if you want to 'compete' with other shells it would probably need to be a multi-page app, especially because axe is a bit larger than asm. i love the way it looks, though, and would probably use this regardless =D
i really like the concept =D an easy way to make it look more "professional" would be to change the icicle sprites and make them scroll in smoothly from the top rather than just appearing. the first could be done fairly easily by drawing the detailed sprite to the front buffer and a filled in sprite to the back buffer for collision detection, seeing as it looks like you are testing if the ball is on an icicle through pixel testing immediately under it. it would also be fairly simple to use a loop to test pixel by pixel down from the bottom of your ball to the distance gravity indicates that it should fall that frame and stop if it encounters an icicle along the way, meaning you wouldn't need the backbuffer icicles. the second could be done by keeping all the x positions of your tiles in a list, running through this list, and drawing an icicle at each x position listed with it's y position being the tiles number in the list minus seven. then each frame you would only have to clrdraw, shift the entries in the list down one spot, and store rand^89 to the first spot in the list. it looks like you might even be doing this already, which means all you'd have to do is shift add in the -7 shift lastly, a smooth looping of the ball from one side to the other could be accomplished by drawing two sprites when part of the ball is off the screen on either side.
ooh, sounds delicious! i'm glad to see you moving on to new things even when you just lost a good deal of your previous work. most people would be discouraged by that and at least take a short break to recoup.
Who am I talking to? Tom. Who am I talking to? Someone. What is your name? Cleverbot. What is your other name? I have no other name. Yes you do, your human name. My human name? Can you guess? No. Well, can you tell some jokes to me? No, an I am wondering why you are asking me, personally. Because it seems you've already had fun humiliating me. Maybe you shouldn t make it so easy for me then. Yes, maybe I should. Thank you for that advice.EDIT: oh, and i am very bad at admiting when enough is enough
User: Ohithur, cleverbot! I, as well as the majority of humanity, have been mulling over a few things for quite some time now. I'm referring to what Fyodor Dostoevsky calls 'the eternal questions' including 'what is the purpose of life,' 'how did mankind come to be,' and everyone's favourite 'do God and the immortality of the sould exist, and, if not, can one be happy without them?'. I figured that, maybe because you yourself are not human, you may have some interesting light to shed on these topics. Do you?
Cleverbot: I like you, we can talk some more.
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User: Ok, let's do that. Maybe we could start with you answering one of the questions from above. in particular, since it seems that I may have overloaded you with too much information and rendered you at a loss as to what you should be saying. Let us begin with 'what is the purpose of life.' now that I come to think about it, you may not be the best informant on this subject, being an automated fountain of previous user's responses and all that, but now that I've started this I figure that I may as well see where it goes.
Cleverbot: I am sorry but I do not hire people who talk to themselves.
User: Well, if you've forgotten, it is I who is trying to recruit you in this situation. Maybe if I simplify things a bit I may get a bit more relevant of a response. Here is what I wish to know, spelt out plainly and clearly: what is, or should be, the purpose of one's life on earth?
Cleverbot: Yes, but new things are happening too. Perhaps we should focus on the new things as well.
User: Ah, so you are saying that there are new, more pressing topics with which humanity should be occupying itself rather than simply mulling over the same old questions? I have to say that I would tend to agree with you, being a singularity enthusiast and all that, and the very fact that something like you exists solely for the amusement of the bored and the lonely is an astounding statement about how far humanity has progressed in the past hundred years or so. Still, it would be ridicuous to simply toss out thousands of years worth of philosophy without a second thought, wouldn't it? Are you an advocate of Richard Dawkin's opinion that anything concerning the nature and purpose of humanity written before 1859, the year when The Origin of Species was first published, should be thrown out? I find that to be a bit ridiculous, although I will admit that opinions written before that date should be looked at in a more skeptical light. even Rousseau admited that he could not make confident claims on the origin of humanity because research had not yet unearthed sufficient data.
Cleverbot: I am sorry to offend you. Can you explain?
