ENIGMA Development Environment

So basically we are an ant farm and god is a child with a magnifiying glass?

Science cannot answer everything, can you ?  What created this universe, how can something be created from eternal blackness / void ? if there were no supreme being wouldn't we already have a logical explanation to this ?  Some claim we are a product of advanced life forces on other universes, ant farms ? lol yeah maybe...... Or perhaps God created it all and left everything up to free will.  My point is, life is not just a random event, there is a purpose to it, I DO strongly believe we each have a purpose and everything that happens has a reason, I'm not going to go too much into detail why I think this way, but let me just tell you some FACTS......  Haven't you noticed some people are so lucky, seem not to work or do any work and succeed whilst some other people are nice, peaceful and go nowhere in life and fail ?  I think we are predestined to certain things, already science is studying the so-called luck gene, and other type of info locked in our genes, which can determine our traits, health, etc.  We have free will for our decisions and actions, but certain things are hard coded.  Why the FUCK do some people eat tons of sugar and are morbidly obese yet have normal health and no diabetes ? Whilst some people are skinny, eat healthy, work out and have diabetes, and other diseases ?

Our we subject to an experiment, or are all of the above explained by man made influences (pollution, lifestyle, free will) which shapes future generation of human defects ?  One thing for sure, science is studying more about this and it seems more plausible that we don't have control over everything.....LIFE itself was created and everything surrounding it, so who created religion, languages, pollution, wars, money, corruption, etc......Man or God ? This one is easy.  The world could have been an ideal one, but who turned it around ? Corruption & evil and control.    Weren't older generations living happier with much less and yet people have so much more and are still not happy now.......So it's God's fault Or man kind ?
Did you know that in evolution at some point our bodies had the ability to grow new organs ? heal itself, etc........? So perhaps we took a pristine creation and fucked it up.
Now some might say "Well God must have known about this, referring to revelations and stuff" well, I have not read the whole bible but familiar with this section, and it is SCARY that some of the stuff in the bible is written with frightening accuracy and manifesting today as we speak.......SO, this makes the argument more plausible that there is a reason for everything and that which is happening is meant to be.

Not only the pedophiles, natural disasters, desease, greed, corruption, the total failure of prayer,

You are right, except that's it man kind who made a choice to steer away from God......Remember God is not a controlling dictatorship.    Failure of prayer, yeah that's another topic I can write 300 pages about.......How do people pray is PATHETIC.
Praying status, stone, wooden crosses, etc, people don't worship God but statues and objects, so yeah if you are praying to inanimate objects which 99.9% is the case, then it's no wonder.  Personally I have witnessed people who benefited from prayer, but again this is highly open to debate......Some scientists claim we have a "God" area in our brain, and we have the power to attract or repel everything that happens in our lives.  Honestly I don't fucking believe in the power of attraction rubbish, yet science is more inclined toward this theory than a God.......and oddly I know people who benefited quite a lot more from this theory than God and prayer though if I'm being honest......However,  I am not ready to dismiss the existence of a supreme being. 

among other things took a hit to my faith, but what ended killing it was the bible itself, since I didn't had the faith blindfold covering my eyes and mudding my reason, readding the bible opened my eyes to the atrocities promulgated by my christianity, not to mention the horrors done in it's name.

True, so true, but you don't have to read the bible to know this.....I get so angry when I read and see on the news on a regular basis all the corruption and CRIMES of enormous atrocities committed using the religion but remember, again, man made.  If people are using God's name in vein and doing atrocities is it God's fault ?  If we did not have free will we would be a bunch of Robots, no soul, no mind, no nothing, just a bunch of puppets in flesh

Jesus said he didn't came to change the law but to fullfill it, and that not a single iota or dot of the law would change until the endtimes. Therefore all the 613 commandments are still in place and not only the ten the christians follow, and among all the commandments there's not a single mention about not raping people, let alone children, yet there's one about mixed fabrics, and several about what to eat, when and how.

You can have 5000 commandments, man kind has been given the free will to follow it.

Everything you speak of above comes from EVIL influence......and according to scripture that will be dealt with, and those who suffered as a result who stayed faithful and repent for their sins, would also get dealt with (in a good way).  No crime goes unpunished.  There is one passage in the Bible that talks about the rise of evil, brother against brother, torn families, hate, violence, etc........Look at the news...look around, things are manifesting with 100% accuracy, you see more crimes against children, evil violent children, kid killing parents, parents killing kids, etc........these things are all the rise of EVIL ........ IT IS EXACTLY THIS that raised my faith a notch, because I understood the meaning of it all.   Is it normal to see more and more kids so violent SO YOUNG !?!?!?  World is full of HATE and crime, that is the rise of EVIL, now one could say "so why doesn't God intervene and end this......" He never said he'd prevent this, the scriptures even foresaw all of this in great detail and it was written that this WOULD be dealt with, and nobody would know when or see it coming.

