Game Development

I like it. Let me jump into the work process. I will work like a chimp chained in a cubicle with passion day and night with no food, for a promise of zero recognition from other beings and trashy treatment.

Jon

You actually a chick

MickLH

I might have gone too far

Shaun Wild

I'm kind 1/2 a girl

does that count?

Jon

Marry him

Blue Bug

As long as you can just throw me some graphic stuff, I will be happy. Use me like how you would use a toilet paper. If it is what it takes, I can extract the Y chromosome from my DNA; I will go through gene therapy for you.

MickLH

4:21 PM

Ok as long as you get that chromosome out <3

Jon

Ohhhh now I'm interested in blue bug after that toilet paper reveal

Shaun Wild

I have an extra chromosone

Sie

@BlueBug Go crazy: blendswap.com

MickLH

@BlueBug Can I just send you scanned PDFs instead of shipping the hardcover?

Blue Bug

Sure do it however you like it. I am dirty and cheap when it comes to... graphic. iopzxz@gmail.com

Shaun Wild

4:23 PM

Is lowbrow a synonym of homophobic ?

Jon

Sounds like java

Was iopzyz taken?

Shaun Wild

JAVA WOO

JAVA WOO

Blue Bug

the combination of email address was taken due to the keyboard arrangement. It is a typical korean account; a random comb of letters.

MickLH

Ooh I don't have to scan one of them, much easier for me, this is already going good!

Jon

Wait you are Korean.

Blue Bug

4:27 PM

ex "I am gjkosf44. My friend slslgnbcl4949 invited cljhwy5 and me to play some Overwatch."

Jon

You in SK?

Blue Bug

now in Rochester NY I move around.

MickLH

@BlueBug cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2008/mattausch-2008-CHC/…

This is next up on my list but I've been so focused on stuff other than graphics

Blue Bug

this is culling. This is not graphic.

MickLH

But it ball so hard though, sir.

Word to your moms, it came to drop bombs. And it has more efficiency than the bible has got psalms.

Jon

4:31 PM

He be ballin

Blue Bug

You betrayed my expectation @MickLH now(eventually) you will pay for it

MickLH

Fine! Do the cascade shadow maps

But as punishment you don't get the PDF

You have to invent it yourself

Jon

I have a copy

Blue Bug

shakes in anger, bite lips to contain oneself you... monster...

MickLH

Also, the way my engine architecture works causes performance and graphics quality to be married

The graphics quality is a slider between [24 - 60 (VSync)] fps

It uses time available to refine the worst approximations until the frame is due

Jon

4:35 PM

If (you==understand) {info('hired');}

Taken from a job posting. Lol

DH.

Man, they are desperate

user4704

I am understand.

5

Shotgun Ninja

There are three ways to get good developers:

1. Care about your code.
2. Pay decently well.
3. Free beer and soda at work.

I guess that boils down to two:

1. Care about your code.
2. Care about your developers.

Jon

4. Let them work from home.

DH.

I'm not so sure about the 3, I would say that free coffee is enough

MickLH

4:41 PM

* free beer may be subject to free pizza obligations

Shotgun Ninja

Beer, tea, coffee, soda, sparkling water

All of which are present at my job

Jon

Sparkling lol

MickLH

Does it fuckin glitter though bruh?

Shotgun Ninja

LaCroix has its roots into several of our developers

Speaking of pizza, it's almost lunchtime

Jon

Does your pizza pizazz?

Shotgun Ninja

4:43 PM

Not really, if we were in Chicago though...

Damn Milwaukee and having the least interesting culinary traditions

Jon

You should see acadian cuisine

Make as much food with least amount of money possible

Shotgun Ninja

Beer, brats, hot ham and rolls, cheese curds, paczki

Sie

@JoshPetrie Over time the chat made poor Josh's mind melt and eventually he could no longer string together coherent sentences.

Jon

We take potatoes and grind them all up, then reshape them into potato shapes with pork inside the middle

Then we boil it until it looks like snot

Poutine

Sie

What a time to be alive.

Shotgun Ninja

4:45 PM

Our culinary backgrounds throughout the city are primarily Polish and German.

