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many many times, I have save files going back to 2009 (but been playing it since release)

what's the search terms you're searching for? I would guess the name is somehow associated with the stuff you're finding in some kind of indirect way, but I'd be interested to see if I/others get the same thing.

Metalsonic66 posted...

The Do-Do is so obscure I think most of us as kids assumed GoGo was an original character

yes

sabin017 posted...

IDK about that, so today's houses are priced like they were in 2010 or so when gold last peaked?

not sure what you're asking. the price of an average home relative to the price of gold in 2024 is roughly the same as the price of an average home relative to the price of gold in 1924. (tons of wiggle room, but roughly the same.) wages on the other hand are way behind.

most Skyrim master spells take too long to cast to be useful (3 seconds to charge, you have to stand still, and if you're staggered it's interrupted)

was just reading how housing prices are the same over the last 100 years relative to gold. but wages are way behind relative to either. (can't recall the exact number so I shouldn't guess the proportion without confirming it but can't find the post).

will it be/was it microsurgery? the one time I had surgery, it could have been microsurgery but wasn't, so big 10cm incision, etc.

anyway, hope you get through it ok

something planned or unplanned?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NM5H9ZV

I mean an intel brand motherboard

my now ancient PC currently has this: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/55744/intel-desktop-board-dz68db/specifications.html

(nothing amazing, main thing was that it supported RAID 10 (and was affordable))

for me always intel and I try to get intel motherboards too

TheFalseDeity posted...

Thigh > Drum >>> Nugget >>>>> Breast >>> Wing

more or less this

chicken breast can be good when it's juicy and not dry, but like 99% of the time it's dry

yeah was gonna say, that's basically an adventure game, Monkey Island, etc.

slowly climbing the 170s when I should be dropping into the 160s and lower... (5' 6.5")

I like SMW but I always thought it was a bit too easy. last time I played it I *96d it in one sitting.

SM:AS is four great games with a ton of both quality and challenge.

I don't think I know either of these

Vault Boy I guess

is #1 worse than it seems? cuz that sounds easy. if it doesn't kill me I can endure the pain no problem.

guy I work with just told me the one he uses but can't remember what it was. I wasn't sure of the spelling and couldn't find it when I looked for it.

Wile E. Coyote... Super Genius!

yeah I wonder too. he's a mass murderer but people have posters of him? never heard a valid explanation so far.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

Also worth mentioning that BL2 was made with misappropriated funds(not that I'm complaining, mind you).

do we have evidence of this because I would love to have evidence of this

Metalsonic66 posted...

2 is much better than 1

2 is great but it does suffer from pretty severe weapon imbalance. BL1 the classes actually used their designated weapons. BL2 sniper rifles are great for everyone, and no one uses ARs even the classes that are supposed to.

I don't think what you've said about floats and bools is correct. floats are 4 bytes/32 bits. doubles are 8 bytes/64 bits.

bools are in many places 4 bytes/32 bits, except in arrays they are 1 byte (each).

I don't have a hexdump of memory to confirm this, but some quick tests do seem to confirm it: https://ideone.com/4ELLjh

Size of a single Single in bytes is 4.
Size of a single Double in bytes is 8.
Size of a single Boolean in bytes is 4.
An array of type Single of size 5 takes up 20 bytes.
An array of type Double of size 5 takes up 40 bytes.
An array of type Boolean of size 5 takes up 5 bytes.

Yellow posted...

Forks are for entirely new repositories that are not meant to merge again.

hmm, I sort of know what you mean, a real "fork" is meant to permanently diverge.

but from my past understanding the last time I used github to contribute it is necessary to work on a fork, I think. I fork your repo (on github) and then I clone my fork. I keep my fork updated against yours, and I keep my local PC updated against my fork. I then push to my fork (since I have write access to it and not yours) and then I make a pull request to your repo from my fork. (I don't think you can make a pull request from CLI git? or maybe you can? in that case I don't know why I'd use a fork then.)

the "fork" in this case is just a temporary place to give me write access to github and a place on github from which to send a pull request.

let me know if I have a part of this wrong.

I will try to do something simple today and you can reject it if it's not working for you.

Yellow posted...

