gah! wrong forum.
Last edited by Independent voter; 2017-09-11 at 10:31 AM.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
This made me laugh far harder than it should have.
Well, we're all on these boards, so what's that say about us (you included)? :P
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You know how you can watch gameplay footage and think "man, that looks awesome"? That is not me playing Doom. Hah!
Also, it runs better using the OpenGL 4.5 backend than it does with Vulkan. Older card and all that, makes me wonder where the bottleneck is? Doom's engine or Nvidia's drivers? Doesn't seem like it should be a driver issue, since part of the benefit of Vulkan is to reduce driver overhead.
Aww @evn, come now. If it weren't for mmo-c, you wouldn't have met us. <3 <3 <3
@evn yikes...
Well, which bar would you take me too if I visited? :P Or is your own personal home-bar still amazing enough?
I used to visit the rogue and warrior forums when I played wow, but I haven't played the game since 2014.
Then, I also used to visit the computer forum regularly but it turned into I could use a bunch of negative strong words to describe and I simply lost any interest because it's genuinely boring.
The only other place besides this thread was the anime chat thread, but we moved to Discord long ago and haven't been using our thread here regularly for ages (it still manages to be faster than this one).
Yup. It's something that's really needed as wider gamut displays becomes more relevant. Phone I have atm is mapped to DCI-P3 by default with both a no emulation / restrictions and an sRGB emulation mode. With color management I wouldn't really need to bother with changing those settings and would get the accurate non saturated colors that associate with whatever I'm looking at.
I live close enough to Chicago.
And I don't really care about pot, so can pass on that. I enjoy whiskey and brandy, but really want to try more. The nicest I've had were Middleton 18 years Irish Whiskey and Glenlivet 20 years. I've tried one or two brandies, but want to try more. I want to try some cognacs, too. I've been finding some rums I like, too. I'm more or less out of the craft beer scene. I'll drink beer, but I am sick of bottles going bad or being bad off the shelves. I like being able to sip on something over several hours if I can. Wine is good, too. I love a dry red.
I only used Discord briefly when my guild switched to it from Vent. I'm not going to say it's bad, but I didn't like how (at least from my experience) channels had both voice and text. I never joined any other Discord channels because of that entanglement. Also, unlike a forum, I'd need a separate program to view / participate in it.
In some ways I wish for the simpler days of IRC.
Just out of curiosity, under what circumstances have you found color management important / useful on your phone? I can understand on a desktop where content creation is a thing... but a phone? (Not saying it shouldn't be implemented, mind you.)
Ugh, I've never been very fond of public speaking, either. It's something I know is a valuable skill, but I don't exactly seek out opportunities to do so.
How big of an audience will you have? Oh, and good luck!
No, you have separate voice channels and text channels. They have nothing to do with each other, text is text and voice is voice. Also, Discord itself is just another webpage running on electron. And you can use it simply going into their website, without actually downloading the client.
And to be fair it has become the successor of IRC to a lot of people, you get text channels, image previews, video previews, video playback, gif support, custom emotes (trust me, it sounds silly but they can be funny) while it also gives you voice functionality. Running on chromium made it super simple for them to support things you'd expect a browser to support, the thing is actually quite functional.
Oh, I can believe it! I have a few more crafty family members and listening to what went into their projects always amazes me.
Actually, now that you mention it, I seem to remember the web version coming up before in guild chat for people who were either running late / PUGs / etc.
After stopping to think about it more in depth, I can break down my main issues with Discord a little futher:
* Most of the time, I tend to prefer asynchronous communication. In most cases, I even treat text messages this way - I'll reply when I have time, not right away. It also helps when dealing with people in different time zones, as they have a better chance to communicate. In other cases - like class forums moving from forums to Discord (which I never joined, so this is a bit of conjecture on my part) - it seems like having more time to write out lengthy posts (eg: theorycrafting) in one go would be beneficial than having it fragmented over multiple messages.
* Unlike other options likes forums, IRC, etc, you can't host private servers (as far as I'm aware). Yes, it's convenient, yes it's "free," but it also means that you're giving up control of using it and becoming dependent upon them to continue using it. I'm increasingly less comfortable allowing companies have that kind of control. Yes, I have gmail accounts - and I'm not entirely happy with that situation either, but I'm not sure of any good alternatives... not to mention the kind of inertia email accounts get when signing up for other accounts.
I still feel like I'm not distilling the reason(s) to their core essences.
So what you're saying is a) you're not normal and b) you lie about it. You sir, are tricksy and false. :P
Kidding aside, teaching is hard. Teaching well (in an interesting / engaging way) is harder still. It sounds like you don't have any kind of anxiety being in front of a large group of people, so you at least have an leg up there and can just focus on the material, technique, etc. How did you come about teaching this session if you don't like teaching?
Hah! Oh yeah, that ever important cool-kid cred... I do not miss those days. Not that I was ever part of that clique, mind you.
At any rate, I think everyone has their own deviations from the norm - it's really just a question of what they are and how obvious / often they come up. Me, I try not to stir the pot until I get to know people. I hate conflict and avoid it when possible.
Gotcha. That line of thinking just sounds like management speak. While I can understand how they arrive at that view, I don't like the line of reasoning, either. Sounds too much like reducing people to pawns to further your (the manager's) agenda.
How do you feel about the prospect of being a part of upper management?
Yuck, you and me both regarding privacy. Granted, for me it's less about being a braggart / boring (I'd say the latter is more accurate for me) than just an inclination not to over share.