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Off Topic / Stories you've thought up

« on: April 30, 2009, 06:52:54 PM »

Throughout the school day I usually end up day dreaming and thinking up really random guidelines for a story, movie, interesting twist on life, etc.

More recently, and the one that has most stood out thus far, has been one based on freezing time. Basically a person somehow gets the power to stop time, however there is a problem he runs into. Whenever he stops time, time will randomly unfreeze itself. However long time had remained frozen for is however long he has to wait in order to stop time again. This could pose many problems, including never being able to stop time again (Since this doesn't keep him from aging once time returns, if he is stuck frozen in time for, say, 500 years, he wouldn't be able to stop time for the rest of his life.), to having time unfreeze too soon.

I've always liked thinking up and listening to stories. So post anything interesting you've thought up here.

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Off Topic / Irony

« on: April 23, 2009, 10:32:30 PM »

While watching Death Note, I saw a commercial for a national stroke association.  (For those who didn't know, in Death Note the main character kills people by heart attacks)

Anyone have other misc. ironic stories to share? I love irony.

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Off Topic / "Blatantly obvious"

« on: April 19, 2009, 07:20:35 AM »

Main Entry:  bla·tant
Pronunciation:
    \ˈblā-tənt\
Function:
    adjective
Etymology:
    perhaps from Latin blatire to chatter
Date:
    1596

1 : noisy especially in a vulgar or offensive manner : clamorous

2 : completely obvious, conspicuous, or obtrusive especially in a crass or offensive manner : brazen <blatant disregard for the rules>
synonyms see vociferous

— bla·tant·ly adverb

Has anyone actually thought of what blatantly obvious actually means? I always thought blatantly meant greatly, or amazingly, now I've come to find out it really means obviously? If it really does mean obviously, why do we say "this guy was so obviously obvious," isn't that a little redundant? This came across my mind while reading drama, so yeah, talk and stuff.

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Suggestions & Requests / DOOM ray

« on: April 16, 2009, 06:28:57 PM »

Contrary to what the name may imply, I don't want a weapon that shoots and everything dies. I want a laser that is very small, but that fake kills all bricks it hits and keeps going through until it reaches its length limit.

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Off Topic / Hungry Howies

« on: April 02, 2009, 04:49:55 PM »

Just wondering, who here likes Hungry Howies? I personally love Hungry Howies pizza, they make the best imo. :3 I like all pizza though.

http://www.hungryhowies.com/

EDIT: fixed :D

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Suggestions & Requests / Teleport Weapon

« on: March 31, 2009, 07:52:15 PM »

Anyone feel up to making a weapon that, when you click, it slashes and makes you teleport a set distance? (Or, you teleport then slash.) It doesn't need any real specific info, I'd just like to see something like this made.

I figure the teleport could work two ways (If you could find a way to make both work that'd be great!)

1) You teleport until there's an object you run into or the distance limit is met, then you slash in that place. (Creating an ideal weapon for close combat :D)

2) You slash then teleport in that direction ignoring objects in your way.

So back to my original question, could anyone make this, and would anyone?
A new challenger appears! Why is teleport not in the dictionary for firefox?

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Suggestions & Requests / EVENT: On point increase

« on: March 24, 2009, 02:15:29 PM »

Hey, I was just wondering, is it possible to make an "on point increase" event?

If so can someone make one? (If not I'll just lock this.)

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Help / Wand weapons

« on: March 13, 2009, 04:38:46 PM »

Blah, whenever I try going onto my friends server it says "Can't load wand" or something of that sort and kicks me off. Anyone know what could be the cause?

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Suggestions & Requests / Door sounds

« on: January 28, 2009, 07:32:45 PM »

I request a door knocking sound and a doorbell sound. As far as I know those haven't been made yet, if they have tell me and I'll lock this. =/

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Off Topic / Pronouns

« on: January 28, 2009, 06:40:41 PM »

So my english teacher is trying to teach us pronouns and that other thing that has to do with them that I currently forgot the name of. (Pronouns and what the pronoun is replacing.) Basically, what I've been taught so far tells me that if certain words are used, you need to make the sentence make as little sense as possible by replacing the pronoun with a different one.

