Messages

I don't know about the edges, but it doesn't matter, because I scraped the room anyways and the engine has changed, so I can't upload it either.
If I run across the same problem again, and you don't find what's wrong with the pathfinder untill then, I'll let you know. Sorry.

I know the answer, but I'm at work now, and typing this from a mobile phone, so give me a few hours to get home, and I'll gladly help.

I did a 640x480, non scrolling room, and the pathfinder moves the character instantly to a random place in the room, if I click it fast enough. The reason for that, I think, that I was overburdening the cpu by rendering ~4800 16x16 sprites every game loop (gamespeed(60), it ran at~15fps).
Maybe it's not about screen size?

Edit:
16bit colour, latest version of AGS.

Me and CodeJunkie would need export/import of walkable areas, and/or regions possible in runtime, for our current project, so I'll voice my vote to implemant that, if you feel like it.

Can someone help me, please,  and find anything wrong with this character. the view is from slightly above, on the contrary of what the feet imply. Any suggestions are welcome. The character is only a sketch but I would like any feedback on the pose.

[infinite]

You said you "do prayer healing". Twice.
I don't want to get into semantics here, but when I read "prayer healing", I think of person A praying that sick person B gets healthy again.

Semantics, yes. A prays (to God), sick person B gets healed by Him (God). I don't see what confuses you here. When I say: I can help, I don't say: I can heal.

This is done all the time, but since you're taking money for it while trying to be a good person, you must be convinced that it works. And you are, going by your own words.

It's the mustard seed thing. If you belive in God, He will help them, after you asked Him to, surely, but the extent will depend on His(God's) will.
If there are people who lie that they can do it, it's not for me to judge or punish them.
I take compensation, as it's ordered for me to take it. That doesn't mean money explicitly. I would like to do it for free, but breaking the rules given to me upon gaining my licence/approval, without consulting the man who gave them to me, would I think, nullify it. So I wouldn't do that.
Yes, I am convinced, I did it many times, it was done to me many times also. It worked every time.

Later you said you just "pray for forgiveness" and it's up to God to heal the sick person. Going by what you said about God, there's no guarantee he'll answer your prayer; so when do you get paid? Only if the person gets better?
Or is there a money-back guarantee?

There is a guarantee. If you believe in Him he will allways listen. Believing in Him means a lot of things, btw, not just: Yeah there's God and there is me, lalalala, I'm going out now, see you later. If you believe in God, you believe He is omnipresent (everywhere at all times), infinite to say it, so whenewer you pray, whereever you may find yourself at that time, He is there also to listen. There is no blanket you can crawl under if you feel like it, to get away. As He is everywhere, that means inside of you and other people, too. So doing anything against anyone else, is doing it against Him also. As he is a part of us all, we are all in a way, brothers and sisters.
Payment for my service is a must for me, but you can give any amount you feel you owe me. I will not say that it's too much, or too little.
Believing in Him, I cannot find a situation in which it will not work. Every single time I saw it, it worked. I am convinced.

And if prayer healing is a valid and useful way to treat sick people, why isn't it part of official medicine? Why are there numerous studies that show that prayer has no significant effect on the recovery of sick people?

In my country, there are many people who can do this, but you(KrisMUC) can go to the nearest chatolic church and ask the minister where can you find this sort of healing, and probably will get an answer, because the church grants those kind of licences.
Official medicine point's of view are just that, a point's of view. Maybe the studies are wrong in some way? I can honestly admit that I saw it work.

I'd prefer an answer that doesn't suggest a word-wide conspiracy of doctors, scientists and "big pharma", btw.

You can prefer whatever you wan't, but I'm just stating what I know, without lieing, so I'm sorry if it doesn't sometimes agree with your point of view.
And on a side note, If we all had the same point of view, the world would be pretty boring, I think.

@Jim Reed:
Where did the first healer get his license from?
And if you don't actually heal people, why did you say so earlier? And if the only thing you do is pray for forgiveness for them, why is that restricted by so many rules?
And are you just making this shit up as you go along, because it sure sounds like it?

I don't know, but Jesus healed and told His apostoles to go and do the same. It's in the bible.
I said that I can help, not heal. Read my posts carefully, and you'll see it clear as day. I could quote it, also.

