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Nah, actually, I was referring to Dan

Pretty much anything that "can be done in scripting" would probably be better as a module than as an add-in to AGS itself.

Pfff this troll is probably just another one of these amusing joke forum characters that DGMacphee makes up from time to time

SSH is not talking about you. You've been here too little to be hated. Relax.

Oh yes, Nikolas, you're absolutely right

I know what Yahtzee did, I knew it from the start, SSH. I just don't think that's worth hating him.

Don't worry, there are plenty of people on these forums who are more hated

[Why not just say so?]

So you just wanted to find out what happened in the past? Why not just say so? Or even better, look it up in the wiki.

That is not a change to the topic, it is an attempt to restrict who posts here, which I think is a very bad idea as it will neither work nor be a good thing if it did work.

If you want to have this strict control over subjects, start your own forum where you can be a moderator and choose your own rules.

What is wrong with Syberia:

1. The first section is full of doors that you can't go into. It makes it look like they had origianlly intended it to be bigger, but ran out of time and money
2. There are too many filler screens with no purpose but for the player to walk through from A to B, slowly
3. The cursor change over a hotspot is so small as to be hard to notice

What is good about Syberia:
1. Mobile phone was a nice idea, although might have been done better
2. Awesome graphics

Sequel? Are you asking if we prefer the originals or sequels, or if the whole Syberia series to the Myst series, or Syberia2 to Riven, or what?

Anyway, I prefer Broken Sword 1 and 2 to either, although I liked the original Myst somewhat.

@ SSH: If the cases of the nailing were clear...

Well, in your earlier argument, you seemed to be accepting that the bit where he said X and Y was true, so I assumed we were arguing about what the bible meant, not whether the bible was true or not. Obviously, if you don't believe that the bible is true, then you're in a whole different argument than something so specific as what |Jesus's intentions were according to the word in the bible...

Anyway, sacrificing yourself for a motive supposed to be important does not prove divinity.

I wasn't claiming divinity for him in my argument. I was just trying to explain that saying that you can't possibly know what Jesus was really on about from reading the bible simply isn't true: you were arguing that becuase direct quotes from Jesus in the gospels are relatively sparse, then you can't know anything about his motives or intentions. I think you can deduce things. Can we stick to arguing one point at a time, because you're moving the goalposts...!

And, about the real message of the new testament... If he came to forgive the sins of the people, I just can ask... why?

For the same reason that I forgive my daughter when she jumps on me and accidentally hits me in the nads... I love her. Now, I explain to her why she shouldn't do it, but I don't get angry. If she kept doing it, I would maybe have to use a punishment such as going to her room alone for a while and so on. But even if she kept deliberately doing it and causing me a lot of pain, I'd still love her and still forgive her. But if she was doing this as a teenager and moved away from home and cut off contact then although I'd still forgive her, it wouldn't make any difference  to whether we were together or not, as she wouldn't know. But if I suddenly got an email or phone call from her from the other side of the world saying she was in trouble in some way and wanted my help then I woudl drop everything and go to help her.

The Christian message that I believe in is that God is like that.... but more so. Funnily enough, some guy called Jesus tells a similar story about a son who goes off and ends up eating pig swill...

In that story, the other son is angry and jealous at the end, as he doesn't think the fatehr shoudl have forgiven the son who went off. In the old testament, there is another story about a guy who God sends off to tell some people who are bad to stop being bad. The guy doesn't want to, as he doesn't want them to be good as he hates them and would hate for God to forgive them. The guy was called Jonah. God is forgiving and merciful, and its up to him as to whether he forgives anyone. So maybe he'll forgive all those devout, peaceful muslims as well as forgiving the devout, peaceful Christians. I love that God is "big enough" that that is a possibility. So maybe he can forgive those involved in murder conspiracies, like, for example, St Paul. It is his forgiveness to give and I hope I will be accepting of it, whosoever is included.

Yes, tell us more on how you teach the teachings of christ to a 3-year old in order for it to behave.

Nah, I generally use promises of sweeties

To be honest, I don't really know which is Jesus' point, since if you note all the sentences he said in a paper and read them aloud you should only get a 4 or 5 minutes speech, Andrew...

Well, there are actions that speak louder than words: like someone who has a hotline to an omnipotent being allowing himself to be nailed to a cross.

I actually think that it's 1,000 times more meritory to practise this message of christianity

The message of christianity is that we're forgiven. How is that something you can practice without believing in a god, and eternal life? You're perhaps confusing christianity with judaism.

Good behaviour is something that has to be intuitive, as Helm said.

You obviously haven't tried to get a 3-year-old to have good behaviour

You could try my digraphs module which converts pairs of characters into other characters. So for example, you could use "(2" for Omega (it kinda looks like an omega, right?) and set up digraphs to convert it to whjatever character in your greek font is set to actually print an omega onscreen...

Although cheesy, it sounded like it probably would relax some second graders. It did relax me a bit, until the feminine voice on the CD split an infinitive, and I got up to eat cheese and crackers.

When I was going to ante-natal classes with my wife before our first child, the teacher gave us some relaxation techniques. My wife and I giggled at the new-age mumbo jumbo she spouted until she said "and just imagine the baby inside mummy sucking at the amniotic fluid". Ewwwwwwwww!

EDIT: After I came home and saw my son snoozing in his bassinet, I felt a lot less crappy.  I actually smiled.

Just wait until he reaches the age when upon your arrival home, he jumps up and down and shouts "Daddy, daddy, daddy"... 

And there's also this line "I am not going to change a comma of an accent of the Law" which makes me think that he actually was an ultra-orthodox, in spite of a reformer.

Well, that's the point, isn't it? He said that he came not to abolish the law, but to fulfil it (by taking the punishment of death). And if someone else has taken the punishment anyway, you can do what you like...

Why not contribute to the Sphinx project with your itchiness?

Princess Marian

If you're going to use scripting, then why not just do:

Display("Text directly here rather than using global messages");

but anyway, you can make your first room actually not a room but just a place to do your intro in. It doesn't have to be the first-numbered room either, so don't worry if you already have a room 1 (although you can create a room 0 if need be): the room your player character is set to start in will be the room you game starts in.

It is important to have those generic ones in your unhandled_event just in case you miss some interaction by accident. Some generic rubbish still looks better than no response at all. However, do try and fill in all those gaps.

This is much easier to do in comic games, where you can make some joke about most objects, but serious responses are much much harder to do, and tend to be longer.

I remember a game of "Pilgrims progress" for the Spectrum and you had to type, exactly, as you were leaving the city of Destruction "Run and do not look back".

Aaarrgh!