Xraygoggles

Can you imagine if you had all the time back you spent watching attack animations in RPGs over the years? There is definitely an immersion argument to be made, and this is why I just want the option to be available. I tend to be very mechanics focused and I play mostly puzzle games so I'm just here to 'figure it out'. For visuals and storytelling I'm reaching for different media first, that's personal preference not a knock on VG.

I just want to illustrate that I kind of still have 'down time' where I'm just staring at a screen that isn't changing, but the difference is that I'm playing the game in my head and thinking through things not being trapped for 2 seconds to watch somebody swing a sword. Especially if I've seen it a million times already and fully finished appreciating how cool it looks.

Your argument is really strong when it comes to action games though, but I guess we could also think about how it creates a build up and release of tension if applied mindfully. But that's usually not the case, it's just 'the formula says we need a cut scene here'.

Maybe the convergence of ideas here is to stand up brighter lines between playing and watching?

I think this a pretty accurate take. One place I'll add that retro games shine is fast forward, but that's not the games themselves as much as the platform. To me, that's their killer feature. When it comes to animations, I'm definitely not a patient gamer. And modern design seems to get this wrong constantly.

We use silicon bags and magnets. You let the top of the bag drape over the side of the bucket(tub? basin?) and hold it in place with a few magnets. From what I can tell the results are the same for the steaks and meat we cook and none of the sketchiness from eating slow heated plastic.

Yes this is tremendously helpful! The syntax highlighting alone is going to make this much easier. I totally overlooked this, but it's clearly a winner. Even just having the vocabulary for a few of these things feels like an incoming boost.

We are big on Microsoft too, so power BI and power apps is the destination. I'm coming around to these tools, if nothing else it gives some visibility so they can't loom in the shadows like these Access leviathans.

Really appreciate the time, and on the weekend no less. Have a great one.

You up to talk shop? I'm staring down the barrel of a similar task I've been putting off until I have a puzzle mood type of day. But also worried about doing it well because there's definitely more. How do you usually start to approach migrating legacy systems?

Access SQL is just slightly different syntax to what I know, I can usually translate but it's slow because it's all one big block. I started by using PowerShell to dump all the objects and query text into Excel so I could find all the connections. Some broken down at some point so half the data is on the server. This thing serves as kind of like an ETL tool and they have two access DBs for front and back end seems like, using data from server, file system, local access tables. There's a bit of looks like VBA in there too propping up the forms.

What thread do you pull first to unravel the Gordian knot? Access is a bit out of my wheel house. Bravo to the cowboy business users who were able to get the job done, but it's hard for me to parse and of course they are retired so no SME to speak of.

Lend me your wisdom, please.

The version I'm specifically using is Adhuard Home, which runs on a raspberry pi that sits between your home network and the internet. Basically just like Pi Hole. So it will filter the DNS queries on your devices, including smart TV.

One of the options for a blocklist was specifically labeled as Smart TVs, so I'm presuming that one would take the fuss out of watching the logs and choosing which requests to block. This list is likely available for pi hole too, so that feature wouldn't be unique. I know sometimes these will also block firmware updates, so that's something to watch for.

https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/SmartTV-AGH.txt

Would anyone be willing to offer their opinion on a comparison with Adguard Home?

Last week I was upgrading an old pi hole installation and ultimately decided to switch for awhile. Found the wild card blocking on Adguard to be quite nice for the pop ups that point out you're using an ad blocker.

But really the more technical details are a bit out of my wheel house, so if anyone could weigh in perhaps if with this new version one of them has clearly pulled ahead or they are so similar it doesn't really matter?

Next to the dragon you have 216 and you know that the two squares above it, one is a mine and the other is a 3. This leaves one remaining square around the dragon that you know what it has to be by process of elimination because you haven't seen it yet.

!the egg is enough to level and then away you go!<

This is very likely real, here is the issued guidance from OPM including the template.

https://www.chcoc.gov/content/initial-guidance-regarding-deia-executive-orders

Thank you for taking the time, the perspective is helpful. Same answer as everything else then.

Just be more stubborn than the problem. =)

Wow, I feel seen. Currently fighting this battle, any tips or resources you found helpful?

I think it's the index(?), aggregation, and order of operations I'm struggling with the most.