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  1. Nija

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I run a squid proxy at home and use that when I'm aggressively trying to download items from PSN. Just note that some games actually try to use the same proxy for gameplay (like Battlefront 2) so be sure to remember to turn it off when you're not trying to download things. I only turn it on...
  2. Nija

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Edit: let me rephrase. Every game made for these consoles right now will be playable on the future consoles >= 10 years from now. It's fine to skip out on generations, as that will only save you time and money. The good games will bubble up. For example, if for some reason you haven't played...
  3. Nija

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    That's the thing. There isn't going to be a console lifecycle anymore now that everything is x86. Look at everyone moving to 4k everything for some reason. Do you honestly think the games are going to run at a reasonable framerate at 4k? Of course they aren't. What's going to happen is you're...
  4. Nija

    Battlefield 1

    @Hekotat are you playing on PS4? Let's play some. I've been playing nothing but solo (In the BUTT clan, which is some... SA thread clan? It's worthless) and it's alright. edit: not play right now, I mean. it's 7:45am here.
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    Battlefield 1

    This game would be a lot better if it wasn't segmented by various DLC packs. I try to play each night on PS4 and only about once a week do I find a match on the latest DLC. It's fucking impossible to find a match running the French DLC. That ship has sailed.
  6. Nija

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I just did the calculations to verify which projectors I can upgrade to, and the only thing available is the Epson 4000 or the 5040UB. I don't want to blow $2900 on a projector right now when my 8350 is still fine. 106" screen at 19.5' requires a serious throw ratio. Can't fit a bigger screen...
  7. Nija

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I got an interesting request from a client. At one of the places I work (I have two jobs, 30hrs and 20 hrs / week) we provide analytics for a bunch of companies - most of our stuff is gathered via FOIA (freedom of information act) requests, and we analyze the stuff into specific fields and have...
  8. Nija

    Witcher 3

    I have been working on this game since July on PS4. I'm around level 23 - can't power game like I used to. It's fantastic. The quality of every single quest is absurd. I would suggest doing every single quest, even the secondary ones. It's just fantastic from top to bottom. The only downside...
  9. Nija

    Parent Thread

    With my first kid, my wife still worked so we did a family daycare when super young, and transitioned to a learning-focused (still family ran) daycare when she was closer to school age. This was in the bay area, California, and was $900/mo. After the second kid my wife stopped working, and I...
  10. Nija

    Weather

    Drone footage from Santa Rosa:
  11. Nija

    SNES Classic - 9/29 - $80

    I got a bluetooth SN-30 from this company. You can find them on Amazon. Awesome controller! 8Bitdo
  12. Nija

    Weather

    Anyways, it's best to look at CAL FIRE's twitter feed. We're on fire up here in the Yuba County area, but it's a less populous area. CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) | Twitter
  13. Nija

    Weather

    All of it, roughly.
  14. Nija

    Star Wars Battlefront II

    I had to turn off my network proxy on my PS4. If you guys haven't tried it, and you have a linux box at home that can run Squid, you can increase your PS4 download speed significantly by using a HTTP proxy. Anyways. Turned that off and I can play. It's floaty bullshit shooting just like the...
  15. Nija

    Star Wars Battlefront II

    While the process to get a beta code worked fine for me, I would get error code 729 when trying to go online in game on the PS4. Tried it about 3 times tonight, spaced out hours apart. Either the servers are full or they're on to it. Open beta is tomorrow I guess?
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    Star Wars Battlefront II

    Oh my god the sounds in the space battles.
  17. Nija

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I was able to sell my PS4-normal on Facebook Marketplace for $200 cash.
  18. Nija

    SNES Classic - 9/29 - $80

    Look, Chrono Trigger was also $80 and we all had it. We just couldn't talk the parents into buying more than a few of those $80 titles.
  19. Nija

    SNES Classic - 9/29 - $80

    Yeah, as far as I know. It's really confusing. FF2 in the US was FF4 in Japan. As far as I know, back in the day, if you played them as they appeared: NES - FF1 US should be FF1 in Japan. SNES FF2 = FF4 SNES FF3 = FF6 Playstation FF7 = FF7. .... years pass... Things like the Anthology...
  20. Nija

    SNES Classic - 9/29 - $80

    FF3 in the US was actually FF6 in Japan. What you probably bought as a kid was called FF3.
  21. Nija

    SNES Classic - 9/29 - $80

    Yes, it has a SMB share. I've been using that to send ROMs across. You have to reboot to see the new games, but otherwise you're golden.
  22. Nija

    Parent Thread

    Thanks. I thought about this and we have scaled it back some. This aggressive schedule is until Mid-November, but even then we're clearing the schedule three days a week, rather than be booked for 6 out of 7 days each week.
  23. Nija

    How to handle a bad VP

    Reading this thread gave me PTSD-like flashbacks to the few years I spent working at a big 4 accounting firm. I need a drink.
  24. Nija

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Move to the bay area when you are young. There are other jobs in the rest of the country, sure, but they sure as fuck won't catapult your career into the stratosphere like the bay area will. Take risks. Source: I landed on a couch in the bay area in August '00 with $350 in my pocket, an '87...
  25. Nija

    Parent Thread

    Ha, that's the thing. It's a her. This is what she wants to do, so here we are.
  26. Nija

    Weather

    My brother is attempting to ride it out in Cape Coral as well.
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    Parent Thread

    That sounds amazing. My oldest is the only one doing sports at the moment, but that only lasts until this spring, when my middle daughter is old enough to start playing farm softball. Oldest is on two teams - a travel team that practices 25 minutes away and a local team. Practice for travel is...
  28. Nija

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Please stop buying these half assed games so they'll stop making them.
  29. Nija

    How much income is enough?

    Household.
  30. Nija

    How much income is enough?

    Bumping a kind of old thread. I think the sweet spot is about 4x the median income where you are. That may be extreme, but there is something really satisfying about saving 2/3rds of your income each month. Retirement? Fuck retirement. I'm going to work on cutting edge technology (the correct...
  31. Nija

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Preorders for everything sell out. Resellers suck. I'd like to buy one, but I can't bring myself to pull the trigger without any exclusives that make it worthwhile.
  32. Nija

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    If you can browse reddit you can also browse some kind of learning resource. Do that instead.
  33. Nija

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Haha I just got another between that message and now. I didn't log on to the service or anything, it's just out of the blue. Who falls for this shit?
  34. Nija

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Yes, I started receiving those in the past two weeks. I think 4 so far. Shortly after logging on I'll have someone message me. I was going to flip the switch in the privacy menu, but I didn't want to input my huge password with the controller.
  35. Nija

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You can get a plus subscription for $5/mo. Less than that if you wait for the year pass to go on sale. You're missing out over peanuts. Here: https://camelcamelcamel.com/Sony-Plus-Month-Subscription-3000133/product/B00FNQUN7Q?context=search Also, what does "BC" mean in this context?
  36. Nija

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    When I did that I got a second job. Negotiate the minimum amount of hours for full time with your current employer and get a remote part time job. If that seems impossible try hitting up contacts at previous employers and see what they have going on, and see if they need any part-time help from...
  37. Nija

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Docker is hippy trash.
  38. Nija

    Retard Dumping Ground

    Did you ever see Dio in concert? He was incredible. Unfortunately comparing him against Ozzy it's kind of a no contest, because on one side is fucking Ozzy. What a titan. While we're on 70s stuff this is what I have been listening to while coding this evening. Hopefully this link will roll you...
  39. Nija

    Weather

    Summer is here! :(