At 1/25/09 04:21 PM, Xeptic wrote:

At 1/25/09 03:37 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 1/25/09 02:48 PM, ImpendingRiot wrote:

I'm not quite sure, personalized advertisements and web-services based on data trail you leave behind on the interwubs is the next big thing though.

So basically I'm going to get nothing but porn ad's in the future =\
I suspect most men will suffer the same fate.

Movies

I recently saw Gran Turino and I must say, it was hilariously racist.
Like in one scene (I don't mean to offend anyone) Clint Eastwood is talking to a couple bar buddies and he says, "So a beaner, a jew, and a colored person walk into a bar and the bartender looks up and says, 'Get the fuck outta here!'"
It was just... weird.

At 1/26/09 12:03 AM, ImpendingRiot wrote: Finally got around to watching Fargo, and I've decided the Coen brothers love to end their movies with some deep and thoughtful discussion between two people. At least that's how it is in No Country For Old Men and Burn After Reading, as well as Fargo.

Burn After Reading was one of the biggest disappointments of the year for me, and the people who think their part of an elitist group that "get it" made it even worse, as if it wasn't the most straightforward comedy ever. I'm part of the elitist group that not only got it but also thought it was stupid and kinda boring XP.

I haven't seen Fargo yet is it worth a rental?

Burn After Reading was one of the biggest disappointments of the year for me, and the people who think their part of an elitist group that "get it" made it even worse, as if it wasn't the most straightforward comedy ever. I'm part of the elitist group that not only got it but also thought it was stupid and kinda boring XP.

I haven't seen Fargo yet is it worth a rental?

Fargo is only entertaining if you haven't been spoiled by someone telling you ANYTHING about the movie. other than that, its always gotten good talk from whose seen it.
i actually liked burn after reading, its fun for how little sense it makes during the course of the movie, especially if you're with the right crowd. other people's reactions make it so much more rewarding. seeing it on your own is no fun. i saw it with my dad and we were pretty glad we didn't drag mum to see it after all....

At 1/26/09 02:08 AM, NextToNothing wrote: Burn After Reading was one of the biggest disappointments of the year for me, and the people who think their part of an elitist group that "get it" made it even worse, as if it wasn't the most straightforward comedy ever. I'm part of the elitist group that not only got it but also thought it was stupid and kinda boring XP.

I loved Burn After Reading. There wasn't anything to get, it was very straightforward, it was just a brilliant movie - very well directed, written, acted, everything.

The word "movie" is underlined red as if it is misspelt o_O Whaaaaaaaat.

Virtual Pet Markup Language (VuPML)

At 1/25/09 08:22 PM, Deathcon7 wrote: Creature type thing?
Couldn't really think of anything else to title it.

How about that? :)

At 1/25/09 08:22 PM, Deathcon7 wrote: ...Just a random thought.

Yeah, there'd be no problem defining a simple markup language off of XML that can be interpretted by Flash and PHP and whatever else we'd choose to display these pets and make a set of games that could interpret them and do what we please with them.

The problem lies in balancing these creatures out. It wouldn't be hard for someone to simply just change thier critter's file so it had 2,147,483,647 in every stat. An idea instead would be to have the critters XML code set up so that instead of the hard stats being recorded, the changes were recorded from thier 'base' model. So the XML feeds would look like the following...

Wouldn't mind codifying something like this. Could make for a very... interesting web game project...

At 9/28/06 11:07 AM, Luis wrote: Been debating making a thread like this for a long time, but i think that it may be a good idea and it may serve as a catch-all for all the debates and things that can benefit from personal opinions on matters.

so true

At 1/26/09 02:08 AM, NextToNothing wrote: I haven't seen Fargo yet is it worth a rental?

You should buy it.

by which I mean it's a very good movie

Google Chrome Bug?

I can't load any page from newgrounds in google chrome, but I can load newgrounds in firefox, or if I use an incognito window from chrome. From what little searching I did it seems like other people have had the same problem with other random sites they visit, but no one seems to have an actual solution. Has anyone had this problem, or does anyone know the solution to this problem, or does anyone want to take a guess at what a solution might be? The only thing I've done is clear my browsing data, cache, and cookies.

Mmorpg's
Anyone play them?
I'm going to get darkfall when it comes out on ja- feburary 25th. (DELAYED AGAIN?)

Films
I watched Defiance yesterday, It's pretty good. 8/10.
Definitely worth a watch!

At 1/26/09 11:00 AM, Coaly wrote: Google Chrome

The solution for me is to close and reopen the browser =p

At 1/26/09 04:57 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Virtual Pet Markup Language (VuPML)

Genius! Creature Combat Markup Language (CCML or C2ML)??

Yeah, there'd be no problem defining a simple markup language off of XML that can be interpretted by Flash and PHP and whatever else we'd choose to display these pets and make a set of games that could interpret them and do what we please with them.

