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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2010, 10:09:46 pm »
At least he did not use grammar as a verb

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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #16 on: June 17, 2010, 10:13:23 pm »
lol i really need to start double checking posts even on neritic i get hounded for bad grammar ,and spelling ,and punctuation ,and run ons ,and the like...err there i go again
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EDIT:grammer=/=grammar
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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2010, 10:47:18 pm »
I generally just use Opera spellchecker and when it reports bad spellings that makes sense I edit them. I am not that great at grammar, though.

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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #18 on: June 18, 2010, 09:38:16 am »
Hope you'll hang around on Omnimaga even if you stop programming. All your contributions to the community are awesome, including this site, thank you for doing all of this. We will never forgot you nor what you have done for all of us. Best wishes for everything you're going to do next.
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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2010, 11:06:15 pm »
Well it looks like my idea will be impossible to make even in its simpler form, too. I can't even do collision detection at all with Pxl-test(), so my TI programming carreer ends tonight. I would practically need to have somebody make the entire game for me at this point, something that is impossible for two reasons: nobody would ever bother to do such thing and the only way I can get people to understand what kind of game I would like to be done is to actually program the game, so it's some sort of endless loop. You will never get to see the idea I had.

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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2010, 11:38:48 pm »
DJ I have a lot of respect for you. Working a job and still find a way to get on omnimaga and answer maybe hundreds of questions a day as well as PM's it enough to stress anyone out. Hope that everything will work out for best.

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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2010, 11:45:05 pm »
It's kind of a dillema at the moment lately about programming. My mind is totally unstable about this. I absolutely want to make that game, but I just can't figure out how to do anything. And now it seems like it's not just Axe, but more anything involving unaligned collision detection. I can't do that game if I can only achieve tile-by-tile movement. It will just not work right.

To me it seems clear from now on I'll be doomed to just do like Zera did: design game concepts and suggest them as project ideas for other people. And for that, I miss the artistic skills and ability to explain things...

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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #22 on: June 18, 2010, 11:54:56 pm »
Well doing that really isn't that bad of a thing. I mean it keeps your mind up and still thinking. Plus you never know when you might be able to help a little with like a little thing that someone doesn't quite get working but you do know how to make it work. If you ever have trouble describing something you can always talk to someone too to help with that or just try your best and see what happens. Who knows, maybe somebody might misunderstand and then create something even better than you thought or something. Just gotta keep your head up :)

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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #23 on: June 19, 2010, 09:42:36 am »
Well congrats on your 1000th post. I could maybe ask for help, but from my experience in the 5 years I ran OMnimaga, most of the time, when I ask for help nobody cares. Now, only Quigibo, who's the Axe author, and sometimes Calc84maniac, ever bothers to reply. This makes me even more relunctant about posting about my problem. This is not to mention everytime I ask for help, people try to help me on stuff that is totally unrelated to the main question instead (no offense), such as optimizations. It would be best at least if the optimizations came with help related to the problem, since once you change your code to fix the bug, you're gonna re-need additional help on optimizing anyway (due to different code)

I may just go through the old topics and look for Builderboy or Eeems tutorials, but my concern is that it will be impossible for people to clafiry them for me, not to mention they are written for outdated versions of Axe. Also SirCmpwn tutorial is not out yet and we do not know the date, so maybe I would be better waiting, idk.

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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #24 on: June 19, 2010, 12:28:35 pm »
Thanks.

Well if you ever need help with anything you know you can always track me down either here or on MSN and I'll try my best. Granted, I won't be able to for a couple weeks because of my trip (though I'll try to check a couple times when I can) but when I get back I will.

Ya, I've noticed that about a lot of topics, not just yours. People ask one thing and get optimizations instead. I think we should start stressing the fact that help with code comes first then optimizations second.
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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #25 on: June 19, 2010, 03:33:45 pm »
Have I done that? If I have I apologize immediately. I also promise to focus on the question at hand, not giving optimizations. :)
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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #26 on: June 19, 2010, 03:41:48 pm »
If you need any help at all, just say the word and i think i might be able to help :)

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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #27 on: June 19, 2010, 03:42:57 pm »
Well it sucks to see you go again, and this time permanently. You have been a great asset to the community and have definitely provided a great haven for programmers of all languages and non-programmers alike. I'm sure Omnimaga will continue to strive.

On a side note, I have been thinking its about time for me to call it quits too. I seem to be going in the other direction though. I am moving on to mobile development and bigger projects that I just dont have time for calcs as much as I used too. I do plan to finish a good majority of my projects though. So you wont see me fully gone until they are done.

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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #28 on: June 19, 2010, 03:47:53 pm »
Heh tifreak hates my grammerz. @sircmpwn

In fact swivel does too.
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Re: Final year into programming?
« Reply #29 on: June 19, 2010, 03:54:04 pm »
Well it sucks to see you go again, and this time permanently. You have been a great asset to the community and have definitely provided a great haven for programmers of all languages and non-programmers alike. I'm sure Omnimaga will continue to strive.

On a side note, I have been thinking its about time for me to call it quits too. I seem to be going in the other direction though. I am moving on to mobile development and bigger projects that I just dont have time for calcs as much as I used too. I do plan to finish a good majority of my projects though. So you wont see me fully gone until they are done.
well as said in my initial post, chances that I completly leave are not 100%. IN fact they are low. It's just programming that I am most likely gonna move on from. I love the community and what people create, but I cannot seem to go at a lower level programming than I am right now. I guess my speciality was limited to RPGs after all... but sadly, I got bored of creating RPGs, since they take so long to create and requires so much thoughts for what to add in them and time to debug

I hope if you quit calc stuff that you still show up around from time to time. :)
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