Here at home, we have tools, so I figure I could do some shit. Dunno what kind of shit, though. Might be shit to make life easier in my room, but then again, I will move out eventually, so I'm not going to spend a ton of effort in this room either. (well, 'eventually' being whenever I'm able to support myself. I non-seriously mentioned the idea of moving out for studies once, and of course got a ton of resistance from mom, wee)



Socializing is nice, but I have to meet people first. Local friends, well, not gonna work. Most of the people I met in middle/high school either don't care about me or remember me as the little shit everyone rejected. In the end... dunno where else to meet people. You can't just go to random people in the street, or send friend requests to random people on Facebook.

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Kuribo64 - melonDS

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And you post that in a dramatic tone, as if PHP7 required some major code changes for PHP5 code to work under it. Do you actually know anything about that?


(also, why the hell are your posts centered?)

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Kuribo64 - melonDS

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I don't remember, but it might have been Photoshop, back when I somehow had that on my computer. It's quite old.


(I was going to say "don't let the door hit you on the way out" but apparently it's too late, we already need to replace it)

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Squiddy we know you're here

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What I can remember starts by playing Worms3D in my room. Some weird fight, and I want to look up how to script a huge bomb, but don't get around to it. At the end of the fight, there's the typical screen giving statistics about the fight, but there's also a voice commenting it with great insight.

Then I go in another room of the house to grab some things I need. I get some candy and drinks outside, and put them aside to try getting more of them. The drinks come in metal cans, most of them are Ice Tea and one of them is crapoed (even has a hole in the bottom or someshit).

I stay there, waiting for mom to come back or someshit. I'm wearing the same kind of outfit I wear when sleeping for some reason. Eventually mom's car arrives, and I decide I should leave that room with my things and quickly go back to my room. But it turns out that there are too many things for me to carry all at once, how inconvenient.

I go to mom as she leaves the car and there's someone else with us. We check out some things on the car.

Later on, we're in the kitchen, getting ready for dinner. For some reason the kitchen is our old one, even though by now it's almost completely disassembled. There are two guys around who are friends or relatives, don't really know. It appears that one of them is roughly my age and the other is younger. We joke about the younger guy's hair.

We eventually get to the dinner. The two guys and my sister are here. There's some conversation going on, apparently the two guys have a different last name and we're also getting that last name for some reason. The dinner is mostly pasta. While serving me a drink or something, I somehow manage to spill a lot of ketchup over myself. I try to discretely clean myself, but there's too much of it really, I need to get new clothes.

And... uh...

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Is there even a way to get out of it? I lose hope a little more every day. Every time I try, destiny strikes harder to put me back in my little nerd box.



I found out that it all boils down to social intelligence. You make friends, you make more friends, you do interesting shit with them, and you have a not-too-boring life.

How do you make friends? You find people with whom you can share things you are into.

Easy, right?



... not when you're me and the things you are into (hacking, reverse-engineering, programming, etc) are completely alien. Nobody else does that shit, except for like 10 people you can meet via the internet.

That basically leaves me with two solutions with other people:

a) talk about my alien things and bore everyone to death
b) stay silent, be a nerd


Regardless of what I end up doing, I can't make friends. I can hang out with people, that's all. It doesn't help that I'm a complete social idiot, either, but obviously I can't work on my social skills if all I do is stay behind and say nothing.


All of that basically forcing me into a boring, flat nerd life.





Is there a way out of it? As I said, I lose hope a little more every day. But let's say we continue on this way... I am now 40 years old, working a shitty job and getting bored at the office. I remind myself of my oh so crazy youth. That time where you're supposed to have fun and all, and enjoy it while it lasts, right? Was all boring. I failed my life, let's end it now.

No, no, no. I don't want to end up in that shit. Life doesn't have to be shitty (and suicide is for cowards). But where's the way out of this boring shit? What if the destiny really wants me to have a boring life?




It's also a pain to get to do anything interesting here. This place sucks. Getting in any interesting place is a pain.

"just move out" -- yeah yeah, as if it was that easy. I know zero about that field. My mom would abuse that and do everything she can to keep me from doing it, basically shoving a ton of negative shit into my face, as she always does when you want to do something she doesn't approve of. I'd look like a naive dumbass with nothing to stand on, and basically be defeated. And even if I managed to move out... I'd end up with no support because "oh noes, too expensive", and I'd have to work a shitton outside of univ to support myself.

