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Off Topic / Where did this image originate

« on: January 13, 2018, 02:34:29 PM »

I've been looking for the origin of this image, something I remember starting on the Blockland Forums. All my searches have led me to a dead end and it's really loving annoying. Please help.



It's been posted on the BLF before so I'm pretty sure I wont get banned

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Gallery / Recreation of /The Buildings of the Asiatic Company, seen from St. Annæ Street/

« on: November 26, 2017, 06:31:25 PM »

Sorry about the extra-long name. It's just that the painting really has that long ass name. Anyway, here it is:

This building is based off of a painting I found to be pretty neat. The reason I specifically chose this painting is because it seemed easy to recreate in Blockland. And it was, for me at least. Here's the painting:

Anyway, give me a rating, criticism, or whatever. I'm also thinking about making this into an actual building you can walk around in instead of it being just a piece of setting. Give me your opinion, and thanks for your time.

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Help / Several Errors Upon Server Startup

« on: November 11, 2017, 08:48:21 PM »

Whenever I start a server, whether it be Singleplayer, LAN, or Online these red errors appear in chat.

I know which add-ons cause them, but I want this strange error thing fixed.
The AddDamageType() errors come from the Default Extended Weapons Pack
The Wrench Error occured after I downloaded the Make Eventing Great Again add-on. But, this error occurs even when I join servers that aren't mine.

Thank you for your time and contribution in advance.

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Off Topic / Personality Type Quiz v19

« on: November 05, 2017, 11:19:55 PM »

There's been 18 other threads you should know what stuff is going down, but if you don't here's the rundown:
Answer these questions (that are totally not saved in some government supercomputer) to find out your personality type in the end. Usually the results are displayed in Myers-Briggs style. Post a screenshot of your results here, and revel in how accurate/inaccurate they are.

take the test at www.amigregnant.com

have fun, and don't think about where this data is going.

The results are in, and I'm a crybaby. I'm not too surprised to be honest

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Off Topic / Is there a tool where you can find an image within an image?

« on: October 28, 2017, 10:20:29 PM »

The topic title may be confusing, because I am majorly tired right now. What I'm asking for is an online tool that can help me find a 320 x 120 pixel image within an image of 10200 x 5760 pixels. I've attempted to google up any keywords that might lead to a tool like this, but to no avail. Do any of you know of a tool that can help me do this?
Thank you in advance

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Suggestions & Requests / More Blockland-Type Weapons

« on: October 22, 2017, 07:25:35 PM »

Before you say anything, I did search the forums to find nothing. What I want are simple weapons, no: aiming, ammo system, reloading, other '''realistic''' stuff. I just want good 'ol Blocko weapons to use. I have stumbled across packs of them before, but I never downloaded them (like the idiot I am.) So, if one of you could link me to a pack of, or just one, Blocko-style weapons it'll be greatly appreciated.

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Games / Can my computer play Gmod?

« on: September 30, 2017, 03:43:49 PM »

I plan on possibly getting Garry's Mod sometime next month, but my computer is an old hand-me down, most likely nabbed from an office building. I don't know the exact year this computer was made, but what I do have s some information on how it preforms with games. Another reason I made this topic is because when I ask random people I find on BL, they give me mixed responses. Instead of going on a wild goose chase, I decided to ask the densest population: the forums. Luckily, some of you know more about computers than I do, so you'll be able to figure this out for me.

Specs:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU  Q8300  @2.50 GHz  2.50 GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 6.00 GB
System Type: 64-bit Operating System

Performance:
Blockland:
~105 FPS with 0 bricks
~100 FPS with 1k bricks
~95 FPS with 10k bricks
~50 FPS with 100k bricks
~10 FPS on Sapphire Server's Medieval RP (200k bricks with many add-ons, events, and players)

Minceraft:
~40 FPS on a default superflat, no mobs, picture of settings
~20 FPS on the same superflat, but with Chunks Rendered set to 16
~10 FPS on the same superflat, but with Chunks Rendered set to 32

Kerbal Space Program:
~10 FPS anywhere, even on the title screen

Team Fortress 2:
Opening TF2 leads to a black screen, and my computer's resolution getting forgeted up. The black screen can only be closed by either restarting the computer, or forcing the program to not respond.

