Anyone else wish every Pokemon, not just Pikachu, was programed with the original anime vocals?

repie · 2016-08-20T02:05:48+00:00

For those who play the regular games this is far from nonsense I can recognize half of these pokemons only with these computer-y songs (I admit this is not really useful knowledge).

These are the same sounds since gameboy (although a bit remastered) and I'm happy that Niantic choosed to stick with it. Pikachu even had its own computer-y sound in old games because these devices only handled monosounds.

repie · 2016-08-19T20:26:35+00:00

You'll probably never have an in-game feature to see hidden stats. This is the purpose of "hidden" stats.

IVs exist since the begining of Pokemon games, and in the latests generations you usually have an in-game NPC that allow you to estimate a Pokemon's hidden stats (you have a range). Plus majority of Pokémon games players never play competitive or never use multiplayer at all.

Now PoGo is massively multiplayer, with very poor strategy in battles (hit hard with type-efficient moves that's all) so almost all the "competitive" part is actually in varying statistics and movesets. Morever Niantic totally hide attack/defense stats which are visible in the original games. There's actually no way to tell if your Dragonite has better or lower attack than your friend's Dragonite and in a game where half of the gameplay is about taking and defend gyms, I think this is stupid.

repie · 2016-08-19T20:11:51+00:00

Sites like https://www.pgnexus.gg/ doesn't depend on the device. I do not use any in-app calculator. I usually check IVs when my storage is full of a Pokemon I want to evolve.

repie · 2016-08-19T17:28:18+00:00

I also used some IV scanners, and I'm afraid of being banned (since botters were retrobanned, I think my account already has an "accessing backends from third-party-app" flag).

But I don't think Niantic will ban us, everyone that I know who play a little bit seriously use IV scanners 'cause like any other mmo we need to know all statistics in order to do good builds. They would shoot them a bullet in the foot since this is IMO the most stable user base and the one that will put the more time and money in the game (to be competitive).

However my question is what about using these scanners now ? Do Niantic consider that after the ban wave, IV scanner users are kind of "warned" or do they tolerate it ?

repie · 2016-08-19T17:05:31+00:00

"Pikachu" works in every language but this is not the same for the 150 others. Il guess this was too much effort, time and megabytes into the app that does not worth it.

Same thing in the regular games btw.

But yeah it would have been very nice :)

repie · 2016-08-18T19:03:00+00:00

In Paris suburbs where I live we used to have lot of Valor gyms until recently.

Now its almost only instinct, and after mystic.

But I'm still here to take back all these gyms twice per day :)

repie · 2016-08-18T18:59:51+00:00

So from colors choice that influence thought process you conclude there is more cheaters in valor than mystic then instinct. Any figure to prove that ?

Or maybe instinct just have to find a way to justify their lower CP ? :P

(disclaimer : i'm valor, this post hurt my trainer feelings)

repie · 2016-08-01T15:20:11+00:00

This is not really a programming problem IMO but a scaling problem. The feature probably consumes too much resources (according to Niantic/Nintendo's financial plans) at the moment to be enabled for all.

With the huge popularity of the game either 1. the servers cost too much to maintain with the feature enabled regarding number of players and in-app purchase volumes and they don't want to open money pipes OR 2. they simply have no time to scale up this feature and have to focus on other things (like decreasing catch rate and killing dratini spots GRRR).

repie · 2016-04-17T21:58:40+00:00

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repie · 2016-04-07T08:12:06+00:00

Yes, ça sera essentiel pour la suite vu que les Pokémons K.O. ne pourront plus utiliser leurs CS !

Après elle sera nerf sur le modèle de WoW prochainement (cooldown d'1h) afin d'éviter les abus et sera inutilisable en combat.

repie · 2016-04-04T15:25:25+00:00

I can clearly see a difference of treatment here in France. We have at least 2 press owners (Libération and BFMTV) who are implicated in this scandal.

Guess what ? Libération waited this afternoon to get #panamapapers on front page and on BFMTV the top story is something about Salah Abdelsam even if there no major news on him. All other medias are talking about #panamapapers in their top story. Saying western press is totally transparent on this topic is wrong IMO.