So we are created sick and commanded to get well,

No, we are sick because of corruption, because of man made pollution, because of the multi trillion medical industry which is a big  crooked scam making medicine that makes you more ill.......processed foods, chemicals, all of that ........As much as medical science has made advancement and we are able to cure stuff, on the down side a lot of cures are being withheld due to this trillion $ industry.....I do strongly believe we have the ability and knowledge to cure most diseases but in the name of evil, money and corruption it is withheld, and of course population control........  Not everyone is born sick   There are many things still not understood fully be science though, but a lot of our life story and health can be decoded from our genes, science only solved part of the puzzle on that.  Could what we are going through in life be influenced by how we lived any past lives ? I think life as we know it has a purpose.....what ?  Maybe we find out one day.......

how fucked up is that? This homicidal, egomaniac, unsure, homophobe, misoginistic god ceated us as we are, and then has the gall to command us to be different? The sins of the father pass to the sons? fuck him! My son wasn't born evil or with any imperfection (and I would say the same thing even if he had any dissability), he was a perfect and beautiful baby, and now is a perfect and loving teenager.

Well mate, what can I say As much as the world is full of evil, not everyone is a pedophile, rapist, criminal, homophobe, etc..... hopefully if scripture proves true, and I believe it will, this evil will be cleansed and thrown where it belongs.......   Mark of beast, I was so skeptic about this before but now with all the advances in technology, moving towards chip implants and chipped CC  big brother watching you everywhere, it's pretty obvious this passage in the Bible was accurate.  So I have 2 choices, blame God for this bloody fucking rubbish, or channel out the evil around me which I try hard to do, and not associate with any of that ....  I have a motherfucking disability, and I won't go into details, yet I have my mental capacities, 2 arms, 2 legs and I can walk, talk, eat, drink etc (I have myopia) and another condition which I won't get into.....makes life a fuck, however, on the flip side, I try to channel it out and enjoy WHAT I have and know there is a purpose to this....... Perhaps had I not read so much into this I might have felt differently.

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

Yeah I see where you are going and that is a mystery, but the scriptures were clear on that, that God's intervention would come, as he did leave free will, but to what extent, now that evil is taking over pretty much the entire planet, it is said that there will be intervention, and it IS mentioned that in the end times people would turn against God, burn Churches, etc.......and here is the perfect example of what is going on in the news......

Unless He proves beyond any doubt and in a falsiable way to exist I don/t believe in his existence, almost every religious person is an atheist in regards to the god/gods of all the other religions, I just went one god further.

So if that is the case, then man kind should have the answers to ALL........How our full body works including brain, how to explain the many things that cannot yet be explained.......what created the universe, etc.etc.etc........how to explain some people have amazing abilities beyond logic .....
So we don't have answers to a lot of shite, wouldn't you say that makes the idea of a supreme creator more plausible, ok forget the notion of God and religion, but if you dismiss that God exists then can you explain what created all of this ? from void ?  Whoever created this from void, who created the creator.........Can you answer that ?
No.  Perhaps as physical bodies we don't have the answer to this, but we might get this answer eventually as perhaps EVERYTHING already existed for eternity ?
but how ?

HOW to explain some people miraculously heal of the worst diseases ...... this is well documented in the medical field.....science still cannot explain our full brain function
and outside forces / influences.....

Science tries to discredit out of body experiences and near death by claiming it is the result of chemicals in the brain during death......but how the fuck do you explain documented cases of people being clinically and BRAIN dead for minutes and recalling and seeing the doctors, conversations across rooms, etc........ How do you explain that some people through regression hypnosis recalled some stuff with amazing detail and accuracy they would never have known......
How do you explain some people dream of traveling to places they NEVER have seen or been to before..... I know someone in my family that had this happen to them, dreaming of traveling to a place they never been to, seen or heard of, and yet one day when they did travel to that destination they knew where to go and identified with the exact place they saw in their dreams.

How to explain EVP and other paranormal phenomenon ? Science is not able to explain this till this day, so unless someone can give me answers to life's mysteries I will keep having faith that there is a supreme creator.......and one and only  creator for all man kind !  Perhaps man made RELIGION and GOD as an easy way to interface with said supreme being........ I think in the end, we have one creator for all...... WHY isn't our planet ideal, peaceful all get along, no criminals, no hate, no evil ? Ask the supreme creator or God....... But unless I get answers to these mysteries I would find it hard to not believe.

There are around 40 thousand christian denominations, with the same number of interpretations of the bible, which one is right and why?

That was all man made as a coping mechanism, I do think to some extent our faith in a God is linked to some area in our brain, science is figuring this out, as a way to help us cope. HOWEVER, 90% of the puzzle unsolved.......That is suffice for me to believe there is something bigger than we can explain.

How can anyone know for sure that it's not Mahoma, Buda, Hanuman, Zeus, Odin, Quetzalcoatl, the one true god?

Again man made territory - that's how we were hardwired.   I honestly do not believe in multiple Gods, but one God I don't believe in is a God that promises people paradise if they kill and murder others, and this is where a certain religion was mangled and biased by man kind......you know which I am talking about.......Yes Christianity has its flaws but many other religions also have flaws, all product of human intervention.

And about hedging my bets... believing in order to avoid the posibility of hell is not believing is just hipocrisy.

Another debate, is hell is a physical place or a state of mind (void, being away from everything and from God).  Sorry mate but I never said I had faith to avoid hell, I have faith because I realised the things happening around me along with other stuff I witnessed and along with the scriptures and what is happening all around.......Do I believe in evil ? YES.....do I believe in a hell ? YES.....do I believe in hell as a physical place with fire, etc....I'm on the fence on that one...... If there is a purgatory we are living on it, it's called EARTH......."HEAVEN" as a sky with puffy clouds, maybe that is harder to believe, I think "HEAVEN" is the ultimate state of energy where you are AWAY from the limits of physical life, evil, etc and at complete peace. Hell is the exact opposite, void, absence of everything, nothing, eternal torment.   Hypocrisy is not covered in the Bible in that regards, you either believe and have faith or you don't ,regardless of the reason......you do good, you repent of your sins and ask for forgiveness, whether you do this to avoid hell or because of genuine faith, is irrelevant.  You either believe or you don't....... My faith is genuine and has nothing to do with hell !

Morality? The bible has no high ground and neither does any other religious book I have read ( so far only the bible, the coran and the tora), what is so moral about hating homosexuals? where is the morality in treating women as second class humans? Where is the morality in picketting dead soldiers funerals and enhancing the suffering of the family? For every good thing a religion does it does a hundred bad things.

I don't care for any of that stuff, and once again, RELIGION is man's creation along with all the crap that comes with it. God did not event religion.  Humans were hard wired to interface and cope with life by creating language, God, Religion, the fact that man has created all this mess does not rule out an actual supreme being does not exist though, for reasons stated above, until the day where science will answer ALL the bloody questions.

Check out the worst countries for women and you'll find they are among or the most religious countries, the worst AIDS epidemic is in a country in Africa (I don't remember the name) and the Catholic and other christian misionaries there constantly tell the people the the use of the condom not only doesn't help in preventing the contagion but helps spreading it. 

Religoin != God.  Moot point.  Otherwise you are right from the above I won't argue there......But who dictates this rubbish ? Our supreme being, God or man made religions ?   It is also man made religion that says pleasure is a sin, (sex).  and that sex was meant as procreation...... So what is a sin, using a condom to avoid putting a child you can't care of and will probably throw in the garbage or flush down the toilet OR fucking without the rubber and putting the  child you knew you couldn't raise and care for ? Answer is simple...... The equation is simple God != religion. 

The poorest and most ignorant people are the ones that have more children, why? because their religions tell them that any form of anticonception is a sin. 

I don't subscribe to such rubbish.  What is a sin is to not use protection and put babies in the world you can't care for, and we see the results of what that gives by watching the world and the news......Again religion, man made.  Some religions consider it a sin eating carrots ......or having meatballs on a tuesday.........   In my books, our creator made sex pleasurable, and this thing called RELIGION is what sets those said "LIMITS" and those atrocities.

I have no problem with the religious believes of other fuckers
as long as those believes don't impact in the happines of others
but if you build a church in claims of moral authority
and with threats of hell impose it on others in society
then you you m.....rf...er can expect some fking raft
when it turns out you benn fking us in the mrfking asses

Man kind made an industry of God and mangled it, made fear out of it and stuff.  There is passage that says people will steer away from God, stop believing ,Churches burned, vacant, etc........it's all happening, fewer people go to Church now.....too much fear mongering and brainwash, they make an industry out of that and people getting RICH from that industry, I have a BIG problem with that, and which is why I don't subscribe to any of it.......I believe because I believe, not because I am supposed to or told to or any of the fear mongering.

