Video Games

from os import write
from time import time

from esp_hadouken.GameChild import *

class HighScores(GameChild, list):

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

    def read(self):
        for line in open(self.get_path()):
            line = line.strip()
            if line:
                self.append(Score(*line.split(" ")))

    def get_path(self):
        return self.get_resource("scoreboard-scores-path")

    def add(self, player):
        timer = self.get_timer()
        values = (timer["octo"], timer["horse"], timer["diortem"],
                  timer["circulor"], timer["tooth"])
        score = Score(time(), player, timer.total(), *values)
        self.append(score)
        self.write(score)

    def write(self, score):
        scores = open(self.get_path(), "a")
        scores.write(str(score) + "\n")

    def get_most_recent_player(self):
        return self[-1].player


class Score:

    def __init__(self, *args):
        self.date = int(args[0])
        self.player = args[1]
        self.total, self.octo, self.horse, self.diortem, self.circulor, \
                    self.tooth = map(float, args[2:])

    def __str__(self):
        return "%i %s %.3f %.3f %.3f %.3f %.3f %.3f" % \
               (self.date, self.player, self.total, self.octo, self.horse,
                self.diortem, self.circulor, self.tooth)

    def __lt__(self, other):
        return self.total < other.total

    def __repr__(self):
        return self.__str__()

from pygame import Surface

from esp_hadouken.GameChild import *
from esp_hadouken.Input import *
from Row import *
from Heading import *

class Scoreboard(GameChild, Surface):

    active_interval = 0

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.init_surface()
        self.set_rect()
        self.heading = Heading(self)
        self.add_rows()
        self.subscribe_to(Input.command_event, self.respond_to_command)
        self.deactivate()

    def init_surface(self):
        config = self.get_configuration()
        step = self.get_step()
        padding = self.get_padding()
        row_height = self.get_row_height()
        height = step * row_height + padding + self.get_heading_height()
        Surface.__init__(self, (config["scoreboard-width"], height))
        self.set_alpha(config["scoreboard-alpha"])

    def get_step(self):
        return self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-interval-length"]

    def get_row_height(self):
        return self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-row-height"]

    def get_padding(self):
        return self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-padding"]

    def get_heading_height(self):
        return self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-heading-height"]
    
    def get_column_widths(self):
        return self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-column-widths"]

    def set_rect(self):
        rect = self.get_rect()
        rect.center = self.get_screen().get_rect().center
        self.rect = rect

    def add_rows(self):
        rows = []
        for ii in range(self.get_step()):
            rows.append(Row(self, ii))
        self.rows = rows

    def respond_to_command(self, event):
        if self.active:
            command = event.command
            if command == "next":
                self.set_active_interval(1)
                self.populate()
            elif command == "previous":
                self.set_active_interval(-1)
                self.populate()

    def set_active_interval(self, increment=0, interval=None):
        if interval is None:
            interval = self.active_interval + increment
        max_interval = self.get_max_interval()
        if interval < 0:
            interval = 0
        elif interval > max_interval:
            interval = max_interval
        self.active_interval = interval

    def get_max_interval(self):
        return len(self.get_high_scores()) / self.get_step()

    def populate(self):
        self.disable_highlights()
        step = self.get_step()
        low = step * self.active_interval
        high = low + step
        interval = self.get_ordered_scores()[low:high]
        interval += [None] * (step - len(interval))
        rows = self.rows
        for ii, score in enumerate(interval):
            score_index = low + ii
            row = rows[ii]
            if score_index == self.get_highlit_score_index():
               row.enable_highlight() 
            row.set_score(score, score_index)
        self.parent.update()

    def disable_highlights(self):
        for row in self.rows:
            row.disable_highlight()

    def get_ordered_scores(self):
        return sorted(self.get_high_scores())

    def activate(self, highlight=True):
        self.active = True
        if highlight:
            self.show_recent_score_interval()
        self.populate()

    def show_recent_score_interval(self):
        ordered = self.get_ordered_scores()
        interval = self.get_highlit_score_index() / self.get_step()
        self.set_active_interval(interval=interval)

    def get_highlit_score_index(self):
        return self.get_ordered_scores().index(self.get_high_scores()[-1])

    def deactivate(self):
        self.active = False

    def update(self):
        if self.active:
            self.clear()
            self.heading.update()
            for row in self.rows:
                row.update()
            self.draw()

    def clear(self):
        self.fill(Color(self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-bg"]))

