7764. Scott/Graue (ip70-179-119-114.dc.dc.cox.net) –
06 Nov 2008 11:32:14
[ Many Happy Returns ]
Tom, I am your second biggest fan, behind only Mr. Adhesion. As a nitpicky thing, once you click on a category, the comment links don't work. To put this in perspective, though, everything else you have ever done is wholly perfect, including this song. |
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7763. Sophia (c-65-96-221-97.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) –
06 Nov 2008 08:41:50
[ Many Happy Returns ]
The more gay sex, the better the book. Never-the-less, I do still plan to read NOABTOB one of these days... |
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Very cool, I like the weird rhythms and the little noise rush towards the beginning. I was actually expecting it to have more chromatic stuff/weird chords like Petrolatum does (which I also love). I've noticed my music trending in the more-chromaticism direction too. Both make good Obama celebration music as well.
And now a totally random tangent made slightly ironic by its content: I just finished reading NOABTOB, and holy shit it is hilarious, I love it. Favorite parts: plume of dust with blinking lights in it, opals, "Govno!" It reminded me of a clearer, funnier Naked Lunch without all the gay sex etc. I'm even tempted to buy a copy so I can read it in non-workplace places, preferably places where bursting out laughing will not cause detrimental bureaucratic changes in my life. Did you see that Lulu changed their prices around a bit? Hooray for financial crises!
A couple nitpicky things about it: there were a couple typos I saw (councilmebers & pass times on p110, infa-red on p148) unless those were intentional and like totally postmodern or something. I think there was some missing capitalization somewhere soon around/after p110 but I'll have to look for it.
And one last nitpicky thing to go full circle: Many Happy Returns has the ubiquitous Cubase (I assume, I've seen this before in Nuendo) problem of "reverb tail appearing at beginning of song for mysterious reasons". It adds a nice touch. |
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Speaking of new tiles, the recent level Bob10 made me think about multi-tile pushables (ideally any size and shape, just moves as one)
If you've played Fish Fillets, you should have some idea of what kind of stuff you can do with this. Of course, it's a bit different with gravity.
As for the implementation, true FF style would be cool but harder to implement properly in this context (flipping a central piece twice should probably break a large block in two individual objects, and then join them again). A more simplistic version would be regular single-tile blocks that stick to each other, but can be freed with bombs or panels.
Anyway, just throwing ideas around :-) |
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7757. fetjuel (c-67-183-131-170.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) –
05 Nov 2008 03:14:45
[ Many Happy Returns ]
I dreamed that I was jogging through a mall, in a hurry to catch a plane to Japan. You appeared with a guitar and improvised a song about mall-jogging. It was such a hit that it was playing on the store's Muzak system by the time I made it to the exit. It was a great progression and a great melody, but when I woke up and tried to remember it, my mind kept returning to "Lawn Sky" instead.
Whoa, and a couple of weeks ago I think I dreamed that you were a homemade stained-glass artist. So, good job on your cameos in my unconscious brain. |
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7756. Tom 7 (h-67-100-131-195.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
05 Nov 2008 00:38:48
[ New! Escape 200704130 ]
I've been working on getting up to speed with iPhone development. Unfortunately I spent my most enthusiastic months just waiting for a development key. It's still the main mobile app I want to make after I get a few jokey apps out of the way. |
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7753. Anonymous (rx0sh-lakehead-school-board.mt.bigpipeinc.com) –
04 Nov 2008 12:02:29
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
oh yeah, dont feel bad with your SAT.
at first, I was worried with my 930, but it's actually not that bad when Ill retake with a 1300+
but yeah, seirously, you should all consider farmingdale if your interested in enginering. It won sum awards so it must be good and I heard that it was in the top 10 best engineering for state university of new york.
also, lots of hot and horni chicks for all of you :D:D:D;d;d |
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7752. Anonymous (rx0sh-lakehead-school-board.mt.bigpipeinc.com) –
04 Nov 2008 11:57:17
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
hey boys, I'm back with sum new info i've dug up
from farmindale
Are SAT or ACT scores required?
