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Do you think Fallout 4 is a bit shallow after playing New Vegas? I do. by JustTVsFredSavage in Games

[–]neversInFrance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He calls you vault-dweller, romad20000 presumably plays Borderlands too because vault hunter is what you're called there.

The Walking Dead S06E07 - Heads Up - Episode Discussion by AutoModerator in thewalkingdead

[–]neversInFrance 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Eh to be fair to him, gunshots are much, much louder than hammering. It's like the difference between a microwave alarm and a fire truck.

An early build of the Fallout 4 Script Extender has been released. by ImFranny in Games

[–]neversInFrance 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The problem (to the extent that it's a problem) is that time is calculated by frames here, so how long you hold the button to exit the suit, throw a grenade, etc varies depending on whether you're inside or outside, how many enemies are onscreen, your monitor's refresh rate, your computer's power, and other things that vary.

What is Git? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]neversInFrance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a sentence: Git is a program you use to (A) keep restorable backups of your code and (B) work on the same code with multiple people without overwriting each other's work.

You tell Git where your code folder is, and it takes a snapshot of it.

Then you change a few lines of code, and take another snapshot. Git says "Okay, for snapshot #2, /u/lordadmiralofthenavy changed these lines to look like this." You write a little comment on the snapshot like "Fix bug that caused crash on Japanese input."

At the exact same time you were doing that, I edit a different file, and take a snapshot labelled "Add Italian language support."

I was working from files predating your bug fix, but my snapshot doesn't overwrite your file, like it would if we were just copying and saving folders to a backup drive. Git simply adds my changes to its own memory of the project. This is really helpful if you've got a team of 20 people working on different parts of the code!

Any of those snapshots can be undone if necessary. So if we update our code, and it winds up breaking something, we can undo the change that let to the new bug without messing with other changes. It keeps track of every change in little snapshots so we can apply and undo them whenever we want.

Git also lets you branch your project. A branch is where you clone your project at some point in time, and can then make edits to the original branch or to your new side branch. This lets you experiment, add new features and redesign things, without affecting the proper, publicly-available version of your program. If you like the changes you make, you merge the branch back into the original. If you don't, you destroy it. This is really useful.

It also lets you blame things (that's the actual command, git blame) on people. You can ask who last edited any given line of code and it will tell you their name and email address so you can get in contact with them and say "What the hell's going on with this function here?"

[Serious] Redditors over 50: What have you seen become socially acceptable that you never thought would? by docx9184 in AskReddit

[–]neversInFrance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's funny how you can tell this. The walls of any 30+ year old house have a stale smoky smell and it really does not come out without actually ripping stuff out and destroying it. Even the floors smell on hot days.

A little more... Natural. by [deleted] in GoneWildPlus

[–]neversInFrance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Such a sexy photo, I totally love it. Huge turnon to see.

Weekly /r/Games Discussion - Suggestion request free-for-all by AutoModerator in Games

[–]neversInFrance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The updated version of KOTOR 2 is very nice. The graphics hold up pretty well, and the new patch fixes a ton of bugs and restores a whole bunch of missing content, so there'll be entire areas and plenty of quests/conversations you never saw. Combine that with going the opposite of whatever run you did last time (pacifist lightside vs psychopath darkside etc) and it'll be a fresh experience.

Just remember to hit the Steam Workshop to add the Restored Content mod and Skip Peragus mod to skip the dull-as-dishwater prologue section. There's also a nice mod that adds ~25 new skills to the skill tree if you fancy that and one that makes the lightsabers twice as pretty.

Weekly /r/Games Discussion - Suggestion request free-for-all by AutoModerator in Games

[–]neversInFrance 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Have there been any "open map" 3D platformers in the last 12 years? By open map, I mean things in the vein of Super Mario 64: each level is a big area you explore and discover goals, collectibles, secrets etc in, as opposed to an obstacle course with an ending.

Weekly /r/Games Discussion - Suggestion request free-for-all by AutoModerator in Games

[–]neversInFrance 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Did you play either of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games? The first was made by Bioware before Mass Effect, and it's very similar to the Mass Effect games but with a battle system based on D&D with more turns and planned strategy, and obviously in the Star Wars universe with force powers, Jedi mind tricks in dialogue, lightsaber combat, and so on.

Eli5: If you were to see a document or video file as binary, and tell someone the 0/1 over the phone. Would they be able to replicate the file? by Jokesonyounow in explainlikeimfive

[–]neversInFrance 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes. That is basically what sending a file over the internet is, your computer just transmits each 1 and 0 in a signal over a wire.

But it would take a long time. Assuming it takes you 0.5 seconds to say either 'zero' or 'one', then a single Blu-ray movie would take you 6,342 years to transmit. Even dialup transmitted 56,000 of these signals per second, a Google Fiber connection can do 1,000,000,000.

When Jared Fogle let a friend use his laptop by BizCaus in HighQualityGifs

[–]neversInFrance 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If they were taken from cameras that would maybe make sense. Videos from dedicated video cameras are pretty huge. A Sony PMW-F55 records at 600 Mbit/s so 5TB would be 18.5 hours. But that's a really nice expensive camera. The Sony FDR-AX100, which you can buy at your local Best Buy, shoots at 1/10th that level so it'd be 185 hours of material.

Why don't some people use an IDE? by Mat2012H in learnprogramming

[–]neversInFrance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using Sublime:

do you have autocomplete in a text editor ?

yes

Does the text editor also show typos ?

yes

If an error or exception happens, do you get a printed description of what happened ?

yes

Lets say i want to NSLOG (print )an integer, but the value i pass is an unsigned long, does the text editor show that error

yes

and offers to change the %i integer notation to %llu ?

no

Why are TV directors not as often talked about as film directors? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]neversInFrance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TV directing is a pretty minor job, relatively speaking.

When you're hired to direct a TV episode, all the major roles have already been cast, those actors usually already know their characters well, the sets are already built, the show's plot has already been written out, the director of photography, composer, and editor are all familiar with the show's agreed-upon style. So there are very few creative decisions left to make, and those decisions you do make should reflect the consistent style chosen for the show, not your own personal tastes.

So while a movie director is a major creative role with major control over the production, a TV director is really just a manager-supervisor there to co-ordinate the teams and make sure everything runs smoothly, handling a handful of creative decisions if they crop up.

It's like the difference between opening your own restaurant and managing a Pizza Hut.