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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 46: April 17th-20th, 2020
« Last post by Deozaan on April 20, 2020, 11:19 PM »
Soooooo.... Tamagotchi?   :D
-Edvard (April 20, 2020, 02:54 PM)

Yeah! That was actually one of the things we came up with during our brainstorming session. ;D


We ended up pursuing a silly idea thrown out by one of us about someone who loved animals so much they would jump in front of a hunter's bullets. :P We made it in the style of those old LCD handheld games from the 80s.

LD46 - 01 - Mid-Level.png


Play it here: https://cmonkeys.itch.io/ld46
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DC Gamer Club / Re: From within GTA to Excel
« Last post by Deozaan on April 20, 2020, 10:50 PM »
Maybe AutoHotKey could be used to catch keystrokes and send them to Excel?
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PBOL / Re: Weird precision (or lack thereof) in time remaining displayed
« Last post by Deozaan on April 20, 2020, 10:45 PM »
Does it *ever* tell you you have X days and Y hours?
-mouser (April 19, 2020, 06:43 PM)

Yes. It was showing hours until about 2 days and 4-5 hours remained. I'm not sure exactly when it made the switch. But I noticed it had changed from hours to minutes when it was close to (but higher than) the 3 hours remaining mark.

Here's another weird one I noticed earlier today:

PBOL 3 hours.png
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PBOL / Weird precision (or lack thereof) in time remaining displayed
« Last post by Deozaan on April 19, 2020, 02:35 AM »
So, I'm doing my thing, crunching away at Ludum Dare, and I notice my PBOL says this:

PBOL LD46 Weirdly Precise.png

2 days 189 minutes? Not 2 days and 3 hours? Okaayyy then... :tellme:

I give it some serious side-eye but I'm busy working on the game jam, so I snap a screenshot and let it slide for the time being. A while later, I notice it's about 20 minutes away from being a full 24 hours since LD46 began (meaning I should have about 2 days 20 minutes remaining), but now it looks like this:

PBOL LD46 Not Precise.png

Uh... what? :huh:

First of all, why is it telling me I have 189 minutes remaining and not showing hours? Second of all, why, when I'm finally at a point where showing me minutes remaining makes sense, does it totally omit the minutes and just round to 2 days? :-\

PBOL is weird.




But I still like it. :D
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 46: April 17th-20th, 2020
« Last post by Deozaan on April 18, 2020, 01:49 AM »
The theme is Keep It Alive.

After a little over an hour brainstorming ideas we settled on the basic gameplay idea and after the first ~5 hours we've all gone to bed. I feel things are going pretty well so far, but it always manages to get pretty hectic before the end.

We'll see how it goes.
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PBOL / Re: Docked Mode is broken, needs more love
« Last post by Deozaan on April 17, 2020, 05:17 PM »
If adding another docked mode option is too much work, I'd be happy to have just a way to hide the title bar and menu, as a kind of minimal view, like it looks while docked...

I hate how much space it takes up with the useless stuff I don't need. I just want the countdown timer on my screen so I can quickly glance over and see how much time is left. :(
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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos
« Last post by Deozaan on April 17, 2020, 01:02 PM »

-IQLover (March 25, 2020, 04:18 AM)

As strange as that looks, it still looks better than the Cats movie.
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PBOL / Re: Docked Mode is broken, needs more love
« Last post by Deozaan on April 17, 2020, 02:25 AM »
Oh i see, you want it always visible but not taking up space.. let me see what I can do..
-mouser (April 20, 2018, 03:11 AM)

I still want this feature so I can use PBOL to see how much time is left for Ludum Dare events. . . :(

I'd like to tuck it away in a corner of my screen I don't use for much of anything, keep it on top of everything (docked to the corner would be great!) but not auto-hide and definitely not waste an entire row or column of screen real estate.

An another thing: It seems PBOL's last update was so long ago that the internal links to the homepage and discussion forum, etc., are broken and haven't been updated since the forum upgrade a few years ago.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Free Game on Humble Store
« Last post by Deozaan on April 16, 2020, 02:27 PM »
Manual Samuel is free for about 2 days (while supplies last)

https://www.humblebu...nualsamuel-free-game
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Living Room / Re: Favourite youtube channels
« Last post by Deozaan on April 16, 2020, 02:14 AM »
What's with the British spelling of "favorite"? :huh: :P
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 46: April 17th-20th, 2020
« Last post by Deozaan on April 15, 2020, 11:27 PM »
Ludum Dare 46 begins in less than 48 hours. The final round of theme voting is currently taking place. The contenders are:

  • Dreams
  • You are the power source
  • Turn a violent genre non-violent
  • An abandoned world
  • 1 minute to prepare
  • Decay
  • Side effects
  • Fragile
  • Outdated technology
  • Ruins
  • Momentum
  • Automation
  • Keep it alive
  • Garden
  • Connections

As usual, none of the finalists are any that I would have chosen. It's kind of a cliche that the theme always sucks. But what I find puzzling is that if the popular opinion is that the theme sucks, how does the theme win the popular vote? Maybe there's just always a vocal minority who hate the theme? :-\

Anyway, I'm gearing up, making sure all my tools are ready and working properly. I've suspended Windows Updates for 7 days to make sure I don't get any surprises or forced reboots in the middle of working on things. I've briefly chatted about potential game ideas for each of the themes, but not anything really specific or concrete.

