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Clearly.
We got a new contender here! 
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Here’s a tip for you if you play GTA on PC. If you have to do anything in a public session, there is a way to kick everyone out of your session so you can do whatever you need unimpeded. Open resource monitor, find the GTA,exe (I usually look for it in the network tab) right click on the exe and select suspend process. Wait about 8 to 10 seconds and then select resume process. This won’t stop people rejoining your session but I find most ppl look for a new session if it’s nearly empty. If you’re using a console, I think interrupting your internet connection for about 10 seconds should achieve the same thing.
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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I went the extra step and wrote a tray utility that looks for the configured program (gta5.exe in this case) and suspends it for 10 seconds just by double-clicking the tray icon. Works like a champ and it's very quick (alt-tab out of the game, double-click on icon), which is especially handy when you see an Oppressor MK2 coming your way fast and you just know what his intent is...
I wonder if there would be interest here on CP for it. I use it only for GTA, but it's generic enough you can pick any running EXE to suspend for X amount of time.
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I’d certainly be interested in it.
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Maybe GTA V is growing up?
Never!
OriginalGriff wrote: Anyone else noticed this?
What I have noticed is that people's interest in the game is waning, so it's not uncommon to find a session where a large portion of players just wanna do their thing and leave others alone.
That being said, I still wouldn't make a blanket statement and claim the griefers have moved on. There's still plenty of those. You don't have to look for very long before finding them.
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Aye, I was in a public session on Sunday and there were at least 3 modders and a griefer wreaking havoc with everyone else’s game. Not a great deal has changed imo
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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Modder vs modder. Nothing good can ever come out of that. Switching sessions is the only solution.
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Yeah I met a modder as well - nothing too bad, but I parked my Agency SUV outside my Arcade and came back to find a massive pile of SUVs waiting for me. Since one of 'em had landed on it's wheels, I drove that one away instead.
Not as bad as the idiot filling the tuners track with boats while you are trying to drive round it, but ...
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: Not as bad as the idiot filling the tuners track with boats while you are trying to drive round it, but ...
LOL
I haven't seen that one yet. I'm sure it's just a matter of time...
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This sounds like my teenage daughter. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That was my cat yesterday.
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that's my cat every day!
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Sleep around noises (7)
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Pick one: SLUMBER or RUMBLES
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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YAUT - Monday is not my best day
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I dunno - it was a pretty good one!
"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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Oooh! Bidirectional!
I had come up with SLUMBER anagraming around to RUMBLES as the definition of NOISES. Going the other direction hadn't occurred to me until I saw OriginalGriff's response. But, it works that way too. If I hadn't found slumber after a while I would have reversed my thinking to assume SLEEP was the definition. If I had then found RUMBLES I might very well have given the solution of anagraming RUMBLES to SLUMBER as the definition for SLEEP.
So, would you have accepted either answer when you set the clue? Was it intended that way?
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When I saw OG's reply I realised I had to accept either answer - it really wasn't a very good clue
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You missed the rest of the statement:
Programming == Coding ? "I am a programmer" : "He is a coder";
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Not watching that.
The activities of "Computer Programming" include(d) the process of plugging wires into very early computers -- which, I dare say, is not coding.
Like those early computers, I don't know that "Coding" really exists anymore. I'm sure others on here can provide a more accurate view. I never used punch cards, but is it not the case that an engineer would define the program and then hand it to a "coder" to punch the appropriate cards? (An early version of pair programming?)
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I used punch cards while in college ('76-80). I was the programmer and the coder. But, at my first job after I'd graduated, they no longer used punch cards. That had stopped a few years before I started.
Back when they did use punch cards, the programmers wrote their code by hand on Fortran coding sheets. The sheets were given to keypunch girls (back then no self-respecting man ever took a typing course.). They typed up the cards and gave them back to the programmer who turned the deck into the system operators. The deck was read and run and the results given back to the programmer. You could generally get 2 runs in per day. Turn the deck in before lunch, after lunch check the results, make corrections then turn in the fixed deck before heading home that day. Next morning, get last night's results and the wheel gets another turn. The key puncher had no idea about the code, they blindly typed in what was on the coding sheets. Although, I was told the really good ones would fix simple errors on the sheets if they saw an obvious one, like a misspelled key word. So, not really pair programming at all.
When I started, the company had terminals connected to the mainframe. About 1 terminal for every 4 programmers. So, we still wrote our code onto coding sheets but we took them to a terminal and typed them in ourselves. You had to sign up for 2 hour terminal sessions but you could often find an open one where someone had finished their session early. You could often get 3, 4 or even 5 runs in a day then, though we usually printed out failed results and desk debugged since the mainframe had no debugger.
It took 4 years before some exec figured out that giving $25k programmers each their own $200 terminal was a financial no brainer. Still no debugger though. Ahhh, those halcyon days working on an 1100 series mainframe at Sperry Univac. I miss them like last year's root canal. 
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Been there done that as well.FreedMalloc wrote: I miss them like last year's root canal
My root canal last year was a piece of cake. The dental surgery the year before, not so much (trismus ('lock jaw') and a 10-day migraine).
Software Zen: delete this;
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