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William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
12:10 AM
Oh, you got to watch the recent ones?
 
Liukas
Liukas
got a multitouch problem
@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {

x = ev.getX();
y = ev.getY();
final int action = ev.getAction();
switch (action & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN: {
x = ev.getX();
y = ev.getY();
if (x < 200 && y < 200){
a = a + 1;
}
if (x > 200 && y > 200){
b = b + 1;
}

// Save the ID of this pointer
mActivePointerId = ev.getPointerId(0);
break;
}
case MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_DOWN: {
x = ev.getX();
y = ev.getY();
if (x < 200 && y < 200){
a = a + 1;
}
if (x > 200 && y > 200){
i'm testing multitouch, and i'm not very succesfull
i want the a int to increase when i press the part of the screen wich coordinates are less then 200 x and y, to increase b int when i press > 200, and increase both, when i press both
that looked simple to me in the beggining
but im stuck there like 3 hours
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
Still Android stuff?
 
Liukas
Liukas
well now it's something more sirious
or it's basic stuff on you opinion?
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
I have no clue what it is, which is why I'm asking if it's Android related?
 
Liukas
Liukas
oh
yes
that's android stuff
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
12:21 AM
Why not ask on android.stackexchange.com then?
 
Liukas
Liukas
umm
i can't
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
Why not?
 
Liukas
Liukas
i'm baned there :D
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
Wow.
Good luck then.
 
Liukas
Liukas
can i ask it here, in gamedev?
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
12:22 AM
They'll redirect you and possible move the question to Android.SE.
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
We cannot move his questions if he is banned on other sites.
IIRC he is also banned on SO also, nevermind he was just there 26 seconds ago. That's where you should be.
 
Liukas
Liukas
i can't ask questions
in SO
because i called some guy a douche bag
@Noctrine aren't you an android dev?
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
Well, I'm pretty sure you'll end up banned here as well if you keep this up. The chat is pretty lax though, but it isn't really for questions like yours, chat is mostly for discussions that are too lengthy for comments.
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
@Liukas I am, and I've already helped you. And what William-ole-chap says is correct.
This chat is for discussion of game development related topics, your questions have been and likely will continue to be off-topic on the main site and really you should be asking questions on those.
@WilliamMindWorXMariager Why William and not Nikolaj?
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
@Noctrine, People seem to have a hard time pronouncing or even attempting to pronounce my first name, so I usually stick with my middle name. :)
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
12:31 AM
Niko-lah?
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
I pronounce that "Nick"
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
I should totally stick with Nikolaj.
It's pretty unique, and shows mostly me when googling "Nikolaj Mariager" :P
The whole first page of Google is just me. :P
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
@WilliamMindWorXMariager We won't forget you when you finally drop MindWorX. And if you get really popular, people'll learn how to pronounce it.
Like Molyneux
 
thedaian
thedaian
i can't pronounce molyneux.
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
We can't pronounce Ohio, don't be a jerk.
:D
 
thedaian
thedaian
12:44 AM
to be fair, no one can pronounce Ohio
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
O-hio
or, ou-hai-ou
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
Oh, hi you!
 
thedaian
thedaian
i liked your earlier edits better
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
:p
Slight ohio animosity is to be expected from michigan :p
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
So here's a random question, any of you have any experience with diets/weight loss? :P
 
thedaian
thedaian
12:48 AM
i'm insanely thin, so no
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
I've been doing this thing Alton brown suggested and it's been pretty cool. But I'm not an expert. There is, a SE for that though :p
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
I've eaten 57% of the recommended daily calorie intake, and I'm nearing the end of the day so I won't be eating more. :P Dunno if that's a bad thing.
@Noctrine There is?
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
yes
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
I could only find Cooking.SE.
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
 
thedaian
thedaian
12:49 AM
well, there you go, then
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
Ohhh, a beta site. Sexy.
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
I'm thin as a rail naturally
I might need tips for gaining weight :P
 
KlashnikovKid
KlashnikovKid
1:08 AM
Hey guys, is there any decent free screen capturing software out there?
 
thedaian
thedaian
for screenshots or video?
video, camstudio is the only one that's free and exists, as far as i know.
for screenshots, there's irfanview that is both free and good
 
KlashnikovKid
KlashnikovKid
Video. Just found and checking out fraps
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
1:29 AM
You changed your gravatar!
No more team pink gravatar! Hah!
 
