So chat, my dad seems not to care about his grandson and it really hurts but I don't know how to bring this up to him
this fucking sucks.
how old is the grandson? Some people just aren't into babies. Kids are a lot more interesting once they can talk.
My youngin is 2 and a half, I mean he doesn't even ask about him or anything really. Hell he barley says 2 words to my fiancee.
When Tristan was born we ended up getting 2 car seats so we gave one to my dad and asked that be goes and gets it checked out by the police when he gets it in so we know it done right because his car had weird seats. He just put in in the trunk and after 2 months game it back he didn't even try to put it in.
I know I'm this way. I have a couple of second cousins, and I basically didn't want anything to do with them until they could read.
I mean, it's a dick thing to do that to your grandkids, but you should keep trying.
Get the dogs settled than the neurotic one who I had out by herself starts randomly barking. This sets off the 5 month year old puppy and thus another 20 minutes spent getting them calm and ready for bed. Along with the puppy running around like a mad women for 10 minutes.
I was trying to track down some of Stephenson's work today but it was all for the ipad. Reading the wiki entries on his books makes me think it's not my scene but one of his historical books might be interesting.
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So I just found out that not only is the awesome 2D physics system that they used in Crayon Physics (Box2D) completely free and open source, it has also been ported to actionscript 3 for use in Flash.
Gonna make me a physics-based flash platformer
Winky, it's really really hard. You have to understand that for it to work, all your character movement has to be physics engine based and it's a goddamned nightmare to do and animate and get stable and not infuriating. I tried and gave up.
This is bad news but I suspected it might be more difficult than it seemed.
I was hoping that character animation wouldn't be too much of a problem if I just basically stuck my character in a box and moved the box around.
You have to decide if the box can tip over of not. If not, that constraint is gonna look off and produce big time physics glitches. If you decide it can, then you and going to drive the player insane as they jump, nick a ledge and go tumbling end over end.
You have to decide if you are going to allow air control during jumps. If you don't, your game will play like a pile of bricks. If you do, you now have the player allowed to apply sideways forces in the air, which leads to all manner of things like sticking to walls with friction produced by the air control force. Great if you want that mechanic, a pain in the ass if you don't.
What about when your player jumps up and bumps their head? Most platformers have a kind of sliding thing that keeps action moving. Your game will grind to a halt.
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This is good! I am still searching (unsuccessfully) for the cover of this that Prince did a few years back at a live show. It was online for a while but then he demanded it be removed. I thought once something went on the internetz it stayed forever. Durrr
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one the one hand, I totally disagree about the prose. But on the other, only the first chapter or so is written like that. It settles down a lot after the first bit.
see, usually I'll just co-opt your opinions, and I've never read snow crash so I wanna be like "OH YEAH TOTALLY"
but you said the same thing about GR
and now I'm suspicious
no, i love the prose in gravity's rainbow, even though i found the book near-unreadable
and actually stephenson has been compared to pynchon (not in quality but in style), at least for snow crash, because of how wacky and surreal they are, with little interest in verisimilitude or... being convincing. the main character is called Hiro Protagonist, for one thing.
but the prose is sort of a combination of self-satisfied-ness and plain language with little grace or evocative power
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Snow Crash is ok. I don't remember the prose exciting me.
Actually, I king of remember it cooling me on the book before I got into it.
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see, usually I'll just co-opt your opinions, and I've never read snow crash so I wanna be like "OH YEAH TOTALLY"
but you said the same thing about GR
and now I'm suspicious
no, i love the prose in gravity's rainbow, even though i found the book near-unreadable
and actually stephenson has been compared to pynchon (not in quality but in style), at least for snow crash, because of how wacky and surreal they are, with little interest in verisimilitude or... being convincing. the main character is called Hiro Protagonist, for one thing.
but the prose is sort of a combination of self-satisfied-ness and plain language with little grace or evocative power
yeah, the vibe I get on him is that he's an insightful sci-fi author that was like the freshman that really wanted the cool senior pynchon to like him and maybe like give him a ride to school one day so jackie in homeroom could see him
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Oh oh, the self-satisfied prose in Snow Crash is p tongue in cheek. It goes along with the way the smarmy hyper-capitalist dystopia setting preaches at you from page zero.
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Snow Crash is ridiculous, which is part of why I loved it so much. You can't take it seriously.
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prince demanded something of his on the internet be taken down?
NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!
I know right?? Like he's royalty or something. Geez. Dude didn't even have a pronounceable name for a few years. Although he does win points for somehow managing to pull off doilies for clothes, without being a 300 year old vampire...or.....
Snow Crash is light on grace and evocative power, heavy on nuclear miniguns and swordfights inside the internet.
yeah that sounds really unappealing
usually i like books that are light and have a sense of humour but i read a few chapters and it was really uninteresting
also i just read neuromancer, which has great prose, so it was a stark contrast
Yeah uh Snow Crash and Neuromancer get compared a lot because they both had innovative conceptions of cyberspace for their times.
