Recent posts by MoonlaughMaster on Kongregate

Topic: The Arts / WLAC3 - Voting

Oboe! When did you start posting again? Long time no see!

Topic: Game Programming / AS3 or AS2

There is absolutely no reason to use AS2, unless you are forced to by work or someone who is dumb. ’Nuff said.

Topic: Serious Discussion / World without Religion: Better or Worse?

I’m not entirely sure what the world & religion have to do with evolution, but here’s my main problem with evolution as I understand it (I am no expert on the theory of evolution, feel free to educate me):

Take your example above, of the land animal to water animal transition. In order for that to happen, you have to get worse at walking, and get better at swimming. There has to come a point where you are pretty bad at walking and pretty bad at swimming. At which point survival of the fittest comes into play and you get eaten.

Think of it this way: You have a car in the garage that you want to turn into a flying machine. However, at the end of each day you have to drive/fly said car to the store and buy a gallon of milk. If you fail to do so, you have to start over. To make a land vehicle into an air vehicle, you have to compromise the stability of one or the other so much so that it’s impossible to actually run it every single day.

Topic: Off-topic / Notch, going crazy from not getting any attention, offers to pay millions of dollars for Psychonauts 2

Also, I like how you are all “I’m not a fanboy, I am just ignoring all logic and blindly praising him, BUT I AM NOT A FANBOY AND I WILL REMIND YOU OF THIS IN EVERY POST SO YOU NEVER FORGET THAT I AM NOT A FANBOY!!”

It’s interesting how you seem to be referencing posts that don’t exist. I have not ‘praised’ notch in any way. I have simply disputed your criticisms of him. My responses are entirely neutral, and one of my previous posts actually pointed out several of his flaws. Your preconception of me is mentally deficient.

1. He built minecraft off of Infiniminer’s source code. He made the sprites though.

He was inspired to make Minecraft from Infiniminer (and Dwarf Fortress). He did not use Infiniminer code as a base. If you want to disprove me with some actual evidence, be my guest.

2. He didn’t give credit to the original creators of the mods he stole. That is called plagiarism.

First of all, what mods did he steal? If you are referring to potions, you should probably realize that the concept of potions is not a new one in games, and adding a feature when a mod already exists does not automatically mean you stole it. I’m pretty sure the creator of TooManyItems did not get butthurt over notch implementing creative mode. If you’re referring to pistons, the creator of the mod sent in his source code to be looked over and possibly implemented in the vanilla game.

4. They are. I mean, if you look at any of his games, you can tell.

Great point. It’s almost as if you tried to sound stupid. “Yes, they are rip-offs… I can just feel it. No, don’t ask me to name any games… that would spoil the illusion!” And please don’t make me bring up the “nothing is original” topic.

Topic: Off-topic / Hey

It’s amazing how some peoples’ seem to continue functioning.

Topic: Off-topic / Notch, going crazy from not getting any attention, offers to pay millions of dollars for Psychonauts 2

“I’m not a fanboy, I am just saying you should ignore all the bad things he does and mindlessly praise him like I do!!!”

I’m defending him on this thread for the simple reason that no one else is. It’s like I’m the defense attorney for someone that everyone thinks/knows is guilty.

Because building on the source code of another game or copying sprites is “stealing ideas”^{[citation needed]} . He also took credit^{[citation needed]} for user mods which he copied into Minecraft. And then he made fun of one of the creators of those mods^{[citation needed]} . His other games are mostly all rip-offs too^{[citation needed]} . I do like one of his games though, Metagun which he made for Ludum Dare 18. That was actually a pretty fun puzzle-platformer.

Fix’d.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Gays, Yay or Nay?

Originally posted by tenco1:

Originally posted by jhco50:
Gays are trying to dismantle traditional values and force their way into an area they aren’t welcomed in.

Every conservatives worst nightmare; change.

There’s a reason there’s two parties.

Topic: Serious Discussion / World without Religion: Better or Worse?

Originally posted by Jantonaitis:

So you don’t see any point in debating opinions. Which you say on a debate forum.

I just think it’s funny that you talk about how logical thinking people are supposed to behave right after that. Atheists often accuse their religious opponents of cognitive dissonance but up till now I’ve never actually seen an example of it.

You’re still missing the point. I never said there’s no point to debating religion. I said there’s no point to debating religion like you know how it really is. Perhaps I worded it poorly in my post, but I’m simply saying that you basically have to debate what you think it really is, which I see rarely, if ever happen on this forum. That’s still probably worded poorly, so have fun picking apart an argument that’s different from mine.

P.S. I find the fact that you automatically assume that I’m religious offensive.

Topic: Off-topic / Notch, going crazy from not getting any attention, offers to pay millions of dollars for Psychonauts 2

Originally posted by maple_rexy:

Originally posted by MoonlaughMaster:

Originally posted by happyAlcoholic:

ITT: People hate on notch because he’s famous and they aren’t.

I thought people disliked him because he’s a complete tosser.

I’m sure that everyone knows exactly what he’s really like, and are therefore entitled to label him.

he used the n-word in a tweet.
he is super lazy and spent more time on “vacation” than he did working on minecraft
he released a bunch of tweets about some youtube celebrities trashing minecon, and they were all lies.

