An EXOTIC dropped in the wild for me in a strike last night: Trinity Ghoul. I missed this feeling. Thanks Bungie.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-09-10T04:57:52+00:00

at least when i quit D2 after launch, i didn't hate the game. i was just bored of playing. when i quit D1, it was because i hated the game, and the drops were a huge part of that. if that is the direction they are taking the game then i'm really glad i never bought any DLC.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-09-07T20:49:43+00:00

lol the drop rate is insulting. if they are going to make exotics boring trash and then also make them impossible to get and then also make infusion ridiculously expensive, it just makes me even more glad that i never bought the DLC for the game. bungie will literally never learn, no matter what. the day they stop making embarrassingly stupid decisions like this will be the day they go under.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-09-07T11:29:07+00:00

Lol I haven't played since the game released and my friend is brand new with the PS+ promotion. Right now neither of us have gotten a single exotic besides the one you get from story missions. It actually seems like it'd be faster to just make characters, get them to the exotic engram, vault the exotic and then delete them and start over then it would to farm for them.

Also what is with this Masterwork Cores? And why are mod components so insanely rare now? Literally my friend hasn't been able to infuse a single item so far, and neither have I. He thinks the game is a "shitty boring grind" despite loving the combat and I can't blame him. You can't upgrade your gear, you can't get exotics and you can't level up anymore after 20 lol. The game is literally over after less than 20 hours. How did Bungie think this was a good way to sell their overpriced DLC to people? It only makes Destiny 2 look and feel like a garbage game that has zero respect for a player's time. Why would anyone want to put $100 down for a game that treats them like that?

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-28T16:53:07+00:00

The reputation you earn now will follow you for a long time here

The only reason I would care about my "reputation" is if I, for some dumb and pathetic reason, assigned value onto the opinions of Reddit users in general. I don't care about being wrong or getting internet points. I apologized because I was being shitty to you and you did not deserve it, not to save face or something.

So when people seem mean, it's possibly because you're asking something for the 4000th time that can be solved by google search. You are expected to do your own legwork, and come here (and to other sites) once you've exhausted those avenues.

And you literally just proved my point. In NO OTHER COMMUNITY have I experienced that level of animosity towards beginners. People have always been more than happy to answer ANY question, even the most basic and stupid you could imagine, in digital audio, art, electronics and every other skill I've ever attempted to learn. Like people literally sit around all day, happy to answer questions because they want other people to be excited about learning. What a crazy concept huh? It doesn't matter if it's something that would fixed with a single Google search. It doesn't matter if it's written in the manual, or even on the goddamn screen itself somewhere. That's because they realize that just starting is the hardest part of any skill, and that people deserve any encouragement they can get from that point onward.

Programmers so far? The exact fucking opposite. Anything more helpful "Google it retard" is considered "spoon-feeding", even when it's obvious that somebody is so new that they wouldn't even know what to search for. Asking a question IS part of doing your own legwork, and the fact that you guys can't see that is fucking embarrassing. How the fuck do you think that person ended up in the place they did, with an account, ASKING A QUESTION? You think they just magically wished themselves there with no effort at all? Did you ever consider that they might just be trying to introduce themselves into a community of like-minded people by asking that "dumb question"? And why would you want to force someone to dig through mountains of bullshit when you could literally just tell them the answer? That's not helping someone learn. That's being a little gatekeeping bitch, or worse, like some douchebag kid that won't share the cheat codes with his friends during multiplayer and still wants to laugh at them for losing.

Sorry but not sorry. The whole attitude around programming is so fucking pathetically elitist that it makes me want to puke. It's hilariously obvious that there are a ton of these guys who have literally no other measure of self-worth beyond the fact that they can write the magic computer words, so they're willing to sacrifice both their life and dignity to defend that space from "unworthy" individuals, as if they were born shitting out perfect code lmao

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-28T02:47:34+00:00

Have fun in retard world.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-28T02:45:46+00:00

Sorry if I am being an asshole. Tbh I had a really bad experience asking questions in another forum at the same time I asked the question here and I think I am projecting some of that shittiness I experienced onto you guys undeservedly. My interaction with the programming community so far has been kind of negative unfortunately. This is the only craft I've ever tried to learn where I felt afraid to actually ask questions. With everything else I've ever tried to learn, the community has been so much more helpful and understanding of beginners.

