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Perhaps your kitty's a bit crabby? Yeah - that's the problem - snailed it!
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Mario turns 35 today... Had great fun playing it in nineties.
Memories coming back for who all?
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Oh don't start.
I just finished decades of therapy because of that song.
Not really but you get it.
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Just last week I was playing Borderlands (the PS4 remaster) and got the "My brother is an Italian plumber" trophy by killing an enemy by jumping on its head.
Back in the days I played Super Mario 1, 2 and 3 on the NES and later Super Mario Land 2 on Gameboy.
Two years ago I bought the SNES Mini and played Super Mario RPG and Super Mario World.
Of course I've also played various Super Mario Kart games, but never owned any myself.
Both the Super Mario and Kart formulas have proven popular and have been copied countless of times.
I also loved the movie as a kid.
"Name? Mario. Last name? Mario. Okay, what's your name? Luigi. Luigi Luigi? No, Luigi Mario. Okay, how many Mario's are there between you? Just three, Mario Mario and Luigi Mario. "
Super Mario's influence on gaming and popular culture cannot be overestimated.
Happy birthday, you awesome plumber!
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I've always stayed away from the whole Nintendo thing. But then, the NES Mini came out a few years ago, followed by the SNES Mini...so I figured why not.
The whole thing must've kept me entertained for a solid 20 minutes.
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Hmmm, that was during my second college try. My live-in girlfriend bought a NES that came with 'Duck Hunt' and 'Super Mario Bros'. I'd say it was partly to blame for declining grades that led to a 10 year stint on a production floor through the 90s. Good money, lot's and lot's of overtime, but a poor work/life balance and very little time to play games. (years of 12 hour shifts with every other Sunday off) I wouldn't play games again until I went back to school with a hand-me-down power mac that I must have rebuilt a few dozen times.
On the topic of Mario, I remember the character from playing Donkey Kong at the arcades during my high school years. Super Mario Bros was/is an awesome waste of time. Several years back I found a windows version that I have stashed somewhere...might not even run on 10. The only game I play these days are a Sudoku every day or so.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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This was my favorite game. Just my childhood association.
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I'm surprised he didn't fall asleep!
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Gz on getting a programming language named after you
Ever used Lua?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Ever used Lua? Sadly, no. Nor have I attended a luau.
/ravi
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Suravi, even comes with batteries included.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Do you think I stand a chance? Or should I consider taking being programmable as my PhD dissertation?
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MehreenTahir wrote: should I consider taking being programmable as my PhD dissertation?
If I were you, I'd wait until I became a professor:
- Invent a new language (or modify an existing one)
- call it after yourself
- Have your minions (aka the graduate students) write the VM for it
- Profit!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: call it after yourself Or after your girlfriend.
This "Mary" language developed around 1980 at my university was named after the chief designer's girlfriend. "Hello world" was not yet an established meme then, so the equivalent program wrote to the console, "Mary has been executed"
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A Bloody Mary, indeed
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Have your minions (aka the graduate students)
you just reminded me of my professor who used to say he has lots of lab rats to do his work.
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I would say that the value of 'programming language' hit a really low point...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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You should be added to the code block formatters :D
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My language does not allow braces around single line if statements.
Real programmers use butterflies
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hahaha guilty
Real programmers use butterflies
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So, you've to pass through a compiler, and get converted to an executable.
Or is it an interpreter you'll have to pass through?
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I dunno... I barely pass as a software engineer.
/ravi
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