Acromaxian Blog

Information on How Dark Swarm Works

2011-11-28T10:20:00.001+09:00

Quoting an iCCup forum post by PlaguedArchon:

1. All ranged units miss when firing upon units under the dark swarm. The exceptions are as follows, firebat, lurker, reaver.

2. All melee units do full damage under a dark swarm. The exception is workers who do no damage under the dark swarm.

3. All magic […] works 100% under the dark swarm.

4. Splash still works under the dark swarm. If it is delivered in a line (firebat, lurker) there is no change to the damage. If it delivered by a missile the missile will land 0.5 matrices before the target unit, i.e. between the attacker and the attackee. The splash will the do full damage according to what it usually does in the new area it landed.

The upshot of rule 4 is that units that do splash damage delivered in a missile form (tanks, archons) do less damage to units under dark swarm since the splash is not in an ideal location.

The upshot of the upshot is the special case lurkers. When they are unburrowed inside a dark swarm the tank shot misses them but still does damage as their hit box is large enough to be hit by the splash. However when they burrow the lurker hit box shrinks in size. This should still be fine for tanks as tank splash is bigger than 0.5 matrices.

Now for the weird stuff. The lurker actually does not take damage. Whether this is intentional or a bug i do not know. What happens is the hit box for the lurker shrinks as it burrows, however the tanks still miss according to the old lurker hit box. When the reduced hit box is combined with the 0.5 miss of the dark swarm the lurker actually takes no damage WHEN THE TANK IS SHOOTING DIRECTLY AT IT. If the tank is shooting at something behind the lurker it might still do damage to it and kill it.

I hope there will be no more confusion about dark swarm mechanics.

Post edit: I feel i should include a couple more things to be complete.

-Dark swarm has absolutely no affect on building other than making them miss shooting units under the dark swarm (cannons, bunkers)

-The dark swarm is actually a square occupying a 6x6 matrix area.

-It has a casting range of 9 which means that when added to the area of the dark swarm defilers can cast it out of range of everything including siege tanks.

[…]

-Reaver splash is not delivered in a line or by a missile. Rather it is delivered by a unit, the scarab. It applies full damage and splash when fired under a dark swarm. It has a damage of 100(125 upgraded), a range of 8, and a splash range just short of ludicrous.

Technical details (can be accessed with DatEdit):

1 matrix = 32 pixels
Lurker size: 32x32
Siege Tank splash radius: 10-25-40
Reaver Scarab splash radius: 20-40-60
Archon splash radius: 3-15-30

(Splash radius is listed in the order of 100%-50%-25% damage)

Just for laughs, quoting the same post:

-dark swarm has indeed been verified to be 'completely imba"

[…]

Reavers have been verified to be even more imba then dark swarm when "the stupid AI works" which is never.

Edit: experiment reveals that the strange behavior of splash radii is caused, not because of DS, but because of Burrow. Burrowed units seem to be immune from the 50%-damage and 25%-damage radii, being affected only by the 100%-damage radius.

StarCraft Modding Discoveries

2011-07-12T14:37:00.010+09:00

Here is a list of interesting things I discovered while modding.

*.DAT Files

The "Halt Distance" property in flingy.dat determines the decceleration of a flingy at full speed:
(Decc) = (Top Speed)² ÷ (2 × (Halt Distance))
The "Unknown4" property in sfxdata.dat seems to determine volume falloff at far-away distances (a value bigger than 0 allows the sound to spread far away).

Reaver Quirks

2011-05-17T05:26:00.006+09:00

I discovered something really strange today while tinkering with Reavers. It seems that the Reaver's attack code consists of three parts, each of which determine whether the Reaver can and should attack a target unit.

The first part determines whether the target unit can be attacked by the Reaver. If the Reaver is on un-walkable terrain (cliffs, water, space, etc.), or if the Reaver or target unit is on an island, the Reaver will be unable to attack.

The second part decides whether the Reaver is actually close enough to the target unit. It is dependent on the amount of distance the Reaver (not the Scarab) must cover to reach the target unit. Because of this, if the Reaver is made into a flying unit, it will use the direct distance instead of the length of the Scarab's path. If the distance is too long, the Reaver will move toward the target instead.

This creates some interesting behavior in StarCraft mods. If the Reaver is turned into an air unit and ordered to attack enemies under a hill, the Scarabs will go a long way round to reach the targets, sometimes defusing before reaching them. Also, a flying Reaver can attack enemies only when it is on a terrain that enemy ground units can reach.

Firegraft Memory Offsets for SCBW 1.16.1

2011-04-20T10:57:00.025+09:00

Note: This list is incomplete. I have posted the 1161.fgd file with the latest EXE offsets at BroodWarAI.com.

Here is a list of some previously unknown Firegraft EXE edit memory offsets for StarCraft 1.16.1. All of them were found using OllyDbg.

