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The Flash 'Reg' Lounge

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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-01-24 19:00:34


At 1/24/12 06:09 PM, Archawn wrote: What a disappointing day. I feel obsolete. Now I need to think of something cooler that there ISN'T code written for.

A program that does my MATLAB homework for me :)

I swear, it's the dumbest language I've ever dealt with. Indexing starts at 1 instead of 0, which has already caused me and the other people who know code to pull our hair out. The teacher isn't helping either...I get points off if I use for/while/if since those "don't exist yet for us."

Anyway, in my free time, I'm working with a grid-based version of that pathfinding algorithm from a whiles back. Hopefully something cool happens.

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-01-24 20:36:02


At 1/24/12 07:00 PM, MSGhero wrote:
At 1/24/12 06:09 PM, Archawn wrote: What a disappointing day. I feel obsolete. Now I need to think of something cooler that there ISN'T code written for.
A program that does my MATLAB homework for me :)

I swear, it's the dumbest language I've ever dealt with. Indexing starts at 1 instead of 0, which has already caused me and the other people who know code to pull our hair out. The teacher isn't helping either...I get points off if I use for/while/if since those "don't exist yet for us."

Anyway, in my free time, I'm working with a grid-based version of that pathfinding algorithm from a whiles back. Hopefully something cool happens.

Heh we've been using MATLAB to test out some image processing algorithms, it's pretty awful to work with, but I have to say it makes a lot of complicated things very easy to visualize and play with. Unfortunately implementing them elsewhere is a whole other story...

Also, my independent study from a while back was approved by my school. Every day, 6th period, it's just me, my best friend, our computers, and our copies of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach". I'm really looking forward to this next semester (aside from, of course, the fact that I've got AP English first period, wtf).

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-01-25 02:41:32


At 1/23/12 10:33 AM, 4urentertainment wrote: I feel slightly offended by how this is a serious, touching and very inspiring documentary, and what he saw in it was a fictional half-hour comedy.

Not a comedy - some time slot confusion got it labelled as such. The article has been updated to inform readers now.

At 1/24/12 07:00 PM, MSGhero wrote: A program that does my MATLAB homework for me :)

I swear, it's the dumbest language I've ever dealt with. Indexing starts at 1 instead of 0, which has already caused me and the other people who know code to pull our hair out. The teacher isn't helping either...I get points off if I use for/while/if since those "don't exist yet for us."

I've never used it myself, but I already feel slightly against it. Last time I met up with my old college maths friends, they were all 'suffering' through programming, and kept talking about how amazing MATLAB is and badmouthing all of these other programming languages such as C#. It just irritated me.
Be right back, going to read some MATLAB coding conventions to fuel the flames of hatred.


Doomsday-One, working on stuff better than preloaders. Marginally.

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-01-25 10:31:10


At 1/25/12 02:41 AM, Doomsday-One wrote: I've never used it myself, but I already feel slightly against it. Last time I met up with my old college maths friends, they were all 'suffering' through programming, and kept talking about how amazing MATLAB is and badmouthing all of these other programming languages such as C#. It just irritated me.
Be right back, going to read some MATLAB coding conventions to fuel the flames of hatred.

I have to work around if and for atm, and I can't use find() and other useful functions, but here's an example:

function [gpa] = calcGPA(courseList, hours, grades, level) % Returns the GPA of each class level (1xxx,2xxx,etc) based on the grades % 1xxx,2xxx,etc to 1000,2000,etc kLevel = floor(courseList ./ 1000) * 1000 == level; indices = linspace(1,length(kLevel),length(kLevel)); hoursTaken = hours(indices(kLevel)); totalHours = sum(hoursTaken); gradeInClass = grades(indices(kLevel)); % Grades lower than 65 = 0 gpa = don't matter gpaPer = gradeInClass(gradeInClass >= 65); % sets anything >= 100 to 99 so the formula still works gpaPer(gpaPer >= 100) = 99; % hours taken corresponding to failed classes are removed, except for % in total hours calculation hoursTaken(gradeInClass < 65) = []; gpaPer = floor(gpaPer ./ 10) - 5; gpa = sum((gpaPer .* hoursTaken) ./ totalHours); end

I added as3isolib and TweenMax to the pathfinder now, and it looks pretty cool; it moves the boxes to the mouse's position (eventually). I'll have to read a bit more into TweenMax to learn to change the path mid-tween.

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-01-25 15:18:39


At 1/25/12 10:31 AM, MSGhero wrote: I added as3isolib and TweenMax to the pathfinder now, and it looks pretty cool; it moves the boxes to the mouse's position (eventually). I'll have to read a bit more into TweenMax to learn to change the path mid-tween.

TweenLite has been a lifesaver for me. :)

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-01-31 16:38:23


At 1/19/12 01:35 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: you guys should like
vote for closure here
we could win moneys

http://www.indiegamechallenge.com/2012-f inalists/

Hey man, dropped by just to say I voted for you and I wish you the best of luck winning :)

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-01-31 19:56:11


At 1/31/12 04:38 PM, Inglor wrote:
At 1/19/12 01:35 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: you guys should like
vote for closure here
we could win moneys

http://www.indiegamechallenge.com/2012-f inalists/
Hey man, dropped by just to say I voted for you and I wish you the best of luck winning :)

thx br0


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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-06 07:24:20


Last post in the Lounge before everything goes to hell (or maybe it won't). I'm actually pretty excited for the re-design.

I also voted for Closure by the way, good luck with that guys.


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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-07 21:34:54


At 1 day ago, Xeptic wrote: Last post in the Lounge before everything goes to hell (or maybe it won't). I'm actually pretty excited for the re-design.

I also voted for Closure by the way, good luck with that guys.

WELCOME TO HELL.

Gonna take some getting used to.