Jon

Google it. Acadian poutine

Shotgun Ninja

That's not real poutine.

Darth_Wardy

Anyone here bulding games the old fashioned way using OpenGL or DX directly?

Shotgun Ninja

Real poutine has fries and brown gravy

and cheese curds.

afk lunch

Jon

This is a real poutine

Sie

4:47 PM

That looks like something my cat puked up this morning.

Jon

It has the consistency of snot, and tastes like paper

Darth_Wardy

@Jon that looks disgusting

but then so does stew

Blue Bug

... is it wrong of me to think that looks like a delicious asian dumpling.

Sie

Yes. For having a different opinion you are automatically wrong.

Jon

It seriously doesn't taste like dumpling

Blue Bug

4:51 PM

sorry... I will try to consume more public medias...

Jon

Some Asians eat wheat glutton

@Jon ew

"delicious"

A Chinese girl I work with loves this stuff

NaCl

4:54 PM

tmi

DH.

What the hell is this

Jon

Wheat gluten

They make it look like duck meat

Blue Bug

my favorite food is steamed lung of pigs.

It is... not so cheap since an animal has only two lungs.

Jon

Considering organs are usually ground up and used as hotdog meat

DH.

I thought sausages used chicken meat

Or are they mixing up everything?

Jon

4:59 PM

Everything they can't sell as meat

DH.

Ah much like hamburgers then

NaCl

@Jon When do you call something an organ and not simply some not so relevant part of your body?

Jon

Ehhh

If it makes a squish sound when squeezed and is larger than an egg

Medically speaking

"you have really nice tits, medically speaking of course."

NaCl

I feed them from time to time

Almo

5:15 PM

@JoshPetrie It's this one gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/124201/match-the-circles

user4704

At first glance I'd think the right thing to do is edit it to make it appropriate, mainly to cut out all the code and focus on the conceptual problem.

user4704

Maybe that kind of drastic edit is not quite fair with the bounty though?

Blue Bug

+ 50 bounty is nothing

Almo

The bounty was put on before there was any code, which was linked to on some other SO question

Really not sure about it. It's kind of a mess

Blue Bug

bounty should have min 100, cuz "bounty"

user4704

5:19 PM

Hmm.

Jon

He did improve the question but it is still a mess. Now it is two questions mashed into each other

Anyways you are gonna have to write the whole thing to help

user4704

I dunno, if he just wants to know "why does my delete function not delete objects" I think that's pretty straightforward.

Shotgun Ninja

Dammit, I ended up getting poutine with my lunch today

Thanks, guys

user4704

I don't think I'm quite willing to refund-and-close this unilaterally. There's only one close vote.

Jon

Hahahaha

user4704

5:23 PM

If there were more, or more intention to do so were the bounty not in place, maybe.

user4704

But I think it may be salvageable if he responds favorably to further clarification.

user4704

All that downvote chatter is pointless though, I'll nuke that.

Almo

I tried to close vote but it won't let me because there's a bounty

the bounty got put on before it could accumulate many close votes.

user4704

Thanks.

Shotgun Ninja

Also, with my poutine (which is way too soggy for my liking, despite the seasoning being perfect), I got what is called a Cheezy Joe

It's sloppy joe meat (ie. homemade Manwich) in a grilled cheese.

user4704

5:27 PM

Right. But somebody could still comment that they would vote to close. I don't think I'd be comfortable making the unilateral vote.

Almo

ok thanks for taking a look at it :)

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@ShotgunNinja Heart attack combo!

MickLH

So nevermind on ECDSA guys, it doesn't improve throughput over plain (GF)DSA so I'm just going with what I understand better

Also changing extremely important security parameters at the last minute seems like a bad idea in general

Shotgun Ninja

5:43 PM

@AlexandreVaillancourt It's so good, though

Definitely an evolution of something cobbled together from leftovers

but I think that's the true Wisconsin food legacy

"We make leftovers."

