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Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
7:00 PM
@Zgarb hahahaha
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@TIOBegs ಠ_ಠ
@Doorknob's "STOP CHANGING YOUR NAMES"
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Should I mute him? :/
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
That's up to you I guess.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Oh well.
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
@tac re. your python hate ಠ_ಠ
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ don't comment.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
7:04 PM
@EasterlyIrk When did he say he dislikes Python?
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
Haha:
> Briefly, here's how we write an equation using infix:

2 + 2 == 5
Which would evaluate to something like True in Python.
2
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
XD
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@EasterlyIrk I resist the temptation.
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
ಠ_ಠ
@AlexA. in the linked docs somewhere
@AlexA. He basically said python is stupid.
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
Sorry, that's hilarious no matter how much you like python.
(and i don't, which makes it better)
> ... because of course, 2 + 2 is only 5 in Python.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
7:06 PM
@EasterlyIrk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
@TIOBegs ಠ_ಠ
Wait, but it is written in python? o_O
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Whoa, what the hell is this def f(x) -> type: syntax? O_O
I've never seen that in Python
 
Zgarb
Zgarb
I think that's new in 3.6
I forgot what it does.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
I assume it declares the return type
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
so wait python actually got their act together and added symbolic lambdas?
 
Zgarb
Zgarb
7:09 PM
Yeah, but I mean what effect it has in practice.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Might help with speed? Idk. I guess it's helpful from a readability standpoint to know what you expect the function to return.
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
Python syntax and semantics
The syntax of the Python programming language is the set of rules that defines how a Python program will be written and interpreted (by both the runtime system and by human readers). == Design philosophy == Python was designed to be a highly readable language. It has a relatively uncluttered visual layout and uses English keywords frequently where other languages use punctuation. Python aims towards simplicity and generality in the design of its syntax, encapsulated in the mantra "There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it", from "The Zen of Python". This mantra is d...
um
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
ಥ_ಥ it's so cringy
2
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
There.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ No
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
7:10 PM
ಥ_ಥ WHY PYTHON
ಥ_ಥ
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
Becuase it is good.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
symbolic lambda ftw
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
@EasterlyIrk I thought you were a javascripter? >_>
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
> class CaptainHook(object):
beautiful
 
Zgarb
Zgarb
> The behaviour of annotations is not defined by the language, and is left to third party frameworks.
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
7:13 PM
@AlexA. I (somehow) read this as class CaptainCrunch
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@AquaTart That would be similarly acceptable in terms of humor but is less descriptive of the class ("""allows "hooking" index variable assignment""")
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
Oh, where is this?
I must see more of this excellent source code
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
You just need to find a compression class to name, then.
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
> sys.setrecursionlimit(sys.getrecursionlimit() * 3)
that's a real winner right there
Better than sys.setrecursionlimit(9999999999999999999999999) I suppose
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
7:15 PM
You had to tack in a few more 9s, huh? XD
 
flawr
flawr
sys.setrecursionlimit(9**9**9**9**9**9**9)
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm pretty sure Pyth has something like this but I can't remember how many 9s it is
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
Set it to -1.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@AquaTart oh lol XD
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
import numpy as np; sys.setrecursionlimit(np.inf)
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
7:16 PM
@AlexA. That better not work
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Sequence identification time! This time, it's slightly less obscure. Starting with x = 2: 3, 4, 6, 9, 11. I'm not sure about the last two.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@AlexA. Not everyone has numpy on their desktop though, so invalid.
 
flawr
flawr
The question is only: What kind of infinity is it?
 
