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Off Topic / That was really loving weird...

« on: June 18, 2009, 12:19:17 PM »

So this morning I woke up at 7:45ish in the morning. I was up till two thirty though so I thought to my self "I had barely any sleep at all, why the forget am I up?... I know! I will just fall back asleep for a quick bit." And so I layed back down to fall asleep. At this point suddenly I was dreaming that I was on the Pink Floyd The Wall thingy and I was playing guitar for that Another Brick in the Wall song. Like all the way through the song, everything included from the on-stage thing. And I some how remembered every note for the guitar and managed to play it all and it was really loving trippy and so realistic feeling. Then I woke up and it was 8:15.


[edit] fixed spelling on one part cause I am tired and dumb.

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Games / Zero Punctuation Reviews E3 (again)

« on: June 17, 2009, 01:12:57 PM »

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/779-The-Second-Annual-E3-Hype-Massacre

This has to be one of my favorite all time episodes of his. Watch it.
Ha! loving beat you this time tails!

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Off Topic / How do you wake up Lady GaGa?

« on: June 17, 2009, 01:57:15 AM »

You poke 'er face.


Oh gee I am so clever.

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Off Topic / There are now 14k people signed up for the forums.

« on: June 16, 2009, 02:23:09 AM »

Though most accounts are inactive, just thought this was interesting that we reached a benchmark.

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Drama / Haha Cambio

« on: June 13, 2009, 02:35:01 AM »

So I think this is the first drama topic I made about someone?
Anyways that Cambio dude is being a dumbass and purposefully arguing with everyone in the Blockland Forums thread to like say all old members are dumbasses or something. I dunno, I didn't read it entirely, but from what I gathered, He was being stupid, so I posted in the thread that I didn't know what was going on but it seemed Cambio is being stupid.

aren't you the idiot who always did those fish image macros that weren't funny?

yeah. 'nuff said.

Just PM'd me this.
So yes, something I did at the very beginning of my forum things over three years ago obviously means that when I notice someone being a dumbass, it isn't true.
Completely ignore the fact that I have done nothing of the sort in quite a while and am now a rather well respected member of the forums.

I am not so much saying that I want to start attacking him, I just want verification that he is, infact, a dumbass because appearantly my opinion doesn't count in judging how I want to respond to him. Because I cant decide for my self whether I like him or not. Whatever.
Also I am terribly offended. I thought those fish pictures were hilarious. Now I am going to cry. :(

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Add-Ons / Ladios's Laser Weapon Set (4/10 guns completed)

« on: June 06, 2009, 03:10:15 AM »

Ladios's Laser Weapon Set
Back in version 8 of Blockland, there existed a set of weapons unlike any other. These weapons worked perfectly together, and brought Blocklanders closer together in a laser-tag like mood. These weapons also sucked ass. They were laggy, over powered, noisey, and had really lame models. Ever since version 9 cleared the Blockland community of this abomination, you annoy jerks never stopped pestering Ladios, so he decided to make a new set of weapons. Its been more than a year now, as Ladios is a lazy dumbass, but he slowly is now releasing the weapons in a 1950's style alien invasion format.

Currently there are only 4 guns completed, a fifth is almost done and the sixth will begin working on progress for. There were 7 guns in the original set, and I will try to get those done first (aside from the minigun as that was already made). If all goes well, there will be two additional "secret" guns released extra at the end. This is all put into one post so I don't need to keep making these threads and can just update this post with each new gun. Much more organized that way.
Also, on a question I have been asked a few days ago as to why the shotgun is in a different "style" than the other three, its because the shotgun is made by the humans. The Blasters and Repeater are alien weapons (though the repeater was stolen). There will be three or four more guns done in a "human" style. Just to make it seem to have a story or something...

Don't bug me about how long I am taking.


Alien Blaster
An alien laser gun.

Description
Blockland is being invaded by aliens! And they brought their guns!

The alien blaster is a 3 hit kill (compared to a regular gun's 4 hits) but has slightly longer load time than a regular gun. It also has slightly high brick damage capabilities. The gun shoots red lasers that are significantly less laggy than the old Laser Pistol from the Laser Weapon Set 1.3.
This is the first of the new set of laser weapons.

Update V2: fixed sound and made trail more steady.
Update V3: un-"fixed" sound.
Update V4: made some tweaks to damage and reload time so it be more balanced with future weapons and made the hit sound affect a smaller radius

Screenshots

Download
Weapon_AlienBlaster.zip (Last Updated: Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:54 pm)

Installation
Put Weapon_AlienBlaster.zip into the Add-Ons folder in your Blockland folder.

