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Insane mind block experience

Yesterday I was sitting in my micro econ class and I was taking a note on when it is ok to forgo efficiency for the sake of fairness in a market. I wrote "intervention for the sake of equity at the..." and I couldn't think of the phrase "at the expense of." It was so insane, all I could think of were synonyms and examples of the opposite and I just couldn't come to that phrase. I've never had such a sick mind block in my life. It might have been partly because my professor was droning on about some kind of information or something, so it was hard for me to completely block out her annoying voice. I just kept blanking and blanking and couldn't let it go, which was just making me angrier and angrier. Anyways I never did remember on my own, I left class for a few minutes to call my friend who finally realized what I was trying to say.

I don't know if anyone has ever imagined doing something crazy in some normal instance, just for the sake of thinking about it, but this is the closest I have ever been to a crazy tourettes outburst.

Weekend Plans

I'm gunna go see Inglorious Basterds again in a couple of minutes. Looking forward to it. After that, since I'm not the designated driver today there will be some drinking. The rest of the weekend is reserved for running and programming.

At 9/11/09 01:40 PM, Xeptic wrote: Weekend Plans

I'm gunna go see Inglorious Basterds again in a couple of minutes. Looking forward to it. After that, since I'm not the designated driver today there will be some drinking. The rest of the weekend is reserved for running and programming.

Is it good. I'm thinking of going and seeing it but by the trailers I don't see what the fuss is about.

At 9/11/09 02:26 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Is it good. I'm thinking of going and seeing it but by the trailers I don't see what the fuss is about.

It's awesome, unless you are particularly squeamish or flat out hate good movies. Or in all seriousness if you have major issues with the length of over 2 hours or with tarentino's movies (his dialog, film progression, content). Basically though it is really entertaining and I recommend everyone go see it. I would have seen it twice if I had more money to spend right now, and I'm definitely buying it on dvd.

If you like Q. Tarantino films...you'll love it. If you are a World War II history scholar, you will be pissed off to no end.

Liquor helps.

At 9/11/09 11:31 AM, Coaly wrote: Insane mind block experience

thats happened to me a couple times, it's the most irritating thing when you have to let it go because people don't want to wait 20 minutes to hear the rest of a joke or something

At 9/11/09 02:34 PM, Coaly wrote: It's awesome, unless you are particularly squeamish or flat out hate good movies.

oh in that case i'll stick to uwe boll, and pocket ninjas

HELLO my name is inglor im a hand of mystery!

At 9/11/09 06:34 PM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: HELLO my name is inglor im a hand of mystery!

And if you ask what's three times five I'll answer twelve plus three

At 9/11/09 04:11 PM, doctormario wrote: If you like Q. Tarantino films...you'll love it. If you are a World War II history scholar, you will be pissed off to no end.

Nah, it takes refuge in its audacity. It's films with minor breaches of reality that piss off the history scholors the most - IB goes far enough that nobody could ever be expected to take it as a serious history.

Pinnacle of web design.
Mia

Also flash used bad.
Look for yourself.

At 9/12/09 07:12 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: Also flash used bad.
Look for yourself.

Is that an action flick or a church?

Dear God, a "big box" church in Maryland. Scary. An unholy union of third rate "2Advanced" immitators and a Steve Vai wannabe. Praise the LARD!

That is one of the longest intros for anything I have ever seen.

Guitar riff upon entering.

At 9/12/09 07:12 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: Pinnacle of web design.
Mia

Also flash used bad.
Look for yourself.

Well, its not so much "used bad" as it is overused in every aspect for something that really shouldn't be. Unless the church's motto is I'm here to kick ass and pray to god, and i'm all out of god.

At 9/12/09 06:57 AM, Wasim wrote: workin on a flash that will suprisingly not be so gay
and i am considering to make a game
but at the same time im lazy

What's it gonna be about?

That was a sweet guitar riff by Jesus himself!

Nuff said.

At 9/11/09 06:55 PM, Toast wrote:

At 9/11/09 06:34 PM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: HELLO my name is inglor im a hand of mystery!

And if you ask what's three times five I'll answer twelve plus three

Epic times

At 9/12/09 07:12 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: Also flash used bad.
Look for yourself.

I just want to play whatever the hell game that is. Assumedly that Bishop Don Meares is one of the bosses, and the pyramiddy thing looks like an awesome level.

In all seriousness, there's no way that that's real. Reality just isn't allowed to be that self-satirical.

I really want to make/play a pokemon clone but with the clock crew instead of pokemon.

That would be sweet for Clock Day 2010.

