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posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 5:39 PM on October 27, 2013

I am just about tempted to try NaNoWriMo again this year. I did it once a good number of years ago, but this time, I don't know, I feel my "random musing" mode, which some might term "bullshitting," feels stronger, like I could just flow a lot better. It might end up looking more like a collection of essays though.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 9:57 PM on October 30, 2013

I keep getting terribly annoying security error dialogs in Firefox. Was fun what little I was able to play before getting too annoyed to continue.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 7:59 PM on October 23, 2013

Here's the text:
An uncaught error occurred, likely caused by a bug in the client. Try reloading the game. If you received a more detailed error message, please report it to the developer. [SecurityErrorEvent type="securityError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2048"]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 9:24 PM on October 23, 2013

I just had an extremely frustrating game with terrible lag. I would hold a key, release it, and keep walking for several seconds. My character would dance drunkenly and consistently by escape passages while making that obnoxious HURT noise. Very difficult to enjoy at the moment, maybe when lag is better.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 11:44 PM on October 23, 2013

Okay, further attempts at playing --

I tried it in Chrome, which ended the problem with the error messages. I still got into situations where it seemed like the character wasn't responding to my controls. These always seemed to happen in high-tension times too, like when getting hit repeatedly by fireballs, which leads me to guess it might be a focus problem? Lending weight to this is how my game came to an end, which was when moving the cursor up accidently outside… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 8:38 PM on October 24, 2013

I like these!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 8:28 PM on October 14, 2013

So, are you saying that the saddest thing possible is people saying something is the saddest thing possible? HMMMMMM?!?!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 9:31 AM on October 16, 2013

Python, I think, is an excellent starter language. Good luck!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 3:22 AM on September 27, 2013

And report back how it goes? I'm interested in how you're going to teach it. I have my own ideas about teaching Python, and things in general, and would like to hear how someone does it professionally.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 3:23 AM on September 27, 2013

I will try, thanks!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 6:19 PM on September 28, 2013

I'm the same way Shepherd, except I eventually got a reference book. There are still holes in my knowledge (decorators, *args and *kwargs, list comprehensions, anything involving lambda) but I'm getting there.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 5:22 PM on October 11, 2013

That was charming! And Dirtmo is a great name.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 3:25 PM on September 19, 2013

The list "only" has 200 items in it, because that's YouTube's limit! I'm still working on getting some of the deadweight out of this one, and I've also stared a second list, DANGER RADIOACTIVE 2, for the overflow.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 7:03 PM on August 22, 2013

Here is Danger Radioactive 2, which is up to around 50-60 right now, it hasn't been culled so much though.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 1:12 PM on August 23, 2013

I continue to cull the lists. Anyone who has something to add is welcome to MeMail me.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 1:43 AM on August 24, 2013

List 2 is up to 100 videos!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 8:52 PM on August 24, 2013

Yeah, I'm still weeding out the long ones. I had the infamous "I am a cat" video in there, but then when I actually tried to watch it, it was megalong, I had to remove it. I'm still trying to get the right tone and style down, it's an evolving process.

Also, some of it is weird sketch comedy, I'm unsure if those fit in with the REALLY random stuff yet.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 2:13 PM on August 26, 2013

I just removed a few that got through. Everything on the first list should be less than seven minutes now, or really weird to make up for it.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 11:40 PM on August 26, 2013

Saw a posted for it in the local theater today, meaning it's got to have nationwide release. Very good!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 2:25 PM on August 22, 2013

"The Day The Machines All Started Singing" is great!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 7:21 PM on August 21, 2013

Huh! Thanks for your efforts, I'll have a look!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 3:37 PM on August 15, 2013

This is wonderful.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 12:44 PM on March 23, 2013

This might still be useful on the Blue, though.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 11:56 AM on January 30, 2013

Okay, now, how do we go about fixing the gameplay?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 8:53 PM on December 8, 2012

I'm working on a pony gaming megapost right now, this is definitely going in.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 4:31 PM on June 14, 2012

This project has been Cease And Desisted by Hasbro. Damn them to hell.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 1:22 AM on September 15, 2012

Next episode is DoomRL!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 11:54 PM on September 17, 2011

But "this will oneswellfoop" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 9:00 AM on November 17, 2010

I've never been able to see why people disable accounts rather than let them lie fallow. I mean, you might want to come back someday, right? Why burn bridges?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 9:03 AM on November 17, 2010

Good luck with it!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 1:03 AM on October 30, 2010

It is a valid entry, definitely.

