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[Nathaniel3W]

I really need to upgrade my PC. This workhorse is almost 9 years old now. I've upgraded the GPU, maxed out the RAM, and added hard drives over the years to keep up with my needs. But it's time to start over. I can't imagine a PC starting Windows 10 in a single second. Maybe once my game sells a million copies I'll fly back to America where I can get parts reliably, build a PC, then bring it back with me.

 

[coyotecraft]

The weeks are just flying by. If I had my head in a book or game, that would be normal. But I don't know where the time went.

 

[Fayte]

I bought my first car yesterday.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

I bought my first car yesterday.

Congrats. Used car, I hope? It's too late now, but don't ever buy a new car, unless you're a multimillionaire and you don't care about money any more. Nothing depreciates faster than a new car. Except maybe Zim dollars.

 

[Ellie]

I have a VW Up!. Great little motor.

 

[Mega Flare]

I bought my first car yesterday.

What you get? I just recently bought my second car after my old malbiu got written off.

 

[coyotecraft]

I ache. At least I get to sleep in my bed tonight.

 

[LaDestitute]

Surprise, I'm not dead.

 

[Fayte]

I bought my first car yesterday.

What you get? I just recently bought my second car after my old malbiu got written off.

2016 Kia Optima. Her name is Betelgeuse :grin:

 

[Nathaniel3W]

Congrats on not being dead, LaDestitute. I spent most of yesterday being only mostly dead.

 

[LaDestitute]

Getting myself out of a dev slump for almost a year feels good man.

 

[Fayte]

I bought my first car yesterday.

Congrats. Used car, I hope? It's too late now, but don't ever buy a new car, unless you're a multimillionaire and you don't care about money any more. Nothing depreciates faster than a new car. Except maybe Zim dollars.

Just now seeing this. Thanks! Yeah it’s used I will never, ever buy a new car. I care too much about my money and the thought of a car being worth less than what I bought it for as soon as I buy it angers me. I still paid a pretty little penny ($14k) but she only had 17k miles on her and the Kia warranty is pretty damn good so I’m gonna have her a while.

 

[Ellie]

I'm not dead either if anyone cares

 

[Ellie]

I'm gonna move to Scotland. Somehow;

 

[Dr. Funk]

:smoke: :cheers: :fap:

 

[Ellie]

It m gonna open a gift/clothing shop. Somehow.

 

[Fayte]

I bought the final fantasy 8 remaster and named the MC Zidane.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

Funny. And now I realize that someone somewhere has a party of characters named Cloud, Squall, Zidane, Tidus, and Vaan.

In other news, my wife recently got her graduate certificate in translation and she had mentioned wanting a website. She had one of those free hosted simple website dealies. I figured I could do a lot better than that. I already have a server running for my own website, and it wouldn't cost me anything extra (besides domain name registration) to run two websites on the same server. It ended up being a little more complicated than I was expecting, as I took one step and realized it was still broken, then took another step, and realized it was still broken... I registered the domain name and pointed its A record at an html file in an Amazon bucket (which basically just lets people access files online, and you can host a simple website in it), then I had to move my own website into a different directory before setting up her website (and making a new database for it), and then I edited my Apache configuration file to handle both the virtual host and the https rewrites for both sites, and then I added her site to my Certbot certificate, and eventually I made her a snazzy email @ her new domain and made a basic landing page. (GoDaddy's custom email is highway robbery, by the way. Anyone hosting a website can install SMTP on the same server. And anyone who values time can just pay Amazon $3 for the email address and a web interface.)

No single step was very difficult, but it just took a while to get everything set up. And now that I know what I'm doing, I'm sure I could do it a lot faster. And it's not like being a webmaster has ever been an ambition of mine, but I wonder how many people out there would pay me to set this stuff up for them.

 

[Byron]

Explaining version control to my team again.
Going to be making some videos on it tomorrow morning and would appreciate if y'all who know VC could chuck some comments in about it.

I'll be explaining to artists, animators, designers and writers so they won't be in depth about merge errors and much about reverts. I'll be explaining how to Fork, clone, push, pull and create pull requests.

 

[Xilef]

I've recently started the practise of using in-editor version control extensions - everything my company does is Git (and I specifically force my clients to use Git).
If your target audience uses Unity engine then mention GitHub for Unity (it works for any Git project, not just GitHub - I use it with Bitbucket's Git): https://unity.github.com/
Basically right there in the editor you can select your changes and push them to your repository, don't need to open the command line at all.

I think my reason to start using in-editor Git extensions is to sort of force myself to actually use branches to implement features in a way that won't break the rest of the project. I remember ages ago when I made the Swansea City AFC Android app I used branches for features and everything was more modular by nature and bugs could be identified on branches and fixed on branches. Every-time the branches were merged together it was because I was packaging it up for a product demo/test/release phase, so it ended up giving me a convenient mark to name what I had as "version 1.blah.blah alpha.beta.blah" or whatever. Previously it was "eh, it's a big enough change to warrant up'ing the version number, so I'll do that".