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Akai listens to Maverick for bot advice!

Yeah I can imagine that. *Switches the last person to join* "Huh?" *Someone from that team quits. Teams get uneven and the same guy is switched again.* "wtf?" The bot is needed but it needs to work in a way that causes least inconvenience. I like the safe switch idea.

I've got an RPG campaign in the works too Its Paranoia XP based. I'll quote the blurb: More background avalible in this newbie guide: http://www.paranoia-live.net/content.php?article.6 I need 6-8 troubleshooters. Don't worry if you don't know anything Thats the normal state of affairs in Paranoia. Knowing too much is treason. Positions still open: Team Leader (Gives orders and tactics) Equipment Guy (Maintains equipment, weapons and bots) Hygiene Officer (Maintains cleanliness) Loyalty Officer (Ensures there are no traitors in the group) Happiness Officer (Offers counselling and drugs. Lots of drugs) Recording Officer (Videos everything and handles comms) - Optional - Pilot/Driver (Handles vehicles) - Optional - Doctor (Handles science and medication) In Paranoia the aim is usually to be the only PC remaining at the debrief because all the other characters suffered unfortunate accidents or were revealed as traitors and had to be terminated. While happiness officer or hygiene officer doesn't SOUND very promising, you have a great deal of power in your particular specialism. For example you can demand a surprise cleanliness check even in the middle of a firefight or right after someone accidentally got shoved down a garbage chute and offer severe penaulties if they fail. And you can add that to your little dossier of evidence on the traitor. Post a first name (your character's one) and the position you want if you're interested. Hidden details such as Secret Society info and mutant powers will be pmed to you.

Easy! You rotate your ship image 90 degrees. The problem is, you now fly sideways too

http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/ It needs some work to adapt it to SS but potentially this can be used to make life very easy LAYERED map making, LVZ placement, tile making... All we need is a competant coder to do the adapting. Volunteers?

I'm going to be gone for a while... I've joined another gaming community with a new name. But I'll be back. Don't celebrate too hard...

TCPA ROFL. Silly silly people. Implementation has already begun, you just haven't noticed yet. I think Mr. Ekted mentioned it before. And it will be subverted every step of the way because it attempts to turn a computer into a glorified CD player :)This might be suitable for buisnesses and the military but it is not what we want. A major player in the computer industry is the games industry (its whats pushing the technology at any rate). Imagine a gaming scene without mods, scripts, skinning, mapping etc. and no new talent emerging because people can't learn to program, except formally. Imagine computing without free programming being availible. Its like trying to invent a pen you can't draw with, only write. If they ever succeed, people won't want to use it any more. Almost any sort of scripting can be used maliciously (examples include the microsoft office macro language, javascript, activex even batch files) but to remove it would remove the very essence of what computers were created for: automating tasks. Its the ultimate banning system and ultimately the cheater always wins.

Global warming should not be confused with air pollution, two seperate issues. Studies show that global warming is happening so fast that even if we stopped all air pollution the earth would continue to warm considerably. No amount of government policy will be able to stop global warming (probably because we aren't the cause). This isn't to say that we aren't accountable for any of the global warming but its kind of a moot point now, we can't do anything about it, it is time to accept the changes as inevitable. This has nothing to do with ozone layer depletion and acid rain etc. We can subs!@#$%^&*ute plastics such as polyethene or polythene (note spelling) by changing through redesign (we can subs!@#$%^&*ute most of it anyway) providing we have a cheap power source and the expensive oil can be used to smooth the transition. Our main problem is with agriculture It took a stroke a nobel prize standard genius to come up with the Haber process (of course he didn't get the prize since the work was so heavily linked with the military). Anyone want to explain how we're meant to make fertiliser from nuclear waste? Every "solution" seems to be "wait and someone will do something in time". Again I'm asking people to look at history.

Studies show that global warming has ceased to be artificially reversible (for practical intentions). Switching energy source will have no major impact on our current rate of global warming, also its important to note that it takes a full 15 years to work out if there has Been a change in global warming. As such, global warming falls out of the scope of this debate. Let me go through this one last time: Solar energy is NOT viable because we don't have the time, money and locations availible to make it useful. Nuclear energy is NOT viable because we don't have the time or the money to make it useful nor do we have the correct political climate for it to be a likely choice. We can NOT use hydrogen as an energy source until fusion research is usable. We can NOT use unviable energy sources for the production of hydrogen to subs!@#$%^&*ute our current fuels! Has anyone looked at previous changes in powersource? As far as I know, all previous crisis have either been averted by a switch to a new form of energy or ended in disaster.

Hydrogen does not occur naturally in gaseous form. You need to make it. You can do this from fossil fuels or electrolysis which uses electricity generated by oil powered power stations. Hence, hydrogen is NOT a powersource unless you use it in a form of fusion. Regardless of where else we can get oil from, the GLOBAL supply still runs out in 30 years time max.

