2013-02-24T01:43:29 *** antimatroidl has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T02:00:42 *** mleise1 has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving.) 2013-02-24T02:01:12 *** mleise has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T02:03:24 *** janzert has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving.) 2013-02-24T02:03:46 *** mleise has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T02:05:09 *** janzert has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T05:01:31 *** mcstar has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T05:12:57 *** kilae has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T05:19:17 *** sevikkk has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) 2013-02-24T05:21:01 *** epicmonkey has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T05:45:54 *** thestinger has quit IRC (Quit: sleep) 2013-02-24T05:45:55 *** foRei has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T05:47:03 mleise: aliens: colonial marines is out 2013-02-24T05:47:31 im reading a review, they say it's quite bad 2013-02-24T05:54:39 you knew you would get me with that, right? good morning. 2013-02-24T05:55:07 good noon 2013-02-24T05:55:37 good thing, is that i am not spoiled by today's computer games at all 2013-02-24T05:55:46 so i can still enjoy it when/if i will 2013-02-24T05:58:11 *** iglo has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T05:58:30 they have a nice cinematic trailer there with chilling music 2013-02-24T05:59:05 link? 2013-02-24T05:59:15 but through the video you wonder why they thought it was a good idea. 2013-02-24T06:00:24 i mean its like a drug trip and the marines are like "oh we've got ten aliens around us. ah right, got to ready my gun. uh... man im so stoned. what next.. aim? yeah right and fire" 2013-02-24T06:00:36 http://www.pcgames.de/Aliens-Colonial-Marines-PC-212549/News/Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Extended-Cut-des-Contact-Trailers-erschienen-1054365/ 2013-02-24T06:01:08 "extended cut of the contact trailer" 2013-02-24T06:01:34 lol 2013-02-24T06:01:45 aliens: stoned marines 2013-02-24T06:04:51 hehe 2013-02-24T06:05:56 It looks alright. Nothing too innovative when you've seen other recent team play games and the 2010 AvP. 2013-02-24T06:07:41 I just heard in a commentary that the A.I. soldiers are invincible, there is no friendly fire and they seem to know they cannot die and run right in front of guns. 2013-02-24T06:10:10 i am not amazed by the trailer either 2013-02-24T06:11:07 mleise: they should have consulted with xathis for ai tips and tricks 2013-02-24T06:11:32 oh yeah. outsourcing the ai department to xathis 2013-02-24T06:12:09 Actually this was one good game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5vqQJyAKpM 2013-02-24T06:12:54 Rather long, good atmosphere and some story to follow along. 2013-02-24T06:13:30 i never know if this is the one i played with or not 2013-02-24T06:14:33 it is 2013-02-24T06:17:42 It is quite memorable for the mission where you start at an APC, then move through a maze like complex with the rain pouring in until you find the missing soldier only to see her die from an alien inside. then the rest of the team starts acting nervous over comm and tells you to get the fuck out of there. and then your motion tracker starts beeping and aliens start to chase you as you try to reach the APC again. 2013-02-24T06:19:58 i dont think i did marine 2013-02-24T06:20:15 maybe i did, idk, i definitely did predator 2013-02-24T06:20:28 and being a xenomorph was hard 2013-02-24T06:29:37 *** rofer has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 248 seconds) 2013-02-24T06:31:23 That's it, the best mission: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM1TyTNaSH0 2013-02-24T06:31:53 but yeah, health was a problem as alien. for the marine it was sometimes ammo where aliens had unlimited respawns 2013-02-24T06:32:35 not as bas as the first game though, where enemies spawned in endless streams everywhere 2013-02-24T06:34:49 ah great level design... waiting in the elevator with alien sounds around you... slowed down by a low passage, desorienting darkness and flickering lights 2013-02-24T06:35:19 and people constantly telling you what a suicidal idea it is 2013-02-24T06:35:21 shit in the pants moments 