Messages

151

Modification Help / Re: Texture Help

« on: June 21, 2015, 09:48:27 AM »

Do you see any errors about missing textures in the console.log?

152

General Discussion / Re: Custom Game Add-on Slot

« on: June 20, 2015, 08:19:20 PM »

You can do this with gamemodes. See here for more information.

153

Environment Files / Re: RedSorceress Skyboxes (v0.2)

« on: June 19, 2015, 09:20:06 PM »

Just added 10 new skyboxes and tweaked some of the existing ones. Most notably, I added an actual sun flare to cover up the pixelated one on Thicker than Water, which makes it look much better.

154

Drama / Re: Goodbye Blockland...

« on: June 16, 2015, 10:56:03 PM »

Goodbye posts always get banned. He's a goner. Calling it now.

sock's forum account was never banned

155

Help / Re: Crashing Problems

« on: June 13, 2015, 12:48:12 PM »

The link to the console.log you provided is broken.

156

General Discussion / Re: Stalkers vs humans TDM

« on: June 13, 2015, 12:39:07 PM »

I have tried to contact the maker and I have gotten no reply so I guess he or she is out of it.

Not recently lol

I updated the copy on my mediafire (same link as before) since I've switched to another project. It's not really done, but it's more than playable. Best of luck with building a new map if you're still planning to do that.

157

Modification Help / Re: Even MORE questions

« on: June 12, 2015, 10:22:31 PM »

#2. Create a client command that is sent to players when they connect to the server (a "ping"). Your mod should have this client command trigger the sending of a command to the server (a "pong"). If the server receives a pong, it is reasonable to conclude that a player has your add-on installed. Otherwise, they probably do not have your add-on installed.

For #3, I recommend tracing the application of events to a brick. You can enable trace with trace(1); and disable it again with trace(0);. While trace is enable, every function called, along with the arguments provided to that function, are echoed to the console. You only need to find and package the server commands that apply events to a brick.

158

Environment Files / Re: RedSorceress Skyboxes (v0.1)

« on: June 11, 2015, 03:56:20 PM »

these are amazing but it bugs me to death that there's no bottom texture on any of them :(

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me. I forgot to mention that in the OP.

159

Modification Help / Re: anti-freekill script troubles

« on: June 11, 2015, 03:33:31 PM »

Do this instead
schedule(30000, 0, freekillBan, %arg, %arg2);

160

Environment Files / RedSorceress Skyboxes (v0.4)

« on: June 11, 2015, 01:35:35 PM »

This is a package of skyboxes assembled from assets found on redsorceress.com. I have not yet assembled atmosphere files for every skybox on the website, but plan to in the future. Feel free to request any of the skyboxes you see on the page (excepting the last ten, which do not have download links).

Note that:

• None of these skyboxes have bottom textures.
• The texture quality on some skyboxes is somewhat poor. This is especially apparent with the Hexagon and Thicker than Water skies. There isn't much I can do to fix this.
• The Planet Meat and Red Planet skyboxes are of especially poor quality (both are made of up 256x256 images) and will not ever be included in this pack.

Download (mediafire) (16.57 MB)

Change log

• v0.4: Added Ash Canyon, Blue Green, Desert Evening, Elbrus, Lost Valley, Night Ink, Nuke, and Red Sky skyboxes.
• v0.3: Added Alien, Bleached, Blood Sport, Checkered, Dark Land, Desert 3, Devil Punch, Emerald Fog, Entropic, Plague, Rapture, and Red Day skyboxes.
• v0.2: Added Alpine, Blue Freeze, Blue Sky, Cliffs of Insanity, Coma White, Frozen, Frozen Dusk, Grave, Islands, Lilac Isles, and Morose skyboxes. Added sunflares and tweaked settings on some other skyboxes.
• v0.1: Added Calm, City, Clouds, Cotton Candy, Delirious, Dunes, Green Haze, Hazy Lake, Hexagon, Hourglass, Canyons, Sun Down, Majesty, Mountains, Hell, Night Sky, New World Order, Siege, Stars, Thicker than Water, Underwater, and Valley maps.

Included skyboxes
(so far)

Note that the pictures included here are distorted panoramas from the redsorceress website. The skyboxes will not appear distorted ingame.

New in v0.4

"Ash Canyon"


"Blue Green"


"Desert Evening"


"Elbrus"


"Lost Valley"


"Night Ink"


"Nuke"


"Red Sky"


New in v0.3

"Alien"


"Bleached"


"Blood Sport"


"Checkered"


"Dark Land"


"Desert 3"


"Devil Punch"


"Emerald Fog"


"Entropic"
(ingame picture)

"Plague"


"Rapture"


"Red Day''


New in v0.2

"Alpine"


"Blue Freeze"


"Blue Sky"


"Cliffs of Insanity"


"Coma White"


"Frozen"


"Frozen Dusk"


"Grave"


"Islands"


"Lilac Isles"


"Morose"


v0.1

"Calm"


"Canyon"


"City"


"Clouds"


"Cotton Candy"


"Delirious"


"Dunes"


"Green Haze"


"Hazy Lake"


"Hell"


"Hexagon"


"Hourglass"


"Majesty"


"Mountains"


"Mud River"


"New World Order"


"Night Sky"


"Siege"


"Stars"


"Sun Down"


"Thicker than Water"


"Underwater"

161

Off Topic / Re: gender neutral kid switched up graduation

« on: June 07, 2015, 08:15:23 PM »

A lot of the Wikipedia editors are truly despicable when it comes to certain politically charged topics. I'm not going to say what because I don't want to start another argument; this one alone is more than enough for one topic.