Also just installed TVersity and got it streaming my movie + TV show collection across the house, specifically downstairs to my PS3. It is sweet.

Also I want to write some software to predict the lottery numbers like Derren Brown did. Then maybe sell it to gullible middle aged rednecks.

Jellycar is fun.

At 9/12/09 12:18 PM, Rustygames wrote:

At 9/11/09 06:55 PM, Toast wrote:

At 9/11/09 06:34 PM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: HELLO my name is inglor im a hand of mystery!

And if you ask what's three times five I'll answer twelve plus three

Epic times

Oh hey Matt, how's Andy doing with you guys?

Tom-

At 9/12/09 01:16 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 9/12/09 01:06 PM, liaaaam wrote: Also I want to write some software to predict the lottery numbers like Derren Brown did. Then maybe sell it to gullible middle aged rednecks.

<?php
echo rand(1, 49);
?>

You forgot to loop it six times :p

Derren Brown had better be building up to some massive event with all of that maths bullshit he came out with yesterday. If it's anything less than total hypnosis of the entire viewing public I'm going to be disappointed.

IGF Submission Deadline is November 1st.
I'm working hard to ready Closure for it.

You guys should give it a shot if you have a good or original game and $100 to spend. It's worth a shot.

At 9/12/09 03:15 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote:

At 9/12/09 12:18 PM, Rustygames wrote:

At 9/11/09 06:55 PM, Toast wrote:

At 9/11/09 06:34 PM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: HELLO my name is inglor im a hand of mystery!

And if you ask what's three times five I'll answer twelve plus three

Epic times

Oh hey Matt, how's Andy doing with you guys?

Tom-

Ha ha small world

He's fitting in fine, I'll let him know you miss him ;)

At 9/12/09 04:33 PM, Rustygames wrote: Ha ha small world

He's fitting in fine, I'll let him know you miss him ;)

Wait, rustygames isn't ninjachicken?

:O

THEN WHO WAS PHONE

Over the last 2 weeks, I've been working on a little open source project, and I think it's finally ready to share.

as3sfxr
(source)

The app allows you to create retro sound effects (think SNES), tweak them and save them out to .wavs for use in your game/movie. You can also copy/paste settings as a string of numbers, so maybe you could share some cool effects here. Here's one I made earlier (either right-click > paste or ctrl-v)

0,0.017,0.471,0.347,0.862,0.51,,0.106,0.
181,0.226,0.288,0.228,-0.746,,-0.298,0.5 26,-0.072,-0.461,0.997,0.867,-0.197,,,0.
5

Let me know what you guys think, I wanted to let you have a play before I post about it elsewhere

Tom-

At 9/12/09 06:33 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Let me know what you guys think, I wanted to let you have a play before I post about it elsewhere
Tom-

Haha, fantastic.. there is a similar program already available if I'm not very much mistaken.. that you have obviously designed this based on because that also has the pickup coin, etc and the same design. My friend is very much into dynamic sound creation at the moment so I'll show it to him, he'll love it :P

Just checked the Google Code page and yes.. it's a direct port :X Awesome :)

At 9/12/09 06:48 PM, liaaaam wrote: Just checked the Google Code page and yes.. it's a direct port :X Awesome :)

Yep, Dim showed me sfxr and I thought it would be fun to port it. Plus a lot of people don't trust downloadable .exe files like the original was, so having it as a web app could be useful

The original didn't have copy/paste though :P

Tom-

At 9/12/09 06:53 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote:

At 9/12/09 06:48 PM, liaaaam wrote: Just checked the Google Code page and yes.. it's a direct port :X Awesome :)

Yep, Dim showed me sfxr and I thought it would be fun to port it. Plus a lot of people don't trust downloadable .exe files like the original was, so having it as a web app could be useful

The original didn't have copy/paste though :P

Tom-

It'd be cool if you could make a flash 10 playback API for it so people could playback the sounds simply based on a short list of parameters, or even "mutate" it on the fly.

or something similar

At 9/12/09 07:07 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: It'd be cool if you could make a flash 10 playback API for it so people could playback the sounds simply based on a short list of parameters, or even "mutate" it on the fly.

I was thinking of doing exactly that, I know it'd be cool to use in my own code if nothing else. 5 KB for practically unlimited sound effects? Yes please!

I'm also going to look into the idea of packaging up the sound as a swf, loading it back in using loadBytes and letting you instantiate it as a Sound object, without any fancy FP10 sound stuff.

Now that the port is finished, I can get on to properly extending it with these kind of features

Tom-