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I hope what I deleted wasn't important. Some apps whose names showed up in the list still work, so I'm guessing it deleted cache files or something (it didn't tell me what they were), but still.
Edit: on second thought, "quit" is not a good translation, but in this context it should mean basically the same thing.
why is this a whole separate button
In case you're curious what this is: https://www.gog.com/game/collection_ii
Yes, it's a digitally-sold video game bundle.
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and this just happened
How easy is it to find compatible video cards for your computer?
Edit: Also, the graphics card bus thing is PCI-Express 2.0 x8
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IJBM: Touchpads without physically separate buttons.
Mobile Firefox in portrait mode has the tiniest space for actually being able to edit the address bar due to all the side buttons so you always end up going into reading mode instead of editing a URL.
Microsoft's latest major Windows 10 update went and ate some people's documents folder for no reason. That sure is terrifying.
YouTube in 2010
Results:
YouTube in 2018
Results:
*video actually just driving around and walking with camera in hand for like 15 minutes, then walking into a theater, then walking out and talking for five minutes
Next day I tried again and it's been working mostly fine since, way better than it's been since months, other than some unwarranted hiccups when loading audio/textures (much less common than before) and the occasional audio distortion that been there since reformatting (and may not have to do with the card), so yeah, it seems fine. I've been told that the fact that it can get better at random is a clue that what's wrong with it is that it's loose or dirty (rather than a corrupted bios or anything that can't be fixed easily).
Also in the middle of the night during one of these episodes of the GPU puking its guts, as the screen was unusable I accidentally made Cortana say some stuff, and when the screen came back up, the sudden distorted voice along with the corrupted screen was scary as hell.
Y'know, I think this has more to do with the popularity of a thing. If you look for, say, a not-very-popular anime series, you'll find stuff like the first group. If you look for some sort of cult-hit thing with lots of potential for commentary (e.g. Undertale) on the other hand, you'll get a bunch of people who want to get in on the social trend for that commentary and/or want to share their thoughts on whatever.
oh fuck you,
"no original research""no posting stuff that someone else didn't already post elsewhere, unless you spend the time to dig it up on the internet, even if it's really damn obvious to the point where everyone just knows this and doesn't expend effort to specifically write about it" ruleBut I guess Wikipedia has to have ridiculous standards or it'll go down the toilet because real life is all about extremes.
There's this? It's a terrible source considering the primary point of the article but it exists.
In fact I have never seen (by which I mean played myself or watched gameplay footage of) any game with damage count displays that max out at four digits.
Have you ever considered that you're just being myopic?
* the article that fourteenwings linked talks about this cap for the final fantasy series in general, which shows that 9999 cap is definitely a thing. some of the methods for exceeding the damage cap that are mentioned in that article are only available in remake versions of games.
* https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2343/ for Final Fantasy IV damage, and also for HP: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/522596-final-fantasy-ii/67920325 (this doesn't mention paladin Cecil but that's because he already hits 9999 in regular gameplay)
* https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/950181-chrono-trigger/53518091 for Chrono Trigger
* https://www.mariowiki.com/Geno_Whirl and this video for Super Mario RPG
* level cap in Disgaea: https://disgaea.fandom.com/wiki/Level
Frankly speaking, when you have a decimal digit display, it is fully logical to expect caps at numbers like 9, 99, 999, 9999, and so on. Three and four digits tend to be the most common numbers of digits used for things like HP and damage. Exceeding them either results in the damage being capped, or the number glitching out (meaning 9999 is the functional display cap), or the damage exceeding it anyway but the number having a display max.
Level is more typically capped at 99, just to make level ups feel more meaningful; Disgaea is the only game I know of that takes level up to 9999. (9 and 99 are common limits for item stacks in the inventory.)
Video games also have extra considerations like whether or not you own a compatible device and the fact that skills in one type of game does not translate to another. Contrast to like, books or prose in general where compatible hardware isn't a concern, and you don't need to develop an entirely separate set of reading skills to go from one genre to another. Combined that with the sheer diversity, it's unreasonable to expect people who play one category (whether based on gameplay genre or just the particular device) of games to know any specifics about another.
Even in all my years of looking up games I haven't/can't play, I remember far more about story and lore than I do about mechanics.
And you know, you're completely disregarding the probably large demographic of people who don't play enough games of any category to notice anything allegedly common. Considering some of the more infamous timesinks, it's entirely possible to spend loads of time every day for years and years on only a small number of titles.
The article, and the example you provided was about the number 9999 specifically, not straight nines in general.
I'm not sure if this is actually all that common. Just randomly looking, Baldur's Gate had an XP cap that only let you reach like, 8, and the sequel with its expansion goes up to 40 (but lower for certain classes). WoW started out with a level cap of 60, but it's been raised at various times, usually at intervals of 10, and it's never been a number ending in 9.
Six digit display = 999999 score cap.
9999 as an HP and damage cap may be specific to JRPGs (where HP counts in the thousands are both common and also actually displayed to the player), though in honesty sometimes that damage cap is pretty much never reachable in normal gameplay unless one specifically tries to exceed it (see that SMRPG video I posted earlier, where you can actually deal more than 9999 damage but you just end up glitching the display; in normal gameplay you won't be dealing more than several hundred damage at a time, unless you're absolutely godly with Mario's multi-jump abilities in which case you'd likely only make it to the four digits).
But this is basically just a subgroup of straight-nines as a display quirk in videogames (or more generally, any digit-limited display, but videogames are an application where programmers can and often do take advantage of the quirk to impose limits at these numbers).
^^^ This entire post is basically saying "I don't know this so it doesn't exist".
Am I not part of "everybody" just because my standards for what's "common" aren't the same as yours?
Unless you're defining "everybody" as "everybody who has comparable experience as me", which is a terrible standard for adding to a general reference site.
(see section "Interface-Induced Cap")
But someone there will probably try to make a big stink about using TVT as a source.
And that page has plenty of examples that aren't straight nines. Plus, going ctrl F shows that most instances of "9,999" are parts of bigger numbers, not nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine specifically, which means they're not actually relevant to your Wikipedia edit.
Your attempt at adding "9,999 is a common cap" on the article about that specific number (and not straight nines in general) without citation on the basis of "it's something everybody just knows" relies on a poor standard of "everybody". It might not even be all that common since (see second paragraph of my previous post).
Also, any premise of "everybody knows" is pretty awful since you will never literally mean "everybody", which makes it way too easy to abuse. I could claim say 150 (or any number) is a common number in Ancient Balinese Literature (or any obscure niche) on a basis that "everybody who's into this knows", and if they simply accept that I could outright make things up and have it stay on the article for years if I pick a topic that few people are likely to be able to tell it's wrong.
If you're going to suggest they simply not accept this reasoning when it's a niche enough subject, that's a terrible standard consideirng there's no solid way to define what is or isn't too obscure, since popularity is not static. The onus should be on the person making the statement to show that it's true, not on everyone else to be able to tell whether or not said person is BSing.
Not everybody knows everything, of course.
The point is that people with different expertise/experience can offer their knowledge to those without it.
So of course someone who doesn't play videogames won't know about damage caps. But people who've played games generally know what a cap is in the sense of a limit on a numerical quantity, and those people who've played the relevant games have seen it.
So basically, I'm sorry when I said "everyone" in my first post about this I didn't specifically qualify this to "anyone who's played [a list of videogames where such a cap exists one way or another]" because I was just making an offhand comment as opposed to writing up a formal line of reasoning detailing the specific basis for my opinion.