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Spent like four hours this morning creating a "guess the random number" game from scratch in C#.

It argued with me basically the entire way (this is the first program I've really created, so not very surprising), but the worst part was trying to track down a way to get a "random number", because everything I looked into either didn't work or did something different.

Finally managed to modify one idea and create a method (1 random number, between 1-100), which I'm recording here for future (emergency) reference:

class MyClass { public int GenerateRandom () { Random randomNumber = new Random(); for (int ctr = 0; ctr <= 0; ctr++); return randomNumber.Next(101); } }

Is it the best way? No idea. But it's the only way that worked, and it works pretty okay? So, I'm pretty happy with it.

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Where is the Alt key on a Mac keyboard?

The PC-keyboard equivalent of Alt on a Mac is called the Option key, and you’ll find the Option Key on your Mac if you go two keys to the left of the spacebar. However, the option key on a Mac keyboard is used in a different way than the alt key on a Windows PC. In terms of functionality, the alt key in Windows is often more comparable with the Command key than with the Option key on a Mac. You might be also familiar with the Ctrl and Alt keys from your PC. On your Mac keyboard, you have Command (⌘ cmd), Control (ctrl), and Option (⌥ alt) keys.

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Partitioning a disk on a Mac is an effective way to organize your data into different categories. However, the main concern is that most external hard drives and USB keys come formatted for Windows, which is primarily for PCs. By default, a Mac runs a different file system, so it may bring issues while partitioning your disk on Disk Utility.

Hard drive partitioning is a common issue discussed in many tech forums. In a thread on Apple’s support forum, users complain that their Mac Disk Utility partition grayed-out while trying to partition their external hard drives.

Probably, you just bought your external hard drive and are eager to use it on your Mac. But somehow, you cannot access the Mac Disk Utility partition, so you can’t write data to the drive.

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Fear not, we have a solution to this problem. In this post, we will guide you through a step-by-step process on how to restore a grayed-out Disk Utility partition. Many Apple users who have faced Partition grayed out in Mac issues eventually partitioned their external hard drives with the help of these fixes.

Why Partition Grayed Out in Mac (Plus Solution)

Problem 1: Sometimes, you cannot access the Mac Disk Utility partition because your hard drive doesn’t have sufficient space.

Solution: If you want to go ahead with the partitioning task, you need to create more space on your hard drive. In other words, you have to erase the data on your drive to create additional space. You can then format your hard drive using GUID Partition Table. After that, go ahead with your partitioning plans.

Important Note: Before formatting your hard drive, back up your most important files. Needless to say, the process will get rid of all the data on the disk, so you risk losing your files for good.

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Problem 2: As mentioned earlier, external drives are usually not compatible with macOS, which may bring issues when you want to partition. In most cases, users choose the wrong partitioning option, and as a result, the Partition option in Disk Utility remains grayed out.

Solution: The right way you should follow when selecting a partition option is to choose the drive name within the list provided under Internal or External (depending on the device you want to partition). Your hard drive will be available on the left side of the Disk Utility pane.

How to Restore Grayed Out Disk Utility Partition: Format Your Hard Drive to Work with Mac

Adobe photoshop free download cs6 for mac. To format your external disk to be compatible with macOS, connect your hard drive to the Mac and follow these steps:

Open Disk Utility by going to Applications, then select Utilities > Disk Utility.

Choose the drive name within the list provided under ‘External’. If your hard drive is connected, it will show in the left panel of the Disk Utility. Highlight the disk and click the Erase button in the top toolbar.

Wait for a window asking you to select the file system you want to use to format your external drive to pop up. For your case, you will select ‘Mac OS Extended (Journaled)’. But if you have plans to use your disk for both PC and Mac, then a better option is ‘ExFAT’. You can also rename your hard disk here to your desired name.

Wait for the formatting process to complete. The process usually takes less than a minute, but it depends on the size of your hard disk.

When done, confirm if the formatting was successful by right-clicking the icon for your disk on the desktop and then choosing Get Info. The information is available under Format.

If it reads “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”, congratulations, you successfully restored the grayed-out Disk Utility and your hard disk is now compatible with macOS.

Partitioning Your Hard Drive on Mac

Now that you have prepared your hard drive to work with Mac, the next step is to partition it on your Mac by following these steps:

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Launch the Disk Utility app on your Mac and highlight the hard drive icon under ‘External’ (for external hard drives). If you choose any other drive, the partition option will become unclickable.

Now click Partition on the top toolbar. A window that has partition information will pop up. On the left side of the window, look for the name and the volume size of your hard drive. The next step is to click add(+) button on the bottom of the window to create partitions on your disk. Allocate the desired volume size to each partition.

Hit the Apply button and wait for a window asking you to verify your choices. Confirm the changes by clicking the Partition button.

Wait for the process to complete. You can confirm if the process was successful on your desktop. You will see additional disk icons show

Pro Tip: If the main reason for partitioning your hard drive is to install Windows, Apple recommends that you use Boot Camp Assistant instead of Disk Utility. You should, however, note that you cannot use Disk Utility to erase a partition generated using Boot Camp Assistant.

What Else Can You Do to Resolve Common Mac Issues

If you are like many users, partitioning a hard drive on Mac may not be the only challenge you have had with your computer. Mac users have also reported slow performance, random freezes, and space issues. The best way to guarantee the best performance for your Mac is to scan and clean the computer. Outbyte MacRepair helps you to optimize your Mac for peak performance by checking for and cleaning up junk files, unnecessary apps, and other space hogs that may affect your Mac’s memory.

We hope the above solutions helped you to restore the grayed-out Disk Utility partition. As always, we would love to hear your success story. Share it in the comment section. Also, let us know if you experienced challenges during the partitioning process.

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WCW Monday Nitro 26/08/1996

Note: It’s been over a year since I posted anything new, but this is still an active Tumblr so here’s something for the handful of people who I suddenly noticed are following this! Also RIP Mean Gene Okerlund. I may rag on him a lot in these retrospectives but he was a legend and will be missed. Onto the final WCW Nitro of August 1996. 

So, this is curious. We start off with the usual intro, then as the fireworks are going off and Tony and Larry Z are welcoming us to the broadcast... there are already two people in the ring. We’re in a rush tonight, clearly.

Our combatants for the first bout of the evening are Juventud Guerrera and Billy Kidman. This is in fact Juvi’s debut on WCW Nitro. Hopefully he gets better treatment than poor Psychosis. 

Juventud Guerrera Vs Billy Kidman

We’re not even a minute into the match and Tony manages to call our debutant “Juventud Guerrero”. That’s something else you can get used to, as this mistake happens frequently throughout Juvi’s time in WCW. In this instance Larry does correct Tony and note that it’s “Guerrera” rather than “Guerrero”. 

As the match is in progress Tony informs us that the Horsemen will be facing the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express later in the program, a match that would have been good in the 80s but not so much in 1996. 

Juvi and Kidman slap each other on the apron for a few moments, then Juvi flips over him and hits a powerbomb onto the floor.

 Juvi dominates for a while with a few lucha flips, but then Kidman hits back. After a while Kidman attempts to hit the ever impressive shooting star press...

And he connects, but Juvi kicks out! 

Juvi hits a hurricanrana off the top rope which Tony somehow calls a “reverse victory roll” - wut? - and gets the three count. Juvi screams “I am the best!” into the camera whilst Tony keeps trying and failing to pronounce hurricanrana with a spanish accent. Larry then says to just call it “the flying fajita” in a nice bit of casual racism. 

Juventud Guerrera defeats Billy Kidman via pinfall.

Gene is in the ring, and they seem to think it’s a good idea to give this guy an interview.

As it turns out, it isn’t. The interview starts well with Gene saying Juvi isn’t “adept at English” and Gene admitting he can’t speak Spanish - “no comprende Espanyol amigo”. Always a good idea to have an interview between two people who don’t speak each other’s language. Gene asks about Juvi facing Konnan for the Mexican title. Juvi says something unintelligible in broken English before switching to yelling something in Spanish. The crowd start booing loudly and Juvi is confused by this reaction.

Juvi takes back the mic and screams “I am the best wrester Mexican”. Juvi actually manages to speak some fairly fluent English for a moment as he says he has one more thing to say - everybody in Mexico knows the New World Order, and then loses his train of thought and says something about nobody in mexico being scared of them or something. Crowd has started booing again, and Gene, realising this thing is dying a terrible death, cuts the interview with a condescending “give it a rest pal, you can take this up with somebody else”, walking away and shaking his head as if somehow this is Juvi’s fault and he’s too old for this shit. 

