The Official Rant Thread

[Gary]

Xzodia, mind if I ask what you are working on?

[XZodia]

My coursework. I'm making a soft body simulation and its a fucking pain in the ass...I only have 1 thing left to fix but I have no idea whats causing the problem.
All I know is it happens when the soft body is rotating, goes past -PI to +PI (or vice-versa) and is colliding with another object.

[Gary]

Ah, I see. I am just now getting into the more technical side of games, so sadly I can't help, but I can wish you luck with finding the problem.

Also, what kinda of thing are you in for, I haven't ever seen a class where you do something as complex as that.

[XZodia]

I'm doing it because I wanted to not because I need to =P
All I'm meant to do is a static 3D scene, but I could do that in my sleep...

[Gary]

Cool, I hope you can show us what you made when your done.


Rant:
Steam has been eat'n my bandwidth.

[JacksonCougar]

Nice.

[DemonicSandwich]

Holy shit red LEDs are fragile.

[Aumaan Anubis]

This board is currently disabled what?

- I can post in a disabled board what?
-- I can edit in a disabled board what?

[XZodia]

Yea, I think Jackson is trying to fix something that is apparently broken...

[JacksonCougar]

Yea... have to take another swing at it tomorrow I guess. Basically the database is a bit corrupted. Or maybe it has some wrong settings somewhere. I dunno exactly what the issue is but there are a bunch of now obsolete tables in the database which I would like to get rid of, preferably without corrupting the rest of the database. I'll have to take another look at how things are laid out and find a way to move the users, posts, threads, and other crap we need to keep to a fresh database. Then I can update us to the latest phpBB3 board software, launch a new front-end, and start working on a new forum theme. I could really use help with some shit if anyone here is actually skilled with php. I be a blind man who is stumbling along a labyrinth trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel. Also I hate php. It is so gay. I had a bug that arose from another script using a variable with the same name ($i) and while that script did its job correctly, when control was passed back to the first script the value of $i had been changed. Does php have no scope control?

[OwnZ joO]

I had a bug that arose from another script using a variable with the same name ($i) and while that script did its job correctly, when control was passed back to the first script the value of $i had been changed. Does php have no scope control?

Did you pass the variable $i to the funtion and it was passed by reference automagically or did it actually go out of scope and still get stomped on by the other $i? Seems pretty stupid of php to have that sort of gotcha either way, but I'm curious as to what happened.

[JacksonCougar]

Code: Select all

		for($speciallynamedloopvariabletoavoidgayness = 0; $speciallynamedloopvariabletoavoidgayness < $matchedCount; $speciallynamedloopvariabletoavoidgayness++)
		{				
			ob_start();			
			include $matches['filename'][$speciallynamedloopvariabletoavoidgayness] . '.php';
			$ret = ob_get_contents();
			ob_end_clean();
			$this->data = str_replace($matches[0][$speciallynamedloopvariabletoavoidgayness], $ret, $this->data);
		}

That was the code I was having issues with. Some of the included files used variables named $i. It was pretty dumb.

In other news my computer restarted without asking me again. Java: go eat a bowl of dicks.

[XZodia]

I'm quickly becoming annoyed by the default theme...

[OwnZ joO]

PHP looks so ugly.

[DemonicSandwich]

I'm quickly becoming annoyed by the default theme...

I...I feel I need a tetanus shot. So many sharp edges.

[JacksonCougar]

Well my internet is out so you will have to live with it for a little while longer.

[troymac1ure]

Well my internet is out so you will have to live with it for a little while longer.

Did you snail mail this message?

[JacksonCougar]

Blackberry...

[Grimdoomer]

I can't go driving with my mom any more, she drives like a dumb fucking bitch I swear to god...

[neodos]

Monitor Color calibration AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRGGGGGGGGGGG

[xxpenguinxx]

FLOPPY DRIVE! FLOOOOOPPPPYYYYYY DRRRRRIIIIIIVEEEEE!

[Aumaan Anubis]

The sweat dripping from my shirt is colder than the room that I'm in.

That hot.

[DemonicSandwich]

I tried playing GTA4 yesterday and found that all my game saves disappeared. >_>
So I start a new game, begin driving, make it to the taxi business only to have the console throw the "Can't read disk error".
I'm ingame...and the console errors out when the game is running fine.

I try installing it, fails at 44%. So clean the disk with window cleaner. No dirt, no scratches. Truly flawless.
I try installing again, fails at 49%. I eject the disk, and the tray comes out with the disk STILL FUCKING SPINNING.
Now there is a nice half-ring around the edge of the disk.

[XZodia]

Hate to state the obvious but your disc drive is fucked.

[DemonicSandwich]

I am aware of it being defective. It doesn't even read other disks until the console warms up.
Also, I don't have the cash for a second console nor the patience to wait 3-6 weeks to have it repared by M$.