The CWAL Rubber Room

hah, eat THAT opus magnum - my disgusting, inefficient brute-force solution worked and i completely failed to learn what you were trying to get me to learn because IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE so THERRRRRE and i wasn't even worst on the leaderboard [NT] - Lothos 22:58:06 12018-12-13
So Husquevarna is opening up the API for their robotic lawnmower. - Rotten 16:02:03 12018-12-13
- So now you can intergrate your lawnmower with both Alexa, your Weather Underground Weather Station, and your Sprinkler System? [NT] - TheDeamon 21:37:24 12018-12-13
Psychonauts 2. [NT] - Fron 18:20:03 12018-12-07
- This is way too good to possibly be true. Not that I think you're lying. It's just that I'm not expecting to hear such amazing news for some reason and I can't seem to believe it on an emotional level... [NT] - Tssha 11:38:44 12018-12-08
  - Apparently it was crowdfunded almost three years ago and I completely failed to notice. [NT] - Fron 19:49:53 12018-12-08
    - I think part of it is I keep hearing "it's coming back!" and then I hear nothing for months after. I think I've built up a hype bulwark. [NT] - Tssha 00:00:35 12018-12-09
- yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss at laaaaast [NT] - Lothos 00:03:09 12018-12-08
US Federal Trade Commission pledges to investigate loot boxes in video games. - Rotten 12:29:46 12018-12-02
- Ninjas pledge to go after everyone who remembers their face! You're done, Rotten!! [NT] - Paradox 11:22:58 12018-12-07
Is it me or is blizzard way more cartoony these days? [NT] - Rotten 07:15:51 12018-12-02
- They were always cartoony. Look at the portrait artwork from Warcraft 2, and the art style in Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. [NT] - Arcturus 19:17:30 12018-12-03
- Haven't been keeping active tabs on them, but weren't they reasonably "cartoony" in the first place? I know about 10 years ago their art direction seemed to be moving away from that, but I'm fine with a reversion to circa 2003-ish. Now if they've gone (cheap) Cartoon Network style, that's another matter. [NT] - TheDeamon 15:41:18 12018-12-02
  - I love you, Sarge! [NT] - Terran Soldier 18:22:11 12018-12-02
I used to marvel at Dorg's claims of making a fuckton of money, then I became a software engineer myself. 10/10 would get a raise to six figures for some inane javascript bullshit again. [NT] - Fron 21:35:16 12018-11-30
- Can confirm -- reader, please drop what you are doing and become a software engineer. You will literally own multiple houses for writing a little bit of code and wasting a lot of time in meetings. [NT] - Mana 17:26:55 12018-12-06
  - Would you be willing to donate to ballsacks of north america? [NT] - Rotten 21:52:34 12018-12-07
  - Well let's not go overboard, I still can't afford a house anywhere I'd actually want to live. I'm not Zuckerberg. [NT] - Fron 17:53:06 12018-12-06
    - I have a second job at a grocery store. Was able to buy some new clothes this year without skipping meals. [NT] - Paradox 11:31:40 12018-12-07
      - Meh... I kinda miss the simplicity of a job like that. Less stress. Of course less money too which creates stress in other ways. [NT] - Rotten 10:15:42 12018-12-11
      - Fron, please adopt Paradox. We love him. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 21:55:53 12018-12-07
        Iiiiiiin the aaaaarrrmms offffff aaaaan aaaaangellllll [NT] - Paradox 10:07:07 12018-12-08
- For a small portion of that money, just $1200 per day, you can support the Ballsacks of North America, the premier men's rights organization in North America. [NT] - Rotten 15:20:28 12018-12-03
  - 🤔 [NT] - Fron 18:31:01 12018-12-03
    - I'm going into "DevOps" which is a tad more interesting to me than code-hacking. [NT] - Rotten 15:33:39 12018-12-10
      - Congratulations on hopping on the trend, you'll probably make a bunch of money with it. (I hate dealing with anything even remotely related to "ops") [NT] - Fron 12:19:20 12018-12-12