So CCML would use XML which would be read by Flash and interpretted into an Object and executed from there. I love it bro. I was thinking of using serialization. It's what I've seen around most and is most likely the most full proof. The even better part is that these stats can be displayed on a web page by having html/php parse the information as well. This would probably be easier for the game than trying to use SQL to store the information, though this could be a good idea. Maybe primary information can be stored in SQL and backups in CCML. So like in little big planet you can customize your creature, save that version to XML, and then customize it again. This way you can have a couple different versions of your "creature" for different situations/battles.

The problem lies in balancing these creatures out. It wouldn't be hard for someone to simply just change thier critter's file so it had 2,147,483,647 in every stat. An idea instead would be to have the critters XML code set up so that instead of the hard stats being recorded, the changes were recorded from thier 'base' model. So the XML feeds would look like the following...

That would be great. It would also make changing the creatures stats a lot easier. However, the issue lies in uniqueness of the creatures. For example, if you have a level 3 weak-type creature vs a level 3 strong, very rare, creature, they'll be exactly the same strength were both creatures to have upgraded str for level 2 and 3, or w/e the case may be. One possible way to alleviate this is to have stat typing as well. For example, level 0 stat types are uber weak and level 9 stat types are uber strong. I was also thinking of just using the numbers and reading totaling them up and comparing them to a Max. If it's over that max, then we can ban that character for cheating. We could probably even have a database set up with a list of banned characters and if you try to play with it, it'll mark your IP and soft ban your IP from accessing the site and if possible on NG send it to a block frame where they'll be stuck.

Wouldn't mind codifying something like this. Could make for a very... interesting web game project...

Well, maybe we can work together on this!! I'm gonna be planning it out a bit more and coming up with a uniform system for the creatures, combat, etc. If you're interested, let me know and we can talk it through. Or if you're interested I can send you some of the info I'll compile and you'll just let me know if it sounds good.

Also, funny thing is I work for a web hosting company. I could get on a VPS for free and we can actually get a website and stuff going. So, the resources are there, just let me know if you got the time :D

At 1/26/09 11:00 AM, Coaly wrote: Google Chrome Bug?

Wierd. I don't have that problem and I'm using Chrome. Have you tried reinstalling? What kind of error are you getting? You might also want to try flusing your router's dns information.

At 1/26/09 11:41 AM, SweetSkater wrote: Mmorpg's

Darkfall looks pretty interesting actually. However, I'm waiting on Star Wars: The Old Republic from Bioware and Lucas Arts. It should be incredible, given that their last Star Wars games was probably one of the best out of all of them. Also, I'm looking forward to Star Trek Online. It'll be an awesome space exploration game with combat in space and on land, as well as procedurally generated planets. It's gonna be great.

Wacom just sent me their newsletter 5 times. Anyone else getting Wac-owned?

At 1/26/09 02:15 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Wacom just sent me their newsletter 5 times. Anyone else getting Wac-owned?

This is a sign of the foretold "uprising". Wacom are DDOSing Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo and are going to quietly release their own e-mail server (@wacmail) with a small announcement about it's reliability.

Fucking genius.

At 1/26/09 01:16 PM, liaaaam wrote:

At 1/26/09 11:00 AM, Coaly wrote: Google Chrome

The solution for me is to close and reopen the browser =p

>_> omfg... THANKS ^_^

That will teach me to go days without closing my browser =_=

I don't even know how I did that... lmao

At 1/26/09 02:15 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Wacom just sent me their newsletter 5 times. Anyone else getting Wac-owned?

Im definately not :)

At 1/26/09 02:15 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Wacom just sent me their newsletter 5 times. Anyone else getting Wac-owned?

i've gotten all my tablets through wacom and they've never sent me any letters :'(

i couldn't even draw with a mouse if i wanted to, there isn't a mouse in the house. alive or inanimate. just touchpads for miles around........

At 1/26/09 02:15 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Wacom just sent me their newsletter 5 times. Anyone else getting Wac-owned?

Stop signing up for their newsletter using all your aliases

jmtb03, jmtb04, jtmb02

Hey, what happened to Flash Wiki

I was considering whacking the article I wrote about Arrays as an AS3: Main tutorial over here, but it's not online any more D:

I really liked that site. :( Made me all warm and fuzzy.

You probably talked about this before, haven't you.......

jmtb02, did you save it all to your hard drive? I don't want a copy of it or anything, I'm just curious whether it is at all revivable at some point in the future.

When I was looking for it I found this: http://theflash.wikia.com/wiki/The_Flash _Wiki

At 1/26/09 05:37 PM, trig1 wrote: Hey, what happened to Flash Wiki

Hm, I found this, it looks much like the old Flash wiki but it's run by some "Luizi" and there are not very many articles.

I am confused.

