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Here's what you're basically saying: The Oscars should vote for just American films.

No, no. I've said if case A, then A. If case B, then B.

If that's the case, it should be alright. I've never taken much notice of how much Winzip ... er, zips. If it's that much, the whole thing should be no problem ^_^ Thanks.

Ah, it's a good code but I do have multiples of each item. That's what it's deleting, the number of a certain item.

The file isn't -any- size yet because it's not finished. I'm simply estimating it may be 50MB It may be 60, or 100. I don't know.

DG, it's like you misinteprete everything I say.

Okay, they're foreign actors but they're nominated for the American films they were in, no? That was my point.

No, you're wrong. Three of them were in films not American made: Vera Drake (Staunton), Maria Full of Grace (Moreno), and Hotel Rwanda (Okonedo). And you could go one further and say Annette Being's nomination was for a British film (Being Julia), even though she's American.

Fair enough, my mistake.

I'd like to see the Oscars become more global, but it's one or the other for me, not this wishy-washy in-between state.

But it's not wishy-washy. It is global. It's an American institution, but nowhere does it say that it has to be strictly for American films. Doing so is stupid. It's like relegating the Nobel Prizes to Norwegians. Sure, Norwegians are a fine bunch, but there are geniuses and peacemakers in other countries too.

Okay, here. Firstly, I never said it didn't -say- officially it was for any film, I didn't know what it said. Secondly, it's not like relegating the Nobel Prize to Norwegians at all because the Oscars is a show created by the Americans, isn't it? It's held in America, hosted by Americans and run by Americans... isn't it? If I'm wrong, I'm sorry.

As eric asks above, does it matter what the Oscars do? In this discussion, yes, but here's the thing: The Oscars is comprised of Academy members who's purpose is to decide what films they liked. Now, I ask you this: Why should we tell them "Hey guys, you can tell the world what films you liked, but only if they're American films!" That's nonsense! People in the Academy can like films, and songs from films, from other countries. It's just like me liking films from Australia as well as America, Britian, Japan, India, Europe, etc. If you say, "Hey, they should only vote for American films." Then you might as well just relegate Americans to watching American films, Australians to Australian films, Britians to British films, etc, etc, which is equally as much nonsense. I like seeing films from other countries as much as my own.

Geez, look. It's NOT like telling you to only like Australian films because you're from Australia. I was saying that they should only vote for American films if the award ceremony IS in fact to be an American award show. It's like only judging pies in a pie contest. Now, since it's NOT just an American film award show, then I think that of course, they can vote for whoever they like.

The Oscar are just a group of people who tell us what movies, local or foreign, they liked. And I don't think anyone here can say what movies they, or anyone else, are allowed to watch. That's the real narrow-mindedness.

Seriously... NOONE said that ANYONE should ONLY watch ANY movies. I don't even know where that comment came from. My point was simply, once again, that if the award ceremony is for American films, it should be just that, for American films. Since it is -not-, then it should -not- be just for American films.

Perhaps such an overly global event should be hosted in other countries, though.

Wow, just two days ago I was thinking that they should make another Wallace and Gromit. It says the first feature length production... wasn't the er... sheep one movie length?

Well, it's because I'm not using the engine's inventory functions, because of the way my game works...

Well, I don't fancy splitting the file up much, and it's not that large due to music or speech packs, rather just a large game. I guess it'll be as big as it is, and if dial-up users don't want to download it themselves, perhaps they can get a friend to. I think most people at least know someone with a fast connection.

Okay, they're foreign actors but they're nominated for the American films they were in, no? That was my point.

I'm totally all for foreign films too, that's not in dispute. I'd like to see the Oscars become more global, but it's one or the other for me, not this wishy-washy in-between state.

I simply believe that if it's a global award ceremony, it should be so properly so. Otherwise, stick to American made.

Heheh, thanks Gilbot. Just realised that while you were replying, I think.

Ah well. Perhaps I could make this a suggestion then...? To allow you to somehow transport the name of an int then use it elsewhere.

My global script is just getting so long, I'm looking for any way to stop repeating lines over and over.

Darth makes a good point here, no matter what you personally think about foreign films.

Because I'm not American, and I just don't watch these award thingies that much, someone clear this up for me.

IS the Academy Awards (is that what this is?) about American made films, or is it ALL films regardless of country?

Since Dragonrose has commented that it's the latter, I'll assume that for now. So, assuming that, why is there a foreign  film catagory? Also, why is it that American films by FAR dominate the rest of the catagories? If the Academy Awards is in fact for films from all over the world, why is it that you never see one or two non foreign films in the Best Film or Best Sound or Best this or that catagory? Foreign actors are never in the Best Actor/Actress awards.

It just seems to me that if it is for films globally, then they would judge films from all over the world before nominating, people other than Americans would nominate, and despite America's clear advantage in the film industry financially and by sheer number (excusing India, I think), we would see a hell of a lot more foreign films in the nominations. They  may still not dominate, because America, well, has Hollywood. Even so, there would be a lot more of them.

Seeing as this is not the case at all, I agree with Darth that the Awards should be for American films. Films made in America with American money. I can't stand the tokenism of having one or two foreign films that Americans find 'charming' shoved in there amongst the rest. It's clearly run as an Amarican ceremony, it should be for American products. Otherwise it's just unfair.

Pisses me off also the way we ship American actors/singers over here for our (lame) Australian award ceremonies.

I'm creating a function for deleting items, funnilly enough called "DeleteItem", here:

Code: ags

function DeleteItem () {
  if (currentitem>0) {
    currentitem--;
    }
}

My problem is that 'currentitem' is a string, created elsewhere in the script when the 'cursor' is on a particular item in the inventory. Everytime the cursor is on an item, there's a piece of code like: StrCopy (currentitem, ltunic);

'ltunic' (and the others like it, one for each item) is an int that contains how many of that item exist.

I know why this doesn't work, obviously, but there are about 100 items and I've already put the "StrCopy (currentitem, ltunic);" line in for all of them... is there anything I can do to the DeleteItem function code to make the 'currentitem' string "revert back" to it's original string value... ie, Can I make 'currentitem' read as 'ltunic' (or equivalent) containing that int's value?

To stop me from going, say:

Code: ags

if (currentitem==ltunic) ltunic--;
else if (currentitem==gchilli) gchilli--;
else if (currentitem==rchilli) rchilli--;
... etc

Sort of stupid and confusing, I know. I've been doing this for hours now and I can't think straight.

EDIT: Okay, I just realised using StrCopy like that doesn't work. Instead, I could simply place the value of the int into currentitem, but I still have the problem of having to write "ltunic--;" over and over for each item. Is this unavoidable?

Just wondering, is there a particular game file size that would put you off downloading a game? The Apprentice II was about 40MB or so... how many people didn't download it because of that? I ask because my game is looking to be about 50meg (maybe more), and I don't want this to stop too many people from being able to download it. I understand the pain of being on dial-up ^_^

Sounds like a really interesting concept, I like it ^_^ I also love that you didn't make it the old, "How did you get there? You have no idea..."

Just my 2 cents...

Games on mobiles - BLECH! It's like taking a beautiful woman and turning her into a nose stud. It's ugly, you can't have sex with her anymore and you only did it because it's the current, stupid trend.

I do the same thing with Simpsons: Hit and Run I also look at every car and imagine what its stats would be...

UmaaaaaAAAAaaah, AgentLoaf ^_^ You're busted!!

(Sorry, I was having a flashback of being 8)

Great one Peter ^_^

I had read the review before, Pizzaman, but thanks for pointing it out because you reminded me to check the 'comments' again Even though the game's close to a year old now, I still like seeing what people have said about it (and if there are any bugs still @_@).

Oh duh... >_< Thanks.

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That was my screwy interpretation of "Sending it to the stickman"

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