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Zimm108 said:
So dudes were confused why the string they were getting always returned 0 instead of what it should actually be getting?

And if so, these people are actually employed with real paying jobs by their willing employers that aren't just trying to meet state requirements?
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I was the one confused why it was always empty. The stack code is supplied by them and we just get a binary so I treat it as a black box. I did not know I had access to that function they pointed me to until they told me. When telling me about it they assured me it was tested and works fine, but wanted me to add prints in to see if it was being thrown away due to formatting. Anyone can see why it is being thrown away looking at that.

If I told you who it was this code was supplied by you would be shocked.

 
kilik64 said:
UC4 comes out on 3/18, a friday.

Just so happens thats the weekend of The Tournament.

Guess ill pick it up that following monday, no way i'll play it any that weekend. I usually take off work the first 2 days and watch basketball all day long both days. Guess I could play it some before the games start, usually first tip off is like 10 or 11 am.
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Glad I don't care about "The Tournament". I can start right in with UC4.

 
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Thermopyle said:
Uh...the article you linked said it was Depression Quest at fault, not Gone Home. Maybe I'm missing something but I can't tell from the article what Gone Home had to do with Gamergate at all. The wiki entry for Gamergate also barely mentions Gone Home; it only brings it up as another indie game that did well with critics.
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What article did you read?


But the very qualities that made Gone Home such a hit—its lack of traditional gameplay and dedication to telling a story, not to mention its arty, somewhat emo vibe—made it a flashpoint for hardcore gamers angry at anything that challenged the primacy of big game studios and gun games. It was part of a phenomenon that eventually came to be known as GamerGate (see "GamerGate Revisited," below).




Specifically, gamers pointed to a review by gaming site Polygon that gaveGone Home a rare perfect score of 10. "If all goes well," declared the accompanying article on the website, "this title will put The Fullbright Company, and the Portland game scene, on the map."




 
GatorBeerGeek said:
You know how I said something recently about our vendor being a bunch of fucking idiots?

Example A:

getString(string_to_get)

{

do stuff to get value and put it in string_to_get

memset string_to_get to 0

}

Example B:

They also wrote the code that calls this. I was debugging in that function and told them the string was always empty. They tell me about this function and how "It could be getting lost in there if not formatted properly. We have tested that function and it works if the input is correct."

Pretty sure no matter how it is formatted it would get lost you useless assholes.
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Well unless you always wanted 0 returned. It would work fine for that.

 
GatorBeerGeek said:
I was the one confused why it was always empty. The stack code is supplied by them and we just get a binary so I treat it as a black box. I did not know I had access to that function they pointed me to until they told me. When telling me about it they assured me it was tested and works fine, but wanted me to add prints in to see if it was being thrown away due to formatting. Anyone can see why it is being thrown away looking at that.

If I told you who it was this code was supplied by you would be shocked.
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Microsoft?

Oh wait you said I would be shocked.

 
so as not to fall asleep at my desk I'm chatting with Mary Grace at amazon to see if I can get more information about the 15% preorder discount applying to my preorders for uc4 and kh3.

 
GatorBeerGeek said:
You know how I said something recently about our vendor being a bunch of fucking idiots?

Example A:

getString(string_to_get)

{

do stuff to get value and put it in string_to_get

memset string_to_get to 0

}

Example B:

They also wrote the code that calls this. I was debugging in that function and told them the string was always empty. They tell me about this function and how "It could be getting lost in there if not formatted properly. We have tested that function and it works if the input is correct."

Pretty sure no matter how it is formatted it would get lost you useless assholes.
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How am I the only one that doesnt know what this means?

Full disclosure, I sort of know what that string thing is since my tech guys have a lot of code like that but every time they start talking about these things I go to my happy place and ignore whatever gibberish they are spewing.

Holy run on sentence Batman!

 
And of course we just got a full page email explaining how to "keep a safe work environment during the holidays". 