Afterword:
I don't want to spend 8% of my money on Gmod, only for it to be noting but a black screen on my computer. If you need any more information on how well my computer handles, don't hesitate to ask. Thanks for your time. Here are some other questions:

What's your GPU?

Intel G45/G43 Express Chipset

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Off Topic / My Chrome & YouTube account is not at all Compromised

« on: September 02, 2017, 12:09:35 PM »

I know this isn't a tech support forum, but all other forums haven't helped. I believe all my Google-related accounts are compromised by some kind of virus or something. the reason I think this is because restricted mode has been locked on, on my Samsung phone the section under the videos has been mostly "There was a problem with the network [400]", and my internet is loving up on my IPad. Right now I can only retrieve a screenshot for the locked restricted mode.

Running Norton and Malwarebytes brings up nothing, but I'd rather be safe than sorry, so I'm turning to you guys.

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Forum Games / Who You Are

« on: July 25, 2017, 06:40:12 PM »

Background

       Hola, this is a stuff forum game that will not only teach me how not to draw but also how fun drawing pictures can be if I do 12 pictures in a row. Oh, yeah there's also a story.
       All you remember before you awake is that you were a man of high power, one that betrayed God and betrayed his allies in hopes of spreading atheism. Too bad at the end you got your face personally scorched by the pope and """killed""" via stab wounds. Too bad it's also been ~962 years since you've died and no-one has touched you since. Wow. You're a loser. Well, now you can do whatever with your deterioration mental state and bare skin on the floor of a cold, hard chamber.

~962 years later...

Dialogue Time!

Your Thoughts: "This is quite a floor of frigidness, and quite limited sight that I have. What hath the queen bestow upon me for merely burning her church?"
Your Face: "HOW COME ITS BEEN 9 HUNDRED YEARS AND I'M STILL BURNING HOLY stuff"

What do you do now?
...

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General Discussion / The Height of a Blockhead

« on: July 05, 2017, 10:15:40 PM »

Have you ever wanted to know the height of a Blockhead? Well, thanks to this topic, you can! (And with help from the static-shapes map Bedroom)

The (Very Unorganized) SCIENCE!:
My first thought of figuring this out was: "what is an object with a standard height in one of the Blockland maps?" My first thought was the door in The Bedroom, to which I looked up the height for the standard American door (80 inches [203.2 cm]) and confirmed it with my own door. But the I realized, this door in The Bedroom is really forgeted up with there being no gaps on the top or bottom. So, I instead added the combined height of both the gaps on my Standard American Door™ to get: about 82.625 inches (209.8675 centimeters for the unamerican.)
Thanks to figuring that out, all I have to do is spawn a stuff-ton of bots one on top of the other next to the door, resulting in several crashes and an angered me. Instead, I chose to stack blocks leading up to the number of: 191.6666... bricks in height. A Blockhead is 4.3333... blocks high but a Blockhead's hitbox is 4.6666... blocks high, hence why there are two answers in the answer section. All I have to do now is divide the total brick height with the height of a Blockhead, and divide those two numbers into the inches to get...

The ANSWER!:
For a Blockhead:
~1.868043478260 inches
~4.7448304347804 centimeters

For a Blockhead's hitbox:
~2.011739130434783 inches
~5.1098173913043485328 centimeters

The AFTERWORD!:
If you find error in my ways, please tell me and I'll attempt to fix it. Also, give criticism on anything you can find that can be criticized.

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Off Topic / w-what's so bad about Norton?

« on: May 24, 2017, 05:42:06 PM »

Alright, firstly: I have a paid Norton subscription and it seems bretty good in the 3 years I've had it.  All viruses that've slowed my computer have been killed by Norton. So, I'm wondering, WHY IS NORTON STILL GETTING HATE? why does Norton get so much hate? Are there secret viruses that are easily passing Norton's scanners? Discuss, por favor.

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Games / What Would Make a Good TDM Map?

