At 2/22/07 08:17 AM, orb wrote:

At 2/21/07 08:33 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: JMTB, you could have used flash's date object and _url to make it able to only be played on your site, then deactivate the protection on the right date.

Just a suggestion.

Where's our game bitch? Lol I haven't seen you on aim in a long time, and we started this game, uh what, a year ago?

RAWR

It's uh.... in development :P

Well basically i need to be motivated to make 100 levels for the game unless i want to cut short the goal of 225 levels. Well actually i have 150 levels to do (minus your 15 which you never sent me :P)

expect to see it like... at the end of the year

At 2/22/07 09:10 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: It's uh.... in development :P

Well basically i need to be motivated to make 100 levels for the game unless i want to cut short the goal of 225 levels. Well actually i have 150 levels to do (minus your 15 which you never sent me :P)

expect to see it like... at the end of the year

You've got to be kidding me. Dude, that would be a 2-year development time.

Come on, it usually doesn't take you this long to make levels. When I agreed to get less money by having you make all (most) of the levels, I didn't expect it to take another year and a half.

At 2/22/07 09:54 AM, orb wrote: You've got to be kidding me. Dude, that would be a 2-year development time.

Come on, it usually doesn't take you this long to make levels. When I agreed to get less money by having you make all (most) of the levels, I didn't expect it to take another year and a half.

It usually doesn't, i've just been a little lazy. I keep thinking about the game though, I'm all like "man i got to finish blockslide up" but something always comes up.

After pico day i'll work hard to finish it up though, maby you'll see it by june.

At 2/22/07 09:54 AM, orb wrote:

At 2/22/07 09:10 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: It's uh.... in development :P

Well basically i need to be motivated to make 100 levels for the game unless i want to cut short the goal of 225 levels. Well actually i have 150 levels to do (minus your 15 which you never sent me :P)

expect to see it like... at the end of the year

You've got to be kidding me. Dude, that would be a 2-year development time.

Come on, it usually doesn't take you this long to make levels. When I agreed to get less money by having you make all (most) of the levels, I didn't expect it to take another year and a half.

Hey guys, my name is David Fox and I work for Fox. The folks here at 20th Century Fox want to make your riveting story about motivating, the long road, embezzlement, betrayal, and more into a full length feature film staring Bruce Willis.

Tagline: "When one man loses motivation, he counts on a friend in need"

Distancing Technology
Interesting thought the other day.

Do you think that the current technology we are developing (cell phones, IM's, text messages, myspace, internet, etc) is making society impersonal, or is connecting people closer together? Is our social lives uprooted by these technologies?

RE: Distancing Technology

At 2/22/07 12:23 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Do you think that the current technology we are developing (cell phones, IM's, text messages, myspace, internet, etc) is making society impersonal, or is connecting people closer together? Is our social lives uprooted by these technologies?

I remember a teacher once told me that the reason kids now a days are so shy and nervous to associcate with other students is because they are not meeting their social requirements in communicating in the real world, but rather, are talking on the computer and cell phone.

My opinion is yes, it brings us closer together, because we get to talk to the people we want to instantly, talk with new people that we've never met before, and learn tons of new things. Think about it, if it weren't for Newgrounds and the amount of posting we all do currently, we could easily not be doing what we are all doing today. Those who have a job in programming or Flash were probably inspired by means through the internet. If it weren't for the internet, so many people would be somewhere else today. But then again, you could say that about anything really...

RE: E-life

Yeah, the thing about the friends part is very true. You can become such good friends with someone you've never seen in person before. If I was able to, I would fly out to California to meet both the guys I talk to everyday online. I even called the guys home phone once, haha, good times...

RE: Elife
I disagree. people are very different online than in real life. On the internet, people act bolder, wiser and more talkative. The most talkative person on the internet could be the shyest, quietest person in real life. What you're like on the internet shows no accurate representation of what you're like in real life. Someone people say that online is there trueselves, but in real life they can't show their true selves. But to be honest, they spend more time IRL than on the internet and so like it or not, their real character is the person in real life.

