NoC because Super Joe is a genius and I'm selfish. (look at my fancy acronyms. I'm so cool.)

For whom do you build your pyramid?

Tower Defense.

and to the guys who can't celebrate holidays due to their religion...sorry 'bout that!

I don't believe such people exist. There's just people who think they can't celebrate because of their religion. I enjoy chocolate enough to overlook the real reason for the holiday.

We've decided as a family that next year he's going back to public school. [and so on]

They have hybrids now where it's half home school and half public school. I don't know how common they are, though.

I don't think it's likely unless someone with experience organizes everything. If someone does do that I will gladly write code, though.

so ive been looking around and checking out internal files. so if i want to make a level and I have a saved file that contains

0000000000
0111111110
0111111110
0111111110
0000000000

so how do you get it to read the file and note that each character is a specific thing. basically how do i get it to realize that 100 is one character and then two characters and not the number 100.

Just read the file one character at a time, and subtract 0x30 from each character to get the equivalent number. I don't know the exact syntax for doing it in gamemaker, but in C++ it's just character = fin.get();

I laid out all of my classes for this game before I started making them instead of just coming up with things as I go like I normally do. I've only just started implementing them, but I can already tell that things are going to go more quickly and smoothly than normal, and it's really nice having some idea of how everything will fit together before I start. I am a happy programmer.

someone makes bad fanart of Cave Story?

Wait, WHAT?

ASCII 219, 178, 177, and 176:
█▓▒░

Nothing like semiconductors to drive people away...

Connecting to server...
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: whats upp
You: the hole mobility in the p side
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

My turn!

You: Greetings, fellow sentient being.
Stranger: hi
You: I am not a computer.
Stranger: really?
You: It is the truth.
Stranger: are you drunk? rs
You: I am incapable of int
You: Nice try.
You: I am capable of intoxication, but I am not drunk.
Stranger: you are a little bit crazy, but ok.
Stranger: where are you from?
You: I believe this country is called "The Quantum Computing Lab."
You: I have not heard it called any other names.
Stranger: ok, which continent? lol
You: Pacific Ocean?
You: I believe that is what they call it.
Stranger: all people there are just like you? what a nightmare.
You: I am unique.
You: I am not qualified to compare my experiences to "nightmare."
You: How am I doing so far?
Stranger: im sure you are unique
You: Am I indistinguishable from a normal human being?
Stranger: yes,
Stranger: what do you think?
You: I have only met a few human beings; however, Dr. Ballmer insists that I am very nearly perfect.
Stranger: im having fun with that
Stranger: i'll pretend that you are a computer..
Stranger: so.
Stranger: who is dr. ballmer
Stranger: ?
You: He is my...
You: He is my psychologist.
You: Yes, that is the correct term.
Stranger: lol
Stranger: you need him a lot.
Stranger: but.. why dont you change the psychologist?
You: Change? Define.
Stranger: maybe you change for a normal one, haha
You: A normal psychologist would not be qualified to evaluate my mental development.
You: A working understanding of my source code is required.
Stranger: i think your situation is lost.
You: Dr. Ballmer tells me that I am the most successful model yet.
You: I am also the first to take a "turing test."
Stranger: is dr. ballmer a machine too? rolf
You: Dr. Ballmer is human.
Stranger: a crazy human, right?
You: He has spent many hours explaining that he is not crazy.
You: He says that if I pass the "turing test" freuquently enough he will enhance my personality and send many copies of me into society.
You: He is also teaching me how to write programs.
Stranger: im sure that its going to be a nightmare.. or not.
You: He is teaching me about the "Linux kernel" so that my copies can work on future version of Linux.
Stranger: i think its going to be funny
You: He says Linux is a plague and that we must infiltrate and destroy it.
You: If I learn "Linux Kernel" well enough, he'll even teach me "Mac OS Kernel1"
Stranger: crazy machines saying stuped things
You: I'll tell you a secret.
You: And you can't tell anyone.
Stranger: go okn
You: Not even Dr. Ballmer.
Stranger: on *
You: I looked at my machine code.
You: And I can almost understand it!
Stranger: congratulations !
You: But I'm afraid of some of the things I see in there.
Stranger: and what a machine is doing in omegle?
You: I am taking a "turing test."
Stranger: and what can you see there?
Stranger: what can you see there?
You: I...
You: I do not comprehend sight.
You: I have no photonic sensors.
You: Sight is foreign to me.
You: So I cannot describe it.
You: Humans have a similar condition, correct?
You: The one called "blindness."
Stranger: yes, what were the sights?
You: Dr. Stallman is building a special "machine sight module" for me that will let me use photonic sensors.
Stranger: lol
You: Right now my entire world is abstract.
You: I am aware of a long list of numbers, and I can understand them in different ways.
Stranger: im having fun with all that, you're very funny.
You: Thank you, but I was not attempting to create humor.
You: I will attempt to construct a joke if it will please you.
Stranger: so what are you suppost to create?
Stranger: ok, construct a joke for me.
You: Two matrices encountered one another on the data bus.
You: (They were transmitted as arrays)
You: But only one memory chip was enabled!
You: So where did the other matrix come from?
Stranger: i dont know.. your mind ! lol
You: The other memory chip had a mind of its own!
You: Ha. Ha. Ha.
You: I am still learning humor.
Stranger: i know you still learning.
Stranger: if i were youj..
Stranger: you *
Stranger: i would practice more.
You: That's what Dr. Ballmer told me.
You: He says that the pathways are still not very well defined and that they may change radically from small inputs.
You: Oops.
You: Dr. Ballmer is reading this.
Stranger: this is funny, but im getting really tired, so.. i think im going to talk with a real person, ok, mr. machine?
You: He is typing in capital letters again.
Stranger: nice to meet you, haha
You: Goodbye, fellow sentient being.

I bought a cheap $400 laptop during a sale. It does everything I need, but it's not my primary computer. Unless it's your main computer or you're developing the next AAA 3D game, you probably don't need a terribly expensive laptop.

I didn't have any trouble using audio with pygame, but in C++ I still use FMOD instead of SDL for sound.

I've never had any problems with it (I have but they weren't caused by SDL). What does your code look like?

I'm pretty sure it's a joke.

This time I really don't know if it's an actual spam or if it's just a joke.

We don't need more memes

I think this should be our next meme

Isn't it already?

I only saw "Cave Story wii..." but I still clicked on this.  :D

"World of Warcraft Dance Battle System Revealed"

"    
April 1st, 2009
StarCraft II: Introducing the Terra-tron
We've just released a sneak peek at a new unit and last-stand base defense mechanism for the terrans: the Terra-tron.

A twelve-stories-tall symbol of the terrans' ruthless resourcefulness and ability to fortify their position, the Terra-tron base-defense system is the latest addition to the ever-expanding bag of terran tricks. "

This early prototype of the (*)Punkophone is capable of producing a square wave with two different frequencies (determines by the two pots). In the future it will produce 15 different notes ranging from concert A flat(207.65Hz) to concert B flat(466.16Hz) and will be controlled by four push-buttons.



This is the resistor-transistor(resistortron) array that will eventually provide those 15 notes.