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A Small Idea

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:35:08 +0000

Since BYOND's forum posts all look like China, can we at least make it where near the side, the forum poster's icon is shown? Would give the site a little bit more... something. Right now to me it looks to plain and repetitive. Something different to identify each post (besides text) would be nice.

Moving To Java, Advice?

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:32:57 +0000

So I've decided to move on to Java to start making games for Android and whatever else I decide to work on. Was wondering if anyone has experience with Java? I'd like advice and links to places that give good tutorials, explanations, references, and whatnot. I'll still play with DM, but I want to move on to something stronger and better. :)

Worst Advertisement Ever

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:21:08 +0000

Left my computer for a while, came back and this is what I found on my BYOND pager.

<--(6:35 pm) Hir0shi: Come Join we just wiped!! Pokemon Station
(MASS PAGE) [Join]

Turned out to be some Pokemon Stadium game. Anyways, this is the most horrible advertisement for a game I've seen in a while.

Why would someone send me a page saying that they basically just took everything everyone that played that game worked for away from them? Why would you even say that trying to get people to play your game? It's like saying "Hey, come play our game! We like to f$%^ you over every month or so!".

Noobs need some college.

4000+ People Online!

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:58:45 +0000

I think it's kinda funny how right now it says 4161 People Online but if you look on the Active games list, it looks like about 300 are actually online. Sad sad sad.

Does anyone else kinda feel like that 4000 might be a lie?

Game Updates - Seika SE, Myth Of The Zodiac, Legend Of Link

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:31:07 +0000

So I found myself with a little spare time today and decided to update 3 games.

Seika SE, fixed a few bugs and worked a little on organizing the coding. Nothing visibly new, but maybe pixel movement will come just for the fun of it next time. :D

The Legend Of Link was updated with a new a map! I decided not to put any medals up for the new map because I don't have those medal pictures anymore and am lazy. But if people srsly want dem medalz...

Myth of the Zodiac has been released. This was my GiaD project, and I must say it is probably the greatest thing I have personally coded. I had tight squeezes and times where I had to use certain methods to save time. Overall, it was a great learning experience. Now that I've made it available to download, hopefully GiaD will be judged soon enough...

Video/Graphics Cards?

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:46:32 +0000

Hey, I'm trying to figure out more about video cards. I want to know how to look for a good graphics card, how to know the terms used when buying one, and how to interpret the difference in the numbers in the names like Nvidia 460 and ATI Radeon 4250. I've already made a blog post about it (http://www.byond.com/members/ Ganing?command=view_post&post=120884), but basically what I'm looking for is a guide to graphics cards for newbs. I know about all the other parts of the computer, but my hardware class barely touched graphics cards.

Tell Me About Graphics/Video Cards

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:03:22 +0000

Hey gaiz, so in my computer hardware class, we briefly went over graphics cards, and I honestly don't know how to choose a good one, from an alright one, from a bad one. I know you have ATI and Nvidia as the manufacturers. But how do I know what to look for? What are the standard numbers I should be trying to get? Like I know if I'm buying RAM, I want DDR3 and 4GB or more.

Basically can someone explain the standards of graphics cards, how to read the numbers (Like ATI Radeon HD 4250, Nvidia GeForce 460) And explain all this from a newb stand point on video cards?

I also need to know the following terms and what a good standard is for them:
Steam processors
Core Speed (I believe this is the GPU's clock speed right?)
Effective Memory Clock
Memory Size
Memory Interface
Memory Type
RAMDAC

And I'm sure there are more things to consider when buying a video card. I just want to know how to look for a good one that I can buy whenever I make my desktop. Thanks!

The Most Efficient Way To Code This

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:22:11 +0000

I've been trying to find an efficient way to code different sizes above 32x32 in the TILED map format, and right now I've came up with something that's about 128x96. Let me explain:

It's basically an attack that walks in your direction. The problem I have is that if I code the attack I have to place each one where they go for each side. That's a lot for me to do.

My thoughts: Is it possible to make it where the attack is just one line, and the icons behind it are overlayed and set with a pixel_x or pixel_y of -32, -64 and such. Only thing is, I'd have to edit the pixel_y and pixel_x depending on if the icon is going north, south, east or west. (Also, the icon looks the same in all four directions)

Help would be appreciated!

New Congress Law

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:54:38 +0000

"S.978, a new bill in Congress, makes it a felony to post videos that contain copyright-infringing music, with up to five years in prison for violators."

So if I make a guitar cover of a Judas Priest song, or a CCR song, I go to prison just for wanting to show my skills on a guitar? I generally don't cuss on my posts but fuck you congress. What's next? I can't play CDs in my car because the music is copyrighted?

They can't stop us from posting videos, all I have to do is change my country in Youtube to Canada and I'd be good. This shows how ignorant things be getting. You can't stop what happens on the internet. If congress actually tries, that will make us no better than China. I don't see how we can say stuff about China's internet laws, and then they are saying they are going to put someone in jail for putting music in a video.

Your Favorite Programs?

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:25:13 +0000

Hello BYOND, I was just wondering if we could talk about software. What programs do you REALLY like. And by REALLY, I mean that if you got a new computer tomorrow, what programs would you start downloading?

Here's the list of special programs to me:
Windows Live Messenger and Movie Maker
CCleaner
Defraggler
Speccy
BitTorrent
TeamViewer
AVG
Dropbox
And OfficeOrg if I don't have MS Office.

I also like to set up a dual boot for Linux. Just because dual boots are cool and it freaks my friends out when I bring up a new OS they really don't know about.