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[Simon]

NL needs a decision: How should the edges of the level behave?

Clam and I have been discussing various IRSes (Interactive Rodent Simulations). Maybe we can draw wisdom for NL from other games?

<Clam> what you really don't want is lemmings walking on the top of the level like they do in WinLemm
<SimonN> right. I've asked for a meeting with Icho to look at other IRSes
<SimonN> Lemmini is another important one
<SimonN> even though it's a Java program, where the developers are busy beating the language into conformance instead of solving real problems :>
<Clam> I don't remember the top-of-screen behaviour there, except that bashing too near the top crashes the game :P
<SimonN> that's what we want \o/

So the Java program has a bug. But maybe there's an exciting design revelation hiding beyond that bug? What does Lemmini do close to the edge, as long as we don't bash?

<Clam> hmm, do I brave the gauntlet of resource extraction
<Clam> no nag for resource extraction, but responded so slowly that I opened it again and ended up with two instances
<SimonN> amazing
<Clam> testing on Tame 1
<Clam> because all the real levels are locked
<SimonN> amazing
<Clam> oops, I failed to heed my own warning about bashing off the top
<Clam> Builder bumped his head on the ceiling and turned around
<SimonN> Can you make repeated steps, and try to walk on the top?
<Clam> I can build up to the very last pixel (only feet still visible), after that he doesn't climb onto the new step
<SimonN> that would be similar to the Lix behavior, where the last row is copied infinitely often for terrain checks outside
<SimonN> okay, the Java program behaves better than I expected.
<SimonN> I expected lemmings being able to walk on the top
<SimonN> barring the terrible bug that the game crashes on bashing the void
<Clam> mining at the top is okay
<SimonN> oh my
<Clam> I guess the problem is in the terrain check for continuing
<Clam> only basher ever has to check beyond the top
<SimonN> but checking terrain should be done by the builder too, and by the walker trying to ascend the last brick
<Clam> oops, my level just timed out

I didn't want to write "amazing" for a third time.

<SimonN> I think this is enough to make a quote topic entry
<Clam> I think so too XD
<Clam> how should I exit the game? X button or basher?

-- Simon

[Simon]

<geoo> If you see Ramond, tell him I'm in Vienna and free on Friday
* geoo has quit
[...]
<Ramond__> hugs!
<Ramond__> free hugs
<SimonNa> lovely
<SimonNa> [00:04] <geoo> If you see Ramond, tell him I'm in Vienna and free on Friday
<SimonNa> geoo is a wurst for not messaging you like that, but telling others to message you. You should yell at him for that
[...]
* geoo has joined
<geoo> Ramond__: are you in Vienna tomorrow after 4:30?
<Ramond__> ohoo simon told me to tell you not to tell him to tell me stuff

Here are some reallife quotes.

Simon: I have to be better than Lemmini.
IchoTolot: (holds his hand just above the floor) This is how high you have to jump.
(Years later, I realize how snobby this sounds. Lemmini has fostered culture and certainly was important in its day. Would love to hang out with Volker sometime.)

Simon: I have to lose my image of an angry, ranting gandpa.
IchoTolot: That will be hard. My first memory about you is you pointing at something in NeoLemmix, yelling "Bug! Bug! Bug!"

-- Simon

[Simon]

I was playing level contest #11 levels at Icho's today. And then we pondered questions for How are your friends, the Quizmaster game.

Simon: We should run "What is your biggest fear?". That Simon culls the release rate? That Simon culls the release rate from NeoLemmix?
Icho: How would you ever cull the release rate from NeoLemmix?
Simon: I will offer namida 1,000 euros.
Icho: That won't succeed. I will bid against that.

-- Simon

[Simon]

<SimonN> I was browsing monitors today, I want a single 34-inch or 38-inch, expensive but good. Lots of error consoles that will go next to each other
<Nepster> Hmm, not sure, if I could even make proper use of such a big screen. I fear such a screen will present more info to me than I can focus on resp. properly hold in my mind.
<SimonN> want want want
<SimonN> I haven't used large screens either yet
<SimonN> the internet decrees that programmers like the big screens, the peer pressure is enormous
<Nepster> Computer screens: The programmer's status symbol. :D
<SimonN> yes yes
<SimonN> it would be bigger than Icho's, he has a bigger than mine right now

It's going to be a single 34-inch 21:9.

