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Cash Curtis II
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Actually, I have two requests.

1. I'd like to be able to see someone's old name once they've changed it. Suspicious people often change their name so that they will suck less. Like, maybe in the profile view there could be a list of every name they've ever had.

2. I'd like the server time offset to be more than 12. Now, at first glance, + or - 12 hours seems like it should cover every possibility. However, it does not. It is possible for a time zone right next to me to be 24 hours different. I happen to be 13 or 14 hours off of Central Standard Time, depending on American daylight savings. I end up having to do math in my head that is always wrong.

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Quote: "I'd like to be able to see someone's old name once they've changed it"
Nice one. Also it would be handy to identify someone, especially when people change their name once a week Mine would be pretty short though: 1. 2000-2006 Dazzag...

Quote: "I'd like the server time offset to be more than 12"
Also doesn't some places like have half an hour time zones? If I remember rightly we had a request to change our system to handle it once (we do travel systems for companies like Thomsons and Lunn Poly - infact exactly like as those are 2 of ours) but they rejected the quote as it was too expensive

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I originally thought "Yes, good idea about the names." but then I wondered about the few newbies who turn up, don't know how the community works and makes a few enemies very quickly. They get their fingers burnt, and want to start fresh.

So on the one hand - I think it'd be good to stop people who just want to be jerks, hiding behind a new name (and only the mods know it). But on the other hand, I don't want ex-accidental-jerks being limited by their past mistakes.

Fine line between them.

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Posted: 29th Jul 2006 21:13
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mods can see a users history of nick names and IP's.
tis quite funny sometimes, when certain spankwads think they are being slick - haha, pwnd

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I suspect some Mods, not just spankwads, of changing their forum names. Like Cash, I just use my actual name, although I don't criticize anyone for wanting to take the opportunity to be called anything they want or to maintain whatever privacy level they want. However, I see lots of acrimony in these forums, which is sad. If someone is going to criticize someone else one on one, so be it. But allowing someone to do so from multiple identities over several name changes might create a false impression of more support on the point than the single opinion involved, which is not fair, and which is somewhat deceptive. I support Cash's suggestion of putting the name list in the profile.
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Posted: 29th Jul 2006 23:06 Edited at: 30th Jul 2006 00:06
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I used to be Krazy Jimmy, but "just plain jimmy" seemed to have that turf covered before I arrived .

I have a notice in my signature.

I think thats a good Idea, and the timezone thing is always wack... Who invented time anyways Obviously wasn't enough beta testing done. haha

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Posted: 29th Jul 2006 23:46 Edited at: 29th Jul 2006 23:48
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The railroads invented time zones, and for a good reason. The alternative is a differnt time of day for every tiny variation in longitude from place to place. However, the time zone boundaries do get somewhat political and/or market oriented, and in some cases inconvenient when on the edge of a zone. By "inconvenient" I mean my neices wait for the school bus long before sunrise. In the US the zones boundaries are incredibly crooked in some cases.

But I'm not sure I understand the effect of the server offset. The time of day cannot be more than +/- 12 hrs offset, although the DATE can theoretically get screwed up. From where I sit, Cash's posts seem to be in the correct chronological order with those from UK and US, based upon my reading of who is responding to what post. On my end the times shown for the respone is expressed in my local time, and always seems correct.
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One of the half hour oddities is Newfoundland time, which is UTC-0230. No idea why they did that, but that's how it is.


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or why they didnt thorw a couple of spaces in the word either.

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Posted: 30th Jul 2006 01:44 Edited at: 30th Jul 2006 01:51
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It does bother me a bit too when mods change their names. I keeping thinking TGC are adding a new mod every couple of days. I think mods should all be named MOD 1, MOD 2, etc. with MOD 3 if there are three mods, and MOD 4 if there are 4. MOD 5 also if we have 5 mods, and MOD 6 if we get up to 6. MOD 1 cannot be MOD 2, and MOD 2 cannot be MOD 1. MOD 1 cannot be refered to as MOD 2, except in jest (haha - that'd be hilarious). MOD 3 cannot be refered to as MOD 1 either. MOD BILLY is completely unacceptable, as is MOD SAM.

Ok, I shall return to my cell.

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the drone of the flourescent lights keeps him awake at night. He just dreams of what life could be... what it could offer. Then when you let him out to breath he starts saying these things...

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Posted: 30th Jul 2006 02:29 Edited at: 30th Jul 2006 02:42
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Fallout's system of mod naming sounds top stuff.
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Posted: 30th Jul 2006 02:37 Edited at: 30th Jul 2006 02:41
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This feature sounds like an excellent idea...




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Yeah, people with multiple names really creep me out...


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Posted: 30th Jul 2006 02:42 Edited at: 30th Jul 2006 02:43
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I'm just as scared as you are.

So now that there's two of you we can expect an earlier release of Geisha House?
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Quote: "Mon May 12th 2003"


Ive seen that somewhere else... a long long time ago.

I think his name s tarts with a J.I.M.M.Y. but I'm not totally sure yet...

