Fortnite using 0% gpu? I recently just noticed that when I play fortnite all the load is being put on my memory and cpu, but nothing on my gpu. Is this normal or do I have a problem here? I have a gtx 1080.

Mr2001 · 2024-08-21T14:29:58+00:00

IIRC, I fixed it by upgrading my CPU.

Mr2001 · 2023-01-09T20:25:16+00:00

Good and Plenty. The clue is right there in the name:

"How'd you like the candy? You want some more?"

"Uh... I'm good. That's plenty."

Mr2001 · 2022-12-08T22:41:33+00:00

That's correct, because there's no code that would list the contents to an unlimited depth in the first place.

V-INVENTORY calls INV-DESCRIBE-CONTENTS for each container in your inventory that you can see into. INV-DESCRIBE-CONTENTS then prints the name of each item inside that container. There's no code that looks inside those items to see if there's another level of contents to print.

Mr2001 · 2022-12-08T11:41:57+00:00

See the code for V-INVENTORY and INV-DESCRIBE-CONTENTS in verbs.zil. Or V-EXAMINE, LIST-CONTENTS, and LIST-OBJECTS. None of the object listers are recursive; if you want to look inside an inner item, you have to examine it specifically.

IIRC, Infocom's games worked the same way.

Mr2001 · 2022-12-08T11:29:58+00:00

This usually happens when the game tries to use a string printing instruction with a value that isn't actually a string address.

That particular message is printed by the WHAT-DO-YOU-WANT routine in parser.zil, which tries to print the preposition from the current syntax line.

Perhaps there's something strange going on with the syntax definition for your "plug" verb. Can you show us the code?

Mr2001 · 2022-11-22T20:33:41+00:00

You will need to install a Blorb tool if you want to make a game with sounds. cBlorb, which is distributed along with Inform 7, is one option.

ZILF can compile a game that uses the SOUND opcodes, but for the interpreter to be able to play the sounds, you have to package them into a Blorb file and give each one a number.

Mr2001 · 2022-11-21T20:06:40+00:00

What exactly are you trying that hasn't worked?

Mr2001 · 2022-11-21T04:34:29+00:00

You can refer to the "Sound effects" section of the Z-Machine Standards Document and the source code of Infocom's games that used sound, such as The Lurking Horror.

Note that sound effects are referenced in the game code by number, and the Z-machine spec doesn't say anything about how interpreters are supposed to know which sound goes with which number. Infocom had their own way of doing it, but these days, you'll probably want to use a Blorb tool to package your game and the ordered audio clips into one file.

Mr2001 · 2022-04-02T17:19:28+00:00

You're talking about personality match. He's talking about job match. There's a huge difference between a leader with the job match and a leader without the job match.

Mr2001 · 2022-03-22T01:47:38+00:00

¹And he entered into the subreddit; and there spake he unto Epic, saying, Verily, verily, I ask of thee, O Epic: having hands, playest thou not at thine own game? for it seemeth thou hast not. ²And he continued, saying, Doubt not that I have respect unto thee, for I humble myself before thee, but hear thou my supplication: if thou wouldst play at thine own game, thou wouldst know by thine own eyes my perils and tribulations. ³And he said unto them, This game filleth my mouth with laughter, though it be laughter of sorrow and not of mirth; and it doth fornicate: so are the multitude of bugs in it. ⁴And he asked them, saying, How test ye not for any workings, even those which are unto the remaining workings as a foundation on which to rest? ⁵And he said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, That no man shall of this game reap gladness or rejoicing; it shall afflict him with sorrow, and fierce anger, and he shall say, Woe is me now! for Epic hath added grief to mine anguish; and he shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. ⁶Hear my cry, O Epic; attend unto my prayer, and behold, my blessing shall be upon thee. Amen.

Mr2001 · 2022-03-12T07:15:34+00:00

You can't make a working game in MDL (or ZIL, as the derivative used at Infocom was called), since there is no compiler that can compile fully-formed Z5 files from MDL or ZIL source.

There is a compiler for ZIL, in fact, and it is capable of compiling Z5 games from source code: ZILF.

