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and how many different workspaces have you used?

Since I don't know what a workspace is, I'm guessing either one or none.

It's very likely to have been a user error, I may have closed something before closing the application. iirc, I started up my machine, opened vs, selected my current project, and the editor, the debug console thing, and the project browser (The thing with shows your classes all nicely organized in a tree on the right) were hidden. It took me a while to find the view option to bring each of them back.

We get topics like this every now and then, what was the ratio last time?

Here's what I'm thinking - A shoot'em'up, where enemies spawn (child from parents I assume), but instead of emitting gunfire themselves, they would spawn along with invisible fire-emitters.  The emitters would then move with the main enemy, and die along with it as well.  Would the emitters be children to the enemies, who would themselves be children to enemy-parents, or would the emitters have parent-emitters, and the enemies and emitters would just have to know to spawn together the right way?

Use parents when you have two or more objects that need to have something in common. If you have multiple kinds of emitters/enemies, have a parent object set up for each with what ever they have in common. For example, and enemy could have health variable, instead of setting this for each and every kind of enemy, set it once for their parent. Don't have the enemy be the emitter's parent (Or vice versa) unless they have something in common.

Edit: Once the enemy spawns, tie his emitter to him through some variable. If you're going to have the emitter move along with the enemy you might have to this eventually (my_emitter.x = self.x, etc.). Then just have a function that kills my_emitter when the enemy dies.

You pulled all those params from the book? I must have forgotten how detailed it was.

Instead of having the dwarfs act like your standard dwarfs, carving away at the earth, set them up so they build their grand structures on top of it. The ringworld was created by something, let that something be dwarfs.


Also, add the Fist of God into the world.

This game looks neat, I tried playing it once but my emulator was broken.

Why do I get the feeling most of you think I'm a moron?

You certainly should care, because it's wrong and a concern for both security and stability. What happens when you attempt to recursively flood-fill a massive image space? Your program is going to smash the stack.

How would you write a function that fills in any space at any size, without using recursion? Just a loop wouldn't do, because it won't fill the whole space. Yes, there are definitely better ways of doing what I tried to do, but you will always end up using recursion somewhere.

I once savescummed by setting my entire save folder to read only. Every time I died it couldn't delete my save so it went back to the last time it saved. The game autosaves everytime you go up or down stairs, so it dumped me back to when I entered the level.

if you're on a Linux machine chown it to something like root. That's actually a great idea, I should try this.

I decided to go with Miles, a troll gentleman worshiping Trog. Trog is very pleased, and so am I. I've got tons of food, and I can eat it rotten too.