Are You a Bot?

Are You a Bot?

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sleepy

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I am a dedicated follower of the "What's Going On? Currently Active Users:"
feature here at the forums since there isn't a hell of a lot going on here and I can't help but notice in all these years the incredible number of *Guests* who absolutely adore "The Chat Box".

So, are you for real?
 
Too bad about not much going on here because I have been banned at VPF.org.

I have an idea why, but the admin. says it is not so. So if he is right, and he could be, I have no idea why.
 
Yes. I have been banned for a couple of days.

There was a post about balls through the flipper in VP8

By the time I saw it it had a number of responses, starting with there is no fix and never was.
There is not a fix but there is certainly a work-around that many have given the name fix to.

It progressed into a free for all flame bait about how bad the fix was, with not a good word about it other than from 'Oz.

It ranged from it does not work, to me being the reason VP8 was never fixed proper. Along with everything in between. destruk went from not only suggesting the VPMdev be notified and it being put into the core, and not saying a bad thing about it for years, to all of a sudden, after VP9 had it fixed, to it being the worst thing imaginable, and he deletes it from every .vbs file (it is only in one) and deleting the fix in every table that uses it (meaning PacDude's I guess because all the releases I have rely on the core.vbs to take care of it). But not only that, He would rather have a ball go through the flipper. He would rather see a big nasty strobe go off saying "THIS IS A BUG" and the ball go through the flipper, than have it stop it even if he just scored 9,000,000,000 points and opened up a wizard mode for the first time in his life. ( I just added the scenario, he just said he would rather have the ball through the flipper any time). But it did not end there either. It did not work half the time, the downswing was instant, and it was just plain half @@@.

And none of this had anything to do with the topic of the thread. Little of it, if any was true, and when I complained about it the Admin. said "it does not work all the time" like that had anything to do with it and because it did not work for him all the time the hateful insulting done about it, even if off topic was fair game, even telling me to get over it. Fuck that. This work around is the fruit of countless hours working on this problem, and not only the best I could come up with, but was in fact good enough to become a standard with VPM tables even those built before using it with the new core upgrades.

Needless to say that irked me. It was off topic, insulting, abusive, mostly lies, and the meanest things anyone could say about me in the VP world.

So I injected my opinion in a like manor. That got me banned.

It remains to be seen if this could be resolved. I sure hope so. The site is, if I could use the expression, Nirvana, otherwise. Given my history, anyone unwilling of course has something to fall back on though, namely the past.
 
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Someone in another forum once asked a recently-departed member in a public thread whether "his mental issues as a poster" were being caused by his (cancer) meds and when I asked if meds use by members was "an issue with admin", my post was moved to The Private Members Section.

The fact that the meds were cancer meds was not mentioned and the sounding like saying that the dispute was "mental" or "meds-related" in public did not sit well with me..
 
Well I didn't know I was obliged to provide "good words", whatever they may considered to be...Still I did post the script required to workaround or fix the VP8 flipper bug and defended the solution.

I didn't realise the core.vbs had been changed again and I'll be looking into getting it changed again to include the fix for VP8 tables. This should be doable by testing which version of VP is running within the core.vbs and then only use the fix for versions of VP before VP9.

As for the bots, well yes they are still visiting here and I'm banning one or two a day on average and although banned many just keep on coming back to view permission denied messages. They will still appear on forum list tring to access areas of the site. In time those behind these bots will eventually get the message that their message is not going to get through and they are wasting their time, money and efforts in sending bots to this site.
 
Someone in another forum once asked a recently-departed member in a public thread whether "his mental issues as a poster" were being caused by his (cancer) meds and when I asked if meds use by members was "an issue with admin", my post was moved to The Private Members Section.

The fact that the meds were cancer meds was not mentioned and the sounding like saying that the dispute was "mental" or "meds-related" in public did not sit well with me..

I read it myself. It use to be the norm, for anyone that disagreed with the staff or took offence at something that it was because of a mental disorder and they would prescribe drugs, or suggest drugs, which is playing doctor either way. Mental disorders does cause strange behavior, and could cause a disgruntled post, but so can being fucked with. And when it is obvious someone is being fucked with, it is likewise obvious what is going on when mental disorder is brought up and drugs suggested.

It use to be the norm, but was unexpected at .org

I was told that when I decide to come back, that all I would have to do was tell him and he would make the tables available again. When I decided go back, he said I was banned and could not come back.

It reminded me of when the .com staff said if I could get AJ to let me back in I could be back in, and when AJ let me back in they banned me again as soon as he was gone.

