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cybereality

Nice. I love blackjack. Won a $150 hand of blackjack in Vegas once (and walked away from the table like a responsible gambler). Sleep is important, but I understand sometimes you get in a flow. That book I just released, I wrote the whole thing in 2 days basically not sleeping. It's not very healthy to do all the time, but you can also get amazing work done.

jbskaggs

@some_lame_kid said: I created my first real "game" with a complete game loop. It's just blackjack. I haven't slept in about 2 days. It looks like turbo ass, but it certainly plays like singleplayer blackjack. I felt the need to share because I'm coming off a caffeine crash, opened a whiskey and those sleep chemicals in the brain's making me sappy and sentimental.

I wrote a card and dice game back in 03. Im glad you got something finished! Do you know how many of us actually never finish anything? Its a big problem for me.

cybereality

It took me 40 years of my life to actually finish anything. Feels great, but I was probably ready much sooner in terms of technical skill and I was just afraid of putting myself out there.

fire7side

I think the first game I wrote was this little tennis game for the color computer from radio shack. It had a stick man player with a stick for a racket and the ball had my own physics. I never published it. Played it for a while. It just mostly came in at different speeds every time you would hit it and it came back. You just had to line up the guy back and forth and hit enter to swing.

fire7side

Looks like there is going to be a hacker war against Russia. I guess my Godot skill won't help much. https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/25/russia-will-get-hit-hardest-in-cyberwar-over-ukraine-expert-says/

cybereality

Yeah, it's kind of crazy. We are entering into a new world.

jbskaggs

@cybereality said: Yeah, it's kind of crazy. We are entering into a new world.

Not really. Its the same old thing thats been done since man picked up a rock and killed his brother. Every single large nation does what Russia has done. But in Ukraine's case I suspect Russia may fail as they have inspired many Eastern European countries and Middle Eastern countries to become allies. These countries prior to this were Russian allies.

In other terms its like all the bullies buddies are supporting the kid who decided to punch the bully in the nose.

The question seems to be who has longest financial and morale stamina. The Russian army doesnt really seem to be too excited about this. Meanwhile Ukraine is hyped. Crimea folded without a fight, Ukraine kicked Russia in the nads.

fire7side

Yeah, it's hard to think of these people holding others at ransom because of their hacking as being heroes now. It's a creepy little game for them and they don't really care about anyone but themselves.

DaveTheCoder

Careful, politics is a risky area to get into here. :wink:

cybereality

I won't comment on the political angle, but I find it interesting that Ukraine is calling for hackers all over the world to join them in a cyberwar against Russia. This is new territory.

fire7side

@cybereality said: I won't comment on the political angle, but I find it interesting that Ukraine is calling for hackers all over the world to join them in a cyberwar against Russia. This is new territory.

Yeah, it will be interesting to see what kind of effect it has on the outcome. I guess Russia is already dealing with DNS attacks. It is new territory. We've never been more dependent on computers.

Megalomaniak

@DaveTheCoder said: Careful, politics is a risky area to get into here. :wink:

Yes, I'm inclined to say people are better off taking this to some political forum, it doesn't really belong in here.

No matter where or what side on this you are from, you are welcome to discuss godot here so long as you don't start or engage in any political flame wars, so please, especially right now it might be better to keep that to reddit and youtube comments or a proper politics forum somewhere instead.

cybereality

Fair enough.

fire7side

I promise to shut up, but I don't consider this politics as to one side or the other, but rather that hacking has become a part of warfare. Since we are programmers, that effects us, or is at least of interest to us more than some social site or something. It would be like not being able to talk about other instruments of war, but we write games about war. I thought about posting this on my facebook account, but they wouldn't see it as interesting because it's really apolitical. It was on slashdot, which is a programmer community.

cybereality

Yeah, I agree, and I did not post my personal opinion of the situation, I merely commented on the technical aspects. Either way, it is not relevant to Godot, or game development in general, so I would say we should try to be on the safe side.

Funny story, somewhat related, I was doing research for this hacking game I was working on (originally in Unreal, but I ported it to Godot) and ended up on the DEF CON website and ordered a t-shirt. Except now people think I'm a hacker cause I wear it around, lol. Guess it's not a bad look. I never finished the game, but it was about halfway done. Might try to finish it next after the anime thing I'm working on.

fire7side

If you are talking about relevance to godot, then it would just be a technical site, which I think it's a bit more than that. If you are talking about relevance to games, pretty much any topic is relevant. In that case, you would only want to stay away from things that are socially not acceptable for a general audience. Reddit has these moderator nazis (it's a dictionary term) that are kind of crazy, plus they have bots that look for any words that might be unacceptable. I couldn't handle it. Everyone complains about Facebook, but I think they handle things very well.
I looked over this report about Facebook supposedly letting people influence the election and it was the biggest joke I've seen in a long time. It was the equivalent of soap ads that were trying to fit in so they mentioned Trump or whatever. The whole thing! I think our elections are pretty safe based on their evidence.

DaveTheCoder

I think our elections are pretty safe based on their evidence.

Okay, I didn't want to discuss politics, but I can't ignore that. There's been widespread evidence of abuse. Many states have insufficient safeguards for mail-in voting, for example. It's very easy to cheat.

In my area, I think the controls are good, but could still use improvement. I've been a poll worker for the last few elections, and have seen a lot of how the process works from the inside.

cybereality

So this is precisely why topics like this are hot and no one will agree. However, if you are interested in learning something, watch The Social Dilemma to see how much technology has overtaken our lives.

jbskaggs

On a gaming side will the Russian sanctions affect game platforms like GOG.com?

jbskaggs

@cybereality said: So this is precisely why topics like this are hot and no one will agree. However, if you are interested in learning something, watch The Social Dilemma to see how much technology has overtaken our lives.

This is what drove Ted Kyzynski to kill. He believed we had given our autonomy over to machines. There is some truth to that. To the point several of the FBI agents who read his manifesto went off grid. I dont know why he chose killing- I guess today he would have hacked and shut down infrastructures instead.

One of the struggles I have had with almost all the foster and biological kids was the gaming dependence issues they developed. I include social media in that as that framework uses the same reward system as games do. But it has plagued many friends and family to where I had to negotiate social interactions- if I met you face to face the phones, computers, TV etc were turned off. Otherwise I would not meet with you.

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