So, what've I missed?

[Nobot]

I don't really take anyone who makes huge ass essays about modding a lego game serious.

Well that's a good way to dismiss someone's post.

For those of you who actually have the patience to read those modding essays, they bring up very interesting points.

[Ad Bot]

[SgtDaemon]

Well that's a good way to dismiss someone's post.

For those of you who actually have the patience to read those modding essays, they bring up very interesting points.

this

I actually enjoy reading these posts because they bring up valid arguments that are especially interesting for me since I'm planning to go with coding as a job

[Mr. Wallet]

forget the modding posts, trinick's last post is amazing. It's like a fractal of ouroboros.

[$trinick]

I think you have some kind of disorder that prevents you from interpreting what things apply to. Maybe I should write it out in documentation form for you:

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ProgrammingWorld::attachDebugger( HANDLE process ) - bool success -Attaches a debugger to a process. Has absolutely zero relevance to Blockland scripting because no Torque debuggers exist. Refers to your comment about how you love debuggers.

ProgrammingWorld::getDocumentation( void* function ) - const char* docs - Retrieves documentation. Theoretically applies to blockland in the imaginary scenario that Badspot actually writes documentation. Refers to your comment about how you love documentation.

Blockland::getDocumentation( void* function ) - void - Does nothing. We don't have documentation, this is the primary issue at hand.

GetSteamHandle() - HANDLE steam - Returns the process handle for the current instance of Steam.


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ProgrammingWorld world = new ProgrammingWorld(); // The world of programming. Oooooh.
Blockland BL = new Blockland(); // The world of Blockland.

if( world.getDocumentation == null ) // If documentation exists for nothing..
    print("Both Trinick and Wallet are upset.");

if( BL.getDocumentation != world.getDocumentation ) // If Blockland does not support documentation in the same way as the rest of the programming world
    print("Wallet is unhappy. Trinick doesn't mind.");
else // If it does..
    print("Wallet is happy. Trinick doesn't mind.");

if( world.attachDebugger( GetSteamHandle() ) != null ) // If debuggers work on a program that isn't Blockland..
    print("Trinick is happy. Apparently, Wallet is infatuated.");
else // If they don't..
    print("Trinick is unhappy. He has to do the programming equivalent of slamming his head against a nail and manually interpret the source code via a hex editor. Wallet has lost his love and is nowhere to be found.");

delete world; // whoops
delete BL; // so sad


[DiceyGrammar]

M's response is by far the most well spoken in this thread, bravo

[MegaZilla911]

This thread shall now be known as TL:DR: The Movie

[Honno]

This thread shall now be known as TL:DR: The Movie

lmao

[Yosher]

This thread shall now be known as TL:DR: The Movie

lol
this entire thread turned into an essay writing contest

[Blockzillahead]

forget the modding posts, trinick's last post is amazing. It's like a fractal of ouroboros.

yeah forget em. this thread made it very clear that many modders on this forum are just a bunch of entitled try hards. makes me question how many are doing it because they enjoy it or expect some sort of payment in return like fame or money.

[Maxwell.]

lol
this entire thread turned into an essay writing contest

sir dooble will win this

[Dodger]

I hope one of the essays (most likely M's) maybe stirs some future motivation for development

sir dooble will win this

probably

[Gamefandan]

Isn't tl;dr essentially the same as "no one cares"? Seems dismissive enough to me.

[AutoBahn]

Isn't tl;dr essentially the same as "no one cares"? Seems dismissive enough to me.

It's sort of a mash of dismissiveness and not caring, yeah.

[Mr. Wallet]

Well having only read a small fraction of the thread, the most dismissive thing I've seen so far is to just have the single word "pretentious /\", and Badspot liked it; based on that and many other examples over the years, I'm fairly certain that Badspot's own self-imposed rules only apply to you if he doesn't happen to agree with you. This may perhaps be seen as another reflection of his inclination towards the study of jurisprudence.

On the other hand, reading trinick's stuff, I can totally understand where the dismissive people are coming from. Thinking about even trying to respond to his stuff is like looking at a plane wreck and trying to decide how to start cleaning it up; except that the wreckage violates euclidean geometry. Currently my only bookmark to this site is to the previous page because his quotestorm post was so hilarious I was almost in tears.

[ultimamax]

Isn't tl;dr essentially the same as "no one cares"? Seems dismissive enough to me.

IIRC you are allowed to say "no one cares" to an individual post, but not to the OP/entire topic

I definitely agree with the modders that have come out of the woodwork (or the so called "essay writers")
I hope they spark some actual change