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Living Room / Re: Smilie Pantomime

« Last post by Deozaan on January 06, 2008, 07:19 PM »

For those of us with smaller vocabularies: Smilie Charades.

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Living Room / Re: What is appropriate content for DonationCoder?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 06, 2008, 07:07 PM »

ok locking will occur on monday, so get in your last jabs now.

-mouser (January 06, 2008, 07:04 PM)

* Deozaan punches tinjaw in the mouth.

Ouch my knuckles!

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Living Room / Re: Help build Cody City!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 05, 2008, 07:27 PM »

I'm actually really fond of these two (related) ideas:

1. Tiny Crawl World


2. Tiny World:
Part 1: Tiny World Cities
Part 2: Tiny World Commander
Part 3: Tiny World Encounters

Lots of other great ideas on that site: Three Hundred

Thanks to Tinjaw for mentioning the site in another thread.

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Living Room / Re: What is appropriate content for DonationCoder?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 05, 2008, 06:35 PM »

Common Typos for Programmers:

...then we, as a community, will have accomplished to make a perl from the grain of sand that is this thread.

-tinjaw (January 05, 2008, 05:59 AM)

 

Actually the "Porn drives technology online" argument doesn't hold water for me

-Carol Haynes (January 05, 2008, 05:00 AM)

You obviously are in the minority.

-tinjaw (January 05, 2008, 06:07 PM)

No I think she's right. Internet technology isn't driven by porn. It's driven by the pursuit of money; the majority of which is perhaps gained from pornography.

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Living Room / Re: Help build Cody City!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 05, 2008, 06:22 PM »

We can now increase industry and transportation instead of just increasing population. But you can only do one per day so choose wisely.

Increase Population

Improve Industry

Improve Transportation

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Living Room / Re: World Question Center 2008: "WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT?"

« Last post by Deozaan on January 05, 2008, 05:46 PM »

This one is pretty good, from the last couple paragraphs of David Brin's entry.

I certainly expected that, by now, online tools for conversation, work, collaboration and discourse would have become far more useful, sophisticated and effective than they currently are. I know I'm pretty well alone here, but all the glossy avatars and video and social network sites conceal a trivialization of interaction, dragging it down to the level of single-sentence grunts, flirtation and ROTFL [rolling on the floor laughing], at a time when we need discussion and argument to be more effective than ever.

Indeed, most adults won't have anything to do with all the wondrous gloss that fills the synchronous online world, preferring by far the older, asynchronous modes, like web sites, email, downloads etc.

This isn't grouchy old-fart testiness toward the new. In fact, there are dozens of discourse-elevating tools just waiting out there to be born. Everybody is still banging rocks together, while bragging about the colors. Meanwhile, half of the tricks that human beings normally use, in real world conversation, have never even been tried online.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: SMF Plugin for Ignore Thread?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 05, 2008, 05:05 PM »

I second this motion!

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Living Room / Re: Wanted: Electronic/Searchable Holy Books

« Last post by Deozaan on January 05, 2008, 04:52 PM »

Darwin, you can also download these resources provided by the LDS church for handheld devices. And I just found out they even provide downloadable MP3s of the scriptures as well as other LDS publications. Some in other languages too. All for free.

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Living Room / Re: Universcale: Graphic representation of very large sizes and numbers

« Last post by Deozaan on January 05, 2008, 04:44 PM »

Very cool. This brings to mind two others of a similar nature:

Solar Perspective

-tinjaw (January 05, 2008, 07:47 AM)

[immaturity]
You're so fat Uranus is like 70 times bigger than Earth!
[/immaturity]

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Living Room / Re: Wanted: Electronic/Searchable Holy Books

« Last post by Deozaan on January 05, 2008, 04:27 PM »

Here's an online version of the Bible (KJV) with lots of cross references to other verses, footnotes, Bible Dictionary, Topical Guide, Maps, etc. all linked for easy access/reference.

http://scriptures.lds.org/

Since the website is provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (aka LDS/Mormons), it also includes LDS scriptures such as the Book of Mormon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Is Not a Valid Win32 Application" when installing - WHAT'S HAPPENING? HELP!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 05, 2008, 12:00 AM »

I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but occasionally a large file will be downloading and it will only get a few MB into it and it will stop, saying it was successful. This has happened to me in Firefox too.

It tends to do it to me when I'm downloading many files at once and/or my connection is going really slow.

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Living Room / Re: Tarnation: Innovative pikmin-defense type flash game

« Last post by Deozaan on January 03, 2008, 10:39 PM »

Oh Bummer! I already closed the tab! :-(

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Living Room / Re: Tarnation: Innovative pikmin-defense type flash game

« Last post by Deozaan on January 03, 2008, 10:15 PM »

I thought so too. Until I lost on the last level.

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Living Room / Re: Tarnation: Innovative pikmin-defense type flash game

« Last post by Deozaan on January 03, 2008, 10:09 PM »

That's fun!

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Living Room / Re: What is appropriate content for DonationCoder?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 03, 2008, 09:50 PM »

CodeTRUCKER, I share similar ideals as you. I've never said a "swear word" on purpose, don't smoke, don't drink, don't a lot of things many people find perfectly ordinary and commonplace today.

When someone posts a topic here that is borderline or clearly inappropriate to my personal standards, it makes me uncomfortable, sure. I'm not personally offended though. That is, while it may offend my tastes, I'm not angry or upset or harmed by the person who meant no harm.

