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feos wrote:
Nice. Do you think it's worth it to make the thing you did at 4+7 later, and to write "pffff whatever" instead of the question mark?
This would, unfortunately, require redoing the seed. The manipulation done in 4+7 is short of the hardest manipulation I've done in the entire set (6 numbers in a row!) even though it looks really natural, and relocating it would require an answer ending in 11, 12, 15, 18 or 19 to even have a shot at reproducing this.
Then what about writing that text right in that seed? Having a mere question mark there loses all the fun the text would give. After ELEVEN, it won't look like too much craziness going too soon. The point of it is also that this exact phrase was said by PJ during some of his AGDQ runs (and he's famous for breaking everything accidentally and giving super fun comments about it), will try to find it.
No idea why micro changed my original request to end with a ? in the script.
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Right now I have enough images to get me through question #12, but I will need someone to draw up a BSOD image soon. Here's a reference image if you need one.
The error should start with "A problem has been detected...", with that text being cut off on the edge of the screen. Maybe mention an ERROR_MATH or something like that, and also include "TASBot" in the error message as well. If possible, I'd prefer it to be white text on a black background, but if that isn't doable that's fine.
I had tried drawing the BSoD before, the problem I encountered is that there's "to much" text that using a black background simple takes to much space to make a word, even more a full sentence. You can surely use the font text but the size is still to big for it plus the proportions doesn't look like a true BSoD. (Even a short message wouldn't feel like a real error screen in my opinion...)
I was thinking right now that maybe use a different error, something like "error 404 - Handwriting number recognition not found"...
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my out-loud todo (I GOT FREE TIME BACK! HELL YES!):
I will need someone to draw up a BSOD image soon. Here's a reference image if you need one.
The error should start with "A problem has been detected...", with that text being cut off on the edge of the screen. Maybe mention an ERROR_MATH or something like that, and also include "TASBot" in the error message as well. If possible, I'd prefer it to be white text on a black background, but if that isn't doable that's fine.
How is this?
I had to create an inverted text to do this. Here it is if anyone else needs it:
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How is this?
Awesome! I know it is hard to get a lot to fit. Can you please incorporate the text that appeared when I was trying to get Twitch chat going at AGDQ 2015? It was something like que? Over and over or some other copypasta. Maybe that would require its own question to do it justice...
Can you please incorporate the text that appeared when I was trying to get Twitch chat going at AGDQ 2015? It was something like que? Over and over or some other copypasta. Maybe that would require its own question to do it justice...
I think that would be better saved for another question. We can make that part of the Twitch "Plays" Brain Age sequence.
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I suggest to draw the letters in black, but figure out a font that's so small it's barely readable, and only resembles the original letters. That way you could make a lot more text fit, right now it simply looks nothing like a bsod screen, which is very recognizable to everyone. I'll try out the alphabet I'm imagining soon.
Another suggestion: don't actually write the bsod text, draw it by filling the black (or white) gaps line by line. Would look more like a smart puzzle where the result is not guessed instantly, like in Baxter's Tetris playaround.
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If we want to fit as much text as possible for the BSoD, here is a quick test, changing the first line of my version to a minimalist font. Thoughts?
And here is the same approach but using a consistent height for each letter. This one requires a black four-pixel line at the top of the screen so we may lose a line but it looks a bit less wonky (and could still be tweaked a bit to make the letters look a bit more consistent):
Here's a quick example of minimalist inverted all caps. It's even less space efficient than the consistent height lower case letters but it looks less weird. I still need to tweak the spacing to always be 4 pixels, but here is a quick look:
I think that joke doesn't really work because it's hard to understand what's going on. The text is badly cut, and there's a lot of it, and without color and seeing the whole picture it's hard to associate it with a bsod. Also, it has so much black that it'll probably take a bit too long time to draw.
I tweaked the R, V, M, and W. Here is my result:
I wanted to tweak the B as well, but couldn't find a way to make it look much better than it already does. I think it may also help to try to make the font monospaced, if at all possible. I think that would help get the BSOD feeling across.
Otherwise, great job on this font!
Edit: Got the B to look good!
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This is very good. I'll try out my idea too soon.
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I tried making the font monospaced:
You're limited by the size of the M, so I made each character column 15px wide. This of course means you can fit less text on screen.
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This one is the neatest so far.
What if to simulate asterisks, simple huge white dots are used instead of Xs?
EDIT:
Here's what I imagined. Looks aliased as hell, but I can increase letters height to look more like letters as we know them. Note how much text fits in.
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I tried making the font monospaced:
You're limited by the size of the M, so I made each character column 15px wide. This of course means you can fit less text on screen.
I like it a lot. And I have some kind of Terminator - or Robocop maybe - feeling with the font. After checking, I think it doesn't match either of those movies, but the feeling is still here, the font reminds me of what you would see in a movie when a robot analyses something in first person view.
And now it just gave me a random idea...
It could be a follow up to another "text picture" in the vein of:
"Starting 'taking_over_all_humankind.exe'
...
failed to launch: not enough memory
Starting 'lethal_laser_eyes.exe'
...
failed to launch: lasers not responding"
It's just an example, I'm sure someone can come up with something better (and that can fit in the window ^^). The idea is that ROB tries to go rogue and that fails, leading to the "BSOD" picture.
The one from feos would be my choice if there was a way to make it look, without a doubt and almost instantly, like a real BSOD (for example with an actual blue background). But since that can't be done with Brain Age, I also think it's more important to have something that is easily readable.
I like it a lot. And I have some kind of Terminator - or Robocop maybe - feeling with the font. After checking, I think it doesn't match either of those movies, but the feeling is still here, the font reminds me of what you would see in a movie when a robot analyses something in first person view.
And now it just gave me a random idea...
It could be a follow up to another "text picture" in the vein of:
"Starting 'taking_over_all_humankind.exe'
...
failed to launch: not enough memory
Starting 'lethal_laser_eyes.exe'
...
failed to launch: lasers not responding"
It's just an example, I'm sure someone can come up with something better (and that can fit in the window ^^). The idea is that ROB tries to go rogue and that fails, leading to the "BSOD" picture.
The one from feos would be my choice if there was a way to make it look, without a doubt and almost instantly, like a real BSOD (for example with an actual blue background). But since that can't be done with Brain Age, I also think it's more important to have something that is easily readable.
I really love this idea, but I'm not sure it would fit. TASBot's personality is of a more friendly tone. He has more of a confusion about humans, and just wants to complete all games as fast as possible. Having him attempt to take over humans would out of character.
dwangoAC and I just talked it over on IRC and decided on how to arrange the last part of the x20 answers. TASBot will draw the scribbled answer as if he is getting frustrated that the game will take anything he draws, causing him to crash and blue (black) screen. He will then reboot, and during the boot up screen we'll display a message like "Gaining Sentience...". Then following the boot up we'll display another message that says "TASBot has recovered from a serious error". After that TASBot will greet the crowd, and will have "full control" over the game and what he draws.
I'll update the script to include all that.
I had to create an inverted text to do this. Here it is if anyone else needs it:
Edit: Tweaked the spacing a little to emphasize the error code more:
And here is the same approach but using a consistent height for each letter. This one requires a black four-pixel line at the top of the screen so we may lose a line but it looks a bit less wonky (and could still be tweaked a bit to make the letters look a bit more consistent):
You're limited by the size of the M, so I made each character column 15px wide. This of course means you can fit less text on screen.
