Got any new low poly art?

xbox achieeeeeeeeeeevements

Nice

while blasting music in headphones cuz baby is crying and toddler is loud lol

wife tries to let me code in peace when I'm working lol

Must be nice

Single dad ftw

I get a week to work, a week to not

aye

He loves my new keyboard

haha

Remember when I asked about who the fuck would want flashy keyboard it's too distracting?

hahahahahaha

Well now I know

Hes got it disco style

kids want everything under the sun

it's like a guaranteed sale

Ah well I bought it for me

My profile is subtle

:P

lol

His is batshit insane

How old's your son again?

8

You?

daughter's 4

when you have an endless loop and accidentally sacrifice 18,000 kittens

you sacrifice kittens in your game?

I sacrificed kittens in his game

Twins?

it gives you more max hp but I just wanted to kill the kittens.

oops, only 1,800, I can't count lol

but yes

1,800 are 1,800 too many

each gives +10 Max Health

and -1 soul?

nah, but your irl morals take a hit (I hope)

hi all

Hello

Any suggestions for olympiad level mathematician what programmer to become?

Can anyone give me an explanation of the basic challenges and roadblocks that prevent a full real time multiplayer mod for the sims 3? If Open Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 can do it and DMP can do it for Kerbal Space Program, and JC2MP was able to make Just Cause 2 multiplayer, why not the Sims 3?

first you need to figure out how to mod it and access the information you need. assuming Sims 3 doesn't have explicit modding support, that probably means decompiling and modifying the exe, which is a nightmare.

being EA, they probably did some encryption and obfuscation crap as an anti-piracy measure, which would make it far worse than a nightmare

and that's all before you actually try to sync things between two clients and display other players in each one

@Sadams the kind you like

programming stuff you're not interested in sucks

So basically there was probably never enough interest / passion to overcome the roadblocks EA put in the way.

nothing's impossible, but realistic feasibility to go through the effort to make that happen, probably not

actually

i would argue that some things are impossible

for the sake of arguying

wtf my son changed my mouse speed

@TheMuffinCoder I don't go for those kind of platformers, usually.

so I can recommend a lot of games I think are better. :)

go

vimeo.com/169289500

my god i want to do that

how do they land

they run reallllly fast

then slow down

you need to be able to run around 300 km/h

lol

@ShaunWild This is literally the absolutely worst most misguided line of reasoning you could possibly have come up with. I assume you are completely trolling.

who cares.

I care. I would not be living up to my morals if I didn't point out that nobody was joking, and that everyone actually is disgusted about his choices.

caring is the first step towards dissapointment

And not just because Java is an annoying language... but because the money-eyed uncreative bad gamer asshats who pollute the field with pure shit content because they want to get rich without providing proper effort in any form in life whatsoever, bleh

told you

It's so annoying that everyone else gets the point yet @ShaunWild probably needs to hear it 3 different ways from 3 different people before it sinks in and he adjusts

he's a wild man

@Jon This joke is the only thing that has annoyed me bad enough to cause actual anger in over a week

I was actually enjoying myself about a split second ago

gross

Yeah why do you act like that?

You clearly admit that it's gross...

Long day, hard to care about bullshit

You know as well as I do that people like that are the problem, bullshit sucks but letting it sit there and stink is itself... "bullshit"

Shit happens... and then you flush

what are you gonna do though? kill stupidity?

Eventually, but for now just make it feel bad

then even if you did, by what metric do you even measure it?

You don't

Would I be killed under those standards? because quite frankly i wouldn't support that

You set a threshold where people just auto-kill themselves because of a natural overflow of stupidity

I think they used to call it, uh Darwinism? or something like that, before we told nature to fuck itself and built hospitals, you know?

we need to get closer to the point where we can download knowledge into people's brains

I mean, I know that would be used by corporations to fuck people's minds

But if it wasn't

Hive mind would be pretty neat

If we just stopped actively doing work to keep the stupidest least effective bags of meat alive... we would be a lightyear ahead already

start a hive mind network

take over the world

i should go to bed

i wish I didn't have to sleep

ikr

what is the longest you have gone?

i have done 3 days

probably around that, idk

was pretty fucked up, i couldn't stay awake

passing out against my will sitting

Yeah microsleeps turn into naps...

brain gets weird after a while

my friend was doing it with me, and he passed out

i plugged his nose to wake him up, and it didn't wake him up

lol

When I let go, he gasped for air

in his sleep

was like.... welp, whatever.

just take LSD for 4 days

:P

I have a fuzzy memory of playing PS2 with a couple friends for like 2 days straight, and everyone else fell asleep eventually like that except the friend who's house were all playing at

