Celtore

I used to have a fair bit of strength, but then I went on a diet and did a lot of cardio. I need to do some weight lifting to get that strength back.

Currently, I have just enough muscle for carrying around my 50 pound telescope. That's not really any achievement though and I struggle like hell doing it.

I'd be a mental wreck and probably off myself before I even meet this band of survivors. But if I didn't, I guess my stubbornness tenacity could come in handy. Don't have much in terms of wilderness skills though, or a good stomach for that sort of thing. 

Im probably not in the majority here, but I can't say I'm opposed to the idea of gene modification in itself. I think that's a pretty unscientific stance and it cuts us off from a whole slew of potential benefits the field might bring. I doubt his motivations were entirely selfless and it is certainly a very controversial thing to do, but I wouldn't jump on the bandwagon of condemning him. I'm more neutral about it than anything. 

You also have to admit, modifying an embryo's genes for HIV resistance is pretty clean compared to certain events in recent history. There's been far worse, both overseas and at home. 

After 3 years, still ISFJ. Maybe this test isn't a load of hot air after all!... But seriously, some of that stuff is actually frighteningly accurate. I'll have to test later to see if it's just that one specific type that matches so well or if they're all generic enough to apply to anyone. 

Edit: oookay, looks like my initial thoughts may have some merit to them. Beyond the four traits the test checks for (with a very broad brush), the rest is up for interpretation. 

My first games came from the humble bundle 3. The first game I actually played was either Cave Story or VVVVVV.

I was really big into trains when I was a kid and I had these Thomas the Tank Engine toys. They were like little wooden models of the trains on the show and they sold tracks alongside the toys to let you build your own railway system. My grandfather, who was pretty talented with woodworking, made me a set of those tracks one Christmas and I got many years of enjoyment out of them. I remember using an oatmeal box as a tunnel and laying the tracks through it and later using lego to extend it further like adding a station.

Bad move... I mean, I get it, but it's way too late. Once you've allowed your brand to devalue itself like this, no amount of backtracking or PR will save you. They should have acted when that content was starting to appear, not until it had already festered into a very sizeable chunk of their stakeholders.

That stereotype exists pretty much everywhere. I sometimes feel the same way about sports fans, sitting on a sofa loudly shouting like incoherent morons at a television while drizzling cheese and a week's worth of fat down their morbidly obese inebriated gullets. 

The reality is that these types of obsessed people exist in just about every hobby and identifiable group; some more than others. I've only met one other brony in person and they were very clean, polite and a good friend. 

It used to, but not as much anymore because Im doing something about it. Although I probably could be eating slightly better, my problem was more of a lack of exercise rather than eating too much junk food. 

5 hours ago, Ganaram Inukshuk said:

@Sir Punicpunch, @Olly, @Celtore

Umm...

 

Yeah, sorry about that. I don't have any experience with blender, though I would love to learn it one day. All my games have mostly been 2d to avoid needing to model things. 

Sleeping. I'll be going to bed in about 30 minutes and I fall asleep really quick.

The question head on is a tricky one. I don't think there's a game you can play your whole life that you'll never grow tired of. Even with something like an MMO, eventually the player base will die and you'll still be there. Bored, having done most everything.

So I'd have to say something fun and multiplayer is probably close to the answer. Something like Mario Party where the fun comes more from the people around you rather than just through gameplay alone. The really hard part though is which Mario Party?...

Monster "hunter", huh? I'd prefer to be the monster, personally. Maybe defend a small village from other larger threats, Godzilla style!

Or if I guess that doesn't work, I guess a super hero will do fine... With the power to transform. 

Hallelujah (yes, the one from Shrek.) It's pretty catchy... 

I generally don't like fighting. The closest thing to a fight was when I shoulder rammed a bully (same grade) who had trapped someone in their locker. Well, it wasn't really a shoulder ram, it was more like a very strong shove.

26 minutes ago, Ganaram Inukshuk said:

Guys, how would you go about programming a car's lights? Because that's exactly what I'm trying to do. (I already have an idea; I'm just curious to know if you'd do something wackier.)

Depending on the car, you might be able to sniff traffic on the CAN bus to see if there's any message for toggling the lights. Then, it's just a matter of replaying that message onto the bus yourself. If the lighting system is just switched based, you could program your own microcontroller (like an arduino) and have it control the switch through a relay or something.

note: not endorsing it; that's just what I would do.

Working on a crappy codebase. You just end up piling more trash on top of the mountainous garbage heap and hope it doesn't all come tumbling down on top of you. I have a few projects like this. I have covered a few of them in astroturf and spruced them up a bit, but others are like mount Everest, composed of years of bad practices from numerous authors. 

I've heard about blue light supposedly having an effect on your sleepfulness, but I can't say I fully believe it. Personally, I can fall asleep pretty much on a dime, so I don't think I've ever really experienced this issue.

At work though, I use f.lux to tint my screen a bit. I start programming at 7:00 AM, which can be a bit rough at times. It's circumstantial evidence, but I noticed that I've been having a little less red eye since I've started using it. Well, it's either that or my annoying "you should take an eye break" python script that fires every 45 minutes. My ebook reader also has a red light, but that's something that's baked into the device and not something I put there.

Upstairs in my study, just derping around the web.

Guilty as charged; I used to do that even pre-cellphone and either read in there or play my gameboy. The benefit of the phone though is that I can also use it to time myself to ensure I'm not spending all day in there philosophizing.

Thursday is the absolute best day of the week! The best part of it is savouring how every second of it isn't that dreadful Friday.

Not much of a story to tell, but I saw one of them in the middle of a roundabout. Nobody was paying him any attention, presumably because everyone (well, besides him) had somewhere important to be or something important to be doing. Awful spot to be doing that, really.

I liked how aggressive some of your comments are. I can't say I can approve of your sudden use of gotos at program.cs:476, but I'll give it a pass because it looks like you may have been edging on insanity in a few spots there.

I didn't know about moonsharp before, but it looks like a pretty useful tool. If I need something dynamic in C# like you did, I typically pull in Roslyn to compile dynamically generated C#Script. I'm not sure if there may or may not be any memory leaks there, I know I have to be careful when I do that stuff with Roslyn.

Overall though, nice work! Looks like a pain of a project. I've never been a fan of parsing text.

On 9/9/2017 at 9:01 AM, Redeye said:

Pretzels... dipped in Peanut Butter!

Yes! There was this snack I bought from Costco a while back that was pretty much this. Hollow pretzel shells with a peanut butter center. They were amazing.

But I guess if I had to pick one... Peanuts slightly edge out packaged pretzels for me. But if it's one of those giant pretzels street vendors sometimes sell, there's no contest. 

I doubt I can overemphesize how much I dislike Pharrell William's song "Happy." I never understood what people saw in it; I don't think it's catchy or even a happy song. It's practically monotone. Fortunately, time was my friend on this one and people seem to have largely gotten over it.