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I'm in a questionative mood the other day as I wandered town and I got to thinking about copyright laws. The idea of copyright laws are that the creator of an idea has the entitlement to profits produced by the idea pattented by him/her eg:

I'm gonna make a game about people who have lots of pets that we love, make them fight each other and then say we know nohting about... i'll call it Pokemon.

Copyright law gives the creator of the game (and the game designers etc.) full rights over the game. so they get to choose the price the game will be sold at etc. but when does copyright law go too far?

"Alright, I thought of this game, I made this game and if it weren't for me it wouldn't exist. so I get the right to say that only people in america can play it for the first three months... I can say the game will cost £40 making me (once the liscence fees are paid and designer saleries etc.) roughly £34 a game after shipping and production costs. giving me a salary of about £130k a year for at least three years..."

In that case...

you made this game, I- using a cartridge writer- have made my own game. Why cant I sell it? because of copyright laws. because it is your idea you get "full" rights to it. and I DO agree with it, but there comes a certain point when they go too far.

people who (still using pokemon for this argument) make digimon have to dodge around certain aspects of their games now (even if they also had their original idea, they can't do it because somebody else said it first) Spinnoffs and parodies can get sued if they don't say things like "these r not v characters. and if u fink they luk like em it jus a coincidence!" and that because they are the only people allowed to make the game they will charge stupid prices, and then you get a message during installation or startup "visit the www.richbastard.com website and get upgrades for the game- you paid for the game, but not enough..."

What do you all think the creators of games should have rights to? and when do they abuse those rights?

i'm just asking if the "enter the forums now" lin could be bigger, and gave a vague explanation why.

Tak, it isn't that you have no right to post what you want.. it's just that he wasn't all that rude about it, he stated his opinion calmly and you over-reacted afterward. Besides that, he isn't a native english speaker and makes terrible grammatical errors that offend people's mothers sometimes, so you'd better get accustomed to it.

I know Spaniards have a terrible reputation for being newb-eaters, but give him a chance.

HAHAHA! look, i'm not actaully explosive or anything guys, this isn't my first forum though, and when somebody attacks you on your first post you'll lose alot of respect if you just roll with it.

This guys admitted he wasn't actually attacking just me, and i CAN see his point, I've told him that and he's.. abaited(?) anyway, no hard feelings. but if you wan't to insult my posts in the future, just mention that i have the sanity of post traumatic stress disoreder suffering inbred wealsh pedophile,.

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i wanted to be an mp3, but i'd be worried that somebody on the internet was saying that "kids lvoe me" 

I'll have finished college (or been kicked out), so i'll either be finished working as an electrician and going independantly or i'll be working back on a construction line making cherry bakewells full time.

When I first tried to read the forum page, I scanned through the rules and missed the "Enter Here" button, I agree that you must read the rules before entering and then doing the quiz, but I had the feeling as I read it that because there was no button, I would read all of those pages simply to get to the bottom line "sorry forums down for a time" but the link wasn't even at the bottom, it looked like an out of the way caption in the middle, a fottnote on the rules you never read...

My parent's had a VCR before I was born but the first VHS given to ME was a Thomas The Tank Engine episode compilation(?) i used to watch all the episodes over and over, and still get suprised when the treacle fell on thomas before the fair!

Takkar, although you're not a forum expert after having made 11 posts, we do appreciate your views on how you've been treated so far. But you've got to admit, this second rash of "What is...?" posts (yes, we had a first) does tend to push other, more important posts downward. And we all known nobody ever reads Page 2 and beyond.

I understand completely, but when I did this first post I understood that also, this is a good wy to get to know your peers, nobody actually reads past the title post on the "introduce yourself" threads, and when people try to attack the new guy I can either take the attack and be labled "soft" (or somesuch,) or I can nfight back and end up being labled as an equal (until they get to know me)

and if there were 5/6 of the "if your were a resident evil character...." threads, and if there was i understand that most people wouldn't bother to join the threads if they think thats what these people like to talk about, but as it happened there weren't any. and i'm sure that if every post on npage 1 is listed as "last post TODAY" then a few of the regulars will search for other posts from today on page 2 as well, even if not all do.

I'm not here to cause a fight, but when one of my first posts are attacked by somebody i will defend myself, i'll admitt to not knowing that there have been past problems and I'll admit that i myself have seen a few of these type of posts that are just plain stupid.

but listening to peoples philosophies can tell you alot about them, theres a chance to see who will be convicted about their posts and who will look for an excuse to use the word "shit" in a post.

and if you were going to join a forum and somebody tries to flame you, would you just roll with it? it's not hard to empathise that the new guy is flamed for no apparent reson and retaliates in a dignified manner (dignified IMO anyway,)

Actually, this was not pointed to you, but in this latest month there have been like ten similar cases. You've just been the drop which made the water of the glass flood.

