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zeno's paradox. The only paradox in Zenon is that it's so tough after the second stage, yet you recieve no extra lives.

however, eric is working on franchise ports!

it's quite possible that's not the ambience the original artist was going for.

dig the boots

This isn't smart.

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Hello. This here thread is where you will compose music for me. I require of the participants to compose a theme or configuration of themes, with a single emotion in mind. This emotion can be any 'lower' emotion, nothing too complex. So 'fear' or 'adoration' or 'excitement' goes, but 'the strange empty feeling I felt after I ate a bad hotdog that summer day back in '98' doesn't. The point of the exercise will be the following: after all the entries have been posted, the composers will send pms to me with the emotion they were going for. And everybody has listened to everybody elses music, we (well... everybody else than me) will all guess in ONE word, what emotion the other people were going for. Then, after one or two days of guessing, I will reveal the emotions people have gone for, and this contest will sort of announce it's own winner.

I'll suggest you name your files something inconspicuous like 'file002.mp3' and not 'INTENZFEAR.mp3' for apparent reasons.

Go.

Edited by moderator: Since the idea of this particular contest works a bit differently to the otehr turns, I'll stick it temporally to plug it so maybe more people can listen to the entries and give guesses.

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Thanks for telling me I'm a "bad person", makes me feel like I'm doing something right.

Thanks for saying you think you're doing something right based on the most hollow reactionism. It pretty much defeats your arguments better than anything I'm going to say below does. Sometimes when people dissagree en masse with you, it's not because you're getting under their skin. It's just because you opinions are widely believed to be dangerous, strange or just plain ignorant.

Why is it that I'm so bad?

Because you eat children.

I say pornography/nudity is wrong and everyone is on the defensive.

pornography is not slash nudity. The fact that you choose to disregard or are otherwise incapable of seeing the various shades of a topic such as this paints you like the fundamentalist you probably are. Your usage of RIGHT and WRONG, specifically your RIGHT and everybody else's WRONG further amplifies this impression.

Why are you people here? This is not a porn site,

Well, fringe-porn... American Goat Society focuses on bestiality, I guess

If you want your porn and nudity... why come here?

People want a lot of things in their lives. This is not about this forum, it's about you saying Lennon was a BAAAD person because he took a picture of himself with his wife in the nude. We are discussing this, not looking for our porn. You're diverting the argument.

I feel like I'm getting under some of your skins... sorry that wasn't my intention.

Ignorance really itches, yes.

Why are you all so afraid of me. Because I stand my ground against all of you that oppose my beliefs?

Yes, let's have a war. Let's not discuss things and reach some sort of sensible conclusion, a middle ground if you will. Stand your ground against all of us that oppose your beliefs, in clear black and white.

Whatever happened to right and wrong? Were none of you taught this? Do any of you even know right from wrong... sometimes I wonder.

Thankfully, (most of us) were taught of the infinite shades that exist between two disparate ethical positions, and from this comes a humility that doesn't allow us to reach for our LOL YOU'RE WRONG I'M RIGHT LOL card so often, if at all. Thankfully, we don't easily come to the conclusion that what we're doing is based on safe moral foundation just because some book told us what to do. Hey. 

Helm: I don't eat children...unless they just started putting them into canned soups in the US?

You eat children. God told me.

Vince Twelve: I don't think any of you are bad persons. If I thought that, I wouldn't be here. Many of you are confused, but not bad. AGS has a great community! I'm happy to be apart of it.

Oh

DGMacphee: Between you and Helm, I can never take either one of you serious. Helm, I can expect this behavior... He's been in many other boards that I use to frequent... He knows me well for starting/fueling religous battles within forums... especially regarding impurity.

Yes I was a moderator on pixelation when you approached people to preach about the evils of communism and I was the one that asked you to stop doing that then. But this is a general board where OT is the point, so by all means, nobody's stopping you from expounding on your beliefs to your heart's content. In fact, I strongly encourage you to do so, so people that might align themselves with you, even in the slightest, know exactly what you're made of, politically and morally.

bspeers: Links to porn sites... come on! People can go out and find them on their own, they don't need your help. Your post was a good example of scandal.

What

Think about it: some kid comes in maybe 10 or 12 and reads your post. Then out of curiosity he sees the links you posted and clicks on them...wham! What the he...! His mom walks into his room while he staring at the images and unplugs his computer then takes it out of his room...Now AGS has one less community member to post games, comments, etc. (Ok, so he saw the "(Adults Only)" disclaimer...you're still partially reponsible.) Thanks for not hotlinking to the image, at least you gave the user a choice to click on it or not.

Nobody that is 12 should be around here anyway. If they are 16 and they click on the links... it was their choice. Of course their parents might admonish them for the choice they made, but that's after the fact. Actions have consequences and you can only learn that from taking action. From preemptively shielding a child from the concept of a choice, you are creating weak-willed individuals ill-equipped to face reality, instead living in their dream bubble where everything is either RIGHT or WRONG and god tells them what to do about scary naked genitalia and Lennon records.

I think rharpe is a bad person because I have it on good authority that he eats little children

[baaad]

saints, they still have opinions, they are still people full of peoples flaws.

Sure everybody says a few flawed things now and again. Rharpe silently refused to explain why Lennon and the Beatles have been a baaad influence for over 25 years though, he didn't say 'sorry, my bad, I guess cultural interactivity might be a bit more complex than that' or anything. He just ignored my question to explain why, so I'm not cutting him any slack until he explains, and we can see how exactly his religious beliefs can stand along with what I suspect to be honestly quite twisted political beliefs.

