Nature of Mysterious Benefactor

[sabinati]

paradox supplied a community manager,

[Ysh]

paradox supplied a community manager,

Elaborate for this joke? This man did not do the good job, I am assume?

[MagicManICT]

paradox supplied a community manager,

The joke being that it was more or less "this community." Can you really manage this? Best you can do is hope you can herd the stray cat or so that is too curious to no pee on the electric fence.

[Kaios]

We didn't, though. We had graphics work outsourced to various places but that was that. We built the game.

Yeah that was my assumption, I just remembered a lot of people blaming the core developers (you) for the slow development as if you were somehow hindering any assistance from Paradix and from my perspective that wasn't the case at all.

[sabinati]

the initial salem community was far worse than this one

[MagicManICT]

Didn't help that there was a very "creative" ringleader behind it.

[Ysh]

paradox supplied a community manager,

The joke being that it was more or less "this community." Can you really manage this? Best you can do is hope you can herd the stray cat or so that is too curious to no pee on the electric fence.

I think this community will get worse reputation than it is deserving. It is not like mainstream community, but this is not mainstream game. Given the way in-game action is moderated, I am glad forum also has lax moderation.

[loftar]

Irrational fear of documentation (especially self-documenting codes)

I'd like to point out that code that documents itself without the need for using English is precisely what I try to do. That others can't seem to refuse to be able to read the clear, consistent and lavish language I'm expressing in the code can hardly be blamed on me.

The Master of Time

/tips hat

[Ysh]

Irrational fear of documentation (especially self-documenting codes)

That others can't seem to refuse to be able to read the clear, consistent and lavish language I'm expressing in the code can hardly be blamed on me.

The abilities of mortal men like me have limits, this I will admit. Sometimes we need a push from the highest power. O loftar, I beseech thee to share a piece of your infinite wisdom. Keep in your mind the idea that you can share this infinity and retain its whole sum, for this is the infinity's nature.

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public class Gob implements Sprite.Owner, Skeleton.ModOwner, Rendered {
    public Coord rc, sc;
    public Coord3f sczu;
    public double a;
    ...


I have pondered these greatest mystery for many of my days. I have restrained myself from knowing the love of the woman to unravel your secrets. So far I have concluded this ''rc'' will mean something like ''real coordinates'' while ''sc'' will become ''screen coordinates.'' This other one, ''a'' is meaning of ''angle'' for rotating. But this last puzzle continues to elude me. What is meaning of this teaching, ''sczu?'' Please grant me this mercy, so that your disciple may become closer to you.

[loftar]

I have pondered these greatest mystery for many of my days. I have restrained myself from knowing the love of the woman to unravel your secrets. So far I have concluded this ''rc'' will mean something like ''real coordinates'' while ''sc'' will become ''screen coordinates.'' This other one, ''a'' is meaning of ''angle'' for rotating. But this last puzzle continues to elude me. What is meaning of this teaching, ''sczu?''

See, your meditations and abstentions have paid off and you're entirely right. For the sake of completeness, it should perhaps be said that "real coordinates" is a contrast against the computed coordinates that getc() returns which can be modified in real-time by eg. Moving attributes.

"sczu", on its hand, is "screen coordinate Z-unit". That is, the unit length in the world-space Z-direction projected into screen coordinates from the object's origin. This can be gleaned from its origin in Coord3f.zu where it is calculated:

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Gob.this.sczu = proj.toscreen(mv.mul4(Coord3f.zu), wnd.sz()).sub(s);