I started on VB6... made some interesting and fairly playable 2d tiled games. Once I realised that using activex controls for each level of the game was a bad idea, and found how to use GDI calls instead of moving image boxes around a form, things went a bit better, though I still had the nasty habit of making a form for each level and then copy-pasting the game logic between each form whenever I added a feature. Actually, I eventually grew out of that too, and then got a decent level designer (which saved text to a file - each tile had three numbers which either describe what sort of terrain and object were there, or other things depending on what sort of object it was... yeah it was messy). Then I grew out of using VB. While I never used classes, I never used gotos either - even then I knew better. Though I do have vague memories of declaring loop variables globally, and then discovering that this was a bad idea when a loop in a function disrupted the loop in the function that called it. Anyhow, it was an interesting learning experience, and I had fun without annoying anyone else in the process :D
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
We need a section on the site with words invented or repurposed by SS. Such as "degreeds".
Funny how he responded to the challenge by trying to sell us his tshirts!
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
I bet the Hoodie can rip through tape like it was bread, so it should be okay.
MPS's "How is my trapper. Friend supposed to trap a. Bird in that???" post is a source of hard lols.
I can't help but wonder what SpectateSwamp would do in Soviet Russia...
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RE: Security #2
I have a little airport story.
Just over a year ago I was flying out of Tel Aviv. I was the lone Australian travelling with a group of Americans (btw, this is a bad idea: you'll be asked about 4 times as many questions (both inbound and outbound) by the Israeli security if you stand out in this way). Anyhow after I handed the security-person my passport and she ran off with it to analyse it or somesuch, she returned after a few minutes (without it) and asked me if I wanted to have it back or if they could sell it. And then she laughed about it. Apparently while we are warned that making jokes in an airport is a very bad idea, it's okay if it's them that do it to us :PI also learned way earlier in my trip that a nearly-empty toothpaste tube is not okay because it could potentially hold more than the allowed amount of liquids even though it actually doesn't. Good thing I had another small tube in my main luggage.
Another thing I learned by the example of others is: if you have a 1 AM flight (i.e. the one out of Tel Aviv to JFK), don't take sleeping pills until the aircraft is actually in the air. We had to drag around a few people after someone messed up the fuel mixture, requiring everyone to disembark. We were finally in the air by 4 AM :( And they we had a wonderful time changing our connecting flights. I also learned that it was a good idea to leave plenty of hours before my flight back to Australia, since still made that one despite the delay. (whew!)
I can't comment on Texan food, but in LA they serve apple juice far nicer than anything I've had back Down Under.
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
I hope this happens to the swampling:
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
When I saw the thread title I thought it ws someone making fun of SS... imagine my surprise when I saw it was the swampling himself, and that he thanked the forum for his demo videos being ready.
The pool-related post had me in stitches!
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
Can the power of the stones bring back Irish Girl?
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
A good SwampBite:
"<font face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I use manual zoom instead of Optical or Digital Zoom
whenever possible."</font>from near teh bottom of http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic2/483185
one part of the site (maybe the facts part) should chronicle all the revelations we've been given, associated with "you now know hal", or three quarters or 90% or suchlike
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RE: Binary shelf life
There are 12 kinds of people: those who can count in trinary, those who can't, those who try reading base-related jokes out loud, those who are now thinking about 'all your base', those who would buy this on a t-shirt, those who think this is getting too long, and those who realise this is actually pentary.
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
CreditText should append Swamp to all names, right?
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
@SpectateSwamp said:
(Whitecourt is currently in an open debate about building a Nuclear Plant)
Maybe that's what the mushroom clouds are warning you about?
Perhaps they'll build one and it will have a meltdown in 2012.
*runs like heck*
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
@ZippoLag said:
Maybe instead of wasting my time on Spectate Swamp it would be less painful to put my hand in a drawer and Jam IT.what the.. I've been out for one day and this thing grew on 2 pages, we seriously have some spare time in our hands don't we?
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
That was a photo? I thought that SpectateSwamp had tried to learn fingerpainting.
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
I must admit that I've never heard of Ithe Isle of Sheppey
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
@HannahRochelle said:
Well, I saw that, went OMGWTF, then saw the postcount, which was a bigger WTF.
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
@SpectateSwamp said:
Could be the tobacco leaf flyer is a newly discovered life form.
Nope. Could be that you missed that we're making fun of you.@SpectateSwamp said:So sad it's just us Swampies making all these exciting video discoveries.
So sad you think there are Swampies. So sad you think it's exciting.@SpectateSwamp said:SSDS makes it so.
UCGW-BG says you are wrong.@SpectateSwamp said:For those of you that don't like going outside. Clean a window and shoot from there.
I'd sooner go outside. Than clean a window.@SpectateSwamp said:No animal on earth moves faster than the tobacco leaf flyer.
Can you video one with a live cheetah? Or if you need a bird in the image, a peregrine falcon?@SpectateSwamp said:This is not your normal leaf blowing in the wind.
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
@SpectateSwamp said:
The last 15 to 20 seconds is where the action happens. Right before I turn the camera off.
That's why they call it the last 15-20 seconds. It's always right before you turn the camera off.@SpectateSwamp said:Don't worry swampies we will be able to collaborate aliens with SSDS for at least 10 more years.
We weren't worrying. Are you sure that SSDS will still be necessary after 2012? (Interestingly we recently past post 2012. And before my posting it was on 2020. Hindsight?) [quote user="SpectateSwamp"]Question: Do you think the Tobacco Leaf Flyer looked over my shoulder into the viewfinder?[/quote]I don't think it did. I did not realise that tobacco leaves had vision, nor that they understand cameras. How could it be looking into the viewfinder while being recorded?@SpectateSwamp said:Are they watching you?
Nope.@SpectateSwamp said:Or Is it just here in Alien Central that these flyers exist.
That should be a question? And yes, if by Alien Central you mean your pot-addled mind.@SpectateSwamp said:It's not easy being annoying. Sometimes I just don't have anything cruel to say.
Why bother?@SpectateSwamp said:With a copy of VB5 and all that knowledge you would be ahead of my version of SSDS in no time. That's good enough reason to be annoying.
Ahh, so you're doing it for our benefit. How benelovent of you!@SpectateSwamp said:Keep being annoyed. Don't leave. You have come too far.
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RE: At the intersection of Poweruser and Paranoia
@burntfuse said:
Right, but I meant a detailed point-by-point explanation of each major thing she's posted (screenshots, directory listings, etc. - not necessarily every single little detail).
You mean like this? [img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/venting.png[/img]
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
Why did I make the mistake of not expecting Swampie could get crazier?
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
On the bright side, SSDS is currently not capable of running for government office.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@SpectateSwamp said:
I'll keep all the arcseconds and thirds.
LOL!
Anyone care to explain to SpectateSwamp what an arcsecond is? :PAnyhow, I think we can (almost) all agree that the Swampling is a great example of why it's bad to do drugs.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
No One Tests Test Subjects Like Aperture Science
Sorry SpectateSwamp but I'll soon be too busy playing Portal 2 to care.