Poor Juvi just stands there looking like a dope.

Juvi was very over at the end of the match. He was dead in the water after the interview. Good going WCW.

We get a Glacier commercial, and it’s a new one! After seeing the same promo for literally months, we finally get some fresh material...

It’s just Glacier spinning a stick around in front of a white wall with weird markings on it. He’s basically Star Wars kid before Star Wars kid became a thing. Maybe we got it all wrong and he was actually copying Glacier. 

We get our first look at Tony and Larry...

Look at that multicoloured abomination on Larry’s torso. WTF kind of a shirt is that. I hope he didn’t pay too much for it.

Seriously. Dafuq. Looks like he’s wearing a child’s colouring book, with bad colouring in to boot.

Anyway, they talk about the Four Horsemen teaming up with Sting and Luger and we get a recap of the promo last week between these gentlemen confirming the agreement. The crowd are still booing at something, but not sure if it’s still Juvi or something else entirely. Rough audience tonight. 

Larry starts babbling about King Nebuchadnezzar and the “five orders” and Tony’s face during this is absolutely priceless.

He’s literally staring off with this “wtf?” gaze for about ten seconds before turning back to Larry like, “u srs?” 

He has no idea what is going on. 

After Larry finishes his soliloquy on empires and other bullshit, Tony informs us that later on we’ll be seeing Mongo & Benoit Vs Sting & Luger. Can I ask why? Why the fuck would you do that with War Games coming up? Sting and Luger are teaming with the Horsemen at War Games, so why would they...? You know what, forget it. Next match is up. First up... AMERICAN MALES, AMERICAN MALES, AMERICAN MALES...

But Riggs is injured so it’s actually Bagwell teamed up with Jim “Jobber” Powers and his manager Teddy Long. 

What a trio. Worth noting Dave Penzer calls Long “the Godfather”... Godfather of what? Jobbers? Where did that nickname come from? Does Long have some kind of Mafia history we haven’t been told about? Penzer also says they’ll be accompanied by Riggs but he’s nowhere to be seen. Guess he had better things to do. 

Speaking of trios...

Their opponents are Sullivan and Big Bubba accompanied by Jimmy Hart. Oh boy. I can’t imagine this is going to be a match of the year candidate. Also the name graphic makes it look like it’s just “Taskmaster Big Bubba”. 

Marcus Bagwell & Jim “Jobber” Powers Vs Kevin Sullivan & Big Bubba

Before the match we see a quick compilation of “tree of woe” moves and the double foot stomp finisher from Sullivan, after which Tony calls Sullivan “one of the most dangerous men we’ve seen in our sport for many years”. Yeah... but no. Just no. Larry then says in class he used to see kids pulling wings off flies, but Sullivan used kittens. Okay, first, where are these winged kittens that Larry is talking about? Secondly, if we assume he’s actually talking about Sullivan ripping kittens limbs off... what the fuck?

Jobber Jim actually surprisingly gets some early offence on Sullivan, during which Larry calls Jimmy Hart “a mental genius of the game”. OK.

This match goes on for way too long, but there’s a funny spot near the end where Jobber Jim is ramming both Jimmy Hart and Sullivan’s heads into the turnbuckle.

Still say the background illustration on Hart’s jacket looks more like Nash than the Giant.

Powers hits Bubba with a cross body in the wing and pins him for a three count. Everyone is shocked. But then Patrick decides the shoulder was up and restarts the match. Why did he even count the three if the shoulder was up? Don’t know.

Bubba hits his sidewalk slam and this time a three is counted for the Dungeon. Hah. Jim Powers can’t even win without losing. Honestly though, this match was better than it had any right to be considering the participants, just went a bit too long and the finish was really dumb. 

Sullivan & Big Bubba defeat Marcus Bagwell & Jim “Jobber” Powers via pinfall.

Post match “the godfather” is yelling at Patrick but nobody cares. Maybe he’ll order a hit on him later. Larry calls Long a “buttinski”. I assume that’s an insult. They show a replay which blatantly shows Bubba got his shoulder up way after the three count, but Larry acts like it was a close call because he’s either blind or stupid.

Gene-o is in the ring with the victors.

Bubba says he should be getting all the title shots and should be in all the main events and he won’t be overlooked again, starting tonight. Good luck with that. Bubba also calls out Glacier, which is nice because other than the announcers nobody else has mentioned him despite two months of vignettes. Hart mocks Glacer’s “blood runs cold” tagline and says “the only thing that’s going to be running is you”. Burn. 

Sullivan complains that if everybody has listened to him about Hogan then “all of this wouldn’t be going on”. No, instead we’d still have you running around with the Shark, the Zodiac and all of those other idiots in the Dungeon. Sullivan claims he saw Okerlund on a boat with Hogan a week ago. Gene says “that wasn’t me, that was Eric Bischoff”. Easy mistake to make. Love how Gene instantly tries to dump Bischoff in the shit. What a snake. Gene asks if the guy had hair, to which Sullivan says “the guy had a bald head, it was you”. Taskmaster ain’t bullshitting tonight. Not sure what the point of that was, but Sullivan transitions from this into saying the Horsemen aren’t the last line of defence for WCW. I hope he isn’t implying the Dungeon are because, if so, WCW is fucked. Gene implies Sullivan is “greasing the palm” of Nick Patrick, to which Sullivan replies “everyone’s entitled to a mistake, including you being on a boat with Hogan”. They’re really planting the seeds here with this Okerlund/Hogan stuff, but as far as I’m aware it doesn’t go anywhere so... why? Who cares if Mean Gene of all people is hanging around with Hogan anyway?

We come back from a break and now Okerlund is with Sting and Luger in the back. He’s all over the show again tonight. Lex is making a stupid face as usual. I’m starting to think he’s doing it on purpose. He looks like he accidentally sharted. 

Luger says that he and Sting are “in the frame of mind to kick some behind”... what a slogan. Sting isn’t happy that after “everything was cool” last week that the Horsemen and now giving them a “gut chest” - I think he means gut check - and he says he doesn’t understand it and it means Flair and Anderson don’t trust them. Sting says that Flair should never question their “intestinal fortitude” and they’re making a mistake. Onto the next match.

Mike Enos comes out yelling “bunch of idiots”. 

His opponent is Chavo Guerrero Jr.

Well, this should be a classic. 

Mike Enos Vs Chavo Guerrero Jr

Enos starts the match by attempting to run into Chavo in the corner, but Chavo scrambles out of the way and Enos smacks his head into the turnbuckle. When you begin a match with that kind of strategy you know it isn’t going to end well. Literally less than a minute later Enos whips Chavo into the opposite corner, again tries to run into him, and again ends up slamming himself into the turnbuckle as Chavo moves out of the way. This Enos lad isn’t the sharpest tool in the drawer, is he?

By the way, the announcers seem even less enthused for this match than I am. They are literally acting like the match isn’t even happening, instead talking non-stop about the Giant, Macho Man and Hollywood Hogan. I mean, I get it, nobody cares about Enos and Chavo is still an unknown... but come on guys. At least act like you give a shit. 

Enos ends up outside of the ring and Chavo leaps over the top rope with a cross body...

However, Enos catches him and walks around like he’s holding a child.

Watch those hands, mister.

Enos flings Chavo over with a fallaway slam - “nearly over to the guardrail” says Tony, even though it’s nowhere close. 

As Enos dumps Chavo back in the ring “Dirty” Dick Slater appears at ringside.

“With a towel over his head” notes Tony. So that’s where Taz got the idea from. I’m not sure why Slater waited until now to come out.

As Enos continues to dominate we get a shot of Konnan in the crowd.

He appears to be having a nap. Tony suggests he’s “trying to be incognito”. yes, wearing that hat, that shirt and being picked up by the cameras straight away. Incognito indeed.

Enos is in the ring jumping around with Chavo across his shoulders.

It looks hilarious, although the visual doesn’t do it justice. 

Enos tries a sit down powerbomb but somehow fucks it up and Chavo lands on Enos’ leg, which causes Enos to squirm in pain. Chavo then locks in a figure four, and as Enos is flailing around Randy Anderson gets “thumbed in the eye” which allows Dirty Dick to enter the ring.

Slater takes the towel off his head and puts it around Enos’ head instead. Enos rolls out of the ring as Slater beats on Chavo. Randy Anderson has apparently gone completely blind as he doesn’t notice that Dick Slater is now in the ring instead of Mike Enos. They look significantly different. Regardless, this ridiculous plan backfires when Chavo rolls up Slater with an inside cradle for the win.