41. Unit Morph Command - Unit Check(Hydralisk): 0xc19b6
42. Unit Morph Command - Unit Check(Lurker): 0xc19c1
43. Unit Morph Command - Tech Check(Lurker): 0xc19cd
44. Unit Morph Command - Unit Check(Larva): 0xc19da
45. Unit Morph Command - Unit Check(Mutalisk): 0xc19e0
47. Unit Morph Order - Unit Check(Larva): 0x5dfb6
48. Unit Morph Order - Unit Check(Hydralisk): 0x5dfbc
49. Unit Morph Order - Unit Check(Mutalisk): 0x5dfc2
50. Unit Morph Order - Unit to Cocoon Check(Larva): 0x5e028
51. Unit Morph Order - Unit to Cocoon Check(Hydralisk): 0x5e038
52. Unit Morph Order - Unit to Cocoon Check(Mutalisk): 0x5e042
53. Unit Morph Cancel - Cocoon Cancel Unit(Mutalisk): 0x68399
54. Unit Morph Cancel - Lurker Egg Cancel(Hydralisk): 0x6839d
62. Creep flag determines Nydus build site: 0x740ff
76. Repair - Remove Race Restriction¹: 0x67456
81. Stim Packs - HP check (Action): 0x234db
82. Stim Packs - HP check (Command): 0xc2f6c
83. Stim Packs - actual HP substracted: 0xc2fd6
84. Stim Packs - Timer: 0xc2fe7
118. Defensive Matrix images.dat Overlay on Casting Unit: 0x55109
139. Broodling - Initial Energy: 0xf4a53
140. Broodling - Maximum Energy Displayed: 0x25ae4
141. Broodling - Energy Maximum for Status Bar Calculations: 0x7aa2a
144. Dark Swarm Timer Check: 0xf491f
145. Dark Swarm Timer: 0xf492a
151. Consume Energy Gain: 0xf4805
153. Allow burrowed unit to be Ensnared: 0xf46e1
154. Ensnare images.dat Overlay Start: 0xf4626
174. Disruption Web - Timer Check: 0xf6b6f
175. Disruption Web - Timer: 0xf6b7a
177. Disruption Web - Affect Air Units: 0xeb178
183. Dark Archon Meld Unit ID: 0x947a6
186. Optical Flare - Blinded Sight Range: 0xe5b77
187. Maelstrom sprites.dat Explosion ID: 0xf6862
189. Maelstrom images.dat Overlay Start: 0x55434
190. Allow burrowed units to be Maelstromed: 0xf6797
204. Singularity Charge Target Aquisition Range Increase: 0x760b5
205. Singularity Charge Attack Range Increase: 0x75919
230. Default Spellcaster Energy Maximum: 0x919ac
241. Independent Damage -> Independent Unit Percent: 0x115b88
242. Explosive Damage -> Independent Unit Percent: 0x115b9c
243. Concussive Damage -> Independent Unit Percent: 0x115bb0
244. Ignore Armor Damage -> Independent Unit Percent: 0x115bd8
245. Independent Damage -> Small Unit Percent: 0x115b8c
246. Explosive Damage -> Small Unit Percent: 0x115ba8
247. Concussive Damage -> Small Unit Percent: 0x115bb4
248. Ignore Armor Damage -> Small Unit Percent: 0x115bdc
249. Independent Damage -> Medium Unit Percent: 0x115b90
250. Explosive Damage -> Medium Unit Percent: 0x115ba4
251. Concussive Damage -> Medium Unit Percent: 0x115bb8
252. Ignore Armor Damage -> Medium Unit Percent: 0x115be0
253. Independent Damage -> Large Unit Percent: 0x115b94
254. Explosive Damage -> Large Unit Percent: 0x115ba8
255. Concussive Damage -> Large Unit Percent: 0x115bbc
256. Ignore Armor Damage -> Large Unit Percent: 0x115be4
257. Normal Damage -> Independent Unit Percent: 0x115bc4
258. Normal Damage -> Small Unit Percent: 0x115bc8
259. Normal Damage -> Medium Unit Percent: 0x115bcc
260. Normal Damage -> Large Unit Percent: 0x115bd0

Notes:

To actually allow other races to be targeted, the Repair and Repair (Obscured) entries in orders.dat (#34 and #35, respectively) must be given a weapon for determining targeting rules, as well as have "Use Weapon Targeting" enabled.

How StarCraft Works: Damage Formula

2011-04-08T00:16:00.006+09:00

A very simple experiment involving a Siege Tank and some Marines revealed the formula.

damage = max(0.5, (attack × splash_mod - armor) × size_mod)

Where each word means:

attack: The base damage dealt by the attacker.
splash_mod: 0.5 or 0.25 if the attack is splash damage and the target unit receives only 50% or 25% of the base damage, respectively. Otherwise, the value is 1.
armor: The armor value of the attacked unit.
size_mod: The percentage of the damage that is received, dependent on the damage type and unit size. See below.

There are three types of damage and unit types in StarCraft, the combinations of which determine how much damage is actually dealt:

Damage Type	Small	Medium	Large
Normal	100%	100%	100%
Explosive	50%	75%	100%
Concussive	100%	50%	25%

The max(0.5, ...) part means that if the damage calculated is smaller than 0.5, then it will be converted to exactly 0.5 points of damage. Damage values higher than 0.5, such as 0.5625 and 1.125, will be dealt as expected.

For example, if a Marine (Small, 40HP) with +1 armor upgrade is attacked by a Siege Tank in siege mode (70 explosive damage), the Marine will receive

(70 × 1 - 1) × 0.5 = 34.5

damage. However, if the Marine is between the 25% splash damage zone and the 50% splash damage zone, it will receive

(70 × 0.25 - 1) × 0.5 = 8.25

damage.