KlashnikovKid
KlashnikovKid
Hehe, me? I'M EVOLVING!!!
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
@Ohio doesn't evolve, not now, NOT EVER!
 
KlashnikovKid
KlashnikovKid
1:45 AM
 
thedaian
thedaian
the free version of fraps is limited to 30 seconds
camstudio doesn't have that limit
 
KlashnikovKid
KlashnikovKid
Yeah, it said it exported as a flash swf though. Does youtube take that?
 
thedaian
thedaian
camstudio exports to avi
 
KlashnikovKid
KlashnikovKid
Aaaahh, then definitely grabbing that
Thanks!
 
thedaian
thedaian
it's tricky to set it up at first (getting audio to work especially), but it's really the only decent free video recording software out there
at the very least, try it.
 
KlashnikovKid
KlashnikovKid
1:53 AM
Yeah, I'm downloading it right now. Better than nothing and beats 30 seconds
 
thedaian
thedaian
it might not actually like directx stuff. i'm not sure.
 
KlashnikovKid
KlashnikovKid
Welp, only one way to find out.
I'll play with it tomorrow. I'm out for the night. Later taters.
 
thedaian
thedaian
night
 
 
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stephelton
stephelton
4:42 AM
There was a question a few months back or so that talked about using mathematical functions to control behavior in games. I can't seem to find it, anyone know what I'm talking about?
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
You talking D&D?
 
stephelton
stephelton
no... it was a fairly broad question as i recall
but i'll give an example of what i'm trying to accomplish
i have a power-up in a game that's drawn as a simple texture. i'd like it to kind of bounce and maybe "throb" every second or so
it would seem appropriate to control its scale and z position with a mathematical function
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
first thing that makes me think of is sin
heh, umm... as in Math.Sin
 
stephelton
stephelton
yeah, but i want it to be fairly subtle -- a pure sin function would be really obnoxious
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
Well.. a scaled sine function no?
 
stephelton
stephelton
4:46 AM
if you were to graph what i have in mind, the x values would stay mostly flat
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
so, from a scale of 0.9 to 1.1 where the 0.2 difference was determined by a sine function
 
stephelton
stephelton
i could draw this on a whiteboard really quickly... :)
one sec
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
k
Google Docs is great for this kind of stuff if you have it
 
stephelton
stephelton
something like that
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
ah
so binary
 
stephelton
stephelton
4:49 AM
i envision controlling both the scale and z positioning with that (to make it bounce)
well those humps probably look very much like a sin function
but otherwise it's mostly flat
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
yup
if I were to do it (not a math or eng major here), I'd still look at using a sine function, but in combination with a min, so: min(0.7, sin(x))
or something of the sort
 
stephelton
stephelton
the humps could be drawn using f(x) = - sin(x) + 1, or something along those lines
ok
so what you've done there is really just take the peaks of the sin function
that sounds appropriate
i think that sounds appropriate, i'll give it a shot.
do you happen to know any general resources on the matter? i'd like to use this sort of technique a lot more, but i could use a good primer
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
alright, let me know how it goes, and yeah, just the tip
 
stephelton
stephelton
thanks much :)
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
you asking about the performance of a sine?
or.. docs?
I don't really know much of either, but I wouldn't worry about the performance until there's a performance problem
 
stephelton
stephelton
4:54 AM
no, not worried about performance
i just want a good introduction to the theory, i guess
(and i know there was a post on GD:SE a while back that discussed this, i can't seem to find it though)
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
yeah... I don't remember seeing it, sorry
 
stephelton
stephelton
5:13 AM
john, that gets me pretty close. i should be able to play with this and get exactly what i'm looking for. thanks a lot!
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
cool
 
