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Why does a sewer have more shit in it then a toilet? Because every other board flushes their shit and it ends up in CE.
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RedPixel posted...

MannerSaurus posted...

Pus_N_Pecans posted...

N64 is easily the worst one.

Goldeneye
Turok 1
Mario Party 1-3
Super Mario 64
Wave Race 64
Doom 64 (Literally the best Doom game ever made.)
Tetrisphere
Space Station Siliocon Valley
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!
StarFox 64
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Mario Kart 64
Banjo - Kazooie
Perfect Dark
Pokemon Stadium
Super Smash Bros.
Mischief Makers
Duke Nukem 64
Hexen 64
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
[etc..]

How can this even come out of your mouth? lol

He's either trolling and/or a millennial, and you fell for it. Anybody who truly voted for N64 here is either too young to understand or had no childhood.

Or in my case too old since the N64 came out when I was in my teens and I didn't want to play those types of games anymore. Plus people forget that the emulation scene for the N64 was literally in full effect less then a year after it was released. Hell, I beat Mario 64 in 98 without ever touching a N64 controller on a mid-range computer.

Gamecube was awesome due to Melee and REMake (and Monkey Ball, Wind Waker, Prime series, etc.), The Wii U even has a bunch of awesome games and the tablet controller is actually pretty awesome. N64 was just a mess of a console that was held back by reliance on cartridges and the worst controller Nintendo ever produced.
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If graphic novels count (which is about all I have time to read nowadays), then around 50. I read about 1 every 1-2 weeks, but depending on the size I also read more then that. Depends how wordy they are.
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Jen0125 posted...

Live in houses that are not covered with dog shit, usually.

You know, that is probably the main difference between Judgmenl and myself, yet I am happy with my life and he isn't.

So I would say that is probably step 1.
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MannerSaurus posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Do you think your barista posts here?

Maybe the funny look was for using "deadass" in a sentence. It's definitely deserving of a funny look.

Whoever made that card is an idiot. It's "Wild n' out." There's no such thing, in ghetto slang, as "wildin out."

Ghetto hoods are grammar nazis now?
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The biggest problem I had with it was it was an unnecessary sequel. The first film only had one minor cliff-hanger which was intentional because it was supposed to get the audience thinking. The second film COULD have been done in such a way that they didn't have to reference the cliffhanger in any way (basically leaving Decker out of it entirely), but they went for the lazy "nostalgia" route and basically destroyed the original film's cliffhanger.
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Honestly it is kind of hard to screw up turn-based combat (unless you make it Active Time Battle like Final Fantasy IV - IX). Then again, when real-time combat is done right it can be very satisfying.

Guess it depends on the mood I am in.
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1, although even then it was kind of a slog for me to get through. As a survival horror series it really was kind of boring.

Alien Isolation was amazing though.
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I would personally rather spend $60 on a game once every few months then thousands of dollars on golf and caviar.

But then again, I am weird.
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argonautweakend posted...

damn dude i always cringe when i see people backflip and land on their head or neck.

like i aint no doctor but that seems like they could get paralyzed.

If your weight is low enough for you to flip at all, then you probably won't land with enough force to paralyze yourself. Doesn't mean you aren't going to fuck up your neck through.
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Sahuagin posted...

the best way to learn IMO is to find projects to implement, and implement them. also, you should maintain a set of personal guidelines and conventions which you grow over time. learn about refactoring, clean code, design patterns, unit tests, and source/version control. I feel like these should be learned as soon as possible. for some reason they are mostly ignored even when getting a degree in CS. they should be taught as fundamental programming concepts right from the start.

What you are thinking about there is a Software Engineering degree vs. a Computer Science degree. Computer Science is the degree program everyone associates with programming, but Software Engineering is the degree program where everything you mentioned actually get applied. The downside is that Software Engineering has less of a emphasis on low level technology and complex problems.

