Learn AS3.

It's stricter which makes it harder to learn if you're used to as2 but is MUCH MUCH nicer in the long run.

AS2 promotes bad coding practice by allowing it. Stuff like not declaring the type of a variable

var A = 1 //makes A a number
A = textbox.text // read in the number "4" from a text box
A += 1 //increment A by 1
trace(A) //outputs 41, wtf??? cause reading it in from a textbox converted it to a string

So just learn AS3, you'll save yourself a ton of time tracking down "bad code" bugs when the language specifically disallows much of it.

Also it's about 100x faster (not graphics that's not code... keep that in mind)

At 11/9/09 02:30 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Let's just remember that Death Worm was made in game maker.

and Spelunky

made it 6 days without drinking coffee... crappiest week ever I can't live like this.

*makes coffee*

bring back from the dead the "Can we still be friends?" thread.

That neck was way huger than the recent fad

At 11/5/09 01:57 AM, fluffkomix wrote: i can't make heads or tails of it. i've never heard of any of these functions (RoR, RoL, XoR, Rsh, Not, And, Or, Mod, Lsh)

my guesses
RoR = Rotate Right
01001110 -> 00100111 -> 10010011

RoL = rotate left (reverse of above)
01001110 -> 10011100 -> 00111001

XOR = exclusive or:

0 XOR 0 = 0
0 XOR 1 = 1
1 XOR 0 = 1
1 XOR 1 = 0

Rsh = Right Shift
01001110 -> 00100111 -> 00010011

Lsh = Left Shift
01001110 -> 10011100 -> 00111000

NOT = inverse
0 -> 1
1 -> 0
01001110 -> 10110001

AND = and
1 AND 1 = 1
0 AND 1 = 0
1 AND 0 = 0
0 AND 0 = 0

OR = or
1 OR 1 = 1
1 OR 0 = 1
0 OR 1 = 1
0 OR 0 = 0

MOD = modulus (remainder)
31 MOD 10 = 1 (31/10 = 3 remainder 1)
8 MOD 3 = 2 (8/3 = 2 remainder 2)

For those on a mac:

Applications/Utilities/Grapher.app

one of the coolest hidden gems in the computer if you like math

it can graph like... anything!

Feta Cheese goes good on/in:

Salad
Sandwiches (turkey + lettuce + tomato + hummus + feta + olives in a pita)
Pizza Sometimes (Spinach + Garlic + Feta + Olive)
Spinach Pie (Spanikopita)

It's a really strong cheese so I rarely eat it alone but it goes good on a ton of Mediterranean and greek foods.

At 11/2/09 12:30 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: I'm really buzzed from two cups of coffee this mornin'.

I don't understand animating on caffine guys - it's too fast, too rushed, they say the coffee helps and makes ya more creative but I can't be creative when the thought I'm thinking about is a few sentences ahead of me.

On the other hand its Hilarius because it makes animating so intense. Though I like drawing when my hand stays still and find a lot more control z-ing happens on coffee.

Caffeine doesn't make you more creative, it makes you more focused.
So it helps to have a plan ahead of time.

At least, it's been GOD for me getting my work done. You don't code 6000 lines in a week on sweat and tears alone (that was one crazy week back in april that I don't think I'll ever be able to replicate).

Also I think I'm over my withdrawal. I'll wait another week or so before starting up again.

At 11/1/09 07:23 AM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Oh god, it's awful! I quit a while back, had the same thing. Headaches, no energy, couldn't think straight. It goes away after a week or so, hang in there Glaiel!

Having said that, I've been riding the bull again this weekend. Got to try not to get addicted again...

Tom-

Ya like, i've "quit" quite a few times in the past. I usually try to take a break once the caffeine stops having an effect on me (takes about a month) but I always need a few days of free time to do so.

Unfortunately these last 4 months have just been deadline after deadline so I never had the time to quit.

day 2: still extremely tired, headache not as bad (but we'll see by the evening)

drank 4-5 cups of coffee every day since like july...

there were always deadlines (pax, indiecade, igf deadline all one month apart).

(temporarily) quit cold turkey this weekend

can barely move, headache killing me

hungry but too tired to go get food

agggg

design documents are pointless for designing small scale games and only really have a use when it comes to organizing large teams.

