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Ok, here are some quick tips for learning how to game program:
learn how to do some basic problems with programming, just to get used to problem solving with a programming language; e.g. write a sudoku solver or a fractal program or something like that. Then learn opengl.

[brag session] some quick facts about me.
I memorized macbeth in a week. (my favorite lines? most definitely the doctor.) I also memorized Death of a salesman and the musical camelot, but those took longer. Shakespeare is my real love.

I've taken the physics, bio, and chem SAT II. 800s on all of them. I've also aced the physics AP (well, I got a five), and got a 99 percentile on my two SATs. I'm a sophomore in high school

I piddle around programming, but I don't have the patience for any long term projects. Mostly, I write stories.[/brag session]

Being smart can turn out to be the worst thing that could ever happen to you.

At some point, you'll finally see through the shallowness of life and the meaninglessness of society. From that point on, you either get depressed or you begin to take nothing serious anymore.

And you're not wanted among the others who aren't at your level. They are scared and puzzled whenever you give another speech that contains another brilliant truth. If they could, they would suck up your smartness and kill you without thinking twice.

The only thing that will make you happy is using your brain. At some point, your only entertainment will become mental masturbation.

And because you will begin to realize all of this and it makes you sad, you'll begin to hide your smartness, grasping for chunks of normality. Just because you hope you can find some pride in being a tool among other tools, just shining here and there, as if it was coincidence.

Oh yeah, Nayr, you opened with [bragging], but ended with [/brag]. Markup doesn't work that way.

thanks. Dumb forum should complain about parse errors or something....

I dunno about y'all smart people, but I'm having a dandy time. Bring up the government, though, and I start slitting my wrists....

Seriously, it's us that can make it better! Change the world!

Uh oh, time for Rudel's moral-lifting medecine.

Watch out though, that's strong stuff. Not everybody can cope with the sheer load of it. Hope you handle it okay.

Moral of the day: I'd change the world, only I can't get up because I have a cat on my lap.

Cats: How are you gentlemen !!

I knew it would work.

With that video, I'm confident one could convey the meaning of 'cute' and 'adorable' to a shogun warrior or an alien hive queen (or both rolled into one?). They would just drop all warring intent and start raising kittens, just like I dropped the topic right here.

That's why I thought it would work on Rudel, who is after all a dancing rabbit (at least that's the impression I get from his avatar) (we're talking the same impression that says David is Sauron, now making video games).

Silb wrote:Watch out though, that's strong stuff. No everybody can cope with the sheer load of it. Hope you handle it okay.

Don't you mean stronge?

Silb wrote:With that video, I'm confident one could convey the meaning of 'cute' and 'adorable' to a shogun warrior...

Well, that wouldn't be hard. Samurai were supposed to be poets and philosophers, too. They probably made haiku about them:

Spring sun
shadow warrior kitten:
Shit! Tanto claws!

Silb wrote:...or an alien hive queen

Unfortunately, kittens look exactly like the genital parasites of hive queens. She'd crush his head with her pincer, and consume him to avoid wasting protein (she's eating for 50 gazillion, after all).

rudel_ic wrote:Being smart can turn out to be the worst thing that could ever happen to you.

Yah, life is hard. But it's hardest when you're dumb; your brain a dark and silent vac-u-um. On the other hand: no brains, no headaches.

Viking Zippy wrote:Don't you mean stronge?

I do indeed. I always mean stronge.

I said "noobs to porgramming", 'cause I FELT LIKE IT! GOSH!

What? Aliens eating kittens? Tanto claws?
No, no.
Therapy continues.

That chicken police one was crazy. It's like the chickens broke up the fight, counseled them for a bit, and then went on their way.


Freaken amazing.

They did, though.

Obviously if you can't understand creature-speak this wouldn't appear to be the case, but it's true, they did.