Speedrunning thread 3.6: Oh my god ball block

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SeXReX: Jan 9, 2009; I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet

My lawyer is suggesting I post to clarify i have no inside info about any dumb poo poo that may happen to take place on the third day

# ? Jan 3, 2019 09:00

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SuccinctAndPunchy: Mar 29, 2013; People are supposed to get hurt by things. It's fucked up to not. It's not good for you.

instantly suspicious of day 3

gonna sleep in

# ? Jan 3, 2019 09:06

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

instantly suspicious of day 3

gonna sleep in

# ? Jan 3, 2019 15:05

Dr. Stab: Sep 12, 2010; 👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

My lawyer says that I should say that I do have inside information and on the third day, mike uyama will accidentally be seen sneaking out of the room with a canvas bag that has "charity bucks" written on it.

# ? Jan 3, 2019 15:45

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

Dr. Stab posted:

My lawyer says that I should say that I do have inside information and on the third day, mike uyama will accidentally be seen sneaking out of the room with a canvas bag that has "charity bucks" written on it.

the charity bucks will secretly be going to a mono prevention charity

# ? Jan 3, 2019 16:56

Studio: Jan 15, 2008

SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

i thought my run was on the second day local time

Tuesday 1 AM is the start of the third day.

The day

# ? Jan 3, 2019 23:23

SuccinctAndPunchy: Mar 29, 2013; People are supposed to get hurt by things. It's fucked up to not. It's not good for you.

Studio posted:

Tuesday 1 AM is the start of the third day.

The day

no it's Tuesday that makes it day 2

Sunday is day 0

# ? Jan 4, 2019 00:49

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

no it's Tuesday that makes it day 2

Sunday is day 0

do brits really call the first day something of it the zeroth day

# ? Jan 4, 2019 00:51

SuccinctAndPunchy: Mar 29, 2013; People are supposed to get hurt by things. It's fucked up to not. It's not good for you.

eonwe posted:

do brits really call the first day something of it the zeroth day

do Americans not have a zero day? how do you know when it starts?

# ? Jan 4, 2019 00:56

McFrugal: Oct 11, 2003

SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

do Americans not have a zero day? how do you know when it starts?

Do you start lists at 0? Outside of programming?

# ? Jan 4, 2019 01:00

Demicol: Nov 8, 2009

SoftNum posted:

This was probably asked already but any really killer / must watch runs this time around? I see both sexrex and punchy on the schedule, but any other cool games that may slip under the radar?

Awful Block has been mentioned already but I'm especially exited for Mohawk & Headphone Jack

# ? Jan 4, 2019 01:05

pumpinglemma: Apr 28, 2009; DD: Fondly regard abomination.

eonwe posted:

do brits really call the first day something of it the zeroth day

Only computer scientist Brits. But this is the speedrunning thread, so...

# ? Jan 4, 2019 01:13

1-800-DOCTORB: Nov 6, 2009

It's faster if you use "one-skip" and start all lists with "2"

# ? Jan 4, 2019 01:22

Dias: Feb 20, 2011; by sebmojo

And here I thought colonialism was the worst thing to come out of the British Empire...

# ? Jan 4, 2019 01:27

ArfJason: Sep 5, 2011

McFrugal posted:

Do you start lists at 0? Outside of programming?

actually, its fairly simple,

# ? Jan 4, 2019 01:39

Studio: Jan 15, 2008

SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

do Americans not have a zero day? how do you know when it starts?

0 day is Saturday, Sunday it starts so it's day 1, and this ain't an array!

# ? Jan 4, 2019 01:48

Ursine Catastrophe: Nov 9, 2009; It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.

don't ask how i know; Dinosaur Gum

Next up, a discussion on whether "next saturday" means this upcoming saturday or next week's saturday

# ? Jan 4, 2019 01:53

pumpinglemma: Apr 28, 2009; DD: Fondly regard abomination.

1-800-DOCTORB posted:

It's faster if you use "one-skip" and start all lists with "2"

Actually, zero became a convention because it was the fastest way! Back in the Old Times, when mainframes walked the earth, a list would be implemented as a continuous string of memory. Memory is divided into equal-sized chunks called "words". So on a toy system where we don't care about negative numbers or decimals or numbers larger than 255, we might have 8-bit words and a list of three numbers might look like:

code:

01001101 00001111 1000000
---77---|---15---|---64---

On creating a list, you'd set aside the space in memory, and store the address A of the first word of the list. Then the zeroth entry of the list is word A, the first entry is word A + 1, and in general the ith entry of the list is word A + i. If you started numbering from one instead, then it would be word A + (i-1). Calculating A+i is twice as fast as calculating A+i-1, so people just started counting from zero.

