Recent content by pladams9

I don't claim to be an expert (duh. Who is?) but my opinion is that any punishment could lead children to lie in order to avoid it. If they don't care to avoid it, what kind of a punishment is that? That isn't to say that I think spanking is the best punishment, but it's human nature to avoid...

Game addicts suck at life. I know a kid who stole his grandparent's credit card for a subscription to Star Wars Galaxies.

Well, it couldn't really be a magnetic force or anything similar because those forces act in a general way upon everything around them. It, and most other forces such as gravity, wouldn't distinguish between different DNA strands. They're all just a jumble of atoms.

I think that the Darwin Awards are going out of style... It seems to me that its all the smart people getting killed off. The only way that could happen is if its a conspiracy. And the only way to have a conspiracy is to have a maniacal genius behind it. Therefore... aliens! Yeah... I just...

Well, actually it would be a gamble for anyone wanting to donate for publicity. There's always the chance he'll be convicted guilty and that's bad publicity for a supposedly neutral third party such as a soda manufacturer. Now, it wouldn't matter as much for some edgy and contraversial. I...

On the other hand: low-rise jeans and whale tails.

I got 2600~ but I cheated: I used the scroll bars on my lappy's touchpad.

What's stupid about Dragonforce?

So here it is, extracted and refined from a dream I had last night: King's Quest, Maniac Mansion, and F.E.A.R. all rolled into one. Oh yeah. Basically, I've thought for a long time that we need the King's Quest-type adventure game back. The thouht always brought my back to this: stupid...

Probably because the dolphin's eye makes it look sickly.

After looking at it more carefully, I have decided that my suggestion is impossible with the GUI. There is no way to detect or change if a tree is blighted. You can check and change the Blight on terrain. Also, even if you could change the trees individually, I'm not sure if all the trees...

It would be fairly easy to make a trigger that checks every tree for blight and change it accordingly, but I imagine it would slow things down a bit depending on the size of the map and the number of trees.

That would work, but would be cumbersome in melee-type maps in which you train your heroes. You would have to make a trigger listing all the heroes. You may as well have the trigger check the Hero later when they pick up the item. I'm building a scenario map so it doesn't matter all that much...

I am trying to make a tome that gives a permanent +3 bonus to the Hero's primary attribute. I don't know of one that already does this, if you do, please tell me. If you do not know of one, I'd like to know if anyone knows of a way to detect what the Hero's primary attribute is. Seems like...

I would say that you have to either buy a karaoke version, download one, or make your own using MIDI/recorded instruments. I think it would be nearly impossible to remove the vocals from a song without ruining it unless they were on a different track of some sort. I don't that's likely, because...