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Well see that's the double standard, especially in the USA.

Nudity is bad, but violent death is OK.

People flipped out when that whole Janet Jackson/Super Bowl fiasco...

Woopie, we saw an old black ladies boob...

I view "bad" words as just words, there is no right or wrong in them... After all, why is the word shit wrong, but calling the same thing (either verb or noun) poop, poo, or crap okay? Why is peeing, or weeing fine, but pissing bad?

Fuck, which has sexual connotations depending on the usage (it is quite the versitle word, no) is the only word I censor myself with, and only if it's used in the sexual meaning.

My daughter who is 8, knows the words, because both my wife and I use those words. She also understands that those words are "adult words" which only adults can use. She also understands that using those words around other adults that aren't us (she is allowed in certain occasions, such as singing along to the Bloodhound Gang's song Fire Water Burn) will give her dirty looks and possibly punishment.

What I don't really like is her watching overly violent movies, and openly sexual movies (sexual humor and the like). Being military, I've witnessed some horrific violence first hand. She doesn't need to see it at 8 years old, she also has an idea of what sex is, she knows about the birds and the bees (her baby brother being made helped push that issue into the light) but I really don't want her watching anything with blatant sexual tones in it. Same reason she isn't allowed to play any games that have a M rating.

Why do I censor my daughter like this? Simple, she isn't ready for it. About 6 months ago we were going to watch some gorey movie. She wanted to watch, we said no... she insisted, we said no, she started to become annoying and whiney, so we said fine, but we are not responsible for whatever...

She watched the movie, then for the next week didn't want to go to bed by herself, wanted to sleep with us, wanted to keep her bedroom light on, or her television on. To which we said no, we told you, you didn't listen, now live with the concequences. By this I know she isn't ready to deal with mature themes and ultraviolence. Maybe in a year or two...

However on the topic of the stickers... I view them as I view Television, Video Game, and Movie ratings, devices to help parents make educated decisions on what they allow their children to have and use (listen, watch, or play). I'd much rather have to have a sticker on my uncensored album, than no sticker on a censored album.

Actually I loved the longest journey, and I'm waiting for Dreamfall to arrive in the mail (the mail system is so wonky, I can get things to me in 3 days, and others take months, no rhyme or reason for any of it).

AGA get yourself a contracting job on the nearest US military base...

All the MD you can drink...

Every week I buy 2 cases (48 cans) and I buy a 20oz bottle every day at lunch.

Alynn who is currently drinking MD in the UK

I hate making a post for this... but...

Some of you may remember before I left for Iraq, that I released a trailer for the unfortunately beyond my control deleted game Sky Tower Rescue. I was wondering, by some off chance that one of you may have it floating around on your hard drive.

I'd like to have it back . Just another thing to add to my website, and maybe with enough prodding from people I may try to start it again (I'd have to find the damn RTP files again though).

Anyone if anyone has Skytower Rescue could you gimme a link or something, I kinda wanna see it again (and if it was as good as I thought it was when I released it).

Thanks

Well, CJ, how difficult would it be to have a seperate folder like ags.gfx folder, the files are saved in the folders within that directly corrispond with the sprite manager folders.

Now each file is named it's corrisponding number 1.png 2.png... so on and so forth.

AGS can still take all those files and incorperate it into it's executable, but when compiling the game it looks for a checkbox (Use external graphics source), if checked looks for the ags.gfx folder and pulls the graphics from there.

So you can keep the current setup for single users but have that option available, so if a team was working on graphics, they just need to keep up to date on the ags.gfx folder to keep their sprites up to date.

Sooo... after all this is said and done, and we finally have everything in place, let's make a community game based off the whole area and we'll call it

CHRISTOPIA: TEH(sic) MOVIE

I hit something, yes? No?

Really I'd just ask everyone to adhere to the Three Golden Rules when posting -- before you hit that "Post" button, just ask yourself whether your post is really worth reading.

In other words CJ just said, Alynn quit posting, you have no business in civilized society, let alone in the AGS forums (which is more civlized than pretty much all other internet communities).

Because nobody reads what I post...

Damn I did it again didn't I?

Oh and MashPotato, the only thing I've actually ever released was a trailer for a game that I actually had full intentions on completing... Until I went on a year long stint in the desert, and when I came back, my wife didn't update my virus scanner at all (I knew I should have set it on auto update) and never ran a scan (ditto). So I had to format my whole computer, destroying that game in the process (Alynn now wonders if anyone remembered Sky Tower Rescue's trailer, and if by chance they still have it because if anything I'd like to see my work again)..

In other words... I haven't done crap in the community really either... other than snide remarks, and smart ass comments.

One thing I love about this community is that just because your graphics are excellent, they won't immedately trash the game... They look at the whole picture and not just "are the gfx uber leet?". Because the game is free, it's not like I paid my hard earned money for this.

Because while I'm good at storylines, coding, and puzzle making, I'm no artist (pixel artist yeah I can do that kinda).

Trying to make a paid version of AGS, then people would expect more out of the games made on it (because if AGS was pay, most likely the people that paid for it would want to get their money back). Then people would expect more... And my game could have the best storyline, and be the greatest game ever, but because it's graphics arent' picture quality nobody would play.

NOW that being said... 1024X768??? *Shudder* I have to work my tail off to fill up 320X240.... That takes me DAYS to draw (to my liking)

I can sing I can dance, after all miss this is france...

No wait that's from a movie...

Yes Venus you can have all those things... but they are on the seedier side of the island, where they just found the odd hatch buried in the dirt... Besides, it was a female that wanted the brothel to begin with...

