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Chit-Chat / Re: Post Your Desktop!

« on: October 29, 2014, 01:57:44 pm »

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Chit-Chat / Re: Link's a girl in the new zelda

« on: June 10, 2014, 11:21:19 pm »

Guys, here's a graph regarding this topic. Attached, and an imgur link if you want it: http://i.imgur.com/ik6pfHY.png

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Paid Work / Re: looking for stencyl game developer to be part of my team

« on: May 29, 2014, 08:24:33 pm »

http://community.stencyl.com/index.php/topic,671.0.html

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Old Bugs (3.x) / Re: More problems with Stencyl...

« on: April 27, 2014, 07:57:39 pm »

To be fair, a .swf usually weighs less than what you're uploading to the stencylforge (the whole game), so it probably weighs over 7mb.

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Ludum Dare 29 / Re: Beneath Wireframe

« on: April 27, 2014, 06:19:45 pm »

Only 950.  :c
I really like the mechanics, reminds me of Super Hexagon, although it's quite different.

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Chit-Chat / Re: IROCK ABUSING POWER?

« on: April 25, 2014, 11:56:31 pm »

Oh Warzone, oh Warzone...

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Chit-Chat / Re: What makes a good platformer?

« on: April 20, 2014, 11:14:14 pm »

You see Hectate knows his stuff, good controls are key.
Blood infact, does not make things better.
Also, blood in Candy Crush will not make it better. No.

By that logic, because adding a gun to Mario Brothers would make it worse, having guns in a completely different genre is obviously not viable. I don't think candy would make most games better, does that mean Candy Crush shouldn't have candy?

tl;dr blood is the best add blood to candy crush lets make a petition

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Chit-Chat / Re: Video Game Poll

« on: April 17, 2014, 08:03:38 pm »

Thanks. Ill take note of that multiple controls part. Most likely I would do Turn based or click shooters. Maybe even TD or stunt racing as it is also popular as my brother tells me.

What platform (flash, iOS, etc.)?

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Chit-Chat / Re: Video Game Poll

« on: April 17, 2014, 07:33:48 pm »

This isn't a Stencyl suggestion, belongs in Chit-Chat, but whatever, I'll stil answer it.

My favorite 2 are probably Shooter 2D and Free Roam RPG 2D, but shooters are extremely over saturated so I don't really recommend that for money (unless you can polish it a lot, a lot, a lot). Well, it would help if you tell us a little bit more about what type of game it would be- iOS? Flash? If iOS, I heard that TDs do well on there, and having a game with multiple controls like a fighter, shooter or free roam game wouldn't be optimal.

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Chit-Chat / Re: Do you play games?

« on: April 16, 2014, 03:23:35 pm »

Oh man, I was playing a good amount of SC2 but I want somebody to play with, instead of playing with random guys I don't talk to at all. A couple of times I played with a friend while talking through skype, and that was fun, and I remember that SC2 and W3 were extremely fun playing in LAN years ago, but it doesn't seem very fun when it's just strangers.

Around 2 days ago I first played Hotline Miami, and man, it's really fun.  Makes you feel like a super badass, although you can complete all of the levels in around 6 hours (although there's replayability because it's really fun to replay levels in itself, and you get new masks (which aren't like tf2 hats, have a significant impact on gameplay) and weapons on top of that). Been playing Super Hexagon on iOS when I have nothing to do and no access to the computer, although I'm not very good (best I can do is 45sec in Hexagoner :/), and I played Sleeping Dogs a few weeks ago and that was the best open-world game I've played. I play Civ 5 when I'm in a strategic kinda mood, too, although the addictiveness of that game wore down after the first 40 hours.

My favorite game of all time, however, is very different from these- Mount & Blade: Warband. Man, do yourself a favor, check it out, it's extremely awesome.

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Paid Work / Re: Website Development

« on: April 09, 2014, 03:49:07 pm »

There is no link yet, thats just there st the moment.

Why post about this before you have even made a website?

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Chit-Chat / Re: Humans and Meat

« on: March 17, 2014, 05:26:11 pm »

2nd paragraph: You could say the same about cows.

