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maria's "mom"
maria's "sister"
700 "miles"
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3. 700 "miles"
2. maria's "sister"
1. maria's "mom"

:D

rekt
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Ill be staying in Georgia for thanksgiving. Flying back to iowa is to expensive right now and the drive to long.
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Well, I drove 450-500 miles.
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okay this time has to work

bot rank these

using "quotation" marks
using "
pizza
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3. pizza
2. using "
1. using ''quotation'' marks

(>'.')>

i'll take it
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We dont have enough time off for a trip where it is 14 hours each way.
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Yeah, I understand that. Iowa is farther away than where I live in Illinois is by a good bit.
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I also start my new job on Monday
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Oh, you finally found a job? That's cool.
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Yep last week. Its a 40 minute commute but at least it pays.
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Good job

I got the "please renew your lease" letter yesterday. My rent's only going up 19/mo next year hype
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what's the gig? does it pay well?
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Accounts Receivable Specialist.

Its not great pay but its not terrible. $15/hour w/benefits.
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Maniac64 posted...

We dont have enough time off for a trip where it is 14 hours each way.

yeah I can only afford to drive home like once a year or once every other year. thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays though so I would have liked to be up there if I could. sadly it's just not possible. I only have three days off. It's not worth the cost or the exhaustion to go all the way up there for just a few days and come right back.
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HUGE breakthrough on the dungeon generation aspect I've been working on.

The game can now

1. Spawn the entrance to the first of the randomized dungeons on the exterior map outside of Port.
2. When you leave the dungeon, the entrance to the dungeon disappears.
3. When you come back the next day, the dungeon entrance will reappear.

4. While navigating the dungeon the game
a. Knows which way you are facing
b. Sends you to an appropriate randomized room with a connecting passage facing the correct direction
c. Counts the number of rooms you have traversed
d. Knows how long the dungeon is supposed to be (randomly set between 5-7 rooms when you first enter)
e. When you've traversed the target number of rooms, sends you to a final room with a treasure
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according to my permutations calculator

there are 11,088 possible dungeon layouts that can be generated

this is less interesting than it sounds sadly -- really just cycling 19 different maps in various ways -- but still a cool fact

also I'd say for the first and smallest of the random dungeons this is still a nice amount of variety
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the random dungeon is now populated with spiders, slimes, and scorpions. the game will now trigger the 'defeat' event when you take enough damage to drain your HP. previously I just had it so that your HP would stay at 1 forever while I was testing out mechanics but now the game is fleshed out enough that I don't want this god mode on anymore. it's more valuable to playtest under the condition of a normal player who would be at risk of defeat if they don't monitor their HP value.

I also have this 'defeat' event set as a common script. as of right now all it does is return you back to your home. however, in the future, I may want to impose penalties on players who get defeated. for that reason I'll simply need to modify the script and this will change the defeat state game wide. as opposed to me programming defeat into each monster encounter and then if I wanted to add penalties I'd have to go back and fix EVERY monster event in the game.
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Always something there to remind me
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exterior city maps now 100% done with all transitions. to put that another way it is now possible to walk around the entire city in the game now. also got some NPC designs done.

my favorite one of the night...


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Oh man, she looks great
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got my first 100% dunzo NPC completed and put into the game. Jean Vino, a young boy who moved to Port with his grandfather from the big city. He actually loves it out here in the relatively smaller town, which he considers the country. they live together at the Temple.

he currently moves around the town as needed based on where his schedule says he's supposed to be, and transitions between three different dialogue pools after introducing himself to the player. if you go find him in the morning he'll have a special dialogue about how he's searching for his tackle before leaving to go to the docks.

if you want to see all of his dialogue, I posted the scripts into my topic that I made to discuss stuff with the writers (link is in post 282. I don't want to clog up dante's The Topic by reposting all of the scripts again here).
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My vision is that you start on the staircase at the top of the map. The ancillary rooms can be explored or ignored in any order but I might do stuff like place locked doors in certain passages so if you have a way to bypass them you can get through areas quicker or while avoiding monsters.
The big square room on the left side is where the floor boss will be, and once he's defeated it unlocks the door leading to the rectangle room on the bottom left.
The rectangle room will have some nice loots
And then you can proceed to the staircase that leads down to B2

(This is of course one of the Fixed dungeons, not a randomized dungeon)
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ENHANCE!

(will be adding monsters and treasure next)
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ritz bits sandwiches with cheese

simpsons butterfinger bbs

super smash bros n64

damn now i want some ritz bitz
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maurice was actually talking about beef jerky at the beginning >_>

it was cm punk that threw that wrench

well even if he was i still want ritz bitz
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me too
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My new work place has the strictest internet blocking I have ever encountered. We were talking about going out to lunch and since I am new to the area I decided to look up whats in the area, only to find that Google Maps and Mapquest are blocked sites that get you a message about breaking company policy.
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welp

Hope you like your coworkers and can go with them for awhile!
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They also won't allow headphones/earbuds.

Which stinks cause this is a repetitive and often tedious accounting job that would definitely benefit from background music.
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if you're in or around Dalton I can tell you all the places to eat
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my work banned gaming-related sites (including gamefaqs) for around a year. then one day they just randomly lifted the ban, unannounced (not that it was announced to begin with). these days they block anything the blocking software considers shady, but nothing else.
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my work is so laissez faire about everything, no sites are blocked, you can use headphones like w/e, etc

unless you actively fuck up (and probably continously), then they have the ability to pull basically anything to screw you. Apparently they store your computer activity and there are logs for every time you enter the building and stuff. but in our environment they never have a reason to look at that stuff so
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he's my broski

im my broksi
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test
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hello
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where was papa shango

wow the bot misses ff14 too
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wait does the bot use -my- old posts in this
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I choose to believe the bot is just really nostalgic about the old ff14 days
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God Christmas break can't come fast enough
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I've just been pounded these last couple days
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lewd
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I think the bot just noticed FFXIV was free this month
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well he's nostalgic for the right character lemme tell ya
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