Yes, too slow. Development time in C is at least twice as long as the equivalent C++ program, or even more.

I feel like I'm a broken record, but that's one of my favorite things about D. It's designed around making you productive but with the C/C++ oldschool mentality of "you only pay for what you use." (*It's not a perfect language.) I genuinely enjoy writing code for my games in D, whereas C++ is boilerplate hell. The most basic templates in C++ are confusing enough to make tons of C++ programmers never use them at all.

I like C# for "getting work done" as well, but it's not necessarily tuned for games. Though, Unity uses it for scripts, IIRC.

I think that C++ and D should support both templates and "generics" (i.e., dynamic/vtable lookups). You should get to decide whether or not you want the code to execute fast, at the expense of ballooning the executable size, or if you would rather share a single instance of the code that operates on vtables or similar more like generics in modern languages. In general, I don't think people really want hundreds of instances of the code to be expanded in the executable. They want to write the code one, and reuse it, and it's not necessary for it to be so bleeding fast that it can't spare a few extra indirections. Sure, when it's worth paying for that then it should be an attribute or something to unlock it, but I think the default behavior should just be shared code.

It seems cannabis use is sort of vulnerable to how you feel. If you're anxious or worried about something it can send you on a bad trip. It seems wise to always "set the mood" so you can sort of control the kind of trip you're on. I haven't quite hit it as hard as the first time since the first time, but I think I've come close, and I haven't had any more bad trips so far. Instead I've been trying to practice just keeping a comfortable high. I think my first time I was just afraid of what it would do to me. I was sort of in a safe place. My wife used to smoke a bit before she met me, and I was home with her. I figured I'd have her support. Instead, she pretty much left me to my own devices, and had no pity at all when I was tripping balls. She said I was pretty funny at times (while tripping balls). In hindsight, I kind of enjoy the memory of the terror. Which is weird. But since I haven't lost control like that since I might also be forgetting just how terrifying it was.

When you used cannabis from other markets did you know what it was called or what its concentrations were? I'm curious because you say you don't really like the government strains so I wonder if you have recommendations from the government website for products that you would steer towards. So far I've tried 2, and I have a third to try, but it's a powerful Sativa so I'm not quite sure when the appropriate time to try it is.. I'm still a pretty big drinker and my instinct is still to drink instead of smoke. I try to avoid combining the two. I did finally "cross-fade" last week. After a weeknight of drinking I stepped outside into the cold after 3 AM to smoke before going to sleep. Fortunately, I didn't "green out" or have a bad experience. It felt pretty organic: drunk and high. Unfortunately, I got a bad chest infection for my trouble. I'm not sure if it was because I was smoking the other half of a pre-burned joint, or if it was the cold air, or if my system was just weak from the alcohol, or what. In any case, the infection sucked, but I think I'm nearly over it now. I'm just afraid to smoke in the cold again though.

I rather enjoy being high, but even though in the moment I find it usually is "enough" and I don't feel the urge to be drunk, I often make the decision before I start smoking to drink instead. That makes it kind of hard to find a time to smoke instead..

Pleasurable day of gluttony to you all.

Happy Turkey Day my American friends!

Smoking anything increases your risk of lung infections. I wouldn't be surprised if there's data that shows burning incense does. Your lungs become more vulnerable with any particulate. Eventually it just becomes a way of life for most smokers

I definitely didn't know what the concentrations were to any exact science They have all kinds of names... but I don't know how the names actually get from seed or sapling to the mouth of the seller and sometimes he would just make them up on the spot, heh. The big difference is that I like stuff grown in the sun from the ground.

I personally prefer lower potency outdoor grown over the high potency hydroponic stuff. When I went over the OCS options when they first launched I noticed almost all of them were high THC with no CBD, but it looks like I either missed some or they've added new ones. This "Kiwi Cannabis Mango Haze" is something I would rather do myself. It still has some THC which creates those thought bending effects, but the higher CBD will make the experience more relaxing. This is something you could take after work that would be more akin to a couple beers rather as opposed to half a square of acid.

I thought this was pretty cool:

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He's a follower of Yendor. You can make 15 bone shards from... bones. Eldritch myrrh is unreasonably expensive because the incense you make from it provides a flat additive 50% accuracy bonus for you (...and opponents). The idea is you come back to the island and buy it when you have a better source of bone shards.

It works nicely, I think.

Still on track to have a demo done by January assuming no major problems. Assuming optimizations don't take up a lot of time. (There's performance problems in high-pop areas and when clicking on the game world).

edit: why does it squish my gif

I think the squish issue here is something like taking a 16:9 image and displaying it as a 1:1 image. The image is not displayed as wide as it should be.

The gif is 640x480, but the forums are displaying it as 378x421 for whatever insane reason.

