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Ah, I see.  I misread.  You DON'T believe that aliens have come to earth and also don't believe that we've been to the moon.

I'm with you on the alien part, but the moon?  Seriously?

What part of the mountain of evidence proving that we HAVE been to the moon don't you believe?

So, stu, what you're saying is that you can believe that an alien civilization managed to cross more than 40,000,000,000,000 kilometers (the distance to the nearest star) to come to our planet, but you can't believe that we managed to go 400,000 kilometers to the moon?  That's .000001% of the distance.

Not to mention how silly it is to think that a civilization advanced enough to launch a manned space flight over that ridiculous distance could be dumb enough to accidentally crash once it got here...

Occam's razor, people.

Worth noting that the guy who made the "deathbed confession" discussed above was the founder and president of the International UFO museum in Roswell...  I'd say that qualifies it for the "grain of salt" approach.

in google:

?intitle:index.of? mp3 ***

replace *** with song name or band name.

 :o

You guys are weird.  I love that Jess can simultaneously exist on both sides of the hot tub depending on the camera angle! 

Edit to Eric: I showed some of these pics to my wife, and she said "Hey!  I have that shirt!"  to which I replied, "Yes, you do.  And there's the girl who designed it!"  She was impressed.

You can do this in a lot of ways, but some of the more important ones are sharing your ideas and being open to input from the team members rather than just expecting output from them.  In a free design situation, you really can't just say 'this is the way the game is going to be and if you don't like it go away'.  It' s neither professional nor beneficial and in the long run you'll earn a well deserved reputation for not being someone people want to work with.  The best project leader is going to encourage feedback and input from the team members.  It's very difficult to maintain interest in someone else's project when your creative input is ignored or not asked for, and a good leader also should know that their ideas may not be the best, but with some brainstorming they could be better.

This is fantastic advice for a team leader.  Let me know if I'm not doing as well as I should in any of these regards.  I think that I'm always open for suggestions especially on areas where my skill is low (art, music), but then again, I may be too rigid sometimes because I know exactly what I'm looking for -- a side effect of writing out a detailed design document laying out every puzzle and plot point months before beginning full production.  I'm constantly learning about, through the process of failing at, being a project leader.  Feel free to help my learning process!  Errr...  In private...

Hot!  Really looking forward to this, Dave!

First off, did you know that virtually every religion has a messiah figure? They all fullfill many of the Biblical prophecies, all of them crucified, claiming to be the Son of a divine being. All of them lived pure lives, cared for the poor. None of them ever broke bones, all of them rose from the dead in 3 days.

Name two.

And even if there are similarities between religions, is it really that they are all true, or based on truth?  Or is it that they're all based on the same lie?

No!

Completely unrelated full story

Count me in on the list of lefties!  But count me out of the list of people with anything resembling musical talent.

The other problem is that I'm in Japan and so having to figure out how to do all this in my non-native language makes getting anything done for me at a music shop a bit more daunting.

What?  You don't know how to say "I need some new mandolin strings so I can flip my nut and bridge and let my left hand handle the frets."?

Pff... Chapter one in my book.  (Says the guy who spent ten minutes trying to figure out what the nurse telling him he needed an x-ray was saying.)

Beautiful!  That's the elegant solution I was looking for.  I had never seen this function before and hadn't found it because I thought that I could find a blocking state based on the mouse, not the interface.  Thank you Scorp!

Ah.  I see.  I guess I can understand why.  Thanks for the confirmation strazer!

For now, Khris' workaround is working around!

I thought about using something like that, but it just seemed so... inelegant for such a simple effect that I'm trying to add in.  But I may end up using this.  Thanks!

I still wonder why the mouse doesn't actually change to the wait mode when blocking, though.

It doesn't... it constantly returns the graphic of the mouse mode used before the blocking function started.  Thanks, though!

Any more ideas?

Maybe it's my lack of sleep, but in my head this was easy...

