anna Conda is a chick to die for. She is deadly as fuck. She will kill you in a split second without a thought just because she does not like the shirt you are wearing. She can do it too. She is always armed and she knows how to use her weapons. Moreover, she is a total psychopath. This makes her doubly dangerous.
Anna and I have always gotten along for the most part. Like Anna, the dollar is my primary motivating factor. Such a mindset allows for understanding and predictability among people, which are elements that are sorely missing in many business dealings today that go on in the color of darkness.
Suddenly, Anna snapped me out of my thoughts. “Here’s your gun, Rod. Now let’s get started”, said Anna. She and Sergio were halfway through the door exiting Lou’s office when I said, “Hey, wait a damned minute!!! What are you talking about?!?”
They both stopped, and Anna walked back in and looked me in the eyes, saying “The plan, Rod. Let’s get on with the plan.” A little embarrassed, I sheepishly asked, “What plan?” Anna folded her arms and looked cross at me. After a moment to allow me to simmer in my shame, she asked, “You were not paying attention, were you, Rod?” I shook my head and looked down.
I heard a hammer cock. I jerked my head back up to find myself staring down the barrel of a pistol pointed at my head that Anna was holding. I protested, “Look, it is not my fucking fault!! Put that fucking gun down!!!” I continued, “You were distracting me with …. Well.. you know, how you are dressed, and that hot, sultry voice…. You know?”
“So, instead of paying attention to the plan, you chose to eye-rape me. Is that what I am to understand your position is, Rod?”, she asked. Knowing that my life was on the line, I said, “Anna, look, you know I am horny to a fault. Then you come in here, swinging them tits around, wearing that silk dress showing off the crack of your ass…. WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU EXPECT TO HAPPENED?”
Anna lowered her gun. She knew that my explanation of being a total cocksman was truth. “Let’s go”, Anna curtly said. I obeyed.
Anna explained the plan to me again on the drive from The Plump Rump. She made me wear a blindfold so that I would not get horny during her explanation. Here is how it went:
Anna Conda was now working for the Russians. It seems that Putin caught wind of the Sasquatch project that the Chinese were working on. He also knew that the American government have been fucking with sasquatch for decades. Thus, he was very concerned about the existence of a bigfoot gap. He ordered the acquisition of a Sasquatch specimen immediately.
Moreover, said specimen must be prime. It needed to be the biggest, baddest sasquatch of them all – a true alpha – so as to speed things along. Putin did not want some weird shit-creature, is-it-a-sasquatch-or-is-it-a-dogman, kind of monstrosity. He wanted purebred, badass sasquatchery, and preferably from the American Pacific northwest.
Anna got in on it because she sold the intel to Putin about China’s Sasquatch operation. She then told Putin she could produce sasquatch corpses for him. She told him she had a contact (i.e., me). Thus, with Putin’s blessing and promises of riches to come, Anna set out to America to find me.
Now, here is where things got a bit squirrely. See, I agreed to procure some more dead sasquatch. I have no problem with killing sasquatch because, in my opinion, they are an abomination on this Earth. I kind of feel like I am doing God’s work by wiping out as many of them as I can. And given all the not-so-Godly stuff I have done, I feel like killing Sasquatch kind of offsets that to some degree.
But Anna, she was stuck on Putin’s instruction that she must supply him with apex Sasquatch. So she did not want to take my advice of heading to the Pacific Northwest or Alaska. Instead, Anna claimed to have pinpointed the whereabouts of a particularly gruesome sasquatch beast that she KNEW would win her a fortune from Putin if she brought it to him.
“So, where is this beast?”, I asked. Anna replied “Martha’s Vineyard”. I paused. Then I asked her to repeat herself. It turns out that I was not mistaken about what Anna had said. I continued, “Uh, Anna, there are no sasquatch on Martha’s Vineyard, just a lot of wealth New Englander schmucks.”
Anna looked at me and told me I was wrong. Then she decided to attempt to taunt me. “Oh, Rod, mighty slayer of Bigfoot! Yet, you fail to take notice of where the biggest, most foul and rotten beast of them all makes its home. Jesus, Rod!! What kind of bigfoot hunter are you, anyway?” Anna then spit at my feet and wondered aloud whether she even needs me for this job.
I decided that I needed to straighten out the hierarchy here in order for this here deal to move forward. I said, “Well, Anna, feel free to truck on over to Old Whitey Beach and battle that beast. But, if there is a big old mangy sasquatch lurking around over there, then it is probably a fucking Nazi-Squatch. You know, those fuckers out there hate the Jews.”
The work “Nazi” visibly shook Anna. Her great grandfather died defending Leningrad. Her entire family there died of either starvation or cannibalism during Hitler’s siege during Operation Barbarossa. Anna despised Nazis. But she feared them too. After landing that punch, I decided to push my luck.
“Now, I am still willing to help you catch this here Nazi-Squatch, but you have to do something for me”, I said. Now Anna’s eyes were on me, and they were narrowing. I continued, “I want you to get bare assed naked and pleasure yourself while I stand over you and jack it.” Anna stared at me silently for a long moment. Then she replied.