SAT or ACT scores are required for all applicants who graduated from high school after 1998. This requirement is waived for transfer students who have completed a minimum of 24 credits with a GPA of at least 2.0.
What kind of SAT scores do I need to be accepted?
We expect a combined Math/English SAT score of at least 1000 and/or a minimum ACT score is 21 for admission. The Admissions Counselors at Farmingdale also take into consideration extracurricular activities, awards, community service and recommendations. The more we know about you the better decision we can make.
hop to see sum familar faces at farmindale next year from peeps here on spacebar |
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7751. Anonymous (rx0sh-lakehead-school-board.mt.bigpipeinc.com) –
04 Nov 2008 11:51:50
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
UPDATE!
got sum info for farmindale to thos of you guys intersted :D
Moderately difficult , 52% of applicants were admitted
Freshman
Admission: 4,643 applied; 2,407 admitted; 1,023 enrolled
Average high school GPA: 2.89
Test Scores:
SAT critical reading scores over 500 34%
SAT math scores over 500 53%
I have 52% of gettin in. Its like flipping a coin head Im in! tails im not! wish Me luck! :D |
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7750. mfx2010 (cpe-72-184-1-175.tampabay.res.rr.com) –
04 Nov 2008 11:48:35
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
I've had the exact same problem many of you have. I was so worried it was just me. I live in South Florida, I started a job a couple of months ago leasing condos and I was quickly yielded the opportunity to see mold for the first time and learn about things like "toxic mold." I also learned a lot of information the team responsible for destroying the mold. Then about a month ago I had the same thing in my bathroom at home. EEKK! It started with a dark discolouring on my bathroom wall, just outside of the tiled shower, I didn't immediately respond until a small mushroomhead grew from it. I thought I was going to vomit on myself. My house is only three years old, I couldn't imagine there was a leak in the walls so I imagined it was water splashing from the shower or heat and moisture so I made sure to run the fan and only entered the shower on the opposite side when the water wasn't running. And of course, killed the thing with bleach. It worked for about three weeks then literally four days ago it started to come back, yesterday morning three mushrooms emerged and last night they were about three times the size they were yesterday morning. I sprayed them with a bathroom cleaner that contains bleach, left the fan running and left the light on because I believe they flourish in darkness. This morning, they're dead and black and gross. I'm just going to call professionals in to take care of them. That's my suggestion to anyone who can afford it. Hire people to take care of it and usually there's some kind of warranty like if it comes back within a year or something they will come back at no charge or offer follow visits to control the problem.
Good Luck everyone, I know firsthand this is no exciting picnic. |
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7749. Anonymous (rx0sh-lakehead-school-board.mt.bigpipeinc.com) –
04 Nov 2008 11:34:56
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
my dreem colege is SUNY Farmingdale for Engenering. Chance me plz! ;DD:
Ill retake ma SATs... cuz 930 is a little bit low. My math is realy good (won sum math awards) so Im Aiming for at least 500 in the new one. Bad day for my first one.
Im predicting realy high SATs this time AT LEAST 1300 (400, 500, 400). so Chance me! plz!
And feeling down :( (adsl-68-127-150-9.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net) -- good luck to you! your reading (570) is pretty bad, but you can improve |
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7747. Anonymous (rx0sh-lakehead-school-board.mt.bigpipeinc.com) –
03 Nov 2008 11:43:45
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
oh yeah, I won few awards at skool at lots of ec (soccer, basketball, etc etc etc) hopefully they overluke my bad SAT |
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7746. Anonymous (rx0sh-lakehead-school-board.mt.bigpipeinc.com) –
03 Nov 2008 11:41:22
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
I have 2.8 GPA, got 930 (300, 350, 280) on the SAT... am I screwed? |
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Any news on the iPhone version you talked about last year?