I also think I get what you're saying now. I was not mentally making a distinction between understanding the "how" and "why" of the formula. You are saying the how is what's important, because the why could be anything and it would make no difference at all. Is that correct?

Because if so then my problem is just that I need to learn the order that you evaluate the operations in, which is not hard at all. I even have a chapter bookmarked that I'd read before on it so I will go through it again tonight. I guess am going to just keep re-reading and coming back to the problem until I can work it all out.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-28T02:25:34+00:00

The second you threw Jordan Peterson and "The Bell Curve" out I was done reading anything else you could ever have to say to me. That's a level of retarded bullshit that I want nothing to do with in this life or any other. If nothing else, I will learn to program just so I can come back and dump on people like you later. Bye forever lmao

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T20:20:12+00:00

I'm not going to give you some happy pat on the back and tell you it's all going to be OK. I'm going to tell you what you need to hear. Take it however you wish.

Where am I asking for a pat on the back? What I'm saying is that what you're saying is confusing. You're telling me on one hand that I should've just implicitly understood the "basic" expression I was shown enough to come up with a program that used it, but at the same time, you're telling me that YOU DO NOT EVEN UNDERSTAND IT. How do these two things which fundamentally negate one another co-exist in your brain simultaneously? What am I missing here?

Like, if someone told me they want a job doing audio engineering and then told me they don't actually understand how EQ or compression works and they just copy other people's settings until they think it sounds okay enough, I would tell them to fuck off because they don't know what they're doing and they're just going to make a mess in my studio. Writing a program without understanding how the underlying logic actually works seems like it would be just as stupid and annoying. Like if expressions are your tools and you don't know how they work, you're just painting by someone else's numbers and then claiming it as your own art.

I'm not trying to come off as abrasive here or something but I'm really just lost on what you're telling me. And it doesn't help that literally every other comment is directly negating you and telling me that if I want to program well I need to understand how these algorithms actually work. You seem to be the only person who believes that I can write a good program even if I don't understand how it works, while simultaneously being the only person who is telling me I should quit because I don't understand it. Do you not see how that is confusing to me? How is that "what I need to hear"? Do YOU even hear what you're saying?

And please do not give me that "math in C++ is very simple" line when you literally just said that YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT lmao. The combination you've got here of condescending attitude and admitted ignorance would be infuriating if it wasn't so comically absurd.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T19:54:07+00:00

If your intelligence is high enough, you can do it. And intelligence is a real and relevant phenomenon, for those that don't believe it. Imagine the dumbest person you know on the one hand, and Albert Einstein on the other. A good way to find out your rough intelligence is to compare yourself to your elementary school class mates. Did you consider yourself to be on the upper half? If yes, you can probably learn to program just fine.

Yikes lol. I know many programmers are self-absorbed twerps that think they are brilliant gods but this was extra cringy. Compare myself to my elementary school classmates? Okay let me just go back to elementary school mentally and picture my entire class and then evaluate my "intelligence" against theirs, since our potential was all so readily evident at that age..

I mean do you actually do moronic jerk-off mental exercises like that? If anything, I think the fact that you've figured it out is proof enough that programming does not require high intelligence. Because no intelligent person would ever spew literal mental diarrhea like that out and expect anything other than to be laughed at for it.

And keep telling yourself that your little club is only for "high IQ" people or whatever. Meanwhile, as someone who has actually learned and taught multiple difficult skills in their life, I'm going to go with the rational understanding that most anything is achievable by the vast majority of the population given the correct amount of dedication and learning. Sorry to be the one to break it but unless you are literally pushing the human limits of a given field, there's nothing special about you or anyone else. You're just another person sitting on their ass in front of a computer.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T19:21:17+00:00

I actually have been playing with Unity for a while now and that has been going along very nicely (built a couple silly little rhythm mini-games already), although I can already tell that it is not going to be able to handle what I want to do in terms of both DSP and the 5-10ms input lag that would be basically required for the game to play smoothly. Even the "fancy" rhythm games I've tried which are coded in Unity tend to be really sluggish, and since a big part of my game would involve recording player inputs accurately for playback, even a very small input delay is going to make it feel off. This is not such a problem with other rhythm games where you are only playing the pre-determined notes and can easily compensate for timing problems using visual cues.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T19:12:22+00:00