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

from pygame import Surface, Color
from pygame.locals import *

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

class Row(GameChild, Surface):

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

    def enable_highlight(self):
        self.highlit = True

    def disable_highlight(self):
        self.highlit = False

    def init_surface(self):
        parent = self.parent
        width = parent.get_width() - parent.get_padding()
        Surface.__init__(self, (width, parent.get_row_height()))
        self.fill(self.get_color())

    def get_color(self):
        config = self.get_configuration()
        if self.highlit:
            color = config["scoreboard-highlight-color"]
        elif not self.index % 2:
            color = config["scoreboard-row-color-1"]
        else:
            color = config["scoreboard-row-color-2"]
        return Color(color)

    def set_rect(self):
        rect = self.get_rect()
        parent = self.parent
        index = self.index
        padding = parent.get_padding()
        heading = parent.get_heading_height()
        rect.top = padding / 2 + index * parent.get_row_height() + heading
        rect.centerx = parent.get_rect().centerx
        self.rect = rect

    def set_column_surfaces(self):
        self.rank_surf, self.rank_surf_r = self.set_column_surface(0)
        self.initials_surf, self.initials_surf_r = self.set_column_surface(1)
        self.total_surf, self.total_surf_r = self.set_column_surface(2)
        self.split_surfs, self.split_surfs_rs = [], []
        for ii in range(3, 8):
            surf, rect = self.set_column_surface(ii)
            self.split_surfs.append(surf)
            self.split_surfs_rs.append(rect)

    def set_column_surface(self, index):
        ratios = self.parent.get_column_widths()
        relative = self.get_size()
        surf = Surface((relative[0] * ratios[index], relative[1]))
        surf.fill(self.get_color())
        indent = 0
        for ratio in ratios[:index]:
            indent += ratio * relative[0]
        rect = surf.get_rect()
        rect.left = indent
        return surf, rect

    def set_score(self, score, rank):
        self.render_rank(rank)
        self.render_initials(score)
        self.render_total(score)
        if score is None:
            splits = [None] * 5
        else:
            splits = [score.octo, score.horse, score.diortem, score.circulor,
                      score.tooth]
        for ii, split in enumerate(splits):
            self.render_split(ii, split)

    def render_rank(self, rank):
        size = self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-rank-size"]
        rend = Font(self, size).render(str(rank + 1), True, self.get_text_color(),
                                       self.get_color())
        rect = rend.get_rect()
        dest = self.rank_surf
        dest.fill(self.get_color())
        rect.center = dest.get_rect().center
        dest.blit(rend, rect)

    def get_text_color(self):
        return Color(self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-text-color"])

    def render_initials(self, score):
        self.initials_surf.fill(self.get_color())
        if score is None:
            return
        x = 0
        margin = self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-initials-margin"]
        size = self.get_height() - margin * 2
        for letter in score.player:
            self.render_initial(letter, x, size)
            x += size + margin

    def get_blank_char(self):
        return self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-blank-char"]

    def render_initial(self, letter, x, size):
        square = Surface((size, size))
        if letter == self.get_blank_char():
            color = self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-initials-blank-color"]
            color = Color(color)
        else:
            color = self.get_glyph_palette()[ord(letter.lower()) - K_a]
        square.fill(color)
        font_size = self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-initials-size"]
        rend = Font(self, font_size).render(letter, True, self.get_text_color(),
                                            color)
        square_rect = square.get_rect()
        rend_rect = rend.get_rect()
        rend_rect.center = square_rect.center
        square.blit(rend, rend_rect)
        square_rect.centery = self.get_rect().centery
        square_rect.left = x
        self.initials_surf.blit(square, square_rect)

