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Actually he admitted that he was attracted to beautiful women and that sometimes he kisses them without waiting.  He then said that if you are a star they let you do it and that they would let you do anything, even grab them in the putty.  When I was much younger I would have found kind of talk disgusting, in third grade I would have said "Ooooo kiss a girl ... yuck!" but that was a long time ago.   So yes, in fact I did find it refreshing that the guy talks like a normal human being.

If you kiss someone or grab someone without their consent, that's sexual assault. People will often let powerful people do whatever they want to them because they are afraid. Rich and powerful people can afford rich and powerful lawyers. They are often above consequence, because they have the power to absolutely destroy anyone below them. Why do you think women only stepped forward after Jimmy Saville's death? And even then, they were derided.

And if that's what you think a normal human being talks like, who the heck have you been talking to? Who are you?



As a bonus, here are some things Trump has said about David Duke:

• Duke ran for governor of Louisiana in 1991 as a Republican, and Trump said at the time that President George H.W. Bush was right “to come out against” Duke's campaign. Duke lost but he won a majority of the white vote â€" which Trump found troubling. “I hate seeing what it represents,” Trump said, referring to what he called the “anger vote.”
• In 2000, Trump considered running for the Reform Party presidential nomination but did not run because he said he did not want to be associated with Pat Buchanan, who had left the Republican Party to seek the Reform Party nomination, and David Duke, who supported Buchanan. Trump at the time called Duke “a bigot, a racist, a problem.”

And suddenly he doesn't know enough about Duke to comment? Or he's become more sympathetic to him and wanted the racist votes?

Interesting example.  Let's see if I understand correctly.  A second generation Muslim man, whose religion teaches that gays
should be imprisoned or killed goes into a gay night club and starts shooting "queer latinx people" all the while claiming
he is doing it because his religion says so.  Trump is a bigot because he says Muslims from Muslim countries where they kill
and imprison gay people as well as others who aren't Muslim or as Muslim as they are shouldn't be allowed into our country.

1) He was an American born citizen growing up in a society that hates and fears homosexuality.
2) He wasn't a practicing Muslim, according to family.
3) Islam no more teaches that gay people should be killed than Christianity does.
4) Don't put people's identities in quote marks like that. Queer = LBGT, Latinx = Latino/Latina with the x standing for people who don't fall under either -o or -a. They're legitimate.

Being a Muslim is just like being a Christian - except you have different rituals and observances. If you actually talked to Muslims, you'd see an entirely different thing to your preconceptions - they run the full gamut like everyone else, nothing about being Muslim is inherently better or worse than any other religion. You realise that Muslims are just people, just like everyone else, right? You can't use the deaths of queer people to attack Islam, using us as a prop for your Islamaphobia. I mean, fuck sake. What are you doing to protect LGBT people? Voting for Trump?

Oh wait, Mike Pence announced that he would repeal the protections LGBT people gained under Obama. Whoops! He's all about religious freedom to discriminate, too! And he wanted to remove HIV prevention funding so he could torture gay kids! So I guess that religious hate and terror is okay when ~white people~ do it!

It's so easy and fashionable to jump on the Trump-hate bandwagon. Social justice warriors have mobilised in force today. Someone I know is joining a demonstration outside the US embassy in London to protest against Trump being elected. Protesting a democratically elected leader in another country? I actually can't understand the stupidity of things like that. The only explanation has to be to gain personal sanctimony points.

God damn do I hate when people say stuff like this. Like Trump hasn't been dehumanising entire groups of people for months. Like he hasn't picked a murderous insane vp who wants to fund torturing queer youth until they say they're straight to make it stop. Like what he's campaigned for hasn't been entirely bigoted and dangerous to people's very lives. How dare you expect us to take it lying down. How dare you say "oh, it's just the sjws scoring outrage points for kicks". People are fucking frightened of what's been validated here. One of the biggest mass shootings this year was entirely to murder queer latinx people, an intersection of two groups of people Trump has been rallying people against all year. I would be protesting too, not because he's a democratically elected leader but because what he's been selling is inhuman and monstrous and the fact that he got in is inhuman and monstrous.

