MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

author=Linkis
He had smoked some pot and that may have OR MAY NOT have had anything to do with what happened, I'm not sure but I DO know pot changes your state of mind.

I smoke Adon237's body weight in pot every year and this has never lead me to get into any violent confrontation with the pigs.

I did take the time to google your examples of police brutality and murder.Guess what I found, not one of them was premeditated or racially biased.

Linkis I don't know if you were serious when you said you were worried that people would get mad at you for your post. No one will. But that said this is a completely and totally unreasonable thing to say and because I'm not feeling 100% right now I'm gonna leave it up to someone else (Liberty? Solitayre? CAVE_DOG, idk) to explain why.

author=Linkis
Eric Garner: the cops were asked to do something about him by the local merchants who said he was taking away business by selling loose cigarettes. Granted, it is a very low crime, as crime goes, but he had been arrested OVER 30 times by the cops in the past. He resisted arrest, was severely overweight and had a heart condition. The initial holed the cop used was not a choke hold, but turned into that as they wrestled Mr. Garner to the ground. Again, really sad for the kids and family, but he was a criminal and the cops were called in to do their job. Yes, a low level crime, but they had a job to do and he ignored their authority. If only he had gone along with them.....

Why was it necessary--why was it imperative--for them to physically attack him at all?

author=Linkis
But you don't smoke pot, rob a store, ignore police when they tell you to walk on the sidewalk and not block traffic, punch a cop in the face several times, try to get his gun (and what would he have done with that gun?), run from the cop, taunt him and charge at him.....and expect to go home for dinner.

I have struck out all of the factors that are stupid irrelevant bullshit that shouldn't and didn't contribute to his death. That said, leaving out the parts I didn't strike out, I totally agree with you. Being a black man and punching a cop is a real good way to get your ass killed in America--either one on its own can get you killed, and combining them is just overkill--and you don't need to be a fucking genius to know that.

author=Linkis
Even Jessie Jackson is afraid to walk the streets where people of color reside :)

Using the PC-ism 'people of color' doesn't make this sentence any less conspicuously racist.

author=Solitayre
There's a lot of racial elements here, as well, I think.

A move glamorizing black "thug life" will probably end with things going to hell for everyone and ultimately showing this life in a negative light. However, a heist movie starring a bunch of pretty white people? They'll probably not only get away with it but look really cool doing it.

There are a lot of movies with the moral "crime doesn't pay" but Goodfellas and Wolf of Wall Street ultimately end with the protagonist more or less "getting away with it" by most people's standards. They never face real comeuppance for what they did, because the real people they were based on didn't either.

In a lot of movies, crime does pay, as long as you're pretty and white.

Solitayre for someone who is known as a critic of anything you are laughably, painfully bad at analyzing films as text. Not going to go into detail because it'll drag this off topic but I strongly disagree with these assertions you're making about American crime cinema.

author=Linkis
Second: he was 6'2-4", a very healthy 18yr old AND about 350lbs. The initial 3-4 bullets were along his hand, arm and upper right side of chest, and with the adrenilen and anger rushing through his body, he very easily could have rushed the cop AND a cop with an angry large, heavy man rushing him SHOULD have been afraid for his life.

Being big and black does not make you the juggernaut. You take 3-4 rounds from a 9mm at close range and you're not gonna be in any shape to threaten the life of a police officer with nothing but your bare hands.

author=Linkis
That is when they arrested him, he resisted and the cop used a take down hold, NOT choke hold. If you watch the video again, you will see a cop shorter than Mr. Garner put his forearm under his chin and try to pull him back....that is the takedown method he was trained to use. Unfortunately, as the cops wrestled with Garner, the cops are slipped under his chin to his throat, that may be why everyone says "choke hold". Garner was extremely heavy, had asthma and a heart condition. If the EMT's thought he was having trouble breathing, they would have put him oxygen right away.