mbomb007
mbomb007
@PhiNotPi The indiegogo site says if they reach $30,000 they would go open source. They didn't make that goal.
I'd be willing to join/form a group of PPCGers
 
ballesta25
ballesta25
7:18 PM
Just increment the recursion limit in the first line of all your functions.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@flawr The good kind
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
Apparently it's finite infinity.
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
@ballesta25 Nah, just one recursive one :P
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@flawr It's... complex.
hahaha
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
@ballesta25 That's actually a really good way of doing it
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
7:20 PM
@AquaTart א
 
flawr
flawr
@AlexA. Is there a good kind of infinity? Math usually gets weird whenever any kind of infinity comes into play. Sometimes even before.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@flawr Countable infinity is best infinity
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
@flawr Usually about 5 before you hit infinity, right?
3
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
What is Infinity/Infinity in your language of choice?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
NaN in Julia
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
7:21 PM
NaN in JS
So far, so sane
 
flawr
flawr
@TIOBegs Well usually about 5 after starting to count.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Oh, here's a good one: bitwise negate infinity.
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
@AlexA. I had to squint to figure out what that was
Why does it render so tiny
 
flawr
flawr
But that does not make a difference, does it?
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
> ~Infinity
< -1
~0 = -1, thus, Infinity = 0.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
7:22 PM
@AquaTart I blame Wikiped.
 
flawr
flawr
@AquaTart Because it is the smallest infinity.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
^
Better answer
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
@AlexA. rofl
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
PS C:\Tools\Scripts\golfing> ([double]1/0)/([double]1/0)
NaN
 
flawr
flawr
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ??? Undefined function or variable 'Infinity'.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
7:24 PM
What language is that?
 
flawr
flawr
Matlab^^
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
It's Inf in matlab I think
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
sighs
 
flawr
flawr
I know=)
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
k
Anyways, it's NaN like any sane language
 
flawr
flawr
7:25 PM
feature-request apply the minimal number of characters requirement also to chat messages.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
What's it in python?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@flawr k
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Wow ... 
PS C:\Tools\Scripts\golfing> -bnot([double]1/0)
Cannot convert the "Infinity" value of type "System.Double" to type "System.UInt64".
At line:1 char:1
+ -bnot([double]1/0)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConvertToFinalInvalidCastException
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
> FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConvertToFinalInvalidCastException
Even PowerShell's errors are verbose :P
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
7:27 PM
Yeah, and that's just the standard error.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
I'm actually really impressed by your ability to golf PowerShell, @TimmyD.
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Thanks! :D
This 2016 APL thing is dang tricky, though
But overall, I'm really enjoying my time here
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
I'm glad!
 
Lynn
Lynn
I could do Jelly, except, by December 2016 none of the snippets would run.
 
Brain Lot
Brain Lot
Agnostic. That's the word!
If a script is compatible with multiple versions, the script is version agnostic.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
7:35 PM
Oh, yeah. That makes sense.
 
flawr
flawr
How about superstituous?
Perhaps that is a script that crashes whenever the value 13 appears.
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Version My-parents-baptized-me-but-I-don't-go
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Version ✞
 
Brain Lot
Brain Lot
Version t?
I don't put tails on my lowercase t so that's a t for me
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
what font are you using? o_O
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
7:39 PM
@BrainLot Yea, we should go burn a big lower-case t in their yard! You know, for "time to leave".
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
o_o
 
Brain Lot
Brain Lot
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Verdana I think
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
whose yard?
@BrainLot The symbol is a 3D cross. What does it look like to you?
 
Brain Lot
Brain Lot
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Seriously, a cross. Jokingly, a lowercase t.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@BrainLot Ah, so it's a lowercase t :P
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
7:41 PM
Seriously has a cross operator?
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
No, it's a data object. :P
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
 
Brain Lot
Brain Lot
@TimmyD Yea. For when numbers get angry.
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
@AlexA. Those are lovely
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@tac Your commit messages read like poetry
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
7:42 PM
You guys don't watch enough south park :/
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
> this isn't lisp :((
s/:\(\(/:\)\)/g
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ This isn't ><>
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Gotta escape those characters.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@tac Your commit messages aren't informative according to my standards. Sorry XD
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@zya Your standards are too high :P
Interesting problem: Given an W by W grid of dots, what is the minimal number of N lines that cover each point at least once? You may exit the grid. For example, for W = 4, N = 6, and for W = 3, N = 4. (I may expand this at one point into a challenge.)
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
7:58 PM
For the APL challenge, do you suppose Boolean-not is allowable?
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm pretty sure the optimal algorithm greedily takes remaining points, finds line that contains the most points and that isn't parallel to one of the two ends, and connects them
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@NathanMerrill That makes sense.
@TimmyD Yes, I should think so.
 
