The Official Rant Thread

[JacksonCougar]

00000632 FF030000 00000080 FFFF1F00 FF030000 00000080 FFFF1F00 ........................
00000656 FF030000 00000080 FFFF1F00 FF03C0FF FFFF3F80 FFFF1F00 ..................?.....
00000680 0000C07F 00002000 FF030000 0000C07F 00002000 FF030000 ...... ........... .....
00000704 0000C07F 00002000 FF030000 0000C07F 00002000 FF030000 ...... ........... .....
00000728 00FC3F00 FFFF3F80 00002000 00FC3F00 FFFF3F80 00002000 ..?...?... ...?...?... .
00000752 00FC3F00 FFFF3F80 00002000 00FC3F00 FFFF3F80 00002000 ..?...?... ...?...?... .
00000776 00F83F80 00002000 00FCFFFF 00F83F80 00002000 00FCFFFF ..?... .......?... .....
00000800 00000080 00002000 00FC3F00 00000080 00002000 00FC3F00 ...... ...?....... ...?.
00000824 00F81F00 00F83F80 0004C0FF 00F81F00 00F83F80 00040000 ......?...........?.....
00000848 00F81F00 00F83F80 00040000 00F81F00 FF070080 00040000 ......?.................
00000872 FF072000 FF070080 FFFBFFFF FF072000 FF070080 FFFBFFFF .. ........... .........
00000896 FF072000 FF070080 FFFBFFFF FF072000 FF070080 FFFBFFFF .. ........... .........

these right here.
...
maybe I'll try xoring them

To clarify: these are the compressed normals and tangents and binormals of the model raw of a cube. so values are 0, -1 and 1.
But obviously there's more then one 0 or something?

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                ushort radix = (ushort)(bits >> 00 & 0x7FF);                // retrieve the bits of this componant (first 11 bits)
                if (radix == 0x7FF || radix == 0) return 0;                 // two special cases for zero: return zero on either
                if ((radix & 0x400) == 0x400)                               // if sign bit is set, output should be negetive
                    return -(float)(~(radix) & 0x3FF) * xy_max_inverse;     /* return the radix 'ones compliment' trimming the sign bit
                                                                             * return the negetive value*/
                else                                                        /* else just return the radix value multiplied by the pre-
                                                                             * calculated ratio */
                    return (float)(radix) * xy_max_inverse;

this is what I came up with, fuck it.

[DoorM4n]

Rant because it was a bad date or wrong thread?

It was dinner and back to our apts. She left me with the most neutral signals at the end of the night. ugh

I don't know if she was secretly really nervous or what but she was interesting and very unusual toward the end.

[JacksonCougar]

Opened Entity source to try to find some things that bugged me. The horror. The horror.

[Click16]

Opened Entity source to try to find some things that bugged me. The horror. The horror.

I agree. I was looking at bitmap decompression codes and what the hell is this buffer named "fart" like wtf

[Grimdoomer]

Opened Entity source to try to find some things that bugged me. The horror. The horror.

I agree. I was looking at bitmap decompression codes and what the hell is this buffer named "fart" like wtf

Poke is a dirty coder hehe

[troymac1ure]

Opened Entity source to try to find some things that bugged me. The horror. The horror.

I agree. I was looking at bitmap decompression codes and what the hell is this buffer named "fart" like wtf

Poke is a dirty coder hehe

yes, I have ran into numerous variables that are (*not very helpfully*) descriptive. I have renamed a few, but alot I just left.

Also JC, I may be able to help you narrow down your efforts if need be as I think I've looked at every piece of code in there at some time...

[JacksonCougar]

Opened Entity source to try to find some things that bugged me. The horror. The horror.

I agree. I was looking at bitmap decompression codes and what the hell is this buffer named "fart" like wtf

Poke is a dirty coder hehe

yes, I have ran into numerous variables that are (*not very helpfully*) descriptive. I have renamed a few, but alot I just left.

Also JC, I may be able to help you narrow down your efforts if need be as I think I've looked at every piece of code in there at some time...

