At 7/17/12 12:06 AM, Archawn wrote: Programmers are so goddamn lazy in the most ironically productive way.

I'm helping out with a Flash Showcase for NGADM and to do so I need to compile a list of everyone who is auditioning, along with links to their entries. Instead of doing it all manually, I put myself through a crash course on Perl, just so I could parse the audition thread HTML and automatically create a hash containing all of the entries.

I feel accomplished, even though a task that would've taken a few hours at most turned out to be a two-day endeavor.

I *love* it when stuff like that happens. Like when our IGCSE grades come out on the Cambridge website, the load on the servers usually causes the website to either load very slowly or not at all, and as you keep refreshing, once the website loads, by the time you enter your log in details, it crashes again.

So I made a simple greasemonkey script to automatically keep refreshing until the site opens and automatically enters the log in info and presses enter.

Another time I wanted to eat some pizza and browse 9gag, but I didn't want to get my keyboard sticky. So I just made a scrolling script.

It's awesome when a programmer does something purely for his convenience. It feels like you're bending the tools to get what you want.

It reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/196/

At 7/20/12 05:42 AM, 4urentertainment wrote: other stuff

It reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/196/

that is an amazing comic!

Anyone remember me? How're you guys doing? Many old reg's still around?

At 7/20/12 05:49 PM, Depredation wrote: Anyone remember me? How're you guys doing? Many old reg's still around?

I worked on that Tutorial Collab. I used to be Saza.

At 7/20/12 05:49 PM, Depredation wrote: Anyone remember me? How're you guys doing? Many old reg's still around?

I worked on the NG AktionSkriptors Collab. I used to be toast.

At 7/21/12 12:09 AM, Toast wrote:

At 7/20/12 05:49 PM, Depredation wrote: Anyone remember me? How're you guys doing? Many old reg's still around?

I worked on the NG AktionSkriptors Collab. I used to be toast.

Hi i'm ali and i'm an alcoholic.

But really, good to see you two are still around. People still working with flash? Everywhere i look there's talk of it dying.

At 7/21/12 07:34 AM, Depredation wrote: But really, good to see you two are still around. People still working with flash? Everywhere i look there's talk of it dying.

I also made the intro to your virtual PSP - forgot about that.

Yeah I still do fairly often, I'm out of the "scene" though so I wouldn't know if it's dying.

At 7/21/12 07:34 AM, Depredation wrote:

At 7/21/12 12:09 AM, Toast wrote:

At 7/20/12 05:49 PM, Depredation wrote: Anyone remember me? How're you guys doing? Many old reg's still around?

I worked on the NG AktionSkriptors Collab. I used to be toast.

Hi i'm ali and i'm an alcoholic.

But really, good to see you two are still around. People still working with flash? Everywhere i look there's talk of it dying.

Maybe it is partially true, but at the moment the only important thing is that today flash is still far from being dead, and making flash games is very easy. Will it keep declining and die over the next few years? Maybe. Would you have wasted any of your time by "learning" flash/actionscript and attempting to make games during the period of it still being alive? definitely not.

At 7/22/12 01:02 PM, Toast wrote:

At 7/21/12 07:34 AM, Depredation wrote:

At 7/21/12 12:09 AM, Toast wrote:

At 7/20/12 05:49 PM, Depredation wrote: Anyone remember me? How're you guys doing? Many old reg's still around?

I worked on the NG AktionSkriptors Collab. I used to be toast.

Hi i'm ali and i'm an alcoholic.

But really, good to see you two are still around. People still working with flash? Everywhere i look there's talk of it dying.

Maybe it is partially true, but at the moment the only important thing is that today flash is still far from being dead, and making flash games is very easy. Will it keep declining and die over the next few years? Maybe. Would you have wasted any of your time by "learning" flash/actionscript and attempting to make games during the period of it still being alive? definitely not.

Adobe still has a monopoly on flash, even if you ignore it as a game platform itself, its still a great animation tool, and has a lot of tools useful for games in it.

And everyone has it installed, and browsers have it installed by default.

It isn't going away, and even if it does eventually lose its impact on browser dev, adobe seems to be slowly working on focusing it more towards games anyway.

That said they should fucking make their fucking program work right first.

I'm not sure how long FlashGameLicense.com has been FGL.com, but I'm loving the new animated title graphic on every page. I don't understand why they're so determined to shake "Flash" from their reputation, but I'm more than happy with the alternatives they've offered up so far:

FancyGreekLimericks
FrenchGiganticLava
FrenchGlassLice
FatGoblinLyrics
FieryGravityLounge

Fat Goblin has the sickest fucking lyrics on the east coast.

At 7/21/12 12:09 AM, Toast wrote:

At 7/20/12 05:49 PM, Depredation wrote: Anyone remember me? How're you guys doing? Many old reg's still around?

I worked on the NG AktionSkriptors Collab. I used to be toast.

That collab was the shit

At 7/21/12 12:09 AM, Toast wrote: I worked on the NG AktionSkriptors Collab. I used to be toast.

And now you're Toast. What a change

Can't believe these forums are dead now. 7 years ago this thing was THE place to be if you were an up and coming flash game dev, nowadays it's all people asking how to make quick cash with no effort. It's sad that kids aren't getting the same opportunities I had :(
(along with the occassional flame war!)