“After the job is done, and you can get none of your … fluids… on me”, she said. I shook my head and countered, “Now, and I will ‘try’ to not get my spunk on you.”
However, Anna then turned the tables on me. In fact, she picked up the table and bashed my head in with it. She looked me in my eyes, then matter-of-factly said, “You get the beast, and your prize shall be a night with me, anything goes, darling.” Well, since this caused all of the blood to immediately drain from my brain, I had a lapse in judgment. “DEAL!!”, I said. Then we shook on it.
“OK, tell me more about this supposed monster sasquatch on Martha’s Vineyard”, I said. I still was not ready to believe there was a monster out there. “I show you photo”, said Anna. She took out her phone, scrolled to find the photo, then handed the phone to me. “There. Sasquatch”, she said.
I stared at the photo and remained silent. After a long moment, I turned the phone so that Anna could see the photo and asked, “Uh, Anna, is THIS what you intended to show me?” She replied. “Yes! There…Sasquatch! The biggest, grossest monster around.”
Now, I could not argue with Anna that the image on her phone is a big, gross monster. Hell, it could actually be a sasquatch, and THE UBER sasquatch. It is most certainly the grossest thing on Martha’s Vinyard. But I somehow do not think this is what Putin is expecting.
I turned to Anna and said, “Anna, this is a photo of Michelle Obama. I know it looks vile, and has a huge, hulking body with large appendages where a woman should not have them. But, sweatheart, that ain’t no sasquatch. That’s a big, hairy Chicago street negro.”
Anna did not believe me at first. She was hard in her conviction that Obama was a sasquatch. “I have seen the Sasquatch beast you deliver to me for China. This … Michelle Obama …. It is big, and hairy, and ugly like the sasquatch beast, but worse.”
When the truth finally set it, I could see that it had kind of broken down poor Anna, if only just a bit. I put my arm around Anna and told her, “Look, Michelle O fooled you. Hell, she and her Hamas Hubby fooled millions of Americans, twice! At least you saw Michelle for what she is, to wit: a big, gross sasquatch, and NOT some kind a retarded leftist messiah.”
After that, things took a rather dark turn. “What if we still take her to Putin? We can make deal; sell her to Putin!!” At this point I held up my hands and said, “I’m out”, then turned and walked away. Anna followed, trying to get me to stay. At this point, I could tell that Anna was coming undone a little.
See, she had to produce for Putin. There is no telling what kind of secret deal she actually had with him. She had to deliver a big old mangy Obama …. Er, uh, I mean … Sasquatch, to Putin.
“Ok, Rod, we do your plan. We go out west to kill bigfoot. Huge, monster bigfoot. she said. I turned and looked Anna in her eyes and said the following: First, we bang for 48 hours straight, right now, so I can get my fill of you. Second, you pay me $10,000.00 cash upfront. Third, upon delivery of the dead bigfoot, you pay me $1 million immediately.”
Anna agreed to everything, but noted that at the present time it was her “time of the month”. I grimaced, as I will absolutely not go there (and she knows that). “Fine, next week we bang”, I said. She pointed out that I would be in the woods next week hunting sasquatch. “Fine, once I come out of the woods, then we bang – 48 hours straight”, I said. “Of course, darling!”, she agreed.
Well, it took several days to set up the hunt, but it finally happened. I was in Washington state at high elevation based on intel I has acquired that indicated that there was a monstrous 15’ tall sasquatch on the mountain range that had been murdering and eating hunters and hikers. After 3 months in these mountains without a trace of the creature I began to lose hope, thinking that I probably got some bad intel, or bad coordinates.
I got my satellite phone out to call for an extraction. Winter was setting in fast, and if I did not get off this mountain soon, then I would freeze and/or starve to death. Unfortunately, my contact did not answer. I tried for 2 days. No answer. I had been fucked. I wondered what had happened back in civilization that caused me to be abandoned like this. I resolved that I would get off that mountain and get to the bottom of this shit. There would be hell to pay for this betrayal!!’
I was able to get in touch with contacts from back home. I got old Billy Ray from Ellijay and Rattler on the phone and got them to come out here to Washington State to extract me. Rattler use to fly helicopters in the Army. He has an old Huey sitting in his front yard, to the chagrin of his HOA. He fired that sucker up, and him and old Billy Ray flew out here to my coordinates and extracted me.
After landing at a convenience store to buy some beer for the flight home, we headed east. Through the skies a way, Billy Ray said, “Well, Rod, I guess you is bout ready to git back home to Georgia, eh?” In fact, I was ready to go home. But I had to take care of some business first. I told them both to take me to New York City. They were both perplexed. All I said to them was “I have an old friend there I have to see before I can go home.”
I have intel on where Anna Conda stays when she is in the United States. She stays at certain hotels depending on what month she is here, and whether her check-in date is an odd or even number. This is for undercover work. I came across the code for her stays while doing the sasquatch work for China. She an I were caught in a snowstorm one night in Buffalo, NY, and had to share a room at the Holiday Inn near the airport. We had like 10 big Igloo ice chests with iced down sasquatch body parts with us in the room.