        It's cool, I already do a bunch of stuff with docker, AWS, Azure for my company. We do statistical research for pharma companies so parallel containerization (and CRAN R) is something I deal with. It's pretty neat. What's cool about cloud computing is that the "ops" is actually removed, it's all code. Infrastructure as code and all that. [NT] - Rotten 14:53:13 12018-12-12
        We're switching to doing things in Kubernetes now so I'm becoming familiar with some of it. A difference though is that we're self-hosting the cluster so our ops folks actually do have to deal with the metal still. [NT] - Fron 15:04:02 12018-12-12
- Get with the program, Fron! Nowadays it's all about algorithmically weaseling $3000/month out of the ether and playing 4x games 14 hours a day - Dorg 18:54:02 12018-12-02
  - If you'd just invested all your money in Dogecoin like I'd told you, you'd be doing great by now. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 16:39:40 12018-12-03
    - I wished I listened to your advice! [NT] - Rotten 08:01:49 12018-12-04
      - [VIDS] It's not too late! - Psycho Sam! 19:53:23 12018-12-04
        I like htis! [NT] - Rotten 10:32:13 12018-12-06
I finally beat all three campaigns of Pathologic, which had been on my to-do list for literally ten years. It culminated in an in-game Q&A session with the developers, as spoken via NPCs. I gave them some shit for game design choices and they admitted to just slapping together the special ending you get for completing all three campaigns. 10/10 everyone go play the Pathologic 2 demo. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 19:50:52 12018-11-29
[LINK] So I got this little robot I can drive while I'm away from my house. I'm on a robot kick lately. - Rotten 10:25:48 12018-11-28
Dear Dr. Blunken: I've started waking up with a strange feeling in my finger. As though something important is missing. When I examine my hand, I find... nothing. Just nothing. Do you know what happened, "Doctor"? Do you know why I came to you? Why I will never stop following you? Why don't you tell us all what your diagnosis is? You wouldn't tell me when I asked the first time. What about now? - Fargoth 19:51:29 12018-11-26
- Well that's two minutes I'll never get back. [NT] - Tssha 10:16:05 12018-11-27
  - Not to mention a night of sleep I'll never get back. [NT] - Tssha 10:18:53 12018-11-27
    - In fact, my life seems less charmed and innocent now so that's another thing I won't get back too. [NT] - Tssha 10:23:24 12018-11-27
[VIDS] Dear Rotten: Something else to get you into the festive spirit. - Psycho Sam! 19:34:39 12018-11-26
[LINK] itch.io donating all their share of profits on Fri 23 Nov to the Trevor Project and Nature Conservancy. - Lothos 17:26:44 12018-11-22
- I'm unfamiliar with itch.io but those are both worthy causes so I'll check it out. Thanks! [NT] - Arcturus 23:54:30 12018-11-22
  - Yay! Glad it was useful. I like itch.io because they let developers set the proportion of the sale that goes back to the store and what goes to them, meaning they generally offer the best deal out of the stores available. Also, they often offer DRM free installers alongside other things. As an additional bonus, they don't support harassment campaigns like GoG did for years. Sigh. [NT] - Lothos 14:06:59 12018-11-23
- [VIDS] I'd like to reiterate my love for Wandersong. It's self aware, cute and funny, and you save the world by singing. What more could you want? - Tssha 17:44:30 12018-11-22
  - *GARSP* i hadn't noticed they had Wandersong! [NT] - Lothos 14:05:38 12018-11-23
It's that time again. [NT] - Tssha 15:29:41 12018-11-21
- Good luck! Much fierce! [NT] - Lothos 20:26:55 12018-11-21
  - I've found that bran cereals help with this matter. [NT] - Mana 12:48:28 12018-11-30
CWAL should purchase a Yule log this year. [NT] - Rotten 16:23:31 12018-11-20
- Perhaps you'll purchase a CWAL log this year instead. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 18:00:24 12018-11-20
  - ... [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 21:32:28 12018-11-20
  - Please do not expose the CWAL Log to open flames or unregulated heat sources. Do not inhale any fumes, vapours and/or smoke the CWAL Log may emit, exude or off-gas. Any damages caused by exposing a CWAL Log to a heat source are solely the responsibility of the bearer. Please do not expose the CWAL log to bears. Bears are considered an unregulated heat source. [NT] - CWAL Log Warning Label 20:12:45 12018-11-20
