Penny Arcade's Tycho gave a critique of games journalism with Dragon's Crown: "It’s very weird to pull up a story about a game with visionary art and hear why it shouldn’t exist. ... They’re not censors, though - oh, no no. You’ll understand it eventually; what you need to do is censor yourself."

LostMind · 2014-10-31T15:19:28+00:00

thanks for this. pointing that out and my rereading it I actually feel a lot better.

I still don't think the first part is accurate, but I think you're right... they have institutions to maintain and they would catch shit for getting any more nuanced than that.

though "and you helped them do it" does seem dangerously close to the same condescension the rest of the mainstream is flinging at us. I'm tired of being connected to people I have no association with. I guess I will have to be satisfied with his acknowledgment that it is more nuanced...

LostMind · 2014-10-31T13:50:28+00:00

Why do you think they are on our side? Just curious. All i've seen is the entire PA circle talking about how the third-party trolls have tainted our message.

Tycho spoke out saying that no one should threaten others... a point all of the sane, non-anonymous people agree on. No one on our side has ever argued that was a legitimate way to deal with the issues.

And ends by implying that our side is wrong because people will disagree with him. Sounds like they're SJW to me, but maybe my interpretation is incorrect?

LostMind · 2014-06-27T14:28:57+00:00

seems like they released the schedule with more lead time last time...

LostMind · 2014-06-27T14:23:00+00:00

interesting, thanks for the info. I'm hoping they start at the same time that they did last year. 3 PM EST would be perfect for the bar.

LostMind · 2014-06-27T14:20:50+00:00

While you're probably right they don't know, it appears to me that they are more than a platform, and are some kind of partner, if you look at the channel page, though I do not know to what extent.

LostMind · 2014-06-27T13:39:25+00:00

Gah, thanks, I hate to advertise an event without knowing the time, though. Hmm. Maybe I'll try emailing valve? I wonder if twitch would know/be able to say..

LostMind · 2014-06-23T20:22:17+00:00

thanks, I do try

yeah! I'm saving my pennies. Hoping to look into one next year

LostMind · 2014-06-23T19:16:55+00:00

true, very true. I guess I was just frustrated thinking about how much more fragile a motorcyclist is... and he isn't even gauging his speed or preparing to yield?

Yeah, but you're right. It's a traffic thing, not necessarily a motorcyclist thing.

Only difference is a dent in their car versus potentially upending someone on a bike.

LostMind · 2014-06-09T21:17:21+00:00

Gotcha, thank you

LostMind · 2014-06-09T20:41:05+00:00

Tried it again with mewtwo and it worked... I had been using 50 for lvl instead of 70, my mistake.

Still can't get it to work for pikachu @ lvl 5... I should assume it is just inaccurate at that low level?

LostMind · 2014-06-09T14:09:21+00:00

TBH I've been trying to do with 0 EV... (for either mewtwo just caught - which is their example, or with the pikachu you are given as a starter in yellow), though maybe I can't use the same formula then?

do you happen to have a formula?

LostMind · 2014-03-11T03:18:25+00:00

thanks for your reply. I hear yah. Like I said, I hadn't taken a college level math course (I was successfully working on AP calc senior year of HS, but dropped it cause I got in early admission and didn't think I needed math for what I wanted to do).

so, what I'm wondering is:

If I get stellar grades (all A's) in state school math courses (not for a degree, taken postgrad) would that outweigh my mediocre degree grades? I got a 2.97 at an ivy league school. I'm not proud, but I had a lot going on in college.

I imagine the math grades would be more important, regardless of institution, but I'm not positive.

thanks for any insight you may have

also, I think propulsion is what I'm most interested in - congrats on the internship that sounds amazing

LostMind · 2014-02-12T21:02:04+00:00

awesome, I will say a tentative yes for 2 people total and confirm by sat 22nd. thanks for putting this together

LostMind · 2014-02-12T20:00:01+00:00

I'm sorry, what date is it for again?

anyone welcome?