And after they wouldn't wake up we snapped in some way and had to fuck with them, but were too tired to draw any reasonable line... so they woke up with a bunch of glasses of water balanced on and around them and everything covered in a solid white layer of baby powder

lol

the hand in hot water trick

fuck!

or the all time classic, everyone shits on the passed out guys chest

lol yeah can't go wrong with that

always a great gag

best part is always telling them nobody wanted to but they kept crying please

cubeescape.com

been playing these on my phone lately -- worth checking out

all these are available on android and ios

seasons crashed on my phone, but it is very good

i gave it a 3 stars because it crashed and annoyed the fuck out of me becuase I couldn't finish it

@ShaunWild Expect massive pain from this. Seriously I can't explain how bad of a choice in life it is, to continue whatever thought process allowed this reasoning to form in the first place.

And not just your own pain, it's actually one of the biggest problems stressing all of us out. No exaggeration no joke, it wasn't a magical cash cow before and it especially isn't now that every joe schmoe with no skills and not willing to do any effort wants to make it big. If you want to "make it big" you're doing it wrong. You should want to make it good for yourself because all you're gonna get out of your years of effort is your game. No ego boost, no big money.

also cough please choke coughcough just kidding lol! lol!!

choke tho.

Ah, feels so much better knowing I was a nice person :)

@Jon wake up and play Nazi Zombies with meee

why do I feel like @IcyDefiance might be a reasonable partner? Icy do you play nazizom?

I don't

@IcyDefiance That's fine you'll form a consistent strategy after like 3 rounds

It's only a huge pain in the ass to play anymore using Hamachi since the masterserver went offline a while ago

So I expect you'll feel obligated, and have no reluctance to pour effort into setting it up kthx

too tired to learn something new tonight

@ShaunWild Not saying anything against/for Java and/or Notch however just because he did doesn't mean you will too.

Besides Notch is kind of sad nowadays. All he does is get in internet fights and occasionally humble brag. I guess he is free to do whatever he wants with his free time though. / reddit.com/user/xNotch

Notch's internet fights are amazing though

I really enjoy watching him beat people down. It's hilarious.

@Kromster No. Nothing proved your point. Everything proved against your point. Please understand "software" is indispensable absolutely. Your knowledge of breathing is software. Without software, your body is a frothing sack of twitching meat. You are software, your bag of meat is hardware.

and I can't not mention that "save the planet" could not be more invalid when your car is designed for an ECU but you choose to instead run it in a way that produces so much waste output that it's actually been made illegal here to be so inefficient, because we'll literally all die in a relatively short time at that rate.

but I don't want to focus on that, I want to point out that you're not using the car you've referred to, you're using a machine that's similar in most ways but less efficient and reliable because it's missing a part. Your attempts to assert that hardware does not need software because your car runs without an ECU are invalid for the same reason it would be incorrect to say that humans don't need organs because you can survive without a kidney and a spleen

Hardware itself, is software, running on top of physics.

In fact, the inverse of your argument even holds merit... Hardware is nothing without software. Software is a universal and unambiguous representation of knowledge. Hardware is a critically specific, unreliable, temporary, error prone means of letting us see software more easily. Hardware is just sand until you use your software to see the software in it so you can load software onto it and then use the software until the hardware can't support it anymore, at which point it is worthless.

...you can't talk bad about the concept of software itself on stack exchange now come on

@MickLH now this is went off ))) my original point was that software alone can't "save the planet". without hardware. HW can work without SW. Other way round - impossible. Period )

lol so you won't rebut anything? Just gonna assert your (now shown to be invalid) point?

@Kromster Ignoring that "save the planet" is ill-defined and so it has no meaning... The fact of the matter here is for every finite amount of physical matter, one can derive infinite information.

The physical matter can never exist outside of its representation in information. Software can be trivially proven to exist as the thought process of proving it is itself a constructive example.

Hardware, can never be proven absolutely to exist because you can never truly prove that your experience reflects reality absolutely.

So while it "makes sense if you don't think about it" to say that software needs hardware. If you actually do think about it, it's the other way around.

And not just that, but practically.. in the real world... hardware is created and destroyed, loved and hated, bought and thrown away all and only for ... software

Your point is so invalid, I can't even... I naturally want to respect you, please rebut coherently.

We have algorithms for quantum computers, that have existed longer than the computers themselves. Algorithms that have been having tangible, measurable effects on the real world, long before hardware for them ever existed. Software that has motivated people into developing the hardware for it

okay

@Tyyppi_77 dunno if it would look better, but maybe have text under every thumbnail?

