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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I used the nick "Spuzzum" back in the original DUNG days through the transition to BYOND -- hence why my current nick's …
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Oh thank God. The 10 months we went without a post on this thread were AGONY. Thank you for breaking the tension.
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The minimum price has now been dropped by $0.02 for the rest of you fine folks. ;-)
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I like the original version without the cautionary warning that I got in the e-mail. It's much funnier. (And now that …
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That's one approach. The other is already done for you! It's been ages since I've had BYOND installed, so bear with me, …
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Excellent. Maybe I should get around to uploading the fixes to jt_vectors, especially after that article someone wrote …
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Regarding the sci-fi MUD, you'd be surprised. After I found Miriani was sorely incomplete and just an endless grind, …
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Toadfish wrote: > If Spuzzum comes back to life to take revenge on me, so be it! A Zombie Gibson appears! Zombie Gibson …
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OrangeWeapons wrote: > Sometimes you can just tell when you stumble upon an ancient guild. You mean a guild run by one …
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Part of implementing a good physics engine in BYOND is taking advantage of the work people have done on the subject in …
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This may surprise you, but I prefer under: since a fair bit of toilet paper is textured on only one side, and I prefer …
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Android Data wrote: > I'd rather not see it killed in its infantile state because Jtgibson has jt_admin "somewhere …
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Well, risking your life in reality may not always be rewarding. There's no (good) reward for saying to your friends, …
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There was, but not actually in that snippet. I had ripped that code out of the working version in The Haven Seed, many …
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Kaiochao wrote: > I hope no one expects to make multiplayer games out of this. I mean, not spacewar single-computer …
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Yes and no. BYOND could handle Spelunky, but unfortunately it couldn't handle the simultaneous keys that you tend to …
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Heh. Don't get ticked at me, but have you tried the following? usr
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This is awful, Flick. It seems like all of the rotten happenstance is being dumped on you all at once. For what it's …
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Squeegy is usually hanging out in irc://www.worldirc.org/ bay12games , if you want to track him down and give him a …
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Statistical analysis of fine dining behaviour.
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O beautiful, for spacious skies, For amber waves of graaaaain... Shameless ribbing aside, water is definitely going to …
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I gave up on Paypal and eBay a long time ago. I don't buy games from them any more. If they were trying to drive an …
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PirateHead wrote: > Scith wrote: > > i was just wondering is there a ventrilo server some one has made for just …
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Most coupons around here are "limit one per customer" (sometimes they specify "per transaction" if they want to be …
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http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Na-PN7BZF_U Military accuracy for the win! (Language warning.)
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One caveat which I was about to edit my post to say is that BYOND waits until a transmission is negotiated and …
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Infinitely-wrapping maps are difficult to pull off in a multiplayer context because you need to use "dummy objects" to …
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Lummox JR wrote: > Which ones? The first-draft ugly yellow ones or the new awesome ones that use the BYOND sunset …
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Somewhat along those lines, but in that case, splitting it up into multiple discs would be like making 4 or 5 different …
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Yeah, LI is one area where Firefox's quirk-handling is worse than Microsoft's.
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While we're on the subject... how does the COPPA stuff affect BYOND?
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Chowder wrote: > It has many uses like > Running code from files > and > Debugging during runtime Those are okay …
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Failcon Paunch! *flails feebly, his belly fat jiggling*
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At one point I was doing up a little program that would create a .dm file containing all of the typesof(/atom) …
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I've also wanted something like that, since at one point I considered parsing all of the .dm files myself in order to …
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I'd actually go so far as to claim that all repeated interface elements absolutely must be handled globally like this, …
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http://www.google.com/ search?q=clearing%20browser%20cache& hl=en&meta=
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Pure awesomesauce. Good luck on clean scans for the next decade!
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As I brought up in the old "filesave" thread (a search should bring up this thread and the old thread), we'd logically …
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Given that BYOND doesn't fall through in switch() statements, I'm not sure that reference is even necessary. In C++, …
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Schnitzelnagler wrote: > As for the guide, I stated my reasons to have some colored pages as well Unless "Bragging …
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After thinking about life simulation games online (e.g., Wurm Online), I realised that one of the fundamental problems …
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Little late, but yeah, I'm rather convinced that a liberal win in the coming U.S. election isn't as likely as people …
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I would say that notability in terms of 3,000 active users at any time, 20,000+ semi-active users would qualify. Anyone …
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I've also been very pissed about the very same issues you present. Mercs 2 was just awful in terms of content that was …
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The old posts were brought up, but in simple terms, "no". Signatures are usually irrelevant and usually abused. BYOND …
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My cat doesn't wear pajamas, preferring to wear a fur coat. PETA even threw red paint on him, so I had to chase them …
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Though there are good workarounds in this thread, I support this feature.
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That's okay. Assuming mass increases proportionally to volume, they'd collapse under their own weight, and assuming it …
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