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I have to say I really like the style, especially the colors / patterns.

Here are some points.

1. The desk's legs don't have any depth. It's not only unrealistic, it looks odd too. Also, the line doesn't fit the desks edge.

2. It seems that you didn't always use the line tool to draw your lines. Some look too.. sloppy.

3. The black outlines of the drawers stand out too much I think.

The chair looks way too sloppy. I suggest you take a photo as reference and draw him once more. The shadow on the floor looks rather abitrary too but I can't give you any useful advice on that..

Otherwise I like the background, it definitely has potential.

EDIT: Haven't read the other posts, so sorry, if I'm repeating things..

then I listened and thought "m3h."

Personally I don't like them, but to each their own.

Mh, did you listen to most of their stuff over some time or just once a few songs? When I listened to their single "Guerrilla radio" back in .. 1999 I think.. I didn't like them too. But later I became more interested and after listening to two of their four albums I suddenly was a huge fan. And I'm still one though I've listened to them a bit too much..

P.S., You rage, you lose!

Hehe, the pics are quite funny (did you post them in reference to my drunken post, ahem?).

How about taking your sprites into a more realistic realm:

Is there a reason you dug up a two year old thread, subspark?

Yeah, and it would be weird to suggest such a thing nevertheless since there's a very new thread about the game already being in production with these sprites.

Do you guys have any infos on Rage Against The Machine? I know they came together once more to tour around and give some concerts last year. They played in Berlin - and since I'm a huge fan I would've gone there if I could've afforted the 50 Euro (while a friend just went to the concert location for luck and was given a ticket for only 22 Euro  :).

I also know that Zack has a new band called One Day As a Lion which has released a few songs yet. But I really would like to see RATM back on stage (well, I've never seen them live) or even release a new album, though I doubt it will ever happen.

I don't think there's much going on with them but I'm just curious if anyone has any infos.

SORRY FOR DOUBLE-POSTING

I've no clue how the heck this happened..

Okay, I'm too fuckin drunk right now, but I'll answer soon. 

Honestly, Matti, I haven't read this thread deeply... I was not aiming to anyone in particular, so, don' t get "offended". Anyway, my thoughts were not directed to you when I was thinking in the "welcome everyone" group, or to anyone in the forums in particual, but to some people I met during my real life.

No offense taken  . It just seemed you were referring to me.

My idea is that people has the right to be welcomed in a country when their want to get integrated, when they learn the lenguaje asap, follow the laws of the hosting country and do not want to impose outer costumes. Keeping their costumes sounds perfect to me, I actually think it' s nice to see "arabian week" or "Latin friday" in my city, because I have the right to go there or not (I usually pop up there to take a look)... When they FORCE me to be "arabic", "latin", "asian" or whatever you can imagine I don't like it that much.

Yeah, I agree in general. It's just that I can't stand it if people say, the immigrants have to be productive, educated.. well, "useful" to be welcomed in a country. That's not why they migrate, they (most) migrate to flee from starvation, persecution, dictatorships etc. and they all have the right and a damn good reason to do so. Not letting them into the country cause they're no enrichement for the economy is just.. well, perverse.

Honestly, I don' t think nobody (Pro-"everybody is welcome, no matter if they deserve it or not" or the pro-"nobody's welcome, no matter if they deserve to be welcomed or not") has the complete truth in this discussion but what really annoys me is that the "everybody' s welcome"'s  posture is so popular that they are not able to hear the other side, or consider that they are not 100% right.

1. I think I'm the only "pro-everyone" guy here (yet). And I don't think my opinion is quite popular.

2. Don't infer that I'm "not able" to hear the other side. I certainly do!

3. There's no such thing as truth about that topic, it's a matter of opinion and one's view on mankind and the world, definitely a very general thing.

I don't know what to do with your term "deserve". The people who are born in a certain country "deserve" to live there and others don't, is that what you mean? That's a view I can't get used to.

But we do really want inmigrants to settle? When I ask to some people about their opinions about little girls wearing Chaddor no matter if they want or not, the answer I use to receive is something like: "It' s their culture! A millenarian one! Who are you to judge them? Who are you to assume that our costumes are better than theirs? Respect them!!!"

If the girls are forced to wear the chaddor then I'm all against them wearing it, naturally. If they do really want to wear it because it's part of their religion or culture, then there's no problem. But both has little to do with them living in another country.

So... Do we want integrated inmigrants or not? Because some arguments here are quite contradictory...

Hm, integrated to a certain point. Of course there's the problem of parallel societies where immigrants live only with themselves. One must show them how fortunate it is to learn the mother language of the country they're in for example and that's why I think it's very productive to give them free courses and stuff, the things you talked about, Nacho, regarding the treatment of immigrants/refugees in Spain.

Some people here claim that inmigrants settle well...

When that very people is prooved that they do not they answer "No problem... They have their right of not settle, if they don' t want!".

Yep, exactly that. For the following reasons:

1. They Do have the right to live wherever they want. I know, most people will disagree, but I dispute governments to decide who can live in the country and who doesn't.. like I mentioned before. To quote The Doors: "Into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown." Nobody is able to decide where he's born and what country he starts to live in. So he should be able to decide where he wants to live, may it be Argentinia or North Corea.

