#those things are rigged up the wazoo

[raccoonzinspace]

Zim tries to win GIR something from one of those claw machines (because the cheap basketball that probably costs one penny caught GIR's eye). But, he consistently fails regardless of what angle or trick he tries.

Zim then finds out the machine is rigged to where the prizes are glued to the ground and the claw loosens its grip as it's being carried to the prize hole.

So he just uses a laser to melt the glass and grab the prize GIR wants. He also destroys the store for setting up this filthy scam machine in the first place.

[cerastes]

It's kind of amazing that a horny game like Nikke actually included stuff like Cyberpsychosis. Nikkes going insane or committing suicide if they are reminded too much that they are actually full-conversion cyborgs. The reason why they don't have a lot of cool gadgets like built-in thrusters or weapons. And then you have someone like Snow White who replaced a large chunk of her body with enemy robot parts.

Nikke is this really cool thing to have Existing in the space, even if I don't play it anymore, because of how charmingly unbalanced it is as a whole, making the charming parts of it all the more apparent.

It's got barebones gameplay, the seams of which burst the moment you do high level content and realize there's not much it can do due to its limited concept. Combat rarely translates to whatever is going on in any story thematically, being thus gameplay being more of an abstraction. There is a gulf and an ocean of power between fellow characters of the same rarity, meaning a max rarity character might do absolutely fuck all while another one, with the same odds, might snap the game in two with ease. It's story is absolutely nothing to write home about. It's a setting that can be best described as "self-indulgent incel nice guy heaven", where your character is The Only One to be nice to all these poor second class citizen superpowered voluptuous supermodel living weapons with tits two times your head and asses big and heavy enough to easily crush cars. Everything jiggles. It's so insanely predatory with its flash sales after every little thing you do.

And yet, the basic story it tells, it tells well. It's fun. It's entertaining. It knows what it is, and it has fun with itself, but it doesn't throw all pretense, either. It walks the razor-edge thin line between having a goof and telling a story with emotional depth. What it doesn't have in complexity or originality, it makes up for in sheer moment-to-moment, with good scenes, with good execution of things we've already seen. The showdown with Modernia lives rent free in my mind, Commander loading the Vapaus round, as Modernia or Marian, no way of telling, begs them to put down the weapon, because she's already back to normal, Commander shooting, and Modernia catching it with her teeth, and then growling the most guttural threat with freshest purest fury: "You shot me. Your really shot me! Shikikan!" and then drilling Commander right through the chest. And everything that happens after in that scene. It's got interactions out the wazoo, both mundane and touching. It has music that goes from "background music that really works" to "handcrafted for the moment and the character in its excellence". I think it's because Nikke knows what it is, but doesn't reach the self-mockery rung of the ladder. It knows what it's doing, and it's still sincere about it, even if it dares have fun at its own expense sometimes.

So, with that on the table, the take on Cyberpsychosis present in Nikke is incredibly powerful as a narrative tool because it tells you just how much of a jury-rigged slapdash product Nikke are. They are not cutting edge technology, they are literally something they pumped out quick as can be while telling everyone in the world that's still alive that they are cutting edge technology. And all, all of the safeguards are ultimately subject to willpower and perspective. Some Nikke go insane if they are too machine-like. Snow White has basically rebuilt herself over and over hundreds of times in her forever war. Nikke cannot aim at humans, so Crow instead puts a steel plate on the ground and ricochets her bullets off of those to shoot Commander successfully. Aiming is something you do with your senses normally, right? Rose figured out that she can just wear a blindfold and convince herself that what she's slashing is not a human, but a Rapture, and that's how she disemboweled and killed her Commander. Just by not seeing and fervently believing.

It's really, really cool how they go about it.

[magicfeatherbean4]

Today was SO MUCH FUCKING FUN! He was one a really fun date with Husk and Al at Lulu world (where he obviously got the VIP treatment with his companions) and Husk had just won him and Al some oversized carnival prizes from one of the games. He had no idea the cat was so skilled!

"I thought those things were rigged up the wazoo!" he grinned, practically skipping around the pair with his new giant duck plush. "We should play more games! Unless you guys wanna try getting on some rides, the Firey Fist-o Pain looks fun!"

@top-shelf-tender @damnedrainbows

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for the ship ask: 3+5 for kryterius? an 6+8 for Desolas an Abrudas?(u got me hooked on their ship send help)

yell heah

kryterius

3.Are they open about their relationship? How do they feel about public displays of affection?

they’re pretty modestly open abt it..... like they’ll joke around and make comments abt their home life together in public, and they won’t deny it if anyone asks, but that’s about the extent of it. kissing or other such affectionate gestures are kept to private or when nobody’s really paying attention to them.