StarCraft: Brood War Unit Speeds

2011-04-05T00:52:00.026+09:00

Here are the top speeds and accelerations of various StarCraft: Brood War units, measured in pixels-per-tick (1 second equals 24 ticks at Fastest game speed), and rounded to the nearest thousandth.

Unit	Top Speed
Overlord	0.832
Reaver	1.778
Battlecruiser Guardian	2.5
Observer High Templar Carrier Overlord (Pneumatized Carapace)	3.332
Hydralisk	3.714
Marine Firebat Medic Ghost Siege Tank Zealot Defiler	4
Shuttle	4.426
Goliath	4.7
Observer (Gravitic Boosters)	4.998
SCV Science Vessel Probe Scout Archon Dark Templar Dark Archon Arbiter Drone Devourer	5
Dragoon	5.25
Ultralisk	5.4
Dropship	5.469
Zergling Hydralisk (Muscular Augments)	5.571
Infested Terran Lurker* Marine (Stim Packs) Firebat (Stim Packs) Zealot (Leg Enhancements)	6
Broodling**	6.054
Valkyrie	6.602
Shuttle (Gravitic Drive)	6.639
Vulture Wraith Corsair Mutalisk Scourge Queen Scout (Gravitic Thrusters)	6.668
Ultralisk (Anabolic Synthesis)	8.1
Zergling (Metabolic Boost)	8.357
Vulture (Ion Thrusters)	10.002
Interceptor	13.332
Spider Mine Scarab	16

Unit	Acceleration***
Interceptor	427
Archon Dark Archon	160
Scourge	107
Vulture	100
Corsair SCV Wraith Probe Queen Mutalisk Drone	67
Valkyrie	65
Science Vessel	50
Devourer Scout	48
Arbiter	33
Battlecruiser Observer High Templar Guardian Overlord Carrier	27
Dropship Shuttle	17

*Interestingly, the Lurker seems to have a hidden +50% speed upgrade applied by default. Although its iscript opcodes indicate it should have an average speed of 4, it apparently moves at about 6 pixels/tick.

**The jerky movement of the Broodling is due to its movement being controlled by a random function, and its speed varies anywhere from 5.6 to 6.588.

***Measured in 256 × pixels / tick. Units not listed here accelerate and stop instantly.

Incidentally, it seems that unit speed upgrades has a strange effect on the move <pixels> opcode in IceCC. After the speed upgrade, move 0 actually moves the image by about 1 pixel(?) instead of staying in place.

Interesting Facts About StarCraft: Brood War

2011-03-18T20:01:00.003+09:00

The following information is from the BWAPI homepage.

While a unit is attacking, StarCraft randomly adds a value between -1 and 2 to the unit's cooldown. This is why multiple units' attacks eventually go out of sync.
When attacking from low ground to high ground, as well as attacking a unit under cover of a doodad(such as a tree), there is a 120 / 256 = 46.875% chance of missing. Melee and splash damage is unaffected. Strangely, this information is inconsistent with what is available at Blizzard's StarCraft Compendium.

StarCraft Internals: How do Speed Upgrades Work?

2011-03-14T02:45:00.009+09:00

There are two types of speed upgrades: those for "flingy physics" units and those for iscript-driven units. All "flingy physics" units are aerial units (except for the Vulture), and accelerate, deccelerate, and curve as specified by a file called flingy.dat. In contrast, iscript-driven units have hardcoded move commands alternating with animation commands, which cause them to move and stop instantly at a fixed speed.

Observer (Gravitic Boosters)
- Maximum speed: increased by 50%.
- Angular speed: increased by 100%.
Vulture (Ion Thrusters)
- Maximum speed: increased by 50%.
- Angular speed: increased by 100%.
Scout (Gravitic Thrusters)
- Maximum speed: increased to 1707, regardless of initial speed. This means that if the Scout's Maximum Speed is set to anything larger than 1707, Gravitic Thrusters will decrease it. Since the Scout's initial Maximum Speed is 1280, the percentage increase is 33%.
- Angular speed: increased by 100%.
Overlord (Pneumatized Carapace)
- Maximum speed: increased by 50%, and at least ~853. Since the Overlord's initial Maximum Speed is 213, its upgraded Maximum Speed will be 853. If the initial Maximum Speed is set to anything larger than 426, the upgrade will increase it by 50%.
- Angular speed: increased by 100%.
Shuttle (Gravitic Drive)
- Maximum speed: increased by 50%.
- Angular speed: increased by 100%.
Everything else: speed increased by 50%.
- Marine, Firebat (Stim Packs)
- Zealot (Leg Enhancements)
- Zergling (Metabolic Boost)
- Hydralisk (Muscular Augments)
- Ultralisk (Anabolic Synthesis)

Playing With DatEdit: How the Vulture's Speed Upgrade Works

2011-03-08T02:55:00.005+09:00

The movement (speed, acceleration, etc.) of the Terran Vulture is dictated by a file called flingy.dat among the StarCraft data files. It seems that the Ion Thrusters upgrade, which increases the Vulture's speed, ~~doubles the Maximum Speed~~increases the Maximum Speed by 50% and doubles the Turn Radius attributes in flingy.dat. Proofs:

Giving a small maximum speed to the Vulture significantly decreases its increase after the Ion Thrusters upgrade.
The Turn Radius attribute must be between 1-127 for the unit to properly function. Setting the Vulture's Turn Radius to anything larger than 63 makes it behave strangely after the Ion Thrusters upgrade.