Plus if you think about the degrees, of course an Engineer is going to be concerned with those things while a Scientist is not. You don't see very many Scientists worrying about the re-usability of their penicillin, but the Engineers who put it into Pfizerpen do.
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Honestly the best and fastest way to learn coding is to be given a fully working project, use it, study it, and mess around with it to change what it does. Sure books will help but there is no substitute for getting your hands dirty. My first programming book was basically just the source code for 100 or so games written in BASIC, and that taught me more about programming then my first 2 years of college.

That said, without looking at the content the books in my opinion don't even begin to get into useful territory until the $15 tier, and even then there are some HUGE omissions. No Java, Python, C++, etc. (I.E. The programming languages most people actually use)? I mean Ruby is nice but hasn't been relevant in at least 10 years. C# only really is useful if you are programming Windows apps, yet there is no book on Visual Studio. A Javascript book without a PHP/JSP or HTML5 book? Just seems like they are giving you a random selection of books but nothing to actually do something useful with.
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Like I did with the Assassin's Creed games in 2017, I plan to catch up with the Resident Evil games in 2018. I have only beaten 1, 4, and 5 but I own all of the main series games (and Code Veronica X and Revelations 1 and 2) except 7. So I will just beat them all.

Beyond that, I am going to Fort Lauderdale President's Day weekend so I can escape the arctic tundra.
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I gave my co-worker the best gift ever: A pager rotation.

I fully expect a "fuck you!" when I get back to work on the 2nd.
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I used to live in a rural area as a kid. Then the nearby city gobbled it up and now it is basically a dumping ground for upper class citizens looking to have big houses and lots of land. I mean the population growth was about 50% for a while, but thankfully it dropped to a more reasonable 10 - 15%

And just for reference, 90% of houses in the town were built in the last 10 years.
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Toast, bagels and cereal are easy breakfasts.

Eggs are also easy.

Sandwiches are an easy lunch.

Salads are easier.

So that should answer your question.
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https://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/US/snowiest-cities.php

I am in city #1, so it is actually an oddity when we don't get a white Christmas.

A couple of years ago we only got like 60 inches of snow and everybody was freaking out.
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That is like a requirement for my dream girl, so yea!
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For some reason, I interpreted that as Steven Harper's wife saying he had a small penis.

Which honestly would have made that picture 100X better.
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Sahuagin posted...

kind9 posted...

Since this is an "I want to learn programming" topic let me ask experienced programmers a question: Is it better, when self-teaching, to start with a low level language like C, or a high level language like Java?

I tend to suggest Java, so that you can learn good software design principles first. I don't really know if that's great advice.

Java is a great starting place. People also can use Python as a good starting language, but it doesn't have as much mainstream adaption as Java. Not that I hate Python, just that when you look at how many 3rd party tools exist for Java compared to Python there is no doubt which one makes things easier for bigger projects.

Once you learn the fundamentals with Java, transitioning to something like C/C++/C# is a lot easier.
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Do it as much as possible, then do it more. The example I always give people are two semi-famous video game coders: Tom Hall and Scott Cawthan.

Tom Hall worked on a lot of ID software stuff like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, etc. However, he made a TON of stuff before he even got considered for bigger projects. He even lists a lot of them on his site:

https://tomtomtom.wordpress.com/toms-games/

Just for reference, he worked on about 50 games before Commander Keen, which was probably the first one he saw any real money from.

Scott Cawthon is known for Five Nights at Freddy's, but he also worked on and released a ton of stuff before Five Nights at Freddy's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Cawthon#Gameography

I could probably list a ton more examples, but these are the two that actually put out there most or all of their projects. Granted, I work in the professional "office" type environment (and I don't program so much as design larger projects), but even I can say that I have worked on hundreds of projects, and written tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of lines of code, and I am still not at the place where I can become an "architect" (someone who designs and builds a large software system from scratch).
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My mom will probably give me some clothes, but other then that nothing.