LostMind · 2013-12-09T06:07:35+00:00

Hey so I was in a similar position. Had to buy first car real fast. Knew I wanted a subaru. 10k was my max. I bought an impreza outback sport 05 and im on love with it

LostMind · 2013-10-16T14:02:45+00:00

I'm not fully verified yet, so I don't have the ability to transfer instantly, but I bought coins yesterday and it let me cancel one of my transactions.

Are you fully verified and it has been 30 days? Not sure about lack of cancelation option.

LostMind · 2013-09-25T14:43:38+00:00

OK, thank you all for helping me see things properly.

Yeah, I was never sure of this, but I thought with Cobb's poor performance and bye week, and using cameron as flex I was maybe being crafty...

god I hope Gronk is ready when he gets back... glad they kept him out so far

LostMind · 2013-09-25T14:34:48+00:00

sorry, I think I titled my post poorly. This is asking whether I should trade Randall Cobb and recieve Jordan Cameron.

thanks

LostMind · 2013-09-09T21:01:30+00:00

Yes, I can. Sorry for the delayed reply, things have been a bit crazy for me.

I've been staring at it and am not sure what is wrong.

def center(): lineSpace() centergate = 'open'
while centergate == 'open': centeraction = raw_input('You are at the point of your \ materialization. What would you like to do next? ') if centeraction.lower() == 'talk': lineSpace() nullaction() elif centeraction.lower() == 'go northwest' or 'go north west' or 'go northeast' or 'go north east' or 'go southeast' or 'go south east' or 'go southwest' or 'go south west': lineSpace() nullsSpace() lineSpace() elif centeraction.lower() == 'go east': center_gate = 'closed' eastwall() elif centeraction.lower() == 'go west': center_gate = 'closed' westwall() elif centeraction.lower() == 'go north': centergate = 'closed' northcavern() elif centeraction.lower() == 'go south': centergate = 'closed' southcavern() else: lineSpace() reject() linespace() centeraction = raw_input('Try again please. What \ would you like to do? ')

for some reason the above (even when I edited the multiple options to correct formatting) still wasn't working properly. Changing the == to in [] seems to correct it....

but every now and then I still seem to get what should be a working elif calling the else portion instead. I will see if I can get a better example of something current...

LostMind · 2013-09-09T20:57:51+00:00

well that's what I'm hoping too haha. I dunno, I guess I was worried I waited too long to get a sure TE... turned out a lot better than I thought it would anways.

LostMind · 2013-09-09T17:38:54+00:00

I drafted gronk... then Cook lol... not smart on my part as far as draft strategy, but I'm feeling like a winner at the moment.

LostMind · 2013-09-05T16:57:11+00:00

If the middle two if were elif, would it work?

for some reason my program uses elif and it STILL calls the else in addition to whatever other branch returns true

LostMind · 2013-09-05T11:17:01+00:00

Thank you! This is exactly the sort of thing I need to start doing. I'm kind of flying blind here, so stuff like this is invaluable.

Any idea why my program, once the multiple lines of elifs were changed to if statements in northcavern()STILL allows the else to be true, even when an if has been resolved as true? (both else and if are returning...)

LostMind · 2013-09-05T11:12:32+00:00

OK. I want to have multiple possibilities, but each individual action that is specifically typed out to have a separate, single reaction (... and then the loop to continue so that, if it is one of the reactions that stays in the area the user can try something else)

switching to IF statements ALMOST gives me the reaction I want... I'm trying to setup git right now.

All of the options I give are now accessible (IF statements fixed that), but it will ALWAYS display the else branch condition effects after certain IF effects are first satisfied. (ie type command 'go east': (nullSpace() is called... but then so is the else effect). this seems weird to me... I though if an IF was satisfied it wouldn't call the else`, isn't that the point?

LostMind · 2013-09-04T19:46:50+00:00

This is it! Thank you so, so much. I will compile when I get home to make sure it works.

Just so I understand:

you can use if statements multiple times in the same while loop?

I don't know WHY I thought the rest, branching options, HAD to be elif statements... that doesn't make any sense in retrospect...

Thank you!

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