The Lounge 2018: So... How Are You Doing? Edition.: Page 4

The Lounge 2018: So... How Are You Doing? Edition.

SeaFishelle

@BinaryOrange said:

@SeaFishelle said:

Your advice checks out solidly. The darn thing told me to F myself soon after the reinstall, even BSODing during chkdsk. Decided to just give up and buy new drives. Replace both, since I couldn't be completely sure which one was okay. Likely the Windows one, but most of my crashes occurred while accessing things on the other drive.

On the plus side, I got an excuse to start fresh on filespace, as well as upgrade my 1TB HDD to 2TB. All in all, a good thing. If this happens again in the next week or so, I'll point fingers at the CPU. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

If it were the CPU, you would almost certainly have other warning signs.

I recommend not purchasing a Seagate drive, also. :tongue: Western Digital all the way! Samsung for SSDs.

I've just never had good luck with Seagate drives, and when that last one of mine kicked the bucket I just stopped trying to use anything from them. If you can, try to get a Western Digital Black drive - they're super solid and very quick read/write times for a standard HDD.

I just bought a Kingston SSD again. The HDD is a Barracuda, which I don't know much about but the guy at the counter seemed to know what he was talking about. In any case, I bought the 4-year warranty plan with this store, so I get free ones if they die again.

Megalomaniak

The barracuda is a Seagate consumer line. i.e. trash(unless it was a barracuda pro). WD is fine, but Hitachi/HGST is statistically best. No wonder WD was happy to buy them out. Personally if I can't find the Hitachi/HGST drive I'm looking for I go for Toshiba as my fallback.

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SeaFishelle

@Megalomaniak said: The barracuda is a Seagate consumer line. i.e. trash(unless it was a barracuda pro). WD is fine, but Hitachi/HGST is statistically best. No wonder WD was happy to buy them out. Personally if I can't find the Hitachi/HGST drive I'm looking for I go for Toshiba as my fallback.

Oh... Well, at least I have the warranty. :D

Megalomaniak

If it's the regular one you only have like 2 years of warranty, the pro tier one would have brought you a 5 year warranty. Realistically though as long as you take good care of your machines the HDD is most likely to either fail within first 6 months because of a manufacturing defect or it will last reasonably well beyond its rated writes cycle.

emo10001

it's been a while but I'm still grinding out my projects. Family, vacation, work, summer...they take up so much time!

I'm trying to continue on with my POC WIP. Dusting off my Blender skills to make a cabin and some outdoor assets.

I've also been going through the gamedev.tv Godot courses on Udemy. So far they're pretty good. I like their style.

What is everyone else up to? :smile:

-emo

Megalomaniak

Been a little too addicted to warframe, darn that game got me hooked. :/ Should be working on the new forum theme instead, though. Once I get it finished I can finally backup this system and take the graphics card and PSU from it for the new Ryzen 5 1600 build that has been waiting on the back-burner for months now. I've just lost motivation I guess. :(

emo10001

@Megalomaniak said: Been a little too addicted to warframe, darn that game got me hooked.

On what platform do you play?

-emo

Calinou

@emo10001 said: What is everyone else up to? :smile:

I was inspired by this article to create a procedural crosshair plugin for Godot. I started working on it earlier this month. See a slightly dated preview below (click to see the smoother version on Gfycat):

This is my first time writing a custom node, so far so good :)

emo10001

@Calinou said:

@emo10001 said: What is everyone else up to? :smile:

I was inspired by this article to create a procedural crosshair plugin for Godot. I started working on it earlier this month. See a slightly dated preview below (click to see the smoother version on Gfycat):

This is my first time writing a custom node, so far so good :)

Nice! I'll have to take a look at it later (at work now...oops :) )

-emo

Megalomaniak

@emo10001 said:

On what platform do you play?

PC.

I've also got a ps4 but haven't even turned it on probably since last year and even last year only like once I think.

TwistedTwigleg

@emo10001 said: I'm trying to continue on with my POC WIP. Dusting off my Blender skills to make a cabin and some outdoor assets.

