Posts by -HP-

Uhh, this is a good reminder I should watch The Pacific. Never seen it!

Quote from blackdog

1 hour ago, blackdog said: You mean if you have the DVDs they won’t run ok on modern windows?

My PC doesn't even have a DVD drive anymore. Anyway, they retracted on that decision and the classic versions are back on the store, thankfully. (They have some amazing mods)

I'm just bummed that if you wanna play the old versions now, you gotta pirate them.

FYI, I'd happily pay for it given the chance.

Dude, that's amazing news! Congratulations fmpone.

They do, I had one back at the office and loved it. Easily buys me another hour a day standing, they're surprisingly expensive tho, so nowadays I just use one of my dog's old pillow under my feet. Lol

Gimme

Quote from Bunglo

37 minutes ago, Bunglo said: Anyone have recommendations on standing desks? I need enough room for two monitors, keyboard, and my wacom.

I've got this one when we started WFH, and I love it!

https://standsteady.com/collections/st…=39437348798621

I decided to get a crank mechanism instead of electric, because they last longer. It's a really sturdy desk, looks great, and it fits my needs. (Love that monitor shelf.) I memorized how many crank turns I need to bring them up to my preferred height, and that's it. No need for fancy memory buttons on these things that break every other year.

Also, that price is unbeatable considering many standing desks go for 1000 bucks or more.

Quote from 0kelvin

15 hours ago, 0kelvin said: So I read half of this book "Ego is the enemy".

I can't stop noticing that this book is talking about the core issue of almost every mental disorder. Specially the case of personality disorders. Ego is the main issue of narcissistic personality disorder. Everything about it is about ego.

About real life, this book has a lot of examples that tell you not how to be successful. Rather, what is required to be successful. All the discussion in it can be applied to families, companies, admission exams, politics, everything. Some parts of it resonate quite well with the lessons that I've learned with Mark Rosewater in his talk about mistakes made while making Magic.

I have a feeling that almost everything that I read in this book I have already read elsewhere. If you ever read about athletes, great leaders and stories of successful companies, most if not all ideas in this book are not new.

You'd like Robert greene - Laws of Human Nature

Quote from Poofoge

17 minutes ago, Poofoge said: I have the latest deus ex on my library but never actually played... and I'll love to get into the deus ex series should I play em in order if is that necessary?

Well, mankind divided is a direct sequel to human revolution, it's probably good to play them in that order.

The original deusex + gmdx mod is the classic, followed by invisible war

If you want to play the story sequentially, that's the order as the new games are prequels.

Fascinated about this movie.

Quote from 0kelvin

12 hours ago, 0kelvin said: https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Enemy-Ryan-Holiday/dp/1591847818

I really need to read this.

Yeap. This is one of my favs. I call this book the modern reinterpretation of Marcus Aurelius Meditations.

Quote from Vilham

43 minutes ago, Vilham said: I'm just surprised that nothing was already green lit, not even a pre production, like what executive sees the movie and doesn't go, "yep, people will love this".

You mean to tell me that executives are out of touch from the base that actually buy their products? What gave you that idea?

Quote from Human Doctor

10 minutes ago, Human Doctor said:

Nothing can be done to stop Mark Zuckerberg from pursuing his ambition.

Maybe Angela can?

Quote from FMPONE

21 minutes ago, FMPONE said: I thought it was pretty good. Nothing too special, but certainly enjoyable.

you obviously needed another toke bro.

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Quote from FMPONE

18 minutes ago, FMPONE said: I didn't realize he did Sicario. That movie owned. I need to watch Bladerunner, haven't seen that yet

Also, Arrival is the most underrated sci-fi movie, ever!!

Holy shit... the movie is amazing, and I walked in with mildly high expectations given who the director is, (I've never read the books, but I will now!!) I'm so stoked there's going to be 2 more!

Denis Villenueve quickly becoming one of the best modern film makers

- Incendies - Prisoners - Enemy - Sicario - Arrival - Blade Runner 2049 - Dune

Yeap. Facebook started out as a website to rate hot chicks on a university campus, just the kids there actually used it as a social platform. Twitter was used to post what you were eating for dinner, just people started posting controversial 160 character long phrases instead.

Then somewhere along the road... those dudes become billionaires, gain more power than countries do (and they do make sure they exert it, I mean... they banned a president lol) and we're suppose to raise them to these pedestals of entrepreneurship and amazement.

Meanwhile, they still refuse to take a decision on whether or not they're a platform, or a publisher. But every day they decide what's wrong or what's right for the rest of us plebs, all while taking advantage and exploiting our dopamine receptors.

A few years ago, I was tripping balls and the realization that I was addicted to Facebook popped into my mind. If I was at the computer and I had 3 seconds to burn, like exporting a bake or whatever, I'd alt+tab right back into my feed. I then installed an extension that blocked "Facebook.com" and a couple other websites i wanted to annihilate from my life. If you try to access one of these blocked websites, this plugin would tell you how many times it was tried that day, and total count. For about 3 weeks, I tried to access Facebook 72 times, I still have that number tattooed into my memory. 72 fucking times and I KNEW it was blocked, and still tried to open it. It was one of the best things I could have done, because it opened my mind to other negative habits and addictions I have.

My mom used to be an avid reader of books, she'd used to tell me how much she loved them. Now she only doomscrolls Facebook all day, and joins these weird groups where people hate on X or Y, she hasn't read a book in a long time now.

One thing I'm nearly certain of in life, is that our society would be better of without these fucking websites. They're all but "social".

Remenber kids, if it's free... you're the product! We're more hooked to these fucking things than we care to admit, and now it's going "meta"? Lmao... get the fuck outta here man.

Meh... part of me wishes we all went back to forums and mirc.