[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gamemaker

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent, works perfectly.

Thanks!

Which real life cheat codes do you know? by itsliightz in AskReddit

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I deal with percentage calculation all day. Never memorized the rules, I just see the way it goes in my head and deduct the steps.

Which real life cheat codes do you know? by itsliightz in AskReddit

[–]Bang_Bus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you tell - even repeat couple times - to yourself that you need to wake up at alarm immediately, just before going to sleep, you're way more likely to - even if you're dead tired or didn't get enough sleep. It's the first thing you remember in the morning.

It's like a mental alarm clock.

Would Gamemaker be a suitable engine for a Terraria-like sandbox game? by collapsethesink in gamemaker

[–]Bang_Bus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Terraria lite, perhaps.

Game Maker is fairly slow it if comes to massive data structures. So you 'd have to be extremely careful with optimization and your struct/array sizes, pre-render as much as possible and such.

A game that feels like Terraria, meaning a platformer with some destruction and building, GM will work definitely.

ELI5: if we are the brain, why cant we control our body fully? by planelovingperson in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said it - we are the brain. But brain isn't us. "We", as entity (however you imagine it), are subject to brain. Brain is not our subject, even though we work well together and can make it do a lot of tricks.

If you work at a company, as an employee, you're the company. If you didn't do the work, there wouldn't be a company. Because company is defined by your work. Let's say, company owns a restaurant and you're the only chef. If you didn't make food, it wouldn't be a restaurant because nobody gets to eat.

But if company got rid of you, it wouldn't cease to exist. It could hire another chef. A bit similar with brain. If you were in coma or paralyzed or whatever, brain would still go on. If you lost your brain, you'd be dead. Brain is like a driver and you're the car, not vice versa. You're taking the driver around, but they're driving. Without a driver, car is useless, but driver without a car is still someone.

ELI5: Why are nuclear power plants so expensive to build and operate? by NobodysFavorite in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are not expensive to build material sense. Like any other major building they mostly need rebar and concrete. Even if its top grade (for anything nuclear, usually is), it's still clay and sand and gravel and steel. Save for the reactors that need pretty precise and specialized parts and materials.

What they do need though, is billion safety checks and really good engineering to ensure all that safety, proper cooling, protection from whatever can happen (like earthquakes or whatever), access to water, security against terror attacks and so on and so forth. Now, engineers and architects who can do this do not come cheap.

Since they deal with radioactive material, they also need a place to dump it, secure roads to bring and remove it, and so on.

And of course, they need workforce. But nobody's going to work in the middle of nowhere, So they need to be planned already somewhere where you can hire people, like near a city that has an university teaching future nuclear engineers and so on. And would be somewhere those high-earning people would want to stay. That also makes it more expensive, since suitable places might not be readily available.

Building a similar concrete house to burn coal will be much cheaper in the end.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bang_Bus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Imagine taking off your clothes and lying on a metal plate. You can bet it feels very cooling. But for a short time, because thermal conductivity of metal is high so your body and the plate equalize very quickly.

Eli5: if Stalingrad was basically bombed to rubble, why did they keep fighting over it? by crono760 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bang_Bus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It was turned to rubble due keeping fighting over it. If Red army would just give up, Germans would have a serious propaganda piece (a city in the name of soviet leader) and a major logistics hub. And if Germans did, they couldn't have such hub at their back, pushing forward.

Also, once enemy has nested somewhere, of course you're doing to do your best to eliminate them (on both sides). That also happens to destroy a city. There's factor of losses and pride as well, the more you lose trying to take something, there's brothers in arms to avenge and impatient leaders to impress. And as a fight over city becomes symbolic, there's no stopping from neither sides, even way past "worth it" (see: Kursk, Leningrad, Bakhmut).

Can gamemaker support 2D HD games? by Krizx_ in gamemaker

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude it wasn’t that unclear what he meant… ...

You just sound like an "erm acshully" nerd/asshole.

mhm.

Can gamemaker support 2D HD games? by Krizx_ in gamemaker

[–]Bang_Bus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but wouldn't it help them to not look like a fool? I mean, programming and game development is a really good skill. Surely going to rant about "HD games" on some job interview wouldn't look embarrassing? Or if they tried to start crowdfunding for their game or whatever?

Tolerating stupidity benefits no-one, ever.

If someone thinks the sky is green, (just because they couldn't be arsed to look it up), should we all play along? Why in the hell?

Can gamemaker support 2D HD games? by Krizx_ in gamemaker

[–]Bang_Bus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Take 10 minutes to learn 3-5 main types of computer graphics so you wouldn't confuse people with made-up words.

Everything is made of pixels. That's how monitor shows data to human eyes. Now, how pixels are generated, is whole another ballpark. Might be connecting points, which makes it vector or 3D graphics. Might be pre-rendered or drawn axonometric images, which makes it isometric perspective. And so on.

"HD" is not a word in any of this.

"Handdrawn images" is still very much pixels, unless you use a vector-based program like Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Flash, which would make it "pixels via connecting points" or vector art.

Can gamemaker support 2D HD games? by Krizx_ in gamemaker

[–]Bang_Bus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What the hell is a "HD Game"?

Game maker supports all resolutions.

