House cats are small in comparison to many dogs. Can you imagine if wild dogs were as large or larger than lions?

COD has become a condom of a game for Activision.

When I was 5 I remember I was cranky, and I remember occasionally when I was cranky the adults would say "he must be tired" and that would make me so angry because I wasn't tired. I was cranky for a reason, even if I didn't personally know what that reason was. As an adult looking back, I still believe that. While yes being tired definitely attributed to the crankiness, tiredness alone wasn't the full explanation, and I disagree with the notion that it's okay to tell a kid to his face he's just cranky because he's tired. It's okay as an adult to know the tiredness is causing it, but be careful around saying that to the little mind that hasn't developed enough to understand that.

I remember standing in the living room with the evening sun coming through the window, and I was cranky af, and I hear my mom tell me I'm just tired, and it just made me more angry and sad. Angry because I felt like they didn't understand. Sad because I also didn't understand. But I knew "tired" wasn't the whole story.

I don't have kids, but if I do someday I'm going to try to remember this one. It's such a little thing but when you're a kid little things are the biggest things in your life.

This video is a good example of what I call spiralling or spinning. You spun these guys hard.

I've come to notice that this fast roamer style of gameplay (I primarily play this way, albeit not usually as good as you) is an effort towards coming up on the flank or behind enemies if at all possible, because it diminishes your risk while maximizing your odds of success. In order to do it you have to be quick on your feet and have constant map awareness, always thinking about how the enemies are being placed. Creating a constant spinning effort.

Now imagine everyone on each team were playing this way. I feel like if you drew up constant travel lines and stacked them all up for 100s, even thousands of games, you'd see trends start to develop. Heck I think the trends would begin to develop within a handful of matches.

I think plugging masses of this data into an AI would be the right step in training AI in FPS games that doesn't cheat, but actually follows paths based on data and memory. Instead of the current cheap soft wallhack or auto aim BS.

Now do the same strategy for a campers strategy. You could create a variety of playstyles just by plugging in real world data from actual players. You've got literally thousands of matches being played by even more thousands of people every day. Collect that data and plug it into an AI with a handful of instructions and baby you got a stew goin.

We build things based on real world examples. AI is the same, and we should teach it from the examples of real world people. Just gotta collect the data.

Bro August is basically done.

Idk why people are upset lol. I legitimately cannot understand it, I feel like the information we've received still feels very recent.

They dropped the portal on us, which is the biggest thing to happen to the FPS genre in the last decade (BR aside). A return to community hosted and controlled servers, along with the powerful tools made available, this is going to be big. I don't even think the gaming community have even caught on yet. I don't think people realize the implications.

Hey 6 is great, chords are really tough. I remember the first time learning G, that seemed impossible lol. Oh and to this day my buddy and I still call a bar chord "impossible" chords.

Yeah the Yamahas are among the best of the worst.

The opposite is true for guitar, acoustic specifically. If you buy that $100 big box store acoustic, you're not going to learn how to play guitar. Those guitars have the absolute worst action and the last people who should be playing them are beginners. They literally make learning twice as difficult because the strings are just too high.

My advice, if you have one of those wastes of wood, buy yourself some thin gauge strings to compensate for the obnoxiously high action.

Better yet if you can swing it, go to a used guitar shop and try to get your hands on an acoustic that can be recommended and set up by the shop. Plan to spend around 200-300 bucks.

My current acoustic is a Cort, solid top, full dreadnaught shape with no gloss, and I absolutely love it, it sounds so full and plays like butter. 200 bucks used. Worth every penny.

I only ever took the time for like the first 2 doors. I had a guide with me as a kid. Nowadays it's just memory. Puzzles are fun in the moment, but not good for replayability.

The best middle finger you could give to your boss would be actually farting at him on the way out. Because he can't tell that story to his friends without them laughing at it. He'll probably keep that detail to himself, and in that way, you got em.

Riding. We will be riding in the heart of the jungle.

Calling it now. There will be beasts you can tame and then ride. There will also be flying creatures you can fly if you can manage to tame them but you gotta sneak up on them.

From deep to … deeper? I forgot common syntax for holes.

I read your comment in that guys voice.

Alright I’m gonna be that redditor.

What’s wrong with holes being dug deep? Shaming a redditor for digging holes isn’t cool.

^jk

That power strip situation is 1000 IQ

Yikes! That's not a dead banana that's the banana's molt! Wherever it is, it's bigger now.

Yep and he'll be checking for the rest of his life.

Dude I'm afraid of this and it's never even happened. Imagine the kid.

For remote, you would do well to have experience in system administration: experience with active directory, Microsoft 365, Google Admin, Azure, etc. Hard to nestle yourself into a position granting you experience with those things, your best bet would be to look for a small IT company, they'll be more willing to use you in anyway they can.

Get yourself some cheap extra computer to install Windows Server on it at home and learn the basics of server manager, AD, print server if you have a home printer. Learn the basics of networking, and draw things out on paper to help yourself learn. It's all just about connections - all of it. It's just all flowcharts, getting from point A to point B. Over time you'll build knowledge of the connections web that is LAN infrastructure. You'll be overwhelmed and shocked by how much clutter there is, with stacks upon stacks of poorly designed UI.

This web is complex, and as such if you know how to navigate this web you'll be valuable and we'll equipped for new and unknown environments. This base knowledge is essential for IT.

That's probably less of an IT thing and more of a general unfortunate truth universally. When you have 100 applications you're looking for every opportunity to dump some into the trash, and some people will dump an app if it doesn't say the word "bachelors" on it.

IT is about connection knowledge, as well as being personable on the frontlines with people - and the latter you just can't teach someone in college.

For entry level I recommend shying away from application specific support and try to get your foot in the door with something more general. In the IT field, experience is 100x more valuable than any degree or certification. When you interview for mid and high level positions, they aren't looking at what's on paper, they're probing your mind to make sure you know your stuff.

For entry, government is a good place to get started. Look for school district IT positions. Work there for a year because the pay is always garbage, then move onto something else.

For entry level, working as onsite support is the best way for you to learn a lot very quickly. I know you want to work from home, but personally I would never hire home support that doesn't have in person experience, unless I'm hiring them for a very specific application support role.

11 years in IT

Should I workout today after work or just watch YouTube and play video games?

Huh. I forgot about oatmeal.

I get enough B12 from the amount of energy drinks I drink way too much of. Those monster ultras are just too freaking good. Ultra paradise are you kidding me? Idk what they put in that stuff but it's unbelievable.

Just make sure you buy the green lid one, not the silver lid. Silver lid is made at a different factory and it literally tastes bland compared to green lid.