Zgarb
Zgarb
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I don't understand the problem. Why can't you cover the points with W vertical lines?
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@Zgarb Ah, whoops. They are connected.
 
Zgarb
Zgarb
Ok, then you can do W+1 by adding one horizontal line.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
8:06 PM
They must be connected at the vertices. Think of it like "without lifting your pencil".
Sorry for the ambiguity :P
 
Zgarb
Zgarb
Ooh, that makes more sense.
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Just hafta use a thick enough line.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
The points are arbitrarily spaced :P
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
:D
 
flawr
flawr
Are those imperial points?
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
8:12 PM
@flawr y
> flawr y
Flowery XD
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
w = 3, n = 4.
 
flawr
flawr
Spoiler alert
2
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
bai now
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
@TIOBegs Both.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Is that a trademark Conor bai™?
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
He'll be back.
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
8:15 PM
I know.
 
flawr
flawr
Oh yeah a new invention: Imperial bytes: Made of 7 bits.
 
TIO Begs
TIO Begs
Kinda like a baker's byte of 9?
 
flawr
flawr
Too good that was not invented yet (looking at you US-ASCII)
 
Anonymous
@flawr Excuse you, the proper spelling is US/ASCII
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@NathanMerrill Thanks. :D It's one of the things I've wanted to see implemented in Vitsy for a long time, because people rarely understand what's going on in Vitsy (non-verbose).
 
Anonymous
8:18 PM
@AlexA. Looks like Cython
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Mego Nah, it's 3.6.
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. You sure?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
1 hour ago, by Zgarb
I think that's new in 3.6
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. That was apparently added in 3.0
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
8:23 PM
@Mego Okay. I don't follow Python development. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Anonymous
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
4 hours ago, by zyabin101
I have a plan to program Tetris in an esoteric language. Does this plan deserve its own chatroom?
 
Zgarb
Zgarb
@Mego Oh, I didn't know that either.
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@zyabin101 whynaut?
 
Anonymous
The new string formatting syntax in 3.6 will be nice for golf
 
Anonymous
8:25 PM
a=5
print(f"a == {a}")
 
Anonymous
That will output a == 5
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@CoolestVeto Okay, so I have one supporter. I need two more.
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
@Mego That will output a == 5 2+2==5
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@TimmyD No. f"2+2=={a}" does 2+2==5 for a = 5.
 
Anonymous
Man, having bad allergies sucks
 
flawr
flawr
8:31 PM
@Mego What kind?
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
Guys, I've made the best code ever.
In Vitsy. :D
 
Anonymous
@flawr Mostly seasonal, though mountain cedar is pretty bad
 
Anonymous
I felt fine, and then I sneezed
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
Can somebody explain why this is getting downvoted?
 
Anonymous
And now it's all "God, are you there? It's me, Mego" in my nose
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
8:32 PM
I don't see why, but I might be missing something.
@Mego I know.... (-o
 
flawr
flawr
@Mego Oh no. Must really suck.
 
Anonymous
@EasterlyIrk It's because the solution is almost certainly longer than just using the actual number
 
flawr
flawr
Every spring/summer I feel so lucky that I don't have any of those.
 
Easterly Irk
Easterly Irk
Oh, okay. :P
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Guys, I've made the best code ever. Oh?! In Vitsy. Oh.
:D
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
8:33 PM
@Mego I agree wholeheartedly
 
Anonymous
Also the user created a new account because their last answer got deleted
 
Anonymous
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@CoolestVeto Let's see it! Let's see it!
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Mego Both accounts are unregistered.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@CoolestVeto Show it! People want to! >_<
@AlexA. How?
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
8:43 PM
in PPCG Code Snippet Chat Bot, 17 secs ago, by CoolestVeto
= vitsy "zl\['#&'OON';'O]" "" "¯_(ツ)_/¯"
in PPCG Code Snippet Chat Bot, 27 secs ago, by Data
@CoolestVeto &#175;&#92;&#95;&#40;&#12484;&#41;&#95;&#47;&#175;
Text -> HTML supported chars.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
55
Q: What does it mean when someone's an Unregistered User?