Well I wanted to make it not require externals for everything, but that code is everywhere. And beyond that I needed to see the code for building in tags, because I want to make an app work with it.

And the thing that pisses me right off is there are attributes included with almost every method. But they all look like this:

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/// <summary>
/// The scan map for lay out.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="map">The map.</param>
/// <param name="addexternalchunks">The addexternalchunks.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
/// <remarks></remarks>
public MapLayout ScanMapForLayOut(Map map, bool addexternalchunks) { ... }

And a complete lack of comments.

[Grimdoomer]

LayOut, lay out

[troymac1ure]

And the thing that pisses me right off is there are attributes included with almost every method. But they all look like this:

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/// <summary>
/// The scan map for lay out.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="map">The map.</param>
/// <param name="addexternalchunks">The addexternalchunks.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
/// <remarks></remarks>
public MapLayout ScanMapForLayOut(Map map, bool addexternalchunks) { ... }

And a complete lack of comments.

Yeah, those were all auto-generated when Prey did the code cleaning.

[xxpenguinxx]

So I sent that squealing graphics card back to newegg. They refunded me but not the full price I spent on the card. At the time I purchased the card, it came with a "free" copy of Far Cry 3. After reading their return policy, I relised I wouldn't get the full refund because I already activated the "free" code. The card cost $200 and I only got back $130 because the "free" game had a $70 value... Think this is the last time I'm ordering from newegg, not just because of this, their prices are not that good either, and they charge tax regardless if your state has it.

Oh well, at least the gameplay didn't suck, however it's not worth $70 considering all the LOD glitches like every tree popping in and out of view, vehicle tires just disappearing 100ft away and such, oh, and that awful postFX crap that blurs everything while increasing GPU load.

I already beat it a few times and the multiplayer shooter genre is getting boring, maybe I'll just sell it.

[DemonicSandwich]

{words and shit}

It must be the state your living in. I wasn't charged tax for the shit I bought from them.

As for the shooters genre, I feel you there.
I have become bored with shooters. Take BlOps2 for example. I can be doing great in the game, but despite that I get fucking bored after an hour or so. It's like that for all FPS now.
I got Far Cry 3, enjoyed the storyline and the action, but when the story ended and the credits rolled, instantly lost interest in playing it further.
There was a point in the game that I didn't want to even do the combat, but had to to get the story to continue.

[xxpenguinxx]

They should of made the save your friends ending different, like fast forward time to when you're talking to your grand children about how you got the different parts of that tattoo. "Grandpa how did you get this piece?" "Let me think, oh ya. I got that by jumping off a roof and stabbing two pirates in the back." "Grandpa how did you loose your finger?" "The story to that is kind of boring, I lost a round in poker."

[OwnZ joO]

Think this is the last time I'm ordering from newegg, not just because of this, their prices are not that good either, and they charge tax regardless if your state has it.

Online retailers only charge tax if they have a physical presence in the state you order from, you live in New Jersey?

Also they do have good deals, you just have to keep track of what good prices are for individual items and wait until you see what you need at a good price. It's hard to find everything you need at a good price at once, because they seem to offset the good deals with ones that aren't that good in the other areas. Basically you need to study their pricing over time and the way they do their sales to really get the good deals.

[DoorM4n]

For some reason--and this has been present my entire live--I don't listen to lyrics when I listen to music. I listen to the rhythm, beats, and instruments. Lyrics are just part of the noise in how the song flows. I don't know the lyrics to my favorite songs and bands of at least 5 years! Does anyone have this also? I know some people like me in my social sphere, but I want to see if you guys are like that.I have listen very intently to understand lyrics, and even when I do, I won't pick up the majority of them if the music is really good or if the music drowns out the voice. Concerts are impossible to pick up lyrics for me. Are you guys similar?

