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Still need to log in to GitHub but a C++ version doesn’t appear to be too difficult with few dependencies, especially with the filesystem library being added circa 2018. May take a stab at it and see if things start coming back to me as it’s been a good while since I did coding and I have been in the mood for more than just thinking up algorithms. 🙂
Essentially, we can do with addition and subtraction with the ASCII values, going character by character in the string. For proper case, we’d also check each substring, delimited by a space, and compare that to the word list for proper case. Another option is to use the transform function on the string and combine it with the toupper() or tolower() functions to do the whole string in one go and add it to to the new path list. Finally, we’d take our collection of paths and apply the rename function on them. Sorry if the algorithm is pretty rough, I’m pretty out of practice 🙂
So I know you’ve been pestering me to watch Wayward Pines. Since I can’t get it on the services I subscribe to, I decided to read it instead!
Also, happy Halloween!
So I settled on Donald Duck – Pie Slinger for my late game heavy hitter as its secondary effect has good synergy with the rest of my deck. We’ll find out in a few weeks if it works well 🙂
Begging to run out of science fiction to read so I think I may shift back to horror for a bit. Been at least a year since I’ve read horror. 🙂
So my first deck from scratch in six years is almost done. I just need to pick out a few more cards. Essentially, it works as a lore farm at its core. Right now, I’m just trying to pick out the heavy hitters 🙂
So we charge a small entry fee just to get them going! 😀
Marbles, too! Can’t lose them otherwise!
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Almost Halloween so we need to kick it off!
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Huh, never knew they also released a Backyard Skateboarding game. Looking at Wiki, it looks like they’ve been trying to get it going again. They could definitely try making at least adding one sport to the series: lacrosse. Wasn’t popular back then but it’s now popular enough to warrant a game. Could be fun.
Not familiar with that feature. Is that a new one? Mostly live in Linux land 😛
CodeProject will be missed. Used to use it often when I was just beginning to learn C++ 🙁
They may just be upset. Reddit isn’t exactly the friendliest of sites. Certain boards are better than others but it’s still there.
What’s the best way to remove a stuck entry in the Install/Uninstall programs list in Windows? Updated a piece of software and it added a new entry for the new version but kept the entry for the old version, which is now a broken link. Tried to remove it using Settings – Apps but it just says the link is broken and won’t remove it.
Side note: I still haven’t gotten Power Toys set up :/ One day!
Not sure what the current quality is like but Cracked used to be a fun read. But, yeah, it’s going to be hard to fill the MAD hole.
Yeah, looks a bit pricey. May be worth checking a sample out at the newsstand first. Wikipedia has a pretty good list
Yuck! You could try something like OdoBan if they sell it over there. We use it over here and it does wonders for getting smells out of things.
New No Man’s Sky update! It’s mostly just a Halloween event with nothing major but does include a few bugfixes. Very pleased to see the butterfly wings sound being tweaked. When I first heard it, I thought there was something wrong with my speakers 😛
Ad Astra was incredible. It focused almost entirely on the journey with a slight dash of the politics involved, giving us a nice and relaxing space film. The ongoing narration as opposed to current interactions really sold it as a narrative. You could actually feel the distance and tension it was trying to portray in lonely space. The visuals and music were icing on the cake. Will definitely put that in the list for a physical copy 🙂
Yeah, the international market has it much better. Over here, I think they use us as guinea pigs. 😛 Roku doesn’t have proper categories and only shows a snippet of what’s on the service. In order to find the other stuff, it’s a matter of searching for a title and hoping it’s available. Tubi keeps recommending stuff I’ve already watched on the service and even puts those at the top of the categories. Fortunately, they do have proper categories. Amazon Prime doesn’t have categories at all, which is weird for a paid service. It’s pretty frustrating 🙁
A lot of stuff isn’t even available to rent, such as the aforementioned Woody Allen films. Why they’re not available anywhere is mind boggling.
Amazing find! Futurama is definitely worth it! I may pick up a 4k Blu-Ray player next month during the holiday sales. 🙂
Haven’t seen the film but I did read the books. Probably need to watch them at some point. I never did understand the relationship between the psychedelic spice and space travel. It was never properly explained in the books! 😛
Is it explained in the films?
I remember old cartoons used to riff on that design by making it a hamster wheel or the like. 😀 Would be quite fun, though. Set it up with a gyroscope to keep you centered in the middle while the rest of with rolls around you. Attraction idea for the theme park thread?
Ah, didn’t realize that musical organs were that popular. Yeah, I see them at estate sales periodically for pretty cheap. Even the pianos tend to be more popular at the sales. Now, if someone had a pipe organ…that would be a bit more difficult to sell and move 😛
Not exactly. The Sentinels are essentially robots from an alternate universe that think it’s their job to make sure planets’ resources are untouched. They’re fine if you explore (except on planets where they’ve gone haywire) but will attack if they see you doing anything else. If you keep at it and attack them, the alert level continues to climb until they bring out the big guns: giant mechs and robot dogs. In space, they’ll start with a squadron of fighters and escalate from there to a giant capital ship. You find out the lore by reading old logs left behind at crashed ships (usually destroyed by Sentinels) or abandoned buildings.
Speaking of, do we need a comic thread or do we not have enough discussion yet to warrant one?
Yep. It used to be easy to tell an AI voice from a human. Usually they were very monotonous. Now, it’s very difficult. On the phone, there are a few tell-tale signs, though, such as pauses at certain points. Eventually, they’ll get things to where we can’t tell the difference at all!
Been a while 😀
Was thinking about Porky’s for this week but it’s not available for streaming over here. Think I may watch Ad Astra instead. Been a while since I watched a killer space film 🙂
Streaming is getting annoying. It’s getting harder and harder to find stuff on the platforms as the services are beginning to forgo traditional categories and sorting algorithms in favor of “recommendations”, half of which I’ve already watched on said platform. That and a lot of stuff is simply disappearing, such as a lot of Woody Allen films. I’m probably going to start going back to physical media soon. More expensive but at least I’ll be able to find what I want to watch! Either that or simply move back to the antenna 😛
Great!
Could be that the dates weren’t convertible so they were just set to the date of migration. There was a similar issue back on Dark Creations before I arrived that never got resolved.
Possibly! There is some discussion on the Talk page that last saw activity twelve years ago about it. Perhaps it’s time to revive it?
So the Wikipedia article on brownouts is severely lacking and nigh useless: it’s basically just a dictionary definition with a short blurb of examples. Been experiencing that a lot on Wiki. Articles that were once well written and informative are now basic and generic. 🙁
Got a few releases coming up:
Pokemon Scarlet & Violet – Surging Sparks is coming out on 2024-11-08
Disney’s Lorcana Azurite Seas is coming out on 2024-11-15Night Shift was a lot of fun. Some of the scenes were heavily inspired by After Hours but Winkler and Keaton had amazing synergy together. 🙂
I’ve mostly run the gamut of older horror films now after a couple of years so I figure it’s time for a bit of a change 😛
Could rewatch the old Universal Monsters films but I’ve seen those so many times that I want something a bit different 😛
I’m way overdo for a rewatch of Rain Man. Probably need to fix that! 🙂
Scored a Sentinel ship today! It’s incredible! Great stats and the technology is much cheaper to charge. Not only can you charge it via traditional materials, you can also charge it from materials you gain from killing Sentinels. The latter charge things up even more than the traditional materials. Wheeee!
So Guitar Center used to be named The Organ Center. That name only lasted a few years. Not overly surprising 😛
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