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2641
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:35:53 PM »
Ask if she's got a list of questions, or if you work for a firm see if they have a PR guy that has some info.
Yeah, I got the questions beforehand. Just trying to prepare myself as best as possible now. It's not just a random reporter but an actual cybersecurity expert who knows a lot about this already.
2642
« on: March 22, 2017, 03:52:27 PM »
Whoa guy, you gotta calm down. Ease up friend.
"eased up"
now there's something i haven't felt in six months
Don't you think that might have something to do with just your current job? I know that jobs don't grow on trees and that some here are just doing it temporarily or to build a CV for later, but still. If I didn't have to work then I wouldn't, but I still like my job. It's challenging and engaging, but also rewarding and at times even fun. It wasn't easy to get and it does sometimes does suck, but maybe you're just not in the right place now.
career =/= job
True that, but I don't see the point you're trying to make?
i'm absolutely delighted to hear that you enjoy your career that you've spent years building the credentials for
but don't you think it's a little bit glib to say things like that to me when you've never really struggled this hard to find a single entry-level job
I don't see how that was glib at all. Either way, it wasn't intentional. I was just trying to point out that work isn't all crap. Maybe your current job is, but don't let that stop you from finding something better.
2643
« on: March 22, 2017, 03:34:09 PM »
No, but I've taken a lot of interviews.
In what sense / for what?
2644
« on: March 22, 2017, 09:12:48 AM »
Whoa guy, you gotta calm down. Ease up friend.
"eased up"
now there's something i haven't felt in six months
Don't you think that might have something to do with just your current job? I know that jobs don't grow on trees and that some here are just doing it temporarily or to build a CV for later, but still. If I didn't have to work then I wouldn't, but I still like my job. It's challenging and engaging, but also rewarding and at times even fun. It wasn't easy to get and it does sometimes does suck, but maybe you're just not in the right place now.
career =/= job
True that, but I don't see the point you're trying to make?
2645
« on: March 22, 2017, 09:04:28 AM »
Whoa guy, you gotta calm down. Ease up friend.
"eased up"
now there's something i haven't felt in six months
Don't you think that might have something to do with just your current job? I know that jobs don't grow on trees and that some here are just doing it temporarily or to build a CV for later, but still. If I didn't have to work then I wouldn't, but I still like my job. It's challenging and engaging, but also rewarding and at times even fun. It wasn't easy to get and it does sometimes does suck, but maybe you're just not in the right place now.
2646
« on: March 22, 2017, 08:27:01 AM »
Some lady asked if I liked my face paint. I wasn't prepared.
Exclusive footage of the event.
2647
« on: March 22, 2017, 07:46:26 AM »
Have you ever had to give an interview for a newspaper, magazine or TV? I was just approached by a journalist who wants to interview me about my work for a news outlet, so I'm preparing what I'm going to say for my first media appearance.
Anyone here have any experience with that?
2648
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:59:38 AM »
Spoiler  Why does Serious Sam have the best video game grenade launcher of all time?
Nah lmao, the Bouncer from Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando is way better.
Honorable mentions go to the MW2 assault rifle grenade launchers
Just looked it up and you're laughably wrong, why are you wrong and why am I right?
Why are you both so wrong when it's clearly the Quake one? Serious Sam is too much like a rocket launcher.
I am sorry Flee, but Quake will never have cool weapons like this:
Don't mind the low gfx this person set his game to.
2649
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:56:43 AM »
Why do you like Starcraft so much?
It goes back to when I was a wee lad at the age of 4 watching my older brother play it on our old Windows 98. I don't really know why I grew to love it so much, maybe it had to do with the way it played, how it sounds, or the graphics at the time. It was just eye opening for me at that age and it's all I wanted to play and talk about because there was no other game we had that was like Starcraft. The cinematics would always freak me out as a kid and I would skip them because they felt so real for its time. Like this one for example.
My brother would let me play after he'd put in all the cheat codes for me because I didn't know how to type all that well or read lol. I would spend hours just toying around with the AI in custom matches, like having control of all 3 races at once or sending a bunch of Ghosts to drop nukes all across the map. Starcraft was the game that basically taught me how to use a mouse and keyboard at such a young age. I remember using computers at school in kindergarten through 2nd grade and kids would have trouble doing things while I had no trouble at all and the teachers were impressed by it. They'd ask me how I knew so much and I told them that I played this game called Starcraft and how I learned from it.
