Author Topic: Random talk thread: It just keeps happening (Read 2045434 times)

I started playing around with pygame. Pretty easy to get a game up and going.

I'm also seriously thinking about doing game dev full time if I can, which is what I wanted to do when I was like 12-19.

Atramental · « **Reply #27249 on:** February 16, 2015, 08:25:18 PM »

Speaking of code, looks like I'm finally having to learn CSS & Javascript because it's beginning to dawn on me that designers who can code are more likely to get better paying jobs than ones who can't. And I for one do not want to be making around 15k to 20k a year for the rest of my 20s.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #27250 on:** February 17, 2015, 02:07:50 AM »

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kmallikarjuna/women-are-taking-over-marvel-one-comic-book-at-a#.nbOy72xeWQ

Article talking about the Marvel project my girlfriend will be working on

demi · « **Reply #27251 on:** February 17, 2015, 03:23:49 AM »

Quote from: Atramental on February 16, 2015, 08:25:18 PM

Speaking of code, looks like I'm finally having to learn CSS & Javascript because it's beginning to dawn on me that designers who can code are more likely to get better paying jobs than ones who can't. And I for one do not want to be making around 15k to 20k a year for the rest of my 20s.

Its better to be able to design and PROTOTYPE your design rather than just giving programmers a one-sheet and going "there ya go"

You dont have to be a wizard. Focus your skills on one but dip your tip in the other.

Reb · « **Reply #27252 on:** February 17, 2015, 04:16:51 AM »

Quote from: The Walrus on February 17, 2015, 03:37:01 AM

Atra still has a few more years before he becomes a wizard.

We're talking about the Klan right?

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27253 on:** February 17, 2015, 05:59:40 PM »

I have no motivation to work. Fuck I'm sick of this shit.

Atramental · « **Reply #27254 on:** February 17, 2015, 07:04:13 PM »

Man, I wonder what kind of buzz an "Arvie-esque" game would generate.

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"Hatred is to violence, as Arvietopia is to sexual perversity." -IGN

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Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27255 on:** February 17, 2015, 08:48:09 PM »

It will be the Citizen Kane porn parody of video games

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27256 on:** February 17, 2015, 09:08:52 PM »

I think it will be a gay Jamacian bobsledder sim called 'Rosebudder' where you have to manage the team and their man on man action both on and off the sled.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27257 on:** February 17, 2015, 09:11:22 PM »

or maybe it will just be a GOW rip off with slightly less homo eroticism.

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #27258 on:** February 17, 2015, 11:39:40 PM »

just cross-referenced calendars; Spring Break coincides with March Madness again this year

I love my school so much brehs

Kara · « **Reply #27259 on:** February 19, 2015, 08:48:12 PM »

I think caffeine doping to a large degree and then popping a high dose of diazepam is the white collar counterpart to the wake and bake.

Atramental · « **Reply #27260 on:** February 19, 2015, 11:59:41 PM »

I have a big presentation meeting tomorrow with a rather high end client.

Hopefully things go well or I'm going to be stressed out of my mind for the next few weeks...

kick51 · « **Reply #27261 on:** February 20, 2015, 10:25:11 AM »

Quote from: Vularai on February 19, 2015, 08:48:12 PM

I think caffeine doping to a large degree and then popping a high dose of diazepam is the white collar counterpart to the wake and bake.

replace caffeine with modafinil and i'm on board

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27262 on:** February 20, 2015, 11:47:11 AM »

Scott Meyers hair cut drives me mad. I just don't understand it.

Rufus · « **Reply #27263 on:** February 20, 2015, 11:50:54 AM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27264 on:** February 20, 2015, 12:16:14 PM »

Honestly yes. That hair is rage inducing. I'm surprised punks haven't forsaken mohawks in light of this cut.

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27265 on:** February 20, 2015, 12:27:00 PM »

Quote from: Esch on February 20, 2015, 12:26:27 PM

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on February 20, 2015, 11:47:11 AM
Scott Meyers hair cut drives me mad. I just don't understand it.

it makes him look like a pansexual stable boy. completely understandable.