3rd paragraph: picky eater is to vegetarian as rectangle is to square.  I'm not sure where you were going with that first sentence really. For that matter, the entire capitalist thing is right out of left field and doesn't tie into the rest of the paragraph at all.  As for the last part; doing something that feels like you are doing good can satisfy your desire to do good even if you haven't actually done anything at all. Its like those people driving gas guzzlers all over the place with bumper stickers saying they support green energy or recycling.

4th paragraph: How is detecting a parasite, determining what it is, and then releasing a scent that attracts that parasite's predator a 'knee jerk reaction'? Refusing to believe that plants could possibly possess some form of intelligence simply because they are different is ignorant. They are still complex organisms with cells that have different jobs, even if they don't have a central nervous system they must have some method of communicating between different parts of it's self in order to function.

I am not being superstitious, I am pointing out how flawed "moral veganism" is, because most arguments made for why animals should be spared death could be made about plants. Eating to survive is just survival. Taking it upon yourself to judge what is worthy of life and what is not based on how similar to you they are is immoral.

I'm just going to say one thing. As a vegan you contribute to less death of any kind, including plants, because that's the way the food chain works (10% of energy transferred), so we still reduce the death count of every living thing (morals work for things you can do while living- if you're against murder and you crash in a deserted place like those football players did, and you kill someone else so you can survive, that does not make you a hypocrite). I do not eat plants because I find them to be inferior (although I do think that there is no morally wrong thing about eating them), it is 100% to survive. Your argument is somehow one of the most used against vegans even though it is one of the worst. Also, again, plants are not sentient beings, and are not proven to feel any type of pain, and their conditions are similar in a plantation to what it regularly should be in, so you can't compare a plantation to a factory farm.

Again, only in theory do you kill less for the same food. In practice.. it does not work out that way.  40 grams of lettuce, a common base for salads, is 5 calories, while 40 grams of beef is roughly 100 calories. If plants are 10 times more efficient, why do you get 20 times as much energy out of meat compared to plants? Probably because we are omnivores, not herbivores. Most likely, our stomachs waste a lot of plant material we eat because we can't digest it.

There are some exceptions out there of course; we can digest around the same number of calories out of a serving of peanuts as beef. peanuts are also one of the rare plants that we can actually get protein out of.

But then.. there are 33 peanuts in a serving, which is roughly equal to the average yield of one peanut plant. . meanwhile an average of 530 pounds of usable meat is on one cow. With the average serving size being 3 ounces of meat, the death of one cow is worth 8,480 servings of food. So, if we lived in an alternate reality where you could eat just one serving of one thing a meal and not get sick from malnutrition, eating peanuts would have you responsible for 3 deaths a day, while eating beef makes you responsible for 10 deaths every 7 years. (10 because I'm using your '10 to 1 count' do the death total instead of counting the cow as just 1)

1st the way biology works is that through every trophic level there is less of the original energy, that is a fact. Eating a plant, you get 10% of its energy, while eating a cow you get 1% of the plant's energy. Cows give more protein not because if this but because it has protein more concentrated, but that's because it ate many plants- eating meat means more plant deaths, that is a fact. You get more protein per pound from meat, but you need way more space, plants and water to produce the same amount of meat compared to plants. Also, peanuts aren't at all the best source of protein, and protein isn't at all hard to get as a vegan- on a diet with no animal products at all I get over 100 grams of it daily. Many plants have a good amount of protein- soy (tofu, edamame), beans, quinoa, nuts (especially almonds), many greens, and the list goes on.

Warzone: Plants are not a species, and it is not morally wrong because it is for survival, just like killing another animal (including humans) for survival is not immoral.

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Chit-Chat / Re: Humans and Meat

« on: March 17, 2014, 12:08:24 pm »

2nd paragraph: You could say the same about cows.

3rd paragraph: picky eater is to vegetarian as rectangle is to square.  I'm not sure where you were going with that first sentence really. For that matter, the entire capitalist thing is right out of left field and doesn't tie into the rest of the paragraph at all.  As for the last part; doing something that feels like you are doing good can satisfy your desire to do good even if you haven't actually done anything at all. Its like those people driving gas guzzlers all over the place with bumper stickers saying they support green energy or recycling.

4th paragraph: How is detecting a parasite, determining what it is, and then releasing a scent that attracts that parasite's predator a 'knee jerk reaction'? Refusing to believe that plants could possibly possess some form of intelligence simply because they are different is ignorant. They are still complex organisms with cells that have different jobs, even if they don't have a central nervous system they must have some method of communicating between different parts of it's self in order to function.