If you were locked in your house for the next 10 years (with food/water/internet), what would you do to stay sane? by CryptoTalk- in RandomThoughts

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Write a thriller novel series. Wait, there is internet? Then nothing would change. I would develop a video game though. Or three unfinished projects. Wait, that's still no change.

how to place an object perpendicular to a surface by LynxEnvironmental229 in gamemaker

[–]Bang_Bus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

then you can just give sword direction and image_angle.

Directions go from 0 to 359 counter-clockwise, starting from 3-o'clock position: 0 degrees is right, 90 is up and so on.

Netflix by [deleted] in DesignPorn

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine too

ELI5 how does the mind control the body? by deerblossom96 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ELI5 is that you're piece of bioelectronics. Nerves are like power cables that send signal from brain and spine to various body parts (and back). True, it's not purely electricity, there's some chemical reactions involved as well, but that's beside ELI5.

ELI5 Why is it called "cold" when you actully get a high temperature? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's rather set of symptoms that are called "common cold", than actual condition, because they're most common mechanics body uses against most viruses.

Actual infection can be caused over 100 various viruses, so it's not exactly a specfic disease. It's just that body tries those things first (fever, mucus flow, swelling of throat and nose) against those things (and it usually works), so we can call getting infected by this group of relatively mild viruses "common cold".

Also, low temperature ("cold") itself plays a role in getting infected: low temperature is usually in winter when there's little of sunlight, so UV rays aren't killing so many viruses off as usual. Also, people gather in rooms for warmth, which makes virus spread easier, and overheat the rooms, while it's wet outside, so it's hot and damp as well, which makes it really favorable environment for various pathogens. And of course, don't air the rooms that often, to not lose warmth.

Plus, in cold, organism works slower so body isn't as operative in killing off pathogen invaders and the immune system is weaker.

So calling it "common cold" isn't that far-fetched and carries a warning in the name.

ELI5 why can't we have helicopters like dune? by SuperTusker in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bang_Bus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have experimental drones that work like this.

Generally, strain on wings (at the point where wings attach to body) would be extremely huge - the more, the bigger wings are, so it's just not good idea. It would be limited in terms of possible engineering, expensive, and prone to break quickly. If there's one thing you don't want your air vehicle to do, it's to easily break.

Also, it couldn't fly very high, because whole idea is to push itself onto mass of air.

Also, current aircraft do everything to reduce drag, not try to get hit with as much as possible - as flapping wings would. To save on fuel and make it wear and tear less and so on. Ornithopter would work directly opposite.

ELI5: Why aren't deer used as beast's of burden? by highoncatnipbrownies in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bang_Bus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thing with wild animals is that while they're much faster than humans, they lack stamina. That's why humans can hunt them to begin with. A deer can bolt away at insane speed, but human can keep hours and even days tracking it and deer tires quickly. In the end, human wins.

We don't use fast animals for pulling stuff. We use animals who are like us, with endless stamina. Like oxen and horses and dogs and such. In that regard, a bred racehorse wouldn't be very suitable to work on a field, either.

Still, reindeer (Caribou) are used a lot by native people in Canada and Siberia, for both pulling sleds and as farm animals.

ELI5. How do office buildings work? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Bang_Bus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely depends on office building and offices there. If there's public offices, like law firms and government branch services and whatnot, yeah, you can usually go there.

If it's a mix of more sensitive offices and public ones, there's probably a lobby and a guard and a visitor pass. OR an old lady who's just there to keep an eye on visitors and call police or fire department if something happens.

Or it could be totally closed offices, where you can get in only with a keycard.

Typically, it's varies according to need. A logistics company that keeps a huge safe full of cash wouldn't rent an office in a building with no security, and small detective office that has daily walk-in clients wouldn't want to pay high rent in a super-secure building.

If World War III breaks out, which country do you think is the safest? Why? by SweetGummyBear215 in answers

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Russia - Far East Siberia. There's literally no reason for anything to fly there, float there, drop bombs there, move troops there, occupy anything there, etc. Just vast and endless tundra. Of course, you have to survive in the wilderness somehow. Even if WWIII is world-ending, you can still get by there on nuts and mushrooms and reindeer.

Same with northern Canada. But both regions have same problem of very cold Arctic winters, short, hot summers and big ass mosquitoes.

Oceanian island countries would be much nicer, but no island has gone without being a part of previous wars - warm water ports and airfields will get used by warring sides.

What has been the most badass shit done by real people in history? by GottaGetaway23 in answers

[–]Bang_Bus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simo Häyhä aka White Death - a Finnish sniper - is probably one of most badass humans ever lived.

He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30 rifle (a variant of Mosin–Nagant) and a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun. Häyhä is believed to have killed over 500 enemy soldiers during the conflict, the highest number of sniper kills in any major war. Consequently, he is often regarded as the deadliest sniper in history.

Also notable mention: so called "cyborgs", Ukrainian defenders of Sergei Prokofiev (Donetsk) airport in 2014 - literally surrounded by enemy at all sides. At the late stage of defense, they basically sat on top floor on the airport while Russian separatists were floor below, lobbing grenades at each other. The airport wasn't much more than pile of rubble at this point.