Game Development

Icy Defiance

23:00

AttackingHobo

So weird. Bought some computers that were supposed to come with windows 8. But they came with windows 7. I called Newegg. They said they would take 4-7 days to possibly get win8 keys. My bosses didn't like that time, so I called again and talked to a superviser, she talked to Acer, and sent instructions, Apparently windows 8 is inside a hiden partition that has to have a restore to factory defaults and choose windows 8 to install it

Dave

strange

hasherr

@IcyDefiance That gif just destroyed my chrome.

Jimmy

perhaps this was a batch of computers that were downgraded to 7 and intended for the customers who were complaining about windows 8

ToddersLegrande

@AttackingHobo in other words, they downgraded the PC to Windows 7 as a" beneficial service" to their customers... and then proceeded to sell them as Windows 8 PCs

DAMNIT @JIMMY

I'm going home

Jimmy

23:02

Great minds think like Jimmy's mind, apparently

ToddersLegrande

Clearly

Anyway. I look forward to more drama this evening. Until then I bid you all adieu

hasherr

Hey, let's have a good debate. How do you guys pronounce it: jif or ghif?

AttackingHobo

@Jimmy @ToddersLegrande It was supposed to be the oposite. Comes with win8 and can be downgraded to win7

Gif like how it looks

TheProgramm3r

bbiab

ToddersLegrande

Damnit I have to chime in. Gif - Gift with a silent t

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AttackingHobo

23:04

Yup

hasherr

Same.

AttackingHobo

GTG lunch

ToddersLegrande

@AttackingHobo said no one at 3pm ever

Jimmy

GIF is obviously short for Jraphics Interchange Format

ToddersLegrande

Eater sooner bro :P

Jimmy

23:05

its 5 and I havne't had lunch

but I woke up at 1

ToddersLegrande

"Giraffics" is how I pronounced that

had a good chuckle

Icy Defiance

I have lunch at 4 on days I don't work

or around 4

ToddersLegrande

I leave for lunch at like... 11

Icy Defiance

like, within 3 hours of 4

ToddersLegrande

Dinner on the other hand I will hold off until like... 8 or 9 or later some nights (if at all)

Habbit from high school. Forced early lunch and activities in the evening that prevent me from eating until 10pm

hasherr

23:06

I eat lunch at 11.30. My school makes me :(

ToddersLegrande

But seriously guys... leaving

hasherr

No.

You stay.

Why, you may ask?

Because you do.

Jimmy

hmmm

Dave

so many youtube videos being panned to the left speaker as of late

so strange

Jimmy

20

A: How can we chat in the Android room?

There are a couple of guys, including me, that review the access requests to the Android chatroom. Some time ago the Android room was facing a lot of issues like trolls, spam etc. So we have decided to turn this room into a Gallery The reasons why you've not been given access are : You've b...

Almo

23:13

aw yeah

Jimmy

apparently there are some high-profile restricted chat rooms

Almo

new Razer software for Mac deals with the Mac OS X Mouse Acceleration issue

Jimmy

1

A: no restriction for general platform and language chat rooms

There have been problems in the past with the overall quality of certain chat rooms. In the Android chat room in particular, see Reno's answer where he describes why access has been restricted there. You can see Octavian's question from February where he was bemoaning the low quality of the (th...

Dave

lol restricted chat is just so lame

Jimmy

I like the reasoning that open chat encourages help vampires

Dave

23:13

isnt that the point

Almo

help vampires hurt the community

Dave

i dont see how

Jimmy

no, I'd rather exorcise a vampire than continue to let it suck blood

Almo

spammingthe same question over and over and over and never contributing anything back.

Dave

thats not a help vampire thats just a moron

help vampire is some one who asks for help but doesn't help others

at least that what it means in the JS room

Almo

23:15

I mean if there are 20 help vampires, they all ask the same question and contribute nothing back

not that one person asks the same question

Dave

well if they ask the same question then say "learn to use the search"

Almo

they don't use google. they don't research their questions.

Dave

we have close requests for that reason already

if they ask in chat people can choose to simply not answer

Icy Defiance

again, though, I haven't seen too much of that in this chat

Almo

now the ultimate question. Can I use ctrl-mouse4 to spend skill point in LoL?

