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At 5/6/08 07:06 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote: Jpod on the other hand is awesome. Anyone here heard of Douglas Coupland? Very funny...actually...only funny Canadian author.

Yeah, I got that book on the airport when flying to Africa. It was really great. I like how he managed to get himself in the story.
I haven't read any other Douglas Coupland books though but maybe I should... someday.

At 5/6/08 07:22 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: Jpod on the other hand is awesome.

Yeah, I got that book

I think he ment the T.V. show. I've only ever saw a short film loosely based on the characters and I liked it.

At 5/6/08 07:30 PM, MrMacro wrote: I think he ment the T.V. show. I've only ever saw a short film loosely based on the characters and I liked it.

Ok, I didn't know there's a TV show called the same thing.
He said "author" though so I still think he meant the book. Correct me if I'm wrong Natio!

At 5/6/08 07:34 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: Ok, I didn't know there's a TV show called the same thing.

It has the same name because it's based on the book.

At 5/6/08 07:34 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote:

At 5/6/08 07:30 PM, MrMacro wrote: I think he ment the T.V. show. I've only ever saw a short film loosely based on the characters and I liked it.

Ok, I didn't know there's a TV show called the same thing.
He said "author" though so I still think he meant the book. Correct me if I'm wrong Natio!

I read the book first and then saw the TV show. I was referring to both :P

Canadian Stereotypes

Someone living in Australia I was talkin' to online explained to me how she thought the Canadian Education System only teaches up to grade 9... and none of us apparently finish high school. :|

Que face-palm!

Breakfest
...is a lie! We just need to drink shakes and we can live foreveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr!

Owwwwww! Chocolate flavouring! : O

At 5/6/08 09:30 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Breakfest
...is a lie! We just need to drink shakes and we can live foreveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr!

Owwwwww! Chocolate flavouring! : O

That stuff makes me throw up... But after that, i was still pretty quenched :P

At 5/6/08 09:31 PM, Ertyguy wrote:

That stuff makes me throw up... But after that, i was still pretty quenched :P

I drink 'bout 3 a day. Mostly chocolate and strawberry. ^^

I do chores now. :C

At 5/6/08 09:30 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote:

Owwwwww! Chocolate flavouring! : O

Reminds me when I used to drink Nesquick strawberry milk. I dunno If this is similar, but I liked that stuff..

Synced Flash Animations

Don't you guys just love watching an animation that has a fantastic audio score that's synced by the animation. I just love it. Just seeing how they tie in the whole sound and animation together, makes the animation turns out so nice.

I would like to do something like that. Anyone wanna collaborate on a nice little piece of synced animation, give me a ring sometime.

At 5/6/08 11:47 PM, Rudy wrote: Synced Flash Animations

I would like to do something like that. Anyone wanna collaborate on a nice little piece of synced animation, give me a ring sometime.

I love doing that type of stuff.
Not terribly busy right now either.

"Out with the old...in with the new!"
Thank god for this, since the NEW is so much better.

Level 22

Rudy, I know what you mean, it does kind of give a really nice touch. If I had a computer that had the ability to draw in Flash, I would...but sadly I don't. All I'm left with is this crap-bag that only has a mouse pad in replacement for the mouse.
Back on track, syncing with music is basically subliminal messaging...in the sense that it can make something look ten times better than what it would have looked like out of sync with anything. I feel like that's the same thing with people playing games without sound. I can't play anything that has no sound, since it's too hard to concentrate on the game you see but don't hear, where it then loses it's "realistic" touch.

Congrats on the Level up.

I would love to work on something like that.

It would help me to get more industrious.

FORUM AVATAR
I'm coding a forum at the moment and I'd like it to be somewhat original.
So what do you think about instead of having the usual 100x100 avatars, have something like 50x200 avatars? I think it'd be pretty cool. But maybe too unusual.

At 5/6/08 11:47 PM, Rudy wrote: Synced Flash Animations

Well there's really two types if you think about it. One that bases its animation the exact sound effects / beats of the song, or whether they just slow down with the music and vice versa.
I have some that are based off the beat, Session / Funkness.

Advertising, yay!

Although I'd be a hypocrite towards myself since I hate people that pop to robotic noises...

At 5/7/08 05:16 AM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: FORUM AVATAR 50x200

I dunno, what could you possibly fit into that amount of space though? Unless an images is directly a vertically rectangle, it'd be pretty hard to get something logical to fit.
But I'd still like to see something original like that.

English Sterotypes
They are all true, every morning i pop out of my quilted cover and put on a jumper, wooly hat and trousers. I grab a crumpet and run out of my little cottage in the country into my mini. I then make my way through the vast numbers of roundabouts and country roads to my job as a barman at the cricket grounds. Everyone enjoys themselves as i pour out ye olde cider to all the old men with moustaches. I then buy some fish and chips on the way home from Freddy.

User Interface
Anyone ever picky about keyboards or mice?

I refuse to order a keyboard and mouse online. I need to go to the store and play with every single one. I usually will be at the store for about an hour, exploring each of my different options. The keyboard needs to have a number pad, function keys that are equal to/larger than normal keys, home and end buttons next to each other (not stacked), a large backspace button, and music/sound controls that at least mute/unmute the music.

