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Congrats ElaineMc, it's a great game & definately the best one this month, It's the only one I haven't quite finished yet & didn't get a chance to vote as I didn't realise it would be announced so soon (& I hadn't finished your game), but as it turned out you didn't need my vote anyway.

I'd like to see what you can come up with when you're not limited to a month.

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I haven't posted in your thread yet cause I'm scared I might read a spoiler, the only small thing I noticed was in the Manse, up stairs to the right, in that screen the walkable area goes too far to the right and you can walk into the black area beyond the screen, very minor

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What about Mike Patton?

Yes, he's one of my favourites, he's in a bunch of bands I love.

I remember in the Epic clip he was wearing a Mr. Bungle T-shirt

In My Cd player at the moment (a 3 disc one) I have FNM-Angel Dust, Mr Bungle - California & Tomahawk-Mit Gas

so you can say I'm a fan, I've seen FNM twice, Mr. Bungle thrice, Fantomas Twice, Tomahawk once.

I've also heard a solo album Mike Patton, which is just him making weird vocal sounds, odd but worth a listen.

I'm sure he's in some other bands (or projects) too, He comes out to Australia quite regularly in his different bands, most recently Tomahawk & Fantomas played together (He does have Australians in his bands)

but I wouldn't say FNM were underrated (yes they were more than just Epic) but they were fairly commercial after that IMO (although Mike was much better than Chuck) His other bands are fairly underground though.

big bad voodoo daddy
royal crown revue
cherry poppin daddies (they did more then zoot suit people)

retro swing gets no respect

I really get into that scene too, I also like a bit of Rockabilly and Psychobilly.

One of the most memorable gigs I went to was the Reverend Horton Heat, he rocks.

I would have loved to see 'The Stray Cats' live,

'The Living End' are a great aussie band that are fairly big here, excellent live show.

I used to be really into the Punk Scene, (inc all those Fat Wreck Chords bands) but it's become too friggin pop, thanks to bands like 'Blink182'.

Ska is great, My favourite aussie ska band are 'The Porkers' - awesome live

Mad Caddies are great too, another Fat Wreck Chords band.

I used to be a fan of 'Frenzal Rhomb' and know the the singer.

My favourite band that doesn't exist anymore, were the 'Fireballs', they were from Melbourne, Heavy/Psychobilly on speed would be a good description. I climbed up on stage once and lit my Cigarette off his flaming Double Bass at the end once.

man I've seen literally hundreds of bands live from all over the world, I could go on forever.

Excellent redruM,

I've D/L it and I'll play it over the weekend sometime.

Congrats again on the big effort

~Tim

that kinda makes you wonder about those people with bowel cancer...

cervical cancer too, we'll see after the next porn star generation cum through (that don't get don't get cancer from repetitive plastic surgery, excessive drug use, leaking implants) and I thought carrots had vitimins

It's funny that no one has noticed that in my sig, I have naked men, women, sex scenes, stripping, mooning, cross dressing and drug use.

At certain times in my life I've had the ability to control some dreams to some extent.

Last night becasue of this thread, It reminded me to give it a go (but only a a subconcious level).

I woke up earlier than I wanted to get up so I tried to get some more sleep. Quite often when I wake up early it's in the middle of a dream, and if I can get back to sleep quickly enough I can continue this dream. I can also lead the dream in ways that I want too. I was totally aware it was a dream and at this point I actually remembered this thread.

It's still quite warped and changes like a normal dream, but you do have thoughts you can knowingly add.

I haven't had a dream for years where I could fly, but I used to have them all the time (especially when I was less than 10), and I could float around, but once I caught on I was dreaming I'd always slowly decend back to the ground, I could take off again for a while but as soon as I thought about it I fell back down. But the actual feeling was amazing.

some people say they don't dream, but that is not true, you dream several times every night, it's just that you don't always remember them.

From my experience it's easier to remember your dreams if you wake up during them, and they fade fast if you don't write them down (unless they're a nightmare that you'll never forget)

It is also easier at this point to start manipulating your dreams if you can get back to sleep. It can also be similar if you feel yourself waking up.

I remember studying something in a Psychology subject I did at Uni about the different levels of sleep, and REM sleep or something was the level where you were deep sleeping and where dreaming occurred (note this is vague & I could have dreampt it)

So I'd say it is usually when you are coming out of this state ready for waking that you are actually somewhere inbetween conciousness's, therefore you are more likely to be semi concious and control certain aspects of your dream (at the same time your dream can confuse your normal thought.

I suppose a good example is when your alarm is going off & you are interrupted in your dream by some siren or bizare noise. But It can suck sometimes when that Chick of your dreams is there and you can never see her face (lucky you can still see the other parts)

I think the moral is if you do anything often enough you'll get a tumor in that area, so I recomend sharing that sex to as many holes as possible.

Nice game releasethefrogs, I enjoyed it, I thought the zombie fish were excellent. The puzzels weren't hard but lack of interactions made it harder.

