What's on your mind?

[kyonides]

Well, the UEFA Champions League Finals are over now and a fellow countryman made history being the first guy from my country to become a champion with the rest of his team as well. I would like to say I'm proud but still, we're talking about sports so...

[Bounty Hunter Lani]

What's on my mind right now?
Well... let's get right to it!   


I'm not really fond of the new short-form comedy format that Cartoon Network has made their whole channel into. 
Almost every single one of the new shows end up being 10 minutes of comedy, and there are 70+ episodes in a season... and a new episode every night!
It's like they don't trust people to follow a weekly 30-60 minute show or something!

I know I'm not their "target demographic", but the truth is, they're perverting-- no, EXPLOITING-- shows people grew up with, putting them in this new short-form comedy style that doesn't work for what the shows used to be. 
It was nice of them to realize bringing the Powerpuff Girls in a weird new art style wasn't going to work, so they brought the original art... but in the new short-form, it's 10 minutes of random scenarios played out very fast, with the character we all knew doing... weird things. Or not mattering at all, even!
Mojo Jojo walks a dog instead of plotting dangerous things, etc...
Let's not even go into the Teen Titans going from a serious show to... Well, watch for yourself.

I feel like they're going to try and bring back another show to try and save their dwindling ratings, but they're killing their channel again.
They thought the "Live-action" shows were killing ratings and didn't make sense, now these short-forms are killing ratings, and they rarely ever have continuity or consequences from a previous episode.
Every new show does a "Checklist" as well, where they HAVE to have this or that, or an episode devoted to ____, so they rarely ever have a difference between them.
Also, many of the new shows have the EXACT SAME ART STYLES.
They do the small circle on the top big oval on the bottom for the face structure, and the shows don't differentiate themselves from each other at all for that reason as well. 

Cartoon Network makes them do the short-form, it's in the shows' TV contracts, and it really stifles creativity because they have to stuff an idea into a 10-minute script. Steven Universe may be the only show that's actively TRYING to get out of the 10-minute crud with their frequent TV Specials, but the show also has a pretty blatant political agenda created by the "Checklist", so it's not a show I watch anyway.

All in all, Cartoon Network is something I avoid now, even Toonami. Cartoon Network keeps making every new cartoon short-form comedies where everyone acts dumb for the sake of the format, and not because they would really act that way. They need to stop contracting people to go short-form, and let them be CREATIVE. Let them make the show what they want it to be, and not resort to looking at a checklist to figure out what the next episode will be. Let them be the great shows they can be, without having to resort to a super-easy art style that doesn't appeal to a wide base.
What's next, 10-minute Yu-Gi-Oh shorts with the original cast doing dumb things and super-quick card games that become an afterthought?
(Don't put it past CN if they ever get the rights to Yu-Gi-Oh...)

Toonami is a totally different story that I could rant about too, but... meh, Cartoon Network is on right now with their short-form shows, so I felt like goin' off on them right now   

[DerVVulfman]

You gotta literally wait till the wee hours of the morning to catch something good once and a while. For example, the two hour Samurai Champloo marathon. But you have to wade through 'The Cleveland Show' to get to it? Is it still being made? I thought it was DEAD! Don't get me going on what they did to Teen Titans. Geez, they took the 4-part series, the Judas Contract, and CHIBI-ed the hell outta it.

[Bounty Hunter Lani]

Toonami has become a crapfest, I'm too tired and cranky to rant about them right now   


So anyway, I'm not a Twitter-loving Lani, as some may or may not know...
HOWEVER...

I may make a Twitter, specifically for my Youtube channel. It'd help me reach a wider audience, connect with other Youtubers, etc.

I still hate Twitter, though. 

[MetalRenard]

3 of the forum's top posters are never here and the 2nd (me) isn't around enough. :(
I guess priorities change when you have less free time and all that. Have I missed anything major lately? Is everyone still doing well? I still hold this community close to my heart.