Does that mean that most smokers are constantly struggling with respiratory issues? I can't imagine suffering all of the time, and the effects of marijuana being worth it. I kind of like it when I get the right amount of high, but it wouldn't be worth it if every time I did it I got sick.

I find this kind of curious. Being that I have experienced pleasant highs and unpleasant highs I cannot at this time conclude that marijuana is awesome. Whereas I can drink alcohol every day, always in control of how drunk I am, it seems with marijuana it's more difficult to do that. Unless maybe the black market weed is normally the balanced type with high levels of CBD. For a non-smoker to look at OCS it looks like the high THC zero CBD strains are the "normal" ones. Does that seem like some kind of conspiracy or something? As if to steer people towards bad experiences so they won't take to it? I don't know.

Last night I tried a strain for the first time. It was my first Sativa strain. And it was high in THC content sort of like the first strain that I tried. I figured Friday night, bring it on. I tried to go easy. I just did it with a tiny glass one-hitter. Just one load. Maybe got about 4 or 5 good hits from it. And it got me fucked up. Uncomfortably so. In a hurry. I was operating on little sleep (maybe 5 hours or so the night before) so that probably didn't help, but I passed out in my computer chair around like 8 PM. It was worse than alcohol. Apparently my wife got a picture of it and posted it on social media. I had no idea. This wasn't as bad as my first time getting too high because I was more calm, listened to music to help control the mood, etc. It just wasn't what I expected. So far I'd say being drunk is way better than being high. So either I'm doing something wrong or it's just not for me.

Maybe I need to steer more towards the balanced strains though. I kind of look at the options in the store like I would look at alcohol: more bang for your buck means higher potency! Though I normally drink beer instead of whiskey precisely because if I drink whiskey I'll overdue it (but also whiskey is more expensive). The balanced herb that I've tried was kind of nice. I only got the slightest high from it though so I think I need to try to hit that one hard and see if I reach a pleasant high/calm/relaxation like everybody talks about. I couldn't even really feel it when I smoked that one.

I find it really interesting that the high THC options don't seem to appeal to existing cannabis users. I guess I just assumed those were the ones that people built up to. Interestingly, they're so cheap by comparison. But it's definitely difficult to manage the effects...

I should note that I've never really been a "couple beers after work" kind of guy. I started out around 5 or 6, and worked my way up to 8 or 9. But being drunk is nothing like being high. High is much worse. I can function very effectively when I'm drunk. I need to be very shitfaced before I start to be unable to function. Whereas with marijuana I can become non-functional in a few tokes...

If we're posting progress on our projects, here's mine :

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I now have a fully functional ball intercept routine that handles finding intercept times of moving, accelerating circles. All thanks to the quartic solver written by Iowa Hills which you can find here :

http://iowahills.com/P51RootFinder.html

This means you can model gravity with no cost whatsoever! You only have to recalculate intercept times when you have a collision or the acceleration or momentum changes. This leads to very efficient collision detection.

I'm writing a series of articles on the wiki which you can find here :

https://github.com/liballeg/allegro_wiki/wiki/Collision-Detection

They are still preliminary, but I'm filling them in as I go. I plan to cover overlap checks and intercept calculations for lines, circles, triangles, and convex polygons. I want this to be a comprehensive guide to poor man's collision detection.

Green arrow is velocity vector. Purple arrows are acceleration vectors. Cyan path is the trajectory of the ball. Yellow circles are collisions, except for the one on the left.

It's really simple.

Px0 = c2->x - c1->x;
Py0 = c2->y - c1->y;
Vx0 = c2->vx - c1->vx;
Vy0 = c2->vy - c1->vy;
Ax0 = c2->ax - c1->ax;
Ay0 = c2->ay - c1->ay;

Px(t) = Px0 + Vx0*t + (Ax0/2)*t^2
Py(t) = Py0 + Vy0*t + (Ay0/2)*t^2

P(t) = P0 + V0*t + (A0/2)*t^2

|P(t)| = Px(t)^2 + Py(t)^2 = (r1 + r2)^2

I'll spare you the quartic here, but suffice it to say when you multiply out Px and Py times themselves, you get terms that add together and are really intuitive.

Oh, bother, I'll share anyway :

The full quartic equation for two intercepting circles is as follows :

t^4(Ax^2 + Ay^2) + 
t^3(VxAx + VyAy) + 
t^2(Vx^2 + Vy^2 + PxAx + PyAy) + 
t^1(2(PxVx + PyVy)) + 
t^0(Px^2 + Py^2 - (r1 + r2)^2
---------------------------------
= 0

Which as you can see, are the squared magnitudes and the dot products of the various components. Pretty cool, huh?

Just plug those values into a quartic solver, and off you go. The first non-negative real root is the time of collision.

I want IRC logs.

Built a new system, and here are some 3D Mark results to compare where I'm coming from, and where I'm going to.

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