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budokaiman
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Posted: 15th Mar 2015 19:12
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Page.

Also, why does AppGameKit use floats for everything? I can guarantee that my screen width / height will never be anything other than an integer.

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swissolo
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Quote: "Also, why does AppGameKit use floats for everything? I can guarantee that my screen width / height will never be anything other than an integer."

Maybe when monitors hit 40k resolutions we'll divide pixels into fractions to comprehend the number of them

Also, it seems The Posting Competition is one of the only places I see activity anymore. Perhaps the boards should be consolidated to simply be a single link to this thread

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Posted: 15th Mar 2015 20:45
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They use floats so that the virtual resolution stuff works properly. Though I'm sure there's a bunch of people that aren't aware of float accuracy degradation, which can cause a bunch of bugs.

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budokaiman
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Quote: "They use floats so that the virtual resolution stuff works properly"

Seems unnecessary. If the virtual resolution is only going to be set once, just do a single cast there to determine virtual res.

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Posted: 15th Mar 2015 22:13
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But the calculations are usually resolution independent. At least as much as possible.

I really hope AppGameKit Basic makes sure it compares floats properly.

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budokaiman
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Posted: 15th Mar 2015 22:23 Edited at: 15th Mar 2015 22:23
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Quote: "But the calculations are usually resolution independent. At least as much as possible."

Not entirely sure which calculations you mean here. The in-game ones (ie calculating sprite positions based on virtual resolution)?

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Dar13
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Quote: " Not entirely sure which calculations you mean here. The in-game ones (ie calculating sprite positions based on virtual resolution)?"

Probably. I'm not running quite at 100% today.

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Posted: 16th Mar 2015 01:03 Edited at: 16th Mar 2015 23:11
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Quote: "There was a post there, it seems a mod removed it."

Apparently The Next did that once... Removed a post so he got points sounds like something Clonkex would have done lol

edit: or was it BiggAdd?


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Posted: 16th Mar 2015 03:03 Edited at: 16th Mar 2015 03:13
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Flashing Cyanogen onto my S5. Nervous. And failed badly, looks like I'm staying with TouchWiz for now. Heimdell doesn't work.
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So I have this bottle of hand sanitizer I got from the dollar store. On the front, it's branded "Visibly Clean". On the back, the manufacturer is labeled as "Brands International Corp". Could they be any more generic with their branding?

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@DJD64

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Posted: 17th Mar 2015 02:31 Edited at: 17th Mar 2015 04:17
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Quote: "sounds like something Clonkex would have done"


Hey, I'm still here you know! And for the record, when TheComet and MrHandy spammed the PC with MLP posts and they were all removed, I deleted a couple of posts for DJD64 and Dar13 (man my memory is GOOD today!) so that they wouldn't have unfair double-posts.

Quote: "Flashing Cyanogen onto my S5. Nervous. And failed badly, looks like I'm staying with TouchWiz for now. Heimdell doesn't work."


What happened? Heimdall works perfectly for me every time. Assuming you followed the instructions, you would have used WinUSB, right? That driver is a bit buggy. If the problem was Heimdall failing to communicate with the phone, try it again but use LibUSBK this time.

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The MAF sensor arrived yesterday. We didn't immediately install it, however, because after minimal inspection I noticed there were obvious signs of tampering with the brand names (they'd been ground off). After strongly questioning the eBay seller, they assured us that the part was indeed genuine and that it's VDO themselves that grinds the brands off since they create OEM parts for Land Rover and BMW, and the parts can't keep those brands for legal reasons when sold after-market. They told us that was standard practice and that they'd been selling genuine VDO parts for years. What they said makes sense to us, and they're a big, UK-based seller, so we're inclined to just believe them. We've installed the MAF now, but we have yet to test it. I'm afraid to try it in case it does nothing at all and we'll have wasted $180.... then again, unplugging the old one made no difference whatsoever to anything which means it wasn't working at all, so there's a good chance the new one will change something.

