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Folding Month 2020

Day Three - Two billion

So far for the event we have seen over two billion points have been produced, that is not bad. I have noticed that the top 10 percentage has fallen from 33% on day one to 27% now, is this a trend that will hold for the duration, as people battle it out on the lower ranks to best each other, or will the rivalry that is brewing at the highest echelons be too much.    We see that rodarkone has maintained first place with 101.4 million points, but Den-Fi is hot on his heals with 100.64 mil
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Folding Month 2020

Day Two - The Den-Fi Menace

Day two is over, the numbers have been tabulated and validated and I'm noticing some interesting activity from the Den-Fi camp, is he being honest, is he all out, or is he playing his Graphics cards close to his chest, only time will tell.    I'm sorry for not posting more details, I've suddenly been overcome with sickness, I may get around to adding more details if I feel better in the morning     https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VXg6skZBhaQWYNnrzIBgME7aPspV1qGU9
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Folding Month 2020

Day One - And They're Off

Ladles and gentlespoons, We come together today to celebrate Wait, wrong speech.   Here we are again for another year, I'm really looking forward to see what we can do between CUDA and the new 30 series cards for the few that have them. It will also be nice to se some tier two event badges knocking around the forum. I am so happy to see the regulars, and even more happy to see some new names in the list!   In First place we have rodarkone with 34.47 million points, an impress
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Folding Month 2020

Prelude III

With only one week remaining for people to sign up we are seeing our sign up numbers are growing slowly.    we are finally getting to see what the team is going to look like this year with some of our heavy hitters here, and some others devoid from the forum completely. It is going to be interesting to see what impact the recent launch of Nvidias 30 series GPUs will have, are we going to see new heavy hitters, or are our heavy hitters splashing the cash to hold onto their lead. The ans
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Behind the Forum

LTT Forum Tech Stack

The LTT forum is built on Invision Community (previously known as IPS and IPB), an off-the-shelf forum software. The majority of the code that powers the forum is theirs, and the technologies that we can use are largely constrained by what Invision Community supports.   The backend is written entirely in PHP, using a custom framework built specially for Invision Community. Some type annotations have been introduced into the codebase recently, but most of the code was written before PHP
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Folding Month 2020

Prelude II

So then, whats this, another blog post?   Well things are continuing to go, at a snails pace but we are slowly getting some more people onboard! We now find ourselves with just shy of 300 people signed up for the event so far, so it is looking like we are going to have one of our smallest folding folding months yet at this rate!    There's not really much to add other than we really need some shout outs, so if you want to help out guys why don't you hit up some LMG peeps and
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Folding Month 2020

Prelude I

Well guys, another year another Folding month!   It is my pleasure to once again, for the third year, to welcome all to the official folding month of 2020! No matter your experience level, hardware reserves, or willingness to financially back your secret mercenaries, you are all welcome!   So far it has to be said that we are a little thin on the ground, with only 152 sign ups, but with a month yet to go before the event commences there is still time for everyone to share the
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operation badger: The Log to End All Other Logs (of mine of this build)

Future | What Component to Upgrade When And Why

Hey there,   I know, I just got my new computer, and it's great (almost too powerful lol).   But I have been thinking about upgrades I could possibly do in a couple of years, because I like planning. I know some things may change and maybe Intel will suddenly be better or something, but looking at the naming scheming, I have an idea of what to look for. Yes, I am aware of new releases making some stuff obsolete, but last-gen stuff is fine for me and cheap. I am guessing
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Miscellaneous

The difference between an RPG, Action-Adventure, and an ARPG - and why Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and 4, and Witcher 3 are not RPGs

December 13th, 2020 addition:   In the first comment underneath the OP, I've added some quotes by Gary Gygax, who coined the phrase "role-playing game", where he says linear narratives aren't RPGs, that combat shouldn't be fixated on in an RPG, and that combat and levelling-up just for the sake of combat and levelling-up doesn't constitute an RPG.   October 8th, 2020 addition with January 3rd, 2021 edits:   Let's start with what the creators of the RPG genre say an
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Cloaked’s Indie Game Dev Blog!