Erik BI looked at someone's profile and it said Unregistered User. What does that mean?

support unregistered-users
 
Roujo
Roujo
@Mego That's an odd one. Shuffled digits?
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
Too bad that Data hates me and won't eval my things... ;(
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
426 bytes and I'm got 0 through 40 ... under 1000 is looking pretty unlikely
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
> (-o
Duuude in a boooat!
@TimmyD 2016 Dyalog? If so, which language?
 
flawr
flawr
8:49 PM
@zyabin101 Looks like a skilift t-bar
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
@zyabin101 PowerShell, natch
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@flawr Skaaailift tee-baaar!
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@TimmyD Natch?
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
Dude in a boat sounded simpler.
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. He made Minecroft
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
8:52 PM
Minecruft
 
flawr
flawr
@zyabin101 Or Mike from Monster Inc
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
@AlexA. "Natch"-urally
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@TimmyD HAAAAAAAAAAAAH ಠ_ಠ
 
flawr
flawr
Natch?
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
 
flawr
flawr
8:55 PM
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@TimmyD Aren't those the bad guys in Star Trek?
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. No those are Romulans. You're thinking of the bad guys from Assassin's Creed.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
It was yolk
 
Martin Büttner
Martin Büttner
fun maths time!
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
s/s//
 
Martin Büttner
Martin Büttner
8:57 PM
prompted by a question from Alex I was trying to solve the continued fraction 1-1/(1-1/(1-...)) ... and got two complex results:
14
Q: Why is 1-1/(1-1/(1-...)) complex?

Martin BüttnerSo we all know that the continued fraction containing all $1$s... $$ x = 1 + \frac{1}{1 + \frac{1}{1 + \ldots}} $$ yields the golden ratio $x = \phi$, which can easily be proven by rewriting it as $x = 1 + 1/x$, solving the resulting quadratic equation and assuming that a continued fraction tha...

complex-numbers recursion continued-fractions
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. No that's the stuff in the egg. You're thinking of albumen.
 
Anonymous
Every good source of confusion starts with "prompted by a question from Alex"
 
Martin Büttner
Martin Büttner
(as an aside I have never received 12 votes and 6 favourites on a question in 5 minutes before)
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
@AlexA. I'm pretty sure yolks aren't bad guys in Assassin's Creed
 
Morgan Thrapp
Morgan Thrapp
@AquaTart I dunno, I would definitely count the airplanes as bad guys.
 
Anonymous
9:01 PM
@MorganThrapp I don't recall any airplanes in AC. Maybe the stupid side missions for Leo that I didn't do?
 
Morgan Thrapp
Morgan Thrapp
@Mego I never actually played AC. I was making a yolk/yoke joke.
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
I have never played Assassin's Creed either
 
Anonymous
Really good games as long as you don't go past 4
 
Morgan Thrapp
Morgan Thrapp
Also, yolk yoke joke is really fun to say.
 
Anonymous
Well, 3, really
 
Anonymous
9:02 PM
4 is a really good pirate game
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
I saw someone play 4 once does that count as going past 3
 
Anonymous
No :P
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
Good so I haven't been scarred for life
 
Anonymous
I meant the first 5 games are really good AC games. 4 is a good pirate game. Rogue is I don't even know. Syndicate is a better GTA game than GTA.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Mego ಠ_ಠ
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
9:05 PM
Ugh, I can't stand newer Ubisoft games.
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
Rayman Origins was pretty good.
...then again that was 2011
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
They're all the same. Pseudo open world, with supposed quests sprinkled about, activate this McGuffin to show things on your map, etc.
I mean, I was playing Watch_Dogs and thinking "Man, they just took FarCry 3 and swapped the trees for buildings"
 
Morgan Thrapp
Morgan Thrapp
The last two games I've played were Bioshock Infinite and Firewatch, both of which I would recommend.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
I like watching my girlfriend play Bioshock Infinite but the gameplay itself looks like it'd be rather dull.
 