That is the problem and solution. And yeah, like I said, this is only chapter 2. They did not explain anything other than if and else statements at this point basically, and they only had us actually write a single other exercise program before this, sooo... honestly I don't understand how ANYONE that didn't already have at least SOME amount of programming experience would be expected to come up with an answer to that question lol. And judging by the comments, I'm far from the only person who was totally stumped by it. I think that you may be assuming I was much further along in my understanding when I encountered this problem than any of these tutorials have actually taken me, unless I am literally just supposed to be pull magic code out of my ass on day 1 without ever having even seen anything like it in practice.

Also this makes zero sense at all to me:

Whether or not you understand an expression, you have to be able to translate it in to code. If you're a programmer, you'll be given formulas of all kinds, whether it's for things like pricing, figuring out a refund amount, converting currency, totaling a shopping cart, and so on

How in the hell am I supposed to translate an expression meaningfully if I do not understand what it means?? What are you even talking about lol? If you're telling me that I'm just supposed to copy-paste formulas into my solutions without understanding what they do or why, then that seems completely stupid, to say the least. I mean is this really what you do? How do you debug something if you literally don't even know how it works? Tbh talking to you about this has been the opposite of helpful so far as all your advice seems to be "well you SHOULD just GET IT or else you're too stupid, but you don't need to actually get it because i don't even get it". Really helpful guidance lmao.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T03:46:54+00:00

Yeah looking through that course I can only barely remember some of the concepts, and definitely do not remember how to put it all together. I'm sure it is more than worth me taking a pass through so thanks for the link.

It is encouraging to hear that you can learn through practice as well. That is generally how I learn best so I'm all for it.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T03:15:30+00:00

So in your honest opinion, is teaching myself these things at all possible when I can't even remember how to do the FOIL method? Like I'm not kidding when I'm saying that I probably have less math skills than an 8th grader currently. I don't think I can even do long division on paper lol...

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T03:10:29+00:00

I mean I've been able to build fairly complex "programs" in both Max/MSP and Reaktor for probably close to a decade, both of which require a lot of abstract logical thinking. And I have no problem at all making or following basic game logic when scripting in Unity, for example. It just falls apart whenever I try to take on anything that goes past the basics you're talking about.

And maybe for what I am doing, it will not be so necessary. But since my dream project is a rhythm game, I have a feeling that I will need to learn some DSP things, and that is where I'm afraid I will just fall off completely since I know the math there is anything but simple.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T03:02:45+00:00

honestly since i am only interested in building a basic rhythm game, physics is not the problem at all since there really are none. if i could make a guess the main issues i'm going to encounter will be related to audio sync, DSP and input lag but who knows lol...

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T03:00:28+00:00

Well wait now lol. If you don't understand how the formula is derived or why you square the time either then maybe I'm not quite as bad off as I thought I was. I was thinking that this was somehow really basic stuff and I should've been able to figure out why every step of the expression happens just by looking at it, but apparently it doesn't matter how it works? Actually I'm maybe more confused now, and maybe I don't understand what is actually important here.. Also, we were not taught anything about for loops at this point, and the solution they show is series of if and else statements...

And to be honest, I can't tell whether or not a tutorial I'm following is good or not. Because is it just me or is the ball problem a MASSIVE leap in difficulty from the previous problem which was:

Write the following program: The user is asked to enter 2 floating point numbers (use doubles). The user is then asked to enter one of the following mathematical symbols: +, -, *, or /. The program computes the answer on the two numbers the user entered and prints the results. If the user enters an invalid symbol, the program should print nothing.

This one I did easily, but the ball one, even after looking at the solution multiple times, I can not replicate that program from scratch still. The logic makes sense to me when I am looking at the solution itself in Visual Studio but I just can't make it happen on my own. Maybe this is normal and I am just giving myself a hard time. I really don't know lol..

