Jay

Any deathmatch players here?

I played Doom 4’s multiplayer for a while, but the lack of F4A, the amateurish new platform (loadouts, seriously?), and rampant cheating have pushed me away.

I started playing the Unreal Tournament 4 alpha instead, and while the menu system isn’t polished at all, the in-game action is the real deal. Fast-paced, great maps, lots of fun — and free because it’s community-developed 😃

https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/

I took delivery of a GTX 1080 today and look forward to putting it through its paces this weekend.

https://theawl.com/heres-why-millennials-don-t-have-sex-4b5dcda575d4#.3jdyuid9y

Say what you will about millennials — they’re trophy-hungry automatons whose valorization of their own self-esteem impedes their ability to develop interesting personalities and their comically earnest and perpetually irritating self-righteousness only serves to underline just how naive their understanding of the way power dynamics really work in societal structures is, plus you can never tear them away from the phones they keep close to themselves as if they were the only source of non-parental affection they’ve found in this world, which according to the Post is in fact the case — but they’re not stupid.

At least the author managed to work a compliment in there.

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Jay said:

Tyrphanax said:

yhwx said:

Why?

Because Apple sucks.

Quite a few developers and IT people would disagree with your assessment 😃 Most of the best software you see these days — not just the best native apps, but web sites — is built using Apple hardware. There are reasons why Microsoft has been racing to make its core products, like .NET and SQL Server, cross-platform, while adding bash and other Unix-y things to their own stack. If you’d suggested MS would be porting SQL Server to run on Linux even 5 years ago, you would’ve been laughed out of the room.

At my company, you only get Windows hardware if you request it, and then all your team members hate you because getting everything up and running on your machine is a chore.

Don’t get me wrong. Windows 10 is a good OS and I use it on my gaming rig, because as great as Macs are, they’re still pointless for real gaming. But I still think the best Windows laptop is a MacBook Pro running Bootcamp 😉

My new favorite editor is VS Code, btw.

I might be wrong but I believe Tyr’s comment was more anti-yhwx than anti-Apple.

Pretty much.

I couldn’t let it go unchallenged, even if it meant defending yhwx.

Jeebus said:

Dek Rollins said:

If emoticons are good, emojis are fine too. They convey the exact same thing; they just look different.

That’s the problem though. They look different. Emoticons blend in perfectly with a line of text. Emojis don’t. Their disgusting contorted yellow faces steal your attention away from the text. Non-colored Emojis (like this site has) are a little better, but I still don’t like 'em.

We don’t have any emoji. Our Markdown engine converts emoticons into the matching Unicode character and your OS displays whatever it uses for that character, but if you paste actual emoji into your post, we store that.

Tyrphanax said:

yhwx said:

Why?

Because Apple sucks.

Quite a few developers and IT people would disagree with your assessment 😃 Most of the best software you see these days — not just the best native apps, but web sites — is built using Apple hardware. There are reasons why Microsoft has been racing to make its core products, like .NET and SQL Server, cross-platform, while adding bash and other Unix-y things to their own stack. If you’d suggested MS would be porting SQL Server to run on Linux even 5 years ago, you would’ve been laughed out of the room.

At my company, you only get Windows hardware if you request it, and then all your team members hate you because getting everything up and running on your machine is a chore.

Don’t get me wrong. Windows 10 is a good OS and I use it on my gaming rig, because as great as Macs are, they’re still pointless for real gaming. But I still think the best Windows laptop is a MacBook Pro running Bootcamp 😉

My new favorite editor is VS Code, btw.

TV’s Frink said:

Jay said:

TV’s Frink said:

JEDIT: Look at the top of this page. Apparently banned members get a modified avatar now. Neat!

I pushed that out too soon. It’s broken on anything larger than mobile 😕

I don’t care about that; what’s your position on Millennials?

I try not to spend enough time around them to formulate an opinion.

TV’s Frink said:

JEDIT: Look at the top of this page. Apparently banned members get a modified avatar now. Neat!

