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At 1/13/08 12:53 AM, BlackmarketKraig wrote:

At 1/13/08 12:46 AM, Luis wrote:
Portal King is the one award thats always eluded me.. im a one trick a month pony... i think itll always be far from my grasp.

Save 'em up for a few months, then unload them one by one each week for the month. If you really want that award, that is. Everybody loves your Flash movies, I think you could pull that off easily.

I could but its not worth it.. i mean thats my MAIN gripe with fulp anytime i see him.. that the most sought after accomplishments never are immortalized on the awards system.... king of the portal is temporary... the art contest winner awards never show.. neither do pico day.. or any other shit thats so difficult to actually win.

I usually only get a few measly hours every night, maybe 5 or 6. Partly due to insomnica, and partly due to how much work I usually am trying to take care of.

At 1/13/08 01:33 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote: how much work I usually am trying to take care of.

lolz!

At 1/13/08 03:24 AM, NegativeONE wrote:

At 1/13/08 01:33 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote: how much work I usually am trying to take care of.

lolz!

ah shaddap, I have school and shit mr.ihaveaproflashjob.

At 1/13/08 12:53 AM, BlackmarketKraig wrote:

At 1/13/08 12:46 AM, Luis wrote:
Portal King is the one award thats always eluded me.. im a one trick a month pony... i think itll always be far from my grasp.

Save 'em up for a few months, then unload them one by one each week for the month. If you really want that award, that is. Everybody loves your Flash movies, I think you could pull that off easily.

I never actually knew how to get King of the Portal. Still the effort is kind of pointless, not only does it not list your award anywhere on your profile, but you also don't get the Certificate compensation that the monthly gives you. Oh well, I guess it'd still be kind of cool for that one month that you have it. Does anyone know if the hits to your profile rise significantly for these non-award giving prizes like monthly and all the holiday/ competition related things.

fastest way to iterate through an array

In AS2 (according to google links from flashkit etc - i havn't tested) for...in is supposedly alot faster than an normal for iteration through an array. however in AS3 the new for each...in is faster and for..in slow:

setting up an array of 5million initialized integers (if you don't initiliaize for..in and for each..in wont iterate through the unitialized variables)

for(var i:int = 0; i<len; i++) arr[i] = 10; //272ms
for(var i:String in arr) arr[i] = 10; //too slow to measure
for(var i:* in arr) arr[i] = 10; //495ms (note that you cannot do var i:int in arr)
for each(var i:int in arr) i = 10; //183ms (note that you don't need to access the array - why it's faster)

At 1/13/08 05:08 AM, dELtaluca wrote: fastest way to iterate through an array

for(var i:int = 0; i<len; i++) arr[i] = 10; //272ms
for(var i:String in arr) arr[i] = 10; //too slow to measure
for(var i:* in arr) arr[i] = 10; //495ms (note that you cannot do var i:int in arr)
for each(var i:int in arr) i = 10; //183ms (note that you don't need to access the array - why it's faster)

Hehe, these speed tests generally surprise me. The last one I remember was being slightly annoyed by everyone saying that shapeflag was sooo much slower than regular hitTests, and then seeing some test where it's only like 10ms slower out of 500 :s I'm still unsure about how much weight the loop, iterations and timer finding take in those formulae, though.

At 1/13/08 05:08 AM, dELtaluca wrote: setting up an array of 5million initialized integers (if you don't initiliaize for..in and for each..in wont iterate through the unitialized variables)

Ok fair enough, for the average array size these all work out to be less than a millisecond though so I'll still use for(var i:int = 0; i<arr.length; i++;){arr[i]=10}

Theme to Live Life By?

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a paper for English explaining what I feel is my theme to life. I chose indifference, jokingly at first and then it just became more and more true as I thought about it.

Which got me thinking, do a lot of people actually have a certain theme that fits their life? Or do you just go out and wing it. So I figure I'll ask the regs.

What do you think your theme of life is?

swirling venom you came out as a really big jerk coming off on galiel sure some times he comes off all mighty and shit but over all he is a great guy (well from what i e know him) the fact that he told you that you should improve your game
isn't a bad thing he only wanted to help about you saying that he shares his opinion without you asking well you uploading pictures from the game over and over again without saying to not give advice and criticism is the same as asking also it came out that you have something against him because a lot of people told you the same thing and you only snapped at him
i am sorry if i came out a jerk but what you did was really rude
that's my 20 cents (yes i got it wrong)

almost two years
in less then a month it would be two years of me in this account why patu1 ?
because patu was taken patu means duck in portuguese which was my capoeira nickname for 7 years until i quit for several reasons patu was taken but probably
by me a year or so before that so you know i am now gonna check if there is a userpage of him and if it is blank if it is full then well it's not me if it is empty but exits i am stupid lol and if it doesnt exist i am even more stupid =] well i guss bmk jmtob and Luis have benn cursing my username a lot of the time for spamming well i don't know i always was a spammed guss i don't get banned because in my spam i actually say stuff it's not rally spam i just post a lot lot lot lot sad for you guys that you asked me to start spell check the fact that i didn't
prevented me a lot of the time from posting so now you have to withstand my charming personality a lot...well i just wish all the fun regs from before i left for a few months were here all though some make appearances like shirturtle and evan...i remember that luis said back then that he is taking a break from the forum becuase the over artists were giving him crap for not being productive
so i got a little carried away deal with it =]
animators comeback
well because this forum became a little bit boring and not reliable for the animators and i got sick of seeing only collabs and questions threads
i thought of reviving those things
1.animation main don't really know what happened to as main and don't really care but animation main was an awesome thing who helped everybody so i am going to re open it unless someone here refuses and thinks well you are not good enough let me do it i think this time it would live on because i want to make sure it is organized and I think that's why it died so wanted to ask luis if he still has the list of tutorials that people made because you used to host it on your site
2.the flash battle freestyle thred well that loved thread with the simple rules
not to spam there try to talk about battels on pm theme selected by over pepole or yourself and judging by everybody else
3.animation chalenges those were really great and a lot of well known artists were participating and that i think should be hosted by someone else more talented and productive =]
some one wants to help with those ? and what do you think ?
wow longest post ever...

