General Chat/Time-Waster Thread

[Rabbit Head]

5 hours ago, Lemon said:

Sigh. I'm sorry you're in this. I'm also bummed I know exactly what advice to give you.

Step one: When you're homeless, you gotta be light on your feet. Staying on someone else's dime means you're susceptible to them kicking you out on your whim, so you need to be able to leave at any second. Make sure you have your important documents on you at all times. Roll them up, fold them up, put them in a plastic baggie and have it on you at all times. Docs: Birth cert, specifically. Find one good large capacity backpack.

Step two: You now sell everything of value you have. Sell or get rid of clothes that don't serve multiple purposes. You should be good with three shirts, one button up, three pants. Boy or girl, I don't care, but invest in a lot of panty hose. They're small and will keep you warm. You have one hoodie, and one big jacket you carry in your hands at all times. Scarf and hat are good. One pair of shoes- walking boots or sneakers. You have a small bag (boy or girl, I dont care) and you have your dumb phone, your netbook, and your important docs there. Make sure you never have cash on you, and keep only one card that is your bank card. You write down all important numbers - the library, the local hospital, and the welfare office on a piece of paper. Buy a small notebook- this is your bible. You write down routine- what time the sun sets and rises. Once you have all of your money, put it in a bank account that doesn't charge you anything. Sell your smartphone and get a prepaid dumb phone. If you have a fancy laptop or desktop, back up your important things on a free service like google drive and dropbox. Then you sell and buy the smallest netbook you can find. Why? Less obvious a target. When you have successfully liquidated everything you can sell and fit in your one backpack, you set on a goal.

Step three: If you're young, reach out to any and all family you know. Weird grandma you haven't seen since you were a kid? Hit her up. reach out to all of your friends and ask two important questions: Do they have a couch you can sleep on at night, and two: do they know where they work is hiring. Because you need a source of income. Brush up on your resume- hell I'll fucking make it for you- and you apply quite literally anywhere. I don't care if its dumb or demeaning, you apply. And you tell the person there straight up: I am homeless. I am trying to get a job so that I can get a home. You won't have a lot of luck at big chain places like wendys or whatver, so focus on small business owners. You've got to make yourself as human as possible. Make getting a job your singular goal in life. You no longer have the luxury of feeling sorry for yourself. You cannot stop. You must keep going until you satisfy the basic things a human needs: Food. Water. Shelter. Once you have those things, you can collapse and look for a therapist. After you stop being homeless, you need one. 

step four. never ever go out at night. find a 24 hour place and stay there on your laptop. If you're in a college town, all the better. 

Step five: When you have a job, you'll go apeshit and buy a ton of crap you dont need. Don't do that. Put every cent you make into your bank account and never fucking touch it. Only touch it to replace your shoes, or a uniform, or a haircut. Man or woman, if you're gonna be homeless long term, cut off your hair. Shorter hair dries faster. 

Step five point two: If you have a skill, hone it. Draw, write poetry, do handlettering, magic tricks- anything that someone would pay for, learn how to do it. 

Step six: If you're going to be homeless long term, go south. Just go south. Many folks dont make it through winter. 

Resources

• Survive the streets
• Practicing safe homelessness
• Ultimate guide to homelessness
• Reddit asks: What tips do you have?
• More
• Quick homeless hacks
• Being a woman and homeless

There are folks here who come from all walks of life and most likely have a lot more advice than I do. Seek help and never stop looking for it. Google resources for the homeless and start walking everywhere. Find your cities local festivals and see if you can score freebies. Always check the free areas of craigslist and see what people are willing to give. You are the only priority and you are the only one keeping yourself safe. Never trust anyone on the street.

Pm me if you need to ask more questions. I can do what I can, but I'm not in much of a position to help from afar. 

 

 

this post seems so good and useful it should be made into it's own thread.

and then STICKIED. 

[Lucius]

10 hours ago, Lemon said:

Sigh. I'm sorry you're in this. I'm also bummed I know exactly what advice to give you.

Step one: When you're homeless, you gotta be light on your feet. Staying on someone else's dime means you're susceptible to them kicking you out on your whim, so you need to be able to leave at any second. Make sure you have your important documents on you at all times. Roll them up, fold them up, put them in a plastic baggie and have it on you at all times. Docs: Birth cert, specifically. Find one good large capacity backpack.

Step two: You now sell everything of value you have. Sell or get rid of clothes that don't serve multiple purposes. You should be good with three shirts, one button up, three pants. Boy or girl, I don't care, but invest in a lot of panty hose. They're small and will keep you warm. You have one hoodie, and one big jacket you carry in your hands at all times. Scarf and hat are good. One pair of shoes- walking boots or sneakers. You have a small bag (boy or girl, I dont care) and you have your dumb phone, your netbook, and your important docs there. Make sure you never have cash on you, and keep only one card that is your bank card. You write down all important numbers - the library, the local hospital, and the welfare office on a piece of paper. Buy a small notebook- this is your bible. You write down routine- what time the sun sets and rises. Once you have all of your money, put it in a bank account that doesn't charge you anything. Sell your smartphone and get a prepaid dumb phone. If you have a fancy laptop or desktop, back up your important things on a free service like google drive and dropbox. Then you sell and buy the smallest netbook you can find. Why? Less obvious a target. When you have successfully liquidated everything you can sell and fit in your one backpack, you set on a goal.

Step three: If you're young, reach out to any and all family you know. Weird grandma you haven't seen since you were a kid? Hit her up. reach out to all of your friends and ask two important questions: Do they have a couch you can sleep on at night, and two: do they know where they work is hiring. Because you need a source of income. Brush up on your resume- hell I'll fucking make it for you- and you apply quite literally anywhere. I don't care if its dumb or demeaning, you apply. And you tell the person there straight up: I am homeless. I am trying to get a job so that I can get a home. You won't have a lot of luck at big chain places like wendys or whatver, so focus on small business owners. You've got to make yourself as human as possible. Make getting a job your singular goal in life. You no longer have the luxury of feeling sorry for yourself. You cannot stop. You must keep going until you satisfy the basic things a human needs: Food. Water. Shelter. Once you have those things, you can collapse and look for a therapist. After you stop being homeless, you need one. 

step four. never ever go out at night. find a 24 hour place and stay there on your laptop. If you're in a college town, all the better. 

Step five: When you have a job, you'll go apeshit and buy a ton of crap you dont need. Don't do that. Put every cent you make into your bank account and never fucking touch it. Only touch it to replace your shoes, or a uniform, or a haircut. Man or woman, if you're gonna be homeless long term, cut off your hair. Shorter hair dries faster. 

Step five point two: If you have a skill, hone it. Draw, write poetry, do handlettering, magic tricks- anything that someone would pay for, learn how to do it. 

Step six: If you're going to be homeless long term, go south. Just go south. Many folks dont make it through winter. 

Resources

• Survive the streets
• Practicing safe homelessness
• Ultimate guide to homelessness
• Reddit asks: What tips do you have?
• More
• Quick homeless hacks
• Being a woman and homeless

There are folks here who come from all walks of life and most likely have a lot more advice than I do. Seek help and never stop looking for it. Google resources for the homeless and start walking everywhere. Find your cities local festivals and see if you can score freebies. Always check the free areas of craigslist and see what people are willing to give. You are the only priority and you are the only one keeping yourself safe. Never trust anyone on the street.

Pm me if you need to ask more questions. I can do what I can, but I'm not in much of a position to help from afar. 

Thank you so very much.

[Sidewalk Surfboard]

22 minutes ago, 6tails said:

Mmm, nice and spicy Jambalaya from last night's broadcast sesh, all fresh from the slow cooker!

Don't lie, we all know you got drunk and vomited in a bowl and called it food.

[DrGravitas]

Hrm, the beurocrate is asking us if we have friends who might want to join the project; we're ramping up. Sadly, I have no friends outside work/internet, let alone any that have at least 3 years java application experience. :\

[DrGravitas]

8 minutes ago, 6tails said:

Anyone with any C programming skills can just as easily fill the role.

Gotta tick the boxes!

[fennecbyte]

35 minutes ago, 6tails said:

Anyone with any C programming skills can just as easily fill the role.