Icy Defiance

23:16

hasherr and pip have gotten close, but neither of them are all that bad either

and they've gotten a lot better over time

Jimmy

@Almo why not ctrlQWER

hasherr

pip?

Dave

ive seen in js room but they get told to use SO search or paste them a link to an identical question

Jimmy

that seems more obvious to me

Almo

isn't that smart cast?

Jimmy

23:17

smartcast is shiftQWER

Almo

I'm still trying to sort out the smartcast shit

Icy Defiance

@hasherr the programm3r or whatever. he used to be called python in progress.

Jimmy

hmmm although maybe I have them backwards

hasherr

Haha

Almo

wait I think I tried ctrl qwer

felt awkward for some reason

Dave

23:17

@hasherr hates everyone secretly :P

Almo

anyway, I'll mess with it

Dave

he works for NSA

hasherr

Yeah, I still do that from time to time but I think I've gotten better. I put a lot more time into my questions than I did before.

Almo

nice mouse man. really like this. tried a SteelSeries Sensei, but it was too short and gave me a cramp

hasherr

@Dave There is only one person in this room who I dislike.

Dave

23:18

even on his profile @hasherr has "looking for NSA fun" :P

Jimmy

@hasherr you also have not spent 3 weeks asking about matrices in a while

Dave

@hasherr i must of missed that particular drama

hasherr

It's Mick, lol.

Icy Defiance

I missed that too

the matrices, that is

Dave

oh lol

hasherr

23:19

Matrices?

Dave

i could of guessed really

hasherr

I never asked about them. You might be talking about the time Alex got mad at me for asking a question about a book he recommended for me.

It seems like a silly question thinking back on it...

Dave

i remember that

i have noticed mick has gone...did we drive him away?

Icy Defiance

nah, he seems to disappear for a few days or a week or two, and then come back when he remembers the room exists

Dave

ah

hasherr

23:22

Is he in the room?

Dave

no

Almo

ah quick cast is shiftqwer, selfcast is ctrlqwer

Icy Defiance

tbh I'd rebind that so quick case is just the normal qwer

it's nicer for nearly every champ, and doesn't hurt on any

at least once you get used to it

just know that with quick cast, to cast spells you need to charge up, hold the button down

TheProgramm3r

@IcyDefiance WHAT?!?!?!!!??!?!

Almo

looks like I can skill 1 MB4 skill 3 ctrl-MB4

TheProgramm3r

23:24

@IcyDefiance yep

Jimmy

@almo hmmm wait really?

i thought selfcast was altQWER

Almo

it maybe is

by default

but alt is not comfortable for me

on mac keyboard

Jimmy

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Q: Is there a hotkey to gain a point in a skill without clicking the icon?

I was watching a video on YouTube this morning and it seemed that the player was able to spend his skill points without actually moving his mouse to the little icons and clicking. In DotA it was definitely possible using the hotkeys, but does League of Legends support something like this? Is th...

league-of-legends

Almo

splat-w closes the window

alt is further over

Alex M.

back

Dave

23:25

well go back

TheProgramm3r

goodbye, all

gotta go

Alex M.

@Dave NO U

Dave

bye

:O

Alex M.

@TheProgramm3r cya pip

Almo

ah it works

nice

Alex M.

23:27

IEEE Spectrum
The World's First 3D-Printed Gun

This 3D-printed metal gun was made by direct metal laser sintering. Its creators aren't trying to revolutionize gun production, just prove that DMLS parts are strong enough for real-world applications.

Watch it get printed, assembled, and fired: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/industrial-robots/first-3dprinted-metal-gun-shows-tech-maturity

Dave

*sees advert - closes tab

Almo

really cool man

Alex M.

what advert

Dave

it showed an advert and made me wait 10 seconds before forwarding :(

Jimmy

I get a full page ad as well

Alex M.

23:28

removed the bit.ly

Dave

good :)

Alex M.

doesn't everyone use adblockers?

