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he\him
Into electronics, windows internals, cryptography, security, compute hardware, physics, colourimetry, lasers, stage lighting, D&B, DJing, demoscene, socialism.
Currently looking for infosec work. See pinned post for details.
I am mothman.
Heavily ADHD.
Nullsector/laser team @ EMF Camp, lasers & lighting orga @ NOVA Demoparty.
I sell funny warning stickers at Unsafe Warnings: https://unsafewarnings.etsy.com
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In response to this post@jhwgh1968 it literally just crashed lmao, classic todd howard moment
@gsuberland for when the run is over:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPN0qhSyWy8
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In response to this post@jhwgh1968 skyrim
@gsuberland ah, the classic acceleration maneuver
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@jhwgh1968 it literally just crashed lmao, classic todd howard moment
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@malwaretech ayyyy, finally someone else says it
every time I'm like "commercial VPNs are basically a scam, they trick you into thinking you need them to be secure" I get a shit load of sealions and abuse over it, plus contrarians coming up with convoluted threat models that no real people have, it's become even more tedious than trying to explain why you don't need to smash hard disks or do 13-pass wipes and other unhinged shit
@gsuberland @malwaretech What's next Graham, you're gonna tell me the brick of home-made thermite sitting on top of my hard disk isn't necessary?
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btw for this entire week if I'm posting unhinged shit you've got no idea the context of, you are safe to assume that GDQ is involved
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[ superhot voice ]
HORSE
TILT
HORSE
TILT
@gsuberland a Bethesda game I take it?
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I mangled my hands so badly yesterday fucking about with the NAS that I've spent all day typing without my left index finger
I don't think I've ever managed that before
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crab on nanotube
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In response to this post@hacks4pancakes watch out for dropbears and you'll be fine
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@SnoopJ lol yeah but even so, wow
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@Nina_cried @hacks4pancakes oh this is a good one
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In response to this post*stares into the void*
@gsuberland
*tap the sign*
Remember that the void is solely to be cried into
The abyss is to be stared
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one of the guys on the couch on this Rocket League run has spent as many hours playing the game as I have working throughout my entire career
*stares into the void*
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@gsuberland RL is a game that makes fun when played with friends even if one loses. Like I do. Continuously. But my friends no longer want to play RL with me. Probably because they lose too
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@SnoopJ @tef @iximeow this. I would have enjoyed the weird and complicated tech if I understood the actual *point* of the category overall
I don't need a full explanation of all the details, that's basically impossible in a TAS lol
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In response to this post@tef @iximeow it took them until 8 minutes and 30 seconds into the run (plus pre run intro time) to say the phrase "no A presses".
it would have been a three sentence explanation at the start. they just didn't explain at all.
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@iximeow @tef and, like, I know what a TAS is, and how it works. I just don't know what the specific category for this game is about, or what the rules are, which is pretty specific knowledge (and two phrases from a video that went viral on 4chan and tumblr eight years ago isn't really what I'd call "mainstream" knowledge, or a particularly good explanation of what the category is about)
@gsuberland @iximeow
it's a balancing act, gdq doesn't stop to explain what a backwards long jump is each and every time—in this instance, the first level shown was a 0 a-press level, and they only started explaining what 0.5a presses was when it came up in the level, which isn't the best
but there isn't a lot of time to front load explanations, and there's often something else going on too
and again, it isn't "went viral once" / "one video"
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In response to this post@tef oh no I love a good deep dive, that's exactly my jam
but like... "here's our TAS! it does a thing very slowly and we aren't going to explain the point or the rules" is not a very good fit for a GDQ audience
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In response to this post@tef that would be fine if it didn't result in a really dull TAS segment due to lack of context
@gsuberland i doubt you care, but for posterity, here's some context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
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In response to this postanyway I turned it off because it was actually starting to piss me off
I'll come back for Rocket League
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In response to this postlike apparently this is part of the standard rules for the fewest A presses category, because you can keep A pressed between levels and it'd mess up the IL scoring if they didn't count the presses this way, but I had to find that detail out by reading chat.
I'm sure they're great TASers but this was poorly thought out. it's also remarkably dull to watch unless you know all the technical details, which is sort of problematic when they didn't even introduce the point of the run.
anyway I turned it off because it was actually starting to piss me off
I'll come back for Rocket League
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