Many is a matter of opinion. I'll repeat myself: I didn't make the rules, I only abide by them

No, I don't just make this shit up as I go along.  What it sounds like is a matter of opinion.

@Jim Reed:

I think your belief is nothing else than escapism, because you say that every bad thing that happens to people is part of god's plan. That's just crazy and very contraproductive - in every way. Also, Khris is right, when he's saying that you just want to make money by telling people that you can cure them. I'm convinced of that because of these two phrases of yours:

1.Some form of compensation as it's forbiden for me to work this kind of thing for free.
2.I didn't make those rules, I only abide by them.

Who's rules are you following? Gods? Is he telling you that you can't do it for free? Are you kidding?

When a man does something bad to another man, you can't blame God that he did it. You have the power of choice, but God will punish you if you did something against His rules. Therefore, He doesn't do bad things, people do them, to put it clearly.
It's not contraproductive, it's just. So God didn't kill jews in the Holocaust, Hitler(and others) did it, for example. Don't confuse God's justice with the acts of free will, please.
I'm surley not trying to make money by lieing. The rules I follow, when doing prayer healing are the same rules given to me by the man who gave me permission to it. God didn't directly give them to me. I suspect that that man was given rules also, by the man who gave him his licence, too.
Examining closely your words, you say that I can cure them. I'll repeat myself, I pray for forgiveness from God, and He cures them. So your statement is not true.

But because God is something that cannot be seen and isn't affected by any/his own physical rules, because he's OMNIPOTENT, then there'S nothing left to just believe in it or not.

God can be seen. What affects God is not known to me. He is also omnimystical (allmysterious) and cannot be comprehended in His completnes by humans. Don't confuse omnipotent here. Omnipotent means that something is all powerfull, meaning that it can do anything. You don't have to belive in fire, but if you put an open flame beneath a sheet of paper, it will burn. So beliveing in fire doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You can also not belive in God, but if you break His commandements, you will suffer the punishment, no matter what you believe in.

Okay... and what about the manual... Would you trust the manual or not?

I would get 3 parachutes, and go try myself, if I didn't find the answers I asked for thrutfull. I belive in being prepared. It's common sense.

If you use a tint character command, and tint that character to a red colour, but upon playing the thing, you find the character tinted blue...what would you do? Would you look into the manual, it saying that you scripted the thing correctly and the character is red, and then acknowledge that the character is red, no matter that it appears blue?

If you do bad things to others, bad things will happen to you.
So a mazohist may hurt other people and expect to be hurt bad, but doesn't mean that his punishment will come in that form.

I'm going to pay you twenty US-$ (or rather, their equivalent in €) if you put the latter sentence on a T-Shirt, stand next to a Holocaust memorial, grinning and putting up your thumb, have a picture of the scenery taken and post it on the internet. Go ahead, I dare you.

Well, if you sin against another man, you will get punished, but don't forget that the other man will be given back what has been taken from him. So everything is just.
The victims of the Holocaust are not forgoten by God.

If God wanted her dead, she would be dead allready.
God doesn't make mistakes, He is allknowledgable.

Do you offer the kid some food and water, and take her into your home to help ease the suffering that god has brought upon her to punish her father, the rapist?

I would help her, no matter what her father did.

Or do you spit in her face, to help god with the punishing?

-God doesn't need help. (He is omnipotent)

Or do you walk on by and ignore her, letting god do his work?

-He did this work, as you can see from the picture. And why would me helping her, stop God from doing anything He wanted?

And you can heal over a distance through prayer, but you aren't allowed to do it for free?

I didn't make those rules, I only abide by them. I know they apply personally to me, but there are more people who can heal via praying who I personally know, and I don't know what rules they follow.

If you're so sure you have supernatural powers, call Randi and go get the million dollars, for fuck's sake. What are you waiting for?

That would be my choice now, wouldn't it. But thank you for the advice.

Why would I believe your version instead of one of the other ones? Is there a single piece of (actual, not anecdotal) evidence that your version is even the closest approximation to the "truth"?
(I wouldn't; No.)

I don't know why you do the things you do, would do or did.
Evidence, you say? What, should I make a miracle or something? I could take you to a man who can do it, if need be. Maybe you'll get lucky and he'll show one to you.