Note: the Turn Radius attribute in DatEdit's flingy.dat editing panel is named inappropriately; it should actually be angular speed.

I suspect most of the unit speed upgrades function similarly, doubling the speed. Yet another quirk deep within the StarCraft engine.

영어 시험 결과

2011-01-21T18:01:00.002+09:00

아자!

The rush() command in StarCraft AI

2011-01-19T17:55:00.005+09:00

The rush() command in StarCraft's AI scripts works strangely.

If any unit is within 320 pixels of the AI's "region", and the conditions for that unit's owner is met, then it will jump to the specified block. Rush 0 applies to buildings that aren't completed. The rest only apply to units/buildings that have been completed.

rush(BYTE condition, BLOCK block): Will jump to the given code block if the condition is met.

Condition Number	Terran	Zerg	Protoss
0	Commands a Barracks	Commands a Spawning Pool	Commands a Gateway
1	Terran Infantry Score > 16	Zerg Ground Score > 10	Zealots > 6
2	Terran Infantry Score > 24	Zerg Air Score > 10	(Unused)
3	Terran Infantry Score > 5	Zerg Ground Score > 2 or commands a Hydralisk Den	Zealots > 1
4	Terran Infantry Score > 16	Zerg Ground Score > 10	Zealots > 8
5	Terran Infantry Score > 6	Zerg Ground Score > 6	Zealots > 3
6	Terran Infantry Score > 12	Sunken Colonies > 1	Dragoons > 1
7	Commands a Siege Tank	Commands a Queen	Zealots > 6
8	Terran Infantry Score > 5	Zerg Ground Score > 2	Zealots > 1
9	Terran Infantry Score > 9	Zerg Ground Score > 4	Zealots > 5
10	Terran Infantry Score > 4	Zerg Ground Score > 4	Zealots > 2
11	Terran Infantry Score > 10	Zerg Ground Score > 10	Zealots > 5
12	Terran Infantry Score > 16	Zerg Air Score > 5	Protoss Air Score > 2
13	Terran Infantry Score > 24	Zerg Air Score > 10	Protoss Air Score > 2

Note:

Protoss Air Score = Dragoons + Scouts Zerg Ground Score = Hydralisks + Sunken Colonies Zerg Air Score = Hydralisks + Mutalisks + (Spore Colonies × 2) Terran Infantry Score: if (bunkers × 4 <= marines) Terran Infantry Score = marines + bunkers × 4 else Terran Infantry Score = marines × 2

How Does Acid Spores Actually Work?

2010-11-30T21:48:00.008+09:00

The devourer, a Zerg unit in StarCraft: Brood War, has a special form of attack called "Acid Spores". When it attacks another unit, each hit adds a layer of Acid Spores on the target, up to 9 layers per each unit. This debuff causes the victim to receive 1 point of extra damage per layer and slows its attack rate. Word of dev says it increases cooldown of the said unit by 1/8 (12.5%) per hit, up to 9/8 (112.5%) of the original cooldown.

However, I suspect it's more complicated on the back end. Take the Corsair with a very short cooldown of 8. When it is fully coated in Acid Spores, it attacks slightly slower than the Mutalisk, which has a long cooldown of 30. This means that a full coating of Acid Spores (assuming that 9 spores is only 1 more coating over 8 spores) increases the Corsair's cooldown by at least (30/8 - 1) = 275%. What's going on here?

For comparison, I coated the Scout (which has a cooldown of 22) in 9 layers of acid spores and tested its attack speed. The affected Scout's cooldown is seemingly increased by about 110%, which is to be expected.

For now, I assume Acid Spores adds at least 2 in-game ticks to the cooldown duration of affected unit. This would explain why the Corsair receives, not 12.5%, but ~25% extra cooldown per each hit. More experiments needed, though.

Strange Discovery: Playing with DatEdit

2010-11-23T22:16:00.007+09:00

I was playing with basic modding with StarCraft: Brood War (that old game!), when I discovered something strange.

I set the cooldown of the Zergling's attack(Claws) to 30, which made it attack twice as slow as the Ultralisk(Kaiser Blades - cooldown 15). Surprisingly, after researching Adrenal Glands, the Zergling attacks not 33% faster, but twice as fast. Yes, its attack speed matched that of an Ultralisk.

So why does Adrenal Glands increase attack speed by 33%(cooldown is 8 before upgrade, 6 after) in Brood War? Turns out there is at least 5 in-game ticks of delay hardcoded into the Zergling animation (iscript.bin decompiled with IceCC). That, along with the time spent on displaying frames, playing the hitting sound, and processing the damage dealt to target unit, etc. limits the Zergling's minimum attack cooldown to about 5-6 ticks.

ㅅㅂ

2010-09-10T09:12:00.007+09:00

수정: 교내 인터넷 사용 방침에 따라 특정 학생의 사진과 이름을 지웠습니다.

요즘 K모 학생 때문에 상당히 속을 썩이고 있습니다.

