Masterdan's BYOND website

Aparently there's some interest in me out there

Tue, 06 May 2008 01:45:41 GMT

I dont know whether to be flattered or further disappointed with the lackluster community we have around here, that not unlike spamming decompiled resources or RSC decompilers with my name on them, i have had apparently my publicly disclosed information "leaked". I dont know whether or not its significant to disclose something found on the yellow pages or not, but i have to say the real surprise is that apparently DarkWizard PAID, and no im not kidding, he PAID BigBoiD to find and disclose this information. Ironically the one instance of it i found still intact was incorrect so i think im fine.

I dont know what to say, at the very core of any bitter argument or attack on somebody's character there is the dispute about who is the bigger loser. I dont think ive ever bothered to photoshop a picture of anybody in an attempt to "pwn" them on the internet, nor have I ever paid somebody to look up personal information on the internet. I dont know what type of lame posse bigboiD is affiliated with, i know hes been one of the guys from the same obnoxious group of people who have always managed to get in my face on many an occasion. Im not all that worried about the information given out, what I am concerned with is the amount of Internet Angst i have managed to create. I dont fully understand when trying to get laughs out of me got so desperate that you guys started memorizing quotations of things ive said, when it got sad enough that messing with photoshop to make me look silly or when it got pathetic enough that DarkWizard who ive never understood what his problem is, and i thought he was a convicted pedophile which does concern me, but regardless, would try to leak sensitive information about me in an attempt to get me harassed.

If you are so inclined to desperately learn about my personal life, despite the fact that it is irrelevant here. I just finished my 3rd year of my program, for the first two years i was in a double major with computer science but I have decided id rather finish in 4 years and have opted to stick with Accounting which really doesnt mix well with computer science anyway. Im taking a spring Auditing course to ensure i finish on time since a double degree sets you up to a 5 year program. I like Accounting more because its a managment degree, it will put me in a career in which i get to talk to people and whats more I get to have lots of opportunities as accountants have a strong understanding of how an entire business works. I will one day become a Chartered Accountant, which is a designation you recieve after having finished the 4 year program and working 2 years and passing a very scary test. Chartered Accountants make buttloads of money but thats not really my largest appeal to the job. I hope to work in the oil and gas sector which is huge in Calgary, but i still have some work to do before i get to do that.

I live at home and intend to until my degree is completed, the housing market in Calgary went bat-shit crazy in the last few years and its pretty much impossible for somebody my age to afford to move out without help from the parents. On that note, i know these twins who moved out from home recently, they were looking for a roommate and asked me. This was very exciting except for the fact that i cant afford it, this is significant because it is the most depressing missed opportunity of my life, or at least top 5 material for sure, it is not every day that you get the chance to move in with two gorgeous twins. Uhmm, more personal stuff right.. I dont have any animals, my mom is either very allergic or a liar and very scared of most animals.

I say this because she is terrified of dogs and cats and it has been a constant suspicion of mine that she is a liar and not allergic at all. So ive only ever had hamsters which while adorably cute only last around 2 years. So after the second hamster (both affectionatly named "Gophey" for their resemblance to gophers) our family reverted to a petless household. I have three best friends, James, Kayley and Nicole, i could not pick a number 1 from them for a number of reasons. I dont really like sports, i pretend I do because Calgary loves its hockey and we just recently got pwned in the 7th game of the first round of the playoffs which I had to follow. So i dont like sports but i do like movies a great deal, i love going out for dinner at interesting places and i enjoy the bars and clubs once and a while (as soon as the last memory of a hangover fades). Uhhm, i dont know why my real life fascinates people but im trying to throw the desperate masses a bone. Theres nothing incredibly interesting about me, I date periodically but currently Im single but by my own admission is my fault for focusing on the same person instead of playing the field. Uhh theres not a lot to me really, I belong to a business club called the personal portfolio management group, (PPMG for short) as the director of communications. Its a fun little club which ill be going on a little trip with this weekend which is described as a club retreat and im a little excited for that.

I like making games on BYOND as a hobby that i usually do late at night when i have nothing better to do but sleep, I dont watch anime anymore nor have I since highschool ended. I do however keep up with the manga of Naruto and Bleach since they have a Heroes style cliffhanger continuity going on where I need to know what happens next as if its some sort of horrible addiction. Nobody i know is aware that i read manga and even once when i was drinking at some little house with a friend of mine and some 5/10 friend of hers we actually had the awquard situation of channel surfing, finding Naruto and proceeding to watch it for the sake of being amazed at how lame it is. So to be fair I do see both perspectives of it, watching the horrible naruto dub with people who dont watch anime for the sake of laughing while drunk was certainly funny and hypocritical at the same time.

