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Title: Happy New Year! And Decade!
Post by: TerranRich on Thu 31/12/2009 22:58:11
Those of you who have already celebrated the New Year are now in a different decade than those of us who have not yet celebrated it. :) Congrats!
Title: Re: Happy New Year! And Decade!
Post by: Dualnames on Thu 31/12/2009 22:59:29
Quote from: TerranRich on Thu 31/12/2009 22:58:11
Those of you who have already celebrated the New Year are now in a different decade than those of us who have not yet celebrated it. :) Congrats!

Thank you! Happy New Year to all! I broke the time space continuum!!! :D
Title: Re: Happy New Year! And Decade!
Post by: Atelier on Thu 31/12/2009 23:02:28
May this decade bring us prosperity, more grants for global warming research, and space elevators. Happy new year! (To everybody who's one year ahead of me too! :D)
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Post by: Danman on Fri 01/01/2010 00:50:11
Happy new year to all too  :) !! But i am 3 hours late here  :D . And to anyone that's on the other side of the world see you next year.  ;D .
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Post by: Domino on Fri 01/01/2010 01:16:11
HAPPY NEW YEAR AGS FORUMS
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Post by: Tuomas on Fri 01/01/2010 02:31:50
Have a new year.
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Post by: poc301 on Fri 01/01/2010 03:02:49
Happy New Year Everyone!

Tee minus 2 hours and counting here.  Our friends are late, those bastards. :)

-Bill
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Post by: IndieBoy on Fri 01/01/2010 03:51:24
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Post by: rharpe on Fri 01/01/2010 04:52:09
Out with the old and in with the new, may God bless us all, that our resolutions become true!

Happy New 2010 year everyone!
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Post by: Bulbapuck on Fri 01/01/2010 05:02:52
Happy new year everyone ;D (6 hours late where I am, but still)

I have a feeling 2010 will be amazing
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Post by: Layabout on Fri 01/01/2010 06:26:30
Speaking from the future, you will find the future to be very tiring.
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Post by: SSH on Fri 01/01/2010 10:31:49
Pedants will of course point out that the new decade doesn't start until 2011. :)

I'm sure we've had this debate before, but basically its based on AD meaning "of our Lord" (it means this whether you're a Christian or not) and therefore year numbers are ordinal numbers, of which the first number is "first" and not "zeroth". Therefore the first decade AD began in the year 1 and ended at the end of year 10 and the second decade went 11-20 etc. Therefore the third millenium goes 2001-3000 and this decade runs 2001-2010.

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Post by: Crimson Wizard on Fri 01/01/2010 15:14:53
Quote from: SSH on Fri 01/01/2010 10:31:49
Pedants will of course point out that the new decade doesn't start until 2011. :)

.... Therefore the third millenium goes 2001-3000 and this decade runs 2001-2010.
Actually that's true.

But 2010 sounds so cool. I remember when I was a child I was wondering, will I live to 2000? 2010 seem too far away to even question. :)
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Post by: Chicky on Fri 01/01/2010 15:52:04
I plan to quit smoking this year  :-X
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Post by: Scarab on Fri 01/01/2010 16:23:24
Quote from: SSH on Fri 01/01/2010 10:31:49
Pedants will of course point out that the new decade doesn't start until 2011. :)

I'm sure we've had this debate before, but basically its based on AD meaning "of our Lord" (it means this whether you're a Christian or not) and therefore year numbers are ordinal numbers, of which the first number is "first" and not "zeroth". Therefore the first decade AD began in the year 1 and ended at the end of year 10 and the second decade went 11-20 etc. Therefore the third millennium goes 2001-3000 and this decade runs 2001-2010.



Starting in year one and not year zero makes logical sense if the bc/ad system was made by people who lived at this time, although if my memory has not failed me, this year system came into use somewhere in the realm of 500 years later. (Referring, of course, to the time I heard/read this fact. I was not there 1500 years ago ;))

Also, if you follow the pattern from the back (i.e. counting up through the BC's)then this would be 0 BC, 0 years before Christ, making the next year 'year one'.

Furthermore, AFAIK, the majority of historians agree that the actual birth of Christ was at least a few years out of kilter with the system, so being pedantic here is hypocritical because the figure is only approximate anyway.

For this reason, I choose to celebrate the new decade on the 'zeroth', and also because this is the most climatic year, for you get to see the number in the tens column roll over,  :) or as we saw last decade, the hundreds. :D

So, AGS Community; Happy New Decade!
Title: Re: Happy New Year! And Decade!
Post by: SSH on Fri 01/01/2010 16:29:31
But there's no such word of zeroth whether it is accurate or started later or not.

Of course, everyone goes by decades starting when the 9 rolls over to a zero in reality so its a pointless discussion, rather like angels on a pinhead.

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Post by: Darth Mandarb on Fri 01/01/2010 16:58:00
I made my last New Year's Resolution in 2000. 

It was, "I resolve to make no more New Year's Resolutions".

I'm proud to say I've not broken the resolution once.

Last night I was playing Unchartered and didn't even realize twenty-ten had begun. 

Just another day, just another new year's eve spent alone...
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Post by: Snake on Sat 02/01/2010 03:38:40
Oh, man, Darth, you can come live with my wife and I (no wonder you're so bitter).

