At 1/20/14 04:57 PM, Sam wrote: It's a bad piece of software but it's hard for me to get around not using it.

I'm fortunate enough to have no compelling reason to use it. :)

And I completely agree. Skype is garbage.

At 1/20/14 05:18 PM, egg82 wrote: Hmm, wonder how I would do that.. ?
If I keep track of the bytes downloaded per second...

Pretty much. Just track the bytes downloaded over a short period of time, such as five seconds, and divide the total by the number of seconds that you tracked for; the resulting quotient will be the download speed. It won't be 100% accurate, but there really isn't any way to determine download speed without some margin of error.

Also I'm curious as to what everyone's setup/desk looks like. Mine's a disaster area because I eat a lot in front of my PC :P

At 1/20/14 05:35 PM, egg82 wrote: Also I'm curious as to what everyone's setup/desk looks like. Mine's a disaster area because I eat a lot in front of my PC :P

I had more desk space freshman year. The desk and dresser are different heights, and the cooling pad makes noises when it's not level. The keyboard moves back when I need to do hw or eat.

Mine isn't exactly clean either. Probably should get around to putting those empty beer bottles away...

Such bad image quality. I did a bit of a clean 4 u guis

Sam, I think me and you have the same webcam. :)
Didn't have it on my monitor in my other picture because it was on my floor.

Everyone's got MS webcams!

Mine captures in 720p, but the big problem is it captures in 720p at 15 FPS 3:

Really need at least 30 if I'm going to use it for vlogs

At 1/20/14 06:47 PM, egg82 wrote:

Really need at least 30 if I'm going to use it for vlogs

Why do you need more than 24FPS for video?

At 1/20/14 06:48 PM, Diki wrote: Why do you need more than 24FPS for video?

YouTube plays back at 29.97, but I'd prefer 60 because you can actually tell the difference between 30 and 60 FPS even through a 30 FPS output.

Apparently my webcam has really nice sound to it, buuuutt I've got this so yeah.

At 1/20/14 06:51 PM, egg82 wrote: YouTube plays back at 29.97, but I'd prefer 60 because you can actually tell the difference between 30 and 60 FPS even through a 30 FPS output.

How so? This makes no sense to me. Surely if the output is refreshing at the equivalent of 30fps then that's all you'll ever be able to see. At 60fps (being a multiple of 30), you'd skip every other frame and the refresh would be timed with every second frame. I could maybe understand differences between 30 and 35, perhaps the frame doesn't change before the refresh update so the video appears more "choppy".

Am I completely misunderstanding how this stuff works?

At 1/20/14 06:51 PM, egg82 wrote: YouTube plays back at 29.97, but I'd prefer 60 because you can actually tell the difference between 30 and 60 FPS even through a 30 FPS output.

You can notice it in the same sense that if you recorded something at 400FPS at played it back on 30FPS, sure. My point was there isn't any reason to record or playback video at speeds greater than 24FPS. If there was film and television wouldn't be using 24FPS.

At 1/20/14 06:59 PM, Sam wrote: Surely if the output is refreshing at the equivalent of 30fps then that's all you'll ever be able to see. At 60fps (being a multiple of 30), you'd skip every other frame and the refresh would be timed with every second frame.

Depends on how the playback is handled. It could skip every other frame, or it could interpolate every two frames by blending them into one, which can be used to create a motion blur effect.

At 1/20/14 07:13 PM, Diki wrote: You can notice it in the same sense that if you recorded something at 400FPS at played it back on 30FPS, sure. My point was there isn't any reason to record or playback video at speeds greater than 24FPS. If there was film and television wouldn't be using 24FPS.

But did you see The Hobbit in 48fps? That shit was smooth.

Depends on how the playback is handled. It could skip every other frame, or it could interpolate every two frames by blending them into one, which can be used to create a motion blur effect.

So with the example above, how would you notice 400fps vs 200fps if the display refreshes at 30fps? I understand interpolating, but is it just a case of being able to interpolate more because of more available frames?

At 1/20/14 07:17 PM, Sam wrote: But did you see The Hobbit in 48fps? That shit was smooth.

No, but I have seen videos taken on a GoPro recorded at 60FPS and it just looks wrong. Like it's being played in slow-motion but everything is moving at normal speed. It's like visual cognitive dissonance.

At 1/20/14 07:17 PM, Sam wrote: So with the example above, how would you notice 400fps vs 200fps if the display refreshes at 30fps? I understand interpolating, but is it just a case of being able to interpolate more because of more available frames?

The difference would just be that the interpolation would be blending different frames, since 400FPS would have two frames for every one frame that 200FPS would have. Basically it would just end up creating even more "intense" of a blurring effect.

Here's mine. That monitor's my brother, and yea, having someone else in the room is awful.

At 1/20/14 07:23 PM, Diki wrote: The difference would just be that the interpolation would be blending different frames, since 400FPS would have two frames for every one frame that 200FPS would have. Basically it would just end up creating even more "intense" of a blurring effect.

It also helps that YouTube plays at 29.97 FPS and not a perfect 30 FPS. A 60 FPS recording vs a 30 FPS recording through 29.97 FPS is noticeable. It's difficult to see, but you CAN tell (especially when the frame-rate dips for whatever reason)

This is why I stream games to Twitch, which gives no shits about your 60 FPS gameplay and will stream it as happily as your 30 FPS gameplay.

At 1/20/14 08:12 PM, TheNavigat wrote: Here's mine. That monitor's my brother, and yea, having someone else in the room is awful.