Chavo Guerrero Jr defeats Mike Enos (technically Dick Slater) via Pinfall.

Enos and Slater are stunned that their idiotic plan failed. This kind of tactic is usually employed by two people who look similar, not completely different. As it turns out that part of the plan inexplicably worked - Slater is just a dunce who got beat anyway. 

Okerlund is of course in the entranceway, accosting Chavo.

Chavo yells for DDP, asking where he is. Chavo claims he came out to “help” Eddie after DDP attacked him post-match at the Clash, but as we already saw Chavo was about as much help as the proverbial chocolate fireguard. Chavo says DDP tried to humiliate him by whipping him with Nick Patrick’s belt, but attests “that didn’t humiliate me, that just put coal in my fire!” 

Gene looks befuddled by this. He advises Chavo to calm down and notes that DDP and Chavo have a match at Fall Brawl. Chavo says that if you mess with one of the Guerrero’s, you mess with all of them. 

We get a very 90s advert with Okerlund and Heenan hawking the Nitro t-shirt.

Look at those background colours. So 90s. Gene says Heenan’s got the shirt on the wrong way around and that his “whole body is reversable”. Not sure what that means, not sure I want to know. Also unsure as to why Heenan has the shirt on backwards. It isn’t explained. Could they not have gotten anybody else to promote this? We see enough of Okerlund as it is without him shilling merch as well. At least get a wrestler to do it.

Some hair metal 80s guitar riffs hit and out comes “J. L.” - the cleverly disguised Jerry Lynn.

I have to admit I am unsure as to why Lynn was a masked wrestler in WCW. It’s not like they didn’t have enough luchadores wearing masks. 

His opponent is the Cruiserweight champion Rey Mysterio Jr.

The enthusiasm in the crowd is off the charts.

J.L. Vs Rey Mysterio Jr

Throughout his entrance and indeed throughout the match JL is constantly adjusting his mask. It’s a bit distracting. Tony calls JL “mysterious” but then goes on to talk about his success in Japan and how he isn’t from Mexico, so I guess not that mysterious. It’s literally just because he has a mask on.

The match begins with various arm holds and JL keeping Mysterio in a headlock for a while. The contest has barely begun before Tony starts spluttering and says he’s been told Hogan is outside. The camera cuts to the back where we see Hogan, Hall and Nash.

Hogan grabs somebody who for some reason was randomly standing around outside with a spotlight and takes him over to the production truck.

They spraypaint the truck with nWo logos as Tony acts disgusted, like this is the worst thing that’s ever been done. You know, if you guys are so appalled by this behaviour you don’t have to show it on camera. You could just... not show it. Also that is some really shitty spraypainting.

“What are they saying here?” Tony asks. “nWo 4 life?”

Yes, that is literally what they have spraypainted on the truck Tony. Good reading skills. 

Tony says that bills will be coming the nWo’s way from Turner and he hopes they “have insurance”. Yeah, I’m sure Hogan will need insurance to pay a fine for having some spraypaint cleaned off a truck. With that said I’m not sure you can get insurance to cover you in the event of you deciding to vandalise a truck, but whatever. Tony mocks the idea of the nWo having a fourth man and reckons they’ll go into War Games a man down. Sounds reasonable. He says Hogan has turned into a “street thug”. Sure, he’s running with the gangs now. A matter of time before he’s committing drive-bys and making rap videos. 

Oh, there’s still a match going on by the way. Not that it’s anything exciting. It might be the most boring match in Rey’s history. I’m guessing on purpose, knowing that most of it is going to be cut in favour of showing Hogan and the outsiders. As we go to a break Tony is mumbling about the nWo being “jerks” whilst Larry says “it’s the 90s. Hogan happens”. No idea what he means by that.

When we get back from the break Tony apologises for his comments. What comments? Calling Hogan a thug and a jerk? Jeez, you better start relaxing a little Tony or you’ll start breaking out the “gosh darn it’s”. 

Stinko appears in the entraceway, radiating with his usual charisma and charm. At least somebody is interested in this match. They literally focus on Dean’s static face for about ten seconds. Tony just keeps ranting about Hogan.

JL gets down on his hands and knees by his own accord. Odd strategy. 

Rey hugs him from behind. I have no idea what is going on here. After some brief chain wrestling Rey then decides to get down on his hands and knees.

Seriously, what is going on here? Rather than give Rey a cuddle from behind, JL just boots him in the back. Tony says the fans have been “wowed” by Mysterio’s moves, which is a lie as he hasn’t done anything of note. Well, he might have, but we haven’t seen any of it thanks to Hogan and the commercial break. All we’ve seen are arm holds, headlocks and Rey and JL getting into doggy positions for reasons the announcers don’t bother to explain.

Larry claims that “a big neck is easier to break than a small, limber one”. Not sure I understand the logic there.

JL puts Mysterio in a boston crab in what has been a painfully slow cruiserweight match. Seriously, how is a match between Jerry Lynn and Rey Mysterio this fucking boring? 

Fireworks go off as hour number two begins, and we switch to Eric Bischoff and Bobby Heenan. This is literally the most exciting part of this match so far, but the last thing it needed was another distraction.

The match spills to the outside and JL slams Rey into the barricade.

He also slams Rey’s head into the ring post. Bischoff and Heenan meanwhile pick up where Tony and Larry left off and continue complaining about the production truck being spraypainted. Seriously guys, get over it. Do you not remember a few weeks ago when the outsiders were literally trying to kill wrestlers with baseball bats? This is pretty tame in comparison. A bit of water and the truck will be good as new. 

It’s kind of fitting that this match ends with a botch as Rey attempts to do his springboard hurricanrana off the apron...

But JL can’t rotate all the way over so instead his head just slams into the mat. Ouch. Rey gets the pin and Heenan advises JL to “go to your room”. OK. That was the slowest and most disappointing Rey match on Nitro to date. It might have been better if the announcers had spent more time telling the story of JL trying to ground Mysterio with mat holds, but instead they were just talking about the nWo, so... yeah. 

Rey Mysterio defeats JL via Pinfall.

Mean Gene is in the company of the lesser known Horsemen, along with Woman, Liz (sleeping?) and Debra. 

Gene tries to shill his hotline by talking about some rumour about Mongo going back to the NFL (if only), but Mongo isn’t having any of it, telling Gene he doesn’t give a shit about his 1-900 number. Mongo says that “in hindsight” Sting and Luger shouldn’t be going to War Games with Flair and Anderson, it should be Mongo and Benoit. So much for respecting Flair and Anderson’s decision last week. Mongo says they’ll prove it to the world, to WCW and to the nWo, then makes a fart noise. Gene says the nWo have been “having a little fun painting”. I love how the announcers have been so offended by what happened, and Gene is just like “whatever”. For once he has it right.

Woman is all over Gene and he tells her she has to “knock it off on television”. He’s definitely up for it once the cameras are off though. Woman says she can’t help herself (why?) and then asks how things are between Gene and Hulk Hogan. 

Uncomfortable. Still not sure why everybody is obsessed with this Okerlund and Hogan thing. So what if Gene did join the nWo? Why would anybody give a shit?

Gene switches to Benoit, who immediately fucks up the start of his promo by struggling to pronounce “relinquish”. Benoit says tonight isn’t about vengeance or envy, but it’s about “security”. Strange word to use but OK. Benoit says to look into his eyes and asks if we can see “the hungry beast”.

Not really. He looks bored.

We’re thrown back to Bischoff and Heenan at the announce desk. Bichoff notes that Macho will have his chance to face Hogan for the title at Halloween Havoc, then we are shown footage from a couple of weeks ago where Hogan came out to whack Savage with a chair and help Flair beat him. We then see Savage’s promo from last week and the end of the match with Macho and Giant, with Macho making the mistake of cracking Meng over the head with a chair. After this Gene is in the back with Savage.

As usual there are random WCW shirts hanging from the lockers, and a towel. I hope that’s clean - kind of gross if not.

Gene tells Macho that Hogan “did you in”, as usual he isn’t mincing his words. Macho screams that he’s “quiet but deadly right now”. Macho says that he deserves to win at Havoc and that it’s for “all the marbles”, even though he only has one marble in his head. Macho says it’ll be “the scariest match of the century” and he’s going to take Hogan apart because nobody cares.

Gene disagrees and says that he does care, and Macho yells “I don’t care if you care!” - Gene mentions that Savage has the Giant at Fall Brawl - the PPV before Havoc - but Savage responds “I’m going to bowl through the Giant and that’s it” before storming off. “Randy Savage, do you have an extra chair?” Okerlund calls - can’t tell if he’s being a dick or not. You can hear Savage hollering something inaudible. Quiet but deadly indeed.

