Game Development

Grey

18:00

@Jon slower than 97 percent

Alex M.

in other news, got some more beer I haven't tried before

namely: beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/240/703 and beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1489/10302

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Looks like I'm pretty average around here :P

Alex M.

boscho

@Jon Should look like this:

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

I remember the time where I were faster than 90%

Times change.

boscho

18:05

So time to bust out photoshop and get to speeding things up ;)

Alex M.

dat moment when superior patrician

boscho

Well now you're just being excessive >(

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

And yet, only faster than 66%...

erebel55

so now that i'm banned from admob for life which advertiser should i look into?

Alex M.

why banned?

@William'MindWorX'Mariager it's probably because of that new gigabit connection

erebel55

18:08

because my wife clicked on some of my ads while she was testing

i'm beyond pissed that i'm banned for life

Alex M.

in practice you don't really get 1000mbps but you do get at least 900mbps

at least that's what clients say

since it's cheap, a lot of people probably switched to it

GnomeSlice

I get like 30 kb/s

boscho

@AlexM. ridiculous O.o . Sadly the US is large enough that all of the ISPs are afraid of updating their infrastructure.

Alex M.

@boscho I think your ISPs are fine with asking for a lot of money for a slow connection

upgrading is probably not the issue :P

boscho

Oh they're more than fine - it's the only way to do business ;)

And so long as none of them upgrade there's no competitive reason to.

Alex M.

18:10

yup, the competition is what makes internet fast in romania

$16/mo for 1000mbps is something the US will probably never see anytime soon

erebel55

what ad provider do you use Alex?

Alex M.

admob

erebel55

damnit

Alex M.

Looking at the Web with Internet Explorer 6, one last time
A gallery of half-rendered CSS, broken images, and shattered dreams. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/looking-at-the-web-with-internet-explorer-6-one-last-time/

erebel55

:'

:'(

who bans people for life

it's just cruel

Alex M.

18:15

what the fuck did you do

since you complain about being banned for life

I guess it means you did something wrong

so you should shut the fuck up

erebel55

My wife clicked on some of my ads while my game was in development

Alex M.

read the rules of your next ad provider then

before using it

erebel55

don't have to be a dick

but will do

Alex M.

I'm always a dick :D

erebel55

what are the best alternatives? charboost or flurry?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

18:18

If he suddenly starts acting nice, we know he's been abducted.

<3

erebel55

lol

Alex M.

@William'MindWorX'Mariager thx bill

@erebel55 no idea

erebel55

ok

Alex M.

there was this other provider

which aggregated ads from different providers

forgot its name, but it had a plugin for unity

which also allowed you to do 3D ads

the evilest of things: render ads to texture

Lasse

blizzard does that on sc2

Alex M.

18:22

I think it was free but they kept X% of your income for themselves

Almo

yay

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another notable question

i have 7 now

Alex M.

@Almo despite your attempts, I've managed to push back SO in my top rep list

HA!

and not with just one site, but with two

three if you consider gd.se

Almo

:D

Jon

what are your fav stacks?

(general question)

Almo

black cylinder just shipped

due in a week

sooner i bet

it's already in winnipeg with fed ex

Jon

18:34

the heck is black cylinder?

Alex M.

@Jon the call stack

I also like stacks of pringles

pringles are the best

Jon

i was expecting someone to be a smartass

Almo

cinema5d.com/news/?p=18484

Alex M.

@Jon military salute

JUS' DOIN' MY BUSINESS SIR

Jon

What the hell lol

Alex M.

18:35

@Almo did you really buy that

Grey

@Jon nice blender

Lasse

A fancy trash can

Jon

There are some great news for video professionals, the new Mac Pro supports up to 3 4K displays simultaneously. That’s massive for editing.

nice.

it is a funny design.

Alex M.

it's a pointless design

if it were to set a trend it would have done so already

Lasse

also he's calling that an IT innovation

Icy Defiance

18:37

am I the only one happy that someone tried something different from a box?

Alex M.

it's just a failed attempt at something interesting

Icy Defiance

we're talking about it, so obviously it's interesting

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

I thought the MacBin was old news...

Lasse

there's nothing innovative using parts already available, except if you think the trash can design is major part of the performance

Jon

it is designed to get attention

Alex M.

18:37

@IcyDefiance we also talked about you yesterday

but you're not very interesting :(

BAM!

Icy Defiance

I'm pretty sure I'm interesting

Jon

I'd take the case off

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Pretty sure you're not

We had a vote.

Jon

now you are talking

if only that power was on the back ... or front rather... why is that power hookup in the front?

Lasse

Quick someone make an image where r2d2 sees that and asks "brother?"

Alex M.

18:39

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Lasse

Why not bottom plug for the power, and sell some table modifying kits for $200 a piece

Jon

lol, proprietary charging tables

Grey

put wheels on it

Jon

"The Nightstand" "The Pelican Cage" "The El Cheapo"

Lasse

they would cost $1800 because of the design

Grey

18:40

r2d2

Jon

but, easy r2d2 mod

come out with a tutorial on how to mod it like r2d2, you will get 3000 sales right there

better yet, come out with a r2d2 mod kit

Alex M.

