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Offline niffiwan

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HLP Newsletter - May 2015
on: May 07, 2015, 04:28:15 am
Due to our fearless leader being otherwise engaged, the May Newsletter has been cancelled completed overtime & over-budget by MjnMixael and myself, enjoy!

(oh and yeah, could a kind admin please move this to the announcements board as I don't have the permissions to post there)
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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #1 on: May 07, 2015, 07:30:49 am
What do you mean it's May already?
The Great War ended 30 years ago.
Our elders tell stories of a glorious civilization; of people with myths of humanity everlasting, who hurled themselves into the void of space with no fear.

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Offline niffiwan

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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #2 on: May 07, 2015, 07:38:23 am
Indeed, May newsletter is posted in May :)
Creating a fs2_open.log | Red Alert Bug = Hex Edit | MediaVPs 2014: Bigger HUD gauges | 32bit libs for 64bit Ubuntu
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m|m: I think I'm suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Bmpman is starting to make sense and it's actually written reasonably well...
 

Offline X3N0-Life-Form

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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #3 on: May 07, 2015, 07:50:36 am
I told you guys that sequestrating Axem would have side effects. You can't just kidnap someone, have him FRED missions for you and write a full newsletter!

Anyway, excellent interview, glad we got more insight into Mister Subspace Strikes - makes me want to do a modding dive during the upcoming week-end.
Not much in the campaign area, but oh gods how much stuff happened code-wise. As a github user myself, I can now see basically everything the SCP does, which is neat :P
 

Offline BirdofPrey

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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #4 on: May 07, 2015, 07:55:51 am
That reminds me, I need to get back to the work I was doing.
Also learn more art since my monkey brain never learned to code.
The Great War ended 30 years ago.
Our elders tell stories of a glorious civilization; of people with myths of humanity everlasting, who hurled themselves into the void of space with no fear.

In testing: Radar Icons
 

Offline 0rph3u5

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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #5 on: May 07, 2015, 08:06:09 am
Nice job, sorryto hear about the budget problems...

Reminde me what I've to do to get in the newsletter with Of Shivans and Men? - I'm currently very pressed for time and can't actuallly develop a strategy to promote myself (and the appearent lack of interest is affecting my drive to finish)....

ps. Greetings from the last day of re:publica 2015 in wonderful Berlin :)
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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #6 on: May 07, 2015, 08:13:55 am
Hmm... trying something for the interview formatting... pardon any temporary oddness.
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #7 on: May 07, 2015, 08:23:55 am
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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #8 on: May 07, 2015, 09:33:54 am
Ok, after much hair-pulling, I think I've gotten something I like. Newsletter-posters, pay attention:

There's a new text field when you're posting a newsletter, called "Interview". Use that for interviews. Format interviews as a big unordered list. The site will style the even list items in one style and color, and the odd list items in another style and color. Because of the even/odd styling, the only requirement for using this new Interviews content field is that you never have consecutive list items belonging to the same person.

Do this:
Quote
  • Person A: blah blah
  • Person B: Foo
  • Person A: Bar
  • Person B: Baz.


DON'T do this:
Quote
  • Person A: blah blah
  • Person B: Foo
  • Person B: And BTW, yadda
  • Person A: Bar
  • Person B: Baz.

Enjoy! Bug reports to me OFC. :)
SERIOUSLY...! | {The Sandvich Bar} - Rhino-FS2 Tutorial | CapShip Turret Upgrade | The Complete FS2 Ship List | System Background Package

"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #9 on: May 07, 2015, 09:39:07 am
Nice!
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Offline Axem

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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #10 on: May 07, 2015, 12:09:08 pm
A hearty thanks to niffiwan and mjn for pulling this off. :) I was moving to a new place and I've only started to recently have time again to do fun things. (And thank you Sandwich for that, makes reading interviews a lot better!)

Quote from: 0rph3u5 on May 07, 2015, 08:06:09 am
Reminde me what I've to do to get in the newsletter with Of Shivans and Men? - I'm currently very pressed for time and can't actuallly develop a strategy to promote myself (and the appearent lack of interest is affecting my drive to finish)....

Give some good meaty posts about the work you're doing. I did see you did post some in-campaign quotes, but I suppose that's just barely under the bar for a mention. I think things like background fluff, your experiences, screenshots or showing off gameplay with videos makes it a whole lot more likely to get a mention. We really try to mention any progress but it can be hard when its a very short post.
 

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Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Reply #11 on: May 07, 2015, 02:14:26 pm
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.

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(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!?

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