Video Games

from math import pi, sin, cos

from pygame.font import Font

from esp_hadouken.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from esp_hadouken.pgfw.Vector import Vector

class Pedal(GameChild, Vector):

    def __init__(self, parent, index):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.effect = 0
        self.index = index
        self.display_active = self.check_command_line(self.parent.display_flag)
        self.reset()
        self.init_display()
        self.set_coefficients()

    def reset(self):
        Vector.__init__(self)

    def init_display(self):
        if self.display_active:
            self.display_surface = self.get_screen()
            self.coordinates = 0, (self.index + 1) * 20
            self.font = Font(self.parent.parent.font_path, 14)
            self.render()

    def render(self):
        string = str(self)
        self.text = self.font.render(string, False, (0, 0, 0), (255, 255, 255))
        self.string = string

    def set_coefficients(self):
        index = self.index
        cx = sin(pi * index / 4)
        cy = -cos(pi * index / 4)
        if cx < .000000001 and cx > -.0000000001:
            cx = 0
        if cy < .000000001 and cy > -.0000000001:
            cy = 0
        self.cx, self.cy = cx, cy

    def set_slopes(self):
        min_na_dist = self.parent.min_negative_acceleration_distance
        min_na = self.parent.min_negative_acceleration
        max_v = self.parent.parent.max_velocity
        initial_thrust = self.parent.initial_thrust
        peak_distance = self.parent.peak_distance
        peak_acceleration = self.parent.peak_acceleration
        self.tail_slope = (min_na - self.parent.max_negative_acceleration) / \
                          (-min_na_dist + max_v)
        self.rest_slope = (initial_thrust - min_na) / min_na_dist
        self.motion_slope = (peak_acceleration - initial_thrust) / peak_distance
        self.head_slope = -peak_acceleration / (max_v - peak_distance)

    def update(self, active):
        self.update_effect(active)
        self.set()
        self.display()

    def update_effect(self, active):
        if active:
            self.effect += self.parent.attack
        elif not active:
            self.effect -= self.parent.release
        self.constrain()

    def constrain(self):
        effect = self.effect
        if effect < 0 or effect > 1:
            if effect < 0:
                effect = 0
            else:
                effect = 1
            self.effect = effect

    def set(self):
        if self.effect:
            vx, vy = self.parent.parent
            cx, cy = self.cx, self.cy
            self.x = self.get_component(vx, cx)
            self.y = self.get_component(vy, cy)
        else:
            self.x = 0
            self.y = 0

    def get_component(self, velocity, coefficient):
        if coefficient < 0:
            velocity = -velocity
        max_v = self.parent.parent.max_velocity
        if not coefficient or velocity >= max_v:
            return 0
        if velocity <= -max_v:
            magnitude = -self.parent.max_negative_acceleration
        elif velocity <= -self.parent.min_negative_acceleration_distance:
            magnitude = self.tail_thrust(velocity)
        elif velocity <= 0:
            magnitude = self.rest_thrust(velocity)
        elif velocity <= self.parent.peak_distance:
            magnitude = self.motion_thrust(velocity)
        else:
            magnitude = self.head_thrust(velocity)
        return coefficient * self.effect * magnitude

    def are_same_sign(self, left, right):
        return left == 0 or right == 0 or abs(left) / left == abs(right) / right

    def tail_thrust(self, velocity):
        return (self.tail_slope * \
                (velocity + self.parent.min_negative_acceleration_distance)) + \
                self.parent.min_negative_acceleration

    def rest_thrust(self, velocity):
        return (self.rest_slope * velocity) + self.parent.initial_thrust

    def motion_thrust(self, velocity):
        return (self.motion_slope * (velocity - self.parent.peak_distance)) + \
               self.parent.peak_acceleration

    def head_thrust(self, velocity):
        return self.head_slope * (velocity - self.parent.parent.max_velocity)

    def display(self):
        if self.display_active:
            if self.string != str(self):
                self.render()
            self.display_surface.blit(self.text, self.coordinates)

    def __str__(self):
        return "[{0: .2f}, {1: .2f}] {2: .2f}".format(self.x, self.y,
                                                      self.effect)

from pygame import Color

from esp_hadouken.GameChild import *

class GlyphPalette(GameChild, list):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        list.__init__(self, [])
        self.set_interval_properties()
        self.populate()

    def set_interval_properties(self):
        length = self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-palette-length"]
        interval_count = 6
        self.interval_length = length / interval_count
        self.overflow = length % interval_count

    def populate(self):
        brightness = self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-palette-brightness"]
        self.add_interval([255, brightness, brightness], [0, 1, 0])
        self.add_interval([255, 255, brightness], [-1, 0, 0])
        self.add_interval([brightness, 255, brightness], [0, 0, 1])
        self.add_interval([brightness, 255, 255], [0, -1, 0])
        self.add_interval([brightness, brightness, 255], [1, 0, 0])
        self.add_interval([255, brightness, 255], [0, 0, -1])