Yes but in the mean time, we're screwed Sure our grandchildren might live in happier times but we are going to be in big trouble. And this is !@#$%^&*uming the government or someone invests this sort of resources in new power/fuel sources. Wax: Please go read. Solar != practical and != good on the environment. Hydrogen is not an energy source until we get the fusion reactors working. We have made no significant progress in the last 2 decades. We have 1 decade to complete research and implement it. Fuel cells take hydrogen derived from OIL or another power source and convert it back to electricity. Its a storage medium. Nuclear powerstations are STILL being decommissioned and the fear of terrorists is probably going to raise lots of kneejerk protests. Also we can't afford it, nor can we build enough of them in time + we can't use it directly to fuel planes and cars. Our cities are built around car use. Alcohol requires VAST amounts of land and it requires more energy to produce than it gives. In other words its another storage medium.

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This one silly. 3D transform a la fluffy is a really bad filter that adds a perspective effect. I suppose it MIGHT work at a pinch but I wouldn't want to use it personally.

Welcome back.

Someone review it other than me.

Like I said, pay me and I will.

Continuum... supports.... 32bit colour.... The problem is in SSME which doesn't.

You need to draw the additional frames you need. No subs!@#$%^&*ute, sorry. BTW, Akai's proggie just adds shadows and other faux 3D gimmicks, it won't give you a rotated effect

Your point has a flaw. In order to use an alternative material such as gl!@#$%^&* or metal, we would require power to manufacture it. This power is traditionally derived from oil and we don't have a good replacement at hand. A metal lunchbox would actually consume more oil to produce and transport than a plastic one. Its the economics that hurt us. Suddenly we're faced with a scenario where much of our technology is going to become economically unviable. We suddenly can't afford to power our powerstations, manufacture our metals and gl!@#$%^&* cheaply, cheap fertiliser will dissapear, the car will be too expensive for the middle class person to run. Due to the current size of our society, we can't simply switch to steam because we don't have enough trees and coal for everyone. Oil is at the heart of our technology because it provided so much power so readily and chemically we could do amazing things with it. Now unless we discover a new, more readily availible source of energy and implement it FAST, we'll have to switch to less availible sources of power. Its what we call supply and demand. Our demand for power is very high. Our supply is suddenly going to be very small. Consequently, less people are going to be able to afford the level of energy we're used to. True we can stretch it a little bit with good design and technology but basically we're going to go through a very bad patch where most people are suddenly very poor.

Does anyone speak !@#$%^&*embler?

Here is my smoother take on a continuum font subs!@#$%^&*ute. It is san-serif and bolder but it has some of the same problems as lovewar's font. I think my colours work somewhat better though.

Why not just lighten the image yourself ophie?

I'll do it if you pay me. And I mean this.

What would be more intersting would be having it alert you when your friends went online/offline and what arena (if not private) they're in.

Er -*BAD WORD*-o? 30 years is the BEST CASE SCENARIO. Worst case scenario is next year we find out we've already peaked. The CONSERVATIVE estimate is 10-15 years. The earth is 3/4 ocean, not 7/8ths. You make setting up oil rigs sound easy and finding new undersea oil fields sound a doddle. We have around 10 years to make enough oil rigs and supply lines to meet with our global demand, !@#$%^&*uming we can find enough oil. We will need to find new fields every 10 years after that. How long do you think we can sustain that? Answer: we can't and we'd just be delaying the inevitable. The estimates assume that our demand for power keeps going at our current rate. If we started using more power the estimate drops to a much shorter time. THAT would be pessimistic but not unthinkable. Scruff: Eastern countries aren't doing much better. Developing countries are DEVELOPING. That means they're doing a lot of construction work and using a lot of natural resources, particularly oil. What's more, they don't have the same level of technology implemented so they don't have a lot of "green" car engines or ecofriendly fridges and the sheer scale of steel use is scary to behold. Basically their industrial revolution has just started while ours has ended. We're not talking tidal waves and meteors. We're talking about suddenly finding out everything is suddenly very expensive and that we can no longer travel, that loads of people are potentially unemployed and new infrastructure won't be in place for at least a decade. The website predicts war, at least on a lesser scale if the developing countries don't decide to go for whats left of the oil. The guy says he is an eternal optimist. If anyone in the UK can remember the oil protesters, remember it took only half a week for all our cars to grind to a halt as the supply was cut for about 3 days. Ok, we have some reserves for an emergency but they aren't going to last a year. They definately aren't going to last 10 years. No web pe!@#$%^&*ion is going to help. No amount of "using less plastic bags and buying smaller cars" is going to find a solution. If anyone can find a solution, please let me know.