Starcraft was also the very first game I played online with other people and it blew my fucking 8 year old mind when I figured out how to play online multiplayer. It just made me love the game even more even though I would always get my ass kicked. That's why I stuck with the simple games like Cannon Defense, Cat and Mouse, Nuke the Whales, etc dumb stuff like that.
Hard to believe it'll be 20 years next year since Starcraft came out. Feels like yesterday when I would bug my brother to get on the computer to play it.
Good story. Closest I have (aside from Halo on the original xbox) is playing Battlefield 1942 and Wolfenstein: ET at some sports + video games summer camp. I loved and was mesmerized by it. Second week of the camp I was asked to change computers because the older kids accused me of cheating. Those were the days. So do you still play? You must be quite good at this point.
2650
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:43:54 AM »
Spoiler Why does Serious Sam have the best video game grenade launcher of all time?
Nah lmao, the Bouncer from Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando is way better.
Honorable mentions go to the MW2 assault rifle grenade launchers
Just looked it up and you're laughably wrong, why are you wrong and why am I right?
Why are you both so wrong when it's clearly the Quake one? Serious Sam is too much like a rocket launcher.
2651
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:38:15 AM »
Dazarobbo left the site so he no longer shadowbans people with a dissenting opinions which opened the floodgates to rational people again but also fucking idiots like those.
It really is. I've made a few threads on here about the state of Bnet before and I don't understand how it's gotten to be that way. If what you say is true, I'm reluctant to believe a single moderator (or his absence) played a significant role in turning a forum as big as B.net into a shithole. It's part of a much bigger societal change which I don't think anyone fully understands. Rebellious counter-culture turned zealous and often downright stupid, perhaps?
2652
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:16:42 AM »
Why do you like Starcraft so much?
2653
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:15:35 AM »
So far, we have:
- Breath of the Wild
- Windwaker HD
- Twilight Princess HD
2654
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:14:58 AM »
flee does not give me the "retro gamer" vibe
Well, you're not wrong. I love plenty of older games (admittedly mostly FPS games and such), but wouldn't consider myself much of a retro gamer.
2655
« on: March 21, 2017, 03:49:14 PM »
When did bungie turn into reddit with upvotes and shit
When Destiny launched, I think.
2656
« on: March 21, 2017, 03:23:29 PM »
It really is. I've made a few threads on here about the state of Bnet before and I don't understand how it's gotten to be that way. Half the forum is made up of clueless alt-right teens parroting dumb shit and being completely impervious to anything reasonable or factual. It's becoming more of an echo chamber by the day with people downvoting and trying to silence anything that deviates from their shitty norm.
As someone who can't stand much of the bullshit perpetuated by the "extreme regressive left", I would have a lot more sympathy for the alt-right if most of them weren't completely pants-on-head retarded, biased and illogical twats with a propensity for supporting terrible leaders, anti-intellectualism, populism and discriminatory / hateful practices.
It's legitimately scary that many of these people are just impressionable kids taking after whatever is popular and fun online. Over the past few months, I have seen people reject official statistics in favor of youtube commentaries, choose to believe wordpress blogs over peer reviewed papers, and discard legitimate news outlets as fake news while referring to Breitbart and The Blaze as "real" information. The place is more of a shithole than ever as mob mentality and post-truth reign supreme.
2657
« on: March 20, 2017, 08:09:31 PM »
lmao "risk of automation"
?
i associate automation with prosperity, so it's like saying "risk of prosperity"
I think that the general consensus is that automation is related to prosperity (see the report I linked in the OP, for example), but that doesn't mean that there's no potential risks attached of new worker displacements, unemployment increasing, security and safety concerns rising, monopolies blooming, developing countries falling even further behind and inequality (both globally and between classes in the same society) growing. They've got to be accounted for and taken seriously too. Besides, I was more talking about the individual level. At a macro-economic level it's easy to say that we'll get more prosperous and that workers can just allocate to a different (higher education / more creative) job. But for a 45 year old factory worker put out of a job due to automation with no real prospects of going back to school and specializing in IT maintenance or something else entirely? He's definitely "at risk" and not likely to say that he's so much more prosperous now despite the fact that the national production / GDP ended up growing by 0.1% because of it.
2658
« on: March 20, 2017, 07:55:47 PM »
lmao "risk of automation"
?
