Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Messages - Aqizzar

Pages: 1 ... 104 105 [106] 107 108 ... 1093
1576
General Discussion / Re: MSPA Homestuck: romance and dating are dumb and boring.
« on: March 30, 2012, 04:43:14 pm »
Honestly, nobody knows.  You are now entering Intermission Territory, so watch for falling jokes and don't worry too much about Trolls.

Anyway.  Hussie, what the fuck is your update schedule?  In the past couple days, we've had updates at 11PM, 7AM, 10PM and now 4PM.  Dude, you're killing us here.

1577
General Discussion / Re: Trayvon Martin, and The Police Cover Up (Mali-Trayvon thread new name)
« on: March 30, 2012, 03:33:42 pm »
Don't forget Fox News and a few other outlets - I was going to call them (something)-aligned, but I can't even think of an appropriate way to lump them together, as unfair as it might be in the first place - regularly replaying the interview Robert Zimmerman, George's brother, gave to Fox where he says George told him Trayvon Martin was pounding his head into the concrete and nearly retarded'd him.  Despite George Zimmerman's own attorney saying Robert and George haven't spoken in years, and that Robert is just trying to get on TV.

And now the changing story that Zimmerman didn't shoot Martin because he feared being beaten to death, but because he was afraid Martin was about to grab the firearm he was already brandishing.  Lord have mercy, the black teenager could have had a gun.

1578
General Discussion / Re: [ヽ（°ヮ。）ノ] HEADPANTS! (Happy Thread)
« on: March 30, 2012, 03:15:18 pm »
I have never been an athletic person.  My last year of highschool, I signed up for a Weightlifting class just because it was open for my schedule.  I throwing up after the first day, after I nearly killed myself with an unloaded bench bar, and transferred to Tennis, where my friends and I spent every day mightily whacking balls at each other.  Four years ago, I got a job loading trucks, and I kept it because how fucking easy can money be?  The first month, I came home every night, laid on my bed, and shivered because of my muscles spasming.

Well it only took a few months before I had some muscle mass.  Now that I've quit that job, I figured I should try some regular exercise to keep myself in shape, especially since I'm going to be sitting in front of a computer eight hours a day, before coming home to sit in front of a computer eight more hours (like I can fucking kid myself on that).  So my mother bought me an adjustable free weight thing.

I guess because I'm actually in shape in the first place, this actually feels really good.  Just like twenty minutes a day and I get plenty of workout.  I never thought I'd see this happen to myself.

Maybe the regular schedule will finally get me to practice my guitar every day too.  But let's not get ahead of ourselves.


Quote from: jc6036 on March 30, 2012, 03:04:15 pm
I finally sat my ass down and got some writing done.  I haven't written any fiction in so long it's ridiculous.

I got an eight page short story with ~4,200 words done, and on google docs, which is an ok amount of content for me considering I finished it in a week and I haven't really written in a while.

Rock on my man.  I've been doing similar myself lately, and it feels awesome.  I let myself be scared out of writing for the longest time, because I was such a harsh critic of myself.  Somewhere along the way, I can to think I was good enough, and lo and behold, now I actually really enjoy seeing stuff I wrote on a page.  It's like I can see the effort that went into it all over again.

1579
General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: March 30, 2012, 02:27:52 pm »
Quote from: Aqizzar on March 29, 2012, 01:03:33 pm
So, earlier this week, in a not-at-all surprising repeat of a few months ago (and a few months before that), Newt Gingrich fired his campaign manager and half the staff.  Yesterday, rumors started abounding that Sheldon Adelson would be turning off the spigot to Gingrich's SuperPAC (twenty million dollars on a losing campaign, for those who get the reference).  Today, the Washington Times (a storied news source, to say the least) insists that Gingrich and Romney held a secret meeting over the weekend, possibly discussing a deal for Gingrich to drop out of the race.

Just in case, y'know, you didn't already think Gingrich's goose was cooked.

Gingrich says he expects Romney to be the nominee, and basically just wants to hang around to make sure he gets some attention before the general election starts.  I have this crazy notion that Gingrich might even be a factor in Romney's campaign, both of them denying until they're blue in the face all the nasty things they said about each other.