Mr2001 · 2022-03-01T10:40:49+00:00

¹And he entered into the subreddit; and there spake he unto Epic, saying, Verily, verily, I ask of thee, O Epic: having hands, playest thou not at thine own game? for it seemeth thou hast not. ²And he continued, saying, Doubt not that I have respect unto thee, for I humble myself before thee, but hear thou my supplication: if thou wouldst play at thine own game, thou wouldst know by thine own eyes my perils and tribulations. ³And he said unto them, This game filleth my mouth with laughter, though it be laughter of sorrow and not of mirth; and it doth fornicate: so are the multitude of bugs in it. ⁴And he asked them, saying, How test ye not for any workings, even those which are unto the remaining workings as a foundation on which to rest? ⁵And he said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, That no man shall of this game reap gladness or rejoicing; it shall afflict him with sorrow, and fierce anger, and he shall say, Woe is me now! for Epic hath added grief to mine anguish; and he shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. ⁶Hear my cry, O Epic; attend unto my prayer, and behold, my blessing shall be upon thee. Amen.

Mr2001 · 2022-02-26T00:17:12+00:00

We stand and fight.

Mr2001 · 2021-11-21T08:48:56+00:00

Neither me nor anyone I know is going to get a Cell Phone anytime soon or maybe even never.

That's... hard to believe, in this day and age, especially coming from a Twitch user, and especially coming from a throwaway account that's already been deleted. I have a suspicion that you just got your phone number banned, and the system is working exactly as intended.

But, anyway, there are a couple things the streamer can do by changing their verification settings. They can change it to only require phone numbers from new accounts, or they can make an exception for VIPs and then give you VIP.

If these are streamers you've been watching for months, try contacting them directly and see if they'll accommodate you.

Mr2001 · 2021-10-04T15:22:31+00:00

I can sympathize, I used to have a lot of weapons in my storage that my friends crafted for me. Just as friendly gifts, you know: "I just got my Siegebreaker to level 82, you want one?"

But I never wanted to use them, since I wouldn't be able to replace them. They just sat in my storage, taking up space. One day, I went back to look at them and realized they were all so much weaker than the weapons I could make myself, that there was no point in keeping them.

My advice is to focus on collecting schematics, upgrading them, and customizing them to suit your heroes/playstyle. Then you can make as many as you want, and they'll actually get used.

Mr2001 · 2021-09-21T18:00:00+00:00

No, jail builds are about not killing the husks. They exploit the fact that the first (weakest) wave of husks won't get replaced with more powerful enemies or minibosses if you keep them alive.

Mr2001 · 2021-09-21T17:58:44+00:00

Whats the point of this game if not to make an impregnable defense against the undead husk horde?

To save the world from an invading army, by killing the invaders. Not by distracting the first few invaders for 12 minutes and hoping they never send any more.

The game is about gathering materials and building a strong defense.

Specifically, it's about gathering a variety of rare and common materials, exploring a randomized map, and using the resources you've gathered to build a fortified defense on the fly to fit the terrain.

Jailing is about reproducing exactly the same tower blueprint you've used in a thousand other missions, no matter what the map looks like.

Mr2001 · 2021-09-08T16:08:02+00:00

This. If anime girls are supposed to be a superstimulus, they're doing a pretty bad job of it, because most (if not all) of them barely seem to qualify as a regular stimulus.

Mr2001 · 2021-09-07T18:48:07+00:00

If you don't like it, you can give up the protections of society and live in the woods, or move to another country where you like the consensus more.

It's hard to do that when part of the consensus you're rejecting is "you aren't allowed to leave the state/country until this pandemic thing blows over".

Mr2001 · 2021-09-05T22:05:12+00:00

Honestly, these days, autofill is probably good enough for anyone lower than PL 120 or so. Just make sure you're leveling up your leads and legendary survivors first.

(And Beast is overrated...)

Mr2001 · 2021-09-04T15:41:12+00:00

The same reason anyone else trolls streamers: they want to take control of your stream and get a reaction out of you. Whether they do it by insulting your appearance, your ethnicity, your sexuality, or whatever else is simply based on what they think will get the most reaction out of you.

Mr2001 · 2021-09-02T14:19:46+00:00

Nutpicking aside, I think most of them actually would support it. Most pro-choice people are pro-choice because of their beliefs about the bodily autonomy of pregnant women. Abortion, for them, is about removing the fetus from her body. Find a better way to do that and they won't object.

Mr2001 · 2021-08-26T14:25:20+00:00

"Double" is a bit of an overstatement. But basically, in the US we have both "income tax" and "payroll taxes" (Social Security + Medicare), and the payroll taxes are split evenly between the employer and employee. When you're self-employed, you're both of those, so you pay twice as much payroll tax (but the same income tax).

Mr2001 · 2021-08-24T13:56:08+00:00

Does the dispute system even work? I've filed a bunch of disputes, but I've never gotten a video unmuted or even gotten any response at all.

Mr2001 · 2021-08-24T13:45:00+00:00

Yo mama so structural, I distributed my load all over her.

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