I'm still 17 for another six weeks or so. And next month it's three years since I joined TDC. Aaaand this also happens to be my 3000th forum post, lol.
19 is too old!? I'm ten years older than that! (thats...der... 29!!! Damn I'm old!) I'm probly the oldest dood in this place. But, i enjoy playing all the games you guys are making and reading the many ridiculous comments come guys post. It's actually one of my most visited sites in my fav's list (even though i don't post very much. I like to watch. Tee Hee!). This is by far the most active click site I have seen. It's fun here!
It's all relative though. My achievements so far in 19 years have been that I once scored in my school football team and this one time I made a nice fruit cake.
Originally Posted by Boothman (Noodle) It's all relative though. My achievements so far in 19 years have been that I once scored in my school football team and this one time I made a nice fruit cake.
Fruit cake you say?! That's one thing more than me, then ;_;
Happy belated/upcoming birthday, people!
I'm 21. I should be married by now :/
Wow, people in the Click Community are quite old now. When I was 15, everyone else was like.. 15.
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Originally Posted by Del Duio I'm the same age as Dr. James.
.... plus Peblo.
That would make you 40. Do you really want to be 40?
Also, my real age has been in my profile for a few years... I don't understand the confusion?
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I won't say how old I am. But I WILL say that I joined the DC almost eight years ago when I was 22. CRAP! But hey, I JOINED the site at a perfectly respectable age for this sort of thing, so that validates me. Since that's the case, I have a right to stay here and get as old as I want. It's like an unspoken membership pact.
Originally Posted by Shroomlock I won't say how old I am. But I WILL say that I joined the DC almost eight years ago when I was 22. CRAP! But hey, I JOINED the site at a perfectly respectable age for this sort of thing, so that validates me. Since that's the case, I have a right to stay here and get as old as I want. It's like an unspoken membership pact.
OLD!!!
Fine Garbage since 2003.
CURRENT PROJECT:
-Paying off a massive amount of debt in college loans.
-Working in television.
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Originally Posted by Shroomlock CRAP!
Yup, you're either 29 or 30. Is that really old? Naa.
Originally Posted by Shroomlock I won't say how old I am. But I WILL say that I joined the DC almost eight years ago when I was 22. CRAP! But hey, I JOINED the site at a perfectly respectable age for this sort of thing, so that validates me. Since that's the case, I have a right to stay here and get as old as I want. It's like an unspoken membership pact.
you're not old. There was some old bloke on here that was in his fifties if i recall. Even then you can still click.
Originally Posted by Shroomlock I won't say how old I am. But I WILL say that I joined the DC almost eight years ago when I was 22. CRAP! But hey, I JOINED the site at a perfectly respectable age for this sort of thing, so that validates me. Since that's the case, I have a right to stay here and get as old as I want. It's like an unspoken membership pact.
Awesome, it looks like me and 'Shroom get to drive the Click schoolbus then lol!
C'mon, kiddies it's ball n' paddle clone time! VROOOOM!
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Originally Posted by Dr. James Probably in one of them religions where you can't say how old you are, since they go off different calendars.
That'd only be Islam.
The other calenders match the the "International" Calender more or less.
The Islamic calender on the other hand is shorter in 11 days than the rest.
Originally Posted by Dr. James Probably in one of them religions where you can't say how old you are, since they go off different calendars.
That'd only be Islam.
The other calenders match the the "International" Calender more or less.
The Islamic calender on the other hand is shorter in 11 days than the rest.
Thats because the Earth moves faster in Islamic countries than it does in other countries.
Originally Posted by Dr. James Probably in one of them religions where you can't say how old you are, since they go off different calendars.
That'd only be Islam.
The other calenders match the the "International" Calender more or less.
The Islamic calender on the other hand is shorter in 11 days than the rest.
Thats because the Earth moves faster in Islamic countries than it does in other countries.
I stopped celebrating my birthday when i was 20. After that i couldnt find any reason for me to celebrate.
Every year i just get older and older, and gravity started.
hehe
Phizzy tried to scare this girl away by acting like a hardcore internet stalker. She didn't run away, in fact she wants to talk again because 'he is funny'
It's a bit worrying though, since she acts this way when ol' phizzy doo was acting like a raging stalker. How will she act if she ever comes across a real one?
I'm 27; way too old to be frequenting sky blue forums about making klik games. It's time to change to the Grown Up skin, with Mitch replaced with "Executive Lifestyle" photos of people holding PDAs and smiling vacantly while pointing at whiteboards.
Originally Posted by Misa Misa Umm... I'm not sure, my age changes at the time skip, and I'm not certain how long that lasts or how old I was in the first place.
Originally Posted by Misa Misa Umm... I'm not sure, my age changes at the time skip, and I'm not certain how long that lasts or how old I was in the first place.
Since we're going off-topic anyway, the Death Note time skip is 5 years, I think.
I'm 25, I bought The original Games Factory back in 1998 from "Electronic Boutique" which is now "Game".... you lot was just little kids, where are the bloody adults in here lol?
Originally Posted by Va1entine I'm 25, I bought The original Games Factory back in 1998 from "Electronic Boutique" which is now "Game".... you lot was just little kids, where are the bloody adults in here lol?
Originally Posted by Va1entine I'm 25, I bought The original Games Factory back in 1998 from "Electronic Boutique" which is now "Game".... you lot was just little kids, where are the bloody adults in here lol?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Kitty ("i phizzy is a loser and so doea everybody else") twelve back in 2005? Wouldn't that make him old enough to drive now? Oh god, I just got a mental image of Kitty taking his driving test. It's a very, very disturbing sight, I tell you.
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Until you are 16 you have to have an ADULT over 21 with a licence in the car.
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~Belgarath
I just passed my test yesterday From what I've heard it's a lot harder in the UK, we have a 40 minute test and have to perform 2 out of 5 possible maneuvers, and if we get them wrong in anyway we instantly fail In USA I hear it's just a 10 minute test in most areas?
Originally Posted by Extremely Happy Adam From what I've heard it's a lot harder in the UK, we have a 40 minute test and have to perform 2 out of 5 possible maneuvers, and if we get them wrong in anyway we instantly fail In USA I hear it's just a 10 minute test in most areas?
I think it's somewhere around 45-60 minutes here in Finland, I can't remember. I believe it's quite strict too, but I guess I haven't got anything to compare with anyway.
technically i failed but my instructor passed me anyways
its only a 15 minute test in california. drive around, make a few turns, change a few lanes, parrallel park and back up 100 feet in a straight line, head back to the dmv. done.
I failed 3 times. The first time I was driving really really shit, the second time I showed up too late, the third time I made a real stupid mistake right at the end. But I've been driving without accidents for 5 years now.
Originally Posted by cec¿l technically i failed but my instructor passed me anyways
its only a 15 minute test in california. drive around, make a few turns, change a few lanes, parrallel park and back up 100 feet in a straight line, head back to the dmv. done.
Thinking about it, how many road traffic accidents do you guys get there? O_O Perhaps that explains the scary traffic I hear about in Los Angeles? Crazy system
my mistake was i touched the curb while backing up the 100 feet.
not sure how many traffic accidents. i don't see too many. although i had a fender bender in a parking lot once. me and this chick backed out at the same time lol.
In the US it depends on where you go--DMVS vary in the difficulty of their drivers tests. Mine was pretty easy; drive around, change lanes, back into a space. But I wish our test were 40 minutes, then there wouldn't be so many crazy bastards on the roads. Or they could just not let women drive.
The UK's driving test is definitely not the most difficult, and you also don't instantly fail your manouvers if you make a mistake just as long as you take appropriate correcting action. The key thing is if you think are about to do something stupid, such as hit the kerb, or reverse round a corner on the wrong side of the road, stop, think and correct. This doesn't mean back out and start again, only do that if it is completely necessary. And remember to make proper observations because that is one thing you will fail instantly on if you fail to do.