At 1/26/09 03:55 PM, Luis wrote:

At 1/26/09 02:15 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Wacom just sent me their newsletter 5 times. Anyone else getting Wac-owned?

Im definately not :)

Even I have a Wacom Luis, and I'm so out of practice at drawing, its ridiculous.

In other news, I just got my super-sweet 22" widescreen monitor hooked up next to my 19" regular, in a dual setup. Oh my. I'll never go back to single screen. I just spent an hour coding on them, weeping the whole time.

The great thing is, the new monitor was only £130:

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/657/864/-/3 275270/Videoseven-V7-L22WD-22-Flat-Panel -Widescreen-Monitor/Product.html?searcht ype=genre

But such a great picture! Anyone else made the move to a dual setup?

Tom-

At 1/26/09 05:50 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote:

At 1/26/09 05:45 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: But such a great picture! Anyone else made the move to a dual setup?

Tom-

I used to have my TV as the second screen of my dual setup.

Me too, still do actually. I had a spare HDMI switch box laying around, so now I can switch between my 2nd monitor or my tv at the press of a button.

Tom-

At 1/26/09 05:45 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: But such a great picture! Anyone else made the move to a dual setup?

I've got a dual setup at work, 17inch and 19inch, both widescreen. It's horrible coming home to my puny 1024x768 monitor. It all feels so congested. I'd well recommend dual screens.

At 1/26/09 06:05 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: I've got a dual setup at work, 17inch and 19inch, both widescreen. It's horrible coming home to my puny 1024x768 monitor. It all feels so congested. I'd well recommend dual screens.

I've got one 15" and another 22", i generally code on one and have a video or something running in the other, it's a nifty setup. I recommend samsung 22" monitors, mines only a 3000:1 contrast ratio, but the 20000:1 is only £30 more and that looks stunning.

In other news, I just got my super-sweet 22" widescreen monitor hooked up next to my 19" regular, in a dual setup. Oh my. I'll never go back to single screen. I just spent an hour coding on them, weeping the whole time.

But such a great picture! Anyone else made the move to a dual setup?

Tom-

i weep the whole time too, but not for the same reason.
a monitor just for the image? the stuff i draw should never be magnified that high, but it sounds amazing :O

SFB SEZ!

I used to have my TV as the second screen of my dual setup.

Me too, still do actually. I had a spare HDMI switch box laying around, so now I can switch between my 2nd monitor or my tv at the press of a button.

Tom-

Holy damn! I have a 42" HiDef TV.... AND I WANT MY COMPUTER TO USE IT TOOOOOOO DX

No fair! I don't think i can because my comp probably won't connect to HDMI, so i'll just have to settle for 1080p ps3 for now :P

Special Effects

Something I don't hear much about is special effects in flash animations. I was thinking, do artists prefer to manually make these effects? Or is there not much talk about it because it's not really a technique that's implemented?

One idea that came to mind was creating scenes that would benefit from particle effects. For example, some particle effects that could definitely be used in a movie: rain/snow, fire, sparks, lighting, etc. I know it'd probably be easier to just animate it, but I mean, is it going to be realistic? I was thinking of try to start a library or something with particle effects that could be used similar to how the Vcam is used. In my opinion, anytime animation and actionscript meet, great things happen (take the vcam itself as a great example).

At 1/27/09 12:41 AM, Deathcon7 wrote: Special Effects

Something I don't hear much about is special effects in flash animations. I was thinking, do artists prefer to manually make these effects? Or is there not much talk about it because it's not really a technique that's implemented?

explosions are one of the most fun things to animate, so hard to do wrong and so easy to fix when they do, lava and fire are the worst for me, fire's not to bad but making looping lava is actually driving me insane.

Re: Geeky Pokemon XML Garbage between me and Deathcon7
We'll shift this to a Wiki on mine or Deathcon's webspace somewhere. Kirk can now berate me for taking on even more projects I'll never finish if he wants

Re: MMOs
Puzzle Pirates (ocean: Cobalt, account: Kaynsan). Inactive.
City of Heroes (server: Union (EU), global chat handle: Kayn). Active.

I have a Goon friend trying to drag me onto Eve as well.

Dual screening
Considering I do 98% of my work on a laptop, dual screens aren't practical. Especially for the tablet PC. I got that thing so I didn't NEED to look at a monitor while using a tablet...

At 1/26/09 06:05 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: I've got a dual setup at work, 17inch and 19inch, both widescreen. It's horrible coming home to my puny 1024x768 monitor. It all feels so congested. I'd well recommend dual screens.

One of the Windows labs here has dual widescreen 19" monitors and it's just too damn pretty =.= They also have dual quad core processors, 8gb ram and geforce 9800s and yet the only game they have installed is Unreal Tournament 2003. Lameee :(

Coded particles are nice and all, especially for things like snow, but in my eyes you cant beat a nicely frame by framed explosion or water splash :P