Or when I was told I could come back with an alt. and when I did was told "a ban is a ban shockman"
 
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Well I didn't know I was obliged to provide "good words", whatever they may considered to be...Still I did post the script required to workaround or fix the VP8 flipper bug and defended the solution.

I didn't realise the core.vbs had been changed again and I'll be looking into getting it changed again to include the fix for VP8 tables. This should be doable by testing which version of VP is running and in the core.vbs and then only use the fix for versions of VP before VP9.

I did not know that it was changed again. I did not mean to suggest that it was, but that the things were said.

The remark was just in notice that you did not say anything bad about it in the thread, like the staffers there did. The defending of it was good though, because it is nowhere near as bad as they seem to be trying to get their membership to believe it is.
 
The only thing I don't understand about your part in it though is the script, when it is already in the core.vbs file, or at least was, unless you are using it for non VPM tables, where that script would be a good idea. With the people that are in charge of VP/VPM dev now saying not only what he did about the workaround, but pronouncing VP8 "dead" I do believe that now any VP8 table that is not updated to VP9 or still exists afterward, should indeed have that code put into the script as you opt to do, even on VPM tables. destruk seems to hate that work-around with a passion I have never imagined possible from a single person.
 
Ah, my misunderstanding then, it seems the core.vbs still includes the faster downswing for the VP8 flipper fix.

The last changes...

' New in 3.32 (Update by Destruk)
' - Added Playmatic Replay setting switches
' New in 3.31 (Update by Destruk)
' - (System VBS Additions)
' - Added play1.vbs
' New in 3.30 (Update by Destruk)
' - (System VBS Additions)
' - Added zacproto.vbs
' New in 3.29 (Update by Noah)
' - (System VBS Additions)
' - Added jvh.vbs and ali.vbs by Destruk for Jac van Ham and Allied Leisure
' Corrected VPBuild Number for slingshots/bumpers and ball decals - Seeker
' New in 3.27 (Update by PD)
' - (System VBS Additions)
' - Added gts1.vbs by Inkochnito for Gottlieb System 1
' New in 3.26 (Update by PD)
' - (Core Changes)
' - Added "GICallback2" function to support Steve Ellenoff's new support in VPM for Dimming GI in WMS games
' GICallaback returns numeric values 0-8 instead of a boolean 0 or 1 (on/off) like GICallback does.
' Existing tables will need to be altered to support dimming levels and need to use GICallback2 instead.
' The old GICallback is left intact so older tables are not broken by the new code
'
' New in 3.25 (release 2) (Update by PD)
' - (Core Changes)
' - Restored former flipper speed due to complaints about some tables having BTTF problem returned and a resolution
' of arguments over the settings
' - New Optional Flipper Code Added (vpmSolFlip2) that let's you specify both up and down-swing speeds in the script
' plus the ability to turn flipper sounds on or off for that call
' Format: vpmSolFlip2 (Flip1obj, Flip2obj, UpSpeed, DownSpeed, SoundOn, Enable)

and...;)

Code:
Private Const conFlipRetStrength = 0.01  ' Flipper return strength
Private Const conFlipRetSpeed    = 0.137 ' Flipper return strength
 
Yeah I have only created originals using earlier versions of VP, that is why I included the flipper fix script in my tables.
 
As for the bots, well yes they are still visiting here and I'm banning one or two a day on average and although banned many just keep on coming back to view permission denied messages. They will still appear on forum list tring to access areas of the site. In time those behind these bots will eventually get the message that their message is not going to get through and they are wasting their time, money and efforts in sending bots to this site.

The bots don't seem to ever go away, there must be lists out there that they share, once a server gets on the list it stays.

How these people can afford to set up on a different isp every few days I don't know. But I guess if they can get one person in a million to fall for their scams and steal a bunch of money it keeps them going.
 
Oh, the old debate about flipper downswing. I remember lowly. It was 2006/2007. I never understood the details as I'm too dumb. I never thought it could cause these hard-fought battles then.
 
I am definitely a bot. I only control a mortal body buy manipulating it via the many computers I keep it near. it is a matter of pride that so few have figured this out. and those that did.... well..... they wont talk... Mwahahahahahaaaaa......

*All Your Phones Ring At Once*
 
Thank you for your refreshing candor Anthias.
Here in the Hollywood/Los Angeles area I cannot begin to tell you how many Bots I encounter each and every day on the street who refuse to admit it.
 
I am a bot.

A PinBot.;):wave:
 
May U B A Bot U R deleted...
 
