Avenged Sevenfold's "Nightmare" Album Cover

God damn this album is amazing.

My favorite tracks from EPIC to GREAT:

1. Natural Born Killer
2. Nightmare
3. Danger Line
4. God Hates Us
5. Welcome To The Family
6. Save Me
7. Buried Alive
8. Fiction
9. So Far Away
10. Tonight The World Dies
11. Victim

My favorite track on the album, Natural Born Killer, starts off so amazing and ends really strong. I like this track mainly just for it's crazy intro.

My second favorite track, Nightmare, is just crazy and has an epic music video too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bGzWyHbu0

Nightmare sounds even better when I'm listening to it on iTunes. YouTube's audio does not give this song any justice.

This album is the first album of theirs where I liked ALL of the songs on it. The only other band that I listen to that does that is Metallica and I love every song they have ever made.

It feels like after The Rev died they added some more stuff to the songs, it feels a lot stronger than their other albums. Don't get me wrong their other albums have some pretty fucking awesome songs on them but this one is so much better.

I'm just making this post so people know that it isn't down since everyone will go psycho and kill a thousand starving Africans if they think RSBot died.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBNOXYlYswA

Somebody's somebody is going to have a bad day when somebody presses somebody's button.

Asynchronous I/O is probably a good idea
So while it's odd that I am learning the difference between synchronous and asynchronous (non-blocking) I/O it's good that I am learning about it. I guess my inexperience when it comes to client-server programming coupled with the bad private server sources out there gave me the idea that everything must waste time.

That is not true with this, and I'll explain why. Synchronous blocks and asynchronous does not. Because of blocking you would need to update everyone at the same exact time on a different thread to avoid stopping the servers function.

Let's say you initiate a connection, you are then like "hi stream!!! read a byte!" It then stops on that code where you said "read a byte!" and waits for there to be a byte available to read and then resumes. This is blocking.

Let's say you initiate a connection, you are then like "hi stream!!! tell me when you have a byte to read!" It then lets you resume your normal tasks until it has a byte to read. Once it has that byte to be read it will interrupt your current process like Kanye West and call some cool method in your code that will read that precious byte from the stream.

It makes sense for it to only tell me that there's data to be read instead of going through all the sockets and being like "yo doq you got some data yo hook me up son."

Sure my examples and explanation may be a bit amateur but that only makes it apparent that I haven't done my tests yet! I'll know for sure what the fuck I'm talking about once I do some tests to help me wrap my head around (not literally, although that would be cool) this all.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qMHNFOtjYk

This is going to become a daily thing. Not posting videos about hands but just posting cool videos in general.

A commercial for "hands" by Jon Lajoie... is pretty epic.

Wouldn't it be awesome to own a pair of hands of your own?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jbEu9Ngh-U

That is Winterlove in C# lol. I fixed some issues and removed some unused references.

The reason in my previously released (on Fagex) version that it appeared to lag a little is because apparently Stream.ReadByte() blocks and to get around that I just commented it all out. It did nothing. You could keep the code in there by just breaking if there was no data available but whatever, it didn't come to mind when I was fixing it. I tried to fix the "lag" issue earlier by decreasing the processing sleep time to 50ms but when I removed the blocking code and it just skipped around really fast (50ms sleep isn't very long, duh). I just increased it to 500ms, the standard wait time. Yes I know that it should be 600ms but it works fine so whatever.

If you want to download the shitty source to this test go right ahead.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY