At 5/1/09 10:43 PM, liaaaam wrote: A charity game would be awesome, think of how big it could be - I mean, a good game that gives all it's profit to charity..

They did that a few years ago with hurricane katrina, where armorgames would donate to charity in your name if they could slap their logo on your game. Like 2 people took advantage of it.

At 5/2/09 12:34 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 5/1/09 10:43 PM, liaaaam wrote: A charity game would be awesome, think of how big it could be - I mean, a good game that gives all it's profit to charity..

They did that a few years ago with hurricane katrina, where armorgames would donate to charity in your name if they could slap their logo on your game. Like 2 people took advantage of it.

well OBVIOUSLY if one charity was made and it got some people active in it, then CLEARLY another charity would work about FIVE THOUSAND times better BECAUSE more people are THERE to take advantage of IT

do the math, guys. it's all there.

My goal for newgrounds is to eventually become a forum mod. I know it probably won't happen but I can try.

Another goal is to go to a newgrounds meet. From other peoples accounts they sound really fun. Even though I couldn't drink.

My ng goals are to get a good forum reputation for the right reasons, get a reputation for making good games and to possible be able to use that built up rep for getting employed in the flash industry somewhere. I doubt it'll happen though.

Why does everyone wanna bea mod so bad?! Ok I can see the attraction of power, but all it really means is youd have to spend more time in general, and you would have a "duty" to come on the forums and do the rounds even if you dont feel like it!

Meh, id much rather get respect and become well known for doing something worthwhile.

At 5/2/09 05:45 AM, J1mp wrote: Meh, id much rather get respect and become well known for doing something worthwhile.

Mods have power, people like power :). I personally don't have any specific goals except to expand my knowledge in any direction possible, if that gets me some recognition or an award, then that's a bonus.

Anyone remember the game idea thread? That needs resuscitating, I'm always short on ideas :P.

I've also started OOP, if anyone's got any tips, please share em.

I like this goal discussion :P I'd like to gain the discipline to make smaller games. Every time I realise that I need money to actually stay alive for the next year, I set out to make some short and sweet little thing which either a) turns out badly or more often b) swells into some ridiculous, year long beast of a project.

At the moment I'm still working on the short little one-level platformer which I started over six months ago. I've just integrated the save and achievements feature, a boss-survival mode (it's now got four real bosses) and am around half way through making it. Stupid undisciplined ambitions >.<

arggggghhh my main aim at the moment is to start/finish Penguinz 2. Im so excited!

Mine would have to be;

Practice more art
Start making more music
and release some fuckin games

At 5/2/09 12:05 PM, Saza wrote: and release some fuckin games

Yeah, gimme another week and I'll get back on it again.

My goal is tapping Megan Fox, and making a game that is actually fun to play. Working on both as we speak.

At 5/2/09 12:14 PM, Xeptic wrote:

At 5/2/09 12:05 PM, Saza wrote: and release some fuckin games

Yeah, gimme another week and I'll get back on it again.

My goal is tapping Megan Fox, and making a game that is actually fun to play. Working on both as we speak.

And here i thought you forgot <3 Btw that wasnt aimed at you :P

Macbook Resolution
I really want to get a higher resolution that 1280x800 on my Macbook. I remember seeing a terminal command that would change the "scale" of it and you set it by percentage.

Anyone got any ideas?

At 5/2/09 05:45 AM, J1mp wrote: Why does everyone wanna bea mod so bad?! Ok I can see the attraction of power, but all it really means is youd have to spend more time in general, and you would have a "duty" to come on the forums and do the rounds even if you dont feel like it!

i dont want to be a mod because of power. in fact i want ANY flash regular to be a mod, any flash forum regular because i've noticed a lot of threads are going by unlocked in the flash forum.

and luis doesn't do anything about it >:(

plus the main reason i wanted to be proclaimed youngest mod is not because i can go around saying 'durp durp im the youngest mod evar' but because if someone young becomes a forum mod, people on the forums would start to stop asking questions about is there an age limit to be a mod and people would realize there isn't an age limit, so because they are attracted to the power of the mod, the might try and act better because they realize anyone can become a mod, not just people over a certain age.

i once heard a mod say that they dont look at age for a mod, they look for maturity, it's just that most ten year olds aren't that mature.

