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Ease up, Farl, you misunderstood me. I know you know what you're talking about. I was saying that you made some points that I could use against what you were saying, which I then went on to do. I meant no offence. Regardless of your spelling (I'm joking) and based on these and your past posts, I think you are actually very intelligent, and I admire your skills as an artist.

So try not to get all pissy in the future, okay?

see, you don't even know your own language... that's eta, not iota

That's what I said!

And no, arithmancy doesn't mean arithmetic. The key is the suffix "MANCY."

{This is getting way off topic now}

So what does arithmetike (see, you don't even know your own language... that's eta, not iota) mean? You haven't earned your bread yet, jokerÃ, 

EDIT: To a non-nativer English speaker, that might sound aggressive. I'm sorry, Nik, I'm only joking.

I'm sorry for postwhoring, but I really like this topic.

The Oranges, that is a brilliant supposition, and not one I think I might have come up with. I wasn't considering opposable thumbs. However, you'd think they would use Base 8 or 16 if that were the case, since 12 is one-and-a-half pair of hands (or one pair of hands and half a pair of feet, but the feet don't have opposable digits).

And I wasn't certain that anyone else here would know the word "arithmancy," as obscure as that topic is. If anyone knows what it is without looking it up, I offer ten dollars worth of Las Naranjas' money as a reward.

EDIT: Nik, I just saw your post. Americans are fat lazy bastards. I am lazy too, and it's because I'm so indoctrinated in the American way of things. Oh, and by the way, fix the key you were talking about, it came out to be a  8)... Somehow...

Also: Not to mention time signatures. Who the hell came up with 8/6 time? That's like two and a quarter waltzes.

That's a good point too, although I don't think it's what you intended. We Americans have only ever provided the world with things that have made them fat, lazy bastards who want everything handed to them.

Plus, look at "history" to see the people who have ruled the entire world at some point in time or another: The Babylonians, the Medo-Persians, the Greek, the Romans, and the British have never lasted in their full glory more than two hundred years. Of the entire above list, only Britain still exists as a world power, and even then not to the extent as America. We, who have not learned from history, are doomed to repeat it.

Does anyone remember how in the King's Quests you could walk up a hill on the horizon, and then down the other side? Is there any way to do that in AGS, and if so, can you maintain continuous scaling?

technically speaking, you don't, as Nikolas said, use base ten in measurements of the passing of time.

You and I had this conversation the other day. You do too use metric. Kilometers, kilograms, those are metric. And, to tell you the truth, the standard system is the oldest form of measurement around. I only just realized that when you talked about the calendar and the hours... Now that I think about it, the standard of twelves instead of ten (again, tens is better... We have ten fingers and toes, that is why we count by tens) is based on ancient pagan cultures, like the Sumerians and the Babylonians. You also will note that twelve is an important number in occult numerology. There are twelve signs of the zodiac, for instance. The reason we have a base 12 system for time measurement, excluding the fact that it actually works quite well, is because the Hebrews stole it from the pagan cultures around them in an attempt to become more advanced. If what I said before were true (about a religious cult having founded america) it would make sense that America uses the standard system because they took it from the Judeo-Christian "standard."

I maintain that metric is the more logical.

(oh, and this brings me to answer a question by Helm the other day in a thread that is way too old to dig up, regarding why I consider hypnosis "occult," which kind of works in here. The word occult doesn't mean "of a cult," it has to do with that which is not fully understood, from the latin occultus, meaning "that which is hidden." The moon actually "occults." It simply means a part of it is obscured. Hypnotism, and the pagan use of twelve, being "occultic" does not mean Satan worshippers use it, and this is a stupid modern-American-Christianized ignorance. It simply means that we don't understand everything about it.

Oh, yeah, I also forgot:

Lawyers aren't part of our heart and soul, either. Just as a therapist is only there to blame our problems on our mothers, lawyers are there to blame our problems on McDonalds. "I'm overweight because I ate too many McDonalds hamburgers, and I burned myself because they didn't tell me the coffee was hot." No, you're just a fat, clumsy bastard who probably dropped the damn coffee because you couldn't fit your fat bastardly little stubs of fingers around it, and if you didn't know it was hot, you're a stupid fat bastard who doesn't need to go around ordering coffee..

