FLYINGJESTER'S PROFILE

I am the Jester.

I make games using JavaScript, C, C++, Mercury, Java, Assembly (amd64 and UltraSparc) and Python. I used to use Sphere a lot, but I'm more into C/C++ and Mercury nowadays. I still use JavaScript and embed it sometimes, and I usually use Python for build systems and system management.

I wrote TurboSphere, which is a recreation of the Sphere Game Engine with a number of major improvements. I'm not really working on it anymore.

I'm surely going to finish making a game someday. I mean, sooner or later, it's bound to happen. Right?
Athena
turn-based strategy game of war and city building

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Thoughts on the Star Wars trailer?

I don't think anyone said that was the only vent. Just that it was the only unguarded one.

Also, how do you know it was unguided? Or perhaps hyperdrives have very magnetic exhaust which pulled it in.

Thoughts on the Star Wars trailer?

author=kentona
no, the dialog and plot was horrid in the prequels. like fuck, "imma kill kids because my wife *might* die during childbirth and I was given a vague promise that the dark side will help save her in this hypothetical situation"


People do strange things for love. Especially forbidden love.

I actually thought that III was the strongest of the new trilogy.

Thoughts on the Star Wars trailer?

My thought wasn't that it was cynical.

A lot of people disliked the new trilogy, episodes I, II, and III. They are trying to demonstrate that episodes 7 and up are more like the originals.

What are you thinking about right now?

Alaska has some funny parties. There is a party whose sole reason to exist is to make Alaska independent from the US. They actually get notable, honest backing, too.

I actually like them. Their goal is impossible, although still admirable in my opinion. They have this sisyphean determination to them that makes them somewhat respectable.

What are you thinking about right now?

One very powerful thing about science is that it looks to prove itself wrong. When something scientific is found to be false, that means we now have a better understanding of it.

That science replaces faulty and proven incorrect theories with new and more sound ones is not a sign of weakness or of being flawed. Quite the opposite. It shows where a flaw once once, and now is no more.

So How Many Nintendo 64 Games Do You Own?

author=Mirak
A game about speedboats that i can't remember the name of.


HydroThunder?

No-RM Event

I've got full positional audio working, loading from opus audio files. That's just about the best possible setup I can imagine for audio. I've also got menus and some more advanced UI features working.

I should be on track to actually have a game (well, at least a demo) by Halloween. It helps that it's not story-driven, so the amount of content I need to create is fairly low.

[Poll] A quick question about ads and RMN

author=kentona
Guys I am extremely sorry that I am not wealthy enough to fully fund RMN on my own.


Like, seriously sorry.


So very very sorry.


You should be.

I mean...

Ads are fine. I expect a website of this size to have ads.

What are you thinking about right now?

author=Corfaisus
I asked my mother (being a Christian) about a few earlier parts and she said "it's good that you want a context, but I'd recommend just starting with the New Testament", as if Christians aren't to be held accountable for the writings of the Talmud, despite the fact that the more vocal political ones reference it all the time to push for discriminatory laws against homosexuals.


My uncles says that you can basically ignore the rules in the old testament because when Jesus came, the rules of the old testament were made obsolete.

What are you thinking about right now?

So for a long time, I've powered my gamecube using an old ATX power supply. I just put a bit of wire between the green wire and a ground on the motherboard connector, jam the 12v drive wires into the back of the gamecube, and go. Works great.

Well, it stopped working. My PSU finally bit the dust (it was old in the year 2000 when I got it). So I bought a new, real gamecube power adapter. It finally got here today, and so I put in a game and fired it up. It worked for about ten seconds, and then stopped. The fan still spun, but the power light would just flicker for a second or so when I hit the power button, and then went dark, and I got not video.

I finally noticed that if I had no controller plugged in, it started up fine. Somehow I have none of my electrical tools with me anymore, so I used a computer case fan and a nine volt battery and some bits of wire to check if the connections on the controller were shorted. And so they were. I spliced out a slight bulge in the cable for the controller, and then it all worked again.

Well, it worked for about an hour. My gamecube has made slightly worrying clicking sounds for years, but it was really bad now. Every once in a while when it was loading something, I would hear ten or so clicks in a row, and I could hear that the disk had stopped spinning and the head was just ramming itself against the stops three or four times before it would try to read again.

I recognized this issue as the same as what one of my dreamcasts does, and that I may be able to fix this by turning up the power of the laser (the drive is ramming the head against the stops because it can't tell what part of the disc its reading from, or so I was told). So I pull out my screwdriver I bought for my SNES.

And guess what? The end is to fat, it can't fit all the way down the wells to the screws on the bottom of the gamecube.

Some things just don't want to work.

E: And yes, I've heard that you can heat up the end of a bic pen with a lighter and jam it in there to unscrew this kind of screw. I've tried it dozens of times, looked up youtube videos on how to do it, and read tons of posts about it. It's never worked for me, no matter how long I wait for the pen to cool down, how melty or not I get the pen, or how hard or light I push down. It just doesn't work.