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DF General Discussion / Re: Sunshine: Drink of champions, or drink of pansies?
« on: May 26, 2010, 01:08:14 pm »
A dwarf must brave his two biggest enemies to acquire sunshine: elves and the sun. Only after bloodying the brew in battle, can sunshine be made. This is the most dwarfy drink possible.

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Other Games / Re: Challenges
« on: May 26, 2010, 12:50:04 pm »
FF7 crisis core: beat the game on hard mode without leveling up (wear curse ring). Really fucking hard up to a certain point, but it gets a lot easier once you get certain mission items.

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Other Games / Re: PC's vs consoles
« on: May 26, 2010, 12:42:17 pm »
wired X-box 360 controllers work with PCs (or wireless with unnecessarily expensive attachments) and are a good quality. In fact... I think ps3 (don't know about wireless) and wii controllers work too. I play just cause 2 on my laptop with a 360 controller -- feels better that way. Too bad that they don't make enough games that actually feel good with a keyboard and mouse.

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Creative Projects / Re: "Art"
« on: May 24, 2010, 08:56:07 pm »
If somene intends something to be art, then I would say it is. Besides that, art is usually something that conveys a meaning or emotion symbolically.

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Other Games / Re: PC's vs consoles
« on: May 24, 2010, 08:02:32 pm »
Bugs can be really fun. An easy example is QUAKE. If you play the QUAKE Live game online they teach you how to do many bugs that allow you to run faster and jump farther, but it adds a lot of the competitiveness and fun to the game.

I also love being able to beat Zelda: Majora's Mask in the first three days (not counting the ones to get your ocarina) using sequence skips and stuff... or at least get the hookshot before the forest temple.

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Creative Projects / Re: Programming Challenges & Resources (#bay12prog) Innitiative
« on: May 24, 2010, 02:26:30 pm »
This is a c++ tutorial that teaches beginners by making a roguelike that was over in the roguelike development thread.

Terror in ASCII Dungeon!:

part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4

EDIT: Sorry, ending derail. My bad.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: May 24, 2010, 12:42:50 pm »
I think I remember that as long as it is within reason (couldn't send money specifically to someone they don't know or grow wings and crash into the sun) you can pretty much get them to do whatever you want. Remember the early episodes when he was testing it out on prisoners?

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Creative Projects / Re: Programming Challenges & Resources (#bay12prog) Innitiative
« on: May 24, 2010, 12:02:20 pm »
Quote from: DrPizza on May 24, 2010, 10:58:04 am
Quote from: Jookia on May 16, 2010, 11:50:52 pm
Ohoohoo this is just my thing. Let me open up GCC and get started. I'm not sure what I'll do yet, though. I'm great with C/C++.
Practically by definition, you are not.

There is no such language as "C/C++". There is C, and there is C++, and they share some aspects of their grammar and libraries, but the differences are legion. The languages are not source code compatible, and their coding styles are so radically different that knowledge of one confers practically no knowledge of the other.

Don't get nitpicky; he could be good at both languages. Save this for when people ask if they should learn C or C++ or what the differances are between them.

Thanks for the thread. There are some fun challanges and learncpp.com is pretty good. I've known some very basic C++ for a few years but haven't really touched it mostly because of lack of inspiration. Now I'm going to go try and make some stuff that actually utilizes OOP decently.

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Other Games / Re: Scavenger games
« on: May 22, 2010, 08:30:17 pm »
In EvE online you can salvage other peoples wrecks (ships they killed; they still get regular loot). It's more of a mini-profession and is generally frowned upon, but is also the best moneymaker for a new character.

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General Discussion / Re: Venter creates first synthethic cell
« on: May 22, 2010, 12:42:06 am »
Quote from: kuro_suna on May 21, 2010, 10:50:51 pm
Genetic code is surprisingly flexible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVdLJ78RBWk

Bioligists like to put their talents to good use. Wouldn't the world be soooo much better if everything could glow in the dark? FOR SCIENCE!

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Other Games / Re: PC's vs consoles
« on: May 21, 2010, 07:02:06 pm »
Quote from: LeoLeonardoIII on May 21, 2010, 06:23:10 pm
Awesome!

...

SNES emulating an Atari? Or is that stretching it :P

Might be easier to just install linux on the SNES :P

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Other Games / Re: PC's vs consoles
« on: May 21, 2010, 05:01:38 pm »
I like my PC because I like the keyboard and mouse and that my PC is superior in hardware to modern consoles. Also I'm a customizations whore. I like consoles because they usually support more than one person, don't need to install anything and they try to push out new ideas for gaming (well nintendo tries...).

TBH though I generally like PC games better and they generally give more replay value, but I couldn't say one is superior to the other.

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General Discussion / Re: Venter creates first synthethic cell
« on: May 21, 2010, 04:00:39 pm »
Quote from: PTTG?? on May 21, 2010, 02:26:07 pm
PS: They currently make blue roses by watering them with dye.

Actually thats not what wikipedia says. I remember reading about it several years ago.

PS: We can also make roses glow in the fucking dark... I want these flowers.

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General Discussion / Re: Venter creates first synthethic cell
« on: May 21, 2010, 01:25:55 pm »
Haven't we had blue roses for a while now? Last I heard, they were upset that they weren't blue enough, so they went back to make them more blue.

Computing power grows very very fast, so I don't see why we couldn't eventually create a program that allowed us to create extremely obscure and worthless lifeforms.

I'll bet that we do eventually fuck up an ecosystem or create a fairly deadly disease, but hey it's FOR SCIENCE! This is really cool.

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General Discussion / Re: Atheists
« on: May 20, 2010, 10:35:50 pm »
Quote from: Micro102 on May 20, 2010, 10:33:30 pm
that doesn't sound very nice.

Ok now to my thread changing topic...does omniscient-ness leave god with emotions? There would be no use for them, and they would be pointless if you are all knowing. Yet he is also omnibenevolent.

Only if he wants them; he IS all powerful. This seems to lead to a strange paradox however.

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