Click Here to view this file on the RTB Download Manager


Dual Micro Blasters
A smaller, dual-weildable version of the Alien Blaster

Description
Blockland is being invaded by aliens! And they brought their guns!

The Dual Micro Blasters are smaller versions of the Alien Blaster that do much less damage and take 5 shots to kill a player. This is made up for by the gun's higher rate of fire. This gun is a good balance to the Alien Blaster for all space-themed DMs.
This is the second of the new set of laser weapons.

Update v2 fixed the sound for the guns and made them weaker to balance their firing speed.
Update V3 un-fixed sound
Update V4 edited the strength and firing time to keep the weapon more balanced and made the hit sound radius lower

Screenshots

Download
Weapon_DualMicroBlasters.zip (Last Updated: Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:54 pm)

Installation
Put Weapon_DualMicroBlasters.zip into the Add-Ons folder in your Blockland folder.

Click Here to view this file on the RTB Download Manager


Defraction Gun
A Laser Shotgun

Description
Fresh off the assembly line! A perfect way to end an alien's day!

The laser shotgun consists of two firing modes. Main fire shoots a low amount of lasers but in a small spread for those mid-long range targets, and a alternate fire which shoots more bullets at a much larger spread. Really the alt fire isn't good unless you are putting your gun right up to the aliens mouth... at which point it works reeeeeaaallly good.

Screenshots

Download
Weapon_DefractionGun.zip (Last Updated: Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:54 pm)

Installation
Put Weapon_DefractionGun.zip into the Add-Ons folder in your Blockland folder.

Click Here to view this file on the RTB Download Manager


Laser Repeater
A Laser Minigun

Description
Blockland is being invaded by aliens! It is time we use their own weapons against them!

The Laser Repeater has a somewhat high bullet spread and fires very rapidly. It is a perfect mid-long range weapon in terms of brute strength, but watch out, as the gun is firing you will only be able to move at half your usual speed, which will make you an easy target.

Screenshots

Download
Weapon_LaserRepeater.zip (Last Updated: Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:49 pm)

Installation
Put Weapon_LaserRepeater.zip into the Add-Ons folder in your Blockland folder.

Click Here to view this file on the RTB Download Manager

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Off Topic / nevermind

« on: June 05, 2009, 11:59:37 PM »

whoops, i forgot soemthing

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Off Topic / What is the most popular song?

« on: June 05, 2009, 03:50:12 PM »

Not nessicarilly what you like, but what do you think is the most popular song nowadays overall?

[edit] Modern songs (post 1940's) specifically

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Off Topic / wait... food =/= creative?

« on: June 02, 2009, 09:41:42 PM »

When did this happen? I thought food was cullinary arts which requires someone to be creative in order to do it correctly...

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Off Topic / Ladios's girl drama stuff

« on: June 01, 2009, 11:04:18 PM »

Now in new shortened "I dont give a forget and feel like killing myself right now so I will not type the whole story" mode!


Yeah... stuff happened
Confusion, girl liking me that I liked a long time
more confusion
deciding stuff
I break up with Kiari
I'm an starfish
whatever

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Games / Zero Punctuation reviews Duke Nukem Forever

« on: May 27, 2009, 11:58:49 PM »

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever
He was rather nice about this game though he seemed to be a bit harsh on his review of the story but otherwise I agree with him.

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Off Topic / Ladios does an Baklava! :D

« on: May 27, 2009, 07:09:17 PM »

I love baking. And I love baklava! So what do I do? Make some baklava myself!
(this was actually for a project for my Shakespeare class where we had to do food from countries that his plays take place in, Midsummernight's dream takes place in greece so I chose that and made this delicious food...) (Yes I know it is actually turkish by origin but it is most commonly associated with the greeks) (Lol constantly decreasing text size)



Le ingrediants




Step 1: chop up walnuts... but why waste my time chopping them when I can blend them? >:D



... because appearantly they turn to dust when you do that...



Phyllo dough is a bitch.... it rips if you move it even a millimeter in the direction it doesnt want to go... which is any direction but the one you need to move it...



Alternating layers of phyllo dough and butter with four layers of a walnut/cinnamon/sugar mixture put in oven to bake for an hour



And while we are waiting for that, lets make the honey sauce topping! >:D



And when you are done, you get one of the most delicious pastry-like things ever!

