It leaves a scar on my soul to see this formerly bustling forum, into which so many people poured so much thoughtful creative energy, now so utterly still.

No one and no thing lasts forever, I know. But it sucks that this didn't last longer.

"I think I'd like to go for a walk now!"

Idunno wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 20, 2020 12:18 pm

Yeah, I don't lick that.

"Ar-ar! Humor!"

But the good news is that the fire appears to have been contained, and the Lick Observatory survived. Whew.

$%@#.

It appears that Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California is being overrun by the Marsh Fire.

http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/hamcam/Cam2.ts.JPG

Scytale wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:36 am

Idunno wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:14 am

Can you run emacs within emacs?

Apparently yes:
http://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2017/ ... de-emacs/

Does the set of all emacs contain itself?

And just like that, emacs poofed out of existence.

Cornflakes_91 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:11 pm

~Badger Badger Badger Badger~

that sounds damn unpleasamt Flat, glad that you can keep that leg

Yeah. It's not what I'd call fun, but it definitely could have been a lot worse.

Life in the countryside.

Thanks, gents. Idunno, it seems expensive to me, too. Without getting into a health insurance debate, the plain facts are that until a couple of years ago I had a lower deductible; now I have to pay thousands out of my own pocket if something happens before my employment-based insurance starts to pa...

Bah. Hundreds of times I've walked to the barn at oh-dark-hundred to give the horses one last feeding of hay for the night, with no trouble from the local wildlife. But this time I was turning the power to the fence back on when something nailed me in the right ankle, just above the sandals I was we...

I think there are enough people here who could code up the player-facing capabilities of a LT-like game in something like Godot's scripting language. The hard part -- which I certainly can't do -- is the core framework stuff: event communication, AI, and any other features that must be written in a ...

Josh seemed like a pretty optimistic guy by nature. If he went to work for a game (or even general software) development studio, as I believe Adam said toward the end, then I hope Josh is picking up the practical aspects of completing a project. Perfectionist Josh will probably always be there, neve...

Would the XCOM games fit into this category?

(The newer ones, since if BG II is unacceptably ancient, the original X-COM games are probably not going to feel much better.)

Have you tried Stack Overflow? Yeah, I don't go there anymore. They have a tendency to tell me that I'm asking a question that has already been asked, when it clearly hasn't been asked before. :ghost: You are not wrong about that. Along with what's been happening to the rest of social media, the pe...

Have you tried Stack Overflow?

I'm trying to think whether -- from the point of view of doing this in 80x86 assembly language -- file transfer is much different if the target device is a USB drive versus any other kind of drive....

I'm good with it, too. Y'all are probably tired of hearing me say, "Game developers need to spend more time at the end integrating all the aesthetics and dynamics and mechanics so that they support and deepen each other." Well, that's probably exactly what CDPR are doing. So... yep. Take that time. ...

CyberPunk 2077's release date has been pushed back from September to November (still 2020, though -- so far).

Apparently there's just So Much Content that CDPR want a couple more months for bugfixes and general balance.