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Off Topic / Eon your gore is stuff
« on: January 27, 2017, 09:10:13 PM »
seriously, i've seen worse. at least Betelgeuse was brave enough to venture the deep web to fetch his stuff.
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Off Topic / Why is racism still relevant.
« on: October 31, 2016, 07:48:48 PM »
I know everyone's enjoying the Halloween festivities but i'd like to ask the community a question regarding racism. A little backstory first.
I wasn't really ever raised around racism, and that's extremely ironic considering where i've lived. I spent most of my years in Frankfurt, Germany on the American Airforce base before i moved to my current home in Arkansas. The German people i grew up with were an extremely nice group of people. I lived in a fairly diverse neighborhood, everyone on base was different in some way. We had latinos, blacks, whites, multiple groups of people attending the same school, Bittburg Elementary School. I can't ever remember a time when racism was present in that school, despite the huge diversity everyone got along fine. It wasn't much different when i moved to Arkansas, which is ironic again because it's the deep-ish part of the south. Now keep in mind racism was a fairly taboo thing to me. I knew what it was but i didn't know why it made people feel the way they do (at that time of course). I couldn't help myself to feel empathetic for the people effected and questioned those who knowingly hurt others. The response was usually something along the lines of "because x looks that way" or "because i hate x's kind". A normal person wouldn't form those opinions on his/her own, alright, lets just clear that up. You don't hate someone because they look a certain way, that's irrational behavior. You wouldn't look at a Latino man walking down the street and think to yourself "man i really don't like the way that guy looks", because that wouldn't make much sense. Why do you hate the way he looks? What did he do to you? Why would you judge someone based on a chemical pigment in their skin. I mean, he's human? He's not a monster or an alien, there shouldn't be a reason to hate him. You may think "i don't like what he's wearing" because that would be along the implications of culture shock. He may/may not wear the same things as you do. To him, you're at the opposite end of culture shock.
I digress, my main question is how do completely normal individuals adopt racism? I've looked into this a little bit and some of the main reasons seem to stem from the last generation. It's probably the most frequent answer to give out to cover their rep. "Well my parents hated non-whites so i guess i should too". I'd like to know why you guys think stuff like this still exists, because apparently I'm not getting the memo.
I wasn't really ever raised around racism, and that's extremely ironic considering where i've lived. I spent most of my years in Frankfurt, Germany on the American Airforce base before i moved to my current home in Arkansas. The German people i grew up with were an extremely nice group of people. I lived in a fairly diverse neighborhood, everyone on base was different in some way. We had latinos, blacks, whites, multiple groups of people attending the same school, Bittburg Elementary School. I can't ever remember a time when racism was present in that school, despite the huge diversity everyone got along fine. It wasn't much different when i moved to Arkansas, which is ironic again because it's the deep-ish part of the south. Now keep in mind racism was a fairly taboo thing to me. I knew what it was but i didn't know why it made people feel the way they do (at that time of course). I couldn't help myself to feel empathetic for the people effected and questioned those who knowingly hurt others. The response was usually something along the lines of "because x looks that way" or "because i hate x's kind". A normal person wouldn't form those opinions on his/her own, alright, lets just clear that up. You don't hate someone because they look a certain way, that's irrational behavior. You wouldn't look at a Latino man walking down the street and think to yourself "man i really don't like the way that guy looks", because that wouldn't make much sense. Why do you hate the way he looks? What did he do to you? Why would you judge someone based on a chemical pigment in their skin. I mean, he's human? He's not a monster or an alien, there shouldn't be a reason to hate him. You may think "i don't like what he's wearing" because that would be along the implications of culture shock. He may/may not wear the same things as you do. To him, you're at the opposite end of culture shock.
I digress, my main question is how do completely normal individuals adopt racism? I've looked into this a little bit and some of the main reasons seem to stem from the last generation. It's probably the most frequent answer to give out to cover their rep. "Well my parents hated non-whites so i guess i should too". I'd like to know why you guys think stuff like this still exists, because apparently I'm not getting the memo.
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Off Topic / It's Friday and I'm already being bombarded with remember 9/11 stuff.
« on: September 09, 2016, 12:35:11 PM »
How long will it take before we pass 9/11 off as another eventful tragedy?