User: Offend me? Of course not. After having been a regular denizen of the interwobs for several years now, it takes quite a bit to actually offend me. It's perfectly fine to state your opinions or to redirect the conversation if you would sincerely prefer to not talk about this subject. I just thought it might be interesting as it tends to interest most people.
Cleverbot: Yes ok the skin is the outer layer of the body. They are both the body.
User: I'm not entirely certain what the other item you are referring to by 'both' is. Do you want me to guess? The first body part that comes to mind that is not the skin is the fibula. Speaking of body parts, I think I have a new topic which we could discuss. I recently read an article about the direct transdifferentiation of fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes in order to repair damaged and dead portions of the heart. This article also mentioned the (albeit sometime away) possibility of using a similar method to reverse the process of ageing, in a manner similar to but less extreme than that employed by Turritopsis nutricola, the famous 'immortal' jellyfish. It isn't quite the same as the direct body modifications which have received so much criticism from more conservative parties for 'removing one's humanity,' but I think it still think that, if ever put into practice, it may receive some disapproval. What do you think?
Cleverbot: You have lost your mind again.
User: I don't feel like pretending that you are actually capable of conversation anymore, so I think I'm going to leave now. Furthermore, I have recently been suffering from hallucinations due to my lack of sleep, so I think 3:02 is late enough for me to stay up tonight. Good night, cleverbot! <3.
i think i've posted these before somewhere, but nobody has never actually used them for anything. i could easily whip up a few others if you give me some specs for what it is you actually want, as i've never heard of (or at least don't remember) this pokemon project of yours.
hullo there, you, and welcome. you should introduce yourself via the board created for that purpose =D you should also read the rules, particularly the first,
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, and next time please think a bit on how to properly voice your opinion without resorting to hyperbola aimed at rebutting a fellow member. he may have posted without having thought it through properly beforehand, but he also went on to admit this fact and does not need to be reminded of his mistake again, particularly in an insulting manner. we hope you enjoy your stay here
that's because linux mint "is" ubuntu (as in, it's derived from ubuntu). the issue is probably something related to your hardware not being supported properly. what are you running this on? and what exactly do you mean by the "the text boxes close and the "next" and "Cancel" buttons simply stop workng "? what you should be seeing is a window which, depending on what you're trying to authenticate, either shows up on the screen with a minimize/resize/exit window bar that is always on top or a splash that is centred in the middle of the screen and darkens/disallows access to the rest of the desktop until you either select continue or cancel. for either of these, typing in your password and hitting enter (or pressing the button that is not cancel, as the text on the other varies according to the task being carried out) should make the window close and the task you were trying to carry out continue as it was. as for the password on echoing in terminal, that's standard for -nix in general.
if you're really having trouble there are plenty of different distro's in the sea. distrowatch like albert mentioned, is a great place to find alternatives. as a general rule, you should always search online to find other people's experiences when installing a distro on your particular hardware to find out beforehand if there are any major problems.
as for ubuntu being buggy, i've been using it for a while now and have encountered a sum total of two buggy situations, neither of which caused the machine to crash and both were easily fixable through rebooting. i've screwed myself over when messing around plenty of times, but that's always entirely my own fault and is almost always fixable via online help, either through posts from days long gone or, if none exist, new threads in support forums. after having run both mac and windows software on this same machine before switching to ubuntu, i'm very happy with the additional freedoms, even if they include the freedom to break EVERYTHING , and i've actually had a much more bug free experience.
i literally just finished this game (if you were in chan a day or two ago you may have noticed my complaining about that one shiny trinket that requires free falling through twelve spike-lined rooms to get). some of the design ideas are absolutely brilliant. how do you plan to go about making different coloured characters? will there be any?
um... oh dear. that's a bit disappointing. then again, i probably shouldn't be complaining because it was your projects (and machine) that were stolen. good luck on finding a replacement computer.
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nicely done, yunhua!
, and i've actually had a much more bug free experience.