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Pip
12:49 AM
@Almo :P
@Jon agreed
 
:D
 
1:21 AM
game in general should be playable on pc...
 
yeah but MS wants you to buy their console :P
 
 
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user92578
6:50 AM
@William'MindWorX'Mariager lol damn right you're my nerd! Now keep on programming
 
7:07 AM
gotta nerd it up a notch
 
7:24 AM
o/
 
\o
 
8:04 AM
@hello I feel like i should have noted that disabling a parent also disables the scene tree from that point (effectively disables all children)
 
 
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user92578
9:20 AM
Fucking coopers test on next lesson
 
user92578
Im a nerd, so I could just calculate my result
 
user92578
(1 - ProgrammingHoursPerDay/24) * (2400) * |(AmountOfMathCoursesCompleted - 8)|
 
user92578
Thats actually only valid for me, 2000m
 
user92578
Then it will be heavy breathing for me for the rest of the day :)
 
user92578
Hmm maybe I should try to improve the equation
 
user92578
9:28 AM
Maybe a second degree relation to the programming hours
 
9:40 AM
Ugh I hated those coopers tests
 
Jon
Cooper tests?
 
Physical exercise test?
That's what wikipedia says at least: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_test
 
morning guys
 
Jon
oh lol
 
morning
 
9:45 AM
do you guys do the beep test, that used to kill me
 
Jon
We did beep tests
those poor fat people
Literally couldn't make the first beeps at 15 years old
 
yeahhh seems mean to put them through it when its obvious they wont do well
 
Ouch
 
Jon
I think it should serve as a reality check possibly?
I mean, at that point, it is the fault of the parents mainly
But if you are unhealthy at 15, you are not going to get any healtier by 30 unless you do some drastic changes
 
i do remember it being quite funny once you got quite high, as we used to do it between two walls and people would just go crashing into the wall as they were literally sprinting to the point they couldn't stop in time XD
yeah that's true, might show that they need to make a change but to be honest I think most people know they need to change its motivating them to do it. I know I should stop smoking but...
 
Already done bro.
 
Jon
that is not a question!!!
 
@Blue I saw! We have more 3k+ people here though (I think)
 
@Jon - not just that, it's salemongering.
 
Jon
buy mongering
he wants to give you money
 
9:55 AM
smells bad to me
what do you guys think about whats going on in Syria? (obviously bad but I mean in the wider political sense)
you think there might be a bigger war?
 
I have no idea but I sure hope not :P
 
Jon
I think it is just a small taste of what things are going to be like
We are in a state of decline -- humanity is reaching or already reached its apex on this planet
Soon, we are going to be like rats trying to fight for the best piece of food/land/water
 
pretty much my feelings, seems like a lot of people realise it just not the people in charge...
 
@Jon It's more he's buying your copyright so that you can't challenge him once he sells any of the content on.
 
 
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Duplicate with what? =p
 
I just saw it was 1 rep and thought it was a new one...
 
I think that's something to do with the magic of being suspended
See also: stackexchange.com/users/2418466/alec-teal?tab=top having plenty of votes
 
I see.
@Ali.S - tips hat
 
@Blue hey
 
11:19 AM
How's it going man?
 
I just sat to write some game code... after a long time :P
it's been 3 days already since the last line...
 
Pip
morning
 
@Pip morn
 
Pip
(I'm heading to school, talk to you all later!)
 
user92578
11:52 AM
Finally home
 
user92578
I ran 2200 meters which I'm satisfied with
 
wow
/pats 7
@Tyyppi_77 nice one
 
user92578
It's not a very good result (almost everyone ran better) but I guess what really matters is that I'm happy with it
 
@Jon you mean "shutdown -a" doesn't work?
 
Jon
11:59 AM
LOL, i just thought the video was funny
YOU MADE ME RACIST!!!
 
but he has a point!
 