2659
« on: March 20, 2017, 07:42:05 PM »
See, this is the kind of shit that pisses me off to no extent. This is the dude from the OP, right? "California DECRIMINALIZES infecting others with HIV" "They're essentially decriminalizing MURDER" "COMMIEFORNIA" "PURPOSELY AND WILLINGLY" (only to later casually drop "oh and negligently too" a single time) "Sensible people already AVOID CALIFORNIA" "It has such high crime rates" ( it's pretty much right in the middle and does better than the (conservative) South, but okay") "YOU'RE DENYING PEOPLE JUSTICE" "THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IS OKAY WITH TRANSMITTING DISEASES THAT CANNOT BE CURED" No, you pathetic, lying, stupid twat. The actual bill does not decriminalize it, it merely removes HIV-specific pieces of legislation ( which were based on outdated medical opinions and even criminalized behaviors we now know can't transfer HIV) to bring the practice in line with existing rules on transmission of infectious diseases and avoid people not seeking treatment because of the consequences of these laws. It'll now be treated no differently from infecting people with other infectuous diseases, meaning that it's still 100% illegal and fully criminalized. And never mind that under the current bill only a handful of people are prosecuted every year and the majority (95 fucking percent) of them are people soliciting prostitution, as found by UCLA Law School research. Unfortunately, not everyone is going to be this skeptical or even begin to care. Thousands of people watching this will just take this guy's exaggerations and factually incorrect statements as truth. They'll be outraged and have a circlejerk in the comments section with other people who hate "the left" and endlessly blame snowflake SWJ's or regressive liberals. Then they'll forget for a while, until it comes up in a real conversation in which they tell their friends, family, colleagues or acquaintances about how commiefornia liberals are making it LEGAL for people with HIV to INTENTIONALLY infect others and MURDER them through disease because LIBERALS STIGMA AND SNOWFLAKES. And so a growing number of people will take inaccurate bullshit for granted and subconsciously file it under the stupid identity politics "us vs. them" mentality, only to consider themselves among the righteous enlightened right caring about actual FACTS and REASON while the damn left is all just about petty feelings and sensibilities, even on such an obviously simple topic as infecting others with HIV. And that is how post truth, fake news and moronic identity politics / populism take hold too. And that is exactly the reason I don't care to watch most political youtubers push biased and often misleading shit on people only looking to reinforce their own bias. Because it's legitimately depressing and infuriating. Spoiler I don't even support the entire bill on the HIV law, but still oppose this kind of "reporting".
2660
« on: March 20, 2017, 06:32:07 PM »
I don't think I've ever followed a political youtuber. I'm not aware of any that aren't very one-sided, cherry pick sources to support their argument and create echo chambers with likeminded viewers and youtubers while causing drama and other shit. It's one of those things that I legit don't understand why people are into it.
Pls do explain.
2661
« on: March 20, 2017, 06:17:57 PM »
Does anyone else share a kind of strange fascination with them?
No
Well that settles it. Lock requested.
2662
« on: March 20, 2017, 06:17:21 PM »
Why didn't you get yourself a CRT?
Because I play games that are not Quake.
Smh
Spoiler You should get Serious Sam so we can play some co-op
Is that your pic?
Yeah duh
Damn bro, looks nice. Didn't realize you were such an OG. Might have to take you seriously before we play Quake now. :p
Don't worry I negate it by using a Spoiler wireless controller
By controller, you mean mouse. Right?
I mean
Jesus fucking christ that's the worst thing I've seen in years.
Wow, don't insult my bby
The new Doom game, okay, maybe. But Quake? Man, don't do that to me.
Well, Quake isn't that difficult with a controller
How would you even strafe jump and such?
>Not having the Serious Sam layout where the left trigger is the jump button
Effective strafe jumping takes a lot more than just being able to do that, though.
The hardest part is probably moving the right stick left & right in quick succession
I look forward to you showing me.
2663
« on: March 20, 2017, 06:12:25 PM »
Does anyone else share a kind of strange fascination with them? I saw a small one in a field a few years ago in Montana, but really would love to go to Tornado Alley and see some more. I obviously know they're dangerous and destructive as hell, but there's just something mesmerizing about them.
2664
« on: March 20, 2017, 06:02:29 PM »
Why didn't you get yourself a CRT?
Because I play games that are not Quake.
Smh
Spoiler You should get Serious Sam so we can play some co-op
Is that your pic?
Yeah duh
Damn bro, looks nice. Didn't realize you were such an OG. Might have to take you seriously before we play Quake now. :p
Don't worry I negate it by using a Spoiler wireless controller
By controller, you mean mouse. Right?
I mean
Jesus fucking christ that's the worst thing I've seen in years.
