RabidZombie wrote:London meet up is in order.

We could go and loot a few coffee shops and leave foam darwinians at the scene? Free television coverage for introversion!

Why?

And that explains why, I just got a notification that the appengine datastore is experiencing problems. So it' a problem with appengine not just NP. Once it clears up you'll be able to see here:

http://code.google.com/status/appengine

Damn, that's some pretty impressive jump range tech you have there!

Did the game just go down for everyone else too? :/

Looking through a telescope?

Out of sheer curiosity, what things are some other guns designed to do which doesn't involve killing, maiming or seriously injuring? Most .22's, for example, are designed and built with "plinking" in mind. A good chunk of the rifles, and nearly all shotguns, as well are made specifically ...

Someone has to get within 5 feet for it to be dangerous though, that's somewhat harder then getting within 100ft with a gun. And of course running away from a gun isn't terribly useful! Also, the potential for large scale damage with a gun is so much higher than with any kind of melee weapon. To tak...

Because, to me at least, it makes no sense to fear inanimate objects that lack the ability to spontaneously harm. If someone comes at me with a fist, broken bottle, knife, brick or golf club, I can be fairly confident in disarming them. Even if not, at least I'd probably see them coming. Guns allow...

Yeah I agree with Mas, the stars look about right.

Who is who by the way? Obviously I'm King Martin and Rock of Green is greenrock, but what about everyone else?

The exception may be when moving from one paradigm to another---after spending 20 years working with languages like BASIC, C/C++, php, and python, I tried to learn Haskell. That was difficult. Rewarding, but difficult. I had the same experience with Haskell, when I started it I hated it because it ...

This discussion came up on another forum, where the guy already knew some programming basics and I recommended taking the 7 languages in 7 weeks approach - throw yourself really rapidly at a load of very different concepts/languages and you'll learn the basic concepts each is trying to teach without...

As if I needed something else to distract me besides writing a game, running a wolf game on another forum, building a server and replacing my PCs failed HDD....

I'm in

I'm also with Jordy... on this one. As a free citizen I have a right to privacy which includes the right to be let alone. A police officer is only there to enforce the law and if there are no reasonable grounds for suspecting me of having committed a crime I should have no obligation to explain or ...

I'd join another game...