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... I understand why they use it - 99% of support requests should probably just go to "RTFM" - but ...
I'm playing GTA V, and it has a "Lucky wheel" you can spin to win the podium vehicle.
And at the beginning of this week, I did just that. Once you have won a vehicle, you can't win it again - you just get a "mystery reward" if you land on the "Car" square again.
Then yesterday I landed on the "Car", and ... won it. So I now have two Entity XF cars sitting side-by-side in my virtual garage.
That shouldn't happen, so I posted a bug report to Rockstar ... and got an automated message back saying Quote: We are sorry to hear that you have received RP instead of the podium vehicle. We would first like to apologize for the inconvenience caused and we greatly appreciate your patience regarding this matter.
We would like to inform you that you can only win one podium vehicle per week when spinning the Lucky Wheel. If you land on the prize again after winning the vehicle, you will be awarded RP instead. You can see a help text that appears before you accept to spin the wheel after winning the vehicle. This is as per the in-game design.
Automated tech support isn't really much good sometimes, is it?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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They could have shortened that message to, "working as coded." . 
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Very clever, indeed!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I actually saw that answer once in our company's incident system. Fortunately it was directed at a field engineer rather than the customer who made the initial complaint.
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The worst ones are when you try to report a bug in a website's "contact" page... 
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You are right, however, it is getting better all the time.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I left a scathing review of a restaurant's "call ahead" policy. I called ahead and when I got there I wasn't on the seating list - I was on the call ahead list and when they moved me to the seating list it was to the bottom of the list. Needless to say I left and let them page my cell phone multiple times before they gave up - costing them an open table for about 15 minutes. (I was already eating at a nearby restaurant when the first "your seat is ready" text came in.)
I left this on Google and the response was a "We're sorry your meal wasn't to your liking."
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Rockstar support does make it seem as though they want to go through this maze of options, and none I can find ever seems to be relevant, so you're left leaving messages in areas that really don't have anything to do with what you're trying to say.
Whether they ever have a human read any of these, I'll never know. I gave up trying to reporting various bugs.
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Sell the duplicate car at LS Autos. Should be worth a couple of dollars
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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It's worth $0.
If you win a car on the wheel, it has no value - so when you try to sell it, it reflects that. You will get back some value for any mods you've done to it, but ... only half. So if you win a car, upgrade it for $100,000 and then sell it, you'll get $50,000!
I'll just leave it to rot in a garage somewhere, and replace it with a better car later on when I need the space.
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Message Closed
modified 25-Jun-21 6:45am.
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Haven't you been told to put a sock in it about this before? You post only vacuous political musings, so I'm flagging this one.
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Seconded, I don't mind a semi-political post once in a while, but Brexit seems to be the only thing Bram ever posts about and every time he gets a warning for it.
This is really just bait for a flame war.
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Well, No,
This is not a bait for a Flame War. This was intended as a comedy remark.
Brexit however, has not gone away, it has "Not Been Done", despite the promises by Boris. In the end, he did not get Brexit Done, he left the NI part of the UK out of it. It is thankfully from my point of view still within the EU in many important aspects.
The bigger question is, what is deemed "Religious" or "Political". Religion or Politics, or both are part of peoples experience of life. Does that merely mean "Controversial". Is LGBT political?
Where is the Definition!
Is it out of bounds here to connect with people in Hongkong. because of laws there. If so, can they not protest on this forum about curtailment of democracy? I think there should be a wider policy debate here about how things are classified on the world stage.
Please consider this concept carefully
The lounge suggest free talk, and a place where one is free to talk about any issues, whatsoever. It is also a Physical Safe Place. No one knows each others front door, nor email address.
What is wrong with that.
Bram.
Bram van Kampen
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Be aware of the message at the top of the page regarding political postings:
Quote: Trolling, (political, climate, religious or whatever) will result in your account being removed.
You are walking a fine line here, and I suspect you may already have stepped over it.
As Chris has said, there are many other sites where you can discuss such things - this is not one of them.
I'd suggest deleting your post before someone more trigger happy than I decides it is political trolling and starts the process ...
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I've been spinning my wheels on a simple design issue I can't decide on for the life of me.
I've spent a quarter of the time on this actually writing code - which works, and does everything it needs to - and the rest of that time I've spent on basically one method, and what to return from it.
All to switch screen modes, and all because different screen modes *must be* different actual types.
So you have to return something from a screen mode change operation that you can draw to.
What do I with the old draw target from the previous mode???? This isn't even something I can really ask someone about.
I hate problems like this. They leave me feeling paralyzed and frustrated because I can't just code my way out of it. I can't put myself in the shoes of a person using my code in this instance to a degree that satisfies me. So I can't answer the question.
I've got $150 worth of hardware that was donated to me on the premise that I would write driver code for it, and I'm stuck on this one stupid issue and at this point it is ruining my day.
Yes, I've already taken a break from it. That's why it is taking so long. The question isn't difficult. It's just difficult to decide.
*headdesk*
Anyway, I'm just venting, and also typing this in hopes that putting it out there might lead to me making some headway, as happens occasionally.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Good luck!
I was going to say take a break.. but you already did... :/
Can you continue somehow and ignore that question for now? The best answer might make itself apparent if you manage to skip the problem for a while...
The details are a bit vague.. but if, say, a drawing directx surface became invalid, any further operation will fail with surface invalid or something.. how about that?
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That is one of the options - to fail on subsequent drawing operations.
The other - trickier but doable option is to allow both to continue working, but at the expense of more memory usage (since its holding both frame buffers), and the fact that your whole screen will change when you start to draw to the original target again.
I don't want this to be too difficult for people. That's one of the reason I kind of don't like the failing options. The problem with failing is that in this environment I cannot use exceptions. If people don't check return values, the fails are all silent.
But maybe in this case that's for the best. After writing this out to you I'm leaning toward that. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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perhaps you should have a method like ValidState IsValid(surfacePtr) so one could check the surface is valid or not and what happened to it?!
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I have something like that already on my targets.
Real programmers use butterflies
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All good then, I'd say! 
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Let the developer decide.
You are writing an api, right?
Choose a default. Allow for the opposite value.
Complete the easiest path.
By then, reality should be more clear. If not, implement the other path, and repeat the thought process.
Finally, how is it handled in other OSes? Older systems? Maybe they were right?
Good luck!
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First one is impossible. The code either works one way or it works the other.
The second one was basically my approach though both paths were non-trivial.
Older OS's and older systems were developed by people that either have never heard of generic programming, or avoided using it, so they've never encountered this issue.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Ask me about the application I began in 2009 and still haven't committed to a decision about a design choice I thought I had made.
Back in the 80s (? I think it was in Turbo Pascal at that time) I had also stalled for a year while working on a game -- I needed to decide how to score a roll of dice. But I eventually finished that one and later updated it to C# and WinForms.
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Something you mentioned earlier comes back to mind. Maybe changing your point of view is what's needed.
Switch over to writing a use-case for this API. What's the most useful behavior for what's being returned? If only one 'thing' can be active, and the returned item is no longer the active 'thing', then what about making the returned object read-only? You can return information from it that either doesn't require the active state, or is a copy of the last value held while the 'thing' was in the active state.
Software Zen: delete this;
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