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Some times I think people go too far with freedom of speech.  If you know Muslims have a past of not allowing this stuff, and you know they will get angry why do it ? Its to irritate muslims, its not a show of freedom or a testament to the greatness of the west. This whole thing could have been avoided, but it wasn't. I think Muslims have the right to be mad and protest, but peacefully. But at the same time the west has to realize the gravity of this thing to the muslims and that they won't take it as a joke.

First of all who the hell do "the muslims" think they are that they can tell the Danes what they can and can't do in their own damm country??   It's not the Danes fault that muslims have a long history of being humorless dick heads nor is it their responsibility to worry about it.   The whole purpose of political cartoons and humor of this type is to illustrate the absurd with absuridty.    The cartoons effectively served that purpose by exposing many tens of thousands of muslims as being the insecure, violent, intolerant, bigoted assholes they are.

Second of all  I am deeply offended and angry with people who have this sentiment about freedom.   The US was founded on Judeo-Christian values as espoused in our Declaration of Independance and our Constitution.   Many people through out our history, including many of my family, have fought and/or died for these values and to secure the freedom we in the US and EU enjoy today. 

Declaration of Independance
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, ...

US Constitution
Amendment I - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

You see in our tradition FREEDOM IS GOD GIVEN AND IS NOT TO BE TAKEN FROM US BY ANY OTHER MAN OR NATION.   Notice the wording of the first amendment of our constitution above.  It begins by saying that "Congress shall make no law ....".  That means that the freedom of speech cannot be taken away from anyone by any man made law.  It was given to us by GOD and only GOD can take it away, got it?   Can't you see that what is being demanded of the west is impossible?

Why can't muslims respect my God and my beliefs in the way they would like me to respect theirs?    I am just as insulted, offended, and angry as they are!  Don't I have a right to be?  Perhaps I don't have the same rights because I am not muslim?   

At this point I think the only sensible thing for people in the west to do is make more cartoons that make fun of the behavior of the many muslims that rightly deserve it.

Just my two cents worth...

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I have a couple of ideas regarding system defined variables.  The first one I would find immediately useful.  The second one is more of a request for discussion than for an immediate feature. 

• game.name - Would it be possible to add a game.name or game.filename variable so that one could find the file name of the game that is running from within the game.  If implemented, the current game's name wouldn't need to be specified by the user.   A String containing the file name without the extension would work just dandy.
  
  
• gs_globals -  The documentation says that these are obsolete and so nobody should use them in a new design.    Presummably they are still in the engine for compatibility reasons and because CJ hasn't gotten around to removing them yet.    Anyway what would everyone think about making gs_globals  "persistent"  so that the data contained in the gs_global array would survive RestoreSaveSlot() and RunAGSGame() operaqtions?  I suppose it could be an option if compatibility was an issue.
  
  Currently it is nearly nearly impossible to set a flag or state that will be preserved after a restore operation is complete.   Even writing the data to a file is a bit tricky because you still need to know when to read the file.   
  
  Currently there is an option to retain the values of global ints through RunAGSGame().  The problem is that global ints are in fairly common usage and a module that required them to be used a certain way would be an intolerable annoyance to many wouold be users of the module.   Since the use of gs_globals  ought to be much less common  such a module requirement should be proportionatly less annoying. 
  
  Anyhow, feel free to flame away!   

I'm not sure I correctly understand what you're asking but here is what I know about the subject:

Global functions must be defined in the Global Script file.  They can then be imported into all of the room script file by placing the appropiate import statement in the Script Header file.  Alternatively the import statement can be placed in each Room Script file where it is used.  AFIK you can't define a function in one Room Script file and then import it into another Room Script or Global Script file.

Hehe, you had to bring this up again didn't you!

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/UnNews:Wikipedia_DDoS_over_Muhammad_cartoons
http://face-of-muhammed.blogspot.com/2006/02/original-article-page-in-jyllands.html

Since SSH brings it up ...

I don't know if there's any life left in this thread, especially for people who do not share my opinion that black people should all die in horrible agony ...