Their opinions don't belong in the article, plain and simple.

4. alright, but in this thread i haven't seen anyone be called autistic - and let's be honest, do you actually want to have autism?

Someone used the word "austistic" in a disparaging way twice in one post a few pages back, and it's been used on other occasions in this thread alone as well.
I'm perfectly fine the way I am, thanks - and so are people with autism. There's nothing wrong with autism. I'm sure you wouldn't want to be another race, even if you don't have any problems with people of other races. Answers to that question don't prove anything because generally, people don't want to have their identity forgeted with (which is exactly why names and pronouns are important for trans people).

(although frankly any identity other than male, female, or neutral doesn't make sense to me)

And that's fine. It's quite outside of most people's experiences. Just don't treat gender-noncomforming people any differently than you treat anyone else.

8. see #7; in my opinion it's not really something that you can or can't be "educated" about (other than basic stuff like definitions) because it is entirely opinion-based

If it weren't something one could be educated about, there wouldn't be entire university departments dedicated to it.

as for your most recent post: unless it's a matter of scientific understanding (it isn't), everyone's opinion is relevant. that said, if someone asks you to stop using the N word next to them, don't.

Acually, it seems to me that you have that backwards. In hard science fields, nobody's opinions are relevant - something is true or it is false, and it is data that show this, not opinions. In all other fields, I don't think you'll find it hard to believe that some people's opinions are more relevant than others'.

Does this make sense yet? Do you understand why it's ideologically and prudently important to include the opinions of everyone in your discussions?

Do you have something to offer that hundreds of other people have not already insisted on interjecting into the conversation? Is the conversation missing the voice of the groups that you belong to?
No?
Then your opinion is not helpful because it cannot add to the conversation purely by virtue of its not being new.

claims aren't substantiated by credentials or background; they're substantiated by the content that backs them, and everything else is essentially meaningless rhetoric. sometimes that rhetoric is important but it doesn't change the value of the claim

But they are. I'm sure you'd agree with me that between an average black guy and an average white guy, one is much more likely to have experiences and views about racism worth sharing.

This isn't to say that one is worth listening to and the other is not. But it's unlikely that the white guy is going to have anything particularly poignant to say, and it seems to me, seems likely to shrug and say that the black guy would know much more about race issues than he would.

This is really not a hard pill to swallow.

I may not be explaining it as well as I could but this is how all of this concept (most people should just sit down, be quiet, and listen in social justice contexts) makes sense to me.

162

Off Topic / Re: gender neutral kid switched up graduation

« on: June 07, 2015, 07:37:20 PM »

However, what you've essentially told me and dozens of other people in this thread, is that our views are literal garbage

I've said that they weren't relevant, much like my views on the best way to advance scientific understanding of quantum physics, not that they are "literal garbage" - those are your words, not mine.

However, what you've essentially told me and dozens of other people in this thread, is that our views are literal garbage because we don't have a personal story of adversity to share with everyone. It doesn't matter whether we've witnessed adversity by seeing a black man get beaten by police or a homoloveual get bullied in middle school, because our perspectives on race and loveuality are worth literally nothing to you. When people hear this, it makes them want to become more socially conservative just to spite people like you who claim that their views have no value.

Next to the opinions of people who belong to power minorities, your opinion is less relevant. Next to the experiences and opinions of people belonging to the power minorities in question who are highly educated in social issues, they are practically worth nothing. It's nothing short of pure arrogance to assume that an uneducated or undereducated member of a power majority has an opinion that would Annoying Orange that of an educated member of a power minority.

Witnessing a number of instances of discrimination and harassment isn't quite as illuminating as actually living through discrimination and harassment that occurs almost constantly. It's a start, but it's just not the same.

I feel like a lot of people in this thread are assuming that I'm not a member of several power majorities just like everyone else here. Is it a tough pill to swallow that your opinions aren't always relevant? Sure, I guess. But I didn't have any problem with it. The countless editors of Wikipedia don't have any problem with not being able to insert their opinions into articles willy-nilly, or at least, the vast majority of them don't.

I'm not necessarily saying that anyone's opinions on reclamation are right or wrong. I'm not saying that reclamation is a good idea (or that it's a bad idea), because I am not educated enough to offer a relevant opinion on it. For what it's worth, the NAACP is against any and all use of the n slur (source by request), and therefore it's safe to assume that the organization's official stance is against reclamation of racial slurs is that it is a bad idea. Please do recognize that reclamation is a complex issue and that it isn't reasonable to generalize the NAACP's stance.