Anna was like, “No hanky panky, Rod. I am tired and I want to go to bed. Tomorrow we finish business.”
Frankly, I did not blame her for withholding her magnificent muff from me. I was tired as hell. But, I could not settle for nothing. So, when Anna was in the bathroom taking a shower, I started going through her suit case. I wanted to find some of her panties to jack off into. Instead, I found a little black notebook. Inside it contained her lodging codes, and some other interesting things. I photographed the contents with my phone and then put it back.
When Anna got out of the shower she was already dressed in her night clothes. She saw me lying on my back, nude on the bed, and jacking it. “Rod!! GROSS!!!! Go to the restroom to do that shit!!!”, she commanded. I just did it to get a rise out of her. LOL!!
So, if Anna is still inside the U.S., then using the codes I stole from her I can locate precisely where she will be that night. I studied it for a few moments then had my answer. Tonight she would be staying at the Dogman Inn on Hwy 95 South, Room 355. I told Rattler to get me there stat!
We had to stop several times for fuel and beer. Those Hueys go just a bit over a hundred MPH, you know. But eventually, we got there. I gave the boys some money and told them to go to the Waffle House for some coffee to sober up. Then they would fly me home.
I should mention that I also had Rattler’s fully auto Russian AK-74 with spare mags. During the long flight with 2 drunks from Washington State to New York City, I had worked myself up into a towering rage over how Anna fucked me on this Putin deal. She had clearly thrown me aside. But for what, exactly? I figured I would storm the hotel room, get some answers, then shower the room with gun fire.
I busted through the door of Room 355 at exactly 3:35 a.m. There she was. My entry roused her from slumber. I was pointing my rifle at her, center mass. She was shocked at the appearance of a gunman in her room at this time of night. However, she was not as shocked as one would think (this was not the first time something like this has happened to her).
I raised my face from the receiver just enough so she could see it was me. “Rod!!!”, she exclaimed. “What happened to you?!?!? I thought you had died up in those mountains when we never hear from you!” I replied, “Shove it up that cute little ass of yours, Anna. You fucked me. And not in the good way. What the fuck was all that shit about needing a sasquatch for Putin?!?”
Anna played dumb. But it struck me that I had been deliberately put out of the loop for 3 months. Why? Who wanted me away for that long, and why? What went on in my absence?!? I was just dying to know!!! I set my rifle down and pulled out my fixed blade knife, ready to get down to some real nasty work on Anna so I could get some truth. The pure evil of what I was about to do to her caused a wide death grin to grow on my face. Anna saw it. She knew what it meant. She swallowed hard and her eyes betrayed the shear terror she felt inside. I was engorged with blood lust. She knew she had fucked up one time too many this time!!
Suddenly came the sound of the toilet in the bathroom flushing. I was momentarily shocked. I did not expect anyone else to be there with Anna. Anna saw it in my face. I glanced at her and saw that the terror in her face was replaced with pleasure, a slight smile creeping over her face.
I was going to have to face off against this person in the bathroom, who would be out in a split moment. When I do that, I will have to turn 180 degrees from Anna, thereby making me vulnerable to her. I had only once choice: Shoot Anna first.
Just as this came to me, but just before I could act on it, the bathroom door opened. I had to deal with that person before Anna now. I spun around to see that it was a completely nude, and fat, white man. He was a real oafish blob. He looked surprised to see me. He also looked sort of familiar.
I next heard the crack of something hitting my skull hard. I remember the immediate hateful pain that shot through my body and the sound of blood rushing through my ears. I remember the dizziness, then falling to the floor. Clearly, as I fixed on the man from the bathroom, Anna had cracked me over the head with a blunt object.
I came to the next morning, Billy Ray and Rattler had manage to track me down based upon coordinates I left in the chopper that said “IN CASE OF EMERGENCY”. Billy Ray filled up the hotel room ice bucket with cold water and doused my head with it to bring me conscious. I was disoriented at first. But after a bit, what happened in this room the night before came back to me.
Honestly, I am surprised that Anna did not just kill me. I presume that she thinks she can leverage her drop-dead hotness to get me to do more shit for her in the future. She is absolutely right about that too. Rattler then said, “Hey, Rod, that snake bitch left a letter fer ya.”
He handed me the letter. This is what it said: ____________________________________________
“Dear Rod:
Sorry about the boo boo on your head. Hope it heals soon. Also sorry about leaving you in the mountains. I was not running a scam on you Rod. Rather, an opportunity arose for me to acquire a sasquatch body from another person. You may know him since you are a sasquatch hunter. His name is Matt Moneymaker. Anyway, until next time…..
Yours truly, Anna Conda” _____________________________________________ I could not fucking believe it. That was fatfuck Moneymaker in the hotel room earlier. Anna fucked Matt Fatfuck Moneymaker for a Sasquatch! That fat son of bitch!!
Billy Ray asked, “You ready to go Rod?” I stood up and said, “Yeah, let’s go.” Then Rattler said, “Hey, ya wanna stop and git some beer fer the ride home?” I replied “Hell yeah.”