Also I propose a law that nothing can be bought by anyone without first sending the reciever to talk to a few other people, possible to gain small items and clues that must be used  to fashion some sort of trade item, which can then be used to trade for whatever the particular piece of merchandise might be.

So the ones that pay more money will get shown more often... so... it seems that we will have streaming porn 24 hours a day.

Good Idea: Baking a Jello Cake
Bad Idea: Baking Jello

Good Idea: Diving into the lake on a hot day
Bad Idea: Diving into the lake on a frozen day

Good Idea: Driving your car to work
Bad Idea: Work while driving your car

Good Idea: Meeting new friends.
Bad Idea: Beating new friends.

Good Idea: Shaking someone's hand when you meet them.
Bad Idea: Meeting someone's hand when you shake them.

(BTW Animaniacs was the best cartoon ever, and I can't remember which of the above I still remember from that show and which ones are mine)

I still want to know since I'm like the High Commander of His Royal Army can I not hold other positions in government...

I still want to head up the Ministry of Drinking Way too Much Coffee

I thought this had something to do with a water closet...

There used to be a flashlight plugin that would do this... not sure if it is still compatable, but it blackens the entire screen and lightens it (you could either do it flashlight style, or whole screen style...

but it took care of everything on the screen IIRC

Actually I was importing them from all over the world, so you never have to leave to get some action from another country, I bring the action to you.

But then again, maybe I should focus on the defense... Much more important, kinda...

Then, I say, for military members, in order to keep morale at a maximum, should get free service for their.... service... After all, if morale is high, then we shall fight at our fullest potential...

Free whore service is worth dying for!

Yeah sounds good to me...

We'll work over the details...

Well now you are muscling in on my pimp business...

I need to go over a spending plan for our weapons...

I need at least 1000 degausser grenades
20-50 particle bombs
500 Adobe Erasers (for close combat)
And at least 5000 slow frame rate enducers

Oh... and I suggest we expand our military power to have an airforce, we only need 2 people, one to fly the cropduster, and the other to drop the particle bombs over the side.

The Navy will consist of a militia with Squinky's Jailboat as the flagship, dubbed Bertha. After all, with most the population as pirates (side note, we need a ninja brigade), this is a more cost effective choice.

That is all for now.

I have a group of candidates:
...
Minister of Defense: Farlander. Alynn and Yaksplit will be the army...
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Does this then preclude me from being the Minister of Way too much Coffee drinking. And my secondary bid for the Ministry of Smart Assness?

If not I shall have to come up with a rank system, we must have order in this Army.

It has not been mentioned... but what of health care?

Lastly Kinoko for Embassador to Japan.

Oh and my passport

Back when I first came here I wanted to put my normal avatar up...

unfortunately they refused to allow a 100X100 avvy...

so i didn't have my avatar in the normal spot, put it in my sig, and my personal text was, What do you mean 100X100 is too big?

Sometime down the road i think it started doing shrinking on its own (i think when I came back to the forums after a long Iraq induced hiatus) and the forums shrunk it down to 60X60...

I then changed it to a bit small but just as kick ass... well because my avatar is a bit smaller, but is still as kick ass...

yeah that's about it.

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/fanboy.html

Thats all I have to say about that, it really doesn't look like a game system for gamers, it looks like a game system for non-gamers...

and if the PS3 is HDTV only, I'm still set, that was the main selling point for me anyway, because my PS2 looks outstanding on my HDTV using just RCA connections, I can't wait to see what the PS3 looks like using HDMI... I'll probably pee on myself.

For me it's always been about the games, which is why I always bought Sega systems back in the day, because Sega made the games that were the most fun. Now Sega makes games for just about anyone, so when I switched consoles I went for the one that had the best games in my opinion... and that was Sony....

And you have to admit, most Nintendo games are based for a younger audience, and in fact Nintendo has said as much.

And Nintendo makes their money off handhelds, not consoles, that is just icing on the in the black cake.

So due to a misfortunate misread on my part, my new mobo isn't compatable with my processor, and since the processor is more expensive than the MoBo, I decided to get a new one of those...

the issue, is now finding a MoBo that fits the specs...

The issue stems from the fact that the MoBo I purchased works for Celeron D, not Pentium D (which is what I have) I just saw the D and well, anyway....

So this is what I need... PCI-Ex16 X 1, 4-240pin DDR RAM, at least 2 PCI (3 prefered), Able to handle DVD-ROM, CD-ROM and 2 HDD's (all IDE), ATX,Ã,  and SLI would be nice, but not a nessesity (my vid card has the SLI chip with it, which I'd like to use, but if I can't find it, I'd rather have the whole computer working), finally an Intel motherboard capable of using the Pentium D 930 processor WITHOUT HAVING TO BUY A LOWER PROCESSOR JUST TO BOOT IT AND FLASH THE BIOS TO HANDLE PENT D 930....

Most of my research so far has brought up boards that need to have a lower grade proc put in it first so you can flash the bios to handle the pentium D 9XX series chips. Well unfortunately I don't have a lower chip I can place into the board so it really needs to be able to use the pent D 9XX right out of the box...

I'm reasearching more myself, but I figured if someone else out there knew of one that could let me know... It's really frustrating that a simple misread caused me all this trouble.

Thanks

EDIT: Ok nevermind.... I looked at my processor reviews and most people highly recomend http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131589 <--- that mobo... and I looked at the specs and it will work for what I need.... sorry to have bothered you all