I wonder if OS X will ever become as closed as iOS is

with apple releasing separate OS X versions for programmers

Jon

lol

i think the idea is to shift people away from traditional desktop computers

and you see it more and more with younger people

their main device is their phone... for everything on the internet

Alex M.

younger people here play DoTA 2 on desktop computers

Icy Defiance

when apple introduced the app store thing to OS X a lot of people were worried about it becoming that closed.

I'm still worried about it

Alex M.

18:43

90% of them

Jon

i'm just generalizing...

Alex M.

10% of them play LoL

Jon

gamers still get desktops

workers

my dad

but if he had a tablet, he'd be better off

Alex M.

I dunno, I don't really care that much whether or not I'm working on a desktop

as long as I can write code and compile it

Jon

i wouldn't have to format his pc every year

Alex M.

18:44

I'm fine with doing it on anything

Jon

Yeah, we are the tinkerers.

There are also other people that form part of society that don't like to think

THey just want their internet to work

Almo

@AlexM. I did really buy that. :D

Jon

give those people tablets.

Alex M.

@Jon I wouldn't like to have a single device for everything, I think

what if it breaks?

Jon

get another tablet.

Alex M.

18:46

until it gets repaired, I lose everything

Jon

everything is stored in the cloud

Almo

@AlexM. Apparently you don't remember the iPad. All the tech people said "nobody will buy these". Soon, other companies were scrambling to make their own versions.

Lasse

backups

Jon

get a tablet with a SD card

Alex M.

yeah, I'd rather not keep a spare tablet at all times

@Almo I don't see many other makers doing tubular PCs

Jon

18:46

My dad has no need for a traditional desktop computer

Nor does my son

Almo

it just arrived on the market like two months ago

Jon

I got him a tablet

Alex M.

@Almo fair enough

I just don't think there's any point to its shape

and given the target market

Almo

great things about its design: small. silent (one large fan on the bottom).

Alex M.

it's probably safe to assume the average user won't buy it

Jon

18:47

airflow is probably pretty good

Almo

yeah

Alex M.

iPads and iPhones get copied because everyone buys them

not everyone buys workstations

all Mac Pros had specific case designs, and neither DELL nor HP, nor others, ever copied them

IIRC

Almo

My point was not "mac pros will sell like hotcakes" my point was "just because it's not a trend now does not mean it is not good innovation"

which was what you implied

Alex M.

I've never heard of a workstation to set trends

that's what I was trying to say

maybe this one will be the first

who knows

Almo

you said "if it's such a cool thing why hasn't it been done before"

which is why i responded with the ipad example

Alex M.

18:49

@Almo I didn't say that

I would never say something like that

Icy Defiance

13 mins ago, by Alex M.

if it were to set a trend it would have done so already

Alex M.

yes

Jon

which one would you rather

Almo

"it's a pointless design
if it were to set a trend it would have done so already"

Alex M.

it wasn't announced yesterday

Almo

18:50

this implies the design is not useful

Alex M.

the iPhone set a trend pretty fast

Almo

if workstations never set trends, then what's the point of the statement

Icy Defiance

@Jon the right one. bigger screen and better OS.

Jon

better design IMO

Almo

@Jon one on the left

phone-size, better OS

Lasse

18:51

I like how the right one looks

Almo

the one on the right is a tablet

not a phone :)

Jon

its a 5inch phone

Alex M.

@Almo there has to be something that made me say that

no idea what right now lol

Almo

:D

just that you hate macs

and hate to see someone else having fun with one

Alex M.

I don't hate macs

all I say is if I did have a mac

Almo

18:52

and you envy how FUCKING COOL IT LOOKS

Alex M.

I'd install linux on it

Almo

and that your pc vendor never tries anything interesting

standard sour grapes stuff :)

Alex M.

I don't have a PC vendor

Lasse

If I had a mac, I'd sell it for some fool who pays the good money for it

Alex M.

I build my computers from scratch

Lasse

18:53

And buy two laptops

Jon

look how big this friggen phone is, lol

Alex M.

this reminds me, I wanted to switch to a microtower some time ago

I should buy one of those cases, since they're not that expensive

Jon

is that a banana in your pocket? No its my humongus phone

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William 'MindWorX' Mariager

I have a Lumia 925.

Alex M.

@Jon ikr lol

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

18:54

I would never want anything bigger.

Alex M.

unless a new best-buy phone shows up in 5 days, I'm going to buy myself this one

that's as big as I want my phone to be

anything else and it would be a pain to take it out of my pocket 2 times/minute to change the track that's currently playing lol

I just can't easily change tracks w/o looking at the phone if it's touchscreen based

I miss the days when I still had my SE w810i

I was sending fucking SMS without looking at the phone, just typing while it was in my pocket

Jon

doesn't look that big..

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

I still think it's pretty unhandy.

Alex M.

it was a great phone, RIP

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