[JacksonCougar]

For some reason--and this has been present my entire live--I don't listen to lyrics when I listen to music. I listen to the rhythm, beats, and instruments. Lyrics are just part of the noise in how the song flows. I don't know the lyrics to my favorite songs and bands of at least 5 years! Does anyone have this also? I know some people like me in my social sphere, but I want to see if you guys are like that.I have listen very intently to understand lyrics, and even when I do, I won't pick up the majority of them if the music is really good or if the music drowns out the voice. Concerts are impossible to pick up lyrics for me. Are you guys similar?

I find I listen to the lyrics the most and even a crappy song will make its way into my library if the words hit me. I can't remember the lyrics to save my life though :p even for songs that I have listened to hundreds of times.

[xxpenguinxx]

It's a mix for me. I can hear the same song a hundred times and each time I'll be listening to a different part from it, whether it be the guitar, vocals, bass, drums, sometimes just the really high or really low tones. What I like is when I can distinctly hear every little sound by themselves, like I can be focused on the vocal but at the same time I can hear the guitar and drums playing and nothing is getting mushed together. Kind of hard to explain. Every so ,often I'll end up downloading a poor quality CD rip, or even just a bad youtube upload, and similar tones will mush together and create this awful sound that makes me rip my headphones off.

BTW, we have a Music Thread to discuss this in. There's nothing ranty about liking music.

[JacksonCougar]

> Downloading Unity from the website
> 4 hours later it is at ~90% complete
> Internet drops
> FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuu!
> Repeat x2

My reason for always downloading via torrent when I can case and point. And yes, I realize that other browsers (read: not chrome) are pretty good at stopping and resuming downloads and even resuming after disconnects. I wish chrome would get their shit together on this one...

[DemonicSandwich]

> Downloading Unity from the website
> 4 hours later it is at ~90% complete
> Internet drops
> FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuu!
> Repeat x2

My reason for always downloading via torrent when I can case and point. And yes, I realize that other browsers (read: not chrome) are pretty good at stopping and resuming downloads and even resuming after disconnects. I wish chrome would get their shit together on this one...

But as you know Cougar, file hosting sites give you a unique generated download which sometimes expires the moment the download stops.

[JacksonCougar]

Which is the websites fault, but: this was a straight html download making it the browsers problem.

[DemonicSandwich]

The stupidity and greed of this nation irritates me.

(I'm a shift leader at a restaurant btw)

Woman has her food and started leaving. She's wearing heals, in snowy/rainy weather.
It's been snowing all day but the ground is too warm to let the snow stay, so the ground is wet as if it was raining.
As she steps out, her foot slips and she skins her knee badly.

This 57 year old woman has her large purse in one hand. Her food in the other. She is walking in high heals, the kind with a leather sole, thus no traction surface.

She first says she slipped on something slippery on the inside floor. Everyone(myself, 3 crew members, and the woman) immediately looks at the floor, it's clean, dry, and free of debris.
She see's this and changes that to outside concrete which is also clean and free of debris, but is wet due to the day long snow.
We bring her back in, place her at the back of the dining room. Offer to bring her some bandages and alcohol pads for her to apply, she declines and insists on cleaning herself up with napkins.

I bring her an incident form to fill out. Her words are, She stepped outside, her foot slipped on something slippery, fell, and hurt her right knee.
She fails to mention the fact that the "something slippery" is water due the another thing she failed to mention, it snowing all day long.
She also fails to mention she is wearing high heals with no traction surface on the soles.

She insists on having a police report filed and a trip to the hospital. Due to the fact that no police ever showed up, they must of declined to come and verify her skinned knee.
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I was genuinely sympathetic toward her injury up until she started lying, followed by exaggerating every detail. From then on the only sympathy I showed was the bare minimum my position requires.

[DarkShallFall]

I love you all.

[JacksonCougar]

Rant thread bro. But back at ya, no homo.

[troymac1ure]

Probably the brightest post to ever hit the rant thread...
...and to reciprocate, I also love you all.
This place has been a place of refuge where I can geek out a bit and people understand.

[DoorM4n]

WTF, www.forums.remnantmods.com doesnt work!!!

[JacksonCougar]

All sub-domains are down, and the files depo is inaccessible atm... I'll see about fixing what I can.