 
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Scott W
Scott W
7:53 AM
greetings
 
 
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Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange
9:15 AM
0
Q: tags: security vs. anti-cheat

LohorisI've added security to two questions tagged anti-cheat, then I realized there is no clear question which addresses "anti-cheat" without being also more in general related to "security". I'd like us to either produce some guidelines about when to use these tags, or to remove anti-cheat altogether...

discussion tags
 
 
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Jonathan Dickinson
Jonathan Dickinson
1:13 PM
Finally someone starting simple. Unfortunately they asked a really bad question - not sure how to encourage that.
1
Q: Developing user interface

Zavaeli am beginner in graphic development and have no experience with it, i only developed always with standard win controls. Now i want to create interface in c# for my sports management simulation game, something like this: some other game What would be the best for this? use some library? whitch c...

c# gui libraries wpf windows-forms
 
 
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Zavael
Zavael
2:13 PM
@JonathanDickinson oh thanks for this, didnt know about chat room :)
 
thedaian
thedaian
well, getting them to the chat is usually a good first step :)
 
Jonathan Dickinson
Jonathan Dickinson
2:28 PM
@Zavael welcome - this is where you can ask questions like that (stuff that isn't really specific or might violate the FAQ)
 
 
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user4704
4:36 PM
Geez, the rep requirements to suggest a tag synonym are crazy
 
thedaian
thedaian
yeah. all the stuff dealing with tags are pretty high
except creating a tag
 
thedaian
thedaian
5:11 PM
oh hey, i guess something did happen with this:
Stack Overflow Blog: So You Want To Be a Developer (Part 1)
Posted by David Fullerton on February 15th, 2012

A few months ago we had James Portnow of Extra Credits on the podcast.  We’re huge fans of everything that they’re doing over at Extra Credits, so when they asked us to help them write an episode on programming, we jumped at the opportunity.  Here’s the link:

If you’ve never heard of Extra Credits, it’s a weekly show about the video game industry from the perspective of people who actually work in it.  It’s a fascinating look into game craftsmanship — not just how video games are made, but what makes them work, what games do well and not so well, and th …

 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
I was surprised by this part: "The episode ended up being a two-parter, because apparently we gave them way too much material to fit into one episode."
 
thedaian
thedaian
if they don't at least mention some tiny thing from my answer in meta i will be very sad
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
5:28 PM
Wish they said
GameDev.StackExchange
instead of Stackoverflow :(
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
I was wondering about that, but they also don't specifically say anything about being a game developer
Maybe that will be in part 2?
Was there a similar meta topic on SO?
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
Don't think so
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
I just did a search, and there's none
 
thedaian
thedaian
that too. i also kind of wish the blog post had linked to the meta topic, since it wasn't really just stack overflow who did stuff
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
Look at the episode notes
"This week, we discuss the skills it takes to be a great developer (with lots of help from the folks at Stack Exchange)."
Stack Exchange is a link pointing to GD.SE.
 
thedaian
thedaian
5:39 PM
ah, cool.
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
heh, interesting
Because "Stack Exchange" is just the generic term for the entire collection of websites, everything from programming to cooking
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
Guess I should check the analytics then and see if it made an impact.
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
@Noctrine Is analytic data posted publicly?
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
I would guess there would be a minimal impact. When people hear "Stack Exchange", they usually think "Stack Overflow", and common', what self-respecting programmer hasn't heard of Stack Overflow? And therefore nobody would click the link.
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
@ClassicThunder no. Though, using Data.StackExchange you can see quite a bit.
 