If the only explanation you can think of for people to be upset is "sanctimony points" then you haven't been listening to a single word people have been saying about the very real danger to their and the people they love's lives.

Hate crimes against minorities will increase, as a bigoted president has been elected, validating the views of awful people and empowering them to attack even more frequently than they already do.

Muslim, Black, Latinx, LGBTQIA+ and disabled folk will suffer, and it'll be an awful time.

Doing it natively is gonna be a pain, yeah. I think AGS has a way to export all your strings and reimport them after editing, though.

In order to change a font from UTF-8/Unicode to something AGS would be able to display:

1) Download Fontforge.
2) Download and extract this encoding file. You should end up with "Encoding.ps". 7zip should be able to open .gz files.
3) Open your font in Fontforge (make sure to back it up first)
4) Encoding-->Load Encoding, choose Encoding.ps.
5) Encoding-->Reencode-->Windows-1250
6) Save your font.

You should now have a font with all the Hungarian characters within 0-255. Getting it to appear correct in AGS is another thing, you'll need to reencode every string to Windows-1250 as well. I'm sure there'd be a way to do it automatically using the Translation feature (by copying every line down to the blank line below it, reencoding the TRS file and then importing it as the default language, it should be something possible for someone who knows how to program text stuff to do it very trivially). If the AGS editor had codepage support for text input this would be a lot easier, having UTF-8/Unicode for the editor and 8-bit encoding for the engine has caused no end of strife.

That's really weird, those double accented characters shouldn't be rendered at all, because they're above 256. That it's rendering characters outside out that range for dialogue is... quite honestly astounding. The way your font is formatted, Š‘ is character number 337. AGS is probably putting that number back within the 0-255 range it can render, leading to:

337%256 = 81. The ascii code for capital Q. AGS holds 1 byte of memory for each character, no more. You could probably reencode your TTF font to use Windows-1250 (it contains the hungarian characters you seek), but that might make writing text in AGS really difficult, because I'm not sure if there's anyway to change the encoding format of the script editor and stuff.

How did all/almost all of them end up using hypnotic suggestion though, following Mandle's theory?

Because that sort of psychological technique isn't black magic locked in a tome where you need divine inspiration to translate the ancient runes. It's pretty elementary, you can learn it in actual books. There are books on how cults work as well that's similar - affirmation and repetition and easing people into that shit with stuff they have to agree with and then connecting lines without giving them time to really think and introspect about what's going on.

They all use it because it generally works on people. That's like asking "Why are all these films shot using cameras", or "why is all this bread baked with flour". Because it works. Pft, next you'll be asking why fortune tellers use cold reading or why magicians use sleight of hand.

I was reading a book on different kinds of cults earlier - it was talking about how one cult leader attended seminars by another cult leader, and based their own cult's structure on how they did theirs. It's a formula that works and makes money, so people use it. And generally, you only hear about the people who are even a little bit successful at their craft. Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen, after all. But it takes skill and talent to craft bullhockey into a stream of consciousness rollercoaster that manipulates people's feelings.

Okay, let's look at it the other way around. Are there any laws that the EU has passed that justify a full exit from the EU that are worth:

• Tanking our currency to never before seen lows.
• Cutting off all free trade between us and Europe. (combined with our weakened currency, prepare to see basic necessities skyrocket in price)
• Cutting off free movement between us and Europe (even though we have a lot of british nationals living in other countries - more than all the other countries have in the UK)
• Our government classifying and deporting families from the UK for being not British nationals, potentially sending them to die in other countries, and letting children suffer for it.
• Our government wanting to deport foreign workers like doctors without having a suitable pipeline for creating new British doctors?
• The fivefold rise in hate crime against people seen as non-British.
• The lack of an exit strategy by the government, which is currently salivating over deportations rather than striking trade deals with people.
• The leave campaign's absolute focus on fucking immigrants.

