Game Development

trollingchar

6:06 AM

@TomTsagk yes.

Blue Bug

10:29 AM

@ChrisMcFarland just pinging random message from the past since I saw your game on Play store, congrat!

Alexandre Vaillancourt

1:14 PM

@BlueBug Hey!

I haven't seen Chris around for a while!

Blue Bug

hallo

is he sorta gone

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I don't know. He did not mention anything about "leaving", so we can assume he's just "not here?" I don't know

tmanrocks994

2:03 PM

how to get unquestion banned on normal stackflow. i dont get why i did . all my most recent questions have been fine sigh.

Pikalek

2:16 PM

@tmanrocks994 What do you mean by "how to get unquestion banned"? Are you asking about questions that were put on hold or asking why your user account was banned?

TomTsagk

3:03 PM

Silly questions, but why do badges about asking bad questions exist?

Pikalek

Which badges do you mean (been a while since I looked at them)?

TomTsagk

I was looking at the badges, the one called "Peer Pressure", and it says to delete my own post with -3 or lower score. So there's no way for me to actually try and get this badge, unless I actually happen to ask a bad question?

Pikalek

I assume that its intent is more about process than product. Something along the lines of encouraging you such that if you ask a question that gets down voted, you consider that maybe the general good is better served if you delete it.

That said, I don't think it's a very good badge & could be retired like some others were recently.

TomTsagk

I do get that, but doesn't that discourage people that are actively hunting badges?

user4704

It's a post, not a question.

user4704

3:09 PM

So it can be an answer as well.

tmanrocks994

@Pikalek so i got on my old account today and now ti says this user cannot ask any mroe questions. then i got on my main account and i have the same message. I have no idea how to edit my questions when my last 2-3 questions where solid. it says i cant get unbanned from asking questions unless i fix my questions but i got good answers and some upvotes sigh. theres some stickler mods on stackflow. there has to be a way i can get unbanned from asking questions normally

TomTsagk

@Josh Ah, that makes more sense

tmanrocks994

im sad because im working on a program and need help

user4704

From that perspective I think it makes a little more sense: it's the system telling you you're wrong, or something similar, in your answer. And by encouraging you to delete it you're really just accepting that.

tmanrocks994

the game design section takes longer to get answers then the normal one

user4704

3:10 PM

Since the system will start hiding/de-emphasizing that answer soon anyway

tmanrocks994

i hope the suport can help me.

user4704

@tmanrocks994 Mods don't do that.

user4704

Question banning is an automatically applied process.

tmanrocks994

why would both my accounts on the same day get question banned

havnt used the old account forever

and last question i asked on there was accetable

Pikalek

My guess is too many low value questions overall.

user4704

3:11 PM

Are you sure they're both actually question-banned? If they both are, an IP correlation might be the cause.

user4704

If only one is, the other one might be banned for perception of trying to circumvent the qban,

user4704

Is this on GDSE? Link me your accounts and I can look.

tmanrocks994

i guess some of my questions are bad but

i fixed them since i started

user4704

qban's are generally about the question itself, so answers don't factor into it. If they questions are heavily downvoted, you have a lot of bad deleted ones, etc., that's the kind of thing that factors into it.

tmanrocks994

question, then explanation, then what i tried, then code, then expected result and actual result

ive never deleted a question

ill link account sec

user4704

3:13 PM

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Q: What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"?

Do not repost the question you were about to ask until you have READ EVERYTHING WE ARE ABOUT TO TELL YOU. While trying to ask a question, one could get: We are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the Help Center to learn more. Likewise, for answers: We are no longe...

user4704

has a lot of detail about the aspect

tmanrocks994

imjust mad because i have no idea how to fix the issue. im sad if its just because of random peoples downvotes

tmanrocks994

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html javascript css alignment java jquery

Pikalek

I'm not sure I agree with your view that your last questions were acceptable.

tmanrocks994

"it says dont delete a question but the one with downvotes makes sense

i didnt see till today that it had -8

but its a ok question

people just downvoted it im sure because its hard to answer

i had no idea until i found a way to import a script

user4704

Oh, this is on SO?

user4704

3:16 PM

I can't look on SO. Only Game Development.

tmanrocks994

if a person types "make a program in C++ that adds 2 variables"

was basically my question

how to retrive he 2

and put it in a variable

user4704

That doesn't sound like a good question. For the site.