We go back to the arena and unfortunately Hacksaw is out next.

For reasons beyond my understanding he gets a ridiculous amount of pyro. Goldberg levels of pyro. 

This guy’s expression says it all. He hasn’t been impressed with much so far tonight, not sure why the camera keeps showing him. Heenan admits he isn’t thrilled that WCW’s future lies with “a madman, a beserk individual who can’t put a thought together”. Brutal. He then goes on to say Savage will never give up and if anyone wants to beat Hogan, it’s Macho. So now I have no idea if Heenan is for or against the idea.

Duggan’s opponent is the Giant.

Happily I don’t foresee this ending well for Hacksaw.

“Hacksaw” Jim Duggan Vs The Giant

Hacksaw immediately gets a “USA” chant going and stomps around the ring like a child.

He attempts a shoulder block on the Giant but bounces off of him, which prompts Hacksaw to adopt this pose.

Duggan attempts another shoulder tackle but Jimmy Hart grabs his foot, which causes Hacksaw to sprint - or more accurately jog - after Hart on the outside of the ring. He manages to get Jimmy’s jacket but the mouth of the south escapes. Not exactly hard to outrun Duggan in fairness. 

The Giant comes after Duggan, who tosses Hart’s jacket into his face and then throws a few punches to Giant’s chest before getting back into the ring, yelling “HOOOO” and getting another “USA” chant going. Giant gets up on the apron but Hacksaw knocks him off and then gets back out of the ring. Heenan suggests Hacksaw is “like a refrigerator” and doubts Giant can chokeslam him. Considering we have seen Giant chokeslam the much bigger John Tenta more than once I’m not sure this logic makes much sense, but whatever.

Giant whips Duggan back first into the ring post, but then Duggan moves as Giant charges him.

Imagine getting outsmarted by Jim Duggan. 

Giant is finally able to get back into the ring and puts Duggan into a bear hug.

He can barely get his arms around Duggan’s thicc frame. He might be the only person in WCW who could wrap his arms around Duggan though, so it’s somewhat impressive. Hacksaw manages to fight out of the bearhug and stagger into the corner, so Giant goes over and starts slamming his butt into Hacksaw’s gut.

I think this picture says enough.

Duggan attempts to slam the Giant but can’t lift him up. Giant clobbers Duggan back down to the mat, and then...

Ted DiBiase appears in the crowd. Whilst he slowly makes his way down to ringside Giant and Hacksaw are cuddling in the ring again.

I have no idea why Patrick looks so terrified. It’s possible Hacksaw has farted. Anyhow, Hacksaw pulls out his trusty roll of tape - from the way he digs it out I think it sits somewhere underneath his balls, which is disgusting, then blasts Giant in the head with it.

It doesn’t really have much effect, although I dread to think what it smells like. Jimmy Hart gets up on the apron holding Duggan’s 2x4. Nick Patrick, Jimmy Hart and Hacksaw then have a tug of war over it.

At this point I’m quite confused as to whether the roll of tape is legal or not. Patrick did not care in the slightest when Hacksaw was whacking Giant with it, but I swear Hacksaw has been disqualified before for using it. WCW, where rules are as useful as Chavo Guerrero Jr. Whilst all this nonsense is going on Giant grabs Duggan and...

Chokeslam. Goodnight. Match over. 

The Giant defeats “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan via Pinfall.

That match lasted a lot longer than I thought it would, and Duggan got in way too much offence. Giant did not benefit from this match at all. The camera immediately switches to DiBiase in the crowd who gives us the Four Horsemen salute.

A few things to note. Firstly the guy to Dibiase’s right doing it with him just looks bizarre. Secondly the guy to DiBiase’s left is booing very aggressively - unsure as to whether he’s mad Hacksaw lost or just dislikes Ted. Thirdly the guy behind DiBiase’s shoulder is screaming and looks like he’s popping out of DiBiase’s shoulder, like that character in MiB II. 

DiBiase opens has palm for “five” and says “next week”.

Looks like he’s about to do the “you can’t see me” thing, but he doesn’t. The guy to DiBiase’s right is shocked by this, again copying the “five” hand gesture and yelling “five! Next week! Five!” at whoever is next to him and the camera. 

Bischoff asks if DiBiase is playing games. Heenan says he’s known DiBiase for a long time and, exact quote, “he doesn’t play games, he plays games that are serious”. He does play games then. Bischoff says “maybe he’s the fifth horseman”. Yes, the fifth member of the four horsemen. That makes sense.

Because we can’t go one segment without Okerland, he’s now on the ramp with Giant and Jimmy Hart.

Gene says Giant is “in shock”, Giant replies “you’re roggone right I’m in shock” - I assume he means doggone but is for some reason channeling Scooby Doo. Giant, whilst talking, says he can hardly talk because he’s in shock. Giant’s face is really close to the camera and it’s really unsettling.

Back up a little, jeez.

Anyway, Giant takes exception with Macho blaming him for losing the title to Hogan. Giant asks why Savage wasn’t around to help out when Nash and Hall helped Hogan take the belt from the Giant. A fair point. Giant postulates that Savage was scared, and he “can’t cut the job”, whatever that means. Giant says Macho isn’t going to fight Hogan, he is, because he “is the world heavyweight champion”.

Giant looks like he’s about to cry. He also seems to be in denial over losing the title. He says he’ll beat either Hogan or Savage for the belt and that he’ll be waiting for Savage at Fall Brawl. 

As Gene talks we can clearly see the Giant’s spit on the camera lens. Nice. Gene actually gets out a hankerchief and tries to wipe down the camera saying “for goodness sakes these guys are very messy”.

We come back from the break to find 80s rejects the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express coming to the ring.

Seriously, these shirts.

I hope they didn’t sell these. Looks like somebody literally drew the design on a white shirt for them with sharpies. 

More enthusiastic crowd shots. Why is it every time they show this guy on the right he looks bored as fuck? Why is he even there?

This fella also gives one of the least enthusiastic “woooo”’s and thumbs up I’ve ever seen. Orange Cassidy would be proud. 

Ric Flair’s music hits.

DiBiase is looking at Liz and Woman and likes what he sees. I’m with you chief. Heenan says that DiBiase is sitting in the crowd “inconspicuously” but then notes he made his way to his seat literally through everybody in the middle of the show. He’s contradicted himself within single sentences three times in the last twenty minutes. He’s a very confused man tonight.

Bischoff: “I’ve just thought of something. He could be the fourth nWo guy, and next week there’s a fifth”. Really, Eric, you’ve only just come to that realisation? I think everybody else probably came to that conclusion first, rather than assuming DiBiase was the fifth member of the four horsemen, but OK. Congrats on gaining such insight. He’s still pushing the fifth Horseman idea as the more likely outcome, though, so still a total dunce. Hogan, Nash and Hall - all arrived from the WWF, two of whom very recently. DiBiase left the WWF in May/June. 

Obviously going to join the Horsemen and not the WWF-invaders-but-not-WWF-invaders nWo faction. 

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express Vs Ric Flair and Arn Anderson

As usual the Horsemen end up getting their butts kicked early on. Flair takes a double dropkick out of the ring and starts squaring up to fans.

Ole has lost some weight.

The Horsemen surprisingly take control for a while, then a brawl breaks out between all four men in the ring. Arn eventually sneaks up on Morton and hits him with a DDT.

Gibson sees this happen, and is literally on the apron as Ric goes for the pin...

For some reason he is insanely slow and casual about getting in to break it up though, so the ref counts the three and your winners are the Horsemen.

Ric Flair and Arn Anderson defeat the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express via Pinfall.

I love how at the end of the match Gibson stares down so disappointedly at Morton.

I mean, he could have easily broken up the pinfall, but he made about as much effort as the people who designed he and Morton’s t-shirts. What a bell. This was a short match, not that I mind. 

Bischoff says it looks like Arn Anderson could chew through the steel cage at War Games, “and no doubt he will” - erm, I think there is some doubt as to whether Arn will literally chew through steel, but OK.

Oh look, it’s Gene. What a surprise. He isn’t even waiting by the entrance anymore. Straight down to the ring, not even letting the Horsemen get a breather before shoving a microphone into their faces.

Gene complains about Woman molesting him again, and begs Liz to do something. Liz coyly says “there’s nothing I can do to control her”. It’s like the start of a creepy porno. 

