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Eight is too many. It doesn't feel like a constraint.

I can't completely automate YouTube uploads because it requires OAuth.

I can certainly put it in a cron job to automate it. I've not done anything with YouTube's API yet, I'd have to look into that.

I do seem to flip the Y-axis exactly once immediately before rendering the frame, which should be correct. I'll have to check my assumptions. Honestly though if there was a trend wouldn't it be more likely to be consistently aligned with the axes (i.e. up and right)?

So I created a new version: https://youtu.be/E0PEdmId8Ag.

The frames are now timestamped so you know when each frame was. I added some music to keep it interesting, music credits in the video description. It is also automatically panning and zooming, although not perfectly. Still better than my original attempt at this many months ago though. Interesting fact about this video is that it covers the transition between the old and new Eve spawn systems.

Now wondering if I can do something cleaner looking and more diagrammatic like identifying lineages and computing and rendering Voronoi cells for each one to show the shifting landscape of the lineages active on the server. Would be a lot more complicated but the pictures in my head are pretty cool.

Oh wow! That's pretty much all objects, right? Might need to shuffle map density down 50%?

I agree with Stylin about the whole actions have consequences side of things. But it does seem unsustainable.

As an alternative approach what if there were blessings as well as curses. Blessings could make your speech bubble steadily shinier for your current life and would serve as an indication that people in the community appreciate what you've been doing. If you die with several blessings (and maybe haven't been cursed during your life?) then your lifetime curse score decreases.

I know it seems rough around the edges but I think it has potential.

Hi Jason,

I've done Xvfb into OHOL before. I set up an automatic map pull system for sammoh over on 2HOL like a year ago now, think it's still running.
$ xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0 1280x768x24" ./OneLife

I've also used Xvfb for other continuous integration on OpenGL based games to run graphical tests and generate artifacts to include in the CI report.

And I've done both of these things on Linode's hypervisors.

In short, it works, very definitely.

Edit: setting SDL_AUDIODRIVER=none is probably necessary for OHOL to run headless.

Of course I knew you were being sarcastic. I mean your post wasn't even formed as a letter and wasn't directed at the people you said it was too so you were being sarcastic on both sides of this. And just to put an end to this before this chain of people "not understanding sarcasm" before it gets even longer, I'm going to assume you are being sarcastic here too.

On a more serious note, I'm quite unlikely to believe anything you say is an honest opinion at this stage. One of the downsides of the way you represent yourself online is that the default assumption surrounding anything you say will probably be that it is either sarcasm or flamebait.

I'm aware this is unsolicited advice which I try and avoid so instead let me phrase this as anecdotal evidence. I have enjoyed a great deal of personal and professional success in my life, for which I am exceedingly grateful. Every last bit of that success I can trace back to my intention to be kind and sincere in everything I do. Invest in people, friend, it pays dividends in so many wonderful ways. Anyway, I don't expect that observation to change you but maybe you'll think about it. (Edit: And if you don't then maybe some else will...)

Hi Toxic,

Thanks for getting in touch.

You’ll be pleased to know than your ban was a unanimous decision by the moderators. We operate within very clear guidelines at this point, all laid out in the rules channel, and you were TO’d several times and your behaviour was getting worse. That was your warning. We don’t like to ban people and try to have patience with people, using timeouts as we go where people are going too far. But patience is limited, we have other things to do and will not accept responsibility for managing your behaviour indefinitely.

We’re quite happy for you to have additional accounts at this stage right up to the point that those accounts also break the rules.

Best wishes,
Chard

Likewise!

The convention with log files is that they should be consistent and unambiguous and human readable. Programs don’t care about the extra data and humans do so there’s no sense not having it, it just makes the log file more useful to humans and no less useful to programs.

Regarding the extra file size. Firstly it will compress well which is good to know. Secondly we’re talking about approx 10% file size. Personally I’d wait for it to look like an issue before compromising the utility of the logs. Profile first etc.

Isn't the message of this video drastically undercut but them using the first two bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony without attribution? On a title screen saying the song was by Nina Paley no less.