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Offline Argo

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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #29 from previous page: January 12, 2010, 01:10:38 PM »
Use Random keywords.

Use that brain, AO users are smarter than the average bear.
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #30 on: January 12, 2010, 01:15:49 PM »
What we'll need then is random keyword generator and some way to seed it...
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #31 on: January 12, 2010, 01:33:07 PM »
Apparently, I failed in my message.
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #32 on: January 12, 2010, 01:34:34 PM »
Theres really no need to do it that way. The posts are in a database, picking a random thread is a simple modification to the SQL statement that selects a specific one.
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #33 on: January 12, 2010, 01:39:16 PM »
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #34 on: January 12, 2010, 01:46:37 PM »
using random keywords I though of, I was just tooling around reading a few old posts. One of which being from way back in 2002 when we went to Xoops!
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #35 on: January 12, 2010, 01:47:19 PM »
Excellent!!!  :)
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #36 on: January 12, 2010, 02:01:08 PM »
Quote from: xeron;537827
Click here for a random Amiga.org thread


Do you scrape the latest posts page to get the id of the latest thread (for your random upper bound)?
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #37 on: January 12, 2010, 02:06:38 PM »
No. I just did it manually. If a "proper" random thread feature doesn't materialise on a.org, i'll just update it whenever i remember to :-)
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #38 on: January 12, 2010, 02:56:31 PM »
Quote from: xeron;537827
Click here for a random Amiga.org thread


Works like a charm!  But both posts that came up were strated by Karlos... Hmmm... ;)
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #39 on: January 12, 2010, 10:43:57 PM »
On a different note, you can just put an arbitrary thread id into the URL manually. I just took a look at thread #1 (which is not necessarily the first thread on the site however, considering the import process from xoops changed a lot).

You'll never guess what it was...

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #40 on: January 12, 2010, 10:56:10 PM »
Just read that thread and it is a bit spooky.

Some of the points raised are still being discussed on the forums today.  Literally.
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #41 on: January 12, 2010, 11:07:26 PM »
It's a religious war. A century from now, when the rest of us are using idle neurons for personal computing, there'll be a post-Amiga boinghead arguing for the return of the PowerPC. (Assuming there are still Amiga nuts a century from now. No living audiophile is arguing for the return of the wax cylinder.)
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #42 on: January 12, 2010, 11:10:28 PM »
I once considered writing a simple strategy game based on platform wars, where there were factions for each major architecture. I amused myself with the basic design for quite a while, figuring out which units each faction would have, what capabilities etc.

Man, I used to have way more free time than I do now, eh?
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Re: IDEA: Random thread
« Reply #43 on: January 12, 2010, 11:17:34 PM »
Quite! I think an abstract game of Risk would suffice. ;-) Still, I'd play a Civilization-style game with whacked out Amiga units and crazy leaders. Or, I could fire up Nuclear War in UAE. Sounds like a plan.
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