2013-02-24T06:35:31 in short, yes 2013-02-24T06:35:48 playing in a dark room helps 2013-02-24T06:36:45 the lighting from the gun is such a joke 2013-02-24T06:37:14 when the imaginary beam would hit a surface, the put a spotlight right above the surface, pointing in the surface normal down 2013-02-24T06:39:24 I know, it's pretty bad. Actually Half-Life did the same 2013-02-24T06:40:40 Oh and please play the level "Bait" from Starship Troopers once in your life on no less than normal difficulty 2013-02-24T06:41:26 You get the feeling the guy in the middle is actually the level designer... "More! Need more bugs!" 2013-02-24T06:42:02 when you survive to the part where he sais that you are both pretty good an not even half way through ^^ 2013-02-24T06:42:11 *says 2013-02-24T06:43:30 i think i had a bite of that 2013-02-24T06:43:44 in hl2 antlions are basically the bugs from starship troopers 2013-02-24T06:44:23 yes, but half-life cannot render so many of them without FPS drops 2013-02-24T06:44:50 you can never stand in the middle of 50 attacking antlions 2013-02-24T06:45:03 thats suicide 2013-02-24T06:45:16 you cant shoot 360 all the time 2013-02-24T06:45:29 no and that's why in this level you die 2013-02-24T06:45:40 :D 2013-02-24T06:45:49 you cant survive? 2013-02-24T06:46:50 hardly. when I did, I used corners where the AI had difficulties reaching me. In effect the bugs got so close to each other that they pushed each other away 2013-02-24T06:47:08 hehe 2013-02-24T06:47:11 that was after maybe 30 restarts 2013-02-24T06:47:14 now lets do that on S^2 2013-02-24T06:47:41 S^2? 2013-02-24T06:47:53 the 3 dimensional sphere 2013-02-24T06:47:57 and you regenerate health like in Halo or Assasins creed 2013-02-24T06:48:24 a 2 dimensional surface with no corners or boundaries embedded in 3d space 2013-02-24T06:48:28 and you are not alone. there are quite a few AI soldiers around you, too. friendly fire is off 2013-02-24T06:48:49 i never played those games 2013-02-24T06:49:03 no, thats not true 2013-02-24T06:49:15 i played a couple of minutes with halo something 2013-02-24T06:49:31 i was on a ship, and there was some trouble 2013-02-24T06:49:43 and i had to do something to fix it 2013-02-24T06:49:59 i think the character is called master sergenat 2013-02-24T06:50:04 sergeant* 2013-02-24T06:50:20 lol, that's right. that franchise never sticked to me 2013-02-24T06:50:35 they used lisp for the ai 2013-02-24T06:50:49 <3 2013-02-24T06:52:21 This is the final part of "Bait", note that he is obviously playing on "easy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5FtznHuOlE 2013-02-24T06:52:55 i have this game, right? 2013-02-24T06:53:22 do you? 2013-02-24T06:53:36 no i gave you an older realtime strategy one 2013-02-24T06:53:43 oh 2013-02-24T06:53:49 i thought that was this 2013-02-24T06:54:11 *** loglog has quit IRC (Remote host closed the connection) 2013-02-24T06:54:12 anyway, theres no time for videos now 2013-02-24T06:54:25 no? it's sunday. 2013-02-24T06:54:31 ive got a deadline 2013-02-24T06:54:38 im actually writing my thesis 2013-02-24T06:55:27 you know the term bloatware? 2013-02-24T06:56:11 thats what i need to write now, i have to blow up the little stuff i have to look bigger than it really is 2013-02-24T06:56:35 and one way is to put a lot of bloat mixed in 2013-02-24T06:56:54 hehe, did you try huge margins yet? 2013-02-24T06:57:08 the default is huge enough 2013-02-24T06:57:21 im not going to increase line spacing, thats ridiculous 2013-02-24T06:58:47 line spacing 1.5? 2013-02-24T06:58:53 it is a bit hard to work on 1024x768 though 2013-02-24T06:59:02 and watch this flickery sob screen 2013-02-24T06:59:04 did your CRT die? 2013-02-24T06:59:11 the tft died 2013-02-24T06:59:51 one of the ccfl tubes 'burned out', and the electronics switches off both the iverters in 2 seconds after turning it on 2013-02-24T07:00:16 i could still use the panel with 1 ccfl running, it is usable 2013-02-24T07:00:42 anyway, i didnt buy a new monitor, because then i'd be wathvhing my HD movies all day 2013-02-24T07:00:50 and i definitely couldnt finish the thesis 2013-02-24T07:01:05 *** loglog has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T07:01:15 (it is not a hard deadline though, just what we agreed on with my supervisor) 2013-02-24T07:01:53 and "I watched videos" isn't a good excuse for a delay 2013-02-24T07:04:03 I have an old IBM notebook with an old backlight. It starts out all red after a few retries and then slowly crawls to some shade of white. 