Game Development

John Hamilton

12:00 PM

oh and he wanted it written by hand. no print-outs... what the...

user92578

yeah, at least we don't have to write some stupid application essays or something like that

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@JohnHamilton He prepared you for a future annoying boss :P

PaulD

is this possible to write in the stencil buffer based on texture sampler pixel alpha channel?

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Tyyppi_77 Yeah; at least. Some progammes here have you write that. Boots licking for the win.

user92578

yeah; on the other hand I could've just written "yeah I made a game" there lol and that would have probably increased by chances of getting in

jgallant

12:02 PM

yeah

John Hamilton

naw he was just really backwards in his methods, he did get me to love assembly as a language tho and he was the only one who could teach neural networks in our uni, so there's that

user92578

> TL;DR In my opinion, one of the main disadvantages of Steam Greenlight is that if a game does not get viral/successful on the first day, the system offers little mechanisms for the game to redeem itself. Having you-have-one-chance-of-either-hitting-or-missing posting system for projects that required some time and work is, in my view, a bit flawed.

user92578

Because it's Steam's job to get your game Greenlit...

John Hamilton

@PaulD I think so, never tried that but I did work with alpha channels on shaders, maybe you'll find something useful in there: gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/137955/…

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Tyyppi_77 Well he'll be glad that GL is gone :P

jgallant

12:06 PM

It is true though, the votes are all done on day 1

user92578

yeah I don't disagree with that

jgallant

and everyone comes in and leaves nasty comments

after a week you can delete all the nasty comments and no one even notices

Byte56

What?
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/141188/how-do-i-customise-automatically-generated-script#comment250329_141189
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/103289/how-to-programmatically-change-sprite-sheet-sub-sprite-name

user92578

:D

user92578

I guess his point is the immediate answer

Byte56

12:13 PM

I doubt it comes to a point. Mostly just a rounded vagueness.

John Hamilton

@Byte56 from my own gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/137955/…

jgallant

dude should have waited a couple of days before telling everyone how to do it

Byte56

I'll do it both ways: gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/118862/… gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/124474/…

Lasse

@Byte56 He didn't answer it himself straight away, like Gnemlock did

John Hamilton

That's also a good format to do tho (my answer was the straight away type)

jgallant

12:16 PM

I mean logically his point makes sense -- why ask a question at all if you are just going to answer it.

The big picture however, is what he is not seeing.

Byte56

So other people benefit, of course.

John Hamilton

@Byte56 any way to see which tags lack description?

doppelgreener

Hi Byte!

Byte56

@JohnHamilton Look at each one.

@doppelgreener Howdy

John Hamilton

There's just too many :\

Ehh, I'll get around to looking at them

Lasse

12:18 PM

I haven't added questions I already have an answer for, because the answer I have I usually already found from the internet, it wouldn't add any additional value to the internet to have the answers in here also

I would feel like a dirty point whore if I did that

John Hamilton

@Lasse I wrote the shader myself :D

Byte56

@JohnHamilton data.stackexchange.com/gamedev/query/new

Looks like tag data is exposed for queries.

John Hamilton

I'll do the query later on

Thanks, yeah I forgot about the SQL thing

Byte56

Yeah, I searched for a query already made, but didn't find one.

Lasse

@JohnHamilton Yeah I do understand that, I wouldn't be ashamed of it in this case

I have answerred my own questions too: gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/98920/…

PaulD

12:22 PM

is there's someone who can help me with my problem, I would be really glad :) gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/141215/…

Byte56

@Lasse Nope, we want this to be the one place. Get all the data here.

Who knows how long those other sites will last or in what format the data will be.

StackExchange is FOREVER

Lasse

@Byte56 But I don't work for SE, I don't care what the company I generate content for have planned for

Byte56

Point whore away. So long as the question fits the site and the answer is good, you deserve the points.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@JohnHamilton Please avoid copying content in tag descriptions.

Byte56

Yeah, that's a motivation question. Some people are here to help themselves and others are here to help others.

Lasse

12:27 PM

Well, would you accuse me for not helping others then? I'm still browsing the site and answerring questions I know a whole lot about

The point is that I'm generating the answer myself instead of copypasting it from somewhere

John Hamilton

@AlexandreVaillancourt but think of the poor tags without descriptions T_T besides, what can you tell about a scripting language other than its description?

Byte56

No, I'm not accusing you of not helping.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@JohnHamilton Write the description in your own words :) And how does it fit within this site? When/where should the tag be used?

