ATW's Awesome Androgynous Avaricious Azure Ardent Adamant Alluvial Random Banter #164

[DraPrime]

I'm surprised no one has considered that four one legged people are standing next to each other on that map. It's the most obvious solution to me.

[Thufir]

I'm surprised no one has considered that four one legged people are standing next to each other on that map. It's the most obvious solution to me.

Wouldn't work, because even if they only have one leg each, their torsos would still be normal width and they wouldn't all fit.
Also, that'd be a weird configuration for them to be randomly standing in.

[DraPrime]

Wouldn't work, because even if they only have one leg each, their torsos would still be normal width and they wouldn't all fit.
Also, that'd be a weird configuration for them to be randomly standing in.

Perhaps their torsos are sideways, so that they can all stand next to each other? I don't see why it's so weird though. I regularly slice off one of my legs and huddle with friends in strange formations at night. It's good exercise.

[Eon]

Perhaps their torsos are sideways, so that they can all stand next to each other? I don't see why it's so weird though. I regularly slice off one of my legs and huddle with friends in strange formations at night. It's good exercise.

Until someone tries to test the domino effect.

[DraPrime]

Until someone tries to test the domino effect.

That's the fun part. We line up about a hundred people, and then let rip.

[Eon]

That's the fun part. We line up about a hundred people, and then let rip.

On concrete and broken glass, of course...

[DraPrime]

On concrete and broken glass, of course...

Which is on fire.

[Eon]

Which is on fire.

Sounds.... Safe enough.

[DraPrime]

Sounds.... Safe enough.

It is for me. I always grow back my other leg at the last moment and run away from the scene of the crime.

[Pentachoron]

Kissing very passionately.
In theory, they could only be embracing, however that's somewhat less likely (But still possible).

Granted, my issue is just that the outer legs seem, ahem a tad bit too far apart for them to just be embracing or kissing even passionately.

[Eon]

It is for me. I always grow back my other leg at the last moment and run away from the scene of the crime.

So... You are a lizard.

[DraPrime]

So... You are a lizard.

>_>
<_<

...I've been found out. Crap.

[Eon]

>_>
<_<

...I've been found out. Crap.

No secret is safe. Well... Except a few...

[DraPrime]

No secret is safe. Well... Except a few...

I wonder how many other secrets about me have been found out. Do people really know that I'm actually a woman? Or that I live in South Africa? That I have a third nostril? That I make millions selling novelty toothpicks? I do so hope that no one knows these things.

[Eon]

I wonder how many other secrets about me have been found out. Do people really know that I'm actually a woman? Or that I live in South Africa? That I have a third nostril? That I make millions selling novelty toothpicks? I do so hope that no one knows these things.

Ya... Well.... About that....

[absolmorph]

I wonder how many other secrets about me have been found out. Do people really know that I'm actually a woman? Or that I live in South Africa? That I have a third nostril? That I make millions selling novelty toothpicks? I do so hope that no one knows these things.

-writes notes-
Do tell.

[DraPrime]

-writes notes-
Do tell.

You're not getting any more of my secrets! No sir!

*hides all evidence of secrets in a safe*
*encases safe in cement*
*throws into a volcano*
*launches entire volcano skyward towards the sun*

No one will get my secrets now!

[Eon]

You're not getting any more of my secrets! No sir!

*hides all evidence of secrets in a safe*
*encases safe in cement*
*throws into a volcano*
*launches entire volcano skyward towards the sun*

No one will get my secrets now!

... I have an idea. I didn't want to resort to this, I really didn't... but I guess I have to ask nicely...

Please?

[DraPrime]

... I have an idea. I didn't want to resort to this, I really didn't... but I guess I have to ask nicely...

Please?

No. Wasn't that easy for me?

[Eon]

No. Wasn't that easy for me?

Oh. Okay. Was it?

[Thufir]

Granted, my issue is just that the outer legs seem, ahem a tad bit too far apart for them to just be embracing or kissing even passionately.

...you can do more than one thing in any given position.
Imagine they're positioned like that as you've been envisioning.
Now imagine their clothes are still on. Suddenly they're just embracing! And possibly kissing passionately.

[AsteriskAmp]

It wasn't too hard. A hex grid is essentially a square grid with every other row shifted half a hex (to the right on the one I did), so each cell can easilly be represented by an object storing an X and Y coordinate stored in a double array. The trickiest part was to program the methods for getting the hexes adjacent to a specific hex, and then especially the upper and lower adjacents, as you need to take the shift into concideration, and even then it was just the special cases (the edges of the grid) that required any large amounts of applied visualisation.

(Kudos to those who understand what I'm talking about. )

ION:
I wasted probably 2-3 hours last night bugging out the most tedious of the scenarios in FfH. Basically, you get a moderately huge army but no way of reinforcing it, and with it you're supposed to kill 100 demons and then kill their leader. With only 12 left to kill, I defeated their leader, but since I hadn't completed the first objective, I didn't win. When I a round or so later did kill the remaining amount neccessary, I got the second objective to kill him, but then he was already dead, so I couldn't. Instead I sacked his only remaining city, but since I didn't own any cities myself, that meant that my stupid quasi-ally got the victory, i.e. not me, and then I managed to clear the list of auto saves by looking up the scenario screen (it's located in a new game), and I hadn't saved for real, so I couldn't go back and fix it.

I've worked out the tactics now and started over again, but it made me mildly annoyed, to say the least...

I get why it is an issue to program it, I know how to get the grid drawn, but I don't know how to program it, at least I understand (Yeah!).

Are you referring to Fall from Heaven? I really need to buy that game.

[Eon]

...you can do more than one thing in any given position.
Imagine they're positioned like that as you've been envisioning.
Now imagine their clothes are still on. Suddenly they're just embracing! And possibly kissing passionately.

Maybe Thufir here has some knowledge of embracing I don't possess, I'd assume I just never embraced like that. My embraces usually don't involve legs between the other's. Oh well. We may never know.

ION: I have to decide between camping... or finally getting my lifeguard certification. Sigh....

[DraPrime]

ION: I have to decide between camping... or finally getting my lifeguard certification. Sigh....

I suggest lifeguard certification. You can do a lot more good with that.

[Eon]

I suggest lifeguard certification. You can do a lot more good with that.

Ya... I've also been looking for an opening for a few months. And I intend to get a job teaching swim lessons next year so...

[LaZodiac]

Are you referring to Fall from Heaven? I really need to buy that game.

Yes he is. Specificly the mod of it for Civ 4. I bring that up since it seems there may be more then one version due to your white text.

[Pentachoron]

...you can do more than one thing in any given position.
Imagine they're positioned like that as you've been envisioning.
Now imagine their clothes are still on. Suddenly they're just embracing! And possibly kissing passionately.

I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying it doesn't really seem like something people would do. Partially because it's not the most comfortable of positions to embrace in.

[absolmorph]

Wow. So, uh, I'll just be over here, crushing on Evanna Lynch.

[Eon]

Titin amuses me...

[AsteriskAmp]

Titin amuses me...

The protein or the Belgian comic?