That is basically where the similarities ended. Snow Crash is extremely funny, if you can get into it, but I'm not surprised that someone looking for quality prose would have to keep looking.
it's not even that i'm looking for good prose, it's just noticeable when it's absent
i am finding it hard to articulate what is so unappealing to me about it
i think it might be that it's supposed to be ridiculous but i've heard all this ridiculousness before, so it doesn't really have the effect it was meant to. it's sort of rendered trivial.
i think i'll put away the kindle and find my copy of Foucault's Pendulum or something
Snow Crash is light on grace and evocative power, heavy on nuclear miniguns and swordfights inside the internet.
yeah that sounds really unappealing
usually i like books that are light and have a sense of humour but i read a few chapters and it was really uninteresting
also i just read neuromancer, which has great prose, so it was a stark contrast
read Virtual Light
I think it may be one of Gibson's best. I love his prose but it's a more mature book by a more mature dude. Very similar cyberpunky plot but with ordinary people in a more ordinary, less glamorous world.
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I mean, it's a dick thing to do that to your grandkids, but you should keep trying.
I was trying to track down some of Stephenson's work today but it was all for the ipad. Reading the wiki entries on his books makes me think it's not my scene but one of his historical books might be interesting.
You have to decide if the box can tip over of not. If not, that constraint is gonna look off and produce big time physics glitches. If you decide it can, then you and going to drive the player insane as they jump, nick a ledge and go tumbling end over end.
You have to decide if you are going to allow air control during jumps. If you don't, your game will play like a pile of bricks. If you do, you now have the player allowed to apply sideways forces in the air, which leads to all manner of things like sticking to walls with friction produced by the air control force. Great if you want that mechanic, a pain in the ass if you don't.
What about when your player jumps up and bumps their head? Most platformers have a kind of sliding thing that keeps action moving. Your game will grind to a halt.
no dude i just felt bad cuz u got mad
see, usually I'll just co-opt your opinions, and I've never read snow crash so I wanna be like "OH YEAH TOTALLY"
but you said the same thing about GR
and now I'm suspicious
This is good! I am still searching (unsuccessfully) for the cover of this that Prince did a few years back at a live show. It was online for a while but then he demanded it be removed. I thought once something went on the internetz it stayed forever. Durrr
You should be.
Snow Crash is amazing.
NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!
hehehe
one the one hand, I totally disagree about the prose. But on the other, only the first chapter or so is written like that. It settles down a lot after the first bit.
no, i love the prose in gravity's rainbow, even though i found the book near-unreadable
and actually stephenson has been compared to pynchon (not in quality but in style), at least for snow crash, because of how wacky and surreal they are, with little interest in verisimilitude or... being convincing. the main character is called Hiro Protagonist, for one thing.
but the prose is sort of a combination of self-satisfied-ness and plain language with little grace or evocative power
Actually, I king of remember it cooling me on the book before I got into it.
you won't see the original version, especially at full resolution, because i am unspeakably foul to look upon
yeah, the vibe I get on him is that he's an insightful sci-fi author that was like the freshman that really wanted the cool senior pynchon to like him and maybe like give him a ride to school one day so jackie in homeroom could see him
The Bride and Groom?
Your thoughts at that moment:
"Where is David Carradine when I need him?"
I know right?? Like he's royalty or something. Geez. Dude didn't even have a pronounceable name for a few years. Although he does win points for somehow managing to pull off doilies for clothes, without being a 300 year old vampire...or.....
yeah that sounds really unappealing
usually i like books that are light and have a sense of humour but i read a few chapters and it was really uninteresting
also i just read neuromancer, which has great prose, so it was a stark contrast
Bretty sure the guy on the left is Baron Juggalo Von Worthlessbad
WHAT ELSE COULD GO WRONG TODAY, CHAT?!
were you guys going for that or...
Yeah uh Snow Crash and Neuromancer get compared a lot because they both had innovative conceptions of cyberspace for their times.
That is basically where the similarities ended. Snow Crash is extremely funny, if you can get into it, but I'm not surprised that someone looking for quality prose would have to keep looking.
and the lady is my older sister
as i said in that other post
It's a fucking great book, but not for the quality of its prose.
i am finding it hard to articulate what is so unappealing to me about it
i think it might be that it's supposed to be ridiculous but i've heard all this ridiculousness before, so it doesn't really have the effect it was meant to. it's sort of rendered trivial.
i think i'll put away the kindle and find my copy of Foucault's Pendulum or something
*Hides his scotch*
read Virtual Light
I think it may be one of Gibson's best. I love his prose but it's a more mature book by a more mature dude. Very similar cyberpunky plot but with ordinary people in a more ordinary, less glamorous world.
it was just supposed to be a pic of all the siblings at the wedding
then DK photoshopped away some of my neck fat to make fun of me
which is only strengthening my desire to go bulimic, which seems appropriate
I have been trying to watch my blood pressure and my sodium intake and get serious about cardiovascular health
but that vigilance means that right now I have a kind of throbbing, low level headache and I can't help but wonder if it is an incipient stroke
some amazing news but a generally shitty mood
i might try to call aaron soon
was there not a dress code memo?
i've waited so long for this mod spot...
wait, i mean
i hope you're ok
really the only ones who dressed up were the wedding party. as i said, my family's p trashy.
fuck yeah!