Please don't ever advocate this the other way around.
People will hate you.
A lot.

[Onnes]

5 minutes ago, george99g said:

Please don't ever advocate this the other way around.
People will hate you.
A lot.

I don't think it works that well this way around. Corporate C++ maybe.

[fennecbyte]

Just now, Onnes said:

I don't think it works that well this way around. Corporate C++ maybe.

It happens a lot with people thinking a C++ programmer can do C just as well, or a C++ programmer adding C to their resume because they're close enough.
Obviously this doesn't end in pleasant things happening.

[fennecbyte]

3 minutes ago, 6tails said:

Especially once they start coding without realizing that C does not come with native garbage collection!

They'll probably notice the lack of `new` first before anything else.

[Crazy Lee]

19 hours ago, Lucius said:

Forgive me for my future absences, I am now officially homeless, and staying with a friend for a short period of time. If you can give tips, that would be splendid. I reside in Michigan 

If you need any help Michigan has a huge amount of furries and I happen to know quite a few of them (mostly on FB). And not all of them are derps or freaks either. Some of them might be able to help you...might...

3 hours ago, 6tails said:

Especially once they start coding without realizing that C does not come with native garbage collection!

When I took a C++ class I don't remember garbage collection either, only in Java. When you were done with your shit, especially objects, you had to destroy them.

[Xaende]

5 hours ago, 6tails said:

Anyone with any C programming skills can just as easily fill the role.

Just one reason why I've decided to make C my primary language. I'm not a professional programmer, but it dovetails nicely with some of my work responsibilities and personal projects.

[Crazy Lee]

I like this. Looking at a local Honda dealership:

"If you want to know our special internet price, click on this link and enter your full name, phone, and email." Yea, that's so you guys can call me a bunch of times, and spam me a bunch to sell me a car. Sweet jesus you fuckers are transparent.

[FenrirDarkWolf]

One payment down, 5 more to go

[Lucius]

Well, I really did try today. Mental illnesses tend to get in my way and set me back... Ah, I'm so bloody hungry. 

I would be a maid, a butler, a cook, a watchdog, anything that'd mean I could have a roof over my head and earn meals.

[ArielMT]

If you want to drive one of those "I know C++ which means I know C" types crazy, write C in which you name variables after keywords/reserved words unique to C++.

[Falaffel]

So, uh....
I have the rest of this week until I'm out of work for the summer. I... don't know what to do. Should've thought of that. 

This last week is tiring for me, too. Not as tiring as it is for the kids, I'm sure, but... yeah.

I don't know how I'm going to survive summer. I can barely keep myself interested with the few hours I'm home now. I mean, you guys are pretty cool and all, but I'm not going to sit here 24/7 as that'd be unhealthy. Physically and mentally :v. I can't imagine being home alone all fucking day. I would say I don't know what I did back when I was in school, but truth is, I was depressed as shit then. Now that I'm not, I'm capable of going out and doing things... but I don't have anything I want to do. I'll probably get some kind of job. 

[Falaffel]

2 minutes ago, 6tails said:

If you're capable of learning a new coding language that is essentially C, I could always use help in testing my game and making tweaks here and there.

I'm planning on picking up a few certifications that I can pertaining to basically anything in the computer field. I guess while I'm at it, I'll get more into coding. I haven't touched it in years, though. What I did was basic, too. I'll try picking it up and getting back to you. If I follow through, it'd be a fun little thing to do, helping out. ^^

[root]

10 hours ago, george99g said:

They'll probably notice the lack of `new` first before anything else.

 

char *my_shitty_string = (char*)malloc(50);

Or something. C and C++ are too intimidating for me.

6 hours ago, Crazy Lee said:

When I took a C++ class I don't remember garbage collection either, only in Java. When you were done with your shit, especially objects, you had to destroy them.

That is correct. C++ does not have garbage collection. Maybe if you were targeting the .NET framework?

