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Thanks everyone for the additional birthday wishes! Anas, that Ferrero Rocher is just the right size!

Yes, Europa Report was correct. Paranormal activity in space.

Woohoo!

Hopefully not too obscure:

:O Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes, Stupot+, AnasAbdin and Mandle! I had a great (easy) day at work and bought myself some Ferrero Rochers to celebrate.

Heroes?

The Ridiculous 6

Second worst movie on Netflix

Perhaps we should open this up as a competition!

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Happy birthday, BSP!
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Had Harry and Sally met before?

I think if people want custom "when mouse moves to top of screen" behaviour, they just use visibility normal and write their own handler for showing/hiding it.

That's kind of how I see the library routines. A good starting point, but if you want full control, you reimplement it as you like (provided the engine exposes enough for you to do so).

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Did the robber brag about it on Facebook?

Congratulations, Rocchinator! I look forward to another colouring ball soon!

Mine has 10 colours, but about 100 frames. If you're animating the totem, I'm sorry.

I have a problem with someone bringing race into an insult or advocating killing a particular racial group.

I think that may have been shock-jock humour, and not an actual call to kill all white people...

I'm confused, Mandle. "Balanced outlook on humanity" or "ha ha, funny shock-jock humour"?

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Gurok: Just pointing out that there is an imbalance in how race and gender is represented in a government isn't itself racism, sexism or in any way a part of the problem. I don't quite see how you can arrive at that opinion.

I don't really have that opinion.
I have a problem with someone bringing race into an insult or advocating killing a particular racial group.
I don't have a problem with someone mentioning race or gender per se.
My point was that "white morons" was dangerously close to "corrupt females".

It's not supposed to look like that, Gurok. Trump isn't an emperor - they're not there to serve and please him, they're there to serve the American people.

I think this is an exaggeration and perhaps a little reactionary in a political environment that's pushing a more nationalist agenda. It's not supposed to look like that to you because you don't want things to be that way.

I don't agree with a lot of Trump's agenda (walls, trade wars), but I also don't think there's a hulking right-wing behemoth coming to destroy us all. I certainly don't think Trump resembles a dictator or an emperor.

I would say that Trump has had quite a few misfires, but also made real progress, and the people underneath him truly believe in his leadership.
They have the right to remain optimistic. I think they're genuine, but I can see how someone might think that a person couldn't be genuine and hold opposing beliefs to his or her own.

I'm sorry, I'm out for this month. Too much has come up (real life stuff) for me.

As for how grown ups talk, perhaps you're hanging around the wrong grown ups. It's not acceptable, at least in the company I keep, to point out the X morons (where X is a race) for any reason.

I see no reason to be anything other than angry and flippant when addressing Trump. But our of respect for these hallowed forums, I would like to clarify:

I didn't mean that you were being childish, Gurok. I think you're wrong, but your tone is perfectly reasonable. I meant that Trump's cabinet were speaking in a disconcertingly facile, infantile manner.

I had assumed you were referring to the people in Trump's cabinet meeting. My comment was a general one about how grown ups talk.

The reason I'm not graciously backing down is that I don't believe I have been caught out. I didn't say 'white' by accident. I said it on purpose. They are white, and their whiteness is pretty of this story.

If Trump had filled his cabinet with black women, you can be sure I would have remarked on that. It is not racist to acknowledge race.

I'm the whitest man in England, so I'm not going to get into a debate about "reverse racism". They are white and they are morons. It follows that they are white morons. If they weren't white morons, they would not have been cast in this ludicrous pantomime.

When I said I was paraphrasing you, I meant it. You criticised Jack earlier in the thread:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=54140.msg636547593#msg636547593

I thought it was a valid criticism, but I also thought you were more principled at that point.

Perhaps you could explain to me how you think that woman and corrupt are perfectly separable, but white and moron are not.

Was he shot in a prosthetic limb?

Could everyone PLEASE not try to bring race into the room full of rich white blokes? Let's focus on the issues - that is not how grown ups talk. It's flipping insane.

There are a couple of different ways you can react when caught out. You can be gracious and move on, or you can double down on your position. I honestly thought you were better than that.

As for how grown ups talk, perhaps you're hanging around the wrong grown ups. It's not acceptable, at least in the company I keep, to point out the X morons (where X is a race) for any reason.