What exactly is the voting for?
Talk about anything
Couldn't answer mandatory questions because newbie.
Today realized, when combing through and recompiling a past project, that the RADV (open source) driver is more pedantic when it comes to obeying specifications than the proprietary Nvidia driver was. If there weren't proper debugging tools, I'd probably be gnawing at the table by now. I'm sure it knows exactly what I mean, just doesn't want to understand :-/
I wonder if they should create a section specifically for beginners to ask questions on the forums? Sort of like how Unity Answers has the Help Room.
Oh, I meant I couldn't honestly answer some questions because I am not yet in a position for a qualified opinion.
That other remark was just grumbling about an overeager driver/api :-)
DaveTheCoder That link should be posted as a separate thread for visibility.
It has been done. Thanks for the suggestion.
Nerdzmasterz I wonder if they should create a section specifically for beginners to ask questions on the forums?
We have a help section. Have you not clicked the buttons on the left side?
I think it's more of a survey than a vote.
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I went silent for a bit. Sorry about that, I've been self teaching a lot of technical art and it's left me a too exhausted to adapt to the new site format. I haven't posted a thing of what I've done recently, but I can change.
The environment is placeholder I made in maybe 15 minutes. I hope you expect better than that from me.
That's pretty cool. You might want to add some noise, I think Godot has a Perlin noise function, which might make it look more brush strokes.
There was more noise but I dumbed it down after comparing it to watercolor, but realism isn't the point with something like this, is it? I thought it didn't look "paint" enough too.
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Nethack is at the museum.
Those were the days. You had to have an actual imagination to take a screen full of periods with a few lower-case letters and an ampersand, and construct the climactic scene from Fellowship of the Ring out of it. We didn't have graphics, we had text -- and we liked it!
I learned how to work with a distributed team with nothing more than e-mail (there were no Skype, Zoom, Teams or Slack back then...). I am convinced that teams today could benefit vastly from cutting down on these constant interruption generators. Developers, in particular, work best when they have significant blocks of time at their disposal so they can think, focus and code. Asynchronous communication is fantastic that way. It also encourages you to find solutions to problems by yourself first instead of asking someone because the answer will come 24h later at the earliest. Because of that delay you also learn to be precise in your communication to avoid unnecessary, time-wasting round-trips.
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Those were the days, my friend ...
Talking about music:
Gilmour et al. 2016, Pompeii, Comfortably Numb
"The 70 years old rock the 20 years old in a 2000 years old theatre with a 40 years old song"
Remarkable guitar solo.
Never heard of the gingerbread drummer before. Whatever, enjoy !
Alas, little worked for me today programming wise.
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Nerdzmasterz Thanks!
Actually I was wondering if this forum support Chinese characters and if there's other Chinese user here. (Luckily I do have found some, though still not a lot )
I'm still working on my next first person shooter and I'm still making the necessary fixes to the saving system; I'm pretty close to getting it done and it doesn't look difficult to do. Still, I'm so burnt out and I'll be going to the beach tomorrow. So I just have to ask, do you think anyone would be happy buying a singleplayer FPS with no story and only five levels? I'll probably get around to adding more levels to my game and it wouldn't be difficult to do( or at least I'd know how to do it) but, I feel so burnt out right now. 
The great part of only having five levels, is that it makes play testing easier when it comes to the save system; I also discovered that my game is too easy and can be finished in less than a day( I'll be finishing that). Oh yeah, back to the main question. Um...Do you think anyone would be happy buying a singleplayer FPS with no story and only five levels?
Best election ever.
robot_wbw Thanks!
According to this page there should be a Chinese usergroup. That might be worth checking out as well, if you haven't already.
duane We didn't have graphics, we had text -- and we liked it!
This is why the books are always better than the movies.
Audiobellum Do you think anyone would be happy buying a singleplayer FPS with no story and only five levels?
I've seen some FPS games on Steam do well on Early Access, starting out with only a few levels. The game Maximum Action has been on Early Access for 4 years, and sold incredibly well. They never release stats, but it appears they sold at least 10,000 copies or more (estimate from reviews). At launch, there was only one level, but the developer has been updating it every couple months with more content (it still isn't officially released).
@Audiobellum I know the feeling. I'm feeling burnt out from my little top down game. It's looking great so far, but... ugh.
If you want to always be working on your project but don't want to get burned out, learn other aspects on top of it. If you're focused on the mechanics, take some time to learn the art. If nothing else, psych yourself out with extreme discipline. As Lord Naoshige once said, "simply become insane and desperate" - Hagakure.
With enough coffee and self inflicted dread of what tomorrow may look like, you can do anything.
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Wasn't all that bad a day for me.
