Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-1496755-20180822214541

Aye, this slow and boring period tends to drag on. This doesn't stop people from calling and making inquiries, though, and in many cases I simply tell them to call in September since the people who could help them are away until the end of the month. Sometimes they are unhappy... so I just shrug and tell them "Well, that's August for you." Once the whole 95th anniversary celebration thingie is over, I am sure I'll be able to grab some more vacation time - I definitely have a large bunch of unused leave days. Oh, they had some trouble at the dorms with a prospective student recently. I think I told you about this somewhat weird girl that showed up a while ago. Today I found out her parents came with the police to take her away (she ran away from home or something)... so she locked herself in a bathroom and later did something really stupid - attempted to grab a police officer's gun. She was arrested for this, of course. I guess she had lots of issues we never suspected about.

I am pretty multifunctional. I was hired to take care of that whole database thingie, but I quickly found out there are many other things I have to do, e.g. students' health insurances, gathering data from the faculty and preparing several kinds of statistics (including those evil end-of-year giant Excel spreadsheets), I even make diplomas sometimes (for some of the minor Master's programs). But people also know I have lots of computer skills that easily fall within the "sorcery" category, so they often turn to me for various IT-related things, but we do have an official IT guy as well. One thing that worries me is that we are supposed to have some degree of "interchangability" - i.e. one person should be able to step in and do another's work in case something happenes to them (e.g. illness with prolonged absence) and I have indeed learned to do most of the things my colleague in the same room does... but guess what, no one else knows how to do most of the things I do. Not even the IT guy. So if I get very ill and go away for a long time during a critical period, what are they going to do? They'd have to urgently send someone to me, so that I can teach them, if I'm even able to (depending on what happened). It's like a little diasaster wiating to happen... I am both in my own room and not in my own room. You see, it's three rooms connected into one (used to be two rooms before the renovations). My colleague is at one end of this three-in-one and I'm at the other... so we are technically in different rooms (with a middle ground between us) but still in the same room (because they are considered connected). There are doors (with windows) that can be closed if one of us needs to be isolated for a while. So, nice to meet you, IT/CAD. I am the Quality of Education Inspector :P

Well, I've been able to get some patches and other files with Wayback machine but it only works for simpler websites. If it's anything that generates a download link or has more sophisticated scripting, it usually won't work. Gamespy died for many reasons, though one of them was IGN. Still haven't forgiven them for that...

I like it when race affects your character more than just their appearance. WoW has different racial bonuses (passive or active) but the two genders have the same stats (yay, equality). Arena had slight stat differences for males and females, adding one more layer of consideration when choosing. Daggerfall pretty much threw thiso ut the window and had stats be determined by the choice of class, while also considerably downplaying racial bonuses. I have yet to see how Morrowind and beyond handle this - do genders matter again?

By the way, do you play the original or the "special edition" Skyrim? I'd probably go for the original, even if the game is not old enough to talk about "oldschoolness".

Heh, saw some guy recently saying how nice Darkplaces is because it adds bumpmapping - a feature I always associate with Doom 3 since this was the first time I ever saw it. But I find it hard to associate it with Quake.

Mystery mod spawns a random Dopefish that kills on touch, and we'll have to avoid it. And it also teleports randomly aeround the map to add some suspense... Now I wonder if there actually is a mod like this.

We have stealth elements on the server? That will be interesting to see. I never imagined Quake as a stealth game. We'll blackjack some Enforcers and steal their loot!

I've already seen recent games that only work with Vulkan and completely forgo OpenGL. They are still rare cases, but eventually they will become the standard (just like fewer and fewer games nowadays have 32-bit versions, 64-bit is pretty well established by now).

Yup, the comic is exactly the thing that inspired BD in the first place. It's absurdly over the top, though this is what makes it so funny to read too. And you can bet there are numerous related memes floating around, especially the phrase "Rip and tear!" (which also appeared in the latest Doom game from 2016).