At 1/13/08 02:13 PM, patu1 wrote: wow longest post ever...

And close to incoherent.

:At 1/13/08 02:13 PM, patu1 wrote:

s

I'm not trying to be an arse here, but don't they use punctuation in whatever language you speak natively? It's such an enormous pain in the ass trying to translate your scribbling into something I can actually make sense of. Which is even more frustrating because most of the time your posts do seem to make some sort of valid point.

Anyway, reviving 2 and 3 would be okay, although I think that's just as easy as bumping the old threads.

At 1/13/08 02:13 PM, patu1 wrote:

:Blah

Yeah, I did come off as a jerk, but I stand by what I said, and as for "posting pictures over and over again". I think two pictures hardly justifies the implication of that statement.

At 1/13/08 02:35 PM, Xeptic wrote:

At 1/13/08 02:13 PM, patu1 wrote: s

I'm not trying to be an arse here, but don't they use punctuation in whatever language you speak natively?

I think he used a question mark in there

Saltwater Tank
I love fish... I've always ran freshwater tanks because they are pretty easy to manage. Today I am taking the leap though and jumping into a saltwater tank... prettier fish and coral to take care of.

The issue with Saltwater though is that its about 10x the work. The salt has to be at the right gravity, saturated with enough iodine, phosphorus, etc. And then the weird thing is getting the tank started. It has to cycle to the right levels by putting in real rock from the ocean, and then getting all the nutrients and chems into the system... and then killing fish in the process because you screwed up somehow. Then you have to watch it every day to make sure the tank levels stay right, all the while being patient for a whole month... then you can put the fish in.

I'll keep the forum posted on how it goes, it should be a fun hobby for a while.

Hobbies
When Flash isn't your hobby/job/pain in the ass, what do you do for fun? Pix or it's not true.

Saltwater Tank

I love fish... I've always ran freshwater tanks because they are pretty easy to manage. Today I am taking the leap though and jumping into a saltwater tank... prettier fish and coral to take care of.

Oooh! That's one hell of a jump. I have a freshwater tank, and they're not too hard to manage, but you're going to have some serious work running a salt water one.

Israel
I heard I'm going to Israel March. Can't wait! Patu maybe you'll be there :).

I work on mah truck, and other peoples trucks. I am a bonified grease monkey, thats my hobby.

At 1/13/08 02:55 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Hobbies
When Flash isn't your hobby/job/pain in the ass, what do you do for fun? Pix or it's not true.

Flash some more. And skate.

I play the drums mainly. I've got an old picture somewhere, but i'll get a new one tomorrow and post it up here.

pikz, almost forgot.

At 1/13/08 03:34 PM, Swirling-Venom wrote: pikz, almost forgot.

Nice nob.

At 1/13/08 03:34 PM, Swirling-Venom wrote: pikz, almost forgot.

Shit! Nobody offer him constructive criticism on his truck!

heh heh heh

At 1/13/08 04:12 PM, NegativeONE wrote:

At 1/13/08 03:34 PM, Swirling-Venom wrote: pikz, almost forgot.

Shit! Nobody offer him constructive criticism on his truck!

heh heh heh

Aha, yeah Galiel.

At 1/13/08 03:34 PM, Swirling-Venom wrote: pikz, almost forgot.

I like my Neon better.

It probably kicks the shit out of your gas milage too.

Fake Luis strikes again!

So I was just chilling while watching my Woody Allen movie and theAimightylou IMs me.

theaImightylou: wunt sum free 0sama bin laden hentai?
superpyro242424: Oh lawds yes
theaImightylou: paypal account number?
superpyro242424: ha no
theaImightylou: yes
superpyro242424: I'm afriad not "Luis"
superpyro242424: besides, I don't have any money on my account
theaImightylou: ummm
theaImightylou: ...
theaImightylou: f u then

Smart guy, smart guy... he ALMOST got me.

... almost

At 1/13/08 05:06 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: Fake Luis strikes again!

lol.. wow..
How did you not fall for that? I would of.

At 1/13/08 05:06 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: Smart guy, smart guy... he ALMOST got me.

... almost

Remember, Luis doesn't IM people. People always IM him. He's too cool so he always has people talk to him.

At 1/13/08 02:55 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Saltwater Tank

I had a freshwater tank for about 10 years until all the fish died off. Those algae sucker things live forever and grow huge.

Other than flash
I'm restoring my 1968 Mustang, but without a garage I'm keeping it under a car cover until weather permits me to get at it again.

At 1/13/08 05:21 PM, Masterswordman wrote:

At 1/13/08 05:06 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: Smart guy, smart guy... he ALMOST got me.

... almost

Remember, Luis doesn't IM people. People always IM him. He's too cool so he always has people talk to him.

yeah, i rarely msg anyone... also that poser im'ed me the other day i didnt bother answering him and blocked him. Some people are so pathetic that they have go find other people to vicariously live through in an attempt to give their pathetic life a half penny's worth.