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[Frumple]

and then I whack the snooze button ~5-6 times before becoming aware the alarm is ringing.

The answer to this is a louder and more strident alarm with no snooze button. If things get really bad, you put it in a box with a combination lock and speakers running out of it, or something along those lines. One set to bring the computer out of sleep while requiring a password to get to isn't that hard to do, ferex.

If you make your alarm ignorable and easy to turn off, you have naught but yourself to blame when it doesn't work

One of the other fun things I'd do when I was on a raised bed (bunkbed with the bottom bunk missing, basically), was run a particularly long-wired set of headphones to the computer below, which was set with a massively loud alarm (that, again, was on the floor, behind a password). It only takes so many times of waking up to hearing damage and probably slamming your head into the ceiling/walls/etc. in shock before your body gets the message :V

[Sergarr]

What kind of wizard are you and how can I acquire this power?

Keep to an actually consistent sleep cycle for a few months and you'll probably find yourself doing the same thing. I do use an alarm clock, but when things are actually on schedule for an extended period it becomes very much common to wake up a bit before the alarm goes off... even if it's not on :V

Weird. I have an incredibly inconsistent sleep cycle overall. Like, in summer, during vacation, I tend to shift to waking up in, like, 4 pm, or even later.

[LordBaal]

I just put a song of Justin Bieber in my phone alarm.


Now I wake up before that shit starts playing...

Hahaha seriously I just left my phone on a table where I can't reach it without having to get up from bed. Thus I have to get out of bed to turn it off and then I'm already awake.

[TheBiggerFish]

What kind of wizard are you and how can I acquire this power?

Keep to an actually consistent sleep cycle for a few months and you'll probably find yourself doing the same thing. I do use an alarm clock, but when things are actually on schedule for an extended period it becomes very much common to wake up a bit before the alarm goes off... even if it's not on :V

Weird. I have an incredibly inconsistent sleep cycle overall. Like, in summer, during vacation, I tend to shift to waking up in, like, 4 pm, or even later.

"Incredibly inconsistent sleep schedule brethren, today we rise!"

On the subject, though, I do have that problem.  On the weekends,  I wake up at like 11-12.  During the week, 5:30.  Augh, why much.

[GiglameshDespair]

What kind of wizard are you and how can I acquire this power?

Keep to an actually consistent sleep cycle for a few months and you'll probably find yourself doing the same thing. I do use an alarm clock, but when things are actually on schedule for an extended period it becomes very much common to wake up a bit before the alarm goes off... even if it's not on :V

Weird. I have an incredibly inconsistent sleep cycle overall. Like, in summer, during vacation, I tend to shift to waking up in, like, 4 pm, or even later.

"Incredibly inconsistent sleep schedule brethren, today we rise!"

"Or maybe tomorrow!"

[TheBiggerFish]

What kind of wizard are you and how can I acquire this power?

Keep to an actually consistent sleep cycle for a few months and you'll probably find yourself doing the same thing. I do use an alarm clock, but when things are actually on schedule for an extended period it becomes very much common to wake up a bit before the alarm goes off... even if it's not on :V

Weird. I have an incredibly inconsistent sleep cycle overall. Like, in summer, during vacation, I tend to shift to waking up in, like, 4 pm, or even later.

"Incredibly inconsistent sleep schedule brethren, today we rise!"

"Or maybe tomorrow!"

"Sometime this week?  Please?"

[scriver]

Admittedly, it'd be pretty badass if the Pope went all FUS RO DAH and knocked Congress on their asses.

Where Were You When the Dragon Spoke?

[hops]

Same with Moby Dick.  I hate that book passionately.

I sense a book deal in the making. A story about a man who spent his life chasing after the one albino copy of the book that took away a part of his precious young life when he first read it, his unending thirst for revenge leading to ruin of all around him.

Moby's a Dick?

[penguinofhonor]

[RedKing]

Same with Moby Dick.  I hate that book passionately.

I sense a book deal in the making. A story about a man who spent his life chasing after the one albino copy of the book that took away a part of his precious young life when he first read it, his unending thirst for revenge leading to ruin of all around him.

Moby's a Dick?

Make it a buddy movie about THREE men from disparate backgrounds who form a bond through their hatred of Moby Dick, and call it The Triplets of Melville. 

[Loud Whispers]

THA HOLY SEE HAS BEEN VACANT SINCE 1958

[i2amroy]

This was only made better by the fact that I then immediately scrolled down and saw your signature... "grisha5"

[penguinofhonor]

“This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while. The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.

[miauw62]

IIRC steam doesn't do delta updates with less granularity than file-level

AKA the fix was probably in a 50 MB file that needed to be downloaded in full

I guess that makes sense. I wish they didn't do it like that, but it's understandable.

Depending on the file, they may not have a choice.
50 MB files are often binary files such as images, and you can't change one pixel in, for example, a png without having to rewrite the majority of the file.

[Mephansteras]

@penguinofhonor Where did you find that picture?