Gene asks Arn about the upcoming War Games match.

Arn: “There’s a time to ogle the women, Gene Okerlund, and this ain’t it”. Slapping Gene down to the ground. I like it. Arn says that the hourglass has been turned around, and the sand is running out on the nWo. Not even close Arn, not even close. Arn repeats that the nWo picked their spot about ten times before saying “when they shut the cage, and you look into our guts” - wait, what? Shouldn’t that be eyes? The only way I can think to look into someone’s guts without cutting their stomach open is... never mind. Arn says the Horsemen were in the first War Games and they’ll be in the last one.

Quick fact check on this - nope. If we’re talking purely WCW War Games 1997 was the last one the Horsemen were involved in. 1998 was Team WCW vs nWo Hollywood vs nWo Wolfpac and there was no War Games in 1999. They apparently had a random one in 2000 on Nitro but that didn’t involve the Horsemen either and who gave a shit about WCW at that point anyway? Back to 1996...

Arn says the Outsiders will be gone by now and we won’t see them again tonight. He says if you want to be a man in this sport you need to jump on a guy, eye to eye, nose to nose... uh...

Gene’s expression mirrors mine.

We see a clip from the Clash of the Champions - Flair has Hogan in the Figure 4 and Gene asks Flair if Hogan submitted. Flair claims that Hogan looked into his eyes and said “oh great Nature Boy, I give up, I quit, you are too much man, today”. Not only would that be a really strange thing to say in the circumstances, but we are literally watching footage which shows this never happened. Flair is screaming that the Outsiders better be ready because War Games “are not in the Big Apple, they’re not in Chicago, they’re not in LA, they’re in Winston Salem, North Carolina”. 

Liz looks like she’s really enjoying this promo. Flair’s head looks set to burst. Woman is trying to molest poor Gene again. Gene thanks Flair, who continues to go absolutely nuts, flailing around like he’s having a seizure.

Totally insane. I love how Woman is so used to it she’s just looking on like nothing weird is happening at all.

Another Glacier promo. I’m sure this will all be worth it when he debuts... right?

Out next is Chris Jericho.

I can’t really make out what he’s yelling at the camera, but it sounds like “let’s go, are you ready WCW for lion”. Sure. Jericho is yelling to try and get the crowd pumped up.

Doesn’t appear to be working. These are the kind of expressions you’d get if you took a shit in the entranceway. What is with WCW showing totally unenthusiastic crowd members tonight? 

His opponent is “Das WunderSwan” Alex Wright.

STOP PANNING TO BORED MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE.

WunderSwan does his usual backslip off the turnbuckle as he enters the ring.

Impressive until he blows a knee out on one of his landings, then stupid.

Chris Jericho vs “Das WunderSwan” Alex Wright

Bischoff takes credit for signing Jericho to WCW. Is this his debut? Just checked wikipedia and yes, it is indeed. Bischoff calls Jericho “an upstanding young man, and an outstanding wrestler”. Like a teacher’s report card. Heenan asks if Bischoff has co-signed for a house with Jericho. Bischoff suggests that Jericho and Wright “could be the backbone of WCW for years to come”. Jericho left in early 1999 despite being hugely over and Alex Wright became Berlyn, so, no.

Match starts off pretty slow with various mat holds. For some reason Bischoff takes this moment to shit on Big Bubba, mocking him for having a problem with Glacier - “he’s not even here yet” - and saying that he has a problem. Not sure what prompted that. Jericho hits Wright with a spinning leg kick, which Bischoff describes as an elbow for some reason, then does his trademark dropkick off the turnbuckle, sending Wright crashing to the outside.

Bischoff calls it an “inverted dropkick”. I have no idea how you would even invert a dropkick, but OK. Springboard dropkick would be more appropriate. Wright manages to get back into the match and hits a cross body on Jericho from the turnbuckle.

Heenan says Alex Wright has “more experience” than Jericho which is definitely not true. 

Jericho:

Alex Wright:

Enough said. Get your facts straight Bobby.

At one point Jericho is outside of the ring and Wright gets up top...

So, what’s the plan here? A double sledge, Macho Man style? A flying cross body? A dropkick?

No. None of these. He just jumps down and smacks his arm/head onto the guardrail.

...

...

...

What a helmet.

Jericho rolls back in the ring and Wright gets counted out. For some reason Jericho tells the ref he “doesn’t want to win this way” and it gets declared a No Contest. WTF? If it’s a count out then it’s a count out, Jericho can’t decide to call it a No Contest just because he feels sorry for Das BlunderDunce. 

The crowd boos as Jericho checks on Wright.

Chris Jericho Vs “Das WunderDunce” Alex Wright ends in a No Contest.

Are you kidding me? Gene is out there AGAIN? I hope he isn’t getting paid by screen time because he literally gets more of it than anybody else on the show. His face should be front and centre of all promotion items. 

Wright is stumbling around, seemingly concussed, but Gene coldly says they’ll get him on his feet and then says that Jericho’s debut was a “breath of fresh air”. It really wasn’t any better than a lot of the cruiserweight matches we’ve already seen, but sure, whatever.

Jericho says he came to WCW to fight “to the best of my ability”, as opposed to only some of his ability, I guess? Jericho says he respects Alex Wright, for some reason, and then says whilst he wouldn’t take a victory like this, he knows somebody who would... Hulk Hogan and the nWo. OK. Not sure why Jericho feels the need to shit on Hogan, Hall and Nash right out the gate but there you go. Jericho says “me and Alex are going to fight with all of our hearts... for WCW!” - possibly the cheesiest and lamest thing I’ve ever heard. Wright is still staggering around in a daze. He stumbles towards Okerlund who bluntly tells him there’s no interview time left and he should go to the back and get his wits together. No fucks given from Gene.

We come back from the break to find the next match about to begin, with two teams in the ring.

Looks like Scott Steiner (w/Crazy Huge Arms) and Rick Steiner (w/Clinical Lycanthropy) facing off against the Blue Bloods. Earl Robert Eaton and Squire Dave Taylor if my eyes don’t deceive me. Where’s Lord Steven, dammit?

The Steiner Brothers Vs The Blue Bloods

The Earl and the Squire start the match by arguing about who is going in first. Normally both want to start, but in this instance neither of them do. Eaton complains he always starts. Squire keeps yelling at Eaton to get in the ring. The Dog Faced Gremlin soon has enough of this bullshit, sneaking up behind these idiots and slamming their heads together.

Eaton now does get in the ring, but Taylor is still shouting at him, so the Earl pushes the Squire off the ring apron.

Rick Steiner gives Eaton a hip toss and barks. After smacking Eaton around for a bit Taylor comes into the ring. Both Blue Bloods get clotheslined and roll out of the ring to continue arguing, whilst Rick and Scott do their pose with Rick barking again.

Rick crawls over and bites the rope.

This is who you’re losing to, guys.

There was no tag but the Squire is in now. He actually gets some offence and hauls Rick up onto his shoulders, as Eaton dives from the top rope.

As you might expect this doesn’t end very well, as Rick appears to get dumped right on his head.

But for some reason Eaton is the one who is knocked out.

The Steiners win. I don’t think Scott Steiner or his arms did anything in this match. Hold on, wasn’t Dave Taylor the legal man here? How did Eaton get pinned? Maybe it... oh, no, it’s just WCW. Rules only apply when required.

The Steiner Brothers defeat The Blue Bloods via Pinfall. 

The Squire is understandably annoyed that Eaton somehow managed to lose the match despite not even being the legal man, and slaps him in the face.

Should arguably be slapping the ref for counting the wrong man, but whatever. 

The Blue Bloods get into a fight, which Eaton gets the best of. We suddenly hear Rick Steiner on the microphone saying “Eaton’s going crazy! Get him, Bobby, beat him up!” - that’s not helping. 

Okerlund again, of course. He asks Scotty what he makes of this and he replies “I don’t know Gene, they’re going nuts! I thought they were supposed to be friends? Partners?” - because no tag team has ever had an acrimonious split before.  

Nick Patrick is trying (badly) to stop the Blue Bloods fighting, whilst Gene asks them to calm down and Rick Steiner continues trolling them and telling them to keep going. Hah. 

Once the Blue Bloods are finally gone, Gene asks Rick about their match with Harlem Heat at Fall Brawl. Rick says “you know, Gene, being a dog (Clinical Lycanthropy, this man needs a doctor) I prey on my opponents. You see, in the dog pound, it’s the be a hard times (?), when you boys get to Halloween Havoc, I’m going to be Peter Peter, the Pumpkin Eater and it’s gonna be my party!”