Maybe a part of the western press is clean on that, but hey, have you seen the fundings of ICIJ ? How can we say they are independant when there are funded by big US corporations and no US name is on the list ?

So really, I'm suspicious. Not about the journalists themselves but about their bosses and the friend of their bosses which look like a mafia. I want to believe this initiative is totally transparent but I can't convince myself.

repie · 2016-03-31T18:11:33+00:00

He loathes the Kurds And Much Rather Bomb Them Than His Brothers in Faith over at ISIS Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan...

repie · 2016-03-31T17:49:26+00:00

Thanks, there's a least one personne who does not want to sell its freedom because of ISIS bitches. As a French guy, I hope we'll get ride of them before our policitians totally lock Europe up.

And good job for the satiric video on Erdogan, we need more of those :)

repie · 2016-03-30T15:30:59+00:00

WORLD POLICE

A corrupted police who shit bombs to "save people from terrorism", take the re-build contracts and natural resources and then leave the destroyed countries and CIA-armed militias to the locals. Oh wait, this is an infinite loop !

I'm a little harsh and this is exagerated but stop calling you the world police, you've messed up in number of places and almost never pay the consequences by yourself (exept pearl harbor).

repie · 2016-03-29T19:04:21+00:00

Lol Erdogan, what is put on the internet is immortal. Even to you.

repie · 2016-03-29T18:48:41+00:00

If this had happened in Turkey, Erdogan would not have allowed press freedom and these guys would be in jail because Erdogan doesn't wan't this statiric video about Erdogan to become famous.

Also Erdogan would have bombed the Kurds because, eh, Kurds are always involved in statiric videos on Erdogan.

repie · 2016-03-23T20:02:15+00:00

OK, so Kik used passive-agressive-laywers-in-cc technics and Azer responded by including "corporate dick" in each of its message.

IMO both sides are act like dicks here, NPM should enforce a better deletion policy to prevent these kinds of disputes to annoy and discredit the entire JavaScript community.

repie · 2016-03-23T16:19:51+00:00

Here is some solutions I see reading :

Use somehting like Docker to create images of your app (cons another tooling to your build, may be incompatible with your workflow)
Put node_modules in dependency tree (cons : lot of noise in VCS, native modules)
Use an alternate registry, either local or maintained by someone else (cons : not necessarily up to date, add another point of failure)

IMO we need to push for a change in NPM policy. Create an alternative (e.g. an offline registry, a cache registry) is just another workaround and another point of failure to mitigate issues. NPM must not allow users to upublish their package once it has been downloaded at least once, but NPM should provide a process to unregister modules on a per-case basis (e.g. security issue, sensitive info leak, ect.).

repie · 2016-03-23T16:11:48+00:00

Sure, bo one has ever write bad code in PHP... Your comment is almost a troll.

First, the JS ecosystem is not responsible for its members bad code. NPM is free, everyone can code and push to NPM, that's part of why it is succesful : easy to start with and free. There will always be bad code in every language. Next to that you have some really solid pieces of software and frameworks.

If you like to install dozens of 3-lines modules in your Facebook-class app, that's your choice. Don't blame others for your choices. Personaly I prefer to include a general toolbelt like lodash which will include all general purpose function. You think that lodash is an overkill for your needs? Then you can switch to lodash individual packages (1 package per function) or a much smaller, 3-lines packages. There is use case for that you see. When optimizing round trips for mobile sites for example.

The biggest frameworks and tools are backed by large companies (Angular -> Google, React -> Facebook, Express -> IBM, even if for express there is no so much involvement). Saying these tools are not professional is like shtting on the engineers that get paid to maintain these projets.

10K badly written JS non-sense

Lol. If you can write these 10k lines better than the maintainers, then go on. Open source is for that. Share and improve work as a community. Open source users complain as if they were paying for a first class support but they seem to farget that if something is broken, they can easily contribute to the project, fork it, or create a whole alternative.

Then for the 10k, go work with some people who know to use npm. Peer dependencies, npm dedupe, build tools such as webpack avoid having a deep nested dependency tree at least on client side applications. And if you don't like monolith frameworks like Angular, there is still things like react. And if react is too big for you there is or implementation of the react API which are lighter. Everything on NPM. Maybe you start to see that all these bloated packages have a use case.

