judda

Hey @myztacia how is this framework coming?

I just started playing it tonight, so far I have gotten confused and been like "where do I need to go / what do I need to do" about 3 times, which is pretty sad.  But that could also be because I was only half paying attention to what was going on.

One thing that I am always curious about, is the "why" people decided to start their own game/sim site.  What was the appeal to you? Was it the thought of creating something brand new? Was it to push yourself to learn more? Was it to get rich?

What is it that made you really think "hey, I have an idea and I want to make a game"?

@txtsd - Since it was Gabby who did it a while ago, I am fairly confident that it's PHP because I was chatting with them a lot back then.

Yeah - I think I'm going to drop my EA Pass before my next renewal - I don't play enough games from it (or any really) for it to be worth it.  This year it kind of accidentally renewed *facepalm*

Over the last year or so, I've begun watching a fair bit more YouTube, because the amount of content on video games that I will never play has skyrocketed

One of the series that I found really interesting was Boundary Break. Basically they hack the games so that they are able to move the camera anywhere, and find little Easter Eggs we weren't supposed to find.

It's really a neat project that I enjoy seeing / hearing about because of all of the developer tricks that they put in place.

This is very true - I wouldn't go for just any, VPSDime had a great rating on LowEndBox, I also used BuyVm for a while.  VPSDime didn't have a parent company I believe but BuyVM does with Frantech, still small but they were both really good in my past experiences.

This is literally something I feel like I've been waiting *forever* for.  My brother had a Playstation, but I never really used it, and I never had the original Kingdom Hearts game.  Over the Christmas break, I saw that these were coming out, and now they are finally here

@Thistle did you have any luck?

7 minutes ago, GeekGirl said:

Once they broke the 200GB Barrier, The available sizes skyrocketed and the prices fell like crazy. I just bought a Two-Pack of 128GB Sandisk Extreme Plus Micro SD cards (U3, A2, V30) cards for $45.00. It wasn't long ago that I spent $45 on a 64GB card and thought it a great investment.

Geez - I remember when I was buying a 64 GB USD key thinking "this is huge" had it was likely more than that.

I used to be hosted on HostGator, but then they got stupidly terrible, yay EIG, and way more expensive at the same time.

I used to host IcePets.Com on VPS Dime, pretty darn cheap for what you got.  Really reliable.

But now, I'm on QNEZ's servers like Misticpets is.  @GeekGirl is amazing to work with.

I also have XBOX Game Pass, partially due to the upgrade window, and also because I already had it when I tried to renew my Gold account.  That being said, I personally prefer to just straight up buy the games because I rarely play and would like to be able to continue playing even if I stop paying.

I have a mixture of both physical and digital games.  I recently bought at 512 GB MicroSD card (didn't realize there was such a thing) for my Switch for all fo the games and the updates that go along with it.

And of course the "baby yoda"s of the world increased in numbers after the show happened.

1 hour ago, Hare said:

Agreeing that form submission / validation  and forum are tedious.

Though the worst for me is CSS and layout compatibility/responsiveness... having to test out how it looks on all different devices, browsers, get t all perfectly balanced to any screen size and still look good.

/me shudders - yeah CSS and it's finickiness is not my favourite thing in the world.  Takes way too much time to get "right", and even that is subjective.  This is why I normally focus on the backend stuff

27 minutes ago, ShadowMage said:

I am very particular with how a website works, so I feel the need to have a complete system to manage roles with permissions down to the nitty gritty such as sending messages, posting shouts, forum posts etc. While Laravel has spatie's laravel-permissions package to make it just a tiny bit easier, It's still a pain in the arse to manually define each and every permission, then assign them to roles, and all of that fun stuff.

But I'd also have to agree with form submission / validation.

@ShadowMage I have never heard of that package until now! Is it a lot more useful than just using straight gates/policies?

22 minutes ago, GeekGirl said:

One word. REGEXP.

So much power ... but then so much ability to have one character screw it up entirely  https://rubular.com/ has helped me through the years of regex.

Enterprise was the first one that I actually watched all of.  I have to get back into finishing *all* of the other series.  I normally got 2-3 seasons in then forgot to go back ... I should probably go back to them soon

Mandalorean = meh, meh meh OMG THIS IS AMAZING!

I just stumbled across the following website today, it's really cool to see all of the projects that are coming out of VueJS (all of the extensions).

https://vuewatch.com/#

Have you had any experience with any of these packages? Are they good?

I heard this one the other day and loved it.

Why is "beef stew" not a good password?

I've always been a fan of Star Trek, back from my first days of watching Star Trek: The Next Generation (then I went back to watch The Original Series).  I was excited to see at the end of last year that a new series, Picard, was starting up.

So far I'm loving it - so much of the Star Trek that I've been missing over the last while.

After starting to watch it, I immediately went and watched Discovery since there was a bit I was missing there.  So good!

What do you think?

Is there anyone in particular you would like to have interviewed? We have been talking about this again and would love to continue it.

35 minutes ago, DaRule said:

You could always contact them to see if they are willing to sell to you judda.

As much as that may seem like a good idea, my free time is already limited already so I wouldn't be able to handle it.  But maybe someone else can

@DaRule There is the possibility that someone could offer to purchase it off of them if there was the loyal fan base.  The community may be small but around.

@Dinocanid How is this project going? Or is it mostly on hold?

The name sounds so familiar but looking at it doesn't ring any bells  Hopefully it's not one of the ones that goes down with the removal of flash

Ugh yeah very true, at least Laravel makes it a /ton/ easier with the form requests.

For me, the thing that always drags me down is implementing forums - they are such boring code but can sometimes be overly complicated which sucks especially when looking to improve things, and make it work with things like quoting (with pseudo-references).

Every game site has those features that you as a developer absolutely hate implementing.  Even just thinking about working on it sometimes drains the life out of you.  What is that feature for you and why?