Anonymous
Bioshock Infinite is one of those games that attempted to be standalone from the rest of the series but doesn't make much sense without the context
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
9:10 PM
All I know about Bioshock is that it's really pretty
 
Anonymous
You have a lot better appreciation for Infinite if you know the story of 1 and 2
 
Morgan Thrapp
Morgan Thrapp
I'd never played the first two, and was only loosely aware of the story of them and I thought BSI was phenomenal.
 
flawr
flawr
I tried to play one of the BS once, but the stuff there freaked me out.
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
FGITW, go!
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@TimmyD Except that Watch Dogs is really an AC game
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
9:14 PM
@HelkaHomba awh man the second I go to do errands...
Why can't you let us know in advance or something
 
Anonymous
Man, I miss Calvin. This new guy's challenges just aren't as good.
8
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
mm whatever
 
flawr
flawr
What happened to Calvin?
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
@CoolestVeto Well, sure. AC, WD, FC ... essentially the same
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@Mego >_>
 
Aqua Tart
Aqua Tart
9:15 PM
@flawr watched too many plane crashes
 
Anonymous
@HelkaHomba I i
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@flawr I'm right here
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Yeah. "Helka Homba" is an anagram for "Calvin's Hobbies"
3
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Oh, I thought "Helka Homba" was an anagram for "Hello Kitty."
 
Roujo
Roujo
Anything is an anagram if you're willing to cheat.
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
9:25 PM
@CoolestVeto On the plus side, Watch-underscore-Dogs helped me realize that I don't care for open-world style gameplay. I was trying to figure out why I finish games like Halo, Uncharted, Half-Life ... but either get bored or despise games like FarCry 3, AC, GTA, Saints Row ... etc.
So, thanks, Ubisoft, for helping me realize that I won't purchase any of your future games?
 
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Q: Shifty Eyes Shifting I's

Helka HombaShifty-eyes ASCII guys like to shift ASCII Ii's: >_> <_< >_< <_> Given a string of shifty-guys, spaced apart or separate lines, shift the Ii's side to side, left the wall and right the skies: Ii The shortest shifter wins the prize. Say What? Write a program or function that takes in a str...

code-golf string ascii-art
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
@NewMainPosts Dang, you need some coffee. 13 minutes? Slacking off.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@TimmyD Have you played XIII? That's a fun Ubisoft game. It's a linear, story-based FPS. Pretty old at this point.
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
I've not. I'll add it to my backlog.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
It's actually one of my favorite games ever, though that may partially be for nostalgia's sake since I started playing it in middle school.
 
flawr
flawr
9:28 PM
@AquaTart Well the last one I posted was a really nice one, so that should last for a while.
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. At first I thought you were calling FFXIII an old, linear, story-based FPS
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Well, FF XIII is pretty linear
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
I don't know what FFXIII is
 
Anonymous
Final Fantasy 13
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Oh
Never played a Final Fantasy game
 
Anonymous
9:30 PM
I've played the 2 that matter, 6 and 7
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
I've played US-1 (FFIII), didn't finish it. VII, didn't finish it. XIII, didn't finish it.
I liked the storyline of XIII, it just got soooo bogged down and repetitive.
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@TimmyD Huh. I'm just the opposite. :P
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
I've shared this before, but it's relevant and I'm proud of it, so I'll share again.
 
Anonymous
@TimmyD DKC 100% takes like 2 hours though
 
Anonymous
2 hours isn't even enough for a single Civ 5 game
 
Anonymous
9:34 PM
Well it's actually 102% but w/e
 
Anonymous
SMW 100% is similarly easy/quick :P
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
To be fair, I've not played either of those in years, excepting verifying that the cartridge(s) work.
Or trying out the new SCART connection I just recently setup.
So that "Completed: No" is really my 10-year-old self going "Didn't finish, moving on"
 
Anonymous
100% in the Prime trilogy is a nightmare so I won't harass you about that :P
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Oh, that's slightly out of date. I need to move Rise of the Tomb Raider up to the 100% category.
 