On the matter of British television. Do you see my avatar? Doctor Who was the crappiest show EVER made, but it was still much more creative and entertaining than any of today's modern American tripe. Our television is made to pander to American morons. If you are in England watching TV and can't understand it, they don't care. It's your own damn fault for being too stupid. In America, they dumb down the television to the level of the people, rather than expecting them to push themselves to the limit of their intelligence and try to make sense out of something rather than just declaring it "stupid" and moving on to something with a lot of gunfights and swearing, which is all we seem to be able to handle.

Even books are the same way. The Hobbit was written for children. The Chronicles of Narnia were written for children. I was five years old when I first read the Lord of the Rings through. Most American children prefer "The puppy sits on the mat. The cat plays with the yarn..."

Billy Joel and Lynerd Skynerd (sic) were not anywhere near as famous worldwide as the Beatles or Elton John. You might have used Elvis as an example. Regardless of whether or not you like him, your opinion doesn't mean he was not a worldwide sensation. Unfortunately for the US, that's still only one against two... plus, they had many more worldwide musical sensations.

I'm not too sure that the British did come up with the "standard" measuring system, but I may be wrong. Metric is a much more superior system, as it is based on base ten mathematics. Why base our system of measurement on base 12 when we count in base 10? I am ashamed that I don't know metric, and instead use the ignorance of standard.

Only Americans would be stupid enough to think renaming "French Fries" "Freedom Fries" is a spit in the face of the French. They were probably relieved that we stopped associating them with something they had no part in in the first place. Ohhh, no, the French decided to stay out of a war they had no part in, we won't call a greasy potato stick after them... How terrible. They gave us the Statue of Liberty. If we have such a problem with them, why don't we tear her down. Go on, you first...

Sorry Squinkmeister. I don't know where Andail is from, but I'm an American, and a very well educated one at that, and I have to say that this country does indeed have low global awareness. In fact, we have extremely low self awareness. The British love the queen, but somewhere deep down they know the old hag is really just a figurehead and Tony Blair is the one running the country. We, on the other hand, don't seem to know a hawk from a handsaw. If the media tells us something, we are quick to believe it. No self-respecting American would ever believe that the driver of the cavalcade is the one who shot JFK, or that America was founded by a society of religious nuts who believed it was their job to bring about the end of time as the "Great Beast" spoken of in Revelation, and have been in charge of the country ever since. Most Americans could care less that they really are ignorant, and lazy, and selfish, and have some of the lowest test scores in the world (even though, and don't get me started on this, the percentile system is a stupid thing to use for that. If everyone suddenly became stupid as dirt overnight, everyone would be in the 100th percentile, now wouldn't they?) Most Americans don't care that the rest of the world may not want their help. We scoff at the French because the French were smart enough not to get involved, like we should have. Our president can barely speak proper English (100 percent of Americans who don't have jobs are unemployed... More and more of america's imports are coming from other countries...) and hides his face like a scared puppy when people find out he had information that could have saved the country on severeal occassions but did not employ it (9/11 being one such event).

Nipper, I agreed with you, but not so much your brother.

A) they invented the language. Thus, WE invented the silent G. Burgh is indeed pronounced "burra," as in, a shortened form of "burrough." Although I have always found "colonel" and "worcestershire" odd....

B) Royal mail, royal tubes, royal buttocks, etc.. are royal not because the queen uses them, but because she orders their creation and use.

C) Fancy is a verb. Our American adjective fancy comes from something being nice enough for someone to fancy...

D) We don't like British sitcoms here in America because, on the whole, we are not smart enough to understand them.

E) Knights... We do have "knights," but it is a religious title (Knights of Columbus, for example)... In Britain, the Queen is in charge of religion too. A "Knight" is a "Defender of the Faith," although since the queen can do or say what she wants, they can be, like Elton John, "Defender of the Gayness" and still be knights. Just because you picture knights from movies doesn't mean that's what a knight is. Shoes used to be made of wood, but today we call rubber things covered in fake leather shoes...

F) Guns: Agreed it is stupid to take away our guns, but not because they make us better. It is simply because to take away guns means taking away guns from people buying them legally. Criminals can still get them, and then the rest of us have no defence.

G) All therapists are is a way for people to blame their problems on something else. "I am mad all the time because my mommy didn't love me..." No, you're mad all the time because you're an asshole.

I agreed with most of everything else, I reckon...

Actually, I seem to be full of crap. I just went looking for you and couldn't find anything, althoughI thought Mats Berglinn had a post about random music a week or so ago. I know how to do it, but I'm really busy right now or I'd prolly whp you up some code, but I'm sure someone wil come along any second now. It is pretty easy, if I remember correctly, so don't worry.

