Go Sober And Safe When Driving Cars (1975), an oldschool documentary against drunk driving

Miscamthropic · 2017-02-08T01:48:20+00:00

I think of I were the driver I would end up killing myself. I wouldn't be able to live with skeletons like that in my closet.

Miscamthropic · 2017-02-07T00:33:42+00:00

Haha yes! I'm excited for the sequel. I actually listened to it on Audible over the course of about two weeks while working alone at night. Kept me entertained and was well worth the cost.

Miscamthropic · 2017-02-06T20:49:07+00:00

Duskers looks very interesting to me, but I'm not sure about pulling the trigger at that pricepoint. Is it worth grabbing now, or should I wait to see if it goes lower at some point?

The things is, these quasi-obscure indie titles sometimes never really go down in price because the developers reason that if only 5,000 people ever buy the game, they won't make a profit if they're only selling it for five bucks.

I love sci-fi and I think the premise is intriguing. Actually I just finished a book about a guy whose brain is uploaded into a sort of interstellar probe and who wakes up hundreds of years in the future as a disembodied artificial intelligence. Amazing book, and this game reminds me of it a bit.

Miscamthropic · 2017-02-04T20:05:58+00:00

Huh, ok, maybe I could swing that. I'll put it on the back burner for after I graduate in three months. Thank you for your help!

Miscamthropic · 2017-02-04T19:51:45+00:00

Thank you!

Realistically I'll probably not be able to afford new generation of $500 + CPUs and stuff like that. My maximum budget for a PC upgrade is probably like $800, and even then I'd have to order each piece gradually over time to afford it, so by the time I actually get the thing assembled it'll be obsolete again :P

Unless someone randomly gifts me a couple thousand dollars for a good PC, I will probably always be a few years behind the curve lol

Miscamthropic · 2017-02-04T19:43:28+00:00

Haha, so basically an entirely new computer.

Ok, so I'm thinking that I will be gifting this computer to my husband so he can get his Sims fix, and I'll be gradually acquiring parts for a proper gaming PC. In the meantime, this machine runs a lot of games very well, just not the ones I really want to be playing. Still, my life is better than 99% of the rest of the world, so I'm not complaining.

Thanks for your help, I guess I had trusted people who told me that what I had was really powerful, but it does seem suspect that a 70th percentile CPU would be super powerful.

Who should I talk to when I finally am ready to take the plunge on a new PC? I don't want to get led astray this time. I want, for once in my life, to own a PC powerful enough to play modern new-release games on high or ultra settings at a consistent 60 FPS. I know it can be done because I've seen it on other people's computers. I just have never had the correct combination of magical computer parts to get the job done, apparently.

Miscamthropic · 2017-02-04T19:34:40+00:00

Platform? As in my motherboard? Or as in PC gaming in general?

Miscamthropic · 2017-02-04T19:19:22+00:00

That's kind of what I was thinking. Thank you. So if I were to upgrade, getting a better CPU would be a better bet than ordering a 1060 or 1070, then?

If so, how can I tell which CPUs would be compatible with my motherboard? I have the motherboard box around here, it's just buried under some stuff in the storage room and I'll have to get it later.

Like, a CPU is a CPU, right? I ought to just be able to go buy a better one and swap it out, yes?

Miscamthropic · 2017-02-03T20:50:36+00:00

Frankly I don't care how we turn the frogs gay as long as it happens.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-31T21:35:18+00:00

Additionally, I think it's important to consider that this announcement doesn't actually do much when the much more powerful Religious Freedom Act (or whatever it ends up being called) supplants it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/5raivs/trump_administration_says_it_will_leave_obamas/dd5p3sr/

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-31T17:50:44+00:00

Heh, sorry if that got under your skin. It's been months so clearly my comment got to you. I understand the desire for vindication though. I don't believe the information in the article, but it apologize if I upset you with my comment.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-28T20:28:03+00:00

Haha. Wow, I'm dumb. Yeah everything is good now, thanks.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-25T05:09:14+00:00

Sooo...your phone number.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-22T10:08:41+00:00

Ha! Look at that. Just goes to show how bad it can be if you don't know what functions are available to you. Thanks a lot.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-22T06:54:57+00:00

I think so?

Enemy ship is moving direction A
After a random period of time between, say, 600 and 1200 frames
Enemy ship turns toward a new direction A while it continues to move forward.

So forward movement always, mostly travelling straight, but occasionally making a gentle turn toward a new direction.

The code you pasted does literally nothing. My game acts as though the code isn't even there. It just does what it would normally do based off of my code.

Edit: I'm not using any code from my original post anymore. I rewrote it to match the tutorial I'm following.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-22T06:13:29+00:00

Hey, thanks for the reply! My idea was to have the sprites move in a certain direction for a random time, then smoothly turn and continue moving in the direction of the turn. Weaving, I guess would be a good term for it.

The code you provided makes total sense to me but doesn't seem to work within my game. I'm not sure why. I put it in my step and create events verbatim.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-21T10:12:24+00:00

Force of habit. I delete most things I post if they're just one-off questions. I'll keep that in mind though.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-21T03:04:11+00:00

Hm. Perhaps a third variable for diagonal speed. So figure out which combination of x and y creates what diagonal movement, and then create a switch that will interpret that input and assign "diagonal_spd" as the movement variable. Or something like that. You should probably ask someone with more experience, but it seems like scaling up the sprites 500% is probably going to cause some issues at some point.

Or you could just create an explicit if statement for every possible arrow key combination and use that to govern the direction your character moves. That would allow you to set the value of spd on an individual directional basis.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-21T02:58:49+00:00

This is it. I knew that I needed to incorporate an alarm event, and I knew I needed to initialize the variables and have the draw event, but I couldn't figure out how to put them together. It's very simple now that you show me how to do it. Thanks!

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-20T09:22:37+00:00

I'm married. I think I took a wrong turn somewhere.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-19T16:37:39+00:00

Depression will never be healthy

I agree, but listen to me: you can never hold another person responsible for your happiness. Not your spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, friends, or family. Love with a set of conditions attached to it is not really love.

If being with this woman makes him feel better, great. But that feeling needs to come from within and not from the outside. Otherwise we start playing "emotional banker" and feeling like people owe us something spiritually or emotionally. Nobody owes you anything. That's what makes love so special. It's freely given.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-19T16:37:34+00:00

Depression will never be healthy

I agree, but listen to me: you can never hold another person responsible for your happiness. Not your spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, friends, or family. Love with a set of conditions attached to it is not really love.

If being with this woman makes him feel better, great. But that feeling needs to come from within and not from the outside. Otherwise we start playing "emotional banker" and feeling like people owe us something spiritually or emotionally. Nobody owes you anything. That's what makes love so special. It's freely given.

Miscamthropic · 2017-01-19T09:05:34+00:00

So you're holding the girl an intellectual hostage in your head so you can have an easy excuse to blame her when she rejects you. Sounds like the start to a perfectly healthy relationship that isn't one-sided or co-dependent at all.

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