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Off Topic / Facebook KNOWS

« on: February 06, 2012, 07:30:06 PM »

Blockland is invading my facebook D:

I try to keep real life and blockland separate, you know, to prevent social death, but facebook is trying to trick me!

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Modification Help / Scaling Screenshots

« on: January 30, 2012, 12:51:16 PM »

I don't really need help with anything, but I'd like to poll the community to see if people have any ideas for this.

Basically, I want to scale down screenshots from the current screen resolution, like a reverse $MegaShot. Like, to 640x480 from a larger resolution. I'm already aware $MegaShotScaleFactor only scales up, and I have a feeling if I can do this it's going to have to be something hacky. I've tried creating a GuiImageControl or w/e on the canvas and using getPixelColor and a custom compression algorithm, but it's WAY too slow to be usable. I'm talking ~200ms per pixel slow.

Anyway, thanks for any ideas.

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Off Topic / Japanese people are disordered.

« on: January 26, 2012, 12:06:27 AM »

I know this isn't exactly news, but aside from the creepy incest doujin one experiences crossing the Internet, the entire loving culture is forgeted in the head.

I take Japanese as my required in language in Highschool because Spanish sucks and I'd rather learn a non-latin based language. For some reason part of the curriculum is learning about these weird forgets.

PRIME loving EXAMPLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI

Someone presented this to the class and I was just blown away at how stupid people can be. In America, artists are criticized and disliked because of their use of just autotune on their voice. In Japan, people spend millions of dollars developing loving 3D HOLOGRAM TECHNOLOGY and hosting psuedo-raves to worship their idol which is a computer generated voice and animated character to go along with it.

Since this culture seems to appeal to a minority of people, I actually have some of these weird forgets in my class. There is a group of people at my school that literally puts on makeup and florescently colored wigs imitating anime characters (one of them is the girl in the video example) and painting Kanji symbols on their face.

ぼくはにほんじんがだいきらいです。

ありがとうごさいます。

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Off Topic / Everybody wants a piece of Torque.

« on: January 18, 2012, 12:45:03 AM »

Hmm, it seems even the people who made Blockland's big bad scary competitor like Torque.

http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/21366

Note: This is not intended to fuel forum fires. And yes, I'm the douche that mentioned Blockland.

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Modification Help / Universal Currency Mod?

« on: December 25, 2011, 07:06:33 PM »

A blockland currency mod.

An idea that has been brewing in my head for some time now is a universal currency mod. What if you could pay someone to design and build a house for 300 BlockCoins (name is up for change, just an idea) and then head over to a casino and win 200 BlockCoins for 500, then head over to a CityRP and buy a bunch of stuff from people? It seems like a good idea to me, in theory.

This is my question to you: Would any of you use it?

I can see something like this being fun, but my issue with it is are there enough possible industries? Conversing with BigBrother, we have come up with the ones I've listed above, but is there room for BlockCoins outside of that small niche?

Some info about the mod:
- All currency data would be stored on a server. A single person could not simply open up console and add to their currency.
- All transactions would require the consent of both parties. No onPlayerTouch -> Client -> GiveMoney -> me, 9001
- A rating system would exist to warn others of possible scammers.
- A dispute system may exist. It is difficult to determine if that person did or did not give you that gun you paid for.
- Industries would NOT be controlled or manipulated by me or any other people in power. I am not going to code a sell event to guarantee you don't get scammed, or a slot machine brick that forces odds to prevent someone from making no-win machines. Other people can make these if they please using the API I would definitely code in.

Please post any ideas you have on the subject about anything. If you have a possible use in mind that might reassure me that there are indeed uses for it, please do post it.

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Off Topic / lysergic acid diethylamide

« on: December 24, 2011, 06:07:37 AM »

i dropped acid 3 hours ago and the world is occuring holy stuff robo noob:


0 hours (nothing yet) - "tastes bitter"
1/2 hours (spiral knights) - "face on fire"
1 hour (blockland) - motion blur, seeing symbols (#, +) and images (an airplane, a chair), smell the ocean, slight euphoria, "i feel like if i move i'll turn... around the world" in verbatim
1 1/2 hours (blockland) - "i can see the colors SO clearly", hightened euphoria, "i feel tingly"
2 hours (nothing) - ceiling "breathing", "this is the epitome of my life", "this is the best i've ever felt ever"
2 1/2 hours (nothing) - faces on floor, trying hard to show them to me (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52257595/theresnoway.png (what the forget))