4,393 Forum Posts by "DroopyA"
At 3/30/05 01:15 PM, Hoohah wrote: I know what the real PETA is, but what does it stand for?
Unfortunatly, the PETA headquarters is located in my home town (refered to as the Tidewater area). Around here, PETA stands for:
People
Embarrassing
Tidewater
Again
At 3/30/05 08:16 AM, LinkinDude14 wrote: That isn't even funny. She will die very soon because they are cutting her feeding tube. You think being handicapped is funny eh? The people on NG who act like fucking assholes.
haha, LinkinDude
Worst Screen Name in the History of Man kind. And why 14? Are there 13 other LinkinDude's on this site? And if their are, are you such an uncreative fuck that you have to reuse the same screen name as 13 other losers? I hate you.
Anyway, welcome to NG dipshit. If you don't think pointless violence and the misfortune of others is funny, leave. Around here, the more fucked up something is, the more we laugh.
Looks good. I can only think of a few things to change and their so minor I'm only mentioning them so that my post here has value.
1. When you create an account, you might want to pop up a message box saying that the account was created successfully or something. It seemed weird that when I clicked OK I was immediatly brought back to the main screen without any sort of confirmation.
2. After I log in, on the welcome screen, you display my information in Text Boxes. Although I'm not allowed to edit them. That's fine, but you could also display this info in labels and change the "BorderStyle" property to 1. This will make the label look like a text box, but you won't be able to place your mouse cursor inside giving the impression that you might be able to change it.
3. I saw that somebody complained about the colors on the forms. Personally I like a little color but then again I'm forced to stare at gray 9 hours a day. You might want to add a common control dialog that allows the end user to change the color to fit their personal tastes.
4. Have you played with MDI forms yet? If you wanted, you could make this program an MDI and allow the user to view both their level up days and B/P days at the same time.
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Like I said... none of that is important. In fact it's so minor I had to dig for something to mention. None of those break or effect the program in any way, just things to play with if you get bored. Besides me being picky, it looks great. :)
To all you jackasses that keep saying "This isn't your first post"....
Oh, and I love Banannananananananana phone
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At 3/29/05 02:28 PM, da_pope wrote: I can't tell if thats sarcasim or not... :/
But if it's not thats so Hardcore.
Nah, I was just joking. But it would be pretty funny. That is, until a riot broke out after everybody demanded their money back. :(
At 3/29/05 02:20 PM, xxxx_ShAdOw_xxxx wrote: A. snoop dogg or dr.dre
Depends, what year? I prefer Doggystyle of the Chronic, but I don't like any of Snoops CDs since.
B. Nas or Jay-z
Jay-Z
C. lloyd banks or youngbuck
Loyd Banks
D. Nas or Tupac
Tupac (I like Tupac better then Biggy Too)
E. 50 cent or ja rule
50 Cent. Ja Rule turned out to be a little bitch. Which sucks because Vinni Vetti Vecci was a really good album
F. Eminem or Ja Rule
Eminem hands down.
At 3/29/05 02:15 AM, da_pope wrote: I do relize that they probably say that to every audience but ya... Still.
Nah, I saw them in Virginia and they told us that we're "peices of shit" and prayed for our death. They then gave us the finger and walked off stage.
it totally ruled.
At 3/29/05 12:15 PM, Hoohah wrote: Yes it is, Wrong, Yes there is, It is, It is
Wow, great arguments. Way to discuss. You completely changed my opionon and made me think twice. "Wrong"... what a mind altering statement. You, my friend, are a genius. ::rollseyes:: Seriously, if you don't have anything of value to say, just don't say anything. Save NG the bandwidth, this post the extra space, and everybodies time reading one word statements that mean nothing by simply not typing them. Thank you.
There are secret areas.. lots and the environment is pretty random..
Not really. 90% of the map in the Windwaker was water which was nothing more then waisted space. On top of that, there was always one small island in every space. That's not random. It's predictible and boring. And if it's not water, it's empty fields.
There are a lot of moves. There are even a few unlockable moves.
Really? Like what? You hold down the L button to lock on to an enemy and then hit the A button to attack. I wouldn't call one attack "A lot". And how did you unlock moves? I don't remember a character menu that allowed me to purchase or upgrade my characters moves or strength. You can't really consider getting the master sword and (by default) gaining the ability to spin attack if you hold down A unlockable can you?
