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["If you call now, within the next 20 minutes, 'cause we can't do this all day..."]

I actually LOVE that kind of marketing ... I mean if people are stupid silly enough to fall for such marketing tactics then I just call 'em effective!

My favorite, current, bit of clever marketing is the ShamWow ads.

"If you call now, within the next 20 minutes, 'cause we can't do this all day..."

Yet that same commercial, claiming the same 20 minutes, is on about 3-4 times an hour!

The entire ShamWow campaign is so deliciously hoaky and irritating that it makes you hate it ... yet you remember it!

Just recently tShirtHell announced that he's shuttin' down and closin' up shop!  10 February will be his last day and then tShirtHell is going away for good.  He won't sell it to anybody, he won't "sell out" (so he says).  I see this as a BRILLIANT marketing scheme!  Mark my words, come 10 Feb., the site will somehow remain open, "All the in-pouring of love has given me a change of heart!"  And in the previous weeks, after his claim of closing up shop, he'll have sold a record number of tShirts!  Brilliant!

I've also marveled at the recent Mac v PC commercials with the parody characters of Gates and Jobs.  These ads basically call the Mac user-base idiots "If you aren't smart enough to figure out how to use a [very easy to operate] PC, use a Mac!  We're idiot-resistant!"  And all the while they make the consumer  actually want to be an idiot and join the "exclusive" club of mac-users!  Very brilliantly done!

Now ... the kind of marketing I do not like are the cheesy infomercial type commercials for products that supposedly make something easier.  Then they show video of the "thing" that their product makes easier and the person is just having the hardest time with it like it's soooooo incredibly difficult to pull your wallet out of your pocket, or to open a can of peaches, or to strain pasta!  Obviously effective marketing, but terrible visual impact!

Try my product!!

I am okay with Disney or the Keys ... or we could charter a boat and head off to Bimini and try our luck on a boat in the dreaded Bermuda Triangle!!!

Personally I've been to Disney and the Keys many times ... I'd love a little adventure on the open seas if anybody else is up for it!  Beers, deep-sea fishing, a tropical island, the Bimini Road, beautiful Bimini women (??) and possibly some time lost in a parallel universe if the triangle lives up to its reputation!!

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No screenshots are showing (in code you have only one anyway) ... I'm gonna go ahead and lock this!  PM me when/if you have screenshotS (2) available!

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I see my existence as completely pointless and without meaning [universally speaking] ... so I just try to have fun and enjoy my limited time of existence.

If you think of it in the perspective of the sheer vastness of space and time; one tiny, little, meaningless speck of life [me] on a back-water planet in the far reaches of an arm of a non-descript spiral galaxy out in the middle of nowhere has absolutely no meaning what-so-ever (sure you matter to those around you but that's not the point).  Universally speaking you are totally and in all ways insignificant.

However!  If my theory of me saving the planet by stubbing my toe is true then I suppose I do have some meaning...

[that courtyard]

I'm torn between choosing one over the other ... they both look amazing!

The Hollywood mansion reminds me of the chateau a bit more and that courtyard looks amazing!  Not to mention it has a billiards table!

But that amazing view of the Atlantic from the Fort Lauderdale mansion sums up what visiting South Florida is all about!!

I don't mind spending more money to stay at the Fort Lauderdale mansion however, if people wish to save the money I would have no objection to the Hollywood mansion either.  I don't have to pay for airfare for this Mittens so I totally understand the need for the least expensive accommodations!

And yes, I will have a car that can fit 4 very comfortably and 5 if Nacho and Lore are in the car with us   Both of these mansions are within a half hour from my house (and about 10 minutes from my office) so it works out quite nicely!

I also volunteer to pick up travelers from the airport(s) if needs be!

Remember you don't need to fly into Miami!

Fort Lauderdale is an international airport as well and sometimes flying into Fort Lauderdale can be cheaper than flying into Miami (depending on where you're coming from!)

My mountain is on fire!!!

Hope it doesn't spread too far and the zoo animals make it

[ProgZ]

I wasn't confused ... just wan't to make sure it belonged in the Games in Production board as it's neither a game (just a movie) or in production (as it's finished)!  Technically speaking it doesn't belong in here

I am going to move this to the Critics Lounge as it seems, at this point, all you could really hope to achieve is critiques on it.  So a'movin' it goes!

