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General Discussion / Re: softpedia putting our stuff on their site - what do people think?
« on: 20 Feb 2013, 01:53 »
The player played the game, that's all that should matter.
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General Discussion / Re: Diet weight loss
« on: 17 Feb 2013, 02:19 »
Yes, structured diets are bullshit. No, weight is not entirely genetically determined. Yes, it is a product of both lifestyle and genetics.
What you eat and how active you are influences your weight, the magnitude of that influence is determined by metabolism. It would be ignorant to say that the food you eat and your level of physical activity have no effect on your body. If I chose to eat only Big Macs for the rest of my life delivered to me by my servant boy Jacques directly to my La-Z-Boy which I never leave, would my above-average metabolism keep me from gaining weight and becoming at risk of heart disease? Probably not. I'd also postulate that after a year of that lifestyle, it would be difficult if not impossible to return to my current healthy state and if I did, losing the weight would take much longer than gaining it. As I see it, obesity is much easier to prevent than cure and we as a society should encourage our children to develop healthy eating and exercise habits.
But no, "going on a diet" for a few months won't work.
What you eat and how active you are influences your weight, the magnitude of that influence is determined by metabolism. It would be ignorant to say that the food you eat and your level of physical activity have no effect on your body. If I chose to eat only Big Macs for the rest of my life delivered to me by my servant boy Jacques directly to my La-Z-Boy which I never leave, would my above-average metabolism keep me from gaining weight and becoming at risk of heart disease? Probably not. I'd also postulate that after a year of that lifestyle, it would be difficult if not impossible to return to my current healthy state and if I did, losing the weight would take much longer than gaining it. As I see it, obesity is much easier to prevent than cure and we as a society should encourage our children to develop healthy eating and exercise habits.
But no, "going on a diet" for a few months won't work.
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General Discussion / Re: What's wrong with [your part of] the world? Is the future bright? 2050?
« on: 22 Jan 2013, 03:51 »
While it's easy to cry "Idiocracy", a lot things are in fact getting better, especially in the areas of technology and medicine. Making specific predictions is a fool's game.
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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: I want to make Visual Novel Style conversations
« on: 21 Jan 2013, 21:17 »
Yes, Button.NormalGraphic. You can still create it with one assigned, it matters not.
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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: I want to make Visual Novel Style conversations
« on: 21 Jan 2013, 20:22 »
If instead of making an adventure game with VN-style conversations, you plan on making a full-fledged visual novel, use renpy. Coding a VN in renpy is *literally* trivial.
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Completed Game Announcements / Re: Primordia
« on: 08 Jan 2013, 19:59 »
I thought the FYC thread was only for games no one played?
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The Rumpus Room / Re: Re: Pub Master Quest -The Adventure of 2-
« on: 04 Jan 2013, 04:27 »
Please don't tell him to PM me. I don't think my poor heart could take it.
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The Rumpus Room / Re: Re: Pub Master Quest -The Adventure of 2-
« on: 04 Jan 2013, 00:31 »
Thank you for not crediting me this time.
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General Discussion / Re: My Christmas Gift
« on: 03 Jan 2013, 21:23 »
Don't let the door hit you dramatically on the way out.
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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: AGS-Lua Evangelism
« on: 25 Dec 2012, 04:17 »
I'm sure there's a shorter way to say "I'm a pedantic prick".
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Recruitment / Re: [HELP WANTED] Writer
« on: 20 Dec 2012, 22:08 »
Nope, still time. We're going back to the same place a few times, because we tried to shoot something with no script and no idea what we're doing and... it didn't go well. I am thinking about kidnapping a few of the theater majors from local colleges to act for us or maybe bribe them with free pizza.
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Recruitment / [HELP WANTED] Writer
« on: 14 Dec 2012, 03:13 »
I need someone to write a very simple story in like two days under certain restrictions. Basically, me and a few mates are going on a little holiday this weekend and we're going to make an FMV game, so I figured since everyone likes writing I'd throw this out there so we don't have to think. PM for the full details.
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AGS Games in Production / Re: Kathy Rain - New art style revealed!
« on: 03 Dec 2012, 07:48 »
Prettyyy... Let us know when you're looking for extra voice actors.
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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: AWESOME Indie Game Sale through Nov. 26, 2012 at GOG.com
« on: 25 Nov 2012, 15:53 »I'm cheaper than you. There are plenty of free AGS games to play. I just ignore commercial AGS games.Golly, what an insightful and valuable contribution.
Anyway, sounds like a great deal, antipus.
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General Discussion / Re: One Free Kill
« on: 21 Nov 2012, 20:19 »
Technically, everyone does have one free kill, free from legal ramifications, if you know what I mean...
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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: Hypothetically - supposing you realised your game was crap...
« on: 18 Nov 2012, 14:11 »
Hell, if you can even finish your first game, that's no small accomplishment there.
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Completed Game Announcements / Re: Spaceman in Space
« on: 06 Nov 2012, 21:48 »
You'd love the Crackwell games. Not to mention Astro Galaxy Mega Quest.
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General Discussion / Re: Ethics - How ethical are you and how ethical is everyone else?
« on: 01 Oct 2012, 17:50 »
In Linkin Park We Trust
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General Discussion / Re: Ethics - How ethical are you and how ethical is everyone else?
« on: 01 Oct 2012, 17:18 »
My system of ethics has changed greatly in the last few years, morphing from what was a fairly standard, simplified form of virtue ethics that boiled down to "don't be a dick and be excellent to each other" into something, well, completely indefensible. In short, I completely stopped caring, to the point where my philosophy now takes the form of misanthropic nihilism. I suppose it stems from my deep, seething hatred of every human being, but when faced with an ethical dilemma, my first inclination is just to kill everyone involved. The thing is, I know this is wrong and I don't hope that anyone would share such a twisted view of the world, because they would clearly be terrible person. Which I am. So what I am working on now is attempting to remove these feelings somehow and root myself in a reasonable and not-sociopathic moral theory.
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General Discussion / Re: Minecraft Server - Penitentiary7991
« on: 29 Sep 2012, 20:04 »
I don't know what it is about AGS that attracts socially retarded thirteen-year-olds incapable of expressing themselves coherently, but I originally thought this was spamvertising and considered reporting it. Nope, just turns out it's another kid who has not yet discovered proper punctuation.