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General Discussion / The Bedroom Crouchrace [Official Topic]

« on: November 07, 2014, 10:37:30 PM »

About
The Bedroom Crouchrace is a normal crouch race with the static map "Original Bedroom". The track works its way around the room.

This server is in it's early stages. Expect updates and more content!

Pictures

No pictures at the moment, stop by the server to check it out.

Rules

1. Do not spam in any form.
2. Do not ask for Admin.
3. Do not exploit. Please report any bugs you find.
4. If you happen to land off the track and not die. Please Self Delete (ctrl and k) and notify an admin where.

Credits

Mack Bot - Server Host
Blake1 - Building the track, spawnroom, and eventing gameplay.
mario0126 - being a cool bro :^) helping a lot
Wrapperup - Bedroom Static Map


The server is up whenever we can host it. Unfortunately it is not 24/7 and currently requires extensive moderation.

Server Status:

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Off Topic / I'm looking for a website/domain host, suggestions?

« on: November 04, 2014, 01:59:15 PM »

Criteria:
Semi-cheap but decent
Looking to hand-code it in HTML; would rather not do a drag-and-drop website builder.
Looking to host add-ons/files/images on it
Good DDoS policy (you know why)

Any suggestions, tips, etc?

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Off Topic / My mom's computer is [probably] being used in a DDoS Attack

« on: November 04, 2014, 12:34:08 PM »

Last week these weird pop-ups kept appearing telling us to update Adobe Shockwave/Flash. My dad updated them Friday and then that night at midnight the computer was going crazy. I wake up to find AVG showing 5 faulty executables under AppData with a filename similar to Adobe_(something)_FakeInstall_english[number here]. Yesterday we uncovered .exes constantly sending outbound connections to domains such as "fff5ee.com", "honeymods.com", and a couple different IPs. The .exes were getting spawned so frequently that we had to turn off the wireless adapter on the laptop to get them to stop spawning. The .exes were named "dllhost.exe" and were getting spawned by a PowerShell file. MalwareBytes discovered about 500+ objects under AppData and ProgramData. Most of them were related to the dllhost.exe and the powershell file.

Apparently faulty Adobe shockwave stuff has been going around, as a neighbor posted about it on our neighborhood's email list.

Any idea what we should do? We aren't planning on sending the computer to a computer store or Dell unless we absolutely have to. After the lightning strike, and my recent trip to the ER, we're p short on money.

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General Discussion / Blake1's Blockland Servers

« on: October 29, 2014, 06:07:26 PM »

Servers

Simon Says
Simon Says is a fun, creative server where a player nicknamed "Simon" orders players to due stuff. It's based on the childhood game besides the fact that if you disobey you fall to your death. Poor you.

The game's been hosted on and off for about a year and a half and is approaching it's 2 year anniversary. It's been my most popular game and has reached 43 players at one time or another.

The game is currently in the middle of a huge map change and update. Be patient.

Zombie City
Zombie City is a zombie fighting scenario. Players spawn in the Beta City map try to take a flag from the zombies. Otherwise, it's just a shoot-em-up game.

Spreadsheet Including Zombies and Shop: Google Docs

pics and stuff coming soon

Admins

Here is a list of Administrators across all servers. There are no Admin applications, so don't ask.

Blake1 [31622] - Host
CupcakeGirl [42824] - Super Admin
Champion [42701] - Super Admin
Mauritsio [21331] - Super Admin

Pacer [4785] - Admin
Anthonyrules144 [9999] - Admin
Trinko [33152] - Admin
mario0126 [31008] - Admin
Nal [39528] - Admin
Redconer [33688] - Admin
Jakob and Redey both left/quit so they are no longer admins.

If you like my servers, check out my Add-Ons.

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Off Topic / So I'm getting extremely concerned over Austin's Prop 1

« on: October 29, 2014, 12:27:11 AM »

(hi guys im just going to do a political rant about something on Austin's ballot so bear with me)
[rant]
Austin, Texas has had quite the traffic issues lately; I could go in-depth on this but I'll stay on topic here. Basically like most cities our city council notices the problem extremely late and then makes up some stupid idea that will solve "all" of our congestion.

Last time it was a 11-mile toll lane on one of our commuter highways (Loop 1/MoPac if anyone is looking at a map), now it's a urban rail on the worst route possible.