Now it's just a matter of how long before Santorum climbs aboard, and whether Paul will host his own convention across town again.

1580
General Discussion / Re: Santorum called Obama a nig- on television
« on: March 30, 2012, 02:14:58 pm »
I'm honestly willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, and assume that was either a totally unwitting slip of the tongue (maybe somebody in the crowd called Obama a nigger a minute earlier and it was stuck in his head, as words love to do) and that he really was trying to say something else and realized it halfway though the word (although it really sounds like he just sputtered into another sentence).

But unfortunately for Rick, none of that matters.  Fare thee well, my noble crusader, your journey has reached its end.

At least as far as any significant number of voters are going to notice.  There's certainly still a home for him in certain quarters of American conservatism, who will probably love that hearing that clip and will very politely never say so.  They're probably almost identical to the circles Santorum was already popular with anyway.

1581
General Discussion / Re: 68yo old ex-marine shot by police in home.
« on: March 30, 2012, 01:23:52 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on March 30, 2012, 01:19:06 pm
He yelled at the police to leave when they banged on his door, which legally constitutes a refusal of medical care.

Well, that would do it all right.  It might constitute refusal of medical care, but yelling at a police officer to leave you alone is as anyone knows an illegally binding invitation for them to get violently up in your business.

1582
General Discussion / Re: 68yo old ex-marine shot by police in home.
« on: March 30, 2012, 01:03:35 pm »
Okay, I'm reading this news story backwards and forwards, and I can't figure out why police were breaking into an apartment in the first place.  The guy's Medic Alert signaled for an ambulance and a squad car followed.  Perfectly normal.  Jump cut to an hour later, where there's five officers knocking down the door.  What the fuck happened that got five officers on the scene with guns drawn?  Why is that not addressed anywhere in the report?

1583
General Discussion / Re: MSPA Homestuck: romance and dating are dumb and boring.
« on: March 30, 2012, 01:09:09 am »
Quote from: Blade Master Model 42 on March 30, 2012, 01:03:07 am
Made that red velvet cake like I said I was gonna. Fair warning to anyone else who plans to: It needs some adjustments, primarily in the leavening department. It came out like a cookie, believe it or not.

Clearly you weren't using enough Excitement.  Or too much Hate, that can mess with the leavening.  Then again, slather enough grubsauce on there and even a red velvet cookie is acceptable.

1584
Other Games / Re: Cataclysm: A Zombie-Survival Roguelike
« on: March 30, 2012, 01:02:30 am »
So, I'm using the downloaded version via VirtualBox TinyCore.  How do I force the game to generate a new world?  I'm tired of playing in this one, and I'd like to keep my character name.

Since files don't really exist "on disc", I can't just delete my save folder.  Or at least, I don't know how to through VirtualBox.  All the same, I think a "generate new world" setting would be a nice addition to character creation.

1585
General Discussion / Re: [ヽ（°ヮ。）ノ] HEADPANTS! (Happy Thread)
« on: March 30, 2012, 12:30:14 am »
Turner Classic Movie channel is playing The Dirigible, one of the only movies ever made about actual zeppelins.  It's every bit as entertaining, characterful, hokey, racist, methodical, and fun to watch as one would expect of an "experimental technology" driven action movie made in 1931.  I might have to track down a copy of this for my collection.

1586
Other Games / Re: Cogmind (new sci-fi RL from the creator of X@COM)
« on: March 29, 2012, 10:14:48 pm »
I have to say, the accuracy/missing/aiming calculations could use some work at extreme close range.  If you're standing right next to a target, you're apparently hardcoded to miss if your percentages aren't good enough.  I've been following an Engineer around shooting at it with two light Assault Rifles, and some of the shots are going straight backwards from me.  I don't really care that much if you're doomed to miss shots even at arms' reach, but it could be a little less obvious.

1587
General Discussion / Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« on: March 29, 2012, 08:00:27 pm »
Hey programming thread, been a long time.  I've been kinda busy getting ready to start my actual programming job.  How cool is that?

