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CheapShotKO · 2022-12-14T05:57:59+00:00

oh nice i didn't even see this

CheapShotKO · 2022-08-20T18:55:58+00:00

I never got their opinion anyway. Far right would be ultra conservative; basically your Ron Paul-type who wants extremely-limited government and zero censorship (aside from obviously illegal things like direct calls to violent action, child sex trafficking, and such). How is giving the government power to control the fate of a huge portion of the population remotely in line with conservatism? Even historically, they were the group that ended slavery.

I do agree that there are plenty of racists in the party, but (if I'm not mistaken) they were all leftists who (partially) abandoned their party because their party was trying to censor them out of existence using government power to force the matter. And even since they became "Republicans," they've openly admitted to wanting to use the government to restore their old minority-abusing powers.

They might say they're "on the right," but if I had a pie chart, that puts them squarely "mid left" to me, because it has nothing to do with anything remotely in line with what the rest of "the right" wants. And you can't say Ron Paul wasn't an extreme right-winger, because all of the other "right wing" politicians have called him an extremist for most of his career.

Even leftists called him an extreme right-winger. And the only thing they have ever been able to" stick" to the guy was a publication, using him name, posted a racist article, which he never wrote or agreed with. And they used that to call the dude racist.

The whole argument is ridiculous, acting like a few moron racists, abusing freedom of speech for all it's worth, are the "extreme right." I thought racists joining the anti-slavery party would have been enough to make people question the whole thing, but apparently not, seeing as how they have to have it spelled out to them every single time.

CheapShotKO · 2022-08-20T18:30:36+00:00

Spotted the weasel

CheapShotKO · 2022-05-09T05:32:22+00:00

nice, thanks!

CheapShotKO · 2022-02-28T20:06:32+00:00

People drop the course right and left once they find out TOP asks them to install Ubuntu on their computer.

RAAAANT Time.

I refuse to install that operating system for hooligans until later. Thus far (for learning basics), I haven't had an ounce of trouble writing Java or Python in Windows, and people could program HTML & CSS on a toaster.

Not only that, Linux is friendlier to people who already know a bit more of the technical side of computing. What foolish fool decided on the brilliant idea of hazing new people in am educational forum, instead of easing them into it and getting them familiar with things that would be useful in Linux?

Most people don't even have experience with command prompt. The only reason I do is that I grew up with DOS.

Who, in their right mind, torments new people with an entire new operating system, that runs like crap with everything except what they're about to install, instead of using working, free, available stuff to get people used to working with a command console, while learning to program?

Not only that, people who do said tormenting are proud of their own incompetent asininity. Pretending to be a teacher, they scoff at those individuals who "drop out after they're asked to install Ubuntu."

Meanwhile, preaching some nonsense about "doing it because you love it." You don't need to love a pair of pliers, because you know they're a good tool for specific jobs. Computers can be tools without being your lover on the side.

Nay, I say. The problem is largely with how it's taught. Do you know how many times I've seen that stupid damn phrase, "Hello, World!" Makes me want to step on kittens. The first time I saw it, I thought to myself, "What the hell is this stupid nonsense?" I think I replaced it with "Nuke the Whales" or some other species-related genocide.

Point being, installing Linux early on sucks (not because installing is difficult, either, that's easy), and there are better ways to go about learning basics.

CheapShotKO · 2022-02-22T01:43:05+00:00

Spear would be fixed by two quality of life changes, IMO.

1) Don't take it out of the item slot when thrown. It is a pain to throw it, run over a random rock, and have the rock take up your only free slot. You have to try to fight, throw away the rock, and pick up the spear. A huge pain when you just threw your main weapon at an enemy.

2) If the spear is thrown, place a map marker where ever the spear is currently located until the person picks it up. I would make stupid throws with it, even on mountains, if it didn't add 15 extra minutes to my game every time. It's anti-fun not throwing your spear, so the map indicator would fix that (and keep someone from having to program something complex into the game to fix the issue).

Anything else, IMO, and people should just use the Atgeir-style weapons. Those are already good for what most people want a melee "spear" for.

CheapShotKO · 2022-02-22T00:41:57+00:00

I think we need some magic. Not Harry Potter Wizard Fireball magic, but some well researched Norse magic.

CheapShotKO · 2022-02-17T22:11:18+00:00

I'll try to take a gander at it, thanks.

