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Indicium
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2014 03:20 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2014 03:21
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You're probably going to have to elaborate on that completely.

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Yodaman Jer
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Quote: "Complaining about a 7 hour shift? That's like an at-least for most people"


I forgot to mention that I h ave a migraine for the first time in my life, which explains my earlier pains and aches. I feel like someone crushed my brain with a lemon and then put salt into it. Lights and motion are making me nauseous and my monitor even shifted colors from eye to eye a second ago and got all blurry.

Also I worked a 10-hour day the other day and an 8-hour morning shift right after that, so while 7 hours IS shorter than most of my shifts lately, I haven't had a day off in like 8 days and feel really beat.

So I feel justified complaining about a 7 hour shift, basically.


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Fair enough.
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MrValentine
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2014 04:47 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2014 05:21
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Quote: "So I feel justified complaining about a 7 hour shift, basically."


Not really... try 9 hours a day for 21 months... with maybe 1 or 2 days break a month... having your own shop is fun I think some may recall my Shop Episodic posts

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Yodaman Jer, You got mail err Messages...

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2014 07:35 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2014 07:36
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Well now I know for sure I have a migraine, I have every single one of these symptoms (minus the frequent urination, I actually have the opposite problem where no matter how much water I drink I don't seem to need to use the bathroom, would be great for a long night of coding ).

Doesn't mention much about a migraine making you feel bad all-over like an errant global variables causing all kinds of bugs, but from what I can tell it must be related since it hurt my neck, which in turn hurt my shoulders, which in turn hurt my arms... you get the idea.

Two days ago I was yawning uncontrollably and also butchering my words, if I had known then what I know now I would have been more careful and prepared myself for this. I wouldn't wish a migraine on my worst enemy.

Also my knees hurt but I think that's from something else, I did a lot of lifting at work yesterday and when I was lifting a box I bashed my legs into a flatcart. Yay.


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Posted: 23rd Dec 2014 14:42 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2014 14:43
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Yodaman Jer, grab a Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodle, you will feel much better [I think you are in the UK right?]

My guess is your bedroom has a large window which is not covered by a thick curtain... that rheumatism on the shoulders indicates you may have slept with cold air breathing down on you... hence the migraine...

But there are so many reasons to have those symptoms...

Spice usually helps in those situations... Onions, Garlic, Ginger and Peppers should help clean out your system

I think I also accidently gave away my Chef background there.......

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Oh and remember you got messages...

Also I think you may have a cold soon, as you may not be used to so much over working...

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Yeah, I figured it was an overlapping memory error. Especially when I saw how complex it was.

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2014 16:27
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Anybody else applying for Rezzed Leftfield 2015?

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Quote: "Yodaman Jer, grab a Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodle, you will feel much better [I think you are in the UK right?]

My guess is your bedroom has a large window which is not covered by a thick curtain... that rheumatism on the shoulders indicates you may have slept with cold air breathing down on you... hence the migraine...

But there are so many reasons to have those symptoms...

Spice usually helps in those situations... Onions, Garlic, Ginger and Peppers should help clean out your system

I think I also accidently gave away my Chef background there.......

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Oh and remember you got messages...

Also I think you may have a cold soon, as you may not be used to so much over working..."


No, I'm in the USA unfortunately.

Yes, my bedroom does have a large window but it is covered by a curtain, although the other night it was so cold it didn't seem to matter.

And I do feel like I'm coming down with a cold, my throat is dry and my head still hurts but it's no where near as bad as yesterday. What a week to be sick, I guess this is what I get for Christmas.

I will respond to the message shortly!


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I'm not sure if the steam sale isn't good this year, or I just already own too many games.

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Just noticed portal 2 in my steam library yesterday, realized that it's been there for probably the better part of a year and was never installed, i had completely forgotten that i had picked it up. Was up till 3am last night burning through the single player

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2014 22:44 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2014 22:46
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It is the sale, it is crap...

On another note... the 'Steam recommended for you' is pathetic....... it is just a list of stuff in my wish list....... because EVERYTHING IN IT HAS 'ON WISHLIST' LABELLED ON IT...

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And then you realise the silly slider at the top is there for a reason lol

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Hey hey hey, what a great time to come to Colorado!!!!!!!!!!

People smoke so much pot around where I live; it's insane.

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2014 23:29
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Quote: "It is the sale, it is crap...

On another note... the 'Steam recommended for you' is pathetic....... it is just a list of stuff in my wish list....... because EVERYTHING IN IT HAS 'ON WISHLIST' LABELLED ON IT...
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Bot looked at what's for sale, but my friend was kind and grabbed me XCOM: Enemy Unknown and I saw the DLC's were on sale, so that's saved me a bit of moolah. I am generally good at avoiding Steam sales, I generally try to buy what I fancy playing, but sometimes become fooled by a good deal, like Torchlight II 4-pack, most of the friends I wanted to give it to already had it, in fact, I think I still have a spare sitting in my inventory.

As for recommendations. I've gone through my queue of recommended games to play, managed to pick a few titles on there. My wishlist is full of games recommended to me on there, but then my wishlist was practically empty.

Actually, looking at it most of the games in my wishlist are on sale.

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2014 23:32 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2014 23:34
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For those not on the BETA forum...

http://www.vaseemvalentine.com/videos/CasualThwarting/

I guess I was just making someone annoyed for XMAS lol

Anybody else playing AoE : CS?

EDIT

Sorry forgot to say 720P video approx. ~140MB

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Posted: 24th Dec 2014 01:29 Edited at: 24th Dec 2014 01:34
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Quote: "AoE : CS"



...Age of Empires: Counter Strike? Well that is an interesting genre merge.


Ah, just looked it up. Castle Seige, makes more sense. It doesn't look like something I'd enjoy I'm afraid. I like the Age of Empires series, but this isn't something I'd play. But playing multiplayer strategy games can be a lot of fun, particularly when you outwit your opponent and can be calculating and sometimes devillishly evil.

However, that doesn't look like an even match (but watched stuff obliterated is also fun), looking at the level of resources...that said, doesn't always mean anything, depends on the game. For example: I was playing Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance with a friend, allied, my resource management and production is weak compared to hers and she is the more experienced strategy gamer, but we were playing assassination, so she thought she'd be cheeky and betray me by breaking our alliance and sent her units to come destroy mine as all of our enemies were dead. However, unlucky for her, although my army was inferior and would easily be crushed by her#s, I had an experimental artillery built and knew exactly where her ACU was (the thing you're suppose to assassinate) and was able to target it in time. Some of the experimental technology in the game is a huge pain the butt because often they can give you a massive amount of range - stuff like experimental artillery can target units on the map, so in theory you can just use a scout to find a target and then use the experimental artillery to take it down. But stuff like that is a *massive* drain on your resources. But my god is it a fun RTS.

However, I am getting hooked on XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Now I can't wait until my friend is online to play, but it's the Christmas period, work and all that, might not get to for a few days. Ah well, love that it takes very little to kill your units and when they are injured at the end of a mission, they're being patched up for days and is not as simple has "here, have a medpack". Heck in the video, the guy who's dying couldn't be saved by the meds I did have on me, I didn't have anything else, so I just had to let him die (I tried using it, but didn't let me). Sometimes your units can get 1 hit by certain enemy types and die, like, I just lost a sniper because I positioned her poorly.




Also, other factors can play into effect, like each unit's mental state, like in the video my sniper went into a panic when she first got hit by an alien and this happened on another mission when one of my units saw another one of my units coming from his flank, he panicked and tried shooting him (he was poisoned at the time, possible factor there). And because they are single units, it pays to keep them alive, particularly as you rank them up. No suicide tactics like I do in Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, where I can just bombard the enemy with suicide units (or vice versa). So not a game you rush on the battlefield. If you save often enough, you can recover from mistakes, but if you're not chicken you play in ironman mode where you're unable to manually save and it auto saves after every decision - so mistakes are permanent. However, I typically don't reload in games, so often I live with mistakes if I can.