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Drama / Short on cash but big on hunger? Try this quick soup snack! :D

« on: May 26, 2009, 08:17:10 PM »

Ever been sitting there with only about $1.15 (price may vary) in your pocket but you are quite hungry? Try this quick snack.
Take a can of cream of potato soup, and follow the instructions, usually it will have you dump the can into a saucepan and add a can-full of milk. Cook it for around three to five minutes stirring frequently (or until warm). Get a cup of beef instant cup ramen noodles, and empty the contents into the soup. Stir together on medium heat for another five minutes or until noodles have reached desired softness. Let cool for a bit and enjoy!

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Off Topic / My opinion

« on: May 25, 2009, 07:03:02 AM »

This is my idea, my opinion, my theory of how things are. I know you will disagree with it, but there is nothing I can do, nor am I saying I am right because you may very well have some valid points that will help me change my opinion into something more universal than it is. I am just stating my opinion. My goal is to not cause conflict or spark a debate.


This is also extremely metaphysical, so if you don't understand what I am trying to say, its becuase the English language is loving handicapped.



In my opinion, there is one Lord, one God, one Creator of all the world, the galaxy, the universe. But in itself the Lord is within the universe in an underlying plane of a sort of spiritual presense. Not so much that every living thing is a part of God or that God is a part of everything, but God is present in all things, through His creation, the universe. The universe thereby is an extension of God and His will.

All things in this universe act logically and have a specific understandable pattern to them, however as humans, we are incapable of understanding this pattern. That does not mean at all that humans don't have free will. Not at all.

Free will is the driving force of change in the universe. Everything that happens is a result of either complex physics, or a spiritual decision that would influence such. If you look at the brain at an atomic level, all things that happen within it are mapable and predictable if one could see the big enough picture. But free will still exists, not in the mind, but in the soul. This conciousness that people have are what give them the ability to choose on their own.

This gets more complicated in that every choice will branch the universe into two possible scenarios, both to be experianced and lived. The problem is that humans only experiance one branch of this, and it keeps changing constantly, but as it changes, it stays the same in it is the one we conciously experiance in this version of reality.
We will experiance everything we choose (or others choose) and how it affects our lives in the way it does. If a choice is done differently, then we experiance that instead, that other version of reality, but the version of reality where we didn't choose differently we still experiance what was prior, without knowing of the second version. That is the way it goes. This is a hard to explain and hard to understand concept but it is rather logical when one thinks about it enough.

The spiritual plane is what drives the universe's ideas, how it works, but on this plane there exists so much that cannot be comprehended by humans. This plane intertwines through this dimension and into others inperceptable by humans. It is not so much a plane actually as a level of existance, in that objects that occupy this plane seem to exist in much different ways than say a box sitting in a room. Changes to the physical relm greatly impact this spiritual sense, such as playing a happy song lightens the mood, painting your room black and drawing the curtains leads to something more dark. This energy that is created can be described as angles and demons by some and I acknowledge that is one way to look at it but as I see it being more of a force than a presense, I would prefer to refer to it as a sort of spiritual energy. Humans of course can tap into this spiritual energy for guidance (like intuition) or inner strength or creativity or healing and much more. Humans have a influence on this energy as well though. This energy helps humans identify things in ways that they probably often don't realise. Of course the energy affects the physical relm on its own accord. Dark energy can overwhelm a person and they succumb to it causing actions they may not even recognize as evil.

What is evil though? Against the will of the Lord. Simple definition, but difficult conecpt. I my self do not know what the will of the Lord is. Only He knows it. This is one thing that pisses so many people off is how much they don't want to accept that they don't have the final say in their life. Sure someone can rebel against God but its a pretty stupid thing to do.

Anyways, the dark energy works to drive people away from God and can be very distinct and direct or stealthy. Someone may think they are being nice by helping you do something but they actually are imparing you from acheiving something more important.


A brief pause to say this is confusing to write because I don't want to restate things too much :P
I had to take a stretch break and thus I lost my most recent train of thought and shall just go to the next thing.


Yes, God created all life on earth. And yes the Bible tries to describe things but something that must be taken into account is that the Bible is divinely inspired but written by man, and not only that, but humans wasn't even around during the beginning of the creation of the world, so humans cannot beging to comprehend what happened then. It is quite possible that there was an Adam and Eve that were tempted by Sin and thus banished from a land of perfection set aside for them, however I believe this is more of a symbolic thing. This could show that humans evolved in such a way that they could influence the spiritual existance that they could choose to defy God. Which of course, being the stupid humans they are, jumped at the oppertunity. This free will came at a cost I suppose. Mankind became quite good at doing evil things such as wars, slavery, lust.