Apparently the driving test in Egypt was to drive 100m straight ahead through two cones, then reverse back through them... I think they might have changed it now. A guy at my uni is from kenya, and his test lasted 10 minutes and consisted of driving down a deserted road.
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"and you also don't instantly fail your manouvers if you make a mistake just as long as you take appropriate correcting action."
How do you appropriately correct a turn in the road when you've touched the curb? of course you can instantly fail on manouvers, and yes, it's about observation, but it's also very easy to miss-judge your observations when driving.
And yes, the test in the UK is very hard, IMO, and sometimes very unfair, too.
Wohoo, looks like i'm the average on TDC, 20. Guess that might have something to do with the release date of the klick products and at what age people generally are open to that kind of software.
I don't feel younger by drinking (I stop drinking as soon as I feel that it is affecting me anyway) and I started klicking when I was 10 or something).
The swedish driver test is somewhat like the UK I think.
Also, I live in Queensland and I haven't seen a single GAME yet, EB everywhere still - though some place called "GameSwap" is opening up nearby, dunno what they're all about yet.
@Adam: Well you'd think swapping games right? But there's nothing about swapping written anywhere, just looks like an EB . We'll see when it's all finished .
haha james turned a girl into a lesbian.
just shows you you shouldnt go around touuching things that arent yours, cause you might turn it into a lesbian.
=o
wow, im 14 and ive kissed a girl.
haha its not that bad, i mean, its not like your going to go the rest of your life without doing it at least once...
Your just jealous that you're not as awesome as me.
(And my megaman avatar )
Originally Posted by cecil haha james turned a girl into a lesbian.
just shows you you shouldnt go around touuching things that arent yours, cause you might turn it into a lesbian.
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Originally Posted by Knudde (Shab)
Originally Posted by cecil haha james turned a girl into a lesbian.
just shows you you shouldnt go around touuching things that arent yours, cause you might turn it into a lesbian.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! now thats a true blue drew grew thingy classic joke thingy, BTW i turned a few farm animals into lesbians, but that did not work out becuase they went mad and started eating human brains.
EDIT: Oh and the obligatory "Relationships mean nothing at this age"
Edited by the Author.
Donut say that, my early teen relationships played a big role for future relationships.
Ie. don't date a bisexual girl then date her fit as hell friend who already had a boyfriend so she then sets you up with her best friend who just so happens to be your best mates cousin and then dump her after a gig because the fit as hell girl said she wanted you back. Then don't introduce your fit as hell sortof girlfriend to a friend online who then moves up to be with her.
You're much younger than I imagined Andy! I always thought you were just a year or so younger than me. But 5 years?! Eek.
KK so semi related but what age did everyone start "kliking". Got KnP when I just started senior school. Is that 12, 13? But used AMOS on the amiga for years before that
i started klicking about the same year or the year before i joined tdc. so about 3 to 3 1/2 years ago only. i would have been about 16. 19 now. thats also about the time i started dabbling in programming. i have advanced a lot in a short time. i got so interested i bought and read books on my own. joined multiple forums, and just kept growing.
I started klicking when i was 10, so about 4 years ago.
I havent really uploaded any of my games to TDC because i want to upload something that "I" think is good enough
Your just jealous that you're not as awesome as me.
(And my megaman avatar )
Well I made my first game, Zombies, at age 13 in April/May 2004. Almost four years ago to this day... I think I made it in a week or two. Then I just forgot all about klikking for about two years for some reason.
Discarded pizza boxes are an indispensable source of cheese.
I started makin klik games back in 1968!
I was in vietnam when i came up with a game idea!
I blew me ass clean off my body!
I was only in my twentys when i died!
I was brought back to life!
I am now in the future!
any way i am 2 years old, i turn 80 in a few weeks!
I started when i discovered a few TGF games at college (playing games instead of working )
I must have been 16!
Which means Ive been clicking for about 8 years now.
TGF was the first click product which I encountered. I only had a demo back then, but I managed to save my "levels" by exiting tgf through the task manager, and thus saving the progress in the ram (I guess). Due to the hight risk of getting my data overwritten I lost a lot of work and childhood memories to that program...
