I'm stuck in Python!

[castironpi at gmail.com]

On May 13, 9:01 am, castiro... at gmail.com wrote:
> On May 13, 8:46 am, Sanoski <Joshuajr... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Any programming that helps you solve a problem is fun and
> > recreational. At least, that's how I look at it. I suppose it really
> > depends on why you're doing it, what your objective is, etc. But I'd
> > say, why not?
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> > Tron! That's one I haven't seen in awhile. I'll have to take a mental
> > note to rent the movie again someday. I always thought a game based on
> > the movie hackers would be cool. Actually not based on the movie
> > itself, but on that 3D computer world they kept breaking into. Ah man,
> > it's so funny looking back on that film. Gibson, that's what they
> > called it. It was like a 3D database. That in itself wouldn't make a
> > very good game, but I suppose one could easily be created around that
> > idea. Perhaps it could be combined with Lawnmower-man. You're somehow
> > trapped in this 80's looking 3D world that has access to all the
> > world's information. More stuff could be thrown in to make it more
> > interesting. And of course, there would have to be hidden references
> > or parodies to whatever movies inspired it.
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> > Good luck with your project
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> > Sincerely,
> > Joshua
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> > On May 13, 9:02 am, castiro... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > > Hi all.
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> > > I am trying to write to the Python newsgroup.  I doubt (aha, but
> > > doubt) that I have come to the right place.  (Incoming "this"!)  Is
> > > this the Python newsgroup?  I heard it was called comp.lang.python.
> > > Now to repeat the subject line.  I'm stuck in Python.
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> > > Now that was fun.  I will also try to enumerate simple screen savers
> > > (graphicals, graphiclizers).  It may be profitable on some non-bank-
> > > breaking scale to compile the results.  Shall I proceed?  The risk is
> > > "overunity", such that one person can't be at liberty to live, which
> > > in some technical political arenas would be an "anarchy", but there
> > > are sufficiently many of those that I will too.
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> > > Does anyone want such a list, or if not, is it at least fun and
> > > recreational to make it?  The dollar would come along the lines of
> > > PowerPoint (name (tm)), so it may be free to do it, very entertaining,
> > > and peaceable.  (As the above would show, you would be free to
> > > approach me to -buy-; I won't oversell.)  I like programming.  (And is
> > > Guido getting his fair share?  I am prepared to share with him.)
> > > Check in his name.
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> > > I want to try to ally with other programmers and make cool games, like
> > > Tron, that one party can make games for on a console, such as live
> > > obstacles, incl. tear-down, and certain people have to play from time
> > > to time.  But you can't charge to do it, so it's a guaranteed game.
> > > (That in virtue of that I'm typing.)  Advantages include microspacing
> > > of time.  Very summer.
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> > > Resemblances would include Dungeons & Dragons with multi-host, or
> > > multi-ref small-shooter sport-likers.  The real-time is definitely
> > > attractive (duh).  As for voice, it's not clear it's the most
> > > entertaining, but I just don't have a mic.
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> > > However, forseeing, I return with sailing, but that's in 3-space and
> > > not even in code, as though we'd construct the Royal Navy and battle.
> > > But I think we can keep it well.
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> > > Thing is, someone has to play it to keep a synch (keep from falling),
> > > and tap-outs would have to live.
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> > > Side note: In political theory, this is known as the problem of
> > > nominating a successor.  Would it stay afloat, even for long enough to
> > > make it worth the negatives, yes which do include tear-down and fall,
> > > invasion of privacy, and rights infrigement?
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> > > I code in Python (get the callbacks), but configurable servers could
> > > spread the work out, using relays to put each person on each's own
> > > turf to be a ref.  If you feed the roles, it could get really fun, and
> > > c-l-py is the appropriate place to start such a thing, both and ask if
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> My bot just tries to take control and lead.  (The bot that I'm
> writing!)  However, it is amusingly unsuccessful.  We see in lines, so
> the game would be pretty primitive, but I'm not sure that everything
> else isn't merely too exciting, such that Tron wouldn't be monkey-in-
> the-middle, or king of the hill, of fun.  I'm just not on a hill, so
> someone else would have to try to play it with me online!- Hide quoted text -
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But, since, I'm just Tron, I will try short and repeated attempts to
sophisticate, at quantifiable levels, as I would be more than one.