jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209

[LaZodiac]

Oregon Trail is a big exception. I've heard it's great, except for the whole dying of dysentery part.

The first time I played Oregon Trail I won. Gruelling Pace, buy nothing but food! I don't think anyone died, either.

[Skeppio]

The first time I played Oregon Trail I won. Gruelling Pace, buy nothing but food! I don't think anyone died, either.

For the pace you set, I assume all their food was also gruel.

[Mutant Sheep]

I feel like a bad Amurican chillun for not remembering me having play Oregon Trail. I know we have like, 4 versions of it...

[AtlanteanTroll]

You're a bad 'Murican child for not rmembering having played. I'm an awful American child for not having every played... >__>

[Solse]

The first time I played Oregon Trail I won. Gruelling Pace, buy nothing but food! I don't think anyone died, either.

pst u only won because of noclip hax

cheater

[enderlord99]

...Is it bad that I don't know what "noclip" means in relation to old ASCII-based games?

[Qwertystop]

...Is it bad that I don't know what "noclip" means in relation to old ASCII-based games?

Pretty sure it's just nonsense.

[Solse]

I was making fun of sore losers nowadays who get mad when they don't win in online videogames, and applying it to an old text-based game.

[Haluesen]

I checked Origin - they have it at like $20. If you can find it cheaper elsewhere, let me know. xD

If we don't play a particular piece of content, default options are put through. I'm not gonna play Awakening because of reasons, but you can play through it if you want. It should work with someone else's copy of DA2 either way.

I shall be on the lookout, and $25 is now my goal to account for tax. And duly noted, I likely shall. Just for the extra content really, though a lot of the late game abilities can be pretty fun. Has anyone else shown interest in join you two in this, or am I the first taker? Cause I'm all for it, this sounds very awesome.

Oregon Trail is a big exception. I've heard it's great, except for the whole dying of dysentery part.

Yeah that basically is it. I haven't played in quite a few years, and now I think I will look it up. But those survival-based games are a huge favorite of mine, even way back at the origins of Oregon Trail.

The first time I played Oregon Trail I won. Gruelling Pace, buy nothing but food! I don't think anyone died, either.

You either lie, misremember, or are an Oregon Trail god.

I kid, it is likely the 3rd one.


It is okay Sheepy and Trolly, you two can too play this excellent game on your computer. It shouldn't be too big of a download and you can see for yourself how it is. You are not bad 'Muricans.

[HalfTangible]

I shall be on the lookout, and $25 is now my goal to account for tax. And duly noted, I likely shall. Just for the extra content really, though a lot of the late game abilities can be pretty fun. Has anyone else shown interest in join you two in this, or am I the first taker? Cause I'm all for it, this sounds very awesome.

Sweeeeeet! I'll shoot you a PM.

Lala and I set this up. We had a third, but he had to drop because he couldn't find his copy of origins. Sad, but understandable.

[LaZodiac]

I shall be on the lookout, and $25 is now my goal to account for tax. And duly noted, I likely shall. Just for the extra content really, though a lot of the late game abilities can be pretty fun. Has anyone else shown interest in join you two in this, or am I the first taker? Cause I'm all for it, this sounds very awesome.

You either lie, misremember, or are an Oregon Trail god.

I kid, it is likely the 3rd one.

What HT said also we're limiting it to three people. Better that way.

Huzzah! I have unlimited power!

[HalfTangible]

What HT said also we're limiting it to three people. Better that way.

Until DA4 comes out, and then we can find 4 people!

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Don't look at me like that, it could be fun too!

(More likely we'll just pass the Inquisition saves along, if we do it at all)

[LaZodiac]

Until DA4 comes out, and then we can find 4 people!

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Don't look at me like that, it could be fun too!

(More likely we'll just pass the Inquisition saves along, if we do it at all)

Well yes. Though they've mentioned Inquisition is the end of the trilogy of sorts.

But yes, lets keep it to three. Far more manageable. Will also allow us to get together and talk about it.

[Haluesen]

Sweeeeeet! I'll shoot you a PM.

Lala and I set this up. We had a third, but he had to drop because he couldn't find his copy of origins. Sad, but understandable.

Yay I get to be part of a really fun round robin game thing! I remember you mentioning about the third person who couldn't do this. That really sucks though that his game is missing.

What HT said also we're limiting it to three people. Better that way.

Huzzah! I have unlimited power!

I can understand that. It really fits the whole 3 seperate heroes thing in the franchise. I am really looking forward to Inquisition. But for now, I need to look for a cheap way of getting DA 2. To the internet! Oh wait, already here.

Unlimited power in managing wagons of people on long journeys and in them not dying of horrible illness. But still, any form of unlimited power is better than no unlimited power at all. Entirely limited power in all ways, such sad.

[LaZodiac]

I can understand that. It really fits the whole 3 seperate heroes thing in the franchise. I am really looking forward to Inquisition. But for now, I need to look for a cheap way of getting DA 2. To the internet! Oh wait, already here.

Unlimited power in managing wagons of people on long journeys and in them not dying of horrible illness. But still, any form of unlimited power is better than no unlimited power at all. Entirely limited power in all ways, such sad.

Honestly just buy it on Origin. There is no other place to buy it and it will be cheap.

True. Limited power is far to limited.

[Amidus Drexel]

Hehehe!