ProgZ - if you feel it doesn't belong in the Critics Lounge just move it back (or we'll find the proper place for it!)

Please post the screenshots so they are visible in the thread rather than links!

Thanks!

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Please review the forum rules and PM me (don't start another thread) when you're ready to follow them!

Private Message received - thread will be updated

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EDIT - I did some clean-up to combine all the images (properly hosted) into the first thread.

Are you in production with the up-coming release?  And are these screenshots from that up-coming release?  I'm a little confused and not sure this really belongs in here?  Perhaps you should make this thread for the game you are making and release this as part of that instead of making a thread just for this?

Also; you should put a little info in the thread about what the game is actually about (story, gameplay, game stats, etc)

[MYKAYEL]

MYKAYEL - look at the date of the last post on this.  Please do not dig up any more threads.

Snake - when you feel like posting an update well ... just unlock the thread and post an update

It could be cool to have Mittens during the 4th celebrations here!  And if we can find a good enough spot you can get quite a show with all the fireworks going off all around you!  I also have a suspicion this 4th of July will be a bit more ... patriotic ... than the last few years given all the election hubbub this year.  Could be quite a show of fireworks indeed!

Anyway ... that was my long-winded way of saying I have no problems/conflicts with the dates you've selected!

If the game is finished please post in the Completed Games board and ask for the feedback there!

Congrats on finishing!

Come on guys ... really.

He is not asking for somebody to send him the photo.  He just wants to know if any of us actually have it.  Because anybody that's been on the 'net for more than 5 minutes would know how easily you could find an image such as this on Google Images (or the thousands of other image searches on the web).  The guy isn't that incredibly stupid and clueless ... sheesh.

As for me; no, I don't have it.

Could somebody send it to me?

Thanks!

There are a few ways of accomplishing this with CSS.  I am not sure if using the CSS is necessarily better than using the method above.  It just depends on who you ask!

The method I find the most gratifying is using CSS's ability to "clip" images.  I've used only one image and the "hover" state just shows a different part of the same image.  It's pretty trick!  I'm in a hotel room about 1500 miles from home so I don't have the example code to share (or the time right now to re-write it) but if nobody else provides it I'll drop it in here a little later!

Or you could, of course, search Google and you'll find MANY sites explaining how to do it!

Good luck!

I have had the same issue many times and the only way I've been able to solve this is by adding an onclick event which changes the image back to it's mouseout state, then loading the page you want it to.  This has worked for me.

Also ... you should use "document.getElementById()"  instead of the "this.src"

Hope this works for you!

[Carp]

Do Carp count as 'Sea Kittens'?  Because, really ... Carp are nasty.  Seriously.  I have no desire to snuggle with that sucker.

Even if:

Sea Kitten Facts

Like their surface-dwelling cousins, the land kittens, sea kittens enjoy being petted. Their lack of arms makes it difficult for them to pet back, but they often gently rub against each other as a sign of affection.

Which I found odd because if the "land" kittens are referring to cats the last time I checked cats don't have arms and don't pet back either.  Now if land kittens is a way of referring to people ... well ... I don't get petted by people either.  I suppose you could consider some of the stuff women do with me as "petting" but that's the very last thing I want a fish ... er ... sea kitten, doing to me.

Aside from the silly-ness of it all the site is actually well put together and cutesy.  I think some of the things they do are a tad silly but PETA doesn't really bother me.  To each their own I guess.  Granted I'm only saying that from what I do know of them which, admittedly, isn't a vast well of knowledge.

[Recruit a Team]

Hello and welcome jakerpot!

There is a thread, the Recruit a Team to be exact, that is used for this type of request!

Good luck!

What everybody else has said ... the steering needs some fine-tuning.  But it was very fun to play!  The skid-tracks and the physics (aside from the steering) were really cool!  The screen scrolling is very smooth too!

I like the idea of the 3D buildings!  So long as they have a perspective like Zelda ... I mean where the car is in-line (above) with the vanishing point (if this is possible) and the buildings all come up and away from that point.  So that the buildings would never interfere with the view of the car (I hate when games do that!)  It's hard to explain what I mean!

Either way this is a very cool demo and I think you should continue with it!