At 8/6/12 04:05 PM, Rustygames wrote: Can't believe these forums are dead now. 7 years ago this thing was THE place to be if you were an up and coming flash game dev, nowadays it's all people asking how to make quick cash with no effort. It's sad that kids aren't getting the same opportunities I had :(

Its cuz Luis left. You musta drove him off with that comment on the first page.

lol that's epic. See, that's the kinda banter we're missing!

Unless he actually went and got a life and left us behind...

At 8/8/12 03:31 PM, Rustygames wrote: lol that's epic. See, that's the kinda banter we're missing!

Unless he actually went and got a life and left us behind...

Also just read the first page of posts. Holy shit I was a stuck-up retarded kid back then. Now I know why I was voted emo of the year...

At 8/8/12 03:35 PM, Rustygames wrote:

At 8/8/12 03:31 PM, Rustygames wrote: lol that's epic. See, that's the kinda banter we're missing!

Unless he actually went and got a life and left us behind...

Also just read the first page of posts. Holy shit I was a stuck-up retarded kid back then. Now I know why I was voted emo of the year...

we all were man, we all were

Lmao.

What's a "dir"?

At 8/10/12 03:47 PM, Diki wrote: What's a "dir"?

Wha...? You don't know what the shell command "dir" is? Okay, I'll try to explain you.

In computing, dir (directory) is a command used for file and directory listing, specifically in the command line interface of these operating systems: RT-11, CP/M, VMS, DOS, OS/2, Singularity, and Microsoft Windows. It is analogous to the Unix ls command.
Because it is the primary means of displaying the files and directories on disk or other storage medium within a command window, the dir command is one of the most basic commands employed by users of the command line interface to MS-DOS and subsequent versions of Microsoft Windows.
The dir command has existed as a DOS command since the initial release of MS-DOS. It is built into the DOS command shell, and is not provided as a separate standalone program.

In MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, dir checks for switches in the %dircmd% environment variable.

At 8/10/12 04:08 PM, doodle-bread14 wrote: Wha...? You don't know what the shell command "dir" is? Okay, I'll try to explain you.

Well you wasted your time; I'm well aware of what a directory is, and how to use a shell.
However, given the context, I just saw three letters (that don't form an English word) being placed together, 50 units apart, in a SWF application, which made no sense.

Are you emulating a shell in Flash or something?

At 8/10/12 04:17 PM, Diki wrote: Well you wasted your time; I'm well aware of what a directory is, and how to use a shell.
However, given the context, I just saw three letters (that don't form an English word) being placed together, 50 units apart, in a SWF application, which made no sense.

Yeah, I don't get it either. How is typing "dir" on screen supposed to be funny in any way?

At 8/10/12 05:13 PM, 4urentertainment wrote: Yeah, I don't get it either. How is typing "dir" on screen supposed to be funny in any way?

Also, quoting wikipedia won't impress anybody.

At 8/10/12 05:15 PM, 4urentertainment wrote: Also, quoting wikipedia won't impress anybody.

Something about the wording in his post did seem a little odd.

Y'know, doodle-bread, you shouldn't just copy and paste this article and pass it off as your own knowledge.

At 8/10/12 01:23 PM, doodle-bread14 wrote: Lmao.

I see a for loop that needs writing.

At 7/21/12 07:34 AM, Depredation wrote: But really, good to see you two are still around. People still working with flash? Everywhere i look there's talk of it dying.

Looking at Jobs in Vancouver Canada, there are still Flash/Flex positions around. I worked for 8 months developing a desktop application with Flex, was nice to work with. And every time I see a fancy website graphic, I right click to see if its flash or HTML5. Its about 50/50 from what I can tell.

At 8/6/12 04:05 PM, Rustygames wrote: Can't believe these forums are dead now. 7 years ago this thing was THE place to be if you were an up and coming flash game dev, nowadays it's all people asking how to make quick cash with no effort. It's sad that kids aren't getting the same opportunities I had :(
(along with the occassional flame war!)

I lurked for years after going silent. Things just seemed to slow to a crawl on this board. Maybe it had to do with segregation into other boards like Art, Animation, Collaboration, etc. Sure, they spammed the board a bit, but it kept the community alive. Not worth the separation in my opinion. Then again maybe none of that had anything to do with anything.

At 8/8/12 03:35 PM, Rustygames wrote: Also just read the first page of posts. Holy shit I was a stuck-up retarded kid back then. Now I know why I was voted emo of the year...

We were all kids back then. Embarrassing going back through older posts though. I thought was so cool. : P

Hey :) What's up? Has anyone got any projects on the go? Some CC entries? :P

At 8/15/12 02:33 PM, funkycaveman wrote: Hey :) What's up? Has anyone got any projects on the go? Some CC entries? :P

Since you mention it, I'll shamelessly plug a game I just recently began working on again. I started it roughly a year and a half ago and for the past 9 or so months I haven't had any time to work on it. But summer's here and I now have all the time in the world.

I'm also making an Android app with my school's music teacher. Cool stuff.

Game screenshot

At 8/15/12 02:33 PM, funkycaveman wrote: Hey :) What's up? Has anyone got any projects on the go? Some CC entries? :P

I've been working on a puzzle game with another programmer and an artist. We recently rewrote it in haXe/NME.

At 8/15/12 03:26 PM, Archawn wrote: Since you mention it, I'll shamelessly plug a game I just recently began working on again. I started it roughly a year and a half ago and for the past 9 or so months I haven't had any time to work on it. But summer's here and I now have all the time in the world.

Good, that game's always intrigued me - looks really nice.