2013-02-24T07:04:42 *** iglo has quit IRC (Remote host closed the connection) 2013-02-24T07:04:53 yeah, the lower tube looks pink until it is warmed up 2013-02-24T07:05:54 but apparently, it needs a larger current now that it is burning out, and the inverter switches off after a transient period. 2013-02-24T07:07:04 this burning out only means, i think, that the partial pressure of the metal that the electrodes are made of is increased beyond a threshold 2013-02-24T07:07:11 there is no actual burning out 2013-02-24T07:07:20 these are cold electrodes 2013-02-24T07:08:22 *** antimatroid has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T07:08:31 my TFT is pretty warm, I think they are hot electrodes 2013-02-24T07:09:21 a1k0n: I'm curious about why Google decided to use the definition of atheism that they have? It's a lot stricter than what is used by most people who call themselves atheists.. 2013-02-24T07:09:53 antimatroid: you are agnostic 2013-02-24T07:09:55 mleise: no they arent 2013-02-24T07:10:09 cold means, the electrons arent thermally excited 2013-02-24T07:10:29 ah ok 2013-02-24T07:10:31 they are removed from the metal matrix by the high electrical field, not thermal movement 2013-02-24T07:10:38 mleise: wut? 2013-02-24T07:10:48 atheism is to theism what asymmetry is to symmetry 2013-02-24T07:11:08 but not how Google define it 2013-02-24T07:11:12 aren't you arguing that most atheists are actually agnostic like you are? :p 2013-02-24T07:11:28 it's whether atheism is the lack of belief in a deity of belief in the lack of a deity 2013-02-24T07:11:40 the later is a stricter than the former obviously 2013-02-24T07:12:02 most people consider atheism to mean not theist (ie. lacks belief in the existence of a deity) 2013-02-24T07:12:11 i think atheism is the latter one 2013-02-24T07:12:16 me too 2013-02-24T07:12:28 a lot of people disagree 2013-02-24T07:12:28 2 : 1 :D 2013-02-24T07:12:37 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism 2013-02-24T07:12:40 antimatroid has a habit of disagreeing 2013-02-24T07:12:42 and google is always right 2013-02-24T07:12:49 Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. 2013-02-24T07:13:14 "In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities." 2013-02-24T07:13:16 antimatroid: wiki agrees with us 2013-02-24T07:13:38 yes, but the more general definition includes what I'm saying 2013-02-24T07:13:55 wiki isn't agreeing with you 2013-02-24T07:14:00 reject is quite a strong word 2013-02-24T07:14:15 i also reject the belief of no deities existing 2013-02-24T07:14:17 how's that? 2013-02-24T07:14:22 but yeah, it is quite strong 2013-02-24T07:14:32 *** victor__ has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T07:14:41 weird debate 2013-02-24T07:14:45 it is 2013-02-24T07:14:55 you can argue with antimatroidl though 2013-02-24T07:14:58 and i really don't care other than being able to put people in their places online :P (you know me) 2013-02-24T07:15:03 hehe :P 2013-02-24T07:15:14 antimatroidl: you're a douchenozzle! 2013-02-24T07:15:23 *** victor__ has quit IRC (Client Quit) 2013-02-24T07:16:00 no response 2013-02-24T07:16:09 laptop is on my bed :P 2013-02-24T07:16:25 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgYAHHkPFs 2013-02-24T07:17:04 i'm going to go on cause i can :P 2013-02-24T07:18:03 the people who take atheism to mean not theism generally take gnosticism to mean "the existence of God is knowable" and agnosticism to mean "the existence of God is unknown" though some will have it as "the existence of God is unknowable" (but that's a bullshit way to define it imo) 2013-02-24T07:18:54 im going offline 2013-02-24T07:18:56 :P 2013-02-24T07:19:04 i need to get this done, sry 2013-02-24T07:19:04 you're no fun 2013-02-24T07:19:08 fair enough 2013-02-24T07:19:11 *** mcstar has quit IRC (Quit: mcstar) 2013-02-24T07:21:04 antimatroid: that sounds like boolean algebra to me 2013-02-24T07:21:26 that's kinda the point 2013-02-24T07:21:30 the definitions partition people 2013-02-24T07:21:41 you're either theist of atheist and gnostic or agnostic 2013-02-24T07:21:53 and if you "don't know" like me, then you're an