can you seriously stop that tired "ooh, i was just joking" defense already. if you're going to backtread on every single thing you post you might as well just not post?

realtalk, why hasn't phubans been banned yet?

Had I known TIGSource was so full of thin-skinned drama queens with a high propensity for butthurt, I would have never bothered posting here.

yeah shame on us for coming up with consistently good work, i should instead be festering away in the forums not being funny and having to constantly defend my own posting in order to convince nobody but myself that i'm not a worthless slime.

your humor is relatively bad. *reads "trending topics" panel in twitter* relative to the recent #tsunamiinjapan.

if you "genuinely" think you're "genuinely funny" then you're "genuinely wrong." also i'm not sure what neural misfire caused you to post that embarrassing photo of yourself of your "own volition" because i can't see anything mentioned in this thread that might've warranted such a reaction besides a creepy obsession with two asian american figureheads of this poopheap of a community.

stop namedropping me you unfunny turdposter

it's called charisma

i agree that super paper mario sucks but your game has less enemies than knytt and that's saying something, fish. also afaik the entire super papier mario art team made it to the end of development without being murdered so that's already one unfair advantage it has over fez.

"Shut up" is a slang phrase with a meaning similar to "be quiet"', but which is commonly perceived as an angrier, "meaner", and more commanding attempt to stop someone from talking or making noise. The phrase is probably a shortened form of "shut your mouth up". More forceful forms of the phrase may be constructed by the interposition of modifiers, including "shut your piehole" "shut the hell up" and "shut the fuck up". In instant messenger communications, these are in turn often abbreviated to STHU and STFU, respectively. Similar phrases include "hush" or "hush up"(which are generally less aggressive), "shaddap", and "shut your mouth", sometimes substituting "mouth" with another word conveying similar meaning, such as face,[1] trap,[1] yap,[2] or, more archaically, gob.[3] In shut the heck up, heck is substituted for more aggressive modifiers.

Initial meaning and development

Prior to the Twentieth century, the phrase "shut up" was rarely used as an imperative, and had a different meaning altogether. To say that someone was "shut up" meant that they were locked up, quarantined, or held prisoner. For example, several passages in the Bible instructs that if a priest determines that a person shows certain symptoms of illness, "then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days".[4] This meaning was also used in the sense of closing something, such as a business, and it is also from this use that the longer phrase "shut up your mouth" likely originated.

One source has indicated that:

    The use of the phrase "shut up" to signify "hold one's tongue" or "compel silence" dates from the sixteenth century. Among the texts that include examples of the phrase "shut up" in this context are Shakespeare's King Lear, Dickens's Little Dorrit, and Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads.[5]

However, Shakespeare's use of the phrase in King Lear is limited to a reference to the shutting of doors at the end of Scene II, with the characters of Regan and Cornwall both advising the King, "Shut up your doors". The earlier meaning of the phrase, to close something, is widely used in Little Dorrit, but is used in one instance in a manner which foreshadows the modern usage:

    'Altro, altro! Not Ri-' Before John Baptist could finish the name, his comrade had got his hand under his chin and fiercely shut up his mouth."[6]

As early as the late 1859, use of the shorter phrase was expressly conveyed in a literary work:

    A sneering infidel, who uses Scripture for a jest-book, raves about "cant," and retails and details every inconsistency, real or imaginary, that he hears respecting parsons and hypocrites, will be told to "shut up" for a few times; but will, if he persevere, make an impression on a workshop.[7]

One 1888 source identifies the phrase by its similarity to Shakespeare's use in Much Ado About Nothing of "the Spanish phrase poeat palabrât, 'few words,' which is said to be pretty well the equivalent of our slang phrase 'shut up'".[8] The usage by Rudyard Kipling appears in his poem, "The Young British Soldier", published in 1892, told in the voice of a seasoned military veteran who says to the fresh troops, "Now all you recruities what's drafted to-day,/You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay".[9]

Objectionability

The objectionability of the phrase has varied over time. For example, in 1957, Milwaukee morning radio personality Bob "Coffeehead" Larsen banned the song Mama Look-a-boo-boo from his show for its repeated inclusion of the phrase, which Larsen felt would set a bad example for the younger listeners at that hour.[10] In 1968, the use of the phrase on the floor of the Australian Parliament drew a rebuke that "The phrase 'shut up' is not a parliamentary term. The expression is not the type which one should hear in a Parliament".[11] A similar objection was raised in the Pakistani Parliament in a session during the 1950s.[12] More recently, the cable network Gospel Music Channel, which debuted in 2004, bars the use of the phrase along with actual profanities within its secular programming, often muting the phrase when it comes up within the dialogue.

Alternative meanings

An alternative modern spoken usage is to express disbelief, or even amazement.[13] When this (politer) usage is intended, the phrase is uttered with mild inflexion to express surprise. The phrase is also used in an ironic fashion, when the person demanding the action simultaneously demands that the subject of the command speak, as in "shut up and answer the question". The usage of this phrase for comedic effect traces at least as far back as the 1870s, where the title character of a short farce titled "Piperman's Predicaments" is commanded to "Shut up; and answer plainly".[14] Another seemingly discordant use, tracing back to the 1920s, is the phrase "shut up and kiss me", which typically expresses both impatience and affection.[15]

i checked this out and thought it was a really cool idea, but it's really silly to hand-tag sites. the appeal of a game like this is putting in a site you visit and having it spit out a related monster, but it breaks the illusion if you put something in and it spits out some random character, especially if the site that's entered is a big, albeit niche site.

plus having to update a site-list by hand means it'll be very difficult to maintain the game, whereas using a more dynamic, data driven solution means that if a site changes in any sort of way, the game will also change (as opposed to each monster being sort of a static thing).

my suggestion would be to use a hybrid method -- use hard-coded tags for particular sites, but fallback to a more data driven solution if a definition doesn't exist.

i rest my case ~*bows and exits stage right*~

adamski is the poo of the klik community and i am horrified that the indie games community is getting ANOTHER unfunny passive aggressive weinerslave.

yeah but i'm also saying it had better be good!

so long as you can make actually finish it, and finish it in a proficient manner it should be fine. it's worth noting, though, that a few 3D games have been attempted, but only a few were actually completed, so you should set realistic goals for this.

on the contrary, i've been pretty stringent in making sure the games that are being developed for this are up to snuff. if the idea of A52O is to make good versions of bad games, i want the new game to be markedly better than the old one -- and not simply just a simply a decent remake with fixed mechanics or anything like that.

i may be picking up a second project sometime soon, just to get this thing running along.

ban thought

i am el cucu, but i want to have a good start, no trolling and doing a good game sample when i finished, gimee a chanse plz

jesus christ, fuck off already. what a pathetic loser.

also edit that troll link out of your post, you retard.