There is nothing wrong with just doing what's right. The problem, though, is that not everyone agrees to the same definition of what's right and what's not. The best you can do is decide for yourself. And yes, in my opinion it is common courtesy to censor one's self for the sake of others. But in social places where many discussions on many topics are taking place, everyone is bound to come across something that isn't to their liking some time. I think the best course of action at that point is to judge the intent.

The key to most things in the world is to teach people correct principles and have them govern themselves. Having an organized body or group that does these things for you takes away personal responsibility and leads to bigger problems.

The fact of life is that people will talk about or do things you don't like. That doesn't make them bad people. It just makes them different than you. Like I said, I'm quite a misfit myself because of my personal standards--which are often thought of as strange or unnecessary. But it's my choice to make my standards, it's their choice to make theirs. No one is better or worse for it.

I'm still typing because I feel like I should wrap this up in a nice coherent, clean sentence or two, but I can't really think of how to do that. So I'll just stop now.

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Living Room / Re: Happy Birthday to App103

« Last post by Deozaan on January 03, 2008, 09:36 PM »

Happy birthday!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 03, 2008, 02:00 PM »

Tunnels of Doom on the TI-99/4A.

-Renegade (January 12, 2007, 10:37 PM)

That's the one I was thinking of in one of my first posts, but I called it Dungeons of Doom. My brothers and I would play that one so much!

We played Parsec too, but we had the cartridge expansion so we could just plug in games and play.

Hmm, if it also had an "adventure" part, you're probably thinking of Full Throttle. I played the demo, which rocked, but never got around to purchasing the full game

-f0dder (May 20, 2006, 04:51 PM)

My brother and I finally purchased the full version of Full Throttle in the late 90's, installed it, then took it back because we thought it was just the demo because it was less than 1MB completely installed!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strange Windows wallpaper trick

« Last post by Deozaan on January 03, 2008, 01:34 PM »

Tell nudone to find another job! I've got an endless supply of great looking wallpapers now! 

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Living Room / Re: Turning a so-so movie to a hilarious comedy

« Last post by Deozaan on January 03, 2008, 02:09 AM »

Haha!



The guy says that Jedi Council was being translated into Chinese and then back into English as the Presbyterian Church. Maybe the Chinese know something about Presbyterians I don't...

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Living Room / Re: The Best Games You've Never Played

« Last post by Deozaan on January 03, 2008, 01:53 AM »

Of the original list, I played or saw The Neverhood. Can't remember which. It was at someone else's computer but it looked like a bunch of fun. Never got to see more than perhaps 30 minutes of it. 

I got Beyond Good and Evil for PS2 because I could never find it for GameCube when I was interested in it. But when I went into the volcano the guy in armor kept falling into the depths. He wouldn't die, but he couldn't get back on the path. The glitch kept me from getting any farther than that. I finally found it for GameCube on eBay a few months ago and bought it, but haven't gotten around to playing it. Meanwhile I gave the PS2 version to my brother.

Metroid was an amazing game back in the day, but it was too difficult for me. Heck, it's still too difficult for me! But I've played and beat every other (proper) Metroid game out there.

Scorched Earth was very fun too. But that was during elementary and middle school years. My brother made a similar game called Nuke 'Em. Then when Duke Nuke 'Em came out, I thought it was a similar game until I played it.

There was also a game called Moraff's World, an RPG. I wanted to buy it but couldn't find it, so my brother talked me into buying Moraff's Blast (Arkanoid Clone). We didn't know what it was at the time because it was just on a floppy disk with no game description. We figured it would be similar because they were both Moraff's. Big mistake! Strangely, looking at the Wikipedia entry on Moraff's World, I don't recognize anything from those screenshots.

Similarly, I loved an RPG game called Castle of the Winds that I got off a shareware CD. The full game has been released to the public.

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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / Re: The N.A.N.Y. Programming Challenge for 2008

« Last post by Deozaan on January 01, 2008, 05:28 AM »

The web page looks great mouser! Just needs an update on the Cody image for 2008

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Deozaan on December 31, 2007, 01:11 AM »

Cheaters!

-Deozaan (December 16, 2007, 02:45 AM)

'Nuff said.

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Living Room / Re: Insane Super Mario Bros. Mod

« Last post by Deozaan on December 31, 2007, 12:46 AM »

Okay so the exporting to WMV and AVI was disastrous. Somehow an 11MB file of a 26 minute video takes 45 minutes to export and becomes 60MB for WMV and 110MB for AVI.

Anyway, I thought I'd mention that it's really not that frustrating most of the time. It's actually quite funny to play. I laughed while playing all the times I would have laughed while watching. It's really hilarious to see the funny ways the level designer has tricked the player into certain doom.

But I did get stuck on world 1-3 for over ten minutes near the very beginning of the level which started to get frustrating. I finally figured out the key to get past where I was when I had to quit playing. 

EDIT: Here's a small video of the transition from world 1-1 to 1-2.

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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / Re: YASA (Yet Another Steganography Application)

« Last post by Deozaan on December 30, 2007, 07:10 PM »

Neat! Here's one with hidden information inside!

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Living Room / Re: Insane Super Mario Bros. Mod

« Last post by Deozaan on December 30, 2007, 06:07 PM »

ARGH! I played it and I even made a lot of the same mistakes as the player in the video, even though I knew what was coming! At first I did a couple of them on purpose just for the fun of it, but then a lot of them happened accidentally.

Plus there are more levels!

I made a video using BB Flashback, but the audio wasn't recording... I'm exporting it to WMV now.