Example: "Each of the daughters followed their mother." Isn't really grammatically correct. You would actually have to say "Each of the daughters followed her mother." Which is grammatically correct.

Does anyone see or understand why? I mean, to me that makes it seem as though each of the daughters followed some random separate girls mother. I would think since it's group ownership you would use a plural form to express that every daughter in the group had the same mother.

Just thought I'd share that rather interesting thing I'd learned, since most people here seem to love grammar so very much.

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Gallery / First build ever. (City type deal)

« on: January 27, 2009, 06:57:48 PM »

So yeah. I just remembered I made this and I decided I might as well post it. Mind you it was my first build so its spammy but I figured for beginner events the events in it weren't half bad. (Also, I redid the house, after all, 10 64x64 base plates stacked doesn't really help with the lag of the town.)

But yesh. This is the first build I made, a laggy, large, town made specifically for DMs but I doubt that would be very practical due to it's... er. lag. It took me forever to build, a week or 2 I think.

Anyways, I decided to post this just for fun, If you want to tell me what you think of it go for it, I'm interested as to what people think of my barely improved building style!

This is a pic of the town from behind my house:





This is a pic of the park:





And last (of the pics anyways) but not least, the totally inconspicuous unneeded red building made for no good reason:





Anyways, due to laziness/laziness I didn't post as many pics as I should have. But I basically only put up pics so people can't say no pix no clix.

For anyone who wants to download for the hell of it:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?j2lfjynndmd

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Help / Saying peoples names

« on: January 20, 2009, 04:40:51 PM »

Didn't know what to name the topic so blah. Anyways, I was wondering, could anyone tell me how to make it so when someone clicks a brick it would say "Hi <Persons name>!" If anyone could tell me it'd be greatly appreciated.

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Suggestions & Requests / Multiple gun/event/tool requests

« on: January 12, 2009, 03:21:07 PM »

Blah. I usually don't make requests or even come to this section of the forum, so if it's been requested already let me know and I'll take it off ma list.

Weapons:


Normal sniper:

First I'd Like a sniper. I'd like it to have a few redeeming features to make it different from other snipers, and/or more realistic. (People irl with snipers don't run around shooting people in the face at close range, seriously. Although I admit I do in blockland.)

The sniper should:

-Only be shootable when not moving (using WSAD, not the mouse.)(If possible)

-Only be shootable when crouched (If possible)

-Moderately long reload time

-Multiple shots per trigger pull (To simulate shooting through objects)

-Break transparent bricks only (If possible)

-Ridiculous amount of damage

TL;DR: A sniper that doesn't work unless your still and crouching. Does massive damage and all that.


Aerial Weapon:

Another weapon I'd like to see is a weapon made specifically for planes that isn't a bomb. I realize I can use a minigun, but on laggy servers I end up shooting my plane and then it explodes and that isn't fun.

The weapon should:

-Start firing bullets 2 blockland people in front of you

-Have moderate damage (I don't want a 1-hit Kill thing that explodes and kills everything around you, but I don't want to take an hour out of my day to kill 1 player.)

-preferably a machine gun of sorts, most other guns I would assume don't work on flying things.

-only be shootable on flying vehicles

TL;DR: A gun made specifically for dog fights.


Air Gun:

Another weapon I would like to see, although not damaging, could still be considered a weapon. I would like an airgun type deal. It should have push back, kind of like the gravity gun but backwards. (and forwards?)

The gun should:

-If shot while on the ground push the player in the opposite direction

-If shot at a player push the shooting player in the opposite direction and the shot player in the corresponding direction

-have a somewhat small range for shooting players but should shoot fast (So it doesn't push a player a long ways away back while pushing you back about 10 seconds before)

-When shot in the air it should push you in the opposite direction and not reload until you hit the ground

-do no damage

-Somewhat long reload time (Long enough to prevent people from using it to get across maps in 3 seconds)

TL;DR: A gun that moves people.