I guess testament to this game, it punishes you in the opening mission for having tutorials turned on, the tutorial steps ensure that at the end of the map you lose all of your units except one, almost like teaching a valuable lesson in that aliens can come from anywhere and to be conscious of your surroundings. Like the above video - aliens were coming from all directions, the guy died because I put him in an exposed position, because I wasn't expecting to be surrounded. So I spread my units out to cover as much ground to keep the aliens spread and just pick them off one-by-one.

I think I may be falling in love with it.

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That's some beautiful game design Seppuku, I'm impressed. It reminds me a lot of Frozen Synapse:



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ARGH why oh why are you manipulating memory directly like that?? No wonder you got a bug! Unless speed of execution is critical, there's far easier ways to manage data in memory

And though I tried I was unable to spot the error, mostly due to the fact that I had no clue what you were doing. Also that I didn't know memcpy() couldn't be used on overlapping memory.

Quote: "Was up till 3am last night burning through the single player"


Haha, Portal 2 is a brilliant game, almost as good as Portal 1

Quote: "It reminds me a lot of Frozen Synapse:"


Oh man I haven't played Frozen Synapse for AGES. Love that game, so strategy, much slow consideration, wow

Absolutely loving Elite: Dangerous! Brilliant game, and as I said before, makes me 1000 times more excited (bit of an exaggeration there) for Star Citizen's eventual full release.

Come OOOOOOOOOON last-snailmail-before-next-week (no deliveries on Christmas or Boxing Day, then it's the weekend), gimme my Arduino! Already got my 400-pack of resistors, my hall-effect sensor, my 50 tiny magnets, my pot and my LCD display. Don't care about the breadboard and the jumper wires, just want the Uno itself!


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Quote: "my pot"
Drugs, cooking, or electronics? Definitely cooking, considering the context.

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Quote: "Hey hey hey, what a great time to come to Colorado!!!!!!!!!!

People smoke so much pot around where I live; it's insane."


I am from Colorado and am sort of afraid of visiting because of all the smell of pot that would be around.

Still WAY healthier than tobacco products, though. And all pot does is smell really bad and give a person the mnuchies so really, it's not so much a drug as it is something along the lines of medicine that makes a person hungry.

Now if they tried to legalize something like crack, well that would be a problem.

On a somewhat related note, how much longer do you guys think the tobacco industry will survive? A friend and I were talking and we realized that nine times out of ten, whenever we see someone smoking it's an older person, not a young person. It seems like with each passing year people are smoking less and less, which is probably why the price of things like cigarettes have skyrocketed, since they're probably trying to milk as much money out of it as possible before the inevitable collapse of the industry.

I give it about 50-75 years before it becomes a niche thing to do, and another 25-50 after that before it disappears altogether (at least in major countries like the US).


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Better fix those cracks in my garden then... oh wait you mean drugs LOL

Quote: "pot does is smell really bad"


Indeed, and very anti-social, and irritable...

But then again looking back at what brought it here... that and the white stuff too...

Quote: "since they're probably trying to milk as much money out of it as possible before the inevitable collapse of the industry. "


Or because most of Europe and possibly other countries are making life difficult for them... Just wish they banned the crap... but that would make that arab thing illegal too... oh no...

Quote: "I give it about 50-75 years before it becomes a niche thing to do, and another 25-50 after that before it disappears altogether (at least in major countries like the US)."


Get someone to make a connection with it to High Co2 emissions officially and boom, should be gone in 5 years... but that won't happen now will it?

Man I was so revved up yesterday for preparing my system for Development and then got a phone call to assist with setting up an email account over the phone onto a desktop email program.......

Not an issue when someone is familiar with Screens, Tabs, and entry fields along with basic functions of the OS, CTRL+C CTRL+V etc... and that all mighty Command/Windows key....... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

I think I need not say the rest lol you likely get the idea, it took over half an hour to setup what takes 35 seconds usually...

Eventually I am now here almost 12 hours later, doing sod all...

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I really am liking Rust so far. Python abstractions with C performance and very strong compile-time type-checking(like Haskell?)? Yes please, give me more!