It would be really useful if they added a tooltip next to every closing bracket which contains the statement of the opening bracket.

For example, in the following code, making your mouse go over the last bracket would show a tooltip saying "if(potato)"

Sometimes my codes get messy, and I spend too much brain RAM unconciously memorizing the opening bracket statement of each row.

At 5/2/09 01:04 PM, Toast wrote: It would be really useful if they added a tooltip next to every closing bracket which contains the statement of the opening bracket.

For example, in the following code, making your mouse go over the last bracket would show a tooltip saying "if(potato)"

if(potato){
eat_potato();
}

Sometimes my codes get messy, and I spend too much brain RAM unconciously memorizing the opening bracket statement of each row.

Thats brilliant, would be so useful. Maybe a third party add on of some kind? (I'm pretty clueless about it). But yeah great idea.

At 5/2/09 12:39 PM, Saza wrote: And here i thought you forgot <3 Btw that wasnt aimed at you :P

I haven't. In fact, I can't sleep at night because it keeps haunting me...

Seriously though, sorry for claiming it would be a quick project, I'm a little busier than expected.

At 5/2/09 01:11 PM, Xeptic wrote:

At 5/2/09 12:39 PM, Saza wrote: And here i thought you forgot <3 Btw that wasnt aimed at you :P

I haven't. In fact, I can't sleep at night because it keeps haunting me...

Seriously though, sorry for claiming it would be a quick project, I'm a little busier than expected.

Perfectly fine, my Xbox is keeping me company :)

...it also haunts me..

At 5/2/09 01:06 PM, Saza wrote:

At 5/2/09 01:04 PM, Toast wrote: Sometimes my codes get messy, and I spend too much brain RAM unconciously memorizing the opening bracket statement of each row.

Thats brilliant, would be so useful. Maybe a third party add on of some kind? (I'm pretty clueless about it). But yeah great idea.

That would be a great tooltip. I've gotten into the habit of doing things like this (tedius, but saves a ton of time down the road)

//------------------------------------
if(potato)
{
//blah blah
//pretend there's tons of other shit here.
} //#ifpotato (Sometimes used in huge nested if/looped statements if they're getting out of control.
//---------------------------------

I use the following for the start and end of if statements.
//--------------------------------------
----------------------

I use the following for the start and finish of functions
//######################################
##

Really large code blocks sometimes get something like this at the beginning:
//######################################
################
//########## Short description of stuff ###################
//######################################
###############

Obviously, I don't do it for everything, only things that seem to be getting cluttered.

At 5/2/09 01:16 PM, Johnny wrote: Stuff

Wow... that really mangled the format of my comments. I should have put it in code brackets. Pretend that it's really organized and easy to read.

At 5/2/09 01:17 PM, Johnny wrote:

At 5/2/09 01:16 PM, Johnny wrote: Stuff

Wow... that really mangled the format of my comments. I should have put it in code brackets. Pretend that it's really organized and easy to read.

Wow! That was really organised and easy to read!

I disagree that statements can be confusing. You're just doing it too procedurally. Indent cleanly and use subroutines.

Try posting some messy code (within 100 lines) which I can't clean up.

At 5/2/09 01:21 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: I disagree. You're just doing it too messy, I can't clean up.

I don't have too much trouble organizing my code, the worst habit I have is doing too much in one function, so when I catch myself doing that I just split it up into other functions.

For organizing functions I order them alphabetically, and put...

//----//
//
//----//

...in between them. It serves as an easy marker. I also use // in the functions just to split up the different things it does inside itself.

Big bang theory collapse

I've only just found out about this.
I'm behind a little but I thought it was quite interesting.

At 5/2/09 01:40 PM, Coaly wrote: For organizing functions I order them alphabetically, and put...

Like, manually? Just about every IDE has a member view that automatically arranges them by name or type. You know.

At 5/2/09 01:51 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: Like, manually? Just about every IDE has a member view that automatically arranges them by name or type. You know.

I'm using flash 8, I don't know if it has an auto arrange option for functions.

At 5/2/09 01:48 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Big bang theory collapse

I've only just found out about this.
I'm behind a little but I thought it was quite interesting.

