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Off Topic / Re: UK Election 2017 - ELECTION NIGHT

« on: June 08, 2017, 05:28:15 PM »

all the major parties have ruled out coalitions except tories

Yeah, at the moment there is no visible coalition at all. Everyone has said they won't form one pretty much, so we're almost for sure heading directly for a hung parliament and whatever that may hold for an outcome.

also the gains in Sunderland are bigger for tories than labour

I mean that really has no impact in the result; they've won the seat which is a pretty black and white situation.

completely off topic but why does the uk have completely forgeted city names

What you on about boi?

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Off Topic / Re: UK Election 2017 - VOTING DAY

« on: June 08, 2017, 05:08:44 PM »

First 2 seat result in
Newcastle Upon Tyne Central:Labour
Sunderland: Labour

if you had someone fun like Boris Johnson this wouldn't have happened

Boris Johnson is not popular in the slightest since the last referendum. It would have most likely been a similar outcome.

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Off Topic / Re: UK Election 2017 - VOTING DAY

« on: June 08, 2017, 04:32:43 PM »

Just to explain to any Americans who don't know how the system works here, there are 650 seats across the UK. Each constituency votes for an MP to represent them, who then takes one of those seats.
Whichever party holds a MAJORITY of seats can then formally request the monarch to form a government.
If no majority is met, then there will either be a recount, re-vote, or a coalition government will be formed between parties who can form a majority together.

We should see some of the first results come in the next 10-20 minutes from Sunderland or Newcastle, so stay tuned!

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Off Topic / Re: UK Election 2017 - Snap election

« on: June 08, 2017, 11:26:07 AM »

Just about to head off to the polls myself.

Will probs try and do some live coverage post stuff of it all tonight, depending on how long I'll stay alive.
Gotta get up for work the tomorrow at 6:30 am so do need some sleep.

Any other Brits gone to vote yet?

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Off Topic / UK Election 2017 - ELECTION NIGHT

« on: June 03, 2017, 09:14:40 PM »

Once again the political sphere in the UK is reaching a boiling point.
Earlier in the year on April 18^th 2017, a snap election was called by the current conservative government that will fall on June 8^th 2017. This thread is a place for debate and discussion about the UK political system and news surrounding the election process.

I'll try to keep this as updated as I can, and will put resources at the bottom for people who are interested in finding out more.

Underneath are the top priorities of some of the key parties. Click on the banner underneath to be taken to the BBC website to see more.

	Deliver a smooth and orderly departure from the EU Increase NHS budget in England by £8bn a year by 2022/23 An extra £4bn on schools in England by 2022 Restating commitment to bring net migration down to tens of thousands Balance budget by 2025 Replacement of triple-lock pension pledge after 2020 with double lock		Bring an end to austerity and invest heavily in public services Negotiate a Brexit deal that "puts the economy and living standards first" Nationalise a number of utilities including rail, post, water and the National Grid Increase taxation on business and the highest paid Invest in the British economy through a £250bn stimulus package Abolish tuition fees for university students in England
	End austerity and release £120bn for UK-wide public spending over next parliament Hold a second independence referendum “at the end of the Brexit process” Protect Scotland’s place in the EU single market Raise the minimum wage to more than £10 per hour by 2021/22 Call on the new UK government to increase health spending per head of population in England to the current Scottish level, which is 7% higher Support an increase across the UK in the Additional Rate of income tax - for those earning more than £150,000 - from 45p to 50p		Hold a referendum on the final Brexit deal, with the option to remain in the EU Add 1p to income tax to fund the NHS and social care Rule out coalitions with the Conservatives or Labour – but want to make the Liberal Democrats the official opposition Increase spending on early years, schools and colleges in England Reverse some benefits cuts
	Hold a referendum on the terms of the Brexit deal, with the option of staying in the EU Pass an Environment Protection Act to safeguard and restore the environment Provide more money for public services Move towards a four-day working week and "universal basic income" Scrap tuition fees and fund full student grants		Complete the Brexit process by 2019, without paying money to the EU Restore "complete control" of UK's maritime exclusive economic zone Cut net migration levels to zero within five years by almost halving immigration into the UK Unskilled and low-skilled labour banned for five years, and skilled workers and students would need visas Slash the foreign aid budget and spend it on domestic priorities like the NHS Ban Sharia courts and the wearing of face coverings in public places

For some more details, you can visit the BBC's Election 2017 page to keep up with news surrounding it.

