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https://www.entertainmentearth.com/s/music-and-instruments/p

Jaws and Superman soundtracks? Could be fun!

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What happens when you slap a rocket engine onto a pod? You get a Goblin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin

That would’ve been terrifying to pilot!

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Finally picked up Interstellar on 4k disc and it was spectacular!

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I just finished removing all of the unnecessary parentheses and void parameters. I also think I finished fixing up all of the whitespace changes I missed before. Gone ahead and pushed everything up and they pass the CI

The readability of the code improves all the time!

I probably should take a break for a few days before moving to the next task but my last break only lasted an hour before I got bored. 😛

Will decide tomorrow!

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Yeah, I’ll plan on looking at the loops and other things that work with them and see how it’s all handled. It’ll be easier once more of the reorganization is done as we’ll have a better handle on what uses them.

There are also some commented lines in there that look important. They copy the expression stack into memory for later output into the final product. Definitely need to test the script compiler to see what the current state of it is. Already have an issue to review dead code but I’ll add a note that it could be affecting the compiler’s behavior.

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Okay, note added.

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Nope, never used a Lian Li case before but they’ve always been on my wishlist to try. Really wanted to try out one of their cube cases as I liked the aesthetic. Maybe one day I’ll get one! Not too hard to find around here, even camera shops like Adorama sell them interestingly enough.

Silverstone also has some good looking cases.

Biggest issue would be the assembly. Had to stop trying to build my own systems as I kept having trouble with them. Maybe I just need to find the case to work with? May give it another go at some point before I give up entirely

Those look like good additions to the book case. Don’t like to read short story collections on the eReader as sometimes I just want to flip to a certain one so a physical copy is preferred. Will keep an eye out next time I wander over to the bookstore 🙂

And while we’re talking weird animal facts, camels’ urine has the viscosity of syrup!

Had this come in the other day. Could be a fun little addition 🙂

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I think it may have been the small sign the HoA used as it was just an index card. They said they talked to them the other day and I put in my larger sign so hopefully that fixes the problem. We’re at the tail end of the growing season though so it’ll take a while for the new stuff to do its thing

Most places don’t sell plants on the Internet, partly due to restrictions on biologicals across borders. Sad to hear they closed down 🙁

I tried planting tomatoes a few years back but they didn’t take. I do have a vine, either a melon or a squash, that grew up out my compost heap. Not sure what it is but it hasn’t bloomed at all so I’m not sure it’ll do anything 🙁

You could try lightweight fencing. Would need to be tall to keep them from reaching, though. There are some wildlife friendly tips here that may be worth a try. Maybe raid the comb? Unhelpfully, one tip everywhere is, “Don’t plant stuff deer eat.” That doesn’t really help!

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Got another one to investigate: https://github.com/Walrus-Tech/MWEdit/blob/master/project/EsmScriptCompile.cpp#L6301

The return statement terminates the function before it does anything at all yet the rest of the code is uncommented. We’ll want to see why it terminates early and remove something depending on the reason. If it’s an error, we can remove the return. If the rest has bugs, we’ll need to make a note of that. And so forth

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More conditional compilation lines that can possibly be removed:
#if !defined(NO_ESMLIST_EDIT)
That’s in project/EsmListCtrl.cpp and project/EsmListCtrl.h. From what I can tell, that macro is used to disable the editing of the records of each file (not entirely sure as the files are undocumented). It may be for debugging reasons or something else. Will need investigating before we disable that check to make sure the files work correctly. The macro is disabled by default so you need to tell the compiler to disable editing so I suspect that the conditional is no longer needed. It’s not hurting anything by leaving it in, other than slowing down compilation by a few nanoseconds and looking weird in the code.

In any case, it’s another line that needs to be changed to #ifndef NO_ESMLIST_EDIT at the bare minimum for modernization 🙂

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Doesn’t look like we’re getting much feedback regarding the release. Was kind of hoping to learn more about what was broken and needed updating after being in cold storage for twenty years. Anyways, let’s just keep pushing forward. Still have a lot of readability and compatibility updates to do anyways. The latter may very well fix some oddities that aren’t being reported 🙂

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While it appears that Lian Li has discontinued their cube cases, this one looks absolutely insane

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Just finished Black Clover. It’s really good! Recently, they announced that they’re going to continue the story after the cliff hanger they left us with the final episode four years ago. Anime takes a while to produce and even longer to translate so it’s going to be a while, sadly. I’ll just need to watch the first part again when the next part starts to land!

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https://www.techspot.com/news/108655-holographic-ribbon-challenges-magnetic-tape-50-year-longevity.html

Tape making a comeback wouldn’t be a bad thing. It’s cheap and small enough to spot in for bulk storage. Its biggest issue has been retention due to the technology: it can easily become demagnetized, corrupting or losing the data. Music tapes and VHS tapes only had a lifespan of a few years before they would start breaking down, for instance.