Leftover brats, leftover sandwiches, cheese, chicken, casseroles

MickLH

lol

Shotgun Ninja

Day old pizza

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@ShotgunNinja It must be good, you're absolutely right :P

Shotgun Ninja

We're not quite preservative-heavy like the climatically similar Korean peninsula

but we do have a nice jarring and pickling culture

Alexandre Vaillancourt

But it would give me instant regrets :P

Shotgun Ninja

5:47 PM

Malted Milk was invented just south of here, in Racine, WI

basically as a nutritious additive, like Whey Protein powder

We serve Nutritional Yeast leftover from the brewing process on our movie theater popcorn

Alexandre Vaillancourt

That makes healthier popcorn?

Shotgun Ninja

Nah, it just tastes different

Nutritional Yeast is high in glutamates, which are responsible for umami flavors

it's got far less sodium and gives it a bit of a funky, almost meaty taste

almost like ramen or miso

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Ah, ok, so they kind of replace the salt with that or something?

Shotgun Ninja

Yeah, it's a sprinklable beige-colored coarse powder

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I'd like to taste that someday!

Shotgun Ninja

5:51 PM

Not everyone likes it, but I think it's cool.

I also eat hot kimchi by itself.

YMMV

You should be able to find it at Wal-Mart

or Trader Joe's or whatnot

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I'll keep a eye out for that!

An eye open! Or something :)

Shotgun Ninja

Don't put your eye out

Jon

why not?

Alexandre Vaillancourt

No, right ;P

No glass eye here so..

Shotgun Ninja

It's hard to get back in

Jon

6:03 PM

a glass eye?

that is propostorous, its easy to put a glass eye back into place as it is tailor made for your socket

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I don't have that, so I won't keep my eye out.

Jon

6:34 PM

brought up that I made games as a hobby to my lawnmower guy

awkward silence

Almo

hahah

one guy (who didn't have a job) made fun of me for playing games. His girlfriend was a programmer at ubisoft (she was on tools though). She left him eventually.

Jon

lmao

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Almo So what was that guy doing? Watching TV all day?

Jon

programmer women are hard to please, they see right through your flawed bullshit logic

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Jon They're challenging sometimes :P

Almo

6:39 PM

I don't know, honestly what he was doing

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Almo Cuz guys I knew who didn't have a job were usually playing games all day :P

Almo

hehehe he probably was not playing games all day

Alexandre Vaillancourt

"I'm investing, at the casino" :P

Almo

:D

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Unfortunately, that's the way of thinking of a lot of people. (Fortunately for public treasury, though :P)

Shotgun Ninja

6:49 PM

Oh man, trying to draft a new food blog post

This shit writes itself

facebook.com/Red-Light-Ramen-by-Ardent-766343080062645/?fref=ts

This place is operated by Chef Justin Carlisle, who was a James Beard finalist (and I think winner now, too)

He owns Ardent, a restaurant in downtown Milwaukee, tucked under an old apartment building

but at midnight, the place used to transform into Red Light Ramen.

They'd invite the first few people to show up into the kitchen, where they'd make traditional Japanese tonkatsu ramen

The place caught on like wildfire, and they expanded it into a food truck

Despite a few setbacks, they've been extremely successful

Almo

Deepchord says he feels CD format is too tight and wants to put out 12-hour albums on USB memory

Shotgun Ninja

and now they bought the next space over in their building, and set up a permanent location

Almo

his last album was a double disc

TheMuffinCoder

lol people still use CD's?

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I don't understand food trucks. Average food quality, with a limited meal variety, at at higher price...

TheMuffinCoder

6:55 PM

Convenience?

Free Internet Points

1

Q: How to make texture size correctly in THREE.js?

I'm new to THREE.js and I have a frustrating problem. I can't get my grass texture to size "normally" on the terrain. I get it, the terrain is steep, but that doesn't mean the grass should be stretched as well! I don't want the textures to scale, resize, stretch, or distort. I want the text...

Alexandre Vaillancourt

That's the only reason. But here they can't park anywhere they want, they're limited to specific locations.

Almo

@TheMuffinCoder my macpro doesn't have a CD drive, so I don't anymore.

iPhone 7 may ship without a 3.5 inch headphone jack

Apple likes deleting shit

first iMac no floppy drive people all like OH GOD OH GOD

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Almo Lol!