Anonymous
Giving Sonic Spinball a 6 might be a bit too nice
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
9:38 PM
But that's essentially what started my list. "I don't seem to complete many games. I wonder how many it actually is."
 
Anonymous
You need to bump OoT and MM to the front of your backlog
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Heh. I didn't have a N64 when they came out (I was really into PC at that time and didn't really have a place for it anyway since we only had one TV growing up), so I've actually never even played them.
 
Anonymous
I didn't have an N64 growing up, either
 
Anonymous
I bought one off of ebay a few years back and got all the classics (OoT, MM, SM64, Goldeneye)
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
I should get a picture of my console area, now that I'm an adult and have disposable income, and share it here.
I'm still in progress of getting it put together, though.
Need to mod my NES for RGB, and send in my N64 for HDMI mod.
GCN, Wii, NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, PS3, X360, XOne ... routed through an Onkyo receiver into a 60" plasma.
 
Anonymous
9:46 PM
I have SNES, N64, PS2, Wii, X360, and X1, with no sane routing solution :P
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
ಠ_ಠ Someone's trying to DDoS me through SSH.
Moron.
 
Anonymous
Sorry I'll stop
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
ಠ_ಠ
 
Anonymous
:P
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
I didn't know you lived in Portugal.
 
Anonymous
9:47 PM
I live everywhere, man
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
The Wii and GCN are both using component, the NES and N64 using composite, the SNES and Genesis using component via SCART via RGB, the PS3 X360 and XONE using HDMI.
Shortly (yet this spring, hopefully), the NES will join the component/SCART/RGB lineup and the N64 joins the HDMI lineup.
 
Anonymous
My Wii and PS2 fight for the one composite input on my TV, the SNES uses RF, the One and the PC use HDMI, and the 360 uses HDMI via the One
 
Anonymous
And I haven't turned on the N64 in ages (also composite)
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
> the SNES uses RF
:-(
 
Roujo
Roujo
RF. I remember hooking that one up. Good times.
 
Anonymous
9:50 PM
It's what came with the SNES :P
 
Roujo
Roujo
Better times: When we got the composite cable. ^^
 
Anonymous
I also have a composite cable for the SNES by virtue of having an N64
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
SNES uses the same multi-out ... you could at least slap a composite cable on it.
Self-ninja'd?
 
Anonymous
Yep
 
Anonymous
I just usually use the RF because of the 1-composite-input issue on the TV
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
9:51 PM
That's like, a second-person-voice ninja
 
Anonymous
My gf recently bought the Kingdom Hearts games because she has always wanted to play them, so she's using the PS2 (and thus the 1 composite input)
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Yeah, be careful. Getting one console output RGB is like an addiction. It looks so good, you want the rest to look like that, too.
I mean, playing NBA Jam on the Genesis and being able to read the player stats is pretty amazing.
 
Anonymous
I don't notice a difference between RF and composite on the SNES
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
I ... find that hard to believe.
 
Roujo
Roujo
I guess if you're blowing everything up to 60", it won't make as much of a difference =P
"Blurry upscaled stuff" vs "Blurrier upscaled stuff"
Wait, that was TimmyD's setup
 
Anonymous
9:56 PM
Yeah mine is a 32" lcd
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Well, good thing that the 240p output is scaled 4x to 960p and then displayed letterboxed. :D
Same number of "pixels," they're just bigger
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Fricative MelonWaste not, want not popularity-contest There are so many awesome esolangs out there, but most of them are either redundant, or don't use all of ASCII, or aren't Turing complete. I want a language such that every ASCII character from 32 to 126 is used, such that removing any one of them makes t...

 
TimmyD
TimmyD
Anyway, I gotta head out
Catch y'all later
 
Roujo
Roujo
'night ^^
 
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