Plus your attitude is a bit questionable

I never saw that screensaver, is there any video of it?

i was a mac user my entire life

I have a sudden urge to dress up with a green robin mask and cape for haloween

Nailing this message onto the town bulletin board marked "Newgrounds General"

1. Your body rots in the ground
2. Your brain rots in the ground

3. WTF happens to your conscious?

Seeing as it's hard to define "life" in the first place I don't even want to try defining "consciousness". I know I have one, you don't know for sure that I have one and I don't know for sure that you have one.

I don't believe any of the religions have it right.
I don't believe any of them will ever have it right.
I don't believe science will ever explain a consciousness.
I believe science can explain nearly everything else.

When I fall asleep it's sorta like my conscious skips ahead in time. It's impossible to imagine what would happen when you fall asleep for good (die). It seems fairly obvious to me that my conscious is attached to my physical brain. So when that goes away what does the conscious do? One possibility is that it detaches itself from the body and finds a new physical object to attach to. A new baby, an alien on a distant planet, a computer, a robot. Sounds a bit like reincarnation. Although it's entirely possible there's a separate realm of existence for consciousnesses. Who knows it's pointless to think about while we're here.

Atheism falls apart when you try to figure out what a conscious is.
Religion falls apart when it tries to explain anything with certainty.

Therefore, I consider myself unaffiliated. I don't know if there's a higher being or not. I don't know how to explain a consciousness. I don't care, I'm enjoying my time here on Earth so why bother thinking about what happens after death?

The flaw in any organized school of thought is that it states its beliefs as fact. You can't prove anything so both extremes (atheist, religious) are WRONG. Well I can't say that for sure, they COULD be right, after all.

But I don't care. The universe is a wonderful place, enjoy it while you're here.

std::string buffer
streamin >> buffer;

will extract one word from the stream and place it into buffer, (words being delimited by whitespace)

std::string buffer
while(!streamin.eof()){
streamin >> buffer;
doStuffWith(buffer);
}

At 10/28/09 07:32 AM, CronoMan wrote:

At 10/27/09 10:59 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: why are you casting the string (a char* ) to a long?

Because SendMessage takes two long parameters, wParam and lParam

Try using a unicode string (wchar_t, and std:wstring)

still doesnt make sense to me that you're casting a pointer type (char*) to an integer type (long)

Hey I heard about this newfangled forum, the Video Game Forum

igf deadline is nov 1... i just finished uploading closure

finally time for sleep

i hope

good thing Obama's not censoring the news then, he's just ignoring them.

why are you casting the string (a char* ) to a long?

I'm 6'5''

deal with it and quit being jealous since it's not that fun being tall

At 10/27/09 02:48 AM, Sensationalism wrote: What's it for? People not secure with their masculinity??

this

At 10/26/09 06:56 PM, turtleco wrote: has anyone ever seen this before? this is the first time I have ever seen this on newgrounds.

http://warpzone.newgrounds.com/reviews/f lash/3

scroll down to his review on aether

probably one of the greatest reviews I've ever got

Marc Anthony's (Onset, MA, very tiny town, near wareham)

It's in the town in cape cod where my family has had a vacation home since the 50s. The pizza place has been there for like 30 years, I've been going to it since I was born.

Nobody ever believes that it's the best pizza place in the world when I first tell them, since "best in the world" is such a large claim, but the second they try it they agree.

Fuck now I'm craving it and no other place has ever come close IMO.

Also if you say dominos or pizza hit or other chain place then you need to go away forever and get taste buf implants since that shit is so disgusting I wouldn't even eat it drunk.

shape tweens

At 10/25/09 03:45 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: the fuck is a fred?

NOBODY ANSWERED MY QUESTION

I'll top your parallel processing cluster heuristic A* sorting algorithm with one of my own:

The quantum imaginary 4D parallel heuristic sweep-cache mutex sort.

It uses 4-dimensional imaginary numbers and quantum computing to preprocess all possible sorted lists in constant time then distributes the table amongst multiple processors so that they can all mutex the list and sort in sub-constant time.

It's all experimental at the moment but you can google the papers on it if you wish

Everythingbyeveryone

the fuck is a fred?