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Off Topic / Motorola Semiconductor Tie Clip

« on: December 16, 2012, 12:57:54 AM »

I got this from my grandma at my birthday party yesterday. It's one of the very first semiconductors ever made turned into a tie clip. Apparently my great grandpa worked for Motorola back in the day. Each one of the workers got one of these tie clips. I tried looking it up to see how many there are and that sort of stuff, but couldn't find anything. I just wanted to show it off because I think its really cool. I doubt it, but does anyone else have one of these?

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Off Topic / Did embarq set up a curfew or something?

« on: July 14, 2012, 07:03:25 PM »

The last few days I've been staying up until midnight, and I'd probably stay up later, but every night around this time my internet goes out. The router says everything is fine, but I can't do anything on my computer or phone except go to the router's page. The next day it's always fine. Its quite a pain in the ass. If someone could shed some light on this that would be great.

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Off Topic / Help me with creating an equation

« on: May 19, 2012, 01:21:08 AM »

Before you ask, no, this isn't for homework. It's for my game.

I've been trying to make an equation for the past hour or so probably and I haven't had any luck. I even tried asking several of my steam friends but I've had no luck. It's pretty difficult to make, but I'm pretty sure that its possible. I came to the forums hoping someone would be able to make it.

The equation needs to be arranged as: Z = X + Y + or * other stuff.
It needs to work for the sets: (1,-1,180), (-1,-1,90), (-1,1,0), (1,1,-90) where (X,Y,Z).

If you want me to elaborate, just ask.

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Games / Assassins Creed Revelations 50% off Steam Coupon

« on: March 31, 2012, 02:07:18 PM »

I found this the other day in my inventory. Does anyone want it? It expires April 1st so if you want it you're going to have to buy it today or tomorrow.

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Off Topic / "Remove "In God we trust" from legal tender" Petition on Whitehouse.gov

« on: March 23, 2012, 07:08:04 PM »

A while ago the government started up this petition submission thing on their website. Any petition that manages to obtain enough signatures will be looked over by congress. This petition service has been used to protest sopa and pipa among other things. Right now there is a petition to remove "In God we trust" and replace it with America's old motto: "E Pluribus Unum" which is latin for "Out of many, one".
To sign the petition you have to make an account if you haven't already, but its one of the shortest signup forms I've seen. Just make sure you use a valid email address because you have to activate the account.

Here's the link: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/#!/petition/remove-god-we-trust-legal-tender/54Bdy0R5

The petition started today and it already has 2769 petitions and its steadily rising, but we still need to reach 25,000 for it to be looked at by congress.

Putting this here because nobody's reading it on the site:
Currently, all green backs have the words In God We Trust printed on them. This ubiquitous statement has come to be known as our national motto, circa 1956, when it replaced E Pluribus Unum(Translates to 'Out of many, one'). This change was made during the cold war, when fear and propaganda were at the height of dissemination, and serves only to divide us as a nation.

A great many citizens of the United States follow non-theistic or poly-theistic faiths, or are simply atheist, and believe the national governments recognition of a deity to be in violation of the first amendment. As such, we ask that the national motto be restored to E Pluribus Unum and replaced on all green backs.

Why does this matter?

People say that it is to small of a deal to contend, but that same person does not know how to kill a democracy. Let me put it in a simple brown townogy. To kill a democracy is like boiling a frog. If you turn the heat up too quickly, the frog jumps out of the pot. Now, if you are to raise the temperature slowly, the frog will not notice and become vulnerable. If you were to dissolve the separation of the church and state, you would do it by slowly turning up the amount of intrusion that the church had. Now, I'm not saying that there is going to be a religiously controlled government in this country anytime soon, if ever. I'm just saying that this would always going to be a starting point for greater violations of the constitution if someone were to try and practice that.

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Creativity / Armament - Second Downloadable Demo Available

« on: December 30, 2011, 04:37:49 AM »

News
A new post on the website.
A new video showing the development of the game thus far.

Intro
I've been working on this game for a while now. I don't work on it every day, so development is slow, but rest assured I will finish it some day.

What is the game going to be like?
RPG focused around a power arm object that allows the wielder to lift more weight than usual.

