Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20161116194210/@comment-3547390-20161217000128

So you basically are the administrator of your local area, but because it is connected to a central area that is totally separate you have absolutely zero control and instead have to play year-round damage control for a horribly inefficient system? I honestly am confused how a database can be managed if you aren't even able to modify data. You aren't changing a fundamental part of its design, you are changing a student's status. The lack of control over this shows terrible design that should be modified. No wonder you are happy with a break, it sounds pretty toxic. My situation is definitely a lot better, I am the designer of the database and therefore things are pretty justified if anyone starts yelling at me. Nobody does and any requests to get added are consulted and added if deemed necessary. I try to test every case I can to ensure these things work properly before deployment and the modularity of the database allows for pretty easy expansion. Needless to say, I think I lucked out in the database lottery.

Heh, only place I had that was haunted was the house I grew up as a child in. Some guy killed himself there about a few decades back, plus the entire place used to be a bakery.

I am glad I don't have to worry about any animal maintenance. I can focus on myself instead of a child, except instead of a child it has claws and hisses when you try to put it in its highchair.

Hey, be thankful there was a patch to that game. Before it, the other driver didn't even move, making the entire race entirely pointless. Now he moves, he just never finishes!

Yeah, I definitely try to play stuff in order these days. I pretty much grew up with whatever I got, so they were often sequels such as Thief 2. If you had ever played that game, you would know how insane it was that I did it, Thief is just one of those games you really don't want to play out of order the first time around. It would be even more insane to say that the game was even worse to install on XP to 7 for some odd reason, I remember having to type the installer into the Run box since the actual installer would never function. Then the codec would never function back then, so I pretty much grew up without knowing that Thief had a story of any sort, to this day it feels odd to see the cutscenes before the missions because I am just used to playing the missions. In fact, I would try to make up stories to try to figure out how on earth I made it from point A to point B. I think this is a great example of a game with good story, even when I removed it I found myself amazed by a great game. That is something you can't say about a lot of these story centric titles I hear about, it honestly sounds like the story is the focus and removing it would result in a really horrible game. So yeah, I was all over the place with games back then. I think this is one of the reasons I got into the whole historical thing of games to begin with, I felt like I had missed so much when I realized that I pretty much was never getting the full experience of the games I played and that I was doing things from the middle.

I can say that as well actually. Pretty surprising, since I use Windows 7 everywhere and grew up using Internet Explorer. It is sad when I think how many years it took to finally find out there were other browsers, I pretty much was the only one in my household to question if there was something better. My father is highly technical and still uses Internet Explorer, feeling the others have no real purpose. Me, I was glad to get away from the slowness.