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Posted on 18-12-06, 15:07 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/12/bethesdas-attempt-to-fix-a-fallout-76-blunder-leaks-angry-shoppers-pid/
Actually important to read if you yourself have made a claim for the replacement Canvas Bag. Bethesda made it so everybodies information is viewable by everyone else making a claim.
I went on the support website today to update a ticket of mine, and surprisingly (or not...) I ended up being able to see all sorts of tickets, with people putting their personal information in them, like receipt screenshots, names, addresses, and so on. I'm assuming this is a bug in the website, because I don't see for what reason Bethesda would make tickets public.

People could also edit each others support tickets.

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Posted by jjndig
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I'm getting pretty sick of this constant fear-mongering. What are the odds that your average consumer is ever going to be affected by exotic vulnerabilities like these? I'd rather just opt out of the "fixes" and get the full advertised speed out of my system, but sadly I'm a stupid Windows luser.

Can't you do that if you're not running Windows Baka Edition (W10) anyway? Though it means manually inspecting the KBs.

Even Vista and (I believe) XP increase in memory usage when all updates are installed. _._
Microsoft switched to cumulative update packages for Windows 7 and 8 so I imagine the security updates are rolled up in to it making it an all or nothing proposition.

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Posted on 18-12-12, 05:43 in Board feature requests/suggestions (revision 3)
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Posted by jjndig
What are you talking about?
Also, it says 'user is online' when they quite clearly aren't in the online list. O_o

I don't see this phrase anywhere on the forum: 'user is online'

Is it not present on the Hermes theme? Or are you confusing green user names as = they're online? If so, you should notice that the colour of usernames in a topic alternate between red and green for... whatever reason (I'd prefer it if the name was red when they were offline and green if they were online).

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Posted on 18-12-12, 17:42 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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I see you've made our names all rainbow colours now, which is nice.

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Posted on 18-12-13, 08:30 in How the Dreamcast copy protection was defeated
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How did Westwood handle copy protection for Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Sun? The game does some funky stuff with the CD during gameplay instead of reading the disc like normal if it was simply playing a music file.

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Posted on 18-12-14, 08:09 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 2)
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Posted on 18-12-14, 08:11 in Sales and giveaways
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GOG has recently added more games to their GOG Connect service (add games purchased from Steam to your GOG account for free): https://www.gog.com/connect

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Posted on 18-12-14, 09:34 in Sales and giveaways
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Posted by CaptainJistuce
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GOG has recently added more games to their GOG Connect service (add games purchased from Steam to your GOG account for free): https://www.gog.com/connect


that is neither free games nor giveaways.
In a way, it is. It is a free second copy of several games you've previously purchased.
Yep.

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Posted on 18-12-16, 03:31 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 1)
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You could underclock the CPU instead of cleaning dust, if you wanted. Also most games that use a wait loop don't cause the CPU to heat up much, since it's barely a work load. The game must be doing something in addition to that (or some weird interaction with it and Wine).

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Posted on 18-12-18, 01:01 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 1)
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I've been watching videos of ProJared play through Smash Ultimate's adventure mode and jeezus christ the game spends a huge amount of time in loading screens. Why does it have to reload the entire level when you Retry? It should be simply respawning everyone at the correct health percentage and statuses...

I might stop after this second video and keep the rest of adventure mode unspoiled.

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Posted on 18-12-18, 12:40 in Board feature requests/suggestions (revision 3)
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Fix [ url= syntax. dark theme for example (quote my post to see syntax) is getting changed to https://helmet.kafuka.org/bboard/userstyles.org/styles/62289 which is obviously wrong.

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Posted on 18-12-18, 12:49 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 5)
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Posted by Screwtape
Today I came across a tweet from Chris Peterson, "technical program manager" at Mozilla:
YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome. You can restore YouTube's faster pre-Polymer design with this Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-classic/

I'm not normally a fan of this kind of "cling to the past" addon, but I installed it to try it out, and wow, YouTube really does load noticably faster.

I had a look at the extension's github repo, and so far as I can tell, it works by setting a "opt out of redesign" cookie in each request to YouTube, so it won't work forever, but it's also unlikely to break things or hurt your privacy.
Yeah you could tweak some cookies to work around the issue but it'd undo it self after a while... cool to see an add-on automate the process. A shame you can't have the new Youtube & the performance but ah well, at least there's a good dark theme for the old Youtube design (note how the description for it now has steps to manually do what the add-on you mentioned does).

Edit: Also the old website design is compatible with more of the Enhancer for Youtube add-on's features.

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Posted on 18-12-18, 22:38 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 3)
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Played the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for a few hours now and there's a few things that have bothered me in the game.

