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Sorry for my ignorance, I feel I'm way out of my league here, BUT:

- does the AGS-Lua plugin allow me to completely code a game in Lua? I understand that all the character, hotspots, objects, etc, can be "called" normally?
- If so, why is this debate happening? If the plugin has no "side-effects" then it should be optional. No?
- where can I find some common "workarounds" to stuff like non-blocking functions? The search engine is a pain.

[Feliz Natal!]

I wish you all the best in this festive season! Feliz Natal!

And I wish that Non-Blocking functions weren't mind breaking as well.

I understand that LUA should be a more powerful language than the one we get with AGS, but is it as easy to learn?
The one thing that gets people into AGS is its easy learning-curve.

Let's be honest, Dave. Without this "lil" site you would be fuck-all! Don't get me wrong, I couldn't (at this point) make a game as good as you and yer team, my first game will probably be a heap of shitty pile of shite on a steaming stick, but still. Credit where credit is due, pal!

+1

Hi guys!
I've been using paypal to send money and until recently it has worked fine. Now, it started acting stupid and declining sendings due to my card. I went to my bank and checked what I already knew: all is okay and my credit limit is fine.
Paypal can't fix it and while googling for similar situations I found that it happens a lot to people.
I'm considering mooneybookers, any advice on them?
Thanks!

PHOTOSOUP AND GOOGLE IAMGES ARE YOUR B3ST FRI3NDS!!! JUST RESIZE EVRYTEHING TO FIT THE BACKGROUNDS! USE 1024X740 ALWAYSSSS!!!!!!!
NO NEED TO L3ARN CODING! ASK KHRIS!

> really thanks for this game WHAM, I loved all parts of it!
> really loved how we got together cracking jokes!
> really knew the stove was actually Helga!

I'm sad that you don't have time for it but I understand why. Best of luck with your projects.
And now I have to change Avatar again!!!

That's my AGS dream. I just wanna be known for creating something great.

You're a inspiration for all of us, Icey. There's no doubt that you'll produce a great game in the future. It takes time, but you've got plenty of it.
Merry Xmas Icey!

Haaaah!Dear Ponch!
Only a warm friendly post like that to rest my chilled heart!
I am very glad for Biscuit and know that you and Don will train him to be a great Military Working Dog, and my wish for this Xmas is that Biscuit survives training without PTSD!

Never before a cow was so nice to me!

ps: love the blue bandana

Yup, Planescape is story driven and probably the best RPG plot ever written.
You can try Icewind Dale or Badurs Gate series if you're more of a action gamer.

Yeah, I guess you're right.
And after all Nikolas and Ponch are ignoring us completely...
You know what? I think we should blame the Greek! I mean, who else uses garlic in monstrous proportions than the Greek? Of course you're having Civil Wars every couple of years!
What about Ponch? He has dinner with a bullet belt on his shoulder and never goes to toilet without a red bandana!

Hey, tamatic! This is not a contest about who throws the best post, man!
You have clearly touched the edge where I sense you're hanger-posting towards me. I'm not that kind of guy nor I wish to confront anybody here.
I believe you didn't read my posts all that well.
We have different opinions and that's only natural.
I never threw random diagnosis, I read what professionals thought about this issue and felt I should tell it here.
I wish we could "talk" on a more mature and friendly way, please.
For the record, I was a "fuck the world" kid but only for a while. And then I grew up.
Peace?

My posts must be really boring because I think nobody reads them.

These kinda of topics I generally am happy to avoid. Mainly indeed because debating religion/politics is just very annoying on a public forum. Also because I can't think of much to say... If anything, I would like start making jokes about mass killings and the sentiments around it: since its all too sad. But I won't do that either since people don't generally like that. -Or at least claim so.

Either way, your suggested relation with depression seems just simply wrong. Someone else in the thread started talking about psychopathy, that also has less to do with these things.

If depression indeed somehow would be the root cause, or there would there be a big correlation with this kind of behaviour, then we better start packing. Since it is psychological disorder number one in the western world. And yes, people should get help and it should be treated. Even in my country suicide is leading death cause number one, under age 30. It's a taboo. But, I haven't however ever seen any adult and sane person romatisizing the real thing.
If you meant to touch on youth cultures that say things like "everything sucks" and "I hate the world"... That has nothing to do with clinical depression either. Thats just part of being a healthy teen/adolescent.