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Kuribo64 - melonDS

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Regardless of how much courage suicide may take, it's still the easy way out. Ending your life instead of, you know, living it.


I'm not planning on killing myself, if that's what you mean by 'leaving us'. Looking at it objectively, it's not like my life is completely miserable (and even then, there's always a way out, atleast for certain things).



That said, dunno where to go. All my attempts at being less of a nerd/social idiot have been met with failure so far. I take it as signs that destiny is against me. Then again, that may be bullshit. Repeated failure is something I don't stand well. (that's also why I worry about finding a job, they say you have to apply to a billion jobs to hopefully get something)


I mostly need to harden myself. I have been raised in an easy comfy environment, I have always gotten good grades at school (well, good enough to pass), basically I have never had to work really hard to get something. And well, that's a bad thing now. The time of easy success is over, I have to either harden myself and work hard, or be a loser.


Regarding the social shit, I could try to follow Nicole's advice, see where that gets me. I should also try doing new things, who knows.

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Kuribo64 - melonDS

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Well, thank you guys for your replies


You're right there, KP. I'll try my best. I'll let you guys know how these things go.

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My dream involved me driving some really small car into a public building of sorts. I don't remember more details other than that there was something wrong with the car.

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Kuribo64 - melonDS

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Well for now, I'm laying the bases out. Went with C++ and Qt, but might switch back to C# (QtCreator is derp, and getting Qt to work with VS is probably a pain).



The upcoming NSMB2 editor will likely be similar to Reggie! in functionality, interface, whatnot. First versions will operate on raw files (.3ds or .cia), further versions may also work on individual game files à la Reggie!. Reason is that for now, given the lack of a 3DS Riivolution-like, this will be the easiest way to test levels. (and honestly with how much of a pain it is to make a Riivo-like, it's better off as a part of a CFW, like in the NTR CFW)



It's also not based on any Reggie! fork, it's something fresh instead. Source code!




but I don't have a Gateway

Ninjhax can be used to launch CFWs or whatever that can run unsigned CIA files. Or maybe Citra can run NSMB2. Rest assured that there is a way out of this shit. Maybe it's not convenient for you, but there's a way out.



why not merge efforts with Reggie! NSMB2 or whatever it's called

I don't think Python is the right language for building this kind of project. Otherwise I'd gladly join forces. I also want to have some fun, too! We haven't been writing new level editors in ages nowadays.



.3ds? CIA? Gateway? but that's working in favor of piracy

Quite honestly, with how fucked up the 3DS scene is, I don't really care about piracy. Not like this project would have an impact on piracy or overall cause Nintendo to go bankrupt.

And even if a 3DS Riivo-like existed, you still couldn't prevent piracy. On the Wii, it's convenient because you just have to require the original disc (although you can use a modchip and a burned disc, but that's more involved than what the average pirate can afford). But on the 3DS, there's no point when you have things like Gateway or ability to install any title to the system by converting it to a CIA. Bascially, any efforts at preventing piracy are futile.

I'm not in favor of piracy, I just keep my time and energy for what makes sense.



the waffles were too hot

Come over to Relaxland. We cook them at the right temperature. We have been in the waffle business since 2012 so we know what we're talking about.



whatever else

Just post. The thread is here to collect opinions, thoughts, whatnot, that could affect the editor's building and make it the most awesome software of 2015. We want to hear you!

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Latest screenshots

* texture decoding test
* level decoding and basic rendering

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Kuribo64 - melonDS

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Weird, Xkeeper would be making doom timers, not destroying them

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I don't remember well how this dream started-- me with the family at our grandparents' house. My sister is following but she's late or something. We leave the house and get in the car. My sister gets in, I... don't. I go read some bills in the street. For whatever reason, I'm holding a Kalachnikov type gun. There's a group of girls and they wonder if the gun is real. "Yes, yes it is" followed by me shooting in the sky.

I get back in the house. I expect the police to come, but nothing. I get to the first floor, open a window, unload two clips shooting in the sky at random.

I wake up. Will never know if the police was on its way or whatever.


(as a clarification: under French laws, me owning a firearm would be illegal, let alone using it in the street)

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