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I also suspect this was his intention as well. No one would be talking about it as much as they have been if all he said was "I propose to build a large spacecraft that houses a nuclear reactor and uses ion propulsion". Nah. It wouldn't have been as popular. Add Star Trek to the design and you've got yourself an exciting conversation and hopes for a promising future.

Yes, in fact he wrote a blog post about this:

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/alternative-ships-wont-work

It doesn’t matter if the Enterprise is not the perfect form for building a large interplanetary spaceship â€" it only has to be good enough. And it is good enough.

So just like how this website can stir public interest by contemplating the building of a real Enterprise ship â€" the US space program should do the same thing. Try building a ship like at the top of this post instead, and the broader public will yawn and it will never get funded.

have you ever divided by zero?

It's infinity!* Woah, we'll have infinite space then!


*) not 100% mathematically correct, but close enough

Yay!

> Pick up and put on OXYGEN MASK

Sane Co. is not next, Ponch is.

Oh what a filthy liar I am

[cat]

I really like the shading of cat's flower, very well executed, so there's my vote!

I'll go down then

Edit: Done!

vvvv continue down here vvvv

> Go back to conference room and put on the oxygen mask

This thread makes me lol

It makes me ulk

Should be the new lol.


No but seriously, Icey,

Fair enough, how's about this. I will [...] prove that I can make a game with the ability to use DLC.

While your DLC/ULC idea is, I assume, one of the most upsetting thing for many people here, it's also the least interesting, so just don't put any energy into it to prove a point. Instead make a proper game without technical extras around the game (or technical extras without a real game), but with a good, original, stand-alone (in-game!) story. Prove that you can do that, if anything.

There's a small thing lying on the floor in front of us, possibly the missing fuse?

> Read sign beneath the speaker to find out what the current alarm signal means (seems to be the third one, so read that first)

To which end has Selmiak laid claim?

Both ends can still be claimed, his placeholder post is only to contain the whole image later:

8)  all images will be put together in the next post after this

And I like the idea, thanks Iceboty for the post-approval

I think we never tried to open the door even without the key, did we? It might just be unlocked

The reason why I chose "> Take the fuse for electronics and put it in one of the aircon slots." was that we have no indication that we have any difficulty breathing while there are several possible indicators: we see no blueish lips on our character, no label in our status bar, no shrinking health bar.
But okay, let's take a breath from the oxygen mask first and hope that our evil game master and his magic dice of doom won't use this one more game cycle to make something bad happen
So I take my command back to break the tie.

Somewhat related to the forum upgrade, albeit not a suggestion for the forum itself:
For those who want to see avatars in their original size if they're smaller than 120x120px (and have a browser capable of interpreting the max-width/max-height attribute), this seems to work fine in current versions of Firefox at least:
Search for the file userContent.css, and add the lines:

Code: ags

@-moz-document domain(adventuregamestudio.co.uk) {
li.avatar a img.avatar {width:auto !important; height:auto !important; max-height:120px; max-width:120px;}
div#basicinfo div div img.avatar {width:auto !important; height:auto !important;}
}

The second line overrides the mandatory scaling and replaces it with a maximum size (aspect ratio is kept automatically), the third line lets you display avatars in their original size on the profile pages if you wish that (e.g., Dualnames' Bladerunner scene shows up there in all its 500px wide glory). The first line ensures that these options only affect the AGS site.
While you're at it, if you haven't done it yet, you might also want to add the line

Code: ags

img.bbc_img[src$=".png"], img.bbc_img[src$=".gif"], img.bbc_img[src$=".PNG"], img.bbc_img[src$=".GIF"] {image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges;}

to remove the blurriness from upscaled screenshots or pixel-art in the Critics Lounge.

Edit: Oh, this second bit might as well work as a suggestion for the forums. Here it was suggested a while ago to make a new [pixelart][/pixelart] bbcode to post images that don't get blurry, since the above CSS is only a heuristic substitution that may affect also some photos where smooth interpolation is desired. Now is a good time to bring that up again. Is it doable?

If she doesn't maybe we should use the one for electronics and try to put it in one of the aircon slots. The tv isn't on anymore anyway. Maybe we should be wearing the oxygen mask for this as well, I know it isn't very heroic, but the woman is out cold and hence won't use as much oxygen as us.

+1

Both commands are probably too much for our poor adventure game engine, so since we don't seem to have any breathing difficulties yet, let's try the fuse exchange first:
> Take the fuse for electronics and put it in one of the aircon slots.

btw WHAM, you forgot to change the command in this post.

From Icey's latest name-change, I realised you can no longer see a person's original forum name (what they signed up with) by moving the mouse over their name, and their original name doesn't show on their profile either.

It should do on their profile.  If they have a changed name their original name will be in brackets after the current name.

Probably only for moderators/admins?

If I look at Icey's profile here: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?action=profile;area=summary;u=9989 there is only the name "Noctis"

Top-down view of a potted plant named Chuck:

What was happening at 02:01 on 15 Jan 2012 for there to have been 559 members online?

(not only members, also guests)
Could it be related to the Bake Sale? This post is actually a bit too late to be the cause, but maybe the word was spread somewhere a day before?

Okay, let's leave this box alone for now, we don't have a reason to switch off something (yet).
There's not much else in this room we could make use of, there could be something behind the table, but I doubt it.
Only the IV stand could come in handy as a grappling hook if we need to reach something at the ceiling or in a shaft or something. And while it's surely not the best weapon, it's better than none, just like our trusty pool cue.

So I suggest we

> Take an IV stand with us and leave the room. (And remind ourselves of our manners and say goodbye to lemur-girl and teddy bear)

Tabata once didn't have a smiley at hand to express her emotions.

I finally found some free time the last few weeks

And it's still not finished? You must have had days, if not several hours to work on it! Very disappointing, Mister Chandler, we're used to you making a whole game while you write its completed games announcement topic in parallel! What is this shit - I mean, piss!?

That being said, I've no doubt this game will be good