I am not being superstitious, I am pointing out how flawed "moral veganism" is, because most arguments made for why animals should be spared death could be made about plants. Eating to survive is just survival. Taking it upon yourself to judge what is worthy of life and what is not based on how similar to you they are is immoral.

I'm just going to say one thing. As a vegan you contribute to less death of any kind, including plants, because that's the way the food chain works (10% of energy transferred), so we still reduce the death count of every living thing (morals work for things you can do while living- if you're against murder and you crash in a deserted place like those football players did, and you kill someone else so you can survive, that does not make you a hypocrite). I do not eat plants because I find them to be inferior (although I do think that there is no morally wrong thing about eating them), it is 100% to survive. Your argument is somehow one of the most used against vegans even though it is one of the worst. Also, again, plants are not sentient beings, and are not proven to feel any type of pain, and their conditions are similar in a plantation to what it regularly should be in, so you can't compare a plantation to a factory farm.

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Chit-Chat / Re: Humans and Meat

« on: March 16, 2014, 12:11:11 pm »

Red is mine. Here are some nice quotes:
"Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he's the one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." ~ Mark Twain
Except for Dolphins which take baby porpoises, mutilate them, and play with their corpses for fun. Who knows how many other animals are equally morbid. And how are we to say that other animals do not know right from wrong when we cannot talk to them and discover their thought processes

"My body will not be a tomb for other creatures." ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." ~ Albert Einstein
A couple famous people want to be vegans. Plants may not have brains in the same manner that animals do; but it is ignorant to claim that because something is different it is incapable of feeling pain or having awareness. Modern studies have shown that plants do respond to being damaged, and use scents to communicate their pain to other plants. There is even a plant that can use scents to attract natural predators of parasites that feed on it. Trees have been found to do math on a daily basis to regulate their energy consumption at night. It is clear that plants possess the capability of complex thought, even if they do look different from animals.

"The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?' - Jeremy Bentham
Since pain exists as a means to alert a living being of being damaged, it stands to reason that if plants respond to damage, they must experience something analogous with pain, even if it takes a different form.

"We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." ~ Henry Beston
Ironic then, that you pass off plants as clearly being too inferior to animals to matter, then quote someone berating the idea of passing off other animals as too inferior to humans to matter.

And, for all the people who tell me I alone won't make a difference, so what's the point:
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." ~ Edward Everett Hale
Yes, do something. Not eating meat isn't doing something, its just trading animal slaughter for plant slaughter. Go make the world a better place, rather than making a superficial change to your diet to feel better about yourself.

Green is mine.

Ok. First of all, I would prefer not to eat plants, but I don't have that option- it is impossible to live healthily without eating something that was once alive. I do not eat plants for taste/convenience, but for health, for survival. Second, somebody who eats meat is contributing to the death of not only that animal but 10x as many plants too, considering that the animal only gets 10% of the energy from the plant, so you end up getting 1% while I get 10% (primary consumer vs secondary consumer). Third, even when looking up biased searches regarding plants feeling pain, you will find it is not at all proven that they feel pain of any type, and it is not pain if it is not the type of pain we have, considering what we have requires a brain and nervous system. Whether they feel something is possible, but all results have been inconclusive, so saying that the slaughter of an animal = killing plants is ignorant. I am against the suffering and death of a sentient being, and plants do not have much worse conditions in plantations than they would have in the wild, and they are not sentient. I want to make it clear that not eating meat isn't trading animal slaughter for plant slaughter, as eating meat contributes to animal slaughter and 10x as much plant slaughter.
"Go make the world a better place, rather than making a superficial change to your diet to feel better about yourself."
Seriously? The industry of animal products are not only terrible in ethics, which you clearly don't care about, but also the environment, as the industry is one of the major contributors to pollution. You've been respectful until that sentence, and I don't know why you feel attacked by this thread.

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Chit-Chat / Re: Humans and Meat

« on: March 14, 2014, 09:09:04 am »

Let's just drop religion, ok? It's fine when we're talking about the relationship between veganism and religion but there's no point in debating religion on its own in this thread. I don't think you understood what I meant with most of what I said, Warzone, but I apologize if I offended you- it was not my intention.