I've mostly stuck to the formatting that you used last time since I really liked your style of fitting as much stuff on the screen as possible.

that's kind of it yeah; it's that you should justify usage of vertical space. sometimes using more vertical space is ok to keep things readable, but sometimes things can be compressed and still be quite readable and maintainable. and some people do things that waste vertical space not realizing how much that hurts readability. but there is a middle-ground somewhere.

we don't have to switch to 3 spaces just for me. the challenge of "how do I use different tab sizes in different projects" is one I haven't dealt with before and something I should learn. (my switch to 4 yesterday made it work today since I have the same JetBrains account in both places and I guess it saves the setting to the cloud or something. (doesn't matter, it's easy to change the setting))

the challenge for me right away is that seeing your code there are 100 different style decisions that I would make differently and I have to decide whether I should change the code or myself to proceed. (FYI I am not always right; in fact I try to actively be in search of places where I'm wrong.)

I will try to make simple commits and merge often.

my approach lately is to do each "task" on a separate branch. branches are rebased onto master if master grows, and when a task branch is finished it is merged into master with no fast-forward and then deleted. this results in a very clean commit history, though the commits will not be in 100% chronological order (each branch is, but each branch is listed whole even if it was really concurrent with other ones). I'm not 100% sure how this translates to github.

I'm now remembering how much effort it takes to communicate these kinds of things through text.

I'm not anti-work so theoretically I don't really like it. it's hard enough to get stuff done in 40 hours let alone 32.

Seem to be missing types in the namespace MNES.Core.Machine.Log
Nullable disabled in MNES.Core?
Are you ok with file-scoped namespaces?
do you have any particular coding conventions that I should adhere to such as braces, etc? (I will try to use 4 spaces though I am used to 3)
let me know if I'm too annoying (as soon as there's a second dev things get a lot more complicated so if it's too much definitely let me know and I'll just work separately)

Yellow posted...

I just made the repo public since it's getting some actual progress done

hmm. a hobby C# NES emulator...

FYI I will be strongly tempted to contribute, or at least make suggestions, though I have very little time and energy, and I'm not terribly familiar with the etiquette of coding with others.

(I think I slightly overdid it the last time, but I'm not sure what to avoid or not avoid. maybe I should just work on a fork that I keep updated and not worry about merging my changes into yours.) (last time I was relatively new to git but have been using it quite a while now.) (due to the limited time and energy I may not be able to do much even if I want to.)

Yellow posted...

C++ is used very often in emulators because people think it's faster, but that's a myth.

I know what you mean yes. I usually follow the rule of thumb "premature optimization is the root of all evil". once something works, then profile it and optimize it (if necessary).

Yellow posted...

How it works is essentially this; the CPU writes values to the a certain area. The APU has some registers mapped to that area, the APU reads these values (just like parameters) and outputs sounds accordingly.

I mean though that you would have to also implement the APU instructions, which would require playing 8-bit audio on a modern system, somehow. (or something, not sure). same with graphics, you will need to have a graphics library and render to a surface and present it to the screen, etc.

sounds fun. looks like C#, right?

Yellow posted...

After that, you spend a week or so doing every opcode, and apparently the PPU is simple enough to get done quickly, then you can play Mario.

that almost sounds not too bad except what about graphics and audio? isn't there some kind of sprite system, etc? how does that work? and how do you play 8-bit audio? maybe there are libraries for this? (I see PPU is the graphics but that doesn't sound easy).

my personal vote would be SimCity but Myst probably deserves it more generally

...one day only at the bonmarch...

trailer doesn't really show what the script is like, just "hey here's a few things you remember"

weird I just thought of that scene last night since the golden claw quest in skyrim seems to reference it (arvel runs off with the claw only to get killed by traps and/or draugr) (and meanwhile the one dungeon music track also seems heavily inspired by the movie too)

looking it up two plausible theories are:

1. magic. magic exists in that universe to some degree, so it can just be magic.
2. indy was bsing the guy and the trap really has a more mundane trigger that he didn't show him, which is why he gets caught by it later.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Quest

this although tbch I can't specifically remember an instance of helping someone, though I'm sure I could find examples if I looked it up.

things I do remember include: taking a shower, stopping someone for speeding, getting stuff from my locker, having to learn poker and win a poker match, being in a shootout, having a flat tire every single time you don't look at all four tires before driving somewhere, and a few other things that don't involve helping people.

Glob posted...

Ham and pork are distinct enough to each get their own place on the poll.

