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[Scelly9]

Physics is fun o_O
I just used twenty minutes to calculate how deep a dwarf that falls at terminal velocity into water would sink. He hit the water at 88.88 m/s and sank to 140 meters during 4.7 seconds then floated back towards the surface.
There's a good chance I did something wrong, but it was fun nevertheless. Also, Euler's Method. Or maybe it's iterative calculations.

Are you sure? I think he would splat before sinking that far.

[Max White]

Same thing happened to me today.

Wow, I'm starting to think the human race may be even less adequate in getting anything done that we thought...

How is that game going, by the way? Your thread is sinking faster than a dwarf hitting water.

[Kadzar]

Physics is fun o_O
I just used twenty minutes to calculate how deep a dwarf that falls at terminal velocity into water would sink. He hit the water at 88.88 m/s and sank to 140 meters during 4.7 seconds then floated back towards the surface.
There's a good chance I did something wrong, but it was fun nevertheless. Also, Euler's Method. Or maybe it's iterative calculations.

Are you sure? I think he would splat before sinking that far.

Being dead doesn't stop your body from being affected by physics.

[Scelly9]

Yeah, but if your body parts separate, that could change things.

[Aqizzar]

Same thing happened to me today.

Wow, I'm starting to think the human race may be even less adequate in getting anything done that we thought...

Every time somebody tells me I'm doing something important, it takes all of my strength to not blurt out "you people have no idea how thin a thread you're hanging on by".  And then I see demonstrable proof that I'm one of the stronger threads.  My god.

What actually got me to stop saying stuff like that was when my boss intimated that he though my neurotically-frequent self-deprecation was false modesty.  That of all things was enough to get me to shut up and take it when someone says I'm doing good, because I definitely don't want to disappoint anyone by sounding like an ass.

How is that game going, by the way? Your thread is sinking faster than a dwarf hitting water.

Not well, mostly my fault.  I've been planning a status update for a few days, I might do it right now.

[Max White]

Couldn't be going worse than my projects. I get internet connected at home on the 5th, but until I can't do much at all. Sort of dead in the water here.

Also planning on moving something from c# to Java, so that will be fun.

[Reelya]

Same thing happened to me today.

Wow, I'm starting to think the human race may be even less adequate in getting anything done that we thought...

Every time somebody tells me I'm doing something important, it takes all of my strength to not blurt out "you people have no idea how thin a thread you're hanging on by".  And then I see demonstrable proof that I'm one of the stronger threads.  My god.

What actually got me to stop saying stuff like that was when my boss intimated that he though my neurotically-frequent self-deprecation was false modesty.  That of all things was enough to get me to shut up and take it when someone says I'm doing good, because I definitely don't want to disappoint anyone by sounding like an ass.

How is that game going, by the way? Your thread is sinking faster than a dwarf hitting water.

Not well, mostly my fault.  I've been planning a status update for a few days, I might do it right now.

You're slacking off is actually a viable (and common) survival strategy. Work too hard and they'd begin to expect 110% all the time. This way, when the real crunch-time occurs, you can just say "ok, gotta cut back on the Minesweeper for a bit" and they'll think you're busting your gut.

There a probably a whole lot of people only working "just hard enough" for their set paycheck out there.

[lemon10]

I just found (and ate) a It's it (delicious ice cream sandwich like thing) at the bottom of the freezer, when I was sure that we had nothing that tasty at all.

[SalmonGod]

You're slacking off is actually a viable (and common) survival strategy. Work too hard and they'd begin to expect 110% all the time. This way, when the real crunch-time occurs, you can just say "ok, gotta cut back on the Minesweeper for a bit" and they'll think you're busting your gut.

There a probably a whole lot of people only working "just hard enough" for their set paycheck out there.

Plus if what I hear so often is true, and most workplaces are just like the one I'm sitting in right now, then they don't provide you any incentive to work hard.  They just take advantage of it when you do, and punish you when you fall too far below the average.