Just... what? I couldn’t help but laugh at this. You really have to watch this promo to understand how hilarious it is. Rick is absolutely insane.

Scott reminds Rick “it’s not Halloween, it’s Fall Brawl” as Rick barks. Scott says something inaudible about hens going “cock-a-doodle-do”. Scott says when the Steiners get to Fall Brawl they’ll be “getting radical” and the Heat will be “going down”.

Mental.

It’s main event time. Out first is Chris Benoit and Mongo, accompanied by the females, of course.

Woman has decided to put some shades on, even though she wasn’t wearing any before. We get another shot of Ted DiBiase looking on. 

Here come Sting and Luger.

Chris Benoit and Steve “Mongo” McMichael Vs Sting and Lex Luger

No messing around here, we go straight into a brawl with all four men dogpiling into the corner. 

For some reason Randy Anderson rings the bell to start the match, despite both teams still brawling and nobody in their respective corners. I guess it’s a Tornado Tag now!

After a couple of minutes things settle down a bit, with Luger and Mongo in the ring and Benoit and Sting on the apron. Embarrassingly for Luger Mongo gets the better of him, then tags out to Benoit. Heenan suggests that at War Games the cage could be upside down. Logistically I doubt that’s possible. 

Luger gets beaten up by Mongo and Benoit for a while before the old double clothesline spot sending both men down.

That clothesline is literally the first move Benoit has taken, but he acts like he got shot and Luger somehow starts getting up before Benoit. Maybe this is why Ric and Arn don’t want you at War Games, Chris.

Luger manages to tag in Sting, who takes charge.

Sting goes for the Scorpion Deathlock on Benoit. Mongo runs in to break it up but ends up getting dropkicked out of the ring.

All of a sudden, Hollywood arrives.

Hogan backs up around the ring as McMichael stalks him, then Scott Hall flies in out of nowhere to knock Mongo down.

Heenan flees the broadcast booth. Nash has also appeared and along with Hall he rams Mongo’s head into the post. No harm done I’d imagine. Mongo gets tagged, and the official title of being the first person to be spraypainted by the nWo. The Production Truck obviously holds the honour of being the first object to be tagged.

Benoit gets hit with the Outsider’s Edge.

Whilst Sting eats a Jacknife Powerbomb.

Luger got rammed into the ring post earlier by Mongo, so he’s still laid out on the floor somewhere. Hogan tags Benoit and Sting.

Ric Flair and Arn Anderson finally come out, albeit a bit late.

Ric and Arn initially have the advantage, but then both get spraypainted in the eyes.

Hogan tosses Flair to the outside and spraypaints his hair like a skunk.

The crowd begin throwing garbage in the ring as Hogan and the Outsiders celebrate.

Seriously, these guys are getting pelted with cups of drink.  Hogan spraypaints the back of Nash’s shirt for some reason. I think he’s a little too excited about this new hobby.

Check out the amount of trash that’s in the ring.

Gross. The nWo commandeer the announce desk and run off Eric.

“Heeeere’s the nWo!” 

“Anarchy! Anarchy!” says Nash whilst Hogan yells “anything less would be too civilised!”

The show ends with a look at the carnage inside the ring...

And a replay of DiBiase holding up the five fingers. 

Awesome ending to the show. This was peak nWo and when people really started to take notice of what was going on in WCW. 

[serpentworksgames]

Post Mortem: Runaway Magic

So the results for Ludum Dare 40 have been released! I figure this is a good time to review my project and what I learned from this whole experience. Runaway Magic scored 912th overall and broke the 300s for humor, and quite honestly I'm rather pleased with the results given the game.

Day 1

The theme for Ludum Dare 40 was "the more you have the worse it is". I spend the first few hours brainstorming before centering on the idea of "overloading on magic". Originally, I had prototyped a small arcade shooter that spawned enemies and you would have to cast magic to destroy them. Standard fair, with the caveat, that using too much magic could overload you. You had four types of magic, and you would have to change magic for certain enemy types. All very modular and easy to expand upon. Having gotten spawning down, the firing working, I moved on to trying to get the UI to work, because at the time you couldn't cast more than three of the same types of magic before you'd overload. Casting other magic would negate this.

The UI fought me at every turn. I spent several hours frustratingly trying to get the coloring to work (it would change the color of the dot to show what magic you'd used. I went to bed frustrated with the UI. While attempting to sleep, I thought up an interesting dialogue adventure, with scenarios to use magic. 

Day 2

After messing with the UI for a few more hours, I decided to scrap that idea and try to build a dialogue system. I spent my entire Saturday beating my head against this. While a basic system could work, I could not get dialogue options to work properly, or display. I did very little else, as this was now the core of the game and needed to work before I could do anything else. I did, however, change the overload meter at this point to just a bar. You could cast different amount of magic, and it would fill up the overload meter in different amounts, without having to mess with colors or negating values. 

I went to bed once again frustrated and questioning my change of idea, but I was already two days in and needed to stick to something. I searched the internet for some guidance, some help, and in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, as the sun rose, I found Yarn. 

Day 3

I woke up some hours later with a plan. I would spend two hours tops trying out Yarn and seeing if I could get it to work before I would scrap the entire dialogue system and go back to the arcade shooter. Low and behold, an hour later of looking at the documentation and seeing how it was implemented (as my roommates went to the gym without me) I had working dialogue, with functional variables and options. I rejoiced, I cheered, I then spend two hours making a base character model in Maya. 

Then began my long vigil. 

With 24 hours to go, I had no content, a very basic, poorly animated green witch who was stuck in the T-pose, and a fierce determination to finish something. I implemented the enemy spawning from before, and built a simple starting zone for the prologue and first set of dialogue. I used a wonderful set of assets from KenneyAssets, which greatly sped up my process. My best friend suggested I use mushrooms for the enemies, to which I added eyes to hilarious effect. He went to bed and I plowed into dialogue creation, level design, and sacrifice of sleep.

Day 4

My other roommate came down at about 10 am to ask "have you been up all night" to which I answered yes. By this point, the dialogue had reached the 4th wall, broke it, and taken a trip to what I can only assume happens when you're on mushrooms. (I took the 'shroom theme way too far.) I had two scenarios to design in the editor, having spent the last hour recovering from Unity crashing on me. I finished up this portion, finally, with roughly five hours to go. I played through to make sure the dialogue trees worked, that the nav mesh I was using wasn't breaking, that the spawner worked (it hadn't for a while during the night) and moved on to making menus. 

My menus took very little time, and I spend most of the remaining four hours bug fixing. Not that I found all of them until AFTER I'd submitted, mind you. I made a few quality of life improvements, messed with post-processing, and finally forced myself to stop messing with it with half an hour before the deadline. 

Submission/Post-Submission

I tried to build for WebGL first. It wouldn't build. So I built for Windows. Then restarted Unity and successfully built for WebGL and submitted that to itch.io. Except, when I tested it, the dialogue didn't work. I, to this day, have no idea why the dialogue UI breaks. I have no idea why YarnSpinner will not work with WebGL. It just doesn't. 

I am told, some hours after playing the game for my guy roommate - who almost hurts himself laughing so hard at my dialogue - that the Windows build doesn't actually work, because low and behold, I forgot the data folder! I fix a rather big bug at the end where not only does the boss try charging you after you get the castle open, but the mushrooms /that have been constantly spawning behind you/ rush you at the game win UI screen, and re-upload my build. With that, I finish fixing bugs and leave it for review.

(After the fact I realized I'd broken the character model - which was why it wouldn't animate - by deleting all the bones because, silly me, I thought it wasn't necessary.)

What Worked:

Yarn! Using the Kenney Assets. I am incredibly good at taking a pack of assets and spending /hours/ doing nothing but creating a world. Yarn is a pleasure to use, though sometimes it bugs out a little (which given it's in Alpha is expected) and the Yarn Spinner plugin is a godsend for creating dialogue systems that work properly with little finagling. I went into the jam with a really good goal of finishing something, and I did! The humor was rather good, though you could tell I was sleep deprived, and I did not proofread anything before I submitted, as I did the dialogue development in Yarn itself, and not a word processing program first.

What Didn't Work:

Runaway Magic has very little in the way of gameplay outside of the dialogue. It's a common crit people gave of it, and I agree with it wholeheartedly. I scraped some decent combat to try to beat my head against dialogue - I spent too long trying to get it to work instead of just moving on or finding a solution - when I could have easily melded the two together to make something more interesting and intense. 

