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freelop posted:First game that comes to mind is FTL. redgubbinz posted:If you like Diablo-style games, Path of Exile is free and very good. You can even play with one button if you build a summoner character! Cities:Skylines is an excellent city building game, Civilization 4 and 5 are (in my opinion) the best Civilization games, although 5 needs more graphical horsepower to run. I haven't played it but people seem to really enjoy Stardew Valley for a low intensity RPG about building a farm. Tremek posted:In a similar 4x vein I enjoy Stellaris on the odd occasion I can play. It will run on pretty modest specs. Thanks
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NitroSpazzz posted:edit: anyone have any video game recommendations? Needs to run on a 3-4 year old dell work laptop using the touchpad. I've got a lot of time to kill and I can only watch so much tv and movies. If Minesweeper with a bit of sudoku mixed in sounds interesting then check out hex cells and then hex cells infinite. They're both cheap and should run on anything.
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Nitro, if you want to give your brain a workout... TIS-100, or really any of their games should be a nice break from sitting idle. edit: super meat boy is also a fun/frustrating traditional platformer.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:People got super pissed off here when they reduced the blood alcohol limit for DUI from 0.08 to 0.05. I mean... that's pretty ridiculous though. That's like 4oz of 5% beer after 2 hours.
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Dec 11, 2019 20:01
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Beverly Cleavage posted:edit: super meat boy is also a fun/frustrating traditional platformer. SMB is hard as hell, but fair - and honestly how quickly it throws you right back into the action after failing is a big part of what helps it.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I mean... that's pretty ridiculous though. Brushing your teeth and using mouthwash immediately before you go for a drive can easily cause you to blow over 0.05%. 0.05 is pretty drat low. I'm all for reducing drunk driving, but that's basically "oh you had a SINGLE standard drink with dinner? you're too drunk to drive" low.
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Dec 11, 2019 20:12
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Sweden's limit is 0.02, and there's a huge cultural stigma against drinking then driving, even if it's just one beer. Even after 5 years in California it weirds me out that people will have a glass of wine or beer with food then drive.
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Dec 11, 2019 20:41
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STR posted:Brushing your teeth and using mouthwash immediately before you go for a drive can easily cause you to blow over 0.05%.
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Dec 11, 2019 20:42
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STR posted:Brushing your teeth and using mouthwash immediately before you go for a drive can easily cause you to blow over 0.05%. True, but it's really easy to tell if it's something that doesn't affect BAC, a second test 10 minutes later will show greatly diminished values. If you drank a whole bottle of Scotch at the Senior Rates mess, and you have to get breathalyzed for duty the next day it's a pretty workable excuse, if you can run away before they try the second test. Drinking and driving is bad, but with the margin of error on breath testers I think 0.08 is pretty reasonable. We had two, one would register low values, and trip on poo poo like toothpaste and if you just spit a dip out, and would register 0.02-0.04 after a night of mild drinking, the other one prett much had a dead spot between 0.00 and 0.12, so you were safe blowing in it unless you were actively drunk.
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STR posted:Brushing your teeth and using mouthwash immediately before you go for a drive can easily cause you to blow over 0.05%. Uhhhh I thought that was a myth long busted. And yes as said, a second test will easily show that was a false positive. And no, 0.05 is not low - It's resonably established that this is the point your driving becomes impaired. Frankly it's not hard to just not drink when you know you are going to be behind the wheel in a few hours anyway.
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You will blow very, very high immediately after swigging anything with alcohol including mouthwash. But it goes to normal in a few minutes.
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Elviscat posted:Drinking and driving is bad, but with the margin of error on breath testers I think 0.08 is pretty reasonable. You may want to rethink the latter half of that statement.
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STR posted:tl;dr I poked an angry bear with a really sharp stick, I didn't die yet. I might die soon.  I hope you don't get bear bites.Geoj posted:You may want to rethink the latter half of that statement. I wish there was a cheap, easy, and reliable way to measure BAC. I would like to know what my actual BAC is, just as a benchmark. Edit: I mean right now, and... in general. Edit2: quote:In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade Jesus. If there's loving canon for being a man, it's this right here. meatpimp fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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Post avatar combo incoming .05 is too low. Personally I think DUI should hinge on breathalyzer + another method like reaction time testing that is not made up bullshit like a field sobriety test. It seems like reaction time testing would be easy to implement (when you see light, press button, repeat 5x or 10x)
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Geoj posted:You may want to rethink the latter half of that statement. I heard this on NPR. Apparently Massachusetts literally had rats nesting in a machine and had interns with literally no technical experience or knowledge "calibrate" machines.
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Previa_fun posted:It seems like reaction time testing would be easy to implement (when you see light, press button, repeat 5x or 10x) Wont work - Just imagine driving home after a long night at work and being reaction tested. You are 100% sober. You will still have a munted reaction time despite being 100% legal
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I'm not wading into the minefield that is BAC, but I will agree that the field sobriety test is pretty BS. Wasn't it mostly dreamed up as a way to get video evidence of a driver's lack of coordination, for jury trial? I'm pretty coordinated but I don't if I could stand on one foot on the side of the highway with traffic going by, at night, with police lights flashing in my face.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Wont work - Just imagine driving home after a long night at work and being reaction tested. You are 100% sober. You will still have a munted reaction time despite being 100% legal You're not supposed to be driving if you're very tired either, but if we actually enforced this either the economy would collapse or we'd just work reasonable hours and enjoy life more
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Dec 12, 2019 02:21
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10 or so days left to get your Sheep Game answers in, everyone! I see a lot of long-time posters in here who've never played in one before...consider yourselves called out en masse.  Come out and play today!
