Ugh. Im sick of these jackson jokes already. Har har he was a peado and now hes dead what fun. They stopped being funny after the first... 2. Dont get me wrong in principle I have nothing against them, but they are all just repetitive and the same now.

I did think that punch out parody of tysons daughter was a bit harsh though, but it did make me laugh

I agree with toast on working best in the middle of the night. I get like 90% of my stuff done when it feels like im about to fall asleep. I came up with a theory that its because my brain can only really focus on one thing, because its tired, and therefore it doesnt get distracted. It gets to the point where I dont go to bed because I know in the morning I wont be able to work on whatever it is.
When I eventually get round to a proper job, Im gonna go nightshift for this.

And gust what you said, about not going out for weeks at a time, thats just sad man.

At 6/26/09 07:56 PM, atomic-noodle wrote: Did you hear that due to the fact his body was 99% plastic they are melting it down into legos so kids around the world can play with him?

Too goddamn fucking soon.

At 6/26/09 08:34 PM, CaiWengi wrote: I agree with toast on working best in the middle of the night. I get like 90% of my stuff done when it feels like im about to fall asleep. I came up with a theory that its because my brain can only really focus on one thing, because its tired, and therefore it doesnt get distracted. It gets to the point where I dont go to bed because I know in the morning I wont be able to work on whatever it is.
When I eventually get round to a proper job, Im gonna go nightshift for this.

And gust what you said, about not going out for weeks at a time, thats just sad man.

No it's not. Some people can't stand being alone for a few hours, others can't stand being with people for too long. Just because you're part of the first group doesn't make it sad to not go out. Sometimes during the holidays I pretty much stay at home for 10 days or so, and I don't feel sad or lonely. It's just about perspective. Maybe for me it's really sad to waste 8 hours on school every day when you could be doing useful things at home.

I do, however, think that Gust's making a mistake. My brother stopped going to uni on his first year and now he just lives with his grandparents (where he had to stay when he was studying) and he doesn't really see anyone. Now I'm sure Mr. Gustav is a very smart man and maybe can get stuff done, but I think it would be much better to just finish the last year / 2 years of high school and then go off to an excellent uni where he can actually learn. Either way, it's interesting to see what's gonna end up happening to him. :p

At 6/26/09 09:06 PM, Toast wrote: No it's not. Some people can't stand being alone for a few hours, others can't stand being with people for too long. Just because you're part of the first group doesn't make it sad to not go out. Sometimes during the holidays I pretty much stay at home for 10 days or so, and I don't feel sad or lonely. It's just about perspective. Maybe for me it's really sad to waste 8 hours on school every day when you could be doing useful things at home.

I... I ... I think i actually agree with everything you said... i actually like working late at night cause theres no distractions, everyones asleep, theres nothing on tv, no phone ringing, etc.

I feel kinda smothered when i goto meetups, i kinda value being by myself, strange as it sounds. I wouldnt change a thing about em but theres just some instances where i just want to sit by myself and just recharge. Im not a social being by nature, so i actually do get drained from talking to people. I know that some are super smooth and can talk your ear off for hours and not break a sweat. I'm like good in spurts. Also i havent posted here in a long time i almost feel like spamburger

At 6/26/09 08:34 PM, CaiWengi wrote: Ugh. Im sick of these jackson jokes already. Har har he was a peado and now hes dead what fun. They stopped being funny after the first... 2. Dont get me wrong in principle I have nothing against them, but they are all just repetitive and the same now.

I completely agree :P I'm not saying anything, if people find them funny then saying "ok this is getting old" isn't gonna change anything, I'll just tolerate the terrible jokes :P

And gust what you said, about not going out for weeks at a time, thats just sad man.

I agree. Though I also agree with Toasts comment, about peoples personalities and stuff. I'm also very happy being by myself (surprise surprise!) but I talk to my family a lot and even though I talk to them if I don't go out with friends for a few days then it kinda pisses me off. I talk a lot, when I'm with my friends, so I guess I'm a mix of both personalities.

Like Gust was saying...I don't get out much. I live in a place where "away from people" is the norm. That's why we moved here. I would very much like to live on some "supervillain island stronghold". I subscribe to the notion that culture has failed...because it fucking has. Hmmmph. :3

It better reinvent itself double plus quick.