Wrong again, e.g. in Wind Waker the boat turned out to be the king of Hyrule
That's not a plot twist. It just explained why the boat could talk. A plot twist would be more like in MGS2 when you find out that *SPOILERS* you're all puppets in the hand of a shadow government who's playing you like pawns in a game of chess in order for them to shape the world as they want it. Your whole mission is a fraud, your girfriend is fucking you because she works for said shadow government and your captin is a robot. That's unpredictible and completly changes the focus of the game. Up to that point, you thought you where just out to stop metal gear again.
Each game has lots of changes
Such as? Let me guess, instead of a horse you get a boat. Instead of changing night to day, you change the wind direction. Instead of an ocarenia you get a "wind waker". Instead of fighting Gannon, you fight Gannondorf. Instead of the white sword it's now the "Master Sword". Instead of a fairy you talk to a guy in a fairy suit. Instead of the "Lava Temple" it's the "Fire Temple". etc...
Bigoron sword, ice arrows..
That's really not what I ment... I was thinking more along the lines of say, the hidden packages in GTA or playing the game a few times to save diffrent characters to start your game a second time with special items like in Metal Gear Solid. (Saving Otocon ment starting with a stealth suit where as saving somebody else ment having more rations or special boxes). These things give you something to play for after the inital story. I played MGS 3 or 4 times because I wanted to see all the endings and see what each person gave me. I'm not going to replay Zelda because I didn't find my Ice Arrows. Ice Arrows aren't fun... Stealth Suits, and finding all packages to get unlimited ammo is.
You probably like Halo, but Halo doesn't have any special characters
Actually I don't like Halo. But I would rather play Halo over Zelda due simply to the fact that Halo has replay value in the form of multi-player action.
Cheats? They usually ruin games! If you're really desperate, get a gameshark or something.
I didn't say cheats to win, I said cheats that make playing "POINTLESSLY FUN". Like unlimited ammo or big head mode. 007 for the N64 was fun, but it was even more fun once you realized that after you beat it you had the option to run around the level invisible setting up booby traps with your unlimited supply of remote mines.
they never throw in any plot twist or user definable features either.You mention GTA but GTA doesn't have that.
Are you kidding me? GTA doesn't have any user definable features? You don't have the ability to be the bad guy? There aren't any plot twists? Have you ever played a GTA game? Besides, what diffrence does it make? We're not talking about GTA, we're talking about Zelda.
You can always still beat the game, whatever you do.
The point in question isn't weather you can beat the game or not, it's that the "maze-like" dungeons arn't a maze because there is only one way you can go. Lots of games give you free will to do what you want while still insuraing that you can always beat the game no matter what you do. In fact, I can't think of any one game that you can't beat if you make a mistake.
What I'm getting at is the lack of creativity and challange. Why where the pushable blocks in lowered sections of the floor? Wouldn't the game have been more fun if you had to actually think where you needed to push what? Why do you always get the item you need in the palace you need it in? Why can't they hide my "steal boots" in palace 4 yet I need them in Palace 2. Thus forceing me to explore or travel back and forth between 2 or 3 palaces in order to acheive my goal?
I'm not saying they "HAVE" to do that, but it's an example. It's obvious that if I get an item I'm going to have to use it right away... the puzzle aspect is thus lost. And since I am required to have the item to get to the end, I don't even have to search for it as the path to the big chest is the only path I can take. It's not until after you have the prize can you take alternate routs. Thus the maze aspect is gone. No puzzels, no maze, and a terrible battle system... where does the fun of the game come in?
1. They only give a hint 2. That fairy was only in OoT
Flying over to a button on the wall and saying "HEY! Why don't you shoot this button with a fire arrow" is not a hint... it's the answer. And the fairy was replaced with Tingle in the Wind Waker who did pretty much the exact same thing. Except this time you had to pay $200 for a GBA, I'm not sure what's more annoying. Being robbed or being told the answer. And I'm pretty sure there was a song you could play in Majoras Mask that would spark a similar response from a spirit or some shit... I don't remember the details because that was by far the worst of the series.
Either way, you're missing the point. It's not about the characters as it is that they removed the thinking aspect from the game. Weather it be in the form of a farity or blocks that only move one way.
