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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
They do! 14.

 

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Do they speak in an SOC loop mission?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Codethulhu GitHub wgah'nagl fhtagn.

schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

"I am one of the best FREDders on Earth" -General Battuta

<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
They do not. 13.

 

Offline The E

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Is this person female?
If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
--Evergrey, Where August Mourns

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
They are not. 12.

 

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Is this person Terran?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Codethulhu GitHub wgah'nagl fhtagn.

schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

"I am one of the best FREDders on Earth" -General Battuta

<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Yes. 11.

 

Offline Goober5000

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Ooh.  I thought it might be Captain Forsythe of the GTCv Warspite, but she's female.  (Or, at least, the comm officer is, which raises a good point...)

Is this person explicitly named, by himself or by another?  E.g., does he say, "This is X" or does someone say, "X, tell me about Vasudans", where X is the person's name rather than the ship name.

I ask because although we know that Forsythe is the captain of the Warspite, we don't know if the Warspite speaker is the captain.  Similarly, there have been in-mission messages from the Bastion not sent by Admiral Shima and in-mission messages from the Aquitaine not sent by Admiral Petrarch.  But there have been in-mission messages from the Galatea sent by Admiral Wolf.

(EDIT: Well, the captain of the Warspite is male, according to the debriefing, so he's not the one speaking.)
« Last Edit: August 15, 2016, 06:55:21 am by Goober5000 »

 
Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Does this person speak during a nebula mission?
« Last Edit: August 15, 2016, 08:56:33 am by -Joshua- »

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
The answer speaks their own name. They do speak during a nebula mission.

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Is it Arthur Roemig?

Your designation is incorrect, Axem. It's not Roemig. 8 left.

 

Offline Mito [PL]

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Are they the survivors of the crew of Iceni who we rescue during a mission in the nebula (retail FS2)?
How do you kill a hydra?

You starve it to death.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Are they the survivors of the crew of Iceni who we rescue during a mission in the nebula (retail FS2)?

No, they are not the group of survivors. I won't count this though because we've established it's a single character.

 
Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
The answer speaks their own name. They do speak during a nebula mission.

9 left!

Just to clarify: Alpha 3 Kappa 2 etc. don't count as "Their own name" right?

  

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Are you asking whether the answer identifies themself by a callsign, or a personal name?

 
Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
Are you asking whether the answer identifies themself by a callsign, or a personal name?

I would think that a callsign is out considering how Goober phrased his question. Your post is now confusing me even more  :shaking:
« Last Edit: August 15, 2016, 12:41:53 pm by -Joshua- »

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
You're right, sorry. My efforts to be less confusing are being more confusing. Yes, a personal name is used.

 
Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
... Is it Lieutenant Rusk, the very distressed guy who appears during "Return to babel" onboard the NTF Iceni?

 

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Re: Twenty quuuuuuestions!!!
You got it! Take it away.