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Courageous news anchor consumes a sample of 'Grog' to determine its terrible effects on children!

I hope it's one of those two FOX guys that are shown in every 2nd Daily Show or so. I always forget their names..

The bloody point, is even if God exists, due to the incompetence of humans to understand something, it has been misinterpreted. You cannot be aware that your knowledge about God is so little, yet you seem to think you have enough to prove he doesn't exist. Or the other way around.

No, we can't prove that he doesn't exist. But since there's no proof at all that he DOES exist, it doesn't matter. It's as superfluous as impossible to prove his nonexistence.

And if all the religious people tell others that they had personal experiences with god, therefore he must exist then I have to wonder why other people live a long life and die with 90 years, but never ever had any experience like that. Does god have his 'chosen pets' he reveals himself to?

And if someone tells me that you have to first believe in god, and then you can see/experience him, well then I can't take him seriously..

@ Andail: Damn, I wanted to keep my spaghetti avatar as long as this thread is on the first page of the general forum, what do I do now?

Example images:
http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2009/what-goes-around-comes-around/

Somehow the site won't load, but I know that anti-war campaign and I think the posters are really cool.

I am looking for an animator who can create an explosion for when the missile collides with the players' Predator drone.

Ha, that's a task I have to work on for my own game. Since it's not easy I use placeholders for now..

Please email me, info [at] sparkplugcreations [dot] org. I am able to pay and provide a contract Work Order that we both sign. If interested, please provide samples of prior work.

Whoa.. so much trouble for ONE explosion?

Well, could be fun. Seems to be simple and rather monotone, but if the missiles behavior is well made I could imagine that it's going to be addictive.

You guys are nuts..

Thanks for sharing, Khris. That is indeed hilarious!

Yeah, I had some issues with the .NET framework too and couldn't use the editor for months (about two years ago)!

Their current homepage is basically a pile of shit. It's so bad you almost suspect someone deliberately made it to suck.
http://www.onneredsskolan.nu

Haha, that is SO true.

Sorry, can't give any useful suggestions.. but overall I like your page.

Amen.

Geratuza, Kaio already mentioned that:

Nothing original
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And I hope there will be a day when I don't need that much references I need now.

I agree that copying photos shouldn't be the purpose of drawing, but as a start, to get used to Photoshop, brushes, lighting, shading etc... it's useful. Also, who says that this drawing should be related to a game? Many people post stuff here that has nothing to do with game making.

Oh, just read your last sentences. Well, for me it works quite well to learn about these things when copying from photos or other reference pictures..

[because we all agree that the mentioned countries are the ones with the highest living standard]

1. Lionmonkey's question was not stupid. If you asked me to think of the "least religious countries" then I would think first of communist ones and I do not see why anyone would expect these would be excluded from any group of "least religious countries".

2. There was ambiguity on the political parties point, Khris said he was talking about social democracies, which sounded like he was suggesting these were the the ones with the lowest crime rate and best living standards just by the fact of them being social democracies. Since that time Khris has cleared this up but the initial misunderstanding seems reasonable to me.

But Khris did NOT talk about social democracies, he was talking about the countries with the highest living standard. Since Lionmoney asked if Khris meant the communist countries (which IS a rather stupid question, since they aren't the ones with a high living standard), he added that they are social democracies.

Also note that the communist countries aren't necessarily countries with less religious people. In Cuba and Vietnam for example are many religious people. Edit: Okay, not true. Just read that about 81% of the Viatnamese consider themselves atheists . And if religion is opressed in certain countries, then it's a totally invalid issue, because we're talking about people not being religious, not about people not being able to live a religious life because it's forbidden

I am not suggesting that either you or Khris are wrong in this argument, but you must recognise that the argument has changed, perhaps not from how it was meant but from how it was stated. i.e. "lower crime rate" becoming "safer", and "crime" itself going from the general to the specific and I think it may be for this reason that Misj did not initially address it properly.