[Bauglir]

Feeling like a coding boss for finishing this somewhat-lengthy assignment. I mean, I know I can't do much with this programming compared to other people, but I'm facing these problems and I am solving them, and that makes me extremely happy.

Fuck yeah, I am experiencing the same with math. I may not be the best, but I'm getting shit done. And it's interesting shit.

[Aqizzar]

You're slacking off is actually a viable (and common) survival strategy. Work too hard and they'd begin to expect 110% all the time. This way, when the real crunch-time occurs, you can just say "ok, gotta cut back on the Minesweeper for a bit" and they'll think you're busting your gut.

There a probably a whole lot of people only working "just hard enough" for their set paycheck out there.

Plus if what I hear so often is true, and most workplaces are just like the one I'm sitting in right now, then they don't provide you any incentive to work hard.  They just take advantage of it when you do, and punish you when you fall too far below the average.

I'd like to think where I work is slightly different, but I know full well it's not that different.  I'm salaried, and because my boss chooses to work sixty hours a week he seems to think everyone else has it in them to do so as well, and that "paid the same no matter the hours" means "you're an employee 24/7, the 15ish hours a day off are a bonus not a right".  I've worked twelve hour days fueled by spite, I've worked on Saturdays for nothing more than a stern conversation, I've answered phone calls at midnight to talk through an issue until three in the morning.

I'll admit, my Christmas bonus of an extra month's pay is a pretty good mark that this company does actually give a shit about hard work, but there is a certain amount of "don't stick your neck out" born into me, especially thanks to my last job.  And to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure that busting ass all day every day would actually be more productive.  My boss has straight up said I've earned to right to put less time a day than other employees, because he sees me routinely get more done in eight hours than most people he's worked with do in nine or ten.  Part of this is precisely because I slack off once in a while, I can work damn hard when I work but I factor a certain amount of decompression-time into everything I do.

It's easy to get addicted to decompression sure, but when people are actually counting on me to get something done, I actually produce results.

[MaximumZero]

Just spent a good long time ruling Tropico with an iron fist. ^_^

[Wrex]

Just spent a good long time ruling Tropico with an iron fist. ^_^

Viva El Presidente!

[Aqizzar]

Just spent a good long time ruling Tropico with an iron fist. ^_^

I think there's something wrong with the game that "partying capitalist" is a lot easier to pull off than "iron fisted tyrant".  My last attempt was a straight up effort to be a James Bond villain, with a militarized private island based entirely on tourism.  The common man serving the foreign dog at gunpoint, with Rebel Yell turned on just to spice things up a bit.  I got so caught up in building shit to keep people from revolting, and then building industry chains to pay for that shit, all of which made my Tourism Rating so unattractive it didn't like the right time, that it was 1977 before I built my first hotel.

By then, I was regularly topping 80% in completely free elections, my army and police force were basically just a jobs program, all of five people had ever become rebels, and even at its height my tourism industry was a minor slush fund on top of the industrial juggernauts of cigar rolling and arms manufacturing.  So, at least I was still evil-ish, I was just so good at it that everybody loved me instead of fearing me.

[Hanslanda]

Just spent a good long time ruling Tropico with an iron fist. ^_^

I think there's something wrong with the game that "partying capitalist" is a lot easier to pull off than "iron fisted tyrant".  My last attempt was a straight up effort to be a James Bond villain, with a militarized private island based entirely on tourism.  The common man serving the foreign dog at gunpoint, with Rebel Yell turned on just to spice things up a bit.  I got so caught up in building shit to keep people from revolting, and then building industry chains to pay for that shit, all of which made my Tourism Rating so unattractive it didn't like the right time, that it was 1977 before I built my first hotel.

By then, I was regularly topping 80% in completely free elections, my army and police force were basically just a jobs program, all of five people had ever become rebels, and even at its height my tourism industry was a minor slush fund on top of the industrial juggernauts of cigar rolling and arms manufacturing.  So, at least I was still evil-ish, I was just so good at it that everybody loved me instead of fearing me.

Aqizzar: Such an effective villain that everyone decides he isn't a villain.