Comments | kotukawi: Friend Functions

kotukawi

Friend Functions

Oct 13, 2009 21:41

When I was young, there was a program on our Macintosh LC computer called “Biorhythm II.” It was filed underneath the Games folder, but it really wasn’t a game by any means. In fact, it was little more than an intellectual curiosity, but for some reason it appealed to me, and I frequently opened up the application. The theory behind it was to ( Read more... )

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msondo October 14 2009, 10:25:26 UTC

I feel like I'm at least partially the audience for this message because I like to think that we have, or at least had, a meaningful friendship at some point. Better yet, I know you and Gema were much closer and I feel that at least part of the reason you came here was because of that friendship. So if this is at all related, and in an effort to minimize whatever pain might be attributed to what you and I have or had, at least, I'll just be candid and say that I don't think our friendship, at least, warrants the complexity you describe in your post. In other words, I don't see a huge rift or destruction. Destruction requires some effort and action. In our case, I see indifference. You are somebody I still try to keep up with and wish the best for, I can't help it since I wouldn't have a reason not to care about you. I do feel, however, indifference from your end. To put it simply, I feel if I didn't reach out to you or randomly bump into you places we would probably never speak to each other. Perhaps you are truly not ( ... )

kotukawi October 14 2009, 17:28:20 UTC

I want to say right here that I deeply appreciate the honesty in this case. I think it's very important in any relationship that the good news comes fast but that the bad news comes even faster, even if it's regarding the framework of that very relationship.

I do want to talk with you face-to-face on this issue whenever you're able to spare the time to do so. However, in the meantime, you've given me a lot of things to think about, probably more than you realize, and so, in that regards, I want to thank you very much for saying what you did. :)

krizoitz October 14 2009, 17:47:22 UTC

Its interesting to ponder different types of friendships and realtionships. Some are the type were you see the person frequently and feel lost when you miss seeing that person on a daily or weekly basis. Others are perfectly sound friendships taht can be renewed at the drop of a hat even if the time between meetings/contact is months sometimes even years.

I certainly think its valid that a friendship can change overtime. I've had close friendships that have waned in their impact on my life, and aquaintances that have become important regular contact.

Speaking on a personal note, I would say that I have come to consider you a friend, and I think you are a good person overall. Although we only see each other about once a week, i feel that I could count on you if times got tough to be a supportive person, and I hope you know that I would do the same. You are a good guy, and its not just because of our shared name :)

kotukawi October 14 2009, 20:43:52 UTC

Valid, I certainly believe so. Still, it is hard not to be frustrated by it sometimes.

I must admit, I'm actually very pleasantly surprised to hear your take on our friendship, and I will agree. Though it has taken a little while for me to crack your outer shell in a purely group setting (which is the primary means in which I see you), I have enjoyed our more one-on-one conversations where I can, dare I say it, see your serious side. ;) I'm very glad to have been incorporated into the entire group and have met you (as well as everyone else). :)

krizoitz October 14 2009, 17:49:04 UTC

As for the physics problem, I'm curious, did you decide to use the parabola equation because it was simpler? Less memory intensive? Less potential for error? Its a great example of the difference between having to be 100% precise and being close enough. Kinda like how newtonian physics is usually good enough even if its not 100% accurate.

kotukawi October 14 2009, 20:21:00 UTC

The procedural generation here is actually pre-generation in the case that our tools are generating the actual content dynamically and creating the actual geometry for the game, not something like Spore where the game is doing it all on the fly. So in this case, having the 100% solution wasn't out of play, even if it was a little trickier to figure out at Tools-runtime what with calculus and all ( ... )

melorasworld October 15 2009, 23:05:40 UTC

heh. I find it really interesting that you write this interesting thing right as I'm hitting, what may be, a peak in my self-conscious fretting over friendship ...and what I believe is my failure in them ...and then how my belief that there is a failure, and my self conscious behavior due to that, is probably one of the main reasons they ultimately DO fail.

My chart of blarghy repeated history:

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kitsunepixiemd October 16 2009, 19:46:47 UTC

An appropriate entry at the present time. D:

melorasworld October 16 2009, 20:28:12 UTC

I want to kick the present time in the balls.

Maybe a few sucker shots to the ribs? till it pukes rainbows and awesome? :D :D :D

kotukawi October 16 2009, 22:28:15 UTC

Well, for starters, I don't think you're alone in this issue. What I think is going on for me is that, back in the days of yore (read: college) when I had "more spare time than I knew what to do with" (did such a time really exist?), I branched out quite far and wide over the Internets and met a whole lot of people and flourished in that world of having a lot of really close friends and enough time with which to keep them ( ... )

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