NetMinder

The only firearm I keep on property is my single shot 20ga. While it lacks the "click-clack" of the pump action, eyeing someone down the flip-barrel is a bit intimidating in its own right.
"See that son, mirror shine on the inside of the barrel. Be a damn shame getting it dirty if someone were to be less than a gentleman to my daughter."

Wouldnt that be ironic if GP has twins during Double XP weekend.

Anyways, yeah.. sounds like a bad case of nesting.

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Anyways...

I posted this on BMT when it happened..
Son: Whats the banana power do?
Me: Banana power?
Son: Yeah the banana power.
Me: (points at screen) That one?
Son: Yes.
Me: Super Jump?
Son: Yeah that one. Why does it look like a banana power?

(In retro-spect, yes the Yellow arcing icon for Super Jump does look like a banana.)

Also a favorite is the "Clock Power". It must be used whenever its available. Clock Power being the green clock icon for Gaes of Kind One. Since it is +Rech, it does make sence... unlike the banana power... er I mean Super Jump.

However he does it, its just trig and math in the end. You can define movements for part of the curve, then the next, add acceleration or decleration; again.. just math. The end result is no doubt pretty cool, but its probably just a custom tool he made. To hand plot all those points would be an exercise in futility.

(and angular velocity is maintained as to not "death spiral". Inward velocity is a function of point B. I assume a 2-D where point A is on the outside at psuedo angle 0 and the foci in the center. Point B's pseudo angle is then calculated (currently only clockwise). That gives me the angular distance to travel over the time interval. Once that is known, everything else just falls into place. Adding acceration would complicate it a bit, but not insurmountable. It would be easier to use camera scaling for acceleration and decleration if the object in view was not moving (accelerated or decelerated animation). I think we are digressing a bit from the thread,)

The camera movement is pretty simple. I tossed together a quick and dirty program that will let me do a single 360deg spiral from point a to point b using point C as the camera foci over a given time frame. Once you graph out the trig, the rest is just simple programming. I could probably add more detail if I ever need it.

Integration into a useful editor vs. crude cut and paste... thats different, but C&P works for me. I haven't really had the need for spiraling yet tho, but for a 2-D circle it works quite well.

They are the same thing actually. The war-walls just go "on top" of the zone boundry/war-wall. If i could catch that command, it would probably work for any map.

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You made one mistake...

My tank is Stone/SS, not Stone/Stone.

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There
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrAktT71Lk

Fixed. Got you corrected, Pep's costume in the credits updated (and the resolution of that piece, the original compression killed it) and got Zloth added to the credits.
I cant seem to just put a new version of the same file into YouTube, so its a "repsonce")

Net

Wait for a zone invasion and demorecord as the rikti "turn them off". Im sure there is a demofile command that turns them off.

Here is a legal question:

We have been provided the audio zone tracks for CoX outside of the game, yet they are still "copyrighted" material. Some of the tracks are CoV, some belong CoH. Are we free to use the those audio tracks in our submissions (assuming that all other outside music sources that we do not own are forbidden)?

Almost had a vocubulary enhancing moment today. Got my mp3 player going strong in the car (with FM transmitter) with my son in the back seat, and I must have hit shuffle because it went from his favorite tracks (like Harder Better Faster Stronger, etc..) to the Avenue Q soundtrack (The Internet is for Porn, Schadenfrude, etc...). Scrambling for the pause button while in evening traffic. Super Reflexes FTW!

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Yeah, that's illegal in Canada.. "Washing out mouths with soap is a form of abuse".. GRRRR.

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You'd be surprised how effective Tabasco sauce is...potty mouths and lying. And it's legal!

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Wow! You use that too. Cured my son of his spitting habit almost in one sitting.