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I used both drivers both of them failed to transfer.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m1bT7sLIHQ
This song sounds like a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

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Posted: 18th Mar 2015 01:37 Edited at: 18th Mar 2015 01:39
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Almost stole a car today...

I decided against it when the torrent reached 99%.

Quote: "This song sounds like a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive."


Not as much as this one.

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Quote: "Not as much as this one."


False.

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Posted: 18th Mar 2015 02:12
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So yeah, Old School Runescape is out. I've been playing it far too much I think.

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Posted: 18th Mar 2015 02:16
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Lol.

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Posted: 18th Mar 2015 03:11
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Quote: "False."


I'm guessing you're too young to get it.
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Posted: 18th Mar 2015 03:46 Edited at: 18th Mar 2015 03:47
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Quote: "I'm guessing you're too young to get it. "
How is one that what said that? No, seven times, but only there. Or else, really, they said that. But anyway, there isn't really when. Just saying. Anyone else agree?

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Posted: 18th Mar 2015 11:30 Edited at: 18th Mar 2015 11:34
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Hmm... you're probably doing something wrong. I've never had it fail before except when I made a mistake. Check capitalisation as it's very case-sensitive. Wait, are you using the cmd-line or the GUI?

Quote: "This song sounds like a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive."


Vaguely, I guess... but the sound quality is way too good.

Quote: "Not as much as this one."


Not even close

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Posted: 18th Mar 2015 13:18
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Sad count : 4
Happy count : 2
Your happiness for today : -2

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Quote: " Check capitalisation as it's very case-sensitive. Wait, are you using the cmd-line or the GUI?"


Typed it exactly as the article told me to. Command line, was using powershell.
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Quote: "Not even close"


Errrrrrr you guys have all had crappy childhoods.
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Check Capitalism as it's very case-sensitive

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I know I am a fanboy, but seeing the videos of the new FFXV demo has me psyched and has me seriously considering buying a PS4 just to play it.



I was worried you might not be able to summon and they were leaning too much to action-RPG, but actually seems like there's a number of elements they are keeping with out it being a mindless button mash and on a couple of videos I am hearing talk of a tactical approach. For me, one reason I've loved FF games because there is a tactical approach to the game. XIII felt watered down in that approach, XIII-2 added more, but still needed work. XIV is great for it, but is the MMO (though sadly, when you learn a fight, it's in your muscle memory and the only thing that challenges you are people who don't know the fight so well).

Also, speaking of, the expansion for FFXIV can now be pre-ordered and is coming out in June...I am psyched about that too.



Apparently there's going to be as much content in this expansion on its own as there was on release of A Realm Reborn.

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Posted: 19th Mar 2015 05:08
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No, actually I grew up playing MAME, Mega Drive and SNES games and I have that Mega Drive sitting under my bed, hooked up to an old CRT TV.

Quote: "Typed it exactly as the article told me to. Command line, was using powershell."


What article? I've never seen one say to use PowerShell.


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But you never beat Sonic 2.
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Posted: 19th Mar 2015 11:55 Edited at: 19th Mar 2015 12:03
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Quote: "But you never beat Sonic 2."


Not unless you count using level select codes in the sound test menu I got to the final boss on Sonic The Hedgehog 2 a little while ago (without cheating once and all with an original controller on the original console) with about 5 lives, but a series of idiot mistakes and some panics resulted in losing all 5 lives I'll try again when I've got a free Sunday some time

EDIT: ARGH I wish someone would buy my quad already! I want the money to buy a Wacom Intuos Pro! I was hoping it would magically sell really quickly because rcgroups.com is so popular, but alas, it seems I must put forth more effort to achieve the desired result. Hmm... leave it longer and hope someone becomes interested... or attempt to sell the parts individually...?


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I wish someone would not buy my points

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I don't know what I'm doing with my life any more.

http://www.gamedev.net/topic/666788-doge-indirection/?p=5217690

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I should do that in Exotreve. No CPU cache there.

