Shaz

Yes, or better yet, it is a brilliant idea. I don't have a clue on what you are talking about but I would trust you with this idea. I mean, Whenever I solved something with the same way I designed it sometime in the past and then find out my past code and it is identical I just say to my self "You son of a cute, you self approve this solution". I know the felling!

Soon you'll remember why you ended up abandoning the idea the first time <_<

Oh, I already know. It's a lot of hard work, and I have to learn a new programming language. Last year I probably thought I could work without it, but clearly I haven't been, so it's now more important than it was then

Fully agree with you there - yesterday was terrible, and the day before too T-T

Here we have manageable temperatures, although they are still insensible. What the hell is going on? No rains, no snow,...

@The Mighty Palm - I hate the cold too. I like the Goldilocks zone - not too hot, not too cold, just right

You would hate some parts of Texas... always humid and sticky... never cool and when you take a shower... there's a dark film that recedes into the drain.

eew ... I think you might be right about that.

Shaz that sounds like me when I got old enough to play and understand RPG's. I took any RPG I could get my hands on, even the bad ones. And yes, that means I did play the clunker that is the Spelljammer PC game.

It crashes on startup. Today, we enter the rabbit hole of troubleshooting and updating drivers.

His PC was too old - CPU/Graphics. So I put it onto his laptop which is still a couple of years old. It WORKED!!! He thinks it's the best game ever!

The cat had not been desexed or microchipped and probably not vaccinated either. The rescue group I now work with has a "last litter" program where they will pay for all of these things, leaving the mother with her owners, but the condition is that the kittens are handed over for fostering.

That way, it's guaranteed that they won't be given away to other people who will be just as irresponsible, but will be looked after, desexed, chipped, vaccinated, and then sold to people who are prepared to spend money on their pet.

That's good, poor kittens. Hope they go somewhere great.

I can agree that calling something without real world implementation a complete tutorial is overkill, since if you know the theory, but cannot implement it in practice, it's as good as nothing. But I definitely can see why many people will avoid it, since it's not just a matter of one or two extra chapters. Unless we require student's prior knowledge of this and that, which will make it useless.

I found one course that's JUST on GUI with Java. It assumes prior knowledge of the language, and just focuses on the gui stuff. It would be a good SECOND course to take. But it's about 5-6 years old now, so potentially a few versions out of date, which also makes it hard to follow along sometimes.

Yeah, that's about the same as C++ 94 vs. C++ 2011
Fortunately we now have javascript,node and nwjs, which makes a ton of stuff a hell lot easier.

Step 1 - install Visual Studio
Step 2 - scour Youtube for VB.NET tutorials

I'm after the PC version. We don't celebrate Christmas, and he hardly ever asks for stuff, so I don't have an issue getting it for him. I'd just rather not pay a small fortune for it.

@Shaz, It is wired in the US website of the stream is 77.56 AUD.
This game has a pc version of only on stream. This problem in every new game. You can only in it in the main producer. Wait a while if you want a discount.

mmm $60USD (deluxe) is about $85AUD on xe.com - that's better than I thought. I did include the DLC originally in my estimate, but he says he doesn't want that. He also hasn't used Steam and may not know what DLC is, so may change his mind

That's precisely the reason I had to stop fostering animals. I ended up with two extra dogs, a cat and a goat before I finally had to make myself stop.

Haha! I told the lady this who runs the rescue, and she said not to worry - two of her carers have SIX cats each because they couldn't let them go! I checked council guidelines, and we are only allowed to have 3, which we already have. So no keeping fosters.

And then suddenly they jump off the sewing desk and quickly move to occupy your mouse.

Yikes! Seems like every time I plan on sewing, I end up spending all day prepping, then have no time to actually start.

I DID sew! Realised they had all vacated, so grabbed my chance. Then they decided my computer desk would be the place to be! Didn't get everything finished though, so maybe during the week or next weekend ...

@DivideByZero LOL! xD

lol - I'm not going to ask what kind of websites you like to visit ...

Funnily enough, only game dev related sites.

As Shaz has deleted her status that explained the situation I'll leave it up to her to decide if she wants to share or not. I figured a public support post wouldn't be a bad idea though. People love you here, Shaz, you should get to hear that if you have the chance. ^_^

Awww, you're too sweet The status I deleted was a gripe that my family had all been sick for a week, and today I have to go back to work, to the most difficult, badly managed, soul sucking project I have ever had the displeasure to work on. And I've got it for at least another 3 months. I have no motivation to go to work.

Yeah, it's impossible to get motivation from a toxic work environment like that. Gotta pull it in from elsewhere I guess. Bring happiness in with you or choose your own goals for success since finishing work won't be fulfilling. *shrugs* I wish I could help, but this is the best I can do.

I've so done that. "Where's that awesome pixel art thingy!" *2hrs later finds thingy* "Wait this isn't pixel art at all. I can't use this."

haha! That's exactly it! In this case, I suppose it's okay to have a farm that doesn't have a haystack. I do have a few special resources that I know won't be there, and I can't do without as they're plot related. That'll be interesting...

Yeah, finding the right artist or editing things together to work is always a bit of a trick. I've been pretty amazed at the things that people dig up or offer to make over at resource requests, especially when the person asking is nice like you, maybe you can get help there?

I like FSM collection game is very beautiful and is clear that a creator put a lot of efforts in it.

The FSM:W&C sample game wasn't as enlightening. The mythos just contained blurb about the inspiration for the maps - no tips & tricks on creating the same effects. The maps are still beautiful though.

Take good ones @Shaz and make sure to keep the very best memories out of it. ^^

Last day today. We didn't actually go anywhere or do anything. I didn't even touch my game, and I'd initially planned to spend almost the whole time working on it! The best laid plans ... SO not ready to go back next week

awwww ... well take some ME time for yourself then ^^

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Oh dear! Their very own problem is already starting in their sentence. Hope it is outside by now!

Do they eat mosquitoes and other pesky bugs?

Yes, they do.

You know what... I might want some alllllll around my bed!

If I don't understand something, I ask. You wouldn't believe how many pieces of other people's jobs that I know where I work, just because of that. Knowledge is power, and it's always better to know things than trust others to know them for you.

*cybermental hugs*