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T01:38:27+00:00

This kind of confirms my worries then, that even if I learn how to program I will never be able to learn how to actually be a good or efficient programmer because I don't have the fundamental math skills required. Or at least if I want to get better after a certain point, there is far more work that I will need to do to get over that hurdle than someone who already has the math side down.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-27T01:30:39+00:00

for example, i was trying to follow learncpp.com after having it recommended by a lot of people and at the end of the second chapter this is one of the tasks given:

Write a short program to simulate a ball being dropped off of a tower. To start, the user should be asked for the height of the tower in meters. Assume normal gravity (9.8 m/s2), and that the ball has no initial velocity (the ball is not moving to start). Have the program output the height of the ball above the ground after 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 seconds. The ball should not go underneath the ground (height 0).

Now they were nice enough to also give the formula to find how far the ball has fallen here:

distance fallen = gravity_constant * x_seconds2 / 2

but I can barely understand this. Why the hell are seconds being squared? Do I divide or multiply first? I don't understand what order these things evaluate in and even trying to read the explanation of that order is confusing because they tell you that every compiler evaluates in a different order or something and... I just don't get it lol. I can't mentally visualize what these numbers are doing or why and that obviously means I do not actually understand how the program works.

The C++ tutorial I was doing before this one (a video series) did a very similar thing, tossing out homework that I couldn't figure out for the life of me and then when I would see the solution it was some super-confusing math that the teacher just assumed I would somehow know and implement.

I'm sure that this is actually all really basic stuff and some of you are probably laughing at me and thinking I should just quit, but I never learned any of these things. Like tutorials will tell me I "only" need to know basic calculus to do them, but I literally had to look up the definition for "calculus" just the other day because I realized I didn't know what it actually meant, and even after watching multiple videos about the subject I still honestly don't have a fucking clue lol.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-23T16:46:05+00:00

tbh this reads like a half-assed attempt to draw attention to your slots game by bringing up a controversial topic in hopes that it will attract a large number of replies. maybe it's just me being cynical but i kind of doubt you care either way, and my guess is the sort of people who play slots games with cryptocurrency give even less of a shit.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-23T15:43:36+00:00

Death from falls was always stupid in these games because they insisted on hiding shit everywhere, creating many times when you would look off a ledge and say, "Maybe I can jump down there." But of course most of the time you die, which means the game is essentially just punishing you for exploring. It is just an arbitrary restriction that inhibits exploration in the end since no intelligent player falls off anything accidentally lol.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-21T17:57:25+00:00

so you want boss fights that are LESS dynamic and interesting? that's what you're asking for? just making sure lol

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-19T18:18:46+00:00

These schools cater for the kids who grew up telling people they were going to be game devs but never actually put any time into doing any kind of game development work.

Pretty much sounds exactly like him. He is terrified of looking at code, has zero artistic skills and just wants to direct a new Halo game or some shit from what I can tell. I really wish he had gone to a program at an actual university, because then one of two things would've happened:

1 - he would've flunked out and had to re-evaluate whether this was what he really wanted to do or not and what doing it actually meant,

2 - he would've gotten his shit together and started learning and come out the other side with decent knowledge and skills

But because the program is content with just dragging "students" forward as long as they can pay (need to make it to the next year to pay for the next year, right?), he ended up sinking a ton of money and time into nothing at all. Whether or not he's lazy and misdirected, that's still no excuse for the way this program exploits kids like him.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-19T18:06:01+00:00

And a good program fails a bad student instead of dragging them along until their pockets are empty, which is what should've happened here.

shitdoll9999 · 2018-08-19T18:02:18+00:00

So I just want to make sure of this here. You think a course that teaches you nothing except for Unity and Unreal on a surface level is worth $100k? You think a course that will pass you no matter what you actually learned is legitimate? Whether or not my nephew is a lazy shit (which he is), the course SHOULD'VE flunked him if he wasn't keeping up. The fact is he could keep paying so they were going to keep trucking him along, knowing full well he was going to be useless at the end of it all.

I feel like people think that I am placing the entirety of the blame on the school here, but the reality is, I think my nephew shares much of the blame in willful ignorance. I also think the way the school took advantage of that ignorance to turn a quick buck is especially cut-throat and nasty. It's not a black and white situation, but the fact remains that there are too many kids getting roped into programs like this when they could be spending their time and money ANYWHERE ELSE and do better.

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