    def add_interval(self, components, actions):
        for ii, action in enumerate(actions):
            if action == 1:
                components[ii] = 0
            elif action == -1:
                components[ii] = 255
        length = self.interval_length + (self.overflow > 0)
        self.overflow -= 1
        step = 255 / length
        for ii in range(length):
            self.append(Color(*components))
            for ii, action in enumerate(actions):
                if action == 1:
                    components[ii] += step
                elif action == -1:
                    components[ii] -= step

from pygame import Surface, Color, Rect

from esp_hadouken.GameChild import *
from esp_hadouken.Font import *

class Heading(GameChild, Surface):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.init_surface()
        self.set_rect()
        self.add_labels()
        self.render_title()

    def init_surface(self):
        parent = self.parent
        width = parent.get_width() - parent.get_padding()
        Surface.__init__(self, (width, parent.get_heading_height()))
        self.fill(Color(self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-heading-bg"]))

    def set_rect(self):
        rect = self.get_rect()
        offset = self.parent.get_padding() / 2
        rect.topleft = offset, offset
        self.rect = rect

    def add_labels(self):
        labels = []
        margin = self.get_margin()
        for ii in range(5):
            labels.append(Label(self, ii))
        self.labels = labels

    def render_title(self):
        config = self.get_configuration()
        size = config["scoreboard-heading-title-size"]
        text = config["scoreboard-heading-title"]
        color = Color(config["scoreboard-heading-title-color"])
        rend = Font(self, size).render(text, True, color)
        rect = rend.get_rect()
        offset = config["scoreboard-heading-title-offset"]
        rect.centery = self.get_rect().centery + offset
        rect.left = config["scoreboard-heading-title-indent"]
        self.blit(rend, rect)

    def get_margin(self):
        return self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-heading-margin"]

    def update(self):
        for label in self.labels:
            label.update()
        self.draw()

    def draw(self):
        self.parent.blit(self, self.rect)


class Label(GameChild, Surface):

    def __init__(self, parent, index):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.index = index
        self.init_surface()
        self.set_rect()

    def init_surface(self):
        parent = self.parent
        size = parent.get_height() - parent.get_margin()
        Surface.__init__(self, (size, size))
        self.paint()

    def paint(self):
        palette = self.get_palette()
        count = self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-heading-checker-count"]
        size = tuple([self.get_width() / count] * 2)
        for ii in range(count):
            for jj in range(count):
                rect = Rect((ii * size[0], jj * size[0]), size)
                self.fill(Color(palette[(ii + jj) % len(palette)]), rect)

    def get_palette(self):
        index = self.index
        if index == 0:
            level = "octo"
        elif index == 1:
            level = "horse"
        elif index == 2:
            level = "diortem"
        elif index == 3:
            level = "circulor"
        else:
            level = "tooth"
        return self.get_configuration()[level + "-level-palette"]

    def set_rect(self):
        rect = self.get_rect()
        rect.left = self.calculate_indent()
        rect.centery = self.parent.get_rect().centery
        self.rect = rect

    def calculate_indent(self):
        parent = self.parent
        width = parent.get_width()
        columns = parent.parent.get_column_widths()
        offset = (columns[3] * width - self.get_width()) / 2
        return sum(columns[:self.index + 3]) * width + offset

    def update(self):
        self.draw()

    def draw(self):
        self.parent.blit(self, self.rect)

216.73.216.144

December 3, 2013♦

Where in the mind's prism does light shine, inward, outward, or backward, and where in a plane does it intersect, experientially and literally, while possessing itself in a dripping wet phantasm?

Fig 1.1 What happens after you turn on a video game and before it appears?

The taxonomy of fun contains the difference between gasps of desperation and exaltation, simultaneously identical and opposite; one inspires you to have sex, while the other to ejaculate perpetually. A destruction and its procession are effervescent, while free play is an inseminated shimmer hatching inside you. Unlikely to be resolved, however, in such a way, are the climaxes of transitions between isolated, consecutive game states.

You walk through a door or long-jump face first (your face, not Mario's) into a painting. A moment passes for eternity, viscerally fading from your ego, corpus, chakra, gaia, the basis of your soul. It happens when you kill too, and especially when you precisely maim or obliterate something. It's a reason to live, a replicating stasis.

Fig 1.2 Sequence in a video game

Video games are death reanimated. You recurse through the underworld toward an illusion. Everything in a decision and logic attaches permanently to your fingerprint. At the core, you use its energy to soar, comatose, back into the biosphere, possibly because the formal structure of a mind by human standards is useful in the next world.

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