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  - Pettytheft
    
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    November 12, 2008 6:22 PM
    
    It's the game I've played the most on Live! since Gears 1.
- Scoots06
  
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  November 12, 2008 6:02 PM
  
  It's Hammer (of Dawn) time
- oHnOES
  
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  November 12, 2008 6:02 PM
  
  yeah bro, yeah
- twifosp
  
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  November 12, 2008 6:08 PM
  
  Brickmatt, I agree, it is almost time for gears.
- twifosp
  
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  November 12, 2008 6:09 PM
  
  hattrickmike if you are playing
- DrFlammable
  
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  November 12, 2008 6:18 PM
  
  biggest disappointment of gears 2: no http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPk1LtESE-U
- PlanetPerfecto
  
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  November 12, 2008 6:23 PM
  
  come play l4d demo you hoe
- ninj0rc
  
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  November 12, 2008 6:23 PM
  
  yeah holy fuck Horde is going to be responsible for my shit grade on the C++ exam tomorrow
  - ninj0rc
    
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    November 12, 2008 6:25 PM
    
    someone give my a play by play before I convince myself to put the books down and pick the controller up
    - Demius
      
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      November 12, 2008 6:31 PM
      
      what are you studying in C++?
      - ninj0rc
        
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        November 12, 2008 6:32 PM
        
        at the moment., structured data types...
        
        Demius
        
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        November 12, 2008 6:34 PM
        
        Bah, easy... go pick up gears2 ;)
        
        ninj0rc
        
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        November 12, 2008 6:35 PM
        
        yeah...it's not terribly difficult, and the prof gave us a study guide that (for the first test) basically comprised most of the test...trying to be disciplined and studious and you're not helping >.>
        
        ninj0rc
        
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        November 12, 2008 6:34 PM
        
        structs, classes, arrays, abstract data types...good stuff really
        
        Demius
        
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        November 12, 2008 6:36 PM
        
        you learned about classes already? we don't get into classes until our next semester :( I'm kinda glad I already know how to use them based on the stuff I did in C#, my C++ class is a walk in the park but i can see how it would be pretty difficult if i didn't know C# before hand.
        
        ninj0rc
        
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        November 12, 2008 6:42 PM
        
        initially it was pretty mind-boggling, but we've spent about a month on it so far and I've got my head pretty well wrapped around it...unfortunately I don't have much in the way of previous programming experience...I was a nursing major for a looooooong time, fucking hated every minute of it, so I decided to change my major to something I was actually interested in and...here I am. Took Python last semester and loved it, and while C++ was difficult for me at first I have completely fallen head over heels for it now that I've had some time with it
        
        ninj0rc
        
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        November 12, 2008 6:46 PM
        
        I'm still trying to figure out what the fuck I would ever use the enumerated data type for though ><
        
        Demius
        
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        November 12, 2008 6:48 PM
        
        i use it all the time.. just depends what you're doing with it.
        
        LIke in one of my projects when we did a rock paper scissors game, i used an
        enum GameObject
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        Rock,
        Paper,
        Scissors,
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        in C# i use it all the time for various things when doing stuff for XNA
        
        ninj0rc
        
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        November 12, 2008 6:49 PM
        
        we didn't spend a whole lot of time on the subject...I suppose I should go back over it and mess around a bit
        
        derelict515
        
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        November 13, 2008 12:01 AM
        
        at a simple level just imagine when you'd normally want some sort of integer flags (ie 1 means success, 2 means failure, 3 means unknown). If you litter your code with checks for if (result == 1) it's not very obvious what that means to someone else. If you say if (result == gameResultEnum::Success) then it's much clearer. Then there's things like you can use a switch statement on the enum type and it becomes very clear again instead of just integers. Some languages also let you use enums for types other than ints.
- mittense
  
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  November 12, 2008 6:33 PM
  
  We just played a 4v4 Shackers-versus-Shackers game. It was fun.
  - ninj0rc
    
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    November 12, 2008 6:33 PM
    
    urge to kill...rising
  - Skoal^Fyfan
    
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    November 12, 2008 6:42 PM
    
    Did the shackers win?
    - ninj0rc
      
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      November 12, 2008 6:45 PM
      
      in the coalition of ordered governments win shacks you
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