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TheComet
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Posted: 13th Jun 2014 23:37 Edited at: 13th Jun 2014 23:38
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Quote: "Can I expect Nui Harime-type characters, or is that too much to ask? D:"


I guess there is one character like that, and there's also a character who I swear is Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop.

@all - Thoughts on Attack on Titan?

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Posted: 13th Jun 2014 23:42 Edited at: 13th Jun 2014 23:44
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Man would I like to look at a PAGE from a book. Yes you can find it on PAGE fifty-four. There are a lot of PAGEs in this book. Have you guys noticed the amount of PAGEs on this forum.

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Grr, I was just about to tell you that you had your posts set to 40... Then I scrolled up....

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Oh man, my criteria is anything as good as Cowboy Bebop, Gurren Lagann, or Kill la Kill. Basically anything with quality.

Gurren Lagann is one of the few things I've watched that ends so damn well. Not in a Hollywood happily-ever-after, tidy away the loose ends way, but a genuinely bittersweet way that really tugged at the heartstrings. (That wedding!)

I believe the inclusion of a Spike Spiegel and Nui Harime has sold me Comet, I shall watch Redline. xD
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Posted: 14th Jun 2014 00:39 Edited at: 14th Jun 2014 00:41
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Cowboy Bebop is pretty good. I plan on purchasing the movie. I wish they had it on Netflix. Have you ever seen Ninja Scroll?

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Posted: 14th Jun 2014 10:32 Edited at: 17th Jun 2014 12:28
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I saw Ninja Scroll ages ago on a VHS tape. Nostalgia...
Side-note: Zach, your username still has not been changed? PM Van B or The Next (if he's not on vacation yet), they'll help.
 

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Posted: 14th Jun 2014 13:52 Edited at: 14th Jun 2014 14:07
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Why has no one written a Python wrapper for DBP yet?

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Quote: "Why should Microsoft dictate how you manage your projects?"


Because otherwise there would be total chaos and all devs would be in a world of pain where no project is coherent with any other!

Oh wait... Good golly, that's actually the case if you're a Windows developer! I wonder why?

Quote: "Store libs and headers where you want, it doesn't matter apart from in the case of Linux dorks that force everyone to compile their software instead of just providing a binary."


What? Linux package managers only supply binaries. You never have to compile anything yourself on linux unless you're a developer. And even then you can download binary versions of your dependencies.

I'm sorry, but throwing headers and libs wherever you want is asking for trouble and is retarded. Go and compile some software on both OSs and see for yourself why Windows sucks before you make claims like that.

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I have only had to compile 4 things myself on linux and those are diffirent graphics engines which I wanted newer versions of than those in the ubuntu repos.

I have been tempted to compile wine myself to allow me to have many diffirent versions of it running but playonlinux handles that for me instead

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Posted: 14th Jun 2014 14:36 Edited at: 17th Jun 2014 12:29
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Quote: "Why has no one written a Python wrapper for DBP yet?"

PyOGRE (I think it got canned though it will make a comeback) and PyGame (built on SDL but I'm sure there'll be an SDL2 ver if there isn't already). Ren'Py that Visual Novel software I posted the IDE of in your "Post your IDE(S)" thread is based on PyGame, iirc. Now Python (when not compiled -- which it originally was not, being an interpreted language) is potential overhead. Can you imagine a DBPro app being bottlenecked even further by an arbitrator between the py scripts and the DBPro core libs.

Buuuut, if you want, start a git for it with Dark GDK since DGDK is allegedly now open source or abandoned or whatever. I'm not too offey with Python because I gave it a bash years back before it was cool and quit, telling my one mate (who's a Linux sysadmin) "I can't make proper games and apps with this". We don't talk about that now I have begun relearning Python on/off lately (it has changed a lot) since I'm gonna be using Ren'Py -- eventually -- and it allows Python scripts alongside its R'py scripts.
 

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Posted: 14th Jun 2014 14:39 Edited at: 14th Jun 2014 14:42
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POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIINTS[/b][b][b][/b]

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Quote: "Can you imagine a DBPro app being bottlenecked even further by an arbitrator between the py scripts and the DBPro core libs."