« on: May 20, 2017, 10:33:58 PM »

In a game, what would make a good TDM map? Open spaces? Cramped corridors? An ass-shaped map? You tell me so that I can work out the SCIENCE! of the perfect TDM map.

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Off Topic / [|| NEWS > ~Illuminati Believer Streams~

« on: May 11, 2017, 07:23:26 PM »

The Vigilant Christian. A name you may have heard whilst searching the deeper realms of YouTube just for laughs, chortles, gonks, and garfunkles. An open Illuminati believer, he often criticizes media for being Illuminati-centered. Well, he's streaming. Oh, he also may be a religious extremist or at least as extreme as a Christian can be. I know the BLF isn't the most liberal of folks, but this guy is pretty insane IMO so do what you want with him.

Also, he disrespects Randy Savage by using 'brother' in a free manner.

An open Illuminati believer and religion follower

Is this in the same category now

whoops that sounds really bad when it comes out of the mouth. fixed[/s]

Nobody's interested so adios

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Forum Games / Draw Yourself in MS Paint v2.5

« on: May 04, 2017, 08:01:45 PM »

The return no-one asked for. Draw as well or as badly as you want.

Me:

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Off Topic / Could Someone Recommend Me Some Bands?

« on: April 30, 2017, 03:08:36 PM »

PhantOS don't you dare mention the capitalization in the title. Also, I didn't use a word that was a homophone.
So, most websites I've searched in aren't focusing on the part I want in music: the surrealism. Even when I specifically searched that term, all that came up was either grunge, screamo, or some other crap. Because of this, I turn to you guys a very bad source of information. So, I pose the question, what songs do you know of that are surreal yet somehow calming?

