Jtgibson

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Jtgibson
Oct 23 2013, 2:38 pm
I used the nick "Spuzzum" back in the original DUNG days through the transition to BYOND -- hence why my current nick's join time is only in 2005 or so instead of back in 2001. ;-)

Also, one and a half-year reply time. I'm almost as inefficient as a bank!
Tubutas
May 23 2012, 6:31 pm
What was your name before jtgibson?

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All three of those, to me, are good features. Games should load resources as transparently as possible.
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I was specifically bearing ignorance in mind. (Ignorance, of course, is a a lack of care, not the presence of …
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I stopped by The Source today to see about picking up a dual-phono-jack-to-stereo- jack adapter. Plenty of …
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It's really hard to explain, particularly because in the very same post I mentioned that I disagree with the law when …
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Just as a note on the Member referral bonus: yes, it really works. I received a cool $2 a year ago due to someone …
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A review of Julian Mensch's non-BYOND masterpiece that every Dungeon Crawler should add to their Saturday gaming lineup.
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I typically use Topic View because it vastly decreases the amount of time it takes to read the posts on an entire …
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ReplyToPostIfYouWantToAdd SomethingFunnyOrIllustrateAPoint()
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There's a sort of technical issue to this: if I'm correct, the front page is cached -- everyone sees the same page …
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Curses. I was about to suggest the same improvements -- the turn(src.dir, 180) thing in particular. ;-)
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I think I'm crediting this with the most ludicrous article about the Middle East I've ever read, and that's even …
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"u basterds" "screw u guys, this game sux, im gonna go play naruto"
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BYOND has always excelled at parlour-style games, because the game always changes based on who's playing it. Sometimes …
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Danial.Beta wrote: > They also don't understand that not all cities are created equal. If I was to ride a bike to …
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Love, very much yes; going without human contact turns you bitter and shy. Passion, not so much: it's instinctive.
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I remember tagging my website with "Read roleplayingtips.com or I'll get medieval on your [arse]! (No, I'm not being …
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Kuraudo S. wrote: > In Dream Maker, project files stay open in memory while you edit other files. Sometimes, in large …
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//Title: Cached Gaussian Random Number Generator //Credit to: Jtgibson //Contributed by: Jtgibson //Special thanks to: …
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In spite of the cover: I would have to say that "losing the SUV" is a move that is generally better in the long run for …
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That's no wrench in the gears as far as I know. The time to construct, in days, is equal to the ceiling of the ratio …
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Right along the lines of Pink Torpedo. ::devil horns with his fingers::
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Obs wrote: > These tools would be great if map making was perfectly analogous to drawing a picture. But it isn't. Good …
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Arithmetic, geometric, and triangular sequences would make for a great Dream Tutor article...
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Blank icon states add "dead space" to the PNG. PNGs compress dead space quite well, particularly in even multiples of …
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I really don't like the sound of that inferrence.
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Yeah, it's based exclusively on Alexa traffic rank. The idea is that if every visitor to your site is bombarded with …
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The forums only remember the last 1000 posts or so from each particular board. Posts beyond that are considered …
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SuperAntx wrote: > The completed to abandoned ratio for fan-games is substantially higher than non fan-games. Many of …
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In Hollywood's defence: 1) All movies are prepared as written scripts, which are vaguely like novels but somewhat less …
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http:// www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/ I knew there was such a thing! Thanks for finding it for me. For years, …
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//Title: Decrement Until/Increment Until //Credit to: Jtgibson //Contributed by: Jtgibson /* Often in my code, I wind …
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A short while ago, I came across http://www.futurepinball.com/ , which purports to be an accurate, detailed, freeware …
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link() definitely understands byond:// links. In fact, I think link() was primarily intended to handle byond:// links …
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Another useful feature is to double-click on the error message, which should take you right there.
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Mike H wrote: > hottest fashion trend of the last several years. I don't think anyone really sees that as being so …
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That's including the iostream library from the C++ Standard Libraries (iostream being short for "input/output stream …
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Tiberath wrote: > I'd prefer to have it in one line as opposed to three or four. > > However, when a proc gets …
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I think picture 1 has really irritating perspective, weighting, and contrast. Picture 2, on the other hand, is nicely …
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Directly from the release notes: "Eventually we'll improve the pixmap and movie editors as well."
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For what it's worth, I agree with Foomer's actions here, for several reasons. 1) An issue came up, a user explained …
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This is bad enough, but what scared me most of all was this: "Kaminsky, a well-respected security expert, is perhaps …
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Loosely paraphrased, since it's been a long while since I've seen the movie: "The slightest deceleration can cause a …
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In the Preferences, you can select from Topic View, which has a master topic that expands to a topic system. The thread …
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No offense to you personally (I even used an "S" so you'd be happy ;-)), I think regex is a critical language feature …
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Spinoza's "God" is not even really a god. It's just existence as we know it. If I were to call the universe "God", …
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You should set tick_lag to a number according to the number of frames per second you want. Setting it to zero makes it …
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