I feel really sorry for you, man. We're all sitting here with dual-monitors and all this fancy tech and you're trucking along with a tiny laptop :(

Well, it proves that you can work just fine in limited environments. Might be something to add your your resume?

At 1/20/14 08:12 PM, TheNavigat wrote: Here's mine. That monitor's my brother, and yea, having someone else in the room is awful.

Having a brother must be awful. I'm glad I'm the only male in my family

At 1/20/14 08:12 PM, TheNavigat wrote: That monitor's my brother

He's using analog input on an LCD monitor. What is this heresy?

At 1/20/14 04:13 PM, egg82 wrote: 62C should be max, 65C is dangerous and anything above shortens the life of the porcessor. 90-ishC will just melt things and shut down.

Mid-dota

At 1/20/14 10:56 PM, egg82 wrote: I feel really sorry for you, man. We're all sitting here with dual-monitors and all this fancy tech and you're trucking along with a tiny laptop :(

Well, it proves that you can work just fine in limited environments. Might be something to add your your resume?

Well, and even worse, it's MY monitor, and actually, his PC is mine too... The good part of it is that I plug it in when he's not there anyway, and that finally each of us has his own computer. And well, I don't think that would really amaze anyone... regarding the resume part...

At 1/20/14 11:54 PM, Luis wrote: Having a brother must be awful. I'm glad I'm the only male in my family

Having a sibling *. A younger sibling *. Sisters are not better anyway. But when they're older, things are good.

At 1/20/14 11:59 PM, Diki wrote: He's using analog input on an LCD monitor. What is this heresy?

There's no HDMI port :( That one costed me around $100. The one with HDMI port was way too expensive, and that one is good enough anyway.

At 1/21/14 08:29 AM, Innermike wrote: An unstoppable creative force.

Also, what do you guys think of pop culture references in video games? I thought it was pretty neat the first couple times but now it's like every game that comes out needs to have a Breaking Bad reference in the first 5 minutes or some shit.

It's distracting and kinda breaks the immersion factor. It's in the no Twinkie database, one of the recent ones I guess.

Guys if there are papers on your tables, can you explain what's written in them, and why do you need them?
@TheNavigat, for example?

Behold my brutal русский desktop!

What's written on papers:
1) Interface layout for a dialogue editor that I'm making. (Needed to understand my code.)
2) Geometry and math sums for when I'm making my own tweens and custom animation systems and pretty much for when I'm programming anything that is complicated. (First trying to solve the puzzle, then program it.)
3) Bugs that I found while playing through the game that I'm making, and thoughts on how to fix them. (Guess how an idea to make a dialogue editor was born.)
4) Small pieces of papers covered with new English words that I've discovered while playing through Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Max Payne, Max Payne 2, Condemned: Criminal Origins and some really smart Newgrounds users. I'm trying to translate them, type them into my giant dictionary and occasionally use them.
5) Old algorithms for older projects.
6) A sheet describing technology of a new battle system for the game that I'm making, bugs that are discovered while testing it, and it is all fixed and done and no longer relevant.
7) Old copy books in which I was doing homework and occasionally drawing terrible, terrible pictures. And making plans for older projects, yes.
8) ToDo lists, mostly.
9) The copy book under the mouse is used as a mouse rug. It's from university courses. I don't know what's written in it. It's wet because sometimes I use computer right after washing hands without wiping them with a towel.

@kkots, was it your birthday not long ago? I remember it saying 18 on your profile when I last had a gander.

At 1/21/14 10:33 AM, kkots wrote: Guys if there are papers on your tables, can you explain what's written in them, and why do you need them?
@TheNavigat, for example?

I have this taped above my monitor, which is to help me remind what to do and what not to do with creative writing. All the stuff in the first big box on the left, and the one below it containing only "as if", is what not to do. The stuff on the right is what I should be doing. Just an easy reminder to help keep my writing from turning into filler or schlock.

Most of that I took down from my copy of the 10% Solution.

At 1/21/14 10:33 AM, kkots wrote: Guys if there are papers on your tables, can you explain what's written in them, and why do you need them?
@TheNavigat, for example?

School homework. Mathematics, in more details. Even more details, numerical solutions of equations and finding roots of iterative equations. Simple stuff. Relatively.

At 1/21/14 01:32 PM, Sam wrote: @kkots, was it your birthday not long ago? I remember it saying 18 on your profile when I last had a gander.

Yes. Doesn't it write when is my birthday? I thought I made it public.
Thanks for noticing. You have keen eye and good memory.

At 1/21/14 02:34 PM, Diki wrote: All the stuff in the first big box on the left, and the one below it containing only "as if", is what not to do. The stuff on the right is what I should be doing. Just an easy reminder to help keep my writing from turning into filler or schlock.

You made me realize that I need to improve my language! I write a lot! People go TL;DR!

At 1/21/14 02:38 PM, TheNavigat wrote: iterative equations

What's that? You made me realize I need to learn iterative equations!

I actually happen to have a picture of my computer room (2nd bedroom we use as an office) to hand. It was taken a month or so ago, so it's much cleaner than it is now and it's missing a jumbo "Rustyarcade.com" banner I got for xmas on the wall. But you get the idea.

Right hand machine is mine, left hand is my wife's, and the middle is the server (used for dev work and a media server)

Ha just found this of my old place where I had my setup in my room

Why is there, what appears to be, a fourteen year old girl posing in your room?