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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox and Valve finally have their baby

« on: July 12, 2014, 01:37:24 PM »

I thought PC games would die off as console games became the dominate market.

Fucking lol

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: July 11, 2014, 05:49:52 PM »

Making a game that detects other quest completion dynamically is labor intensive and making one quest require another is obnoxious from a gameplay perspective.

if quest1.complete:
    quest2.run()

Pretty sure game coders have been doing this for a few years. If not, the above is proprietary software and may not be duplicated, copied, shared, looked at or read out loud.

m8 you'd need a loop there somewhere, otherwise it wouldn't be dynamic, duh.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Scottish Independence

« on: July 11, 2014, 05:38:00 PM »

the pounds

So far, the UK's stance on that was a loud "AHAHAHAHA, NO.", so I doubt they'll get that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10731657/Talk-of-independent-Scotland-keeping-the-pound-is-nonsense-and-totally-wrong.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26166794

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Scottish Independence

« on: July 09, 2014, 02:08:47 PM »

I hope Scotland secedes and joins the EU properly.

Well, that wouldn't happen for quite a while. You see, Scotland would first have to build an economy that at least matches that of Romania.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Scottish Independence

« on: July 08, 2014, 09:30:11 PM »

The Yes campaign has people who are good at entertaining others. The No campaign has people who understand how economics works.

You decide!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Scottish Independence

« on: July 08, 2014, 02:01:29 PM »

But that would be dumb.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 08:44:37 PM »

Done (I think)

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 08:30:32 PM »

Pizzaplanet or Parsifal:

So far on my end everything is looking great except for one thing. It seems that embedded YouTube videos do not display properly when viewed on Tapatalk. It doesn't even leave a url there instead of the embedded video. It leaves a "#".

I wonder if this is something that needs to be fixed on your end because other forums do have clickable thumbnails with embedded YouTube videos that open the the video in the YouTube app.

Blegh. I can see why that happens. Our YouTube embedding plugin simply, well, embeds the video. If Tapatalk doesn't support Flash, things will break.

As predicted, some of our modifications to SMF will break. YouTube embedding is not standard functionality, so it's broken. This looks like an easy enough fix, so I'll do it, but please keep in mind that we made it clear we will not provide support for Tapatalk.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 05:02:40 PM »

One thing I noticed is that the username is case-sensitive, which it wouldn't be in the web interface (my phone wanted to log me in as Pizaaplanet, which would always throw an "incorrect password" error, but pizaaplanet and the same password worked just fine).

Also, bear in mind that some keyboard applications will add a space after any word you write, so make sure you're logging in as "Supertails" and not "supertails" or "Supertails ".

There might be more to it. Like I said, this app is pretty buggy - we think we fixed most problems, but it's very possible that we missed something. Try fiddling around with capitalisation and such and let me know if that does anything for you.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 11:26:37 AM »

Well, obviously that's not your fault. I played around with the app a bit, and while it doesn't feel like my thing, I can see how it could be really useful to some. Even if we get a better mobile interface in the future, this is nice to have.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 11:20:28 AM »

Well there you have it. It works. Thanks!

Yes, but I'm honestly not surprised the old site didn't bother. The amount of bugs we needed to fix to get it to the "it works!" state was just silly.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 10:50:02 AM »

Okay, this seems to work now. That is to say I tried logging in, it didn't work, we fixed it and now it works.

EDIT: Some minor bugs remain (you wouldn't believe it, this code is even worse than SMF itself), but it generally works. The minor bugs may or may not be fixed.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Shadow Object and empyrical demonstration against total eclypses.

« on: July 06, 2014, 09:56:15 AM »

the Shadow Object passes between the sun and the earth, which is impossible unless the shadow object has a orbyt perpendicular to the sun's plane of movement and perpendicular to the earth surface

Incorrect.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 09:47:45 AM »

Right, this thing just sent spam to all our members' e-mails without asking for permission (which hopefully won't happen again. Apologies to everyone affected). It also wanted to insert its own ads into our forum.

Rottingroom, I'm gonna be honest, the longer I'm using this, the more frustrated I get. If Tapatalk continues to be as painfully disappointing as it is right now, I imagine we'll be reverting this very soon and instead focusing on our own mobile version of the site.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 09:26:51 AM »

Account created, API linked to our forum. I'm downloading the Android SDK to see if it works (as I currently don't have an Android device at hand)

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 09:18:01 AM »

This is now installed. I don't know if adding FES to the Tapatalk network is mandatory for using Tapatalk with it, but it requires me to create an account to do that. rottingroom, please feel free to do so on our behalf.

I'll do that. Probably best if the admins have control of this stuff.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Cultural appropriation

« on: July 05, 2014, 10:18:11 PM »

It was me, actually.  I invented squids.

You are nothing but a pretender.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 05, 2014, 08:46:26 AM »

That said, if you're of the opinion that we should stick to the most prohibitive of the licences they provide, it appears that most of the code is isolated in its own files, so we could probably use it without redistributing it.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 05, 2014, 08:32:33 AM »

Parsifal, you appear to be wrong (although I don't blame you - they have multiple conflicting licences throughout the site)

https://github.com/tapatalk/tapatalk-smf2

License
Tapatalk API for SMF 2 is free and open source software released under the BSD License. (http://www.simplemachines.org/about/smf/license.php)
This software includes a modified version of the SMF 2 open source library available at http://download.simplemachines.org/. These modifications were made by Tapatalk as of May 30, 2014.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Moon and empyrical demonstration against FE.

« on: July 04, 2014, 09:26:23 AM »

The Rules prevent me from exposing the praise you've received on other forums in detail

Please refrain from lying - even if it's not against The Rules™, that's just poor form!

To clarify: If you want to praise someone, or "expose praise they've received", you're more than welcome to (so long as it doesn't reveal personal information without the target's consent). Just do so in an appropriate board.