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In great sadness I have to report I've joined reddit. What subs should I subscribe too (besides the shack one)?

Cool series of videos...

A Brief History of Graphics!


Pixel Pioneers, Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzN2pgL0zeg
Sprite Supreme, Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1yBP5t-fSA
Polygon Realm, Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxM9pMEnJQ0
Voodoo Bloom, Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCwZtsrpWgc
Future Crisis, Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpAHIutTE60

Did you guys see Valve approved this new mod that overhauls the graphics

http://store.steampowered.com/app/290930/?snr=1_7_7_comingsoon_150_1

Every Frame A Painting: Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement

https://vimeo.com/122702786
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8

Anyone who picked up a Raspberry Pi 2 should definitely check out Lakka - http://www.lakka.tv/

Basically it's a nice UI for Retroarch, but it can emulate anything up to PSX/N64 pretty well without much effort. And the interface is nice and console-like - it basically works the same as Sony's crossbar system.

I haven't tried anything from the PSX or N64 yet, but up to SNES at least it works just fine.

Every episode of Star Trek ranked

http://www.playboy.com/articles/star-trek-episode-guide-part-one

So cool. I kind of wish it was in ascending order to make it easier to share, but it's pretty funny that someone created this.

If you're having issues with cutscenes, make a shortcut for the game and add "-GameTime.MaxSimFps 60 -GameTime.ForceSimRate 60+" to the end.


Apparently the cutscenes are locked at 30fps

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Friday Longreads.

Three articles for procrastination or weekend reading. This week: drifting continents, normal people 'boosting' their brains with ADHD and narcolepsy meds, and why we need to get our asses to Mars.

Read a good in-depth article recently? Share it here!

Programming People, especially Python

I'm looking for Shacker recommended books or online courses to continue my learning. I started teaching myself programming ~7 months ago and I've seemingly got a handle on the basics. I understand OOP, have completed a number of small-ish projects, and feel pretty comfortable just sitting down and working out a problem in code. Now I'm looking for something a little more language-agnostic to guide my overall software composition, but some intermediate-advanced Python specific stuff would be cool too. For instance I'm pretty inexperienced with decorators and generators, stuff like that.

Any kind of general advice for a budding programmer is always welcome, as well. The Shack's always been a great place to absorb info from the experienced guys' conversations, I appreciate anything you guys can throw my way.