Jon
the enterprise version, you can schedule when to reboot
not sure about the other versions, but I'm pretty sure you can too
Although... they should be able to update without reboots
 
@Jon absolutely hilarious
you know theres a setting in the control panel right that lets you specify "download and wait I reboot" lol
 
user92578
12:13 PM
Man these have all been awesome:
 
user92578
Broforts :D
 
12:36 PM
Okay - that's my 20 close votes for the day.
 
user92578
Nice
 
user92578
Hmm there's a bug in the ingame gif capture
 
user92578
A threading one :(
 
Pip
oh that sucks
 
user92578
Yeah
 
user92578
1:09 PM
I already thought I had this sorted out
 
user92578
It's something to do with SDL crashing because of the renderer
 
user92578
And I'm not sure why because I don't use the renderer on the other thread
 
user92578
So I added these small icons to the bottom of the screen that tell you whether you're editing or testing:
 
user92578
 
@Blue fortunately flags are free!
 
Jon
1:18 PM
can't wait for lunch
 
user92578
Hmm so now I'd need to do something productive
 
user92578
My players need spawn positions
 
user92578
And my trigger actions need tile positions and entity references
 
Jon
Something amazing is happening in Canada
the youth appear to be voting
 
Pip
that's interesting I guess :P
 
1:25 PM
@Jon that's good, right parties tend to not survive that
 
1:36 PM
@Jon oh sweet
i hope harper gets noked out
i'd like to see mulcair in, but I don't expect that
 
Jon
it is looking good
lol, nope
mulcair looks worse than harper (in terms of winning)
 
i herd him talk on the radio... he was quite reasonable
(i figured that was what you meant)
 
Jon
You can see the look of rejection, of defeat on the faces of the campaign workers. They're talking about jobs that they're going to have to find after the election in the private sector because they know there will be no jobs for them.

And they're also having to contend with Stephen Harper, who I'm told is in a very dark mood lately. The last two days he's been snapping at workers and they say it's because the thought of losing to Justin Trudeau is like a nightmare to him.

And outside the campaign you're hearing a lot of Conservatives saying that he should not have run this time, that he
quote from ctvnews reporter
 
user92578
Any ideas besides an metal box (yeah, that's what BF uses...) for a tile that's hard to destroy (can currently only be destroyed by rockets from an rocket launcher)?
 
user92578
 
1:37 PM
peoples be saying trudeau is a good guy. i don't know anything about him except his face
from posters
@Tyyppi_77 stone maybe
 
Jon
Doesn't really matter who replaces him
 
:D
 
Jon
as long as he is replaced, should be better
 
lol game talk later
 
user92578
Stone could work
 
user92578
1:38 PM
Metal seems to be a really used one tough
 
user92578
So I could try to draw a more unique metal tile
 
user92578
FUCK now the Gif tool won't work at all
 
user92578
crashes every time
 
user92578
 
user92578
How's that looking?
 
1:53 PM
Looks metallie
 
It's lookin' awesome is what it is!
 
I had a dream I was lining up the Halo choir theme with another song
Melodically, but I woke up before I could identify the other song
 
user92578
thanks!
 
user92578
Man there's an annoying bug in the gif writing code
 
That's because you toss best practices out the window at every step...
 
1:58 PM
Something something second pinned message
 
user92578
what?
 
user92578
are you hinting that I need to be nicer?
 
@Tyyppi_77 no no, not you
A person you have ignored
 
user92578
ah
 
I really appreciate that I can be blunt with him now :P I was pretty sick of answering but pointing out some subtle flaw... then having him ask about how to work around the design flaw later without re-writing any code
 
user92578
2:00 PM
not a huge surprise I gotta say
 
It's nice because I'm being sure he's unaffected by it, actually the meanest thing that happened here was you pointing it out to him.
 
user92578
Hmm I really might have to look at the SDL internals on this
 
user92578
Can't spot a thread error
 
user92578
eating brb
 
2:01 PM
I would try to stray from that approach though @MickLH, it can still affect the others it is not directed at.
How are you doing anyway?
 
I could waste my time explaining why it's manipulative, what's going on... screwit tho
fantasy is always more extreme than reality (figure it out yourself)
 
hi folks
 
Hey @helena4. How's it going?
 
(Aah, just to slow to be before you)
 
2:04 PM
@Blue I'm doing very well actually :) How about yourself?
 
A lot better now we've had the final invoices for my wedding.
 
congrats on that
 
Nothing worse than not knowing the costs in the build up to the event.
 
@Blue kinda baffling around how this still can make money today:
 
2:05 PM
I can't even imagine, @Blue, I'm still dumb enough to let the woman pay for things
 
@helena4 "Battle big bosses!"

Click on slightly bigger sprites.
 
