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Living Room / Re: Still holding out, won't join Facebook
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 25, 2010, 12:15 PM »
I'm on FB, but I only check it like ... maybe once a week, if I'm not very busy that week.  Or, if my wife says, "Did you see [insert topic/person] on Facebook?"
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Dominion Rules Character Creator
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 25, 2010, 12:10 PM »
Yeah, I know what you mean.  I've rejected several more ambitious projects, simply because of time constraints.  In fact, I suppose my submission this year is rather self-serving, given the extremely limited audience for which it's intended.  But I find it difficult to find motivation to do a software project unless I have some personal stake in it, know what I mean?  Either something I think my friends or family will use, or that I will use.
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Living Room / Re: Going online @ DonationCoder on Thanksgiving Day
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 25, 2010, 11:36 AM »
Happy Thanksgiving all!  Hope you're thankful for many things!
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Dominion Rules Character Creator
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 25, 2010, 11:30 AM »
Good suggestions, phitsc, and thank you for the input. I will seriously consider upgrading the UI.  Perhaps make the "hand-holding" feature an option that can be turned on/off.  Of course, most people (the very few that will ever actually make use of the app) are going to use the program once, to create and submit a character to my game -- then roleplay that character for months (or even years), never again using the app.  So, the intended audience probably won't use the app but once. 

Still, you're suggestions are very good ones.  Thanks!
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Dominion Rules Character Creator
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 25, 2010, 10:09 AM »
@timns: What language would you likely program it in?

The rules are quite elegant, IMHO.  Everything is accomplished with a d12 die.  I should point out that my character creator departs slightly from the official rules for character creation.  I don't like the method described in the rules manual.  However, my program is, in my estimation, 99% compliant with official Dominion Rules.
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Living Room / Re: Decision making time.
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 25, 2010, 09:26 AM »
How about developing an interactive fiction engine that is more intuitive, with less of a learning curve, than Inform or TADS 3, but still powerful enough to achieve complex IF projects?
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Dominion Rules Character Creator
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 25, 2010, 09:13 AM »
@phitsc: it's written in C#.  Any specific suggestions for improving the user-experience?  I deliberately made the progression through the program hand-holding, with lots of instruction messageboxes and confirmatory Yes/No dialogs.  Still, any constructive criticism is, of course, welcomed :)

@timns: to my knowledge, nobody has built a game around the rules, although I'm considering it ;)  I did find one forum, once, where somebody had hacked out a quick program using the combat rules to implement a fight-simulation (between two circles, representing combatants ;))  But no full games that I know of, no.
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 23, 2010, 09:54 PM »
Finished "Under the Dome" (Stephen King) -- good read!

Now reading "I Am Number Four" (Pittacus Lore), first in a series (others haven't been written yet)
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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 23, 2010, 09:51 PM »
I share the resentment towards having to go through so many of these. Worst of all are forums that both have really hard captchas (often rotated similar letters like lL1i oO0) and that reset ALL entered information when there is some minor error when clicking submit.

+1, and Amen!
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Dominion Rules Character Creator
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 23, 2010, 09:45 PM »
I'm releasing my NANY 2011 submission (see attachment).  The directory structure should be maintained as it exists in the zip archive, although it doesn't matter what directory serves as the parent folder.  I've included a 20-page help PDF.  I'm under the impression from something I read somewhere that the event organizer(s) will package the app in an appropriate installer.  If not, I can provide a crude but serviceable InnoSetup file.

I used InfohesiveEP v 3.3.0.0 to create the help file.  Basic functionality was fine, but it was abominably slow: interminable program hangs after pasting screenshots into the program from the Clipboard.  Sometimes waits for up to 2-3 minutes.  Geesh!

Attachment removed from this post.  Download only using the link from the OP.
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Living Room / Re: "DAWN WARS"
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 19, 2010, 06:07 PM »
Heh, cute :)
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Living Room / Re: The conflict of interest that is Google
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 19, 2010, 06:03 PM »
It just goes to show that when a given company becomes this prominent in cornering any sort of market (could be automobiles, oil, etc., but in this case happens to be searches), it leads to abuses.
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Announcement
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 18, 2010, 04:51 PM »
Is it permissible to submit more than one NANY app?
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Living Room / Re: Allow me to introduce "Dieselbuff" and "HorseDuck"
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 18, 2010, 01:52 PM »
Welcome, new folks!
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Living Room / Re: Ideas for a website...I need help.
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 18, 2010, 01:51 PM »
I'm trying to improve my HDMI cholesterol...
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Living Room / Re: Draw Function Graphs: A Website for Graphing Math Expressions
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 18, 2010, 10:15 AM »
There's also Jesper's Calculator
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any (Free) VPN service to recommend?
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 18, 2010, 10:11 AM »
Just found these and thought I'd post a link:

Seven free VPN services.
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 15, 2010, 09:09 PM »
I can heartily recommend "The Fionavar Tapestry" by Guy Gavriel Kay.
2nd that, pretty much anything by Guy Gavriel Kay.

Yep.  Also was quite impressed by Tigana and A Song for Arbonne.  Both were extremely lyrical.
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Living Room / Re: How to understand all the Intel chip types?
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 15, 2010, 09:05 PM »
The WEI on my Inspiron 15 is 3.4 -- but I love the laptop.  It's responsive.  Never had it show notable lag.
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Living Room / Re: Nokia CEO admits that the cell phone industry is a gimmick.
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 15, 2010, 08:34 PM »
It would be very nice to see total decoupling, as THAT would make the market truly competitive. i.e. Decouple everything so you buy 3 things:

    * Phone - the device
    * OS - e.g. Android, Windows Mobile
    * Service - i.e. the carrier

+1
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 15, 2010, 08:23 PM »
I can heartily recommend "The Fionavar Tapestry" by Guy Gavriel Kay.  Read those books years ago when they first came out.  Thinking about getting them again, this time for the Kindle.
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Good job, you three!
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 14, 2010, 05:19 PM »
+1 for the Bartimaeus Trilogy
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Living Room / Re: The conflict of interest that is Google
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 13, 2010, 09:06 PM »
I took one logic course in college.  Really enjoyed it.  Need to review, though (it's been twenty years ago).
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Living Room / New Google Tool "Refine" for managing large data sets
« Last post by kyrathaba on November 13, 2010, 07:53 PM »
gRefine.png

Refine will allow non-programmers who deal with lots of data, including students and journalists doing research, to manipulate and sort data much more quickly.
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