How will you use it hands-free?

That doesn't make sense!

theonion.com/video/…

Almo

by using bluetooth or wifi headphones

apparently they registered the trademark "AirPods" or something

also, they can use the lightning port to output audio if you want a wire

gets them thinner phone, and more battery space

Alexandre Vaillancourt

7:01 PM

Well I'd be damned if I could not plug my phone out into my Sonos In...

(I don't use an iPhone, but my wife does). She'll be pissed off if this happens..

Almo

if she gets an iPhone 7, that is

my guess is there will be a lightning-to-little-box-to-3.5-inch-jack thing

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Probably; will look ugly though :P

Not sure she'll get an iPhone 7, but she'll eventually get a new iPhone. (I guess. I don't think she'll go Android.)

Shotgun Ninja

woo, just added Chef Carlisle on Facebook

asked him for a brief interview

Almo

haha yeah :)

cool SN

Shotgun Ninja

He's probably going to be all like, "Nah, this guy is just some microblogger, I get to be in the Journal Sentinel."

but maybe, hopefully, it gets put together

Alexandre Vaillancourt

7:07 PM

@ShotgunNinja do you expect a 'scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' type of thing? (Being featured on his page?)

Shotgun Ninja

Not really, I just want to be able to talk with him. If he shares it, I'd be delighted.

Like, I've got a couple of followers, thanks mostly to Reddit and stuff

but I'm no food expert, by far.

I just really love my city.

I want others to know about the things that make it great.

Jon

you make it great

Shotgun Ninja

blush

Jon

with your ninja skills and your shotgun

Shotgun Ninja

ha

Jon

7:12 PM

you know if you ever get sued for copyright infringement... couldn't you countersue for copyright infringement?

MickLH

lol "no u"

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@ShotgunNinja Cool :)

Shotgun Ninja

He agreed to the interview! Now we just have to settle on a time.

Jon

don't screw it up man

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Nice!

Shotgun Ninja

7:21 PM

I'm gonna try picking up a voice recorder so I don't miss a word

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Don't just try :P

You could use your smartphone!

Sie

^

MickLH

@Almo That's a good idea, that format actually has the potential to actually IO professional grade audio (unlike a built-in 3.5 jack in any computer system)

Sie

My premade level rooms are starting to feel cramped :/.

DH.

What's wrong with it?

Jon

7:27 PM

feels cramped

MickLH

@Sie What if you made them feel less cramped?

Sie

Ye

DH.

Saying "feel cramped" is just too broad, no wonder Mick is trolling him

MickLH

Woah, @DH I'm just asking man! not trolling

DH.

Joking maybe?

Sie

7:32 PM

Mick? Nah he is always 100%$ sincere ;).

I trust him.

MickLH

I was actually wondering though, what would it do to your game to make them less cramped

Like asking yourself carefully when cramped might be a good or bad thing

Sie

Probably just rescaling and moving some shit around. No biggie.

MickLH

Key word "carefully"

DH.

aka "don't fuck it up"

MickLH

Feels matter. All dem lil' feels doe.

Jon

7:36 PM

Feelsgoodman

Dr feelsgoodman at your service

You need a shot of lead. Trust me I'm a doctor.

DH.

7:54 PM

Lead is heavy, that can be a killing shot

Jon

WKUK - "A Better Place"

►

Shotgun Ninja

omg, more WKUK fans

oh wait, you're from America's hat

Jon

link dude to a spec

dude posts spriteBatch.Draw(mainMenuIndexSpr, new Vector2(89, 18), null, Color.White, 0, Vector2.Zero, 1, SpriteEffects.None, -100000f);

I was specific about the layerdepth param, that he put -100000

Shotgun Ninja

do they require WKUK viewing in primary school yet?

Jon

Type: Single -- The depth of a layer. By default, 0 represents the front layer and 1 represents a back layer.

Directly from the spec I linked.

Shotgun Ninja

8:06 PM

@Jon Does it not implicit-cast from float to single?

Jon

8:17 PM

Yes

William Mariager

8:40 PM

There's a new Danish actor in the season finale of Game of Thrones.