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just a couple of little bugs: once you lose the fishtool, when you go back to start screen, you can get the fishtool again, but you also need the fishtool to leave that screen again

when you go back into the prawn shop and talk to the prawn, it is as if you haven't got the picaxe (when you have already got it), and the dialog gets a bit strange depending on your responses

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Good luck in the mags comp, and keep up the good work

~Tim

Hey, I never noticed you could see the nipples but there are two frames where you see a slight bit of nipple, sweet.

yeah, as good as it is, if it offends anyone I guess it's not appropriate, and it's not like there aren't pleanty of females around, and kids.

Butcher's avatar was asked to be removed, and was, when it had some cartoon breasts bouncing up and down.

maybe you could show the whole animation to show that it is actually a tranny people are gorking at.

To answer earlier posts, yeah - I messed up. I said the earth was 2,000 years old because...actually... I have no hell of an idea why I said that...maybe I was just really tired, I have no clue  The rest of you were right - the earth is about 4,000 (5,000 at the absolute most) years old.

Just on this part I'd have to totally disagree, if you are going on evidence in a book that uses lots of metaphors (and did you read the bit about a day not being a day in our terms) I think what I mentioned about light is proof enough, and I know SSH had a valid argument, but that is really just clutching at straws.

I seriously think (IMO) that most christians have been in denial for thousands of years and some are now realising that not all they've learned is true (sure a lot of it is) but why try and convince yourself of things that are even obvious to you, couldn't be possible. (drug addicts are good at rationalising things to themself too, but are they right?) there are too many flaws in the story "physically", maybe the years got mixed up just like in FOA, and 5,000 really means 50 Million or 50 Billion, now I think that is more likely, and is quite possible, would explain Dinosaurs & Stars. I think this particular error has been argued many times before.

And if you literally hear God speak to you, it's called a delusion, you need to seek a doctor straight away,

he only speaks to you in other ways (conveniently) like you get a pay rise, so you have extra money to donate to a charity. (which is not really God talking, it's just using your mind the way you were brought up (brainwashing)) but if it works for you, you can claim it was God telling you but it really wasn't, unless God is in your mind (then that's a Delusion)

I have witnessed a couple of friends having Delusions in real life and it's quite scarey, it's quite similar to the way they portray people possessed in movies, it's like it's not really them, even though they are right there, they seem confused & aggitated, and don't seem to make all that much sense.

It's usually a Lithium imbalance, which means they are given Lithium, which Is a very serious substance that I won't go into.

I don't know why I brought any of this up, but you can see how certain things said can be miss interpreted, like hearing the word of God.

Can Homosexual couples get Married in SF yet, have we convinced them enough

well if it says the Earth has only been around that short a time, does that include the universe?

Maybe the earth went into storage after an ice age or something.

But explain this: the light we see coming from some stars are millions of light years away, which means the stars we see at night are from light that has been travelling way longer than the earth has been in existance. Some of the light could have been travelling that long. And those same stars were around 2000 years ago & the light had still been travelling millions of years before that. (and this is not just a theory, it is actually measurable, there is no argument about this one)

But I have also heard that in the creation story of earth & the universe, the term days isn't in our sense of the word (how convenient) and was actually over a longer period of time, but it still is one of those stories that seems way off, hence helps in hindering beliefs around the world.

The big bang theory makes more sense but it still could be the same story as creation, but just explained in different terms.

Then there's evolution, that is a whole other story that we haven't covered much, but as we will never know any of these answers, it's good to see some different responses from people in how they deal with the unknown.

We just go on what other people have taught us or what we have read, then we make up our own minds anyway.

Who can you trust in the end?

it's me, honest, I don't even have my fingers crossed behind my back.

You mean humans are that selfish they think it's all about them? no that can't be right.

Congrats Sully, hope it all works out, and thanks for the beer, it hit the spot.

Do you get a staff discount, or is it too early to ask those sort of questions?

now don't copy all thos dvd's & games, it's illegal

look up 'Character functions' or 'MoveCharacterToObject' in the manual and that should help.

and for your other question, there is box in the general settings tab in the editor - 'walk to hotspot in Look mode'

I'm not sure if that's what you were after, but it may be, if so make sure it is ticked.

~Tim

Yeah Peter, faith is the only thing that I agree upon cause that's what belief is all about.

I just have a hard time trusting in something written by people that I don't know, how do you know what was going through their minds, how do you know they were not trying to con people, how do you know that the English translation actually makes sense (once translated the contexts can't be derived from the english)

whoever wrote some of the quotes you mentioned about homosexuality being a sin, how do you know that person wasn't a homophobe, or maybe that person didn't know about the physical facts behind it (we still don't know now, but there is enough eveidence in this day and age that it isn't just a choice of lifestyle)

So I don't think a couple of books written long ago can stand up today, sure a lot of it can be used for good, but I'm sure if those people were around today, some of their opinions would be different.


There's just some things to think about, And I'm not trying to bash christianity, I just don't think the bible was intended to be used the way that it is.