What makes me SICK is those TV ministries, that prey (note the correct spelling ) on people, through programmes on fucking TV ask for money and brainwash people with BS......THAT is the product of evil and people are fooled and associate it with God......but when I see the fat CUNT on the tely spout his rubbish, I know he is not a man of God but evil and corruption......and most of these SO CALLED ministers are atheist and don't believe in shite.   I try not to let this ruin my faith because I know they have NOTHING to do with God.  Do good onto others should not come with a cost and should not be made into an industry to prey on vulnerable people.

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What utter bloody nonsense.

and Sammy Thou Shall Not Pick your nose (or nose of other people ) LOL.

It requires good skill, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy.

The way I debug my stuff is I add a controller object and use the draw event to draw information I am testing, variables, states, etc...... I've done a lot of debugging in my days and I have discovered and fix bugs I never would have been able to otherwise.

You'll like this one then Darkstar2

There is a difference between having faith and being fanatic.  Fanatic is something I am not, I agree that religion has flaws. This is a dangerous topic to be discussing on a forum as some people might be touchy, mind you I have an open mind and like to debate, I don't let religion dictate my life, but I do believe in God, there are so many things science cannot explain, and looking around how the world has become I do believe evil exists, therefore I do believe in God/Supreme being.

UNFORTUNATELY God and religion have been made into industries to prey on the gullible - they have become an industry where some TV ministries and other organisations earn millions of $ those bloody motherfuckers whilst people are starving to death, selling their snake oil, fraud and stealing money.  But genuinely I do believe in God and the history, only that some of it was mangled and made commercial for profit and that is what makes me livid ! BECAUSE that gives the wrong impression and this is what has turned some believers away.

You missed a spot !



Make sure you get in there and scrape it all out.

If I don't get a 90% discount for my master collection purchase and if they stop supporting SDK updates and bug fixes for 1.X

I hate to disappoint you mate !

Look what happened to GM8.1, did they continue releasing bug fixes ? Nope, didn't take long for 8.1 to become obsolete shite.  Lots of people were reporting bugs and the only answer they got is "Sorry we won't release updates to 8.1 anymore, buy GMS"

I might as well forget about studio and piggie back on Monkey-X for full Windows Desktop, Windows 8, Mac, Linux, Android, and OUYA support and lifetime updates. Monkey-X does support a good amount of other platforms including user made platform exports but I don't think I'll need any of those.

Monkey Sex ?  No thank you

Don't like that one.  It has a class of its own, maybe, but I don't think GMS people will flock to that one anytime soon. 

Shaun Spalding tutorials are great - He should have published a book and sold it.  Back in the days I was still a beginner I purchased 2 books on APRESS, they were rubbish, and did not properly explain WHY such functions does what it does and did not cover much, but his tutorials really are amazing compared to many that circulate.

He even corrects his mistakes.  On his initial version of platform tutorial he made some mistakes which could cause the player to get stuck in platforms.  I was going to write to him to let him know and discovered he had already figured that out and fixed it.

Top quality tutorials guy IMO.

Uhm, no, OpenGL1 games suffer, on Linux it's safe to just use OpenGL3. Windows has Direct3D9 which works great, Direct3D11 too when we convert the GL3 shaders to HLSL.

Remember when we were testing particles ? OpenGL3 already was slower in our tests than GL1, as far as shaders, they can only be used in GL right ?

@Harri:  I fully agree with you.  There are certain things worthy of emulating at the feature level, but certain things not worth emulating if it means slowing things down.  I canceled my recent pull request which added alpha clipping across all functions, to emulate how GMS worked, but that would have had some implications on (untested) on complex, graphically intense games.....  I too don't like the idea of changes that might impact performance or can potentially...
There would really have to be a significant benefit that could benefit all, otherwise this would slow down ANY type of game even if it did not use the feature it was intended for.

The odds are better in using OGL1 for most projects, if you don't require GL3 specifics or greater, as it is faster, suitable for most projects and you will reach out more configurations. 

Then there is DX9, of course nobody used it before because it was broken (now fixed )  but then your games would require minimum DX9.  So people with DX6/7/8 cards could not run your game, but would be able to run your OGl1 game.

10fps hit ? Will this affect any game or just the 3D stuff ? Why would you want to do something that slows things down?  Whenever I see the word "emulation" in a sentence I immediately think, performance hit.  Personally I could bloody care less what that other company does at this point, do we need to "emulate" the slowness of that other company's product ?