A small example:


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Errr What Australia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_July

erm.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Sunday

ummm.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Christmas

....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nochebuena

Mind explodes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

I only wanted to know what day Christmas was on, I knew it was a weird date, but forgot entirely that it was practically all year long.......

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I strongly recommend it. It's a great game, prolly played only about 6 hours, but can see why people find it addictive. Managed to get a game in against my friend, but she obliterated me, it was probably like Mr Valentine's video above. She's played near on 50 hours, so she was gonna. But it was an embarrassing defeat - I sent my units in too quickly and got them killed off because her units were focused together and had good cover.

But it's not just a strategy on the ground, where you do missions to kill aliens and stuff, you oversee the whole base of operations, you get to research and engineer, you get to build and add to your base, you get to launch satellites, build interceptors to take down UFO's - this helps with your chances or pulling back alien threads before they're a problem. Research and engineers means new weapons and armour, you get to manage each unit's skill tree (based on rank) and equip them. You can choose the team you launch out with. As you can be stationed globally, you get to see panic levels in each part of the world, you are funded by a number of nations to protect them and if you fail on duty to do that, then they withdraw. But missions don't necessarily make that easy, because you might be face with multiple missions are once and can only be in one place at a time. So you have a lot thrown at you to manage.

Because your players rank up, it really does pay to keep members alive and it's good to keep balanced too, because your elite team could be wounded and you might be left with rookies.

And the game likes to throw challenges at you, missions have a variety and there's a variety of enemies with different tactics and different ways of beating. Discovering a new enemy type doesn't mean the game will hold hands with you, whilst the tutorial mode does to a degree, it still punishes you. It's a game that if you do make a mistake, it could mean the end. Whilst it is possible to recover from some mistakes, it can still not necessarily be enough. For example, I encounter a new alien, was too close, but wanted to save the civilians, so positioned my units nearby and then threw a smoke bomb to make them difficult to hit. But this new alien, loves getting in close, basically crushes your spine and turns you into a zombie, which has loads of health and deals a lot of damage and if you're not quick enough? It will turn into one of those spine crushing things. This alien is also fast moving and can attack on long sprints...you, however, can't.

This is my second attempt at that map:



So it encourages you to load an old save and try another way. Probably why Ironman mode is considered such a difficulty booster as it makes impossible to reload an old save.

[edit]

Seems the best way to deal with them was to have all my units sit at the top, except 1 rookie scout, who is used to act as bait. Rookie died, but slaughtered the 4 legged things before rookie could be turned into a zombie.

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So uh... Since it is Christmas can we get Word Association unlocked?
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Seeing as it was locked 6 years ago with good reason I don't see the mods unlocking it at all


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Merry Christmas and stuff!

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Merry Stuff and Christmas... had a bit too much baileys me thinks...



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And not enough points.

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B-But... word association. ;_;
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Ah, I just lost the game.

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What game?

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And you are now playing.

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I know I keep harping on about it, but I am loving XCOM more and more.

It can make everything count and punish you dearly for mistakes. I am now stuck on a mission with all of those 4 legged things (Crysalids), because it's basically a hive. I know how to deal with them, heck, now that I have MEC suits, they can handle them pretty well, but half way through the MEC suits goes down (but recoverable, managed to get it out of critical condition, but means it's unusable for the rest of the map and how long it takes to repair), last save, I am down 3 men, 1 assault with 3 health (basically 1 hit death), 1 sniper at full health and a heavy at full health. Only way I could get passed 2 of these spider things is to let my heavy take a hit, which bring her to 2 health, leaving only 2 Cysallids to kill.

I don't like sacrificing folk each, it's fine when they're rookies, but you've already invested in these units. Only just got the game and have managed to work up 15 hours it.


Got a couple of other shiny shinies for Christmas. Wasteland 2 and Beyond Earth. Have yet to fully test it out, looks complicated and something I'd invest time in on the character creation page. It's also a Unity3D made game and one that got Kickstarter funding, so nice seeing some of these titles hitting store shelves.

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Not in C.