Oh how i love you, the kind of person that can't discern a newb from a n00b and who thinks the new guy should be shunned. It's kind of a philosophy in itself, not one i agree with maybe, but no matter how hard i try to treat somebody as an equal, someone who insults you at first meeting and then on second attempt says "nothing personal" and then makes personall provokation (eg: "I like sweet lemons") give me an opinion that you are shallow and generally an imbeciele, if you weren't speaking to me on a forum, i'd ask if you knew how to read.

Yes, those "what is your favourate..." threads can be annoying, but this can be avoided in many ways.

1. DON'T click on the topic (duh.)
2. get a life outside the forums. (so when a new guy wants to introduce himself you feel the need to attack him.)
3. Read the title's of threads. (hmmm... a "what is your fav. thread... i don't like those so i won't bother to read them.)

number 3 is my favourate, it can lead to questions like.
this forum is pro diversity? then why do people attack newbs, who wish to get to know new piers?

although some people may want to get to know their piers by asking "what is you favorate shawn connery film" i feel that finding out somebodies philosophy can give you a deep insight into their psychie, so if more than 1 thread comes along, who cares?

rather than writing an answer like this, and making us not friends, you could have simply ignored the thread, granted we still wouldn't be friends, but there won't someone i think little of every time i read one of their posts.


Seriously, if you wanted to make enemies you don't need the internet, you can just go outside and shout obscene things to strangers, unless you feel this is the only way you will win a right (or "falme war") because there will be no physical work on any level? (more than presssing ctrl + V to paste "azzole" repeatedly and making you look *so* witty.)

I honestly have little doubt that if we did get in a flame war, either i'd lose and leave this thread, or you'd lose and suddenly reply with "this is so childish, i'm ending this right now" but if you want to prove me right go ahead,

Hmmm... I am a member of an "independant converted religeous organisation" When i was recruited i was told about "being a Ta'akara of Te'e'ehak"
After i was briefed on what the religeon was about "after the basic info anyway" I said. "So if i'm interested in becoming a 'takkar of tekekak' I should just come back?" the guy remembered the name when i joined the other members called me "the takkar of tekekak"

the chances of it fixing itself when he moves house is doubtfull, unless the server is run on his computer, at which point as he moves the site itself would be shut down with his computer, (and could be fixed by him shutting Kazaa down.)

the problem itself suggests the domain provider, and this is a busy site. IF the the provider is having technical problems then the sites all their bandwidth lowered, and with a many active users as this site has it would be dramatically slowed and then forced into a kind of "que" which would make the waits longer and longer,

and yes, I have experienced them too.

I already introduced myself on the intro sticky, and this is a question i ask alot because i'm fairly interested in philosophies.

and just becasue theres no out right flamming allowed in this forum doesn't mean posts like yours are exactly the "warm welcome to the community" people would expect.

Saying something like that can upset some of the newB's that try and find a local forum. and before you even know somebody you're rejecting them. I could have vital skills needed by the community or be a help in the future or anything.

I understand that i won't make friends with some people on a forum, but i wish the people like you would at least be polite, and even if you can't why take the time to write something like that?

So as far as intro's go, I have said hello on the "hello" post, as far as interests go, i'm going to voice them as i see fit and as far as first imprssions go, almost everyone is polite except you.

Wake up with a smile
Live the day with calm
Greet the night with relief

You sound rather depressed in that one, like you just want life to go away...

alright, it doesn't have to be original, but it has to be something you'd like to base your life upon. I'll start:

Life is lemonade:
a few sour lemons
some weet as sugar moments,
and alot of average day to day water.

woohoo! i'm reply 100! *self congratz*

Hello, i'm Daniel. most people on the internet call me TAK, cause it takes ages to write takkartekekak. i'm working on a game that will emphasise my insanity right now it's called "takkars world." although it shouldn't seem too you shall advance into a plot. etc.

anyway, this is me!

EDIT:

if this isn't your first game this could be a stupid question, but "player starts in room" section of that character, if you leave that blank or as 0, when you start in rrom1. then the first room won't appear to exist.

I took a look and it say that if you do this before you load the actaull game it says "the specified room intro.crm does not exist, continue anyway? and if you click yes the game crashes, is taht your problem?"

I'm downloading the file now.

Thanks guys!

fixed! thanks alot!

i'm making my first AGS game and i'm kinda stuck at this situation:

After you pick up a piece of paper, room6 can be entered, you gain 30 points,Ã,  gloabal variable 2 now =5 and "EGO" moves to room 6 c0 ordinates 132, 46.

Thats not exactly right but its the generall situation, I can command it so that my character enters room 6, but he appear in the center of the room, no matter what i can't move him either, and using the "move character to co-ordiantes" says "error- character is not in room" (i tried putting thease in either order to no affect)

so the 2 commands
Character - move NPC to different room, and
Character - move to specific co-ordinates.

don't seem to work, is there anothe obvious command i'm missing here? (the character i'm trying to move isn't my player character either.)