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Wild grapes are ready to pick a few weeks early! Going to start snacking! 😀

Just made my third attempt at planting ground cover. The landscapers whacked it back again before it was established so I had to replant. I’ve ordered a larger sign to put out to hopefully fix the problem

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Some of the arrays have stray commas in them. I forget if an empty comma means it’s automatically initialized to zero or whatever but that’ll need to be looked at before the strays are removed.

Here’s an example from EsmSoundGen.cpp:

const TCHAR *l_SoundGenTypes[] = {
	_T("Left Foot"),
	_T("Right Foot"),
	_T("Swim Left"),
	_T("Swim Right"),
	_T("Moan"),
	_T("Roar"),
	_T("Scream"),
	_T("Land"),
};

The final element has a stray comma. It’s possible that it automatically sets the missing element to zero but I’ll need to relearn that. If so, then the zero or null values need to be added instead of a blank entry. If it means nothing, then the strays should probably be removed.

project/EditViewObj.cpp can be removed. It’s an empty source file and not mentioned in any file at all and doesn’t have an associated header file. Same with project/EditViewSort.cpp. Will remove them when I rename the couple of files that need it.

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I think we can remove the stray commas as we have this in project/EsmContainDlg.cpp:

static esmcoldata_t l_ItemColData[] = {
	{
		_T("Count"),
		ESM_FIELD_CUSTOM,
		LVCFMT_CENTER,
		ESMLIST_WIDTH_COUNT + 20,
		ESMLIST_SUBITEM_COUNT,
		l_ContSortCallBack
	},
	{
		_T("ID"),
		ESM_FIELD_ID,
		LVCFMT_LEFT,
		ESMLIST_WIDTH_ID,
		ESMLIST_SUBITEM_ID,
	},
	{
		_T("Mod"),
		ESM_FIELD_CHANGED,
		LVCFMT_CENTER,
		ESMLIST_WIDTH_CHANGED,
		ESMLIST_SUBITEM_CHANGED
	},
	{
		_T("Name"),
		ESM_FIELD_NAME,
		LVCFMT_LEFT,
		ESMLIST_WIDTH_NAME,
		ESMLIST_SUBITEM_NAME
	},
	{
		_T("Type"),
		ESM_FIELD_ITEMTYPE,
		LVCFMT_LEFT,
		ESMLIST_WIDTH_INDEX,
		ESMLIST_SUBITEM_ITEMTYPE
	},
	{
		NULL,
		0,
		0,
		0
	} /* Must be last record */
};

It uses a mixture but the number of elements also differs in each block. Not entirely sure, more research is definitely needed.

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I’m seeing some notes like this: TODO: Proper autocalc. We’ll probably want to decipher them as they look important. There’s also a to-do list in the docs folder that may help shed some light on things that I haven’t gone through yet.

Still waiting to get my account approved at the UESP forums. I’ll probably need to poke them at some point.

We may also want to update the link on the UESP Wiki, too, or at least add an additional link to our fork as it still points to the old Sourceforge page. Wouldn’t be a bad idea to ask the UESP wiki folks first. I’m not entirely sure of their etiquette regarding that sort of thing

The talk page on the wiki has some interesting points, as well. Can confirm that there’s little BSA support so we’ll want to look at adding that in at some point. As I recall, BSA files consisted of a block for the flags, file list, size, and then the data compressed using zlib but I last looked into it circa 2013. Will create a new issue!

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So I started playing MtG Commander a few weeks ago using borrowed decks. Turns out, I’m actually pretty good. So far, every game I’ve won has been due to Craterhoof Behemoth. Yesterday, I set things up in such a way that I did something like 500 points of damage in a single turn thanks to the elephant 😛

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We now have a Discord server: https://discord.gg/AAAnesEgJe

I think everything is set up properly but we’ll find out!

We’ll probably want to add some of the additional information to the first post, including the thread links.

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Yeah, Black Clover is an anime series so can be a bit hard to get over the air. I use Crunchyroll for the majority of the anime that I watch and I know Netflix has a few series locked up too. It really is a lot of fun if you can tune in! 🙂

Nope, haven’t seen The Purge but I have seen the Star Trek episode it’s based off of! Really need to give Trek a rewatch. Sadly, the entire franchise is now exclusive to Paramount+ over here 🙁

Ugh. Someone should turn it into a museum! Will try and catch it at some point!

I think I’ll take a short break from anime after I finish up Black Clover in a few days to watch a few more B-movies. They’re beckoning to me! 😛

Then I think I’ll catch up on Fairy Tail. Been a while since I’ve seen it and that was mid-series!

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Okay, the MIT license has been added 🙂

The CI also caught a few parentheses (turns out I’ve been spelling it wrong in the commits, oh well) that I accidentally removed during the editing I’m doing. That’s a good thing! That’s what it’s for!

Copyright notice may need to be changed to Dave or UESP. Not entirely sure, I’ve asked Dave in the issue. It’s weird because we’re licensing code that wasn’t licensed before so there wasn’t an existing copyright notice but the parallel was licensed as the MIT with UESP being the copyright holder. Little bit confusing.

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