TheComet has switched entirely to C for his current project. I personally think he's a bit of masochist for doing so, but it's his project.

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45k is inching near

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Doesn't it just. I made what I thought was a good move in one turn and only realised after what a terrible mistake I had made. My guy was dead moments later. He was one of my best men too. Curse you XCOM.
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Another good game in the vein of XCOM is The Banner Saga. I actually really need to go back and finish that game...

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No no no no no no no no no no!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?


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It's okay! In my interpretation of the rules, others cannot force you to lose by mentioning the game to you.

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That I have. C feels like DBC felt all those years ago, it's beautiful.

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Posted: 26th Dec 2014 13:59 Edited at: 26th Dec 2014 14:06
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Belated Merry Christmas!

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Quote: "Definitely cooking, considering the context."


Potentiometer lol

Quote: "A friend and I were talking and we realized that nine times out of ten, whenever we see someone smoking it's an older person, not a young person."


Yeah, definitely. Frankly it always amazes me when I see people my age smoking. Although, having said that, there's one girl who smokes I worked with at PhotoCreate... she moved a stubby cooler off the heat-press too fast and got a face-full of strongly toxic-smelling gases and said, "Whoa *cough* I wanna die from my ciggaretes, not stubby coolers!", so I wonder whether some people simply don't care whether they live a long life or not. Even so, when they started smoking they clearly weren't considering the agony and horror of coughing up their own lungs and then breathing through a tube later on.

Quote: "Just wish they banned the crap..."


I kind of wish they would too, but in the long run it would do more harm then good. If you suddenly cut the supply of something people want, they'll do anything to get it back even if it means black market supplies, and since it becomes a rebellious thing to do, the number of smokers will climb again (as is human nature). If, however, you successfully educate people about the dangers of smoking in such a way that no one actually wants to smoke, then it doesn't just become frowned upon, it's not even considered. That is, no one even really thinks about smoking as good or bad, it's just not something that's done for obvious health reasons.

Quote: "Get someone to make a connection with it to High Co2 emissions officially and boom, should be gone in 5 years..."


lol I don't know about you, but personally I think global warming (or climate change, whatever they call it now) is utter rubbish [Note: Feel absolutely 100% free to state whether you agree or not about climate change, but let's not get into a debate about why this may be true or not, k? ]

Quote: "So uh... Since it is Christmas can we get Word Association unlocked?"


That thread was funny to read for the first 10 or so posts, but people very quickly started posting full sentences and ruined it. Also it was 6 years ago. And I'd not seen that thread until today. And it didn't appear to end well. And, while it would be nice to have a thread with very strict rules, we can after all play the game in this thread. So no, I don't really see any reason to unlock the thread

Quote: "TheComet has switched entirely to C for his current project."


Forgot about that. Apologies.

Quote: "C feels like DBC felt all those years ago, it's beautiful."


"Beautiful" is SO not the word I would have used...

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Ok, so my Arduino STILL hasn't arrived (stupid Christmas postal rush), so I started looking for simulators. Turns out there's quite a few Arduino simulators. http://123d.circuits.io/ is the best Arduino-specific simulator (that I know of), and definitely very easy to use and highly convenient, but lacks more advanced functionality (and aside from that, I wanted something that was offline and not a slow, browser-based sim). Then I discovered Proteus. AMAZING tool! It's helping me test out electronics concepts that are super confusing without breaking stuff!

Even so, some things are still confusing me. First of all, I'm finding it annoying and disappointing that it's so difficult to do digital circuits. I always thought digital circuits would either be completely switched on (5V) or completely switched off (0V), and that transistors were completely digital. Some questions for those with the time and patience to help me out:

Question: In the following diagram (of a NOT gate), what is R5 there for? Is it there to limit how much current is running through the transistor? Doesn't that also limit how much current can flow out the output of the gate?


Question: In the following diagram, would there be any current flowing through the top wire (and by extension the resistor)? If the resistor was changed to, say, a 100 ohm resistor, would current still only flow in the bottom wire?


