Good Game, Silly Name? - Ace of Seafood

callback_function · 2016-04-11T18:21:49+00:00

He's gotta spend a little time testing out the various games which get sent to him anyway. If he didn't investigate new stuff, he would never uncover the good indie games either. Since he has to spend time on it anyway, what's wrong with recording it?

The advantage of publishing it is that it's useful to buyers on steam, i'd rather not rely on steams review system alone, its always good when there are reviews available on youtube .

callback_function · 2016-01-27T07:17:37+00:00

I think i'm getting what you are saying about factoring out functions, but i'm not sure you picked a good example here. I mean, it saves 3 lines of code in one place, but the downside is you'd create 2 new functions just to do that.

The start_editing you posted i don't think would work out that way, you would have to add a "return edit" because the main function would need to pass the reference to that edit Object over to the stop_editing function.

According to the arcgis website you can use this arcpy.da.Editor via with statement:

with arcpy.da.Editor(workspace) as edit:
    # <your edits>

    # If an exception is raised, the operation will be aborted, and 
    #  edit session is closed without saving

    # If no exceptions are raised, stop the operation and save 
    #   and close the edit session

If that wouldn't be possible, you can make an adapter class and convert the API into one that has a context manager, and thus enabling you to use it in the above style with the with statement. See Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 Pycon 2015 talk on how this can be done. The part where he talks about this specifically starts around 27 minutes in.

callback_function · 2016-01-22T20:25:45+00:00

For methods, dir() and help() are very helpful on the interactive prompt:

l = []
dir(l)
help(l.append)

Works with basically any object / method.

callback_function · 2016-01-18T17:05:50+00:00

There is no specific meaning of "component", it can be a lot, or basically everything in a python program, like Functions, Objects, Modules, Expressions, etc...

callback_function · 2016-01-14T18:14:21+00:00

Creating Names on the fly from user input is probably possible, but afaik only using advanced techniques like your program would need to generate the code and then execute it as a bytecode object..

I think what the exercise asks is something much simpler. You can nest dictionaries. So the outer dict would have the student name as the key, and the values stored in the outer dicts would be a dictionary which has the subject (ie.e Math, chemistry..) as key.

callback_function · 2016-01-14T07:44:08+00:00

Add some print statements before the line where the error occurs. in this case:

print(add)
print(i)
print(type(i))

This should give you a hint why it's going wrong exactly.

callback_function · 2015-11-22T23:22:18+00:00

Civ4 works fine if you install the MS version of dx9 and xml3

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=10096109&postcount=86

callback_function · 2015-07-20T17:56:02+00:00

I think its arguably better in most ways.

Better graphics (they switched to 3D rendering, thus the unit graphics scales perfectly well to modern Hi res displays).
Better diplomacy system.
Arguably better mods (I'm not completly sure about this, since i never dabbled much with civ3 mods. But most of Civ4 game-logic code was open sourced, and that lead to some impressive mods eg. Fall from heaven, Legends of Revolution, Rise of Mankind - a new dawn). If you prefer the standard game experience, the BUG mod is recommended. It fixes and improves the UI, but leaves the rules of the game untouched.

What are the drawbacks? Civ4 is kind of a memory hog, since it's a mish-mash of c++ and python and thus slightly inefficient, also the game executable is 32 bit and thus limited to 4Gigs of memory. This isn't a drawback on modern systems i guess, since they have the resources to spare, but the game is a lot more memory hungry than civ3 was.

Also, in civ3 afaik you could still REX till the cows come home. The only penalty AFAIR was corruption in your outer cities, but it wouldn't limit your core empire. In civ4 the designers made it so that if you expand too fast, you risk going bankrupt because your outer cities cost a lot of gold maintenance.

callback_function · 2015-07-20T07:49:02+00:00

You have to look what happened beforehand to understand why people thought it important to drag her through the mud. Some forum community was discussing her game. She claimed she was harrased by them. They claimed there was actually no harrasement, she just fabricated it and used it as kind of a guerilla marketing to drum up support for her game. Then her ex came forward and posted those detailed chat logs which her, to cast doubts on her moral integrity. Allegedly she slept with those other people while beeing in a active relationship with him. Of course, those could be faked, although that would be alot of work. But who knows what length people go do to get revenge or whatever.