I bought myself a couple of things though, like a Legend of Zelda Monopoly set and the new Robert Langdon book.
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His favorite thing in the world: A prime rib bone.

I would give him rawhide, but he is allergic to it.
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Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

Dikitain posted...

Shame that the owner of the development studio behind it basically committed career suicide

?

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/13/the-messy-saga-of-replays-paul-trowe-as-al-lowe-quits/
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green dragon posted...

And should I just go digital for the switch? Kinda seems like the right thing to do lol. I only had one physical wii u game.

Depends how many games you anticipate getting. I have Odyssey digital and it eats up quite a bit of space. Roughly estimating I would say you would only be able to fit 10 digital games on the switch at most without expanding the memory. And unlike the Wii U, you are only limited to a microSD card. You can't plug a hard drive into it as far as I know.

Even so, the physical games are small so they aren't as much of a problem as you might think. But considering all you get is a game box and cartridge nowadays it seems kind of pointless to go physical on a portable system.
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kind9 posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

kind9 posted...

The developers of those extensions have the responsibility to keep up to date. Give it time and your extensions, if they are worth a damn, will be updated.

The backend has been gutted so badly that the needed APIs don't exist for such things as UI tweaks, cookie manipulation, and download management, all of which worked reasonably well in FF56.

Gutted, as in removed completely? Are you sure the API hasn't just changed? If they actually removed those things then that's pretty fucking stupid on Mozilla's part.

The new one uses a WebExtensions SDK (the same thing used for plugin support in Chrome and Opera), whereas the old one used an Add-Ons SDK. It gets kind of complicated to explain, but basically anything that would change core functionality of the browser is not allowed in WebExtensions (but was allowed in Add-Ons).

In one sense, it is sort of fixing a security loophole. However, it also greatly limits what you can do with plugins.
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Bomberman is a definite get. I am playing through Xenoblade Chronicles 2 currently, but I would only suggest it if you are a fan of complicated JRPGs.

Splatoon 2 would be fun, but I think that is online only.
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MacrossSpecial posted...

Love for sail was a good game, I don't know about the ones that came after though.

Pretty cool, thanks for the heads up.

Manga Cum Laude was OK, but very different from the previous games. It is basically just a set of mini-games, I actually had some fun playing it but you have to kind of detach yourself from thinking it is a Larry game.

Box Office Bust is HORRIBLE, easily the worst game I have ever played. And I don't mean in an edgy teenager "Breath of the Wild is the worst game ever" kind of way, the game is BROKEN! Never buy it.

The remake of the first game that came out a several years ago is actually pretty good. Some people didn't like it, but I think it was fun and it added a new girl with a cool adventure to "get" her. Shame that the owner of the development studio behind it basically committed career suicide so we will never see another game from them.
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5'10, 135 lbs.

Would like to loose another 5 lbs, but I have been stuck at this weight for a year so that probably isn't happening.
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Hate it, I keep headphones around when I am in public so that if I start hearing it I can put them on and drown out the noise.
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I played about halfway through 1 and 2.
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kind9 posted...

Yellow posted...

It's probably worth noting a goto @label is probably more efficient than most other loops. Goto might actually be underrated.

Why

do {} while (true)

when you can

label:
goto @label

It's just as modular, and the program doesn't have to waste time checking if true is true.

Now, goto "line number", that's some terribad programming lol. Add one thing to the top of your program and the whole thing breaks. It's so ridiculous not even the version of basic I knew used it.

Wouldn't the compiler create the same or very similar machine code for both of those? I'm not sure but I know compilers are pretty smart in that regard.