-Aww shoot...
I've been kicked, dragged denied every one of my Rights, bored, underfed and undeloved and allowed no privacy at all, piss-brained, snow-blind, ripped off and setback, and my Mom was a victim of Identity Theft by a local resident who still lives here and she's so old, so I had to step in to that mess and fight the bank during the last year to restore her money, after having that bastard arrested on $5,000 felony grand theft and sent to prison for 5 lousy months, with papers to prove it to the bank.

...Are you talking to me?
 
Day-amm! Did you at least have time to watch some Stooges episodes?
 
"Ripped Off, Wiped Out, I've Been Burned"

-Aww shoot...
I've been kicked, dragged denied every one of my Rights, bored, underfed and undeloved and allowed no privacy at all, piss-brained, snow-blind, ripped off and setback, and my Mom was a victim of Identity Theft by a local resident who still lives here and she's so old, so I had to step in to that mess and fight the bank during the last year to restore her money, after having that bastard arrested on $5,000 felony grand theft and sent to prison for 5 lousy months, with papers to prove it to the bank.

...Are you talking to me?
Hmmmm...Damn Sleepy, Been wondering about you. Reading your post and these "Doors" lyrics pop into my head.

Well I'm tired, I'm nervous, I'm bored, I'm stoned
Don't you know life aint so easy when you're on your own
I'm lonely, I'm ugly, I'm horny, I'm cold
Don't you know life aint so easy when you're on your own
Leaving home

Well I got ripped off, wiped out, I got burned
Don't you know life aint so easy when you're on your own
I feel my mind is shaking out of place
I look like a truck ran over my face
The doctor says I'm not a hopeless case
I really want to join the human race

Well I got ripped off, wiped out, I got burned
Don't you know life aint so easy when you're on your own
Well I'm tired, I'm nervous, I'm bored, I'm stoned
Don't you know life aint so easy when you're on your own
Leaving home, on your own
On your own

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkGxwE-wBZc

Glad you are still hanging in there...C_S
 

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Oh Hi all.

Yeah, I've been living with this guy in my dreams. The Identity Thief has A Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/ElCaLAvera57

He forged 16 checks and subscribed to 7 online sex date and porno sites using my 87 year old Mother's I.D. and account information. The bank refused the online claims. They say that an 87 year old woman bought sex date subscriptions. We did get the counterfeit check money returned ($4,300) but not the $250 for his blow jobs.
I don't need such blow jobs.

I didn't finger him. We received a Bank of America overdraft notice of Minus $720, at which point I became suspicious. I went online and forged my Mom's I.D. myself just to get a look at the withdrawals. I saw several checks with "PLS Check Cashiers" on the back as the cashier, so I called the district manager and had my Mom's name flagged on their end.

Two days later, Mr. Garcia tried to cash his last check, and they called the cops.

The first two checks were signed by a woman who lives right next door. The cops don't care about her. She was never investigated and is still living right next door.
She still snickers at me when I walk past her.

Then, two months after her two checks were forged, Mr. Garcia became her boyfriend,
and then started writing his own checks, 16 of them. He crashed the account.

He started on dial-up ISP, then cashed the first counterfeit check, then bought a Smartphone, at which time he then took up the sex date and porno web habit.

He bought his last sex date subscription one hour before his arrest, while sitting in his car with his Smartphone, near the check cashier location in Sylmar, Ca. The bastard Expected Savings Account Overdraft Protection to refuel the checking account and he meant to take every penny.

My Mom doesn't use Savings Account Overdraft Protection.

The cops ignored the 16 counterfeit checks. He was busted strictly based on that last lemon after the flag. So he was tried on only one count of forgery which conveniently ignored the $4,300 that he stole. It was a felony, but not Grand Theft, so he only got 1 year, commuted to 5 months.

When he was released, he was seen in our parking lot giving the local dudes all high-fives and they partied all weekend. Later, I found a dent in the back of my car.

I believe in following suspicious people, though I don't bother shooting them.

Otherwise, I'm hitting 60 and am starting to have eye trouble. And it is hard to talk positive about current events, like movies, when the people involved are not honorable. I guess the cat gets my tongue.
 
I don't believe that's really Sleepy... I'm pretty sure it's a bot impersonating him. How did "it" answer the poll question? That'll tell us if it's become self-aware.
Sleepy, it's good to see you back! I've been listening to this fantastic internet radio station that plays some extremely deep deeep psychedelic rock cuts. They also play these crazy old commercials in between songs, and it was a late-60s commercial for Warner Brothers records that made me think of you. Hope you can listen to it on your computer. http://psychedelicized.com/
 
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