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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2013, 06:24:24 pm »
What if I never found out about Minecraft?
Then I'd be programming on the calc more, and reading random stuff. And I'd get better grades, and wouldn't have invented NCS.

What if I obeyed my 8th-grade math teacher's instructions not to program on the school calcs?
Then I'd have programmed the z80 calcs anyway, just with less experience at the beginning.

What if TI decided to use a 68k or ARM processor and put more Basic-usable RAM in the CSE?
Then I wouldn't be griping about it as much.

What if TI lost favor from most students and teachers?
Casio would rule, and the first graphing calc that I'd have received would have been a Casio.

What if Axe had never been invented?
People would be using Assembly, or someone would have written a compiler for some other language into z80.

What if TI never invented the Nspire?
No Ndless, no Nspire on the title bar, more vibrant 68k community, no noobs griping about it... The list ever goes on.

What if Omni had never re-opened?
I'd be on Cemetech.
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2013, 11:19:02 pm »
Quote from: blue_bear_94 on July 27, 2013, 06:24:24 pm
What if TI decided to use a 68k or ARM processor and put more Basic-usable RAM in the CSE?
Then I wouldn't be griping about it as much.
There wouldn't be as many ASM coders nor 84+ game ports tho, because ASM coders would be forced to learn a new ASM or C languages, and most 68K ASM/C coders are gone D:. I would actually have prefered an EZ80.
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2013, 07:38:04 am »
What if I never found ticalc.org?
Well, I guess I wouldn't have been in the community, as over ticalc i found calc progs and then i also wanted to make awesome ones and joined cemetech

What if there was no My Little Pony?
My life would suck.
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2013, 06:22:34 pm »
The biggest 'what if' of my life is:
What if I hadn't skipped a year in elementary school?
If I didn't do it, I had been in an other year in highschool most of elementary school, so I would have been in the class with different people, while:
 - Someone of my class first got me interested in programming (on the 84+). If I didn't knew him, I probably wouldn't programm.
 - Someone of my class started a computer game project with me after we learned to use game maker in school. Without this, I probably wouldn't have been programming games (on the computer) after that.
 - Someone I met because of someone in my class got me into going out. Without him, I might have had no life.
 - I discovered most of my hobbies from people I have been in the class with.
And most importantly: I would have completely different friends, and because everyone is influenced a lot by his friends, my life would most lickely be very different. But how would it have looked like? That, I'll never know.
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #19 on: July 28, 2013, 06:53:14 pm »
What if I had been born in 1991 instead of 1997?
By the time I reach high school, it would have been 2005, instead of 2011.
In 2005, Omnimaga was four years old and had never closed.
I would have been a member of United-TI.
The math checklist wouldn't have listed the Nspire as a possibility.
Being 22, instead of 16, by now, I would have lost interest in programming.
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #20 on: July 28, 2013, 06:59:46 pm »
Quote from: Sorunome on July 28, 2013, 07:38:04 am
What if I never found ticalc.org?
Well, I guess I wouldn't have been in the community, as over ticalc i found calc progs and then i also wanted to make awesome ones and joined cemetech

I would still have joined. The first calc sites I ever found were GFox83, Planète TI-83 and Le Monde de la TI-83. Ticalc.org had no archives anymore at the time so I didn't bother much about it until their archives re-opened. Plus I started making games a few months before visiting calc sites anyway.
Quote from: blue_bear_94 on July 28, 2013, 06:53:14 pm
I would have been a member of United-TI.

You would even have been admin! O.O (sort-of, on April 1st 2005)


Another one:

What if I had gotten my own computer one year earlier?
-I might have moved on to Visual Basic 6.0 dev, since the year before I got a computer I was making games for school projects and the teacher was handing copies of VB6 at the end of school year.
-I might have gotten an easier time learning ASM since I was still not that used to high level languages. Back then, it was impossible to program ASM without regular computer access.
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #21 on: July 28, 2013, 07:00:26 pm »
What if CVSoft had one more post?
He could use OmnomIRC :P
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #22 on: July 28, 2013, 07:17:48 pm »
What if i had 8961 more posts?
I still wouldn't be the top poster.

What if this wasn't my 40th post?
I wouldn't be l33t!

What if I didn't play Minecraft?
I'd probably have written more code and have less friends.

What if I wrote TI-83 code instead of TI-82 code?
I'd have a positive download count!
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #23 on: July 28, 2013, 07:20:21 pm »
What if I got a TI-Nspire instead of a TI-84 + SE?
I'd cry over myself at first, but later start learning Lua for games. And I wouldn't express my hate over them as much.
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #24 on: July 28, 2013, 11:07:46 pm »
Guys, please keep this hypothetical and joke-free. Thank you.
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #25 on: July 28, 2013, 11:52:59 pm »
Something rather significant, for me.

What if I were religious.

This is something that interests me, because I actually already know the answer. But it's not the answer one would expect given my location and the surrounding culture. If I were to follow a religion, I am most certain I would be Taoist. Which is... Weird given the fact that I grew up in a Roman Catholic family and live in a predominately Protestant Christian region of the US. Taoism is virtually unheard of in the US, whereas the Abrahamic religions are very dominant.

It's odd, to say the least.
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Re: Re: Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #26 on: July 29, 2013, 02:02:27 am »
Quote from: pimathbrainiac on July 28, 2013, 11:07:46 pm
Guys, please keep this hypothetical and joke-free. Thank you.
that's what people have been doing so far (except maybe one or two post)? One single joke and you get all worked up? Get a sense of humor. Besides, before complaining about other people's random/joke posts, you should maybe look in a mirror. Thank you.
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #27 on: July 29, 2013, 02:10:22 am »
What if I had never gone to my brothers D&D meet?

I never would have met a friend that I enjoy playing minecraft and programming calcs with.
AND, I would still look on D&D as, "Not the most enjoyable game".
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #28 on: July 29, 2013, 03:30:23 am »
Quote from: ben_g on July 28, 2013, 06:22:34 pm
What if I hadn't skipped a year in elementary school?
What if I didn't skip two years in elementary school ?
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Re: "What If" Discussion
« Reply #29 on: July 29, 2013, 05:01:55 am »
Quote from: Streetwalker on July 29, 2013, 03:30:23 am
Quote from: ben_g on July 28, 2013, 06:22:34 pm
What if I hadn't skipped a year in elementary school?
What if I didn't skip two classes in elementary school ?
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* Sorunome suddenly feels stupid >.<
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