Esch....if you rock that haircut for 3 months with a daily picture update I'll send you a PS4.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #27266 on:** February 20, 2015, 12:37:48 PM »

Omg Esch if you grew your hair long I'd sweat that

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27267 on:** February 20, 2015, 12:40:25 PM »

Quote from: Esch on February 20, 2015, 12:32:44 PM

Quote from: Am_I_Anonymous on February 20, 2015, 12:27:00 PM
Quote from: Esch on February 20, 2015, 12:26:27 PM
Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on February 20, 2015, 11:47:11 AM
Scott Meyers hair cut drives me mad. I just don't understand it.

it makes him look like a pansexual stable boy. completely understandable.

Esch....if you rock that haircut for 3 months with a daily picture update I'll send you a PS4.

'If I'm being perfectly honest, I don't even think my hair could even grow like that. It gets really curly and wavy past a certain point:

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also, i could just buy a PS4 if i wanted one (Image removed from quote.)

LOL, you remind me of my friend Vamshi who was in our fraternity. He got though an entire 4 years of college never doing laundry because nobody in the world could play the "In India we don't have these machines" routine as well as him. To note, he grew up in the USA.

Also smart move to cut out the chick with the flabby arms breh.

Also, chick is hot. Your homie looks like one of them emo chuds who pulls out a guitar at a party though

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27268 on:** February 20, 2015, 01:11:26 PM »

( you can reverse google search it, pleb)

We are good at two things. Hating the fuck out of Sig nopes and getting punished on the regular.

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27269 on:** February 20, 2015, 01:24:36 PM »

For all the good we do in terms of racism and embracing sexuality we fuck up royally in terms of pranks...

We once had cards like they do in the nba for the dunk contest and during the naked mile (now not allowed) we would rate the girls that ran by 1-10.

Well one of them happened to be a relative of the Dean.....we got a personal visit just as I was holding up a 4 to a runner....not...real...smart.

Dean "AiA what in the hell are you doing?"

AiA "Err, rating the running styles of the people in the event *smile"

Dean "Get your little buddies and come with me....*mutters goddamn prick fucks"

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27270 on:** February 20, 2015, 01:37:16 PM »

Grow up before cameras, cells phones, and wide use of the internet brehs....

Be well known enough that whatever happens people know who you are brehs....

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27271 on:** February 20, 2015, 01:40:53 PM »

we caulked the Dig Baps doors shut

Also stole their VP's tires off his car and put them for sale in our yard (right across the street)

Also fuck teaks

Edit: To be fair they did somehow manage to remove all our parking stickers while we were partying. That took some skill. Props.

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27272 on:** February 20, 2015, 01:52:26 PM »

They were the bane of our existence. I still would not hire one to this day as I have NEVER met one worth a shit.

Kara · « **Reply #27273 on:** February 20, 2015, 02:36:33 PM »

Ah university pranks, it seems like it was only yesterday when my YCL comrades and I swapped the Social Justice Club's Bruin Walk placard with one that said Social Democrats Club (their club logo was the SI logo but they kept what they were on the DL) or when we made pledges go to the Sparts' book club and ask if the Soviet Union was state capitalist or a degenerated workers' state.

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27274 on:** February 20, 2015, 02:39:31 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on February 20, 2015, 02:36:33 PM

Ah university pranks, it seems like it was only yesterday when my YCL comrades and I swapped the Social Justice Club's Bruin Walk placard with one that said Social Democrats Club (their club logo was the SI logo but they kept what they were on the DL) or when we made pledges go to the Sparts' book club and ask if the Soviet Union was state capitalist or a degenerated workers' state.

You know, you are one of my favorite posters here but it's fairly clear I would have thrown you out a window had we attended college together.

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27275 on:** February 20, 2015, 02:50:38 PM »

Communist Club at Michigan:

Bunch of chain smoking overly skinny fucktards who liked to explain to us why sports were a prop of the university to further the underground slave agenda. Which was super ironic coming from a communist.

Kara · « **Reply #27276 on:** February 20, 2015, 03:00:10 PM »

Sorry, that was a joke post. The Sparts and Social Justice Club were real, but afaik the YCL didn't operate on campus, nor would I ever join a CPUSA organization.

I do want to write an Animal House type parody with this subject matter now though.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #27277 on:** February 20, 2015, 03:02:59 PM »

Quote from: Am_I_Anonymous on February 20, 2015, 02:50:38 PM

Communist Club at Michigan:

Bunch of chain smoking overly skinny fucktards who liked to explain to us why sports were a prop of the university to further the underground slave agenda. Which was super ironic coming from a communist.