Pretty much, modern compilers haven't implemented goto in the way it was originally intended in ages. In most cases they treat it as a function call. Plus in most cases having a infinite loop like that is a bad programming practice as well. You would want some kind of service that gets called when it needs to do work, not something that needs to constantly check if work is available. The only time you should be doing something like that is if you are writing an idle process for an operating system.
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Tekken: Kazuya or pretty much any Mishima style fighter.
Street Fighter: Ryu
Dead or Alive: Kasumi
Mortal Kombat: Kabal (if available), Kano, or Cassie Cage
Virtua Fighter: Lei-Fei (because he is the only one with a move set simple enough for me to use competently)
Skull Girls: Parasoul
BlazBlue: Valkenhayn R. Hellsing
Smash Brothers: Ganondorf, although I am comfortable with pretty much anyone except Ness and Yoshi.
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In all fairness, they were doing that after Net Neutrality became a thing in the first place. My Internet price went up $5 a month right after Net Neutrality passed.

So I would say it is just cock suckers being cock suckers.
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DrPrimemaster posted...

Zangulus posted...

Duck-I-Says posted...

Zangulus posted...

Yes, many many many hours worth... which is why I said line numbers mean even less if you have a good IDE. It will take you directly to the offending line.

Now go do it with GDB while ssh'ed into a production box without x forwarding.

So what you're saying is me saying that if you have a good IDE you don't need line numbers, and then you post about a limited scenario where it doesn't apply...

Ok.

But you dont always have a good IDE, the topic is about code editors as well.

If you don't have a good IDE, you either:

A) Are working on shell scripts that are so small you probably don't care to have line numbers anyways or
B) Are working on a project that is so old/archaic it needs to be rewritten.

Even then, VI or Emacs has the option to go to a line number without needing to have it visualized for you.
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Line numbers are nice when you are doing code reviews, but in an editor they aren't really necessary. If I have to reference a line number, I just type ctrl-g, the line number, and boom I am there. What is a ton more useful is blame, so that when I look at a shitty piece of code I know immediately who the numb-nut was that programmed it.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

Dikitain posted...

Undertale is overrated Earthbound fanboy ejaculate.

Everyone says this seemingly based solely on the fact that the main character looks a little like Ness. Otherwise, the games are nothing alike.

Actually, I am basing this on the fact that Undertale version 0 was a Earthbound hack. That is the reason that "the main character looks a little like Ness" (which you would have to be blind to think this).
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Cuphead, easily.

Undertale is overrated Earthbound fanboy ejaculate.
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The Gameboy Advance version is basically the PS1 version without the opening cutscene and more dungeons.
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80's: Where women dressed like women and men...dressed like women.
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My neighbor behind my house does that. Thing is the dogs don't even bark at anyone, they just stand at the door and whine. My next door neighbor is the one with the yappy dogs, but they don't bother me much, she only puts them out for bathroom breaks.
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kind9 posted...

How's chromium? I hear it's an open-source version of chrome, which if you ask me makes it better by default.

Honestly not that different from chrome. It only really is around as a open-source version so that if someone makes something cool on chromium, google can use it in chrome. I believe even the chrome extensions and apps all work on chromium.
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Zangulus posted...

Uhh... its back on the store?

The extension it is complaining about is uBlock Adblock Plus, which basically runs both extensions at the same time. The have one for uBlock Adblock, but the got rid of the uBlock Adblock Plus one.
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faramir77 posted...

Or just, you know, use Firefox, which doesn't pull that bullshit.

I do use it (well, actually I use the Tor browser which is a modified version of Firefox) when I browse on the internet. However on my desktop I mostly just use a web browser for Youtube and Gamefaqs, and when I was running comparisons Chrome just handled those better.
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Yea, fuck you google. I am still going to use uBlock no matter how hard you try to prevent me from doing it.
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I work with a pair of bobs.
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I don't think it was a hate crime, but it definitely deserves some jail time.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

I don't know what Layers of Fear is, but the reviews are good and it's free.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/layers-of-fear-and-soundtrack

It is basically a PT style game, but with a lot more to it. I saw a bunch of people playing it a while back. I thought it was interesting, but it never got down to a price that I thought justified the purchase.

Now I don't need to worry about that though, so thanks!
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