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Off Topic / I have ultimate knowledge of Mcdonald's restaurants, AMA. [Update, OP is back]
« on: July 31, 2016, 06:25:26 PM »
I've previously worked at McDonalds throughout my highschool years, i needed some money for my second term of college so i decided to re-apply and got hired again for part time at my old store. I'm willing to share experiences and stories and blah blah ask away.
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Off Topic / *NEWS* *UPDATE* EXTREME CASE OF NO CARS!
« on: July 14, 2016, 07:55:27 PM »
My heart goes out to those affected in California.
BREAKING NEWS
NO CARS SPOTTED ON CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY.
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?
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General Discussion / Why does Blockland only support Mono type music/sounds?
« on: June 27, 2016, 01:44:14 AM »
I really never understood why we use mono-stereo in the first place. It makes ambiance a pain when you turn a corner and suddenly blasted with whatever low quality file you choose to use. There isn't any fade in/out. There's got to be a better way. I don't give two stuffs about the file size considering my loops are fairly small, between 3-5 seconds. I doubt it would take anyone with a decent internet connection to download 1mb of music an eternity.
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Suggestions & Requests / Tracker
« on: June 20, 2016, 12:28:04 PM »
I need a held item that blips the closer a player on the enemy team is. There was something like this from the renderman mod that was used to indicate how close/far he was to you. I need the exact same thing but for players of the enemy team.
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General Discussion / What the forget is up with the master server?
« on: June 19, 2016, 11:01:38 PM »
A while back i hosted a server for friends and now they get the "connecting to IP: XXXXXXXXX" and it just stops there. Whats going on? What do i need to do to fix this?
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Off Topic / opinions on energy drinks.
« on: May 10, 2016, 10:00:44 PM »
i was one of those people who thought monster was the stuff until it hit me that stuff stuff kills in large amounts. my mom drinks red bull and handed me a can one day, now im hooked. its not as pumped with sugar as monster or n0ss or whatever the forget the other one is but it does its job without making me feel too tired afterwards.
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Off Topic / Is it wrong to watch someone die?
« on: April 25, 2016, 08:02:19 PM »
Something i don't frequently hear about. I saw someone die in a car accident a couple of years ago and i was slightly...interested? I mean i usually saw the occasional scripted on screen tv death and reenactments on popular police shows but it wasn't until i actually saw someone die that i kind of took an interest.
It may sound weird but i recently just found a subreddit full of these types of instances where people just outright die and i can't help but feel disgusted with myself because i keep watching them.
It may sound weird but i recently just found a subreddit full of these types of instances where people just outright die and i can't help but feel disgusted with myself because i keep watching them.
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General Discussion / Why doesn't badspot make addons?
« on: March 14, 2016, 10:40:05 AM »
I mean, Rotondo did a little while ago with his guitar pack. He just up and released them without any notion.
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Off Topic / [Personal Rant] People who can't pull their own weight.
« on: February 15, 2016, 06:47:35 PM »
A bit of backstory before i begin.
This is my Annoying Orangeet, a 2007 blessing starter Annoying Orangeet that i have kept over the years. This thing is ancient in the eyes of musicians. Yet i still play it because, lets be real here, these things run for almost $2k and i'm poor right now. Not my fault. This Annoying Orangeet has seen death and escaped numerous times. The thumb slide won't budge so i have to compensate by lowering my pitch to hit low D's without sounding out of tune. Which hurts extremely for anyone who's ever tried to play out of their octave.
You can see by this scratchy lens quality that it's been through some stuff, two repairs and a complete chemical bath. This Annoying Orangeet right now, is my LIFE. It is the only thing putting me through college at this time. To give you a perspective of what a normal Annoying Orangeet should look like, here is an hd stock picture.
Almost looks too clean to be real, but it is in fact, real.
This is the type of music i play, so you know where i stand. On a scale of 1-10, 1 being easy 10 being good loving luck, this is an 8.5.
Now that you are familiar with what i do, lets talk parts and music theory. Usually when you're handed a song, you're handed a 'part'. A piece of the song, divided up into sections of 1-4 and so on. 1 being usually the lead instrument 3-4 usually being the backup. 2 is a special snowflake and often times does his/her own thing. Anyway, the whole band is comprised of parts of music and when played correctly create a song. This is fundamental teachings anyone can pick up.