His English is so bad, they had him dubbed ...

It's Frank Hvam in case you're curious.

user4704

Oh yeah.

user4704

I thought that guys lines sounded odd.

user4704

I liked his scene though.

William Mariager

Yeah, it was a pretty good season finale overall.

user4704

I will now cancel HBO Go until next season :D

William Mariager

8:45 PM

Hah, I'm tempted to do the same.

Honestly, I don't really like their streaming player. Compared to Netflix, it's just horrible.

Hjorthenify

9:01 PM

Hello

William Mariager

Ugh

It's the Dane

Hjorthenify

Oh god.. The Jyde still have internet..

William Mariager

:D

William Mariager

9:40 PM

@Hjorthenify, How did your finals go? :D

Jon

Sup nerds

Hjorthenify

B+ average

William Mariager

@Hjorthenify Nice :D I had a bad group so the first semester was like, only D's, but this semester it's only A's with a more serious group.

@Jon Sup brah

Hjorthenify

Ah nice one

Jon

In Canada it's a number

Hjorthenify

9:42 PM

Same in Denmark

Jon

4.3 is the best score for some reason

Hjorthenify

Gotta go

William Mariager

We have the same oddity.

12 is the highest, but it's possible to get out with a 12.72 average

If you start college within two years, you get an additional 8% on that.

Jon

Heh

After college I was offered a job to teach

William Mariager

Really?

Jon

9:45 PM

It didn't affect my ego at the time but it does now

William Mariager

I've taught an after school intro to programming for kids in middle school. I can say I've tried it, but I'm definitely not interested in ever becoming a teacher.

Jon

Yeah the head of the dept offered me a teaching position but I already had a job with environment Canada

Which totally crashed and burned

Ehehe

Got laid off 6 months later

They rehired me on contract

Then I got a job elsewhere

William Mariager

I have yet to try and get fired. I'm not looking forward to it.

I guess getting laid off isn't so bad though.

At least it isn't your own fault.

Jon

It is if you have a life established

William Mariager

Oh yeah, it definitely sucks in that aspect.

Jon

9:49 PM

I quit a fee jobs my most memorable is Wendy's

Few

William Mariager

You don't have unions that help? We have this thing, where if you're fired or laid off, you'll get your pay covered for up to two years.

Obviously, with the expectation that you try your hardest to find a new job.

Jon

I got upset. Manager told me to punch out if I was mad. So back in those days you would punch out at the cash register. I walked up to the register and punched it with my fist.

Turned around and said fuck you I quit

William Mariager

Whoa :P

Jon

Called my friend went to his house and played video games

William Mariager

Nothing like the times where you didn't rely on having a job :D

Jon

9:52 PM

Haha that job was stupid

Sie

I don't mind working shitty minimum wage jobs as right now that is what is around but I wish I had insurance. The medicaid/medicare gap sucks.

Jon

Not just about cooking food, serving food, and being super nice, you have to clean the toilets, scrub the floors, change the grease, change the garbage

It's a shit job

And they treat you like shit

The job is fucken horrible

William Mariager

I could actually do with most jobs, as long as the environment is good. But there are a lot of minimum wage jobs where you're treated horrible.

Sie

Well it is minimum wage for a reason. You're doing easy tasks that robots will be doing sooner or later and for now we're very easily expendable.

MickLH

It's weird... the robots only cost about a year of minimum wage salary. Why are businesses all lagging so bad?

William Mariager

9:57 PM

I recently read that driverless trucks with likely be the next big industrial revolution, since it'll not only affect truckers, but all the other areas that rely on truckers, like diners, motels, etc.

Sie

Wendy's and others have already been rolling out some kiosks for ordering. Soon[TM] we'll see a cutback of workers.

William Mariager

We have kiosks around here too. Haven't tried them yet though, but at the rate of errors I usually experience, I can only imagine it'll be better.

MickLH

The machines always end up with better error rates than humans

Sie

Everyone seems to complain about them but I use them all the time at Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, and etc. They all work fine.

MickLH

Except some weird tasks like chicken sexing I think

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