2. Some "native" citizens behave as bad as "not-integrated" immigrants. What should we do with them? Throw them out of the country? How can we dare to privilege the people who were born in a country and don't let other people in. How can we prefer the ones to the others?

If you're referring to very general things, in my experience most of the people from other cultures settle in well. Yes, some don't but that's the same thing with natives...

Well I had the spread of Sharia law throughout Europe in mind.   

Yeah, okay. I'm all against changing the law according to muslim beliefs just like I'm all against having law being influenced by religion in general. But I was talking about immigration in general and it includes muslims of course. But they just can't demand changes in law according to their religion.

I have nothing against them building up mosques cause there's no difference to having churches or synagoges. I'm an atheist and don't care much about religion as long as it's a people's "hobby", I mean, as long as it stays out of courts, schools and any official institutions.

You are assuming that such a people desire to adopt your values, culture, and way of life.  You would perhaps not be so eager to welcome large numbers of people into your country who desire to impose their values, culture, and way of life on the residents of your country.

You're implying that everyone living in a country shares the same values, culture and way of life. That's just not true, a country is not that homogene.

If you're referring to very general things, in my experience most of the people from other cultures settle in well. Yes, some don't but that's the same thing with natives...

Hm, why is Shai-La fighting a stormtrooper in that title picture? As a Sith isn't she supposed to be on their side? Or is that stormtrooper supposed to be a clone and you're settling the story before the old (new) episodes?

Hm, am I the only one unconditionally supporting every kind of immigration regardless of "the usefulness" of the migrating people?

Of course there are talented/educated/skilled people who don't have a chance to use their knowledge and skills in their home country, and yes, they are an enrichement for their new country.

But especially those who aren't skilled and don't have the possibility to get education or work in their home country are in need of emigrating and they do have the right to do so imo.

I will never cotton up to the fact that a government decides about what people can live in "their country" (an artificial entity, an area without natural borders but borders that were often set by war profiteers). Every human has to right to travel the world and to settle down where he or she wants to!

And where the heck lies the difference between a lazy german who doesn't work and gets all social and health benefits and a migrant who comes to the country and does the very same? The luck of the german to be born in Germany? That's a rather vicious, egoistic reason.

Opposing immigration is - at every time - only a cheap but far ranging attempt of the government to disguise the real reasons for the wealth gap and other social problems. It's an excuse for their own shitty politics. If they're continiously cutting down expenses for the poor/unemployed while continiously giving investors and employers tax shelters - then there's no question why the social situation is bad, but is has nothing to do with immigrants, may they be useful* or not.

*Oh, what an inhumane term to describe a human being, but it's strongly anchored in peoples' minds I'm afraid.

As for the sound effects:

do you want sounds or music or both? Quick google it and you will find 

Free sound effects are really easy to find. I can't give you any specific site though.

I thought it was a horrible, plot-hole filled piece of rotten swiss cheese.  I'm not surprised that it's popular though since there's an explosion or something being punched in something every 5 minutes.

Ha, agreed!

There's a weird pirate-like Romulan who wants revenge, there's a giant ship and there's a superweapon... and a crew of pathetic teenage dreamers... that was so stupid and boring..

What do you have against Banque Nationale de Paris???

I guess it's racism against the French (language)...

Well, it would be nice to have a feature like this implemented in AGS but really don't understand why such a feature isn't supplied by windows.... I have the problem with other games too. I would like to see those bars whenever I play something in fullscreen...

I met a couple of old English people in Spain once, they'd retired together out there, had plenty of money, but had grown up with the idea that immigrants are all troublemakers, blacks are all thieves, England isn't what it used to be, yadda yadda yadda...

Haha, they're sick of the immigrants in England so they migrate to Spain. That's the spirit.

But I agree to those saying that nationalist parties are gaining popularity whenever the people are fed up with the mayor parties or when there are hard times coming and some dumbass politicians who weren't elected before promise heaven on earth.. or at least another, better way to solve the problems.

Of course there ARE people who stand behind those parties. Both in Italy and here in Germany, the post fascist parties are getting votes and Nazis are walkin around... fortunately not too many.

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I'm no friend of banning those parties too. Well, I don't care if the NPD (the Nationalist Party) in Germany would get prohibited (two attempts failed til now), but the problem would persist. You can't get weird thoughts and ideologies out of peoples minds by forbidding things. Instead I guess that would make it worse..

Is there a way to make the fullscreen mode have a blackbar at the bottom and/or top so the aspect ration is maintained?

... I guess you mean you mean a bar on both sides of the screen instead of the top/bottom  

Well, I don't think so but if there is, I'd be more than interested since I have the exact same annoying problem with my laptop.

No. Since AGS stores graphics in its own format, as long as you don't use alpha channels, BMPs are perfectly fine.

Well, it's stupid anyway for it's unnecessarily takin away space on your harddisc 

According to the author, this bug should be corrected by now. I guess you'll have to download the newest version..