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Eric: what about not coveting thy neighbour's ass? My neighbour is a guy... QED

And Vel, you mean you don't download MP3s or abandonware or offer to get people hacks for Paintshop?

When it comes down to it, why should the state care whether two people have promised to stay together forever, anyway?

a) They end up not staying together most times anyway
b) In the UK at least there are hardly any tax advantages to being married. In fact, if my wife and I divorced our total income would go up... due to her qualifying for extra child tax credit, working tax credit, etc.

Marriage in a church is another thing, though. I don't think that anyone's going to start going to the mosque and demanding they change their rules to let gay people get married there, so I don't see why the church shouldn't be allowed to have its own rules for the behaviour of its members. There are plenty of other sexual minorities out there that the church doesn't approve of, so why should it have to approve of gay relationships? No-one accuses the Amish of oppressing electricity companies...

EDIT:

Damn, my witty exchange with DG was spoiled by the interjection of some REAL bigotry.



Vel, WTF has Christianity got to do with Californian state law?

Actually, it's Non-photoshop Monday.

Who said anything about Photoshop? Who's not reading teh thread now, eh, eh, eh?

so STFU n00b pwned etc.

BEST PHRIDAY EVER!!!!11!!!!!one!!

DG:


[16:23] <Howlongcannicks> there's a woman singing a tina turner song on tv ._.
[16:23] <m0ds> a tiny tuna song ._.
[16:24] <m0ds> and it goes something like this; flop flop paddle paddle squiggle swim squiggle paddle flop blub blub glub squiggle paddle loop the loop glub go left and up 45 degrees flop blub squiggle paddle
[16:24] <m0ds> and then it gets caught in a net, and grinded down into tuna and into my mouth
[16:25] <m0ds> in brine juice.
[16:25] <BOYD1981> m0ds, you aren't stoned, you're avalanched
[16:25] <m0ds> actually, im ridiculed

AND

<BOYD1981> yeh but it isn't a real measurement of lameness
<BOYD1981> things like that can't be measured
<BOYD1981> it's a bit of harmless banter not to be taken too seriously
<shbazjinkens> you're just saying that because you register as so lame
<OsUltimo> bluecup nickometer OsUltimo
<@BlueCup> 'OsUltimo' is 0% lame, OsUltimo
<OsUltimo> yeh
<BOYD1981> no i'm not
<shbazjinkens> bluecup nickometer shbazjinkens
<@BlueCup> 'shbazjinkens' is 0% lame, shbazjinkens
<shbazjinkens> bluecup nickometer BOYD1981
<@BlueCup> 'BOYD1981' is 94.35% lame, shbazjinkens
<BOYD1981> anyway, it judges your name, not your personality
<BOYD1981> so ner
<shbazjinkens> yeah, if it judged your personality it would be much worse


I rest my case

SSH, you obviously didn't read what I wrote carefully, did you?  

When everybody is being ironic, it can be difficult to have a meaningful discussion. So let's resort to dogma instead, wahey!!!

n00bs are teh spawn of satan and should not get married ... it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and PhilRoberts!

oh, hang on, we were talking about gay people. No, they shouldn't be allowed to marry dogs.

What? Are you saying that I'm not reading this thread properly?

Hang on while I just refresh my deep understanding of philosophy that I obtained entirely by reading Sophie's World...

Deep things:

One can never know if you are in reality or in a simulation of reality (Matrix, Existenz, 13th floor) or in someone's imagination (Sophie's World) unless the controllers of that reality LET you know. But then, are they really real?

My Sims don't believe I exist so I flooded the whole place and just let one guy live (and all the animals, of course). Didn't help. Then I took direct control of one sim and did all kinds of miracles that could only mean I was controlling a simulation, but they still didn't believe.  Cheeky little AIs!

If either time or space is infinite, then all possibilities of our imaginations will exist somewhere in time-space, including the planet where all the lost pens go...

Time-travel will never be realised becuase otherwise there would already be time-travellers all over the place. You can argue that they are just subtle, but since when has an invention once invented been controllable: guns, nuclear weapons, etc. all end up in the "wrong hands" eventually. Ooops, I forgot Eric... need to modify theory

Science dismisses the meta-physical as nonsense, but it is kind of by definition "un-scienceable".  So we can't prove or disprove that there is  a God (or which one he/she is...)

Faith can achieve both great and terrible things

Other people's point of view will always be at least slightly different from yours. If everybody respected that, the world would be a lot more peaceful. It's hard to do, and the best of us get it wrong sometimes (and I'm far from the best at this).

No-one is perfect.

This is ironic, as most people used to have the opposite problem... I guess Proskrito included characters handy for a Spanish translation, begin Spanish himself. There are lots of SCI fonts available online. Try here: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/scifonts.htm or search the forums for "font"

You see, it's logical for a guy to marry another guy, or a woman to marry another woman -- both have the capacity to go to work, pay taxes, adopt, commute, and interact with other humans on an insightful and intelligent level.

By this argument, you would be implying that it would NOT be logical that 80% of the people on IRC and the forums (especially IRC)  shoudl get married , as they fail to meet any of your criteria (capacity to go to work, pay taxes, adopt, commute, and interact with other humans on an insightful and intelligent level)  

Here's my example:

stick this in the before fadein of intro room

   int handle=FileOpen("intro.cfg", FILE_READ);
   if (handle==0) {
     FileOpen("intro.cfg", FILE_WRITE);
     if (handle != 0) {
       FileWrite (handle, "Intro has been seen");
       FileClose(handle);
     }
   } else {
     FileClose(handle);
     NewRoom(SKIP_INTRO_ROOM);
     return;
   }

Well expressed, interesting ideas, although of course, ideas are one thing and real games are another...

