At 11/11/08 09:33 PM, zrb wrote: Is this forum always so dead now ?

ZRB!!! HAY!!!

While you were gone we pondered your name, whats the correct pronounciation for it?

We have:

Zed-are-bee
Zee-are-bee
Zerb
Zed-erb
Zeerb

and various others that i forget..

this forum will end after an eternity

Mochi Vs. Newgrounds adds....

Anyone do any large ecpm rate tests or what not or have any idea which ones are more preferable. Bout' to release 2 games that are a little subpar, I want to see how far marketing can go with a not so great game with in game advertisements in order to judge what I should do when my bigger game gets finished.

At 11/10/08 04:51 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: C++ is by far my favorite programming language. I love what it can do, I love the workflow, I love it's syntax and the control it gives you.

Love it for what? Game development? Desktop apps? Web applications (if so, how)?

You've said that ActionScript 3/Flash are inferior, but you make it sound like that's the case for all purposes of programming, which I would have to thoroughly disagree with.

C++ is the way to go for desktop oriented computer games, I'm not going to dispute that. But if Flash is so inferior, then how come so much of the technology market is embracing Flex/Flash/Air/ActionScript 3?

Allow me to answer that question. It's because C++ is inferior in many areas compared to Flash. One major area falling under this category would be small desktop based widgets. This is becoming a huge market, and Adobe Flex/AIR is a VERY realistic solution to something that a few years ago would have been pretty much set in stone as a job for C++. This is for a number of reasons, but mostly portability. I'd be amazed if you could find a way to port a C++ app to Mac/Windows/Linux without making ANY changes to the actual application. If I utilize the users webcam, file system, internet connection, no problemo. That's right, you can easily do this with AIR.

Why is that valuable? A company can develop an application one time, with one feature set, and it works everywhere. That's pretty impressive to me.

So, think what you want, but you're gravely mistaking if you dismiss ActionScript 3/Flash/AIR/Flex (yeah, they all go together now) to C++. C++ has it's uses where it kills AS3, but AS3 has it's own EXTREMELY valuable uses where it kills C++.

At 11/12/08 02:34 AM, NextToNothing wrote: Mochi Vs. Newgrounds adds....

If you're looking for the most money, GameJacket.

At 11/11/08 05:50 PM, Toast wrote: take zrb for example

At 11/11/08 09:33 PM, zrb wrote: Is this forum always so dead now ?

true story: ZRB has a program that warns him by making loud beeping sounds whenever someone mentions his name on the internet.

Song Breaaaak
What r u listenin to right now?

Me: Boston, Peace of Mind

Joe Satriani - Is There Love in Space?

Cold - with my mind

Thomas Newman - Coffey on the Mile, from the Green Mile soundtrack. I love listening to soundtracks whilst doing creative stuff, they get me in whatever mood I need to be in for projects. Sometimes I find normal music distracting, while soundtracks actually seem to help me focus on the job.

Pendulum - The Other Side

Not a bad song, but nothing like as good as their old stuff.

Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town - Cake

The reason I am listening to this is because I was too lazy to scroll down through my artist list and found Cake at the bottom of the window, so I chose the first album that appeared from them.

Football Season is Over-Bring Me The Horizon

Leaving Projects on Hold.

So, me and Duch. are going to be starting on our EOD project again, me revising the code, him finishing up... animating things. Well, while he was finishing up the third installment of Exile, I started a few mini projects, and then devoted my time into about a two week (with school mind you) project, it still isn't finished, and I'm not saying it's a power house, I'm just saying moving on to something else feels strange, whether you want to or not, anyone else feel that type of vibe?

At 11/12/08 01:09 PM, Luis wrote: Me: Boston, Peace of Mind

Kottonmouth Kings - Can Anybody Hear Me?

Re: Song Break
White Pearl, Black Oceansby Sonata Arctica.

Previously: Closer, by Nine Inch Nails

At 11/12/08 06:18 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Closer, by Nine Inch Nails

NIN is going to be playing like 45 minutes away from me, unfortunately I can't go because it's over Thanksgiving weekend and I'm probably gonna be gone :'(.

Hospital Beds by Cold war Kids is genious IMO

At 11/12/08 08:27 PM, SpamBurger wrote: I tend not to listen to music often, because I find it really hard to multi-task while listening to it. I just HAVE to sing along to the song in my mind, so I can't really think. However, right now I'm listening to Bonnie Tyler - Turn Around (LOL).

my friend Morgan Kingmakes music for fun all the time (he hasn't put many on NG though) and over the past year i have a library of at least 120 songs and/or beats by him. I find it easier to concentrate when i listen to this stuff, there's no lyrics and 98% of the time its got great beats =D

that was just your life-metallica

World At War

I got it for PS3. Fun game.I still prefer LBP though =D

Hardcore?

Does anyone here, besides me, like hardcore metal? Because I felt really left out looking at the current music playing stuff.

I'm listening to Koop, song called Koop Island Blues TEEHEE

So who are we losing to World of Warcraft this week? The expansion pack just came out toni... oh. I guess it's too late for anyone to sound off.

Heavy Medals
It's one of those things for me that none of my friends ever listened to it so I never was really exposed to it, and for someone who listens to a lot of reggae/ska the appeal hasn't been all there.