Meh, I can't trust a page where the first argument is 'Einstein agreed with us'. That's the complete opposite of what science is about.

At 5/2/09 02:25 PM, Coaly wrote: I'm using flash 8, I don't know if it has an auto arrange option for functions.

I only have Flash 8 too. Don't use that for programming. Really.
Flashdevelop image attached.

Deadclever: that site is mostly shit.
http://www.thebigcollapse.net/prediction s.php
The first prediction is an obvious example of smoke out of ass. Equidistant images the furthest distance from each other blah blah cookiedough? Well, no shit, if you look past the visible universe in any other direction, chances are if the first image had nothing, so will the others. It confirms nothing more than stuff being uncertain. Two paragraphs?

At 5/2/09 02:34 PM, Paranoia wrote: Meh, I can't trust a page where the first argument is 'Einstein agreed with us'. That's the complete opposite of what science is about.

People tend to think that Einstein is almost always right. Funny thing is, he got his Nobel prize for his work on quantum physics, yet for all his life he was convinced that quantum theory is wrong ("God doesn't play dice", his response to probability in quantum physics). So it turns out he was wrong about one of the things he spent the most effort on. (although, ironically, despite his being wrong, he still advanced quantum physics a lot. especially with entanglement)

It's obvious that whether or not the big bang truly happened, there are still things we don't understand about it. All we can predict about the universe is the big bang, then there's a gap for a few trilliseconds (it's what we're testing at the LHC), then we can predict the interactions of the various gases and the expansion of the universe, then there's a gap for a dozen billion years, and then there's the modern universe. Sure there's some holes in our understanding of the universe, but we would get bored pretty fast if we were certain about the entire history of the universe, wouldn't we? So far, the big bang theory is the one that seems the most likely.

At 5/2/09 03:08 PM, Toast wrote:

At 5/2/09 02:34 PM, Paranoia wrote: Meh, I can't trust a page where the first argument is 'Einstein agreed with us'. That's the complete opposite of what science is about.

People tend to think that Einstein is almost always right. Funny thing is, he got his Nobel prize for his work on quantum physics, yet for all his life he was convinced that quantum theory is wrong ("God doesn't play dice", his response to probability in quantum physics). So it turns out he was wrong about one of the things he spent the most effort on. (although, ironically, despite his being wrong, he still advanced quantum physics a lot. especially with entanglement)

I think he was mainly unhappy with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics there (Schroedinger's cat and all). It doesn't really detract from his suggestion that light consists of quantised particles.

Although, on that subject it is a little irritating how Einstein's the only scientist that mainstream media really focus on. He was an extraordinary individual, but it's not really fair that all of the other people who contributed to quantum mechanics are shoved out of the way to make room for him. For some reason, the main American textbook we've got for this course ommit any mention whatsoever of Planck, apart from when referring to his constant (no mention about why it was named after him) :/

At 5/2/09 01:21 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: I disagree that statements can be confusing. You're just doing it too procedurally. Indent cleanly and use subroutines.

Try posting some messy code (within 100 lines) which I can't clean up.

http://www.closuregame.com/Log/screensho ts/2009/APRIL/APR27/Picture%2001.png

I've actually cleaned this up a little since then, but I want to see what you can do here :P

I looked at their arguments against the big bang, it's ridiculous.

J) Before the Big Bang Event, there was nothing. No space. No time. Just an infinitely dense singularity.

Correction: there IS no "before the big bang", because we assume the big bang was the beginning of time, and therefore to explain what was before it makes no sense.

B) Dependent upon a singularity, a mathematical concept which is improbably except in theory. Space 'expands' out of 'nothing'. To be fair, a rather miraculous concept that would likely require divine intervention.

"A mathematical concept which is improbably"? What in hell is that supposed to mean? An example of a mathematical singularity is f(x) = 1/x at x=0, what probability is there to assign to this? In astronomy, a singularity is a point-like mass that reaches 0 volume (and therefore infinite density), like in black holes. In fact, we also predict that there are naked singularities; meaning singularities that don't suck in all the light, and can be seen and studied.

Space doesn't expand out of nothing, it expands along with the expansion of matter. To quote David Mermin:
"Fields in empty space have physical reality; the medium that supports them does not. "