Lasse

Lol I just checked, I have 6 question of which 5 I have answerred myself

Byte56

If I'm looking for a solution to a problem and it takes me a while to find it. I think creating a question/answer makes it useful for other people searching for the same thing in the future (And useful for me too when I forget)

Some people are motivated to take that extra step, others, not. That's fine.

jgallant

12:31 PM

in some cases you are the best person to answer

Byte56

The site is still getting better everyday. So all's good.

jgallant

if the information sucked, we would vote it down accordingly

No need to have karma police

Blue Bug

@Byte56 hello!

I haven't seen you in a chat for a long time!

:D

John Hamilton

@AlexandreVaillancourt Well, from what I've seen C#, Java etc all have descriptions just taken from wikipedia. why not do the same for every other language out there?

Byte56

Yeah, I get busy. And chat is a time sink.

John Hamilton

12:34 PM

^ go do your thing Byte, I have time to sink here for today lol

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@JohnHamilton Then you should start by updating these first :P

> Generic descriptions such as encyclopedia articles and ad copy do not provide useful guidance

John Hamilton

But it's a language tho, how much more can you describe it? The language tag should be used wherever the language is used? That would make ALL language descriptions just carbon copies and fill in the blank sentences.

Byte56

Alright, John is the mod while I'm away. Listen to what he says.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Generic tag descriptions lead to tags like engine api, framework, programming which add more confusion than any usefulness IMHO.

John Hamilton

Those are generic in the sense that they don't limit the tag

a generic description of a specific feature does limit the usage of the tag though

I will think on projection for example, that one needs a good description and not a copy-paste solution

Alexandre Vaillancourt

12:40 PM

@JohnHamilton Well I guess the idea is if you're knowledgeable enough with a language, you'll be able to come up with a good description without needing to copy-paste it.

According to this post I guess that the tag descriptions of the languages could be very short.

I guess you could copy-paste stuff in the description if you referenced it properly.

John Hamilton

I did put references in there

Alexandre Vaillancourt

There was a link, but no quote.

John Hamilton

I edited some parts tho, I couldn't exactly call it a quote. Should I just quote it as a block?

doppelgreener

@JohnHamilton Here, have an SEDE query: Tags that lack descriptions/excerpts

Alexandre Vaillancourt

12:56 PM

@JohnHamilton If it fits the tag, I guess so! But also add the usage and such!

Err... angles... are you an expert in angles?

jgallant

i wish i was

i'd know all the angles

John Hamilton

@doppelgreener thanks, I'll look through the list and update where I can

Well, I can certainly say that I'm pretty good at angles: gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/133977/…

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Hehe yeah :)

jgallant

simplified

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A: Point plotting with a line graph

You can solve this with some basic trigonometry. I wrote the code in Unity, but the general idea should be the same. Consider the following image: We already have P1 and P2. Here is some code to calculate the rest with comments: //Get points P1 and P2 based on circles Vector2 p1 = ...

doppelgreener

1:20 PM

@JohnHamilton I've just updated that query. It now highlights (at the top) tags with only 1 usage and no wiki, by telling you the months they have left before they get automatically destroyed. The rationale there is those are the ones that need a wiki most urgently.

John Hamilton

Thanks for the update @doppelgreener I appreciate the effort :)

doppelgreener

@JohnHamilton You're welcome. This was pretty fun to write, and a good practice on SQL (I haven't done it in a while), and it'll be useful on other sites too.

user92578

In SteamUtil.h:

user92578

namespace NSteamAPI
{
	// If set, Steam has been initialized.
	extern bool SteamOpen;
}

user92578

In SteamUtil.cpp:

user92578

1:25 PM

namespace NSteamAPI
{
	bool SteamOpen = false;
}

user92578

GCC linker error: SteamUtil.cpp:(.text+0x283): undefined reference to 'SteamOpen'

user92578

What am I doing wrong?

jgallant

i don't know

John Hamilton

@Tyyppi_77 they're saying not to include extern in header files on stack stackoverflow.com/questions/10422034/when-to-use-extern-in-c anyway, why not just initialize in SteamUtil.cpp?

user92578

I need the variable globally

John Hamilton

1:33 PM

yeah I got that part, but you can just initialize the extern variable in cpp file

then use it elsewhere

user92578

which is what I'm doing?