Are we watching the same video here? At 0:38 of 3:53 Garner is making no movie to attack police officers when one NYPD pig locks him into a chokehold from behind. They struggle for about six seconds before Garner hits the ground 0:44/3:53. At 0:54/3:53 Garner says for the first time that he is having trouble breathing: "I can't breathe!". He has been on the ground for ten seconds, more pigs are mobbing him, and the officer who initially grappled him from behind still has the chokehold locked in. At 1:00/3:53 Garner is pleading over and over in an obviously hoarse and choked voice that he cannot breathe while like four to six cops are swarming over him. The pig in khaki shorts and the green 99 jersey--the same pig that initiated the chokehold--is now kneeling next to Garner's head and appears to be using his full body weight to smash Garner's face down into the pavement with one hand on Garner's head.. By 1:10/3:53 a wall of pigs blocks our view of Garner's ongoing execution at the hands of NYPD.

author=Linkis
BUT I WAS TAUGHT TO RESPRECT THE COPS AND DO WHAT THEY TOLD ME TO DO

This right here is the problem. In the strongest possible terms...FUCK. THIS. SHIT.

author=corfaisus
Instead, I'd recommend simply getting better at mapping or put more thought into what these locations mean (perhaps that'll give you more incentive to actually create them). The only other alternative is weighing down your few locations with as many story-points as possible, which will undoubtedly result in backtracking out the ass, which no one enjoys. Or you could find a mapper, but that's just a crutch (and one that could very easily slip away, at that).

Heh. So now I feel like I gotta talk about me personally.

Me personally:

I currently consider myself "good enough" at mapping. I would describe my mapping ability right now as "solid/decent". Aside from the nitpickiest of perfectionists, I haven't gotten many complaints about my maps in the last six years. Could I get better at mapping? Definitely. And I probably am, at a fairly slow rate relative to how much I practice. But I don't see at all even a little how getting better at mapping is going to make me more motivated to map.

To use a rather extreme analogy: I could be the world championship toilet cleaner, but the satisfaction I get from having really cleaned a toilet well is not going to motivate me to clean more toilets if I don't like cleaning toilets in the first place.

But it goes further than that. Because honestly, the "better" I get at mapping the more I give a shit about how the maps look. The more I give a shit about how the maps look, the more time I spend making them "look nice". The more time I spend making maps "look nice" the less maps I get done per hour. The less maps I get done per hour, the more time I spend mapping, which is a tedious chore that I hate. If I could just switch off my critical faculties and make maps that were more "meh" to me, that would make mapping more bearable or at least less time consuming but I don't seem to actually be psychologically capable of not caring. The more I understand how to make pleasing aesthetics, the more obligated I feel to.

As for "thinking about why this area exists" actually I think I do think around that substantially more than most. Either that, or I'm not sure what you mean.

Anyway right now what I oughtta be doing in my current project is databasing, not mapping. That's my favorite part of game dev. But I feel too sick to even be doing that, right now, which sucks.

author=yuna21
I would totally help in the mapping department if VXAce could work on my PC. >< One of my genuine loves when it comes to making games.

What this thread was supposed to be about:

Ways to structure/design a game that uses maps to use the fewest maps possible. This isn't actually meant primarily to benefit me. It's meant to be a fun abstract game design exercise everyone can particpate in.

So like saying 'Make a game that just uses location backgrounds and menus like Essence Enforcer' is not what this thread is about, and while saying 'I would totally help you out with mapping' is awesome and thank you so much and I WILL PAY YOU ACTUAL MONEY TO DO THAT IF YOU CAN GET YOUR PC ISSUES STRAIGHTENED OUT it's also not strictly speaking what this thread is about. A few of you (such as Avee, CashmereCat, Darken, and Zachary_Braun) have actually answered towards engaging what the thread was supposed to be about and I appreciate that. For the rest of you I'm definitely not trying to yell at you or anything, just giving a gentle reminder/clarification.

oh man an authentic 'my very first ever gam'? I can't resist!

link plz

Discharge and debarment from law enforcement will suffice.

no, actually it doesn't even come fucking close to fucking sufficing. If the pigs involved in these cases were literally and actually crucified, I would be pretty fucking happy. if there was a kickstarter that could pull off that outcome, I'd give it every dollar I had.

@Link2112:

hahaha I have ignored literally two people on the entire forums ever dawg what the fuck do you even think you are talking about. until very recently it was only 1. until less than a month ago, it was 0...

I'm willing to bet twenty bucks that even back when the number of people I had on ignore was 0 instead of 1 or 2 the number of people with me on ignore was closer to ten or twelve, at least. Lots of people have hated me for bad, shitty, or no reason for years now. I am beyond used to it. Hell, maybe there was one or two with good reason I'm not always perfect but anyway... so yeah your argument does not actually make any sense.

I'm not going to ignore people who say shitty things about my games even if I think they're unfounded but I'd prefer not to share a psychic space with anyone so monstrous that they would defend the pigs that are murdering innocent civilians under color of authority. Such a person's thoughts are a form of pollution and I choose not to inhale it.

Anyway, some interesting and relevant reading material. The tl;dr is "American justice system executing innocent blacks, feature not bug".