I have a batch of code that I want to run ONLY while the game is in the middle of some blocking function (walking, animating, wait();, etc).  My original plan was to stick this code in the repeatedly_execute_always:

if(mouse.Mode==eModeWait){
  //execute this batch of code
}

But it doesn't do anything when the game is blocking.  So, I change eModeWait to eModeWalkTo, and it works perfectly as long as the cursor mode is walk to, even if the cursor is set to walk to and then a blocking cutcene starts (thus changing the cursor to the wait cursor's graphic), and even when I change back and forth between modes in the middle of a blocking function.  It seems to work with every mode except wait, the one mode I want it to work with...

Does a blocking function not actually change the cursor to the wait mode?  It seems like it only changes the mouse's graphic.

So, my next thought was to run the script based on the cursor's graphic, but there's no mouse.graphic or some such variable (correct me if I'm wrong).

But this may all be pointless if there's a better way to run a block of script only when the game is blocking.  Help?

End of July is good for me too

A) Pokerstars (though I think I still have a party poker account too...)
B) 12:00 AM to 8:00 AM GMT  (I know... I live in Japan...)

Over the Hedge and Ice Age 2 = not Pixar

For about a year during college, online pay was my only form of income, but I wasn't good enough to make a consistent amount of money.  I still play online occasionally just for fun, no big money.  And when I'm in a country that has poker (Japan is largely devoid of the sport except for the rare foreigner homegame) I always make a point to get to the casino for a day of poker.

Last time I was in America, I hit the casino for a fun eight hour stretch.  I started with $300 and left with $320.  But it was a ton of fun.  I just love playing the game.

If there were enough people interested, it would fun to put together an AGS tourney on PokerStars or something, though it would be tough to work out a good time.

Edit to bicilotti:  I'm from Omaha (but I don't like the game unless it's hi-lo)

Unfortunately, the similarities between the two events stops at "some people say there's going to be trouble."  In the Y2K case, it was the media shouting that the sky was falling.  In global warming's case, it's thousands of highly educated scientists that specialize in this kind of study.

Y2K happened during my senior year of high school and I was working for the school paper.  I was assigned an article on the Y2K bug.  I interviewed ten people who were either university-level computer science educators or computer technicians working in my city's largest software company.  Each one of them laughed off my questions saying that, at worst, there would be some legacy systems that would get confused and need a little maintenance to fix the issue.  My editor was mad because the final article wasn't "balanced."  I couldn't find an reliable opinion that supported what the media was spouting.

The biggest difference between the two events is that in Y2K's case, we had a very specific deadline for learning if the hysteria was justified or not.  With global warming, we could be driving ourselves over a cliff but all we have is scientific projections to claim that the cliff is coming up.  It could be hundreds of years before we finally see it coming and by that time, it could be too late.  Is erring on the side of caution a bad thing here for anyone but the major petroleum companies?

You and Cyrus (You aren't the same person are you?  Both have a penchant for breaking rules, repeatedly bump each others' threads, have a habit of starting posts with the words "Well" or "OK" for no apparent reason...) aren't the worst rule breakers we've had around here. (unless you are the same person! )  I've only been here for three years and I've seen worse.  I'm sure some of the older people have seen even more.

Basically you both need to do a little thinking before you post.  Especially, you need to ask yourself if you even need to post what you're posting at all.  Remember the three golden rules.  Cyrus, especially needs to not bump old threads and needs to learn that taking it to PM is almost always a better option for the kind of questions that he unendingly asks.  But sometimes it's ridiculous.  Like here or here where a joke completely whooshes over his head.  But I've talked to him about it via PM because I think a few times I was too mean to him in the forum.

Anyways, this is a very inclusive forum, and it's the only forum that I really enjoy reading and posting in because of the strong set of rules and moderators that keep it clean and civilized (for the most part  ).  A lot of other forums are absolute pig sties compared to this place.  Just take some time to learn the rules before posting.  And before you click the post button, think if your post is actually useful.  I often type out a post only to decide not to click that button in the end, and still I sometimes post and later regret it, thinking that I should have thought about it more.  If in doubt, don't post.  At the most, send a PM.  It never hurts to PM.