It is difficult to speak insightfully about the game though without playing it. I might try it out with some friends tomorrow. If we do I'll let you know how it goes.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 3:52 PM on September 20, 2010

Yeah, I am sorry about the Wine thing. It is a problem with Game Maker in general it seems. YoYo Games appears to be working on a PSP runtime, of all things, but there is no word on a Linux version.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 3:49 AM on September 12, 2010

You can thank sfxr for that. It may not be the perfect tool for game sound creation (it could use some more options) but is pretty darn useful all the same.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 11:26 AM on September 12, 2010

Very interesting!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 3:17 AM on July 16, 2010

Me too magnificent frigatebird. Not having an iThing I can't even review it for @Play.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 1:15 AM on May 9, 2010

cortex: There have been one or two new versions since the original post. If you haven't already updated you might want to have a look.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 3:44 AM on May 10, 2010

Despite not really knowing a lot about the book, I voted for it because it jives with some personal observations from the past few years, about how really empathy seems to be on the outs. With the 4chan culture on one side and the Republican Party on the other, it seems like viewing things from the other guys' perspective is now perceived as something only losers do, and I hate that. (Although to be strictly honest, 4chan can be surprisingly empathetic some times, when news of some injustice… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 11:27 AM on February 18, 2010

magnificent frigatebird, I don't know about that. Game Mag Weaseling is pretty great, and GameSetLinks is nice for keeping informed on gaming stuff without spending hours pouring through the likes of Joystiq, Kotaku and Destructoid. And they had a great interview a few days back with Vic Davis, creator of Solium Infernum, who seems to be getting up there with Tarn Adams in cult designer popularity.

(Not that I don't appreciate the compliment!)
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 3:49 PM on February 14, 2010

The site seems to be down right now?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 11:24 AM on March 31, 2009

Aaah... it looked to me like the site was broken for a long time, but deleting the site cookie caused it to work again. Hmm.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 10:35 AM on April 16, 2009

Yeah, but on the other hand I have almost three months of strips backlogged at this point, enough to get me almost through the first year of the newspaper run. I did all that in two very intensive days. If you enjoy doing something it goes by in a flash, and I really like Peanuts. Back in first grade I checked out every Peanuts compilation the school library had multiple times.

But in any case, it's likely that the strip percentage will fall down a bit when it gets… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 11:06 AM on April 2, 2009

I use comics.com's Embed code. I reason they wouldn't have provided it if they didn't want people embedding strips in their pages. The code even links to the comics.com page, meaning I don't have to provide separate links, a useful bonus.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 1:53 PM on April 11, 2009

Thanks evilcolonel! Good luck in shooting down that beagle by the way.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 9:58 AM on April 15, 2009

Inform's documentation was frustrating?

Anyway, I registered but didn't get around to doing any work on my idea, which involved the player being trapped in a cave, having to engineer increasingly complex Rube Goldberg-style accidents to happen to himself, which would be shown to a subverbal monster sitting on a jeweled throne for his amusement. The monster's standards would increase throughout the game, and if the player failed to cause him sufficient mirth he'd get up… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 10:04 AM on April 1, 2009

I've was wondering about this very thing not long ago. Godspeed!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 5:22 PM on March 7, 2009

Out of curosity, is the idea for this taken from the MST song "A quick list of people much better-looking than Estelle (Winwood)"?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 7:24 AM on September 27, 2008

This is awesome!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 12:28 PM on August 15, 2008

Awesome!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 7:31 PM on July 24, 2008

Dangermouse!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by JHarris at 6:44 PM on June 21, 2008