@ShotgunNinja Hey, at least don't wear blocks of Swiss Cheese on our heads... :)

We've seriously got some staraholics in here these days

@Nate Oh come on, life's more fun when you're a bit cheesy.

Why take sports so seriously? They're entertainment.

@ShotgunNinja I agree. Was just teasing in response to chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/10042588#10042588

@ToddersLegrande I feel out of the loop... I don't even know what that means.

@Noctrine More sock puppets getting removed?

Yessir?

As soon as they are seen

I haven't noticed any for a few days at least. So you guys are doing a great job.

I just saw rep changes from users being removed is all.

mmmm

I saw that.

Just saw this too: i.imgur.com/QnhG4IW.png

Or maybe just coincidence that two users deleted their own accounts...

Possible

OK, nevermind then. I guess it was just weird timing.

Second was FallOutDeviant.

but...

harold is cool

They made a pact to go out together I guess.

if only i made the kind of money on my first game like i do on game dev story xD

when I work, I kinda switch from thing to thing rapidly

and switching from making a form in some visual editor then feeling nice with managed code to barebones C feels

interesting

got a base for a roomstation done

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
	char cmdbuf[100];
	do
	{
		printf("%s", COMMAND_PROMPT);
		scanf("%s", cmdbuf);
		execute_input(cmdbuf);

	} while(1);
	return 0;
}

first thing to do now: make it send the input to the mainframe, and print the response from the mainframe

I'll go with message queues on the same machine for now, and when I get my desktop back, I'll proceed to TCP/IP through VMs

it seems a bit weird to make roomstations act just like messengers, but this makes things cheaper and simpler:

1) Only the mainframe needs powerful hardware for interpretation, processing and storage.

2) When I change a playlist, naturally, I'd like all stations in the house to play the updated songs - this is easy when I make the change on the mainframe, and the stations only stream the music from it.

@AlexM. What project is this for?

Are you doing a house-wide music system?

as in operating system?

yeah, at first it will be for music only

but then I'd like to extend it and make the room stations control more than just music

everything voice command driven

Thinking of adding visualizations, controls for devices, etc?

if I can get a station control the TV, might get some nice flashy visualizations on when given the command

perhaps with some of those Samsung Smart TVs

Just be careful when doing a music multicaster; there's a lot to be said in terms of audio synchronization. Stuff can get out of sync really quickly.

ideally, I'd like to also detect when there's nobody in a given room and not play anything there, but this is for later

This looks like it might be a better project for an Arduino device network or something.

In addition, the static command-receive loop for your roomstations could be quite confining.

well, it's part of the robot community project

this is just the beginning, the mainframe that is

I had a guy who did a dumb-terminal system for controlling a robotic arm.

so far though, Raspberry Pis are more into my budget

arduinos are too expensive

Even though I told him repeatedly that we need real-time control and feedback.

each station can act differently

one might be smarter than another

everything is quite decoupled here

The primary concern being, if you want control over audio, which is an inherently real-time application, then you should have a game loop design at the core, rather than a terminal loop.

Just so you can build up to a terminal loop within your game loop.

I mentioned the point of this station is to send and receive text data :)

Oh, I missed that.

I need to start somewhere

Also, I'm stalling until the clock says it's time to go home.

Which is in five minutes.

Forgive my flighty mind.

when I said stations will behave differently, I meant really differently

ideally, when I could get my hands on a Samsung Smart Oven, I'd like to SMS a station and make it turn the oven on in X minutes, while I'm going home

so I can get a hot meal as soon as I hit the door

then make a robot to make the next day's food, so you don't have to :D

another station might be sending me video feed from my door, so I can choose to allow X to enter if I want to

as long as everything is decoupled, the work will always be at a station-level, for each new station

each new station design will be a plugin for the mainframe, so to say

@IcyDefiance haha, good idea :P

but I kinda like to cook lol

@AlexM. Okay, your biggest concern then would be handling the different information streams and formats, and ensuring that everything is handled with the appropriate attention to time and resources.

perhaps one of those robotic arms, to help me out yeah

@ShotgunNinja I know :D

all problems will be taken care of as they arise

You also need a robust monitoring/error recovery system if you're going to be futzing with controlling an oven, to make sure you can shut it off if something breaks or gets unplugged.

didn't MS have a smarthouse exhibit once, where the pantry would detect what's placed into it, or taken out, keep inventory, and tell you whether you have the ingredients to make certain recipes?

