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Gee

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  1. I've never seen a decent translator, I'm guessing we'll have to wait until we've reached a whole other generation of translators. I'm sure google's cooking something up :king:

    Also clodhopper, yeah Babelfish or any other whole sentece translators I've seen doesn't take romanized Japanese. A converter would be a cakewalk, although then you're facing the problem with the fact that there's so many homonyms in Japanese, and the converter wouldn't know which words you were saying (because in speach it is only decided by context and in a minor degree intonation). The result is a translator that will just take the first meaning of every word. But Babelfish couldn't even give me a correct translation of 'nippon ha mada desu' when I entered it with Japanese characters (it gave me 'Japan still is', which is much to literal), so the converter would be useless anyway.

  2. Alright, I was about to take a picture, but my camera was out of batteries :D

    Anyway, I dug out a picture, and following Tim's tradition I went for weird and yearning, capturing the essence of some kind of sexual grey area (no offence Tim (:) )... it'll do for now (also, I've never really understood if people realize that my current mugshot is a bit of a joke, I don't actually own and wear those kinds of sunglasses.... nor that kind of smug face ;))

    post-18-1122926049_thumb.jpg

  3. Did Gee make a GUI circle element like the rectangle?

    No, but it's possible for controls to redefine their mouse-over area (only for the programmer as of yet though). So we can definitely solve this in some way.

    EDIT: Uhoh, looks like I'm also getting a lot of "ERROR: Left click blocked" messages now that I've updated to a new ps.exe with the GUI fixes. I presume that means my code is loaded with 0 0 100% 100% sizes that are blocking access to the screen. Hopefully you can please help me to stamp on those and do it the right way?

    Ops, that ERROR message is really not an error message. I just added it when developing as a feedback, and I made it Error so that I could easily spot it. I suggest a new log category called "TEMP" that is easy to spot, and if you accidentally leave it behind, it's easy to find later (even disabling them in NDEBUG mode, just to be on the safe side).

    Anyway, regardless what 'error' messages you get, is the world clickable? If it's not, then you've got invisible GUI objects blocking. I'm thinking of adding like a wireframe option, so you can see how the GUI objects really look.

    Notice that the 'empty' control can still be "0 0 100% 100%" (and should be able to be whatever is appropriate if you want to use relative sizing), because I've made its MouseOver() function always return false. So if you can't select the world, then you've got some other kind of control blocking the path. It's easy to spot though, I could always just add the name of the control to the log output, and then you can start the game, pull down the console, and click away.

  4. I don't hate gay people, but I hate what they do and what they stand for.

    You're statement is fundamentally flawed... You state you don't believe anyone is born homosexual, it is a choice one makes. I believe a homosexual is someone who is born with emotional and physical attraction to the same sex, and it is immutable. You however don't believe you can be born that way, so what constitutes a homosexual to you? You talked about choice, so if I choose to be homosexual, then I am homosexual? So if homosexuality is a state of mind, then why do you say you don't hate the people, but you hate what they stand for? In your view being gay is equal to selfdeclaring yourself gay. You see where I'm getting at?

    Homosexuality to you is inherent by actions and beliefs (dos and stands), not something you just *are*. So how can you say you hate the action and belief, but not the person. It is, IMO, paradoxical.

    Just for the record, I find it very offensive to say there is something wrong with homosexuality.

    (edit: I toned myself down some by removing a little last sentence, this subject always gets to me, but I will accept the difference in our opinions)

  5. Okay my explorer keeps crashing, had to rewrite several post this morning... anyway I don't have much time I'll just give you a few I have in mind at the moment...

    Very interesting insights btw Adam!

    Sorry if I mention things that are too obvious :P

    - the book in M2 neo stores his cash in is Simulacra and Simulations, a book that mentions "the desert of the real"

    - When neo is talking to the oracle in M2, crows are present, as a foretelling of neo and smith's fight...

    - Actually that quote "I have dreamed a dream", it is said by king nebuchadnezzar in Dan 2:03 ... notice also the license plate on trinity's car: DAN0203 ... there is another license plate bible reference too, don't got in my head right now though, Mark-something I think...

    - When neo looks at seraph and sees his matrix gloria, he's actually sitting on a "throne"... Some angels appear with gloria only when they have mounted a throne...

    - They call seraph "wingless", now you guys maybe already got this mapped out, but I don't... but anyway the wings of angels I've read is meant to symbolize their ability to travel between heaven and earth... And it is apparent that Seraph has got a pervious connection with Merv, a time where he probably had wings, and probalby could travel between heaven and earth (??), and it's not hard to see the connection with Merv being the one actually controlling this traffic...

    - Smith (Bane) cuts frist a one, then a two, and then makes it into Pi (in Enter the Matrix)... He does this because with the ability to duplicate he has gone towards infinity, which pi symbolizes...

    - SQUID is an acronym for Super-Conducting Quantum Interference Device... Devices we have in our brain that sends and receives messages (in the form of EMPs) from and to different parts of the brain. If one wants to fully scientifically explain the triology, one can explain his wireless connect to the matrix by saying he just has got updated firmware on his brain's SQUIDS that enables him to send and receives EMPs even outside his brain...

    Maybe you knew some, maybe you knew it all, but I can dig through my brain for some more later... :)

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