    - The CWAL log may cause bleeding from the anus, please discontinue use if this occurs and see your doctor. [NT] - Rotten 14:41:06 12018-11-21
Hey, anyone want to chime in on a highly politically-sensitive economics topic?? - Dorg 12:01:03 12018-11-20
- I should submit myself to a warlord's harem, ahead of this financial apocalypse, just to be safe. [NT] - Paradox 20:17:55 12018-11-20
  - haha, now I'm imagining an area in the financially- and environmentally-desolate backcountry of Nevada full of violent financial apocalypse cultists [NT] - Dorg 22:37:42 12018-11-20
    - You mean like current Texas? [NT] - Legacy 11:10:37 12018-11-23
[VIDS] The Opinion Rhapsody - TheDeamon 00:40:39 12018-11-16
Goodnight sweet prince. You were truly the master of your universe. Excelsior. - Tssha 22:43:24 12018-11-12
- In his honour, I present three minutes of him being totally savage to Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld. - Tssha 22:48:04 12018-11-12
  - Yeah, I love just how continuously unimpressed he was. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:38:14 12018-11-18
I deleted my Rubber Room bookmark. - Ravil 21:09:09 12018-11-12
- I'm still alive, too. [NT] - Paradox 19:46:11 12018-11-13
  - Fungi is pretty tough to kill, unless Vector has his toys out. [NT] - TheDeamon 22:43:23 12018-11-15
  - I'm not even sure I believe me, let alone you. [NT] - Ravil 12:13:43 12018-11-14
    - That'aboy Ravil. Keep them eyes open. [NT] - Paradox 22:09:52 12018-11-14
      - #WokeAF [NT] - Ravil 01:45:22 12018-11-15
  - And we are thankful because yay doxy [NT] - Lothos 21:46:37 12018-11-13
    - And may we all give thanks to the Thanksgiving day gibbon. The ThanksGibbon. [NT] - Paradox 22:15:18 12018-11-14
      - i would celebrate the hell out of the thanksgibbon, not gonna lie [NT] - Lothos 03:32:58 12018-11-15
- I had just assumed you were busy because Baby! Also I'm glad to hear she's healthy and properly scary after the initial medical issues. [NT] - Fron 00:55:34 12018-11-13
  - Da. Made sense he was gone, glad he's here now. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 16:33:01 12018-11-13
  - Yep that was my thought too: baby = probably less internet shenanigans time [NT] - Lothos 15:57:06 12018-11-13
- Yeah, I'd noticed, but didn't say anything (and that was only because I wanted to run a video by you, about the Maginot Line...and I couldn't find a way to direct message you). In any case, you're not the only one that avoids places because of embarrassment and the fear that your absence has been noticed. But I can say for myself I'm just glad you're back. [NT] - Tssha 22:32:54 12018-11-12
- YAY YOU'RE ALIVE also thank you for awesome unexpected Internet Presents [NT] - Lothos 22:17:07 12018-11-12
[VIDS] The trailer for the new Pokemon movie looks amazing and I don't know how to deal with it. Ryan Reynolds is voicing a Pikachu. How did anyone convince Nintendo to sign off on this? - Fron 19:13:11 12018-11-12
- Whatever they did to convince them undoubtedly involved gratuitous amounts of dollar and/or yen signs. [NT] - Legacy 15:38:50 12018-12-01
- It's really thrown a lot of things into question for me. I can't process these emotions. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 16:35:44 12018-11-13
  - I MEAN PSYDUCK IS THERE TOO [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 16:36:35 12018-11-13
    - (See what I mean?) [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 16:37:18 12018-11-13
- I don't know, but it is amazing and I can't wait (even though I just found out, like, NOW). - Tssha 22:39:10 12018-11-12
  - Also, I played the Detective Pikachu game and I am not embarrassed to admit that. Love seeing it turned into something so awesome. [NT] - Tssha 22:53:35 12018-11-12
IT IS CWAL DAY. [NT] - Fron 00:33:15 12018-11-12
- I missed it! Noooo! [NT] - Frito 13:33:46 12018-11-13
- Legal in every way. [NT] - Ravage! 11:29:30 12018-11-13
- HAIL! HAIL! [NT] - Forks 23:30:06 12018-11-12