Got a stripped down demo of my project (terrain lod) almost ready. Currently hunting a few memory leaks and off-by-something errors, they still keep on being a bit faster than I, but I'll have them cornered soon. Will check in the next week to discuss the feasibility. Not quite sure how to integrate it in the Godot Scene structure.
My other project, getting me a new place, is suffering setbacks. There is no concrete here, and no steel to reinforce the concrete. They don't even have copper cables for DC installations, not talking about fuses and other protective devices. Meaning that if something becomes available it is a seller's market. Pay the called price or go away. I also received solar panels, 3 out of 26 were broken. And the inverters they sent are the wrong ones. And the Chinese transport agent that has my batteries has confused Las Palmas with La Palma. Given, that each delivery takes between 2 weeks and 2 months because customs and yanking supply chains, this is all going a bit on my ... you get it.
Be it as it may crack zosh, skol !
I passed my Operating Systems class!!! Now only 2 more courses and I graduate for Computer Science.
packrat Thanks! Actually, I just took some time off the project- but not a lot. I am literally at the point where I can create the full plot and all the levels now, and I'm feeling better! Hopefully, I'll be able to get back to it.
Audiobellum .Do you think anyone would be happy buying a singleplayer FPS with no story and only five levels?
In principle the core of Enter the Gungeon is 'only 5 levels' and the story is also borderline non-existent. Granted the levels are procedurally altered, but the genius is in the difficulty and rate of progression being incredibly well balanced.
New Firefox. Ugh. And it's an extended support release, so I've only got a few more months of updates to my perfectly functional v91, before I have to suck up another load of chrome-inspired, anti-user garbage. The only good thing I can say about firefox is that it's better than the alternatives (at least if you bank online).
I've never understood why they started incrementing Firefox's major version number every month.
Firefox is great. Not sure why people are so averse to change. You can always throw out your computer and move out into the woods, if technological progression bothers you.
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Unfortunately, a lot of firefox's progress involves prioritizing stupid-user security over smart-user capabilities.
I've been using greasemonkey for nearly a decade to do useful stuff like automatically forward links to my server and remove unnecessary junk from web sites. When you have big fonts for your weak eyes, you have to remove some of the extraneous nonsense from some sites to see anything. Sadly, firefox's improvements have a way of disabling any useful tweaks to make the browser actually work.
Of course, if the Web was just text and images and links, the way it was intended, none of this would be an issue. Any browser would show the page the way you want it to instead of some barely educated web designer's acid-induced artistic hallucination vision. 
That's why I want Project Gemini to take off, but I doubt it will have any commercial interest.
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
I've been planning on putting up a mirror of my blog on Gemini, but it hasn't been a top priority.
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Hey I'm educated....
Just not in web development lol. I feel like a lot of bad websites are probably made by people like me though, who had a crack thinking "can't be that hard, I already know language X" and then ran head first into the horrors of ASYNC and <INSERT JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORK HERE>.
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Oh, and to anyone who thinks Python's typing is bad, this:
console.log("1" == 1)
Evaluates as True in javascript, while this:
console.log("010" == 010)
Evaluates as False.
It's like it WANTS you to mess up -.-
The equivalent in Python would evaluate as something like "Type Error fool! what you playing at!"
I don't like anything web when it comes to "programming". More like markup or something. I like Firefox and it's security consciousness. I am so sick of websites tracking me everywhere. If they can help stop it, Kudos to them. Plus it's open source and they basically invented rust, which is a more secure low level language that even linux is moving into a little bit and it's getting incorporated into it. Yeah!!! Like them a lot.
If you want to see how bad Javascript gets:
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I forget if the 'Senior' one is funnier:
I've done a bunch of web programming, but I almost always write everything from scratch myself. People are like: "use npm" and they give you some command that downloads 10GB of dependencies. No thanks.
cybereality There are useful programs I have not used due to its amount of dependencies. It's easiest to keep a stable operating system when the amount of things that can go wrong stays little.
Well, at least with my own projects, when it's custom code to standards, it still compiles and works years later. When you use too many libraries and dependencies, the code doesn't even compile. You have to get specific older versions, which may not be compatible with new hardware/software/APIs and then the code is dead. So, you can spend a few days and update it, but it's a pain in the butt. But then you update to a new version of the library, and the function you were using is deprecated or gone, etc.
cybereality it's a pain in the butt. But then you update to a new version of the library, and the function you were using is deprecated or gone, etc.
Sad, but true. Have spent a lot of time before just making changes after upgrading a single library or similar. Never fun and the odds go up the more dependencies you have. It is even worse if something is removed with no alternative or the alternative doesn’t work the way you need.
I also find it happens a bit more with new/cutting-edge libraries and similar. Unfortunately, those new/cutting-edge stuff is generally what makes me want to use it and/or choose it over alternatives 