I felt like I wanted to die. Thank God for beer and buddies. I don’t blame Anna. She is a fucking snake, and I knew that before this started. Also, I cannot really blame fatfuck Moneymaker for wanting to get some of that hot poon pie Anna serves up. I guess I have to blame fate for fucking me over this time. I even started thinking that next time I will just avoid Anna. But I know I won’t, thus making me subject to this sort of shit again. I had Rattler set us down in Charlottesville so I could buy some hard liquor.
2024.05.13 22:28 -shalimar-for the VAICOM + VoiceAttack user, how long did it take to learn
So i've successfully installed voiceattack + vaicom. And there is a 25 page list of voice commands built into the vaicom library. Which is cool, but where do I even start? How long did it take for you to learn this shit? I can barely remember what cockpit button I assigned to which button on my HOTAS.
2024.05.13 22:23 AahsugExample setup for running Pathos on Linux with dxvk+fsync (GPU rendering)
There are some older lutris install scripts/documentation floating around for running Pathos on Linux. While those work if you just want to try out the game, each of them results in forced software renderer and overall sub-optimal experience (higher cpu usage and possibly unstable varying on zoom level framerate, bad 1%). Below is a protonfix example for running game with DXVK and proton-ge, esync/fsync also works (you can translate these steps to winetricks instead with whatever wrappers you use, for barebone wine you would probably need to also add dxvk and install corefonts as listed in lutris, proton ships with all of these by default).
# Just a helper function, append this function to your proton-ge's protonfixes/util.py def protontricks_proton_legacy(version,verb): version = "Proton " + version if not checkinstalled(verb): try: pass except FileNotFoundError: log.warn('The protonprefix folder was not found') lookups = [os.path.join(os.path.dirname(element),version) for element in os.environ['STEAM_COMPAT_TOOL_PATHS'].split(":")] try: protonvpath = next(el for el in lookups if os.path.exists(os.path.join(el,'dist','bin','wine'))) except StopIteration: log.warn('{0} was not found'.format(version)) return log.info('Using {0} at '.format(version) + str(os.path.join(protonvpath))) env = dict(protonmain.g_session.env) env['WINEPREFIX'] = protonprefix() env['WINE'] = os.path.join(protonvpath,'dist','bin','wine') env['WINELOADER'] = os.path.join(protonvpath,'dist','bin','wine') env['WINESERVER'] = os.path.join(protonvpath,'dist','bin','wineserver') env['WINEPATH'] = os.path.join(protonvpath,'dist','bin','wine64') env['WINETRICKS_LATEST_VERSION_CHECK'] = 'disabled' env['LD_PRELOAD'] = '' winetricks_bin = os.path.abspath(__file__).replace('util.py','winetricks') winetricks_cmd = [winetricks_bin, '--unattended', '--force'] + verb.split(' ') process = subprocess.Popen(winetricks_cmd, env=env) process.wait() # This goes into your custom protonfix at protonfixes/gamefixes-steam/SOMEUNIQUENUMERICID.py from protonfixes import util def main(): util.protontricks_proton_legacy('6.5GE','dotnet48') # dotnet4.8 has issues installing on anything newer, before running download proton-ge-6.5 and unpack to 'Proton 6.5GE' next to this proton-ge's folder util.protontricks('win7') # dotnet4.8 defaults to older versions util.protontricks('d3dcompiler_47') # fix for renderer failure when running outside renderer=gdi util.protontricks('renderer=vulkan') # unnecessary, but forces preferred backend util.set_environment('WINEDLLOVERRIDES','dxgi,d3d9=n') # also just to assure consistency between versions
Then if you would be to run proton-ge directly from command line you could do something like this.
# Minimal example of proton environment export SteamAppId=SOMEUNIQUENUMERICIDFROMSTEPABOVE export SteamGameId=$SteamAppId export STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID=$SteamAppId export STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/path/to/foldefonew/steam/pfx" export STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH="/path/to/game/folder" export STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$HOME/.local/share/Steam" export STEAM_COMPAT_TOOL_PATHS="/path/to/proton-ge" # Setup prefix mkdir -p "$STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH" '/path/to/proton-ge/proton' run wineboot --init # Setup patches and run the game (no to error windows if any shows up) cd "$STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH" '/path/to/proton-ge/proton' waitforexitandrun 'PathosGame.exe'
Mangohud won't work, but you can confirm dxvk being used via nvidia-smi or any other tool that lists gpu card utilization (PathosGame.exe should now show up), overall lower strain on CPU and better framerates in diagnostic tools overlay of the game.
I'm trying to make the spiritual successor to Xwing for 90s DOS everyone craved, but Lucas Arts never delivered. I was also inspired by Wing Commander Privateer who's title led me to imagining building a giant fleet by buying more and more ships and making friends. It has a bunch of bugs but these will be fixed in a week or two. It's still pretty fun and a base by which a HUGE HUGE potential WOW killer will be made on. fairly long patch notes of a subset of what I plan on doing in the future are at the bottom.