Also, you say you can't read semicolons?

Given, chances are pretty great you'll find the code horribly unoptimised and generally buggy in a few years. Code has a tendency to magically deteriorate like that for no explicable reason...

Man, I can read them, but it really bothers me to have them at the end of sentences in my notes.

Yeah... unless you've forgotten how it works entirely, and then it's nigh-incomprehensible and unusable.

[enderlord99]

To practice html coding, I once made the following web page in notepad:

Spoiler: "Spleen" is a funny word.

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<html>
<head>
<title>
Sir Fredrick's Brain
</title>
</head>
<body>
Fred's Spleen
</body>
</html>

I saved the document as (an HTML file called) "Fred"

[factotum]

Honestly just buy it on Origin. There is no other place to buy it and it will be cheap.

Not true, actually--you can buy it on Gamers Gate. I suspect that'll just get you an Origin key for the game anyway, but might be worth checking to see if it's cheaper in your location.

[Razanir]

Given, chances are pretty great you'll find the code horribly unoptimised and generally buggy in a few years. Code has a tendency to magically deteriorate like that for no explicable reason...

Or just unreadable. I once had 7 layers of nested loops and conditionals in a program. This was before I learned the important of commenting.

[Asta Kask]

Commentary is luxury. I learned programming on a computer with 3.5 kB available memory.

[Haluesen]

Honestly just buy it on Origin. There is no other place to buy it and it will be cheap.

True. Limited power is far to limited.

When I looked it up Origin was one of the first ones to pop up actually. And $20 seems the most fair and shouldn't be hard to build up to even without an official job. Which to me is pretty encouraging.

Don't I know it. Although funny enough I get to have a little more power, at least in Mario Kart 8. I have been dubbed the Banana King for my habit of dropping the slippery little gags in front of item boxes and at finish lines. King is not nearly so powerful as a god, but it's something.

To practice html coding, I once made the following web page in notepad:

I saved the document as (an HTML file called) "Fred"

That is...pretty interesting? I have no clue how that worked, but indeed spleen is a funny word.

[factotum]

Commentary is luxury. I learned programming on a computer with 3.5 kB available memory.

That's not an excuse for producing unreadable spaghetti code for the sake of saving a few bytes in your source, you know...

[Razanir]

Commentary is luxury. I learned programming on a computer with 3.5 kB available memory.

Newline characters are a luxury. When a friend of mine learned C, his teacher had them write the entire program on a single line. Debug it yourself.

[Asta Kask]

Newline characters are a luxury. When a friend of mine learned C, his teacher had them write the entire program on a single line. Debug it yourself.

We also played with "Snake". It was easy to remove the collision-detecting mechanism, meaning the snake would continue straight through the wall and up in the memory registers, reaching the operative system in a little while. Very amusing when you were 10.

[Solse]

Newline characters are a luxury. When a friend of mine learned C, his teacher had them write the entire program on a single line. Debug it yourself.

That reminds me of obfuscated code, code which is made to be completely unintelligible. There's an International Obfuscated C Code Contest which awards obfuscated C programs based on certain factors. Here's a link to the winners' programs.

We also played with "Snake". It was easy to remove the collision-detecting mechanism, meaning the snake would continue straight through the wall and up in the memory registers, reaching the operative system in a little while. Very amusing when you were 10.

It must've been really fun to see when the snake got to the display memory.

[Teddy]

Or just unreadable. I once had 7 layers of nested loops and conditionals in a program. This was before I learned the important of commenting.

For our upcoming first lab in AI programming, we're supposed to make an optimised pathfinder using A*, and I've been thinking of means to reduce the amount of calculations while still fulfilling the fundamental requirements. I've been thinking about parallelisation, because I've got a bit of experience with that, especially from a project I did in the spring one year ago. That one was quite terrible, though, and I probably learned just as much what to avoid to do as what to actually do in the first case...

Commentary is luxury. I learned programming on a computer with 3.5 kB available memory.

Hmm, assuming you get 2 kB for your text editor/IDE and no paging, that's 2000 characters. You'll have to learn to write modularised code if you're going to make anything larger than a Fibonacci generator. Assuming you do get paging, I'm just going to stick out my tongue at you and say something stereotypically snarky about old traditionalists blaming outside factors for lazy behaviour...

That is...pretty interesting? I have no clue how that worked, but indeed spleen is a funny word.

It creates a webpage looking as if you just opened Notepad and typed "Fred's Spleen" into it. The window/tab will be named "Sir Fredrick's Brain".

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It must've been really fun to see when the snake got to the display memory.

It probably looked a bit like a snake...

[LaZodiac]

One benefit of living in the middle of nowhere: finding super obscure video games for cheap because no one bought them and no one will except you and the world was just waiting for you to do it.

God bless you, Shopper's Drugmart. THE GUNSTRINGER IS MINE!...tomorrow.

[Mx.Silver]

Spoiler: Even the spambots are getting passive-aggressive these days

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Either that, or they're just weirdly self-aware.

[HalfTangible]

Why do people say things like "this is retarded, no offense" like somehow 'no offense' will magically evaporate all insult?

[LaZodiac]

Why do people say things like "this is retarded, no offense" like somehow 'no offense' will magically evaporate all insult?

I think the offense is towards people who are retarded, in that example, not to the thing being compared to it.