It's a blue cup. =D

Hmm...
-How can you, knowing that the "conviction" of the "old believers" was uncorrect, be so sure that your "conviction" is the correct one?

As I see it, everything that I haven't confirmed in reality, is suspect. I may belive that some things are thruth or lies, untill I confirm them, or the opposite.

-Do gorillas have a soul?

Yes.

-When were humans awarded with a soul?

When they are concieved.

-Did neandertals had a sould? If so, why God allowed them to be terminated?

Yes. I don't know about why God does things, but anyway, all things change, everyone must die sometime.

-If the best and kindiest golden-heart person in earth is born in a place where they don' t know God and he does not have the possibility to become a believer... can he go to heaven?

Yes.

-

Can Hitler go to heaven if he confesses his sins before passing away, if his confession was "correct" according to catholic standards?

He must, not only confess, but try to make up for it, in some way, and then he has a chance.

-If he can... what is the point of behaving propperly, if you can fix it all at the end?

The more you sin, the more you need to pay for, so having many sins, is a lot of work to clear out in your dieing moments.

-Is it okay to force your sister in law to marry her brother in law if she widowed shortly before and has no kids?

You can marry again if you have no living husband/wife. Forcing someone is a hard thing to do, and anyway you can't make choices for others, so if she married someone, it would be solely her choice.

-Who can go to heaven? Christians? Those who follow the religions of the book, muslims and jews can go to heaven as well?

Every person alive.

-What happens with those who believe in Shiva?

They pray to her =D
Matter of diety name is irrelevant, all the world abides the same rules, so if you do things right, you will go to heaven.

-What happens with the souls of those who were in earth before the old testament was written?
-What happens to you if you made a mortal sin one week before it was written in the Old Testament?
-What happens to you if you make a mortal sin that has been recently added to the Old testament, but you had no possible way to read it because the last edition of the book hasn't arrived yet to your local book store?

Rules were ther before the testament, so you would have the same consequences for the same actions, then as today.

-God can ask me to do bad things. He asked Abraham to kill his son, and he was going to do it, but fortunatelly (Thank's God, better...) HE stopped him. But he can ask us to do bad things. If he asks us to do bad things... are we good christians if we do it?

If He asks you to do something, it's your choice, and your therefore, your responsibility.
If He commands you to do it, It's His choice and His resposibility.
Anything bad that happens, when you do something that is commanded to you by God, will have no effect on you. Meaning if it's a sin, you will not suffer the consequences.

-How can we distinguish between a real God commitement and one created by a mental disorder?

Could you rephrase that, and elaborate, please.

-If the devil, disguised as God, tells us to do something bad, are we sinners or not, if we believe it was God who asked us to do it?

Your choice, your responsibilities.

-How do we judge people who acted bad if they say it was God who told them to do it?

Courts make human judgement, and God makes His judgement. If you break the rules, He will punish you exactly as much as is just.

-When bad things happens, some believers say "That's because he gave us free of will... Bad human acts are our fault, not his. He can't intervene" Okay, but he acted before to kill bad humans. He purgued the humanity with the universal deluge: Why he acted before and he does not now?

Only God knows why He does the things He does. Oh, He can say it to someone, naturally so he would then know, also.

-Can he act again, if out level of imperfection becomes too high?

Being omnipotent (most powerfull), He can do anything.
Being omnipresent (everywhere), He can see everything and act everywhere.

-How could he, being infinitelly intelligent, create a humanity that was so unperfect that he had to purgue it?

His bussiness is His bussines, simple.

-If our kids are not as perfect as we wanted, can we kill them drowning them in the bath tube?

If you make a sin, you will suffer the punishment, as you're responsible for your actions.

If it means going to church regulary, and reading the bible every day, saying prayers before eating, sleeping, shiting or any other similar purpose, and all around being a stereotype, broom-up-their-ass movielike Christian, then I'm not.

Then it wasn't properly adressed, I apologize. You sounded like you were.

What I'm trying to say is that belief and common "good" sense is very close, that's all.

Don't worry, I don't get offended that easily. =D
Well, if you mean that not doing anything to others, one would not want to be done to himself, I agree with you.

If you mean that common good sense implies, that a lot of thing that are considered nice let's say in most of the sterotype world (meaning civilized more or less), go hand in hand with the techings of how to be good to others, from, let's say, the bible, I will agree with you on that, too.