생활관 내 방이 내 방 근처에 있는데 이 때문에 거의 매일마다 한 번씩 마주치게 됩니다. 그런데 이 새끼가 날 볼 때마다 엄청나게 짜증나는 목소리로

어머↗나↘ 이게↘ 누구↘양↗ 강예↗형이자↘낭↗ 졸↗라↘ 찌질하↘넹↗

와 같이 비웃으면서 지나갑니다. 심지어 옆에 누가 있든지 전혀 신경쓰지 않고 날 까고 있어요. 이 새끼랑 대화를 하려고 해도 전혀 먹혀들지 않네요.

다른 친구에게 이런 식으로 당해도 속상할 텐데, 이 자식은 학년은 같지만 일찍 입학했기 때문에 저보다 나이가 한 살 어립니다. 그런데 생긴 것이나 하는 짓을 보면 아직 중2 같습니다. 미친 , 따지고 보면 난 이 자식보다도 어린 나이에 입학했다가 휴학기를 내고 내 나이에 맞는 학년으로 복학한 것인데....

이 자식은 자신도 별로 나은 것 없으면서 막연한 우월감이 느끼고 싶어서 나를 포함한 우리 학년 내 찌질이들을 싸잡아 까는 거라구요. 막상 자신이 찌질하다는 사실은 애써 부정하고 있으면서 말입니다. 원래 전 왕따나 은따를 동정하는 편이지만, 이렇게 정신 못 차리는 쓰레기는 다른 사람들한테 가루가 되도록 평생 까여도 쌉니다.

생각 같아서는 두들겨 패고 싶은 마음이 굴뚝 같지만 이 자식이 울고 불고 째 버리면 자칫 졸업을 못 할 수도 있을 것 같습니다. 정말 어떻게 해야 할 지 모르겠어요.

Welcome Back!

2010-08-23T08:22:00.002+09:00

So I'm back to KSA. 학교에 돌아왔습니다.

College. Dear God.

KoL Frat Warrior HP and ML

2010-07-30T16:22:00.003+09:00

Back in March I made a post with a table of Battlefield Frat Warriors and their HP in KoL. Now that I am a Disco Bandit, I also found a need for their attack values (monster level, really) as well.

As always, all available data was ripped off from KoLWiki.

Monster	ML	HP
War Frat Grill Sergeant	190	100*
War Frat Senior Grill Sergeant	210	120*
War Frat 110th Infantryman	172	185
War Frat 151st Infantryman	170	185
War Frat 500th Infantrygentleman	175	185
Naughty Sorority Nurse	170	200
Sorority Nurse	175	200
Sorority Operator	185	200
War Frat Wartender	185	200
War Frat 151st Captain	180	205
Beer Bongadier	180	210
War Frat Elite 500th Captain	185	210
War Frat Elite 110th Captain	190	215
War Frat Mobile Grill Unit	195	215
War Frat Elite Wartender	195	220
Elite Beer Bongadier	190	230
Panty Raider Frat Boy	200	250
War Frat Kegrider	170	300
Heavy Kegtank	180	300

* These two are weak, but they can cast a powerful debuff that eats away at player HP during combat. Get them before they get you!

An Analogy for Online Socialization in KoL Chat Channels

2010-07-27T18:45:00.005+09:00

(Around 10 people are sitting in a room. Each person is playing with his handheld game console, except for the three people in the corner, who are talking and laughing.)

(A newcomer enters.)

Newcomer: Hi guys!
Person 1: Hi.

(Five minutes of silence as the newcomer takes a seat and takes out his own handheld game console. The only sound is that of the people in the corner talking to each other.)

(Every now and then, one of the people in the room curse out loud.)

Person 3: Ah, f*** it. The RNG poops all over me again.
Person 3: 35 encounters and STILL no drops.

(One of the people in the room turns off his console, puts it into his pocket, and stands up.)

Person 4: Gad, I'm done for the day.
Person 5: (turns around from his conversation in the corner) Bye!
Person 4: Bye.

Person 4 has left the building.

무사 귀환했습니다!

2010-07-23T20:22:00.000+09:00

Also, AFHk first chat!

Birthday Wishlist (Plan list, really)

2010-07-23T00:41:00.002+09:00

$12-14 Frontalot album
$15 KoL shirt
$15 KoL shirt
$15 KoL documentary
$10 shipping (Large Envelope)

$67-70 in total.

And dang, I've never used Paypal before. I don't even know how I can, since I'm in South Korea.

곤지 & 피자

2010-07-21T08:55:00.004+09:00

심포지엄에 다녀오기 위해 디카를 정리하다가 작은 이모네 강아지 사진을 몇 점 발견했습니다.

얘 이름은 곤지. 3살이 채 안 된 말티즈입니다. 사촌 누나에게 연지라고 하는 친구가 있어서 그 이름을 따라 "연지 곤지"가 되게 지었다고 합니다. 최근 임신을 했는데 새끼를 딱 하나밖에 배지 않아서 새끼가 뱃속에서 지나치게 자라서 정상 출산이 불가능했고, 결국 제왕절개를 시도했으나 유산했다고 하네요.

얘 이름은 피자. 곤지와 나이는 거의 같지만 이모네 가족을 만난 지는 채 1년도 되지 않았습니다. 요크셔테리어 답게 성격이 까칠하여 자주 짖어댑니다 (이모님 말씀으로는 앵앵거린답니다).

