A couple of notes reading through:

And finally you need a web browser (duh). Make sure it's NOT Internet Explorer. I've given up making sure my code is compatible with IE. It's just so behind other browsers.

I'm presuming this is either bias or referring to the problems Internet Explorer 7/8 is known for. Internet Explorer 9+ is actually decent now and complies to many of the HTML5 standards.

You should code firstly for optimization on your own preferred web browser, and then follow up on others later. You don't want to ruin any creativity by spending your time making sure that your list is nicely aligned in Firefox and Chrome.

Wouldn't a better idea in general be to code firstly for the ideas and concepts down? Same rule applies to video games. I know I'd rather have a working, clunky prototype than a glam half-page.

However you can use @font-face to include it from a webserver, but I don't wanna go into how this works, as I can rarely make it work myself :/

@font-face is a CSS rule, not an HTML tag. In the long run, it creates a font family from an external font to use just like any other font family.

Code:

@font-face {
/* What the family will be referred to. */
  font-family: "Foo Man Bar";
  src: url("http://plac.es/fonts/fumanbar.ttf");
}

body {
  font-family: "Foo Man Bar", sans-serif;
}

It's very iffy, as with <video> and <audio>. Different browsers will support a different range of files.

Lego

Edit: No, wait. Duplo is better for beginners I think.

With interfaces as clueless as Blender's, you could go for blocks smaller than LEGO sets.

I'm not seeing sublime text 

Sublime Text has too many quality of life improvements over every other text editor for me to properly summarize how much of an impact it's had on my efficiency. I can no longer stand using anything else. It has plugins for just about any application imaginable, and the fully functional free trial is time limited only by the honour system. The website does a good job of selling you on its features.

Also going to suggest Sublime Text. It's too perfect.

Fixed my NES, by hand

 

Did you fix that lockout chip problem or was it something else?

Wiping every month sound like extreme overkill. Why not at least wait 6 months for the next *buntu release? Usually it takes me some time to find all the nice little details and config things just right.

That would probably be a better idea. Reading through the elementary OS HIG several times, apparently they want software to save automatically whenever there is any change, hence the lack of a save button in Scratch (text editor). And this may be due to the GNOME System Monitor, I'm usually using one whole core at a time on this.

Super villan: "I'll wipe the world!"
His computer: "sudo rm -rf"

I hate to be that kind of a rain cloud at the parade, but: $ sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

GNU rm refuses to execute rm -rf / if the --preserve-root option is given, which has been the default since version 6.4 of GNU Core Utilities was released in 2006.

It'll never be the same without Jon ever again. Don't even try to justify the Steam Train. I...I need some time alone for this to sink in.

But are we killing the genre in the same vain as Puzzle Games (dead) and Roguelikes (choking)?

Not completely to the puzzle question, double yes to the roguelike question. Just like how people complain about the AAA market with first person shooters and XxTaCtIc0oLxX warfare games, people are also complaining about the indie market with these piles of retro-inspired metroidvanias and roguelikes. These tropes have become a negative icon of indie games.

And then we have the stuck-up hipsters who are supposed to be "representing" the indie scene.

Since elementary OS is Ubuntu-based you can just install Unity and whatever if you want to. Though you may get some conflicting config files.

I get that it is based on Ubuntu. I tend to do a "refresh" every month where I wipe my system, backup my things, and start fresh. Jumped ship to elementary OS now and it is indeed rather speedy. I will miss Unity's HUD (press alt, enter command) for the trade-off.

I'm stuck between a distro and a hard place. Don't know whether to just stick with Ubuntu or jump ship to elementary OS now that I got repositories set and drivers installed.

just tilt the controller 45º

This was not fun to play Q*Bert on the NES with. Of course there's a setting to use diagonal presses instead of cardinal presses, but it's not as quick.

Wait, so you're insinuating we actually read posts?

Jokes aside, I generally do read text walls. Except for Super Joe's. His text walls posts in general go nowhere productive. If a picture's worth a thousand words, think of how many pictures it would take to equal the value of one of his posts. If you're going to do a word wall, at least have some courtesy on the eyes and throw in paragraphs or whitespace.

An SVG button. I miss Illustrator already.

Aww you guys. That does suck. KEEP HUSTLING on game dev stuff while you look for jobs, even though it can be discouraging, because when you do land your grownup jobs you will long for the time you've got right now. Dont worry about the licenses, driving and shit is easy, you'll pick them up at some point when it's more convenient.

• The jobs we can go to is severely limited by the fact we still can't drive.
• We're pretty much at that "grown-up" part of life.
• Good luck being that one-in-a-trillion guy who actually can make games for a living.

In other news of things that suck, I have just turned twenty. I remember being a silly seventeen-year-old first signing up. On the plus side, I think I now know what I want to make a career of: mobile and/or website/application development.


Here's another year closer to death.

Being 18 with no license and jobless, with parents that tell me to get a job every hour.

;-; i'm trying dammit i've applied to like everywhere.

Same case at twenty.

Jaem & Woch prezentz...Chaupa!

I think creating animations would be possible if using only simple techniques (lots of static plans,or using simple techniques such as those used in arcade games cinematics that used only scrolling planes and sprites, and using computer to automatize tasks such as particles)

Isn't this how it's commonly done in Flash now? I've seen some how-to videos a while back from someone (like, in 2005) and they mainly used tweening and some ActionScript 2 to enhance the animation for things such as a swarm of flies buzzing about.

Does anyone use RSS? It seems that whenever I try to connect to an RSS Feed for most websites, I get an error. Is this because the website's RSS is outdated, because I'm doing something wrong, or what?

What are you using to check up on these feeds? If Firefox, are you using the "live bookmarks" option?

Don't listen to Cooldude, Mint is exactly Ubuntu with Cinnamon.

You might be right, it's over a year ago since I've used Ubuntu. My experience, however, was that Ubuntu version 12 (I think it was 12.10) was really slow on my PC and Firefox lagged every time you scrolled down. Maybe that's fixed in 13?

Aye. Remember how I was always complaining on 12.10 and was excited to running faster once 13.04 came out? Think the reason is for the mobile family of Ubuntu.

HEY GUYS

what would you recommend for a fast booting linux distro for web browsing and small general computing.

i'll be using it as a supplemental OS to windows when I just want to hop on quickly and browse or scan something or other simple things.. probably play around with shells a bit too.
there's a ton of nice utilities i use and games i play on windows so I'm not really ready to drop it completely. even though just about all my humble bundle games have linux versions... hmmm. i'm leaning more toward it than i used to be. we'll see.

so far i've been looking at Lubuntu, Slax, and even possibly Ubuntu (i've heard the boot time has gotten better)

I would say Ubuntu. You are correct, the boot time is much quicker and so is the Dash once you remove the shopping lens (sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping). It's like a poor man's Macintosh. Don't listen to Cooldude. If you're wanting to do Mint, you may as well do Ubuntu and install the Cinnamon DE.