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  1. andersonnnunes

    Unable to Post Image

    Trying to post a image, neither can host it here nor link to it. Is it a bug or is my account restricted?
  2. andersonnnunes

    Signal to Noise Ratio in Politics

    Gasp, are you saying politicians are not angels among men? How dare you! Wow, you must be unto something. But if that is what people are getting, it is because they made their bed, so they can lay on it. It is no ones fault but theirs for choosing like they did. And the examples of this come...
  3. andersonnnunes

    Japanese Company Wants to Teach Your Kids How to Game

    If kids can be sent for piano and dance lessons, why not make them learn video games too?
  4. andersonnnunes

    "From Mormon Missionary to Adult Film Star"

    https://mikesouth.com/porn-stars/addie-andrews-from-mormon-missionary-to-adult-film-star-iamaddieandrews-51980/
  5. andersonnnunes

    Got a page long handwritten letter from a JW on the Mailbox

    Went to check my mailbox and beside a printed leaflet from the Watch Tower Foundation, there was a handwritten letter, by a JW. I know they usually want to talk and I have seen other leaflets before, but a handwritten letter is a first. The content is not addressed to anyone in specific, but...
  6. andersonnnunes

    Content Filters: Drop the Message or Replace it With An Overview

    There was news that Microsoft is offering some new way of content filtering for its gaming service. It seems to just cover the potentially unwanted message with a placeholder and you can click to view. Seems a bit like a waste to me, they could at least have a level of filtering that gave an...
  7. andersonnnunes

    TIL, Google Does OCR to Images and Indexes the Text it Finds

    I have recurrent programmatic searches for my aliases in multiple search engines, one of them being Google. Today I got a result for a 6 months old page that has a screenshot of a message I made. My aliases is not mentioned in text anywhere in the page, only in the screenshot. So I am guessing...
  8. andersonnnunes

    Tip: Dedup Your Game's Folder

    In case you have lots of games installed on the same NTFS partition, a dedup (replacing binary copies with hardlinks) can likely save you some space - not by a mind breaking amount, but enough to open room for some more games.
  9. andersonnnunes

    The King is Dead, Long Live the King, Our Lord and Savior

    Our Founder who art at Microsoft, hallowed be thy code. Thy OS boots, thy software runs on Windows as it does in MS-DOS. Give us this day our daily bootstrap, and forgive the Mac users, as we forgive Blue Screens of Death against us, and lead us not into open-source, but deliver us from Apple...
  10. andersonnnunes

    Secondary dedicated PC for any gaming

    I have been thinking about it for a while, but when I read of security gaps like the following, it only makes me more sure that gaming should be done on a dedicated PC Severe local 0-Day escalation exploit found in Steam Client Services JIM SALTER - 8/7/2019, 7:33 PM Having considered...
  11. andersonnnunes

    "What is it like to be a dev in Iran"

    Blog post about how government censorship and foreign sanctions impact the job of a programmer in Iran.
  12. andersonnnunes

    Internet Explorer is EVIL!

    (testing link on image)
  13. andersonnnunes

    Brazilian Speed-runner Exposed as a Cheater. Goes on Harassment Spree and Tries to Take-down Critiques

    No surprise there for me. Expect from this to worse from BRs.
  14. andersonnnunes

    "Working there is not ethically neutral: every day that you go into work, you are doing something wrong"

    Someone wrote an article about zip archive hacking, very good by itself, and put an unusual writing at the end: A final plea It's time to put an end to Facebook. Working there is not ethically neutral: every day that you go into work, you are doing something wrong. If you have a Facebook...
  15. andersonnnunes

    [Article] Metal Gear Rising (2014) handles save files not so well: debug and fix

    Today’s test subject is Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, released in January 2014. A spinoff of Metal Gear Solid series, developed and ported in-house by Platinum Games, also known for e.g. NieR: Automata. [it] exhibits very weird behaviour with the location of its saves/configurations...
  16. andersonnnunes

    We live in a state of confusion, to which the response is 'Oh, dear'

    To those who know Adam Curtis, this needs no introduction, to those who don't, take this as an introduction to his works.
  17. andersonnnunes

    "Hawkish minority lurks within the US public; over a third of respondents approve of a US preventive strike"

    Excerpts: For many of these hawks, support for an attack, even in a preventive war, does not significantly decrease when the story says that the United States would use nuclear weapons that are expected to kill 1 million North Korean civilians. while “only” 33 percent of the US public prefer a...
  18. andersonnnunes

    Weird Gaming Clan: Ex-Military from Any Nation

    Found a curious gaming clan that restricts membership to ex-military from any nation. Now I can only wonder if they have people who fought and almost killed each other playing games on the same team like brothers.
  19. andersonnnunes

    News Site 'Fandom Post' is Seeking Game Writers

    Maybe a chance to promote intosanctuary.com there? Dunno. https://www.fandompost.com/2019/06/17/fandom-post-seeking-game-writers/
  20. andersonnnunes

    [TIL] One mega company has an 'Ethics Day', when employees ask questions online to the CEO, who responds in real-time, without censorship

    Article: Ethics is key to filling growing gap as technology outpaces regulation — L’Oreal chief ethics officer Excerpt: As an example of the importance placed on ethics at L’Oreal, the company holds an annual “Ethics Day,” when employees worldwide can ask questions online to CEO Agon, who...
  21. andersonnnunes

    The View Count Seems a Bit Too High for Some Posts

    1K views for the a topic with no replies: Guild Wars At 8 PM! . What is going on? Members would look at it once or twice. Are there 950 visitors showing up daily? (And not one of them is registering?)
  22. andersonnnunes

    [Article] Why I won't play your Mobile Game

    [...] I bought the game Knights of Pen and Paper 2 on Steam[2] and as you can read in the review I am enthusiastic about this computer game. After a few hours of playing I asked myself if the mobile version[3] was as good as the one I bought or if there were any significant differences. There...
  23. andersonnnunes

    Blocking Players

    How often do you block people? What are the reasons that make you block them? For me, 1st sin: playing competitively in a casual match. 2nd sin: ganging up for non-game related reasons. I have heard some people block Brazilians on first sight. Knowing the kind, can't say I blame them.
  24. andersonnnunes

    Are you a Mormon going to a Mission in Brazil? Read This Report First

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/bjjndt/my_sisters_overseas_experience_that_made_her/
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    Former NetherRealm Studios Contract Devs Reveal a Troubling Studio Culture

    Last week, just as NetherRealm Studios celebrated the release of Mortal Kombat 11, ex-contractors at the company shared stories on social media with startling allegations of crunch and stressful workplace conditions; particularly for contracted employees. Link to full article.
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