Tag: anecdote
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looking for gold: the coolest apology i ever got
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Been thinking lately about the relative coolness of teenagers, which is a weird thing to say, so I’ll elaborate: teens sometimes rock up in my discord server and stay for years and become adults. This only occurs if they survive the filter of “didn’t get banned for irritating me”, and I’m surprised how often that…
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probability is hard to think about
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so i was working on a game. the game has haystacks sometimes. if you set fire to the haystack, there’s a one in six chance that when it burns away, it turns out to contain a treasure chest! you can get some loot i implement this. much later, QA reports a bug: the chance of…
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at a chip shop in scotland,
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i ordered a “sausage in batter” and the woman i ordered it from gave me a look like i was the stupidest prick in the world and said “we only do them in batter”. i said “i’m just reading off the menu”. she rolled her eyes. the menu was next to us both, large backlit…
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randomly remembered the time i met palmer luckey when the oculus dk2 was new. i was like, “positional tracking is super cool, but the camera is a bummer. keen for in a few years when you can do it without an external camera” he goes “no, that will never happen. it’s impossible”