[Guest]

I did something pretty irrational today: I evaded school again, i.e. got out without permission before the due time. Thing is, I did it about just 40 minutes before the end. The last hour we were supposed to have french but the teacher couldn't come for whatever reason so we were supposed to get a substitute instead. Time 20 minutes and they still hadn't come. Normally I would have just waited it through like every normal person, but today I was particularly irritated so I went fuck all mode and just run away as soon as the janitor got distracted. Only two classmates saw me. If anyone of authority notices, I will come up with some excuse, even though I hate having to do that. If not, it will be a triumph. I don't see why I have to owe any kind of respect or discipline to a place that isn't giving me anything

I don't feel like going much into detail but I will say this, that I absolutely fucking loathe this goddamn school, or this blasted country's educational system in general for that matter: the State has made innumerable cuts in budget. School is seen as expendable here, and public schooling is awful. That is the sad truth. Throughout these 5 years (and thank God this is the last) highschool never managed to inspire me, it never made me feel like I was doing something concrete, useful, it never made me feel proud of the work I was doing. Indifference. That has been the predominant emotion, along with an ever increasing frustration. I feel like I did nothing but waste time. It's always been sitting through 6 hours of boring useless shit, muttered by inept and/or unmotivated teachers, 5 years of having to stay with the shittiest uninteresting classmates I ever had the misfortune of meeting. I hate this fucking place. It's so uninspiring, so unmotivating. It depresses me, frustrates me, infuriates me. The day I will finish school will be a happy day, and luckily that day is close. The sole reason why I'm still here is because I need that high school diploma

 

End of the rant/vent. I needed that, I already feel a little better. On a more positive note, school will remain closed tomorrow for maintenance so this means I get an extended week-end this time around 

[Endless/Nameless]

I'm really starting to hate my job. I don't care about the place, I can't stand being there, and the stress involved has been making me really uncharacteristically angry lately. I'm still sore from beating the shit out of a mattress earlier this week. 

Once again, I haven't even made it through a year, but it might be time to start looking for other employment. But what's the point if I'm just going to be unhappy anywhere else??

21 minutes ago, Amiir said:

Bad times

I belive I'd share your pain in that situation. Eck. That's the thing about school; it rarely stimulates a person in any positive way. 

[FenrirDarkWolf]

The only thing I ever really liked doing in HS was marching band.

[PastryOfApathy]

fuck my life

whatever I'm back

[Wax]

1 hour ago, 6tails said:

I see @Wax was brawling last night.

Nice teabag punch, mang!

I would not like to be on the receiving end of one of those 

[fennecbyte]

4 hours ago, Amiir said:

<snip/>

I feel you.
I'm pretty much in the exact same situation myself and I loathe every moment of it.

15 hours ago, 6tails said:

If you're capable of learning a new coding language that is essentially C, I could always use help in testing my game and making tweaks here and there.

It's closer to Python or Golang, really, coming from a C++ developer.

12 hours ago, 6tails said:

Native garbage collection is what I should have stressed. The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new.

Jesus fucking tapdancing software Christ, please stop shoving that garbage collector into low-level languages and learn how to deal with your trash yourself.
It's a low-level language for a reason. Other languages have already walked the garbage collector path.

16 hours ago, ArielMT said:

If you want to drive one of those "I know C++ which means I know C" types crazy, write C in which you name variables after keywords/reserved words unique to C++.

Even without that, trying to find a suitable name replacement for "private" was enough to drive me crazy.
"private_" just doesn't look right.

[fennecbyte]

Just now, 6tails said:

Good luck getting that into the head of any Java-primary developer.

Why not just use Java?

[fennecbyte]

4 minutes ago, 6tails said:

Far too many dependencies.

Out of the frying pan of Java dependencies and into the fire that is the C linker, huh?

[fennecbyte]

11 minutes ago, 6tails said:

Come join me in my pure ASM world.

Please no.
I don't want to reinvent the English alphabet, the periodic table and Newtonian physics so I can reinvent the wheel.

[Guest]

Everytime I wake up I have an increasing difficulty to realize I'm not dreaming anymore. Everytime I feel more confused. It's as if my mind is trying to clutch to the dream world for as much as it can since it knows the real one sucks. Sometimes I wish I could dream forever

[Wax]

17 minutes ago, Amiir said:

Sometimes I wish I could dream forever

While some dreams I have are super rad and really cool, the vast majority aren't, and I always tend to feel pretty bad in the morning whenever I've had a night's sleep and actually had a dream during it.