For that reason, you cannot possibly 'know' someone you've only ever talked to on the internet. There's like the whole main part of them which you haven't met of them.

ELife

I agree with TD completely. I'd really like to meet some of the people around here, i don't know anyone in real life with any flash skill, so it'd be nice to talk to somone who knew what they were doing :).

I don't think its "sad" to talk to people over msn that you don't know. I just think it's a nice way to talk to more people, meet people who share some of your views/interests and have a laugh :).

I'd like to meet Gust, John, Tom and a few other people someday, maybe if i'm at Comic Con in a few years i'll get to see the latter :).

RE: E-Life
@Cybex:

The way I know some people on the internet, it is truly as if I know them. I've talked on microphone with these people, constantly, webcammed with them and what not, and like I mentioned before, even called them, which I only did to be funny, not to stalk them, haha.

Buzzwerd and 64 are the people I'm talking about, saying people every sentance is getting annyoing, so whatever. 64 and I are really tight online, and we do lots of fun crap. No akwardness is what I'm trying to get at. When I talk with these guys I don't feel akwardness at all, and vice versa.

But going with what Depredation said, that's a tiny bit different. Meeting people from the flash forum could result in what you are talking about Cybex, because you are absoloutely right. I definately act older and wiseron the internet. But I'm still a fun guy and I am still a smart person. I'm sure if you met me, I'd be different somehow, compared to what you might think of me now. But once you really get to know a person online, you can really call them a good close friend. Even if you haven't met them.

It's just at the point where you're so cool with that person, where you are already sure that if you meet them, they would be the same as they are on the internet, microphone, webcam, whatever.

RE: E-Life

I don't have many close e-friends, I have maybe a few that I've met through a Flash Team I'm currently leading. Other than that, the only people I know are people in the Flash forum, and even then I don't talk with them much, if at all.

I know for a fact 99% of the people who read this post have never talked to me 1-on-1 on an instant messenger, and about 50% have never even quoted my text. It's not like I'm complaining, I just don't go online for e-friends :)

Or something like that.

RE: E-life

At 2/22/07 01:02 PM, ImpendingRiot wrote: I DO know what you mean by real life. I dont think that should classify us as who we are though

Part of who you are is how you act socially, how you dress and how you act in situations.

On the internet it's impossible to show that. There's no real social interaction. Sure you can 'talk' to people, but if you're just typing to them, people act more confidentally, have more time to think about what they're going to say and don't really act how they would as their true self in real life.

Re: E-Life

At 2/22/07 12:55 PM, Cybex wrote: But to be honest, they spend more time IRL than on the internet and so like it or not, their real character is the person in real life.

There are two flaws in that point. I'll come out and say that there have been times when my only means of social interaction has been the internet. Obviously this would be during the summer when I had no school. But again, thats not a perfect example because I work in the summer. But there was a time in my life when I had gone months, going on years without leaving my house for any social reasons. Even though some of the people I talked to online were people I knew it was still more social interaction online than otherwise.
The other flaw, is that you are assuming that the way people act the majority of the time is who they really are. There are people who's entire lives are lies. Like people who have to act differently around some friends vs others.

The whole question was if technology brings us together or the opposite, which I actually had to write a paper on last semester. I argued that it brings us together, especially those with great distances between us, but I may have changed my mind. When you know that you could also go online to talk to someone, even a relative stranger, it might just remove your incentive to venture out into the world. You can't live your life behind a computer, not a normal life, though that is what I've been doing on majority for the past half a decade.

Do people read my obnoxiously long posts?

World-Wide-Newgrounds

Does NG translate into other languages? I mean otherwise, why would only 25% of the site be Americans? I mean, I think only 3% is from the UK and less than two is from Australia. Does everyone else just look at the pictures on the front page or something or are there that many people who can understand English?

