Then, they either stop working at all, or they race madly like they're in a time machine. I leave them alone for two weeks to a month and they become demagnetized, and I'd give it to a friend.ĭigital watches work fine for a couple of weeks. The analog watches' innards become magnetized to the point they stop functioning. I've tried watches you had to manually wind. I can wear the damned things forever, until they die from physical trauma. The response was universally predictable from my position: (stunned amazement and goggling eyes) "I don't understand this isn't supposed to happen." (heavy sigh, having been through this a billion times before) "Follow me." At my workstation, he watched as I checked the code, compiled the program, and reproduced the error. "That's impossible," he'd say when I explained what the computer was doing. I can't tell you how many times I'd get an error I didn't know how to fix- an error mysteriously generated by correctly-written code-and asking the lab tech how to fix it. Then it stopped working, and so on, ad nauseum.Ĭomputer Science experts will tell you this is impossible. PrintLine (not the real code this is pseudocode) stopped working. I was forced to learn all twelve because my programs kept malfunctioning unpredictably. In BASIC, before there was such a thing as Visual Basic, there were twelve different expressions to cause the printer to "print" an empty line, to cause the print head to advance two rows and then begin printing¹.Some of these commands I learned through experimentation, and the rest I got out of the VAX system manual. There was ALWAYS something going wrong, inexplicably wrong. Before I started teaching computer science, I learned how to code on and administer a VAX VMS-11 mainframe and its workstations. Gremlinkurst is my most common username, has been since I started studying Computer Science in 1984, Gremlin-Cursed being insufficiently unique. So, the only real question remains: Why did the two men open fire upon me the moment I entered the house the first time? Crap is SLOW to respawn in this game, if it ever does.Īnyway, we talked, and then I completed that part of the mission. That's never happened to me before in this game. As soon as the map loaded, I could immediately see that all the things I'd stolen on my last visit has respawned. I climbed out after him, and was able to make two verbal exchanges with him, and then he asked me to take a seat so we could talk, he began ignoring me as he SLO-O-O-O-OWLY walked back to his house. I dove into the water, immediately sinking to the bottom, only to see him swimming away and clambering out of the flooded depression. I went to loot the mirelurk carcass, and Jack's marker showed him submerged. I killed it, and when it blew up, he was thrown into a small but deep body of water. When I returned to Jack, he was still engaged with one creature. Shortly after my flight, Jack, still outside, became embroiled in a battle with mirelurks about three blocks northwest of Cabot House, across a bridge. I ran away so that I could teleport once out of their sight. Jack and Deegan followed me outside, still on the offensive. When I realized I was in the wrong building, on the wrong mission, I deactivated Special Delivery and re-activated Pickman's Gift, then fled the building. I'd fight both men into temporary submission, using the time to steal and search. I ran through the house stealing things while searching for the painting that was actually in a different house. Before a conversation even started……Jack and Deegan opened fire.
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