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Post by Friendly Person :) on Oct 1, 2020 23:58:41 GMT -5
I remember seeing something about a band with fetus in the name. Looked it up and got Dying Fetus. Remember what I said about bands with silly names? Well, the 9/10 rule applied here.
Umbra, phone numbers are like keys on a keyring. Everyone thinks they want a lot of them because it implies some sense of social superiority, but realistically it just becomes a pain in the ass to find the 3-4 keys you actually USE on a keyring filled with keys that you can barely ever remember even acquiring.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Oct 2, 2020 2:02:29 GMT -5
TRUMP TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID
HAHAHAHAHA
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Derman
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Post by Derman on Oct 2, 2020 4:01:37 GMT -5
TRUMP TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID HAHAHAHAHA So what happens now? Does he skip all the future debates? Either way, I wonder if he's going to follow his own advice regarding treatment.
I have a dream that one day I'll make a game AI that is designed to be as big of an arsehole as possible. It might pick a specific player who they will taunt every chance they get, or just generally go out of their way to make other player's life miserable. Even if it means they'll lose in the process. It would be the perfect common enemy that unites the other players in games like Mario Party. Games as an interactive art form have the potential to evoke strong feelings in ways some others can't. And I want to see pure hate for 1s and 0s.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 2, 2020 7:03:17 GMT -5
I tried cigarettes once, as part of a dare with high school friends. Soooo nasty. Left me in a coughing fit. I don't know how anyone can smoke one long enough to get hooked.
What is 1-800-273-8255? Is that some common retail jingle? I know 1-800-588-2300 (EMPIRE)... FWIW, I only have my parents, siblings, and four friends on my phone. I prefer it that way. I'm not a big texter? I kind of don't like it with most people. I can do a few exchanges, but I find carrying on full-blown text conversations really exhausting. Type message with thumbs, put phone down, wait a minute, pick phone up, read message, type message with thumbs. My thumbs get tired, and it's impossible to multitask. There are a small handful of people I would do that with, but for everyone else, hit me up on the computer instead, where I can type way faster and do other things in between replies.
Ironically, Trump is apparently a germaphobe, I read?
I support your arsehole AI plan. I get great joy out of hating 1s and 0s. I don't get competitive playing with friends, but against AI, oh, yes, I do. I hurl expletives and wish for their immediate and swift destruction.
Since my cold has morphed into not being able to breathe through my nose and cringing when I speak, I guess I won't do anything active this weekend. Maybe I should finish my ClojureScript project that I keep dropping.
I picked up Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time." I always thought he'd be super dense, but he's actually pretty engaging and interesting. I don't always follow the logic exactly, but I'll take his word on it.
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Derman
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Post by Derman on Oct 2, 2020 11:31:38 GMT -5
"A Brief History of Time" sounds interesting. Might pick it up at some point. Although I wonder how well it holds up, since it was published in 1988. A lot of development has happened in the field since then.
I just found out that Ludum Dare game jam is starting in few hours. Would be a good excuse to get something productive done. Depending on the theme of course, I have a hard time coming up with even a basic idea for a game on the fly. The arsehole AI could be a fun one, but it requires a pretty specific type of game, and fitting that to the theme might be challenging.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 2, 2020 14:12:24 GMT -5
He's actually updated the book twice since then, as recently as the year of his death (2017), and he addresses how much the field has changed in his foreword. So I don't think you'll be disappointed if you pick it up.
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Derman
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Post by Derman on Oct 2, 2020 14:37:35 GMT -5
Oh, that makes me even more interested. But also more confused, because I'm not sure which version to get. I couldn't find a clear "most recent edition" with my searches at least.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 2, 2020 16:31:37 GMT -5
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Oct 2, 2020 18:38:29 GMT -5
Got an e-mail from JET. Everyone not in the US gets to depart next month. Hahahaha.