At 3/29/05 11:46 AM, CalumT wrote: Have fun!
Next week on Kitty Ball Z...
At 3/29/05 11:30 AM, People wrote: Stuff
I understand we all have opinions and regardless of how many times I say "fuck" I really don't want to start a flame war about it. But this shit just annoys me to no end. How can anybody be excited about a new anything Nintendo does these days; let alone a new Zelda game?
The gameplay isn't even that great. Compared to almost every other game on the market these days, Zelda is by far the worst. The environment is lacking as most of it is just dead space like vallies, hills or water leaving very little to explore. There is absolutly no customization with your character, and the battle system is by far the worst I've seen to date. You have one attack and one block... how exciting. What's worse though, is that Zelda isn't even interesting to play. The stories are always straight forward, no mystery or unforseen plot twists. And on top of that, the basic story line is as played out as a Dragon Ball Z episode. I just don't understand what there is to be excited about?
Zelda never comes with any new features either. There is almost no replay value as there really isn't anything worth finding. No "game B" at the end, no hidden secrets to unlock behind the scene movies or special characters, and no cheats that make playing pointless fun (IE GTA Style)... You play it, you beat it, End of story. And they never throw in any plot twist or user definable features either. Like the ability to be the bad guy or something.
I understand reusing some features of the game as it a series, but the diffrence between two Zelda games is barely even recognizable. A little more variety would be nice...
But what really bothers me is that Zelda could be such a great game. With the basis of the game revolving around maze-like dugeons, Zelda could be one of the best games on the market. But unfortunatly, Nintendo sets the average user ager around 10 and dummies down the entire game in order to not shut anybody out. Thus your left with impassible obsticles if you open the wrong door and blocks that can only be pushed in one direction. Instead of getting lost or finding yourself sitting in a room for hours trying to figure out how to open a door, you're left with remedial tasks and annoying faires that shout "HEY" right before they tell you what to do. It's a shame really, because I use to like Zelda.
At 3/29/05 10:39 AM, boyfrom85 wrote: i didn't wanna go and ask him, cuz he would have thought i was gay
Since when has asking a question made somebody gay? And here I thought people where gay because they enjoyed making love to members of the same sex... stupid me.
I hate Zelda. Same old boring shit over and over and over again. You wear a stupid green outfit, walk around the country trying to get 3 random items in order to get the White/Master Sword so you can travel to the dark world (Or have the world be pulled in to darkenss by an evil ruler) while you go through even more boring ass dungens like you've done in every other zelda game since the begining of time in order to get 7 more random items in order to fight a boss that has a name thats real similar to Gannon so you can bring the world back to light and save the day.
On top of that, the gameplay itself has even falled. The dungens arn't even hard anymore. Take the Windwaker for example... you could push blocks. But the blocks where in lowered sections of the floor so there was only one way to push them. That's not a puzzel... that's not even challanging. It's the only thing you could do... how is that a "game"? The palaces look confusing but their not because there is only one way you can go. If you open the wrong door, it's blocked by an obsticle you can't pass without going back and entering the right door. Weather it's to get some sort of special prize or to pull a lever. Fact is, there is only one path you can take... that's not even a maze.
It's uncreative too. How many times are we going to get the hookshot and the boomerang? Can't they come up with new items? It's pretty obvious when you see a treasure chest on a cliff that you can't reach that eventually you'll get the hookshot to help you reach it. You don't even have to think anymore as you already know because you've encountered that same situation in every Zelda game for the past 10 years.
And don't even get me started on the annoying "Tingle" bullshit. Go out of you way to save me so that I can annoy you every 10 minutes about how you should rush out and buy a $200 GBA!!!!
Fuck Zelda, and fuck Nintendo.
New Metallica is complete and utter shit. I can't believe anybody on the face of the planet would consider that garbage as "good"... but what can you expect frome somebody that calls themself "LinkinDude"?
Not bad. Now all you need to do is start dancing like a snake and get a herion addiction.
I hate Nintendo with a passion. I only hope that this "rumor" is true and that it blows up in Nintendo's face forceing them to exit the consol wars forever and just stick to hand held devices.
Not that it matters, who would want a new Nintendo anyway? We don't know anything about it and I already know the game line up for the next 3 years.
Mario
Metroid
StarFox
Zelda
Donkey Kong
How "Revolutionary". Fuck Nintendo.