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I don't get it?



Avoid being banned when? And for how long?
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Operator overloading is fun.



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And that's why I don't use C++ templates. That right there.

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Quote: "And that's why I don't use C++ templates. That right there."


Ok, here's one without templates:


It's not a template related problem.

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And that's why I don't like programming problems. That right there.

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That's why I don't like problems, that right there.
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If you're gay then talk about top things being professional.
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The top one looks far more professional to me.

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Thanks, that's what I thought!
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I see what you did there.

Quote: "Who can use neotame?
People of all ages, including pregnant or breastfeeding women, teens and children, and people with diabetes, can enjoy products sweetened with neotame while maintaining a healthful diet."
They may want to reword the part about pregnant children..

So the Land Rover dealer we have been working with is pretty awesome. After they heard that our Land Rover had a gas leak after they repaired it, they asked to have the Land Rover back in their shop so they could fix it for free. All the while, they allowed us to use the nifty Range Rover. It gets even better though! The shop is in a city called Boulder, about a 1.5 hour drive from here. They drove the fixed Land Rover all the way here, but when they did, we discovered that they had accidentally left the floor mats back in Boulder. So the guy literally drove all the way back to Boulder, got the mats, drove them back here, and drove all the way back to Boulder again. All that for free, even after we told him to just mail them back. That's some pretty neat customer service. Oh, they also washed the car too for free.

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I just wanted to update you guys on our robot's performance in the Wisconsin Regional. This has been the best day ever for the team. Our robot has performed to a near perfect level, has overcome many diverse problems and has still come out strong. We are currently placed 2nd out of 60 teams! Wish us luck that we keep up the performance tomorrow, getting through the eliminations into the final rounds!

You can watch our progress on Saturday: http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2015wimi

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Sorry about that, just realised it probably wasn't a good idea to put my personal contact details on a board full of strange people.

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Quote: " It's not a template related problem."

Templates just make it nastier looking. *shrug* I abhor boilerplate like that is all.

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Boilerplate that is all what?
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Quote: "Templates just make it nastier looking."


Templates have their uses.
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Ah, I love satirical (I think) videos about Apple products.

WARNING: Plenty of bad words that the AUP does not like. I've seen other users post content like this in a similar manner; I hope this is okay. Mods, feel free to take this down if it still goes too far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyTA33HQZLA

*facepalm times 10* Ugh. Some. Software. Is. So bad. I installed a Realtek audio driver, so that I could get back StereoMix functionality (which disappeared for no apparent reason). The website was awful, for one. No matter, though. I get the driver, gives me the StereoMix. What else does it do? It enables some extremely stupid mode (which took forever to find and disable) that amplified the volume of the sound like crazy, removed lots of bass, and gave it an odd echo. Sounded like I was listening through a tin can. When I get to the setting, it was a setting called 'optimized for music listening'. I turn the setting off, and sure enough everything is better. How stupid can they get? Somehow doubling the volume, removing bass, and adding echoes are good for music listening? /cf

To add to all of that, Spotify's recent update is bloody stupid. I have a plugin that allows me to equalize the audio levels. It still works after the (involuntary) update, by miracle, but I can't access the equalizer's setting window. When, by chance, I do get it to work, Spotify won't let me get rid of the window. It just stays there, fills up an entire column of the screen with black, and flashes a lot. Some really serious UI programming bugs going on there. Do they test their updates at all before they force them out?

I need to learn not to hit my hands together when I am angry (I lost it at the prospect of the driver irreversibly messing up the audio before I found the setting). Really red right now, they are.

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Quote: " Boilerplate that is all what? "

Like what TheComet showed. If those operators had to be even a bit more complex, that would be truly painful to write.

And of course templates have their uses (unlike Java generics...), I just don't like using them if I don't have to. Personal opinion/coding standard.

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