For those hoping to stumble across some big secret like finding out that im actually really covered in acne or something exciting like that, goodluck on your journey. Your quest to find out the personal life of somebody on the internet is honestly a fairly large waste of time. The phone numbers ive seen posted have been unfortunately for you, incorrect. My family is not a big fan of landlines, everybody simply owns their own cell phone (or in my moms case 2). We do have a landline but i dont think we are listed in any directory because we used to get shitty spam recorded scams called in to us. Goodluck though, i think this entire trying to upset me over the internet attempt is pathetic though, I have to say, but if you guys are that fascinated with my personal life you wont have that hard of a time getting it from me. Its not embarrassing, Im a management student and im not as obsessed with computers or programming as many people here are, Ive never claimed to be the best programmer on BYOND but due to a lack of competition I am certainly far better than average. My point to being on BYOND was never to gloat about my superiority, and i must have seriously offended some people to get this type of attention. Regardless, I do like who i am, what im doing career-wise and how I do in my social life. If you would like to try and dig deep in an attempt to get dirt out of me, i saved you some time. Theres really nothing more to know about me. I hope you all enjoyed wasting a few minutes of your life you'll never get back, learning useless facts about somebody you dont even know. However its better than wasting hours of your life speculating about that person I think, so i did you a favor.

PS: Doing a facebook search there are lots of Dan van Kampens in the world, even more interesting my name means "from Kampen" and there is in fact a city in the Netherlands called Kampen. Goodluck anyway guys.

Regarding GOA V1.30

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:06:31 GMT

I know, this should go without saying, but here goes.

It was an April Fools Joke!! Notice a few tip offs, the post was made April 1, the current version is 1.15, so for 1.30 to come out would require us to skip 1.20! Also Byond5.0 was an april fools joke that took you to the rickroll video! So guys, im sorry for those of you who somehow managed to get fooled by that announcement! and Im so sorry for laughing so hard at your excitement for a 3D naruto Byond game, i am. However just for the few of you that to this day page me asking me if 1.30 is coming out soon, its not! Gosh you guys are so nice and gullible and ill definitely do april fools jokes in the future too, but from now on im going to post on April the 2nd that it was in fact a joke! I thought it was obvious.. Happy April guys, :) thanks for making my month with your frantic excitement... My laughs are tarnished only by the fact that i did make a few of you sad because you got your hopes up for what appears to be 23 days of anticlimatic anticipation. :) You guys are the most supportive fans ever, but some of you are just tooo funny.

Examples:
April 16: "http://www.byond.com/members/Masterdan/files/goa1.3.PNG is this really true?!"
April 3:" was it a joke?"

Naruto GOA 1.30

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:01:08 GMT

Naruto GOA 1.30 is to be released later today for beta testing.

GOA 1.30 was actually coded in completion a few weeks ago but because it used the new BYOND5 (http://www.byond.com/developer/forum/?id=627859&view=0) L33T2DM Compiler and therefor was incompatible with BYOND4 so we had to wait till BYOND5 came out (Which happened today!). Now that we have converted all of Naruto GOA to Byond5 it will be required that you download the new version immediately or you will not be able to play and youll want to be able to get in exactly at release as its going to be very crowded and exciting! On top of converting to BYOND5.0 ive added a series of new features to the new update most of which are from taking advantage of BYOND5's capabilities.

Feature list for GOA1.30
-Factions are finished, a series of hidden hunderground bases have been made so that you can conquer them (one per faction!), these come complete with bed/shopkeeper/barber.
-Curse Seal has been added, to get curse seal talk to Orochimaru who I have placed in Cha no kuni
-New training methods!
--Logs, there are 4 types of logs to train your 4 stats
--Meditation: the best way by far to train since swamping when it comes to watching youtube or talking on msn while power leveling.

Using BYOND 5.0 has been great as the new syntax to code is much easier and much more flexible, also as you may have heard BYOND5.0 supports full 3D now. So and this is the biggest update by far for NarutoGOA, we are now converting to full 3D (A few things like Mist village and Chuunin exams are not mapped yet).

Stand by for release sometime in the next little while!! (Get BYOND5.0!!)

