trappedslider
Adventurer
They are also using COBOL......
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Dog Moon
Adventurer
It is a fairly easy system to learn. Played it for a few weeks. I wasn't a big fan of the setting though. Well, not even the setting, I guess it's mainly the society v tech v magic v faith thing. I guess it bugged me that if my elf tried to use a shotgun, the chances of it malfunctioning were too great. If it wasn't for that fact, think I would have liked it.
Dog Moon
Adventurer
I know it's not the best time, but I quit my job a couple weeks ago. Since I quit, no unemployment, but I was deeply dissatisfied with my job and the coronavirus just made the place so much worse. It was affecting me too greatly and I knew I had to quit if I was ever going to look for something new. I had been planning on quitting beforehand, but then I delayed because of the coronavirus. I didn't realize how much I needed a break until the company claimed they were essential. I knew at that point if I didn't quit, my attitude was going to get me fired and figured I'd leave on a positive note rather than a negative one.
Fortunately, I do have savings and my rent is cheap since I'm at a friends house, so I can go for a while. Took a few weeks off though, felt soooo wonderful. Got back to working on my writing, making progress on my Adventure Path and my Campaign Setting. Got a boardgame ready to playtest. Done more in the last three weeks than pretty much the previous at least six months, maybe a year even. So best time to quit... maybe, maybe not, but I needed it regardless. Next week though I start job hunting. So hopefully that will go well!
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
Oh yeah, that too.
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
I have very little savings, but got the 1200.00 stimulus check, then got to wondering where my electrician $$$ were. I asked and it had not been sent to me yet .. .. .. it was supposed to arrive 2 months ago.
Got $900.00+ after taxes. i am good to mid June with what I have now.
Got $900.00+ after taxes. i am good to mid June with what I have now.
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
ps: 1200.00 went fast due to rent and food and fon . . .
Ulfgeir
Adventurer
The first that comes to mind woud be Anthrax, then maybe Slayer.
megamania
Hero
My sonjust got his 1200 stimulus check yesterday and my daughter her unemployment check on Monday.
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
This sounds like good news!
Ulfgeir
Adventurer
Well, for what it was designed to do, COBOL was (and might still be) the best language. Yes, it is a very wordy langugae. One very big advantage though is that it is easy to read the code and see what it does. If I recall correctly, at one time it was the langauge with the most lines of code written in it.
When I were studying, I saw a poster where they compared different programming language to cars.
- Assembler was a dragster. It could only go straight ahead, and only under certain conditions.
- Pascal was a Volkswagen Beetle
- ADA was a green Mercedes Benz. If it was good enough for generals, it was good enough for you.
- Smalltalk was a clown-car with no stearing wheel and no seats. It was not designed to be used by humans.
- COBOL was the large diesel-powered 18-wheel truck.
Aeson
Adventurer
I learnt something the other day. The sign language interpreters you see on TV are often deaf. They have a hearing interpreter they can see sending them the signs.
The reasoning is the deaf viewers trust their own more. Also they're more fluid and accurate. They'll wear one color like black to help the hands stand out. Patterns can hide the hands.
The reasoning is the deaf viewers trust their own more. Also they're more fluid and accurate. They'll wear one color like black to help the hands stand out. Patterns can hide the hands.
Mad_Jack
Explorer
When I first read that I thought it said pints of vodka...
That must be one big freakin' cup you're using, lol.
trappedslider
Adventurer
the issue is that COBOL isn't really taught anymore Wanted: People who know a half century-old computer language so states can process unemployment claims
when I took AP programming in high school we did Java,and when my older brother took it he was doing C++. For awhile last year (one month lol) I played around with Python now that's a language that's easy to see what it does.
Dog Moon
Adventurer
Yeah, one of my groups ended up using this. None of us have completely transferred our characters online though (used to meet in person with physical character sheets), but that's because we're playing Savage Rifts and roll20 doesn't have appropriate character sheets for it. So we just plugged in the important stuff. Our character sheets are saved in a shared dropbox folder, so though we aren't the type to cheat, he can see our stuff if he needs to.
It's convenient that we don't have to go anywhere, but we all still like gaming in person.
My other group uses Fantasygrounds normally, but the DM has been not really doing anything to keep us playing, so we haven't played on Sundays since we stopped meeting in person. At least we have our Savage Rifts game, so that's cool!