Bahahaha you guys are the worst

Ha, okay "joning" hits a chord there. All that got (somewhat) tempered out once the internet became mainstream. As for saltw, I'm sure we just grew up.

Bahahaha ohh man that was Climbtree? I was wondering where the hell *that* came from.

I thiiink the issue with my area is about the culture. All the people my age who stuck around generally grew up through an era of all these school budget cuts, so after they cut classes like woodshop and auto and band, our districts shifted gears and pressed heavily on the "college readiness" nonsense. Our education was without spirit or soul, so I feel like our group doesn't have as much of the curiosity or the diy element as some of the 50-somethings who wander into my meetup.

What I really want is a creative space driven by the local groups rather than me just going out and buying a CNC mill and 3d printer and slave-driving the process. But tuning to the culture isn't an easy feat.. Guh.

this game is the most beuatifal thing i have ever laid mine eyes on oer the vast interwubbage.

Runs ok on win 7

What do you mean by helldump? If it's just trolling then I think that's just the backbone of this place. If it ever got reaaaallly bad then I just don't remember much about it...maybe I left before it got bad.

Well, not a hub, but getting there. The vibe is subtle though -- more garage spaces are being set up, bio and AI are a bigger thing (bio's getting huge), and there are definitely more robotics firms moving in. There are so many meetups too, for a variety of technologies relating to programming, tech, bio, philosophy even. Coffee shops are filled with these meetups, and this is stuff that normal people are doing in their free time. What really irks me though is that it feels very top-down. A lot of the money is coming from university grants and offshoot firms, for example, or it's being funded by our local engineering companies. The culture is kinda stagnant... That money tends to sit up there, right above most people's grasp. No one really wants to learn something cool if they have to spend 300 bucks a month to rent lab space. I also think that our school system puts too much emphasis on "college" and less emphasis on tech and craftsmanship and curiosity.... standards which end up shafting a huge portion of the population. 

Soo my thinking is that a space like this will help. 

legal smeagol. I'd be surprised if they came after you because you ripped Alex out of the tutorial game in 2k and resurrected his blue-haired ass in 2k3. I guess I wouldn't put the game up on steam with ripped gfx with an intent to sell, but if your game's -that- ready then it's time to commission some artists to make it look good. 

lol don't worry about it, my css is garbage, I'm learning that stuff too. In the meantime to get stuff set up I just pull templates off the web. Eventually I want to get to the point where I can understand everything in the template but sometimes you just gotta jump into a project and not get hung up on the theory behind it. 

Well, offer's there if you want to play around with the code, pretty much for everyone. I'll toss my github in my signature once I get the scaffolding done for the CMS. 

btw, a good book I recommend so far for web design is "Learning Web Design" by Jennifer Niederst Robbins. It's well-written, explains stuff, and doesn't treat you like a kid with all the shiny colors and "hey, just copy this! It's magic!"

Yup, if I recall, most resources transfer over just fine (I remember somethings didn't and I can't remember what). You'll have to redo the map physics and whatnot manually but that just goes without saying. 

woooow, all digital?

I don't know much about mixing but I played around with a synth for awhile and it's not easy coming up with the shape of the sound. 

I'm looking at your other stuff too, pretty sweet. This would be perfect dungeon ambience for my Shadowrun games. Oooh. I'll commission you for musics if I ever start my cyberpunky android mmo. Gotta keep in mind that everyone's android phone speakers will make everything sound tinny, but this would run the perfect vibe. 

Do you do creative commons stuff too?

Hey awesome,

I think I'm going to start working on a CMS for my own space online; I need to create an article / blogging / gist / forum base for customer DIY projects for (eventually) my Makerspace Cafe.

Want to collaborate on a CMS engine? We can throw everything up on git. I'm thinking about learning Flask/Django/MongoDB for backend because I think that Node.JS will pose maintenance issues in the future. 

Loool and I apologize if you're not from the States

Totally worth it if Internet download speeds were not 5mbps in most parts of the country. Even if you had Google fiber, i think latency would kill most game types i think... Unless the Amazon instance compensated for the latency on your end.