Now, our band is comprised up of 24 people. For a college band, this is downright small and pitiful. But don't get me wrong, we sound amazing. We play stuff Harvard and Duke would only dare dream of playing (if we actually put time into it). But that's just the thing, if. Now i'm fully committed to my parts. I have two first parts, two seconds and one third. Parts are distributed equally so no one hogs all the solos in 1st and 2nds and so forth. Obviously my priorities for sounding good are high. However this bigot next to me fails to understand what the term "work" actually is. She has "A" 1st part, right? You'd expect her, out of all her pieces, that the first part would have to sound great right? Dead wrong.
You see, instead of practicing her parts she insisted that she go home and do nothing. My Instructor, the guy who funds me for playing, catches on to this. He insists that she practice or she's going to have to give up her part. Already embarrassed that she only has "A" 1st part, she throws a huge loving fit in front of me and everyone else because she's falling behind and won't accept it. Instead of actually practicing she insists that the instructor gives me 1st part to play along with her.
On a side note, this isn't the first time its happened. Another Annoying Orangeet, Alex, has to share a part with her on another song because it was too difficult and she wasn't practicing.
A week passes by and this is what happened today. All is well, we run through a couple of pieces before we get to the part that i was handed to play along with her. Now i haven't had the time to practice this individual part because i was handed another part as well to compensate for the lack of solos, but stuff hit the fan when we started playing and she didn't. She just sat there picking at her entrepreneur led breasts the whole time. Now keep in mind i was handed this part days ago so its like sight reading for me almost. The instructor gets fed up with her and i quickly try to make the best sound i can while dodging risky phrases that might mess the band up. Fed up even more, he decides to lash out at me for not knowing the part.
This is where i lost it. Pushing air through a metal alloy instrument is all that's keeping me from ruining my life. I've worked so hard up until this point, even trying out in front of him and everyone else in high school, just so i had a shot of getting in.
WHY THE HELL AM I THE ONE GETTING YELLED AT!? I'M NOT HER DAMN CARETAKER!? I'M NOT A loving COLLEGE SITTER. I'M A GOD DAMN STUDENT JUST TRYING TO MAKE IT THROUGH LIFE! HE'S ASSUMING THIS IS ALL MY FAULT BECAUSE I DIDN'T LEARN SOMEONE ELSE'S loving PART! Like i said, this isn't the first time this has happened. This bitch was in my high school. She was in 1st band, hitchhiking off of other people's success. I don't know weather to confront my instructor about this, or just to ignore it and try and hope to god that i actually nail this part 3 weeks time. There's a chance he'll get mad at me for pointing out his error, and there's also a chance she'll get cut from band but that would force her parts on to everyone else who has a lower part than her, which i don't want because i'll be the only one playing staff notes.
TL;DR Bitch has a somewhat challenging first part, complains its too hard. I get handed part, i fail to meet "magical standards" and get called out for it.
What. Do I do.
This is my Annoying Orangeet, a 2007 blessing starter Annoying Orangeet that i have kept over the years. This thing is ancient in the eyes of musicians. Yet i still play it because, lets be real here, these things run for almost $2k and i'm poor right now. Not my fault. This Annoying Orangeet has seen death and escaped numerous times. The thumb slide won't budge so i have to compensate by lowering my pitch to hit low D's without sounding out of tune. Which hurts extremely for anyone who's ever tried to play out of their octave.
You can see by this scratchy lens quality that it's been through some stuff, two repairs and a complete chemical bath. This Annoying Orangeet right now, is my LIFE. It is the only thing putting me through college at this time. To give you a perspective of what a normal Annoying Orangeet should look like, here is an hd stock picture.
Almost looks too clean to be real, but it is in fact, real.
This is the type of music i play, so you know where i stand. On a scale of 1-10, 1 being easy 10 being good loving luck, this is an 8.5.
Now that you are familiar with what i do, lets talk parts and music theory. Usually when you're handed a song, you're handed a 'part'. A piece of the song, divided up into sections of 1-4 and so on. 1 being usually the lead instrument 3-4 usually being the backup. 2 is a special snowflake and often times does his/her own thing. Anyway, the whole band is comprised of parts of music and when played correctly create a song. This is fundamental teachings anyone can pick up.
Now, our band is comprised up of 24 people. For a college band, this is downright small and pitiful. But don't get me wrong, we sound amazing. We play stuff Harvard and Duke would only dare dream of playing (if we actually put time into it). But that's just the thing, if. Now i'm fully committed to my parts. I have two first parts, two seconds and one third. Parts are distributed equally so no one hogs all the solos in 1st and 2nds and so forth. Obviously my priorities for sounding good are high. However this bigot next to me fails to understand what the term "work" actually is. She has "A" 1st part, right? You'd expect her, out of all her pieces, that the first part would have to sound great right? Dead wrong.