I pushed that out too soon. It’s broken on anything larger than mobile 😕

yhwx said:

I find the choice of font for the h1 and h2 content to be ametureish. It just doesn’t look good to my eye. It’s also a bit hard to read because of it’s ultra compressed weight. Please fix it. Thanks.

Subjective opinion. I might change it, I might not. Enjoy.

P.S. - Worst butchering of “amateurish” I’ve ever seen.

Spaced Ranger said:

As long as just closing the new-tab page, or using the back-button on the parent-page, doesn’t cause the any information to linger, or even update, then that’s fine.

Nothing is saved if you don’t hit “submit”.

TV’s Frink said:

Jay, can you fix the lack of a physical back button on my Ipad? I really hate that.

Sure, I’ll PM you my mailing address and I’ll get to work on it as soon as it arrives. Turnaround time is roughly 2 to 12 months.

There was a cancel button on pretty much every form until about 2 days ago when I removed it. The back button used to be a non-starter in the early days of the web and that made cancel buttons a common pattern, but users have warmed up to the back button today (and swiping right to go back is pretty much second nature on touch devices).

Plus, if you use the back button, you go back exactly where you were in the previous page, even if you’d scrolled down a bit. When you hit a cancel button, you’re not going back. You’re actually going forward because you’re reloading the previous page, which causes you to lose your place. I could map the cancel button to the back button using JavaScript, but that would be redundant.

Eventually, these edit forms will be inline anyway.

Cool, thanks for your feedback. Tweaks will be ongoing. The column does close things in, but I haven’t decided if it’s in a good way or a bad way.

digitalfreaknyc said:

God, this site absolutely sucks now. How did this ever go live?!? Wake me when it isn’t a BIG jumbled mess.

Wakey wakey.

This was implemented with the October redesign, FYI.

Fixed.

I bumped up the default font size just a bit (to 14px). I might bump it up another pixel or two, which would put the font size at what it was previously.

For comparison’s sake:

http://web.archive.org/web/20160314090816/http://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/Status-of-the-first-forum-update/id/47378
http://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/Status-of-the-first-forum-update/id/47378/page/1

I doubt I’ll make the main container any wider. The only effect that will have is to make lines of text longer and less comfortable to read, and only for the sake of filling up a large display (the same argument made for open matte and cropped scope film transfers, which is no argument at all). We’re already many more characters per line than most typographers would recommend and I’m fighting the urge to tighten it up:

http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability

I might remove the dark background resulting in the sidebars, which would give the impression that the page is wider. It might be the bounding box that makes things feel squished.

It’s largely a useless statistic. Every page hit counts as a view, including lurkers (which includes search engine traffic). It doesn’t take long for the numbers to get inflated.

I think the number of subscribers is far more useful and interesting, so I might add that.

Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve fixed it in my local build and will post the update today or tomorrow.

Thanks for the compliments.

The other text in the circle is the post count. Don’t know why it’s visible in older versions of Opera, but it won’t be fixed (except by accident, who knows).

View count isn’t tracked and isn’t coming back.

Tyrphanax said:

Sorry, I broke the image link. It’s fixed now, but it looks basically like Jeebus posted.

As to what to fill it with, that’s why I mentioned responsive design. Make the content flow out to fit larger displays better. Have fonts and divs get larger and whatnot. That kinda thing.

I really like this new design, though. Lots of improvements over the previous!

Thanks for the compliments.

It is a responsive design…and it’s actually the same width it was before the update 😃

The overall size of elements is smaller based on previous feedback that everything was too big. I might tweak some of the font sizes though.

What would you like to fill it with?

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Your ban is permanent now, obviously.

New user registration has been temporarily suspended.

http://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/New-user-registration-has-been-temporarily-suspended/id/50980

Everyone stop or the temp bans will keep rolling.

Temp ban for image-only posts outside Off Topic.

Donner Cut. Watching Zod spray the White House with an automatic rifle while having a big, shit-eating grin on his face is priceless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT47ny2-zZk

I think I tracked down the problem (out of disk space, which explains the errors some of you were getting). Bumped that up, hopefully that solves the problem.