There should be a Trauma Center: Abortion Clinic edition

How I spent my Wednesday evening

OK. I am still feeling fairly drunk as I write this. I hope all of you take it as a severe warning.

Last afternoon, Durham had a rugby game on with some other uni. Conveniently, this was right outside our halls, so we all carried some chairs out to by our windows to look see. Me and a mate didn't realise there was a short cut, so we ended up carrying chairs up a steep, muddy hill (which actually made going up the hill easier, since we had something to stick into the ground) to watch. We won.

Before all of this, though, we decided we needed some drinks. On the advice of an old college teacher, I decided to go with a big fuck-off 3L bottle of white cider. We watched the game, I had a few pints (one downed), and we all retired inside to finish off our stuff.

I was finishing off the cider at this point, and here my memory starts to get fuzzy. I've got dim recollections of getting people to do press-ups by saying 'mine', but I don't really recall that much.

Cue forward to this morning. My room is even more messed up than usual, I've got a tonne of mysterious cuts on my hands and wrist, I've lost a tonne of stuff and I think I my have wet the bed for the first time since I was two. I've no idea what the hell happened, so I'm very confused.

I've been talking to people, and apparently last night I ended up getting kicked out of a bar I've no idea we went to, downed a triple vodka (my mate had an octuple as his first drink of the night :s) and - here's the good bit - ended up biting someone else for refusing to go into town to get the new WotLK expansion. I'm noticing more mysterious cuts and bruises as we speak. I've got a lot of apologising to do.

It's the speed of the thing what was weird. I've been drunk enough to forget things before, sure, but all I can remember from last night is sober-sober-a bit tipsy-GONE. It was literally a perfectly normal night right up until everything disappeared.

The apparent violence of it is quite scary too. I've never, ever, ever attacked anyone while drunk, or anything remotely like that. That's like the exact opposite of who I am. The worst I usually get to is hugging mates or getting off with someone I'd regret - actually biting someone or getting thrown out of a bar (probably more for clumsiness, but still) is shocking and appaling.

I can't stress enough how bad this shit was. Seriously, a warning to all of you - STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM WHITE CIDER!

A lot more shit probably happened too.

At 11/13/08 06:25 AM, Paranoia wrote: I've got a tonne of mysterious cuts on my hands and wrist

Mysterious nothin', you've been a fight there, youth.

...actually biting someone or getting thrown out of a bar (probably more for clumsiness, but still) is shocking and appaling.

The bitting bit yeah, tad much (where did you bite them?), but there's nowt wrong getting thrown out of a bar. As long as you weren't barred, you're laughing.

I can't stress enough how bad this shit was. Seriously, a warning to all of you - STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM WHITE CIDER!

Cider is rank anyway, there's only 2 drink it: 1) In a Snakebite (right, Keith?) 2) You're 15 in a park with a bottle of white lightening.

I just re-read my last post, and it looks like it's written in an overly posh and eloquent way :/ All these public school boys are a bad influence.

At 11/13/08 06:37 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: The bitting bit yeah, tad much (where did you bite them?),

Still need to find that out :/

but there's nowt wrong getting thrown out of a bar. As long as you weren't barred, you're laughing.

I'm not even sure I wasn't.

I've been talking to a few more guys, and apparently there's a lot more stuff I did. This is the first time an entire night's just erased itself from memory. It's quite fun trying to work out what happened. Hopefully whatever crops up on Facebook won't be too bad.

At 11/13/08 07:06 AM, Paranoia wrote: I've been talking to a few more guys, and apparently there's a lot more stuff I did. This is the first time an entire night's just erased itself from memory. It's quite fun trying to work out what happened.

It's not fun working out what happened, the less the you remember, the bigger the twat you made of yourself. Fact.

Hopefully whatever crops up on Facebook won't be too bad.

Digital cameras are a major risk on nights out. Literally in about 95% of the photos of me on facebook I'm completely smashed.

At 11/13/08 06:25 AM, Paranoia wrote: How I spent my Wednesday evening

OK. I am still feeling fairly drunk as I write this. I hope all of you take it as a severe warning.

A lot more shit probably happened too.

Sorry dude..And wow i never got that bad...

I connected with someone yesterday morning...

...and she hit the ground

You see, I was on the 61C (a double length one), and as we were stopped at a light about to turn on to Fifth in Oakland, I saw the 500 (my next desired bus) getting in front of the my bus. Well luckily enough, it both buses got stopped at the next light and I exited from the back door and started to run between parked cars and the buses to the 500's door. Take note that as I looked to the front of the bus before I got off, I saw no others getting ready to exit.

So I'm running, I'm running, I'm running...

BAM!

Right as I get to the front door of the 61C, this poor little girl steps off the bus and I full on tackle her. She was dazed and I was shocked. I looked down and asked if she was alright. All she said was, "Yeah, go." And in the heat of the moment, I dashed over to the 500. Though I did look back and saw other people assisting her (thanks to those kind souls!).

So that was funny and heartbreaking all at the same time.

In other news, we should all stop making flash. Someone's perfected the art, as seen here.

Have a good one!

a reenactment of yesterday morning