5.Nicknames? Pet names? Any in-jokes?

neither of them is really the nickname type i feel like..... but they do have in-jokes out the fucking wazoo. most of them occur during missions, like “what’s the plan?” “don’t get killed”, but their most frequent on is like....

so this one time they had leftovers in the fridge, and were planning on eating them like for lunch the next day or something, but they got called out suddenly before they could, and when they got back it had fur. neither of them really wanted to touch it, so they contained it behind some jerry-rigged kinetic barriers and let it grow in peace. it became a running joke that one of them would come home from a mission, check on The Thing In The Back Of The Fridge, and come up with something new that it was supposedly doing. “it growled at me.” “it blinked.” “it’s trying to convince the fruit drawer to stage an uprising.” they also sometimes jokingly threaten each other with it, like “give me the remote or i’ll make you touch the thing in the back of the fridge” or “let’s make a bet, loser has to make eye contact with the thing in the back of the fridge for ten seconds.” nothing ever comes of such statements, they’re just having fun.

note: other food in the fridge is protected from the t.i.t.b.o.t.f.’s spores and stuff by the kinetic barriers. they did their science. the barriers were intended as a measure to contain the mold’s spread so they could safely use the fridge until they could get rid of it properly. unfortunately, hazmat won’t take them seriously.

desabrudas (NO MERCY...... victory is mine the more ppl i get to ship these two the happier i am)

6.Any tasks that are always left to one person?

already answered!! [link]

8.What do they like best about their partner?

des admires valis’s resilience and attitude. even before shanxi, she refused to be intimidated by higher ranks and authorities. since he was made general fairly young, he felt alienated by his peers and subordinates; turians his own age avoided him because he was much higher-ranked, turians his own rank didn’t include him because he was much younger than them, and his subordinates almost tiptoed around him like some sort of prodigy or god. it made him uncomfortable, so valis marching right into his office and telling him she wasn’t afraid of him and would damn well tell him when he was being an idiot just kind of drew him to her. and beyond that, he found out she knew she was being blacklisted for her bad attitude, yet she persisted with the military, which he found admirable. when she was injured on shanxi, and those traits manifested in refusing to just lie down and quit because her leg was a mess and her brain had a couple technical difficulties sometimes, he fell in love with her all over again.

on her end, she loves that he’s very all-or-nothing, “go big or go home.” he feels with his entire self, in a sense; when he’s angry, or sad, or excited, or quiet, or any other emotion, he lets that be his focus until it fades. he dedicates himself 110% to everything he does, from his job to his relationships. both his unwavering loyalty to the empire and to his people, and his absolute devotion to his little brother endeared her to him in the beginning. after shanxi (in a no-reapers au anyway), she knew he was angry about harper and co., even if he was refusing to tell her. he went away for a while, and she worried he was going to get himself killed, but then he came back, and they had a long talk, and he told her he was going to try to move on, because he wanted to be there for her as she recovered far more than he wanted any sort of closure for shanxi. she would have dragged him into something dirty right then and there if she hadn’t still been in a hospital bed.

[nileshtechtalk-blog]

Servers vs Desktop

 stairs desktop computers and  then there's like server computers but  how different are they exactly  well any computer actually has the same  basic components processor working  memory storage etc and you may be  surprised to hear that fundamentally  they're not that different with some of  those components even coming off the  same assembly line but that doesn't mean  that you can just grab off-the-shelf  desktop components in like fashion  yourself a server.

  I mean sure this core  i7 runs at 3.8 gigahertz and this Xeon  runs at 3.8 gigahertz but it costs way  more well hold on in just a second hold  off on the core i7 sometimes there's  more to it than gigahertz and gigabytes  and all those gigas so let's get this  list of differences kicked off number  one we just discovered server gear is  much more expensive for specifications  that often appear similar or even worse  at times but why you get inter  compatibility with other server grade  Hardware things like ECC and registered  RAM support a bullet point that's hidden  halfway down the product page for that  CPU from before now while using memory  that is slightly more resistant to  errors might not seem like a big deal to  a typical desktop user it's absolutely  critical for a server in a desktop  environment one little tiny rammer or  caused by like cosmic rays might cost  little Sally they cute picture she made  in ms paint

 A server it could  result in the loss of patients medical  records or who knows what else  not to mention speaking of inter  compatibility that server memory is  available in much higher capacities so  you got to have support for that we find  the next difference in the little  details

 The characteristics of a product  that don't always find their way onto a  spec sheet for example server and  workstation grade hardware uses higher  quality components and is subjected to  much more rigorous quality testing and  validation they not only are made to  handle heavier duty cycles but also live  longer overall while doing it now on to  features silent operation a bunch of USB  3 ports and like overclocking settings  out the wazoo are not the kinds of  

 Things that server clients will want to  spend money on which doesn't mean that  they're cheapskates  they'll pay big money for stuff like  fancy networking capabilities remote  management interfaces and hardware  redundancy so the machine won't  experience any downtime even in the  event of a hardware failure on something  like a power supply and it's great that  they buy this stuff because it drives  the costs down for us guess top folks in  the future so my next point actually  ties at least partially into most of the  others server hardware is optimized for  different workloads for example on the  desktop our applications aren't heavily  multi-threaded so higher frequency  processors with fewer cores work really  well but a server might run an operating  system and software that takes much  better advantage of multiple processing  cores so we might get much better  results with a lower clocked server CPU  that has more processing cores or even  with multiple CPUs to further spread up  the workload and then finally there are  the optimizations made for the  environment in which a server will  operate for example a consumer and  enterprise grade

 Hard drive might share much of the same technology it's a bit of a recurring theme here but a server hard drive is much more resistant to wear and tear from vibration something that doesn't matter for our drive sitting in the desktop by itself but that is critical for a drive that's surrounded on all sides by other drives spinning and clicking away doing their own work and there are so many little things like this a server won't  compromise on power consumption or  increase size unnecessarily to squeeze a  little bit more performance out of the  hardware like a gaming rig would it's  all about how much computing power can  fit in as small a space as possible  while consuming as little power as  possible the general consumer has  different priorities in a big tower that  consumes a couple more watts doesn't  really matter when you got one family PC  in the house or even two or

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