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Originally written by Fear Uncertainty and Custer:

Plagues don't count as natural disasters.

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Originally written by 4614 and 4808:

So just typing system(); will clear the screen for me?

And yes, I'm using ASCII characters. Board:
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Originally written by Andrew Miller:

Your moniker makes the grammar angels weep.

Read about "whose" here.

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Originally written by ARRR-enax:

Not really. Lua is just C, and Avernumscript is already based on C, so I think it'd make more sense.

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Lua is a language engine that you can embed into your application. This means that, besides syntax and semantics, Lua has an API that allows the application to exchange data with Lua programs and also to extend Lua with C functions. In this sense, Lua can be regarded as a language framework for building domain-specific languages.

Lua is implemented as a small library of C functions, written in ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known platforms. The implementation goals are simplicity, efficiency, portability, and low embedding cost. The result is a fast language engine with small footprint, making it ideal in embedded systems too.

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It is the ability to easily add a Tcl interpreter to your application that sets it apart from other shells. Tcl fills the role of an extension language that is used to configure and customize applications. There is no need to invent a command language for your new application, or struggle to provide some sort of user-programmability for your tool. Instead, by adding a Tcl interpreter, you structure your application as a set of primitive operations that can be composed by a script to best suit the needs of your users. It also allows other programs to have programmatic control over your application, leading to suites of applications that work well together.

The Tcl C library has clean interfaces and is simple to use. The library implements the basic interpreter and a set of core scripting commands that implement variables, flow control, and procedures.

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Originally written by ARRR-enax:

These are the reasons we need a Lua-based script engine--so we can write our own functions.

Anyone else doubt that JV would ever even entertain this idea?

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And Nasarius, the "test often" approach doesn't usually matter. I can narrow it down to one set of calls and then test until I'm blue in the face only to find out that I'm testing the wrong line. I'm learning debug techniques, but it is painfully slow and hard.

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Originally written by Andrea:

Oh, horping balls. Final Fantasy is not a roleplaying game, it's an interactive movie. In none of them do you establish or develop your own character; differing paths are trivial and mostly useless.
Final Fantasy's greatest ill is that it's convinced a bunch of drooling Japanophiles that statistics are the primary constituent of a role-playing game.

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Those are called graphical adventures. They're a dying breed now, but they used to be quite popular. Sierra made its name publishing them.

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Originally written by coreyh:

The if I was using set_character_facing function I'd make a enum or define for all the different directions.

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Errors that involve memory getting trashed are the worst to debug in C. You don't know where the error is. The actual crash could happen almost anywhere memory is handled. You kinda have to read carefully and backtrack commenting out stuff systematically.

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When the error comes from that I'm missing parentheses and I have about 248578923478237593953 "if" calls, it is next to impossible to figure out what's gone wrong.

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Originally written by Grey-Eyed Stranger:

Spidweb. Sorry to pester on your coding of the scripting language, but perhaps implementing some failsafes on things like this? Maybe make 'debug mode' show details on scripting errors?

(Although those would likely be hard to track down and report.)

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Originally written by Lt. Sullust:

You just need to learn when to run away from a battle for the first few levels. Kill what you can and get out. Also, with a singleton you don't want to stress melee combat right away. It is much better to start out as a mage who can cast ice lances. Gain a few levels that way and then pick up your blades.

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Originally written by Imban:

I've reloaded as many as 45+ times on a single fight in order to win a battle of attrition. *shrugs*

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Originally written by Imban:

I've reloaded as many as 45+ times on a single fight in order to win a battle of attrition. *shrugs*

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Originally written by Arancaytar:

Insane characters can work wonders as comic relief even in serious scenarios (I wonder, can sudden 'bouts' of humor damage an otherwise serious scenario?)

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Originally written by Arancaytar:

Insane characters can work wonders as comic relief even in serious scenarios (I wonder, can sudden 'bouts' of humor damage an otherwise serious scenario?)

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Fan fiction and other work derived from copyrighted works is a copyright violation.

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Originally written by Custerbly Numb:

Then why bother with the Exile plot? It's only likely to get you tangled up in legalities, and it smacks of plagarism.

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I'm not planning to sell it!!! Jeez, I'm not going to get a profit from it!!

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Originally written by The Creator:

I think I'll just add "You are free to break any and all of these rules once you understand why they exist."

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