And that is why if a programmer comes up to you at a party, you should turn and run while you still can.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 02:02

1-800-DOCTORB: Nov 6, 2009

pumpinglemma posted:

Actually, zero became a convention because it was the fastest way! Back in the Old Times, when mainframes walked the earth, a list would be implemented as a continuous string of memory. Memory is divided into equal-sized chunks called "words". So on a toy system where we don't care about negative numbers or decimals or numbers larger than 255, we might have 8-bit words and a list of three numbers might look like:
code:
01001101 00001111 1000000
---77---|---15---|---64---
On creating a list, you'd set aside the space in memory, and store the address A of the first word of the list. Then the zeroth entry of the list is word A, the first entry is word A + 1, and in general the ith entry of the list is word A + i. If you started numbering from one instead, then it would be word A + (i-1). Calculating A+i is twice as fast as calculating A+i-1, so people just started counting from zero.

And that is why if a programmer comes up to you at a party, you should turn and run while you still can.

A word is 16 bits, not 8. A byte is 8 bits.

Well I guess it depends on the architecture....

# ? Jan 4, 2019 02:05

pumpinglemma: Apr 28, 2009; DD: Fondly regard abomination.

1-800-DOCTORB posted:

A word is 16 bits, not 8. A byte is 8 bits.

No, a word is the number of bits of storage contained at each memory address. Modern systems use 64-bit words, the toy system I used to illustrate things used 8-bit words, you could design a system with 27-bit words if you wanted to.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 02:10

Sage Grimm: Feb 18, 2013; Let's go explorin' little dude!

Newly found glitches are zero-day exploits, riiiiight? :smug:

# ? Jan 4, 2019 02:11

Reformed Pissboy: Nov 6, 2003

There's a joke somewhere to make about how Brits also index their building levels ("storeys") by zero with the ground floor/first floor distinction, but it's probably a pointless, unfunny joke. I wouldn't dare try making that joke if I were you.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 02:13

Dr. Stab: Sep 12, 2010; 👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

Next up, a discussion on whether "next saturday" means this upcoming saturday or next week's saturday

Discord uses "last tuesday" to mean 2 days ago, and I don't know anybody who would do this in real life.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 02:30

SuccinctAndPunchy: Mar 29, 2013; People are supposed to get hurt by things. It's fucked up to not. It's not good for you.

i was just trying to mess with eonwe...

# ? Jan 4, 2019 02:39

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

i was just trying to mess with eonwe...

hosed up

# ? Jan 4, 2019 03:00

SeXReX: Jan 9, 2009; I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet

dang, someone pointed out that the run after mine is the first ever iPad run at a GDQ

# ? Jan 4, 2019 03:41

Nep-Nep: May 15, 2004; Just one more thing!

SeXReX posted:

dang, someone pointed out that the run after mine is the first ever iPad run at a GDQ

Jubeat Plus (all songs) (line skip glitch allowed)

# ? Jan 4, 2019 03:45

SoftNum: Mar 31, 2011

SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

do Americans not have a zero day? how do you know when it starts?

You really ought to have used 0,0

# ? Jan 4, 2019 04:54

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

Next up, a discussion on whether "next saturday" means this upcoming saturday or next week's saturday

And after that, we'll talk about whether biweekly means every other week or twice a week!

# ? Jan 4, 2019 13:24

SeXReX: Jan 9, 2009; I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet

Does the person who won a race in the uk come in 0st place?

# ? Jan 4, 2019 20:50

SeXReX: Jan 9, 2009; I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet

I don't even know how to respond to this in a healthy manner
https://twitter.com/Arbys/status/1081277336744538115?s=19

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:13

WrightOfWay: Jul 24, 2010

Well, it had a good run, but I think GDQ is done now.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:16

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Turns out that the whole GDQ was just a long-term viral marketing campaign.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:28

flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

oh no, sponsored content instead of static crowd shots between runs

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:32

SatansBestBuddy: Sep 26, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

hey all, used up my sick days at the start of the year and then discovered AGDQ starts in like, 70 hours.

which is great cause I'm feeling like I should get a less horny avatar and so am looking forward to pilfering one from the thread, but less great cause now I gotta work and sleep and poo poo inbetween runs

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:39

SeXReX: Jan 9, 2009; I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet

flatluigi posted:

oh no, sponsored content instead of static crowd shots between runs

I'm Thinkin arbys

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:45

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

SeXReX posted:

I don't even know how to respond to this in a healthy manner
https://twitter.com/Arbys/status/1081277336744538115?s=19

h jon benjamin talking about Arby's artisinal speedruns

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:46

DoctorWhat: Nov 18, 2011; A little privacy, please?

oh boy, maybe now enough scrutiny will be on GDQ staff that coolmatty might have to answer some basic questions about what behavior he does or does not believe is disqualifying for perspective runners.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:51

DizzyBum: Apr 16, 2007

SeXReX posted:

I don't even know how to respond to this in a healthy manner
https://twitter.com/Arbys/status/1081277336744538115?s=19

I think "don't eat Arby's" would certainly count as healthy.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:53

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flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

DoctorWhat posted:

oh boy, maybe now enough scrutiny will be on GDQ staff that coolmatty might have to answer some basic questions about what behavior he does or does not believe is disqualifying for perspective runners.

I didn't know Arby's had that much power

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:53

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