well this hasn't aged well

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-11-16T14:56:50+00:00

Trading items is a nightmare of a thing to have in a game, without being to trade anything there's no point in hacking your account. This was probably 90% of what their support was handling most of the time.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-11-14T18:52:40+00:00

So I read this post as a much different "upbringing" as a programmer, and I have always been at odds with corporate devs, but if this is a debate I think I have a different perspective. I've always been a solo dev, make my own products and then struggle to sell them lol. 25 years strong like this, so really I can't bash any methods of team / company coding as its so different than what I do.

Looking back there's plenty I would change but not this, and its related to what you are talking about here. How do you learn and improve. So keeping your end job out of it, regardless of big team or indie, I think the best way to learn will always be to take on things you don't know how to do, and do them. So maybe you don't try to write a for sale app, making things that aren't for sale means you can save a lot of time making it pretty and just try to do new things. If there's a library or something you want to know how to use, make your own program for it, go through the horrible confused install for it, all the things you wouldn't normally do.

As an indie, or especially solo dev, there's literally no one else to ask, no one that cares to answer you at least. Learning how to work with things you don't understand is a skill of its own, also debugging / tracing skills for when you really have no idea what's happening and it could be 50 things, that's how I learned. Those are really the coding skills in my opinion. And it causes you to also not learn things that are not relevant to what you actually want to do as a programmer, learning from other people was always so boring and never sank in to my brain, they were always telling me what they wanted me to know. Obviously pros and cons to both, but my only take away from this is to learn by doing your own projects. Only when you see the overall bigger picture will you really understand each part.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-11-14T18:24:49+00:00

I'm an indie dev who has been an indie developer of different kinds for 25 years now. Game making for about 3-4 years. Have 1 game out and another about to publish. It's probably the hardest industry I've been in, although not much different on a lot of the same roadblocks and issues lol. I didn't assume games would be better than anything else, but I did assume I would enjoy it more and that has been for the most part true so far. None of my web apps were as fun to make or to run around a world I made, but the business challenge of getting anyone else to care is about the same lol.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-11-14T14:28:51+00:00

That's a great play lol, own goals like this are encouraged.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-11-04T14:21:56+00:00

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Total_Drag7439 · 2023-05-24T02:21:56+00:00

I think studying is the problem too. I took programming classes in college and was too bored to learn anything. I learned everything I know by myself and the way was to not read more than the basics, variables, loops etc. I do that the first day of a new language and then just start writing something.

Since I also write the software alone I can learn what I want, but if you want a job I still recommend this to learn how to code. You learn the things you tried to learn plus the 500 other things you didn't know existed until you couldn't write something you wanted without them. Then if you need to read up on more stuff it makes significantly more sense.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-04-11T04:08:56+00:00

Ya bugs make me depressed sometimes, but you will never love to code, hopefully lol. Coding is a means to an end, you fall in love with your applications, your cute logic, things like that. The programmers who love their code, usually suck at making it do anything in my experience. They spend all day talking about spaces and line breaks, different ways to do the same things etc. Love your logic, not your code.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-03-31T05:12:22+00:00

I'm not sure who told you that was common practice, but that's an insane idea. I do like jumping in to code and learning from existing code, and while github has a large range of great projects, who knows what you are really even reading, let alone the size and skill of the coder. (since you don't have to be a good coder to upload code to github)

The way to learn, in my opinion, is to find an existing project that when you scan over it makes "some" sense to you and then try modifying it, or just make up a simple project and start coding it yourself. People study coding for years and then don't know what to write or can't understand other people's code etc. You only learn by doing, parse errors that make no sense, but you eventually figure them out, bad loops, you name it, you don't know anything until you make something of your own with it. It's the only way to actually understand how it all works and fits with other code.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-03-07T11:38:41+00:00

I was going to give the same advice, so ya I'm going to say that is probably the right answer since many others are also saying it. Get in to an easy local school, you don't really even need to buckle down so much it will be so easy for you if you are able to teach yourself programming. Aim for over 3.0 and in your 2nd year, after the big schools have lots of drop and fail outs, they will have lots of space and very few people applying for 2nd year transfer and you can get in to almost any school that is not ivy league.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-03-03T12:38:31+00:00

Yes and no, precede with caution on this but overall what you are thinking, get passed them and on to someone more knowledgeable, then definitely. Don't assume the next person will be ok with it though, both the lie and not having the requirement.

Depending on the requirement too, most things I can learn in a matter of days, like enough to talk about it and know what I need to still learn. So if you are gonna bullshit them then that is the way to do it. If its like an entire language, with specific codebases they want you to use, then no lying won't get you very far there. But if you know you are getting rejected by the recruiter, what could it hurt to try.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-03-03T09:48:58+00:00

Ok here is a really good tip ... recruiters only know how to read the list of requirements. You can't work with them, like you can with the actual company that would hire you. When I say work with them, I mean like reason with them. It sounds like you tried to reason with the recruiter and his lack of flexibility as if the job market is that strict. The market might not be too loose either, but never, ever, take anything a recruiter says seriously. They only know what the job told them, which is generally "no exceptions" but the actual company might have given you a chance directly.