John Hamilton

you're initializing it in a header file

user92578

I'm declaring it in a header file which is a must for the variable to be accessible globally

user92578

Then I'm defining the variable in a source file which is required

John Hamilton

ehh, sorry about the word usage, I was trying to say define lol

anyway, do the declaration in a cpp file instead

it's not a must to declare it in a header file

user92578

1:40 PM

yes it is if one wants to access the variable from another source/header file

John Hamilton

What's the harm in trying?..

also related: cplusplus.com/forum/general/21368

user92578

well surprise, it doesn't fucking compile
happy?

John Hamilton

very. did you declare it in the same file? that'd stop it from compiling

user92578

the issue is not the declaration

user92578

it's the fact that other files can't access the variable

user92578

1:45 PM

since it's hidden inside a source file.

jgallant

CS50 Final Project - 2D Map and Dungeon Generator

►

This guy is ridiculously proud of himself haha

user92578

I wonder how long it would've taken to fix his tile rendering

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Tyyppi_77 I've never used extern... can't help on that; I use singletons and static for global variables :P

jgallant

3700 levels!@

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Jokes aside: gz :)

@jgallant Fear the great Nintendo!

jgallant

1:54 PM

John Hamilton

But what was the joke?!?! T_T

jgallant

oh that's my house

these idiots are trying to come in

Dario Picco

hahah 10 years ago you can put any sort of video on youtube expecially on nerd and programming stuff and all said "woooo" but today many videos are just ridiculous

Lasse

Why did Jon get a 60 day ban?

John Hamilton

what the, seriously what happened?

Lasse

2:05 PM

He was banned like a couple of minutes ago

ArtOfCode

@Lasse He's been suspended for repeatedly ignoring warnings. More than that isn't necessary to discuss here.

Lasse

I think it's necessary. What exactly did he say to earn that?

John Hamilton

I think that picture and the words... maybe... but really? I thought it was an industry standard to think of Sean Murray as the worst example possible...

ArtOfCode

@Lasse Suspensions are not discussed publicly beyond a simple reason like the one I mentioned.

Lasse

he said he's gone for good

I think I'm too then

cya

John Hamilton

2:09 PM

60 days tho, it seems a bit too excessive

Mithrandir

@Lasse he'll be able to return when the suspension ends. That's not forever.

John Hamilton

I mean sure, the length is left to the moderator, but going from half an hour straight to 60 days (if I didn't miss anything in between) seems extreme at the very least.

Almo

"repeatedly ignoring warnings" goes a long way

Blue Bug

Almo

what's that, BB?

looks cool

Blue Bug

2:14 PM

@jgallant this is what I was so proud of when I started out. I DREW SO MANY CIRCLES !

John Hamilton

Yeah, sure but I'd give it a few days at first, a week at most.

@BlueBug he's banned for 60 days :'(

Blue Bug

@Almo This is what I was so proud of when I started out. I dreaw so many circle!!

Alexandre Vaillancourt

30 days

Blue Bug

?

what?

Joe is dead?

ArtOfCode

@JohnHamilton There is context you don't have access to here. Please let the moderators do our job. jgallant can raise it on meta if he thinks a serious mistake has been made.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

2:16 PM

@BlueBug Was that on purpose?

Almo

@BlueBug :D

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@BlueBug Who's Joe?

Blue Bug

@AlexandreVaillancourt I was drawing fractals; I thought fractal meant same thing over on top of the same thing. So I drew circle over other circles

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Ah, hehe

John Hamilton

@ArtOfCode I understand that. Still 60 was too much even if he intentionally tried to ignore warnings. Anyway, 30 seems fair enough, and he can of course do what you suggest.

Blue Bug

2:17 PM

jgallant Joe

John Hamilton

Jon Gallant @BlueBug

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Oh, it's Jon :P

Blue Bug

jON

he is dead

John Hamilton

He was Jon and now he's Joff @jgallant sorry not sorry :P

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Heh

Blue Bug

2:18 PM

60 days is like dead

same as being killed

Mithrandir

it's not 60 days

John Hamilton

it was reduced to 30, it said 60 at first

Blue Bug

30 days is like in a comma

John Hamilton

@jgallant please don't leave for good. I'd miss you :( and Blue would too presumably

Blue Bug

wat da fique did happen? I feel like it is not something I am not supposed to ask because member of active chat been silenced and that impacts me as an individual who often participates in the chat.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

2:22 PM

16 mins ago, by ArtOfCode

@Lasse He's been suspended for repeatedly ignoring warnings. More than that isn't necessary to discuss here.

