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[BlackHeartKabal]

I'm just happy you all are happy!

[Tack]

Hooray for mild mania!

Oh those days. Using a knife to carve my dreams into a permanent fixture. Attacking various shrubbery for it's impudence to grow above the hedges. Stealing books from the library and claiming I wrote them in past lives in order to leave messages for myself. Nearly running my car off the road because I knew driving erratically would make it harder for the sniper to get me.
Not all of those really happened but those which did, ah; They still almost keep me up at night.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Also I'm feeling pretty energetic and happy lately! Also kind of irritable. Also a bit flirty. Hooray for mild mania!

~
Anyway, just one more day of classes. Yeah, I've got a mountain of work to do-And a LOAD of studying-but holyshit it's nearly over.

[Sergarr]

Nearly running my car off the road because I knew driving erratically would make it harder for the sniper to get me.

Oh man, I remember doing those things! Only with walking. I've read one too many books about the mythological KGB super-agents dodging bullets that way...

it was pretty fun

[AzyWng]

Bug in Elite: Dangerous allowed the AI to abuse glitches and form superweapons. Which of course it immediately started using to gank players out of jump speed.

This kind of emergent behaviour and interaction is why I think computer game AI is one of the most interesting fields in computer science.

AI abusing glitches has been a thing for a long time, actually - a lot of games have AI unintentionally doing things which cannot be done by players, like casting spells in anti-magic zones and stuff. It's actually pretty hard to make them stop doing that, unless you use some sort of unified user interface, which automatically prevents the players, both AI and human ones, from doing forbidden things. And that's like, effort.

I remember reading about an AI programmed to play Tetris. Naturally, it learned to keep the game paused indefinitely in order to avoid losing.

[Flying Dice]

Well, it is the only winning move.

[hector13]

Not losing /=/ winning

[Flying Dice]

You win when you put down the unwinnable plotless game and go do something productive, m80.

[hops]

Nearly running my car off the road because I knew driving erratically would make it harder for the sniper to get me.

Oh man, I remember doing those things! Only with walking. I've read one too many books about the mythological KGB super-agents dodging bullets that way...

it was pretty fun

I walk like I'm having a stroke when I play FPS games, does that count?

[SalmonGod]

Finally approved to rent a home!  Move-in starts in 7 days!

[AzyWng]

My computer overheating problems have been solved!

My mother purchased a desk fan (apparently my brother needs one for Virginia Military Institute), but she allowed me to use it for now before Andrew goes. The fan only cost $20 at Costco, so presumably it's easy enough to purchase another one. Anyway, by aiming the fan at the space below my computer (I raised my computer up a bit), I've been able to play Team Fortress 2 and Fistful of Frags without any sudden stoppage due to shutdowns.

So yeah. I've found a solution to my computer problems!

[Avis-Mergulus]

Perhaps you have done this already, but in case you haven't:

0. Get some thermal grease
1. Open your PC's case
2. Unclip the fan and the radiator
3. Be horrified at all the shit growing on it
4. Detach the radiator and wash it out with water or some shit like that, let dry
5. Wipe the old thermal grease off the processor and radiator, degrease with a bit of alcohol (optional), apply new grease to the processor and spread it around thinly
6. Hook the whole shindig back on.

[technicallyAdventurer]

I just ordered Dragon Age: Inquisition! It gets here on Sunday, and I'm really looking forward to playing it-- it's taking every last bit of willpower not to watch a playthrough, though..

[SOLDIER First]

:0!!!
E N V Y

[TheBiggerFish]

Finally approved to rent a home!  Move-in starts in 7 days!

Grats!!!!