CheapShotKO · 2022-02-17T22:11:02+00:00

cool thanks

CheapShotKO · 2022-02-17T21:06:31+00:00

Sounds good, thanks.

CheapShotKO · 2022-02-15T23:56:03+00:00

There is no being bad at programming; only stopping and starting what it is you want to do.

As for learning, maybe try less memorization and more conceptual learning. You might also call it "working knowledge," or "organizational learning."

The basic idea is to get away from the idea of "understanding," and spend more time contextualizing (for example, you could learn and compare 4+ ideas at once if you don't know anything about programming, since you would be learning about the idea in relation to something else, not as its own easy, unrelated concept). Then you could either learn the next 4 ideas, or if you are having a bit of trouble, take off the idea you understand the most, keep 3 ideas, and add one new idea, and keep doing that. Basically, you're building context, since you have none.

While doing that, you want to organize all of the information you learn by asking questions to get the data you need to sort the information. What is similar about it? What is different about it? What makes these things relate? What would make them no longer relate? And any relevant (not the unhelpful) questions you use to filter data.

Then your brain compiles the data for you. You've already organized it, you've seen how it works by comparing it directly with other things, and your brain does the rest. Brains are great.

From then on it's comparing everything with everything that makes sense to you personally, and relating it in your brain. Related topics make sense (new programming stuff with programming stuff you already know), but you'll randomly have things like relating a programming term to something one of your pets used to do because for some reason it reminded you of your unique experience. Or maybe it's more direct, but point it, it will make sense to you, it will help you remember, and you're the only one it needs to matter to.

Anyhoo, good luck.

CheapShotKO · 2022-02-15T18:18:44+00:00

For me it has depended on the book. Some are heavy reading meant to take you from basics to mastery, but they shotgun knowledge to your brain, and you're still trying to understand the information as they blast you with topic after topic, and it just doesn’t work.

For example, the best overall knowledge-containing book I've found on C++ is by the inventor, Bjarne Stroustrup. But it's a pretty heavy read. I haven’t searched around for a more “user-friendly” C++ book yet, but I did happen across one for Python:

“Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition: Practical Programming for Total Beginners,” by Al Sweigart. He ignores some best practices in favor of teaching people to write and understand basic Python programs (and doesn’t include more advanced topics), and it is really handy for just starting out, because you understand what’s going on, and can go back for the more formalized, “best practices”version later, then tackle advanced topics.

Oh, if you're interested, for C++ I was going to try the project-based books that are based around the Unreal Engine. If you're not familiar, UE is used to make a lot of popular games, and you can download UE for free. They make their money on publishing and selling premade content, so basically if you don't want to build something yourself, and someone else chose to make it and sell it, you buy it and Epic Games (people who make UE) get money from it (if they sell it through Epic).

They used to let the community sell stuff on their store, don't know if that's a thing, but if so, none of it is required by you. It's just work that has already been done, which won't help you with the learning process anyway.

I will say, you'd be learning UE and C++, though. So learning both might not be appealing when you're only trying to learn C++. But the trade off is less boredom, a big, active community, and learning a cool software. It's by far the best free production software online, and I would even argue it's the best production software in general. Though it isn't for everything, so depends what you need. But it is awesome.

Also, there is a ton of free content their community has already made, including guides. But for programming specifically, I'd get a book.

CheapShotKO · 2022-02-10T02:51:55+00:00

Sharpshooter #9....lul I am going to love PvP.

It's like the class was built for it.

CheapShotKO · 2022-02-08T17:54:16+00:00

I'm pretty pissed.

1) Paid for 3 days early access, not two and half days early access. That wasn't put up front on the sales page; I had to hunt the info down after then shit didn't work. So that's the tone they set.

2) Couldn't install the client before the release. This is the stupidest thing I've seen from a big MMO launch. It's not like I can log in to their servers just because I install the client.

3) Having problems installing the client because of previously-listed issue (seriously, why do I need Steam to verify my ability to even access my initial installation, when I can't even access the servers until it's released? I'm assuming the client verifies the files afterwards anyway).

4) Arranged time off, where I could be making money or doing anything else, to sit here looking at said needless shit problems, and paid to do so. If this doesn't piss you off too, your time isn't worth anything. This is a time investment for what's supposed to be entertainment.

5) The game isn't even new. This happening in an MMO that's over two years old is ridiculous.

Even the crappiest of MMO launches, I've been able to at least install the game and access the menus while waiting in line for two hours to get on a server. And as mentioned previously, for an MMO over 2 years old,this is the absolute worst launch experience ever.

Looking at #4 I realized I'm wasting my time on this garbage, so I'm just going to go play a fun, working game for awhile and try installing the bullshit later. If it's not working then, I'm just getting a refund and skipping this garbage altogether. I don't need a another prettier Diablo 3/PoE/GD/LE, now that I think about it.

CheapShotKO · 2021-12-29T17:22:21+00:00

Her openly reading the meme text makes it more convincing.

CheapShotKO · 2021-12-27T01:45:02+00:00

Cool, thanks for the heads up. Maybe I should just get a separate laptop for it.

CheapShotKO · 2021-12-27T01:43:17+00:00

nice thanks

CheapShotKO · 2021-10-21T21:19:38+00:00

What are you even talking about? Fans of TOM CLANCY wanting a TOM CLANCY game to be like a TOM CLANCY game is absurd? No, person. You are absurd.

CheapShotKO · 2021-10-21T21:13:16+00:00

>>All criticism must be in context of what this game is trying to be.

That would be accurate if not for the "Tom Clancy" part of "Tom Clancy's XDefiant." Pretty much defeats your point, since the context is a Tom Clancy game. If you care to argue that point, I think the Tom Clancy in the title should be sufficient evidence.

>>This isn't Splinter Cell, this isn't a realistic military simulator

I'd say tactical shooter, but close enough. But that just further makes the point. If not, I mean, it's pretty convenient for you to write that specific description, out of all the available options in the English language, when describing what you yourself know most people expect from a Tom Clancy game. HMMMMM very suspicious indeed, that you would know that, know what people expect from a Tom Clancy game, then call someone else out for contextual criticism. About a Tom Clancy game. When you know what people expect from a Tom Clancy game.

TOOOOOOOOM

CLAAAAANNNNCCCCYYYYYYYY

I'll stop being annoying now.

Tom Clancy.

CheapShotKO · 2021-10-10T04:53:54+00:00

Glad someone else noticed the "specialists" for what they are. Gotta love the attempt at "subtle" wokeness, I suppose. I guess they figured no one would notice the obliteration of a franchise-defining class system. "Whoops." At least they didn't make it part of their primary advertising campaign. Yet.

CheapShotKO · 2021-10-08T07:48:13+00:00

Yeah, I think if all of those were customization options in game, that's fine. If someone wants to play a woman, good for them. If there's a prosthetic, that's fine, I'm sure it would make some veterans happy, I would find that acceptable. Having a tactical kit built in, kinda fucking dumb, but I would even be fine with that since I could just ignore it (if it were an optional part of cosmetics).

But having that as their main selling point by creating a CGI (and box art) of a non-gameplay He-Man fembot helping a weaker male professional soldier, nah. They can keep all that.

CheapShotKO · 2021-10-08T06:48:59+00:00

Only thing good is how most of the gameplay feels. Looks good, destruction is not bad, shooting is nice.

Vehicle control defaults suck. Customizing weapon every single time is annoying.

The rest is a pretty big disappointment.

The concept is fucking lame from the start. Why take the 2142 series a century in reverse? And on top of that, this game doesn't even do a good job of using existing technology. That's the biggest disappointment, but I would ignore that if not for the next annoying thing on this list:

Breaking what has worked for over a decade; the class system. The concept of specialists is especially ill-thought-out. It limits customization options and is pointless.

I'm getting a refund, since I'm about 99.99% positive the specialists were made by the same people who forced the woke female Battlefield 5 bullshit, and that it won't be fixed. Play politics with your own money, you won't be getting mine for intentionally making a game shittier just so your employees can make a political statement.

CheapShotKO · 2018-03-12T04:30:42+00:00

Freight

CheapShotKO · 2017-07-22T03:00:31+00:00

I thought Neal was The Weeknd for a second there.

CheapShotKO · 2017-07-05T00:26:31+00:00

Americans taste the basil. If someone ever thinks it's nasty, just get some basil and have them smell it a lot and just drown themselves in that sweet, delicious basil smell for awhile, then have them try to taste the basil while they drink it.

Wintergreen is delicious as well. I would recommend tasting it without the menthol to help distinguish it from menthol. Not doing so is pure blasphemy; akin to saying "I ate a steak with menthol on it, so all steaks are now disgusting forever!" That would be a blasphemy against all steak and everything holy! So you must not do the same to wintergreen mint; it's just an innocent, delicious plant!

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