*shudder*

Hmm, well then maybe a python plugin for exposing DBP functions to Python. I think that would be pretty awesome. I've never written a plugin before but I'm tempted to do that.

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Posted: 14th Jun 2014 21:04 Edited at: 17th Jun 2014 12:24
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That could maybe work.


On another note:
Quote: "Daddy would like some sausages..."

 

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Posted: 14th Jun 2014 21:08
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Dolphins apparently have their teats located inside their anus. Must be strange to be a dolphin baby.

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Quote: "Because otherwise there would be total chaos and all devs would be in a world of pain where no project is coherent with any other!"


I'm sorry but if you can't remember where you store your own project files you shouldn't be using a computer let alone programming on it.

Quote: "You never have to compile anything yourself on linux unless you're a developer"


Wrong, so wrong. In my time using Linux I have had to (attempt to) compile many things myself, mostly non-mainstream stuff instead of text editors, calculators, and music players, though.
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Posted: 14th Jun 2014 22:38
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I guess your time is diffirent from my time then And I assume that the distro you are using changes things a bit aswell.

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Posted: 14th Jun 2014 22:38 Edited at: 14th Jun 2014 22:42
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Quote: "I saw Ninja Scroll ages ago on a VHS tape. Nostalgia...
Side-note: Zach, your username still has not been changed? PM Van B or The Next (if he's not on vacation yet), they'll help."


Oh cool! What did you think of Ninja Scroll? I'll be sure to ask Van B or The Next next time I hear from them.

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Quote: "Wrong, so wrong. In my time using Linux I have had to (attempt to) compile many things myself, mostly non-mainstream stuff instead of text editors, calculators, and music players, though."


Lol then you're doing it wrong. And even if you did have to compile software, it's 3 commands and that's it ("configure", "make", "make install"). If that's too hard for you then consider me impressed.

Quote: "I'm sorry but if you can't remember where you store your own project files you shouldn't be using a computer let alone programming on it."


You're missing the point entirely.

This is about global coherence, not about your ability to remember where you stored things on your computer. If the way software is built is standardised, it's extremely easy to set up automated building and test and integration servers that plug directly into version control. And let's not forget it's easier for other developers to understand what you're doing as well.

See those 3 commands above? That only works because every software package agreed on certain standards.

Why doesn't that exist for Windows? Because Microsoft hasn't clearly defined how to build software.

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Quote: "See those 3 commands above? That only works because every software package agreed on certain standards.

Why doesn't that exist for Windows? Because Microsoft hasn't clearly defined how to build software."

I think the Path variable is proof of this.


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Posted: 15th Jun 2014 00:21
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I guess I'm just really frustrated at Windows because I'm trying to automate the build process of my project and Windows is making this nearly impossible to do. The dependency tree is:



On linux this can be done in an hour or so, on Windows I've relentlessly been trying to get it to work for a week or so now.

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Posted: 15th Jun 2014 00:23 Edited at: 15th Jun 2014 00:24
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I'm about to go take a shower. Lightning outside. Let's hope I don't get zappied D=

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Posted: 15th Jun 2014 00:23 Edited at: 15th Jun 2014 00:24
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If you do, just know that only 1 out of 10 die when struck by lightning.

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Quote: " And even if you did have to compile software, it's 3 commands and that's it"


And then it complains that it's missing X, so you try installing X and this breaks something else and gives more errors, etc. etc. It's just much better to provide a binary and then we don't have these issues.

Quote: "If the way software is built is standardised, it's extremely easy to set up automated building and test and integration servers that plug directly into version control"


I disagree.
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Posted: 15th Jun 2014 01:26 Edited at: 15th Jun 2014 01:27
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Posted: 15th Jun 2014 01:35 Edited at: 15th Jun 2014 02:11
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Quote: "I disagree."

okay

This discussion is going in circles. You have limited knowledge of C++ build systems and don't seem to understand the points I'm making.

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Posting from in the shower

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Posting upside down from the floor

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Posting from heaven; tell the medical examiner that the lightning made me see funny colors

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I need one of these. I constantly lose track of my stuff that I don't want stolen. Too bad They are...Only on...Apple products.