Actually, that's interesting. The structure of how multiplayer games compensate for latency would need to change.

old games like quake 2 waited for all connected players to input a command, and all of the typical client processing (the graphics, your model position, etc) was handled by the server. That's how game files were so small. In a way, this isn't different, assuming that your server is close to the nearest ec2 data center, which is generally the case.

If not though, I think the only way this would take off is if multiplayer games had built in a mechanic that calculates the distance between the server, the client running in Amazon, and the user inputting commands at, say, a cafe. That's one extra degree of separation, but doable. It just changes...... Pretty much how everything works.

Out of curiosity, would you support a tiered internet structure if it would provide better speeds to support this?

Would I still get banned if I posted links to the pirated versions c;

Hey that's cool! Are you going to go the sound foley route, or the music production route? Good to see you by the way.

Stumbled back into here last night for really no reason other than alcohol, and I figured I should make amends.

Wondering what's up but I see that it's dead as ever. Which is perfect. Sometimes, you just need to have a space where no one is so you can be a goddamn human being again. Or a transgendered hippy space saucer. Whatever it is you kids are into nowadays. Mostly, I'm here because I need to get back into writing again, and writing often. 

I'm finally out of college with my degree in computer engineering and 35k in the toilet, which I guess isn't much. Doing freelance Android app development, frontend and backend, and leading a small guild of coders who meet in a Target starbucks twice a week. We refer jobs to each other and help each other out where we can. It's pretty fun, but the clients are drying up or not paying on time. I've got another 4 months until I need to start paying back student loans, which means I'll need a job-job. My resume's in one hand, and Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle MacDowell is in the other. But I'm really hesitant to push that submit button whenever I'm applying.

See, because right now, I have this idea. 

My big passion project right now is a makerspace cafe. I've got a business proposal written up, and an investor, and now we're negotiating for space somewhere near my hometown with someone with experience running cafes. Everything is going crazy great, and I'm excited as hell. 

The basic concept of it is that it's going to be a coffee shop with a work/study commons which offers tools in an adjacent warehouse if you've got a membership. Typically those memberships go for 150 bucks a month, which is pretty expensive. But by attaching a coffee shop to it, I think I can reduce the membership price down to $30. Think "tools" like 3D printers, lathes, saws, CNC mills, that kind of thing. We'd teach classes and have workshops, host robotics competitions, and more.
 
Anyway, my life is mostly revolving around this right now. But some other projects I'm working on are:

1.) an MMO for Android Phones where people cast spells at each other via minigames and gestures at their screens kind of like a spellbook. 
2.) a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book engine for Android (I'll toss it up on github when it's ready)
3.) a robot arm that attaches to my back and holds my phone in front of my face. Sounds dumb, yeah I know. But you can use it as a camera gimbal, which is schweet, and it's useful if you need both hands and your phone is clunky like mine. Eventually I want to write a companion app for it, a cute little pet AI which responds to commands and recommends articles and interesting things for me to read occasionally. When I get there I promise to put the build of materials up. 

Still though. None of this is putting food on the table -yet.-

Anyway, what are you guys working on?

Hi there Sumit,

How'd you find the place and what stuff do you like doing in your free time?

...and shared pleasure. ;F 

;) The Iraqi's have a saying: "Same shit, different Saddam"

Except completely different Saddam here. Our younger selves are spectacular assholes it seems. Sorry, I'm on a nostalgia streak lately. It's cool that people are still lurkin around here. You're doing web dev?

:c I'm sorry to hear about dok. 

I think I'll post here, because why not. See how far this salty old thing can go. 

Why do I have access to this forum. Did I give you assbangs money?? My god.

What the fuck is this place that keeps drawing us back?

Edit: also why is my actual birthdate even here howcouldibethisdumb. My. God. Looking at these posts. I was an asshole!

Hey does mkk still post? How about velfarre. What happened to Mr.D? Doktormartini?

I don't even remember what any of you ever said. I remember hating Velfarre's guts. And Mr D being a badass. And mkk being generally our Lord and Savior and mostly our mascot. And doc being doc.

Does anyone remember Steel?