What I Learned:

Do not attempt to hand code a dialogue system in a 72 hour period. Simplicity is better than overcomplicating. Sleep, always sleep. 

On a more self-development level, I learned a lot about myself and my work ethic. I will beat my head against a problem until it's solved, even if it's not a good idea to do so. I need to be aware of this and set limits for myself for how long I'll try to get something to work before moving on. I am actually halfway decent at this game development thing! I may not have scored super well, but I produced a game for the first time since I graduated school, and I ain't half bad. I'd been in a slump for so long, simply working on Mayu's Lantern to work on it and not really produce anything, and feeling rather, well, worthless as a person. So being able to actually produce a finished - if flawed and ultimately not particularly good - product and release it to the world. 

For Next Time:

For the next Ludum Dare, I'm planning on being more aware of my process and working smarter. If I run into an issue I can't solve in an hour or so, that's not the solution I'm looking for (aside from compile errors 'course ). More use of the theme too. The final version of Runaway Magic didn't really use the theme, whereas the first version had some good stuff going for it. 

Anyway! That's it for now! I will have a new update on my plans for 2018 in a few days; I have a few ideas rolling around and a challenge for myself for the year. 

Until next time!

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NO-ONE likes waiting around 

Here we are, after a cracking crescendo to the end of the home and away season, where permutations and calculations saw an enthralling final eight set, and now we’ve got a week off.

The end of season bye came in not just because the AFLPA wanted more rest in-season for its union, but too the AFL saw an integrity issue with the final round and stars being rested.

Yet last Friday Essendon rested some of their players still, and from all appearances, with no disrespect to Hawthorn, West Coast rested all their team too, so what’s the point Gil?

Ah well, get in the garden, Father’s Day as well, it’ll be Thursday night in Perth before you know it. We hope.

 1.       Bit of a mixed bag this week, no footy for the last weekend in August, we’re a bit lost, but let’s start with West Coast. Last three games against good teams they’ve lost now. And two of those games were at home, the narrow loss to a then spluttering Collingwood and then one out of the box to a Hawthorn team who finished ninth. Not the kind of form you’d want in attempting to defend your title, especially when it now requires four wins to do it.

2.       So some still pick West Coast to go all the way, based on what we know about their best footy. But we must realise it’s less about the talent and some about the path there. To win the whole thing, weeks two through four would mean either three wins in Melbourne against Geelong or Collingwood, then Richmond, then Geelong or Collingwood, or, week three might be in Brisbane followed up by Richmond the week after. For a team that served that up against the Hawks, when top four was on the line, they ain’t doing any of that.

3.       Brisbane has a tough assignment too. One point win over Geelong at home and then Richmond was always comfy despite the stats and the margin. So first week is no gimme, but do that they’d earn a home prelim against Geelong or Collingwood, maybe West Coast, before copping Richmond at the MCG again most likely. Somewhat plausible but I don’t see three wins in them. If they lose first week they’re done and dusted, especially if the Tigers can beat them up there, they’d be cactus if they come down and play them again, or a hot Cats or Pies, down here.

4.       Just a random one, you know you’re talking to a Victorian, South Australian or Western Australian when they speak about the speed of the wind prevailing in a measurement of goals. “Hey, go put some washing on, it’s about a four-goal breeze out there”. Love it.

5.       The Pies looked really nice against the Crows, but it was the Crows and we’ll get to them. Aside from that, awful when it mattered against the Giants, not on the Tigers’ level and the Bombers win was unconvincing. If you back them in it’s on potential but the evidence on form is still a massive question mark.

6.       Mind you, overall, the Maggies are 7-4 against fellow top eight teams, which ranks first, the Cats are 5-3, Tigers are 5-4. Both the Eagles and Lions are only 4-4.

7.       I know this might not be the best version of the Giants we’ve seen the last four or so years, but geez they’ve been stiff. Could argue in 2017 and 2018 they were the second best team in it, only narrowly beaten by the eventual premier in the prelim. Too, they lost Cal Ward in the Dogs prelim early and Dylan Shiel in the Tigers prelim as well, so bit of sliding doors then who knows? Last year, narrow loss to the Pies in a semi-final. So in reality, whilst Cameron cops it for his record, the GWS really have been mighty close.

8.       Gee Chris Scott keeps banging on about venues. Let’s be clear. Last five years Geelong has had 11 home games at the MCG, outside of finals. You’d think going by his rhetoric they’re an 11-home games a year team down the highway. If it’s good to host home games there during the year, I don’t think you can labour the specific.

9.       Further, oh, it’s the Pies home ground, well yes that’s true. But in terms of home ground advantage, 100% of Geelong home games at GHMBA are home games, they are its only tenant, whereas only 57% of Collingwood home games at the MCG are true home games, the other 43% are against fellow-MCG tenants, neutral games in essence. For Victorian teams, there’s hardly any home ground these days anywhere, no advantage to be captured during the home and away, unless you’re Geelong of course.

10.   Don Pyke might be in the gun. Two schools of thought. First, it’s not yet two years since they played in a Grand Final. Furthermore, he has two years to run on a contract. But. Second school of thought, which I starting to subscribe to, is that despite all of that in his favour, has he ever regained the players properly since the 2018 pre-season? Have they looked any good since the 2017 granny? Think about the last two weeks, with finals implications on the line, they’ve looked putrid. The last Showdown is telling too, Port hammered them by ten goals no less. We may let him go into 2020 but then see more of the same and the decision makes itself. So if that looms, might as well act now and get the restart that playing group obviously needs.

11.   And also, Adelaide, by far the oldest list in the comp as well, so when you’re finishing 11th with that hanging over your head, lots needs to happen. Lots.

12.   If the Suns get handed pick two as a concession that’s a farce. It would firstly not be an objective reaction to assessing their situation, but secondly it would be not only incredibly overs for a club that doesn’t deserve, nor do well with drafting and development of players anyway, but it would be a contrived result based on a specific regards the upcoming draft pool. The top two standouts this year are two best mates from Melbourne, Noah Anderson and Matty Rowell. Both go to school at Carey, both in the Oakleigh Chargers program, both elite midfielders with different skillsets that as a package deal, as best mates, look immense. So for the AFL to deliberately land, potentially, on a concession to hand them pick 2, so they can grab both boys in the hope they are more likely to stay up there because they’re with each other, just stinks. Would hate it.

13.   Speaking of the Suns, they say they got over 7,000 to the Suns-Giants game on the weekend. No chance. No more than 3,000 paying attended, tops, with a couple thousand freebies chucked in for good measure. Poor Stuey Dew, will likely be 1-10 or 2-9 by the bye next year, and we’ll still have no strong answer to the question ‘is he a good coach?’ or not. For all we know he is Van Gogh without any access to paint.

14.   Steve Coniglio re-signs for seven years. That wouldn’t happen at the Suns. If he was on the Gold Coast he could be lured elsewhere for a can of Sprite and a Curly Wurly. But taken unders to stay in Sydney, speaks volumes of getting that franchise right, and embedded. Big difference to the Gold Coast where Jack Martin was so eager to tell the club he was leaving he almost told the runner Saturday night.

15.   And with all this trade stuff heating up, my Lord, how many numpties now throw darts at anything or have five bucks each way on every horse in the race, then letting us all know about it when a couple of the tickets in their pocket are winning ones? Its bad journalism. You know what we should demand in footy media? You know what proper trade-breaking, player movement coverage looks like? One word. “Woj”.

16.   Like this one – a leading psychologist (as opposed to those back of the peloton, off the street psychologists that are never quoted) has said that “not keeping score in junior sport is part of the ‘wuss-fication’ of an entire generation, with young kids not learning how to be resilient”. Knock me down with a feather, halle-bloody-lujah!

17.   All-Australian tonight, my team will be somewhere, but also the Rising Star is soon as well. Could google when it is but I’m not bothered, and we know Sam Walsh just wins, will be a gem for that club. My 5-4-3-2-1 if I was voting, if I’m honest: 5-Connor Rozee, 4-Sam Walsh, 3-Sydney Stack, 2-Cameron Zurhaar, 1-Mitchell Lewis. No judge will do anything like that, but that doesn’t make them right. I think Walsh is a gun but I just think Rozee is a special, special talent Victorians don’t appreciate enough. Zurhaar is a beast and helped win North two or three games by himself, and Lewis is the Hawks’ Roughy replacement, as a 20-year-old – yeah I’d be happy with that.