Dave

doesnt work on bit ly type things

Icy Defiance

always worked for me

Alex M.

weird, I don't see any ads

Icy Defiance

23:29

I didn't even know bit.ly did that

Dave

bit.ly/3j4ir4 try that one

Alex M.

points to google

no ads

Dave

hmm strange no ads for me either on that

im weary of pressing shortened urls :P

Icy Defiance

try this one: bit.ly/4mtMyr

oooohhh

vOv

I tried making a bit.ly link to that bit.ly link, but it wouldn't let me

Alex M.

points to bitly, no ads

tomorrow's APM lab is cancelled

guess I won't go to the others either

Icy Defiance

23:35

there's the college spirit

Alex M.

since I normally don't go to work because I'm supposed to be at college on fridays, I can sleep the whole day and then work on my projects

GENIUS

@IcyDefiance yup

I feel less guilty that way

but I also did my OS assignment :\ I guess I'll just show it next week

so confused

TheNickmaster21

I'm downloading Unity :D

Alex M.

cool

let me know how you like it

TheNickmaster21

I will! I'm installing it onto my flashdrive so I hope it isn't slowed down too much.

Alex M.

To provide multidimensional array access semantics, e.g. to implement a 3D array access a[i][j][k] = x;, operator[] has to return a reference to a 2D plane, which has to have its own operator[] which returns a reference to a 1D row, which has to have operator[] which returns a reference to the element.

Icy Defiance

23:45

USB 3.0 or 2.0?

TheNickmaster21

2.0 :(

Alex M.

why do you insist on using the flash drive though?

TheNickmaster21

Because I use a million computers

Alex M.

how can you use a million computers

you're just a teenager with life and girl problems

TheNickmaster21

I have the desktop I normally use, a laptop for my dad's and school computers.

I don't have girl problems; just family

Alex M.

23:47

and you have to work with unity on ALL of them?

Icy Defiance

realize, though, that areas of a flash drive can wear out after a thousand writes or so, and installing programs on them is a fairly quick way to reach that point.

they won't last for 20 years like the hard drive in your Win95 computer

other than that, more power to you

Alex M.

use external hard drives

Icy Defiance

aye

TheNickmaster21

Hmm

Icy Defiance

flash drives only cost like $20 tops anyway, unless you buy it from somewhere random like walgreens or a gas station

TheNickmaster21

23:48

Mabye I'll just use Unity on the desktop then. Too bad I can't stop the instalation

Dave

ctrl alt del

Icy Defiance

do other states even have walgreens?

TheNickmaster21

But okay

I have walgreens in GA

Icy Defiance

ah cool. I didn't even know if that was a national thing

probably not international though

TheNickmaster21

I hope I didn't just break life

Dave

23:51

you sure did

TheNickmaster21

Great

Unity Free, which include the free platform add-on products, may not be licensed or used by a commercial entity with annual gross revenues (based on prior fiscal year) in excess of US$100,000, or by an educational, academic, non-profit or government entity with a total annual budget for the entire entity (based on prior fiscal year) in excess of US$100,000.

I can sell my Unity game with only the free version???

Do I need to have the paid version to sell on the asset store?

Grey

No

Dave

no

TheNickmaster21

No to which?

Dave

if you are making 100k you won't care about paying for unity :P

Icy Defiance

23:53

@TheNickmaster21 yes

Grey

^

TheNickmaster21

God damnitt guys

Dave

@TheNickmaster21 the 3rd one

:P

TheNickmaster21

Sigh

Icy Defiance

you can sell your game, and can sell on the asset store, without unity pro

TheNickmaster21

23:55

@IcyDefiance Thank you :)

There is so much free stuff in the asset store and so much for sale amazing stuff.

Alex M.

it's nice when you're doing 2D

unless you are annoyed by the splash screen, you don't really need to pay for pro

unless you need the profiler

TheNickmaster21

Profiler?

Icy Defiance

pretty sure splash screens are associated with aaa games anyway, so it might actually be good to keep it

psychological thing

Dave

it does add a "look im fabulous" vibe to a game

TheNickmaster21

Haha

Icy Defiance

23:58

kind of like how 24 fps is associated with professional movies, while 48 is associated with home movie crap, even though the higher fps is obviously nicer

Dave

i dont notice 24 fps in films but if its a game i notice !

TheNickmaster21

So, as long as the asset is free or I buy it, there are no implications on my use of it? And what is a profiler? :P

Dave

ever used a profiler in chrome ?

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