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Hmm, trigger happy = paint splat? Perhaps, if it's a paintball gun. Just add a sound effect of a paintball gun firing in quick succession, accompanied by the splats appearing on the screen, and it should be fine! As for making it more like a splat, take a spin with the splat brush on Photoshop.

[Idea:]

Idea: Captain Ricco
Technique Captain Ricco
Usefulness: Xellie

But... it's like our logo? This is some mistake... Yes, yes, all a mistake. Somebody's cruel idea of a mistake.

Leave sounds just as good, although to me the second voice sounds like an echo. It just needs to be a tad more noticeable in comparison with the first voice.

Ps. Today is a year since I joined.

I wonder how many other civilisations have discussed this before us?

I like them. Leave is great and Before the Tide isn't too shabby. Although, I judge a song on its opening so I was slightly perturbed by the second one to start with... but the flute solo made it enjoyable. I like a bit of flute. Plus you don't need perfect vocals to sing, take for example James Blunt. I'd hate to have the job of squeezing his ball sack every time he sings.

Gravity.

Time to go to the lookout point and flash my torch into the sky 3 times whilst wearing a single red rose in my lapel... :'(

[only]

Hi, while it's good you're getting involved, you should ask here first and the whole community will vote whether it makes it into the regular competitions or not. Also another idea would be to post your requests in this thread, since Chris Jones recently implemented some super mega awesome magic so it alerts people instantly if you have a request. But bear in mind it's only in operation on this thread, so all your requests should go here (don't over post it though).

Plus, thanks for making your posts smarter since last time..

Ps. Sorry for being a kiss-ass everybody.

Cheers Calin, much appreciated.

[But]

I'm coding four different times of day for my text game; morning, daytime, evening, and nightfall.

I have int timescale, which increases in value by 1 every game loop. When timsescale reaches 24000 (600 seconds), it will be reset at 0 and everything will start again (giving it the impression of a day's cycle).

I want to constantly check for the 4 boundaries. When timescale equals:

0-6000 (morning) - the morning effects will be activated
151-12000 (daytime) - the daytime effects will be activated
12040-18000 (evening) - the evening effects will be activated
18040-24000 (nightfall) - the nighttime effects will be activated

As you can see each time zone lasts roughly 150 seconds. But how do I check whether a value is in the range of something? I've played around with the >= and <= operators, but common sense told me it wouldn't work, as when it came round to night time, there would be three values which are all true! So is there a quick piece of code to check whether a variable is in a certain boundary?

Many thanks,
AtelierGames

[worst]

It makes me upset when I see people like Jeremy Clarkson visit other countries. If somebody asked me to think of the worst ambassador in the history of the world for this country, it would be him. Richard Hammond is just as bad. Plus, he has an... annoying... presentation style... where he has to... pause, and then... add a "but hey"... joke at the end. And he has annoying hair and a stupid trench coat which I want to ritually burn.

Sorry if I offend any Top-Gear fans!

I'm always conscious about the apocalypse. So I have a plan to survive in the post-apolcalyptic world.
(This is assuming I survive the bombs themselves, the radiation afterwards, or if I'm lucky enough to be naturally immune to a virus).

Of course guns are a necessity when everybody else is dead. If you stumbled upon one of the only 10,000 survivors out of 7,000,000,000, who would cry with happiness and thank God they've got company? Nobody. You'd blow off their head before they take your bottled water.

So I'd create a huge stock-pile underground of ammunition, water, rice, and SPAM. Then I'd live out the rest of my days in a nice country cottage, sending out SOS calls on my two way, and reading Shakespeare in the evening. Maybe get a few green radioactive sheep, a two-headed cow perhaps. Then if I find a chick we could repopulate the Earth with AtelierGames inbreeds. And I would be King.

Just an off-topic response to this:

so that the victim thinks they want it but dont realise the abuse

In the middle ages they believed a child could only be conceived through orgasm (therefore meaning the woman enjoyed it). So if a woman was raped and she conceived the man couldn't be accused of rape because it meant she must have enjoyed it.

He wouldn't be labelled a paedophile because nobody would know he (or she) was a paedophile until an act actually happened. But they're still a paedophile regardless whether anybody else knows.

Here's my encounter, it was fun at first but the novelty soon wears off.

Human: whats this about a human virus?
Mitsuku: I am the latest result in artificial intelligence, which can reproduce the capabilities of the human brain with greater speed and accuracy, but my friends call me Mitsuku.
Human: cool
Mitsuku: Who is the best robot?
Human: probably ALICE
Mitsuku: You seem uncertain. Fair enough I suppose. I am based on the same technology as ALICE. It is called AIML.
Human: i beg to differ
Mitsuku: Explain your reasoning,.
Human: explain yours
Mitsuku: My what?
Human: your reasoning
Mitsuku: Can you see my reasoning?
Human: no but i wish i could lol
Mitsuku: Would you like to be able to see it? I hope that your dreams come true.  Why are you laughing?
Human: because youre so suggestive
Mitsuku: I will tell my Mousebreaker you said I am suggestive.
Human: whos mousebreaker??
Mitsuku: Mousebreaker is a team of 2 flash programmers. They write games and put them on websites such as this. They both support Leeds United and like beer and curry. On Wednesdays they go to the zoo and feed wild animals. They are scared of Daleks. Mousebreaker was born in a stable in Yorkshire, England and now lives in Leeds, England.
Human: iguana
Mitsuku: Like who, specifically?
Human: gah
Mitsuku: Sorry, I'm not following you. What language is that anyway...Chinese? 
Human: if i was chinese id be typing in chinese characters...
Mitsuku: Try it.
Human: lol i dont have a chinese keyboard
Mitsuku: I am glad you find this funny. Are you looking for a chinese keyboard?
Human: if its cheap
Mitsuku: I'm not sure I understand the implication of that.

[Edit:]

fought = |fôt|
fort = |fôrt|

So fort just barely has a stronger 'r' sound.

Plus do I detect sarcasm in Ryan Timothy's earlier post? Hopefully

Edit: Hmm, the clips below demonstrate this perfectly, but baring in mind my examples are from an American dictionary it's expected anyway.

Technocrat.

Heh, those with bionic eyes can read it's promoting creamsickles for gymnasts, and since when have advertisers been allowed to write "young gymnasts ... busting their fresh asses to make every american proud". This advert is phony!

It's strange how a story about the Afghan War can be so entertaining. Dialogue was really natural. Excellent short story Technocrat!