Portable Notepad++? No Thanks.

2010-07-18T09:12:00.002+09:00

Because apparently it is pretty portable (USB-carry-able) in the first place. The Portable Notepad++ is a mere integration into the PortableApps.com suite.

청소년 글로벌 국제외교 심포지엄 2010에 참가 신청을 했습니다.

2010-07-14T17:09:00.005+09:00

7월 21일부터 23일까지랍니다.

그런데 아무리 호텔에서 숙식한다지만 솔직히 49만원은 좀 아닌 듯. 갔다 와서 비싼 밥 먹은 소감이라도 올려야 할 것 같아요.

추가: 다음 카페에 가입을 해야 되네요. 행사가 며칠 안 남았는데 이런 병맛이 있나...빨리 등업을 해 달란 말입니다!!

Editing File Extension Associations in Windows 7

2010-07-07T14:37:00.005+09:00

Because the default interface they gave us is crappy (though probably easy to use for casuals), I had to use Types. Slightly buggy, but much better.

Oh, and I found that Windows 7 stores file association-related information in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\, separately from the information in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. Dammit, the Windows Registry is sure complex.

Some CSS colornames

2010-07-02T15:19:00.003+09:00

CSS colornames approved by the W3:

Color name	HEX	Color
aqua	#00FFFF
black	#000000
blue	#0000FF
fuchsia	#FF00FF
gray	#808080
green	#008000
lime	#00FF00
maroon	#800000
navy	#000080
olive	#808000
purple	#800080
red	#FF0000
silver	#C0C0C0
teal	#008080
white	#FFFFFF
yellow	#FFFF00

Bypassing KoL Server Redirects.

2010-06-29T12:57:00.002+09:00

While playing KoL, sometimes you want to have multiple characters (multies) logged in at the same time. Other times, a server you are redirected to has problems.

So how do you force yourself on a specific server? KoLmafia will do it for you, but for browser-loving purists (myself included), there is a way--just use http://www*.kingdomofloathing.com/game.php, or better yet, use http://www*.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php?notloggedin=1, and replace the asterisk with the server number (1-7).

Here's a link for all you lazy folks, again including myself:

Using A SQL Database in a USB

2010-06-24T15:39:00.009+09:00

...if you are: want to use it for other purposes than a back-end for web sites. Like learning SQL for the first time, for example.

I'm using SQLiteSpy with the SQLite 3 command shell for importing text files. Pretty awesome.

SELECT
    l_table.domain_id AS target_domain
    , r_table.domain_id AS linked_domain
    , r_table.protein_id AS in_protein
    , COUNT(l_table.protein_id) AS occurences
  FROM
      smart_prodom_relations AS l_table
  INNER JOIN
      smart_prodom_relations AS r_table
    ON
        l_table.protein_id = in_protein
  FROM
      target_domain = 'BROMO'
  GROUP BY
      in_protein;

P. S. If anyone reading this can improve upon the SQL mess I made above, please let me know, OK? Thank you.

Bye Bye BAT

2010-06-14T18:44:00.005+09:00

Well darn, turns out implementing large number arithmetics in batch files is too slow for Project Euler. So I'm letting Problem 3 and my LARGENUM.BAT and my PRIME.BAT go. Silly me, thinking that implementing arrays would solve everything!

At least ARRAY.BAT is working nicely.

Testing New Code Block Style

2010-06-09T11:55:00.013+09:00

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
    cout << "Hello, world!" << endl;
    return 0;
}

Well fuck IE again, it has a bug. Fortunately, I found two fixes:

Use conditional comments and overflow-y: hidden to create IE-specific results. Extra padding-bottom is needed to manually accomodate the scrollbar, but this would also create an ugly blank area for blocks without scrollbars. A compromise is to adjust the padding-bottom for IE to about 1.5x of line height.
Use JavaScript (jQuery) to serve IE with overflow-y: hidden and extra padding only for the elements that have horizontal scrollbars. This works by detecting whether overflow has actually occurred for an element. Isn't jQuery awesome for what it can do?

Of course, since I'm lazy, I'm going with the CSS-only solution. :)

Working on ARRAY.BAT

2010-06-06T19:06:00.021+09:00

I'm pretty exhilirated now that I'm working on a new project. Woo!

Basically, I'm trying to create a batch file that will mimic array operations, like this:

CALL ARRAY.BAT NEW Animals dog cow cat mouse raven
:: This would create an array, with the environment variables Animals_1=dog, Animals_2=cow, etc.)

CALL ARRAY.BAT PUSH Animals horse
:: The environment variable Animals_6 now holds the string "horse", and Animals_LENGTH is now 6.

CALL ARRAY.BAT POP Animals LastAnimal
:: The string "horse" is now stored in LastAnimal.

Of course, all these functionalities require that I use command extensions and delayed environment variable expansion.

Things are going great at the moment, and I look forward to doing Project Euler with this (which, by the way, was my initial purpose).

Battling Giant Familiars

2010-03-17T16:55:00.005+09:00

Goat defeats Barnacle, Barnacle defeats Potato, Potato defeats Lime, Lime defeats Mosquito, Mosquito defeats Goat.

Battling Giant Familiars
You need	to defeat

똥빵 바이바이

2010-03-17T09:33:00.008+09:00

서울에 올라갔다가 내려오는 날 약수역 파리바게뜨에서 똥빵을 1500원에 샀습니다.