- Let us celebrate the only way we know how: With a song in our heart, and shoes on our hands. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 21:05:16 12018-11-12
- I am increasingly delighted and mindblown that we're still here. I wasn't convinced I'd be alive by now when CWAL started and it seems aeons ago. WHEE! [NT] - Lothos 14:40:39 12018-11-12
- NO MORE YEARS. NO MORE YEARS. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 11:45:48 12018-11-12
- WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 11:41:29 12018-11-12
- [carries garbage bin] Huh? No! [blam] [NT] - Mana 11:38:35 12018-11-12
[VIDS] If anyone's interested in a simple, well designed twin-stick shooter rogue-like THING, check out Overwhelm. It picks a clear target and then nails the implementation, and it has a distinctly Oppressive, Claustrophobic Vibe if people want that on top of just existing in 2018. - Lothos 15:19:16 12018-11-10
Re: Destiny 2: The one thing about this game that upsets me the most: [text inside] - Psycho Sam! 20:38:48 12018-11-09
- See, the issue is that they're trying to scrub, instead of just torching it all. - Legacy 13:48:04 12018-11-10
  - I'm sure a thermo-nuclear fire would do wonders on cleansing the area. [NT] - TheDeamon 18:58:59 12018-11-10
  - I feel like it would be very satisfying to go after it with a pickaxe, but there's just so much of it, it would get old very quickly. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:59:27 12018-11-10
- What if they use greasestrip? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 09:00:13 12018-11-10
[LINK] Blizzard is remastering Warcraft 3 now. I'm more excited than I expected. - Fron 21:35:32 12018-11-02
- I was quite fond of multiplayer War3 even though I was never particularly good at it. Looking forward to losing at it again. [NT] - Arcturus 23:28:50 12018-11-04
  - I still think back fondly to when a bunch of us did four-player arranged team games, all under visually indistinguishable variants of the name FallenCwaler, and did the same ridiculous gimmick strategy every time. [NT] - Fron 16:59:43 12018-11-08
- I played the demo at BlizzCon. It was pretty fun but still needs some optimization. Can't tell you how many hours of my life I burned in those custom Lord of the Rings maps... [NT] - Mana 22:48:35 12018-11-03
  - so much wintermaul [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 16:55:12 12018-11-07
- ATVI has to get those numbers up! 56 cents a share is rookie numbers! [NT] - Dorg 19:07:38 12018-11-03
- Sweet [NT] - Legacy 19:03:58 12018-11-03
- So... mid-2019 Shortbus tournament? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 16:18:14 12018-11-03
- You know sometimes I wish that game companies would just reskin old games, make them prettier but keep the mechanics the same, rather than complicate them. [NT] - Rotten 11:43:49 12018-11-03
  - Ain’t that what they did with Starcraft? I... honestly don’t remember. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 11:53:59 12018-11-04
    - Yes. [NT] - Fron 12:00:23 12018-11-04
Oh, so apparently, Destiny 2 is free if you claim it before the 16th. At least, that's what my battle.net client says. [NT] - Tssha 16:20:38 12018-11-02
- Also I miss Dinklebot. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 11:34:50 12018-11-09
- They received *a lot* of backlash about removing content from people who didn't get the DLC (like making public events, loot, PVP, weekly/monthly events DLC owner only), and I think the base game is actually still playable, but I think if you want the big Forsaken DLC there's no "upgrade what I have" option, just "re-buy the base game, the two smaller DLCs, and Forsaken". - Psycho Sam! 11:41:42 12018-11-07
  - Ugh, and I can't import my PS4 character, so the game is treating me as a noob. Also I can't get her face quite right. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 11:49:01 12018-11-07
    - To be fair, that last one is likely Sony dicking you over. Crossplay is a dirty word to them, apparently... [NT] - Tssha 19:21:35 12018-11-07
      - Yeah. The same thing happened with Fortnite. [NT] - Legacy 10:04:34 12018-11-12