The Sidhe remind me of that old Spectrum/Amstrad classics from Gargoyle games: Tir Na Nog and also Dun Darach...

Now if someone was to rewrite one of them in AGS!

I've got this wierd thing... I've got a truetype font imported which doesn't use outlining and I have the Alias fonts switch on on the global options page... but it doesn't get antialiased in the game! But I have had anti-aliased stuff work in the past.

Some possible buggy reasons:
I have the same font imported at a different size with outlining on
I have used the font on a GUI (although it doesnt AA as Speech either)
I have sprite AA turned off

Anyone else come across something like this? SP1 and all..

Regarding the rolling for too long of the ball:

The frictional force on the ball causing deceleration is proportional to the force pushing the grss and ball together. Now, as gravity is a constant force while on earth at fixed altitude, it seems that the speed slowing shouldn't make the ball slow down more. However, gravitational force is straight down and the ball is moving sideways, so the actual frictional force is proportional to the tangent of the angle between the gravitational force (constant givena constant ball mass) and the kinetic force (propotional to speed squared) of the ball.  At high speeds, the squared speed is much more significant and the angle stays pretty acute, but as the ball slows the forces get to similar magnitudes and frictional force increases.

Does that make sense?

If you only change the sprite/title screen once, then you don't even have to read the file: just try opening it and if it exists, it will succeed, if it fails it will not.


Or you could save a game in one of the "invisible" slots and check if that slot exists.

Or if you want to be really clever and risky, you could try opening the game exe itself in append mode and adding some stuff on the end, and check if that stuff is there or not. I don't know if you can open the exe while it is running, though.

Hey, I was in Egypt about 4 months after you... and we stayed one night in the Ramases Hilton, too. Le Meridien Pyramids was a better Cairo hotel, though: huge pool and pyramid view. Funnily, the guides still tried to charge us 30 GBP to go to the pyramids even though we could have walked it...

Here's some funny adventures we had:

After unsuccesfulyl trying to find the oldest coptic church in Cairo, we went back to our hotel on the metro. All of the carriages were packed except on at the end so we piled in there. All the other passengers stared at me or laughed at me. They all seemed to be women. Looking through the dorr window to the next(very packed)  carriage, they all seemed to be men... hmmmm  

Also, we took a horse ride around the pyramids (being cheaper than a camel ride and also my wife prefers horses). It was a bit of a dodgy operation as we went up to the pyramids the back way. I suspect this is becuase by doing this, the horse guide avoided the tourist poilice and having to pay his comission to them. Also, as the horse bumped along, my wallet fell out of my pocket. The guide sent his boy to collect it, but the boy seemed to be gone an awful long time before I got my wallet back. Most of the cash was in my money belt, but the credit card and some low-denomination notes was in the wallet for convenience. They were still there when I got the wallet back.

However, when I got home, there was a 3600 Egpyian pound debit on the card (about £360 GBP). Fortunately, when I queried it, the card company invalidtaed it.

I paid 10 Egyptian pounds the first time I went to the toilet, too, Dave. The guy even turned the taps on at the sink for me in gratitude!

My wife was quite good at avoiding the Egyptian's scams, though. We wanted to take a boat over the Nile when we were in Luxor and go to some of the Alabaster factories.  We saw where all the taxis were parked over the otehr side and selected a boat opposite. However, the boat took a very diagonal course and we got off where surprise surprise one taxi only was waiting. Also, he wanted to charge a high price to take us to a factory. Marina was having none of this: she named a price which the driver refused and so she started walking up the road (we had no idea where we were, really!) The driver pulled up alongside and agreed to her price.

I always let Marian do any bartering: she is so much better at it than me. I always get embarrased if the price goes lower than 50% of the origianl asking price, while in Egypt mostly they ask for 10 times what they want for something.
On the other hand, we got a taxi once to the market in Luxor and bought an Opal stone and a gold chain for it. The jeweller invited us for tea, told us stories, etc. All of which menat that the taxi that was waiting for us left (we did take longer than we told the guy). So we came back to where the taxi was waiting and had a problem.

However, the jeweller guy must have suspected that this might happen, followed us and sorted out a taxi to the hotel for us at no extra charge.

It's a very different culture, and a great experience even though I had the runs 80% of the time there. But I don't think I could go back again!

This could be good if you spend more time developing than pimping.

EDIT:
Sorry for being flip, but you had just PMed me to demand I post a comment here!

Anyway, this sounds good and I hope that you can generate a good game. You intorduced some interesting ideas in the first game and I've already said how I like some of the things you did with the user interface and "puzzles". Maybe you need to have some points of light relief in the game, though, as the tone of the original game was a little too depressing at points. Not that you bung in loads of jokes, but maybe some self-parody or something, e.g.

Spoiler

a book on a shelf in the background somewhere called "Pimping for dummies, by V. Ivanov"

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Why does everybody (with a few exceptions) seem to be into stuff that I've never ever heard of?

For me it's Nelly Furtado's Powerless

or when with my daughter, "Row, row, row your boat" or the Map song from Dora the Explorer

Given that there are a few mortal enemies in the vote and that multiple votes from the same IP might actually be someone trying to get an opponent disqualified... maybe just the multi-votes from the same IP may be discounted, unless there is a confession...?

No, I meant that the angle of hand to arm is always the same which makes his wrists look a bit stiff. In Eric's walkcycle tut, I think the hands flap around too much, but in yours maybe too little.