"Coping" and "dealing with it" are very different. Especially at that age. The worst part is that you can't rush it, but one day, out of the blue, they are gonna have the realization of it and an emotional collapse. Then they will be able to deal with it; and life will move on.
Having lost several close family members at a young age, everyone said how strong and brave i was at the funerals, then, on an obscure Wednesday years later, well... lets just say it was an epic rant/rave/tantrum/swear-fest (i think the cloud of obscenities still lingers). Then I was cool with it again.
Same thing with a friend's family whose father passed away last year. The children were more in shock for a while, then the explosion, and then back to normal. Just how it goes.

Which is why I dont let my son near the hockey bench when either me or my wife are playing.

And somehow words that kids dont know the meaning to are inherently hilarious and must be repeated as loudly and often as possible.

There were 2 of us in the All-tanker States TF. You can look through the video to see them.

Yeah, as I remembered that about 30mins after recording all the footage with FRAPS. I really didnt want to watch the entire TF again. I prefer the 3min version over the 3hr version. I ended up just using UltraEdit for all the demo editting for credits because of all the emote/action editting.

I do need to go back and add you to the credits, Zloth, as i used the Demo Launcher 2 alot.

The "ghost" bug is something that I should have fixed but with the size of the demo files, I just left it alone.

A couple of "easter eggs" in the opening and closing tho:
Back Alley Brawler was moved to Kings Row from Galaxy... because thats where Tanker Tuesday is held each month (and he is the Tanker Patron).
Each of the tankers in the opening are in the spots of the Suriving Eight (+Ms Liberty -States, but they are related so its close enough).
And lastly, Pep is standing at Portal Corp during the closing credits while the "Portal Song" plays.

And the native format is 1280x960, and comes in at a hefty 400Mb. The smallest 640x480 i could manage is 26.5Mb. Still both are better than YouTube's compression.

We did the States TF with all tankers.... and I captured a good chunk of it, made some spiffy opening and ending credits, tossed some music in there and uploaded it to youtube (cause its 1.6MB too big for my personal account in its native form). Hopefully I can find a place to host a higher quality version).

Anyways:

http://www.youtube.com/v/UhW_zpI7R9o
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhW_zpI7R9o

Enjoy.

net

Ah yes, nothing like a post-blowout blowout. Im not sure how infants alter the laws of physics, but way more seems to come out than goes in.

HBD Star_Fire!

And yeah, the start of crawling is the beginning of real terror for parents. Up to that point you can put them somewhere, and thats where they will be.

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shouldn't the internet be shut down from 9p to 5a? instead of 9a to 5p?

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Why? Im home between 9p and 5a (and currently the only 2 computers that she can use are on the main floor, not upstairs0. She isnt exactly fleet of foot... that and the dog will probably make noise if she's sneaking around). 9a - 5p.. im not home to monitor her (and i dont trust her). Its up during early morning and evening so my wife can use the inet and my son the Wii.

There in lies the difference. If she was scoring solid As and Bs, I would be much more tolerent of it. However, failing a class or 2 and some Cs is what I have to deal with. Academics first.. hobbies second.

Way too happy folks. Allow me to inject reality.
2 children:
Step-Daughter: Looks 16. Is really 13. Acts like she's 9. Barely passing the 7th grade. Poor shape. Bad hygine. Wastes countless hours surfing the net for Anime art or drawing anime art (average art talent at best). Gonna get a rude surprise when she realizes the wireless connection in the house is now disabled 9a-5p during the week.
Son: Almost 6. Incredibly impulsive. Can crunch numbers well above grade level. Athletic, but a little reckless (4 stitches currently). Fearless, alomst to a fault. Prefers apples to french fries. Likes broccoli (ick). Loves Wii Sports.

I guess i never tried it before, but I noticed the "destroyable" items in a mayhem dont show up in the demo playback. They are in the demofile bu they just dont appear on the screen.
Anyone else see this and have a fix?

Im guess Posi fixed Empath on the side, and when they realized it, they immediately pulled the patch to remove his fix.

I havent had the chance to check with i12 if they fixed the geometry bug with the second wall of Eden. But the second wall is much worse than the first if ya have to fight it.