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10:44:23 <TrueBrain> frosch123: that is just weird 10:44:59 <TrueBrain> some of the other mails .. 10:45:05 <frosch123> the mails from 15th and 16th are fun 10:45:34 <TrueBrain> I was reading the one from the 13th .. "YOU WON!" ... but before you actually won anything ... put our name on your website k? 10:45:37 <TrueBrain> that is not winning 10:45:41 <frosch123> what did you send to the UN btw? 10:46:22 <frosch123> ah, we get many like the 13th 10:46:43 <TrueBrain> haha, that email address ... diplomat<namehere>@blabla.com .. that is just brilliant :) 10:46:54 <frosch123> "hey, can you link our website from yours, you may call it an award" 10:47:25 <TrueBrain> I always wonder if that actually works 10:48:02 <TrueBrain> what a weird emails .. 10:48:03 <frosch123> anyway, that company that wants to buy ottd is legit 10:48:18 <frosch123> the guy mailing does not seem to work for them though, but maybe a subcontractor 10:48:31 <TrueBrain> well, guess this is finally our moment 10:48:34 <TrueBrain> cashing in! 10:48:39 <TrueBrain> what do we aim for? 10:48:43 <TrueBrain> 1 million each? 10:48:45 <TrueBrain> 10? 10:48:49 <frosch123> we need to tweet about it 10:48:53 <frosch123> so 1 billion 10:49:22 <TrueBrain> don't think they will go for that 10:49:24 <TrueBrain> but sure, let's try 10:52:52 <TrueBrain> for a while email was pretty normal 10:53:00 <TrueBrain> but it seems this month it just exploded in complete weirdness 10:53:42 <frosch123> i like the monthly geeogle mails about how many people asked for directions to ottd corp hq 10:56:49 <andythenorth> how many did? 10:57:24 <frosch123> in april: 0 calls, 41 people asked for directions(+10%), 0 website visits from profile, 26 profile views (+52%) 10:58:25 <TrueBrain> all those people aimlessly trying to find OpenTTD's HQ 10:58:26 <TrueBrain> just imagine 11:01:57 *** lobster has joined #openttd 11:02:35 <andythenorth> so did I do the nml docs correctly for map_seed? 11:02:36 <andythenorth> :P 11:03:01 <TrueBrain> ugh, I should finish TrueGRF beta1 .. but I don't want to!! :( 11:03:04 *** lobstarooo has joined #openttd 11:03:11 <andythenorth> I am avoiding drawing small pixelated cars 11:03:12 <frosch123> looked good at first glance. though i was disapointed about the lack of drama 11:03:25 <andythenorth> you wanted a vandalism revert? 11:03:32 <frosch123> 67% of newgrf creators found this edit useful 11:03:52 <andythenorth> newgrf spec is allegedly now all up to date 11:04:18 <frosch123> oh, so if we implement a code freeze, it stays like that forever? 11:04:35 <andythenorth> 'it depends' 11:04:37 <TrueBrain> andythenorth: stop giving frosch123 ideas 11:04:47 <andythenorth> it might be factually inaccurate 11:05:04 <andythenorth> just render both wikis to flat html :P 11:05:10 <andythenorth> that's like a freeze? 11:05:16 <frosch123> s/might/is/ <- pretty sure about that 11:07:41 <andythenorth> I feel seen 11:09:29 <frosch123> botu factually correctness: i think newgrf wiki is on-par with help pages of corporate software 11:09:34 <frosch123> *about 11:09:59 *** lobster has quit IRC 11:10:05 *** lobstarooo is now known as lobster 11:10:46 <TrueBrain> Cloudflare wrote a nice article recently about the importance of developer documentation 11:10:48 <TrueBrain> might be worth reading :P 11:11:03 <TrueBrain> they consider documentation a product of its own :) 11:11:40 *** WormnestAndroid has joined #openttd 11:12:39 <andythenorth> the reason FIRS is so much in python was so I could generate docs from it :P 11:14:57 <andythenorth> ok so nml has lots of outstanding issues 11:15:04 <andythenorth> maybe some of those next :P 11:15:04 <andythenorth> https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/issues 11:15:14 <andythenorth> today seems to be paying taxes day 11:15:33 <andythenorth> can't do anything about this one https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/issues/210 11:19:14 <andythenorth> frosch123 for sound effects https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/issues/190 11:19:21 <andythenorth> is it just add them to constants table? https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/blob/master/nml/global_constants.py#L194 11:19:32 <andythenorth> and mark the old ones as deprecated somehow? 11:19:58 <andythenorth> and update https://newgrf-specs.tt-wiki.net/wiki/NML:List_of_sound_effects 11:20:19 <frosch123> i guess so, yes 11:20:39 <frosch123> explains why i did not want to do it :) 11:21:18 <frosch123> maybe copilot can do it 11:28:26 <andythenorth> am I copilot in this case? :P 11:30:51 <frosch123> andypilot 11:31:56 <frosch123> what is the chocolate-to-code conversion rate of your kids? 11:32:53 <andythenorth> infinitely tending towards zero 11:33:08 <andythenorth> shall I put the legacy sounds in a separate block? 11:33:18 <andythenorth> otherwise it will be lots of ugly python comments 11:33:38 <frosch123> sounds good 11:37:03 <andythenorth> hmm 11:37:05 <andythenorth> SND_1F_SPLAT_OTHER 11:38:01 <andythenorth> there are multiple splats :P 11:38:38 <andythenorth> ok it's 0x1D 11:50:10 *** glx has joined #openttd 11:50:10 *** ChanServ sets mode: +v glx 11:57:45 <DorpsGek> [OpenTTD/nml] andythenorth opened pull request #252: Change: adjust sound name constants to match OpenTTD (#190) https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/pull/252 11:58:03 <andythenorth> frosch123 delete 'SOUND_UNUSED' or leave in place commented to explain the gaps? https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/pull/252/files 11:58:59 <frosch123> there is no usecase for a newgrf to ever use SOUND_UNUSED 11:59:35 <andythenorth> exactly :P 12:00:40 <glx> SOUND_CONSTRUCTION_WAER <-- something is missing 12:00:54 <TrueBrain> an extension to the english dictionary you mean? 12:01:50 <DorpsGek> [OpenTTD/nml] andythenorth updated pull request #252: Change: adjust sound name constants to match OpenTTD (#190) https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/pull/252 12:03:36 <DorpsGek> [OpenTTD/nml] andythenorth updated pull request #252: Change: adjust sound name constants to match OpenTTD (#190) https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/pull/252 12:03:42 <andythenorth> maybe that 12:14:51 <glx> oh commit message should probably be something like Fix #190: ... 12:15:53 <glx> or at least adds "closes #190" in the description 12:15:59 <glx> *add 12:17:12 <DorpsGek> [OpenTTD/nml] andythenorth updated pull request #252: Change: adjust sound name constants to match OpenTTD (#190) https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/pull/252 12:17:38 <andythenorth> done 12:20:21 <DorpsGek> [OpenTTD/nml] andythenorth closed pull request #231: Change: add string pluralisation examples to example industry https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/pull/231 12:23:01 <andythenorth> maybe this has died :P https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/pull/158 12:23:29 <glx> IIRC global_constant has a deprecation mechanism see https://github.com/OpenTTD/nml/pull/203 12:25:49 <andythenorth> o_O 12:25:51 <andythenorth> :) 12:29:11 <andythenorth> so it's mapping the old constant to the new constant? 12:29:17 <glx> yes 12:29:22 <andythenorth> and then it auto prints a deprecation warning?