Story
Not entirely sure

How are you making the game?
I'm using the Unreal Development Kit and Blender.


Images

Main Character

[WIP]Marussia B2

A hat, a hair, and an accessory.

Railgun

Plasma Cannon

Links:

Well like I said, several times now, I'm not accepting anyone else to help me. Maybe in the future, but I'm not sure. The only way I would accept anyone at this point would be if they were at least 10x better than I am. And if anyone is going to apply, at least show me an example of your work...

You might have seen this topic before. The other one is too old.

DOWNLOAD

Once you download the game and install it there is one thing you have to do for it to run properly. This won't be necessary in the future, but I can't fix it right now.
Anyway, you have to make a shortcut to *INSTALLATIONDIRECTORY*\Binaries\Win32\UDK.exe.
After you make the shortcut, right click it and choose properties. Go to the shortcut tab and in the target section add " ARM-City?Game=Armament.ArmamentGame" after what is already there. Then you can click the shortcut and play!

Controls:
WASD -Move
Left Shift- Sprint
E- Interact(To enter the vehicles)
Space- Jump
Left Click- Shoot
Right Click- Shoulder camera
Mouse Wheel- Goes through weapons(Though I think there's only one right now so that is useless)
F- Wallgrab(The debug lines that appear have to hit a wall for you to grab onto it)

Have fun! Let me know any bugs you find, any suggestions, or anything else you'd like to say about it.
Also please remember that this game is a work in progress in literally every way.

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Off Topic / Entire forums requires BLID activation

« on: October 20, 2011, 08:37:37 PM »

I guess I'm the only one who noticed, because there hasn't been a topic about it. Or maybe people have noticed, but they couldn't make a topic, because they weren't activated. Anyway, I opened the Blockland forums the other day and noticed that every section was red. I have always had Blockland, but I never registered my BLID since I only use Off-Topic and Games. I'm not sure why Badspot randomly did this, but it doesn't really matter. I find it strange that you need to register for the AOT forums and even the help forum. I guess people who play the demo don't deserve help.

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Games / Diggles - The Myth of Fenris (Like Dwarf Fortress)

« on: September 01, 2011, 09:53:35 PM »

What is it?
Diggles: The Myth Of Fenris is a game released by Innonics on 27 September 2001.[1] The game is a side-scrolling strategy game which is based on a 3D-engine. You are guiding your dwarves, called "diggles" in the English version, "Wiggles" in the German version and "Gnomy" in the Russian version. The dwarves can manufacture tools, weapons, rooms and other advanced manufacturing shops (as part of a moderately large technology tree). You can set up your workshops and rooms in the caves that your dwarves have been digging. Your mission is to dig down and solve quests which contribute to your global quest, which is to chain Fenris, the fiery dog of Odin. You encounter other clans and creatures on the way, some hostile, some not.
Copy pasted from wikipedia
The game is a lot like dwarf fortress. It is different in a few ways though.
1. Its 3d.
2. Not such a steep learning curve
3. Not as much content
4. No updates ever

Images:



Links:
Wiki

Does anyone else remember this? I used to play it all the time when I was 8 or so. I'm reinstalling it now.

If you want to play there was a demo at one point and I'm sure you can find it online somewhere. I doubt you can buy it anywhere though.

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Off Topic / Looking for a cheap laptop

« on: August 24, 2011, 09:59:24 PM »

I'm going to college this year, in fact in just a few days. So, I need a laptop.

Features:
Under $300
Fast enough for photoshop/flash/blender
At least a pen touch screen, but preferably also a finger touch screen
Small, probably 12 in screen or so
Long battery life. 7+ hours.
100GB+ HDD

I'm not sure if something exists for such a low price, but I'm sure if it does, then someone here will know about it. I may be able to get a little more money but I'm not sure.

If you can't find something in my price range, then just try to get the lowest cost possible. I'll probably be able to work something out as long as its not $1000+.

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Creativity / Gearworks Games - I'm making a game and its called ARMament

« on: July 06, 2011, 05:20:03 PM »

Intro
I've been working on this game for a couple of weeks. I haven't really started work on the game itself, but I have been making models.

