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Project cancelled. I require a lock here, guys.

Dear MT.



I hid LimpingFish's drugs.

Well, it's definitely got to be in the furnace, not near it. The animal would just run away if it's wasn't locked inside.
Thanks for your help Slasher, but I'm still not sure... Any more ideas? - I tried to google it up but only found fat burning diets and gold melting tips...

I asked my cousin, who is a firefighter, and he mentioned that sometimes they find even an animal's collar with the tags still in identifiable shape (these rather cheap metal tags). A fire is hot but even in a small controlled hot area you get pockets of air where the temperature is considerably lower, and a chimney fire that burns flesh can leave metal unimpressed. Many room-installed fireplaces ARE made of metal.
His view: It is POSSIBLE for a key to remain at least useable after being in a chimney fire. It's not GUARANTEED though. But the "willing suspension of disbelief" should be on your side at least.

Two additional things:
The metal will be hot, and one could not easily pick it up and store it comfortably. It would have to cool.
Rapid cooling could result in additional "warping" of the metal. A key is a rather precise thing and needs to be a certain shape in order to fit its lock. THIS is what may actually cause more breaking of willing suspension.

I'm also still very much learning ArtRage as well, but love the cool painty effects I can get without the awful UI and insane price tag of Painter.

If you ever find a good pencil setting, please share. I purchased Art Rage 3.5 Pro during a Steam sale and it's the most regrettably unused bit of software on my hard drive

Interesting, thanks a lot; I'll try that out.

I have an NVidea GeForce GT 220- basic vanilla retail graphics card. When I purchased it, driver version was 1.4. And for some reason each time I try to update it, the graphics card goes into regular crashes afterwards. Screen flickers, there is a short pause, then the screen comes up again and Windows displays "Display driver stopped working and was reset." It also displays a file related to the driver (kernel???.dll)
I wonder if someone knows more about this and if there is a way to get the latest drivers to work. Several games I own on Steam refuse to work with the old driver but DO run with the new one (I tried- but it's really not worth having your screen flicker up every few minutes).

Here's a start- nice article from the bg designer of COMI:
http://scummbar.com/resources/articles/BillTillerInterview/tillerconferance.html

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This is, of course, not a hands-on "how to draw" tutorial. I think there IS a version that also has screenshots but I can't find it off the bat. The info given is pretty interesting though and all tips are valid. You KNOW the game and how it looks, so it's more of a side info bit. Still useful, I'd say.

It's certainly very different from your old style!

Not much to add to what has been said about the animations; I think your experience with (exaggerated) pixel-art will eventually give way to more "subtle" high-res frames. I do like the character a lot though. I mean, you have skills to build upon and this is mostly a transition phase.

What surprised me was how well your backgrounds translate from low to high-res. It's like you always had those little details in mind and could only hint at them and now things can be fully fleshed out. They are very, very nice. And there's something very recognizeable about them- that's a big "plus" I'd say.

I'll show that prototype to my niece. She's five now and she loves cartoony stuff, so expect some feedback from her too

Dudes, I think that what we are discussing here is computer GAMING, not computer use in general. Obviously, without computers, a crysis would explode in the World as things are up to 2014.

Yes, that little tete-a-tete here was a bit of a fallout from a couple other threads. I think I started it. Sorry.


I'm serious about the PS2 though. That thing is unkillable. In the time I own it a friend blasted through three XBoxes. Power to the weak indeed. And SSX Tricky is glorious

See? It's really simple.

Wow, that makes perfect sense now and I am grateful to have it all spelled out to me. Much wow

Does that mean that roasters don't roast roastees, but roastees roast roasters?

Nah. Roadies rroast goat's toes. That's how it goes. You're referring to RollerToaster Tycoon, where toasts are trapped in a theme park.

I think I get it. When you read what someone writes, you aim at understanding what that person believes, rather than looking at the reality that person is pointing to. Is that right?

I think we've got it now, yes. I never wanted to say that you buying a new computer is a wrong, and I never wanted to make you appear a "bad person" just because you did buy a new computer.

If you were not arguing like my argument is that buying computers is wrong, why you said it was hypocrisy to point to how computers are made and buying a new computer? Where is the hypocrisy, if you understood I never said buying computers is wrong?

The contradition in my eye was that you first used the "child slaves dig up ore and that is terrible, and a musician should question that!" argument. I understand it was not YOU saying that line, so I don't pull any punches here: It's a silly, tearful and pretentious argument.
Then, however, you act like 99% of the world and just accept the bad things and get a new computer anyway. Thus my "what about the slave kids" mockery. But also kudos for you You're just like us

I feel relieved we could clear that up

NOTHING of what I said or quoted implies in the idea that buying computers is wrong.

That's good, because it would make a terrible argument.

You keep arguing like that was the case.

I'm not. Right now I am saying that you spent many words on a linear discussion. This discussion lead from games being too Long to there being too many games to civilisation being flawed. This made me and several others think that you somehow supported that view. If that is not the case, then consider much of what I said null and void.
Currently you seem to be stating that you aren't really believing in that argument. Just in the facts behind the argument.
So I admit I am confused.

Still, since this seems not to trigger a lock I'm interested in seeing it through

if I stated anywhere that people SHOULD stop buying things. I never said that

But you made multiple threads that were all about people who said things you said you agreed with, and you continued all of these threads multiple pages, bringing in more quotes to strengthen the quotes you have already made. If you never were never in any agreement with what you quoted, why quoting it in the first place? Because usually when someone remains passionate about a point and goes to some lengths to defend it, he or she stands "behind the issue" at least a bit.
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And that was all my initial post was indeed poking fun at: That after using an argument to strengthen your position, now doing an action that makes it so easy to repeat the argument against your position. In your case it was someone asking a musician if his music was worth it that someone has to dig up the metal for his guitar under terms of child labour, and that was somehow a valid point against consumerism and art and civilisation.

Your tendency to misinterpret me makes me think you feel guilty about buying stuff made by people working in terrible conditions, and you are trying to deal with this guilty by mocking those who bring this fact to your attention.

This is cold reading at ist best. You feel misinterpreted. I think my view on your argumentation is justified. But like you already did, and are now again doing, stop complaining about assumptions being made and in the same sentence making assumptions.

Hey! I still keep my PS1 and use it as a training bike occasionally!

If you now tell me you have a copy of DARKSTALKERS I may have to visit one day! I'll bring snacks! Seriously. You name them, I bring them.

Yep. My 6-year old PS3 required so much coal it was getting tiresome.

Kiiiids these days. I'm still using a PS2 and it is glorious! They work by herding electric eels.

a) My initial post was neither funny nor wise; it derailed a thread and I am sorry about that. My fault really.

b) After a lengthy and verbose discussion about how there are too many games, how consumerism is bad, how people should better try to have less than more, now defending the purchase of a new computer with the Statement that it isn't luxury as long as it just plays LA Noir DOES sound hypocrite as hell.

Should I change it?

No rule saying that a theme can't repeat- it's pretty much your decision

That... FACE! Awesome!

Odd, really. Which AGS version are you using? Can you upload the project Folder, maybe, so that we can have a look at the code (or post the full room code)? I am pretty sure that it's just some off line of code somewhere but if you are on the latest AGS Version you may have found a bug.