Recent posts by generalvalter on Kongregate

Topic: Sacred Seasons 2 MMORPG / Post your bug report(s) here.

The bottom of the screen (while in main-map mode) is apparently a dialog box, because you can’t interact with any of it.

When you first enter an area, the name that shows up prevents you from moving or interacting with anything.

Topic: Sacred Seasons 2 MMORPG / Post your bug report(s) here.

The Queen Crab’s normal attack will loop constantly and does not disappear.

The Hermit Crab’s death animation loops as well.

It is also impossible to target hermit crabs (and a few other creatures) while they are doing their attack animation. Basically any attack animation that involves the enemy sprite to disappear or move for any amount of time causes problems.

A few maps cut off within view of the player (IE you can walk to certain spots in various maps and see a black void). One of the dungeons in the Redoubt has this problem.

A few quests have extremely difficult interfacing. The Mermaid’s Amulet quest in particular is infuriating, because it is not only unclear that you must click on the amulet specifically instead of the prow of the ship, you also have to click the amulet twice to actually pick it up.

Several items that should disappear when harvested from the main map do not disappear (the pile of cannonballs and blue pumpkins come to mind immediately).

Topic: Serious Discussion / God, the Bible, and religion - a Kong search for truth

Noah’s flood is physically impossible. There is simply not enough water in the world. Even if there was, The air pressure would be far beyond survivable, as the water would be displacing too much air. And any samples taken from organisms living after the Atom bomb droppings are innaccurate, because just those 2 bombs doubled the atmosphere’s C14 content. When taking samples from an egyptian boat whose age was known from historical records, the age was accurate within 30 years.

Just out of curiosity, are you taking into account the possibility that the great flood was not a flood of the entire world as the bible claims, but rather a flood of the Fertile Crescent (where most people lived in the world at that point)?

A lot of bible stories were grossly exaggerated, but they generally have at least a speck of truth to them.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Texas wants to rewrite history

→ The “conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s” with a focus on conservative groups

Wait, what? Current events shouldn’t be handled like established history.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Cell Phones and Brain Cancer

“which received some funding from the mobile industry”
Huh.

The mobile industry isn’t free of tax burdens, so you can make that claim of every single study made about cell phone effects.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Cell Phones and Brain Cancer

Recent studies say no risk of cancer.

Topic: Serious Discussion / So much for the noble pirate.

This is not theft in the normal sense of theft.

Merriam and Webster would like a word with you.

“b : an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property”

The owner losing something is not the qualifier, here. What makes it theft is you unlawfully taking something, which is exactly what pirates do.

Topic: Serious Discussion / So much for the noble pirate.

and could never have an impact on any market in any measurable way.

This is only if the piracy can not be prevented. Just because something is natural does not mean it is also unpreventable. That’s where DRM comes in to play.

New DRM measures aren’t even necessarily meant to stop piracy in its tracks. The key to DRM is holding off hackers for the first few days of a game’s release (which are, non-coincidentally, the most profitable days of a game’s release). Clever DRM like that seen in Batman: Arkham Asylum are the kind of things that really boost profits (The game could be and was pirated early on, but there was a hidden flag that would trigger and make the game impossible to win at a certain point in the game if it had been downloaded illegally).

Topic: Serious Discussion / Why do the liberal Democrats want to take guns away from Americans?

Nearly every country with gun control has a low murder rate compared to America’s.

What does that have to do with anything? Nearly every country without gun control has a low murder rate compared to America’s.

Topic: General Gaming / Cursed Treasure: Don't Touch My Gems! TACTICS!!!

Originally posted by Darth_Sirov:

Most people would ask: How to beat the ninja boss… esp if he comes in last and still manages to touch a gem (thus killing your chance at the gold star). Meteor can only go so far, and your best chance is if fear actually hits him when he enters.

Depending on where the high ground is, is where I either use crypts or temples. If on the road, temples, and if on the side, crypts.

The only way, as far as I can tell, is maxing out the last upgrade of the Undead tier. When you get a freeze on the ninja, he won’t be able to use his disappear move. You then have the time to make the kill.

I haven’t found any other way as of this writing of killing the level 40/50 ninjas.

Topic: Serious Discussion / AX: Overpopulation: Associated symptoms and prevention

People dieing unnecessarily isn’t a problem?

Topic: Serious Discussion / AX: Overpopulation: Associated symptoms and prevention

And yet there are ways of addressing overpopulation apart from just letting people die until it levels off again.