agnostic atheist 2013-02-24T07:22:23 isn't agnostic just enough for you? 2013-02-24T07:22:23 I'll stop now, it's a stupid debate but it's had quite often and I was just surprised Google have decided to use the strict definition they have :P 2013-02-24T07:22:50 the names make little sense then 2013-02-24T07:22:53 let google have their atheism and you can have your agnosticism and all is good 2013-02-24T07:22:57 and people are pretty unsure of what is meant 2013-02-24T07:23:21 it doesn't usually pop up in conversation anyway 2013-02-24T07:33:02 "A 2006 study by researchers at the University of Minnesota involving a poll of 2,000 households in the United States found atheists to be the most distrusted of minorities" 2013-02-24T07:38:50 lol 2013-02-24T07:46:14 *** mleise1 has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T07:49:50 *** mleise has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 2013-02-24T08:07:34 *** dvladim has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T08:19:16 *** sigh has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T08:28:47 *** rofer has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T08:32:46 sigh: do you notice when commenting to me on Reddit? :P 2013-02-24T08:33:05 when did I do that? 2013-02-24T08:33:22 the other day on the philosophy subreddit 2013-02-24T08:33:28 i am 3206 on reddit these days 2013-02-24T08:33:33 ahh 2013-02-24T08:33:57 i was in melb till yesterday arvo and never got around to responding sorry :P 2013-02-24T08:34:21 i was in melb until this evening :P 2013-02-24T08:34:33 i think you mean yesterday evening :P 2013-02-24T08:34:43 ah yes 2013-02-24T08:34:50 dat heat :( 2013-02-24T08:34:55 you'd be used to it though 2013-02-24T08:35:01 no air con at my brother's place either 2013-02-24T08:35:40 I had to attend a wedding last week, wearing a suit in 35 heat is not fun 2013-02-24T08:35:49 35 degree 2013-02-24T08:35:52 yeouch 2013-02-24T08:36:15 i got to run down a building forwards, that was fun 2013-02-24T08:36:36 as opposed to backwards? 2013-02-24T08:36:43 http://i.imgur.com/WuHyWHi.jpg 2013-02-24T08:36:46 yeah 2013-02-24T08:37:07 that looks interesting 2013-02-24T08:37:11 what prompted you to do that? 2013-02-24T08:37:30 my brother's boss gave him a voucher for christmas or something like that 2013-02-24T08:37:32 so did it with him 2013-02-24T08:37:38 haha 2013-02-24T08:37:44 was pretty fun 2013-02-24T08:37:58 I flew a plane yesterday... that was pretty fun 2013-02-24T08:38:18 *** dvladim has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 276 seconds) 2013-02-24T08:38:19 just randomly? or want to get your license? 2013-02-24T08:38:52 i boarded my plane in melbourne at 1pm and we didn't end up flying out till about 2:20 or so 2013-02-24T08:39:04 a few friends decided to try a lesson, so I tried it as well 2013-02-24T08:39:06 the air con was broken, then they took like 30+ minutes on paperwork 2013-02-24T08:39:21 I'm contemplating keeping it up and going for a licence 2013-02-24T08:39:26 ouch 2013-02-24T08:39:36 would be pretty fun 2013-02-24T08:39:47 expensive 2013-02-24T08:39:56 yeah very 2013-02-24T08:40:08 good way to woo the ladies too :P 2013-02-24T08:40:12 haha 2013-02-24T08:40:18 "let's go for a fly" 2013-02-24T08:40:48 :P 2013-02-24T08:42:23 who did you fly with? 2013-02-24T08:42:29 booking a flight with jetstar is now a joke 2013-02-24T08:42:57 as in my flight back to sydney? qantas 2013-02-24T08:43:04 insurance is opt-out, they randomly allocate you a seat and expect you to pay like you chose it (you can deallocate it), and the booking fee is $17 (avoidable with direct deposit) 2013-02-24T08:43:14 usually I fly virgin, but qantas had the times I wanted at a cheaper price 2013-02-24T08:43:20 nice 2013-02-24T08:43:45 it also cost me $29 to take my skateboard to melbourne and back 2013-02-24T08:44:23 ah yeah... budget airlines are no good if you have any extra requirements 2013-02-24T08:45:07 i personally think free trade people or whatever should reign them in a bit 2013-02-24T08:45:23 the sales price should including booking fees for example, and possibly even opt out charges 2013-02-24T08:45:37 and fees should be just that, fees 2013-02-24T08:45:41 yeah 2013-02-24T08:46:33 you've heard about the government asking adobe etc. to turn up and explain their prices yeah? 2013-02-24T08:46:47 yup 2013-02-24T08:47:01 i'm curious to see what the government will do, if anything 2013-02-24T08:47:06 i think they reduced the prices, but its still expensive? 