I think Helm is following the fine moral example of the muslim masses but has been misunderstood.  He must have meant to say that:

I don't know if there's any life left in this thread, especially for people who do not share my opinion that black people should all die in horrible agony unless they convert to being devout white people".

Unfortunately I doubt there's any way to cross-compile a mac plugin from a pc, so either the plugin writer would have to have a mac handy, or know someone who could do it for them (hi).

Althouh cross compilation is a bit of an issue it is not a show stopper.   It's not what I had in mind when I refered to needing the assistance of the runtime maintainers.   I was thinking along the lines of actually linking plugin or other glue code to the runtime to enable the plugin to work.

I could be way off base there though. It also doesn't seem to have been updated since 2000...

Arrrrgh!!! Sorry for not having picked up on that.  It looks like it's a dead project eh.   Oh well!!!   

Danish paper rejected Jesus cartoons

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I guess we can rest easy, knowing that the prospect of millions of Danes and other Europeans going apeshit and rioting all over the world has been averted. 

The Danish daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny.

Sounds like a resonable criteria for accepting or rejecting content to me.   Would you publish something on your website or in your game that you didn't think was funny/entertaining or appropiate?   Who else but you should decide what content you get to publish?   

I can see the point though.  Clearly the Muslim world is light years ahead of us poor infidels here in the west in terms of morality and fairness; they would have published them in a heartbeat.

Is it possible now to write a cross platform plugin (TCP/IP client for example) and then compile for each platform?  Or must they be statically linked into the Linux and MAC runtimes thus making it necessary for the maintainers of those platforms to do the link/compile operations?

Upload your game somewhere and I'll take a look at it.   I PM'ed you the FTP info for my site if you wish to upload there.   

Let me know what version of AGS you are currently using and the URL where I can get the game and I'll have a look.

I am sorry to confess that I do not understand the module completely :-(

It's a diffcult module to understand because of the way Save/Restore game functions work and from where they can and can't be executed.    What happens is that the actual operations are not performed where the instruction appears in the code but after after that particular script is completed.   So instructions that appear after the Save/Restore instructions in the script are actually executed before the Save/Restore operations are performed.   

In addition,  the Restore operation overwrites all the variables so if you want to set a flag or other variables to remember what the module is doing you have to play some tricks, like saving/restoring some data in a text file and taking advantage of the RunAGSGame() data parameter.

So don't feel too bad about not understanding it fully.   For the same reasons I am not yet happy with the scripting of this module and aI am currently trying to make it a little les convoluted.

That must really impress the ladys....

Yeah, I can' wait to tell my wife about it tonight...

Hey Squinky, did you hear, a few posts back, that I have the bigest grammaticaster in the universe. 

Dunno, sounds more or less absurd. If I'd want that, get a better reputation, I'd start an alter ego without ever informing that I left in the first place. Have a few nicks here and there, you'd never knew who you were talking to¬¬

Whooo! I never thought of that.  My other me can join the forum too.  IThen I can tell myself what a jerk I am and to F***off.   Hmmm, what nick should I use ... .I know how about JkciR?   

Have you imported the module into both games?  Have you tried upgrading to AGS 2.71 or V2.72?  I have seen this behavior recently while I was changing the module.  I didn't try to find out exactly what was happening because I knew I had things out of sync.  The problem eventually went away.  If importing the module into both games doesn't fix the problem let me know and I'll upload the current DemoQuestand DQCycle games for you. 

[Fire Breather]

h rickyJ-you are :"igavene sitapea ja sitanikerdis, ennekõige haige AJUKÃ,,BUS, KES IGAST ASJAST SUURE NUMBRI TEEB!" .i think I'm gonna nominate you to there as biggest grammaticaster in universe.

Thanks man.  I have a big grammaticaster because I'm Itailian.   Oh, and btw, here is some of your competition.
Fire Breather

I can't read that shit. (Is there a Babelfish for this sort of thing?)

The way I read it he is saying that he speeds about 37 hous a week at school.  He goes to the gym to do something with his sister a few hours a week.  He never claimed to be a professionall he is just pretending to be one.