Question: In the following diagram, would the top LED light up at all? If the resistor were to be changed to 100 ohms, would it light up then?


Question: In the following diagram, would both LEDs light? [For the record, I'm assuming both would light up if 0.5mA is enough to power an LED (it was just a random resistor value), but the bottom one would be very bright or simply blow - this particular question is to make sure my current understanding (no pun intended) is actually correct]


Question: Aside from cost (as I assume MOSFETs are more expensive), is there any reason to still use standard transistors? Specifically, do MOSFETs do everything normal transistors do? In what are they better than normal transistors (i.e. why use them)?


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Posted: 26th Dec 2014 14:37
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Quote: "Doesn't it just. I made what I thought was a good move in one turn and only realised after what a terrible mistake I had made. My guy was dead moments later. He was one of my best men too. Curse you XCOM."


Yeah. >.>

In the end the only way I could think of doing it was to sacrifice a MEC unit and an assault unit (I reloaded at the start of the map), at least with a MEC unit, you can repair the suit, you just lose the pilot and I had enough melds for a repair and to replace the pilot, but it was not easy choice. The MEC unit was really good at distracting 4 of the Crysallids. I let them chase her then when I had 4 of them in close range and clumped together, I stepped aside and flamethrower, all 4 of them when into panic mode and scattered, that felt awesome, but at the point the MEC suit had 1 health, so it was soon boned, but gave the rest enough of head start. Unfortunately another crsyallid popped up near one of my assaults, I had to let him die. It was one of those missions where you call in an air strike, so the emphasis was getting out and not killing as many Chrysallids as possible (it was a hive, so new ones popped up each turn).

Man, I hate those things, but at least now I got a good tactic for killing them. If I keep people grouped at distance with overwatch (preferably on elevation ground) then I can normally pick them off before they can even touch anybody.

There was probably a way of doing it without casualties, but I struggled to find a way. I had too many good units. But I guess casualties are the way of war.

Moral of the story, bring some rookies you don't mind sacrificing.

Don't let me be an officer of rank in any armed forces.


It's been so long since a (relatively) new game has felt challenging and that I've enjoyed. This is perhaps why I've been getting into strategy games and strategy based RPG's recently, because everything else feels watered down. Few RPG's challenge me, though Divinity: Original Sin was done really well and I am trying out Wasteland 2, which already feels like the old style isometric RPG's.

But love how it makes units really valuable to you, so you think twice before making a move.

I may at some point see how far I get with Ironman mode switched on. or even the Impossible difficulty

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Posted: 26th Dec 2014 19:03
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So remember when I joked and said I finally found a solution for jump-through platforms in GameMaker?

Yeah, totally didn't work even though I used the exact same code someone the guy in the video did (Shaun Spalding, for those who care enough to look him up on YouTube).

I'd like to know how GameMaker has survived this long with all of the weird glitches it has. Not to mention its interface is so annoying.

Hell, with all the time I just wasted trying to still get it to work in GameMaker, I probably could've have coded an entire tile map editor in AppGameKit by now... The only reason I'm still messing with GameMake is because I spent $100 on it last year and I don't want it to go to waste. But I'm this close to uninstalling it and calling it a loss anyway.


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Posted: 26th Dec 2014 19:15 Edited at: 26th Dec 2014 19:19
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Vote for Yoda to ditch GameMaker

AYE!

That's one vote...

EDIT

Found this in a DBP PCK file



Interesting...

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 26th Dec 2014 19:38 Edited at: 26th Dec 2014 19:45
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GameMaker has been purged from my system!

Now the only tools I have installed are Unreal, Unity, and AppGameKit 2!

EDIT: Anybody here familiar with Behdadsoft from the AppGameKit boards? Look at the amount of threads he's created in December alone. Ugh.


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MrValentine
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Posted: 26th Dec 2014 20:04 Edited at: 26th Dec 2014 20:05
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Shortest ballot in history lol

EDIT

SHEESH that user got 99 problems.......

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 26th Dec 2014 20:26
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Who wants post 45k?

You're welcome!


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Posted: 26th Dec 2014 21:05
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