Random Rants LVII: wow. many anger. very whining.

[Arakhor]

Don't rely on auto-saves! In Oblivion, quick-saves are a bad idea and Fallout 3 is a similar vintage. Always make hard saves where possible.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Dude, I lasted more or less on autosaves for the entire NV play through. Obviously, I made hard saves, but when game crashed or I decided to quit near a gate, they loaded.

Additional Fallout 3 Rant: Now it's crashing whenever I come by that trench thingy after Washington Monument. Great.

 

[Civ'ed]

to be fair the Mall entrenchment is also full of miniguns and spare hunting rifles.

 

[GenMarshall]

Don't rely on auto-saves! In Oblivion, quick-saves are a bad idea and Fallout 3 is a similar vintage. Always make hard saves where possible.

Strange, I have no issues when quick saving in Oblivion, Skyrim, FO3 & NV.

Additional Fallout 3 Rant: Now it's crashing whenever I come by that trench thingy after Washington Monument. Great.

Hmm, are you running any mods by any chance?

 

[Arakhor]

Reloading quick-saves in Oblivion will eventually lead to save-bloat and frozen animations some weeks down the line, due to a small bug in the saving process which builds up and compounds with time. A facility like Wrye Bash can remove the save bloating, but it's better not to quick-save at all.

 

[gay_Aleks]

No mods, and it appears that, oh look, now the game refuses to auto-save. And it's enabled in the options, I checked. Now, you see, I am kind of a forgetful person - if I get into a game, I might forget to make proper saves. Auto-saves are a nice safety measure in case I die due to doing something stupid, and prevents me from yelling like a fool.

Ah well. I guess every time I hack/lockpick something or find a new place, I'll make a save. That should do.

 

[azzaman333]

Wish I could delete my facebook account, but I need it to maintain what semblance of a social life I have. Stupid catch-22...

 

[Arakhor]

I deleted mine and I haven't looked back since. My social life (such as it is) has not really suffered.

 

[JohannaK]

Talking of facebook... Hey Azza, was it you who sent me a friendship request?

 

[gay_Aleks]

It either is him or someone at the gay bar you probably frequent works in the NSA.

 

[azzaman333]

I deleted mine and I haven't looked back since. My social life (such as it is) has not really suffered.

Problem is, the social events I attend are almost always organised through facebook, and even when it's that easy to invite me it's no guarantee they'll remember. If I'm not on facebook, it goes from underwhelming social life to no social life.

Talking of facebook... Hey Azza, was it you who sent me a friendship request?

I might have, not sure. I did send a few out a couple of weeks ago, don't exactly remember who though.

 

[azzaman333]

Unrelated rant;
It's 3.36am, and the temperature is still over 30C. Good thing I have nothing planned for tomorrow (today), because I'm going to be exhausted.

 

[Hygro]

Let me tell you a new years eve story

I'm sitting near the back of the (tonight free) public transit bus, and I'm heading home after spending a couple hours downtown with some friends for a new years bash. There's a white guy sitting a couple seats in front of me, and a couple of his buddies around him. There is a black guy sitting across the aisle from him. As far as I can tell he has no buddies, he's there all by himself.

And the white guy, he just keeps acting like a tough guy and saying more and more crap. He starts talking at the black guy, trying to start something... "You wanna start something?".. Every minute, it's another such catchphrase.. He was trying to provoke him.

Then he stood up, and he stood there in the aisle, and he tried to provoke this guy even more.. really "in your face" kind of stuff. I had enough. I stood up, and I walked right up him. What the hell was he trying to start? We don't do crap like that in CANADA.

Next thing I know I THINK I got punched in the face. I'm not really sure. I didn't really feel much, but now there is a bit of swelling - so at some point I must have. From what I remember, I just extended my arms, in the classic "i'm not really here to fight, dude" stance, and pushed him forwards with my bodyframe, and he ended up on the ground (somehow). His buddies rushed to his defence.. for all I know it is one of him who punched my cheek - I'm not really sure - I just really noticed it after I got home..

Then from what I remember I went back in my seat, and his buddies were HITTING THEIR HANDS IN FRONT OF THEIR OTHER HANDS right in front of my face, like it was supposed to be some sort of a thing that intimidates ones.. It didn't really work on me, as I was still trying to come to terms with what was exactly going on.. Plus I thought that what they were doing was sort of comical. Also, all I knew was that my fine Peruvian hat was now not on my head.

Then I sat in my seat as the flashing lights around us lead to police entering the bus and escoring all the "bad people" (tm) off the bus. There was a row of black guys behind me who were making sure I understood that hey appreciated what I had done.

I'm home now. I didn't really realize what was going on until NOW.

I guess I got in a bus fight and got punched in the face, AND I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT. And a bunch of racist are fuming over what happened somewhere, which actually makes it all sort of worth it

New New Year's Resolution: be just a little bit more like Warpus

I have enough anxiety in my waking life, I don't know why the few seconds of dreams I might remember in every two to six weeks have to be about me being made fun of in my dream or recounting/reimagining actual failures from my waking life

Bah humbug

Yeah man, that sucks. Is it worth it GingAF?

 

[Takhisis]

Why, your auto-save function breaking for some reason is just what I wanted, Fallout 3!

Only wimps and noobs don't hard-save. Fallout allows saving even when it is your turn during a battle against the mutants.

It either is him or someone at the gay bar you probably frequent works in the NSA.

'either or'?
¿POR QUÉ NO LOS DOS?

 

[Kyriakos]

I hate the cold and it will get a bit worse (-7 Celsius in a week or so).
Hopefully after that it will return to something more viable...

Although some towns in the even more northern part of Greece routinely have -15 and currently less than -20, so it is still south of the wall here

 

[Snerk]

Has it been snowing as well or is it just cold?

 

[Kyriakos]

It snowed (very little) in this city a few days ago. It always snows in the more northern parts of the country in the winter.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Can't really complain up here. It was really cold, but now some wind came out of the nowhere and snow's slowly melting.

Too bad next week that'll be gone.

 

[bhavv]

I have too much anxiety to even contact friends on facebook, or try to add old friends from school onto it.

 

[Hygro]

I exercised too much, was exposed to the cold too much, and ate too little yesterday. Just woke up at 4 am and between my being cold in bed, a slight sore throat, and smelling my own suspiciously-like-sick-breath I know that if I don't get up and eat the remainder of the fridge I'm doomed to a cold. I really just want to go back to sleep. Ok here we go....