At 2/22/07 01:25 PM, Cybex wrote: On the internet it's impossible to show that. There's no real social interaction. Sure you can 'talk' to people, but if you're just typing to them, people act more confidentally, have more time to think about what they're going to say and don't really act how they would as their true self in real life.

Exactly. On the internet I'm not shy at all, but in real life I'm quite timid around people I don't know.

or are there that many people who can understand English?

English is tought as a foreign language in a suprising number of foreign schools.

At 2/22/07 02:10 PM, MethodMinus wrote: There are two flaws in that point. I'll come out and say that there have been times when my only means of social interaction has been the internet. Obviously this would be during the summer when I had no school. But again, thats not a perfect example because I work in the summer. But there was a time in my life when I had gone months, going on years without leaving my house for any social reasons. Even though some of the people I talked to online were people I knew it was still more social interaction online than otherwise.

Even if you spent more time on the internet than in real life, real life is still your true personality and your true self. Real life tests all of your social skills and so is an accurate representation of who you are and your personality. Talking to people on the internet tests very few social aspects. You may be more socially accepted on the internet, but that only means you lack qualities needed to socialise in real life such as social awareness, body language, timing etc. They're all part of who you are. If you're not good at them you can't just never use them and deny they're part of you.

The other flaw, is that you are assuming that the way people act the majority of the time is who they really are. There are people who's entire lives are lies. Like people who have to act differently around some friends vs others.

Again, it's not really to do with whether or not you're being trutheful or living a lie. On the internet you show only a small percentage of who you are and your social skills. In real life you show all your qualities.

Use this as an analagy:
If you're good at maths but crap at everything else, if you go up to a group of people and show them your maths skillz, they'll think you're intelligent.

However, if you take a proper IQ test, people will see you're not actually that intelligent. Similarly, if you just go on the internet, people will think they know you, but as much as they might get to know you, they know only a very small part of you.

At 2/22/07 02:10 PM, MethodMinus wrote: Do people read my obnoxiously long posts?

No.

Put more paragraphs in :P

RE: e-Life

Heh, I'm more lively in real life than here. If I acted my real self here I'd be banned for making stupid jokes that aren't funny and being just generally half-crazy.

Most people are different. I mean, I guess you could call me shy.

E-Life

I think it brings people closer but reduces proper social communications verbally up front. I know it alot easier to make friends online then at school, at school its much more easy to get embaressed. For instance, I just was emaressed...

RE: E-Life

At 2/22/07 03:40 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote: I like to think I act the same here, as I do in real life. I don't get your theories on this, it's impossible to keep up an act online, just as it is in real life.

It's not that people are putting on an act and nolt being themselves, just that i feel its impossible to show your true self on the internet. Most of communication is from body language and the way things are being said. The words themselves that are being said are a suprisingly small part of communication. And that is why I think it's impossible to have proper E-friends (unless you have voice and video conversations in which case it's debatable).

At 2/21/07 04:43 PM, edit-undo wrote: According to Flash's Actionscript library, the 'length' variable (for arrays) is deprecated, so what are we supposed to be using in its place?

No-one answered my question >:(

RE: Intertheft [lol, seewhatididthere?]
Just a side-note, if you used something like Mochiads, then you would profit from your game being stolen...

RE: E-life
I had something releveant to say and I've forgotten it. But I do know that everything I know about Flash, I learnt from this forum, so that's got to count for something. :)

Walking
I walked 13 miles to Bristol yesterday, it took 4 hours :( and now my legs hurt. How far have you lot walked in one go? I know 13 miles is probably nothing to most people...

Walking

At 2/22/07 04:04 PM, edit-undo wrote: I walked 13 miles to Bristol yesterday, it took 4 hours :( and now my legs hurt. How far have you lot walked in one go? I know 13 miles is probably nothing to most people...

Not much for walking, but I rode my bike nearly 70 miles one day.

RE: Cycling

At 2/22/07 04:05 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Not much for walking, but I rode my bike nearly 70 miles one day.

70 miles. thats quite a bit. Most i've done is 30 and 5 of that was while drunk.