Happy new year everyone.

ps
just kidding, Darth old boy ;)
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Post by: Pinback on Sat 02/01/2010 05:49:40
I like spending NYE alone, it's very relaxing:D
Spent the night making a robot from cardboard and wooden skewers! Ok, that sounds lamer than it was.
Happy new years all.
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Post by: Ryan Timothy B on Sat 02/01/2010 06:02:30
And I made my website template into html/CSS form using notepad. :)
It's just another day in the big ol' meat grinder.  May as well do something you enjoy instead of pretending that this one day is different. ;D
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Post by: Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens on Sat 02/01/2010 10:40:46
I worked on a game, figuring that if I did so it would bode well for the year.


I'm not superstitious.
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Post by: miguel on Sat 02/01/2010 13:09:36
For the following year I wish I can cut down the nasty habit of spending long hours playing KingsAge, therefore not spending long hours with AGS...

I also want to make a decent game with scanned drawings but that's what I say every year!

Happy new year to everybody!
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Post by: qptain Nemo on Sat 02/01/2010 13:35:31
Happy New Year, agsers! I love you all  :D
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Post by: voh on Tue 05/01/2010 12:21:56
Late to the party, but I've had to recuperate from the NYE parties I went to - which, by the way, were totally worth it. Good people, great fun, good start of the new year :)

Happy new year, y'all!

Looking forward to seeing some of those projects I've been reading/salivating about for so long either be released or drop more promo material the coming 12 months :)
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Post by: Haddas on Wed 06/01/2010 01:13:15
New years eve was fun. Spent it socializing with other people and having a great time.
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Post by: LimpingFish on Wed 06/01/2010 01:50:07
I did a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

Everything was nice and relaxed and nobody fell over.

Happy 2010! \o/
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Post by: on Wed 06/01/2010 16:22:39
10 years of this! :o

;D

Here's to 10 more!  ::)

Happy new year!

QuoteIt's just another day in the big ol' meat grinder.  May as well do something you enjoy instead of pretending that this one day is different.

Yep! I spent new years eve with friends whilst also worrying about getting the latest UFO Watch (http://www.screen7.co.uk/ufo/) done...and after 3 unsucessful attempts through the day it finally processed at about 11.40pm, just before the new year :D But writing a description at that time after playing Ring of fire (a drinking game) was a problem. I practically passed out by 11.58pm... Oh, and then we played the piano and sang very loudly into the early hours of the morning. Then we got a cab, my mate got his finger trapped in the door, went home to bed... Tried to not let it be a day any different to others but it most certainly was!
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Post by: Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens on Wed 06/01/2010 16:44:23
Entertaining and silly.  Make UFO Watch episodes more often, mods.
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Post by: fred on Wed 06/01/2010 16:57:24
Happy New Year and Decade people!
May it bring more games and more good times!
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Post by: Babar on Wed 06/01/2010 17:21:19
I spent New Years Eve in IRC. And in a noisy, irritating and smokey party. But mostly in IRC :P


Happy 2010, everyone.
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Post by: Ubel on Wed 06/01/2010 22:38:45
I spent new years eve running around somewhat intoxicated and without clothes. Good times. Happy 2010!
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Post by: Wonkyth on Thu 07/01/2010 13:05:28
I spent it eating olie bolla!
LOTS OF IT!
Yay for the end of last year!
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Post by: voh on Thu 07/01/2010 13:43:37
Oliebollen and appelbeignets for the win, wonkyth!

Also, I totally met a cute girl. So to those saying "it's a regular day", how's that for it not being a standard day? :P
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Post by: Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens on Thu 07/01/2010 13:47:18
Is there a girl shortage where you live, voh?  Or just cute ones?
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Post by: voh on Thu 07/01/2010 14:19:00
Haha, nah, but there is a shortage of cute girls I manage to talk to without breaking out in teh sweats. I am a huge nerd/dork/geek, after all.

Oh, and I forgot one little detail.

At one point I noticed she has ScummVM on her phone. She likes p&c adventure games. There's a shortage of adventure-game loving cute girls everywhere, I assume :p
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Post by: Haddas on Thu 07/01/2010 22:15:48
Quote from: voh on Thu 07/01/2010 14:19:00
Haha, nah, but there is a shortage of cute girls I manage to talk to without breaking out in teh sweats. I am a huge nerd/dork/geek, after all.

Oh, and I forgot one little detail.

At one point I noticed she has ScummVM on her phone. She likes p&c adventure games. There's a shortage of adventure-game loving cute girls everywhere, I assume :p

Marry her this instant. Don't ask questions, just do it. TRUST ME ON THIS
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Post by: voh on Thu 07/01/2010 23:07:39
Will do!
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Post by: Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens on Fri 08/01/2010 04:33:33
She has ScummVM?  Well well well well well...

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DOIN.
Title: Re: Happy New Year! And Decade!
Post by: TerranRich on Fri 08/01/2010 16:16:15
People who say "It's just a regular, ordinary day" are usually shut-in pricks who are miserable in social gatherings and don't like to celebrate anything, let alone a brand new year. Stay at home, I say. ;)