I sort of know what you mean but ham is pork. just like beef jerky and steak are both beef. ham is just pre-cooked and preserved/cured (cookedness and curing method varies).

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

chicken is probably the most consistently good meat, but the best fish clears any of the other meats

yeah chicken is almost always good, but perfectly cooked salmon is incredible

if we include cooking and not just eating I think I would say pork. I eat a lot of porkchops lately since they're so easy to cook and eat. (and cheap too)

I had a plant and thought I'd be good at looking after it and then I didn't water it for a month. I tried saving it and it held on for a while but eventually rotted away. I should try it again sometime. needs to be part of your routine I guess and can't be something you do when you feel like it.

Jungle Cruise is the best and worst movie I've seen from that list

I'm not really convinced. every time I see someone try to use one they fail miserably. they expect it to give them semi-accurate results, but the results aren't just wrong, they're nonsensical. and the people that use them are too "not-smart" to even check the results before posting them. (it's like, they didn't understand the problem, so they can't understand the solution, including a solution that isn't just a little wrong, but has massive failures of assumption about how anything is supposed to work.)

the one time I've seen it used in a marginally useful way, it was still clear that it would not at all be helpful since anything it generates would not be in the context of my codebase. ok it can generate some very basic skeleton code that has nothing to do with an actual system, but why would I want that?

(though I think there are starting to be AI tools that integrate with your IDE which I'm curious to see some results from but I haven't tried anything like that out yet.)

Maximothelad posted...

Gamecube and Wii were over 20 years ago. DVD players are done. If you said "4k Blu Ray" then yeah maybe a few people collect those. But it's a dead market.

it will all only get more obsolete over time, yes. however your claim about the birth year 2010 and these kinds of devices is just blatantly false.

DVDs are not quite obsolete. recently helped my family get an RCA to HDMI converter so that they can hookup their DVD player to their TV. and yes this includes some kids, who use computers that have CD/DVD drives and systems like GameCube or Wii that also take discs. my oldest nephew has played through and beat all of Metroid 1-5 and wants to do the same with Metroid Prime.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Not sure about NES/Genesis, but for SNES? Lord of the Rings Vol. 1

aw, I liked it as a kid and beat it once. the worst part (IIRC) is the maps that have repeating sections, but you either get used to it after a while and/or I can't remember if writing your own map as you go helped too.

I do remember the music being good.

I also remember you can cheese-kill the ringwraiths which was funny.

not sure if it's coming across but what I'm trying to say is that I've played so few of them on those platforms (NES and Genesis) that my answer is only a technicality based on far less than adequate experience. all I really remember about DQ1 is fighting slimes and having to use the menu to climb stairs. (though I think it and Zelda 2 are the reason why the first enemy I usually put in my past attempts at making RPG games is a slime.)

ParanoidObsessive posted...

He said worst, not best.

of the tiny list of NES RPGs I've ever played it left the weakest impression. (basically loses only to FF1.) if I played these games again today I'd have a different opinion.

I don't really have an interesting answer. technically something like Dragon Quest 1 and Phantasy Star ? for NES and Genesis. for SNES I guess it must be Inindo: Way of the Ninja.

captpackrat posted...

Because it was once used as the symbol for pounds (weight). 10# is 10 pounds.

I don't think I've ever seen that before but it would definitely be preferable to lbs. (had to confirm again if it's ibs ibls or what).

RJP_X posted...

so you don't think there's anything wrong?

I'm not really an expert on electricity or batteries, but from the little I know I would actually expect the number to fluctuate a small amount and would be suspicious of it if it was too steady. it's an indication that you're measuring something real. it's not your HP in a game or something, it's like measuring the temperature or wind speed; there's a degree of inexactness involved.

ZayKayWill posted...

Do you really think that

despite your argument from ignorance, I still can't think of anything

opposite, adjacent, opposite

RJP_X posted...

i know its not accurate because i saw the percentage before shutting it off. say it was 80, if it turn it back on it will say 82 or 83, or 78 or 77. sometimes it will swap to higher or lower if i restart again.

yeah it's an estimate not an exact number. it's based on voltage (?) or something like that, which will vary, especially if you reset the load by turning it off and on again.

(? I assume it's based on voltage and reading a bit about it, it sounds like it can be, but it's also probably more complicated than that.)