Seriously I have no idea what you’re trying to say here. I’m well aware that poverty correlates with mortality. What does that have to do with this thread?

Topic: Serious Discussion / AX: Overpopulation: Associated symptoms and prevention

increased mortality rates.

So sorry for abbreviating. I guess I can split it up for you next time.

Topic: Serious Discussion / AX: Overpopulation: Associated symptoms and prevention

Mortality is always unpreventable, fool.

Not in the sense that Ajora is presenting it. You might want to read through the thread again.

Topic: Serious Discussion / AX: Overpopulation: Associated symptoms and prevention

I suspect that increased mortality rates resulting from poverty would resolve the problem by itself.

Are you suggesting that condoning death would be superior to addressing the problem?

Even if that’s not true, you are at the very least regarding mortality as a unpreventable consequence, which is seriously flawed.

Do at least elaborate.

Topic: Serious Discussion / AX: Overpopulation: Associated symptoms and prevention

I would change the AX to something simpler, like “overpopulation is a problem”.

I’ve never seen the AX as an excuse for making hypotheticals; it’s more about granting a sore point in a debate (such as “AX: Abortion is wrong”) so that the obvious arguments can be put aside and a more in-depth discussion can be made (such as “assuming that abortion is wrong, what do we do with this knowledge?”).

On-topic: Preventing people from copulating has historically been a very difficult thing to do, so I don’t think a head-count limit would be effective.

Legalizing abortion would be welcome, but the most effective measure I believe would be making effective contraceptives more widely available. AIDS and overpopulation aren’t necessarily a problem in Africa right now because of their third-world status (or at least a direct result); one of the key causes of this is the shoddy contraceptive products that are distributed there.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Argument for an intelligent designer from a different perspective

You don’t seem to understand, it is not chaos or order, but chaos and order. You cannot have order without chaos and vice versa. If the universe every obtains a state of absolute chaos or absolute order it will cease to physically exist.

I know you’re on a roll here, but some end-time predictions involve exactly what you’re describing happening: if we hit maximum entropy, all of the matter in the universe will be spread out with perfect uniformity, implying “absolute order” as you said.

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate is Pushing Mediocre Games That Ask for Money, and Why That Doesn't Affect Me At All

Argh extended metaphors never help a conversation

Topic: Serious Discussion / Advanced Math: Do we really need it?

Teaching children all of the basic facets of knowledge allows them to better choose what they want to do when they grow up.

We’re not trying to bring up workers, we’re trying to bring up thinkers; that means giving a comprehensive overview of the world of thought, even if it isn’t “necessary” by your tunnel-minded terms.

Topic: Serious Discussion / what if the nazis won world war 2

Hitler nearly did win the war

Wrong. Try again.

Explaining all of the myriad ways that Hitler engineered his failure gets pretty boring after a while. It’s tentatively arguable that Germany managed to win the war, but Hitler was doing everything he could to lose it (and he quite handily succeeded).

Topic: Serious Discussion / "Gothic" VS "Emo" VS "Normal"

Unfortunately, because of our society, there is no way to refer to a group of people by action, which leads to the fact it’s very difficult or impossible not to label. By label I and everyone else means by social status, cliques, and discriminating by race, eye colour, ect.

I’m afraid you misunderstand.

You labeled every person who labels people as a racist, dictator, or idiot. I guess you’re trying to subtly admit that you’re a racist, dictator, or idiot?

Topic: Serious Discussion / "Gothic" VS "Emo" VS "Normal"

Dictators, Racists, and Idiots put people under labels.

Were you trying to be ironically stupid here, or was that really an accident?

Anyway, stating that “emos” and “goths” are not normal → bigoted thread.

Topic: Technical Support / Can't access points

Okay, it would appear to be fixed now. Well done, nameless webmaster!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Tasers - are they worth the cost?

It’s not ‘non-lethal’, it’s less lethal.
We need another solution, Tasers have failed.

So you admit that they’re working, and then you claim (in the very next sentence!) that they’re failing.

Congratulations, you have flabbergasted me with your hypocrisy.

Topic: Technical Support / Can't access points

I noticed that the Prince of Persia badges are now conspicuously missing.

This is fine by me, but I actually got the two badges before they were deleted, and now clicking on my point list sends me an error message.

I’m pretty sure that the badges were removed from the badge list but not from the players who already got the points, so that when you attempt to access the point list it tries to refer to a badge that isn’t there and spits back the error. That seems like the most obvious way to cause this problem, at least.