Jonathan Dickinson
Jonathan Dickinson
5:52 PM
You know what's depressing? google.com/search?q=game+development+Q%26A - Area51 site is #2. GD.SE doesn't even feature.
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
yeah wow
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
That sucks
We need more proper incoming links.
Luckily we do alright for questions, not the top link all the time but on the front page. Like Flash Game Development Question
That's a cool one also
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
Yeah
 
thedaian
thedaian
this is potentially cool: gmo.chronus.com/p/main/about there's apparently a decent amount of mentors who don't have anyone to mentor at the moment
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
6:11 PM
@thedaian Looks interesting. How does it work?
More specifically is a Mentor guaranteed to be an industry professional? And how would a mentor keep track of progress?
The site is a little lacking on details
 
thedaian
thedaian
6:27 PM
yeah, it is. i haven't signed up for it or anything, just saw it in a link on google+
there's some FAQ type stuff, but beyond that, i don't know
 
tylerrrr07
tylerrrr07
7:01 PM
 
 
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Noctrine
Noctrine
8:35 PM
@tylerrrr07 I love this site so much.
 
 
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thedaian
thedaian
9:41 PM
ah, finally got the mess of a LINQ query i was working on to work and everything. i'm happy
 
tylerrrr07
tylerrrr07
10:17 PM
@thedaian gotta make sure everything comes from the same context. Once you've got that it's not so bad
 
KlashnikovKid
KlashnikovKid
Interesting. Never heard of LINQ before. Looks just like SQL.
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
Why are all https libraries harder to use then just doing it yourself with sockets :(
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
what is an https library?
 
KlashnikovKid
KlashnikovKid
Secure http connection
So you can send encrypted http data
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
what are you trying to do?
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
10:27 PM
stress test a website
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
:(
in C#?
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
python
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
hmm
wouldn't you just do something like
urlopen('https://foo').read()?
sorry, urlopen
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
@ClassicThunder Because you have to use the HTTP protocol on top of SSL?
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
okay I guess was wrong
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
10:32 PM
@jimmy I have certain headers and parameters I wan't to send over the library isn't putting them together as I would expect
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
Trying to think of the downsides of using bitwise to store the players inventory state in a zelda-like game. Does anyone have anything besides, changing the size of the inventory being a pain compared to just using like json or something?
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
@Noctrine stackability of items
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
how would that work if you need to store more than 1 of each item?
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
Very badly, I was thinking of doing something else for multiples of the same item like collectables, and things that you could run out of. But for the 10-20 items that you'd get in the game that it was only ever possible to have one of it seems as though it would work out alright.
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
also, items that have per-instance attributes. Like, you can't have a +5 Godly Battleaxe of Smashing
unless you wanted that to be a separate bit from normal battleaxes
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
10:41 PM
also, seems like a pain to have 2 systems one for stack-able items and one for non stack-able
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
That is what's making me lean away from it.
Guess a 2D array would be for the best then.
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
why a 2d array?
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
Inventory Position, GUID of the Item in it, and how many you have
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
oh i see, you mean basically an array of tuples
[[sword,1], [rat tails,19]]
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
but inventory expansions are awesome prizes
I shelled out some serious cash for backpack improvements in dragon age
 
Noctrine
Noctrine
10:52 PM
But for Zelda?
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
oh not for zelda
 
thedaian
thedaian
$10 DLC for the Longshot
 
Talon876
Talon876
lol
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
wow httplib is stupid. It doesn't put a '?' between the url and parameters automatically
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
11:21 PM
One day on a beta site and I have the Quorum badge. Huzzah. :P
 
Talon876
Talon876
Which site?
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
bah, here I was being all smart and using the default parameters in C#, but Vector2.Zero is not a compile-time constant apparently
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
Same goes for String.Empty. :( I know it's the same as "", I just think String.Empty feels like the right way.
 
Talon876
Talon876
Why aren't they compile-time constant?
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
11:26 PM
yeah, but with a string, "" would work, no?
@Talon876 I have no idea, you'd think it would be
Anyone?
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
"".equals(empty.string) but you cant ==
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
 "" == String.Empty
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
@ClassicThunder I think you're confusing C# with Java
 
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
William 'MindWorX' Mariager
That's valid.
However, you should always do: 
!String.IsNullOrEmpty(someString);
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
== requires the same memory reference and empty.string is a static variable that = "". Wouldn't var x = "" point to a different location in memory and thus x == "" would be false?
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
11:30 PM
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
or does the compiler know about string.empty and automatically point any variable set to "" to is
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
In C#, there's a string pool, so when two strings contain the same characters, they will refer to the same location in memory
4
Unless you use the StringBuilder
The StringBuilder bypasses the pool
 
