Progress. After overcoming the previous challenges I faced my toughest yet. How could I modify FASERIP? More specifically, how would I modify an attribute to go up or down the ranking system. To quote Abraham Erskine, “Good becomes great. Bad becomes worse.” The solution was to look at the index of a list and then […]
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Big Update. I have updated Marvel_Ultimate_Character_Generator to include the following: Physical Forms Changes to FASERIP Changes to Origins Added Weaknesses Added Resources Added Popularity New Powers Many of these changes were brought on by the addenda from the Author of the Ultimate Powers book so I have incorporated those changes per: https://classicmarvelforever.com/cms/ultimate-addenda.html Current Code Count:
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Phew. I broke 1,000 lines of code. It was a lot of tedious work, but I implemented power classes and categories from the Ultimate Powers Guide. Originally I started coding from the Advanced Players Guide, but then remembered the Ultimate Powers Guide and how it really upped the game by having even more combinations and
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The python coding adventure continues. I was making great progress until I hit another roadblock. How do you take a list of strings and associate a numerical value to them? What’s more, how do you perform a calculation based on those values many of which have duplicates? The answer was a combination of dictionaries and
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In my continued learning for Python, I decided to try to level up my skills and go more advanced. Previously, I took an analog medium, comics or more specifically New Mutants 2019 Issue 07, and converted a fight sequence that simulated dice rolling by porting it into a digital format which you can see here.
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After spending several days crash coursing Python, I wanted to share the improvements and a before and after of code. My first attempt, I was able to replicate the fight sequence from New Mutants 2019 Issue 07 with 100 lines of code. I leaned on what I was comfortable with — if then loops. However,
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So I have been learning to code in Python for some of the various project ideas I have and wanted to see how I did on something that does not exist as far as I can tell. In the Marvel Comic New Mutants, from 2019, Issue 07, there is a sequence in which the New
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Back in March, I setup piHole on an Amazon EC2 instance. If you are new to AWS, you can get a year of the smaller EC2 server instances to use for free for 1 year. Afterwards, it is pennies per day depending on what size you build. Super neat. Save on power, pi and random
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So coming from the Windows world, certificates are kind of a pain. You have to generate a certificate request from a trusted authority, then sign the certificate, and manually install it on the server. Plus, if you are using a 3rd party to do it and not your own domain then you will have to
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The purpose of this webpage is to chart the progressions of my journey into various interests and activities. I will be linking to some of the different sources where I have published data so that this site can serve as a better aggregator of information as well as a possible timeline of activities. Recently, the