Are there any laws that have been passed that are that bad? Any particular law? Or is it just the principle of the thing?

I'm shocked and bewildered to discover that Brexiteers aren't now pushing for the dissolution of the unelected House of Lords, an independent Scotland and Wales and a united Ireland.

After all, it's national democracy that really matters to them, not jingoism, bigotry and a general sense that everything was better in the 50s.

I've been trying to find a way to write that all day, and I'm glad you said it before me, Ali.

It's like, Scotland voted quite strongly to remain in the EU. I think it's kind of hypocritical that we be forced out of it because some English people really wanted to destroy connections with the EU because they thought it wasn't democratic enough. After all, we didn't want it, but THEY voted for it. The only response I've seen from Brexiters though is "you're just sore losers, nyeh nyeh we won #MakeBritainGreatAgain" which is like We have major concerns over the competency of our government and the reasons for their decisions??

It is about jingoism though, there is no doubt about it.

Alright, I think I sorted it out:

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Just to throw this in here though, not everyone who wanted to leave the EU did it for xenophobic reasons.
Does that count for anything?

Not really. The people in charge wanted to do it for xenophobic reasons, the campaign was xenophobic, it validated xenophobia. It doesn't matter what other reasons there were, if the people in charge of the result wanted a xenophobic end. There was no way to vote "Leave but not in a bigoted way", even though your reasons are more complicated than the binary choice given to you. Could you really trust people who were courting UKIP with any kind of exit from the EU that wasn't abhorrent and xenophobic?

Nobody is going to starve because we leave the EU. In the short-term things will not be good, which would happen to any country that leaves. But it's pessimistic to believe that the UK cannot survive and shape its own future outside the EU, and slightly bizarre to believe we will suddenly descend into a fascist state.

OK, but what about Children of immigrant families being catagorised (historically used for expulsion of those families), them floating legislation to shame companies and make them list how many foreign workers they have? It really does look like England is trying it's darndest to make life a living hell for people who aren't white british nationals. It's not just the economy. The break from the EU opened the floodgates to a lot of xenophobic bullshit, vindicated it, celebrated it. You know that hate crimes against non-white british citizens went up fivefold after the referendum result. Nothing will suddenly happen. But it will descend into monstrous actions if it isn't stopped cold. You can't be blind to what it will unleash and why the referendum was proposed in the first place. Sure, leaving the EU on it's own might work, but not in this political climate, and not with this government, and not with their lack of a plan, and not with xenophobia as the campaign's major focus. UKIP has been angling for it for years, and they're about as far right as you can get away with.

In the end, it was never really about EU leadership, or the EU itself. You can see it by the legislation that is being proposed right now - they aren't setting up business deals and improving the economy, they're not trying to talk seriously about how the UK will work after Brexit. They're salivating over expelling non-British people from the UK. Leaving the EU was always about xenophobia.

There's a huge difference between a reactionary decision and an intuitive one.

A crude example might be the difference between "I'll vote for satan before I vote for trump" or "I voted for an independent candidate even though all three promised things that would benefit me."

Bit of a difficult idea to explain, especially when I know that there are people without a lick of intuition. It's a decision which you don't fully understand, one qualified by the subconscious mind rather than the conscious.

The only difference between those things is that you either realise your subconscious bias and influences, or you don't. Voting with your gut is still unbelievably unwise.

Leaving the EU was the correct move, even if it's expected that they will sabotage your economy for it.