I'm exhausted... I spent close to a year on this patch... And the last 3 months was nothing but sleep, code, sleep, code, body necessities, balanced against being stress sick, normal sick, and trying not to break down due to being isolated non stop working... About 2000 hours in this patch alone, on top of 10,000 hours in the past 6 years before that, and I use an anthology of game resources that took me 20,000 hours to make. There's some bugs due to Unity compiling standalone improper from editor, but they'll be fixed, as well as the story line not in... It's a spoiler, but people say my SCI FI is better than any scifi man's ever written, it's at least good:
Cut scene spoiler of next patch assemble link by hand:
rum ble.com /v4tf892-spoiler-female-ai-voice-all-of-starfighter-general-mmo-patch-1-quests.html
-> What's next timelinie
NOTES:COMING SOON, AND FORECAST->Story missions non stop, techs around em, story's awesome!
Future Patches ->Non Stop Missions in Star System Sol until that story arc panned out and the next enters. ->Bounty System:Allows Player vs Player... Except people who don't want to be doing PVP will get insurance refund money of damages if/when the offending player pays up or gets captured as Bounty. ->70,000ish star stystems per core, 24 cores to dive. ->Warp drive lets you see actual stars warp by you that exist, aim for the star you want to explore, hit warp. ->Space Opera of partially Ai driven, partially Next Gen personality Memento system to have realistic aliens who grudge match you or befriend you. ->Unlimited player MMO ->Fleet building and Fleet Destroying, soft perma death hardcore means its a thrill of the rise and thrill of fall, rinse and repeat! Aim for higher personal bests of fleet sizes -> Star System capture, control, taxing, law imposing. People can challenge to take over your star in an 2 hour window where your friends are on... If they're not on, AI will use their craft. So build big alleginances for star control power. ->Better UI hull/shields/armoetc such as NES style Brick Icons for stats ->Transfer between shields/thrusteweapons power ->more sanity loss special effects ->Radar ->Better targetting ->Multi Targetting of friend/foe/neutral/quest... ->Fleet General Commands to allies of flight style: ie defend me, skirmish(fight optimally), attack target, bomb target, evasive manuevars, flee(rout) ta ->Weapon escalation: I) rockets/homing missile/cluster rockets, rocket spam mitigated by chaff, ECM, or a bold force shield ejection II) Lasers will always hit, and heat up your ship, so you're encouraged to rotate your ship's sides to absorb heat in multiple places. III) Bombs you need to travel in a straight line without much damage for 7 seconds ->very long range for shelling bases out of turret range IV) Rail Gun V) Destroyers/Capital Ships VI) ->Bounty Combat PVP system ->Magic enabled ->Cockpit overlays ->Custom Attribute Allocation to stats you prefer from leveling up. ->96 most bilious bosses ->More Galactic News Network tickers ->Enable reduction in manueverability based on encumberance, volume limit of cargo ->Crafting based on real world Molecular structures, make materials out of periodic chart elements, and use those materials to make gears, levers, switches, interchangeable parts of a variety of styles. .Hopefully this becomes educational to people entering Chemistry Class later and beneficial to humanity. ->Favorite foods, drink, sanity preservation ->Elaborate 16 supernatural elemental magic systems ->traders and galactic encounters randomly, get cosmos gems to access untold areas, maps of places no one can get to... ->Secret, get ingame podcasts when available by hitting alt+p, ALT+P AGAIN CYCLES THROUGH THEM, CTRL+P CLOSES EM, -Memento system -Scientific items system elaborations evident -power recover of various systems rates, shots costing powers -Allegiance & Dark Allegiance system where by helping others or the illusion of helping them raises your power, fame, and status in the Galaxy. -Live Omnipotent roleplay --MMO Mode leaderboards such as EXP --More enemies with fun catch phrases? --what ASPECTS DO YOU WANT WORKED ON MORE? Send ideas and buy triderium. Forums or email is cool. --multi drops, more rares, uncommons --more advanced inventory->Scroll deeper, limited by volume, weight slows your thrust + adds collision damage & kickback, sort with different filters, better descriprtion, items catch on fire in inventory, emit toxic gases, melt, get destroyed by oncoming heat attacks or collisions --Ability to dimensionally recover items picked up previous session... You have em saved on server, just can't see when you load until next patch.... Use upgrades when you got em! -Conquer Stars and setting taxes and laws -story history replay dialogue -more achievements -Asteroids properly breakinto more than oen -Give android race an android sounding voice --Three forms of Ground Combat: GROUND COMBAT FORM I) One is a classical First Person Shooter (FPS) with vehicles. GROUND COMBAT FORM II) One is tactical Real Time Turn Based Game(RTTG) from top down, almost isometric. RTTG will give you the feel of a classic orthogonic chess like game with cover, vision and such, yet everyone plays at the same time. RTTG mode happens when you enter populated towns, not because the server can't handle infinite players in a small zone, but because it feels more intense when any action and fight can start from the shadows. Movement is freer and faster when no one has fights going on nearby. GROUND COMBAT FORM III)One is a 3d Fighter Game you'd see in Arcades from the 90s, but with the ability to change targets. Starfighter General is the Everything Game. And it's for real. Let me know what you want me to dev next. Virtual Goods buys lets me sub contract parts out to make the game faster. Talk about what you want, and if you got the money, be a driver, push this game's development faster. I'm a 64x coder, people who meet me don't believe people like me exist, so I get things done... I just have literally 0$ funding at the moment. You'll see things in Starfighter General you thought were impossible and things never done before... Be a believer, or heck, just play and enjoy. KNOWN BUGS: 1) Iron ore is called a book 2) Collision detection on giant space ships is clunky and can be very annoying if you get close 3) Vision obscuring of mesh fog in junk yard 4) Laser angle not straight 5) TEXT RENDDER DEPTH of chatting aliens, or targetting computer needs fixed so always visible. Enable Prime Skils(21): Attribute is the attribute that influences