The Bridge

Q: Checking Time Played - Sea of Thieves

12:29 AM

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I've searched the internet for months and haven't been able to find any way to view my Total Hours invested into the game. I'm aware there is a way on XBox but I play on PC so that doesn't concern me.

pc sea-of-thieves xbox-app

user15026

Helping a friend figure out Greyhound as she is coming to see me on the 30th. She lives about 45 min away. Greyhound wants $47 for the round trip. Stupid holiday pricing. :(

Q: What happens if you got no best time at the second file while the first file had all best times in every level?

1:00 AM

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I recognized about if I was so angry about trying to do copying as first file to second file by doing the same.

super-mario-3d-land

@GodEmperorDune Oh good

1:16 AM

Well snap. You google devs, having some fun

3

1:30 AM

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Q: Problem defending Tihr

I am defending Tihr as the Rhodoks. I have ~200 men, almost all sergeants and sharpshooters. My foes have ~1000 troops. Because the walls in Tihr are partially broken, my men can get on the ladders. They charge down the ladders at the enemy, rather than staying on the walls. This ruins my te...

mount-and-blade-warband

1:44 AM

DISCORD

Why the hell

Would you show me an invite link button if I don't have that permission

And instead just generate discord.gg without an invite code

user15026

2:03 AM

Dear Amazon, you keep sending me actual paper letters in the mail saying I don't use my Prime Video...but I am literally watching the second season of Mrs. Maisel on it, like I use it all the time, wtf

@Ash that is a weird thing to send over snail mail

user15026

Yeah, it was super weird

Tim Stone

2:22 AM

@GodEmperorDune The stated reasons being correct, I still didn't find it necessary tbh

.@GrittyNHL is OUT OF CONTROL, as usual. https://t.co/LVLjBRZKg8

Tweeted by NHLGIFs on December 19, 2018 at 12:51 AM

@TimStone hell yeah gritty

@TimStone the little currency upgrade incremental minigame inside assassin's creed is one of my favorite parts of the series, so i'm generally never hurting for money ingame once that part opens up

because i will go and conquer the entire map immediately

Dragonrage

2:55 AM

1 hour and 37 minutes to get to work and 2 hours and 17 minutes to get home :(

please share your most embarrassing game dev crimes. Mine: all the scripting in Gone Home is contained in 2 gigantic uScript graphs, bc I didn't know about interlinking many smaller graphs at the time. It's only 2 bc the first one started running too slow to navigate. Your turn.

Tweeted by fullbright on December 14, 2018 at 5:04 PM

I always love these threads

@Dragonrage ouch

3:07 AM

@GodEmperorDune I like Scott's on multiple levels

One level being nitw spoilers which honestly play that game

That reminds me I should play KY Route Zero

Q: Different outputs based on item in offhand - Minecraft

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I'm making a Minecraft map where a player would get a item that can collect information by right clicking on signs or items. However, I don't want it to show the same message if the player doesn't have this item in their offhand. I have searched for terms like "minecraft different outputs offhan...

minecraft minecraft-commands

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Q: How do I make a tool that can break specified blocks on Windows 10 edition?

I want to make a prison escape map, but for that I'd need tools that could break specified blocks. I tried looking around for answers for this, but when I tried myself, it didn't work. Can anybody help me?

minecraft-commands

Q: How to test if a player is running in 1.13

3:32 AM

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I'm trying to make a map where the player can't stop running or they die. I've searched around a bit and all the answers I found are similar to making some sort of scoreboard value like: /scoreboard objectives add run stat.sprintOneCm but that doesn't seem to be working. I know 1.13 changed a...

minecraft minecraft-commands

Q: Cant play minecraft on xbox

3:48 AM

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Good day folks, I have a minecraft xbox 360 but the console says i no longer able to play it in xbox. So, I bought an xbox minecraft in xbox app store, after successful installation, everytime I open or play it, it display MOJANG logo but later quits. Any ideas why is this happening? Thank you

minecraft xbox-one

@Wipqozn I just wrapped up getting 2B to rank F5 in SC6.

That felt stupid to type.