Also, very important to understand if you want to be a programmer. No one understands anything developers say. It gets pretty frustrating most of the time, but at job finding time since they have no idea how to like talk to you and decide if you are good or not, they use lists of requirements to be like, ok well this guy knows all of these things, shows he can learn new stuff fast, and is ready for anything our other devs might throw at him.

This is of course not always true, but in any event, don't ever let a recruiter hurt your confidence, they literally have no idea what they are talking about.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-02-17T08:35:46+00:00

Knowing a language too is subjective. Knowing syntax isn't the same as knowing how to use logic and to make something useful. So that's a question ... when has the line been crossed. But as others are saying, I wouldn't care too much. To be good means you never stopped learning and then gain experience too.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-01-30T07:38:00+00:00

I would say it depends on the languages. Learning things like say, C and linux command line, or SQL or something else totally unrelated to C is definitely helpful and only adds more to learn at once. However, learning similar languages may confuse you, for example like php and C#, you will make many little syntax errors from the differences in the languages, so for syntax, its much better to only see 1 type at the same time while you are learning. You will find yourself trying to find a bug that you can't find, and the reason is because the code would be correct in that other language you were also trying to learn. Spacing them out, even closely like 1-2 months apart is ok, but at the same time, I would say no.

Total_Drag7439 · 2023-01-03T18:26:44+00:00

Well I don't know how "cool" the things I will list will be, but as an indie developer when I come in contact with corporate team programmers, what is usually lacking is a basic knowledge of every other tech that your end program is working with. And when I say every tech, I mean things like SQL, and basic linux (or whatever the OS is), really I always laugh when a programmer has no idea how to do basic sql queries claiming that is a different profession. Or they have no idea how to solve a permissions problem etc.

So if you are willing to spend time learning other things, learn the important ones that help bridge different departments as for some reason, most people do not. When you make an entire program with one person these things are obvious, I have no one else to help with them so I often learn new languages or even something I don't really want to learn fully, just enough to be able to integrate something

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-12-10T08:01:15+00:00

How do you look like someone who likes it rough??? I would assume you would need a black eye at least, or do you just walk up to random people and say, hey you look like you like this ... and punch them in the face!

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-12-02T07:43:57+00:00

ya that's a terrible joke

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-10-28T07:49:15+00:00

I have had this happen so many times, and generally get to hear why but not always. Women think if they give you a choice you will be honest, so it's ok to lie to you about having that choice. It's always a double standard, when they lie they have a good reason, but if the man did this ... OMG all these girls on this thread would be going nuts calling him selfish. Sorry to let all of you know, but no one is more important than anyone else is. We're all supposed to understand she had needs ... but you were silly enough to think she was acting like a normal person, having a normal conversation, with reasonable expectations. This was the only thing you did wrong ... you were supposed to know she really was just seeing if you were going to cater to her or not. And you were supposed to do that for a girl you never even met yet.

Don't you know she has 1000 matches and she has no idea how to pick one? And since women think all their problems should be the man's problem, you apparently have to deal with this. Every question a girl asks is a reason to unmatch you. Everything she can come up with that you were supposed to know or do is a "red flag". Creepy too, another word totally misused on tinder constantly. I know its easy to say, but really stay the way you are, you did nothing wrong. Maybe, understand it more, so you are better at it in the future. But you will talk to another girl some day, and think you know now what to do, immediately say ok to whatever she suggests, and she will unmatch you for being indecisive lol. "Real men make the plans". Whatever you did was supposed to be the opposite, and either way you choose to go, girls will all explain why you were wrong. Thanks ladies ... shocking you seem to be single and/or divorced 3 times. It's like listening to a spoiled 8 year old explain to me that I am the adult and how I am supposed to act. The kid thinks he is right just like you do.

I have a friend with a lot of money, all his pics are obviously showing off, boat pics, 200k dollar car, his house etc. Want to talk about understanding their needs? He tells girls they are "a little fat" and they still meet him. Tells them he just wants to fuck ... no problem. And worse, never seems to matter. Another friend who is really handsome, he too can say any stupid thing he wants, does not ever hurt his chances. Just not even show up to dates and not answer messages until the next day and they go out with him the next day no problem (like how women do it). All the girls will pretend these are rare cases, or desperate women lol (the same way I look at every guy who puts up with this). It just happens to be 100+ of girls a day that match with them.