Common sense is a very good thing in my opinion. A man with enough of it would eventualy discover for himself that, lieing, stealing, killing and so forth, will get him in trouble with other men, if he hasn't been told that allready, or has, but choose to ignore it, or he just forgot it.

[lot]

...church/book christians like Jim here...

Whoa there...
Let's get this straight, so we don't get confused.

I don't know what do you mean by church/book Christians, but if it means that you try to not break any commandements and generaly not doing to people anything that you would not anyone do to yourself, and belive in God as the true lord of all things, well yes I am.
If it means going to church regulary, and reading the bible every day, saying prayers before eating, sleeping, shiting or any other similar purpose, and all around being a stereotype, broom-up-their-ass movielike Christian, then I'm not.

I was baptised at the age of 13, and got my second and third sacraments in the following month.
I even don't know all the ten commandments.
I did some fucked up things in my life, including a lot of things that I am not proud of.

Anyone who thinks that I am special, because my prayers have been answered, can stop right now. I believe that the mustard seed thing is true, so anyone can do this. Also, my faith is heavily influenced by shamanism, explicitly, don Juan Matus'es teachings, in the first four books of the series by Carlos Castaneda. Those teachings bring a clear light to many questions that people ask and the teachings seem very compatible to Christianity. Also some of my knowledge is leart from books, some through expirience and some through word of mouth by more powerfull men than me.

I asked in my first post, has someone here read Castaneda, but I can ask again if you skimmed it that time.
So, has anyone?

Speachless...=D
My stupidity amazes me sometimes. Don't worry, I'm not planing to kill anyone, anyday.

Then get thee to a university. They'll be pretty excited to have proof that prayer healing works. Oh, and while you're at it, I'm short-sighted.  

Thanks for the tip. =D

It's not in the ten commandments, but it is in the Book Leviticus, Old Testament.

I can't say that I read the bible, or claim that I know everything, but I too wear clothes from different materials, and I can't find anything wrong with that.

That's almost literally the wording in the ten commandments: "Thou shalt not kill".

That is the commandment.
And you said it; "almost"
I say that killing people is wrong, but I haven't killed nobody yet, so I can's say what punishment is coming to people who did.

Not really, I'm afraid. But if the saying means that large bodies of mass attract smaller bodies of mass, it's a very smart saying indeed.

Yes it does, and you guessed correctly at my meaning.

Well, it's not possible to read thoughts as of yet, but they do things like examine spots they couldn't normally see and all that. For example, the article I read said that the chimpanzee in question scrutinized the interior of its mouth and used a straw to remove some food rests from between its teeth, so it's quite likely it did, indeed, understand what the reflection meant, and has to have at least a shadowy sense of self-awareness.

Well, a chipanzee can pick it's teeth or it's fingernails without a mirror, too =D
But it can't focus it's awarenes inside itself as humans do. This I have yet not confirmed to be thruth myself, but I'll belive it untill I prove to my self otherwise.

Appeal To Authority isn't a valid argument, I'm afraid. I'm willing to believe what my Computer Science professor has to say about, say, the Von Neumann architecture, but I'd take his comments on, say, classical literature with as much of a grain of salt as those of average Joe.

I'm willing to belive the man that said the fact about animals (beforementioned), because I think that he knows about it more than me, but I would suspect anything he said about something I know I know better than him.

Seriously? You believe that an innocent child would be punished for what somebody completly else has done? How would that be just? Sorry, I'll have to call Poe.

"Seriously?"
I'll repeat myself, Yes I'm serious about it.

"somebody completly else"
'll repeat myself, direct descendant, and that excludes "somebody completly else" as the child's, let's say, father or mother is not "completly else" being that the child in question would be a product of it's mother and father, therefore part of them in a way.

How would that be just?
God's justice is God's bussiness, and I can't advocate on His behalf, what is just or not.
Being just=D me, I would say that a just man is impartial.
On another note, you cannot get a punishment from God if the sin that brings it is not commited. That seems just to me.

As in nature, you cannot create something out of nothing, so did Jesus create wine out of water, and not nothing.
Don't think that the child is suffering for nothing, because it didn't do anything. It maybe that it's parents or granparents etc. sined in the past, and the punishmment has come to the baby now.
I know a few examples by expirience in this.