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I had a dream that all the muppets from sesame street chased me up a giant fir tree.

There is a class of girls that still have the colonial-worship mentality going on, and they adore white guys just because they're white. Other white guys who live here don't understand it - back home they're nerdy goofs, but here they are suddenly elevated to exotic sex gods.

Sorry, where EXACTLY are you referring to? And how much is a ticket

Is there any possibility that you can use a Region as well/instead of a hotpsot? Becuase Regions use Room co-ordinates for their getatxy function, not Screen...

"Puzzles" which are too easy add nothing to a story and just hold things up. Puzzles which are too hard can frustrate players who are not good at puzzles. Puzzles thrown in as padding to try and make a very short game seem longer, or as a substitute for plot are irritating. However, puzzles which make no sense are the worst: e.g. Rubber Ducky in Longest Journey, Monkey Wrench to non-americans, etc.  Its all subjective, though. For me, Myst got it right, but Shivers II and the wierd stuff at the end of Phantasmagoria II got it wrong. Others may disagree.

Snake's having trouble avoiding a hotspot when randomly placing objects in this thread. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to have Hotspot.GetAtRoomXY to match the GetAtScreenXY?

The problem is that Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(what.X, what.Y) works on what is on the screen right now, not the whole background, so unless your hotspot is onscreen at the time, and you adjust by viewport, it won't work.

Is the hotspot just a rectangle, or is it a more complex shape? If it is acceptable to have the excluded area as a rectangle, then that makes the whole business a bit easier...

Gold stealing, conquest, genocide and anything related with any aspect of management in the new world did not involve Basques or Catalans at any level.

Curiously, no one of those had something to see Cortés and the Aztecs, which was what you mentioned on first place...

Some of them are "only a few centuries" away of the facts, some others "only a few thousand of miles" away of the facts.

You do what in Spanish is called "move sticks"... Basically replying with something that has nothing to see with the original debate in an attempt to divert the attention.

*cough*

Every time I prove something you say wrong, you try and claim that it wasn't what you are trying to say. Tell you what, let pretend I agree with everything you say, because I can't argue with someone who can't even admit when he's been blatanly proved wrong

Nacho, you said that the natives conquered by colonials saw them as parents. I mocked that, with the smilie. How you can read that as me belittling genocide, I have no idea. Enough non-sequitirs, please.

As for Basques and Catalans not being in charge, here's a few quotes from Wikipedia:

Don Pedro Fages Beleta (Catalan: Pere Fages i Beleta) (1734â€"1794), nicknamed El Oso, was a soldier, explorer, and the second Spanish military Governor of New California from 1770 to 1774, and Governor of the Californias from 1782 to 1791.

Fages was born in Guissona, Lleida province, Catalonia

Gaspar de Portolà i Rovira (1716 â€" 1784), a soldier, governor of Baja and Alta California (1767â€"1770), explorer and founder of San Diego and Monterey. He was born in Os de Balaguer, province of Lleida, in Catalonia

Pere d'Alberní i Teixidor (January 30, 1747 â€" March 11, 1802) was a Catalan soldier who served the Spanish Crown for almost all his life. He developed the major part of his military career in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. It is especially remarkable his role in the military history of New Spain, in the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Pacific Northwest in the 1790s, and his later proclamation as interim governor of California in 1800.

Lope de Aguirre (c. 1510 â€" 27 October 1561) was a Spanish Basque conquistador in South America.

Juan de Garay (1528 â€" 1583) was a Spanish conquistador. Garay was born in Orduña, in the Basque Country. He worked and fought for the Spanish Empire, first in the Viceroyalty of Peru, and then at the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. He was governor of Asunción

Miguel López de Legazpi (1502 - August 20, 1572, Manila), also known as El Adelantado (The Governor) and El Viejo (The Elder), was a Spanish conquistador who established the first colony in the Philippine Islands in 1565. Born in 1502, Miguel López de Legazpi was the youngest son of Don Juan Martínez López de Legazpi and Elvira de Gurruchátegui. He was born to a noble family and lived in the small town of Zumárraga, in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa

The whole "Basques and Catalonians were innocent" line sounds like Nationalist propaganda. You get exactly the same thing here in Scotland "Oh yes, it was the English who went and killed natives and built the empire" despite the fact its a load of codswallop.

