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Site Feedback / Re: Contribution: Simple script to visualize monthly expenses

« on: April 13, 2018, 02:20:07 am »

It is for mutual protection. Basically it is because you did not ask and/or receive permission to use the site name from the owners, the project was not created by direction or sanction from vgcollect owners, etc. And such permission can only come from those on this site who own the branding itself, an admin like myself or other user cannot grant this ability. Also think of it this way, say that someone uses that to do harm in some way. Having our name on something that is not ours gives us a lot of trouble.

So the use of the name "VGCollect" in the titles should be something else, perhaps VGC. In your readme and any help pages there should be a disclaimer that the project is not affiliated with VGCollect in any way and then you would need to state your claim to it. I am not saying that you can't use the word VGCollect anywhere in the script or on the github pages, just that it should not be in the title.

If you wish to use it in the title, you need permission from the site owner to use our branding.

Anyways, it looks like a cool thing you wrote, glad to see people making things like this.

Now I get the point, but I don't grasp how the script can cause harm in any way, it just reads a file without interacting with the website. Nonetheless, I followed your recommention to change the name to "vgc" and add a disclamer.

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Site Feedback / Re: Contribution: Simple script to visualize monthly expenses

« on: April 10, 2018, 05:46:05 pm »

Still get an error related to this conversion. Sorry I post here and not in github issues. Probably I should create a dummy github account and post to hobby projects there so my colleagues don't read my vg collecting adventures .

That's weird, I modified the script, so now if it fails reading the price it will prompt which row is the one causing trouble and it will be ignored. This will provide some hints about what the error is, maybe there are some characters in the price field. Don't worry about open an issue in Github 

I recommend that you do not use the word "vgcollect" in the name of your project.

I used it because the script is for VGCollect... This is a very small, open source project. Could you please elaborate why should I remove "vgcollect" from the repository?

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Site Feedback / Re: Contribution: Simple script to visualize monthly expenses

« on: April 09, 2018, 02:35:36 pm »

It is fixed now. The script had trouble because of decimals using the comma as separator instead of a dot. I do not have macOS so I could not try it on that. 

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Site Feedback / Contribution: Simple script to visualize monthly expenses

« on: April 07, 2018, 06:36:41 am »

Hello all, I was tired of manually calculating my monthly expenses with excel sheets, so I made a simple python script to do it automatically from my collection CSV file.

The script reads the collection CSV file and plots a graph with information about the monthly expenses such as expenditure per month, mean monthly expenditure  and total expenditure of the collection. I thought that maybe some of you find this useful as well. Note: the script only works if you have specified the purchase date and price of every item. Now it just ignores items with missing purchase date or price (and warns about those).

Here is a picture:


The code and instructions are here: https://github.com/deuxbot/vgc-monthly-expenses.

PD: I was not sure where to post this, as it really doesn't fit well on any forum section.

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Classic Video Games / Re: The top 5 games that defined your childhood

« on: July 03, 2016, 10:54:03 am »

Chronological order by played. I was a child in the 00s.

Super Mario Bros (NES). My cousin borrowme his NES and the first contact I have with videogames was Super Mario Bros. I don't remeber much of it, but I guess It was fun as hell because even my parents played it. I got the SNES later for a couple of months, but I didn't play any remarkable games.
Age of Empires (PC). The game that got me into PC gaming. My father bought a PC for job purposes. I grew up playing solid tittles as Unreal Tournament, Quake II, Starcraft, Pharaoh, Civilization III, but man, I played Age of Empires a hell of a lot. The gameplay was extremely fun, and it was so difficult for me as a child that the game last me months. Then my parents bought me the Collectors Edition with AoE 1 & 2 and the expanssions. I remeber studying the booklet with the trades of each civilization while I was in the beach. I probably played AoE II the whole year.
Final Fantasy VIII (PS1). I got the PS1 at the end of its life cycle, and I had troubled finding games in the local stores. FF8 is the game that bough me into RPGs and I totally love it (I didn't play FF7) I spend more than 100 hours and the playtime counter turned red. Great story, interesting characters, fun combat system, amazing BSO, I learnt what grinding was... ¡and I enjoy it! After playing this game, most of the others games seemed to lack depth.
Fable (Xbox). While all my friends were bragging about his PS2 and talking shit about the big black box, I ask my parents for the latter in christmas. Most of my console gaming memories are attached to it. The graphics were freaking awesome and buying was the right choice, even though my friends kinda despised me for that. Fable was the 3rd game I had. I love the epicness, the music, the humor... and the charming atmosphere. Although it felt incomplete. Then The Lost Chapters expanssion came out and playing again with all tied up was very satisfying. I still have the Anniversary Edition in my backllog, but it seems like they remove the cartoony design that characterizes it.
Gothic II (PC). For my, this is the best game of the best saga of RPGs (1, 2, & 3). A total hidden gem. The world seems perfectly tailored and the open world is amazing. I was totally sucked into its atmosphere... The character developement is challenging but rewarding. You can easily die fighting the first monsters and the are no annoying level scaling. This game was able to make me feel like I was the character of the game, and I think that is the biggest achievement for any RPG.

I was a PC and Xbox child.

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News / Re: VGC's 5th Birthday Contest!

« on: January 23, 2016, 02:37:44 am »

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VGCollect for Android / Re: Starting Up Development Again on the Android Appt

« on: January 23, 2016, 02:15:35 am »

Nice to hear . I think that with the wish list functionality many people will be grateful.