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fire7side

So, I disabled this spawn to simplify my game for a while as I was working in a different area. I decided to redo it, it was spawning just one character. Turned out I had disconnected the signal and I had used the editor to connect, so it was not at all obvious and left no notes or anything as to what I had done. There would have been all kinds of better choices than that and I wasted a lot of time figuring it out. It's weird looking at past decisions and wondering why I did that. It's kind of like when I put something someplace where I can find it later. It's always some oddball place I can't possibly find again. I got this electric bike and put the manual in some place I wouldn't lose it. No idea where it is. I've searched and searched. Filing was never my strong suit.

some_lame_kid

I always used nano.

Nerdzmasterz

Has anyone ever played an old game and found a way to break the AI and now think you could've done better than their builders?

Star Wars Battlegrounds Sega was easy, as the enemies would try to create a path leading to where they had to go. I simply had to block it and they acted like they couldn't even touch me.

If I was doing it, I would probably make the AI at least get as close to the nearest target on their path instead of just becoming sitting ducks. Eventually all they did was farm, gather resources, and build things. They would usually then just give up. :o

some_lame_kid

@fire7side Try studying archival techniques. It doesn't have to be any in particular but it trains your head to think more like an archivist, aka, someone who does filing professionally.

some_lame_kid

@Nerdzmasterz said: Has anyone ever played an old game and found a way to break the AI and now think you could've done better than their builders?

Star Wars Battlegrounds Sega was easy, as the enemies would try to create a path leading to where they had to go. I simply had to block it and they acted like they couldn't even touch me.

If I was doing it, I would probably make the AI at least get as close to the nearest target on their path instead of just becoming sitting ducks. Eventually all they did was farm, gather resources, and build things. They would usually then just give up. :o

If the game is otherwise well made, there's a good chance there were several bugs that couldn't be fixed before some deadline. So, like an infected leg, you just lop it off rather than treat it. Anything larger than a small indie project gets deceptively complicated pretty quickly.

Nerdzmasterz

It wasn't a bad little game, although the graphics were pretty awful compared to today's standard. It actually was designed to allow the user to build their own worlds to fight in and such, most likely you were basically handed their engine to mod the game or whatever. For an old game, that was very nice.

Honestly, I was more thinking about it as a thought-provoking question. I bet there are plenty of games out there that have the absolute lamest bugs in it.

OpinionatedGamer

@Nerdzmasterz said:

Honestly, I was more thinking about it as a thought-provoking question. I bet there are plenty of games out there that have the absolute lamest bugs in it.

I have a physical version of the lego star wars prequel trilogy games, and I couldn't get past phantom menace, because there was a part where darth maul jumps onto a ledge and then jumps on to a platform, but he could never make the jump. So he'd die, respawn, and try to make the jump over and over again, and the controls were locked so I couldn't do anything. Honestly pretty hilarious.

fire7side

@some_lame_kid said: @fire7side Try studying archival techniques. It doesn't have to be any in particular but it trains your head to think more like an archivist, aka, someone who does filing professionally.

I hate the subject so much I don't like even thinking about it. I'm actually a tiny bit better than I used to be. Mostly it's just having a certain place for things and actually putting them there. Computers have helped a lot because you can pay bills on the internet instead of mailing them and they send reminders when a bill is due. Huge improvement. It took me a while to like credit cards, but they are fantastic also as long as I pay them off every month. I'm in way less trouble than I used to be. If the tax man ever comes to do an audit, I'll just hold out my hands for the cuffs because there is no way I'm saving tax forms 7 years. I think I would pronounce myself cured if I did that. I can't imagine them auditing me because I just take standard deductions.

Nerdzmasterz

@fire7side said:

@some_lame_kid said: @fire7side Try studying archival techniques. It doesn't have to be any in particular but it trains your head to think more like an archivist, aka, someone who does filing professionally.

I hate the subject so much I don't like even thinking about it. I'm actually a tiny bit better than I used to be. Mostly it's just having a certain place for things and actually putting them there. Computers have helped a lot because you can pay bills on the internet instead of mailing them and they send reminders when a bill is due. Huge improvement. It took me a while to like credit cards, but they are fantastic also as long as I pay them off every month. I'm in way less trouble than I used to be. If the tax man ever comes to do an audit, I'll just hold out my hands for the cuffs because there is no way I'm saving tax forms 7 years. I think I would pronounce myself cured if I did that. I can't imagine them auditing me because I just take standard deductions.

Why not just set up the things you're going to temporarily remove into scenes so they can be accessible?

some_lame_kid

I also hate the organization bit, but growing up around slobs can either reinforce that, or kick you into liking to organize just enough so you're not losing everything. The latter happens if you're the one who has to clean up after others.

fire7side

@Nerdzmasterz said:

Why not just set up the things you're going to temporarily remove into scenes so they can be accessible?

It is. I just stopped the signal for spawning them in a weird way. I was using an array and all I had to do was change the array size. Instead for some strange reason, I disconnected the signal in the editor. Don't ask me why because I have no idea.

fire7side

These lithium/sulfur batteries look like a pretty good breakthough in battery technology.

duane

@fire7side said: Turned out I had disconnected the signal and I had used the editor to connect, so it was not at all obvious and left no notes or anything as to what I had done.

That's why I use git every day -- often every hour -- it makes any changes I make obvious, even while I'm working. I'm constantly having to run a diff to see if I tinkered with something and forgot to set it back.

Nerdzmasterz

You could probably save the scene you're working on as multiple scenes, like Player_0 could be the initial version you made, Player_2 ads other features, 3 has something you wanted to try out in the game, and 4 could be another variant. Something like that.

duane

@fire7side said: These lithium/sulfur batteries look like a pretty good breakthough in battery technology.

Unfortunately, sulfur batteries don't last as long (before they have to be replaced) as the current types. You can fix that... by adding lithium, which sort of crushes the economics.

duane

I love this article on how stupid cryptocurrency is. The guy is wrong about the stock market being a positive-sum game though. Money, in general, is zero-sum. If someone is making it, someone else is losing it, including on the stock market.

My favorite quote: "When somebody says you can solve X with blockchain, they don’t understand X, and you can ignore them."

some_lame_kid

@duane said: I love this article on how stupid cryptocurrency is. The guy is wrong about the stock market being a positive-sum game though. Money, in general, is zero-sum. If someone is making it, someone else is losing it, including on the stock market.

My favorite quote: "When somebody says you can solve X with blockchain, they don’t understand X, and you can ignore them."

Would you say collecting disability checks is a zero-sum game?

duane

@some_lame_kid said: Would you say collecting disability checks is a zero-sum game?

Money is a zero-sum game, intentionally so. Governments spend immense amounts of resources to keep it zero-sum. A disability check comes from money made by a company or government, which comes from customers or tax payers.

The guy in the article talks about dividends making stock markets a positive-sum game (as opposed to cryptocurrencies), but that money comes from the companies' customers. Hopefully, they're getting something for the money they pay, but it's not being created by the stock market or the business -- it comes from someone's pocket. That's not necessarily a good thing, if for example, the company over-charges its customers.

some_lame_kid

I don't know a thing about economics, what I said was an off-handed joke. All I really know is things come from somewhere and I probably have a moral complex. Even though I spend as little as possible on broken laptops, I spend upwards to $9 on eggs a week just because I can see for myself that that particular farm treats the chickens well. A busted used Thinkpad probably doesn't have any moral cost, it's a hunk of materials sitting in some storehouse. I guess there's nothing stopping the store owner from using underground child slaves for his operation, but there's just no way of knowing that for sure. That realization is probably why I was so aggressive towards liars in particular when I was a kid.

Nerdzmasterz

It still pains me when I hear stories of people with very real disabilities who are denied financial help. IDK, can anything be done for those who were?

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