You said that maybe Jesus wasn't famous?? How 'bout the Mount of Beattitudes?? That has 'star struck' written all over it. Look into it if you don't know what I mean.

I know what you're saying, but what I mean is people all around the globe had no idea about it back then, what about people in Asia, The America's, Africa, Australia, and pleanty of other places. The idea of the Earth being a globe didn't exist, a lot of things weren't taken into account. It was just events that happened in a small part of the world, and has now been spread quite far.

anyway, I don't want a religious debate cause there are no winners, and they can go for longer than time itself. Everyone has their own ideas, & IMO everyone is right in what they decide cause in your own world, it's about what matters to you.


And DG, as much as it is a joke, that is exactly the type of thing that seems funny now, but in 2000 years after a certain part of the population are killed, and others that survive find these things in archives, they might start to believe these as facts from the past. And one thing for sure is the fact that the humor will be hard to understand over time, which is something we probably forget to look for in the bible.

I agree with Sylpher about it being best for a baby to have Male and Female role models as parents, (note the word best) but it isn't always possible, and I don't have a problem with any combination of parents, as long as they are treated well & have role models to cover where they lack.

of course parents can be bad people, but I think a balance of Male and Female helps, that can also be an Aunty or Uncle, Grandparent, Friend that helps fill these roles

I think that sometimes people take the bible too seriously, it's just a bunch of stories written long ago, translated into many languages (which is a real problem as contexts of things are now just way out), if some of it helps you then that's great, but it shouldn't be taken too seriously.

Imagine if a book by some famous people now was written, then in thousands of years it becomes folk law and some people took it too seriously. Could it become like the Bible? we might think it sounds stupid now. but that's exactly what we've done.

I would bet any money that Jesus was not really that well known (except in his local area) until after he died, and the legend grew from there. Just like artists in the past. The present ones won't be as famous until enough time passes before they stand out.


As for Marriage in any form (between humans) when it comes down to it, nothing physically changes between each party involved, it is all psychological, it may be proven in writing so it's all legal in the eyes of some beaurocrat, but it's all just a ceremony to celebrate 2 people that like each other a bit more than they like some others.

But who's to say that a person licensed to marry people wasn't crossing their fingers behind there back for the point that they are tricking everyone they are marrying in to beleiving it's real. There are pleanty of weirdo's out there so I'd say this type of shit goes on.

These people would have no idea and think their marriage was real, even if it wasn't legit. This is where it wouldn't matter anyway cause the papers are signed, and psychologically they would think they are married, so you can see the point of it being all psychological in the first place.

So it just seems silly that these laws still apply, but is there any way these people can get married in a place where it is legal, and then live in SF anyway?

I'd say just have an informal ceremony anyway, at least in your own mind you are married (which is the same as any other marriage) the difference being the legal things that come with it which to some people may not be important anyway.

It will happen eventually, when these radical christians finally realise that they are contradicting themselves by closing their minds off to other possibilities which is actually going against their religion. I bet you could also find something in the bible that says things are not set in stone. man, in that book you could rationalise anything to yourself, That's why a lot of people find comfort in it.

note: these are just my opinions

But was it Earth we started on, or did we terraform earth, or was it just right for us when we arrived. We lost our history from our previous location, and infected Earth with disease, and increased erosion, fucked it up & moved onto ....

Have we already infected Mars with some form of bacteria? we have at least dumped some alien rubish there, there's also pleanty of alien dust on earth from many meteorites & Asteroids, and water from comets, maybe also some bacteria that survived.

the theory of relativity comes in right here, but the end cause is the final answer, but then what lies beond that? I guess the time gets sucked into the black hole too causing time to start again, but there is also some fragments that weren't sucked into the black hole and time has escaped them, therefore leaving two seperate times existing within the same time, that eventually blend in with each other to create another phenomena that we canot yet comprehend, and the consequence of that is not able to be judged, but the answer will be more simple than we think.

But within that lies the true answer, but to get that answer we need to reach that point in time, so in the mean time it's irrelevant what actually happens, and the true center of the universe is you, and seeing as that is Babloyi, why the hell did you come up with this rubbish without even knowing it.

did you remove the code for the movecharactertoobject first, it sounds as though it's doing that part before the movecharacter.

for moving to the specific point you want it is best to just work out that point and use movecharacter.

or a work around can be used by placing a hotspot walk-to-point (one that isn't used for a hotspot) at the point you want to walk to and call the MoveCharacterToHotspot when looking at the object.

hope that help

~Tim

Are the walk to points still there when you look at the rooms hotspots in the editor?

I remember there was a rare error never fixed, when you moved the mouse off the area after setting a walk-to-point, occasionally it dissappeared or was gone the next time you went to hotspots.

I think this was/is a Win98 bug though, I'm not sure what OS you're using.

otherwise have you tried using

MoveCharacterToHotspot (CHARID, int hotspot)

that should make sure the character moves to the hotspot if placed on the interaction of that hotspot.

I hope that helps

~Tim