What is the game going to be like?
The game is going to be a third person shooter set in an alternate universe. The alternate universe primarily uses steam power, but recently (a year or 2 ago) a new plasma power has been discovered. The game will have several rpg elements, such as changing equipment, changing hairstyles, making choices, etc.

Story
When the game starts, you are a physical laborer for the company who discovered plasma technology (Atlas). The first mission begins by your boss telling you to go into the storage area and get yourself a power arm. Once you get the arm, you move some boxes around to learn the controls. When you finish, an alarm goes off and something happens that throws the world into chaos.
I don't want to reveal anything else yet.

How are you making the game?
I haven't really decided what engine I'm going to use, but I'm probably going to use Unity 3D.


Images

Main Character

[WIP]Marussia B2

A hat, a hair, and an accessory.

Railgun

Plasma Cannon

Links:

Well like I said, several times now, I'm not accepting anyone else to help me. Maybe in the future, but I'm not sure. The only way I would accept anyone at this point would be if they were at least 10x better than I am. And if anyone is going to apply, at least show me an example of your work...

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Off Topic / Help with getting my dad a cell phone

« on: March 01, 2011, 06:35:41 PM »

I know hardly anything about phones since I hardly use them. My dad is looking for a new phone because his current droid's internet slows down a lot randomly. Hes looking for something that has fast internet and fast email. We use verizon if it matters.

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Off Topic / Opinions - Should we destroy the last bit of the smallpox disease?

« on: February 17, 2011, 12:43:26 AM »

I want to get the forums opinions on video games. I'm going to change the poll every couple of days and I'll post previous polls here.


February 17, 2011
Q: First or third person for games in general?

First: 11
Third: 4

I myself prefer third person.

February 18, 2011
Q: Favorite time period for games?

Ancient       1 (1.7%)
Medieval       12 (20.3%)
1900s       9 (15.3%)
Present       20 (33.9%)
Future       14 (23.7%)
Other       3 (5.1%)

I chose medieval.

February 20, 2011
Q: Favorite game genre?

Shooter       16 (24.6%)
Puzzle       1 (1.5%)
RPG       10 (15.4%)
RTS       3 (4.6%)
Action       6 (9.2%)
Simulation       4 (6.2%)
Sandbox       21 (32.3%)
Racing       1 (1.5%)
Other       3 (4.6%)
I voted Sandbox.

February 23, 2011
Q: On a scale of 1 to 10, how hard to you like your games?
10       8 (12.1%)
9       1 (1.5%)
8       9 (13.6%)
7       21 (31.8%)
6       8 (12.1%)
5       7 (10.6%)
4       5 (7.6%)
3       5 (7.6%)
2       1 (1.5%)
1       1 (1.5%)
I chose 4 because I don't play games for a challenge, I only play for fun. Sometimes if a game is really awesome I'll go back on a harder difficulty though.

February 25, 2011
Q: Controller or keyboard and mouse?
Controller       10 (22.2%)
Keyboard and Mouse       35 (77.8%)
I of course chose keyboard and mouse. Controllers are only good for racing games.

February 26, 2011
Q: What is your favorite gaming device?

PC       48 (68.6%)
Xbox 360       11 (15.7%)
PS3       1 (1.4%)
DS       0 (0%)
PSP       1 (1.4%)
Wii (hahahahahaha)       5 (7.1%)
Other       4 (5.7%)
I chose PC. Whoever chose Wii has problems.

March 3, 2011
Q: Is piracy wrong?
Yes       47 (32%)
No       27 (18.4%)
Depends       73 (49.7%)
Depends.
March 4, 2011
Q: Favorite type of weapon?
Melee       19 (20.9%)
Bows       5 (5.5%)
Guns       31 (34.1%)
Future tech       21 (23.1%)
Other       15 (16.5%)
I chose guns.

March 6, 2011
Q:Most important game element?
Most important game element?
Story       11 (18%)
Graphics       2 (3.3%)
Controls       2 (3.3%)
Gameplay       35 (57.4%)
Multiplayer       4 (6.6%)
Other       7 (11.5%)
I voted gameplay.

As of now, the thread is now just opinions.

March 13, 2011
Q: Does God exist?
Yes       51 (30.7%)
Possibly       38 (22.9%)
No       41 (24.7%)
I don't know       19 (11.4%)
I don't care       17 (10.2%)
I voted no. Forum, I am dissapoint.