I've seen a couple other solved posts on this in the past couple days. I'm busy right now, or I'd find them for you, but it shouldn't be too hard.

My point for taking this post, though, was to ask why. If there's a good and logical reason, that's cool, but be careful that it doesn't sound disjointed to the player. Aesthetic value is one of the factors that keeps people playing.

I haven't, but I'm looking it up right now.

lol I had nothing to do with him. I could have been the responsible party, but I chose to be the... umm... responsible party. I'm just saying, be careful who you piss off, because more people have access to your personal information than you think.

Besides, this happened in Rhode Island (east coast) and I now live in Arizona (west coast, almost 6000 or so miles away.. Ha, you Scottish guys with your tiny country....)

Obviously, if the program still runs after thirty days, it can't be too terrible to keep running it even though you are technically supposed to uninstall it (and then a little screwing around in the windows system registry makes it so you can just reinstall it Ã, :o ) but cracks and hacked serials are like saying "I know I'm doing wrong, but I'm going to do it anyway." I use them, don't get me wrong, but it's only if I have the program but lost the CD case that had the serial on it. Nevertheless, I also think it makes sense to say that WinZip couldn't charge, because then some nerdy teenager would make a clone and give it away. However, I think I would still pay thirty bucks for a professional program over using some crummy nerd-made Visual Basic program with one "dekumpres" button and an "eggsit" menu.

Sorry. Ease up, pally-o. It didn't get locked because it was about guessing his age, and for whoever was reading that thread I just threw this in as a little inside joke. I apologize. You didn't have to groan at me for one short OT sentence. It couldn't have been that bothersome, and you spent more time telling me not to do it then I spent actually dong it. I feel like a complete n00b now, too, which is no good.

... That having been said, I use WinAce, which has almost the exact same interface as classical WinZip, and can do RARs, ZIPs, ACEs, along with 20 other little known file types.

Slightly off-topic (no one groan at me, please) - Why is it that EVERY archiving application has such a lousy evaluation program built in to it? You can only use this program for thirty days, and then they tell you "Hey! You're 5,842 days over your evaluation period!!!" but don't do anything about it. Companies that made archiving programs like WinZip could make so much more money if they turned the program off after thirty days. I for one could care less that after a thirty-day period, there is a screen reminding me to register. If they want to make money, the program should stop working at the end of the evaluation period, because everyone who uses the internet for just about anything needs an unzipper. I'm not going to pay 30 bucks for a program that works perfectly fine for free. However, if I did need to pay thirty bucks to keep using it, I would, out of necessity, HAVE to pay for it.

When I did my game, I found that, from a 60 Meg file, a ZIP put it down to 51, a RAR to 48, and an ACE to 37, but I zipped it anyways for the same reasons you are debating whether or not to use RAR. However, although it yielded the best results for me, I can't recommend ACE one way or another because I do not know enough of the inner workings of compression formats to know if it is good or stable.

And since the original thread in which I was doing this got locked, let me throw in my final guess here: Elliot Hird is seven years old.

It's easy in America to get away with all sorts of crap, and our judicial system doesn't really care. They would rather be processing cases about how some fat bastard is getting even fatter by eating too much McDonald's food and sue the pants off Ronald McDonald himself, but all the while our criminals sit in jail and eat steaks and watch cable television.

I, who work at a hotel, have access to thousands of credit card numbers daily. If someone pisses me off, I can ruin their life. I have access to their name, their address, their telephone number, their signature, photocopies of their drivers license, credit card number and expiration date, and a lot of the time I can find out other personal information about them over the internet, if I need to. I was really aggravated with a guest once, and I told my coworker about it...

He now has two new laptops, and no one has come knocking on his door yet...

 :o

I replaced the word "shit" with the word "crap" just in case that's what made you think I wasn't "taking it easy." Otherwise, I wasn't trying to jump on him. I just thought it was kinda weird to recommend a game you didn't give a good review of yourself!

After said review, I didn't think I was going to check it out. However, being a fan of adventure games, I did anyway, and although the graphics do look good, even Underdogs gave it a bad review.

Okay, so technically, what you're saying is this:

"Hey, have you ever heard of this game? It's crap, but I recommend you waste your hard drive space and time downloading it and then be bored playing it."