The route starts east of I-35, continues north with stops at the convention center and university of texas. It ends at a community college just north of town. The entire rail is 9 miles long.

Now you might say, this is a perfect route. For college students and downtown hipsters, yes it is. But they only make up about 10,000 people out of the estimated 1,000,000 people living and working in the Austin area.

But then we're forgetting a major factor in a proposition. Cost. The bill calls for $1 BILLION dollars. And how is our city that is deeply in debt going to pay for this? If you said taxpayers, you're correct. The bill will raise our property taxes by $3.25 per taxdollar. This is tripiling our already extremely high property taxes.

Yet with such a high price tag, the starfishs behind this bill are decieving the average voter with 2 statements I found in an advertisement for the bill.

1. No new taxes.

2. Will massively relieve congestion.

Now now, the first statement is true. It's just instead of adding in a new tax, they're increasing a current one.

It's like Badspot telling us he's going to add in a terrible new feature to the building part of the game. When we say we don't like it, he comes back and says "Don't worry guys we're not add it to the building part"
...it then gets added to painting.

The average voter is going to go, "oh sweet no new taxes i support this bill!" then find his property taxes getting raised through the roof.

Secondly, urban rail, buses, etc. are not ever going to massively help congestion. Instead it just adds another option of transit.

Not to mention: taking 10,000 cars off the road is a HUGE improvement and will TOTALLY help a city that is RAPIDLY getting new citizens each day. The rail will come into service in early 2022. Imagine how many more people are going to move in!

Thank you for reading my massive rant on problems most likely irrelevant to you. if you felt i missed any details or made errors please let me know. I tried to be fair in discussing the bill itself.

[/rant]

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Off Topic / ☼ Weather Megathread ☼ - what a bump

« on: October 20, 2014, 05:33:50 PM »

Weather Megathread

     

News

no news right now


 
Radar Loop: (National Weather Service/weather.gov)



Forecasts

This section is WIP. Please come back later!


Sources

The Weather Channel
A great starter source is The Weather Channel. If you're new to meteorology, or just want the facts, you should probably start here.

Pros:
- Make learning Meteorology and knowing what's happening easily.
- Long time professionals.
- Local weather every 10 minutes on TV.

Cons:
- Doesn't always cover severe weather. Don't count on them.

weather.com

The National Weather Service (NWS)
The most reliable of them all. A government ran service dedicated to weather. These are the guys who send out those irritating messages to your phone or sound those really loud sirens.

Pros:
- Government ran.
- Extremely reliable.
- Raw doppler radar data.

Cons:
- Not for beginners.
- Can be confusing if you don't know meteorology well.

weather.gov

Lightning Map
Title says it all. Great source for identifying where lightning strikes. Obviously the strikes aren't extremely accurate but it's live (about a 4 second delay).

lightningmaps.org

Post other sources for me to add.


Weather Forumers (Nerds)


Blake1 - Weather Fanatic, Created this glorious thread, has a close relationship with lightning
XR-7 - Going to make a career out of weather, active participant in this thread

Post in the thread if you want to be added here.

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Modification Help / Admin Management - Auto Admins...Returned! [NEED CODERS/GUI MAKERS]

« on: October 20, 2014, 04:29:37 PM »

Admin Management

About

Admin Management is a Add-On intended on returning one of RTB's features. Administration Management. The mechanics will work the same. Temporary admin, auto-admin, etc etc. There will be a fresh GUI aswell so don't worry about this being ripped code.

Pictures & Beta
No pictures at the moment. Beta test will be later on!

Features
Here is a list of completed features:
none, go away

Here is a list of planned features:
- Super Admins and Host will be able to change Admins' status.
- Admin List.
- Auto-Admin Feature
- Player list for easy admining.

Need Help!

Yes, I need help! I can't do this alone! I am looking for coders who can help code this project. I am only a beginner so this is extremely needed. I also would like GUI makers (although I know the basics of GUI making) since I have no clue on how to get the GUIs to work.

If you can help please fill out the following application and post it here:
Blockland Name & ID:
Coder or GUI Maker?:
Stuff You've Done In The Past:

I will PM coders the titanpad password and will contact GUI makers about what I need done. Thanks!

