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Post by madjack on Oct 21, 2022 7:19:24 GMT
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Post by hnau on Oct 21, 2022 7:49:52 GMT
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Post by Druplesnubb on Oct 21, 2022 8:28:44 GMT
I think it's meant to be a joke about Excel being overly complicated
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Post by foresterr on Oct 21, 2022 9:17:55 GMT
In fairness, most MMOs and a couple of other genres are a fancy inteface for a spreadsheet...
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Post by csj on Oct 21, 2022 9:52:24 GMT
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Post by ohthatone on Oct 21, 2022 11:18:04 GMT
Anthony has entered the chat...
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Post by torrent on Oct 21, 2022 11:42:29 GMT
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Post by aline on Oct 21, 2022 12:15:05 GMT
Yep. People have programmed all sorts of software in Excel including games. I've played several of those. |
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Post by quinnr on Oct 21, 2022 13:15:51 GMT
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Post by Tenjen on Oct 21, 2022 13:19:03 GMT
geneticists been having trouble with it turning genetic codes into dates
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 21, 2022 13:33:25 GMT
Oh no! The comic's about to turn into a LibreOffice vs OpenOffice war, with the Forest/Court conflict taking a background. We should have known...
Annie will take the Microsoft path, and make peace from an outsider POV.
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 21, 2022 13:53:30 GMT
Excel, really? Why not Lotus 1-2-3? If not SuperCalc?
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Post by atteSmythe on Oct 21, 2022 14:08:07 GMT
In fairness, CRPGs are basically playable spreadsheets.
When I'm really into a game and playing it a lot, eventually I end up spreadsheeting it to find optimal decisions, do long-term planning, etc. That's my final boss, though. Once the spreadsheets are working, the game is basically won and there's nothing but the grind left.
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Post by fia on Oct 21, 2022 14:19:59 GMT
In fairness, CRPGs are basically playable spreadsheets. When I'm really into a game and playing it a lot, eventually I end up spreadsheeting it to find optimal decisions, do long-term planning, etc. That's my final boss, though. Once the spreadsheets are working, the game is basically won and there's nothing but the grind left. I say this with respect for your craft, but people like you are why I stopped playing competitive strategy games (,: |
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Post by hnau on Oct 21, 2022 15:53:58 GMT
Oh no! The comic's about to turn into a LibreOffice vs OpenOffice war, with the Forest/Court conflict taking a background. We should have known... Annie will take the Microsoft path, and make peace from an outsider POV. Excel, really? Why not Lotus 1-2-3? If not SuperCalc? Come on, just program your formulas in LaTeX... |
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Post by warrl on Oct 21, 2022 17:44:27 GMT
I haven't written any games in Excel, but I've done some pretty complex stuff there.
(Like the SUMIFS function? Wish there were similar functions that did something other than sum up the data? I have 'em. And if I don't have the exact one you want, the way I wrote them makes it easy to add more.)
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Post by Sky Schemer on Oct 21, 2022 23:53:37 GMT
In fairness, most MMOs and a couple of other genres are a fancy inteface for a spreadsheet... In fairness, CRPGs are basically playable spreadsheets. I came here for these comments and I was not disappointed. |
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Post by bedinsis on Oct 22, 2022 7:41:42 GMT
All video games are about manipulating data, it's just a matter of how much of it is presented in a way that makes it reminiscent of a spreadsheet application.
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 22, 2022 14:23:54 GMT
Of course, the ultimate test whether a piece of technology is useful will forever be "Can you run DOOM on it?" |
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Post by arf on Oct 22, 2022 21:42:47 GMT
I suppose moving from cell to cell and parsing the contents of each is the definition of a dungeon crawl.
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Post by mochakimono on Oct 23, 2022 12:27:09 GMT
The pratfalls in these give me flashbacks to every comic I've ever read that has to ring the "THIS JOKE IS FUNNY!" bell by showing a character reacting to a punchline dramatically, instead of actually making a funny punchline, like a sequential arts version of a laugh track. It makes me realize how glad I am Gunnerkrigg proper never resorts to that.
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Post by Per on Oct 23, 2022 18:39:56 GMT
Heresy! Flip takes are an artform in themselves.
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