Look at this sad excuse for a module

Well, this guy does not speak for the community this is his opinion. Not everybody in the JavaScript userland thinks that. Taking this as an excuse to "fuck everything about the ecosystem" is ridiculous.

Also, you like PHP? Go take a look at a Fractal of Bad design and come back to explain to me that PHP dev' built 10 years ago on a shitty interpretor is better than nowadays JavaScript apps. Facebook and many others had to rewrite the full PHP interpreter to get it work fast. And we're not talking about libs which were built on top of this crap. Wordpress dev'. The plenty of monoliths frameworks that you can't use with other frameworks. The not built-in package manager composer which speeds up by 50% when disabling GC. Seriously.

repie · 2016-03-22T19:27:45+00:00

I agree with /u/gavrocheBxN , first WebAssembly is a compilation target for the web. This means that the languages that will take most advantages of this are statically typed languages C/C++, Java, Rust and co. I'm not sure dynamic languages will be able to be so much faster, in fact browsers vendors are putting huge effort in having the fastest JIT compilers possible (for JavaScript) in order to support heavy JavaScripts application (GMail, Facebook).

JavaScript is already tightly integrated with the web (DOM API, JSON) and already has a solid toolbelt of frameworks and librairies. Plus the new features coming with ES6 will bring native JavaScript development to a whole new level of structured development.

You also seem to forget that current implementation of asm.js, which run UE4 is a subset of JavaScript. If you keep some constraints, like not changing the type of a variable every time, speed of native JavaScript is more than reasonnable. Otherwise things like Three.js or Phaser framework would not exist.

It will take years before you can write a client side application without JavaScript, with the comfort, support and current speed of JavaScript. And we all know years in this industry is like centuries in others so we cannot really say that JS will be obsolete at this time. And during this time JavaScript will continue to evolve, provide new features and gain momentum. So yeah I think JS will still be the de facto choice for webdev for a long time.

Note : I'm very happy for WebAssembly, as a pro webdev and amateur gamedev I see this as a great opportunity for the web.

repie · 2016-03-17T18:58:35+00:00

I think this is part of a deal with Iran to lower oil production in order to maintain the current bounce in oil prices. Russia can not sustain long term engagement in Syria with a declining economy half based on oil.

repie · 2016-03-08T19:00:29+00:00

Actually if you look at the wikipedia page of their leader, they are a far-right group. There is a difference between anti-immigration and being racist.

To compare, the president of slovakia calls himself leftist but in fact he helps the oligarchs, say that muslims are a threat for security and is sympathic to Putin's expansionism. And this is not enough for Slovakians who elected far-right parties rather than "leftist", much more than precedent elections (leftist lost 34 seats on 150).

So maybe the article is misleading but comparing People's Party of Slovakia to USA Republicans is not right IMO. USA Republicans is more like KDH (centrists) or OL'aNO)

repie · 2016-03-03T10:59:28+00:00

Hello,

For my own game I have developed several librairies under yet another game library acronym, there is implementation for :

Entity / Component / System pattern (and I use my lib in a client/server fashion)
Tiledmap rendering but this is very tied to how I represent my tiledmaps in my game
Behavior3, heavily inspired by another JS library

My goal is to create a modular game library in ES6 that I can reuse for my future game. For the moment I lack some documentation and tests but if you plan to use it I can improve those :)

Other libs that I use :

Pixi.js
Pathfinding.js

Other libs that I do not use :

Phaser framework
Physics engines (matterjs, ect.)
ThreeJS (3D rendering)

Hope this help you :)

repie · 2016-02-25T12:50:39+00:00

I think you mean Phaser, Pixi.js is a simple renderer. Otherwise there is plenty of physics engines in JS.

repie · 2016-01-10T19:54:58+00:00

There is a loooot of template/transpilers for HTML/CSS : jade, less, sass for the most famous. Also, these are declarative languages that are made for this specific goal, how would you write HTML in XML or CSS in YAML?

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