@ChrisMcFarland +1

@Kromster I know I'm being a nitpicky jerk but I can't help it and you aren't helping it either so what am I supposed to do?

@MickLH how am I supposed to help you? )

@Kromster Probably the easiest way is to just get rid of all the ignorant people and the problems they cause, thx

That would relieve enough stress to basically let everything else smooth itself out

@AlexandreVaillancourt People tend to notice really fast. :)

mystery navigation is poor design usually

I'd add more white space between the thumbs too

:)

Can you not just split the text somewhere

and start a second line?

Not sure if troll or not

@WilliamMariager The basic idea I had was that it was easier to interpolate between 2 known states, and the simulation would always show a "real" state, so no need to 'correct' what is displayed. Buy yeah, the users will probably notice it. I'll run some tests because at one point, I'll have to do something like that!

variety in game modes prevent your game from getting stale

I personally wish broforce had more modes.

anything and everything

Fart guns

Tower Climb Mode

survive the explosions mode

weapon modifiers, enemy modifiers, whether things gain new abilities, or are restricted, extra or less health, extra or less damage, cosmetic stuff even, change quantities, certain weapons/enemies do more or less damage

Survive invincible boss mode

@Jon That reminds me of my favorite anti-piracy tactic...

this is one of my favorites

This one is pretty clever too...

the earthbound one is so good, because it makes you play almost the entire game

Then destroys your save before you can finish, as a huge fuck you

So then if you actually want to beat the game and see the ending, you have to start all over again

To be fair it does give you a fair share of warnings before it does that. If the annotations are correct.

Right, the person is aware

Yeah, strangely I know every single one of these already

Batman had one where you couldn't use the glide

so at some point you had to jump across a gap, and it was impossible

GTA4 forces drunk mode all the time

Anti-Piracy wheel of the 90s

We used to photocopie and remake these in school

lmao

easy peasy

my mom is bringing me breakfast, woooooo

thanks

this question is really difficult to answer -- considering closing.

Because it really is a how to get started question.

However, it is also valid to ask

not really

in Alto, you are following a elipse

then you can detach from it

"jump" and fall with gravity until you re-attach to the elipse path

but how the hell do you explain that to him?

I can't go into details without writing it myself

you would remove gravity and force the path movement, way easier

just change speed

well that is the thing though, there are soooooo many things going on here

Dude needs to narrow his question scope.

And again, the way I would do it is very subjective

You already are saying you woudl approach it differently

yeah it looks fun :D

i can

wut

@Tyyppi_77 I gave it a shot =p

It doesn't matter if you remove blue shapes or not.

Need a nicer way of saying this, anyone?

what...the...fuck

I can no longer see colliders or sprites on base gameobjects

@KevinvanderVelden This approximation would be a lot better if you forced the angle to rotate left or right based on which side it's already turned towards relative to the new angle

Especially if you did a scalar condition instead of a binary one, it could reproduce that effect where it's almost stable in the reverse configuration for straight lines

True, hadn't thought about that.

I want to write an answer for it, but I don't feel like annoying everyone with a tedious treatment of an ugly differential equation, just to derive some simple approximation almost equal to what you posted :P

Heh ^^

can someone with unity create a gameobject

and add a box collider

see if you can see it in the editor?

@Jon wut do

create new gameobject

add a boxcollider component

see if you see a green thingy in the editor

I can't see that fucken gizmo at all

i'm super annoyed

Wasting my fucken time

exactly

that fucken thing doesn't appear for me

Should I update?

whta version are you on?.

did you disable "Gizmos" in the editor

you can tell it not to show them somewhere

its enabled

"5.1.0f3 personal"

Yeah I know about that.

lol, yeah you should update :)

5.3.5 works pretty well for me

5.3.5 or 5.4???

5.4 still in beta, last I heard

yeah, still beta

so 5.3.5

no idea why I can't see that damn collider...

I try to periodically give all the engines new chances to woo me, so this is good motivation for me to try Unity again :P

ugh, ok i figured it out

and also, wtf

what happne

wtf?

it is drawing behind my scene

Maybe they simply dun fukt up?

I mean that's like... hecka much code in there soooo

I have never seen this ever.

but like... hecka much tho

it is fine for gameobjects that are not root

hmmm

changed the z-index to -1 and it fixed it

exciting stuff right here

might have a language option there at some point.

Nice!

I think I've got the world wrapping for my game mostly working, although there's a lot of issues using a procedurally generated world that I still need to work through...