At 3/26/05 01:36 PM, Love_Daddy wrote: OMG DroppyA, have you abandoned VB and started up Flash, lol.
Nah, I'm not giving up on VB... I just decided to play with something new for a change.
Anyway, You sid that thiers no sound, but things with no sound usually get blamed, so you'll probebly have to add sound. Then imagine you file size.
I know, I'm not so much worried about it getting blamed as this was more of a test for something better I have planed. But I've ran in to the issue that if I can't get my 54 second movie under 8 megs then there is no way I'll be able to make anything of value.
I refuse to give up though, There has to be a way to make this smaller. Maybe a diffrent way to import the images or something?
At 3/26/05 02:05 AM, food1 wrote: Well, what exactly is the flash you speak of? Is it like a slide shopw or an actual animation?
It's not a slideshow, it's stop motion animation.
At 3/26/05 02:58 AM, Astropuff wrote: If you modify-> Bitmap -> TraceBitmap all the images, the file size will go down a lot. However you will lose some quality.
I guess I don't mind doing that, but then the fun of the stop mothion animation will be gone because everything will look drawn.
It may be an option though. But remember, I have at least 170 pictures here and I would like to use more. Will TraceBitmap really reduce the file size that much?
Surely there has to be a way to do this right? I mean, people make these types of movies all the time... How does somebody like Knox get his file size so low?
I have this stop animation movie that has about 170 pictures. If I put this in flash it makes the swf fucking huge (like 8 megs I think). What can I do to reduce this size?
I searched but all I could find was people saying "check compress in publish settings". I already tried that. And there is no sound. I also tried chaning the "Jpeg quality" on the flash tab... but it didn't seem to make any diffrence at all. Even when I set it to zero. Am I missing something there?
What else can I do?
Is the website blessed, or just the computer you blessed the website while using?
Am I blessed too?
Do my posts go to heaven now?
Do they make horse socks?
Is anybody still listening to me?
The microwave is the greatest invention ever. I would starve to death without it.
Yeah... because everybody that submits a violent flash film to newgrounds is going to go out and kill somebody. If that was the case, 98% of us would be in jail for murder right now.
Like ChronoMan said, the Split function will split up a string based on the critera you pass it. Split returns an array though so you'll have to call it like:
Dim MyArray() As String
MyArray = Split(strFileText, ",")
You could also change your write and read functions to save this file like an ini file. But that would depend on the code and how often you read, and what you read from the file. Chances are, it's faster to just put the message into your memory and look at it that way...
I started with QBasic and then learned Visual Basic. From their I moved up to Java, and C++.
I don't do web programming so I know nothing of Image Ready. However, the [Center> tag in HTML should center not only text, but images as well.
At 3/24/05 01:27 PM, chellow wrote:At 3/24/05 10:21 AM, DroopyA wrote: You'll probably have better luck with this in the programming forum.Um... this is the programming forum.
where did you think you was and why did you think there was so much about programming in it?
1. Nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes as it's all part of being human.
2. I pointed out my own mistake seconds after making it. Hence the second reply in this topic... Read everything before you reply.
At 3/24/05 01:32 PM, FrostyBear wrote: ... this well known figure !
The pope on his day off is really "Captain Planet".
"The power is yours", he says, "But keep your filthy mits off my mullet"
Yeah, this sucks. I read this yesterday on CNN...
I almost always remember my dreams. Not completely, but I usually wake up knowing that I was dreaming just a few seconds ago. They're usually nothing great, but when I do have a weird one, I usually remember it.
Like the one where I'm in the world built and controled by robots that hover. For some reason there where trenches everywhere and I had to crawl around to avoide the machines. But the trenches and the ground was made of metal and they weren't very deep. If I sat up, my entire upper body was above the trench... they where just big enough to lie down in. But I had a big gun, that was cool.
Or the one where one friend called me in tears because she couldn't find my other friend. Turns out he was hiding behind my dresser because aliens came in the middle of the night and stole his legs. All he could say was "Dude, you don't even know..." while he walked around using his hands to hold his torso up but somehow I interprited that as "I was abducted by aliens and they took my legs, but it was cool".
I'll stop talking now.
That's my gun you stole you cum guzzling fuck tard.... just wait until I see you again.
2:00, by the monkey bars... IT'S ON!!!