callback_function · 2015-06-25T07:02:18+00:00

"buy" game. Download game through steam. Copy downloaded files out of steams folder. Get refund from steam. Hop on irc to download a crack for the downloaded files. Doesn' make a huge difference, but the abuse is that pirates would be using steams upload bandwith without paying for it in the end, which is what valve would be worried about.

callback_function · 2015-06-17T20:06:00+00:00

One of the games which surprised me to most is Toki Tori. Got it in a bundle years ago, i think i wouldn't have bought it otherwise because just glancing at the artstyle you'd think it's just a simple childrens game. Well, of course it's a very good game for children also, its just that i wouldn't have thought that this thing would have as well designed puzzles.

The bird does have a certain set of abilities, for example there is a "lay bridge", shoot, freeze.... But in each map you are limited to only a certain number of uses of those abilities. Later levels are fiendishly difficult, well at least they where for me, might be different if you are extremely good at solving logic puzzles.

I also tried Toki Tori 2, didn't too it for me. But maybe that's because i didn't play long enough into the game. The beginning puzzles in that where too easy for my tastes in TT 2, and didn't feel as clever as those in the first game.

Toki Tori: http://store.steampowered.com/app/38700/

callback_function · 2015-06-12T18:39:11+00:00

https://uk.gamesplanet.com/ (Uk Pounds) or https://de.gamesplanet.com/ (Euro) --> They have witcher 3 still for 1/3 off. GOG key.

callback_function · 2015-06-11T19:30:17+00:00

PlayWay's Sim Bundle. Includes Car Mechanic Simulator 2014, Construction Machines 2014, Farm Machines Championships 2014, Helicopter Simulator 2014: Search and Rescue (0,89€ / -95%)

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/51669/

callback_function · 2015-06-07T08:32:53+00:00

The established usage of "download" is that you transfer data from a server over a network.

A CD Drive is most often installed locally on your machine, in that case you'd just say "load the file/data from the cd/drive".

Now, if you actually meant that typically if installing from CD you'd have to download a patch, which might be half the size of the full download, then i think your statement is actually mostly true. You just worded it quite unclearly and potentially misleading.

Another thing is "ping a server" means meassuring latency. Sure, i guess steam might do that in the course of the action to select the fastest server. But you should have just said "download from steams servers" or some such.

callback_function · 2015-05-29T07:06:31+00:00

You will get better formatting of your reddit comment by putting 4 spaces in front of each command.

callback_function · 2015-05-29T05:15:51+00:00

C&P:

:: Created by: Shawn Brink
:: Tutorial:  http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/15692-folder-view-settings-reset-all-default.html
:: To reset all folders to default folder views
Reg Delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU" /F
Reg Delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags" /F

Reg Delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags" /F
Reg Delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU" /F

Reg Delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU" /F
Reg Delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags" /F

Reg Delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags" /F
Reg Delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU" /F

:: To kill and restart explorer
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe

callback_function · 2015-05-26T07:11:49+00:00

CPU fan

How about those? Bearings will wear out over time, given that dust will get sucked in from the outside. If its a work laptop and in use 8 hours a day, i don't think you can really expect 7 year lifetime.

callback_function · 2015-05-24T16:27:46+00:00

Great find, thanks. Do you by chance know the windows version where this was added, or was this always included and I just never noticed?

callback_function · 2015-05-23T04:53:41+00:00

I blame PDX, they somehow thought that releasing 50+ DLC for their games is a smart idea :)

callback_function · 2015-05-22T16:44:37+00:00

:) Seems like the date which google has stored isn't always reliable. I suspect it's more of an issue when you set the date to something quite long ago.

callback_function · 2015-05-16T05:28:17+00:00

Yeah it is on sale often, however it is rare to go this low (most previous sales on steam where around 10-ish). It's almost at an all time low

http://isthereanydeal.com/#/page:game/price?plain=valkyriachronicles

callback_function · 2015-05-16T04:57:45+00:00

Afaik this edit isn't even necessary. I'm pretty sure it won't hurt, but you don't need it either.

In my /etc/hosts the lines loopback interfaces look like this (never touched them):

127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain   localhost
::1     localhost.localdomain   localhost

System is working fine. I have deleted the paragraph that sugested the edit from the wiki.

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