Nope, nobody knows what he is like because you can’t judge someone based on what they do online.

oh wait

-The N-Word is a sure sign that someone is evil, especially if they’re famous… You sound like a gossip magazine.
-That’s because he programmed Minecraft when he was famous the same way that he did when he was unknown. AKA: Like an indie developer working on a side project.
-I’m not entirely sure what happened with that shenanigan, but unless notch was a complete moron, he would have known that intentionally releasing lies about a well loved youtube channel would have shoved him down the toilet. I’m pretty sure there was some major misinformation going on there. The fact that he publicly tweeted it, regardless, was kind of dumb.
-You really can’t. For example, I’m a total asshole online, but I’m rather nice in real life. You’ll have to take my word for it, though. I’m not about to tell you where I live.

Just as a disclaimer, so you don’t think I’m an irreparable notch fanboy or something. I know that notch is not all sunshine and rainbows. I just think you are unfairly painting him as the source of all evil in the world. To put it simply: Notch is a dude who has no idea how to act famous, so his everyday normal human mistakes are broadcasted like the Kardashian divorce. I pity him, really. I’d hate to be suddenly put in the spotlight like that.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Should the law punish parents who smoke in the home?

Originally posted by Ceasar:

Originally posted by MoonlaughMaster:

Forget the ‘should’… how would such a law possibly be enforced?

Same way as any child abuse type of law. Sure, you don’t catch everything, but you could have teachers watch for warning signs, like the kid’s clothing smelling like smoke…

Good point. I hadn’t thought of already existing laws that were similar.

Topic: Serious Discussion / World without Religion: Better or Worse?

Originally posted by Jantonaitis:

Yes I am. If your POINT is all you care about is facts, go do some research and find them. Here you’ll find lots of opinions and few facts. That’s the nature of human debate.

My POINT is that there is no point to debating religion v atheism. Or more specifically, any logically thinking person can’t argue a side in a religious debate from the perspective that they are right.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Should the law punish parents who smoke in the home?

Forget the ‘should’… how would such a law possibly be enforced?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Gays, Yay or Nay?

Originally posted by Darkruler2005:

Show me in the Constitution where it says marriage is a right.

Why does something have to be written in the constitution, or be a right at all, by default before something can be equal? Regardless of what the constitution says, isn’t it really backwards to want everything to be inequal unless forced by the constitution?

It’s not really backwards because generally people are discriminatory asshats until someone forces them to play nice. Just look at the 13th & 19th amendment.

So what you would consider backwards has been the leading trend for centuries.

Topic: Serious Discussion / World without Religion: Better or Worse?

Originally posted by Jantonaitis:

I don’t care about your opinions.

Then you don’t belong in a debate forum. Now that we’ve established that, get the fuck out.

You seem like an upstanding citizen.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Why do people seem to hate atheists so much?

If you’re going to bring this up, you have to talk about the athiests that are violently opposed to any and all theists. The see-saw swings both ways on this topic.

Topic: Serious Discussion / World without Religion: Better or Worse?

My problem with the whole debate between atheists and religious-types is that either one can be right no matter what anybody tries to prove.

Atheists could prove that there was a big-bang and that evolution exists, and all the other theories associated with athiests (I mean that in the most literal way possible), and yet they don’t disprove a god because it’s still very possible that a god caused all those things to happen.

Just like if evolution isn’t true and the big band is a load of bull doesn’t prove the theists right, either.

There’s no way to prove either side, or disprove either side. Theists cannot logically say that they know that a god exists, and atheists can’t logically say that they know that a god does not.

Keep in mind the key-word “know”. I am not talking about what you think. [REDACTED, for the purposes of pleasing anal SD users]

Topic: Off-topic / HEY! ARE YOU RUNNING AD-BLOCKERS?

Okay, I lied. I’m also annoyed by the fact that the laser coming out of the robot’s left eye doesn’t go off the screen. #cantunsee #nottwitter

Topic: Off-topic / HEY! ARE YOU RUNNING AD-BLOCKERS?

The only thing I find annoying about them is they pop up around 7 seconds after the page actually loads.

Topic: Off-topic / So I Heard That Anal Sex Is Nature's Condom

I thought humping trees was nature’s condom.

Topic: Off-topic / Notch, going crazy from not getting any attention, offers to pay millions of dollars for Psychonauts 2

Originally posted by happyAlcoholic:

ITT: People hate on notch because he’s famous and they aren’t.

I thought people disliked him because he’s a complete tosser.

I’m sure that everyone knows exactly what he’s really like, and are therefore entitled to label him.

Topic: Off-topic / What do you think about : GraphicDesignC

I think he has daddy issues.

Which is to say, for some reason he dislikes me.

Topic: Game Programming / error in AS3

You probably have an infinite loop somewhere. If this is the case, then it will run the loop for 15 seconds before automatically stopping the script. You know, so your computer doesn’t explode.

Topic: Off-topic / Notch, going crazy from not getting any attention, offers to pay millions of dollars for Psychonauts 2

ITT: People hate on notch because he’s famous and they aren’t.

Topic: Game Programming / Flash just screwed up my work and I had to remake all the movieclips

Originally posted by GameBuilder15:

Originally posted by DrYoshiyahu:

Originally posted by GameBuilder15:

Btw was the big book Essential ActionScript 3.0? shudders

Yeah that one. I never even looked at it, just googled what I wanted to know. :P

I got it from the library. Scary stuff.

I read that entire thing. It helps a ton.

How is it scary? It’s rather easy to understand, IMO.

Topic: Off-topic / SAY "I" IF YOU DO NOT LIKE ME

Who the hell are you?