I'll likely get caught up in the game jam and forgot to post back in this thread until after it's over, so... see you in about a week, maybe!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions
« Last post by Deozaan on April 15, 2020, 09:29 PM »
have you tried to set the number of ads low then back up again?
-wraith808 (April 15, 2020, 09:24 PM)

Yes, I had tried that. I also tried disabling Brave Rewards and re-enabling it. Nothing made a noticeable difference. That's why my next idea I was thinking of trying was to completely uninstall and reinstall the browser.

Suddenly tonight I've gotten 3 ads within an hour. So it looks like it's back to normal for me now. Not sure what changed.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions
« Last post by Deozaan on April 15, 2020, 08:37 PM »
I was considering uninstalling Brave and reinstalling it to see if it would fix the fact that I haven't been getting any ads for a long time.

But a few minutes ago I just got my first Brave Rewards ad since... I don't remember when. Seems like I haven't gotten any this entire year so far. But maybe I got a few in January or February.

Here's hoping that more come in.
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Living Room / Re: Share your tips and comforts for dealing with the stress and fear of a pandemic
« Last post by Deozaan on April 15, 2020, 03:14 PM »
Mankind Wiped Themselves Out.jpg
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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Last post by Deozaan on April 15, 2020, 02:47 AM »
I was just browsing through this thread trying to find a short film I had seen somewhere and I noticed this short called Cargo from 2013:

Best twist on the zombie movie genre... EVAR!!


-Edvard (July 29, 2013, 11:22 PM)

I recognized the basic premise and the name from something else I had seen recently on Netflix or IMDB or something and went and found it again. It looks like it got turned into a feature length film which was released in 2017:

Cargo.jpg
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3860916/
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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos
« Last post by Deozaan on April 13, 2020, 12:26 PM »
Those were great. ;D
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by Deozaan on April 12, 2020, 10:17 AM »
Man makes guitar out of ramen noodles.



Edvard, this sounds like a project for you!
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Living Room / Re: Share your tips and comforts for dealing with the stress and fear of a pandemic
« Last post by Deozaan on April 08, 2020, 06:49 PM »
The meme has new life!

PPAP COVID-19 Version.

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.
« Last post by Deozaan on April 06, 2020, 01:30 PM »
Amazon supports free computer science during COVID-19:
https://www.amazonfu...eer.com/free-courses
-panzer (April 06, 2020, 01:07 PM)

Thank you. :)
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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.
« Last post by Deozaan on April 06, 2020, 10:27 AM »
https://blog.archive...ents-and-the-public/
-panzer (March 24, 2020, 11:50 AM)
https://www.hoppersr...rs.org/bootcamp.html
https://www.hoppersr.../courseSecurity.html
https://www.hoppersr...s.org/courseCTF.html
https://www.hoppersr...pers.org/course.html
-panzer (April 03, 2020, 11:05 AM)
https://group.spring...nd-students/17858180 (free until July 30th)
https://github.com/a...lob/master/README.MD
https://uploadfiles.io/ih7dx11o
-panzer (April 06, 2020, 05:00 AM)

A list of bare links isn't very helpful. Please include a short description of each of your links so we have an idea of what we might be clicking on.
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by Deozaan on April 03, 2020, 05:02 PM »
It said it was short, not complete. :D
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Epic Games Store Giveaway
« Last post by Deozaan on April 03, 2020, 04:57 PM »
Hob is free until April 9th:
https://www.epicgame...-US/product/hob/home
-panzer (April 03, 2020, 01:39 AM)

So are three other games, including:

Totally Reliable Delivery Service


Drawful 2
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Living Room / Re: Looking for audio merger Y-cable
« Last post by Deozaan on April 03, 2020, 01:00 AM »
Thank you, Edvard. It is helpful. But I'm not sure I'll be acting on the information any time soon. And even if I do, it may be about a month or more before non-essentials like this get delivered. :Thmbsup:
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Chronicles of Elyria
« Last post by Deozaan on April 03, 2020, 12:47 AM »
Wow. I'm reminded of those scammers who somehow string along women with long-distance relationships for months or years and extract thousands upon thousands of dollars from them over that time.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Chronicles of Elyria
« Last post by Deozaan on April 02, 2020, 07:25 PM »
Went belly up. Lawsuits are being filed for mismanagement and fraud.
-nickodemos (April 02, 2020, 12:39 PM)

Yikes! Got any links to sources of information on that?
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