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aroc91 t1_jcub0f5 wrote

I'm glad Line Rider is still around. I remember dicking around with it on school computers around '07.

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TiborUdvari OP t1_jcuc9ex wrote

Huge flash game classic. That's also about when Credit Suisse stocks started going down.

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JanB1 t1_jcv0y3s wrote

News flash: UBS is taking over all of CS. CS will be no more.

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TiborUdvari OP t1_jcv38zw wrote

I know, I'm going to change the default bank. I'm thinking maybe bank of japan next? Not sure what's next. ( You can choose any stock btw )

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jab136 t1_jcvscdb wrote

News flash, UBS gonna crater in the morning because the shareholder vote on buying credit suisse was skipped entirely.

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JanB1 t1_jcxez83 wrote

Monday 20.03. 09:00 MET: Swiss stock market opens, UBSG opens at 15.64

09:35 MET: Over 7 million shares have been traded already and over 5'000 trades have gone through. The value per share dropped by more than 14%, lowest price was at 14.38.

10:15 MET: Over 17 million shares traded, spread over more than 13'000 trades. The value per share has gone up to 15.64 again.

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Joloxsa_Xenax t1_jcufrpl wrote

There is a community whose mod the game to make it easier to make tracks off of songs

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TiborUdvari OP t1_jcujnna wrote

Do you know what it's called / how it works? I'd love to do a post-mortem Credit Suisse slide with some gloomy tunes. I did a quick search but couldn't figure it out.

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Joloxsa_Xenax t1_jcukc4s wrote

The one I use is line rider advanced. There is a newer come called community edition which I haven't played around too much but there there is some nice updates. It works by going into the options and adding an mp3 that it'll convert. Next you press play in the game and it plays in sync with the rider. YouTube has plenty of tracks and tutorials

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TiborUdvari OP t1_jcumqx1 wrote

AMAZING. Is it compatible with the web version data? That way I'm sure I can hook everything up.

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Joloxsa_Xenax t1_jcun455 wrote

I don't think so, this is just a mod for the classic web version. In your case I think you'd have to edit the music over it

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Buschandtar t1_jcvzx58 wrote

Lol I remember in 2007 our 11th grade English class had to make a group video of us reenacting a play. We had 12 angry men and the 4 of us took turns reading lines in the same seat and one of the guys edited it together. It was total shit. Two days later he shows up to class and we play the video to find that he inserted an 8 minute line rider clip at the beginning of the video. Teacher wasn't pleased, but the class, and specifically our group, found it hilarious.

Edit: after thinking about this some more, I remembered we were eating Popeyes during the entire video

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redabishai t1_jcvbs62 wrote

Hrmmm ... 2007 u say?

Wonder what happened the next year...

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sharperspoon t1_jcvmqx1 wrote

Runescape went downhill. I can't think of any other significant event.

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RemovedByGallowboob t1_jcu96q3 wrote

I love this. I play with line rider all the time at work, now I have a way to watch the world burn while I do it.

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TiborUdvari OP t1_jcua9bx wrote

Might as well have some fun while the world is going downhill! Ba dum tss

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TiborUdvari OP t1_jcu1olm wrote

It's a bookmarklet on the Line Rider game which adds stock market charts in the background., so you can turn the banking crisis into a game. Obviously it's meant as a little bit of a joke, I thought that this should exist, and it's fun because it only works on stocks that are going down. You can easily choose Silicon Valley Bank, Credit Suisse an whatever bank is going to crash next week etc. There are two videos on the homepage that show how to use it.

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TiborUdvari OP t1_jcufdvp wrote

Just in: Credit Suisse is getting bought up by UBS tomorrow so it effectively went down the cliff. What bank should I add next as the default?

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moldy912 t1_jcuwgv2 wrote

Would have been nice if it would draw the slope for you. This is just adding the graph as a background…

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TiborUdvari OP t1_jcuwso6 wrote

I tried that at the beginning, but it was too choppy for the game. The rider would just directly face plant because of the mini edges. This way you wan draw it so it actually works as well.

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moldy912 t1_jcux509 wrote

Yeah I mean if it’s possible, you could definitely pass the curve through a filter or smoothing function or transform it into a Bézier curve.

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TiborUdvari OP t1_jcuynqp wrote

Also thought about that next, but was worried that I might blow my API key limits. Set up a server to get the live data, caching etc. Crédit Suisse was crashing way faster that that. This way you can go ahead and get any stock ticket in the background. Just use the little 📈 button in the corner to activate the stock interaction.

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Tm1337 t1_jcvi2kc wrote

That doesn't make sense. If you already have the graph it's simple to somehow smooth it in javascript without any API call.

My first try would be a moving average, which is really simple to implement and adjust.

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TiborUdvari OP t1_jcvlsud wrote

I don't have the data for the graph, it's an embed. I tried the API way at the beginning, but changed direction to this.

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