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[Kuildeous]

Using a format-agnostic system date does seem to make the most sense.

I do prefer using YYYYMMDD for my naming conventions. The biggest advantage is that if I'm sorting by name, it sorts chronologically.

But the worst date offender I've seen was where I chose to sort by date and was appalled that they weren't sorted chronologically. I had to look carefully to figure out why sorting by date didn't work. Turned out it sorted the months alphabetically:
April
August
December
February
January
July
June
March
May
November
October
September

I raged so hard that day.

[sudgy]

So, this is very random, and I don't know if anybody will do this, but here goes.  Does somebody want to be amazing and do some pixel art for me?  Here's some crappy concept art I just made for something:



It's a walking pancake with a white tie.  Don't ask.  Anyway, I want you to make it look way nicer, and put it in this format.  With all the different steps and everything.  Shouldn't be too hard, right?

[Seprix]

So, this is very random, and I don't know if anybody will do this, but here goes.  Does somebody want to be amazing and do some pixel art for me?  Here's some crappy concept art I just made for something:



It's a walking pancake with a white tie.  Don't ask.  Anyway, I want you to make it look way nicer, and put it in this format.  With all the different steps and everything.  Shouldn't be too hard, right?

I can make a one bit pixel image. 

[Awaclus]

I can make a one bit pixel image. 

I can make a 24-bit pixel image.

[silverspawn]

I think I just suffered a ~1/128 chance bad luck based on pokémon genders. Either that or there's something wrong with the game. But when I saved the emulator state and tried again it was right for the first time, so I doubt it.

Let's see if it rises higher. Not sure if it actually was 7 tries. I didn't count. But something like that.

edit. eh, I'm an idiot. It doesn't have 50/50% probabilities of male/female. Again. I didn't check because I was sure it would.
edit2: I think I am past 11 12 16 or so I GOT IT tries. Clearly the universe has conspired against me. But I WILL GET this female bulbasaur 

[Tables]

Yeah all starters IIRC have a 7/8 chance to be male.

[Seprix]

Yeah all starters IIRC have a 7/8 chance to be male.

Why is it like that? Almost all the other Pokemon have 50/50% gender rates.

[Chris is me]

Yeah all starters IIRC have a 7/8 chance to be male.

Why is it like that? Almost all the other Pokemon have 50/50% gender rates.

Makes it harder to breed starters until you get access to Ditto, so it makes them a bit more exclusive. So flavor reasons for casuals, mostly.

[Lekkit]

Yeah all starters IIRC have a 7/8 chance to be male.

Why is it like that? Almost all the other Pokemon have 50/50% gender rates.

There are a lot of monsters with higher chance of being male. Only a handful has higher chance to be female.

[eHalcyon]

Yeah all starters IIRC have a 7/8 chance to be male.

Why is it like that? Almost all the other Pokemon have 50/50% gender rates.

There are a lot of monsters with higher chance of being male. Only a handful has higher chance to be female.

More than a handful, but yeah there are more lines that tend toward male.  As Chris noted, the reason is to make them harder to breed, and there's a lot of them because all starter and fossil lines 7:1 for males.  There are also some Pokemon that are all male or all female.  Lists here.

[McGarnacle]

Man, I know why they call this Random Stuff Part III!

[Kuildeous]

Man, I know why they call this Random Stuff Part III!

Because Part II got too fat and unwieldy?

[silverspawn]

Update: my now Venusaur died at lvl 46 to a critical hit - selfdestruct

I'd be okay with that since it means I now need to be more creative in making my team but the two new ones of my team also died. All I have left is my Alakazam, which just seems to one-hit virtually everything.

[schadd]

Update: my now Venusaur died at lvl 46 to a critical hit - selfdestruct

I'd be okay with that since it means I now need to be more creative in making my team but the two new ones of my team also died. All I have left is my Alakazam, which just seems to one-hit virtually everything.

are you nuzzlocking?

[silverspawn]

something similar. pokémon die if they faint and have to be released, only female pokémon can fight, only male pokémon can be kept permanently in box, no running from fights, if the whole group dies the game is over, no loading.

[Witherweaver]

I just spent three to four hours trying to track down what I thought was a bug that may actually just be an artifact of how our code is set up.  This is where a real programmer would say it's a feature, right?

[sudgy]

I just spent three to four hours trying to track down what I thought was a bug that may actually just be an artifact of how our code is set up.  This is where a real programmer would say it's a feature, right?

I don't want to tell you how many times I've spent ages tracking down a bug in my own code that turned out to be an actual legitimate forgotten feature...

[schadd]

I just spent three to four hours trying to track down what I thought was a bug that may actually just be an artifact of how our code is set up.  This is where a real programmer would say it's a feature, right?

grumble grumble no man's sky grumble

[Seprix]

Went on my first date 4 days ago. It was awesome. She was really cool.

And then she completely cut off contact. I have not heard from her again since. I would like to think that I didn't do anything off-putting, but I guess I just can't be sure. It is me, after all. I really cannot think of anything I did in retrospect. Oh well, I guess. Better luck next time and all. It just ticks me off she doesn't even send something back saying she won't continue. Like, at least have the courtesy, right? Is that a socially acceptable thing to do? I wouldn't know, but it seems like the right thing to do.

[pacovf]

It doesn't have to be something you do, sometimes you're simply not what they are looking for, and some people are looking for really specific arbitrary stuff. In any case completely cutting off contact is kinda rude so eh no big loss.

On the other hand, yay on your first date! My "first" date wasn't even an actual "date", so that's something you've got on me.

PPE: wrote this before seeing your edit. Best thing you can do is to stop thinking about it (I know, easier said than done). You rarely get a direct confirmation that they are not interested.

[Roadrunner7671]

Seprix seems like a pretty cool guy over the Internet. That sucks though  I'll still assume you're cool IRL

Did you get her to play forum games? Or are you the type of guy who doesn't do that until the third date?

[Seprix]

Seprix seems like a pretty cool guy over the Internet. That sucks though  I'll still assume you're cool IRL

Did you get her to play forum games? Or are you the type of guy who doesn't do that until the third date?

She knew about Dominion. I got really excited, although I didn't go off on a tangent or anything. It doesn't really matter if people I date like Dominion or not, but it was cool to have that extra connection going on there.

Anyways, yeah. I've just about forgot about it now.

If one date decided how cool anyone was, the entire male population would instantly fail. Except Tom Hiddleston.

[Witherweaver]

Sometimes people get busy, too.  Other things come up in life.

Sometimes I just want to stay home and watch TV and I stop talking to people.

[Seprix]

Sometimes people get busy, too.  Other things come up in life.

Sometimes I just want to stay home and watch TV and I stop talking to people.

True. Anyways, if she pops up again, she pops up. I'm done worrying about it. I have better things to do.

Like worry about a disaster of a film shoot I am participating in tomorrow.

No, seriously. I'll have a lot to bitch about tomorrow. I hope I don't, but it's not looking good at all.

[pacovf]

Except Tom Hiddleston.

I mean Tom is nice and everything but seriously



Look at those blue eyes and melt. Not even sorry about the ridiculously large size of the pic.