My last company was open plan too but no cubicles. Us devs had no phones on desk, and the noise cancelling headphones were provided by the company.

The boss also stayed on a shared desk like everyone else.

@kiki

Whatever, you do you. Just don't complain afterwards.

That's masterplan. 2005. Aeronautics. Wounds.

Also Linkin Park

I agree.

@kiki

Yes, I stand by it. If you don't adhere to the leader's thoughts, you can be prosecuted.

He controls the media, he controls the justice system, he controls the police, he controls everything.

If you dare say anything against him, it's "hate crime".

If you dare to forcefully expel people invading and occupying your property, it's assault.

If you dare to be an entrepreneur and be successful, they'll drive you to the ground with "solidarity taxes".

Yes, Spain is a dictatorship disguised as a democracy.

Separation of powers, my ass.

@antigermgerm @kiki explicitly said no dictatorships.

Right now Spain is one, so it's out of the question.

@TeachMeCode

I do, but I play on PC.

Haven't had any issues so far beyond a couple graphical glitches but that's because my CPU is fried.

Also, the way they make the world feel natural.

You can use dozens of terrain features, from quicksand pits, to oil jets, to dropped boulders, to vine traps to aid your hunts.

You can lure monsters into each other and have them kill themselves.

You can use plants and animals in the field to poison/paralyze/whatever monsters (and you!).

And monsters have (even if now your palico straight says it explicitly) obvious tells to when they get exhausted, when they are near death, when they are enraged, etc.

They have done a superb job with the visual and auditive language of the game, which is one of the series' fortes IMO

@TeachMeCode

I think the most important thing is they make it feel like every hunt is like a boss battle.

Take dark souls, keep labyrinthine maps (but with actual map and auto follow), keep the whole rpg depth, and have the whole game be boss battles, 10 min each at least.

But there are no stakes.

You can find monsters on the world and fight them to practice nonstop.

And if you fail a quest you can simply retry it as many times as you want.

Older MH games were quite a bit more "realistic" (in the bad way, like having to shoot paint balls at monsters to track them in the map, not having any clue to the monsters whereabouts when starting a quest, etc)

World did away with all that, and wilds has only improved upon it.

And even then, while I stand by it being worth the price, you can always pirate it to try.

No MH game has shipped with any kind of anticheat, DRM, or similar bullshit.

Sure, you won't be able to play online, but while it adds to the game, it ain't required.

@TeachMeCode

I have to say, I stand corrected. They fixed deco lotto. You can now craft whatever deco you need directly.

All the better.

If I had to say a similar game, I think it'd be Witcher 3, as in, having lots of unique monsters, but MH leans more on the loot treadmill, as in, the gameplay loop is simpler.

"Hunt big baddie x, get parts from x to craft weapon y to hunt bigger baddie z".

But dunno, they manage to make it feel natural.

The biggest choice you have to make, and it can make or break your experience, is your weapon choice.

There are 14 weapons, and they are akin to rpg classes, and they completely define the way you play.

The training area gives a very good idea of how they play, but if you'd like pointers, feel free to ask.

@TeachMeCode

I mean, can not really be objective here because I pretty much know each monster by heart.

There are 4 main classes of wyverns (every large monster is a wyvern), brute, flying, leviathan and regular, I guess.

Within each class, mechanics are similar, but there's always variance.

Each monster's moveset is unique, even if there are similarities, and then, late game monsters usually include other unique gimmicks (gore magala Frenzy, alatreon escaton judgment, etc) that keep it fresh.

When you have the amount of hours I have, yes, you will find it easy, because you have the muscle memory for all of them. (Capcom is very religious in keeping it consistent between games), but I'm talking 1500+ hours between world, iceborne, rise and sunbreak.

It's good bang for your buck.

@TeachMeCode

Having the seikret auto navigate the map for you is a godsend because the areas are so massive.

They took everything great from world and rise and brought it to the next level.

Still some bullshit like decoration lotto, but that's only required if you really want to min max.

If you are ok with a hunt taking longer than 3 minutes (and you should) it doesn't matter anyway.

They also added AI hunters to help you if you are in a bind, which combined with my (at least self perceived) impression that they are much more generous with stamina Regen now, makes it an absolute jewel of a game for all levels of players.

Well, I don't really see any performance issues to be honest.

Been having a blast, so if you don't like it, just don't buy it. I'm really happy with using my money for this wonderful game.

First joke/meme I've found fun in quite a while.

My kudos, good sir.

My crapple using teammates would sometimes push giving .DS_stores to repos. That unnerved me greatly.

@D-4got10-01

No, they did die. I'm talking like, each bar has this ancient arcade machine that is probably worth like 20k, not just a Pandora box with a raspberry pi and mame.

@TheBeardedOne

It was actually really unexpected, but in Portugal, many bars have like all these super old arcade machines.

It's fucking *awesome*.

In my local bar they have time crisis on an arcade machine. They pretty much let me play for free now ever since I showed them I could 1 credit it. It's more advantageous to them to treat me to the game and have me drink a beer during the game 😂

@Lensflare Tek'ma'te, tau'ri, pa'kree?

@Lensflare Kree!

@TrayKnots

A C cast done that way just truncates the float.

As @donkulator said, you need to cast and dereference a pointer in order to reinterpret the bits.

Yeah, I'm going to do it and call @ragnar

@fruitfcker

Do you have hummus tho?

@MammaNeedHummus @retoor

Now I'm curious as to what effect would a Viagra have on a woman.

And to not make this uncalled, I'll share my own experience with Viagra when I was 18 y/o.

I took one on a dare (I won 50 euro, yay).

Fuck that. It was fucking painful.

Physically painful, because you can't hide it, and if you try, it hurts,

And then on actual results, because, it works, really well, and believe me, holding a boner for 5+ hours is terrible. I swear everything in my groin was hurting by then.

Incidentally, making Microsoft convention of tying extensions to actual file formats somewhat valuable XD

@retoor

Funny thing, I also started with vb6.

Mine would just overwrite the magic bytes on most file formats to random garbage.

Not really destroying info, but causing much mayhem.

I've always considered myself grey hat so.

Back at uni we actually made explosives in the chemistry labs, at least until we had an unfortunate accident XD.

It's like when I was 8 and was first learning C. I wanted my teacher to show me how to make a virus.

Of course he refused, but then, one year later, when I insisted, all he did was laugh, then tell me "what would you want your virus to do?", followed by "and don't you know how to do that already? Just piece it all together!".

He was awesome, that guy, wonder what he's up to now.

Don't really think anyone has the answer to this all. I mean, I have IBS. No one knows why, no one knows how to deal with it.

No pattern has been observed (and believe me, I try really hard to).

So the conclusion is just do whatever you want, or makes you feel good.

In my case, junk food. "Healthy" food has always wrecked me, but I can have fast food nonstop and no issue whatsoever.

So, conclusion, you do you, and that's it.

@Demolishun

I remember reading about something similar but don't remember if it was you.

On two accounts.

First, about the leg pain. While I don't consider two months as evidence given the extreme amount of uncontrolled variables, it's worthy of consideration.

Also, discussion about quantum resonance mechanics, and wondering if you could be suffering from such a case, but it should be some accumulation of something that isn't usual, since no one else experiences it, but it's not impossible.

Just here to upvote the Picard trail.

But yeah, I admit I tend to hold lots of prejudice when posts are from certain individuals.