At 11/21/09 05:56 AM, henke37 wrote: If you don't even know how to make a string to begin with, you shouldn't even be thinking about making a game. First learn how to program, then write the game, not the other way around.

I learned Flash in a non-linear way; one of my platform engines actually made an award. Besides, why patronize me for asking for help? Wouldn't it be more prudent to be helpful rather than just put me down? How am I going to make a game if I can't learn anything?

You've tried converting it, too? Dang. Usually I convert it to a different format in Audacity and try importing it again, but if that doesn't work for you...

Oh, but what do you mean converting it? Does it somehow overwrite and represent the old file, or are you re-exporting it as a different file?

At 11/21/09 05:56 PM, DarkSytze wrote: the topic speaks for itself.

for me, it would be a list consisting of:

die hard
rambo
the matrix
last samurai
the bourne identity
scarface
the shawshank redemption
the lord of the rings movies
se7en
back to the future
the exorcist
schindler's list

yeah..

The only one of those I have seen is The Matrix. Also, I haven't seen The Dark Knight.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Didn't you take pics of you not taking pics?!

What if you used the money to donate to charity and save more than one life? As long as you saved one life for each you're probably at a profit, and nobody loses.

Bump. Help.

I use Flare for ActionScript and SoThink for the content. It makes it hard to remember where all the script went and all that, but both are free (unless you pay for SoThink, by which time you won't need Flare).

I don't even know how to make a string! That's what I've been trying to ask!

I don't get why people say such crap... "Oh don't have anal sex, that's how you get AIDs", or "Circumcision reduces the chance of getting STDs".

Shut up. Just shut up. Some things may increase your chances of getting STDs, but having unprotected sex is generally not a good idea under any circumstances, especially in anything other than a long-term relationship. Sure, anal sex and being uncircumcised may make the gamble a bit more dangerous, but do you really want to take that gamble at all? Just put on a condom! Christ...

At 11/16/09 02:45 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: Your own damn fault if you choose to despair over such a wondrous gift.

Blah blah blah... You know, the average person isn't happy today. In fact, the average citizen has never been happy. You can call me a pessimist (which I am), but I can guarantee you the vast majority of people are unhappy with their lives. When we start from a standard at which people (generally) aren't happy, and things can't change, then the majority of people will always be miserable.

How do I do any of that stuff? I need to make a game that uses save features without sharedObjects, so I'm supposed to convert my variables into a string... But I have no clue how to! Worse, I have no idea how to get Flash to interpret and decode an existing code into save data again!! Help!

Here's the starting variables:

health=100; maxhealth=100; money=100; time=0; day=1; intelligence=0; strength=0;
charm=0; experience=0; level=1; expneeded=250; moveSpeed=1;

Hacking isn't my main concern, because there's no leaderboard or anything. All I need is a way for people to save their progress through use of a code.

Also, if possible, I really need something that will make the code relatively short... However, this is a lower priority.

At 11/17/09 05:10 PM, SpiffyMasta wrote: If you're using the classic view, they made it so the medals don't show up anymore.

Don't they have more options than classical and new?!

>:( I guess I gotta switch to the new one now.

Can someone tell me why the medals don't display on the page with the game on it anymore? I've searched the last few pages, and can't find anyone asking.

And I have to save it every 15 seconds to keep the files from being lost... All of a sudden it'll just freeze, say it's not responding, and close. Weirdest thing is even if it's the only application running and I'm not even doing anything (let's say I just opened it and then I get a phone call), it will still crash!! It just spontaneously freezes for no reason, and the only explanation that seems anywhere near feasible is that perhaps the program doesn't connect with the CPU so it thinks it's not responding when it actually is... But I still have no idea, even if I can hypothesize.

Think about how impossible "making progress" is in mankind... It doesn't matter that we've gone from clubs to swords to guns to bombs, or that we now have hundreds of styles of music and art. It doesn't matter whether we have to fight an animal with a spear every day or go to the supermarket; we're still miserable.

Mankind's progression should be more about appreciation, happiness, and satisfaction than technological advances that won't do anything for us as individuals.

Then think about people who have tried to do just that; Jesus, Ghandi, Buddha; people who have had extremely developed ideals and the will to help others. Then look at how far they've gotten us. Jesus came 2000 years ago and proposed some great ideas. He was crucified, but some people acknowledged his teachings.

However, look at what happens over time; someone brilliant bails us out or comes up with a great idea, we begin to understand the value of those ideas even after the person is invariably assassinated (looking good so far), and then each generation the memories of the ideals become slightly skewed, and by the time a thousand years have passed, people have misconstrued and misinterpreted everything someone has said... If they even remember them at all.

It goes to show that nothing is permanent, and even if I stood up in front of a podium, and even if people wanted to hear the deranged opinion of a 15 year old dropout, and even if they acknowledge and acted upon judgments based on my ideals, it wouldn't do jack because in another few years it won't make a difference.

Stupid test. If you hit the spacebar wrongly once you get like a dozen wrong consecutively.