Pikalek

@tmanrocks994 Did you see the comment indicating that it was too broad?

tmanrocks994

i think i saw all the questions

i mean

comments

user4704

Remember that SE isn't a discussion forum or "how do I learn to programming" kind of resource, it has (sometimes obnoxiously) strict rules about the kinds of questions that are considered acceptable.

tmanrocks994

3:18 PM

did u read the question?

user4704

Yes.

user4704

Your question isn't bad in the absolute sense, but looking at the last few questions posted on that SO account I can't say that I'm entirely surprised at the results.

tmanrocks994

-4

Q: Trying to find numbers in my String then store those values in a variable for use in math

Basically ive had a easy time at this so far because ive been just useing userInput.includes() then the word then what happens if the word is typed. I want to make it so the user can put like add 2 numbers together. So then my program would store that 2 make 2 variables then make a adding functio...

javascript html

ah

what did i do wrong then

user4704

Your root problem, as I read it there, is that you have a string containing numbers and you want to extract the numbers and put them into variables?

tmanrocks994

yea i got a answer for it

and what they gave me worked

then i got another answer from a discord

so i posted what i had

user4704

3:20 PM

I would say a better way to write that question might be to say just that.

tmanrocks994

so u think if i delete it i can ask questions again?

or how can i fix my issue

i guess ill try a ticket

user4704

"I have a string containing numbers, I need to extract the numbers from the string and store them into variables." And then show an example of what the string might contain (e.g., does it just contain space-delimited numbers, is there other text is there, et cetera.... "123 892 901" is easier to parse than "hi 8 whatever 89 -23" for example)

user4704

Also write out what you tried to do and how it did not work.

Pikalek

^ was just typing that myself.

tmanrocks994

so shorter stuff? im not sure if i tried anything for this one mabey regex stuff

user4704

3:21 PM

Now, that's a fair basic question so I suspect somebody will probably still downvote it and/or close as a duplicate. So you might still have problems there.

Pikalek

Part of down votes is research effort.

user4704

If you didn't try anything, that's something you should do first next time.

user4704

People often don't appreciate when you don't put any effort into solving the problem yourself.

user4704

They are providing their time to answer for free, after all.

Pikalek

If it looks like the first thing you've tried is to just dump the problem on the SO community without working on it yourself first, you're going to attract down votes.

user4704

3:23 PM

Anyway: don't delete the post, that won't help.

user4704

Since you can't repost.

user4704

Edit the post to be better.

user4704

(Try not to invalidate the existing answer in the process though.)

tmanrocks994

i wanted to delete it because i guess no one found it helpful

and also mabey get un question banned

user4704

Deleting will not help the qban lift.

user4704

3:24 PM

See "How long do I have to wait before I can post again? What can I do to release the ban? How can I reactivate my account?" in the link I sent

tmanrocks994

what i really want to make in the future is make a game development site like stackflow but it would have sections first one would be gamedeelopment section and 2nd general questions

user4704

> Note the emphasis on fixing. Do not delete your posts. As explained above, deleted questions (if less than 30 days old when deleted) do still count towards the question ban. Deleting your posts does not help to lift the ban. Only fixing does! Under some conditions you can see a list of your own deleted questions and answers.

tmanrocks994

then in game dev section sections for java, unity, javascript etc

user4704

You know there's a Game Development SE site already right? You're in the chat room for it.

tmanrocks994

then within those sections for eatch type of game, then people can psot questions of any length with no description on what they want a example of

for example "Example of a shop system"

in the idle tab

Pikalek

3:25 PM

You're free to do so.

user4704

Well, that sounds like basically bootstrapping a whole new forum and community.

tmanrocks994

then people can post 5-20 diffrant ways they would make that system

user4704

Which is a lot of work. Good luck.

tmanrocks994

i know @Josh but the normal stackflow page u get answers alot faster

user4704

You also have a much more active community, yea.

user4704

3:26 PM

Which is good and bad.

tmanrocks994

my last question i asked on here i edied a bit then got 0 answers

user4704

You're a lot less likely to get qban'd here than SO simply due to the user volume and participation rate.

tmanrocks994

I recommend removing the question about moving it then. Presumably you can figure out how to adjust your x & y positions based on key/button presses. Or if you can't, that's a separate question with different answers. — DMGregory ♦ 2 days ago

user4704

It's possible your question here was too unclear.

tmanrocks994

gotta go to my next class but thanks for the info about normal stackflow

user4704

3:28 PM

This question has the same basic problem as your SO one.

tmanrocks994

it was about canvas stuff . I hope they answer my suport ticket for normal stackflow

user4704

You've put a ton of noise in there, and the basic query about "how can I position an HTML element to align with another" is totally lost.

user4704

Good luck.

user4704

I suspect they'll just point you at the same meta page I did and give you guidance on fixing your posts.

tmanrocks994

im just worried fixing it will just get ignored because of the amoutn of downvotes

doesnt a person have to review it after a fix for me to get unbanned? no one will look at the question so it doesnt matter if i fix it

Pikalek

3:30 PM

What do you have to lose by trying to fix it though?

user4704

@tmanrocks994 No.