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Drama / Esphere, Futurjojo, and newspeed12 - Moron circlejerk

« on: October 19, 2014, 04:56:54 PM »

Esphere, Futurjojo, and newspeed12

Introduction

A few days ago I Drama'd Space1255 for idiotic posts. He ends up quitting and we all live happily ever after...the end, right? Nope. The forum moron circlejerk decides they are gonna walk in and start going "space iz a gud guy no suport waa!"all within the span of an hour.

The First Posts: "no suport space iz gud guy [insert bullstuff here]"

Esphere was probably the stupidest of them all so I'll talk about him first. He was the one to bitch first. Here was his first post in the thread.

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7935242#msg7935242


Now I understand that Esphere is supporting his friend. I would do that too in most cases. However we did not Drama space for "bad sarcasm". In no posts that we didn't like was he being "obviously sarcastic." Next up, newspeed. He was probably the least active in the Drama but I'm still going to include his posts because they are included in other posts that I'll be showing.

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7935328#msg7935328


My comments on this post can be summed up in this post:
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7935364#msg7935364


Then newspeed comes back with this post:
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7935376#msg7935376

I'll go with this line by line:

First Line: It wasn't that Space was trying to save people from getting chainbanned. It was that he was repeating it over and over and over again when what he thought was a chainban wasn't what a chainban is. It's like your friend going:
"OOPS DONT STEP ON A CRACK"
"OH MY THAT WAS REALLY CLOSE"
"2CLOSE4ME"
when you're not even near a crack.

Second Line: No, this couldn't. He was acting immature and "cool" in the jackass one. I drama'd him because he was going "guys i'm stopping im not stupid" when he was acting stupid. He knew we didn't like him, yet he still continued to act stupid and he knew it.

Third Line: *brain cells killed: too many* I know people have flaws. My intentions on Drama'ing Space was to give him a heads up, "hey, you're NOT stopping. so stop saying you are" I was not comparing him to spamming and trolling. However if you're going to go by the "everyone has flaws" logic then scriptkiddies and hackers can be defended in Dramas because everyone has flaws.

Okay now Futurjojo comes in. I'll be honest Futurjojo was the most immature about the situation. He's also a stuffposter so don't be surprised if you see stuffposts later on.

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7935432#msg7935432


The drama was made before he quit. We (well atleast I did not) intend on making him quit, this was only a wakeup call. We were honestly more mature than space (see the jackass drama) and no one wants to make friends with someone that stupid.

newspeed the grammar national socialist

In one of the posts I did not include in the OP (although I covered the same topic), I made a spelling and grammar error. newspeed apparently thinks this is the most important thing so in attempt #1 to derail, he posts this:

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7935435#msg7935435


After responding "it was a typo", he responds:
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7935484#msg7935484

This isn't relevant and it really seemed he was attempting to derail. Yes or no, it was a richard move and he really needed to shut the forget up.

bloodage and "Everyone loves Space!"

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7935511#msg7935511

If you haven't read the part about autism (derail #2), I'd suggest you read it before reading this little comment; otherwise just skip down a paragraph: A joke does not have to be funny to everyone futurjojo. If you're sensitive to autism jokes, that's your problem.

Okay; let's talk about bloodage's quote. First of all bloodage was really aggressive and seems like an starfish. Your friend was a handicap and got treated like one, as Reson said. Too bad, so sad. Grow up. How about we drama this bloodage guy for crying over his friend getting treated like he acts?

Oh yeah, the last line. "You know how many people are standing up for this guy compared to other dramas."
I've seen more people support someone in other dramas. Take the Mr.LoL ban spamming drama; tons of people didn't support the OP. While after sufficient evidence was posted, tons of people began supporting the OP. also a 3 person circlejerk is extremely outnumbered in this case.

Drama is only for expressing rage...yeah no.

Okay so one really crappy quote that was posted was that Drama is only for expressing rage.
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7935587#msg7935587

This is bullcrap.
I'll refer to Reson's quote because it was better than mine; but we had the same context.

Drama isn't for expressing rage, especially exclusively. If you're referring to the board, and I assume you are, it is for pointing out who has been behaving stupidly so that they can be shamed into submission or avoided; it depends on the context.

Oh and then our very intelligent Esphere comes into the scene!
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7935640#msg7935640

okay so your friend gets drama'd. you then conclude that all dramas are bullstuff and made by 5 year olds who rage just to "prove" your point. This guy is a friend.