John Hamilton

@BlueBug you're not supposed to ask, and it won't be discussed in chat, maybe on meta if Jon decides to post there

PearsonArtPhoto

Wow, 3 stars for a website that doesn't really have anything there...

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@PearsonArtPhoto Imagine when there's going to be something on there :P

John Hamilton

@PearsonArtPhoto Ah fine, let's make it 4

Blue Bug

That's so absurd. I honestly don't really see myself or any other members of chat being that different from Jon in the manner they behave. I have not noticed anything particullary different of him compared to his history past years

John Hamilton

2:24 PM

I really need to get around to making my site

PearsonArtPhoto

LOL.

I even got an upvote on reddit.

I need to get my blog ported there, but I'm just not quite there...

John Hamilton

ehh, Jon does tend do joke at the expense of people, I've never seen him actually insult anybody tho

Blue Bug

he's been doing that for years

John Hamilton

yeah, mods think it should have been a problem before today, but that we were too lenient

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@BlueBug He did not change; the mods have been applying the rules more severely in the pas couple of weeks though.

PearsonArtPhoto

2:26 PM

This room has a bad rap in the mod chat.

John Hamilton

you mean rep? :D

Blue Bug

I guess mods think the bad rap discourages the room from flourishing more?

I dun no. Maybe they are right. Who knows... maybe this will attract more people

John Hamilton

I felt really welcomed when I arrived a three-four months ago

Blue Bug

anyway dis is sad

yeah I feel really... awkward

Almo

@BlueBug I saw it. It was inappropriate.

John Hamilton

2:28 PM

Mick was being sarcastic a lot and it wasn't really obvious all the time, so that was a bit problematic for me

Almo

I think he's a great contributor and hope he comes back.

John Hamilton

but I never thought anything bad of Jon

PaulD

SarcasticMick

John Hamilton

Yeah ^

Blue Bug

I think we need like 30~1 hours ban

not days

John Hamilton

2:29 PM

Never take anything he says seriosly

@BlueBug he had been banned more than a few times for 30 minutes before

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@BlueBug He's been there already; if one does not learn from it, the ban is extended...

PaulD

I've been holding on to stick, it's all because SarcasticMick

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@PaulD Use the flag if you see something.

Blue Bug

I guess someone was offended by whatever he did

since it was flagged ?

John Hamilton

Anyway, I gotta go now, I'll join in a few hours later at worst

naw a mod was here by chance and he just flagged it

ArtOfCode

2:30 PM

Okay. Chat has gone several years with much more lax moderation. Because of a few recent incidents, among other things, there's now a drive to enforce the rules more, and to do so more consistently. That means things that might have been ignored because they were borderline previously are now not going to get ignored.

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That doesn't mean we have anything against any chatter personally, nor do we have any desire to kick everyone out and Nuke All Teh Roomz. But we're trying to make chat a friendlier atmosphere, and we could do with having you guys on board with that. That means looking out for the borderline cases and trying to avoid them.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

I guess most of us need a warning shot first; some habits are hard to change, but it's feasible.

user92578

Hard to get us onboard when we receive stupid suspensions for posting innocent images.

Mithrandir

...that wasn't an 'innocent image'.

user92578

The image I got suspended for?

PaulD

@Tyyppi_77 I strart wondering what was the image.

ArtOfCode

2:34 PM

@AlexandreVaillancourt That's fair, and when it's possible we'll try to give you those warning shots. Jon had had a number, though.

Obviously extreme situations are just going to result in suspension, but I certainly have no problem with warning shots for borderline stuff.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@ArtOfCode Yeah, I'm aware of that, so no worries there :)

user92578

@PaulD i.imgur.com/sG2AMMQ.png this without the red things

doppelgreener

@Tyyppi_77 The other day I didn't suspend you for posting an image — I suspended you because you were deliberately making trouble and had been for at least half an hour prior and were going on with something others were moving past.

PaulD

But Tyyppi is a gamedev exchange vet

user92578

@doppelgreener Ah, so diagreeing with mods and making a joke isn't okay. That's cool, and yet another great way to get us on board.

doppelgreener

2:39 PM

@PaulD Chat isn't moderated based on industry participation, and the suspension was only 1 hour (the minimum I could possibly provide when not for a single post — which it wasn't).

ArtOfCode

@Tyyppi_77 No, disagreeing and joking is okay - the only thing I'd say is to be aware of the context you're doing it in. If you're joking when the conversation is serious, that probably isn't going to go down massively well.

user92578

Oh you're so generous, just the minimum for me.

