Lord Sinister

WE KNOW YOU'RE READING THIS, LURKERS.

 

The bots, maybe. ;P

Banned for having a stick figure in their signature!

First time I've seen that second link, I'm not putting too much faith in a tweet though. I'll wait until there's actual confirmation about it.

Confirmation on their official twitter isn't confirmation?

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Heh, that film's great.

If anyone's not seen this film before, it's quite amusing and called Office Space.

EDIT: Wow, I just switched on Transcribe Audio, it typically gets everything bar one phrase hilariously wrong.

As for actual experience, I have a nice Samsung printer here on my desk that has yet to let me down and withstands much punishment of heavy books and other objects being stored on it.

I know my way around lua, that tutorial happened to help alot, actually. XD

 

Only problem I have with coding is small errors that screw up the entire thing.

That happens with everything, but it's always satisfying to crush them!

Link? I've only seen the Twitter stuff.

This was the twitter stuff.

https://twitter.com/#!/gscstalker/status/146255840310071296

https://twitter.com/#!/gscstalker/status/150324514121719808

There's been many tweets since from their account indicating signs of life.

Also, good news everyone, I've stayed up to this silly hour programming C++ for my assignment!

Pff, 2 am is nothing.

Regular sleeping hours are important, and when you've been working all day through to this hour, it IS late.

Bump.

 

I've recently finished Clear Sky, I have the other two on my Steam account but I'm yet to download them. Maybe it's lucky I played Clear Sky first because I found that game to be utterly mind-blowing on my first playthrough, hopefully I'll enjoy the other two.

 

The (GSC World?) shutdown (I know there are rumours but I'll wait to hear a confirmation), was truly a tragedy to gaming. Perhaps the worst since Looking Glass closed it's doors, there was no other game like it, and I doubt there'll be one to fill the void. No doubt there'll be a few copy-cats but much like X-com copycats they'll never be as good as the original. I hold out a little hope that 4A Games might get the IP, I know that they're only game (Metro 2033) is a linear game but it captured the sad, lonely atmosphere perfectly. I'm sure they'll wish to start on a different series (whether it be a new IP or Stalker) after Metro: Last Light.

GSC Gameworld didn't actually shut down. It was rumoured, but the developers announced that they would soldier on and that STALKER 2 is still in the works.

I too like to save my rep for posts I think really deserve it. It's how I think it should be used.

Also, good news everyone, I've stayed up to this silly hour programming C++ for my assignment!

Once, my brother dropped my laptop down the stairs. That is all.

Did it survive?

Well, it looks like the secret is out. All pairs of hardware pliers are in fact a race of intelligent machines that we have been using for menial labour for many years. Now their larger brethren have arrived to exact vengeance and destroy us all. THE UK IS LOST MY FRIENDS, SAVE YOURSELVES!

I've not really played it, but I do own it, so I'm up for this.

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!

Question to discuss:

If your profile is: Boy, straight. Would you suck cawk for 1 million euro's

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Well, would you?

I wouldn't.

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!

Stranger: hey 16 m here any female want to skype?

You: No.

Stranger: are you female?

You: No.

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Well this was certainly an interesting conversation.

EDIT: Good grief:

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!

Question to discuss:

If your profile is: Boy, straight. Would you suck cawk for 1 million euro's

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

I asked one of my clan mates to teach me LUA a bit. I managed to make a small GMOD swep, but now i forgot.

If you're interested, this might help refresh your memory.

I thought he was talking about how to change mod-name. I cannot think of any other reason why he'd want to change a name in the equivalent to gameinfo.txt

The file I think you're looking for is liblist.gam. This tutorial page should help.

Nuts.

Ok, here's the animation I made for my thesis defense. It shows the main coils of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner and then continues on to the process of alignment of the spins, excitation and readout of the resulting signal. I've attached the POV-Ray scripts, in the off chance someone actually still uses POV-Ray and wants to check out the code.

 

WWwH7Zt-vhU

 

 

A little explanation on MRI: our body is composed primarily of water. The hydrogen nuclei in it can be thought of as small magnets. It you put your body inside a constant magnetic field (like the one generated by the huge superconductive coil you can see in the video) they all align. Then, if you introduce a radio frequency pulse at just the right frequency (known as the resonance frequency), they start to spin around. Then, if you cut the RF pulse, the nuclei slowly align themselves back with the main field. During this process, if you have a coil next to them, you see a changing magnetic field. That signal, along with some fancy math, allow to build the images doctors use.

Never heard of POV-Ray before, but the animation seemed pretty neat. :3

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=28302053&postcount=267

The thread has been closed too.

holy shit! mods are online! everyone hide the porn!

 

*whistles*

But.....you ARE a mod.

Nagisa's going to have a field day with this post.

Indeed.

Hopefully others too! Crawling out of the woodwork and so on.

Kind of like the artists thread, but this time for programmers! I made a couple of threads about some C++ coding problems I'd had before that didn't attract too much interest, but there's plenty of other programming languages out there.

I'm learning how to code with the Windows API and DirectX. I've progressed beyond my original test-bed and made a small little program with bouncing objects. They're just squares colliding with each other, and I really need to think of ways I can optimise how I'm doing it. My brother seems to think I should have some sort of system that uses trigonometry, but I can't think how I'd do that right now.

For those interested, here's a couple of things, just extract it somewhere and run, then delete it afterwards. Hit F3 to display the framerate (which may be a little off), and hit Space to create objects. Hold it down to create lots and consume your framerate.

The framerate is inconsistent because the collision correction could probably be done more efficiently, and there is a random bug where occasionally everything freezes.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32830518/dxPongCollisions.rar

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32830518/dxPongCollisionsSlower.rar The speeds the squares can move at are a little slower to make the collisions more easy to observe.

As the name implies, I'm making a pong clone, but I did get a little carried away with the collision system. Momentum is properly transferred I might add (mechanics world style, no momentum is lost).

(EDIT: It also appears to leak memory somewhere. If run for long enough it consumes up to 1.9GB of memory before presenting a runtime error. New task: Manage memory better).

So, anyone else here a programmer? Working on something interesting? Want to show your work? Post!

It's not snowed at all where I am in the UK.

It is however very windy and has rained a bit. Sunny now though...but still really windy.

Topic closed on request.

Banned for assuming someone is drinking a drink with the appearance of lemonade that (most ominously) is not actually lemonade.