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7936959#msg7936959

I'll go comment by comment (btw Esphere's comments are in bold)
1st Comment: I didn't say that. I made the drama as a wake-up call because he was acting like a handicap.
2nd Comment: ... this guy is handicapped. Anyone want to bother finding intelligent dramas because they're out there?
I don't have anything to say about the 3rd comment.

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7938398#msg7938398


... Esphere is loving handicapped. I did NOT say that space should be banned from servers. There's this thing called examples you little stuff.

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=268436.msg7938600#msg7938600

Oops I'm sorry, I must have read the title wrong. Is the drama title "Blake1: 5 year old"? I didn't think so.

Also it's not like futurjojo hasn't acted handicapped before.

Conclusion

Obviously newspeed is still pretty cool with me although he made some dumb posts. Esphere and Futurjojo are literally handicapped. Futurjojo's been dumb before and I almost drama'd him for it, but I gave him and chance and he blew it in this drama. Esphere will defend anyone so this wasn't a huge surprise.

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General Discussion / locked

« on: October 17, 2014, 08:42:59 PM »

nevermind, server down

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Drama / Space1255 - "DONT ACT LIKE ME!!1!"

« on: October 16, 2014, 06:33:28 PM »

Space1255
(Posts)

Introduction

If you're pretty active in the--well everywhere. You've probably seen Space1255 have a stupid fit one time or another. He's well aware of this, and yet, he feels he needs to warn people not to follow his footsteps. ...but then, he acts just as normal, stupid as a fencepost and dumb enough to argue with him just like a fencepost.

Before I begin dumping stupidity, I'd like to say I understand this is his 3rd drama yet. His first drama was posted by KillerCop, and before you go "this was his 3rd drama just post it somewhere else" I'd like you to understand that Drama was posted almost 3 weeks ago, and was bumped. The Drama about fascination with chains (which was posted 2 days ago, I know this) really wasn't necessary (in my opinion) but I will agree that he's taken that too far. My main point is that he's acting like a really bad troll and deserves a place in the hall of stupidity.

"guys i changed i really did!"

Okay let's start dumping stupidity. We'll start off with his profile. Nothing much, but let's just say he know that we don't like him, yet he's still acting handicapped. Check out his "Personal Text".

If you want me banned, PM me.

...and let's check out that failed image in his "Location".


If you don't get the references, he's trying to imply that he's "changed"...yet he hasn't done crap. He's still acting handicapped, he's still being a terribly bad troll--I could go on. Oh yeah one more thing, the first image in his signature.



"My old posts from 2 days ago were stupid guys but I changed I really did!"

"DONT ACT LIKE ME!!1!"

Now let's cut to his posts. You may have noticed the title, "DONT ACT LIKE ME!!1!" so I'll cut to that first.

In Damp's failed Drama, he starts going "hurr durr DONT DO THIS WE DONT NEED ANOTHER SPACE1255!"

Don't do this.
Don't follow my example
WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER SPACE1255

...then this ridiculous unneeded post.

The last thing we need is more. If that day comes Chuck Norris help us all.

ftfy

really mature.

What are you talking about?
Nowhere did I state I would be like you.

I just said I'd stop with the NSFW threads and chill out on how many threads I make.

You're starting to act like me.

you forgot the part where he makes ridiculously stupid replies and stuffposts.

I promise he isn't a clone of me that I know exists.

let's count how many times he mentions how he acts. Count: 3

Next round!

Please stop making this all about you.

I'm not. I'm trying to make sure we don't have anyone else like me (aggresive, tries to be sassy, etc.)

Count: 4
..and then this post today in a different thread.

Probably acted like an average, normal human.
Never change, you guys.

HMMM HMMMMMM TOTALLY NOT REFERENCING TO YOURSELF.
Count: 5
ding ding ding WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER

I'm almost positive I can find more stupidity but I lost so many brain cells making this topic I'll leave it to you guys. This guy is trying way too hard and quite honestly needs to really "change" or screw off.

/discuss

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Off Topic / Visual Studio is really fun...

« on: October 11, 2014, 04:28:59 PM »

(both are made in C# and are .exes)

Very simple programs, but it's really fun. Feel free to rate my really simple GUI designs / programs in themselves. The one downside to the Picture Viewer is large images do not resize to the canvas. I am going to fix this.

