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| View Topic : To drink or not to drink! | Unfortunately, I'm only 18. But *hypothetically* I would drink:
 (Hypothetically, if it were legal, I "would have" gotten a bottle for my birthday yesterday)
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| View Topic : Why does everyone love PHP? | PHP is just so easy, and allows so much control over your site. I love Ruby on Rails too, but it made me realize why I loved the power of PHP. Granted, I hate the syntax ($ before variable names? wtf?), but it's still a neat language and pretty easy to learn.
Why don't you like PHP? |
| View Topic : Good Films? [2] | A few movies that I've watched recently and liked, in no particular order.
Vanilla Sky
Magnolia
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Escapist
The Bourne Series (Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum) |
| View Topic : QOTD : Are we all fucked? |  If cars were really killing us off, then they would be banned right now, end of story !
Cars kill over 40,000 people every year in the U.S. alone, and we still use them. |
| View Topic : Structure of Game Classes | | MVC always seemed more suitable for applications, not games. I do split up my updating and rendering, but I don't really have a controller in the MVC sense. |
| View Topic : Structure of Game Classes | I have always been terrible at organizing my games, and usually end up becoming frustrated at my inability to design.
That said, I figured I might as well ask and see what people suggest as a good structure for a game. In my current game, a remake of rodent's revenge (In Java + Slick 2d), I have a Game class, which holds the game data, such as the screen height/width, etc. The Game class also holds aa Grid type representing the tiles (this is a tile-based game). Then I have a Mouse class, which is controlled by the player.
My question is this: Where should the instance of Mouse reside, and where should the control be?
For instance, should the Game class hold an instance of Mouse, or should the Grid class hold this instance? How should the mouse be rendered -- in a class method, or from another class? Should the Mouse know where it is in the Grid? etc..
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| View Topic : Nobel Peace Prize | While I'm not sure I would have chosen him for the award, I do think it can be justified. He has done a lot for race relations, peace talks between warring nations, and nuclear disarmament, among other things.
That said, I agree with Shroom that it'd have been better to wait and see what happens.
On the upside, think of it as a binding contract -- now Obama has to put effort into peacemaking. |
| View Topic : QOTD - C++ Graphics Libraries | Well, perhaps it will start an argument, but it's more a "language X not suited for project Y", rather than "language X is better than language Z." C++ is an industry standard because of legacy code and because, ten years ago, there was nothing better. This is no longer the case.
C++ is cross platform in a sense, but good luck trying to sort out all of the little kinks. It's not a straight port.
If you were making a huge MMO, than certainly, use C++, but for any project of modest size, the extra power is unnecessary. And like JL235 said, I'm not advocating another language (BlitzBasic would not be my suggestion).
I'm predicting a change in industry standards towards more manageable and modern languages, if it's not happening already.
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| View Topic : QOTD - C++ Graphics Libraries | | I always thought HGE was great, but in all honesty there's no practical reason to create games in C++. No, this isn't a "use this language instead" post, but just the truth. The language simply wasn't meant for a lone user to make a game with. |
| View Topic : QOTD : Whilst playing... | Quite often I find myself wondering how to program certain menus or GUI elements -- cool health gadgets, gun icons, equip screens, etc.. Pretty much every AAA game has at least one cool widget.
I love a good graphical interface. |
| View Topic : QOTD : What have you done, this week? | Learned Ruby on Rails, or at least the basics, for work.
Purchased NolanDC.com, although there's no content yet. I'm not really sure where I want to take it yet. Any ideas?
Finished two books. Please read something by David Foster Wallace if you like modern literature.
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| View Topic : QOTD : Future Plans? | Hey, I'll go second.
I will be attending Carnegie Mellon University to study Mechanical Engineering with the end goal of getting involved in robotics.
I'd like to teach at the university level someday, but obviously that's speculation and will probably never happen. |
| View Topic : Happy Easter | I have a rather large family, with a mix of everyone: atheists, Protestants, Catholics, etc.. makes for an interesting Easter!
I'm not religious but I do enjoy the holiday. |
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