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It reminds me how yak fucked up Furaffinity's code so badly by just band aiding spaghetti mess onto code from 2004 to make it work. I'll never forget the time just before dragoneer sold the site to IMVU that FA was down for an entire month because yak tried to add new code to the site and detonated half of the script. It's why no new features could be added to FA ever, because they know that only one person can write the code and he was too egotistical to let anyone touch it. Then he himself touched it and brought the site entirely offline. It's like a damn Laurel and Hardy skit.
Fek's Rack2 is exactly like this. The code is a goddamn nightmare. He has absolutely no idea what he is doing and is just asking Alexa on how to rewrite each line until something works. That's why you need to never believe anything he says about the game. It's obsolete, abandoned, and there is no way to upgrade the game or add into it without throwing it in the bin and starting from fresh.
Blajn
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strong_p4ssword
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> me booting up ChatGPT
The AI will fix my furry porn game or it's going back in the smart toaster.
For real though, it'd be goddamn funny if someone trained an AI on Unity code and let it churn through Rack 2's spaghetti to sort stuff out.
Edit: okay so apparently there are applications out there that advertise exactly this service, we're so back
lead118
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>the AI requires a crypto farm-worth of computing power to unfuck fek's JV code
>it does its job but its ethical guidelines light up like a Christmas tree and mangle the code even further
It's fucking over...
so is it even worth giving it a shot? i remember stumbling upon the Rack 2 link like right after the patreon went live for it but i never did scrape the money together to toss that way.
GammaXai
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The game suffers from jank but if you mean should you try the pirate version you might as well, i recommend the addon mod as well.
strong_p4ssword
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With the revamp mod it's worth a few wanks, would recommend. Don't pay for it though lol
Is there any example of the spagetti code from the decompiled version. As a developer myself I'm curious about the "complexity" of this code and how bad can it be.
strong_p4ssword
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I'd offer to help but you probably have more experience than me. Best I can do is send you my modded build but you should be able to get both a vanilla version and the revamp mod on here. As far as examples of spaghetti code go, just open the game, it just feels crunchy.
Well, spaghetti code is not about optimization. Everybody can create code that machine will understand. Making a good code is when it's understandable for another programmer. Where everything is in it's right place.
Imagine you want to surprise your partner and make him/her breakfast in bed. You wake up, go to kitchen, make french toasts, boil some eggs, maybe fry some bacon (an american/British thing), maybe prepare some cottage cheese for the toasts, etc. And then you take the plater to the bedroom and both of you have a delightful morning.
This is an example of a good code, where every action has it's own place in their "domains".
Now imagine, that again, you want to make a breakfast in bed for your partner. Again, you make french toasts, some bacon, boil some eggs. And you do your meal preparations... in the bedroom... That's what we call a spaghetti code - you find a function (for example settings) in block that does something totally different (let's say animations), that has totally different domain.
Long story short: AI chat is only for finding answers, not for using their code itself in yours.
I will try to create a sandbox Windows instance (dunno about Win11, but in Win10 there is a native Sandbox app) and I'll try to decode this app on the weekend.
Imagine you want to surprise your partner and make him/her breakfast in bed. You wake up, go to kitchen, make french toasts, boil some eggs, maybe fry some bacon (an american/British thing), maybe prepare some cottage cheese for the toasts, etc. And then you take the plater to the bedroom and both of you have a delightful morning.
This is an example of a good code, where every action has it's own place in their "domains".
Now imagine, that again, you want to make a breakfast in bed for your partner. Again, you make french toasts, some bacon, boil some eggs. And you do your meal preparations... in the bedroom... That's what we call a spaghetti code - you find a function (for example settings) in block that does something totally different (let's say animations), that has totally different domain.
Long story short: AI chat is only for finding answers, not for using their code itself in yours.
I will try to create a sandbox Windows instance (dunno about Win11, but in Win10 there is a native Sandbox app) and I'll try to decode this app on the weekend.
shamwow000
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It's worth trying but you have to keep in mind it's not updating and there are bugs and crashes.
There's an unofficial mod patch that fixes some things and makes it more playable...My favorite feature being + and - changes your size.
I follow this guy on Twitter and the only mention hes made of this project in years has been how annoying it is that people ask him about the development.
I won't get into that, but it's pretty messed up. This is basically abandonware, and if it wasn't obvious you should NOT support his patreon if you want this project to complete.
There's an unofficial mod patch that fixes some things and makes it more playable...My favorite feature being + and - changes your size.
I follow this guy on Twitter and the only mention hes made of this project in years has been how annoying it is that people ask him about the development.
I won't get into that, but it's pretty messed up. This is basically abandonware, and if it wasn't obvious you should NOT support his patreon if you want this project to complete.
He actually blocks anyone that asks about Rack2 now on Twitter so he's pretty well done. He knows the walls are closing in.
BigDaddyFrog
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This is the only time I say it:
Don't support gay furry games.
They will only be milked and left never to be completed.
Wait until they're fully completed, then gladly support the dev with a purchase.
This is quite unusual when we consider his earnings from patreon. The profile shows over 9k $ per month giving about 110k of annual salary (minus patreon "tax"), it's almost equal to mid or even senior developer. For this pricetag people should be able to ask about how is the product they are "buying".
Additionally, on his linktree there is a Subscribestar account link with a post from march of this year - a bit like he is trying to spread his earnings across multiple pages on the internet.
Veldazik
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I remember being part of that conversation, and basically according to him, his excuse is that because of the fact he has other projects and commissions, the fact there are people who want him to make this game specifically is inconsequential, because not everyone is supporting him for that alone or something. He also doesn't know exact numbers, but thinks it won't matter if everyone looking for Rack 2 specifically stops supporting just because he isn't finishing this one. But, he claims that he's doing it for them anyway out of the goodness of his heart, on grounds of "just trust me bro, I'm working on it".
Yeah that viewpoint is common among every furry artist that steals money and does no work. It's very egocentric and victim blaming. It's like they have the same script writer as the YouTube apology videos. Jailbird did the same thing before she disappeared off the internet and is now also hiding on Twitter for owing over 2,800+ past due commissions going back to 2010.
Also fek has a huge history of starting projects, working on them for about 5 months, then dumping them for a new project once the money stops flowing. Then he says he is "burned out".
If you watch each time he announces a new project it correlates with when his earnings are slumping and he makes some sceheme to get the money flowing back in until that wears off again for a new scheme.
At his peak when Rack2 was current in 2017, he was pulling over $30,000 a month. He's now spent all that money and making zero content and is now still making $9,100 a month currently to date.
Also fek has a huge history of starting projects, working on them for about 5 months, then dumping them for a new project once the money stops flowing. Then he says he is "burned out".
If you watch each time he announces a new project it correlates with when his earnings are slumping and he makes some sceheme to get the money flowing back in until that wears off again for a new scheme.
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At his peak when Rack2 was current in 2017, he was pulling over $30,000 a month. He's now spent all that money and making zero content and is now still making $9,100 a month currently to date.
Any way to force this to run windowed? Didn't see an option inside R2 itself. Just fullscreen.
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