Day I don't know anymore!

Hey! This will be my last blog post because I'm terrible at blogging, so it's time to tell you all what I've been up to! I got movement working outstandingly, and am now wrestling with an assault rifle that refuses to shoot at the set fire rate! I'm going to check Stack Overflow later today to see if they have anything, but until then, it's crap.   In other news, my new PC parts arrived, so I'm going to be moving all my files over there soon!   Other than that, I've noth
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operation badger: The Log to End All Other Logs (of mine of this build)

Parts | All Have [Been] Order[ed]

First day writing about my newest (and most expensive) (and first) project: operation badger. Let's not make it the last one.   This article is about the parts of operation badger, which ones I have, and which ones are coming.   HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE: PART NAME | NICKNAME/TITLE | ESTIMATED ARRIVAL (Optional due to arrived parts)     PARTS I HAVE ALREADY   AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | The Part Which I Can Flex Sapphire NITRO+ RX 470 4GB | The Part Which Mig
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Cloaked’s Indie Game Dev Blog!

Day 6 (Yes, I skipped some days, I'm aware)

So after changing my idea for like the 100th time, I had an idea, and the beginning and relative end of a story spanning 100s of millennia. The basic plot for this game is you're a U.S. army soldier that has been assigned to help fight alien invaders in the year 2036 (There's more backstory, but I don't feel like typing it all out right now). The gameplay will be very DOOM-like, except for one thing; a portal system that can also harm any enemies that walk into it. Anyways, all I've done so far
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Reality News | Your Daily Briefing

Trump tries to drive America back on a very different July 4th, 11,099,332 is the number of 8:22AM EST

TL;DR Trump tries to drag America backward on a very different July 4th (CNN) Hamilton is out and you should watch it (Reality News)   Black Lives Matter might be the Largest Movement in American History (NYTimes)   The US is in chaos. But it's a great time to be an American (CNN)     COVID-19 The Numbers WORLDWIDE CASES: 11,099,332 (Up ~60K from yesterday) WORLDWIDE DEATHS: 525,554  (Up ~2K from yesterday) USA CASES: 2,795,163 (
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Cloaked’s Indie Game Dev Blog!

Day 1: Why did I start this now?

Today, I started working on my first indie game that I actually have a plan to publish on Steam, and boy it couldn’t have been a worse time to start.  I began the scripting at 10:00PM during a staycation at a local hotel on a 10 year old Acer Aspire One netbook. Not only was the hardware bad, (Don’t worry, I have an actually decent computer that I do most of the work on) but I was so tired that even copy-pasting was a pain in the butt to do. Anyways, I barely did anything today, so I’ll upd
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Reality News | Your Daily Briefing

Trump's Mt. Rushmore Party 'Won't be social distancing', How to convine people to stop a pandemic, and The Year in Review

I am playing around with the format of this, and the timing of article posting. Please take sometime to fill out the servery   Tl;DR Trump's July 4th Party at Mt. Rushmore 'Won't be social distancing' (NYTimes) The year in review (From July) (CNN) Convincing people to stop a pandemic (FiveThirtyEight) 'We need to live with it' White House prepared COVID statement (NBC) Hamilton is out and you should watch it (@wall03)   COVID-19 WORLDWIDE CASES:
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handymanshandle's Blog of Blogginess

handymanshandle's VeggieTales VHS Collection

Back when I was a kid, I really loved VeggieTales. Honestly, I still do to this day. No, not every episode has aged well, but the ones that have still REALLY hold up to this day.  This blog entry covers the VeggieTales tapes I own. Where's God When I'm S-scared? - ✓ (1995 print and 1998 Lyrick Studios reprint) God Wants Me to Forgive Them?!? - ✓ (1995? print and 2001 Lyrick reprint) Are You My Neighbor? - ✓ (1997 Lyrick Studios print and 1998 Lyrick print) Rack,
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