Nice! Good luck making the cabin and outdoor assets! Personally I find outdoor assets harder than the indoor counterparts, especially trees and other organic material (they take me forever and they still look bad)

@Megalomaniak said: Been a little too addicted to warframe, darn that game got me hooked

I've been meaning to try Warframe. I tried it once but didn't really get very far. Someday I'll have to try it again, especially since the big upcoming update sounds pretty cool!

@Calinou said: I was inspired by this article to create a procedural crosshair plugin for Godot. I started working on it earlier this month. See a slightly dated preview below (click to see the smoother version on Gfycat):

Wow! That's really cool!

I've recently been working on updating a old Godot 2 project to Godot 3. The funny thing about the old project is I apparently made it for Godot Community Jam December 2016-2017, but never submitted it and totally forgot about it :lol:

It's been fun updating it though. It's cool seeing how much has changed from Godot 2 to Godot 3. Godot 3 almost feels like a completely new engine in comparison to Godot 2.

Megalomaniak

@TwistedTwigleg said:

@Megalomaniak said: Been a little too addicted to warframe, darn that game got me hooked

I've been meaning to try Warframe. I tried it once but didn't really get very far. Someday I'll have to try it again, especially since the big upcoming update sounds pretty cool!

TL;DR Bad idea, too addictive. Also early game is a slog so you have to be willing to invest time in the game.

TwistedTwigleg

@Megalomaniak said: TL;DR Bad idea, too addictive. Also early game is a slog so you have to be willing to invest time in the game.

A slog does not sound terribly fun, and I'm already (probably) spending more time playing Fortnite than I should... I'll stay away for now then and wait until I have more time.

Megalomaniak

It's a slog in the sense that it takes a long while before you get any real story-missions, but it can still be fun in a group though. But the reason I'm advising against it is because its a loot/gear collection heavy/grindy game and it will steal a lot of your free time.

TwistedTwigleg

Megalomaniak said: It's a slog in the sense that it takes a long while before you get any real story-missions, but it can still be fun in a group though.

I mostly play games solo, but I don't mind a lack of story if the game is fun... Hmm...

But the reason I'm advising against it is because its a loot/gear collection heavy/grindy game and it will steal a lot of your free time.

Ah, there's the kicker for me. I'm already struggling to find time to play games. Not to mention I've already spent way too much time playing Destiny back before Destiny 2, so I'm probably better off not playing another time consuming game for now.

Thanks for letting me know! I had a vague impression it was loot/gear heavy, but I thought I'd give it a try and see. Now that I know it is also very time consuming, I'll probably wait until I have more free time to commit towards playing games.

Megalomaniak

I mean it's definitely soloable, but sometimes it best to just go and do a mission with a group, even if just random ones. edit: ha, yeah, this basically a better version of destiny.

emo10001

@TwistedTwigleg said: Ah, there's the kicker for me. I'm already struggling to find time to play games. Not to mention I've already spent way too much time playing Destiny back before Destiny 2, so I'm probably better off not playing another time consuming game for now.

I decided to replace all my game playing time, with game creation time. At least for now...

-emo

TwistedTwigleg

@emo10001 said: I decided to replace all my game playing time, with game creation time. At least for now...

-emo

Not a bad plan. I rarely play anymore, and I've gone through periods where I have not played any games for a couple months.

One slight advantage with playing games is you can sometimes find interesting mechanics/ideas that you can use for your own games. The big disadvantage is it takes time away from making those games that could potentially use the mechanics :lol:

Megalomaniak

Another advantage is it can help stave off the burnout. So long as you don't get totally addicted to a game.

soundchaser

@SeaFishelle said: So, clearly we're all game developers here. What kinds of games are you playing right now?

I have been playing through Jedi Outcast again. Definitely in my top 5 for Star Wars games. I've also been playing through Lunar: The Silver Star on my Sega CD again too. Still plays great.

As for how I am doing...

Well I'm ok. Working two jobs prevents me from really getting to focus on my design and development time, but my wife and I desperately need the extra income. C'est la vie.

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