Wow, don't insult my bby
The new Doom game, okay, maybe. But Quake? Man, don't do that to me.
Well, Quake isn't that difficult with a controller
How would you even strafe jump and such?
>Not having the Serious Sam layout where the left trigger is the jump button
Effective strafe jumping takes a lot more than just being able to do that, though.
2665
« on: March 20, 2017, 06:01:46 PM »
New York Times: A.I. Is Doing Legal Work. But It Won’t Replace Lawyers, Yet.Impressive advances in artificial intelligence technology tailored for legal work have led some lawyers to worry that their profession may be Silicon Valley’s next victim.
But recent research and even the people working on the software meant to automate legal work say the adoption of A.I. in law firms will be a slow, task-by-task process. In other words, like it or not, a robot is not about to replace your lawyer. At least, not anytime soon.
“There is this popular view that if you can automate one piece of the work, the rest of the job is toast,” said Frank Levy, a labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “That’s just not true, or only rarely the case.”
An artificial intelligence technique called natural language processing has proved useful in scanning and predicting what documents will be relevant to a case, for example. Yet other lawyers’ tasks, like advising clients, writing legal briefs, negotiating and appearing in court, seem beyond the reach of computerization, for a while.
Dana Remus, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mr. Levy studied the automation threat to the work of lawyers at large law firms. Their paper concluded that putting all new legal technology in place immediately would result in an estimated 13 percent decline in lawyers’ hours.
A more realistic adoption rate would cut hours worked by lawyers by 2.5 percent annually over five years, the paper said. The research also suggests that basic document review has already been outsourced or automated at large law firms, with only 4 percent of lawyers’ time now spent on that task. Looks like I'm pretty safe. How do you guys fare? McKinsey has a pretty good report on it and discusses many jobs / sectors and their risk of automation.
2666
« on: March 20, 2017, 05:45:13 PM »
Why didn't you get yourself a CRT?
Because I play games that are not Quake.
Smh
Spoiler You should get Serious Sam so we can play some co-op
Is that your pic?
Yeah duh
Damn bro, looks nice. Didn't realize you were such an OG. Might have to take you seriously before we play Quake now. :p
Don't worry I negate it by using a Spoiler wireless controller
By controller, you mean mouse. Right?
I mean
Jesus fucking christ that's the worst thing I've seen in years.
Wow, don't insult my bby
The new Doom game, okay, maybe. But Quake? Man, don't do that to me.
Well, Quake isn't that difficult with a controller
How would you even strafe jump and such?
2667
« on: March 20, 2017, 05:30:51 PM »
Got the G810 for my keyboard. It was on sale for the same price as the 610 and much cheaper than the G910. Got great reviews and everything too. 
2668
« on: March 20, 2017, 05:29:24 PM »
Why didn't you get yourself a CRT?
Because I play games that are not Quake.
Smh
Spoiler You should get Serious Sam so we can play some co-op
Is that your pic?
Yeah duh
Damn bro, looks nice. Didn't realize you were such an OG. Might have to take you seriously before we play Quake now. :p
Don't worry I negate it by using a Spoiler wireless controller
By controller, you mean mouse. Right?
I mean
Jesus fucking christ that's the worst thing I've seen in years.
Wow, don't insult my bby
The new Doom game, okay, maybe. But Quake? Man, don't do that to me.
2669
« on: March 20, 2017, 05:25:09 PM »
It's going to be a sad day.
Can you stop acting like this is the biggest fucking injustice to ever happen to Europe? We had a democratic mandate to leave a political entity which the majority of the country felt they had no political autonomy over any more. It isn't the Holocaust 2.0.
I don't mind remainers having their misgivings and disagreements over Brexit, but you'd think European civilization was about to collapse the way they have conducted themselves throughout this process.
You have a very strange and misguided way of looking at things if "a sad day" constitues "the biggest fucking injustice to ever happen to Europe". I think Brexit is a mistake and a symptom of the same anti-intellectualism, populism and fake news shite that got Trump elected. It's true that see it as a regrettable shame, but you're exaggerating big time by pretending that I consider this a second holocaust or downfall of European civilization. The fact that I've made pretty much no threads on this since the week or two following the referendum (despite there being a whole lot negative stuff I could've brought up on a pretty much daily basis) should be somewhat proof of that.
2670
« on: March 20, 2017, 04:57:41 PM »
it'll probably be fine, I've just never seen it in the top 3 like those brands are
Changed it to an 850 Evo.
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