developedThisAlgorithmBackWhenIWorkedForBlizzard

I...Is is so late that I am in delirium or is this whole code completely batshit crazy? Why a switch case? why 17 and 0? Why does he assign a boolean value to an integer? Does he even check the right variable there? I feel like not.

You forgot to add the obvious comments that say the english version of what the next line of code does for every single line of code

Come on, separately single backticked lines of code? 4 spaces in front of each line does it all for you, or triple back tick code blocks like every other markdown renderer.

checks if integer is even  
public static bool isEven(int integer_to_check_is_even) {

    int is_even = false;

    switch (integer_to_check_is_even) {

        case 0:

            is_even = 17;

        case 1:

            is_even = 0;

        default:

            is_even = isEven(integer_to_check_is_even - 2) ? 17 : 0;
    if (is_even == 17) {

        //the value is even

        return true;

    } else (is_even == 0) {

        //the value is not even
        return false;

    }

}

Actually a clever workaround IF modulus never existed

He should at least delete the odd numbers and just use a default return.

I bet he typed all this shit out too. Learn to use vim macros guys come on.

qnykjpCAAj^CAA

1000000@n

Just saved you literal weeks of time with my superior vim interlect 😎 

Didn’t he say something like it was redrawing the same sprite 80,000 times?

Absolute mad lad

That one is a big miss tho. Their method is a simple mask vs a naive ray tracing sort of thing. Sure the code is still dog shit, but the two are not doing the same thing. The ray tracing will make the light stop at small obstacles while their method will not do that. The idea of just doing a naive ray tracing thing is IMO fine if written properly and performance probably will be fine once the game is built. The proper methods to do this have trade offs and it makes sense to have a really high expensive light if it's like the main player light and you know the scene will only ever have one such expensive light.

There are so many huge huge problems with the code it's kind of sad they focus on something debatable and get it wrong.

Also it's kind of ridiculous Gamemaker still does not have somthing as basic as a 2D lighting system.

it was sub-optimal but from what i understood it didn't had that terrible performance in the game, mostly because the example used was the code with the conditional set to true at all times, so it never stopped running, theoretically it has a condition that prevents it from running if nothing changed for that sprite, but the coder in the video make a incredibly better code nonetheless

i just found misleading the example used making it seem the game is that horribly optimized, although that's a shitty as way of doing it and will still lead to bad performance regardless

“I made my code shitty and unworkable on purpose, it’s an ARG of course”

i've used gms. almost everyone who uses it writes bad code like this because gml is a shitty and inconstant language

New to this, what are ARG and GMS?

gamemaker is how I got into this when I was a wee lad, funny how it’s coming back to haunt me

In all fairness Game Maker did not have boolean data type back in 2018.

well, its honestly kinda on his behavior. This is gonna be long, but its been months of development so hard to easily summarise.

He was really beloved due to his really popular shorts explaining coding concepts and certain other difficult concepts with ms paint.

But then 2 big incidents happened with a ton of small things inbetween, where he had some absolutely terrible behavior, and then doubled and tripled down on his behavior, when everyone kept telling him he was wrong.

The first incident, was about him getting his team killed in a wow raid, on the hardcore server, that sucks, it wastes a lot of peoples hours, but it happens, and people were ready to move on if he simply said sorry and moved on. instead he kept blaming others, kept saying he could not have done anything to save the team (he could have), and kept pushing the idea that he was a hardcore pro player, when all the actual pro's reviewed the footage and said his gameplay was bad, and some very basic skill usage would have allowed his party to flee and survive the incident.

small incident got blown up into days and days of drama due to his behavior, from that, he got kicked from the guild, people went through his old streams and found other similar behaviors in wow and in other games, him abusing his popularity to get people to mass spawn kill players that pissed him off in some way, shit like that. A lot came out, because he pissed off people so much with his behavior and knowitall attitude.

A few months later, it all happens again, but this time, with a more serious topic, game preservation, the Stop killing games movement and petition gets formed and pretty much everyone covers it in a positive or neutral light, in comes Thor with a full on negative attack on it, both on the movement and on the person running it, Ross. he calls him a ton of crap, says shit like "he is a used car salesman", and "eat my entire ass" to Ross. And once again uses his popularity, to heavily halt the movement, because "he knows his shit" so if he says its bad, then its gotta be bad. he also had one of the most viewed vids on the topic, so that certainly did not help.

Eventually Ross does a video debunking his claims, due to the petition almost certinly failing, needing still 50% more votes with 11 months used up, only 1 more month left in the petition. This actually gets covered by a ton of big youtubers, from all across youtube and twitch, who point out how bad Thors points were. and how horrible he was towards Ross. This goes crazy, and ontop of all the past drama, really ruins Thors reputation, not only showing again that he is a dick, but really showing how little he actually knows about programming and development in general.

this again leads people into looking back into old streams and a lot more bad shit comes out.

It’s the cycle of the internet. Vibes rule all.

Because he misrepresented what his job was for blizzard. And now he’s acting like he never misrepresented it. People don’t like being treated as if they’re stupid, shocker

Yeah, but then people would have to actually look at the code and not have a youtube personality tell them its good code or not XD

I'm a believer of you can always write better code and the best code comes from code review and pair programming.

yanderedev knew he was bad at coding and a beginner, this guy claimed to work as a senior developer while actually just working in a QnA

else if(number == 2) return 1; //this number is even
else if(number == 3) return 0; //this number is odd
else if(number == 4) return 1; //this number is even
else if(number == 5) return 0; //this number is odd
...

fixed it for you

Yes, that's a fine implementation that works with all arithmetic primitive types. If it's just for an integer type, you can use a bitwise & to read the LSB. The LSB will be 0 for all even numbers and 1 for all odd numbers.

It's a Boolean at the end of the day. Most languages knows that true is 1 and false is 0. True and False probably just represents their values.