You see, instead of practicing her parts she insisted that she go home and do nothing. My Instructor, the guy who funds me for playing, catches on to this. He insists that she practice or she's going to have to give up her part. Already embarrassed that she only has "A" 1st part, she throws a huge loving fit in front of me and everyone else because she's falling behind and won't accept it. Instead of actually practicing she insists that the instructor gives me 1st part to play along with her.
On a side note, this isn't the first time its happened. Another Annoying Orangeet, Alex, has to share a part with her on another song because it was too difficult and she wasn't practicing.
A week passes by and this is what happened today. All is well, we run through a couple of pieces before we get to the part that i was handed to play along with her. Now i haven't had the time to practice this individual part because i was handed another part as well to compensate for the lack of solos, but stuff hit the fan when we started playing and she didn't. She just sat there picking at her entrepreneur led breasts the whole time. Now keep in mind i was handed this part days ago so its like sight reading for me almost. The instructor gets fed up with her and i quickly try to make the best sound i can while dodging risky phrases that might mess the band up. Fed up even more, he decides to lash out at me for not knowing the part.
This is where i lost it. Pushing air through a metal alloy instrument is all that's keeping me from ruining my life. I've worked so hard up until this point, even trying out in front of him and everyone else in high school, just so i had a shot of getting in.
WHY THE HELL AM I THE ONE GETTING YELLED AT!? I'M NOT HER DAMN CARETAKER!? I'M NOT A loving COLLEGE SITTER. I'M A GOD DAMN STUDENT JUST TRYING TO MAKE IT THROUGH LIFE! HE'S ASSUMING THIS IS ALL MY FAULT BECAUSE I DIDN'T LEARN SOMEONE ELSE'S loving PART! Like i said, this isn't the first time this has happened. This bitch was in my high school. She was in 1st band, hitchhiking off of other people's success. I don't know weather to confront my instructor about this, or just to ignore it and try and hope to god that i actually nail this part 3 weeks time. There's a chance he'll get mad at me for pointing out his error, and there's also a chance she'll get cut from band but that would force her parts on to everyone else who has a lower part than her, which i don't want because i'll be the only one playing staff notes.
TL;DR Bitch has a somewhat challenging first part, complains its too hard. I get handed part, i fail to meet "magical standards" and get called out for it.
What. Do I do.
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Modification Help / Modifying a vehicle's flight physics to not suck.
« on: January 10, 2016, 09:06:15 PM »
So a lot of people are trying to do something with these three vehicles. They all complain that they're hard to control and they generally suck ect.
Instead of ignoring the problem like an absolute friend I'm taking it upon myself to try and fix these. I can't get in contact with Packer because he's extinct.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/qlne56459w4em8d/Vehicle_Tie_Fighter.zip
Would it be at all possibly to go and find another set of properties for the vehicle and swap bits and pieces out to better the performance? Like for say if i wanted to take the stun plane and just paste it's properties in the tie could i do it?
Edit: The other vehicles are the snowspeeder and X-wing also made by packer.
Instead of ignoring the problem like an absolute friend I'm taking it upon myself to try and fix these. I can't get in contact with Packer because he's extinct.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/qlne56459w4em8d/Vehicle_Tie_Fighter.zip
Would it be at all possibly to go and find another set of properties for the vehicle and swap bits and pieces out to better the performance? Like for say if i wanted to take the stun plane and just paste it's properties in the tie could i do it?
Edit: The other vehicles are the snowspeeder and X-wing also made by packer.
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Help / need the blockland caveman image fast
« on: January 09, 2016, 12:35:10 AM »
quickly if anyone has the link to the image i need it fast
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Games / StarWars: Movie Battles 2 Shenanigans
« on: January 06, 2016, 01:39:58 AM »
Shenanigans
Just another regular day on the official us server
Dog and I(aka Bioware) decided to most of our team into selecting various classes. One round we decided to go all droidekas because you know, why not?
Also if you haven't gotten this mod already i highly suggest you do so you can participate in things like this also because Official US needs more players. Go get the mod, now.
If you have second thoughts then here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOT5J45vHIA
If you still have thoughts then here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA6-A8LHmNQ
If you're a complete bum who doesn't like fun and hates starwars memes then here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYKPdNvH800