[CODE GOLF] Challenge #1 - ASCII Amogus

Ravage · 2023-11-23T14:50:05+01:00

Ok, guys! I've decided to see if this forum will be liking the idea of me giving you Code Golf challenges every so often! We've got to start somewhere, so......

Varrience

Ravage in any console...? including applab or gamelab or both or can i bump up and use polyfills that actually exist in es5? read and got confused.... then the additional statement made it more confusing

Ravage

Varrience I said in the top, it has to be in a GameLab or AppLab console. Which means, ES5, and only the CDO approved methods. No external JS, I see you coming, you...

In short: No polyfills.

Varrience

Ravage so... if i were say to perhaps fill in those missing pollyfills it wouldn't count hypothetically speaking oh well that sucks

Ravage

Varrience Depends on how you plan to "fill them in"
If the "filling in" is part of your console code and counts as chars, then sure

EDIT: just show me what you mean by giving me your code, you can make it a private discussion if you want, but I can't really understand what you're trying to do just by this sort of communication.

Varrience

Ravage what about forging storage requests? that is a CDO method.... and it's nothing ominous at all totally not planning on using a storage API i made to forge a key or something lmao

Ravage

Varrience If I pay you 100 coins will you stop pestering me? Nah, jk, I'm loving this so far.

OF COURSE YOU CAN'T DO THAT, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING

In all seriousness * ahum *, if you decided to do that, it would not break the rules of the contest, but it would definitely ruin the point of it. I already have prepared some other neat challenges, all of which could be easily destroyed by startWebRequest() or whatever godforsaken thing you're thinking of using. Thus, in the spirit of keeping at least some fun, that's a big no-no. And we all do seem to be having fun with this... why disturb that!

Do I sound like Grandpa yet? I think I'm sounding like Grandpa now.

Varrience

Ravage i fixed up the package a while ago so i can sync projects however i want it's super powerful and i was planning on unveiling it at some point 🤷‍♂️ so now's a good a time as any

Ravage

Varrience Could you show me? I'm curious now.

Varrience

Ravage https://replit.com/@Varrience/firefly#index.js firefly

Ravage

Varrience HA! That would only do it for one project, right? So if I were to use your getKeyValue("a", console.log) script on any other project... it wouldn't work!

Unless I'm wrong, but it's still a no-no.
And why is your username "Jacob Butler"

Varrience

Ravage meh just an alias, should i change it? i mean it's in the user.... and it's not like the account is gonna last long either not like i plan on keeping it

Ravage

Varrience Change it to "Varrience," probably would help people trying to find your replit page...
And you didn't answer to what I said: it would only work for 1 project!

Varrience

Ravage how do i change my user again? i randomly set that shit up the first time give me a sec

Ravage

Varrience Never used Replit, wouldn't know...

You still didn't Answer My Question....
Also how did we get to talking about this holy dam it's been 1 hour

Found this: https://ask.replit.com/t/can-i-change-my-replit-username/14786

Varrience

Ravage oh sorry bout that does it have to work for both applab or gamelab or just one?
(that determines the type of request i do next)

Ravage

Varrience Only one.
Also, when do you say I should post my second challenge? I got the draft all saved up. It wouldn't be a great idea to make people drop this one so quickly, so...

Varrience

Ravage how long was this planned for? did you just get bored and write up a whole bunch of challenges? maybe after this one ends.... i won't be 2 challenges at once i do want a shot of winning after all

Ravage

Varrience This one was initially planned for 5 days, but it seems that you all are losing steam (not you, you're coming up with lots of weird ideas). I didn't "get bored and write up a whole bunch," it's just that I have this short list of 3 more that seem possible, and which I add onto when I have a decent and original idea.
Do keep in mind that I have to test each idea out beforehand to make sure that there is some challenge to it, or the winning answer could be very well 500 characters of straightforward, readable code, and who wants that, am I right? For example, for this one, I made sure that there were several layers of thought that could be applied to the challenge, thus ensuring more entertainment for everyone, and allowing us all to see different methods (i.e. it was clever of you to use 2 dots in order to avoid a parentheses!).

And to win, you have to beat 62 characters... get typing...

Varrience

Ravage sooo another question.... if you don't mind but it can be injected in the console to produce output? like it doesn't need the run button or it does? because if it doesn't i can beat you fair and square

// 59
a="\n0011110\n0010010\n";a+"1110111\n1010101\n1010111\n1110010"+a

"by have a line that can go into the console" i think i win

Ravage

Varrience The point was indeed to make something that went into the console (no run button needed) and outputted the holy AMOGUS: you got me beat... that is a pretty boring solution though. Since I'm no longer at the top, this is what I had:

("00"+(0x3C4BBD5AFC8F12).toString(2)).match(/.{7}/g).join("\n")
Or, if you like formatting (not my original answer):
("00"+(0x3C4BBD5AFC8F12).toString(2)).replace(/(.{7})/g, "\n$1")

I stepped down from 63 to 62 characters by turning decimal into hex.

Next time, I'll have to really inspect every route... and I think you're going to have a hard time doing this sort of thing for the challenge I have planned next! All in fun spirit, of course, no hard feelings!

Varrience

Ravage lmao if it wasn't i was fully prepped to make the smallest domain possible storing output and putting it into a key using getURLPath()[2] which could be lower than the solution i have but surely i wouldn't be petty enough to do that

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