how dare you

haha!

you will never get me alive, Todders!

jumps on ladder and gets out via some hugeass hot air balloon

I can't think of a response that doesn't sound creepy honestly

@ToddersLegrande go for creepy, that's always a good thing

creepy is a bit meh

Too tired for creepy

kinky is fine

krunky is ultimate

@KevinvanderVelden okay. I google that

@AlexM. well, what if creepy is your fetish.

creepy is not my fetish

@AlexM. hence the what if!

irrelevant

Todders was replying to me

and since my fetish is not creepy

=> what ifs have no reason to be considered

What ifs can be fun!

monokai should be dubbed THE color scheme

@OliverSchöning basically this is a quick method for the 3D card to discard some triangles, you've got them the wrong way around so it's only rendering the back triangles from what I can tell

Also I think your near and far planes need to be adjusted

@KevinvanderVelden I guess that makes sense. Because when I flip the normals, I still have holes. But different ones.

Means I gotta flip en individually I guess

@OliverSchöning no no, that's just a camera setting :)

Oh ok

Because it works fine on the threejs website, where they got an editor

@OliverSchöning yes

you have to do

foreach Normal normal in normals
{
    (╯°□°）╯︵ ןɐɯɹou
}

How do you type the tableflip operator?

ctrl + shift + tableflip

Oh right

(╯°□°）╯︵

yup

hey, it works

Beat DKC Tropical Freeze. Very fun though maybe a little short. I've got a bunch of hidden exits to find and I vaguely recall something about needing to collect 7 secret relics... I might have been drunk when it told me this after I wasted 30 lives beating the final boss.

@KevinvanderVelden Cheers mate. It was the near plane :)

Cool :)

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53738503/shark/index.html

lol

all problems seem to become easier to solve and understand when you try to solve them in plain english

I always end up trying not to, then I go back and eventually do it, not sure why.

	if (isAbove(target, refPos))
	{
			if (toTheLeftOf(target, refPos))
			{

^ true. I played it with my 6 year old son

He turns away everytime those annoying zombies appear

Annoying because they freeze you from moving for like 6 seconds when you are near them.

the zombie is just trying to advertise the new Orbit mints

@AlexM. "SMELL MY MINTY FRESH BREATH!"

yes

it's a misunderstood zombie

hahahahaha

At least tingle is not in that one.

soundtrack drop!

I'm gonna pick up Wind Waker HD again now that I'm done with DKCTF

@Jon now tingle. THAT guy is just pure evil

I wonder if there's any point in refactoring my current algorithm

The zombies are misunderstood, tingle... no, he just wants to watch the world burn

technically, it's extremely verbose, but clearly describes the steps involved in solving the problem

and might benefit me later on, to see it this way

@AlexM. is it fast enough?

because I'll immediately tell what's happening

@KevinvanderVelden refactoring != optimization

not exclusively

at least

yah, i can lead to optimization

@AlexM. meh, if it's extremely verbose then it'd probably optimize it.

well the reason I had to rewrite the algorithm in plain english is because I wrote it as short as possible, while hiding steps that are taken as much as possible

I'll leave it as it is for now, will see about it later

Plain English is the best debugging mechanism. It's the reason the rubber duck method works if you ask me.

yeah

also, while extremely verbose

the code is beautiful because I'm not confused anymore regarding what it does :D

or Plain [Spoken Language]

excluding Klingon

it's not complete enough

@ShotgunNinja wrong Plain English is the best debugging method

Any other language is wrong

whatever you say, hot stuff

Yeah... pretty sure plain Chinese won't help me debug. Sorry bro. You're wrong.

@ShotgunNinja Also I don't think there is a Plain Klingon

@ShotgunNinja I say this is a non-native English speaker if it helps =p

I'm pretty good with mountain Romanian though

@KevinvanderVelden lol kinda

English seems to have the best logician's terms.

Especially since many of them originated in English or as loanwords from other languages into English, due to the large number of scientists, logicians, and engineers in the U.S. in the last two hundred years.

And in Britain and other English-speaking countries.

herp derp murrika

well when it comes to terms and stuff for science

the leading universities' languages will be used

well, my algorithm works, and at quite the right time, I'm almost ready to call it a day

should test some more, merge the branch and get the fuck out of here

anyone else ever play this?

leisure suit santa?

Time Tunnel

@Jon so that's how santa brings gifts everywhere around the world in a day.

lol.. i think its a gnome

I also thought it was santa even before @AlexM. brought it up

And my country doesn't even have santa during christmas

graphics were funky back then, don't condemn me

64K of memory

@AlexM. I'm not condemning! I'm agreeing

I mean people were doing plot(X, Y) on those screens to display a nipple

They also never used Long

ik

back then size didn't matter because nobody was Long anyway

I pity those who died before experiencing twelve inches of RAM

10 IF (!DEAD) GOTO 20 ELSE GOTO 100

is ! a legit negation in BASIC?

was it not "NOT"?

it is NOT

i haven't done basic in a very long time

anyway, I can at least attest that I have plotted some stuff on an Apple II emulator

I plotted stuff on a commodore64

the first version of my Othello AI was done on C64.

Very cool

I connected to IRC on, I think a Commodore 64 once

I used to alter c64 game code

hehe

that was the main thing I did for coding on it

Load"*",8,1 then instead of run, type LIST

I wrote a bunch of games

dumps the code

a few of which I considered finished

one was a lunar lander sim

that was my main one

had everything I knew how to do in it

you must be old

Almost 12.

like an ML subroutine to change the sprite coords, so it wouldn't set.x / update collide / set.y

custom character set

auto loader I did myself

@Jon Almo is actually Gandalf

load"*",8,1 loaded load "LL",8:run into the keyboard buffer, and set the buffer number of strokes so it thought you had typed it

but that didn't fit in the buffer, so it was L(shift-O)"LL",8:R(shiftU) abbreviations

the loader moved basic ram up so the charset could be loaded.

Ever play robocop on c64?

it had a demo

which showed a recording me me playing

it had high scores stored on the disc

what happened to it?

the text typed out like a teletype with a cursor and sound for each char

A C64 collector wanted my game collection. He agreed to rip and send my programs to me if he could have the discs

so I have that shit still on my Mac

visited 441 days, 199 consecutive

almost there :D

Lander was on a disc that had been left in a mailbox on a hot texas day and had partially melted

the guy used some engineering wizardry to read it

I'm quite lucky :)

got the rom?

I do

give it to us

I could do that

I'll try to remember when I get home

I've tried it on a C64 emulator. works fine

though I seem to remmeber the teletype sound doesn't come out quite the same

ugh

"DROPOUT JEEP is a software implant for the Apple iPhone that utilizes modular mission applications to provide specific SIGINT functionality. This functionality includes the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc.

So apparently NSA has backdoor on iphones.

Meanwhile, everyone is like, meh... I don't care.

Government should be allowed access to my personal life.. no biggie.

yeah. so many say "if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't care"

:(

heading towards totalitarian governing.

> implying the US government was ever different

I've acutally thought twice before sending a few emails because they would have had words that would trip terrorism flags.

NSA probably here right now because I said terrorism

now they're REALLY here because I said it twice.

@AlexM. it probably was reasonably good in that aspect when it was founded

They haven't had to ability to be this invasive until the digital revolution

I'm somewhat scared to see what things will be like 20 years from now.

Not the slavery bit, or the womens rights bit, or a lot of other kinda really important bits

Where everyone's life is documented on a computer database.

jon.life_table.drop

with cascading null

BOOM

Every single thing you do online will be tracked and stored.

drop schema NSA;

lol

Have you ever thought about how google knows you better than most people in your life?

nope, because it's not true, in my instance

At any given time in your search history, google knows exactly what you were thinking/doing/trying to figure out

heheh

I can imagine how it is for many people though

Yahoo knows me pretty well

So every once in a while, I search for something totally random to throw it off

I've had that email account since about 1997

@Jon every now and again I change locations randomly

I am currently in singapore

you move to throw google off its tracks. genius.

@kalina say hi to Private Pansy for me!

best christmas song ever

@KevinvanderVelden no

@kalina aah =[

What on earth is with the spoon and the jam in Grey's picture?

later on I will be in Holland

You're in signapore! It'd be like, 5 minutes travel tops

@AidanMueller I can only assume fake blood

5 minutes? I travel an hour for grocerie shopping sometimes.

@ToddersLegrande Of course :) Thanks.

It sort of weirds me out that when I yawn, it stretches the cochlea, which changes the pitch of the music I'm listening to. Then it shifts back. Very weird.

This has been apparent to me, without all the technical details, for many years. You get used to it :P

:)

@JoshPetrie looking at your answer regarding hiring practices, I have a hard time finding it as a useful (subjectively good) answer if you removed the "But that said" portion, if we deemed such an answer as correct (objectively good).

The answer as a whole is much more useful than my interpretation of how I would correct your answer

like this: gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/71006/how-to-learn-cocos2d

So the expression of experience is ok but opinion based on experience should be left to comment?

I think there is a very fine line which makes me nervous about the whole situation

Because what about definitions of terms (going back to the 3D camera one) that come from experience?

The "It depends" answer is probably more correct but I don't think the definition answer itself is bad if its based on experience... hmm

There you go @JoshPetrie :

"Over the course of my career the most common terms I've seen are: x, y, z" vs "I use this because it made sense to me" (good vs bad example)

@Blue facepalm over the first line

:D

The point. He got it.

Have a lolly pop.

I would appreciate it if you structured your answer so that your definitive points were much clearer and more concise

(joking in case that wasn't obvious)

@ToddersLegrande reading it back it was pretty fucking awful in punctuation, redid it with pretty formatting

@JoshPetrie If only I too had 45k to downvote the stupid into oblivion.

@JoshPetrie This is actually a really good point. For questions with multiple answers its especially important to make them objective or based on experience and not opinion because people post silly answers to farm rep as you point out. That being said this truly should be something that applies to the whole site and not just it depends / questions with multiple answers

Guilty of not participating in the site. Would probably help if I actually did more game dev which would build experience for answering questions and also probably result in me having questions of my own.

As far as down voting goes I will admit I always see things and its like "uhhhhhhhhh grey area I don't want to make a decision" - subsequently I really appreciate the meta posts you've started recently Josh. It's been helpful for me understanding better what is and isn't appropriate.

Though I could probably participate a little more in the obviously inappropriate.

@JoshPetrie Are edits that only change grammar not allowed? I know that in this case, the question was put on hold, so it should have been edited anyway, but in general, when are grammar edits allowed?

greetings

@JoshPetrie Alright. Thanks for the info.

600 rep to go!