[Endless/Nameless]

22 minutes ago, Amiir said:

Everytime I wake up I have an increasing difficulty to realize I'm not dreaming anymore. Everytime I feel more confused. It's as if my mind is trying to clutch to the dream world for as much as it can since it knows the real one sucks. Sometimes I wish I could dream forever

It's always a letdown when you land back in reality, too. 

[Mapa]

Damn, all this programming talk makes me want to get back into programming. All I'm motivated to do is haskell though, which while interesting, is of... questionable utility.

Also it's weird as fuck, and a lot of the essential concepts you need to learn in order to do anything cool are really abstract. That's totally my game, but it's still a lot of work.

30 minutes ago, Endless/Nameless said:

It's always a letdown when you land back in reality, too. 

I'm kind of the opposite. Most of my dreams are moderately stressful, so it feels really good to wake up and realize none of it was real.

 

 

[DrGravitas]

Interviewing for new team members!

Pictured: How impressed I am by The Company's new-hire training program.

Hmm, I kind of feel like starting a "meeting doodles" thread in the art section...

Oh hey! Further new-process revisions! Guess what: New-Process Meeting 10. See previous image for how surprised I am.

Edited May 26, 2016 by DrGravitas
It keeps coming.

[Endless/Nameless]

Well, I've officially caught the commissions bug.

My favorite artist is probably gonna do something pretty cool for me; but she's been busy so she has to get back to me. Also, I have the perfect idea for my 2nd fave artist, but I'm not totally sure what his commissions status is currently and I haven't been able to get ahold of him...

It's surprisingly stressful?

1 hour ago, DrGravitas said:

Hmm, I kind of feel like starting a "meeting doodles" thread in the art section...

I'd love to see that!!!

[Crazy Lee]

Hmm, so let's see. KKK flyers in the mail about the evils of trans people in the bathrooms... Quoting a verse in Deuteronomy that talks about men dressing as women and vice versa... I see the KKK is trying to stay relevant and recruit people.

Someone on FB not understanding "The top 1% hold 50% of the wealth, while the bottom 50% of the world's population only have 1% of the wealth..." exponential curves, how do they ever work? 50% of the world is poor as shit.. although cost of living in each country means they might still get by.

 

7 hours ago, 6tails said:

I see @Wax was brawling last night.

Nice teabag punch, mang!

That bull has some balls. Literally.

[Wax]

10 minutes ago, Crazy Lee said:

Hmm, so let's see. KKK flyers in the mail about the evils of trans people in the bathrooms... Quoting a verse in Deuteronomy that talks about men dressing as women and vice versa... I see the KKK is trying to stay relevant and recruit people.

Stay classy, America

[Jerry]

22 hours ago, ArielMT said:

If you want to drive one of those "I know C++ which means I know C" types crazy, write C in which you name variables after keywords/reserved words unique to C++.

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
  
void catch();
int throw(int, long);

int main()
 {
  int bool;
  int cequalscplusplus;
  cequalscplusplus = false;
  
  printf("/"I know C++ so I know C as well: %s/"", cequalscplusplus);
  
  while(i<infinite)
  {
    throw(something);
    catch();
  }
  
  return 0;
 }

How did I do? C=

Probably terrible, it's been over two years since I last touched C programming LOL.

[Mapa]

One of my old friends who I haven't talked to in a few months just changed his Steam username to [name]_Teh_Wulf and changed his avatar to a furry pic.

lirally cant even

[root]

1 hour ago, Jerry said:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
  
void catch();
int throw(int, long);

int main()
 {
  int bool;
  int cequalscplusplus;
  cequalscplusplus = false;
  
  printf("/"I know C++ so I know C as well: %s/"", cequalscplusplus);
  
  while(i<infinite)
  {
    throw(something);
    catch();
  }
  
  return 0;
 }

How did I do? C=

Probably terrible, it's been over two years since I last touched C programming LOL.