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27278 on:** February 20, 2015, 03:10:37 PM »

The Boz, he is a real good dude actually. He just fell victim to stupid people and was very quick to trust....a bad combination.

Broseidon · « **Reply #27279 on:** February 20, 2015, 03:14:00 PM »

Quote from: Esch on February 20, 2015, 03:00:45 PM

I think the communists at my school were AnCom (am i saying that rite). Now that I think of it, they had no formal organization or structure. Just smoking shit cigarettes and absolutely inhaling vodka in the shadows

Sounds about right

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #27280 on:** February 20, 2015, 04:48:16 PM »

Quote from: Am_I_Anonymous on February 20, 2015, 03:10:37 PM

The Boz, he is a real good dude actually. He just fell victim to stupid people and was very quick to trust....a bad combination.

I may or may not have believed that Stone Cold was a pretty awesome movie at some point in the past.

Kara · « **Reply #27281 on:** February 20, 2015, 06:22:38 PM »

Quote from: Esch on February 20, 2015, 03:00:45 PM

I think the communists at my school were AnCom (am i saying that rite). Now that I think of it, they had no formal organization or structure. Just smoking shit cigarettes and absolutely inhaling vodka in the shadows

Not doing anything or lacking formal structure don't an ancom make. 6 person Trot organizations often eschew the necessary vanguard organization in their widely unpublicized victories for the international proletariat.

Did they ask you if you made sure to remember the martyrs of Kronstadt?

Did they talk about Kropotkin in an alarming amount of detail?

Did they tell you about the unremembered contributions of anarchists to a labor struggle that is equally, if not more so, unremembered?

Did they talk a lot about councils (but NOT soviets) and federations of governance?

Did they spend a lot of time talking about personal property but not much about managing the means of production (aka private property)?

Please note that if at any time they talked about "spontaneity," they were Luxemburgists and not ancoms.

chronovore · « **Reply #27282 on:** February 21, 2015, 09:06:25 AM »

:suddenly_uncomfortable

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27283 on:** February 21, 2015, 01:56:02 PM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #27284 on:** February 21, 2015, 11:43:43 PM »

Went to a funeral home webpage to print out an obituary (of a distant relative) for my grandmother.

It has a RSS feed of all their obituaries and funeral times and so on.

(check out the RSS feed for details on arraignments)

nudemacusers · « **Reply #27285 on:** February 22, 2015, 01:20:33 AM »

Quote from: The Walrus on February 21, 2015, 05:08:07 AM

Dakota Fanning has been legal for 2 years. WTF is this shit, she's supposed to be like 10.

you seem... upset.

benjipwns · « **Reply #27286 on:** February 22, 2015, 01:48:20 AM »

Quote from: The Walrus on February 22, 2015, 01:21:58 AM

Next thing I know I'll have a kid or something.

May he grow up to be a Republican lawyer.

So it is written.

"reywal nacilbupeR otni nwaps surlaW"

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Pretend he's a magician.

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Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27287 on:** February 22, 2015, 02:11:50 AM »

Quote from: The Walrus on February 22, 2015, 01:21:58 AM

Quote from: nudemacusers on February 22, 2015, 01:20:33 AM
Quote from: The Walrus on February 21, 2015, 05:08:07 AM
Dakota Fanning has been legal for 2 years. WTF is this shit, she's supposed to be like 10.
you seem... upset.

I feel old as fuck, and that the last 10 years have just sped by.

Next thing I know I'll have a kid or something.

Yeah...you know and I know that shit ain't happening.

Kara · « **Reply #27288 on:** February 22, 2015, 02:48:35 AM »

Even if you don't have kids you have to pay for other people's kids, that's the beauty of society.

toku · « **Reply #27289 on:** February 22, 2015, 03:13:40 AM »

Quote from: Vularai on February 22, 2015, 02:48:35 AM

Even if you don't have kids you have to pay for other people's kids, that's the beauty of society.

Do you ever have nightmares about a young Kara out there that you don't know about?

Kara · « **Reply #27290 on:** February 22, 2015, 02:30:43 PM »

Not exactly... more the one that isn't that I do know about. I hadn't thought about that in years, thanks.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27291 on:** February 22, 2015, 10:19:30 PM »

So I'm really fucking depressed and I have been for a few months now. Like I've been depressed since I was 15 but I'm pretty down right now. Most of it has to do with gradschool not really working out well.

