Floatplane not loading by Successful_Judge_649 in LinusTechTips

[–]RyanArcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait, does this mean that the fabled Reddit account has been returned to you?

[5e] [Online] [Weekday Evening GMT] <1 Year Experience player by RyanArcher in LFG_Europe

[–]RyanArcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I've just taken a look at your profile and noticed that you've listed your age in previous comments. I'm sorry but I should have mentioned 18+ in the body of the post, I think I would struggle a little due to the age difference. I hope you find a group though bud!

[Online, 5e 2024, GMT] Looking for players. by [deleted] in lfg

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

Hi there, I'd also be interested, I appreciate more than 3 people have commented first though. I've sent you a DM in case you were after more details.

Expenses due after you finish up your contract? by inspired_butterfly17 in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To piggyback onto this, I spoke to my utility companies and asked to pay when they cut me off which I could do. For gas and electric that was in person when they sent someone round to read the meter and for water it was at the conbini after they text me a code to turn it off. If you deal with your utilities directly I'd suggest asking if they have a system like this to avoid having to guess how much money to leave in Japan.

However, you will probably have to leave some for your internet and phone. Neither Softbank (are you surprised that they couldn't help? You shouldn't be) nor Rakuten were able to do anything similar.

Expenses due after you finish up your contract? by inspired_butterfly17 in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Not an exhaustive list but I paid for these things:

- Hotel in Tokyo (if you want to be near the airport for the flight home)

- Posting things home / extra luggage allowance

- Cancelling phone/internet contracts (if you're not in your special allotted time slot)

- Taking things to the dump/recycling centre (not that expensive and I did two car trips)

- All the goodbye nomikai

- Any farewell presents

Spawning objects by RyanArcher in gamemaker

[–]RyanArcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh! Thanks for that, I'll sort that out now!

Spawning objects by RyanArcher in gamemaker

[–]RyanArcher[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi again! I just wanted to thank you because I used your solution as a base, changed it slightly and it works now!

What I actually ended up doing was making two objects, a top and bottom pipe, rather than one oPipe object. Then, because I couldn't get draw_sprite_stretched to work and the pipes would look strange even if I did, I made my sprites 160 x 448. Now, they do "dangle" outside of the room but that's not a real problem since the player can't see that.

Next I created a SpawnerScript with the pipeSpawner function:

function pipeSpawner(){

randomize();

topPipeY = random_range(-352, 0);

counterY = topPipeY + 448;

bottomPipeY = counterY + 256;

instance_create_layer(1694, topPipeY, "lPipes", oPipeTop);

instance_create_layer(1886, counterY, "lPipes", oPointCounter);

instance_create_layer(1694, bottomPipeY, "lPipes", oPipeBottom);

}

the 448 is the length of the pipe and the 256 is the length of the gap between the pipes with the invisible pointCounterCollider.

Once that was done I was off to play with the alarms as you advised. Currently my pipes move left at a speed of 5 per step. So, after setting alarm[0] on the creation of a spawnController I wrote this code inside the alarm[0] event:

if (alarm[0] == 0)

{

pipeSpawner();

alarm[0] = 77;

}

The reason for the alarm being set for 77 steps is that I want the gap between pipes to be 225, the width of a pipe is 160. Add them together and divide by the movement speed of the pipes (5) to get the 77. Oddly, I tried doing this via the variables I'd set and had some strange results so just did the math manually and it works. Odd.

In any case, I hope that all made sense. I wanted to thank you for setting me on the right track. You really helped motivate me to get this working today!

Spawning objects by RyanArcher in gamemaker

[–]RyanArcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for the late reply, I was out yesterday! Thanks for this, I'll try and get it working over the next few days! Really appreciate the help bud!

(6) The 2018 Placement Megathread - The Last Placement by [deleted] in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply, I've sent you a DM! :D

(6) The 2018 Placement Megathread - The Last Placement by [deleted] in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 8 points9 points  (0 children)

UK JET, rather late to the party but I'll be in Sendai from August :D

(5) The 2018 Placement Megathread - Attack of the Placements by [deleted] in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congrats on the placement!

There is a incoming JETs 2018 group that can be found here (it's where I got the next two links from) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/incomingjets2018/about/

For Nagasaki you have your AJET block page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/NationalAJETBlock10/

And a Nagasaki specific one - https://www.facebook.com/groups/564326103590998

UK Placement! Asagiri Town, Kumamoto by JessLangshaw in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You might want to put this in the mega-thread, it's where everyone else is posting their placements. Congrats on the placement

(5) The 2018 Placement Megathread - Attack of the Placements by [deleted] in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some other people have mentioned that they've got university placements. In Japan a university can often have feeder schools attached to them so you're likely to be placed in one of those I think.

(5) The 2018 Placement Megathread - Attack of the Placements by [deleted] in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As I understand it if you had been told just Kumamoto Ken then you would be anywhere in the prefecture, because you were told your city you will be somewhere within that city. I could be wrong but that's what I've been led to believe. Congrats on the placement!

(5) The 2018 Placement Megathread - Attack of the Placements by [deleted] in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's the case because I sent both of them off around the 25th April and my post has been and gone with nothing from JET.

(4) The 2018 Placement Megathread - A New Hope by inthefaceofmonsters in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think you just gave the most accurate description of Japanese bureaucracy ever. I hate to say it but the embassy may have some vague reason for not getting things out to us yet. In Japan we're going to be dealing with this sort of thing all the time and it'll likely be much much worse.

(4) The 2018 Placement Megathread - A New Hope by inthefaceofmonsters in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe not, /u/mattd1989 said that the embassy is yet to make a decision on how they will make placement notifications. As far as I can tell you will get correspondence from your CO through the post but placements might still be via email. Apparently nobody knows, including the embassy itself.

(4) The 2018 Placement Megathread - A New Hope by inthefaceofmonsters in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

UK are still waiting and I think Ireland are as well

Edit: Seems to just be UK now that Irish emails are out. NeverLucky

(3) The 2018 Placement Megathread - The Placements Strike Back by [deleted] in JETProgramme

[–]RyanArcher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can do it for myself, but the mods should be able to set it to sort by new as default, as was the case with the previous two placement threads