What's on your mind?

[kyonides]

Early this morning, while it was still dark and silent, I purchased the game entitled One Way Heroics. I did it mainly because it was cheap on Steam and did not look as a resource hog that could freeze my screen.

Man, I went to sleep only to notice that I could barely do so. Then I went to church. Later on I bought some delicious fried chicken and french fries. They were fine. This evening I was told that I shouldn't even get a snack because we had to wait till some delivery guy arrived with "something to eat." He brought some  empanadas arregladas.

Finally, I played One Way Heroics only to learn that I was supposed to move ight and keep doing so before the left border of the window could kill my character.

My pet knight tried twice to get some items and leave the scene only to fail miserably. I thought he could retain some items after choosing the same "dimension" as his playground. Nope, he couldn't mainly because he lacked enough points to waste on a single storage slot!

At the end I noticed that I truly had to watch Mango  die over and over again if I ever wanted to get some decent stats and some virtual chest... some day, just some day.

Well, guys, I simply told Steam to refund my money  after playing for just 18 minutes.

You can't undo other game developer's mi stakes or teach him or her how to make better choices next time.  I guess, a crappy game will always be crap, no matter what we do or how we would wait for the day they finally patch the game.

One Way Heroics' Score
      

[kyonides]

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

That's why  Cheesie James hates to be treated as a rat.
He is a mouse not a rat! He has some dignity!
Don't ever confuse him with a rat!
Sadly, Wulfo loves to call him a rat on purpose.
I guess CJ will have to eat all of his  ramen to make him learn the lesson.

[DerVVulfman]

Sadly, Wulfo loves to call him a rat on purpose.

Liar!  Liar!  Pants on Fire!

I do not call Cheesy a rat.  I mean, I have a copy of the first installment of "Cheesy James: The Rodent Annoyance" on my PC, wondering a follow-up to Chapter I will appear. 

So nope, this is an untruth.  My ramen is safe.

[kyonides]

Sadly, Wulfo loves to call him a rat on purpose.

Liar!  Liar!  Pants on Fire!

I do not call Cheesy a rat.  I mean, I have a copy of the first installment of "Cheesy James: The Rodent Annoyance" on my PC, wondering a follow-up to Chapter I will appear. 

So nope, this is an untruth.  My ramen is safe.

You know that Chapter 3 was published back in July, 2021, right?

[kyonides]

75 minutes of gameplay and this is all I could get from FF7...

As a side note, I may say that I also had a tamal with salsa Lizano, a traditional Costa Rican sauce derived from old versions of English sauces that could be found here back in the early days of the XX century IIRC.

[KasperKalamity]

Merry Christmas all!

If you remember me, and I remember everyone at least on this last page (holy crap you all need a life <3) The last 7 or so years I've been at this little local theatre doing acting and sketch comedy. Our theatre's yearly tradition is doing a live adaptation of the worst chirstmas movie ever made: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. It's like if Plan 9 From Outer Space were a christmas movie. maximum schlocktitude. 

The audio isn't great, and the kids are terrible, but if you're alone today, I want you to know that you matter. [click here]Here's something stupid to laugh at for an hour. [/click here]

[click here]Some of my standup from a sold out show at Chicago's Riddles Comedy Club[/click here]

[click here]An hour long show I did at Second City Chicago[/click here]

[click here]My favorite sketch show; Alcoholics Unanimous [/click here] You might recognize one of our cast members as a cowboy in Nope. He played the guy getting hung for stealing a horse. We did this show at a local brewery. I'm working on the editing from our newest live show; I Want a Sketchapotamus For Christmas
[/url]
[url=https://youtu.be/99FVMZcIV_I][click here]We also assembled a pilot season like if we were a real tv flickety box tv show [/click here]. It's 4 episodes cut together from some of our live shows, and a day of filming we did at a studio

[kyonides]

I've never understood why the priests had to yell "wololo!" all day long.

[Kain Nobel]

So I've spent 99.2% of my life cell phone free. However, I do think about them sometimes. About phone culture, life with a cellphone. Then I got to thinking...

Do they have an app for sending you alerts when somebody you know has been arrested, ticketed, in a car accident, hospitalized, etc?

I'm sure we all have troubled and at-risk people in our lives. Do they have a specialized app for that? Can it send personalized alerts for and from loved ones?

"John James was pulled over at 11:45PM at the intersection of 1st and Main St in Sometown, USA. John James is currently sitting in Sometown Adult Correction Facility, located at..."

"Mary Sue was involved in an accident at the corner of X and Y ST. Condition : Undetermined (Pending...)"

What about things like LifeAlert? "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!" Does LifeAlert send family a message if grandma has slipped?

[kyonides]

This is one of the things I've been thinking about as of late: the OGG container.

The Ogg Skeleton Metadata Bitstream

Ogg Skeleton provides structuring information for multitrack Ogg files. It is compatible with Ogg Theora and provides extra clues for synchronization and content negotiation such as language selection.

Ogg is a generic container format for time-continuous data streams, enabling interleaving of several tracks of frame-wise encoded content in a time-multiplexed manner. As an example, an Ogg physical bitstream could encapsulate several tracks of video encoded in Theora and multiple tracks of audio encoded in Speex or Vorbis or FLAC at the same time. A player that decodes such a bitstream could then, for example, play one video channel as the main video playback, alpha-blend another one on top of it (e.g. a caption track), play a main Vorbis audio together with several FLAC audio tracks simultaneously (e.g. as sound effects), and provide a choice of Speex channels (e.g. providing commentary in different languages). Such a file is generally possible to create with Ogg, it is however not possible to generically parse such a file, seek on it, understand what codecs are contained in such a file, and dynamically handle and play back such content.

It was only recently that I found out that OGG could also hold a FLAC codec.

By the way, I've also been busy with some request.  I'm not gonna provide any additional information on that specific topic.

[Kain Nobel]

I had no idea OGG could do all that.

One thing I can say about OGG is it handles seamless looping music very well. I stopped rendering looped music tracks as MP3s because there is always a noticeable hiccup in the end-to-beginning loop. Prior to setting the "Only Use OGG for Loops" rule, I had to make sure the music had a definitive "fade out" with a pause to breathe because I already knew the MP3 wasn't going to keep that seam sewn tight.

OGG sounds like an fascinating file type with a rabbit's hole of information and multimedia capabilities.

I learned something new today, thanks!