Blue Bug

I don't feel welcomed to be honest to have just so many moders to overwatch the conversation

I don't know maybe it will do good in a long term

but for now man... I really feel unwelcomed

I think I will take a break from chat a bit.. I guess

doppelgreener

@Tyyppi_77 Being deliberately thick and hassling people about obtuse interpretations repeatedly is a good way to fall into the area of harassment, and harassment and deliberate attempts to create trouble are a great way for people to get themselves suspended — especially when someone's trying to manage an already-over-the-line conversation and someone's trying to manage that inside of it.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Tyyppi_77 TBH, I'd rather have you here than banned. Things are obviously going to change a bit, but we won't notice it one month from now.

ArtOfCode

2:42 PM

@BlueBug Keep behaving as you have been, and you'll be fine. Your history is clean, and I certainly haven't seen you do anything questionable. If you start getting towards a line, you should get a friendly reminder to stay on track before you get anywhere near suspensions.

user92578

We've lost some great chatters because stuff like this, so yes this will be noticed.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Tyyppi_77 Yes, we have; they're welcome to come back and I would like very much to see them back. But we'll all have to adapt to the new context.

doppelgreener

@Tyyppi_77 I'll ask you to consider that maybe they weren't great chatters if they got suspended or decided that permission to violate Be Nice was required for them to feel comfortable here.

Our Be Nice rules exist to provide a welcoming and hospitable atmosphere to amateur and professional game developers, and chat follows those rules too.

... ok then.

ArtOfCode

and therein lies an awesome example of what's not cool

Alexandre Vaillancourt

That's not typical, though.

doppelgreener

2:47 PM

Yeah it's not.

Almo

here's something else that's not cool

doppelgreener

@BlueBug So, yes, this is a thing and why Be Nice exists. You're welcome here.

Almo

I'm Garen, I'm top vs Darius, who counters me. I demolish him in lane 5/0. He goes 0/8 whole game and we lose because our Yasuo went 1/9 and fed their Gangplank.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Almo That's totally not cool man.

Almo

totally not cool at all >:(

Alexandre Vaillancourt

2:48 PM

(What is he talking about?)

:P

doppelgreener

@Almo nooooo!!

Almo

Darius at the end: "You mad Garen?" I say "no" Then he says "I bet Garen wishes he could go 0/8 and still win"

:D

we put in a large ($460 CAD) order to the publisher of my boardgame, and one guy ordered 4 games (save on shipping this way). He put in an extra $5, said it was for me because I don't get enough money for the quality of the design. How nice of him. :)

Alexandre Vaillancourt

That's nice!

doppelgreener

aww. :')

PearsonArtPhoto

Nice!

Almo

3:02 PM

:)

Bálint

What comes to your mind, when you look at this pattern?

Almo

morse code

but it doesn't read properly

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Bálint Almo's and Jon's avatar?

Almo

yeah I kind of thought that too after the MC interpretation

Bálint

Seriously tho

Almo

3:13 PM

I'm being completely serious. :)

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Bálint That's all :P

What should come to our mind?

Bálint

It should represent the flag of the United States

Almo

black and red?

Bálint

It's a dark blue

Almo

looks black to me. I have to look really carefully to see that it's blue

Bálint

3:15 PM

Give me a second then...

ArtOfCode

@Bálint it would have, if it was the right way up ;)

Bálint

I can't really put it like that

Almo

yeah it looks like youi have vertical red and white stripes

what's this for? just curious

doppelgreener

@Bálint it reminds me more of flags of the netherlands and france, but i live in europe

also: lasers. pew pew pew pew pew pew vs pew pew pew

Almo

:D

Bálint

3:16 PM

ArtOfCode

that's more recognisable

doppelgreener

@Bálint water & lava / hot rock

but yeah that's more recognisable as the USA flag once I know that's what it's meant to represent

Almo

yup, I can see it's blue more readily, and the correct orientation of the strips makes it more recognizable.

now you'd have to test that one on a virgin audience to see how they see it

Bálint

@Almo I'm creating a game, and I thought I add different patterns to the line of cubes in it

And you can buy them using in-game currency

Almo

neato, good luck with it. :)

hai josh

what up

user4704

3:19 PM

Stuff.