18.   Why are we naming an All-Australian squad of 40 the week of the final 22 being announced? Makes no sense at all. Why stop there? Why not name a 60-man shortlist then, last week? A top 100 after Round 16. Or, maybe after each Round, Hunger Games-style, tell us five blokes definitely not making the All-Australian. Or, maybe just maybe, we don’t worry about all of that and just tell us the team on the night? Don’t know. Maybe too radical.

19.   Legends game this Friday night, and its AFLX which caused a massive stink. Hate to say it though, it might, might, actually be better. Think about it, all AFLX really is, is on a smaller ground, doesn’t need tackling and the ball moves around quicker. Sounds like the perfect ingredients for older blokes who aren’t keen on amassing big GPS numbers on a standard-sized oval. Don’t like AFLX at all for normal players, but for the legends, made for TV, for charity, I think it maybe works out for the best?

20.   In this bye week I’m allowed – want to give a shout out to Roy Laird. Who? Last weekend he coached his 357th and final game for Central District in the SANFL after 17 seasons. He coached the Doggies to seven premierships and two runners up, the only success for Centrals in their history, won 22 of the 30 finals he coached and finishes with a 66% winning record. Freak. It’s been too long to get Centrals into this column so this week, we say well done and good luck to one of the greatest coaches the SANFL, and footy in general, has seen.

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NBA2K18 Locker Codes giveaway with free VC

NBA2K18 Locker Codes giveaway with free VC

NBA 2K18 Locker CodesWant to get free locker codes for NBA 2k18 and unlimited free 2k18 VC to unlock rare players? The NBA 2k18 vc generator here can create unlimited free locker and diamond participant codes everyday., with fresh special codes updated for each month. See how to get the NBA 2k18 locker codes for free regular here now.NBA2K18 Locker Codes giveaway with free VC The NBA 2k18 vc generator here can generate unlimited free locker and diamond participant codes everyday., with new special codes updated foreach month.NBA 2K18 Locker Codes giveawayHow to get free NBA locker codes ?Touted as one of the famous games, Basketball has

always been a sport with a massive fan following. However crazy you have the sport and how good you are at it, not everyone gets a chance to be a part of the NBA teams. Yet, everyone who loves the game can play with it in the digital world alongside their favorite players and the way they wish to. NBA 2K18 has ensured that everybody gets a fair opportunity to play this immensely popular game.

From the house of 2K sports, who have been a pioneer in building virtual game games for years now, the NBA 2K18 is all set to win hearts and if you have the locker codes in hand, there's nothing stopping you from dominating the sport completely. Which are locker codes in NBA 2K18?As a virtual currency (VC) in the game is very important, the locker codes which are the key to getting these VCs are the most coveted of these variables in the game. And as coveted as they are, it is not easy to get your hands on them as well. 

You really need to work hard to find these codes or you could always use real time cash to get your hands on them. But if you are really looking for a free way to find these locker codes, then it's time you try the NBA 2K18 locker codes generator on the internet.

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These locker codes are often announced by 2K sports as part of various offers and promotional deals. Sometimes, these are given only for a particular gaming console and sometimes it will be applicable for everybody. You can be part of the Facebook page of the game and enjoy the locker codes as and when it is released to the public by the gaming company.

However, these offers are far and rare and one can't always depend on them to move further in the sport.In order to remain on top of this game, you need to be able to unlock those additional features. And to do so, you need the virtual currencies unlimitedly in your pocket. That is the reason why, you want the help of a sophisticated, innovative tool like the NBA 2K18 online generator for locker codes.This is an internet generator which helps you get the essential locker codes that can further help you to unlock additional features of this game. It doesn't involve any money and neither does this involve you to slave away before the system for hours and hours. All it requires is a few simple clicks on your computer and a sturdy connection to the internet to get your hands on those free locker codes. With no limitations on the number of times you can run them and no limits on the denomination which you can choose, these definitely provide you with the best way out to assist in gaming on NBA 2K18.How does the online generator generally operate?A team of highly skilled and well talented coders and programmers have put their heads together to design an algorithm, that can help generate the locker codes free of cost, as many times you want at any point of time during the day or at night. The tool was tested absolutely at every step by many skilled technicians and it's undergone quite a lot of testing by numerous users. This has ensured that the online generator works effectively every time it is run even when done through exactly the same browser.The generator uses the backdoor from the game server, and ensures that the information is transmitted with the maximum amount of encryption. The data is transmitted in this way that the locker code generation happens like every other real transaction in the system. This ensures that there isn't any doubt triggered at any stage in the gambling security system.

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For a generator that involves lines of complicated code, you'll be amazed by the simplicity in using this tool. An entire explainer video is below, which shows each and every step to find free locker codes.Just click on the link "Get locker code" as provided in the page below and you'll be directed to the official website of the generator.The system will then prompt you to pick the console from which you are playing the game. The game is compatible on PS3, PS4, Xbox360 and Xbox one and so is the online generator. Based on the console you use, the algorithm to generate the code will be different. Hence make certain that you choose the ideal platform.Once you have chosen the platform, you will be asked to pick the denomination to your locker code, from a few choices like 5000 vc locker codes, 50000 vc locker codes, etc..After you opt for the denomination, you have to share the page on Facebook and on Twitter post that the denomination you have selected is credited to your respective account.There'll be a human verification that needs to be completed in order for the code to be shown on your screen completely.The whole process doesn't take a lot of time and you'll have the ability to get these codes within a span of few minutes with no actual personal knowledge or experience. Typically, these codes will get created immediately and there won't be any waiting time. However, occasionally, if there is an overload on the gaming server or the hack machine, there might be a small delay. In which case, it's advised that the user attempts it again. If the hack still does not create the code, you can get in touch with the customer support who would respond to your queries within a period of 24 hours.Why should you use the NBA2K18 online generator?The internet generator to get free locker codes brings together quite a few advantages for an ardent player of NBA2K17.There isn't any need to invest any of your hard earned money in a game. The generator is completely free of cost and can be used without denting your wallet or extending the limit on your card.The codes which you get from these online NBA2K18 online generators are compatible with all sort of gaming consoles including the PS3, PS4, Xbox one and Xbox 360 where the game is usually placed. So every time, you're guaranteed to generate completely working locker codes.The generator makes use of the best and the latest encryption technology there is in the market, ensuring that your information is not shared with anyone or any sort of security system. 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This is a even more serious threat as you may need to restart from scratch in a new username and it might be quite a tedious job.With this internet NBA2K18 generator, you will actually be mitigating both these dangers. You won't be providing any kind of information including your user name when you are using this particular online generator. Given that there's no details shared, there's absolutely not any risk of your account getting banned or your data compromised in anyway. Another fact that this is an internet generator ensures that there is not even an accidental download of any kind of security threat from the internet onto your gambling device.The best way to redeem the locker codes at the NBA 2K18?Redeeming a locker code is quite an easy task really and it does not take more than a few seconds to do that. Just click on the tab for "Options/Features" into your primary menu from the game console. Now select the option marked as "Locker codes". You can now enter the locker code in the particular field and revel in the credit it gives you.There is absolutely no limitation on the amount of locker codes you may redeem at any time period. Without a limitation on the number of times it is possible to bring in a locker code, now you can enjoy the game unlimited for however much time you want to.Few tips and tricks to help you stay on top in NBA 2K18It's a given fact that one must shed a few 100 bucks from their wallet to form that fantasy team which will kick every opponent they face from the NBA 2K18. But not everyone has the money or the intention to invest so much on a literary character and for a virtual game. Here are a couple of tips and secrets to keep you on the high all through the game.At the start, once you're building your player, you will have to pick the archetype, whether the participant will be a sharpshooter, post scorer, etc.. 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 Multiple game modes will give you varying opportunity to generate money in the sport. Irrespective of whether you are a part of this MyGM or MyTeam or MyLeague, you'll stand to win certain VC and a perfect chance to make your player a better one in the game.Try not to over shop when you win VC. Keep your own limitations and try to stick with them as much as possible. Try to make your updates in such a manner that your attribute bar goes higher. With better attributes it is possible to make a better player and thus a better opportunity to win the game.Do not allow your key players to get caught in a filthy as they are quite crucial in every game and in every moment.To conclude, being smart on the field, whether virtual or real, can really make a lot of difference. And while it's possible to use as many tricks you want, you will make a real difference in the virtual NBA 2K18 when you have unlimited digital currency on hand. And to ensure that you have unlimited digital currencies, you need either infinite real cash to spend in a virtual game or a real and highly intelligent NBA 2K18 online generator. The latter fits well inside your pocket, and it is fairly easy to do as well. With just a few minutes to spare, you can enjoy unlimited gambling!