Today I got a paper accepted to a shitty conference and I really wish it was rejected. Its a terrible paper. Its my first paper accept in the 1.5 years I've been in grad school. I have another shitty paper that has been rejected twice. My other projects were all failures.

So this paper that got accepted - has bad novelity, basically techniques were done more because they would be novel than because I thought they would work. A paper needs novelty in order to get published. It also has bad analysis of the methods used. Basically I set a bunch of parameters and then don't try anything else, due to time constraints. Also at about the end of the project I found two papers that did what I was trying to do but did it much better. The issue is that both papers were poorly written and hardly explained their results or how they got them, which made it very hard to compare my results to theirs.

Now there are reasons why this was done. I need published papers to move though academia. My supervisor needs papers to get promoted. This is my job. I get paid 30 grand a year to publish papers. And so I'm going to publish this paper I'm extremely embarrassed about. It's bad science. What's more is the reviewers all called me out, rightfully, on the serious issues of the paper, but it still got accepted. They also want it cut down to 8 pages from 12, while adding in a bunch of shit, which is impossible and won't be done. This will just make the paper worse.

I kind of had a high view of 'science' before gradschool and the pressures in academia to just publish regardless of quality has kind of killed my interest in research. I feel like I'm just contributing to the noise of shitty science. Those two papers papers that beat me, I can't really figure out because they are shitty papers and shitty science, and now I'm contributing shit on top of that and some poor chump is going to come along and have to try and figure out my work. Its just painful and I'm not proud at all.

I'm working on a project now that I'm highly interested in (I was not interested in the above project at all) but I can find no motivation to do anything just because I feel terrible about this paper. I really hate life right now.

benjipwns · « **Reply #27292 on:** February 23, 2015, 03:13:28 AM »

Most large schools have already separated drastically between how many courses are increasingly taught by grad students or instructors now up towards the 300 level, while more and more papers are being published with less and less peer review. (Simply because nobody is going to bother to check all the papers they're given to review if it seems "right.")

Teaching does nothing for PhD's or their schools, it's a waste of money and time for both.

Speaking of bad papers and conferences, there was one (from grad student) at a poli sci conference a few years ago that was not only presented but won awards. The entire thing was plagiarized, paragraphs repeated themselves, you could copy-paste any sentence into google and get back the original paper/book/description of a data set (which was used as a lit review paragraph lol) and not only that but the methods were entirely incorrect, the data was presented as simple print-offs and the person displayed absolutely zero understanding for what significance means in a regression.

BUT AWARDS!

The only reason it got found out is somebody else wanted to use the paper as a source and realized one of the paragraphs was the same as a source they already had.

Kara · « **Reply #27293 on:** February 23, 2015, 04:55:54 PM »

Sorry you're feeling crappy about having to sell out, Arv.

Try to enjoy the current project any way you can.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27294 on:** February 23, 2015, 04:58:05 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on February 23, 2015, 04:55:54 PM

Try to enjoy the current project any way you can.

By making a motherless.com xxx parody version?

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27295 on:** February 23, 2015, 05:14:50 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on February 23, 2015, 04:55:54 PM

Sorry you're feeling crappy about having to sell out, Arv.

Try to enjoy the current project any way you can.

Thanks

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27296 on:** February 23, 2015, 08:26:43 PM »

So demonic

Kara · « **Reply #27297 on:** February 23, 2015, 09:52:15 PM »

Genetic screening is pretty cool. Apparently I can't effectively process folic acid into the substance your body processes it into because of a gene.

Kinda want a full screening now.

Steve Contra · « **Reply #27298 on:** February 23, 2015, 10:00:15 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on February 23, 2015, 09:52:15 PM

Genetic screening is pretty cool. Apparently I can't effectively process folic acid into the substance your body processes it into because of a gene.

Kinda want a full screening now.

This actually explains a lot.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27299 on:** February 23, 2015, 10:11:55 PM »

Don't waste your money now. What until they discover the commie gene so you can so you can highlight it in your DNA print out and hang in on the wall. I'm assuming they give you personalized print outs on leaving. If I was running a business like that, shit would be like splash mountain and I would be rich.

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