Jon
<3 Clicker Heroes!!!
That and balloon popper
 
@MickLH - it's a combined pool of savings for the wedding but it's still a combined wince when the invoice arrives.
 
lol as it should be
 
@Jon is the onion even relevant any more? (I'm not a westerner so) I've always seen it as a cheap substitute for shoving your face in 3 months old swiss cheese
 
2:07 PM
the onion is the only reliable news left here
 
Jon
Essentially, theOnion articles from 5 years ago are become real now
 
@Blue this month right? :o
 
@MickLH maybe after Jon Stewart retired ;)
 
@KevinvanderVelden - soon, 32 days away now, November 14th.
 
Jon
seriously though, mine were considered jokes
That would never happen, it was funny that people believed it
 
@Jon riaa sueing radio stations I haven't heard about
Mostly because, you know, radio stations pay a decent chunk of money
 
@Jon can you seriously expect everybody to be on the same page as americans (: ?
 
@BillyBoy - tips hat
 
I've been off my meds a couple days now and doing a lot better, I think I got through the worst of the withdrawal symptoms, I feel able to think "clearly" again (as opposed to "linearly" with the pills) ... (so you should send me that task today @Jon)
 
@Yellow Hey you <3
 
How are ya mate? <3
 
Jon
@MickLH i abandoned the project
 
I'm good. Getting into college life. So far I'm not sure exactly how I like it though. :P
 
Jon
2:11 PM
i'm working on adventure guy now
 
It gets better, I promise.
 
Jon
fuck it -- turkey balls are going in my mouth now
 
That's good to know. I'm going to give it at least 2-3 semesters before even considering anything else :)
 
@Jon I only saw that coming from a mile away, how am I supposed to flip out now, sigh
 
user92578
baaack
 
user92578
2:13 PM
now onto writing bad quality code
 
oh, ok, thanks universe, lol
 
Jon
Adventure Guy
He is a generic guy, that goes on the most generic adventures
 
user92578
const methods should be thread safe, right, as they should only do reading?
 
user92578
@Jon sounds awesome :) Does he have the most generic weapons / abilities?
 
not necessarily, tyyppi
 
2:17 PM
What would the most generic weapons/abilities even be?
 
Jon
Jump and shoot
 
Seems suitably generic
 
dear god, someone tell tyyppi that const isn't a magical thread safety tool, at all in the slightest
 
user92578
Maybe even throw in a double jump
 
user92578
And bombs
 
Jon
2:17 PM
whoa whoa whoa
he doesn't need that to go grocery shopping
 
user92578
ah looks like const is a magical threadsafety thing, nice!
 
lol
 
and that actually it does nothing for thread safety, the "magic" quick fix for would be atomic
 
user92578
@Jon lol :D
 
@Tyyppi_77 no
 
user92578
2:19 PM
oh right atleast mutables break it, right?
 
Not only that
 
everything outside your "this" instance breaks it...
 
Just make it static, problem solved bruv.
 
Having a setter and a constant getter breaks it
 
and you can use const cast to break your this instance too...
 
2:20 PM
static is a magic thread safety tool right?
 
user92578
yes :)
 
And if it's a reference that is only ever used as a const thing, it can still be deleted from underneath you
 
lol
 
user92578
I really can't see why my code isn't thread safe
 
Are you using locks? Atomics of any type? Using thread safe libraries?
If not: That's why
 
user92578
2:22 PM
That's what runs on the thread: pastebin.com/8NLFjUCG
 
user92578
Well I guess it could be SDL
 
user92578
And I have thrown just a few locks in there, just for the sake of testing
 
I actually love this, instead of suffering trying to teach him there's no magical thread safety fix and every situation must be thought out carefully... I'm just grinning and laughing instead. Being nice really was my weakness
 
> Can I call SDL video functions from multiple threads?

No, most graphics back ends are not thread-safe, so you should only call SDL video functions from the main thread of your application.
 
user92578
Oh right, I forgot it was all video stuff
 
user92578
2:23 PM
I thought it was only rendering
 
user92578
Thanks
 
Okay I'm tired of you mick, I'm adding you to my ignore list again
 
user92578
Good decision.
 