Sorry for the detour, and I am no expert. But I just don't think using familair terms from the field of mental health is helpfull to the discussion. It just kinda distracts from it by being wrung. ( )

Making jokes about mass murder on this specific topic would be really sad from you, so we are all glad that you avoided it.
As for my suggestions on depression and its relation with actual mass murderers all I can say is that I didn't come up with the idea, specialists did. All my comments are based on stuff written in the internet. Some good, some bad, some better, but they all lead to that fact. And, surprise, all those kids and grown ups that did this shit were seclusive, depressed persons...
And I am very sad to say (again) that yes, because half the world is depressed, we'll never be able to predict a potential mass murderer.
What I found really problematic on your view of what I wrote is that you think that a healthy teen should be a "fuck the world" idiot. That's just something you bought and considerer normal. It's not. Teens often don't know the boundaries of what's a "fuck the world" phase and when to stop. The real danger resides here. When they buy that shit, they get depressed, they close themselves at home, they get guns and they plan mass murderers.
So yes, the root is depression in the way that these guys cannot relate to people, they cannot socialize and thus get away from it all. Some will want revenge...

My posts must be really boring because I think nobody reads them.
There's some issues here that must be separated first:

One, the fact that the kid had easy access to guns (in this case his mother did) is not influential on planing and committing mass murder; he would have taken more time finding his arsenal and would not stop until he had them; it's a compulsive obsessive behaviour that drives this people to perfect their crazy plan;

Two, the fact that guns are easy to get does have major influence on US homicide statistics, I am talking about some kids robbing a drugstore, man and wife having a argument, things like that; In european countries common crime (non-organized) has a much better chance to end up with people still living.

Three, we should not blame the guns, specially in a country that produces and sells guns, and specially in a country where guns are part of its culture. I don't understand it but also don't want to criticize what I don't know.

Four, we really should be thinking about better ways to understand what the hell is going on on this people's minds, specially teens where there's still time to change their point of view about life.

When I commented on this topic there were only 3 posts about it and I honestly thought that this could lead to a "USA hate thing". I was very cautious not to write anything that would bring such feelings on people that would read it.
Why? Because I read and was part of some debates that went nowhere (religion, politics, the kind...) and did not want to start another.
Second, because like I said, I did some research on the behaviour of the murderers and the people studying it and found that the fact that this people had guns at home (not every cases) does not explain shit about it.
If they didn't have the guns at home they would probably work their way to get them some other place. If it wasn't "easy" to buy them at a store they would work out a plan to get them through different channels (black market, stealing, etc...).
These people plan their killings with 100% dedication. Getting the arsenal to do it is just part of the plan. And for a brain scientist its a secondary aspect of it.
All I can say, based on what I've read, is that we need more "mentalist" kind of agents in the various police forces in the world. Those are people trained to see the obvious that sometimes eludes us because we are so trapped in our little societies.
One of the dangers that I find to be really absurd is the "cult" of being depressed. To some people, being a depressive guy with no joy for anything is a trend and they dress and act so that it's almost cool. Almost. It's plain stupid to me.
People depressed must find help and get treated. There's no other way.
Sorry to people reading this that are going through bad times but it all starts with a depression. And I didn't make this out, I read it from people that actually study the phenomenon.

After reading some articles on the internet I found out that we are very far from predicting who can become a mass murderer. There is simply not enough background behaviours of the mass murderers to even link them together. The only aspect of the phenomenon that is similar is that this people plan out the executions way before the actual event. They often seclude themselves months (Breivik took a year) prior to the executions, training mentally and phisically for it. The other common behaviour is what they call the pseudo-commando attitude. They gather a large arsenal, do it in plain day light and don't have a escape plan. They know they will die. It's a last mission kind of thing.
Similar characteristic among the mass murderers is being male.
I also learned that there are hundreds of scientists studding the phenomenon and their best advice is to warn the authorities if we suspect seclusive behaviour from someone. "Humans are social beings". "Hiding from others for long extents of time are signs of depression".

So, we are fucked! There's no way we can predict that the guy that we see every day doing his normal job and he even smiles at us at time, can or cannot be the next mass murderer.   

Nooo, don't leave gen-gen and rumpus!
We need familiar faces checking in here on a daily basis!

+1!
Maintaining high spirits is very important to a community, and that's what you do best Stupot.

Sorry man, you posted in the wrong forum before. I directed you to the "please read" sticky on that thread;
Welcome to the forums and sorry again.

COST

Hey Icey, what's up? Still working on it I see. You've got some typos in there my friend.