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Any news on the iPhone version you talked about last year?
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7741. Anonymous (77.31.205.178) –
31 Oct 2008 11:57:27
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
omgomgomgomg! i got a 1920!!! i soo dumb... :( |
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7740. Anonymous (pool-96-241-52-155.washdc.fios.verizon.net) –
31 Oct 2008 00:10:07
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
i am so screwed!!!!!!
i love how some people who have scores in the 2000 even bother posting their scores. you will def get into at least a college unless you got a bad gpa. as for me
good-bye college hello community college! |
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7739. Tom 7 (h-67-100-131-196.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
30 Oct 2008 19:51:48
[ Theme from Petrolatum ]
Sounds like you needed to apply as needed!
I am happy to help. |
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I want to hug you. It's like you knew I needed cheering up and a cute T7ES song would be just the thing! |
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7733. Anonymous (c-68-80-213-222.hsd1.nj.comcast.net) –
29 Oct 2008 18:51:51
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
hey i got a 1630 SAT
GPA 2.9
is that good enough to get into any decent college, like rutgers for example |
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7732. Sridhar (c-76-126-66-147.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) –
29 Oct 2008 06:37:51
[ Sick Day ]
I have avoided commenting until now, for fear of being as creepy as early posters Tom and Chris. But I concur; that song was great. |
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7730. Tom 7 (h-66-167-250-21.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
29 Oct 2008 00:37:11
[ Sick Day ]
Yeah, I love the drums (particularly at the beginning) on the PA. I wish it sounded like that all the time.
The album, well, we are shooting out our MP3s piecemeal as they become available. Whether that album becomes a hit is up to listeners. But I can tell you this: SICK RIDICULOUS AND THE SICK RIDICULOUS DOES NOT WAIT FOR PERMISSION |
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7729. Tom 7 (h-66-167-250-21.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
29 Oct 2008 00:12:58
[ New! Escape 200704130 ]
Radiant: Diagonal lasers I've of course contemplated before, but I think it is sort of contrary to a pervasive orthogonality in the game's nature. Everything moves only NSEW, never diagonally. (Compare DROD where the player can move diagonally and there are analogs of diagonal lasers there and they are natural.) The alphanumeric tiles too (actually I started implementing a system where the author could include pop-up messages upon certain conditions)... it is very tempting, but two things made me decide against it: The fact that I'd like the game to be as multilingual as possible (even though the menus are not internationalized, I'd like to do that, and it wouldn't be much work. If the levels had user-written text in them, though, we'd be in trouble--especially if it took up a fixed amount of space on account of being made out of letter tiles!). But the bigger thing is that I actually really love that the levels are non-verbal and have to convey information that way. With a simple way to express natural language it would take away one of my favorite bits of author cleverness--being that non-verbal communication--by making it unnecessary.
I like the idea of the paint. There is a missing corner here, you're right, since the player can press down panels but never colored panels. Colored bots might make sense too, but I'm very wary of increasing the number or complexity of bots. The obstacle to implementing this would be that the player is currently stateless (other than his position) and this would require remembering the current color of the player. But I've been thinking about adding some player state to implement some other pickups (to simulate some other Lolo objects like the ladder bridge), and this would fit well with that. I'll add it to the (long) list... |
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7728. Tom 7 (h-66-167-250-21.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
28 Oct 2008 23:58:22
[ New! Escape 200704130 ]
Gary: Typically ideas cannot be copyrighted (only patented). I don't think there are any patented escape ideas. Uploading a level to the escape server indicates permission for others to distribute and modify your levels (it says this in the upload dialog box). This is intentional because the Escape level editing culture encourages people to make modifications of other player's levels (and because the game is distributed under an open source license and I want the levels to be able to come with it). It doesn't encourage reusing ideas without improving on them, or without credit. There's no official rule book though. If you want to rate these levels low on style because you think they're repeats and/or not properly credited, I think that would be well justified. |
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