tmanrocks994

no one has looked at it for like 2-3 days until today

user4704

Moderators cannot manually lift a question ban.

tmanrocks994

so if i fix it no one will even look at it and i wont get unquestion banned

user4704

People will look at it.

user4704

3:31 PM

SO gets a ton of traffic and has dedicated review queues that other sites don't.

user4704

e.g., the triage queue.

tmanrocks994

not really im sure it will get ignored and i wont get unbanned because of the downvotes

user4704

Edited posts get bumped to the front page of the site or the tags.

user4704

Well, then you will never get unbanned.

user4704

The very same argument you used about the activity of the community on SO (versus here) is the argument for why editing your posts to improve them works.

user4704

3:33 PM

Editing them puts them in front of a ton more people; if you edit them successfully, they'll get upvoted and the ban will lift.

user4704

But nobody can manually make that ban go away -- and even if they did, since it's an automatic ban, the system will come along and make the same periodic calculation and ban you again.

user4704

Your best course of action is to edit the posts to improve them.

Pikalek

@tmanrocks994 Again, fixing it just takes your time. Why let being afraid that it won't help prevent you from trying to improve things? Good questions require a bit of time & effort.

tmanrocks994

still if it gets put on the front people will see -8 and automatically think its not good and ignore it. sigh

the mods could remove the question or delete it mabey.

user4704

@tmanrocks994 Mod deletes are exactly like owner deletes.

user4704

3:37 PM

They won't fix the problem.

user4704

They just make it harder to get unbanned since nobody can ever vote that question up ever.

user4704

And even fewer people can see it.

Pikalek

At the risk of mixing the streams here, in C++ if you cout a double & then copy paste it into code as a literal, does it give you the same value as the original? i.e. is it a bit level copy?

^ assuming that you didn't tweak the output with places rounding.

user4704

Almost certainly not.

Pikalek

How do you personally like to dump floats in debug logs then? Hex?

user4704

3:43 PM

For logs? Just as floats.

Pikalek

You mean in binary?

user4704

No I mean I'd just let them print as formatting numbers, 4.34289 or whatever.

user4704

I don't think bitwise accuracy in logs is generally important enough to impact readability that much.

Pikalek

What if you want to recreate the problem though?

user4704

If I was serializing them textually and needed bitwise accuracy I guess I'd get the hex representation and write that out.

user4704

3:44 PM

But that seems like a very specific, isolated style of problem.

user4704

I'd expect that normally the conditions that go into recreating the problem exactly are more complex than can be completely captured in run-of-the-mill log statements. If you were writing specialized ones, yeah.

user4704

But at that point I'd probably prefer to write something more specialized to serialize out the state needed rather than rely on logging at all.

Pikalek

I'm testing & debugging some computational geometry code. thus far, I've managed to build something close enough to retrigger the crashes I get in the game in a stand alone tester. But last night I started to wonder how long until some edge case bites me in the face.

user4704

I'd write out the hex representation of the bitpattern for the floats then, yeah.

Pikalek

4:08 PM

Thanks for the 2nd opinion. I suspected as much, but sometimes my ideas at lights out don't hold up well the next day.

Pikalek

5:48 PM

@tmanrocks994 Editing to correct the spelling, grammar, punctuation mistakes would have been a good first thing to do. Adding inline markdown to the code, aligning the code & making the post easier to read would also have helped. Some users don't mind doing some copy editing work, but in general, you shouldn't assume they're going to get to it before a lot of other users read it.

tmanrocks994

@Pikalek and Josh ty for the help and editing my question. im just scared the suport ticket he will be like go back and edit all 37 questions. i thought my other ones were decent questions. might of not been helpful to some but very helpful to me

I didnt know about ```` stuff until like begining of this month also

also not sure how to insert it as script for js stuff. like make it runable in the page

@Pikalek do u know javascript? im trying to make collision with a maze type game

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Q: How to add a collision function to a game

Ive tried a few things but i cant get a working function if player collides with object set speed to 0( stop moving) ive tried to use the function under "game over " and change the things to make speedx=0 and speedy=0 but i couldnt format it correctly. https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/game...

javascript html

Pikalek

6:20 PM

@tmanrocks994 You're welcome for the help. I'm not sure why you're worried about someone editing - nobody should be editing things maliciously & if it does you can & should report the problem. Things like ```` can be learned from reading the help. Even without that, you can still do basic spelling & grammar checks. If it doesn't look like you're taking the time to care, that's a big turn off to the people you're asking to read / help.

Chris McFarland

7:51 PM

@BlueBug Hey Blue! Thanks. Yep still got Tallowmere on Google Play Store... and iOS, Steam, and Nintendo Switch. Working on Tallowmere 2 still as well

Almo

8:23 PM

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