Recent posts by alexmiller on Kongregate

Topic: Programming / I DONT KNOW HOW TO CONTROLL A CHARACTER

Oh yeah, and also, didn’t you see the sticky at the top of this forum? Geez. Why not go here first:

http://www.kongregate.com/forums/4/topics/89

Topic: Programming / I DONT KNOW HOW TO CONTROLL A CHARACTER

http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+character+...

Topic: Programming / help with walls

Yeah I was a little confused as to your use of “_parent” there. Can’t you just name the MC that holds all the walls “walls”? There may be some problem that has to do with that, unless you’re positive that works.

Topic: Programming / help with walls

I think the problem may be that you need to use “char._x” and “char._y” in place of your _x and _y. Or, if this code is inside the character, then “this._x” and “this._y”.

Topic: Programming / two questions

Hmm… Something else must be wrong regarding my first issue. I’m doing it just like you say, but it still doesn’t work. Never mind on that one.

For the example code I used I just had “firstNumber” and “secondNumber” there as examples. The actual code is more complex.

I guess now is a good time to learn some OOP, so I’ll look into that! Thanks for the help.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Scientology.. Cult or religion?

All religions have some aspect of cultishness, but Scientology particularly so.

Topic: Programming / two questions

I have two whole questions for you guys! Woohoo!

1. How do you pass through variables from the URL to Flash? For example, if I embed “game.swf?id=2” in a page, then in flash how do I access the “id” variable? I found a tutorial on this, but the method they described just doesn’t work.

2. My second issue deals with arrays. I want to be able to have an associated array, AND have the ability to loop through it. Specifically, I want to be able to average the values in the array. So like:

Array.prototype.average = function () {
    i = this.length;
    k = 0;
    for (j=0;j<i;j++) {
        k+=this[j];
    }
    return k/this.length;
}

myArray = [firstNumber: 20, secondNumber: 80];
trace(myArray.average());

Obviously you can see the problem here. I can’t loop through and add the numbers to “k” because the keys aren’t numbers. Anyway better way to do this that works?

Topic: Music / What Kind of Instrument do you play?

dylsnequals wins. It’s not even worth listing the instruments I play now.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Philosophy anyone?

Epicureanism FTW!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Death: And life after?

After all, when we create languages and operating systems we are structuring things in a way that seems logical to us.

I’ve always thought that! It’s one of the reasons I find programming so attractive.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Life after Love

If your body is still operating, then you’re alive. Unless you’re so emotionally distraught after the death of your significant other that your neurons stop firing, then obviously you’re alive.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Religion vs. The Golden Compass

I’m not having “blind faith.” I have to really work at my faith because of all the stuff that pushes me away. But that’s a story for another day.

Blind faith means you believe something despite the evidence. To “work” for your faith is even worse. It means you’re working hard to be deceived.

Also, there are no “slight references” about the Church in the series. As tybyr said, it’s pretty explicit. But I still don’t understand what the attachment you have with the church is about. The church is so obviously human, with all the human flaws and impurities. It’s like instead of worshipping God, you’re worshipping the Church. Even from a Christian point of view, it doesn’t make sense.

i dont know if asnyone has said this, but pullman himself said he was “killing god” in his book…

rocksolid, I did not hear about pullman saying that. I understood he denied such motives.

Topic: Collaborations / LeftRight & alexmiller Collaboration! (Come watch)

I’m really sorry about this, but my next track might take sometime. I’m busy with end of semester school work. Probably in a few more days!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Religion vs. The Golden Compass

Nerdrock, though the author of the series is a self declared atheist, the books are not an outright attack on religion. For example, the main bad guy in the books is described as the first angel. This can be interpreted as Lucifer, the devil.

Your aversion to the “Magesterium” thing I don’t get. To have blind faith in God/religion, I can understand. But to have blind faith in the church is really incomprehensible to me. Many religious people themselves have attacked the church and all it’s human impurities. This is okay. But as soon as the church is portrayed in a bad light by an author who’s an atheist?! Oh boy, THIS raises an outcry!

I really believe that Pullman was just writing a fantasy book. He wasn’t trying to promote atheism within the book. If he was, he did an extremely poor job of it.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Is it worth doing something if you don't remember it?

Well, Phoenix, even if you do something for someone else to help humanity, humanity will eventually be extinct. And in that context, all of our actions (and lives) are actually meaningless, right?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Survey: Social Groups for President

Bleah, ya know what, I misunderstood the instructions. I’m redoing it.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Survey: Social Groups for President

EDIT: I did misunderstand the instructions BSG, my bad. Revised input:

RANK:

[3] Jew

[4] Black

[5] Hispanic

[2] Asian

[9] Homosexual

[6] Native American

[10] Muslim \

[7] Disabled

[8] Atheist *

[1] Woman

Have you voted in a United States Government election before? NO

Do you plan to vote in the upcoming election? YES

Topic: Collaborations / LeftRight & alexmiller Collaboration! (Come watch)

The clips are really awesome! I love the part with the DJ scratch, that was sweeeet!! I’ll see what I can do. I think maybe it’s time for like a little slow ambient part, but, I’m unsure. If it’s not too much trouble, could you give me the drum/percussion track you used? This is exciting. Great work.

Oh, and also, would it be cool with you if I put this on my myspace after it’s done? With due credit of course.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Homosexual Marriage

There needs to be some kind of legal contract between the two people, it’s obvious. Otherwise you could marry someone, take all their money/stuff, and it’d be hard to prosecute you.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Lucid Dreaming

I’m definitely skeptical on the whole “million words minute”. I’m not even sure the human eye can see at a ‘frame rate’ of one million ‘frames’ per minute (much less save them to memory). You can kind of see this by moving your hand in front of your face really quickly, and it looks jerky. Your brain isn’t that robust in terms of visual processing. I might be wrong there, it just doesn’t seem right.

Lucid dreaming doesn’t give you any special powers that you wouldn’t normally have mentally. For example, clould nine, your brain wouldn’t suddenly be able to process music better than it’s usually able to. You could practice a piece at a piano in your dream, and your brain would get better at playing it, but it’d be akin to practicing the piece in real life.

I think the best use for lucid dreaming is inspiration for art/music/anything creative.

EDIT: Okay… about the whole million wpm thing. I just remembered that there are some autistic people who can read books extremely fast by the method you described. And also, I think I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about seeing 1,000,000 separate words each flash in sequence. I’m less skeptical now.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Homosexual Marriage

When you’re married, it’s like you’re creating a mini little commune within your home. I guess you can do this as housemates… but it’s definitely not smart.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Lucid Dreaming

There’s a wikibook (a featured one, no less!) on lucid dreaming:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming

Topic: Serious Discussion / Homosexual Marriage

I agree, but what do you mean by civil unions? Any special status, or is it just a title?

A special status. When you’re married (or civil union-ed), you live in the same house with your partner. You eat the same food. You share furniture, pets, children, etc. So there is a unique financial situation there that needs to somehow be recognized under law. That way when a civil union dissolves (divorce), it’s not chaos.

Topic: Programming / Things you find hard/Things that aren't explained very well/Things that could really use a custom function

OOP as in _parent.movieclip.function(movieclip.property), or as in OOP as in Classes and external AS files?

Classes and external AS files.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Mitt Romney, and Religion

Romney clearly has no regard for the constitution or for the separation of church and state dictated within it. Watch his speech on religion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS9snNFyqY4

Also, an article:

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/12/romney_sp…

I know this isn’t much of a discussion starter, just thought I’d share.