EDIT: I'm not so far from the truth. Although not the real jimmy this is the idiot who impersonated him int eh last wtf is jimmy thread.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=73189&b=2

everywhere you see cash curtis III is where the fake jimmy was.

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some mods changed their name to their real name, others left their nick as is from day 1, while flappy filbert over there cant decide...



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cattle whos the guy thats got multiple accounts? he impersonates everyone....

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I think he was originally known as Squidgy the Brick.

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Quote: " I think he was originally known as Squidgy the Brick."


I knew it all along. That bricky bastard!

The earliest name he had that I can recall was Mr.Tatoad or something like that.
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:\ i only remember stinky stoat... maybe some before that i cant recall.

mc philbert strikes again!

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Haha--- I still can't believe you guys haven't figured out who the impsersonator is. He has like 3 or 4 accounts on here--- even a female one


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It's probably Kenjar. He vowed to start an Anti-Cash Fan Club, and this is probably his first daring move. He'll assume my identity, and talk even more trash then I do. I am but a powerless pawn in his brilliant scheme... His final move will be to fake my death while I'm asleep and turn CashCurtis.com into a Man-porn site...

Anyway, the time zone issue-I'm 14 hours ahead of the server time. Sure, I could set my time to +2, but then the date would be all screwy. So, I've just never done that. It seems like a simple fix to extend the list of time differences.


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well there is a cash 3.

Quote: "Haha--- I still can't believe you guys haven't figured out who the impsersonator is. He has like 3 or 4 accounts on here--- even a female one"


maybe the multi account person is tinkergirl!!! i still think she is probably hot though.

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Me? Nah - you can get a Mod to confirm that I've been Tinkergirl all the time here. (Though, I think I signed up for an alt account a while ago - don't think I posted anything, couldn't be bothered logging out as Tinkergirl and logging in as the alt).

Personally, my suspicions were at that 'Grace' person. It's unusual for a girl to have an asian-looking bikini-girl as their avatar. But maybe that's just girly cattiness - who can say

(Can anyone say "Witchhunt"? )

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Don't care. If you trawl my posts you will see that I believe you are all forum bots. Apart from Rich who obviously creates them. Obviously my money is good and they can live on an amazingly small amount over all these years

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I used to go by the handle Slutty Mega Pr0n. I got hit on every day.

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Not by me you slutty pr0n-bot you. The depths that Rich will go to keep me happy....

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I bet its Rich just having a laugh at us, or perhaps there is no multi-user, its just a ploy to get us paranoid, the old (The murderer is in this room bit)

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Quote: "I bet its Rich just having a laugh at us, or perhaps there is no multi-user, its just a ploy to get us paranoid, the old (The murderer is in this room bit)"


Quote: "Cash Curtis III"

There are only so many Cashs to go around...


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Quote: "maybe the multi account person is tinkergirl!!!"


Here's a hint, the imposter has not posted in this thread as of yet.


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Raven?

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wait a second!!!! ASIAN LOOKING BIKINI GIRL!!!!!!! what was her name, the one i chased away and was makign that awesome horror game, omg i mentioned her the other day.... crud i forgot! someone help me out wait RANDI! i wonder if its the same

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Grace Tichee


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This sure is a deep dilemma. I'll be needing some tea to figure out this one.
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I officially apologise for casting doubts on the existance of Grace. Sorry Grace, you're just quite unusual.

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Grace doesn't exist! There is no hot Japanese model coding games on this forum! Get over it!
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Quote: "This website is all about me. It holds pictures of me at work and my recently taken up coding. If you would like to know about my breast, I use bountifulbreast.com. It makes
my breast grow naturally."

Do you honestly believe this is the product of anybody other than a pasty faced 13yo twit?


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Yeah, I think 'she' is actually some geeky 14 year old boy. But that Bountiful Breast stuff sounds credible


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I want some of that Bountiful stuff for myse-er-for a friend.
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Still, I'd rather be polite to a fictional person, than rude to a real one. *shrugs*

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The world is too cruel a place for fit busty oriental game programmers to exist. If such an occurance was possible, there would most likely be no polution, zero poverty and eternal world peace.

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Quote: "Here's a hint, the imposter has not posted in this thread as of yet."


Actually, he's posted here several times already

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Yah, Grace is obviously a guy---


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It certainly can't be me, because I haven't posted in here yet.


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guys still working on it?

I thought we busted this already. Guss I'll be an arse and keep shut

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Is Tinkergirl the only active female on these forums ? Oh, wait there was that older lady who posted on here a few weeks ago, and she and her friends were going to make a game (which is awesome, I've never met a 40 something year old lady who likes much less makes video games ), wonder if she's still around.

EDIT: didn't see second page

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no asian chick coders? what about this photo of me??




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Dude, stop posting pictures of your underage girlfriend all over the damn forums.
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Nothing wrong with being proud of your girlfriend mate. I'd post up pictures of my mrs all the time if they weren't already posted at angelinajolie.com.

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