But in the meantime, I've got a project I need finished, and it heavily relies on messing with Strings.  In this operation, I need to take a String of any possible length, a width of a column, and then break that String into rows of that width.  Ideally, I can do it in such a way that if a word falls on the breakpoint, it'll backout that row until it hits a space.  Also ideally, I can input a maximum number of rows, and if the last row extends beyond width, it'll both backout to the width and then back up thrice more for an ellipses.  The whole thing is inside an array for returning.

I haven't actually put this into the compiler yet, so there's probably a few library-methods with bad syntax or something but it should be obvious what I'm doing (in C#).  The real question is the logic.  The only thing that isn't obvious is the GFT(whatever) method, which is a preexisting method (GetFormattedText) for processing Strings into a printable form (I'm using the Windows Presentation Format library), which returns an object-thing including a value 'Width' describing how long it will be on the screen.

Code: [Select]
public string[] RowBreaker (string enterString, int maxRows, int colWidth)
{
char[] using = enterString.ToCharArray(); //breaks into chars
string[] output = new string[maxRows];

for(int i = 0; i < maxRows; i++) //initializes output
output[i] = null;

int position = 0;
int counter = 0;

while (counter < maxRows) //operates on each row
{
while ( GFT(output[counter]).Width < ( GFT("A").Width * (colWidth - 1) ) || position < using.Length ) //fills a slot with a string char by char
{
output[counter] += using[position];
position++;
}

string spaceCheck = output[counter];
int tempPosition = spaceCheck.Length;

while ( !( using[position + tempPosition].IsSpace() ) && spaceCheck.Length > 0 ) //backs up until it hits a space or the beginning of the row
{
char[] temp = spaceCheck.ToCharArray()
spaceCheck = null;

for(int i = 0; i < (temp.Length - 1); i++)
spaceCheck += temp[i];

tempPosition--;
}

if ( spaceCheck.Length > 0 ) //if it doesn't hit the end of the row, stores that result and notes the position in using[] for the next row
{
output[counter] = spaceCheck;
position -= tempPosition;
} //if the row would have backed to the beginning (finds no spaces), it ignores that process and leaves the original result in place

if ( counter = ( maxRows - 1 ) && !( output[counter].IsNull() ) && GFT(output[counter]).Width > ( GFT("A").Width * (colWidth - 1) ) ) //checks if this is the last row, and contains something
{
for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++) //backs up three spaces, the row should already have been the width of the column
{
char[] temp = output[counter].ToCharArray()
output[counter] = null;

for(int i = 0; i < (temp.Length - 1); i++)
output[counter] += temp[i];
}

for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++) //adds ellipses
output[counter] += ".";
}

counter++;
}

return output[];
}

So yeah, I'm a little out of practice, but I think this should work (once I have all the right terms in place).  Any thoughts at a glance?

1588
General Discussion / Re: MSPA Homestuck: romance and dating are dumb and boring.
« on: March 29, 2012, 05:00:46 pm »
Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on March 29, 2012, 04:54:17 pm
Quote from: SirAaronIII on March 29, 2012, 04:50:46 pm
Is this the part where Andrew Hussie drowns his sorrows in a bar out there somewhere?

Nah, it's the part where he retroactively edits everything.

It's also the part where he admits he partially killed off Feferi because he hated typing her quirk.  That's a real thing.

1589
General Discussion / Re: MSPA Homestuck: romance and dating are dumb and boring.
« on: March 29, 2012, 03:01:40 pm »
This is a terribly ill advised post, but with Feferi, Meenah, and the Condesce getting so much story-reference, I've got a backlog of art saved up.  Time for PiscesStuck.

Spoiler: It works best as one Spoiler. (click to show/hide)

There's some jaw-dropping artistic talent on display here.

And I kindly ask everyone to keep the narding to a minimum, after all that weird shit you guys got up to a few pages ago.

1590
General Discussion / Re: [ヽ（°ヮ。）ノ] HEADPANTS! (Happy Thread)
« on: March 29, 2012, 01:23:15 pm »
I love days when procrastination miraculously works out in my favor.  Ah, now to squander even more of my time.

Quote from: Duke 2.0 on March 29, 2012, 01:14:16 pm
Two miles next to a busy highway later I am amazed that no glass embedded itself in my feet. That's something to be happy about.

Hippie.  Must not be a very sunny day out.

Pages: 1 ... 104 105 [106] 107 108 ... 1093