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[Tiruin]

Spoiler: These tiny bits of creativity inspire me so :) (click to show/hide)

In computer class, we share accounts. Each computer has a student account used by everyone. This mean that there is a lot of random clutter that barely makes sense, and my part of the computer. It's my little folder, sectioned out from all the Project.doc files and New Folders. In it, I keep all my programming projects, my personal compiler and IDE, my files, and all my stuff. It's my cozy little place in the middle of the madness that is sharing a computer.

Today I came to find someone had changed the background picture to something I could've made better in MSPaint in ten minutes (and I'm no artist), and deleted everything. Not just my folder, but everyone's stuff. That is extremely rude, considering this is shared space. Of course, since everyone in my school is computer illiterate, he forgot to empty recycle bin.
I restore everyone's stuff, organize it back, and sit down and think, while the teacher drones on in the background (it took her life forty minutes to draw three squares of a certain size, and I finished my work last time I was here, so I have time). Someone tried to delete my folder. My Folder.

That's not gonna happen again.
I make a folder in Documents named Adobe XI (nobody will ever touch it) and put a backup there.
Now, on to the real thing. I make a folder smack dab in the middle of the desktop, named Don't Open. Inside, I put my folder and mark it as hidden.
Next step, I make a folder named DANGER. Inside it has Quarantined Programs. Inside that, is a batch file. Should you open it, it will give you a stern talk about what you just did, and run these few lines of code:

:LOOP
start
GOTO LOOP

*  Cmega3 does an evil chuckle.

Now, I make another folder. Path is it's name. Inside, it has a lone text file. It contains the path to my hidden folder. Or so it seems. The path, in fact, leads to a small program abusing the fact that pause command prints "Press any key to continue...".
It tells you that to get to my personal folder, you have to enter the correct key combination. What follows next is a loop of pause commands. Try as they might, it won't open my folder, for there is no correct key combination. Finished, I tell the teacher that if someone says the computer I sit at is acting up, it's because they tried to get to my stuff.

They tried to delete my folder. No one touches my stuff. No one.

...
I know this is pretty light, in terms of how these things go, but as I said, they're mostly computer illiterates. If I did something worse, they'd probably throw the computer out the window saying a hacker-demon possessed it.

[Flying Dice]

I was reading a bit about states and their reporting of economic data, and how certain states like to shield inequality by not releasing information. The author came out with this:

Certain governments prefer not to let the Gini out of the bottle.

* Flying Dice wipes a single tear from his eye.

[kisame12794]

Cmega3, you are Evil. Thumbs up man, keep up the good work.

[Aklyon]

Cmega3, you are Evil. Thumbs up man, keep up the good work.

Additional thumbs up given

[Tellemurius]

https://openmw.org/2014/openmw-0-28-0-released/

YES

[Bauglir]

First ever commission done! Now, now I just wait for sweet sweet payment.

Obviously I requested payment in unopened trading card booster packs. This is how serious business is done between friends, yes?

[Putnam]

I found a Super Metroid Randomizer hack (no link due to being a program that literally generates the entire ROM, but it's the exact title). So far I've played all the way through Draygon and I'm going to fight Ridley later.

The Reserve Tanks are in the same pool as the other major items, so sometimes you beat Crocomire or someone and get a reserve tank instead. As a joke about this fact and the reserve tanks' general uselessness, the graphic for the reserve tank was replaced with the infamous .

My brother was watching, and we both found that hilarious. And every time it happens, it just gets funnier. But then, when I got instead of the Plasma Beam (which I had gotten earlier, but no matter), it suddenly dawned on me that I would have to find the reserve tanks in order to get the grappling beam I need to get to the spring ball area, which may contain the grappling beam anyway (joy).

I also got the Gravity Suit before the Varia Suit and the Space Jump from Phantoon, immediately after finding the Hi-Jump boots in place of the Wrecked Ship reserve tank.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Does it randomize anything other than item locations?

[da_nang]

https://openmw.org/2014/openmw-0-28-0-released/

YES

[kaenneth]

https://openmw.org/2014/openmw-0-28-0-released/

YES

I'm disappointed 'mw' didn't stand for MechWarrior.

[Eric Blank]

I, too, have been repeatedly let down to realize that people are talking about something other than MechWarrior when using MW as an acronym.

[Tiruin]

I feel old, or at least well versed in things usually before my generation's time by empathizing with you guys there o_O

Also Morrowind remake! Yay!(?)

[Descan]

Not so much remake (You want to keep an eye on Skywind if you wanted a remake) as a re-engine. So it'll run better on modern systems and is more easily modded. (I can't say if "easily" means it'll be... easier, so much as you can do more with modding it than you could vanilla Morrowind-engine.)

[Tiruin]

Just have to ask--why remake Morrowind (I don't know most of this and am only basing my information on 'Morrowind = people's best choice. Ever. And it's also sold on Steam.')

Also Skywind?

[Descan]

Because people still play it but it's running on an engine 12 years old. One that wasn't all that stable even when it was a bouncing baby code-base. And because the guys doing the coding wanted to.

Skywind is a remake of Morrowind using the Skyrim engine, with updated graphics.