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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-07 22:34:59


Oh, man, this is fancy. I feel like I should take my shoes off or something.

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 00:58:08


At 2 hours ago, Archawn wrote: Oh, man, this is fancy. I feel like I should take my shoes off or something.

most indeedly

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 05:30:26


Just noticed that the redesign went live on my 7th NG birthday. Thanks tom!

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 05:36:40


pixel level icons are love <3

Project system is a god send :3

Hello everyone!


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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 08:40:21


At 3 hours ago, Jimp wrote: pixel level icons are love <3

Project system is a god send :3

Hello everyone!

Color coded everything = I like!

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 09:35:50


Everything is beautiful :|

I really like the front pages featured section - whoever did that deserves some lovin'.

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 12:21:07


At 2 hours ago, Sam wrote: Everything is beautiful :|

I really like the front pages featured section - whoever did that deserves some lovin'.

Most of the site's design is stamper's eye mixed with toms vision, if that makes sense...

Anyway its alot of take in, (even visually), and the project system itself is like a huuuge thing, so yeah even if you totally hate it all, you should give it some time, its almost like having to relearn a whole website. I am itching to try out the project system, particularly with a lounge like this, i think having people from here be able to poke around projects and leave their feedback would not only be awesome but might add a new dimension to this mimi-community of seasoned flash users. Maybe could even get to a point where Bryce's reg lounge game idea might be more doable now.

Something else I want to do is integrate collaborative things with the calendar. I think having that accessible keeps people honest and also helps people plan out their flash life better.

Also i like these new emoticons.


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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 13:10:10


I've only had the chance to mess around with the new design on a desktop pc for a few minutes and my first impression is positive. I must say the change is bigger than I thought it would be. There's a very distinct move towards more graphical info instead of text, for instance in only being able to see the title of the games and movies when you move the mouse over the thumbs (instead of seeing the title next to a game, I think this is could be a pain on mobile devices). Also the focus on the score of the submissions appears to have vanished completely. I think I find that change the strangest change of all the things I've seen so far. I'm sure it's an attempt to draw more viewers to lesser quality game, but I'm interested to see if that will work out.

Gonna do some more exploring now.


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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 13:36:03


Too bad the Project System is down, I was anxious to try that out today. I have an actual game that could need some testing.

Also, shmexy icons.


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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 13:38:58


Shit i am not used to this at all.

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 14:21:55


New NG doesn't like Chrome's version of Flash...I still have Firefox from when I wanted to play Abobo since Chrome doesn't like AS2 keypresses...

Redesign looks and feels awesomesauce

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 15:58:35


I haven't visited NG in about a year or so.

I returned because I heard of the new layout, decided to lurk the Flash forum and I see this thread still here.

Brings back memories, man. 2004 regs, any?

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 17:04:33


At 1 hour ago, Blaze wrote: I haven't visited NG in about a year or so.

I returned because I heard of the new layout, decided to lurk the Flash forum and I see this thread still here.

Brings back memories, man. 2004 regs, any?

I remember you, DarkFireBlaze...

My old name was Blackfang

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 17:07:19


At 27 seconds ago, Kool-Aid wrote:
At 1 hour ago, Blaze wrote: Brings back memories, man. 2004 regs, any?
I remember you, DarkFireBlaze...

My old name was Blackfang

As do I :) Looks like the Project part works again, lots of things to fiddle around with over there. I actually had a friend build a test environment for my future projects, but I guess I might as well switch to this. I'm just curious to see how giving feedback on beta versions works, I'll try and test that with an alt.


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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 17:18:10


At 13 minutes ago, Kool-Aid wrote: I remember you, DarkFireBlaze...

My old name was Blackfang

Oh snap, I remember you too. How sweet, you even remember my old username.

How times change, eh?

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 17:34:22


At 15 minutes ago, Blaze wrote:
At 13 minutes ago, Kool-Aid wrote: I remember you, DarkFireBlaze...

My old name was Blackfang
Oh snap, I remember you too. How sweet, you even remember my old username.

How times change, eh?

Yup, I've been thinkin the same thing. I looked my sign up date and i was like WHAT 2005? Feels like so long ago

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 18:11:02


2005 reg here.... Hai again. I always pop up and disappear... Maybe I should stick around? I want to do a collab. Who wants in? :)


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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 18:47:03


At 34 minutes ago, Rudy wrote: 2005 reg here.... Hai again. I always pop up and disappear... Maybe I should stick around? I want to do a collab. Who wants in? :)

Oh, I think I remember you still.

I'm down. I'd like to get back to animating.

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 21:37:10


At 3 hours ago, Rudy wrote: 2005 reg here.... Hai again. I always pop up and disappear... Maybe I should stick around? I want to do a collab. Who wants in? :)

I remember you also. I pop up and disappear too, i'm trying to get back into Flash too.

It's funny cause all of my college classes are based on flash, and they're all basic classes. The professor is trying to explain how it will be difficult and not everyone will make it.

Bitch i've been using this shit since i was like 12.

Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 21:44:23


I have one gripe with the new layout.

I notice that even though I have a pretty big screen (1920x1200) I find myself having to constantly scroll to read through a topic. I find that my eyes aren't easily able to comfortably find what's relevant on the page. I think the information I am interested in is too spread out to be comfortable to read in a practical sense.

I know a lot of you probably hate Facebook but here is a comparison of what I mean by comparing the NG BBS to reading facebook messages.

Blue = Information I'm most likely interested in
Red = Information I probably don't care about most of the time.

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Response to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge 2012-02-08 23:01:11


At 1 hour ago, PrettyMuchBryce wrote: I have one gripe with the new layout.
Blue = Information I'm most likely interested in
Red = Information I probably don't care about most of the time.

Yeah... but your user icon is a frying pan with breakfast still in it so...