Also don't get any funny ideas about using a worker thread
They say specifically, main thread, for a reason
 
What does THREAD_SAFE_BEGIN/END do?
 
user92578
2:24 PM
Right, so I need to add a queue of some sorts for cleaning up the surfaces
 
And honestly nobody cares, kevin, If you really meant it you would have silently done it. By saying anything you're only proving yourself manipulative.
 
user92578
It's just a macro for locking/unlocking a mutex
 
user92578
Macro coloring makes it pop out more, so I spot easy errors more easily :)
 
But that should already be obvious to anyone who is gonna be able to understand...
 
Or he's pointing it out so you know and don't bother messaging him, thus doing you a favour in knowing he's ignoring you.
 
2:25 PM
That's what RAII is for but that's a different thing
@Blue yeah that mostly
 
That could be a good excuse if it held water, but it doesn't really because he and I don't have any useful discussions, ever, anyways
 
user92578
Indexing is safe, right?
 
I mean, I've already pointed out the pinned message thing but that didn't seem to help
 
Well as a note, saying, "Being nice really was my weakness" is a very damning statement.
 
@Tyyppi_77 assuming: not overloaded, and noone else is writing to it
 
2:27 PM
lol really?
I saw that as the friendly part
 
user92578
Okay, sounds like not thread safe then
 
user92578
I'd need to get an item from an std::vector
 
If you can't be nice at all then it's not a good room to be in. Again with the cliché. It's implying you're never going to say anything nice.
 
howdy folks
 
user92578
Hey!
 
2:27 PM
Sup Shotty.
 
\o shotgun
 
Long time no see.
 
@Blue Well I appreciate your input but if you wanted me to absorb anything I'd need it re-phrased, since I know factually I exert significant energy towards being nice.
 
To us it feels like you exert a lot of energy towards being sarcastic.
 
I just recently got fired from my job, so I'll probably be on here a bit more frequently now
 
2:30 PM
I don't have the energy for sarcasm today...
 
And unfortunately that's what usually leads to disagreements or misunderstandings.
 
ouch shotty you ok?
 
I got good severance pay
 
good
 
e-hi5
 
2:31 PM
@ShotgunNinja that's good at least!
 
one late paycheck, two weeks pay, plus my vacay cashed out
so like $4700 in total
but my car is also taking a shit, too. If I can find a new job that pays more than $60k, I'll take out a loan for a car.
I get a family discount on Chrysler cars
 
Jon
Chrysler 300 is nice
 
user92578
I find it weird how you guys talk about pays in money/year
 
user92578
Here in Finland (if we talk about it) we talk about money/month
 
It's the adult thing :P
 
2:32 PM
@Tyyppi_77 dutchlandia as well
 
Equivalent is $5k/month
 
Jon
Heh, its the result of trading your time for money.
 
nice round number
 
user92578
Yeah I can do the math :)
 
I should hope so, we make video games
 
2:33 PM
Like, as a kid, you only talk pay after taxes, then you reach your late-teens and you talk pay before taxes as you realize that's more informative. Finally you end up with pay before taxes per year. :P
 
Jon
Try talking to a car salesmen about the sales price of the vehicle
 
user92578
Oh, well, I guess that makes sense.
 
Jon
he will do his best to go back to monthly cost
 
lol
 
yeah it's pretty screwy
but I focus more on monthly pay anyway
 
user92578
2:33 PM
Yeah with friends about summer jobs we talk about pay before taxes, but that's because we make so little that out tax percentages is 0.
 
thats how my budget works right now
 
Also, as an adult in the netherlands; we talk about per month as well, not per year
That's a regional thing I think
 
user92578
Yeah
 
I find monthly a bit useless since there are seasonal jobs.
 
user92578
Somehow I feel like as you get paid once per month it makes more sense to talk about pay per month
 
2:34 PM
I used to get paid once every two weeks
 
Only makes sense if you get paid the same every month :)
 
user92578
hmm, valid points
 
@ShotgunNinja that's also not a thing here
 
I get paid randomly all over the place, even yearly is too short a window to get a stable number
 
user92578
yeah here neither
 
2:35 PM
As a cabbie I'd make about $40k/yr, but my monthly pay would vary.
 
Jon
As a psychologist, I would be certified to tell you that you are crazy
 
As a software engineer, I make software
 
As a procrastinating hobby programmer I would be able to make a lot, yet never make anything.
 
user92578
As a student, I learn
 
As a US student, you debt.
 
