This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
Messages - Sage
4001
« on: December 22, 2009, 03:26:02 PM »
What's an attachment point?
4002
« on: December 22, 2009, 03:24:37 PM »
There's a tutorial in the game folder about making decals.
4003
« on: December 21, 2009, 11:06:33 PM »
Vegas is an amazing program for editing video. After effects is 10x than flash for eye candy and 100x more powerful and versatile in effect making.
To learn Vegas, use youtube video tutorials :)
4004
« on: December 21, 2009, 10:03:46 PM »
I use Vegas and Adobe After Effects for the more advanced things but for simple conversions I use Windows Movie Maker.
4005
« on: December 21, 2009, 09:38:26 PM »
a word filter is absolutely something that can be used on forums for a more controlled, poised, and professional environment for its members.
Read up on the Alpha X forum rules. Even though a word filter is there, the censored words will also be deleted because kids know what the writer was intended. That's tantamount to deleting "crap", "shoot", "darn", etc.
I'll address the rest of your post later.
No, it's not tantamount. Like I said before, the words have different levels of meaning, and under the views of the forum Admin (and much of today's society) these words demonstrate a lack of emotional control and poise that he does not want on his forum. It's the same thing as if we ended this debate right now and got into a fist fight over the issue.
4006
« on: December 21, 2009, 08:37:41 PM »
Yes.
4007
« on: December 21, 2009, 08:36:45 PM »
Swearing is looked upon by almost all society as a vulgar, course, and dirty way to express one's feelings. In normal conditions, it is a person's right to be able to express themselves in any way they choose, even if it means coming across as an idiotic buffoon who can't control their emotions. Swear words are the extremes of the others. sh** is an extreme form of poop, or as an expletive in place of shoot, darn, drat, uncle, so on. Like all words, there are different shades of meaning for each. They might technically mean the same thing, but the shade of the word comes across as much rougher and darker, and angrier. You can't say they are the same word. If they were, why do we have two of them? To trip and to stumble. To run and to sprint. Basically the same thing, but one if a bit different than the other.
On the topic of a forum, someone who can control their emotions and not use the extremes of the expletives or the insults looks much more poised and in control. If the admin of the forum wants to have his forum be more clean, professional, and without vulgarity that is his choice. Just like there is a dress code in school, a word filter is absolutely something that can be used on forums for a more controlled, poised, and professional environment for its members.
4008
« on: December 21, 2009, 07:16:30 PM »
Like a round robin! Each category has three dueling nations with a delegate from each. In the end we see which nation (or everyone else) is superior.
4009
« on: December 21, 2009, 07:14:34 PM »
Nothing, only that sh** is also used as an expletive. For example, OH sh**! has nothing to do with poop. It has been turned taboo by our society, and we cannot change that. Ass is used as an insult (YOU ASSHOLE) and is mainly meant as an insult, so even when you use it in a benevolent setting (My ass is cold) it is viewed as improper because we use it for other means. Unfortunate, but that's just how today's society works. Because we can not change that, we should not assist in teaching younger kids these words even if they may learn them in other ways. Especially if they have parents that are very proper, they might have to have their mouths cleaned with soap. Which I can imagine isn't very pleasant.
4010
« on: December 21, 2009, 06:47:55 PM »
ON TOPIC GUYS!
Times like these I wish I had mod powers...
4011
« on: December 21, 2009, 04:54:22 PM »
Swear words should not be censored or banned regardless of who the audience is.
AFFIRMATIVE- Frezal
NEGATIVE- Sage, Reier, anyone else (as long as it's on topic).
______________________________________________
AFF-
Who is actually hurt by "swear" words? Besides, why is "sh**" worse than "poop"? Why is "****" worse than "copulate"? If you can't come up with an answer as to why one is offensive and not the other, your stance is irrational.
NEG-
In a standard American society, there are many parents who feel the use of such "cuss" words to be impolite, wrong, or derogatory. One reason this may be is because of religious backgrounds. Anyone using God's name (or Jesus) in vain is looked down upon and is insulting all of the Biblical faith. It's basically taboo in our culture. That goes for all swear words. It's not the meaning of the word that is bad (unless it is a synonym of copulate, which many parents feel is not something they want their kids to learn about at a young age) but it's usually the word itself. Through generations of society, certain words become taboo for reasons such as impoliteness of obscenity. It can be considered "not proper" and in using such forms of these words you can make yourself look less professional, less educated, and much less of a nice person. While in an adult society these things are up to the person's choice of how they want to present themselves to the world, in the topic of a Lego forum there will undoubtedly be kids and young adults who may not grasp the social consequences of using said words. By inserting a filter into what is said, we can ensure that these harmful uses of the English language won't enter the minds of young adults until they are old enough to fully understand what the words mean.
4012
« on: December 21, 2009, 04:37:53 PM »
HEY FREZAL. LETS GET A DEBATE THREAD GOING.
I love debating almost as much as you do, so lets have at it. Why are swear words considered unacceptable if their synonyms aren't? That's the question right? Fine.
4013
« on: December 21, 2009, 03:55:26 PM »
It's actually fine that way. If you are using DDTs for wedges it should be plenty wedgy. Try adjusting the wedge height more and see what works best.
4014
« on: December 21, 2009, 03:45:37 PM »
Have you seen GUMBA LW division? I agree this was in part because of the overly large arena, but that is exactly what will happen when we use an arena that we are also using HWs for (because we agreed to have a standardized arena for all battles).
UK (United Kingdom) is in the category of Europe.
4015
« on: December 21, 2009, 03:44:12 PM »
Rebuild the chassis and make the wedge shallower. Right now it's almost vertical. Add more armor via ramplates. Widen the wedges just a bit. Instead of bringing the chassis inwards in the back where you have the black battery, extrude it a bit and add a 3rd black battery. Get rid of the two razors on the end of the weapon rack. Use 20 cms intsead of angle connectors.
Hope that helps!
4016
« on: December 21, 2009, 03:35:58 PM »
RAW 1 arena, with the walls lowered a bit more?
Also I don't want the subclasses, that just gets to be too much.
I think, because I hate LW tournaments (GUmba UGHSEYGIEVRILYVWEOUYVSDFIUSEFjksefIUfv) it should be the top 4 (chosen from either playoffs or popular vote) and the categories are DSL HW, DSL MW, Stock HW, Stock MW. Each person of the 4 gets to build 1. If there are not 4 people representing a team, a person can build more than one bot to represent his country.
4017
« on: December 20, 2009, 11:08:01 PM »
I mean the drive motors. Like Pwn said, having elevated DDTs like that hinders wedginess.
4018
« on: December 20, 2009, 10:32:01 PM »
I think the way you have the motors attached is doing more harm than good...
4019
« on: December 20, 2009, 08:28:53 PM »
Oh I love that idea. Things are much easier with a lot of people hosting.
I'll see if I can come up with a concrete set of rules for this later tonight, and then we can brainstorm and make a better set of rules. A big, world-wide tourney, made and hosted by a large group of people on the forum. Love it.
4020
« on: December 20, 2009, 07:36:45 PM »
Actually the same thing happens in stock.
2 20cms are longer than 1 40cm extender.
|
Show Posts