오오옹 똥빵이다 하고 기대했는데…

차갑게 해서 맛있게 먹으려고 생활관 창가에 내놓았더니 나 없는 사이 놀러온 깜디와 상균이가 꿀꺽했네요-_-;;

아오 썅

KoL Battlefield Soldiers And Their Health

2010-03-10T18:25:00.008+09:00

As a Sauceror, I need to kill monsters through the most MP-efficient method available while healing with Jala and Salve. Therefore, I made a table to remember how much HP each monster has. I could have used a Greasemonkey script or KoLmafia, but neither interests me at the moment.

All available data was ripped off from KoLWiki.

Monster	HP
War Frat Grill Sergeant	100*
War Frat Senior Grill Sergeant	120*
War Frat 110th Infantryman	185
War Frat 151st Infantryman	185
War Frat 500th Infantrygentleman	185
Naughty Sorority Nurse	200
Sorority Nurse	200
Sorority Operator	200
War Frat Wartender	200
War Frat 151st Captain	205
Beer Bongadier	210
War Frat Elite 500th Captain	210
War Frat Elite 110th Captain	215
War Frat Mobile Grill Unit	215
War Frat Elite Wartender	220
Elite Beer Bongadier	230
Panty Raider Frat Boy	250
Heavy Kegtank	300
War Frat Kegrider	300

* These two are weak, but they can cast a powerful debuff that eats away at player HP during combat. Get them before they get you!

I Love My Slimeling

2010-02-10T15:30:00.003+09:00

수강 정정 안습

2010-02-03T11:15:00.002+09:00

수강 정정 중 김상균 선생님의 재미있는 ~~공강 난사~~ 철학 수업을 꼭 듣고 싶어 신청하려 보니 월요일 저녁, 이미 퇴근하셔서 서명을 해 주실 수 없단다. 게다가 원래 신청한 사람 수가 17명이라 자리는 하나 밖에 없는데 내 앞에 대기자가 4명이나 있는 듯. 아 ㅅㅂ. 수강 정정을 화요일 10시에 시작한다고 해서 일반물리학 수업 좀 늦게 들어갈 각오하고 기다렸으나…….

현실은 무려 1시간을 추운 복도에서 떨면서 기다린 끝에 수강 정정이 시작되고, 게다가 수강 정정을 처리하시는 김은정 선생님께서 자꾸 다른 전화를 받는 바람에 30분 더 기다려야 했다.

이 과정에서 무리한 욕심에 김상균 선생님의 서명을 조작하는, 지금 보면 좀 한심한 일을 저질러버렸다. 얼마 지나지 않아 들켰고, 김은정 선생님의 꾸중과 함께 신청을 취소하는 것으로 마무됨. 조금 안타까운 것은 처음에 아예 서명을 안 받은 것을 말씀드린 뒤 나중에 서명을 받아올 경우 먼저 신청서를 제출한 것을 감안해 줄 수도 있었을 거라는 말씀(물론 말한다고 해서 보장이 되는 것은 아니지만...).

우선은 내가 잘못한 것은 맞지만 생각해 보면 수강 신청 선착순과 선생님의 서명 선착순에 모두 목매달아야 하는 학생의 처지가 슬프다. 아무튼 김은정 샘의 입장은 다음과 같은 듯:

수강 정정 때 선착순 접수를 우선적으로 인정하며, 선생님이 전날 퇴근하셔서 서명을 못 받아온 사람은 선착순을, 그것도 1시간 이상 기다린 것을 감안해 선생님들이 먼저 서명한 것을 무시할 수 있다.

결론은 선생님한테 먼저 선착순으로 서명 받았다고 안심하지 말 것. 또 선생님들이 "어? 다른 애한테 서명을 해 주어서 자리가 없을 텐데?"라는 말씀을 하실 땐 이러한 사실을 친절하게 설명해 드리면서 서명을 받아올 것. 자기한테 먼저 온 학생을 우선적으로 배려하는 것은 이해할 수 있지만, 이러한 상황에서는 인정할 수 없는 것. 그걸 무시하려는 선생님은 교무지원부의 뷁! 소리를 들어 마땅하지 않을까.

그러고 보니 수강 정정 신청서 양식은 월요일 저녁에 나왔는데, 그 애는 어떻게 김상균 선생님이 퇴근하기 전에 서명을 받을 수 있었던 걸까? 혹시 다른 종이에 서명을…? 아니면 작년의 양식을 이용한 걸까? 아무튼 그쪽도 완벽하게 합법적인 방법을 쓰지 않은 것 같은데……. 설마 다른 종이에 서명한 것도 일단은 인정해 주는 건가? 그럼 나 혼자 망한 게 되네...ㅠㅠ

P. S. 1시간 동안 시스템이 안 돌아간다면서 우리를 추운 복도에 떨게 내버려 둔 김은정 선생님께도 좀 화가 난다. 차라리 번호표라도 주지……. 1시간째 줄서 있는 학생들이 얼마나 불쌍해 보였으면 지나가시던 다른 선생님께서 우리에게 과자를 나누어 주신 걸까 (감사합니다ㅎ).