When it comes to mice, I need to scroll the wheel. Frankly I'll take any mouse, laser, optical, or mouseball. But it sure as hell should have the nicest scroll wheel. I am also not a fan of scroll wheels that go left or right as well.

At 5/7/08 11:56 AM, jmtb02 wrote: User Interface
When it comes to mice, I need to scroll the wheel. Frankly I'll take any mouse, laser, optical, or mouseball. But it sure as hell should have the nicest scroll wheel. I am also not a fan of scroll wheels that go left or right as well.

I agree. I overuse my scroll wheel and use it all the time. Sometimes when at school I end up with a mouse with no scroll wheel and I get frustrated when I can't scroll.

So I have to sneakily swap it with one that does.

Frustration

I'm feeling frustrated >:(
I've spent around 12 hours working on game and I keep getting confused now. I've spent an additional 2hours where I've done something and then gone "No, no, no! Thats not right!" and get rid of it all. Its really frustrating me now.
Anyone got any tips to 'unwind'?

At 5/7/08 11:56 AM, jmtb02 wrote: User Interface
Anyone ever picky about keyboards or mice?

I had a bad experience with a mouse with a smooth scroll-wheel. You know - one that doesn't click or anything. Since then I always try to mess around with them to make sure that they have nice responses so you know easilly how many clicks up or down you've gone. I also try to keep it fairly simple - MOUSE1, MOUSE2, MOUSE3, MWHEELUP and MWHEELDOWN are the only inputs I should have to make.

Never had the same thing with keyboards, though. There's only so far you can go wrong with one, compared to meeses.

At 5/7/08 12:10 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Anyone got any tips to 'unwind'?

Shower, nap, a walk around town, a different hobby for an hour or two.
Or hit things with sticks. Its what I do. I'm sure the people in the flat above me are greatful for the mesh heads on my drums.

YAAY

Got my bag back, and promptly ordered myself an angry faic keychain and madness tshirt.

It also turned out i had $13.41 in my paypal account already, so even less money i had to spend

:)

At 5/7/08 12:56 PM, dELtaluca wrote: YAAY

Got my bag back, and promptly ordered myself an angry faic keychain and madness tshirt.

It also turned out i had $13.41 in my paypal account already, so even less money i had to spend

)

Awesome. Is everything that was in it okay?

I'm thinking of getting a angry faic keychain and a tankman figure.

At 5/7/08 01:02 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Is everything that was in it okay?

yes, pristine. I just wish it hadn't taken so fucking long

User Interface
Being a Mac user I've got one of those flat aluminum keyboards with laptop-ish keys. I prefer using this one opposed to all the 'normal' keyboards I use on a daily basis on University. It takes less effort to press a key which makes typing feel a little smoother. It resulted in lot's of typo's at first because I sometimes punched in two keys at the same time, it takes some time getting used to.

I quite like the Apple mouse. It has only one button for both the left click and the right click, which also takes some time to get used to because you can't right and left click at the same time. The OS was designed with this in mind though, so I guess you don't really need it. The scroll ball also scrolls to the left and right which comes in handy sometimes (scrolling the timeline in Flash for example), it gets dirty fairly easily though so you have to clean it every once and a while if you want it to keep working. There are also two squeeze buttons on the side of the mouse, those are, however, just irritating because I squeeze my mouse when I get frustrated/angry/irritated, so I turned em off.

At 5/7/08 01:22 PM, Xeptic wrote: I quite like the Apple mouse. It has only one button for both the left click and the right click, which also takes some time to get used to because you can't right and left click at the same time.

I hate that mouse. I bought a 5-button HP mouse a while ago and use that for everything.

Zelda Movies

I swear movies surrounded around the zelda universe always seem to hit the frontpage in groups..? has anyone else noticed this? :S

User Interface

I've got the same set up as you Xeptic, and I agree, typing is so much nicer on that aluminum keyboard.

Vacation

I'm currently in Edmonton on vacation, and I now realize where people get the Canadian 'nice' stereotype from. People are ok where I'm from, but everyone I've met so far here in Edmonton is super nice. Hopefully it lasts.

Also, I realize how amazing airplanes are now. They used to be just airplanes, but after being on some, I realize how awesome they are. Very quick, and the fact that something that big can get up in the air comfortably is crazy. I think it is now my favourite form of travel.

At 5/7/08 03:53 PM, CrazyChihuahua wrote: I think it is now my favourite form of travel.

On way to Dubai we had a nice tail wind and plane hit over 1050km/h

At 5/7/08 03:07 PM, adman1993 wrote: Zelda Movies

I swear movies surrounded around the zelda universe always seem to hit the frontpage in groups..? has anyone else noticed this? :S

Tom needs to attract visitors to the site.
A lot of Flash viewers are 12/13's with a fetish for Zelda/Mario/Pokemon
Tom put's up Zelda flash on the front page, visitors come.
It will always happen, Tom needs visitors.

At 5/7/08 03:56 PM, dELtaluca wrote: On way to Dubai we had a nice tail wind and plane hit over 1050km/h

o.0

At 5/7/08 03:53 PM, CrazyChihuahua wrote: I'm currently in Edmonton on vacation, and I now realize where people get the Canadian 'nice' stereotype from.

The "nice" stereo type is way better than the "We say eh for every second word" stereo type. Is the Canadian diversity very noticable?