    def render_total(self, score):
        dest = self.total_surf
        dest.fill(self.get_color())
        if score is None:
            return
        text = self.build_time_string(score.total)
        size = self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-total-size"]
        rend = Font(self, size).render(text, True, self.get_text_color(),
                                       self.get_color())
        rect = rend.get_rect()
        rect.center = dest.get_rect().center
        dest.blit(rend, rect)

    def build_time_string(self, time):
        return "%i:%02i" % divmod(int(time), 60)

    def get_blank_time(self):
        return self.get_blank_char()

    def render_split(self, index, time):
        dest = self.split_surfs[index]
        dest.fill(self.get_color())
        if time is None:
            return
        text = self.build_time_string(time)
        size = self.get_configuration()["scoreboard-split-size"]
        rend = Font(self, size).render(text, True, self.get_text_color(),
                                       self.get_color())
        rect = rend.get_rect()
        rect.center = dest.get_rect().center
        dest.blit(rend, rect)

    def update(self):
        self.clear()
        self.draw()

    def clear(self):
        self.fill(self.get_color())

    def draw(self):
        self.blit(self.rank_surf, self.rank_surf_r)
        self.blit(self.initials_surf, self.initials_surf_r)
        self.blit(self.total_surf, self.total_surf_r)
        for ii, surf in enumerate(self.split_surfs):
            self.blit(surf, self.split_surfs_rs[ii])
        self.parent.blit(self, self.rect)

216.73.216.208

March 3, 2021♦

Video 📺

Computers are a gun. They can see the target; they can pull the trigger. Computers were made by the military to blow people's brains out if they stepped out of line. Google Coral is the same technology that pollutes the oceans, and so is the computer I'm using, and so are the platforms I'm using to post this.

Game 🎲

Games are a context in which all play is purposeful. Games expose the fundamentally nihilistic nature of the universe and futility of pursuing any path other than the inevitability of death and the torture of an evil that knows and exploits absolute freedom. Games are not educational; they are education.

Propaganda 🆒

Education is propaganda — ego driven by-product conveying nothing that would enable us to expose that vanities made for gain subject us further to an illusion created by those in control: the illusion that quantity can represent substance and that data or observation can replace meaning. And why say it, or how, without contradicting yourself, that everything, once registered, no longer exists, and in fact never did, exists only in relation to other non-existent things, and when you look, it's not there, not only because it's long vanished, but because where would it be?

fig. 2: Gamer goo is a lubricant — not for your skin, but for facilitating your ability to own the competition (image from Gamer goo review)

As a result of video games, the great Trojan horse 🎠 of imperialist consumerist representationalism, people are divided in halves to encourage them to act according to market ordained impulses, to feign assurance, penetrating themselves deeper into a tyranny from which every action signals allegiance, confusing the world with definitions and borders, constantly struggling to balance or brace themselves against forces that threaten the crumbling stability of their ego.

or example, a cup 🥃 is designed and built to hold something, maintain order and prevent chaos. It keeps water from spilling back to where it belongs, back where it wants to go and gravity wants it to go. The cup is a trap, and it is used to assert dominance over nature, to fill with thoughts about existence, time and self, thoughts regarding dissimilarity between equal parts and patterns that manifest in variation. These ruminations disguised as revelations boil away to reveal isolated and self-aggrandizing thoughts about an analogy fabricated to herald the profundity of one's campaign's propaganda. You have no authentic impulse except to feed a delusion of ultimate and final supremacy. That is why you play games. That is your nature. That is why you eventually smash the cup to bits 💥 or otherwise watch it disintegrate forever because it, by being useful, threatens your facade of ownership and control.

fig. 3: worth1000

The cup is you; it reflects you; it is a lens through which you see yourself; it reassures you, confirming your presence; it says something, being something you can observe. When you move, it moves, and it opens after being closed. You can use it as a vessel for penetration fantasies, keeping you warm and fertile, a fine host for the plague of consciousness, you reptile, you sun scorched transgressor that not only bites the hand that feeds, but buries it deep within a sterile chamber where nothing remains for it as a means of escape except the corpses of others that infringed upon your feeding frenzy.

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