2013-02-24T08:47:17 they reduced the prices for one cloud service 2013-02-24T08:47:24 it was a bit of a slap in the face 2013-02-24T08:47:47 though Adobe seem to be moving that direction 2013-02-24T08:47:52 which makes sense, it's more profitable 2013-02-24T08:48:14 yeah 2013-02-24T08:48:14 i don't like the current trend of moving goods to services 2013-02-24T08:48:29 i prefer to buy something rather than pay for the right to use something 2013-02-24T08:48:59 i'm just rambling now :P 2013-02-24T08:49:08 part of it profit, but part of it is that it allows can allow for a more powerful product 2013-02-24T08:49:31 because you aren't constrained by what the user's computer can handle 2013-02-24T08:49:57 that's true I guess 2013-02-24T08:50:17 I will no doubt resist as long as possible anyway :P 2013-02-24T08:50:58 the same is happening with games too yeah? You pay for the right to play it on your own machine, rather than paying to own a copy of the game 2013-02-24T08:51:09 yeah 2013-02-24T08:51:29 i prefer it to just buy it outright too 2013-02-24T08:51:33 that'd be more profit driven, but people don't seem to care all that much 2013-02-24T08:52:40 yeah 2013-02-24T08:53:47 uni classes start again today 2013-02-24T08:54:01 which means tutes start again next week 2013-02-24T08:54:05 aka money :) 2013-02-24T08:54:11 well, more money 2013-02-24T08:54:11 ahhh... are you doing your phd now? 2013-02-24T08:54:16 yeah second year now 2013-02-24T08:54:34 probably need to knuckle down soon 2013-02-24T08:54:46 :) 2013-02-24T08:56:29 I should sleep now, work tomorrow 2013-02-24T08:56:36 night 2013-02-24T08:56:39 cya 2013-02-24T08:56:43 *** sigh has quit IRC (Remote host closed the connection) 2013-02-24T09:29:43 *** antimatroidl has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving.) 2013-02-24T10:03:45 *** sevikkk has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T11:10:28 *** bqf has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T11:11:10 *** antimatroidl has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T11:13:10 *** bqf_ has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) 2013-02-24T11:46:00 *** Areks has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T11:48:12 *** Areks|2 has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) 2013-02-24T12:40:51 *** Scooper has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T12:54:35 *** thestinger has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T12:55:20 *** epicmonkey has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) 2013-02-24T14:09:05 *** Accoun has quit IRC () 2013-02-24T14:19:59 *** Accoun has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T14:49:53 *** epicmonkey has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T16:03:38 *** kilae has quit IRC (Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.90 [Firefox 19.0/20130215130331]) 2013-02-24T16:20:31 *** mleise1 has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving.) 2013-02-24T16:24:53 *** mleise has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T17:07:20 *** epicmonkey has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) 2013-02-24T17:43:39 *** amstan has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T17:43:39 *** ChanServ sets mode: +o amstan 2013-02-24T18:08:05 *** Scooper has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving) 2013-02-24T18:08:28 *** Scooper has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T18:09:17 *** Scooper has quit IRC (Client Quit) 2013-02-24T19:27:49 *** Areks has quit IRC (Read error: Connection timed out) 2013-02-24T19:28:58 *** Areks has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T19:31:41 *** antimatroidl has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving.) 2013-02-24T19:35:36 *** mleise has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) 2013-02-24T19:37:42 *** thestinger has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) 2013-02-24T19:49:41 *** mleise has joined #aichallenge 2013-02-24T21:10:24 *** Areks has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) 2013-02-24T22:26:25 *** mattswe has quit IRC (Read error: Operation timed out)