Wanna Fanta, Don't You Wanna?

[lp0 on fire]

Ouch sorry to hear that, I am on the same boat as you as far as jobs. <_<

Only the previous employer I left on good terms with....is one I never want to return to.

Good luck Fantanoice!


Judging by your name, if you order a drink you get it with no ice. Is this correct?

(I get called weird and freak all the time for that... well at my last job by my coworkers (good nature jabbing it was) )

Thanks for the good wishes.

Yeah I'll typically order no ice. Get more drink that way.

I just normally take a while to finish I don't want to deal with the waterdownedness of it.
And well I grew up on warm pop.

What inspired you to go in to CS/programing/Game Dev?

[fantanoice]

Liking video games mainly. XD I used to draw Pokémon OCs as a kid and took all the art and computer classes I could in school because I liked both. Then found out there was a Uni course that could let me do both in a double degree, majoring in game development.

And fwiw I really hate the term 'programmer art' because we shouldn't pigeonhole people like that.

[lp0 on fire]

Liking video games mainly. XD I used to draw Pokémon OCs as a kid and took all the art and computer classes I could in school because I liked both. Then found out there was a Uni course that could let me do both in a double degree, majoring in game development.

And fwiw I really hate the term 'programmer art' because we shouldn't pigeonhole people like that.

Well programming is truly an art, when compared to a science.

Science is suppose to be predictable results
Programming is
A gallon of "...but my code worked yesterday and I didn't change anything!"
A cup of "My code doesn't work I don't know why, my code works I don't know why" here
A mix of "++i" breaks the program some how...when it shouldn't, and no one can figure out why (true story <_<)
A dash of "99 bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code, patch one out, pass code around, 127 bugs in the code"
and finally a pinch of "HTML(4) is programming"

And you got your self a program.

at lease that was my experience with programing.

I enjoyed the programming classes I took I just couldn't see my self doing it as a job....also programming for me some what reveled too much behind the curtain for me and I was finding games less enjoyable.

Whats your editor (or) IDE of choice?

[fantanoice]

When you get weird problems like the ++i one it's time to get the disassembler out and see what the program is actually doing.

(I should really learn to read some assembly.) XD

I agree that knowing how games work takes away some of the magic. It's a little sad but not a big enough deal to stop me doing it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I use Visual Studio as my IDE. For professional stuff I've used Unity and a proprietary engine. I'm currently taking a MOOC to learn UE4.

[lp0 on fire]

It was via a PuTTY SSH session all we had to work with was CLI Linux, Nano, GCC/G++ oh and 80 CHAR Width.

Fun times....

I blame my intro to programing in more of using text editors like Geany or sublime vs an actual IDE. (But I don't program a lot soo...)

Favorite Food?

[fantanoice]

Probably either parma, roast lamb or potato salad

[lp0 on fire]

So you recently build your first PC, What are the specs?

[fantanoice]

Oh and pavlova, I really like pavlova.

Build:
GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Turbo Edition 11GB
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Processor with Wraith Spire RGB Fan
Mobo: ASUS ROG Strix B350-F
Storage: Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD
RAM: T-Force Dark Pro DDR4 16gb 3200MHz
OS: Windows 10

Salvaged from my old computer:
Storage: WD Green 2T HDD
Case: Cooler Master 430 Elite
Power Supply: Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus 600W
Cooling: 3x Cooler Master fans

[lp0 on fire]

Nice, so why did you go team Red?

[queenzelda]

Are you playing the new Spiderman game, or thinking about it? I hope I didn't come off like I'm 'above super hero games' it's just they really have never appealed to me &I have no idea why tbh.

[fantanoice]

Nice, so why did you go team Red?

Are you talking about the RAM?

Are you playing the new Spiderman game, or thinking about it? I hope I didn't come off like I'm 'above super hero games' it's just they really have never appealed to me &I have no idea why tbh.

Nah but my boyfriend spent all weekend playing it. I don't care much for super heroes either. Just the movement / action in this one looks really fast and exciting so I'm keen to try it out when I get around to it.

[lp0 on fire]

It's slang for chip makers. I don't know how it started I have just seen it form Linus Tech Tips to El Reg
Team Red = AMD
Team Blue = Intel
Team Green = Nvidia

[fantanoice]

Because AMD are just as good as Intel at the moment and half the price

[lp0 on fire]

Because AMD are just as good as Intel at the moment and half the price

I have my reservations with AMD based on their history. When I was a wee lad AMD (This is the mid to late Pentium era) was the underdog king. Their CPUs were better and cheaper then Intel, then duel core came along and they were BTFO by Intel and just made a ton of bad decisions and choices and rotted in to irrelevancy rather quickly, which is some what ironic as the 64bit architecture widely used is from AMD (even Intel's chips uses it).
(My first real computer was an Athlon XP 2300+ IIRC, I wish I still had it around)
Also traditionally AMD's single core performance has been lack luster vs Intel, and sure most usecases these days don't require it but if you play a lot of games back from single core days (like me) it can really hurt you.

Don't get me wrong I would love to see AMD back nipping at Intel's heels again and forcing Intel to compete again, but I am just worried that AMD will repeat its course of history of shining for a few short years then spending a good decade+ in irrelevancy, and as some one who will keep around computers for a long time (and since I do IT work...) I need to know the main hardware components I use will be supported for a while, even more so in a work environment (which AMD is just starting to get back in to, but last time they just left enterprise users high and dry).

But yeah, I forgot to tell you I rant

Other then Fanta any other favorite drinks?

[fantanoice]

I'm aware of AMD's history but they're killing it at the mo with the Threadripper and Ryzen. People wanted AMD to come back because Intel were sucking without competition and that's where we are. 


I actually don't like Fanta all that much. I'm just stuck with the name because I've been using it for so long  I like iced tea. And warm tea. And lukewarm tea.