The Bridge

ardaozkal

11:00 PM

oh god

Even I wouldn't do that, and I didn't!

murgatroid99

@Chippies That's some insane code

I can feel the compiler's pain from here

Chippies

@murgatroid99 meh, at least the compiler has to do less calculating

ardaozkal

@Chippies well actually, it doesn't calculate on compile time.

murgatroid99

Because || is guaranteed to short-circuit, you have to compile it as a branch, which means that that AST has a few thousand branches

Chippies

@ardaozkal shush, you with your sense and stuff

ardaozkal

11:03 PM

Well, 0 < 5000

So you are correct, in a way.

murgatroid99

In my compilers class, one of the tests my compiler never passed looked like that. The compiler would OOM trying to construct the AST

GodEmperorDune

> compiler says: my mana has waned

Frank

I am continually surprised at people's ingenuity with gunpla.

GodEmperorDune

@Frank that's a blastoise

Chippies

@Frank idk what that is, but it looks cute and cool at same time

Frank

11:05 PM

Chippies

oh wait, is that from behind?

I thought it was his face

it looked cuter from behind

GnomeSlice

It's pretty clearly a Blastoise

ardaozkal

@GodEmperorDune Compiler must be old, it takes hours to do its job!

Wipqozn

Damn ti @skully, you sure do lvoe to panic

@Sterno Shaken seems to basically make a soldier useless

GodEmperorDune

@ardaozkal using /oom in wow used to pop a message about running out of mana. the best one was the male night elf, who complained that his mana had waned

Yuuki

11:08 PM

@GnomeSlice Sure, but the head alone looks like a Kyogre.

GnomeSlice

Is that the big whale thing

Ok, gnight bridge!

The legendary one.

Yeah, that one

That was on the cover of Sapphire.

GnomeSlice

11:09 PM

I only really know the original 152 or however many

Because I used to have a seek and find pokemon book

Yuuki

Because there's also another big whale one that was introduced in the same gen.

GnomeSlice

Oh

Not whaleord

the legendary one yeah

djsmiley2k

hmmm

why do i som,etimes get 150GP, and sometimes 10GP from winning chocobo racing with no appent reason for the difference :/

Wipqozn

oh for fuck sakes

I didn't notice that guys HP was low

yeah now of course retro is paniced

oh no! someting happened! beter be useless!

djsmiley2k

wtf and now I got 300GP o_O

I wanna know if I get funky

Wipqozn

11:18 PM

oh good, I was spotted, fuck

djsmiley2k

@Wipqozn : Has ACNE.

Any of you guys feel like donating a little cpu and lots of bandwidth to archiving some old sites?

This will end up in archive.org.

user15026

@djsmiley2k I'm already running a Warrior instance most of the time when my computer isn't doing things

djsmiley2k

ty @AshleyNunn

How come you know about it, was it via me?!

user15026

@djsmiley2k Nope, not through you

djsmiley2k

:O

Well, i was one of the first ;)

user15026

11:25 PM

I'm a data/info library/archive nerd

djsmiley2k

\o/

user15026

So I just found it at some point and was like "yes this thing it is a good thing lets do this thing"

djsmiley2k

ok, we need mega help atm with fotolog

If I had a jorb I'd fire up instances on aws or digital ocean but I can't afford to atm :/

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn I'm ~~a data/info library/archive nerd~~ skynet in the early stages. FTFY

user15026

Yeah, I know me firing it up isn't much, but I figure it's better than not at all

RedRiderX

11:27 PM

@badp That's pretty rad

GodEmperorDune

@djsmiley2k google cloud is cheaper and easier

badp

India bans internet.org

djsmiley2k

@GodEmperorDune orly?

RedRiderX

@badp Make sense

djsmiley2k

@badp well, their reasoning is sound at least :/

badp

11:28 PM

I didn't remember google cloud being cheap

but AWS sounds like lock-in hell

GodEmperorDune

@badp i just switched my stuff over

badp

Digital Ocean just gives you good old VMs

Frank

@badp Good.

badp

@Frank yes

@Frank I mean, it's sad for those who couldn't afford the internets otherwise

GodEmperorDune

all that's left is some backups sending stuff to s3, which i will change when i feel like updating some cron scripts

user15026

11:29 PM

@badp Makes perfect sense to me - I know they're trying to spin this as a humanitarian kindness, but it just opens gross doors for exploit

djsmiley2k

I'm using google drive for my backups now \o/

Frank

@badp I'd venture to say that a walled garden controlled by Facebook is worse than no internet.

badp

@Frank I don't think their walled garden included anything locally relevant anyway

Frank

@badp Hence, worse than nothing.

GodEmperorDune

@badp what about the zynga games?!

RedRiderX

11:30 PM

@RedRiderX *Makes

badp

sigh

RedRiderX

> (fixed)

GodEmperorDune

broderbund! i grew up on those kids games

RedRiderX

Hmm...

GodEmperorDune

treehouse

and the one at the beach

RedRiderX

11:32 PM

I should play Karateka.

user15026

Dear self no don't go poking at IA's game library. GO MAKE DINNER.

Frank

@GodEmperorDune Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?

GodEmperorDune

@Frank no, i played where in the world though

but i didn't realize that if i guessed wrong i needed to go back to the previous city

so i was pretty bad at it

user15026

I played a lot of Where In the World

Frank

@GodEmperorDune Time came in a full-sized game box, for the Apple //e, anyways, and a freaking encyclopedia.

djsmiley2k

11:34 PM

tracker.archiveteam.org/fotolog

user15026

Also Cross Country Canada

GodEmperorDune

but i liked that crash test dummy guy that called me "gumshoe"

user15026

those were the most interesting games we had on school computers

GodEmperorDune

@Frank nah i had a 386

then 486

no macs in my house until ipod

Frank

@GodEmperorDune I played this during recess in elementary school.

Wipqozn

11:34 PM

@Sterno Blacksitecomplete. 1 dead, 2 wounded. The death was my own stupidity :/ Didn't realize someone only had 4 HP

Frank

These things predate macs by a good chunk.

RedRiderX

@AshleyNunn Awwww that was the best

user15026

@RedRiderX I'd always pick up the hitchhikers

user15026

And then they'd steal my stuff :(

GodEmperorDune

@Frank i meant no computers from apple, not the mac itself, but w/e

in elementary school we had a TRS-80

we played oregon trail

RedRiderX

11:36 PM

@AshleyNunn such life lessons were made...

GodEmperorDune

but some of the older kids had a notebook full of code changes to customize it

user15026

@RedRiderX I'd also forget to make sure I had a full tank of gas

user15026

(aka I would make a terrible trucker)

GodEmperorDune

and we had to manually type them in because it was on floppy

Tim Stone

lol, reinforcements dropped in and the officer took cover behind a burning vehicle that then exploded and immediately killed it

Frank

11:37 PM

@GodEmperorDune I still have one of those.

GodEmperorDune

@Frank nice

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

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Retro Gaming

Proposed Q&A site for people intrested in useing, playing, learning, or modifying retro games.

Currently in definition.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What is the blast radius of the Archon's Blazing Pinions attack?

The Archon has an attack called "Blazing Pinions" that acts like an aerial strike against 4 random squad members. Each member that is targeted has a pillar of light on their tile location. What is the blast radius of the attack around each pillar? I want to know how far away from each pillar I h...

xcom-2

Frank

64K of RAM, baby!

Tim Stone

Flawless VIP mission, hooray

Frank

11:38 PM

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Those questions.

RedRiderX

@AshleyNunn They made a remake that was pretty good too

Crosscountry Canada 2

Crosscountry Canada 2 is an educational simulation software program for children ages 9–13 (grade four through grade eight). Players drive an 18-wheeler truck picking up and delivering commodities across Canada while learning about provinces, cities, territories and more. Making wise decisions along the way will result in a successful trip. It features different large cities throughout Canada, and is an on-rails driving game. The Crosscountry Series also includes Crosscountry Canada, Crosscountry USA, Crosscountry USA 2, Crosscountry BC, and Crosscountry Photo Safari and is published by Ingenuity...

GodEmperorDune

@Frank oh i thought it was dedicated to retrosaur

user15026

@RedRiderX I didn't know that! I feel like i need to find that.

Frank

@GodEmperorDune Ow.

Just....ow.

RedRiderX

@AshleyNunn It's pretty basic but looking back it feels like My First Trucking Simulator.

Yuuki

11:40 PM

Get 2GB for your Google Drive by completing security stuffs.

8

RedRiderX

It had some cool things

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki oh man i need to do this on all my google accounts

for 2 GB of storage that i'll probably never use

SaintWacko

@Yuuki Yep, did this early. Takes about 30 seconds

And that's if you actually do the audit instead of just clicking through

GodEmperorDune

google you know me so well

user15026

@Yuuki Yay storage, and also yay I cleaned up some unneeded stuff there

Frank

11:46 PM

Cookie Clicker 2.0 is out

badp

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/…

Frank

You may now all lose your lives for the foreseeable future.

GodEmperorDune

@Frank didn't come from @StrixVaria, not sure if legit

murgatroid99

That looks a lot like regular Cookie Clicker

Frank

@GodEmperorDune It's the one that started it all, I think.

GodEmperorDune

11:47 PM

@Frank i thought adventure capitalist was the first?

like early terribad flash one

SaintWacko

@Frank What, no, stop that, I'm still playing Realm Grinder

Frank

@SaintWacko And I'm still playing Xenoblade!

(Just got my flying Skells, too)

SaintWacko

@Frank I'm working on my flying skills

(In WoW)

djsmiley2k

whjich one is realm grinder?

two bugs

Skell Flight opens up a lot! You should do the Kristi quests if you haven't yet @Frank, they open up some really good ways to make money (the best you can do until postgame, really)

Frank

11:51 PM

@twobugs I've done four of five already.

I've got that sidequest with that moron who thinks he's supposed to own all of the world's money.

So to prove him wrong, I need to get 70K in one tick.

I don't like that jump just got turned into fly.

So now I have to be careful not to jump so I don't waste fuel.

two bugs

There's a pretty easy way to do that in Oblivia, let me find the image

But yeah, RIP Skell jumping :(

It's in Japanese but you can tell from the icons

Make sure you find the sightseeing spots for those areas too because those are the real $$$$

Tim Stone

@Wipqozn I've decided the strategy to this game is to just get really lucky with exploding cars

Car randomly exploded on the retaliation mission, forced the Faceless to change and took 6 HP

Wipqozn

@TimStone Exploding cars is great

Tim Stone

And I didn't even set the car on fire!

two bugs

(Also I'm really disappointed Tatsu isn't an actual combat member. Riki was the best!)

Tim Stone

11:56 PM

Result: Flawless retaliation

Frank

@twobugs That doesn't look that complicated.

two bugs

Is there an easy way to explode cars? I haven't been able to directly target them. I guess just grenades? But those are so useful for armored dudes...

Frank

Not sure I have the research probes needed, though.