Rick - nice ^_^ *high five!*

*** Rick winks right eye, gives high five, and in an Autin Powers voice says "Yeah baby!" 

RickJ and m0ds: You are pedantic

SSH I don't know what pendantic means but if it means that we have big grammaticasters to shag the chics with, then I'm all for it. 

I just came across something called Korelib which claims to be "A cross-platform library for plugin-based applications".  Is this something that could be used to allow plugins to be portable?   

I just nominated Uku for a Darwin Award.  Here is the text of my nomination.  I don't know what they will do with it but I'm sure Uku is bound for infamy.

Dear Wendy,

I would like to nominate a 15 year old male from Estonia, I only know as Uku for a future Darwin Award.  He hasn't managed to die yet but I think it's a pretty safe bet he's not going to collect an old age pension.   

Let's just listen to his own words he published on AdventureGameStudio's forum recently:

"I made myself a flame thrower.  I have flamed around my house for 2 weeks now and I think I will share my invention with you guys.

Take a supersoaker water gun(or any watergun, thats need to be pumped to shoot) then put gasoline instead of water in tank nad make a litle hole in front using drill or nails. Into this hole glue some wire and to the other rend of wire put a pice of cloth thats soaked in gas. pump some pressure into your tank, ignite cloth and shoot."

In response to many warnings about the obvious danger Uku says:

"Dont worry,
I AM NOT AN IDIOT(we`ll argue about that Tongue), AND I AM LIKE (not realy just like) PROFFESIONAL(i have messed with KNO3,C,S mix=Black powder for 5 years(got ingredients in 2000). bla-bla-blaa.I have foo... experimented with every kind of sh..things that burn faster than mach for 6 years, so i do know what do do and what do not do do(ARGH soo much do-s).I AM SMART ENOUGH TO NOT ROLL IN GAS AND JUNP OWER FIRE. SO STOP MAKNG FUN OVER ME!!!! (you may if you are proffesional pyrotechic)
though is thread is not for humiliating me. this is for peapole who are interested in like these kind of things."

I know that Darwain awards are usually given posthumously but I don't think there is any doubt that this guy will ever live long enough to procreate.  For this reason I would like to nominate him to recieve a Darwin Award even though he has not yet departed this world.

If you would like more information the original forum post is here:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=24939.0

or you could ask Uku directly at his emial adress here: uks12@hot.ee

Best regards
RickJ

Here is a snap shot of the MoiniGame module that you can probably use for your purposes Martijm.  I will post newer versions as they become available.  Let me know if you have any p[roblems with this.

MiniGame_V102.scm

Why not just ask for a couple of 16:9 resolutions be added to the game setup.  We already have scrolling rooms, so on a wider screen you would get to see the whole background or at least a larger part of it's width.   I think the technical and practical aspects of adding more and/or higher screen resolutions have been discussed here many times before so I won't go on, except to say that I have always been in favor of higher resolutions.   

I don't think schemes involving stretchig, clipping, etc would be of much use for games that were never designed to be played on a wide screen or that don't have scrolling rooms.   

When I was in Jr. High some kid in the class one year back poured a bunch a gasoline on a piece of card board and lit it.  He ended up buring off his eye brows and comming to school looking funnier than hell and earned the nick name Ding-a-Ling which for all of you forigners pretty much means "retarded bastard".

When I was much older I worked on truck scales for awhile.  There was a truck stop in Pensylvania where our company had a coin operated scale which we serviced from time to time.  Across the road there was a little was a little truck mechanics shop with which we had some dealings.  It was owned by an individual who did most of the work.   On one aocassion when a colleague and my self were assigned to go there to work on our scale we noticed that the shop was burned down to the ground.  We inquired about it and were told that the owner was asked to repair a stainless steel gassoline tanker.   Apparently he had asked the drive to empty the tank before he did any welding.   Ufortunately the tank was full of gasoline and air mixture.  Shortly after the wekding began the tank exploded and engulfed the little shop in flames.  The owner who was doing the welding sustained 3rd degree burns over 90% of his body but managed to survive for about a week before he died from his injuries.

You can keep playing with your super soaker and gasoline if you want but if you manage to burn yourself up I hope they put the word "Dumbuass" on your epitaph.   

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