And if you're unaware of how the UK's political system works or are completely unaware of why all of this happening, you can visit a fantastic Youtube channel, ArguingFromIgnorance. He does unbiased breakdown videos on several topics, but more specifically he has a series currently going all about the election itself.

UK Election 2017 — Part 1 — Why Is There Another Election?

Election 2017 — Part 2 — Where Do The Parties Stand On Brexit?

Election 2017 — Part 3 — Where Do The Parties Stand On The NHS

Will maybe add a news section at some point and a couple other bits, but thought it would be good to get the thread out there so a sphere of discussion can begin! If you have any suggestions of things to add please feel free to mention it in a reply and I'll see what I can do.

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General Discussion / Re: Copy and Paste Event Lines *urgent*

« on: June 02, 2017, 07:39:59 AM »

https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=305614.0

It has a few other things in there too. The most recent version works now. Bit clunky, but it works

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Add-Ons / Re: Make Eventing Great Again (An actual update!)

« on: April 30, 2017, 12:21:12 PM »

Broken all of my opened events and broke the GUI.

Care to elaborate?
Like what other GUI modifying add-ons you might have?

Also a question, what does "opened events" mean? Do you mean pre-existing events you've already written and are now opening/editing with MEGA installed?

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General Discussion / Re: Anyone interested in learning how to make addons?

« on: April 05, 2017, 11:53:02 PM »

GUIs...?

edit: o wait just read the very bottom, nvm

note that i left out guis and vehicle exporting. im not entirely sure how to do either of them, and would greatly appreciate help by people who know the ins and outs of them.

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General Discussion / Re: STAIRCASE TO HEAVEN 2

« on: March 27, 2017, 09:34:53 AM »

It helps out with server administration and as you can see, gives people the ability to talk to the server.
I've added a command /toggleDiscord, but shouldn't be necessary to use as long as people don't spam the chat like Tampada did.

If I see any people spamming the discord chat, I'll just end up blocking them from using the room. Also I've tweaked the bots permissions so it can't @everyone anymore.

If people really don't want to listen to it, it isn't going away any time soon. So for now just right click on the channel and click mute. That way you shouldn't get any notifications or blips for new posts.

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Add-Ons / Re: Make Eventing Great Again

« on: February 23, 2017, 06:46:13 PM »

MEGA is disrupting all sorts of events on my server. The default pong build no longer works with the mod enabled, as well as cancelevents, toggleeventenabled, and seteventsenabled.

Are you guys tampering with default events or what?

If you type /toggleeventpackage and set it to off then everything should work fine. It'll go back to using the default system, but you won't be able to utilise the input parameters part of the addon. Everything cosmetic like colouring, indentation, copy-pasting etc will still work though! :)

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Clan Discussion / Re: [BL10] Blockland's 10th Anniversary Revival Project - SERVER IS UP!

« on: February 17, 2017, 07:35:02 PM »

If you arent full, could I join and try to make an eventing tutorial mode? Also you should host a server with booths a bit like Spadea arcade and New years server.

*cough*spades arcade is in progress rn*cough**cough*

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Add-Ons / Re: Make Eventing Great Again

« on: January 09, 2017, 12:01:31 PM »

Unfortunately there's currently an issue with the input parameters/server part of the pack.
To fix that issue, just type /toggleeventspackage and then triggering the brick after that will work fine! You won't be able to use the input parameter part of the add on though, so will have to go about projectile checks the old fashioned way.
In regards to the "None" changing to blank, once you've toggled events package then it'll only be a visual thing and have 0 impact.

In the next update I think Dren plans to have it toggled off by default until there's a fix c:

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General Discussion / Re: New Years 2017

« on: December 23, 2016, 06:44:04 PM »

the british are coming

B) you know it

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Off Topic / Re: What did you get others for Christmas?

« on: December 22, 2016, 03:28:59 PM »

Dad

• 1:1 Replica of the Ashes container

Too bad you don't have the original B)

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Add-Ons / Re: Make Eventing Great Again

« on: December 21, 2016, 09:49:49 PM »

IIRC it also enabled all the disabled events when it had indentation and such

???



Tried it with several different events, force-plant, duping a group of bricks; all yield the same expected normal result