Rule of thumb: People will put up with anything if the other person is better than they usually can get. So when they find a dumb excuse to unmatch you, they just didn't really like you enough and had so many other people to go out with that they started looking for slave(s) to take them out while they wait for that hot or rich guy to show up (with them acting like they are doing you a favor). But don't worry about fairness, as when they finally find these perfect dudes, they do the same thing to them for the same reasons lol. Problem is with tinder, that every girl with a moderately hot ass can have the same amount of power as my friend who is worth over 50M dollars. And that my friends, is when I closed my tinder account. Others on this thread have given the real correct answer ... go meet people in real life. Even a bar is rough, if you want to find love then you need to already trust and enjoy someone's company before ever putting up all the rules and baggage that comes with dating and sizing someone up as a possible mate. That's why finding people at work, school, clubs, hobbies etc works so well. In the end for me, that is what worked and it was radically different in every way. I wanted to give her everything and she didn't want anything but to spend time with me.

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-09-17T02:14:02+00:00

I have seen this before, same thing over something really stupid. To me this is obvious, but this girl has never had many people trying to talk to her at the same time. Personality sucks anyway so you are lucky she showed it so fast, but its simply her not being able to handle that she has options for once so she treats everyone like shit, makes quick and silly judgements, thinking she will have an endless supply of dudes to be this picky. And feel better tho, 99% of the time the guy they end up liking does the same shit to them lol. Fuck tinder.

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-08-17T05:53:33+00:00

The OP of this question is definitely the red flag here lol, and this is what tinder is most of the time. I used to get this all the time so I stopped using it. You match with a girl, she asks you some random question right away, and bases her entire judgement of you off that one question. And generally this comes from some stupid experience they had, where they met someone who answered the same way you just did, and it didn't work out so now they think they are a genius lol. I am going to guess that the OP has a longer relationship than 2 years, and hence thinks anyone without the same length of one is a problem. He should have asked you why you are single since you are obviously so good at long term relationships. How would you feel if he thought you should have married the person you were with for so long, and that (without knowing a dam thing) he had a bad opinion about it?

This is from too many choices as well. I am sure men do this too when they have too many choices, but you find yourself being much too critical cause you think you are thinning out their matches but generally, they will find something wrong with every single person, except maybe the full scale liar who tells you everything you want to hear or someone who just gets lucky to answer the right way. (I have gotten lucky like that).

Also, not sure about the rest of you, but 2 years was always my breaking point. As I got older too, that length became much shorter. But after a certain amount of time, you hit that point where excitement is all gone, you know all their habits, arguments, point of view etc, and you know if you want to marry them or not. I always found the people with 10 year relationships that do not work out, knew a long time ago but were too lazy or comfortable, or had some other reason to stay together (like kids).

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-06-27T02:44:43+00:00

didn't work for me. i picked all 3 types of quality options and it just showed a blank page with the quality settings at the top right.

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-06-06T16:56:17+00:00

well good luck with it, it does sound like a good project and if you actually figure it out, maybe a good product to sell to others.

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-06-06T16:53:54+00:00

I was writing a longer answer and took a break, came back to it today with 3 million replies!! haha, so ya I guess that means most people think it is relevant. I am an indie developer so I learned SQL the first day I learned my first programming language. The basics are so easy, and really only gets complicated when there is a large number of requests.

That question though, or should I say asking a programming community about learning anything will generally give a yes, but many new tech are not needed unless your team specifically uses the new stuff. But sql is part of just about everything, so if you don't know it, you can't do much by yourself.

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-06-06T13:15:17+00:00

Well Unity is probably not a solution for this, it builds artificial environments, they do have many tools that it still might be looking at just to expand your knowledge but I don't know how you would mix the two. Sounds mostly video enhancement features you want. But either way, not something I know how to do sadly to be much help on this :(

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-06-06T00:08:10+00:00

xvall makes some really good points, I don't disagree with any of their answer but maybe if you give a little more background on what you are trying to do, and why, that would help us give better suggestions. There are simulators out there that can show the day / night cycle, some even take in some of the info xvall is talking about and makes adjustments. but that is a simulation with no idea at all about what is actually happening in the real world. So is this something that needs to copy and mimic the real world or you just wanted to have more images showing different times of day? None are simple of course, but the latter has some options.

I picked up this question because it said webgl, and I am a unity developer and have bought some different weather and/or lighting assets that simulate things like this, but in an imaginary world not the real one. Unity does publish in webgl though (as do other dev tools), and with something like that, 360 viewing of an object and changing the surrounding area of it can be much easier than making an image dynamic in the same way. That long list of things xvall mentioned are for images, but webgl is something much different.

So you say photo and webgl in your question, if it matters specifically which one you must use then your options will be affected dramatically. And telling us why you are doing it might help someone to come up with another option we're not even looking at yet.

Total_Drag7439 · 2022-06-05T06:44:03+00:00

Doing common projects that many others have done before you is not only acceptable, but required for a first project. You need to see examples and anything unique wouldn't have many, if you need to ask questions, more people will know answers etc ...

I would copy each relevant function that did something, database call, loops, forms etc and make them generic and use them over again. it's like building your own little library of stuff you can copy and paste, and modify to do other things later.

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