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  • Sweden, but I think that most except the most new people here already knew that.

  • Doesn't make it any more likely to be correct.

    I suppose it could be that it just seems that way, since popular media is everywhere, and are always hungry for a good (or even mediocre) story.

    This is not that far off from what I think is the case.

    I'm gonna draw a parallel to natural disasters. There seem to be quite a lot of them occurring, thus people start believing that it's because us humans and such and such (part of that may be true, I don't know). But, it's not so much that we have more of them now than ever, as much as we are more aware of what's going on than ever before.

    When it comes to prophecies it's kind of the same deal. People in general are more aware of various things in todays world, being privvy to radio, tv, internet and being able to read. It's easier for information, not to mention mis-information, to spread in todays society.

  • Jamestown.

    <img src="http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j135/mr_norris/bullet_hell.jpg" border="0" />

    Got it during the christmas steam sale. Really, really worth the money I'd say. One of the few shmups that I actually enjoy immensely. I've beat it on Divine difficulty, Judgement up next! =3

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  • Because of the same reason people believe in god(s), ufo's and such. It's a way to make yourself feel important. "I know that I'm right!" and similar reasonings (a lot of which happen at a sub-conscious level). It's a sort of willful delusion.

    It's far from a "modern" thing though. Michel de Nostredame (or Nostradamus, as people inexplicably call him) lived during the 1500's. But I guess that'd depend on what you consider "modern".

  • <center>"They who can give up essential liberty,

    to obtain a little temporary safety,

    deserve neither liberty nor safety."

    - Benjamin Franklin</center>

  • its only input

    Thing is, input is actually bit of a hassle. Take into consideration that there exist different keyboard layouts pertaining to different languages as well as layouts other than QWERTY. Not to mention the circuitry beneath.

    Keys other than A-Z and 1-0 can be in wildly different places with different ways to access them, so it makes sense to cater to A-Z and 1-0 primarily. System keys like "Alt" and such should generally be avoided if you ask me, and to access [ I'd have to press Alt+8.

  • I still haven't figured out if he's as evil as the rest, or just incompetent and spineless.'d go with "all of the above."

    I think I've learned something about politicians this last year or two. If they're not malicious, they're morons, sometimes they're both. Rarely are they neither, but exceptions do exist (like the congress lady fron the SOPA votes whose name eludes me). It doesn't matter where you are, chances are you have nutbags running the country you live in.

  • This may or may not be an issue, but I thought it'd be a good idea to bring it up. Latelly I've noticed that even though there've been new posts made on the forum, I couldn't tell (sounds contradictory, I know). The icons would show the "no new posts" image, when there really are new posts. As said, I'm not sure if there really is a problem or if I'm mistaken, as the perceived problem doesn't seem to be consistent.

    Edit: contradictionary is not a word...

  • Paypal has lately been tightening up their practices. The donate button is intended to be used for donations (figure that =P ), not payments. As far as I know, you're not hindered in any way to use it, but it is up to you that you use it proper. I don't know what kind of repercusions there are, but if you're using it to accept payment for products and such, you're not using it the way it's intended.

    This is something I heard about this summer. I'm not entirely knowledgable about it, but I think there's reason to be cautious. Before anyone use the button I'd suggest looking into it.

  • I'd be cautious about using the donation button though. Paypal isn't as lenient with it as they used to be.

  • Happy new year!

  • Well, you could set the arrays manually with events. It would be tedious, but you could do it (not sure how that would affect performance though, probably badly).

  • From the looks of it you could instead of making a lot of layouts you could make a simple loading system for levels using arrays. Essentially have an array where you store the placement of the different objects you want to place. From the looks of it you aren't making a scrolling game so ths could probably work pretty well. It's a bit more involved than making several layouts though.

  • Books =)

  • Yeah ImpactJS has an integrated editor. It only supports tile based maps so it's the exact opposite of C2.

    I looked at impactJS a while ago, seriously considering plonking down the cash for it. I looked at avideo going over how the editor works, and I got to say it looks really, really good. I would not mind some sort of crosss compatibility with it and c2 (kind of like the GM rooms thing) or just using it as a source of inspiration and innovation.

    I've been wondering, from time to time people ask/talk about scripting in C2, and in general that's what the SDK is for. Couldn't you, in theory (I don't really know) make a plugin that lets you execute code from events? Sort of like what Pythin was in CC (though I never really tampered with that, so I might be a bit off-base there). Just a thought.