the skill, Min Int is the minimum intelligence to acquire skill, skill point costs is the number of skill points required (each intelligence you get 1 point), and the name, well, that's the Name: Mining ships, transport friggates, shipping containers, tugs, destroyers, capital ships, limi Closing about determination and the long play... If you're of meager means like myself... You can enjoy the challenge MMODE over the long haul... Always getting stronger, never weaker, the ship upgrades, your level, your ascended masteries, your money, your credits, and most of all your own skill level and reflexes that you don't notice but is always increasing. Name:"Munitions Motorhead" //assault damages Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Fleet Architect" //general gains to larger fleet Attribute:intelligence MinInt:13 PointCost:10 Name:"Quarry Champion" //mining bonuses Attribute:intelligence MinInt:9 PointCost:6 Name:"Pet Sympahthyry" //charm pets, higher battlemon fight with you, higher morale, Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:5 Name:"Merchant Maestro" //merchant Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Diplomatic Impunity" //diplomat Attribute:charm MinInt:12 PointCost:4 Name:"Space Speed Ace" //go fast Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Universal Researcher" //science-shield Attribute:intelligence MinInt:16 PointCost:5 Name:"Intruder Adept" //sneaky Attribute:stealth MinInt:11 PointCost:3 Name:"Astro Archaelogist" //relic finder Attribute:intelligence MinInt:12 PointCost:4 Name:"Midnight Star Drifter" //preserver of self Attribute:agility MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Mixmaster Mechanologist" //crafter Attribute:intelligence MinInt:15 PointCost:6 Name:"Celestial Trailblazer" //explorer Attribute:intelligence MinInt:9 PointCost:2 Name:"Gangster of Smug" //running contraban, con artist Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Cuthroat of the Constellation" //assassin +crit hit Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:6 Name:"Seeker of Destiny" //find magic, starts weak due to 10 missing Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:10 Name:"Wing Broman" //buffs//alliance//loyalty Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Dimensional Void Shifter" //cult of the cloak, friends up phantasms dimensionally more Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:5 Name:"Racing Destruction Vet" //Ex destruction derby guy Ram Offense/Defense Attribute:endurance MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Motley Steward" //Friends with Disgraces in Underground Places...Rowdy good for nothin but keeping company with other rowdy good for nothins:+Hires +Recruit enemy Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Trash Baron" //+1 tractor beam lolz extra drops Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Enable Flex s(66) Name:"Combat" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Electronics" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:13 PointCost:3 Name:"Cyborgs" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:17 PointCost:4 Name:"First Aid" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:9 PointCost:3 Name:"Surgeon" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:17 PointCost:8 Name:"Androids" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:17 PointCost:4 Name:"Weapon:Plasma Bolts" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Greater Reasoning" //core Attribute:intelligence //order MinInt:9 PointCost:1 Name:"Decipher Codes" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:12 PointCost:1 Name:"Martial Arts" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Chemistry" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:5 PointCost:3 Name:"Forage" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:1 :Name:"Quick Draw" //core Attribute:dexterity //blade MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Taunt" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Annoy & Pester" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Lie" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Politics" Attribute:charm MinInt:12 PointCost:3 Name:"Disguise" Attribute:stealth MinInt:9 PointCost:2 Name:"Critical Hit" //core Attribute:luck //chaos MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Atomic Energy" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:18 PointCost:4 Name:"Pulse Engineering" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:16 PointCost:4 Name:"Fly Aircraft" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Drive" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Pilot Shuttle" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:12 PointCost:3 Name:"Read Instruments" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Navigate" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Remember" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Pick Lock" Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Ambidexterity" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:4 Name:"Pick Pocket" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Distract" Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Explosives" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Construct Trap" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Fire Artillery" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Fortitude" //core Attribute:endurance //body MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Interrogate" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Law" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:13 PointCost:2 Name:"Popularity" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Confidentiality" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Sport" Attribute:agility MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Facilitate" Attribute:luck MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Gamble" Attribute:luck MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Cheat" Attribute:stealth MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Deceive" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Intimidate" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Space Craft Repair" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:14 PointCost:2 Name:"Aircraft Repair" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Automotive Repair" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Labor" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Advanced Mathematics" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:12 