At 6/26/09 10:23 PM, Luis wrote: I feel kinda smothered when i goto meetups, i kinda value being by myself, strange as it sounds. I wouldnt change a thing about em but theres just some instances where i just want to sit by myself and just recharge. Im not a social being by nature, so i actually do get drained from talking to people. I know that some are super smooth and can talk your ear off for hours and not break a sweat. I'm like good in spurts.

I agree with everything you just said. Minus all the stuff about the meet-ups because I have never been to one.

Its kinda sad actually, like I'd rather sit at home and be bored by myself than hang out with my friends sometimes. I don't know why but I kinda like being alone.

If anyone has the short time to program a game over screen for me PM - it be appreciated.

Also honey and peanut butter sandwhiches are an odd thing. The honey dripps out if ya dont keep 'em in the fridge for a bit. Furthermore I belive the honey makes the peanut butter less sticky and easier to devour.

You can be outside and alone, I do think its sad to stay in for that long, theres only so much you can experience in your room, and its not a lot. Theres a hell of a lot more to life then you can enjoy in your house, and I think if you stay inside all the time its a sad and wasted life. But hell I dont want to get personal, its your life.

At 6/26/09 09:02 PM, Zyphonee wrote: Too goddamn fucking soon.

Its stuff like that which encourage these jokes. Its like when people say OH NO THAT ART IS TOO CONTROVERSIAL WE SHOULD BAN IT and then because of the infamy they create more people will go and see it. If people stopped saying 'too soon' then people wouldn't think its so funny. 90% of comedy is in timing anyway, so what do you expect people to do? Wait a year and then tell it? How does that make it any different?

At 6/27/09 04:14 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: If anyone has the short time to program a game over screen for me PM - it be appreciated.

program, what do you mean, just make the art or actually add the code?

I haven't seen daylight in years.

Good times.

being with people is nice oh boy
being alone with not much to do is quite frustrating for me and it happens way too often.
I mean I could do soemthing like animating in that time but I just feel shit and can't be bothered.

I used to be someone who spent a lot of time alone and I can't really think of doing that now. Me and my friends from school set up a teamspeak server, and whenever we're using our computers we use that to communicate and to find out when we can actually hang out or play some games together. About 5 days of the week I leave the house and do something for an hour or more now that I have a car, and although being around people is exhausting I consider it much better then spending time alone. Even I'm scripting stuff, it helps to be able to talk through the problem with some people so I don't get to frustrated at things.

Just depends if your an introvert or an extrovert.

Hurray, I got the voice acting file from Tomamoto I needed. I saved it as orgasm.mp3

At 6/26/09 10:23 PM, Luis wrote:

At 6/26/09 09:06 PM, Toast wrote: Sometimes during the holidays I pretty much stay at home for 10 days or so, and I don't feel sad or lonely. It's just about perspective. Maybe for me it's really sad to waste 8 hours on school every day when you could be doing useful things at home.

I feel kinda smothered when i goto meetups, i kinda value being by myself

There's something of great value in solitude. It's hard to describe really--it goes beyond peace. I wonder though if it's a fact that most programmers/animators appreciate being by themselves.

I like to hang out with friends because I don't have anything to do when I'm home alone

har har

If only there was a web site with a bunch of Flash games and a BBS...

At 6/26/09 09:02 PM, Zyphonee wrote: Too goddamn fucking soon.

How long do you have to wait until it becomes 'acceptable'? Is there some sort of cut off point?

At 6/27/09 05:29 PM, matrix5565 wrote: If only there was a web site with a bunch of Flash games and a BBS...

Kongregate?

At 6/27/09 05:35 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Kongregate?

No, the background is too white, I need a site with a cool, dark background.

At 6/27/09 05:46 PM, matrix5565 wrote:

At 6/27/09 05:35 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Kongregate?

No, the background is too white, I need a site with a cool, dark background.

Why how racist!

At 6/27/09 05:46 PM, matrix5565 wrote:

At 6/27/09 05:35 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Kongregate?

No, the background is too white, I need a site with a cool, dark background.

Once you go black, you never go back.

At 6/27/09 06:45 AM, funkycaveman wrote:

At 6/27/09 04:14 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: If anyone has the short time to program a game over screen for me PM - it be appreciated.

program, what do you mean, just make the art or actually add the code?

Program. I got one but it don't work and I tried for a week to get it workin' and couldn't figure it out. I don't want this project to just sit on my computer forever - I wanna see it out so I'd love it if I could send someone the file and they could just add the programming needed to get the game over screen working.