Memor-X

@InvaderSkoodge i was trying to work out what you was doing in Nier: Automata

Haven't played that yet but it's on the list.

She's pretty fun in Soul Calibur though.

Memor-X

@InvaderSkoodge now reading that you was talking about Soul Calibur (didn't know what SC6 was) and now i get you was talking about that 2B

4:11 AM

all my code is licensed under the GPLGBTQ no proprihetary software here

Tweeted by alicegoldfuss on December 19, 2018 at 4:06 AM

Cc @ave

My Neighbour Totoro poster for its theatrical premiere in China

Memor-X

@PrivatePansy i'm getting that (this version) for christmas along with Ponyo and Princess Mononoke

already have the anniversary version of Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service and The Wind Rises

@PrivatePansy they've been airing all the older films in theaters again here too. seems odd given that i think you can get all of them on DVD or Digital anyway

Q: How do I access Bobbi's Terminal (Console?)

4:51 AM

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In Bobbi's Place located in Good Neighbor, Bobbi's Safe is accessible only through Bobbi's Terminal (on desk next to safe.) The terminal is unable to be accessed due to a bug. The PC has a current workaround however I am unable to find a solution for console, specifically the Xbox One. Please help.

fallout-4

Q: What do I put at the end of this command to rename it mcpe?

6:07 AM

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I was entering this command and it is not working I have looked at other sources and have found nothing please what is it

minecraft minecraft-commands minecraft-pocket-edition

7:47 AM

@GodEmperorDune lmao, I should actually write a GPLGBTQ

reminds me of github.com/tesnos/kezplez-nx/blob/master/LICENSE.md actually

> Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies; and that the user/copier/modifier/distributor supports the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and asexual people.

murgatroid99

7:59 AM

That's a nice sentiment but I would be cautious about including changes like that in an actual distributed license without first consulting with a copyright lawyer. A clause like that is probably legally unenforceable, and I would worry that it would threaten the validity of the license as a whole.

8:58 AM

@murgatroid99 It's the same as JSON's "do no evil" clause

9:52 AM

@GodEmperorDune I am almost sure I got the source for Gone Home somewhere, because humble bundle

11:12 AM

Is there anything like a wifi speaker? That connects via network?

11:51 AM

@Moacir google home is technically that

@Wipqozn Would it be feasible that google home works as an output for a raspberry pi media center?

I have 3 projects to work on my vacation

I think I will work on none, BUT I am trying to at least

@Moacir I have no idea

12:10 PM

@Wipqozn If I manage to make it work the way I think it should I'll update you

12:24 PM

@Ron Day 15 complete, that was insane

Ronan

I'm way behind but I'm reading them each day, that one definitely gave me pause

Q: How do I get an item to destroy certain blocks in Minecraft windows 10?

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I want to make a prison escape map, but for that I'd need tools that could break specified blocks. I tried looking around for answers for this, but when I tried myself, it didn't work. It keeps giving me a syntax error (I'm missing a '}', even after I put one in or a member name). Can somebody he...

minecraft-commands

@fredley What are these things you kids are reading daily?

@InvaderSkoodge I played it for maybe half an hour and it didn't super grab me surprisingly but I will go back to it eventually

@InvaderSkoodge Nicely done. Verdict?

12:32 PM

@ronan it's the fiddlyness of it. All the others are much much simpler

@wip adventofcode.com

4

TIL the community user can earn hats, and with my diamond powers I can make it wear a hat

4

@fredley Oh right I remember you posting that before

Today's triumph was made sweeter by the fact I'm sitting in a power cut, and I got the solution out with 2% battery

Air was punched

Right now I don't

this isn't what I thoguht it was

This is a different thing

I wish I had noticed this when you posted it before

@wip it's good fun!

I'm learning Go. I've gained some respect for it recently, as being able to pass pointers around is something I do miss in Python

It's interface system is totally opaque though

Then again, in Python the only interface is duck

@fredley I actually love pointers

When seg fault occurs it can be total hell, but you can do a lot of neat stuff with them

12:46 PM

@Wipqozn Thats abuse

Yeah, and it makes it super explicit whether you're dealing with references or values, which python is not clear about

@Moacir nah

@Wipqozn It totally is

You are forcing a silicon to partake on actions it was not programmed to

@Wipqozn She's fun but I'm going back to Talim for now. Will probably revisit 2B in the future.