PointCost:1 Name:"Detective" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Perception" //core Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Soliciting" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Rapid Fire" Attribute:dexterity MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Safe Crack" Attribute:stealth MinInt:9 PointCost:3 Name:"Auto Mechanic" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Investigate" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Forensics" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:13 PointCost:3 Name:"Survival" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Lore" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Butt Kiss" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Insult" Attribute:charm MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Hardware" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:1 Name:"Bureaucracy" Attribute:charm MinInt:9 PointCost:1 Name:"Leadership" //CORE Attribute:strength //earth MinInt:13 PointCost:4 Name:"Solicitating" //core Attribute:charm //storm MinInt:7 PointCost:1 Name:"Negotiation" Attribute:charm MinInt:14 PointCost:3 Name:"Vetinarian" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:13 PointCost:3 Name:"Junkyarder" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Tactical Analysis" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Resourceful Mining" Attribute:wisdom MinInt:0 PointCost:3 Name:"Evasive Manuevars" //core Attribute:agility //water MinInt:0 PointCost:2 Name:"Nanotech Engineering" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:17 PointCost:4 Name:"Astrobiology" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:17 PointCost:3 Name:"Metallurgy" Attribute:intelligence MinInt:14 PointCost:3 Name:"Infiltrator" Attribute:stealth MinInt:14 PointCost:4 Name:"Stealth Ops" //core Attribute:stealth //dark MinInt:9 PointCost:2 Name:"Tough Grit" //core Attribute:willpower //fire MinInt:0 PointCost:2 //LOWER EFFECT OF SANITY HITS, lower hungewater costs lacking/etc Low coolness Upgrade the targeting computer:3 target classifications:Enemies/Missions/Allies:With allies, you can then send fleet commands to them. Encounter rates-Different random encounters in space ---upgrade ideas ->NEW ITEMS ->nEW CATCH PHRASES ->IDEA FOR PROGRESSION OF MOBS gnn MISSIONS
2024.05.13 22:20 securimancerDay in a Life of a Principal Security Engineer
a securimancer working to keep Reddit safe and secure Written byu/securimancer Greetings fine humans. I’m here today writing a “Day in a Life” blog post because someone asked me to. I cannot imagine this is interesting, but Redditors tend to surprise me so let’s do this. Morning Routine Like many of us, mornings are when I take care of all the dependent lifeforms under my command. Get in an hour or so of video games (Unicorn Overlord currently) for my mental health. Feed the coterie of beasts (including the children), make coffee for the wife and me, prep the kids for school. Catch up on Colbert (my news needs comedy otherwise darkness consumes), check out what’s been happening on Medium and Reddit, and read a few of my favoritecybersecurity / engineering mail lists. Crack open the ol’ calendar and see what my ratio of “get shit done” to “help other people get shit done” is in store for my day. All roughly before 8am. And the beauty of working for a Bay Area company (if we can call it that, we’re so remote friendly) is that I normally have a precious few hours before people in SF wake up to get things done. Daily Tasks Each morning has a brief reflection of what I need to get done that day. I’m a big fan of the Eisenhower Method to figure out what I actually need to prioritize in my day. It’s exceedingly rare that I get a majority of my day focused on work that I’ve initiated, so prioritizing activities from code review and pull request feedback to architectural systems design reviews to pair programming requests from the team to random break/fix fires that pop up, all of that gets organized so I feel like I’m (at least trying) to do the most impactful work for the day. Reddit has a few systems to help drive queues of work: Jira for planned work and “big rock” items that we’re trying to accomplish for that quarter, Harold (an in-house developed shame mechanism) for code review and deployment, and Launch Control (Reddit’s flavor of Google’s LaunchCal) for architecture design reviews. Plenty of potential dopamine hits as “things to get done.” Meetings It’s exceedingly rare that I have meetings that could have been an email (and if I do, they’re almost always vendor meetings). A lot of what my meetings tend to focus on are around conflict resolutions across teams as we try to achieve different goals or drive consensus to resolve problems that come up on various programs teams are trying to deliver. Working on Security, you can often get perceived as the “Department of No”, but in every meeting I work hard to make sure that isn’t the case. It starts with getting a shared context of what is the problem at hand, understanding the outcomes that we need to drive toward and inputs into the problem (timelines, humans, trade offs), and deciding how we move forward. Meetings are a terrible way to convey decisions as they are only as good as the individuals that remember them, so lots of these meetings are centered around decision docs or technical design reviews. Capturing your rationale for a decision not only helps make sure you understand the problem (if you can’t write about it, it’s hard to think about it), but also helps capture the whys and rationale behind those decisions for future you and other product and engineering staff. There’s also meetings that I live for, those that are building up humans. We have biweekly SPACE (Security, Privacy, and Compliance Engineering) brown bags where we talk about new things we’ve shipped or some training topic that upskills all of us. We have biweekly threat modeling meetings where we pick a topic/scenario and go through a threat modeling exercise live, which helps build the muscle memory of how to do technical diagramming, and helps build a shared context of how the system works, what our risk appetite is, and how various team members think about the problem providing multiple viewpoints to the discussion (honestly the most valuable component). As a Principal Engineer, I’m keenly aware of my humanity and the fact that I do not scale in my efforts alone: training and building up future PEs is how I scale myself (at least until cloning becomes more readily available). Ubiquity