Screenshots:
(1)http://www.byond.com/members/Masterdan/files/goa1.3.PNG

Demo Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU&fmt=7

Loginscreen-bug / Input bug is fixed in next version!!!

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:52:30 GMT

YEESSS 4 years of this bug, 4 years with nothing but hacky workarounds and finally, finally a cure. Im so happy.

http://www.byond.com/developer/forum/?id=624580&view=0

not that im jumping the gun or anything.

Barack Obama

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:20:21 GMT

Some info:

He never supported the Iraq war, during 2002 during the ultimatum to Saddam from GWB Barack protested the idea of a war in Iraq actively and has been opposed to it since.

He entered Harvard Law School in 1988.
(In 1990, The New York Times reported his election as the Harvard Law Review's "first black president in its 104-year history".)

He has two best selling books, the most recent of which "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" was published in 2006. The man is obviously very intelligent.

Economically, Barack Obama is not a fool. The slander that he is a liberal fool who cant understand economics is ridiculous. He supports simply removing unfeasible tax cuts that George W Bush gave to people who earn over 1 million a year, a tax cut nearly 160 times greater than that received by middle-income Americans. Barack Obama simply believes in tax shelters for working class Americans to encourage economic growth. Taxes in essence will be moved from poor to rich, which is more sensible anyway. Barack Obama is simply an advocate of cutting wasteful federal spending, such as the immensely questionable subsidization of Oil and Gas companies who are posting record profits. Barack Obama believes in feasible and sustainable economic incentives such as tax credits and investing in infrastructure. He also believes in cracking down on credit fraud and questionable mortgage practices (he was pushing for legislation against questionable credit practices before the sub-prime mortgage crisis sent the US housing market into a recession.)

He is against the war in iraq and believes in a phased withdrawal, which is fair because it is unrealistic to expect the country to not fall into chaos if you withdrew all at once. His plans for withdrawal is over a 16 month period with excessive diplomatic support towards the Iraq government to take care of themselves.

He is pro-choice, believes in giving women the right to choose what decision to make in regards to unwanted pregnancy. This is supposed to be the land of the free after all.

Unlike other candidates Obama's campaign refuses to accept contributions from Washington lobbyists and political action committees.

47 million Americans including nearly 9 million children lack health insurance: Barack Obama intends to introduce universal health care, something that the USA can more than afford. By making sure everybody has coverage this ensures that people will be more actively making doctor visits and checking up on symptoms. This means that more serious diseases will be caught while still treatable, long debilitating illnesses like cancer cost the economy far more indirectly than free healthcare will directly. Longer life expectancy, better health, and whats more important, taking away the negative incentives in US society today of not getting checked up, for health insurance companies to not allow treatment, and the incentive for doctors that you being sick or taking drugs makes them more money. The current healthcare system simply imposes burden on demographics that are poor, such as the elderly or the demographics who are financially burdened, such as those dealing with serious illness.

�The cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and states of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on. . . . If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we'd see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.� -Barack Obama

Under President Bush, the federal debt has increased from $5.7 trillion to $8.8 trillion, an increase of more than 50 percent. Combine that with tax cuts for the rich which will cost the nation 2.3 trillion.

Debt has interest, excessive spending under the bush administration is crippling the American economy. Barack Obama gets it, it bothers me when people from byond think they get economics and politics better than Barack Obama, his policy, speaches and ideas are centrist, they are feasible and they are intelligent solutions to the problems in your country.

Make the right decision, Barack '08.

Right-Wing Conservatives Scared of Arguing?

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:38:14 GMT

Got banned from posting on SilkWizards member page after a fairly pathetic retort by him on an argument about the upcoming election. Contrary to his belief no Canadian has an inferiority complex to the US of A. We know you guys affect our economy and we know your politics affect the world. My issue with this election? Hillary is a Cow and John McCain is a warhawk, from wikipedia:

(He is generally regarded as a hawk in foreign policy. When a questioner said, "President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years." McCain responded, "Make it a hundred. We've been in Japan for 60 years, we've been in South Korea for 50 years or so.)

He's a respectable man but the last thing your country needs is another Hawk in office for 4-8 years. Hillary is a nutjob and Barrack Obama is by far the most charismatic and intelligible speaker ive seen in a presidency run since i started following it 12 years ago.

