| --- Log opened Sat Nov 01 00:00:38 2008 |
| 00:08 | <@Vornicus> | agh, I had forgotten how /awful/ the MA-75 was in this game. |
| 00:08 | <@ToxicFrog> | Isn't it awful in all of them? |
| 00:08 | <@ToxicFrog> | ISTR looking at the underlying hitset for it once and it's all over the place. |
| 00:08 | <@Vornicus> | Yes, but I'm comparing it to, say, the MP5 in Half-Life. |
| 00:09 | <@ToxicFrog> | Oh. Yeah. |
| 00:09 | <@Vornicus> | Which is good enough that it's reasonably uncommon to prefer the pistol. |
| 00:17 | | You're now known as TheWatcher[zZzZ] |
| 00:18 | | * gnolam ponders names. |
| 00:19 | <@Vornicus> | The spread radius of the MA-75 is something like 30 degrees; the MP5 is like 3-5, and /real/ guns have spreads measured in arcminutes. |
| 00:24 | <@gnolam> | FPS characters are really all one-armed. |
| 00:24 | <@gnolam> | The second arm is a gelatin prosthetic. |
| 00:25 | <@Vornicus> | it's actually a ten-foot tentacle. |
| 00:26 | <@gnolam> | (If a friend of mine who's near-sighted to the point of being an honorary /bat/ could hit the target with half his shots with an AK-47 at a 100 meters, FPS characters should be able to as well) |
| 00:27 | <@Vornicus> | Quite. |
| 00:27 | <@gnolam> | So. Island generator thingy. Name suggestions, please. |
| 00:29 | <@Vornicus> | Lagoon |
| 00:34 | <@ToxicFrog> | Thirteen foot long boneless tentacles, please~ |
| 00:35 | <@Vornicus> | What TF said. |
| 00:38 | <@ToxicFrog> | Fjord? |
| 00:43 | <@GeekSoldier> | Fnord? |
| 00:45 | <@gnolam> | Hmm. "Lagoon" and "Fjord" might be a bit misleading, since it's pretty bad at generating those kinds of features. :) |
| 00:45 | <@gnolam> | And GeekSoldier's text is all blank for some reason...~ |
| 00:48 | <@GeekSoldier> | interesting. |
| 00:52 | <@Consul> | Sandbars? |
| 00:52 | <@Consul> | Coves? |
| 01:08 | <@Consul> | Anyone have anything on making slice-based widgets in Python? Where a widget is a png file containing slices of the widget animation... |
| 01:09 | <@Consul> | It sounds simple enough, but it would be nice if the work were already done for me somewhere... |
| 01:11 | <@Serah> | SQUINK! |
| 01:12 | <@ToxicFrog> | Consul: I've got nothing, sorry. |
| 01:13 | <@Consul> | No worries. Thanks anyway. |
| 01:13 | <@Consul> | It might be a good way to dive into Python and Cairo. |
| 01:13 | <@ToxicFrog> | Isn't Cairo all about the vector graphics? |
| 01:13 | <@Consul> | It can also stamp pngs. |
| 01:13 | <@Consul> | Or draw with them, even. |
| 01:17 | <@Consul> | That might not be the greatest solution, but it would probably work. |
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| 03:44 | <@Consul> | Looks like I've inherited my family's ocular migraine gene. :-( |
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| 17:30 | < Vornicus> | Top two lines are perfect. |
| 17:31 | < Vornicus> | aw. 404'd /anyway/. |
| 17:48 | <@gnolam> | Trying to get at Google's juicy, delicious brains eh? |
| 17:52 | | * gnolam starts reading up on sizers. |
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| 20:33 | <@gnolam> | OO.org, first impression: not favorable. |
| 20:34 | <@gnolam> | They've managed to make it /even slower/! |
| 20:35 | <@gnolam> | It's microstress hell. |
| 20:35 | <@McMartin> | Microstress? |
| 20:35 | <@gnolam> | Yes. |
| 20:35 | <@McMartin> | "This is a word I don't recognize" |
| 20:35 | <@gnolam> | Tiny stressors that still wreak havoc upon your general well-being. |
| 20:35 | <@McMartin> | aha |
| 20:36 | <@gnolam> | E.g. second-long UI delays. |
| 20:36 | <@jerith> | Even 200ms gets to me. |
| 20:36 | <@gnolam> | OO.o 3.0 is up to a full second. :P |
| 20:39 | <@McMartin> | jerith: You're a mutant~ |
| 20:39 | <@McMartin> | Depending on "UI delay" |
| 20:40 | <@McMartin> | The usual guideline is that a complete action (chain of unconscious gestures) gets 700ms |
| 20:41 | <@jerith> | This is mostly in text-based UIs. |
| 20:41 | <@gnolam> | Also, appearance is now even more non-native, and localization support is still the worst I have ever seen in an office product. |
| 20:42 | <@jerith> | I frequently manage to switch desktops and miss a password prompt between hitting enter and getting said prompt. |
| 20:44 | <@gnolam> | And it still completely ignores your autocorrection settings. |
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