One of my super powers is being everything everywhere all at once, or so I’ve been told by my fellow Snoos. I’ve been told that I have an uncanny knack to be in so many Slack channels and part of so many threads of discussion that it’s “inhuman”. Being a damn fine security engineer is hard because not only do you have to have the understanding and context of the thing you’re trying to secure, but also know how to actually secure the thing. This is nigh impossible if you don’t know what’s going on in your business (and we’re still “small enough” size-wise that this is still possible for one human), so I’ve got Slack keyword alerts, channel organization, and a giant 49” ultrawide monitor that has a dedicated Slack tiled window to keep me plugged in and accessible. I also have developed over many years my response to pings from Slack: “Can I solve this problem, if not who can? Is this something I should solve or can I delegate? Can this be answered async with good quality, or is a larger block of dedicated time required to solve? Is this thread too long and needs a different approach?” This workflow is second nature to me and helps me move around the org. I’ve also been here almost 5 years and, as I’m in Security and have to know everything about everything to secure anything (which I don’t, but I am a master of Googling, learning, and listening), I’ve been exposed to pretty much everything in our engineering sphere. With that knowledge comes great power of helping connect teams together that wouldn’t have connected otherwise. Do Security Stuffs Occasionally I actually get to do “security” things. These past two quarters it’s been launching Reddit’s “unified access control” solution leveraging Cloudflare Zero Trust, moving us off old crusty Nginx OAuth proxies onto a modern system that has such groundbreaking things like caching and logs , among other things. But really, it’s the planning, designing, and execution of a complex technical migration with only a handful of engineers. I oversee security across the entire business so that requires opining on web app security, k8s / AWS / GCP security, IAM concepts, observability, mobile app dev, CI/CD security, and all the design patterns that are included in this smörgåsbord of technology. Keeping all this in my head is why I can’t remember names and faces and my wife has to tell me multiple times where I’m supposed to be and when. But the thing that keeps me going is always the “building”, seeing things get stood up at Reddit that I know are sound and secure. It’s not denying people’s requests or crapping all over a developer for picking a design they didn’t know had a serious security design flaw. We’re not a bank (either in terms of money we get to throw at security, or tolerance for security friction), we get to make risk tradeoff decisions based on Reddit’s risk tolerance (which is high except where it comes to privacy or financial exchanges) and listen to our business as we try to find ways to improve ads serving and improve our users’ experience. So I view myself like any other software engineer, I just happen to know a lot about security. And I guess not just security, I know a lot about our safety systems, our networking environment, and our Kubernetes architecture. It just comes with the Security space, that inquisitive mind of “how does this thing work?” and wanting to be competent when you talk about it and try to secure it. Not everything is 0s and 1s, however. A lot of security is process, paperwork, and persistence. Designing workflow approval processes for how an IAM flow should look like. Reviewing IT corporate policies for accuracy and applicability. Crafting responses to potential advertisers’ IT teams on “how secure is Reddit, really”. Writing documentation for how an engineering system works and how other engineers should interact with it. Updating runbooks with steps on how others should respond to an incident or page. Building Grafana dashboards to quantify and visualize how a tooling rollout is working. Providing consulting on product features like authentication / authorization business logic across services. Interviewing, not only for my own team but also within other engineering and cross-functional areas of the business. End of Day Routine Eventually, I run out of time in the day as I’m beckoned away from my dark, cave-like, Diet Coke strewn office by the promise of dinner. Wrapping up document review, (hopefully) crossing things off my to-do list, and closing out Slack threads for the day, I try to pack everything up and not carry it with me after work. It’s challenging being an almost completely remote company with a heavy presence in the West Coast, as pings and notifications come in as dinner and kids’ bedtime happens. But I know not everything can be finished in a day, some things will slip, and there will always be more work tomorrow. Which is juxtaposed occasionally with bouts of imposter syndrome, even for someone as senior and tenured as I am. Happens to all of us. After-hours work is restricted to on-call duty and pet projects. You don’t want to know how many on-call queues I’m secondary escalation on. Or how many Single Point of Securimancers services that I still own (looking at you, Reddit onion service). And pet projects are typically things that I’ve got desires to do: prototyping security solutions we want to look into, messing with my k8s homelab, doing routine upgrades. Nothing clears the mind like watching semver numbers go up (until you find the undocumented change that breaks everything). Future Outlook And finally, what's on the horizon for our little SPACE team? We’re still a small team coming out of IPO, and our greatest super power is networking and influencing our engineering peers. We got our ISO 27001 and SOC2 Type 2 last year and continue to ever increase scope and complexity of public accreditation. We’re close partners with our Infrastructure and IT teams to modernize our tech and continue to evolve our capabilities in host and network security, data loss prevention, and security observability. We’ve got two wonderful interns from YearUp that started and are going to be with us this summer, and we continue to focus on improving our team composition (more women and diversity, more junior folks and less singleton seniors). All of this work takes effort by this PE. So there you have it, a “day in a life” of a u/securimancer. If you made it this far, congratulations on your achievement. Got any questions or want to share your own experiences? Drop 'em in the comments below!