Tools:

Event gun(?):
Another thing I would like to see could be added to the multitool gun. I heard it's already being created but that was a while ago. I'd like a weapon that copies the events of one brick and lets you distribute those events among other bricks. Like copying events and adding them to other bricks, but faster. (I heard other people asked for a way to copy events on a brick and then paste them on the same brick, but that would be useless to me.)

TL;DR: Copies events from brick to brick.



Destructo Hammer:

This really doesn't need to be made, at all. But since I'm requesting things I might as well mention it.
For a while I've been wondering why mods need to use a destructo wand to delete other peoples' things. They can use the destructo wand already, so why should it matter if they use the hammer to do it? Honestly, I don't kill other peoples' spam at times just because I'm too lazy to get out the destructo wand. So I'd like a hammer that you have the option of starting with that, when you're an admin, can delete anyone's bricks. Pointless sure, but... Well it's pointless.

TL;DR: Lets lazy admins destroy peoples' bricks without going into the admin menu.



A print GUI:

I think there should be some sort of print GUI that shows all the prints your server has, and lets you forbid or allow certain prints from being used. It's not that complex of a concept really. If a good scripter made it so you could draw your own prints in the GUI though, that'd be epic.



Events:


Chain Relay Event:

An event I would like to see in blockland would be a chain relay event. This would not technically save time, since if you needed to put relay events on bricks anyways you'd have to copy/past events, but it would cut down on the amount of events you needed. The way I picture it working is something like On Activate -> Brick -> fire chain relay (direction) And it would hit all bricks in that direction till it stopped hitting bricks.

TL;DR: Shoots a relay that doesn't stop till it can't hit any more bricks.



Projectile spiral events:

I don't know why but I think projectile spiral events would be awesome. An event where when a brick is shot, it redirects or bounces back the projectile in a certain direction but spiraling. You could make some really cool evented effects with this I think.




Anyways, I'm not even sure most of these are possible or original. Just throwing my ideas out there for people to look at. :3 Also for the record I hate TL;DR. (Also sorry for the massive post. :x In the future should I post requests in multiple topics?)

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Drama / City RP Admins blah

« on: December 11, 2008, 10:00:13 PM »

Anyone else tired of city rp admins? Note, admins, not the city rp's themselves. On most of the city things I go to the admins have dumb double standards. No jailing the admins but we can beat the stuff out of you, no using events to get to high places but we can fly, hell on one I even saw a no weapons rule. This is just ridiculous. If I could host my own server I would but I can't, so I won't. This isn't directed at any one person, but still it happens enough to get on my nerves.

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Gallery / Little People DM Arena (Image heavy?)

« on: December 10, 2008, 08:28:25 PM »

Well, for a while I've been making a little people arena. I've been doing this mainly because small things do not require much detail, and because it gave me something to do. But now it's pretty much finished. So. Yeah.


This is an overhead view of the arena itself.


This is a picture of the class selection area. They aren't very creative and are probably a small bit unbalanced, but they work. Each class has 4 different spawn locations.


This is a picture of the observatory. You can see pretty much anywhere in the arena from these cameras, excluding some places in buildings.


This is the bank, it has 2 floors and a roof (duh?) All of which are accessible without jets. All the glass windows are breakable.


This is a building... on fire.


This here picture is one of a small mansion I made. It has a huge computer and 2 floors with a roof again.The windows here are already broken.

This is a random building made for the sake of having... another building. It doesn't have a "roof" per se, but you can get on top of it.


EH?! Wots this?! A seekrit?! No. Just a random thing I made that isn't very secretive. But it can help you if your lucky.



There are a few easter eggs around this that I probably won't show you all, and if I do upload the save don't expect it all to work unless you have like, a bajillion add-ons. I'd name off the ones you need but it would take too long. You can rate x/10 if you really feel the need.