Good luck with your elections, dont let the silly right wing nut jobs convince you that Obama will ruin your economy, the right wing nut-jobs already have! spending money in foreign conflict and mailing out checks to "stimulate the economy" is not good conservative government! Vote for change!

Obama 08

Im not one to let somebody get the last comment in with some personal slandering just because they have the almighty ban button on their blog. I refuse to believe BYOND is full of right wing loonies! I pray to god there are more sensible people out there!

Silkwizards general argument:
No Social Services
+ Lots of Wars
+ No Taxation
???
Profit!

Lol Wow am i really tired or..

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:53:27 GMT

http://www.byond.com/members/MrChex

I go to add a game to a guild and this comes up as one of the suggestions. I know its 3 in the morning but lol wow. Sweet name for a guild!

... oh my god. The Wii is going to have a good year

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:24:18 GMT

No this isnt about smash bros brawl. Although that is going to be one game ill end up playing ALOT.

No this is about the new starwars game ive been in love with ever since i saw the tech demonstration about how AI and materials are handled (wood splinters, metal dents, glass shatters)

Oh the newest news that probably isnt fresh but i just heard. This game will finally do it, it will allow you to use a Wiimote as a lightsaber and duel other people. Im officially done with Wii boxing.
from: http://wiinintendo.net/2007/09/18/the-force-unleashed-wii/
"Star Wars The Force Unleashed

LucasArts has revealed that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will come to Wii next spring and you will be able to wield the Wii Remote as a Lightsaber. Now that�s what we�re talking about.

You can wield the Wii Remote as a lightsaber while using the Nunchuk controller to torment others with Force powers(what I wanted from the begging).

The game�s story is set during the era between Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV A New Hope.

The Wii version, in development by Krome Studios, will also feature an exclusive duel mode in which players can compete head-to-head with their friends. Whether this si online remains to be seen, but we doubt it.

�Wii is a great platform for The Force Unleashed, because the console�s motion-oriented controllers really bring the game to life,� said Jim Ward, President of LucasArts. �We�ve worked hard to make the Wii version of the game unique in order to truly let you unleash the Force.�"

Ahh Server Manager 0.20

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:59:24 GMT

This is something im releasing because it is in fact useful. However version 0.10 was a very simple application that seemed to do what it was supposed to fine within DM entirely and was clean and efficient. The problem? Twofold.

1.) Byond has a really crappy limitation to Export() when trying to do a ping, that is, there is no parameter for a timeout. So if the server has indeed crashed but the process is still in existance which is typical for windows (Dreamdaemon has crashed click here to see why etc etc). The code would indefinately lock up if this happened because it would wait on a ping that had no timeout, you would think a ping request would have a timeout but I assumed and that kicked me in the ass.

2.) Windows is annoying, when DreamDaemon has crashed it will still sit there broken, hogging up the port and being lame. This annoying fact means that even after circumventing the export issue using some spawn trickery, the game would be rehosted only to FAIL to open on the port.

So this is my solution, a server manager that requires some minor installation to work if you dont have taskkill.exe in your Windows/System32 (i had it, i have XPpro, i hear XPhome doesnt have it so i felt compelled to make a simple bat file.) Then i use the shell command to run a second bat file which taskkill's both dreamdaemon and the process for those pesky crash popup notifications. This current version works, there are some limitations.

If your hosting more than one environment, then as soon as one crashes it will take them both down, im still looking for a way to within Shell() on windows specify to a specific process using a specific port.

You need to run the environment in dreamseeker but you also need to host it (ON INVISIBLE!! and be sure to disallow new connections!!) in order to set it to Trusted. If its not then blah youll get a popup that asks for access to the bat file which ends the daemon process.

So what im saying is, heres the new version. Im including the source file so that there are no security concerns. I hope the few steps (which are in a readme file in this package so dont worry just download away). Im not asking that you use it, your not doing me a favor by using it. However i do feel this is a needed tool so im sharing.

Masterdans-Server-Tool.zip

:S

New Layout Review

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:30:04 GMT

The functionality is great, the new search feature works MUCH better, thank GOD. Finally the navigation bar is on the top of all pages and that inconsistant left hand index is gone. (some pages didnt even have a member pages link). However i do agree with the vast majority that the Orange part of the page is ugly as sin. There are lots of colors that complement blue, needless to say Orange complements very few colors, unless you need a halloween festive skin. I recomend it be changed to a black with grey text boxes or work with the blue theme and make it darkblue with black boxes or something like that.