Post programs you've made in the past

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Add-Ons / Blake1's (Soon to be) Add-On Dump - OP Updated; Beta later; Poll!

« on: October 10, 2014, 09:27:58 PM »

Blake1's Add-On Dump

Disclaimer:
I am an amateur coder; do not expect anything fancy at the moment.
I am mainly making these Add-Ons as practice, and am releasing them for fun.
Please report all bugs or glitches so I can [try to] fix them.

(NEW!) Player Titles
This Add-On allows Admins to change a player's prefix clan tag (the one before the player's name).
The main purpose of this Add-On is to allow Admins to grant players "titles" such as [VIP] or [Admin], Dinosaur, you get the point.
I will make another version of this that can change prefix OR suffix if you guys want it.

Commands:
In-Game: /title <player name> <title (max 5 spaces)>  (Admin Only!)
Console: commandToServer('title', "<player name> <title (max 5 spaces)>");

Credit:
Credit to Zapk and Gothboy77 for helping me out on this one. This was quite tough and required a bit of bugfixes and syntax checking.

Other Notes:
If you'd like to make the title snazzy, I suggest using color codes. For example, if I wanted the title [Host] I would use /title blake1 [<color:00ff00>Host<color:007777>]
The default color code for clan tags is 007777 for if you're wanting to close them off on brackets.

It's also recommended if you have a title enclosed in brackets that you use the rest of their clantag afterwards. For example, my clan tags are [ and ]. Let's say I add in the above example, I'd use /title [<color:00ff00>Host<color:007777>] [ to then have a clan tag like: [Host] [

NOTE: This Add-On does NOT save their new clan tags. I will be adding this in once I figure it out (or someone gladly helps me out). So if you're requesting this, how about asking someone to help me out on that.

>DOWNLOAD [1.0.0]<
If your description.txt does not say this version number of this Add-On, you're using an outdated version.

Force Kill
This Add-On allows Admins to force kill other players.
A chat message will pop up when an Admin force-kills a player. This will be helpful in spotting/reporting abuse.
I am not responsible for any Admin Abuse caused by this Add-On. It is your responsibility to check who has Admin on your server.

Commands:
In-Game: /kill <player name> (Admin Only!)
Console: commandToServer('kill',"<player name>");

Credit:
I coded this myself but huge thanks to those in Coding Help for bugfixing.

>DOWNLOAD [1.0.2]<
If your description.txt does not say the version number of this Add-On, you're using an outdated version.
Minigame Events (Fixed)
This Add-On modifies the old Minigame Events by Zack0Wack0. Since the event "onMinigameReset" is now default, this Add-On removes the event from the original script. Original Topic

Events Included:

• onMinigameJoin
• onMinigameLeave
• onMinigameKill
• onMinigameDeath

Credit:
Credit to Zack0Wack0 for making the original Add-On.

Make sure you disable or delete "Event_Minigame" if you have it!

>DOWNLOAD<

Development Center

In Development: Clan Tag Changer - Working on turning Script_PlayerTitle into a full clan tag changer, instead of a pointless mod lol. [Progress: 100% - In Beta] Player Titles v2 - Going to make this way better than it turned out to be. Server Announcement - Allows Admins to make an announcement via Chat or Bottomprint. Great way of getting player's attention without using events or eval.

Beta Downloads: Working unfinished scripts will go here. Please report any bugs you find to me. Server_TagChanger (Clan Tag Changer) - ~ In Beta - Download will be available later today!~

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Modification Help / Help With a Code

« on: October 10, 2014, 08:06:27 PM »

-problem was fixed, instead see posts below-

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General Discussion / New UI Theme?

« on: October 09, 2014, 11:07:54 AM »

(Note: I understand there's better things to focus on rather than GUIs and how they look. Like vehicle physics and that compatibility breaking update coming; however I'd just like to talk about possibly making a new GUI theme)

...And by GUI Theme I do not mean like in Client_Themes or that read-only stuff. I'm talking GUI+'s method. Quite honestly I loved what I saw in GUI+. It was something more modern and looked cleaner. Could we possibly get started on another GUI project very similar to GUI+, but actually finish it?

/discuss

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General Discussion / Simon Says | V9 | It's Back!

« on: October 05, 2014, 04:53:54 PM »

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=246220.0 (2014)
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=218564.0 (2013)