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Try running "Barely Floating.exe --setup" and changing the settings.

As said, the settings literally do nothing. The game is in 1280x720 res and there's really no scaling that -- but it's the same renderer still, so what's the actual issue? Any modern computer should be able to handle that resolution...

Thanks Ishmael. That page is updated manually by me when I have the time. Yesterday I wasn't at home at all, so didn't update it until...just now. So I'm not worried about that page particularly, but definitely the others if they're staying cached!

Ah, alright, I didn't realise. So that explains a part of it :p But it does take a few tries for me to get the new version, noticed this a few days back when other people were looking at newer stats than me.

Strange, that's a version from about a week ago!

The site's being a bit quirky for me on Chrome. It seems to cache way too much, and only randomly actually loads a new page. Been stuck on the previous day's stats on several occasions, for example, and then it eventually decides to refresh the page properly when I go look at it for the nth time.

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You're a bunch of imcompetent morons.

I'm glad the cool people dropped out of this circus.

And to clarify, I did not say only the cool people.

I had no problems tabbing between the AGS client, the awards channel in an IRC client AND the #ags channel last year, so that might be why I still fail to see the point of this second chat box thing complicating things.

If you ask me, I'd go back to the IRC-channel only ceremony. All this visual stuff is just a bonus. And while it is nice and all should remain just a bonus so that you can actually enjoy the show through an IRC client just like in the past. Hence, I don't like the fuss about lobby rooms or whatnot. Even the characters walking around the room in front of the stage is a bit of an extra.

No need to reinvent the wheel, just fix the few quirks that were discovered last year, ie. the clapping, possibly have the award in question shown on the stage screen, etc. And you'll have more than enough time to get it working right and tested rather than having to spend ages figuring out implementations and then run out of time polishing it.

Also maybe there doesn't need to be a lobby in the game but what if someone took the source and created a 1 room game that contain the lobby. This way both games can run in the background and you wont miss anything. It's full proof

That's already been sort of done. It's called an IRC client.

Yes, I meant the "*clap*" texts appearing the IRC channel. Move that to the meta channel or wherever.

As for all this lobby talk. In the past it's been two channels, #ags was for general chat all times, ie. a lobby, and the awards channel followed the pattern -- which I think is good, should not be changed. It's a tradition and stuff after all. And it would work just as fine as it worked last year. No need to reinvent the wheel here I think.

Get rid of the clapping. If you must do it have the client PM the clap calls to the server instead of having them flood the channel. But ideally I'd prefer just removing it altogether.

My intention here is not to insult anyone, but if me practicing my freedom of thought and speech is a problem to someone they can go fuck themselves.

I quite agree with ddq's notion here. The whole thing seems to be running out of control, so you people need to pull it together before all goes to pot. Of course this is from an outsider's point of view, but that can't be a good sign, no? This thing started out with many good merits and a promise to go far...

Ok, so, you thought we need a new server and started working on that enthusiactically, with a good group in good spirits and all hyped up about it keeping it under wraps. Then, you unveil it to have it all blow apart.

At the point of unveiling the whole thing another dozen of people hitch a ride on the wagon. Your dozen of good games for a low price is indeed becoming a bargain bin of shit, as ddq nicely phrased it, because the more people are in the less I, for one, trust in the quality of individual games in the pack. Partially because I have less faith in some developers' ability to produce high enough quality, and partially because the "I wasn't invited but I demand to be part of this!" attitude just does not sit with me at all. I believe there was a well thought out reasoning behind the original group of bakers being selected, and this free for all, I would assume, competely wrecks that reasoning. One down.

Then it turns out the very cause you're raising money for doesn't need the money, and nobody bothered to verify this beforehand, and no-one has a backup plan for such a case. Another down.

So, options are discussed, and everyone with a less than "I want money because money money money" obvious claim for the funds jumps in wanting a share. The discussion is good, but in my opinion direly misplaced; this should have been thought out beforehand, or there should be some sort of a solid ground to go from. "Let's do something for the good of the community" isn't such, especially with charity coming into the picture.

Let's say charity is picked, what then?

I'm not saying charity is a bad idea. There are so many charities and all over the world that you theoretically could give the money to, but what would be the point?

Of course there's the community vs. gamers all around aspect, depending on who is the final target audience of the sale, etc. But, I still think it should be something to do with the community. I don't think a very large percentage of us are cancer patients. And if we get on that, an evenly valid claim would be mine to donate it to the European Blind Union or some such affiliated party.

No. I think it should be something closer to the whole community. For example, I would guess there are a lot of young people around still, or a lot of people who know young people. How about a youth mental health charity for example? I can't throw any international names off the top of my head but I am sure you get the picture. Something the community more or less might even, by a far shot, benefit from in the end. And while at it, before anyone jumps on that I'm opposed to giving it to church or somesuch, handing out boring as hell fairy tale books to hungry kids in earthquake zones isn't helping much.

Sure, the idea is nice, but do keep it together to the end. There are people who can run this sort of an endeavour, and it'd indeed be for the good of us all if done right, but the direction it seems to be taking right now is not very promising in my opinion.

EDIT: Ofcourse, I am not opposed to the server admin/deputy guy idea, but raising money just for that seems a bit silly. I am indifferent about the porting, but I don't see why that can't be done without money, even if it does take some more time. But that is just me not having such passion towards the subject.

It is my conclusion that you all are nuts. Some in different ways than others, but still.

Don't forget to budget in my consulting costs. Invoice will be in the mail momentarily.

I can connect to other servers just fine, it's the AGS one that seems to not like being connected to. Same issues Crimson listed. Although when I do get connected it works fine.

Although this might well be issues with the main minecraft authentication server, seeing the last point here...

The can't spawn under small trees, there's no physical room for it.

Hate to be the local greenpeace but I'd like to bring attention to the fact that if you decide to cut down an entire forest right next to a growing settlement would be very nice if you could bother replanting it instead of leaving an open plain for monsters to spawn on aplently. And the birch trees too k plox?

Speaking of a lot of page loads, hello.

What buggers me is that it asks for a password and supposed a username but then gives me completely different random FTP details which are impossible to remember and apparently to remember. I like remembering things. Can this be fixed or am I stuck an unsatisfied customer who's happy to have a site and can't complain about that aspect?

We shall see if I can squeeze another nine or so hours out of this somewhat busy week of mine for the occasion...

I'll be pretty much busy up to the 17th of july, so before that is a no-go.

Or I could always conjure up another nine hours one room mess.

If he had gotten to set up a number of large buildings downtown NY with demolition charges and managed to fly two planes in to trigger those I'm sure he's got something rigged for this.

Yes.

A real nice blast from the past and cool new stuffs in one package.

And if the cloud is really supposed to close the application, then I would add a tool tip that says that.

No need really, any application closes if you double click the icon in the top left. But I do agree on the confirmation if you have downloads going.

On the subject of distribution, I'd prefer a zip to a rar since zips are more universally openable still as far as I've understood, and that makes rars a chore for some, but it doesn't go the other way. And I don't suppose filesize is an issue anymore, as the compression difference is not that huge. Or am I completely missing something here?