Almo

:D

Bálint

I'll put the name of the patterns next to them, so I can probably count on that

\o Hi Josh

Almo

cool

ArtOfCode

that derned sky

still hasn't fallen down

Almo

store.steampowered.com/app/312650/Battlezone

BattleZone is no longer PS4 Exclusive.

if you have PC VR, I recommend this highly

user4704

3:36 PM

Tanks are boring ;P

Bálint

I need other patterns too, but I'm pretty much out of appropariate ideas

doppelgreener

@Bálint go for some other flags, like Canada's, if you're doing flags. You'll earn props from the international community for not being USA-centric.

Almo

@JoshPetrie hahah :)

PaulD

nevermind

Alexandre Vaillancourt

3:54 PM

I guess tanks can be easier to make and tune...

DH.

@Almo There's an Yasuo in your team, you know you're either going to lose really hard or win really nicely

Almo

seems to be like that

yasuos who are behind don't seem to understand he's only a 1v5 wrecking machine if he's ahead.

DH.

You can barely 1v1 if you aren't fed

Almo

hehe :)

DH.

But Yasuo against GP is kinda hard, because after lvl6 GP will have triforce, which means 20% CDR, and can zone Yasuo really hard with the barrels, but pre-6 all you have to do is not wasting the hurricane Q

Almo

3:59 PM

right

he should have played back further, I think

DH.

Yup

Almo

it would have been boring, but I think I could have carried were GP not fed

DH.

If you can't CC GP to stop him for blowing his barrels, you have to wait and let him push the lane

Almo

yeah

matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/…

there's another funny one

ARAM Leona. Got most kills of anyone in the game

was even building tank

DH.

Yasuo doesn't have a problem against the Bandit Q, since he recovers his shield pretty quickly

Almo

4:01 PM

right

DH.

Oh Aram most of the times to win all you gotta do is build tank

Because then all the mages in the other team will dump their cooldowns on you and your team finish the fight

I don't like being a meta slave, but League of Tanks is so true it hurts

zhk

4:16 PM

Hello guyz

Any one interested in Maple (a computational software) then please join us here

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/107315/maple

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@zhk You might want to add your ad there:

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It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017! What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar....

zhk

@AlexandreVaillancourt Thx for your suggestion

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Hehe 7th mod to visit us today; you guys are serious about it!

@zhk :)

user4704

I was already here, you can't double-count me.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Well you and pearson were regular, then doppel, so 4 non regulars came today :)

DH.

4:22 PM

Never heard of Maple before

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@DH. A maths software; I think that's the one we had access to when I was attending university. I don't recall having used it much.

DH.

That explains why I never heard about it

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@JoshPetrie If the community decides to refocus the programming tag, and the question is closed and really only about programming, or engine, is it at that moment that untagged should be applied?

@DH. Because you have not been to university in Montreal?

:P

DH.

Because we weren't much deep into maths in my university

The most advanced thing I wanted to do about math I did using wolfram alpha online lol

John Hamilton

you generally dont want to be doing math by pen and paper tbh

Alexandre Vaillancourt

4:33 PM

Ah ok, we didn't do much there too, mainly matrix multiplications and graphics display..

@JohnHamilton No, but I guess you have to know how to do it at one point!

user4704

@AlexandreVaillancourt I'd still just find a better or new tag for it if possible

John Hamilton

@AlexandreVaillancourt of course, knowing when to do what is the most useful part for a developer / engineer. Not doing the math itself when you could make a machine do it faster and without any errors, is the logical way to go.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@JohnHamilton Agreed!

John Hamilton

@JoshPetrie I think programming-theory should do nicely for that tag tbh.

user4704

Yeah, I'm liking that idea more and more. It's still a huge tag, so I'd like to see more meta activity before moving anything.

PearsonArtPhoto

4:38 PM

Being told your game sucks

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Alexandre Vaillancourt

@JoshPetrie I thought about it, perhaps if you could give a couple of examples questions that would fit well the tag, I think it would help guide the transition forward!

user4704

Hm, yeah. I'll go poking around.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Thanks!

DH.

@PearsonArtPhoto Gotta change the favicon on your game page

user4704

I wish there were a badge or some motivation to encourage people to police tags better (e.g., game design, which is so poorly applied it's not even funny)

PearsonArtPhoto

4:40 PM

I'm slowly getting there...

Will look in to that now.

I also need to change the 403 page.

DH.

Ah k, just wanting to make sure you know about it :)

PearsonArtPhoto

No, good to know, it wasn't on my radar. Thanks!

PearsonArtPhoto

4:55 PM

Will need to improve it sometime, but it will do for a while.

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