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Is a magic dog a Labracadabrador?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Well, I was right, it would have made a great TotD ... 
Bugger. I must check my "Old posts" file better ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I much prefer you post only original material, not warmed-over pap.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: much prefer you post only original material, not warmed-over pap pup
FTFY 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I know what 'pap' is. I just thought it was a good opportunity for a pun. Apparently, not good enough...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Oh, oh sounds like you're in deep Shih tzu.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That's what you might collie.
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Well, it does strike terrier in the hearts of men.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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And here it is, the dog days of August.
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'I've seen that mongrel before' he muttered.
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I've taken to modding fallout 4, and wow is it laborious.
There are so many interlinked forms, tables, and objects all entered through a kind of clunky data entry UI. It took me all night to extend the Strength perk tree (if you play you know what this is) so perks have ranks going all the way up to level 100, and I'm still not quite done with it.
Imagine having to code in C#, except instead of writing code, you had a data entry form with a table of classes in it, a table with methods for the classes in it each with an associated parent class id, and in *those methods* you could write actual code. That's what it's like, only there are dozens of tables for different kinds of "classes" (kind of like C# has enums and interfaces except on steroids)
Bethesda really needs a front end so you can write your data in some sort of declarative language and then compile it into an esp/esl/esm data file.
I can only imagine how many hours could have been saved developing this game for want of better tools.
Parsers are useful. More accurately, compiler front ends are useful. Coulda used one here.
Real programmers use butterflies
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The missing front end probably gets the Bethesda developers in the right "the end is near" mood
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Is this paid work you are doing or for your gaming pleasure?
World of Warcraft uses Lua for their client side mods/addons. No UI for editing. VS Code with the Lua extensions is what a lot of mod-devs use now.
modified 18-Aug-21 11:16am.
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It's just my own thing. It's basically donationware.
Real programmers use butterflies
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It's possible they have something better internally, but are only offering the dumbed down version to the general public either because the internal tool has issues (can't be cleanly limited to modable values, lacks sanity checking, etc) or is just seen as having too steep a learning curve for the average mod-maker.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Put one together. Sell it to them. Retire.
Then with more free time, you can play the game and...oh, wait. You'll be back on this, won't you...
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Drunken slob bet endless burp would put things in order. (6,4)
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 As I must attend a funeral tomorrow morning, it would be out of order to answer.
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{groan}
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nice clue Steve 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Correct. YAUT
modified 18-Aug-21 5:24am.
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Hot d@mn! I actually got that one. Mercifully after someone else did, but still I figured one out.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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