And here's where I take so much umbrage with that. Leaving the EU is possibly the worst thing that we could possibly do. Just look at what the government is doing now. Our economy is tanked and tanks every time they affirm they're gonna leave, they're floating the idea of deporting EU citizens to replace with british ones and forcing companies to disclose how many foreign workers they are employing, and what is their economic plan? Artisan jams and cakes? It's monstrous. "Leaving the EU for more sovereignty" was just a dogwhistle for "Shit, let's be incredibly fascist and xenophobic" and that's all it ever was. They had no plans, they had no real idea, they just wanted to reconfirm how xenophobic they want the UK to be. And anyone, ANYONE who says otherwise is completely blind. Hate crime rocketed after Brexit, and even before Brexit the leave propaganda mimicked early Nazi propaganda about immigrants and outsiders. It forces talent out of the country, because wow, the UK's education system sure did get worse under the coinservatives and that's not gonna bring in many new people, and if we lose free travel with the EU we can't even escape the country while it turns into Nazis Take Westminster. Brexit is a living hell, and leaving was a huge mistake, not a correct decision, and any mollification of "voting with your guts to leave" by saying that somehow thinking less about the situation you're voting on is more noble than knowing why you're doing something is not going to help. It was a mistake. It should have never happened.

And no, nobody is sabotaging the UK's economy except the people running the UK. If someone told you putting your hand on a hot stove would burn you, would you then say that the person who warned you was burning you, and not your own stupid decision? Of course the economy would tank if we tried to leave the EU, or even said that we would - our economy is full of businesses that use the UK as a homebase because of our ties with the EU. Stop with the conspiracy stuff, Jack. It's getting old. And quite frankly, it's insulting.

I have a puzzle in my game where you need to make a stone tool, and I really want to use a tactile stone knapping thing to shape it instead of just combining items. There was a game called Sapiens that had this kind of minigame in it where you worked away at the edges of a stone plate to create a hatchet or something:
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The idea was that you struck at the stone by holding down the mouse button, and the longer you held it down, the harder it hits. Small taps can get rid of that bright yellow area, but large strikes are required to get those in the first place. I know how to do the controls, and I'd be able to draw the assets, but I have no idea how I'd program the shape detector, or bits chipping off of it. I don't need anything super realistic, but I'm not sure how to approach the problem itself. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can begin?

Alright, thanks everyone!

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I added another frame to remove the limpiness and added the two bounces, now it looks a lot better!

I need to animate a pig walking, and I'm not really sure I've got it down properly. I've only really done bipeds before, so quadrapeds are new territory for me. I referenced the Muybridge pig for it, but it's a little difficult to extrapolate it for pixels:



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I'm not quite sure where to go with the walk animations, where to put the bounce in, or even if there should be any. Trying to add a bounce made it look phony, so how do I make this pig walk look more natural? And how can I make the front and back views not look like ass (no pun intended)?

To reproduce this, you must have a game running with a scaler, such as 320x200 running at 2x nearest neighbour. Any characters standing on a scaled walkable area will be scaled down using the resolution the game is scaled to (with the example being 640x400), not the resolution the game was created at (320x200).

This wasn't so much of an issue back in the old days when people would simply scale 2x at most, or keep it at 1x, but this age of scaling to 4x or 5x the size, it is extremely noticable.

I forgive the people in 2008 for assuming it is the end of times and that Oboner would be the last US president. It may not have been the end, but the illusion ended for many.

Let's be honest, they did it because he was black, I wouldn't forgive them one bit.

Also, even if these health rumours meant anything (we've had plenty of very sick presidents before, some of them beloved), I would totally vote for a corpse over Trump.

Sometimes! It depends on whether people have ideas for a particular theme or not.

I'm totally in, though, I've just not hit on the perfect concept for it. I love this theme! Uplifts are my jaaaam.

I was working on a quest-for-glory-esque adventure game before we lost our apartment and had to spend a couple months trying to find a new place to live. I may go back to working on it, once I've worked on the puzzles a bit more. It's not ready for more than techdemos right now, but it's perfect for Release Something!




The game's in 8-bit as usual for me, I had to program my own plugin in order to get all the effects I wanted out of AGS, but it looks really promising.