Drunk cycling is suprisingly easy.

Walking

I walked 13 miles to Bristol yesterday, it took 4 hours :( and now my legs hurt. How far have you lot walked in one go? I know 13 miles is probably nothing to most people...

I walked 200 miles coast-to-coast, st bees - robin hoods bay, BooYah!
Admittedly it wasnt all in one day, it took about 2 weeks, averaging 16 miles a day. The longest stretch was two days of 20+ in a row but the hardest bit was the beginning having to climb mountains in the lake district. After about day 4 or 5 it got easier.
In a single day, i think the most I've done is about 30 miles.

At 2/22/07 04:08 PM, Cybex wrote: Drunk cycling is suprisingly easy.

In Davis, where I live, we have the highest bike ownership rate in the world (>2 per person average). If you are drunk and riding your bike, you'll get a DUI, seriously. It's been named the BUI here, and a lot of people get caught for it on campus.

http://www.daviswiki.org/Bicycling_Under_The_
Influence

At 2/22/07 04:21 PM, jmtb02 wrote:

At 2/22/07 04:08 PM, Cybex wrote: Drunk cycling is suprisingly easy.

In Davis, where I live, we have the highest bike ownership rate in the world (>2 per person average). If you are drunk and riding your bike, you'll get a DUI, seriously. It's been named the BUI here, and a lot of people get caught for it on campus.

http://www.daviswiki.org/Bicycling_Under_The_
Influence

Ha ha, that seems so so stupid. Drink driving I can understand it dangerous, but drink cycling? Whats the worst that could happen? You could hit a person at 10 miles an hour :O

At 2/22/07 04:33 PM, Cybex wrote: You could hit a person at 10 miles an hour :O

You could cycle into the road, then hit a car which is going much faster than yourself. And die. Sounds fun, doesn't it?

At 2/22/07 04:26 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote: Real men swim.

What if I drove a pick-up truck? Thats manly!

At 2/22/07 04:37 PM, ApatheticMark wrote:

At 2/22/07 04:33 PM, Cybex wrote: You could hit a person at 10 miles an hour :O

You could cycle into the road, then hit a car which is going much faster than yourself. And die. Sounds fun, doesn't it?

Thats hardly realistic. If i was drunk enough to swerve around that much, i'd either be smart enough not to cycle or I'd fall off straight away.

At 2/22/07 04:21 PM, jmtb02 wrote: In Davis, where I live, we have the highest bike ownership rate in the world (>2 per person average). If you are drunk and riding your bike, you'll get a DUI, seriously.

I've rollerbladed drunk before in Davis. It was surprisingly easy, since rollerblading is basically just stumbling forward anyway. In fact, while I was doing it, I was pretty sure that I wasn't even that drunk. Then I got home, took them off, and nearly fell over with my first step.

But yes, BUIs happen in Davis... though partially because the cops there have nothing better to do. They spend 95% of their time giving noise violations, handing out various bike-related tickets, and arresting 16-year-old girls from their homes in the middle of the night for hitting parked cars ( http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_te am&id=4000500 ).

E-life

my 'e-life' is so much betetr than my real life... .. why is it E? shoulnd't it be I, for internet?

Sexercise

i used to alot when i was back at school, most i do nowadays is tha random walks to town < still a long way there and back, espeicaly when i take the scenic route> and other stuff :P

you know what i'm saying ;)

Pico Day

last year i was gonna do a game for pic game with a group of people, but it feel through horribly :( might do some sorta movie this year if i can get the time :P

i know luis is making somehting.. cuz he said so, but how abotu the rest of you's :P?

ignoring the picodaythread luis made ;)

At 2/22/07 04:14 PM, TheHappySheep wrote: In a single day, i think the most I've done is about 30 miles.

Wow, thats quite an achievement, sounds very hard though :P. Most I've walked in one day is about 20 miles, and about the same biking. There aren't many great walks around here, but i went on a good one for a school thing, around a big resevior thing :D.