Now, if you don't know what I'm looking for, I'm looking for things like: Black Hole Sun, Strawberry Fields Forever, and finally Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Where are your fingers? Seriously. It's a pretty easy question. You should be able to answer it. But how do you know? How does anyone know anything? You might say, well, I know where my fingers are. I'm looking right at them. Or, I can touch them, I can feel them, they're right here and that's good. Your senses are a great way to learn things. In fact, we have way more than the usual five senses we talk about. For instance, your kinesthetic sense, proprioception. This is what the police evaluate during a field sobriety test. It allows you to tell where your fingers and arms and head and legs in your body is all in relation to each other without having to look or touch other things. We have way more than five senses, we have at least twice as many and then some. But they're not perfect. There are optical illusions, audio illusions, temperature sensation illusions, even tactile illusions. Can you turn your tongue upside down? If so, perfect. Try this. Run your finger along the outer edge of the tip of your upside down tongue. Your tongue will be able to feel your finger, but in the wrong place. Our brains never needed to develop an understanding of upside down tongue touch. So, when you touch the right side of your tongue when it's flipped over to your left side you perceive a sensation on the opposite side, where your tongue usually is but isn't when it's upside down. It's pretty freaky and cool and a little humbling, because it shows the limits of the accuracy of our senses, the only tools we have to get what's out there in here. The philosophy of knowledge, the study of knowing, is called epistemology. Plato famously said that the things we know are things that are true, that we believe and that we have justification for believing. those justifications might be irrational or they might be rational, they might be based on proof, but don't get too confident because proven is not a synonym for true. Luckily, there are things that we can know without needing proof, without needing to even leave the house, things that we can know as true by reason alone. These are things that we know a priori. An example would be the statement "all bachelors are unmarried." I don't have to go survey every bachelor on earth to know that that is true. All bachelors are unmarried because that's how we define the word bachelor. Of course, you have to know what the words bachelor and unmarried mean in the first place. Oh, you do? Okay. Perfect. That's great. But how do you know? This time I mean functionally, how do you know? Where is knowledge biologically in the brain? What are memories made out of? We are a long way from being able to answer that question completely but research has shown that memories don't exist in the brain in single locations. Instead, what we call a memory is likely made up of many different complex relationships all over the brain between lots of brain cells, neurons. A major cellular mechanism thought to underlie the formation of memories is long-term potentiation or LTP. When one neuron stimulates another neuron repeatedly that signal can be enhanced overtime LTP, wiring them more strongly together and that connection can last a long time, even an entire lifetime. A collection of different brain cells, neurons that fire together in a particular order over and over again frequently and repeatedly can achieve long-term potentiation, becoming more sensitive to each other and more ready to fire in the exact same way later on in the future. They're a physical thing in your brain, firing together more easily because you strengthen that pattern of firing. You memorized. This branching forest of firing friends looks messy, but look closer. It could be the memory of your first kiss. A living souvenir of the event. If I were to go into your brain and cut out those cells, could I make you forget your first kiss or could I make you forget where your fingers are? Only if I cut out a lot of your brain. Because memories aren't just stored in one relationship, they're stored all over the brain. The events leading up to your first kiss are stored in one network, the way it felt to the way it smelled in different networks, all added up together making what you call the memory of your first kiss. How many memories can you fit inside your head? What is the storage capacity of the human brain? The best we can do is a rough estimate, but given the number of neurons in the brain involved with memory and the number of different connections a single neuron can make Paul Reber at Northwestern University estimated that we can store the digital equivalent of about 2.5 petabytes of information. That's the equivalent of recording a TV channel continuously for 300 years. That's a lot of information. That is a lot of information about skills you can do and facts and people you've met, things in the real world. The world is real, right? How do you know? It's a difficult question, but it's not rocket science. Instead, it is asking whether or not rocket scientists even exist in the first place. The theory that the Sun moved around the earth worked great. It predicted that the Sun would rise every morning and it did. It wasn't until later that we realized what we thought was true might not be. So, do we or will we ever know true reality or are we stuck in a world where the best we can do is be approximately true? Discovering more and more useful theories every day but never actually reaching true objective actual reality. Can science or reason ever prove convincingly that your friends and YouTube videos and your fingers actually exist beyond your mind? That you don't just live in the matrix? No. Your mind is all that you have, even if you use instruments, like a telescope or particle accelerators. The final stop for all of that information is ultimately you. You are alone in your own brain, which technically makes it impossible to prove that anything else exists. It's called the egocentric predicament. Everything you know about the world out there depends on and is created inside your brain. This mattered so much to Charles Sanders Peirce that he drew a line between reality, the way the universe truly is, and what he called the phaneron, the world as filtered through our senses and bodies, the only information we can get. If you want to speak with certainty you live in, that is you react to and remember and experience your phaneron, not reality. The belief that only you exist and everything else, food, the universe, your friends are all figments of your mind is called solipsism. There is no way to convince a solipsist that the outside world is real. And there is no way to convince someone who doubts that the universe wasn't created just three seconds ago along with all of our memories. It's a frightening realization that we don't always know how to deal with. There's even The Matrix defense. In 2002 Tonda Lynn Ansley shot and killed her landlady. She argued that she believed she was in the matrix, that her crimes weren't real. By using the matrix defense, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity, because the opposite view is just way healthier and common. It's called realism. Realism is the belief that the outside world exists independently of your own phaneron. Rocks and stars and Thora Birch would continue to exist even if you weren't around to experience them. But you cannot know realism is true. All you can do is believe. Martin Gardner, a great source for math magic tricks, explained that he is not a solipsist because realism is just way more convenient and healthy and it works. As to whether it bothered him that he could never know realism was true, he wrote, "If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron, my answer is how should I know? I'm not dismayed by ultimate mysteries, I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph." Humble stuff. What strikes me is the cat. Cats do not understand keyboards, but they know the keyboards are a fun place to be. It's a great way to get the attention of a human, they're warm and exciting, surrounded by noises and flashing lights plus cats love to get their scent on whatever they can, a mark of their existence. We aren't that much different, except instead of keyboards we have the mysteries of the universe. We will never be able to understand all of them. We won't be able to ever answer every single question, but walking around in those questions, exploring them, is fun. It feels good. And as always, thanks for watching. Do you want more unanswered questions? Well, you're in luck. Today, nine other amazing channels on YouTube have made videos about questions we still haven't fully answered. Alltime10s has organized them and to watch them all click the annotation at the end of this video or the link at the top of the description. Enjoy.

So, yeah. Discuss and give music to specifically me and my taste only. (Yes, I know. I'm pretty selfish.)