독서대 신청 안습

2010-01-22T10:18:00.013+09:00

한국과학영재학교의 학생회 웹 사이트는 1년 중 약 4~6회마다 (추측컨대) 평소보다 몇천 배의 트래픽이 몰려 심각한 병목 현상을 겪으며 자주 다운되기도 한다. 이는 한 학기마다 일어나는 선착순 생활관 및 독서대 신청 때문인데, 우리집 인터넷이 느려서인지 모르겠지만 나는 최근 들어 이 중 어느 하나도 내가 원하는 대로 신청해 본 적이 없다. 오늘은 오전 10시부터 개편된 독서대를 신청할 수 있는데, 내 경우 30여분이 지난 지금까지도 페이지가 나타나지 않는다.

글을 쓰던 중에 마침내 페이지를 받을 수 있었다. 그런데 이건 또 뭐래?

Error has occurred while connecting DB. Please check DB information again

또 ID와 비밀번호를 요청하긴 하는데, 입력해서 넣었더니 "You have entered an invalid ID"라는 alert()가 뜬다.

결론: 우리 학교에서 성공하려면 공부와 친구 외에도 빠른 인터넷이 필요하다. 그런데 난 셋 다 안 되잖아? 빌어먹을.

P. S. 11시 21분에 접속 성공! 그러나 2분 만에 404 오류 발생. ㅅㅂ

P. S. 현재 404 오류와 페이지 리퀘를 번갈아 가며 뱉어내는 중이다. 댓글로 신청하기로 했는데 막상 기대를 안고 들어가보니 댓글을 다는 textarea가 나타나지 않는다. 아마 관련된 JavaScript code를 못 받아서 그런 듯. 덕분에 게시판에 댓글이 아닌 새 글로 신청을 한 사람이 (모두 09학번) 3명10명이 넘는다. 이런 빌어먹을!!!!!!111111!!!1111일일일일!!!

결말: 결국 3학년 우선 신청으로 독서대 신청...한편 08학번이 너무 많이 신청해서 09가 쓸 자리가 없다면서 자주 안 쓸 사람은 아예 신청하지 말자는 한 08학번 학생의 글도 올라왔다.

슬픈 사실은, 이런 걸 오프라인에서 선착순으로 할 경우 수강 정정 때와 같은 안습적인 사태가 발생할 수도 있다는 것이다. 빌어먹을 학교 같으니.

Korean Ramblings

2009-12-30T23:05:00.002+09:00

오랜만에 형훈이의 블로그에 갔다가 '어떻게 이렇게 깊은 사고를 하며 이렇게 넓은 글을 쓸 수 있는 거야?'라는 생각이 들었다. 분명 나이는 똑같은데 한 사람은 자신의 미래를 설계하고 있고(비록 수많은 인생 설계 강사들이 하던 것과는 다르지만), 다른 사람은 웹 툰과 게 임에 푹 빠져 있다. 내 뇌를 오랜 시간 동안 안 썼더니 쪼그라들었나...? 두렵다.

도서관에서 물리 I 과정을 옛날 HighTop으로 (밋밋한 연두색 표지) 다시 공부하고 있다. 이런 상황에서 내가 전에 어떻게 학원에서 일반물리학을 들을 수 있던 건지, 어떻게 다음 학기에 일물을 들을 수 있을지가 걱정이다.

아, 그리고 도서관 컴퓨터를 써 본 뒤로 Windows 7이 은근히 편리하다는 걸 느끼겠더라. 자꾸 무의식적으로 창을 화면 위로 끌어올리다가 말고 '아, 여긴 XP지'라고 상기하게 된다.

P. S. AA 소개서를 재미있게 쓰려면 어떻게 해야 할까?

P. P. S. 나눔고딕_코딩을 메모장에 써 봤는데 은근히 중독된다. 만약 Visual Studio 2008에서와 같이 영문과 한글 글꼴을 다르게 설정할 수 있다면 필요 없었겠지만...

Phage Wars Is Fun!

2009-12-14T08:26:00.000+09:00

And the sequel, too!

First Time in Hobopolis

2009-12-13T02:59:00.001+09:00

And I love it. Even though I have to spend tons of meat on buffs (Oh how saucy I'd like to be!) because I'm a moxie class. It's a pity Moxious Maneuver doesn't take bonus weapon damage into account.

I'm forced to use Moxious Maneuver instead of buffing up muscle because I'm trying to level up as well. Since my moxie will be high anyway in the long run, I figured it would be better to have damage dealt scale to moxie. Plus, I want to utilize the Underworld Flail.

I also noted that the hobos (the spooky ones, anyway) give a respectable amount of substats--around 30 for both offstats and ~60 of moxie, even without +ML or stat familiars (though with an Underworld flail)

Sorry about sounding like a total nerd. Heh.

P.S. Need to kill time? I suggest AVGN for you.

New Hardware, New Software

2009-11-19T01:15:00.000+09:00

My new laptop has arrived. With Windows 7. Score!

I also found that Google Sites allows up to 11MB for each uploaded file. Twoscore!

Laptop ready in 2 weeks

2009-11-02T11:42:00.000+09:00

My ancient laptop broke down last week. Again.

Finally pressed my parents into ordering a new one. I have to dish out all my savings for it, though (which is a pain for a high-schooler like me).

Expects to arrive within 1-2 weeks, complete with Windows 7.

I can't wait! *jumps up and down*