amby

you should see a doctor about that there's only supposed to be blood in there

my bonus orb is glowing - and we all know what that means!

i'm moving to picadilly circus. 884

the time travel complaint was about trimill's retroactive budgeting, but given that i didn't call it out until after the Bureaucracy Backlog started, the temporal restructuring will have to wait.

i'll move to south kensington, taking advantage of the unique circle-district magnetic interactions to supercharge my bonus orb

hey, no time travel at stations in the first half of the alphabet!

uh oh! it's been 4 hours 45 minutes since the last move, and that means i get to advance 2 stations and collect a rare bonus orb. that puts me at notting hill gate

don't piss off the pigeons if you ever want to see daylight again

i'll play paddington. cliche, i know, but it's a pretty strong opening in most games

are we playing with the elizabeth line? i know it has a few balance issues that make it pretty controversial in competitive play, but personally i think it's pretty fun

my brain is full of sponge

medic is only fun in casual when you can pocket someone who's half decent and even then it can still be shit. the best situation to play medic is in a voice call with someone (or several someones) who's actually decent at tf2

there is no such thing as a "real definition" outside of mathematics

also i read the page about forking and it seems to have little relevance here. it focuses entirely on tools, that is, software which performs work. games are entirely different, because they are intended to entertain.

while the quality of a tool is subjective (see vi/emacs debate), the quality of entertainment is much more so. hence, there will be many more modifications made to games than to tools. most of the examples given on the forking page were simple chains of forks getting incorporated back into the parent, or something dying and forking into two separate projects.

now, take a look at the amount of mods minecraft has. yes, minecraft is extremely popular and has a very large modding scene, and a libre game would probably have less mods, but the point still stands. folding every mod anyone has ever made back into the main branch and putting them under menu options would be hopelessly impractical to manage and it would push source tree and binary sizes through the roof, for features that a lot of players won't even use.

using a modding API is a lot easier than forking an entire source tree and building the application yourself

also, a lot of modding APIs present a cleaner interface than directly editing the source would. they also allow mods to be written in languages other than the base language of the game. the language chosen is usually lua, which is basically perfect for modding APIs due to its simplicity and ease of embedding

to allow arbitrary combinations of mods to be selected at load time

because not everybody wants the same modifications

please explain

0 doesn't exist in bijective bases

proposal: where possible, players should share their solutions on "git hub" or some other online version control frontend

celldweller

80

beaned.......

i first saw that algorithm used in jonesforth btw

fun fact: this algorithm can be expanded to parse arbitrary bases (so long as you have a base-N digit to integer conversion)

start on the most significant digit
add it to an accumulator
multiply by the base
move to the next digit
repeat until you run out of digits

but they could probably afford to make it a little less strict?

iirc the safety checks will reject stuff that might be correct but it can't prove it, instead of accepting stuff that might be wrong but it can't prove it. because oracle problem

only cuz there's no runtime safety guards in place by default (save for what the os does)

The only two programming languages i think should be used are 0) C, because everything else is worse

enjoy your segfaults

i assume you dont mean the big hill in llandudno

hell yeah

i made a programming language! it is called ajal virtual cpu and it's a bytecode interpreter for a made up isa

https://github.com/ambyshframber/avc

there's no subtract instruction. you'll get used to it