2:36 PM
As a C- C- C- COMBO BREAKER, hate me
 
As a tautology, I'm a tautology
 
Jon
As a manufacturer of rapiers, I'm a rapist.
 
@Tyyppi_77 and sometimes go to school
 
user92578
@William'MindWorX'Mariager as AN you broke it man
 
@Tyyppi_77 AN? Pretty sure it's a before US :P
 
2:37 PM
@Jon does that also qualify you to make rapeseed oil?
 
user92578
Oh that might be just my weird pronounciation then, sorry
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager united states, vowel
 
@KevinvanderVelden Doesn't work for abbreviations though.
Well, not abbreviations, but whatever US is to United STates.
 
^ boom
acronym, btw
 
2:39 PM
That's the one :P
 
150
Q: Do you use "a" or "an" before acronyms?

Dori99% of the time, I'm clear on when I should use "a" versus "an." There's one case, though, where people & references I respect disagree. Which of the following would you precede with "a" or "an," and why? FAQ FUBAR SCUBA [Note: I've read the questions "A historic..." or "An historic…"? and U...

 
user92578
Is it like "Juneited..."?
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager 1. You're right. 2. That article he posted proves you right :P
 
@Blue, Could you send me an email? I have a few questions about Scotland, and might be going because I got a grant, so I was curious if you could help me out a bit?
 
Sure mate.
You know my email don't ya?
 
2:43 PM
Not even remotely :P
 
user92578
@Jon Awesome :D
 
I tried looking for "blue", but that didn't show up on my history :P
 
Well it's no secret for me, tpiddock@gmail.com
 
Awesome, thanks <3
 
user92578
WATCH OUT ITS AN UNSCRAMBLED EMAIL
 
2:43 PM
I think it's on his site as well :P
 
is remotely in this context knowing @gmail.com but not the first part?
 
I can delete it in 3 minutes to make sure archives won't chug it to spam bots, but I'm not too bothered.
You got it Will?
 
what if we get new AI chatbots who appear to be human, gaining our trust for months just to inject subtle spam into their sentences once they reach a detectable threshold
 
user92578
But yeah, I think I caught the bug
 
all because of your unscrambled email, blue
 
2:45 PM
@Blue Yeah
 
jk
 
Welp, dang thing can't be removed now.
Ah well.
 
I think you can flag your own post
if it mattered :P
 
No need to bother a mod for a publicly known email though.
It's fine.
 
I think a roomowner can? Certainly a mod can at least
Aah
 
user92578
2:47 PM
Thanks a lot Kevin, I think it totally was the SDL_FreeSurface
 
That was like witnessing a perfect prediction in wack a mole, @Blue :P
 
Nay worries tbh.
 
I wanna work on this more but it's almost 4am lol
 
@Chris Doesn't look like 3d ...
 
Jon
@Chris LAAAAME
 
2:49 PM
I know right
my 3D stuff, there's always something about it I just get too picky about
try as I might, think I really am a 2D guy ;\
 
I can relate ;)
 
2.5D dude.
 
user92578
Yeah me too
 
My pathfinding is horribly slow :P
I think I need a better PriorityQueue implementation
It should be faster, but it's far from faster :P
It takes like 1 second to travel from (0;0) to (1024;1024).
 
user92578
Or maybe it just needs more C++ :D
 
2:53 PM
Pretty useless for most situations. :P
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager what would happen if you used a soft heap instead of a P queue?
 
@MickLH I wouldn't know the difference. :/
@Chris Also, it's totally 5PM.
 
it's an approximate P queue
 
@Chris, I guess we're almost exactly opposite :P
 
It's often used for near-sorting
 
2:54 PM
Sounds interesting.
I'll take a look at it
 
It can have a better time complexity than an actual P queue
but like I said, it's only an approximation
 
My soundtrack for work today:
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager If someone gave me all the 3D props and models and told me how they wanted things done, I'm sure I could just make it all happen. Stick to my code and make it so. But me by myself, I get all cynical and have a hard time conveying the "fun" in my head. 3D combat gameplay is just so overused, I think that's what makes it boring for me
 
@Chris Yeah, I'm like that myself. I can't get myself to do 3D because it's everywhere and much more work.
 
I would really love to model, rig, animate and code a wee character in a game just to get to grips with it.
 
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