Doesn't mean they're not allowed to have an opinion on it :n

I've never said people aren't allowed to have an opinion, only that it's possible that their opinions aren't as informed and worth sharing as they may think

163

Off Topic / Re: gender neutral kid switched up graduation

« on: June 07, 2015, 07:22:15 PM »

ok, so amade

people can be trans
it's just we don't give a stuff, you know?
like if you want to be a different gender than your love, just shut up and do it
we want to just continue with our lives and maybe call you by the right pronoun or whatever but we don't want to be stopped every 5 minutes to be reminded of how transgender you are
that's not going to work because you're basically just telling him he's an idiot every few posts
you're just making an ass out of yourself, knock it off

Please don't add replies to my post in bold, it's a huge pain in the ass to respond to. What I was doing earlier with Kearn was numbering his points in the quote and then labeling my responses with the corresponding numbers, this is a much easier format to reply to

"ok you have to be doing this on purpose, that wasn't even tangentially related to race. i was saying that just because we're not the subject of the opinion doesn't mean our opinion doesn't matter. where the HONEST forget did you get the idea that i was calling white the best race?"

I wasn't saying you were calling white the best race, I was countering your unrelated example with a slightly less unrelated example.

"then explain it instead of just mentioning his name"

He formulated the idea of plate tectonics long before it was an accepted scientific theory and was actually ridiculed for his idea for almost all of his life. About a decade after his death, scientific findings strongly implying the validity of the theory of plate tectonics came to light, and plate tectonics became an accepted scientific theory. My point was that just because not everyone agrees with you doesn't mean that you're wrong or that you should back down (but of course, if overwhelming scientific results disagree with you, you're probably wrong)

"last time this happened the entire forum shat on the business"

That is not true, check out the poll in particular

"afaik there is no autistic person in this thread so that's not relevant"

That is incredibly relevant. Every time someone uses "autistic" in a disparaging way, it reinforces the idea that autism=bad in the minds of everyone who reads it.

By the way, this is a very minor thing, but generally the preferred phrasing is "person with autism".

"INCLUDING YOUR OWN"

I have still not shared my opinion on reclamation because I know that I am informed enough that my opinion would be relevant or worth reading. Why do you (and so many others) think that I have?

"nobody is stuffting on trans people, they're stuffting on how some trans people feel the need to constantly point out how fabulously trans they are"

This is also false, check out General and Kearn's responses in this thread (eg around page 11)

"no, we're calling you a skeleton because of how your militancy about those beliefs, not the beliefs themselves, and because you think that we can't possibly have an important opinion"

(sidenote: I have a browser add-on that filters "skeleton" to "skeleton" and don't feel like correcting it in copy-pastes)
I feel strongly about social justice, forget me right? Trans people and members of other disadvantaged groups die every day to Self Delete and hate crimes and face widespread discrimination. If that doesn't call for passion, I don't know what does.

"this isn't quantum physics though. discrimination is bad, yelling all the time about how discriminated you are is annoying."

It's social justice, but that doesn't mean someone couldn't possibly be uneducated or undereducated about it. Where am I "yelling all the time about how discriminated [I am]"?

"you've had an opinion this entire time, just like we are."

I haven't shared my opinion because it's not relevant. It doesn't matter whether I have one or not because I haven't shared it.

"people can be trans / it's just / we don't give a stuff, you know?"

That's great, but a lot of people do for some reason. I'm not saying you in particular do.

164

Off Topic / Re: gender neutral kid switched up graduation

« on: June 07, 2015, 07:07:38 PM »

I honestly can't tell whether you're ignoring my real arguments because you don't have a response, or because you've stumbled on the fact that I am white, cis, male, and middle-class, thus rendering everything I say practically non-existent.

First of all, the post I responded to was nothing but trolling.

I really don't understand why people get so offended by the notion that sometimes their opinion isn't terribly relevant. In case this is somehow not clear, obviously not everything you say is invalidated by your demographics, but your demographics mean that it is highly unlikely that you have a relevant opinion on reclamation of loveuality slurs. And of course, most importantly: unless you're a member of a loveuality minority (or a group that hates loveuality minorities) reclamation has nothing to do with you.

165

Off Topic / Re: gender neutral kid switched up graduation

« on: June 07, 2015, 07:01:35 PM »

watch out buddy, if you're not trans, the opinion police is gonna come to get you.

cute.

question: if ya'll take all the slurs away what the hell am I supposed to say? checkmate, social activists.

stuff, YOU GOT ME


if I'm not replying to your post it's because this thread is moving too fast, I had more than a page happen while I was formulating one of my larger replies

i'm certain i'm just misunderstanding what you're trying to say, but if you're implying a widely-accepted political concept centred around liberty and egalitarianism is commonly followed as a result of simple immaturity, i think possibly that's not an extremely sound viewpoint?

I think he was just referring to the fact that the young adult demographic is generally left of center

can you stop or something?

it's kinda hard to follow an argument when you're trying to continue some lame joke instead of contribute to itthe latter

Agreed completely, the amount of trolling that's being accepted as OK in this thread is astounding