- Is it? It looks like they're just having a free weekend on the 11th to me. All I'm getting is the option to buy the Forsaken collection. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 12:33:14 12018-11-06
  - Never mind, it was in the "gifts" tab, where I never look because I don't really care about Hearthstone card backs and loot boxes. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 12:33:45 12018-11-06
- I grabbed it because I Have a Problem Turning Down Free Things. I will likely never get around to playing it? Still, hopefully folks who'd get good use from it now have easier access. [NT] - Lothos 17:44:04 12018-11-04
  - I'll probably wind up doing the same thing. [NT] - Tssha 20:51:12 12018-11-04
I'm moving to Chicago! - Snapper 23:51:50 12018-11-01
- Grats! [NT] - Legacy 10:56:10 12018-11-12
- graaaatz [NT] - Fron 19:06:52 12018-11-02
- Congrats! Enjoy the colder winters and superior rail transit infrastructure! [NT] - Arcturus 13:54:57 12018-11-02
  - Lake Effect snowfalls and the windchill are going to be the fun ones if he lives/works close enough to Lake Michigan. [NT] - TheDeamon 14:56:44 12018-11-02
- Gratz!!! Yer gonna be cold though. [NT] - Rotten 10:24:57 12018-11-02
- Chicago is fun. Go Purple Kitties! [NT] - Frito 08:50:54 12018-11-02
- Outstanding! Congratulations. [NT] - Lothos 00:51:51 12018-11-02
Does anyone remember Pathologic? The fever dream "plague simulator" out of Russia that got a ton of buzz and sort of propelled RPS into the mainstream with their coverage of it? They remastered and retranslated it in preparation of the remake, and it's genuinely exceptional, now. It's on for 90% on the Halloween sale, coming it a $1.39 CAD - Inconsequential Lurker 13:28:12 12018-10-30
- I'm reading through a let's play of this by (I think) a bilingual Russian, thus avoiding the game's translation problems, and it's still nearly incomprehensible. [NT] - Fron 12:55:33 12018-11-04
  - It's simple. The ground is meat. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 20:53:18 12018-11-04
    - Since I'm sure you have no intention of actually playing it and just want to marvel at how absolutely ridiculous the plot conceits are. THE FINAL EXPLANATION WITHIN. - Inconsequential Lurker 19:09:20 12018-11-08
- Thats one of the things I miss from the older generation of games, before studios realized they needed to put effort into localization: the almost dream-like quality of the dialogue from the older horor games, like the original Resident Evil, and Silent Hill. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:49:25 12018-10-30
  - I'll show you a real man's balls. [NT] - Original Translation Witcher Is Best Witcher 21:53:32 12018-11-01
Would the men in this forum be willing to join a group called "Ballsacks of North America"? [NT] - Rotten 10:01:34 12018-10-30
- BONA [NT] - Rotten 13:22:20 12018-10-30
  - All right, I gotta admit the acronym made me laugh. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 10:57:08 12018-11-01
I just had a dream about Vikings wrestling trees in hammy, over the top (and possibly fake) action. Then I dreamed about bringing this back to the world in the form of a long-lost, PnP RPG. Obviously, one of these ideas is extremely cool, but I can't tell which one. [NT] - Tssha 11:47:59 12018-10-29
Legal pot impressions: I don't have any impressions, just a vaguely pleasant haze wherein I purchased and consumed an entire cake before going comatose for 12 hours. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 13:35:49 12018-10-23
- I'm not sure this is good for your life. Not against legalized pot per se, just saying. - Rotten 10:57:36 12018-10-27
  - It's cool, I find the heroin kills my appetite so often that cake is the only nourishment I'll eat for days on end. It's about life balance. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:57:41 12018-10-27
- Sounds about right. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 21:18:23 12018-10-23
There exists a "My Little Pony" mod for Hearts of Iron 4 - Fron 00:41:18 12018-10-21
- It actually looks pretty cool. [NT] - Rotten 10:50:42 12018-10-30