Where's the definitions for throw and catch? D:

[Jerry]

36 minutes ago, root said:

Where's the definitions for throw and catch? D:

Hmm let's see...

int throw(int somejunklayingaround, long altitude)
{
  //I have no idea what to do with the variables LOL.
  return someresult;
}

void catch()
{
  //Again, no idea
}

I'm too rusty to come with more elaborate programming humour. <=C

I guess you can define them yourself if you feel like it.  

[Hewge]

What is the happenings, my fellow youngster brethren?

[FenrirDarkWolf]

29 minutes ago, Hewge said:

What is the happenings, my fellow youngster brethren?

I can't find any more otters and it makes me sad :'(

[Hewge]

8 minutes ago, 6tails said:

FA fucked up, Summercat blew up, FA white knights can't shut up, my weed ain't stocked up, and my belly is about to be fed up.

You?

Oh, you know. Just Hewge doing Hewge things, yes.

2 minutes ago, FenrirDarkWolf said:

I can't find any more otters and it makes me sad :'(

Do what I do and just draw them every day. Then there's always otters in your life!

...Or go to a zoo

[Mapa]

3 minutes ago, FenrirDarkWolf said:

I can't find any more otters and it makes me sad :'(

Wotter you doing with yourself?

If it makes you feel any better I think otters are great.

[FenrirDarkWolf]

10 minutes ago, Hewge said:

Do what I do and just draw them every day. Then there's always otters in your life!

...Or go to a zoo

Well, I can't find any more otter forum members D':

7 minutes ago, pothocket said:

Wotter you doing with yourself?

If it makes you feel any better I think otters are great.

EXCUSE YOU <3

6 minutes ago, 6tails said:

Come to SoCal and go to the place where we can swim with otters!

This just gives my mom more excuses to ship me to SoCal and tag along

[Endless/Nameless]

So here's funny little thing.
I'm streaming some of my music on a Discord server.

Anyone can join and listen:
https://discord.gg/012H9uln4mYSBjpvG

Tonight I have 3 albums from the Who queued. Starting soon.

If people like it I might do this once in a while?

[Kinare]

On a related note, Discord confuses and scares me (not just because of the name, nope). The UI is weird and I dunno where anything is and it bugs me that any time I open it I'm forced to join the server I joined via link. (I'm aware it's probably disabled somehow, but not in a super obvious fashion that 5 minutes of fiddling with random things couldn't fix, so /whine.) Luckily, I rarely have to use it.

 

I also have a small anecdote I really wanted to share and I dunno where else to put it, so here: I microwaved an ant the other day. I have no idea how it got in there, but it did. It survived 2 minutes and 5 seconds in there next to a bag of popcorn. Then, rather than save it from the torture it just endured, I drowned it.

"Why, Kinare, did you feel the need to share that?" I have no idea. I just thought it was interesting that this tiny little ant survived being cooked just to end up being sent to a watery grave. Stay away from my popcorn, asshole.

[#00Buck]

35 minutes ago, Kinare said:

I microwaved an ant the other day. I have no idea how it got in there, but it did. It survived 2 minutes and 5 seconds in there next to a bag of popcorn. Then, rather than save it from the torture it just endured, I drowned it.

"Why, Kinare, did you feel the need to share that?" I have no idea. I just thought it was interesting that this tiny little ant survived being cooked just to end up being sent to a watery grave. Stay away from my popcorn, asshole.

I'd love to come over and watch movies and eat popcorn with you while we drown living creatures in your kitchen sink. 

[ArielMT]

4 hours ago, Jerry said:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
  
void catch();
int throw(int, long);

int main()
 {
  int bool;
  int cequalscplusplus;
  cequalscplusplus = false;
  
  printf("/"I know C++ so I know C as well: %s/"", cequalscplusplus);
  
  while(i<infinite)
  {
    throw(something);
    catch();
  }
  
  return 0;
 }

How did I do? C=

Probably terrible, it's been over two years since I last touched C programming LOL.

It doesn't compile, but the gist is there.  The throw() prototype declares more parameters than its call passes (letting slide they're undefined), false is undeclared, the slashes in the printf() call should be backslashes, and i, infinite, and something are undeclared.  Not too bad for C knowledge that rusty.

[FenrirDarkWolf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC67o0GOGIU

 

[Mayonnaise]

Rodrigo Duterte can go fuck a cactus.