No, the argument didn't go from general to specific, because the total crime rate clearly wasn't what KhrisMUC was aiming for. The point was very general, precisely that countries with a high living standard aren't as religious as others. Khris mentioned the crime rate as a factor of the living standard, but it's nothing else than nitpicking to focus on the crime rate and throw in some dubious statistics, because we all agree that the mentioned countries are the ones with the highest living standard.

But let me add that - if there was a misunderstanding - then let it be, it doesn't matter anymore. I think we should just finally end the current discussion because things should be clear by now. We could dicuss if countries with a high living standard are less religious than others and why that is so, but not how high different (reported)crime statistics about first-world countries are, since that doesn't really matter.

Misj': No, I'm not arrogant and therefore I don't see myself superior to others. And though some things that have been said in this thread made me angry, I don't pretend being able to make myself a picture of the people who post here, at most about some attitudes they have.

Also, my connection sucks and I'm tired of going trough all the pages to reread things and quote old stuff 

The eye and the area between eye and beak are really good, almost photorealistic! I agree with Khris on the beaks lighting though.

So...it was clear what KhrisMUC meant, but the two people who read it (and were not already preconceived by the truth of the idea) did not understand it. In other words: it wasn't clear at all.

Misj, this was the start of that politic thingy:

(In case you're wondering, the last statement is based on the fact that the countries with the lowest crime rate and best living standard are also the least religious ones.)

You mean the Communist ones?

I don't mean communist countries, I'm talking about Scandinavian ones or the Netherlands, for example. Social Democracies, afaik.

Did Khris talk about politics or the influence of parties on the living standard? No! Was anything unclear? No! Why did Khris mention that these countries are social democracies? Because Lionmonkey asked a rather stupid question..

Then just pretend we're talking about research, not science. Otherwise we'll never accomplish anything.

Do you want me to 'pretend' or are you actually willing to do so? - Because the first case is basically that you are telling me that you wish to stay in a comfortable fantasy world of your own

I'm not staying "in a comfortable fantasy world of [my] own". You came here and told us that what we call "science" should be called "research". Does that effect the content and validity of the discussion that lastet a dozen pages before you made your claim about the definition? No. If the term is the only problem you have, then please call what we're talking about research. That's it.


Regarding your other paragraphs: I think Khris made once and for all clear what his point is and what he's talking about (see the post above for example).

And my crime against common sense is that from the moment I quoted that map I distinctly said: "and while I would agree that the map concerns the reported crimes and not all crimes, nor does it differentiate between lesser and bigger crimes (which is valid to this particular discussion of course)", thus showing that I was fully aware of the limitation. Anyone with at least a little common sense now realizes that you repeat exactly what I said when I first introduced this map.

No, the 'crime' was that you still posted the map, despite your awareness of its invalidity.

Please stay in Mexico, Kongo or Brazil for a year, come back and consider that map again.

Have you stayed for a year in any or all of these countries? - If not, then the argument is not an argument at all now it is, because then you have - according to your own argumentation - no validity for considering that the map is wrong.

I know people who went there (except the Congo), and as for brazil I now someone who was born there and lived there for ~25 years. Of course it's less safe then, say Denmark. But that's not important, see below.

I think Khris' point was that you shouldn't be nitpicky with a definition everyone uses and pretend not to understand what we're talking about just like he shouldn't do the same with your spelling mistakes..

I never pretended not to understand what you were talking about. I said - and apparently have to say again - that you're not talking about what you think you're talking about. If people in this thread stop claiming to talk about science then I don't have to tell them that they are not. It is exactly the same as why people (usually atheists by the way) bicker about using 'theory' in the scientific sense when talking about scientific things.

Then just pretend we're talking about research, not science. Otherwise we'll never accomplish anything.

Ps. by the way, just for the record, when I misinterpreted KhrisMUC's statement about the Dutch and interpreted it from a government-point-of-view, this was caused by KhrisMUC's own words when he said:

I don't mean communist countries, I'm talking about Scandinavian ones or the Netherlands, for example. Social Democracies, afaik.

Since social democracy is a political ideology (and yes, I do have a wikipedia reference for that) it was logical to assume that KhrisMUC meant it as such.

No, that wasn't logical at all. The ONLY reason Khris mentioned that these countries are social democracies was because Lionmonkey - for whatever reason* - talked about communist countries. And that was clear.

* I guess he didn't get the point either. It doesn't matter if religion is opressed in communist countries and it doesn't matter how many crimes are reported in western europe and canada. Perhaps instead of generally talking about crime rate Khris should have only mentioned the living standard or the kind of crimes in the countries. Of course there are more murders in Congo than in Sweden, also much more rapes. So it's SAFER to live in Sweden.

See, that's why I think you're nitpicky and, yes, that you pretend not to understand what we're talking about. Khris made it clear that his point was, that in western countries (and Japan, New Zealand etc.), where the overall living standards are higher, the percentage of atheism is higher too. The better you live, the lesser you (need to) believe in The One. Got it? Or did you get it before and just tried to attack us with some maps about crime statistics?

Thank you both. I hope you'll like it.

Well, I for one couldn't imagine the times where I wouldn't have been able to use neat features like alpha-transparency, an object limit above 20 and so forth.. 

Beneath the map, there's this gem:

Map of countries with the highest reported crime rates clearly indicates that countries of Europe are the least safe countries in the world.

You were talking about crimes not safety. I assumed that your definition of 'crimes' is similar to that of this site.

Are you again trying NOT to get Khris' point? Of course this map is a joke. Of course the western european countries AREN'T the least safest.

I don't think we have to discuss that. Even if these countries had the highest reported crime rates, that doesn't say shit about actual crime. Please stay in Mexico, Kongo or Brazil for a year, come back and consider that map again.

Edit:

Also, all they say is that they "do not own any responsibility for the correctness or authenticity of the [map]" and just that it's based on the "latest year of which data is available" and don't even where that data comes from...

Edit 2:

Ps. By the way...thank you for pointing out my spelling-errors. I will try to be as careful when writing on the internet as when writing a scientific paper. Of course one might consider it to be a bit immature to start pointing out spelling-errors to 'prove' one's point (hay look, I wrote 'prove' in stead of 'proof'...aren't you proud for learning?). But as you already pointed out yourself, you didn't really prove anything since spelling and definitions aren't the same...so I can only assume that your reasons for pointing them out were slightly less gentleman-like. Anyway, thank you again, and I'll try to enhance my English writing (considering that I'm slightly dyslectic, it's a miracle that only these popped out)

I think Khris' point was that you shouldn't be nitpicky with a definition everyone uses and pretend not to understand what we're talking about just like he shouldn't do the same with your spelling mistakes..

Haha, Domino, that's hilarious. Too bad I wasn't around here back then...

I don't know how costly GUI animations are, but here are some notes:

It is my IconBar GUI...
60 png files (1024x115) for the animation (around 85kb each, so a total of 5100kb)

As far as I know images aren't stored in their original format (thus not in their original size) within AGS.

PS: Is there a "frames per second" kind of debug mode where I can see when/where the game slows down?

Yes. The debug mode can be turned on/off in the general settings and the "debug" function lets you see the framerate. Look it up in the manual. Edit: Beaten by dkh.

Here's some light headbanging, no real disco fever though...

I wanted to make a cool robot-dance animation, but I'm too lazy for that and don't want to miss the deadline again..

A little demo with the first two levels (Nebula + City) should be up in a few days.

Sorry for that false promise  .

The demo will have to wait a bit since it takes me some time to redraw the cityscape in order to make it scrollable. Also, I still need to add enemies in that level.

But so you know that I'm still working on it, here are some new screenies:

On your gravbike you'll be able to shoot in all four (cardinal?) directions:


April comments the current situation:


Right now I'm working on an asteroid field (which, naturally, looks much better in motion):