First bullet:  Use of fire is prohibited. (something like that anyway)

 
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pharmacrest said:
How am I the only one that doesnt know what this means?

Full disclosure, I sort of know what that string thing is since my tech guys have a lot of code like that but every time they start talking about these things I go to my happy place and ignore whatever gibberish they are spewing.

Holy run on sentence Batman!
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you're not missing anything. stay in your happy place. he's basically saying that Calista Flockhart is an idiot and we already knew that.

 
eldergamer said:
What article did you read?



But the very qualities that made Gone Home such a hit—its lack of traditional gameplay and dedication to telling a story, not to mention its arty, somewhat emo vibe—made it a flashpoint for hardcore gamers angry at anything that challenged the primacy of big game studios and gun games. It was part of a phenomenon that eventually came to be known as GamerGate (see "GamerGate Revisited," below).




Specifically, gamers pointed to a review by gaming site Polygon that gaveGone Home a rare perfect score of 10. "If all goes well," declared the accompanying article on the website, "this title will put The Fullbright Company, and the Portland game scene, on the map."
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Your post linking the article said it's Gone Home at fault. The article says that outright that Depression Quest was at fault. What you quoted above is a just veeery tentative link because Gone Home was a well-reviewed indie game. After talking for ages about Gone Home, you get to Gamergate, where the article says this:

The word for the scandal was coined from a Twitter hashtag created in August 2014 by actor and professional angry man Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Chuck) after a guy named Eron Gjoni blogged about his ex-girlfriend, celebrated indie game maker Zoe Quinn, accusing her of cheating on him. Specifically, he wrote posts that led people to believe that she slept with a reviewer at gamer blog Kotaku, in return for a good review of her interactive story game Depression Quest.
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It's basically "Now that we've talked about Gone Home, here's Depression Quest, the indie game that caused Gamergate!" The link is only the thought process that if Depression Quest got good reviews because the maker slept around then perhaps other games such as Gone Home had a similar advantage. The article doesn't even state that outright, though, so the whole thing is just a jumbled mess.

I'm not saying that Gone Home wasn't linked to Gamergate, but the article was absolute trash and did nothing to show such a link. It rambled on for a really long time about Portland and the game and all kinds of nonsense not connected to the scandal at all. It barely touched upon the question of whether the Polygon review was biased and then goes on to the Depression Quest stuff without really showing a link between the the Gone Home reaction and the Depression Quest reaction. The article is just very poorly written.

The wiki entry is really a lot better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy

 
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jimbo8574 said:
It was a joke.
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Its sometimes hard to tell when your joking based on your facial expressions.

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I have been pretty busy today since it is my first day back to work after a week off.  And I need to do year end reviews before the end of next week.  ugh.

fuck work.

 
I didn't play the Vita Hot Shots Golf much. It's OK. I guess I might fire it up again some day, but probably fishing in the water hazards would be more fun.

 
Bombing Busters is on the store now. $6.99 and PSV/PS3 cross-buy.

The game description is interesting:

• Over 10 minutes of caustic comments from Dr. Wallow, voiced by David Goldfarb.

• 7 famous pieces of classical music electronically butchered by Samuel Safa.
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I've never heard of those guys. Am I uncultured? I feel uncultured.

Also what the hell is up with things randomly being added to the store now? Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, now Mondays for new games to show up.

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Thermopyle said:
Bombing Busters is on the store now. $6.99 and PSV/PS3 cross-buy.

The game description is interesting:

I've never heard of those guys. Am I uncultured? I feel uncultured.

Also what the hell is up with things randomly being added to the store now? Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, now Mondays for new games to show up.
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Pretty sure this came out on PS4 back in September or something. Just the Vita part came out today.

EDIT: Yeah store says PS4 came out Sept. 15.

 
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Are there any similar stories of dead PS4s out of the box?  I imagine every console has issues with lemons just like cars.  Luckily I have never had a console break on me.  Ever.

I am doomed.

 
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