At 6/27/09 08:43 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Program. I got one but it don't work and I tried for a week to get it workin' and couldn't figure it out. I don't want this project to just sit on my computer forever - I wanna see it out so I'd love it if I could send someone the file and they could just add the programming needed to get the game over screen working.

Uhh...Well a gameover screen usually isn't too complicated so I could do it for you maybe. What is there on it that your having trouble with?

At 6/27/09 11:08 PM, MichaelHurst wrote:
Uhh...Well a gameover screen usually isn't too complicated so I could do it for you maybe. What is there on it that your having trouble with?

PM me and I'll try to explain.

I finished work at 1:30am, I stayed there until 4am >.> That's twice in a row I've stayed behind for a long period of time, both times with the same 2 people D=

Today at work I was talking to my friend and he just randomly pointed out to 2 of the people there (who had just started working there) that I'm the funniest guy they'll ever meet. This kinda screwed me up because I don't really think about trying to be funny, it just happens.. but when he said that I felt I had an obligation to be funny, so I felt kind awkward and just talked nonsense for a few minutes, which probably confused those people rather than letting them discover it themselves (or think I'm mentally retarded, which is a totally viable thing).

JOKE JOKE

HAR HAR

Etc.

Upgrade Complete!

Anybody try this one out yet? Very fun game, randomly addicting, and great concept. The idea is completely original. Try it out.

At 6/18/09 12:57 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: Interesting.

I finished the work I was doing on algorithm complexity classes. The first example I wrote was what I later found out to be Bubblesort. In worst case it does 1 + 2 + 3 ... + n comparisons for n elements in the list, best case n comparisons (obviously), and I didn't calculate average performance. It has a really bad progress rate though, as it belongs to polynomial running time n^2. Then I remembered what some guy told us about divide-and-conquer method in algorithms, so I started writing a better version. Doing bubblesort on two lists of n/2 elements and then merging them is much more efficient than doing bubblesort on n elements. (2(n/2)^2 + n < n^2 for n>1). So I use recursive programming to repeatedly divide the lists until I got pairs of 2 for optimal performance. Doing the division itself only takes ceil(log2(n)) steps, so it's nothing to worry about. It does use more memory than most algorithms though. Running time is n*log n. (less than n*ceil(log2(n))-2^ceil(log2(n)) operations)

Here's the code:
http://pastebin.com/m514cab2c

And listgenerator.py if you want to try it out on your PC:
http://pastebin.com/m16cd0576

I've been trying to find an algorithm that can sort lists of n items in n steps, but so far no success xD

I'll be in Israel until late August, so that's not possible. But we should definitely get something sorted out in the future, I have long dreamed to meet you and collaborate on a plan for world domination.

At 6/28/09 03:16 AM, Toast wrote: Doing bubblesort on two lists of n/2 elements and then merging them is much more efficient than doing bubblesort on n elements. (2(n/2)^2 + n < n^2 for n>1). So I use recursive programming to repeatedly divide the lists until I got pairs of 2 for optimal performance. Doing the division itself only takes ceil(log2(n)) steps, so it's nothing to worry about. It does use more memory than most algorithms though. Running time is n*log n. (less than n*ceil(log2(n))-2^ceil(log2(n)) operations)

Holy shit...I don't understand a word you just said.

Need To Make More Unquoted Text

It's true, I do.

Whats black and white and dead all over?

At 6/28/09 03:16 AM, Toast wrote: I've been trying to find an algorithm that can sort lists of n items in n steps, but so far no success xD

Uhuh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_alg orithm#Comparison_of_algorithms

The best general sort is mergesort. O (n+klogn) where k+1 = number of first elements
Although AB has developed an algorithm concept for O(1) sort. But it requires special hardware.

Couldn't quickly figure out a way to write a Python generator.

map return - ([x] for x in input)
reduce - apply pair until a single list is left, return the list
pair - return a list of every two elements applied to merge
merge - take two sorted lists and merge their elements

I'll be in Israel until late August, so that's not possible. But we should definitely get something sorted out in the future, I have long dreamed to meet you and collaborate on a plan for world domination.

Kay. Next spring or so then.

At 6/28/09 12:02 AM, liaaaam wrote: my friend and he just randomly pointed out to 2 of the people there that I'm the funniest guy they'll ever meet.

Yeah I know what you mean, that sort of thing can be really awkward. Also, odd because you're really boring and not at all funny