One thing that was specifically mentioned in the Bible is that intercourse be only used for the begetting of children. That is it. The Bible does not condone homoloveuality, it condones the act of homoloveual intercourse as no child could be born of such an act. But there I go off on a tangent.

Anyways, now for this Jesus fellow. One problem for mankind was it was so easy to be led into temptation due to the nature of free will, it was so easy to choose against God. Jesus followed God's will to the letter to prove the power that free will could hold. He died for the wrongs of the world, all the actions chosen against the will of God, all the sins. In believing in him, and following his teachings, it is easyer to thus follow the will of the Lord and therefor be better in sync in the universe.

When one dies, their connection to their physical manifestation is gone. All that remains is their soul. Where heaven and hell come in is more that, those who chose against the Lord and the will of the universe have thus chosen a permanant existance of desynchronization, they get no further choices, and are abandoned of everything that gives them energy. They are forever trapped in a pit of dispair, want, and agony, due to this lonelyness that they experiance when there is nothing left for them at all. This complete emptyness that is so indescribable. According to the Bible, such an event happened on earth for the three days after Jesus died where the world was left without any connection to the living will of the universe and any connection to God. But even then they still had their physical manifsetations to keep them in an illusionary state of fullfilment.

If one remains true to the will of the Lord and remains within the basic overall scheme of the universe they will depart only from existance on the physical realm, but then in return gain access to the universal presense. They become part of soemthing greater than themselves, but are so fulfilled with this existance, they cannot feel dissatisfaction. I do not know if one retains one's identity in this ascension but I do believe that when one manages to follow God's will, he is rewarded with an everlasting peace in his soul, something that again, cannot be described with our limited experiances and this limited language.

And now for some point specific things that I would like to address somewhat vaugley:

The meaning of life cannot be known, because it is what God's will for us. We make the decisions but the decisions are going to always lead into a branch of reality that exists. We cannot conciously make a decision to not exist anywhere at all, therefore, we experiance life as it is presented.

The reason people suffer is unkown, yet understandable. Every choice people make puts them in places that will allow for them to suffer. But you may say that in Germany, they didn't want to be tortured, but the decision was by those loving national socialist starfishs to do it, so the choice was made. Natual disasters happen because that physically is what happens. A volcano erupts because physically a pocket of magma punched its way through the surface, a hurricane strikes because physically the high temperatures created a small cloud system that was further perpetuated by warm moist air and the atlantic currents to make a large storm. True on the most highest level, this is all designed to happen in the exact manner, but the reason for everything is not comprehendable by mankind.

And God does love us. But the word love is so vauge nowadays it could mean anything from brotherhood to lust. This love that the Lord has is more of a desire for coexistance, a gravitation toward unity. Much like how the poles of a magnet attract, there is a pull that the spiritual universe has on human souls to attempt to create a unity. The soul is meant to return to the universe and thus there is a force present to make it do such, and that force could easily be described as love.


I would like to point out that it is now six hours past the time I usually go to sleep so I am going to be understandably tired. My grammar probably isn't at its best but I do think this is mostly readable.
Again this is not meant as an attack on anyone, I just feel like I should speak out and state what I believe and what my opinion is on how the universe exists.


TL;DR - forget off.

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Off Topic / you know when like your computer starts like going really fast

« on: May 23, 2009, 01:07:34 AM »

Or like, ya know, the fan turns on high speed and its making a loud humming and you can hear your computer parts like going fizz fizz or whirring or stuff? Like I feel like my brain is doing that right now...
as I am too lazy to say everything again I will copy paste this

I am so tripping out right now
i dont know what the hell I am thinking
or why I am... which is even moer confusing because I am tyring to figure out why I am thinking what I am thinking without knowing what it is that I am actually thinking at all... weird...
But yeah
I have been.... acting different recently
I dunno why
Like today after school I went to the 7/11 to get a mountain dew for the caffine cause I haven't had caffine all week and wanted to treat myself but for some reason I just couldn't do it and got a slushie and a sparkling lemonade instead.
And like so many temptations and issues have presented themselves that I would in the past exploit but now I couldn't see myself doing it.... I have actually been acting slightly more moralistic than usual, but in a different way as well... I dunno...
I have no explanation
I dont even know what I am atrying to say right now besides that I feel like I am going crazy
oh yeah... only two school days remaining...
what the forget?

Ya know?
No, you don't... but whatever
Ok goodnight?