Actually I'm going back to Persona 5 in the short term. I'll be playing Talim once I get fully back into SC after the Christmas gift game rush.

Q: Why doesn't production focus always yield maximum production?

1:12 PM

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Sometimes I get higher production when I select default or food focus than I get when I select production focus. If I remember it correctly, I have seen the same thing but with food. Why is this? It seems completely illogical.

civilization-5 civilization-5-brave-new-world

@fredley I'm actually using Python for this (I kinda use Python for anything small)

@PrivatePansy yeah Python is a good language for small things generally. There are lots of times go is annoyingly verbose for simple things.

Also @PrivatePansy join our private leadvoard, I think @ron needs to invite you

Ronan

I do! 194428-b2a4f1a9

@Ronan You do what?

6 mins ago, by fredley

Also @PrivatePansy join our private leadvoard, I think @ron needs to invite you

1:24 PM

leadvoard

I did the day 1 thing in 1 line of Ruby.

Including reading from the file.

It's a complete mess, in terms of readability, of course.

1:51 PM

@Unionhawk I blame mobile chortle

more like leaveboard (?)

@Unionhawk -> TIF

Nzall

2:03 PM

Afternoon chat

Turns out the 50% discount loyalty offer for BFV was console-only

a good book is a magical portal to another world

Tweeted by dorrismccomics on December 19, 2018 at 12:45 PM

@fredley haha, there's another one in the thread too

That's great

@InvaderSkoodge I did the day 1 thing in excel lol

wait oh

2:24 PM

Trying to weigh whether to visit the My Little Pony pop up cafe here

Pro: Get to try some really neatly designed food that's probably unique; reviews says the food is actually pretty good
Con: The food is *really* overpriced

It feels like the entire experience is designed for Instagram, and since I have less social media presence than an orange this is going to be a bit pointless

I'm not sure I can eat this

That looks disgusting lol

Pretty though

Exactly

It's food made for Instagram

@Unionhawk I thought about that.

2:39 PM

@InvaderSkoodge Absolutely does not work for part 2 lol

@PrivatePansy All of this seeks like a terrible idea

I hope your regret is at least tasty

Doesn't look like it though

@Wipqozn You know what they say, you only get to eat purple winged burger once in your life

2:54 PM

@Unionhawk I read part 2 and it should be pretty easy but I have actual work to do for now.

I think it might be doable in a spreadsheet also but not really worth the effort.

@InvaderSkoodge it's not bad it just takes a while to process and I failed to read "it repeats" at first

it takes several cycles to repeat

@PrivatePansy ... did they not think through the implications of making a burger look like that?

Like, it's seriously implying that they killed Twilight Sparkle and turned her into a burger.

@Yuuki Nah, M.A. Larson just waved his magic wand again

@Unionhawk Oh, right, the fact that it cycles.

Just keep extending that spreadsheet. It'll come out... eventually

2:58 PM

Does everyone get a different set of numbers?

My first ten numbers are -1 -17 -4 -15 -1 +6 -17 +3 -14 -9

So... was that bun infused with taro or something to get that purple color?

Yeah, definitely not the same then.

Or just food coloring?

@Yuuki Hmmm. The description doesn't say, although it's a mantou (ie. steamed bun), not your normal burger bun

Which is a bit of an odd choice. It is a Japanese cafe though

3:03 PM

@PrivatePansy or, throw it in a foreach

I should probably be doing this in not c# rather than trying to get msbuild to work with vs code

and also rather than having a devenv.exe open for something this small

Technically speaking I should be doing real work

but that is overrated

@Unionhawk Yeah, who needs to eat anyway

On the one hand, this is Entertainment Weekly, which is notorious for horrible photoshop.

On the other hand, yeah...

@PrivatePansy "what I'm working on is very complicated (which is true) and I may not be able to figure it out this sprint (which is also probably true)"

Yeeeah...

3:06 PM

Aladdin looks more like Marty McFly.

And that beard/goatee just looks horrid on Will Smith.

Everything about that cover is almost but not entirely wrong

Honestly, I think Jasmine is okay.

At least, in comparison to the monstrous abominations that are hip Genie and Aladdin off the set of Back to the Future.

Iterating over an array repeatedly in Ruby until some other condition is met is hideous.

Ruby really really loves its enumerators so doing things the "old fashioned way" is just not well supported.

3:21 PM

I literally did while true { foreach { ... } } lol

could that have been done better with recursion?

maybe

do I care?

no

Yeah that's actually what I wound up doing also.

@Unionhawk Not unless you want to run out of stack

The syntax for infinite looping in Ruby, though:

loop do
  # stuff
end

It's the only time the "loop" keyword is used and it just looks like garbage.

@PrivatePansy this is probably true

It executed pretty much instantly though which is nice. Yay using efficient data structures.

3:23 PM

lol mine took like 2 minutes or some shit

Recursion probably works in languages with TCO

It apparently takes "0.04" time, which I'm going to interpret as 40 milliseconds but I don't actually know for sure.

It's fast though.

Just use a set instead of whatever data structure you were using to store seen values.

I was using a list lol

Which is probably where all the time went

Ouch

List contains may also be slow

Q: Why is Kingdom Hearts 3 PS4 Pro only available at gamestop?

3:29 PM

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I am super excited about the new release of KH3 and I wanted to get the limited edition PS4, but I was curious as to why the console is only limited to Gamestop? I understand they may have a private deal, but I feel like Square Enix could make so much more money distributing to other big box stor...

ps4 kingdom-hearts

MBraedley

Canada Post didn't ruin Christmas!

SaintWacko

> +3, +3, +4, -2, -4 first reaches 10 twice.

How does that reach 10 twice?

MBraedley

@SaintWacko Does the sequence repeat?

It cycles

SaintWacko

Ohh, okay

Missed that part

3:36 PM

why am I going back to optimize this

stop

no, do it

let's first add a stopwatch...

oh only 25 seconds

@Ave this is the kind of thing that I feel should be encouraged with educational, advertising, and various other social reform, but not legal requirements. A bit Orwellian imo

Although with our new premier in Ontario, Sex Ed has gone back to the 90's, which is garbage

If the correct social and educational changes are made, new generations will generally simply grow up with different values than the previous ones. Imo

Tv and media presentation is a big one

Wrigglenite

But the previous generation is the one with power to make those changes

Agreed. My premier sucks ass

3:44 PM

@InvaderSkoodge lmao, I changed it from List.Contains to !HashSet.Add and it's down to 0.03 seconds

Tim Stone

I'm afraid to look back to find out what you're talking about

3 hours ago, by fredley

@wip https://adventofcode.com/

Tim Stone

Ah ha

@BunsGlazing Permission to read my posts is hereby granted on the basis of the linked license agreement. You may also not use my posts to construct a nuclear device.

4:00 PM

You can only read this message if you read this message first.

4:13 PM

@Unionhawk Data structures are important after all :P

@Unionhawk its too late, the @uni bomber is nearly complete

Did you know Pichu & Pika pose like superman when they have jetpacks! Adorable #SmashBros #NintendoSwitch #PichuGang

Tweeted by PJ_Duffles on December 19, 2018 at 6:00 AM

pichu is honestly pretty fun to play

In brawl or melee or whatever he was introduced in he was just Pikachu who hurts himself

Shite

4:26 PM

I haven't played enough pikachu to compare but that mechanic is still in

Shite

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Infinite Assist Trophy Compilation of EVERY ONE (Isabelle Glitch)

I heard that pichu was viable in ultimate.

btw, all of the isabelle trophy glitches.

►

@goodguy5 I think they improved his speed and damage from Melee.

Back in Melee, Pichu was actually slower than Pikachu despite attacks doing less damage, having the recoil mechanic, and being lighter.

Also, the introduction of the rage mechanic in 4, which I think has carried over to Ultimate, also helps.

Batophobia

I just saw one of the tips yesterday saying pichu does more damage but has recoil

Pretty much any attack that uses electricity causes Pichu to also take some damage.

It was a straight downside back in Melee but now there's some situational benefits to recoil in Ultimate.

Rage is a mechanic that was introduced in 4 that increases your launch power when you've taken a lot of damage.

4:39 PM

@Yuuki I did not know that.

I love jacking up attack stats on spirit fighters and playing big hitters like mac and ganon

It's something I noticed a lot more playing heavyweights.

I two-shot a fighter yesterday

Ike is so incredibly newbie-friendly.

Ike is on my list of favs

I'm not ashamed to admit that I resorted to using Ike to beat a couple of challengers I had trouble with.

4:40 PM

Ike, Mac, Snake, Villager, Bowser, Ganon, Luigi.

^B is op

His smashes just hit so hard and have so much launch power.

but have you played as mac?

Probably to compensate for their lag.

that haymaker, tho

@goodguy5 Once or twice. I tend to jump around a bit so Mac's lack of air game isn't really my thing.

4:42 PM

I should play ike

ah, yea. Mac's air is awful. He's basically a tank. But as in, like.... he has a lot of horizontal firepower and doesn't do well once he leaves the ground.

Purple Inkling is the best Smash character. Safety is the most important thing, guys. Always wear a helmet.

@Yuuki I knew he was shite

@BunsGlazing Pichu's actually pretty good in Ultimate now though.

Nice

4:44 PM

I just integrated your name. "Buns Glazing" brings forth some .... uncomfortable imagery.

@goodguy5 you haven't had a hot glazed bun?

@goodguy5 haha. My friend said that too

I might change it back at some point

I never even played smash 4

5:19 PM

It's clearly a Spoonerism: Gluns Bazing

> He's making a list. And he's checking it twice.

250 whats? That's many moneys for a bag of threats

@fredley I see "Virginia" in the image so I imagine that costs 250 country roads.

take me home

Fallout 76 may be shite, but I'm glad I heard that song.

5:28 PM

@Ave Something happened?

@Moacir it's a meme

country roads

take me home

to the place

Fine, I'll do it myself— I BELOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG

Classic Americana

5:36 PM

@Yuuki well, I cried.

I still haven't seen that

@Ave good I take it?

watch it

Will do, thanks for the recommend

Q: How to use Teleporters in Terraria

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How do you use teleporters in terraria? I do not know how and it is confusing. The school blocks the wiki, so I need a guide here.

terraria

@Lazers2.0 Dont play terraria at school?

Also profile pic may be considered of bad taste?

I think it is of some movie, but not sure about policies

Can any ♦ advise?

murgatroid99

5:54 PM

If you think it should be changed by a mod, that's when you should use a flag

I am not sure actually

If it is ok to show even fake gore on profile pictures

I am not offended or grossed by this, I just dont know if it is ok or not

Q: Is it possible to multiplayer Project Zomboid with only one copy of the game?

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See, I have a few friends coming over for a LAN party, and I want a game to play together, but I'm a poor student. Is it possible to use the GOG copy of the game to play together on LAN? It's really not possible for us to shell out the money needed for 6 copies and we only want to play it for one...

gog project-zomboid

6:19 PM

How do you bold a blockquote?

with <b> </b>

Thanks

It's just > **wharrgarbl**

I tried like that and in the preview the asterisks didn't become bold

It just showed asterisks

9

Q: Formatting sandbox

Feel free to do your tests here.

support design

@Unionhawk how did you do that

Is it `

yeah

6:23 PM

@Unionhawk gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13208/172501

It doesnt work with the quote and asterisks, but work with quote and <b>

@Moacir gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/13208/2

You bold first then you quote?

gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/…

** doesn't like spaces

Oohh

Thank you

I am not used to use quotes

But I think this case was needed

(I actually never answer anything to be fair)

I don't think I've answered in a while

Posted a lot of questions that went unanswered this year

Most of them in fact

I don't play the right games any more lol

user15026

6:32 PM

@BunsGlazing I know this feeling, this happens to me a lot with the random mobile stuff I play

@Yuuki five minutes left on his microwave rice

@Ash yeah 😭

*looks at star list* me: @wip is the three letter ping for @Wipqozn
also me: @ work in progress

@Ave once a classic piece of American culture, now "a meme". What a time to be alive lol

E h.

It's true tho

6:36 PM

I finished diablo 3 main story on switch today

Nice congrats

I never fished that game

Fished

Finished

I'm still level 65 so will run some rifts until level 70

then starts the end game

heh.

Then starts the game.

what is a life

This photo is captured by Chinese Satellite with 24.9 billion pixels of quantum technology. It's worth seeing! You can zoom in, zoom out when you look at it. You can clearly see every gesture, even face of pedestrians on the road.

Text copied directly

Pretty neat tho

And a little scary?

6:38 PM

I'm trying to think of an efficient way to do Day 2 Part 2 and everything seems to come down to "just compare every pair of strings" and that sounds horrible.

CC @Uni @fredley

@InvaderSkoodge I'm still trying to build part 1 without generating a .sln file (which should probably just be a sign to use python or something)

py

god dammit

I don't have python on this computer anyway

Day 2 Part 1 took like 25 lines of Ruby. That's 25x more than Day 1 Part 1.

apparently

1 of those was blank space and 3 of them were debug outputs though

csc : The term 'csc' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

pls

6:43 PM

How do you guys know all these languages

I use C# professionally

I've been programming in Ruby for my job for 5 years and my Java skills (which used to be my favorite language) are completely rusty because of it.

So I don't really know "all these languages".

my python is serviceable enough to be able to do this

but I don't have it installed apparently unless vscode doesn't have $PATH

somehow

@Unionhawk are you on windows?

python doesn't add itself to PATH by default on windows

yeah

6:45 PM

@skoo all my solutions are on github, although it's in a language I've never used before so it's probably garbage

I know but I also don't have python installed anyway

on this computer

@Unionhawk I am a work in progress, so it's accurate

I had it installed on my old hard drive but not anymore

C.f. That xkcd about Python environments

@BunsGlazing at some point something clicks in your head and you can do anything not super specialized (which is what advent of code is like) in pretty much any non-meme language

6:47 PM

@BunsGlazing most programming languages are very similar, and once you can express yourself in one it's not a huge jump to express yourself in others.

Wrigglenite

Something about Turing-completeness?

I guess that doesn't matter

For Day 2 Part 2 I just coded a brute force solution and it finished in like 100ms so I guess fuck efficiency?

I really need to do this coding thing you guys are

but I only realized it existed today, so I'm waaaaay behind

I started today so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I blame @fredley for all of this, since I basically consider him responsible for me knowing these things exist.

@InvaderSkoodge That's actually really reassuring

6:48 PM

Also iterating character by character over 2 equal-length strings at the same time in Ruby is super ugly.

I guess it's more concise than other languages, though.

I think I just find Ruby to be ugly in general.

I actually sorta rage quit on advent of code because it gave me super low scores and put me on bottom of leaderboard because I didn't click "start" on the day early enough

which is bullshit UX

Oh I couldn't give a shit about "scores" they're just fun coding problems.

well I feel a lot of uh

I feel like I'm not good enough (which is why I haven't been coding a lot for open source stuff in some while)

and just going on our leaderboard and seeing me at bottom really really got me in a bad, BAD, BAD mood as it just made me feel like I am indeed the worst between my friends

2017 day 25 is literally build a Turing machine

and yeah, I left it, and I sent a request to person behind AoC to delete my account. They replied with a semi-long email. I didn't read it past "I can't delete accounts".

6:52 PM

@Ave I guess it never clicked for me, lol

@Ave make next year a goal for yourself

You seem pretty focused I'm sure you can improve if you really set your mind to it

Yeah man I want to wake up at 4am to solve Good Programming Questions

I could never do most of the technical shit you talk about here already

@Ave no.

I'm not going to do that, I don't want to make that a goal.

Oh. Sorry if I caused offense

It's absolutely terrible UX to give someone a low score for starting a thing a couple hours late because they aren't awake at 4am even though they took a small amount of time to complete it

6:54 PM

Oh what it's based on when you submit it?

I am not going to support that.

@BunsGlazing no

That's dumb

there's start time and end time

or rather, it shows like 14h5m + 10m