I think I already had a thread covering this.
Number of people you sleep with/(STDs you get + 1)

That would be funny if it weren't so sexist. Actually, scratch that... It's still funny.

I heard one about someone "getting their throat slit like a Pez dispenser," and another one about how "her hair glistened like nose hairs after a sneeze."

Censorship is stupid. It's like saying you can watch people get their wrists nailed as long as it's religious, or you can't say a word because society thinks we need a way for people to think they can fully express themselves through words, or that sex is somehow wrong and immoral.

At 11/12/09 08:18 PM, Digital-Terror wrote: XKCD can explain my reasoning: http://xkcd.com/659/

You only exist as an arrangement of atoms, you are not the atoms you are made of. If you consider the arrangement that made up the two cells to have been the arrangement that ultimately made you, then you were in two places at once...

Already done, we've BEEN talking about how we define ourselves. At least I have. Yes, note that I said "if you're thinking that way...", when in actuality, there isn't a universal medium by which we define ourselves.

Had to.

At 11/12/09 01:10 PM, Mechabloby wrote: 3625435899879009-0-==-=-=--

Had tons of thoughts like that after watching The Matrix.

As per Waking Life, I'll see if I can rent that.

And IAteAMexican, that's just... Not very vexing. Sorry.

I guess a good lifespan would be about 20. We wouldn't have to wait as long, and instead of 20 years of preparation before 'living' our lives, we'd forget the whole technological advances thing and enjoy what we have.

Supposedly Final Fantasy Tactics sold for $100 when it first came out, there being only several dozen in existence. But as of now, nothing that rare. Although I do have an old Rock Raiders LEGO game from 2000 and Harry Potter LEGO creator from the same year.

At 11/11/09 10:16 PM, Adio wrote: You're in a room. It's impossible to cross this room. In fact, this could be the very room you're in now.

Well we are bound to numerology. This isn't the case in other dimensions, but in our dimension, we are. Simple as that.

InsertFunnyUsernameHere, the fourth dimension still doesn't have a name. It's based off of time, but the name duration doesn't make sense. I think of any supernatural or ghost activity as being the astrological plane, aka. the fourth dimensions, in which the entities within are in either a time or place, but not both. If you see a ghost that represents someone who's already died, they're in a place and not a time, and when a ghost tosses around chairs and crap, they're in a time but not a place. However, considering the harmony of our world and perceiving that our first three dimensions are numeric, it doesn't make sense that the fourth dimension wouldn't be. While it could be time itself, you also have to understand that assuming the video is correct, the dimensions are somehow linked or connected, which means that we must be able to see the adjoining dimensions to some degree, those being (maybe) the shadows on the 2D surface area of an object, or supernatural occurrences.

At 11/11/09 10:19 PM, Digital-Terror wrote: How far back can you consider yourself as existing? As a sperm cell? Or, did you begin to exist when the sperm fertilized the egg?

We can't define ourselves as our bodies, our will, our lives, our values, or even our consciousness. But if you're thinking the way you are, then we're infinitely old. If a sperm is made out of a number of elements, those elements of matter were digested and processed by the father, which came from food that was processed by an animal or plant, which was processed by another plant or some form of soil, which was processed by photosynthesis. Matter can't be destroyed, and considering the fact that sperm is made of elements just like we are, my bodily composition has a 0.0001% chance of still containing the same particle of element as I contained when "I" was just a sperm cell.

Sorry for double post, replies were posted while I was typing. BRAINZ.

At 11/11/09 09:59 PM, zooos wrote: The thought that all people are kind of like organic advanced computer with the means of seeking/producing there own energy.

Figured that by 3rd grade.

At 11/11/09 10:08 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: If we jumped to an alternate time line and affected that line in a way that would inevitably cause that time line to have the same future as the previous one (through two different series of events that have the same inevitable outcome), what would happen? These two time lines would converge at the same point. Would there be two pasts?

Stupidity... You're still thinking of time in a linear way, and thinking of every aspect of every dimension being bound by numerology. As a matter of fact, time is actually going backwards. Since time symbolizes change, and negativity also represents change, we can conclude that time is negative, which means we perceive time backwards to conceive it forwards. But I digress. The higher dimensions are fascinating, but the person who made the video obviously isn't thinking in a very open way.

The video doesn't explain what the dimensions are beyond length, width, depth, and duration, nor does it explain dimensions 5, 6, or 8. It also fails to explain how the universes in the 9th dimensions connect and interact with each other. Not only is it unclear, but it's pretty elementary.

Alright, forum. I haven't posted an overly philosophical thread in a while, mostly because most of my thoughts have been in the field of sociology and don't really have too much discussion value.

I want you to tell me a hypothetical story, link me to something, or recommend a movie that will bust my head open. Bonus points if it's an intelligent psychological horror film or story.

GOGOGO!!

Steal it, then report you stole it to your teacher.

Have you and the girl read a Steven Hawking novel together, then discuss the theory of relativity while having intercourse.

Taste or eyesight. Taste would give desserts an orgasm-like experience, while super-sight would take care of my short-sightedness, but might not necessarily make me feel more pleasure. I'd flip a coin on it.