Oh, a joke about a the history of a Country that I don' t feel as mine and the wink emoticon, I was missing it.

Again, for 100th time... Spanish american conquest was made by Castileans, Andalucians and Extremenians. My origins are Basque and Catalan which were not Spain in that period.

Err, most of the boats the Spanish used to GET to South America were crewed and built by the best seamen of the age... the Basques. Columbus and Magellan are well documented as having loads of Basques with them and it was a Basque who was actually in charge of the boats that completed the first circumnavigation at the end, as Magellan had died in the Pacific.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Basque_explorers_and_conquistadores
Catalonians:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pere_Fages_i_Beleta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_de_Portolà_i_Rovira
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pere_d%27Albern%C3%AD_i_Teixidor

Awesome job, smiley!

How big are the powerups? Do you want that no part of them is over the hotspot?

Also, is it a scrolling room?

Just pay the pron site's subscription, Joseph, and then you'll get full-size images and not just thumbnails

Aye, I'm sure that the Incas saw the Spanish taking their gold just like their mum and dad...

In many countries, the leaving colonials did they best they could. Not very good, but hard to see how they could have done otherwise given the fact that they were already an occupying power. Mountbatten was a prime chump but its also hard to see how the whole India process could have gone any other way than it did.

Nacho, to take your bakery analogy. The baker tries to sell his bread to the manor house, who have their own bakery. They only want their own bread, and always have loads left over which they sell off for less than cost to the villagers. So not only can't the baker sell to the Manor, but the price of bread in the village is forced so low that his bakery isn't viable.

The problem is, your re-randomization can still put it on hhole:

Code: ags

function RandomPU(Object *what) {
  what.SetPosition(Random(200)+60,Random(803)+235);
  while (Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(what.X, what.Y) == hhole) {
    what.SetPosition(Random(200)+60,Random(803)+235);
  }
}

...

if (pu==0) {
  RandomPU(object[9]);
  // etc...

 

Do you really mean that all the countries from the first world do have a systematic program to ban certain products coming from the third world?

Effectively, yes. Agricultural subsidies and more blatant forms of tarriffs mean that not only do American and European farmers not have to worry about cheaper foreign imports, but if they have a surplus, it gets dumped on the world market and destroys the price that third world countries can get for it. It's not a ban: if you really want to import very expensive stuff from the other side of the world you can, but who would want to?

Oh well, now you said I must...

I think EuroAmerican protectionism also makes a difference, Nacho.

I think the funniest thing about this argument is about how pro-lifers say that "over 10 million people die every year through abortions" like it's a bad thing. And then you realise, if it weren't for abortions the whole world would be packed.

You're right. There's nothing funnier than a murdered baby!

And you're so right about killing people helping overpopulation. Why not drop hydrogen bombs on the 100 largest cities in  the world, and we can get rid of more than a billion, even better!

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Most people who claim that having a baby is selfish seem to come into two categories:

1. People without kids who don't like that their taxes pay benefits to families with children
2. People without kids who are being pressured into having a baby by their partner

There does seem to be a noticable lack of people saying having a baby is selfish in this category:

3. People who have actually themselves adopted children

Draw your own conclusions...

The thing about overpopulation is that it would also be a disaster if the birth rate became too low. There's no chance of that  occurring any time soon, globally, but I don't think anyone really thinks it is a good idea for there to be zero births. See the movie "Children of Men" for that scenario!

And what the hell is with this male to female ratio? 6:1? Sounds like a bukkake lover's dream!

All the girls are scared off by comments like this one, you see ...