- Friendship was a mistake. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:45:52 12018-10-21
  - Friendship... Friendship never changes. Since the dawn of Ponykind, when our ancestors first discovered the magic of friendship, kindness has spread, frosting stained, across Equestia. - Frito 11:50:13 12018-10-23
    - Party Favors of Mass Destruction are impressive ones indeed. [NT] - TheDeamon 20:51:02 12018-10-24
    - ❤ [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 21:10:28 12018-10-23
  - Clearly you weren't paying enough attention when you were warned about sticking around Rotten after he starts talking about how "Friendship is golden." [NT] - TheDeamon 22:51:03 12018-10-22
- aahahahahahah oh no resistance to paradox games falling [NT] - Lothos 17:22:53 12018-10-21
  - Honestly HoI4 might be my least favourite of them. That's personal preference but I think it's definitely the least accessible if you wanted to get into the company's work (and you should! they're great!) [NT] - Fron 21:25:53 12018-10-21
    - I have a great respect for Paradox games, and they sound awesome. The problem is that I currently don't have many occasions where I have both brains and time to throw at things like Into the Breach, where the levels are pretty short. Something like, say, Stellaris could *devour my life.* It'd be awesome, but yikes. [NT] - Lothos 01:18:11 12018-10-22
      - Considering I have 600+ hours in it...it could conceivably do that. Nonetheless, I regret nothing. - Tssha 00:20:48 12018-10-23
      - I want to play Stellaris so badly, but their DLC policy is just beyond reason and I refuse to encourage it. Two years old and to buy the game plus expansions is 122.49 CAD, 2/3rds of which is minor story content and trivial gameplay additions split into DLC after DLC. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 01:40:43 12018-10-22
        I take it you're a fan of The Sims then. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 07:50:29 12018-10-22
        fuck yeah sims 420 smoke inhalation fatalities every day [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 08:51:34 12018-10-22
        your sexy roommates all blocking the door with their inept screeching and flailing so the fire brigade can't get through to save your life [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 09:38:41 12018-10-22
        I find this an interesting perspective because the DLC policy is one of the things I like the most about Paradox. They actively develop their games for years and years, with constant free updates including enormous system redesigns, funded by the content DLC. - Fron 01:48:35 12018-10-22
        I'm not really averse to DLC per se. Even games I buy at launch to support the devs, I'll hold off till the DLC roadmap is done so I can experience it all in one fell swoop, but the content to dollar ratio of a lot of the DLC is... unbalanced. Fully half of it having mixed reviews warning they aren't worth the money doesn't disabuse me of the notion much. - Inconsequential Lurker 08:50:43 12018-10-22
  - jooooooin uuuuusss... [NT] - Tssha 17:51:28 12018-10-21
- Oh yeah, did I mention I'm working on that show now? [nt] - Kainoss 02:07:55 12018-10-21
  - A long time ago, in a... never mind. Doesn't make it less impressive though, particularly as you seem to still be there. [NT] - TheDeamon 17:12:51 12018-10-27
  - Awesome! [NT] - Frito 16:23:51 12018-10-22
  - You just got 20% cooler. [NT] - Tssha 17:49:45 12018-10-21
  - Nice! [NT] - Lothos 17:23:34 12018-10-21
  - So YOU'RE the one to blame! [NT] - Legacy 14:50:29 12018-10-21
[LINK] Guys, I really lost my cool on an important phone call, I think I'm in trouble now - Dorg 04:31:25 12018-10-20
- Why blockchain? Why not an honest rope? [NT] - Frito 09:11:09 12018-10-21
  - you straight up trippin' dawg [NT] - Tssha 17:52:06 12018-10-21
- Well, that certainly makes a 50DKP minus seem trivial by comparison. [NT] - TheDeamon 12:31:09 12018-10-20
- I know a guy who can sell you some heroin if you want. His name is Skew and he has pretty cool hand tattoos. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:30:59 12018-10-20