<Nepster> And the longer I read this part of the code, the more bugs I find.
<Nepster> Fun fact: V1.48 can teleport lemmings into hatches, which then display the opening animation again :)

<Proxima> :)
<Nepster> Not :), but :(.
<Proxima> yeah, sorry
<Nepster> No problem :)

<mobius_> on hey, Nepster, can I store audio information in a png file?
<Nepster> Scan a music sheet and convert that to png.

-- Simon

[Simon]

Simon: I don't think the university will fund Jazz speedruns. It's too niche.
geoo: Ask whether they fund Sonic speedruns.

...where you can observe the echidna in its natural habitat: inside the wall, while it's zipping to the end of the level act.

Simon: You have played Zero Wing. Did you like it as much as Touhou?
Animiral: No, Touhou is far better.
Simon: Why? Touhou doesn't have exploding space stations.
Animiral: It has exploding anime girls. That's quite good, too.

-- Simon

[ccexplore]

<SimonN> the internet decrees that programmers like the big screens, the peer pressure is enormous

My impression is that multiple-monitor setups are not uncommon and quite useful for programmers, perhaps even more so than big screens (though that undoubtedly helps too and is probably cheaper, unless you go for broke and do both).  One common use case involves putting the UI of the program being debugged on one monitor, and the rest (source editor, debugger, etc.) on another.

[GigaLem]

Not exactly related but figured I post this because of the stream earlier

[Simon]

<IchoTolot> ok l2_medieval ready   send to nepster to double-check :P    now break time!
(Bot announces Icho's new post to the channel.)
<IchoTolot> wait why is this an IRC message
<IchoTolot> fuck I relied in topic instead of sending a pm XD

In voicechat, during multiplayer:
Raymanni: Oh my god. When I zoom out, it looks like an ant hive.

Image

-- Simon

[Proxima]

This isn't from IRC, but it was too hilarious not to share. I'm watching a Sonic Mania livestream, and my attention is on the game rather than the chat:

A: as I get progressively stoned I am able to pay attention to less stuff at the same time
A: mental multitasking
B: But the things you pay attention, you pay attention hardcore?
B: I usually have that when I'm stoned
B: Which I kinda am right now
Me: Wow, how many hits does this take?
B: this one I got right now is pretty damn potent so it took like three or four vaporizer hits, but this is kief so that's to be expected
Me: ...I meant the Act 1 boss

[Nessy]

* Yung_Gotenks slaps Nessy around a bit with a large fishbot
Yung_Gotenks: i have no idea why i just did that
Nessy: Didn't know you could do that. How did you do it?
Yung_Gotenks: just click on a users name on the right
Yung_Gotenks: and press slap
* Yung_Gotenks slaps Yung_Gotenks around a bit with a large fishbot
Nessy: Okay so...
* Nessy slaps Yung_Gotenks around a bit with a large fishbot
Yung_Gotenks: hehe
Nessy: Okay sorry I couldn't help it
* Yung_Gotenks slaps Nessy around a bit with a large fishbot
* Yung_Gotenks slaps Nessy around a bit with a large fishbot
* Yung_Gotenks slaps Nessy around a bit with a large fishbot
Yung_Gotenks: okay i'm sorry
Yung_Gotenks: that beeping noise probably gets old quick
Yung_Gotenks: lol
Nessy: *Nessy grabs the fishbot and starts cooking it.
mobius1: [police] okay break it up you two
mobius1: no fighting around here
* Yung_Gotenks slaps mobius1 around a bit with a large fishbot
mobius1: right! you're under arrest!
Yung_Gotenks: YOU"LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE COP!
Nessy: *Nessy backs away slowly and throws the fishbot back into the sea.



mobius1: this weird taste somehow reminds me of too much of exactly where milk comes from... that's the only way I can think of to describe it
mobius1: like a farm
mobius1: farms are smelly
Nessy: So the taste is "farmy"
mobius1: yes
SimonN: that's udder nonsense
Nessy: XD
mobius1: that one would make Arty proud
... ... ...
== Yung_Gotenks has joined #neolemmix
mobius1: for a moment I thought that was Arty coming on; as if he somehow heard the pun XD

[Colorful Arty]

mobius1: for a moment I thought that was Arty coming on; as if he somehow heard the pun XD

If I had one mundane super power, it would be this.

[mobius]

from discord during one of my L2 streams: see attachment

[GigaLem]

you will get context for this pretty soon

[SQron188]

SQron is credit to team

[Flopsy]

you will get context for this pretty soon

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Playlist for Jackbox Party Pack sessions