-edit- Okay, so I was going to pretend like this didn't bother me, but then somebody else did the same thing. "Screamo" is actually a very specific genre (scream + emo = screamo). Maybe you were just referring to your friend, but I just want to specify that I have not, nor will I ever, enjoy that kind of thing. Emo ain't my bag.
Sorry to be "that guy".
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 3, 2020 6:19:46 GMT -5
Oh, I wasn't implying you liked Dying Fetus. More that I found the name amusing. I got into a few more mainstream bands because of her (e.g., System of a Down), but in general, I hated her taste in music. There's this point with metal where it ceases to become something enjoyable to listen to and becomes better described as migraine-inducing cacophony.
Sucks about JET. That's gotta be frustrating...
I'm hopeful that the fact that Trump has only tweeted once means his condition isn't very good. If he felt in good spirits, then you know he'd be bragging left and right about his "unbelievable immune system" and "very good doctors, they're very good, they know how to beat the CHYNA virus". Boris Johnson apparently almost died, but the British government kept prattling on about how he was just "fatigued, but in good spirits."
I'm hoping he dies. No shame in saying that. I really hope he dies.
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Derman
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Post by Derman on Oct 3, 2020 11:18:01 GMT -5
So thanks to grain's dumb ideas I made a... "game" for the game jam. The theme is "stuck in a loop". Honestly, it was supposed to be just a quick one-ish hour project for s**ts and giggles, but turns out collision with arbitrary shapes isn't that simple. And also I wanted to reuse some old spaghetti I had lying around, which caused some issues as well. But here it is. I don't know how well the osx and windows packages work, because I can't test them right now.
And thanks for the link. I ended up buying the only one I could find when I started searching for it on kindle. Didn't have many options...
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 3, 2020 13:40:10 GMT -5
Runs well on OSX!
Your Python code in your other repos looks nice and clean, btw. Clean code is good.
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Post by Derman on Oct 4, 2020 5:41:22 GMT -5
Thanks! There is a certain satisfaction in writing clean code. However, I still haven't figured out how to make good Lua code... Your repos are really clean looking as well. Clojure still looks like black magic to me though.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 4, 2020 7:52:54 GMT -5
I haven't found a way to make good Javascript code, but I'm not sure if it's a me problem or not. What makes you feel like you're not writing good Lua code?
TBH, half of my Clojure stuff is black magic, since it deals with websockets. The whole "channel" thing hasn't quite clicked in my brain, but, whatever, it works. Clojure code isn't really so hard to read, though. (function-name argument1 argument2 argument3) is the same as function_name(argument1, argument2, argument3).
You have to kind of read inward up? I feel like ClojureScript's implementation of React is much easier to grok about than Javascript React...
I picked up a couple more books at Barnes and Noble yesterday. I should stop buying books and use the public library (I spent $100+ yesterday!), but I have a long-standing prejudice against the public library for nonfiction (my preferred genre). Libraries make a lot more sense for fiction, because it ages way better than nonfiction. On my queue is "Why the Jews? Why the Germans?", "The Anatomy of Fascism," and "A Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England." I don't have a good excuse for the last one, except that I've always liked the Medieval Ages for some reason? It's hands down my favorite time period, even though it sounds kind of awful to live in.
I have to ask myself, what time period would I even want to live in? This is under the assumption I was a man and was upper-class. I'm inclined to say during the Roman Empire, but I'd have sucked at the politicking and going to war bit, so... dunno. 1830s America could have been interesting. Trek across the Oregon Trail for a new life!
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Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 4, 2020 8:42:23 GMT -5
Speaking of metal, Derman, have you ever heard of Ruoska? I was checking out Spotify's suggestions to bands similar to Rammstein, and the song title "Tuonen viemää" seemed distinctly ... Finnish. (It's those double vowels and umlauts, man.)
I'm not sure I could listen to metal like Rammstein (or Ruoska, which seems inoffensive, but bland) in English. It would sound too cheesy. But then, I don't mind Korn, so... (Well, more accurately, I hate half of Korn's music and like the other half.)
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