Personally, I can find a lot of things wrong about the media exposure of the beatles. They're the archetypical post-religious iconic group of people with saviour complexes, exposing their super-ego from their high alcove of pop stardom, influencing on a massive scale. I think pop icons have done nothing for us, and in fact have fed this modern disease where vecuous publicity has become the paramount goal for the everyman. But this is a general phenomenon of the modern times and can be examined without having to tie Lennon's death into it. What I hear is 'I don't agree with Lennon, and because Lennon had massive influence, it's GOOD that he died'. This is just wrong, it can't be true, coming from a catholic christian?

Kinoko: there's plenty of senses of humour around. Apparently not all parallel to yours.

2. The real tragedy is that his work has had a lasting bad influence over the 25 years.

explain

I really don't like the beatles or john lennon, for one. In fact oversaturation of beatles songs (or anyone's songs really) irritates me as much as anyone, and I'm not defending him, but I don't see the point of posting on a 'tribute' thread of some dead guy to say that he sucks or his music was bad or the things he stands for are awful.

Rharpe go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong, but basically his messages that you find offensive would be about him being a vastly influential figure with a strong leftist, secular agenda, right? Just so the people of this thread can make more sense of where you're coming from.

Joseph: no worries

Squinky: I remember you, you were memorizing π and writing fun music. You called AGS ugly or something back in the day over msn was it? ICQ? Back then we might have been using ICQ.

the highpoint of kraven if he were to appear would be himself blowing off his own face for no apparent reason

Okay, I won't wind Joseph diPerla up anymore, only if you promise to implement the following in the next version of ags:

*bloom lighting

*bump-mapping

*lens flare

*pressing the button C in-game will result to an audible cowbell sound-effect

*a Vic20 port

I thought this was cleared up in PMs (remember? the bit where you said "on a far more HUMAN level, I'd like to apologize" and I said "likewise, on a far more HUMAN level, I apologize too"? I guess we're back to being animals...) and you asking CJ to ban me. I'm gonna point out that I was called a moron and a retard in your last post, whereas I never called you any names. Even poor Andail who expressively said that is not supporting me got called those things. I have to tell you, Andail's pretty smart. I've met him, he's intelligent and polite and well-spoken. Hardly a retard. And still you don't see me running to any moderators to shut you up. I might have thicker skin than you, but you better start reconsidering your attitude. There are ways and ways to deal with what makes you mad, and this is hardly the best one.

In saying I have been here for a long time I was meaning that I've watched what you've posted for said time, not implying that I'm an older user and therefore my opinion carries extra weight. I think the latter insinuation would be distracting and absurd. And it's interesting that you've misunderstood my intention, and turned it around and thrown it back at me with equal absurdity and distraction from the point. You've been here longer than me. Big deal.

Here's points, then:

*learn to use your scanner, the levels and sharpen tools in Photoshop. That'll help you more than ags having 1024 support. Not that 1024 support is bad per se, but this is the thing, this illustrates your attitude completely: If CJ adds higher res support, it will be for people who will use this to do things they wouldn't otherwise be able to do. Like very detailed rooms, where the extra clarity is needed, or what have you. CJ will not add it so people who do not know how to use their scanner/photoshop will have an additional way to make their games bloated.

*If there's a plugin that does what you want it to do, all the time, no troubles, stable, like say, the flashlight plugin, then use this plugin and get on with your project. Why do you need it to be built-in?

*Yes, you are right, you don't have to show me anything. I didn't want you to show me anything severily, although if you had it would be nice. I asked you to show me so as to carry a point home: that your endless lists of suggestions do not go to practical uses. They never have. And it's not everybody that's doing this, it's you, for as long as I remember! I've suggested two things to CJ in all my years as an ags user: the text dump ( for spelling and translations ) and a complicated animation editor in ags. The former was useful, and was implemented. The latter was judged to be too much work for too little, and bloated, and never was made. On both cases, I felt guilty for having asked CJ to "OMG MAEK MY FEATUR!" and I've made my share of ags games. Bottom line, from your impressive list of things undone, I mainly see a simpsons demo that has materialized. Do you understand the difference from say, when Chrille or Grundislav post a list ( note that they've never or scarcely done this, though ) of things they'd appreciate to have and use in ags, and when a person that hasn't released much of anything does the same? I have no problem with people who haven't made games. But these people don't ask CJ to implement their stuff, and it's pretty clear why. That was my whole point. I found it depressing to see one more 'wishlist' by you YET AGAIN on this forum.

This is my entry.

Joseph Di Perla, I have been here for years, and you always pop up and give lists and lists of suggestions to what CJ should implement in AGS next. Yet, as far as I can tell, you've never made a game or demo or something in AGS, correct? I might be wrong, please link me so I can play your games and see where all these suggestions you've been giving for years would go to. Even in this thread, after the beginning long-winded AGS vs. SCRAMM vs. GLUMOL vs. AGHAST... thing, you basically still posted to tell CJ what you're hoping to see in AGS.

*3d Characters built in
*Flashlight function built in
*Paralax Scrolling built in
*Resolution up to 1024*768
*A port to my favorite Computer the amiga, To the program I play on my PS2 -Dos, and my favorite handheld- PocketPC. Heres hoping.

Joseph, show me your 3d character mesh that you intend to bring into the 3d-supporting ags of the future. Show me your backgrounds that require built in paralax scrolling. Show me a background you've made at 1024x768 that benefits from the res.

Nobody has thought about SCRAMM or GLUMOL in years. That competition never existed. AGHAST, WM and SLUDGE are the only viable alternatives for people that want to make adventure games in premade engines, and they all have their own different things going for them.

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(the paintover, not his actual ones)

oh right oh ok got you haha