The Sewers
The Sewers by cornandbeans
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Sun and Moon by NightHawk222
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Tree Warriors
The great and powerful tree stood proud and tall. The rebels of men shuddered under its might. For centuries, man has struggled in vain against the growing power of trees, but now, man has gathered enough strength, enough courage, to rid themselves of the trees once and for all!
And so the tree deployed its minions, the grassblades, against the evercoming rebels. The men roared and screamed at the sight of the seemingly infinite number of enemies before them. At last, they realized to their horror; they were painfully outnumbered.
But fear not! For the rebels had been well prepared and a secret weapon was at their disposal. One of the lowly rebels scurried quickly and returned with the long awaited... lawnmower. And with this lawnmower, the rebels advanced, plowing through the endless fields of grass, charging through flying grassroots and chunks of dirt and mud.
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And so the tree deployed its minions, the grassblades, against the evercoming rebels. The men roared and screamed at the sight of the seemingly infinite number of enemies before them. At last, they realized to their horror; they were painfully outnumbered.
But fear not! For the rebels had been well prepared and a secret weapon was at their disposal. One of the lowly rebels scurried quickly and returned with the long awaited... lawnmower. And with this lawnmower, the rebels advanced, plowing through the endless fields of grass, charging through flying grassroots and chunks of dirt and mud.
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Fort Wars Almost Lagfree
After a few hours work, I’ve managed to create a single trigger (opposed to the original 30) that controlled every single spawn line. Originally, each spawnline had its own constantly looping function, and each player had his/her own set. You’d have around 30*Players number of looping triggers every moment.
Now I managed to combine them all, so you have only 1*Players, a maximum of 8 at any given time on an 8 player map. This should drastically reduce the lag of any Fort Wars game.
Hopefully I finish 3.1 soon and release. 
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Boy's Scream Kills Hundred of Chickens...
Article: Boy’s Screaming Kills Chickens
That’s just one of the weirdest things I’ve read in a long time. Apparently, a dog scared a boy, who in turn screamed and scared hundreds of chickens to death. Sounds like something right off of Jelly Pickle.
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Fort Wars 3.1 Fixed!
Tried a few more times to fix what I had already. First game went well until 20 minute mark and it synced out. The rest of the games synced out within 10 minutes. I went through and redid all the changes from 3.0 onward again. So far no problems - but that’s a serious lost of time wasted on the damn problem. 
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Fort Wars 3.1 Out of Sync
Everything works fine in single player and 1v1. File is short, instructions are brand new, tons of new features.. but always out of sync. Unfortunately can’t find what exactly is causing this. I’m afraid I’m going to have to start from 3.0 again and edit from there. Wish me luck!
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kb Commands in AOE3
I’ve just took some time to actually try my hand at learning kb Commands. Surprisingly it isn’t that hard (it looks confusing and there are close to no resources or references for it), and opens a whole new set of possibilities for scripting. Some guy named TwentyOneScore found these years ago for Age of Mythology, but from what I saw, it seems like no one bothered to take up on his findings. Very sad that this has remained buried for so long - like hidden treasure :p
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Programming
My first shot at anything even close to programming started with Age of Empires III in Random Map Scripting of November 2005. I didn't try any other languages until around summer of 2006, when, out of boredom from being one-handed due to a broken right wrist, I taught myself web design and programming (including coding this website from scratch). Since then, I've learned much more programming and continue to do so.
What do I use to program? No fancy programs here (you otherwise aren't writing your own code and technically NOT programming!)... I only use Notepad2; it is basically the Notepad included on all Windows computer, with highlighting to make code easier to read. Very nice when you are editing files with over 5000 lines of code :p Many thanks to Elpea and Matei for recommending it to me.
Currently I'm fluent in:
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What do I use to program? No fancy programs here (you otherwise aren't writing your own code and technically NOT programming!)... I only use Notepad2; it is basically the Notepad included on all Windows computer, with highlighting to make code easier to read. Very nice when you are editing files with over 5000 lines of code :p Many thanks to Elpea and Matei for recommending it to me.
Currently I'm fluent in:
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Google Fight
Here’s a funny site I just came across. Basically it lets you enter two search phrases to compare and a little animation plays as if the two are duking it out. The winner is the search phrase that gets the most hits on Google. Also a nice way to see what site is more popular 
Example: Llama VS Potato
Nooooooooo! The potato won! :O
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Some Random Story
This is a true story...
So there was a short lil' guy named Bob and this tiny little kit-cat named Tom. Tom was hungry one day and Bob didn't have any water. Tom begged for food, but Bob said no so the tiny cat scratched him. Bob tried to call for help, but accidentally swallowed his hat.
A huge ugly dog named Jack came along, but his real name was Bob. Bob tried to feed the dog to Tom the lil' cat, but Jackbob tried to scare the cat. Bob then became angry and Tom got angry too. Tom didn't know why he was angry so he started chasing Bob around, but Bob was angry that Tom was angry because he was angry, so he started chasing Jackbob the dog.
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So there was a short lil' guy named Bob and this tiny little kit-cat named Tom. Tom was hungry one day and Bob didn't have any water. Tom begged for food, but Bob said no so the tiny cat scratched him. Bob tried to call for help, but accidentally swallowed his hat.
A huge ugly dog named Jack came along, but his real name was Bob. Bob tried to feed the dog to Tom the lil' cat, but Jackbob tried to scare the cat. Bob then became angry and Tom got angry too. Tom didn't know why he was angry so he started chasing Bob around, but Bob was angry that Tom was angry because he was angry, so he started chasing Jackbob the dog.
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The Agenda...
Bah.. two days left of break - so much to do
Quick list:
- Update Fort Wars (patch due any time + Aztec sucks, need to announce ladder etc)
- Castle…[More]
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Coffee
Just bored here while the rest of the family is napping after the long drive. My sister next to me was trying to drink a cup of coffee but spat it back out after the first sip. Then she goes again to try and drink it, only to spit it back out not much later.
I don't know why she bothers. Coffee is so disgusting. It's this brown, murky substance that, had it been anywhere else besides a cup that said "Drink", no one would consider drinking. It doesn't taste or smell good, and it certainly doesn't look appealing. People try to deny this, but notice that people who drink it often have it mixed heavily with sugar or cream - to hide the fact that it's so nasty.
Some people claim that they need the coffee to wake up; they need the caffeine. So wait, let me get this straight. They drink the coffee for the...[More]
I don't know why she bothers. Coffee is so disgusting. It's this brown, murky substance that, had it been anywhere else besides a cup that said "Drink", no one would consider drinking. It doesn't taste or smell good, and it certainly doesn't look appealing. People try to deny this, but notice that people who drink it often have it mixed heavily with sugar or cream - to hide the fact that it's so nasty.
Some people claim that they need the coffee to wake up; they need the caffeine. So wait, let me get this straight. They drink the coffee for the...[More]
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Off for the Winter...
Winter break now obviously - can’t stay home the whole two weeks. :-/ I’m going to be off again - will probably be back Tuesday or Wednesday next week. I have no clue where I’m going - just another random road trip. Hopefully not as boring as the last.
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Fort Wars Ladder
It turns out Elpea’s old ladder for Fort Wars has ALWAYS worked. We were working on an XML version for NOTHING. All we needed was to add &sFlags=0 to the address we were using. Argh!
Now splitting it so that we have an expansion and non-expansion version… Would be perfect to release on Christmas XD
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House with Christmas Lights
Hello all - merry christmas!
Here’s just something you have to have seen at least once, if you haven’t already. I found it about a year ago - still very cool.
House Lights Synced with Music
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