March 14, 2011
Q: Is aborting a child ok?
Yes       70 (39.5%)
No       44 (24.9%)
Yes if <3 months       7 (4%)
Yes if <6 months       8 (4.5%)
Yes if she was raped       48 (27.1%)
I said yes.

March 15, 2011
Q: Do you support the death penalty?
Yes       33 (32.4%)
No       23 (22.5%)
Yes if there is substantial evidence       34 (33.3%)
Depends on some other factor       12 (11.8%)
I voted yes if there is substantial evidence, and I'm leaning towards yes much more than no.

March 16, 2011
Q: What are your thoughts on illegal immigrants?
They should be removed with haste regardless of the effects on the legals       25 (32.9%)
They should be treated as full citizens       6 (7.9%)
We should give them full citizenship after a series of tests or something       22 (28.9%)
We should imprison/kill them       14 (18.4%)
Other       9 (11.8%)

March 17, 2011
Q: Should a person be free to do stupid things?
Yes       38 (77.6%)
No       11 (22.4%)
I voted yes.

March 19, 2011
Q: Should smoking cigarrettes/cigars be legal?
Yes       23 (14.6%)
No       46 (29.3%)
Yes, but not in public       45 (28.7%)
Yes with restrictions       43 (27.4%)

March 25, 2011
Q: Which gender is superior?
Male       62 (35.6%)
Female       18 (10.3%)
Same       94 (54%)
I voted Male.

March 28, 2011
Q: Should people with hereditary diseases be allowed to have children?
Yes       36 (41.4%)
No       51 (58.6%)
I voted No.

April 3, 2011
Q: Should I lock this topic?
Yes       29 (29%)
No       57 (57%)
Yes, but only because you don't update consistently       14 (14%)

April 5, 2011
Q: Should marijuana be legalized?
Yes       32 (26.2%)
No       41 (33.6%)
Yes, with restrictions       49 (40.2%)
I voted no.

April 8, 2011
Q: How should prisoners be treated?
Bare minimum life support, no recreation       43 (21.2%)
Kill them all       31 (15.3%)
Keep it the same       80 (39.4%)
Better food, living conditions, etc       49 (24.1%)

April 12, 2011
Q: Should gay couples be allowed to adopt? (Courtesy of bisjac)
Yes       95 (52.5%)
Yes, if they meet high expectations       39 (21.5%)
No       47 (26%)
I voted no, just because I don't like gay people in general.

April 21, 2011
Q: Should we put term limits (like the president has) on Congress? (Courtesy of BobSevenSevens)
Yes       30 (57.7%)
No       12 (23.1%)
I don't care because I don't live in America       10 (19.2%)

May 7, 2011
Q: Would you kill someone you don't know if there would be no consequences?
Yes       35 (29.4%)
No       84 (70.6%)

May 10, 2011
Q: Best search engine?
Google       128 (92.8%)
Yahoo       1 (0.7%)
Bing       6 (4.3%)
Ask       0 (0%)
Dogpile       1 (0.7%)
Other       2 (1.4%)
I voted Google.

May 13, 2011
Q: Should we invest money in discovering life similar to ours in space? (Nymethus)
Yes       26 (49.1%)
No       13 (24.5%)
Yes, but not a lot       14 (26.4%)

May 16, 2011
Q: Should hate speech be regulated?
Yes       11 (11.3%)
No       49 (50.5%)
Only after multiple warnings       21 (21.6%)
Yes, on TV and radio       16 (16.5%)

May 24, 2011
Q: Should we destroy the last bit of the smallpox disease?

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Off Topic / New laptop, wrong name.

« on: January 05, 2011, 06:37:57 PM »

For Christmas I got a new laptop and since my mom bought it, its name was Jonna. I've changed all of the computer settings so that the name is Toast now, but it still shows Jonna at C:\Users. How do I fix this?

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Games / Day of Defeat: Source and CounterStrike: Source guest passes

« on: December 25, 2010, 11:17:21 PM »

Who wants them?

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Off Topic / Suddenly slow internet

« on: December 21, 2010, 12:38:45 AM »

Usual:
or higher
Now:


Why?