You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I think those exist, actually, though I'm blanking on brand names. @calica might know...
My self of 25 years ago would have been in absolute awe of the possibility of having every NES, SNES and Genesis game on my computer....but that's what I have now.
also back in the day, games were the size of entire british isles
That's Daggerfall you're thinking of. Oblivion is much smaller. And I think that Daggerfall might be, like, 60-90 percent as many square miles as the British Isles (at least from my dimly remembered internet searches from 2018)
I don't think anybody ever detailed a game world as big as what you're suggesting without procedural generation or other random-generation stuff. That's like, Idaho big (well, Idaho-in-silhouette. Actual Idaho is three-dimensional, and if its hills and mountains were flattened so as to make it flat, then it'd be bigger than any of the continental 48 if they were flattened).
also back in the day, games were the size of entire british isles
That's Daggerfall you're thinking of. Oblivion is much smaller. And I think that Daggerfall might be, like, 60-90 percent as many square miles as the British Isles (at least from my dimly remembered internet searches from 2018)
I don't think anybody ever detailed a game world as big as what you're suggesting without procedural generation or other random-generation stuff. That's like, Idaho big (well, Idaho-in-silhouette. Actual Idaho is three-dimensional, and if its hills and mountains were flattened so as to make it flat, then it'd be bigger than any of the continental 48 if they were flattened).
Yeah, I was riffing on Daggerfall.
I don't think all of that area is actually filled with as meaningful landscape as the British Isles in real life have, though, of course.
Well, that would have simply been impossible with the technology they were making Daggerfall with, in the time it took them to make Daggerfall.
As is, Daggerfall is still remarkable as a technical achievement and as a pile of bugs. My favorite description of it is something along the lines of "I think the creators had a time-travelled vision of Skyrim, and then they made a cargo-cult version with more moving parts than the real thing".
IJBM: when my credit card expires, the bank mails me a new one. Aside from the security code and expiry date, all the information is identical to the old one. Why then does every website that has my credit card info saved insist that I re-enter everything rather than just updating what's changed?
I'm half expecting the answer to be "well, in the US you get a new credit card number and also a new name and address when your card expires, so they designed the system with that in mind".
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I mean, usually you get a new number in the US but also most of my new cards have been after fraud happened so
I think this is something they specifically do in cases of fraud. When your card just expires, you generally get the same number, but a new security code and (obviously) new expiration date.
To answer Lucy's question, I think it's just a matter of developers taking a shortcut, because I have seen at least one website that recognized a stored card had expired and asked me to update the relevant information, so it can be done, clearly. It just seems most developers choose not to implement that feature, perhaps because credit/debit cards expire so infrequently that they don't think it's worth the time saved for the end user.
I mean, usually you get a new number in the US but also most of my new cards have been after fraud happened so
I think this is something they specifically do in cases of fraud. When your card just expires, you generally get the same number, but a new security code and (obviously) new expiration date.
Can vouch for this.
Got a replacement card; no card number change, just security code and expiration date change.
Then got another replacement card shortly after that, after being informed that I had used the card at a potentially compromised merchant. (They never even told me who said merchant was.)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
One of my pet peeves is websites that will attempt to automatically add spacing to a credit card number, but assume that all credit card numbers should be split into groupings of four digits.
So you'll go to enter an American Express card number and it'll format it as:
3714 4963 5398 431
When it should actually be: 3714 496353 98431
If you're going to add smart spacing, at least go to the effort to recognize what kind of card number is being entered and apply the appropriate spacing for that kind of card number!
(For those who are worried, that's not a real card number. I Googled a list of fake but algorithmically valid credit card numbers used for testing software.)
To answer Lucy's question, I think it's just a matter of developers taking a shortcut, because I have seen at least one website that recognized a stored card had expired and asked me to update the relevant information, so it can be done, clearly. It just seems most developers choose not to implement that feature, perhaps because credit/debit cards expire so infrequently that they don't think it's worth the time saved for the end user.
See the thing that's annoying is, sure the card only expires every few years, but there are a whole lot of places to update each time.
(My card actually expired months ago but my domain registrar didn't bug me until renewal was coming up. Also given that it auto renews and I rarely need to touch it otherwise, updating my card info is probably a quite large fraction of my interactions with them.)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
To answer Lucy's question, I think it's just a matter of developers taking a shortcut, because I have seen at least one website that recognized a stored card had expired and asked me to update the relevant information, so it can be done, clearly. It just seems most developers choose not to implement that feature, perhaps because credit/debit cards expire so infrequently that they don't think it's worth the time saved for the end user.
See the thing that's annoying is, sure the card only expires every few years, but there are a whole lot of places to update each time.
This is the kind of thing that (a) makes perfect sense and (b) a lot of developers probably wouldn't think about unless it was explicitly pointed out to them.
They think "they'll only have to do this every three years, why does it matter?" and totally miss that you'll have to do it dozens of times. It's the equivalent of the professor who assigns an extra bit of reading not realizing that your professors in all your other classes are also assigning an extra bit of reading thinking they're the only one doing it.
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They are all JRPGs.
I have a problem.
A problem that my bank account isn’t big enough.
thank god they’re not all released at the same time
hi
I'm not sure the computer would be usable after that though
The game with the So Awful It’s Hilarious character creation
Yeah, I was riffing on Daggerfall.
I don't think all of that area is actually filled with as meaningful landscape as the British Isles in real life have, though, of course.
> also get a new name when your card expires
lolwut
But yeah the real answer is the security code and expiry date.
To answer Lucy's question, I think it's just a matter of developers taking a shortcut, because I have seen at least one website that recognized a stored card had expired and asked me to update the relevant information, so it can be done, clearly. It just seems most developers choose not to implement that feature, perhaps because credit/debit cards expire so infrequently that they don't think it's worth the time saved for the end user.
Got a replacement card; no card number change, just security code and expiration date change.
Then got another replacement card shortly after that, after being informed that I had used the card at a potentially compromised merchant. (They never even told me who said merchant was.)
When it should actually be:
3714 496353 98431
If you're going to add smart spacing, at least go to the effort to recognize what kind of card number is being entered and apply the appropriate spacing for that kind of card number!
(My card actually expired months ago but my domain registrar didn't bug me until renewal was coming up. Also given that it auto renews and I rarely need to touch it otherwise, updating my card info is probably a quite large fraction of my interactions with them.)
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