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Hi there!
Well, I quit smoking last December the 1st. It wasn't the first time I tried but it was the one time that I convinced myself that I was going to quit for good.
10 days later I smoked a cigarette only to find out how stupid I was! I didn't finish the cig and decided that that one was the last one in my life.
Up to now (6 months later) I still dream that I am smoking and believe it or not, I wake up with a strange sensation on my throat and lungs.
There is no right way to quit smoking but I use a trick that I read on a book and it works for me:
   - when you feell the need for a cig just concentrate and wait 2/3 minutes on not smoking, the desire will go away.
   - and the basic trick of them all: don't carry cigarettes with you

I hope it helped!

Hi Baron,
Just want to say that I've been playing Foxtrot and I find it really amusing and entertaining.
I download every game made here and yours is one of my favourites in a long time.
When I finish it I'll add a nice comment/critic on the Game Page.
Great stuff!

Hi,
Why don't you use  those useless rooms as cutscenes? If you're going for the hard work of having different screens of the same location, build up on those and add some characters that are related to the plot.

I would drink this sh..!

Just give us the link Lebowsky!

Finished the game as well! Congratulations! I spent some quality time playing your game, Ben!
Good jokes and graphics!

Let me put it this way, then:
   rural communities tend to have bigger families,
   rural Portugal until the beginning of the 90's was like that,
   The Azores (Açores) are plagued by misery due to rudimentary fishing boats, lack of fish, etc..., but you find  huge families , with the kids (10years- ) already saying they will be fishermen when they grow up.
   Across Europe, on recent 1st world countries you'll find situations just like this one.
   
   People don't think:  we'll get sick, let's have babies! They do think: I'm not able to provide enough food and I need help.
   The cultural part of it is very important as well. Tell somebody that using a condom is a sin and he might believe you.
   The genetic part plays an important role here as well. Women can procreate once in a year. And if the species is in dangerous you bet they will. You will not find infertility problems in 3rd World Africa.

   Also, how can we tell our kids not waste food, always swith off the TV, and so on, if we are constantly bombed with consumerism every single second of our life?
   If I have time, I can spend hours and hours on the net, and I'm not thinking about global warming!

   Someone mentioned a senate around the forums and I believe it is the only solution for modern life.
   There are times when people (me included) need strong measures, need to be forced not to do things and forced to do other things.
    The problem here is that the human mind is corrupt by nature and that is the reason no ideology ever survived long.
    Our times need actions, fast!
    We let the guys that think to analyse it after.

I never implied you said that PP , I understand what you mean, but the problem is that me and you think first country like.
I guess being on the verge of famine must be an horror that I have no ability to write about it.
I can only imagine the pain of a african mother that has nothing to give to her starving son.
You're right about measures needed to be made though. But those countries are geographicaly very far. It's like they aren't real most of the time.
The world is changing. The world we learned on primary school, nice and full of hope isn't true. And we can be glad we can stand behind a screen and write about it. It's our freedom that we must protect and fight for.
We must fight to remain free, fight for our families not to ever be caught in situations we can't control.

Pixel Perfect, ever thought about the fact that families used to be much bigger than they are now? I mean first world families and not third world ones.
The reason of that being so was that a bigger family provided more working arms. People lived in the country, so the more the work the more the products they could get from the land.
Small families are a modern thing and there are several reasons, city life is one of them.
See, in Africa and in Asia (some countries, of course) you don't have a choice, you just try to get to the next day.
Also, selling children for prostitution is an awful thing, so is slavery on the diamond mining and other situations, but remember that misery bring the worst on a human being.
And what if it was you, in their situation. Would you be the one that stood before them with a different way of seeing things, would you be the one to have morals?
Or would you be just like the others?

I am left-handed and use a laptop.
I draw with my right hand if it's on the computer. I had to learn how to do it.
Small pixel like sprites is ok, but going for hi-res is not good at all.

Hi to all,
it's been a great thread so far, baby killing, Bush is the Devil, Globalization, America 1420, wow!
Well I have to say that I agree on most of Nacho conclusions.
Here is my opinion on the last post:

A- yes, it is called an embargo;
B- no, there was a Spanish king back then, and he was a mean dude;

Congratulations to the winners, those were some really good entries!

Damn! I should have made those titties...

I know that tonight I'll dream with those bouncing jugs that jetxl keeps on throwing at people

Hi Tuomas,
My wife had two kids (boy and girl) when we decided to have another one.
We thought about all those things you mentioned, money, work, it's only normal and couples should think before taking that important step.
One thing we never thought was global population!
Think about it, as we speak (or write) kids in Africa are dying. It's a fact.
Now, if you really care about it, and have no strings attached to you (kids, family in need) why don't you join the Red Cross? Or any other organizations that help those situations?
When you want a child, you want him to be better than you. And that means progress and evolution.
Also, when you have a child, all things that confuse your brain become clear. You find your ultimate goal. Your quest starts the day your child is born.
The Quest of Life.