Talon876
Talon876
I think using .equals is the way to go, but == will sometimes work but you could be adding weird issues that may or may not show up
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
never knew about the shared pool.
that explains some performance issues I encountered on my last project.
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
yeah, a lot of javalanders think that way, but == works just fine for strings that are created properly (normally, or through the string builder and manually added to the intern pool)
I prefer == because it's easier to read too
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
11:36 PM
hey I went from C++ to C# to Java
i c++ you can't do == either
 
Talon876
Talon876
I'm always switching between java and C# so it makes it that much more obnoxious
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
yeah... I guess so. I always think of ".Equals" as being a java thing
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
I assume == is faster than equals as you don't have to iterate though the charactors
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
".Equals" is never wrong, so if you're going back and forth and can't remember the rules, that will work
yeah
That's usually not a problem unless you are processing a lot of text
 
ClassicThunder
ClassicThunder
I try to maintain efficient habits
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
11:40 PM
Me too, my time is worth more than the CPUs
 
Gajet
Gajet
@ClassicThunder what can't you do in c++
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
string a = "hello";
string b = "hello";
if(a == b){ cout << "Yay!"; }
 
Gajet
Gajet
that's a valid c++ code;
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
yeah, but it won't print "Yay!"
 
Gajet
Gajet
in which compiler?
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
11:47 PM
ok, maybe the compiler would fix that, but what if you read "hello" and "hello" from files?
the == operator is comparing the addresses in C++, a and b would be referring to different addresses because there's no string pool in C++ unless you make one
 
Gajet
Gajet
in VC at least it always prins yay
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
the == versus Equals thing really only comes up in C# if you're casting to/from object
 
Gajet
Gajet
@JohnMcDonald nope
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
@Gajet You're saying that there's a string pool in C++?
 
Gajet
Gajet
no but there is string class!
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
11:50 PM
.. yeah...
 
Gajet
Gajet
and that is not just a container for pointer.
even containers may have over over written their operator ==
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
true, so what you're saying is that if(a == b) works, but if((object)a == (object)b) doesn't due to an overloaded == in the string class that will compare the strings character by character?
 
Gajet
Gajet
if(string("hello") == string("hello")){ cout << "Yay!"; } is completely different thing from if("hello" == "hello"){ cout << "Yay!"; }
the first one compares them character by character, but the second one is just checking their pointers.
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
Ok
 
Gajet
Gajet
you can even write if(string("hello") == "hello"){ cout << "Yay!"; }
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
11:52 PM
also @JohnMcDonald, even in C#, if you read "hello" from files
the references would not be equal
strings aren't automatically interned, just the static ones in your program
 
Gajet
Gajet
this will also mean checking character by character, since operator ==(std::string, char*) is not overloaded.
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
@Jimmy yeah, I'm reading up on that
 
Gajet
Gajet
so it just looks for most relevant cast, and boom it first casts char* to std::string and then checks if two string values are equal
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
@Jimmy Yeah, what do you know. I was under the impression that all new strings were added to the pool unless you used the string builder
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
that would be surprising behavior. the intern pool is an implementation detail you should never rely on.
like, if all strings were automatically interned, you'd get crazy memory usage just doing ReadLines on a large file
 
Gajet
Gajet
11:57 PM
what is intern pool exactly?
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
@Gajet all static strings in a C# program are stuck in a fixed string buffer at compile
 
Gajet
Gajet
got it, it was started!
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
Yup, I was assuming that the "==" compared references in the pool, but since that's also false, the two wrongs make a right
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
yeah, the only thing to be aware of is that operators are not virtual
so that is why people got in the habit of doing .Equals like they do in java
because in C# 1.0, containers were untyped
 
Gajet
Gajet
operators can not be virtual in c#?
that's some bad news
 
John McDonald
John McDonald
11:59 PM
ok
 
Jimmy
Jimmy
@Gajet why is that bad news?
 

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