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Quote: "And then it complains that it's missing X, so you try installing X and this breaks something else and gives more errors, etc. etc. It's just much better to provide a binary and then we don't have these issues.
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I had similar issues when using steam OS, but I have not had any problems with that since I switched to ubuntu and mint

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Huh, Hiroyuki Sawano just released Volume 2 of the Kill la Kill Soundtrack...

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

Like Nui needed a more epic theme.
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Need more poinats

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Quote: "Must be strange to be a dolphin baby."

Dolphin: Human's tits are located on the chest of a female human. Must be weird to be a baby human

Quote: "Oh cool! What did you think of Ninja Scroll? I'll be sure to ask Van B or The Next next time I hear from them."

It wasn't my favorite to be honest. The plot was very complicated and I felt the movie didn't have enough time to flesh it all out which resulted it it feeling a little abrupt/rushed through. But this is how I end up feeling about most movies I watch. I'm a series person for that reason. It's also hard to rate it fairly because what I saw was an English dub and the voice acting was crap. I can't stand dubs of foreign film. It's off-putting. I'd rather deal with the worst fansubs than a dub. If you like ninja/samurai/etc anime of yester times, you'd probably enjoy Kenshin, too (the original mini series). If you want something modern, check out Sword of the Stranger. Animation is very pretty.

Quote: "Kill la Kill"

I must be the only person who has not seen this series. But I'm probably the only person who's seen "NHK ni Youkuso" (Welcome to the NHK?) which is really worth a watch. It's hated by most people but IMHO it was very deep and really delves into human (esp geek) psychology with a few good laughs... Actually, I could list loads of series that I'd bet points not one person here has seen since I like the obscure stuff

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As you requested, I posted that "evidence" of my "cuteness".
 

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Posted: 15th Jun 2014 21:38 Edited at: 15th Jun 2014 21:42
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I had this dream that I met up with some of you guys in London for a coffee or beer and after we saw each others faces we became awesome friends... Kinda makes me think that if I get money we should do a meet up like what 4chan does.

Quote: "I must be the only person who has not seen this series."

I have never seen it...

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Posted: 15th Jun 2014 22:33 Edited at: 17th Jun 2014 12:18
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Quote: "I had this dream that I met up with some of you guys in London for a coffee or beer and after we saw each others faces we became awesome friends..."


TGC Forums, TGC Forums,
Aaaa-aaa-aaa-aaah!

Teeeee Gee Cee Forums,
I used to wonder what friendship could be,
Teeeee Gee Cee Forums,
Until you all shared its magic with me...

Competitions!
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Trolls on the run

Moderation,
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You know, I haven't heard that intro for about 3 years.
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Any withdrawl symptoms?
 

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Sounds like some serious denial symptom issues.

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Pretty good nonZero.

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You guys are busy here even on the weekends! Maybe i still have away to go before being a real geek (tell that to my parents though).

Quote: "Btw, Kamina > Simon, IMHO. Viral was cool, too. Haruka was cool, but Lucy is better. Mikasa is pretty cool too.
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Simon won ultimately. Yes kamina was cool but I think simon became stronger.
Haruka is annoying. I said that already i think. She's not a very decent person either. She uses people to get what she wants. She only lives for herself.
Lucy, i don't like because she's a psycho. She's the bad guy no matter how you look at it. What she did was unforgivable and if you had the power to kill someone like that who did that in front of you then you would.
Mikasa is okay. She isn't very strong as a character until near the end. She's a bit like a robot.

Quote: "No you're totally right. I only like ponies. I sit in my mom's basement wearing a fedora and sip a glass of red wine while I enjoy the latest episode, wondering how anyone could ever watch anything else other than My Little Pony and why I have such class. Girls love neck beards and mine is as fluffy as ever."

Ha ha ha ha ha. Sorry, i didn't actually mean it like that. I was just surprised because i met a few bronies before and they all seemed to think mlp was the only show worth watching. There was a guy who said he'd watched both seasons 3 times. I think maybe some of them are like how you described. I watched the first 2 episodes and then i just thought it's not for me. Maybe i was put off already or maybe i just found it too childish.