Emerald: I posted the same time you did, but I guess both posts get related

Ok, I was told to do that but I can't get it working

If I set GI(200,1) when the right click happens then I'll have the GI always set to 1, how can I check it?

do I have to use:

If egoroom==1 and hotspot(mousex,y)==1 {setGI 200,1}
if egorrom==1 and               "                ==2 {    "      "   2}
...

and then let's say I right click, I can have:
if GI200==1 then action for hotspot 1 will happen

Ok, it makes sense, not me I don't,
I'll check it and report
Thank you SSH

sorry to bring this up but just in case nobody noticed it

Hi again,
I'm using this old thread because it's a related issue.

Problem:
      I've set this interface where when the mouse is over a hotspot and I right click it brings me a dialog gui;
      With your help I have managed to do it fine;
      The thing is, let's say I click on the look button,
             if the mouse is over the hotspot I get the correct interaction;
             if the mouse is on other hotspot I logicaly get its interaction;

       I know why I get this, I don't know how to store the hotspot.ID and use it when I right click.
      This is my code:

Code: ags

function setinterface() {
  if (GetLocationType(mouse.x, mouse.y) != eLocationNothing) {   ////KrisMuc code!!!!
    
    Label23.Text = Game.GetLocationName(mouse.x, mouse.y);
}

if ((Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y) == hotspot[0]) && (GetGlobalInt(1)==0)) {
  gGui9.Visible=false;
}
if ((Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y) != hotspot[0]) && (IsGamePaused()==0)) {
  gGui9.Visible=true;
}
if ((Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y) != hotspot[0]) && (IsGamePaused()==1)) {
  gGui9.Visible=false;
}
if (((Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y) != hotspot[0]) && (IsGamePaused()==0) && (mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseRight)))) {
  
  if (Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y) == hotspot[12]) {
    gGui9.Visible=false;gGui1.Visible=false;
    return;
    }

  if ((mouse.y >0) && (mouse.y <180) && (mouse.x < 217)){
    gGui1.SetPosition(mouse.x-10, mouse.y-15);
    gGui1.Visible=true;
    SetGlobalInt(1, 1);
    gGui1.Clickable=true;
    gGui1.Transparency=30;
    waitforgui();
    Wait(2);
    /////int activeh = location,hotspot???
    }
  if ((mouse.y>180) && (mouse.y<240) && (mouse.x < 217)){
    gGui1.SetPosition(mouse.x,180);
    gGui1.Visible=true;
    SetGlobalInt(1, 1);
    gGui1.Clickable=true;
    gGui1.Transparency=30;
    waitforgui();
    Wait(2);
  }
  if ((mouse.y >0) && (mouse.y <180) && (mouse.x > 217)){
    gGui1.SetPosition(mouse.x-23, mouse.y-15);
    gGui1.Visible=true;
    SetGlobalInt(1, 1);
    gGui1.Clickable=true;
    gGui1.Transparency=30;
    waitforgui();
    Wait(2);
  }
  if ((mouse.y>180) && (mouse.y<240) && (mouse.x > 217)){
    gGui1.SetPosition(mouse.x-23,180);
    gGui1.Visible=true;
    SetGlobalInt(1, 1);
    gGui1.Clickable=true;
    gGui1.Transparency=30;
    waitforgui();
    Wait(2);
  }
}
  if ((GetGlobalInt(42)==2) && (mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseRight))) {
    gGui1.Visible=false;
    guisetpos();
    resetglobals();
    SetGlobalInt(42, 1);
    mouse.SetBounds(0, 0, 0, 0);
}
}

Obviously the code is doing what I am telling it to do, I need a way to store the hotspot number and the call it when I right click without having to get the screen location(x,y)

The function above is called on the repeatdly_execute.... on every room
When clicking the button (look for example) I use this:

Code: ags

if ((Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y) == hotspot[1]) && (cEgo.Room==9)) {  /////use cd rack room9

thank you.

Lionmonkey, your animation is running a bit too quick for me (I'm using IE).
Edit: It's fine now, and cool!!!

Following Emerald writings (I agree totally) some posts above:
     some things to take in consideration:
                                                              a) the more tight is the law, the bigger the crooks are
                                                              b) economic domination leads to huge black markets (or parallel markets)
                                                              c) humans are corrupt by nature
       a) take the drug example, countries spend billions of money fighting it but drug production and profits sustain several parts of the world;
       b) unless the internet is totally controlled, everything can be bought for the right price;
       c) at least until they taste some of the devil's candies;

Also, REM is just the keyword for comments in some programming languages, we don't need another way of putting comments in the scripts, otherwise it will be confusing.

Yes, I agree with you totaly, it's just that I didn't know about Ctrl+F.