@IcyDefiance I'd like to see that if it exists :D

I have no idea if ovens that you can interact with wirelessly exist

I know there are fridges with Facebook access

you'd think kitchen appliances came paired with a mobile app nowadays

but as I always say, "Let the current state of things never hinder your progress, the future will always give you what you need."

quoting myself is so #hipster #yolo

looks awesome

a table with an LCD display could be a station

oh yeah

that's certainly doable actually

get Android to run on the thing

it's a holiday in quebec

:D

and read the latest tech news through Feedly each morning

got another one next week

I'm so excited for the future...now if only I had the money to buy future things...

you'll need the money in the future, not now!

now you should be making the money of the future

gamedev.net/page/resources/_/creative/visual-arts/…

Creating Good Game Art When You’re Not An Artist

right now I'm just making money to sacrifice to the slip of paper that will hopefully allow me to earn money to mostly sacrifice to living expenses, and if I'm lucky, after spending who knows how many years paying off debts, maybe, just maybe, I'll have money to buy cool things

on second thought, not so excited about the future.

you'll be fine

well it's not like I have another option anyway. can only keep moving forward because any other direction is suicidal, or close to it.

it's always forward

don't know much about other directions

you're tracing a straight line throughout your life

I've heard if one could fly through a black hole, he might arrive at some other point in time. nods

that's programmer art btw

I remember a while back in high school, at the literature class

we were studying some character who had a really chaotic life

and the teacher asked one of my classmates to draw a graph of the character's life considering the ups and downs he went through

here's what he drew:

XD

honestly, he was the only one making sense in that class

I like how it's a steady decline =)

I like literature

but my interpretations were always different from my teacher's

never went along

I was homeschooled, but I did have a tutor for the one year I had a literature class. she was mildly insane.

it's a bit hard for me to find perfect books for myself

I thought it would be hard for me to find books or authors to totally hate

@IcyDefiance I've only had about.... 6 crazy teachers. Totally normal.

then I found Kafka

the type where "the blue color of the rims of his glasses indicated his mood at this point in time and this and that"

and I'm leaving the general atmosphere of Kafka's works aside

I've tried The Trial and it's pretty much a collection of the motifs and themes I hate the most in literature

oh wait, no I remember an actual example. the glasses of a character on a billboard were gold, which obviously represented the greed of the people who made the billboard.

barely anything other than what I hate

colours are a good way to find subtleties in literary works

they only make sense when you make a map of everything, and see that there are links

possibly

and the "blue color of the rims that indicate a particular mood" actually links to the same mood that's shown by other things

not all authors are verbose

I need to get involved in USC stuffz....

usually, when I write, I start by presenting the surroundings of a character, which are in such a way described that I throw suggestions about what the character usually does and feels like

Maybe now that I'm going into highschool there will be more open to me :D

I have to wonder, though, in a book like the Wind in the Willows, which spends 5+ pages just describing the speed at which the grass is waving, how much symbolism is one supposed to find there? XD

rooms with a particular colour dominating might be a sign for an obsessive character

especially white

making the reader imagine a whole room coloured in red, where each thing is also red, might make him feel uncomfortable and set the mood for a particular event

and so on

interesting

@IcyDefiance I never read the wind in the willows

I did. don't remember why...don't think it was a school assignment or anything. I used to read a LOT; it was probably just on one of our bookshelves.

it's not part of the symbolism though, as a current

symbols from symbolism are much like objects in programming

they're a collection of different things that come together and receive a single and rich meaning

I don't read near as much anymore. Don't have time. I'm planning to start 1984 soon, though, since I've heard the title so many times in relation to the NSA scandal.

I'll finish the trial, and then probably never read anything Kafkaesque in my life

lol

for lite stuff, I like fantasy

but I can't read Tolkien's hardcore stuff for example

Children of Hurin <--- what is this I don't even

kind of like that

I usually like mysteries. Or back when I was a Christian, I really liked Ted Dekker's suspense/thriller novels. Haven't found anything good in that genre since, though.

ah yes

this reminds me I have Murder on the Orient Express on my tablet

I'll read that after the trial

related: I also like police/crime/mystery movies

there was this awesome (british I think) series

imdb.com/title/tt0118401

on Hallmark

man I used to love those

huh, don't think I've seen that one.

and of course, can't mention the orient express without the poirot series

try it, it's cool

last I checked, Hallmark really liked playing endless episodes of Murder She Wrote. It wasn't amazing, but worth watching on a boring Sunday evening or something.

the midsomer murders is the only thing I remember from Hallmark, excepting "McLeod's daughters"

loooooooooool

girls are trouble when you're crazy like me mate

the time spent thinking about a cheating whore

think of the massive amounts of code you could write instead

I tend to just stare at code...and then chat here instead of writing anything...

like multitasking on old systems

mhm

sometimes I forget what I'm seeing though, and have to re-check

but it's not that often

I think

When I really get into the mood I can do quite a lot

flags? never used 'em.

me neither

?

Someone flagged this

Don't do that.

How many were abused? Looks like it's bringing in the crowds.

Lol I never did that O_o

someone must relate to the guy in the video I guess

oh that reminds me, is there any rule against swearing in this chat? other than just respect for the 13 year olds present

there's hardly any swearing there

@ArdaXi How do you exist and not-exist at the same time?

@Noctrine You already know too much.

Also, what are you talking about.

@Noctrine He's a wizard.

@ArdaXi Your chat profile still links to your gaming 56 account

Your account doesn't exist on the network, yet here you are in chat.

Cool

I could fix that, but I so do not want to