Quote: "@all - Thoughts on Attack on Titan?"

Excellent animation and sound track. Story is awesome too. I love it. But i found eren to be annoying because he gets emo all the time just like most anime male characters. Why not just go for it.

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Wasp, you're delusional. Lucy is a Goddess, the embodiment of the most exquisite pain, love and violence known to the anime world. You should read the manga, it is much better than the series. Also, Erren is not emo. He gets filled with rage and determination. If you want emo, see Shinji.

In other news I was inspired to set my terminal transparent by the one and only Comet in the IDE thread. I'm liking it already, especially wirh no borders, window decorations, scrollbar or menu bar.
 

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I have no idea what's going on.

As for transparent terminals, I've always liked it that way, that's how I've setup console2. I just wish that I could get console2 to be the default cmd on windows.


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All this talk about IDEs and programming lately has made me want to get back into coding. Just as a hobby, not a full-time interest.

So, I've decided to learn Python, because it's a language I've been interested in for ages and it kind of feels similar to my early days of programming in DarkBASIC.

I've found this site to be quite useful, and I'll probably use it for C# as well.

Also, I'm using Jetbrains' "PyCharm" IDE, which is brilliant. I absolutely love it.


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I really need to boot back into Linux soon. It's been too long.

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Get voting people, do you really want nASA in charge of this thread?! Themes and topics are the name of the game in The Posting Competition - not mindless yabbering. Vote Indicium.

Quote: "I really need to boot back into Linux soon. It's been too long."


I've really never been able to get into Linux - maybe one day.

Also, I'm writing a game in C++ that I hope will have awesome multiplayer (co-op and versus); If anyone has experience of building a 'game engine' of sorts - ie, an abstraction of graphics, input, sound,physics and networking libraries into game objects and the likes - do you think it's better to design the entire engine around multiplayer networking and have it built right into the core, or write it as singleplayer and write the multiplayer component afterwards?
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I'm a vegetarian that eats animals lol.

Quote: " do you think it's better to design the entire engine around multiplayer networking and have it built right into the core, or write it as singleplayer and write the multiplayer component afterwards?"


The former, definitely. You can abstract a lot of it away so you write the SP as if it were MP, and it's much simpler to manage.
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Clearly they do

Remember nASA supports your right of freedom of speech. If you want to post asdf then we support it in the true spirit of this posting competition.
 

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@Yodaman Jer - Awesome choice for a language! Python is the most elegant and powerful scripting language I've ever come across. I highly recommend reading through this here: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/

Especially "4 Python Tutorial in PDF" - it gives you a great overview of everything you need to know.

Quote: "Also, I'm writing a game in C++ that I hope will have awesome multiplayer (co-op and versus); If anyone has experience of building a 'game engine' of sorts - ie, an abstraction of graphics, input, sound,physics and networking libraries into game objects and the likes - do you think it's better to design the entire engine around multiplayer networking and have it built right into the core, or write it as singleplayer and write the multiplayer component afterwards?"


Use an existing engine and don't re-invent the wheel. http://urho3d.github.io/

Urho3D has physics, navmesh pathfinding, audio, input, etc. all wrapped into a easy to use scripting front end.

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Quote: "Use an existing engine and don't re-invent the wheel."


Where's the fun? To be honest I'm more interested in writing the engine than I am the actual game. I want some experience with tying all these components together whilst keeping them independent of one another.

Quote: "The former, definitely. You can abstract a lot of it away so you write the SP as if it were MP, and it's much simpler to manage."


This was my thought too, I figure if I can make a co-op campaign for example, the single player would be exactly the same except without the networking.
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Free Airtime Points (eeeyup, you did see what I did there).
One of our nASA policies is For All People.

I must go to sleep.
Zach, I sent Van B a PM for you regarding your name change. Hopefully he'll be able to respond soon.
 

Copy-paste this: I vote for nonZero
into this thread to vote for me. If you don't then shame on you!
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Thank you nonZero.

Willing to be hired as a voice actor for work and to put on a resume.
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