1) When quitting a game mode after playing the game for a while you may be faced with a "new challenger approaches" event. This adopts the controller configuration & chosen fighter that was most recently used and gives you no opportunity to change it.

This is bad because Amiibo's Smash mode uses the default No Name controller configuration and chooses a fighter for you to play as. So you're stuck with the default No Name controller configuration and whatever character you were playing as when the New Challenger Approaches event happens (I have no clue if the No Name controller configuration can be renamed). This ruins the fun of these events a little.

2) For a game that's all about pressing a certain direction & buttons to perform moves, it's mind blowing that they still don't let you use a DPad for controlling the character (It's relegated to Taunts). I get nowhere near the level of combat precision I'd otherwise be able to achieve because of this limitation. Often when trying to do an aerial recovery it treats me as doing a side-special attack and the analog stick is in general not very good at reading what direction I'm thinking I'm pressing the analog stick in. With a DPad it's super easy to tell what direction you're pressing at any given moment.

3) After my first experience with gameplay, quitting to the main menu resulted in a barrage of screens with zero context. It showed me unlocking a bunch of stuff for no apparent reason (maybe it did say it within the text) and then I got taken to a wallpaper gallery... took a moment to realize it was a Challenge list (it defaulted to showing a zoomed in image from the wall of images).

I hadn't been to the Challenge list before hand so I didn't know it was a thing. I wasted my first 3 uses of the unexplained Hammer ability on the Challenge screen revealing what I thought was just pieces of artwork (I would've used them on the seemingly more challenging challenges if I knew what was going on in the first place). In addition to there being no explanation for the hammer it does have text mentioning I need to obtain a number of "tiles" whatever those are to unlock another use of the Hammer.

4) The game doesn't explain the rewards screen at the end of combat in Spirit Mode. You can't hover over the reward items to read something about them, it's just a wall of poorly explained pictures and you're somehow meant to know what it all is.

5) The menus are slow to navigate compared to the Wii, Gamecube and N64 games. Most menu transitions have a loading screen.

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Posted on 18-12-19, 09:03 in Terminal colour schemes (revision 9)
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Powershell is annoying, it needs some commands to be prefixed with .\ and you also need to run some specific command before you can execute a PowerShell script with the necessary privileges (can't just run Powershell as an Administrator).


Install-Module -Name SpeculationControl -RequiredVersion 1.0.11
this string will just display an Open With dialog box for a blank (no name) file. Does anybody know how to get that command to actually work? It's taken from https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/SpeculationControl/1.0.11

https://imgur.com/a/z560BvO

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Posted on 18-12-23, 05:29 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by tomman
Here is your daily reminder about not using meme hipster "not-databases" on production websites:
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
Welcome back to the light, The Guardian! Who said PostgreSQL wasn't webscale!?

What is this "source of truth" they repeatedly mention? Sounds like a cult...

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Posted on 18-12-23, 06:46 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Thanks for the elaborate and detailed answer, I understand it now.

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Posted on 18-12-23, 15:58 in Sales and giveaways
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Posted by DonJon
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The yearly Steam Winter Sale/Trading Card Extravaganza is near... 48 hours from now on.

You can monitor Steam sales on this handy SteamDB page: https://steamdb.info/sales/


damn it's been too long since I logged into my steam account.Which reminds me,I need to put some cash into the wallet in case there's anything i'm interested in...
Your real wallet or a digital wallet? If the latter, why? It's not like it's any cheaper than paying by Credit Card.

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Posted on 18-12-23, 17:03 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 3)
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Dammit, it seems the Bloodborne servers are offline (Australia), or at least I can't sign in to the games Online Mode. Every network Status website Sony hosts says everything should be working fine...

Edit: Seems like it might be an ISP issue? Or even a modem issue, had various internet issues which seemingly resolved themselves after power cycling the modem.

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Posted on 18-12-23, 17:07 in Sales and giveaways (revision 4)
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I guess I can see the appeal. It's still beyond stupid that Steam ticks the "remember my payment details" option by default.

Currently if you don't want them to save your details you gotta untick the option every, single, god, damn, time you make a purchase. Those that don't care or do want their details saved don't need to do anything special.

If the default was reversed than those that don't want them to save their details don't need to do anything and those that do will only have to tick the box ONCE during the entire life of their account.

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Posted on 18-12-25, 06:52 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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How do you stop websites from overwriting "open in a new tab" behaviour? For example https://www.catch.com.au/ will convert such commands to a "Open" command, causing middle mouse button clicks to open a link in the current tab... which is very frustrating.

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