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    I reckon the best python resource is probably https://diveintopython3.net/ - especially if you already know other languages, but even if not (though it might be a bit fast).

    In general if you're starting out it's very hard to learn without trying to achieve a concrete task - so coding problem based websites can help a lot here (see https://www.codingame.com/start for one that might appeal to this audience), but also having a bigger project like building some kind of application is possibly even more useful.

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    7 hours ago, LazyBoy said:

    Gameplay-wise are there any innovations? I love the setting, tone and all that other good stuff, but last time I played something similar I got bored quick.

    If you're talking about the game in general, it's very innovative from a gamplay perspective - almost all stats relate to different aspects of your pesonality - e.g. empathy, ability to work things out visually, solidarity with other cops, etc. Everything is dialogue based, with a lot of dnd style skill checks, and no combat. In addition to a traditional inventory you also have a thought cabinet, where you can mull over ideas that have come up in the course of the game and ultimately affect your stats and personality.

    This latest updated PC and console addition adds a few additional quests and full voice acting (in addition to a lot of bugs, at present), but not much more than that.

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    On 15/10/2017 at 8:25 PM, Ashley said:

    I know nobody else is watching so I shall keep this relatively brief, but the last episodes of Halt and Catch Fire were on yesterday (available on Amazon Prime tomorrow) and it was such a beautiful finale, which is not a description I've used before for a TV finale but that's the best way to describe it.

    The way the show went from a me-too attempt at Mad Men to something so unique, so dense in character by the time it finished four seasons later is outstanding.  The decision to shift focus to Bishé and Davies' characters in season 2 worked really well, and I'm glad that the majority of the finale was actually focused on that. 

    Someone else go watch all 40 hours of it so I can talk to someone about it.

    Actually I've come back because I've had more thoughts.

    I guess in many ways it is one of the most personal shows I've watched.  It is ultimately about creating.  About the difficulties you face in that, about having to balance that with other commitments and desires, about the need to collaborate and connect and how that can come at the expense of your own self and your work.  It's a show that uses technology to explore humanity in such a wonderful way.  I've not seen anything else approach the creative process in such a profound and accurate manner.

    I had mixed feeelings about this show when I saw season 1. I liked the realisation of the time period, and the tech, and the crazy atmosphere, but I thought though the characters had promise, they ended up a bit two-dimensional, and the show got a bit cyclical, with Joe repeatedly letting down Gordon etc. I ended up giving up very early on in season 2. Do you think it's worth persevering with?

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    Has nobody else seen season 2 yet? The first few episodes are a little bit slow, but after that it's brilliant, with the possible exception of

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    the dodgy seventh episode, which seemed like something out of a different show.

     

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    Do you get a BSOD, or does it just turn off by itself?

     

    Try entering the command sfc /scannow into an administrator terminal, and waiting for it to complete - this will check the integrity of your Windows installation. And following on from Shorty's comment about viruses, did you run any kind of AV software?

  12. Posted · Edited by Supergrunch

    Today I occasionally got the message that my IP adress has been banned. Even when I'm not logged in.

     

    The issue is "resolved" a couple of minutes after I get the message but returns sometime later.

     

    Edit: Keep getting the message every now and then.

    Do you have a dynamic IP, and if so, do you get the problem when you're assigned a specific address?

     

    Edit: Looks like you do have a dynamic IP - check if it's always the same when you get the error.

  13. Posted · Edited by Supergrunch

    Yeah, lots of spam accounts are probably just automated, and just trawl the web searching for forums, outfox the captchas or outsource them to people who'll do them for cheap, then scrape the forum and use some kind of algorithm to generate and/or seach for vaguely plausible stuff to post.

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    Clicked "forum" tab up top and got redirected to a black page with HostGator branding, and in the left corner it says "Webmaster please contact HostGator.com"? I can access the forums from thread-to-thread though...

     

    EDIT: ...aaaaaaand it's gone. Please ignore this!

    Looks like n-europeforums.com is no longer registered (possibly following the host changeover), which is what that tab links to. @Shorty should be able to fix the link.

  16. Posted · Edited by Supergrunch

    In English title capitalisation is getting gradually less common, although it's still fairly frequently used. And note that when you do it, you shouldn't capitalise more functional words, like prepositions and articles and so on. But more importantly, Squeenix use the capitalised version as the title of the game! You can't tell from the game logo because it's all in caps, but see their official website - although their Twitter capitalises the is too! The plot thickens.

     

    [/pointless rambling]

  18. Posted · Edited by Supergrunch

    I had a look at a few reviews of the episode, and a couple (IGN and Gamespot if I recall correctly) seemed to think it had a good opening and ending, but lagged in the middle. In particular

    the detective puzzle seemed to be unpopular. I actually really liked it - it held your hand a little bit, but not so much that it felt like you weren't working anything out. Certainly better than the trivial "you connected the evidence!" things in The Wolf Among Us.

     

    Also the rewind of the timeline at the start of the episode didn't go down to well. But I have a feeling that the choice there will be fairly important in episode 5...

     

  20. Posted · Edited by Supergrunch

    Boy, I sure hope you didn't spell it langugaes throughout.

    Langage is actually a technical term, but sadly langugae isn't. Obviously I meant langwich.

    On a serious note, I am somewhat confused by your topic. Is it saying that peoples of different language backgrounds have different cognitive processes of categorisation?

    No, quite the opposite! Basically languages vary very widely, but not in a completely unbounded way, and it's not clear how the brain encodes this information. If it's encoded in a complex way, then this explains the weird patterns of variation seen, but involves the postulation of lots of implausible innate structure. So it seems more plausible that it's encoded in a simple way, but this doesn't predict the patterns of variation, and in general makes acquisition a lot harder. Howver, if acquisition is driven by general cognitive categorisation processes, then you can explain the patterns of variation while also encoding them in a simple way.

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