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Wont work - Just imagine driving home after a long night at work and being reaction tested. You are 100% sober. You will still have a munted reaction time despite being 100% legal It's almost as if being a bad driver is the real problem here, and impaired driving isn't confined to the reckless crims who had a glass of wine with dinner.
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I don't even know why anyone would go out, have ONE beer and then drive home. Just have a loving mocktail and actually enjoy something tasty... Or just leave your car at home and get a cab so you can get wrecked without fear of getting fisted by the law or just being that oval office that risks having a few and drives anyway because "I'm not drunk". Also UK peeps, voting day.
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MrChips posted:10 or so days left to get your Sheep Game answers in, everyone! I see a lot of long-time posters in here who've never played in one before...consider yourselves called out en masse. i'm gonna do mine on the 18th when i'm off work 
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fridge corn posted:I voted https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/watchmen-creator-alan-moore-explains-why-hes-voting-tod-1840383240 "The wretched world we’re living in at present was not an unlucky war of fate; it was an economic and political decision made without consulting the enormous human population that it would most drastically affect. If we would have it otherwise, if we’d prefer a fixture that we can call home, then we must stop supporting — even passively — this ravenous, insatiable conservative agenda before it devours us with our kids as a dessert." This hits home in  as well.
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gently caress doctors. We've really enjoyed our oncologist to this point, but when we first met him, he told us that the highest risk places for cancer to travel was the liver, the lungs, bones, and the brain. But he wasn't concerned about the brain and didn't think it was necessary to have a brain scan done, despite it being a high risk area. Several weeks into treatment, my girlfriend began complaining of mild vision issues that got a little worse, and have since gotten better, but they insisted it was just a side effect of the medication. She finally convinced him to get her in for a brain MRI yesterday. Guess who has lesions on the surface of her brain?
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ahh drat dude, that is terrible.
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T-Square posted:he told us that the highest risk places for cancer to travel was the liver, the lungs, bones, and the brain. But he wasn't concerned about the brain and didn't think it was necessary to have a brain scan done, despite it being a high risk area. uh, what the gently caress?
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drat.
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MomJeans420 posted:You're not supposed to be driving if you're very tired either, but if we actually enforced this either the economy would collapse or we'd just work reasonable hours and enjoy life more T-Square posted:gently caress doctors.
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Dec 12, 2019 15:48
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gently caress.
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Yeah, we're pissed. We have options and we'll figure it out. To top things off, I was asking about a job interview she had in here the other day, and she was made an offer for more than she asked, better benefits than she currently has, and 3 weeks vacation plus additional time off. She has to contact them by the end of the day to accept or decline and she's not sure what to do. Also we'll probably miss our friend's Christmas party next weekend that we were both looking forward to, because she now has a lumbar puncture scheduled for next Friday. NitroSpazzz posted:gently caress, I'm sorry man. Finally start to get ahead then something like this pops up. This is the part she's not handling well though. E: Now she's freaking out because she tried to leverage her job offer into a permanent position at her current place, and now her boss is hounding her on if she's taking the other job or not and it's not helping.
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you could take the other job and ask if they will push the start date a bit finances permitting may not be a good idea if in USA because of health insurance
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That sucks dude, sorry she's having to go through that. Doctors do suck. Been going to the local VA here for decades and it's a joke.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:you could take the other job and ask if they will push the start date a bit finances permitting That's what I initially told her to consider last night, but I think it might be best to stay where she's at for the time being. Her contract was recently renewed through June, so she'll have time to find something else. She just really wants to work at this place, has applied and interviewed like three or four times, and this last round was like a week from application to job offer. I feel so bad for her.
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Goddamn, T-Square
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Man, I cannot even imagine. I'm really sorry, that is hosed. 
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T-Square posted:That's what I initially told her to consider last night, but I think it might be best to stay where she's at for the time being. Her contract was recently renewed through June, so she'll have time to find something else. She just really wants to work at this place, has applied and interviewed like three or four times, and this last round was like a week from application to job offer. I feel so bad for her. I wouldn't normally argue for this, but if the other option is just to reject the job offer, there's nothing to lose in that respect. I can't imagine how hard this must be for her and for you, and I'm sorry y'all are going through it.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I don't even know why anyone would go out, have ONE beer and then drive home. Just have a loving mocktail and actually enjoy something tasty... Or just leave your car at home and get a cab so you can get wrecked without fear of getting fisted by the law or just being that oval office that risks having a few and drives anyway because "I'm not drunk". I like to swing by the beer store on the way home and get my growlers filled. Beers on tap are constantly changing so, I like to taste a few things to find out what I want before I buy them. Say I taste a half dozen beers out of the 36 taps. That's somewhere near 3oz total. It's not a significant amount, but its not nothing. Sometimes I'll order a full beer and hang out for a bit and talk beers with the staff, or meet a coworker there and chill for an hour while traffic dies down.
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Drink driving is stupid and selfish and so very not AI. "well it's not drink driving because I only had a little / one / a couple / a few actually I have a high tolerance and ..." Get hosed. Don't take things that inhibit your ability to control the 3000+lb death missile that you know you're going to drive immediately after.
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