[Bounty Hunter Lani]

RENNY-KUN! 

I'm doing quite fine, thanks for asking us! Just wish I could be getting more sleep, but oh well.   

Major events... Major events?
 I think you missed... the BOXERS RAID!!!!   

Glad to have you here 

[DerVVulfman]

Yeah.... the boxers... I hear a knock on the door and Lani rushes in with six other girls from the forum! My drawers were raided....

We need ya here, bro. Hit us up with more tunage!!! Ya need to hit us up with more melodies by the Fox in the Music Box.

[kyonides]

Well, again I'lll have to stop posting stuff on my Detective related thread because I don't get the feedback I required. How sad... It's not that such a thing couldn't ever happen, it's just that it wasn't fun to see that days have passed without any changes.

[Siletrea]

ok hi everyone!
as you may (probably not) know. Lunarberry and I are both working on a game and also trying to learn XP scripting
after reading this front to back http://www.rpg-maker.fr/dl/monos/aide/xp...index.html
along with over 40ish more articles we decided to just chat about what we see the symbols and terms DO to a script because we both couldent understand much of it

so in laymans terms I'm going to post up our

W.I.P XP Scripting Cheat Sheet of What Things Do and Mean

{{ things in [italics] is Lunarberry's comments while things in (bold) is Siletrea's comments}}


Symbols
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#  -  used to ignore the line of text after it example: #this line wont affect script

*  -  multiplication symbol

$  -  may be used to show a oversized or undersized item like a pic or sprite?

" "  -  use to show text ...example: "hello" also used in lists ["milk","eggs","bread"]

( )  -  used to show things like text or pictures

[ ]  -  used to make a list or to list off things like [milk,eggs,bread]

{ }  -  used in math based shit

@    -  might be something specific?

!    -  importaint stuff?

\    -  is apparently used?

/    -  is apparently used?





Terms
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instant variable - something that may or does vary or change instantly or right away.
(may do something may be random?)
[it either might or will change, but right away]

variable - something that may or does vary or change
(says its changing stuff?)
[It might or will change or what you were saying in the above description the only difference
in this and the above is this isn't time based]

class - a group, set, or kind sharing common attributes
(or features) or in programming, a group of objects with the same properties and behaviors and
that is arranged in a hierarchy with other such data types.
(difference between art class and math class?)
[correct]
(yay)

member variable - a group with the same or similar feature/attribute that may or does change.
(art class but with clay models?)
[more like changes from the same or similar situation. Such as how all creatures are born, some
are born from eggs, birthed, and splitting parts of themselves, etc. The same feature they all
have is being born, but they do it differently.]

instantiated - to provide an instance of or concrete evidence in support of
(a theory, concept, claim, or the like). Though I think the author more means the definition
instant (shown below).
(yeah sure I still don't get it)
[by the earlier definition, it would mean giving evidence in support of a claim, but I think the
author actually meant being instant]

Instant/Instance - immediate, right away.
(makes sence)

Subclass -  a secondary or subordinate class.
(optional classes like cooking class?)
[more like how you thought member variable is. An art class is general and covers everything art,
but more specific areas that branch from it (or sub) is like painting, sculpting, etc.]

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that is all we got...corrections in laymans terms are MORE then allowed

[DerVVulfman]

Well, some things right... Some things wrong. General math symbols of +(add) -(minus) /(divide) *(multiply) are used almost universally between coding formats. However, one can use the / in various ways such as filenames and directory paths. And the '$' symbol is used to create what WE call global variables. That is, it is a variable which can be used throughout your entire game... hopping from script to script (like $game_actor or $game_system).

I've been toying with the idea of penning a sorta cheat-sheet help file or booklet on scripting. While you may not have heard of something called the RMXP SDK, the creators of that script package had a set of guidelines for scripters that was pretty choice.

In the forum's TUTORIAL board, you can find a RUBY help file that ntzrmtthihu777 converted from a website. Very detailed.