Never the less, I continued clicking
I had a Klick AND Play demo that wouldn't let you use the storyboard editor or the event editor. I had to make everything via the Step through editor, and couldn't save.
I started with K&P in 1995, how fun was that. I also remember receiving quite a lot of direct marketing material afterwards from Clickteam - or Europress actually - all the way to Finland via postal mail, which is just one sign how much effort Europress put to K&P/TGF, how well they marketed and supported them and made them available widely in distribution channels. It's just a shame that MMF2 is still getting virtually no visibility at all, when compared to K&P/TGF.
Anyway, I started visiting TDC not until 2006, so I must have one of the bigggest gaps in [started clicking]->[registered to TDC]; 11 years. Oh well. I did some C/C++ somewhere in the middle and also had a break of two years before coming back to clicking in 2006.
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It's Andy's birthday today, you should PM him and wish him happy birthday!
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~Belgarath
I did Visual Basic at college and was the only person to fail at it. Although, I was the only person not to have the tutor code the entire program for me. I got no help at all.
I`m 25 and i started with KnP. After clicking through the demo for weeks, i got the full version from my parents for christmas. So i finally got a huge library of graphics an clicked together the most cheap looking bug-games in the world.
But one Project followed me through the years like a shadow.
I always wanted a StarWars game, an now, i`m working on the 5. version for over an year and it will be so complex, that even the basic engine isn`t finished.
I'm 31, and I picked up MMF2 about a year and a half ago, almost two years, just a month or two after it was released. But the purchase of MMF2 marked the first time I'd ever made any games of my own.
I'd followed the Klik programs for a number of years, first back when I was in high school and our house had its first Internet connection. I think the first KnP game I ever played was "choppy the porkchop." I'd downloaded it from AOL way back then; I think it was 1995. I'd said to myself, "Hey, if someone can make that, then I can DEFINITELY make a game, too!" The rest is history.
You need to slow down on growing, very tall people are more susceptible to strokes since the arteries in the neck are thinner
I was always tall for my age but I stopped growing at 15 or so. Now an average 5'11
I'm somewhere around 6' 1", 6' 2"... passed everyone in my family up, even my older brother! The other day I was at a restaurant and when I asked what they had to drink, the guy started offering the different beer brands. I'm sixteen! Also, on my sixteenth birthday, the lady at Cracker Barrel told everyone I was turning twenty-one. So apparently I'm going to die at a young age from a stroke, looking really old.
26 ... I don't remember when I started Kliking ... first game was "a very simple game" and got alot of 2 star reviews ... only made 3 games to date .. the other 2 games are Snakes and the FatMan and Awesome Pink Froggy both of which are in the 20 Event Contest. I've focused more on looking at others opensource code than creating my own, learning alot but accomplishing little. I collect opensource to learn from, so if you have any good open source for me to look at, send it my way.
I'm currently in a small group of coders known as Abstract Soup. We still haven't made a game with everyone working together as a group, but there have been some small projects where a few members got together to work on something. We've done a few logos and such though, and came up with some interesting ideas, and Cecil has made the beginnings of a nice website. Everyone has a picture so far but me, I don't know where my digital camera is or if it even works as I never actually used it (it's a cheap one I got as a gift).
Most the time that I spent here at TDC, I didn't even use an account, just downloaded stuff, but lately I've become a little more active.
I'm planning to purchase TGF2 soon and hope that the MMF2 Dev extensions will work with it so I can contribute to the current AbstractSoup project, and future projects that will likely use such things.
I think that a better topic rather than just age, would have been Age + Kliking background/experience, as that would likely be taken more seriously (less likely to go off-topic) than a simple number.
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Originally Posted by MBK I'm planning to purchase TGF2 soon and hope that the MMF2 Dev extensions will work with it so I can contribute to the current AbstractSoup project, and future projects that will likely use such things.
But TGF2 can't use MMF2 Dev extensions, or any non-Clickteam extensions for that matter. And there are some Clickteam extensions that can't even be used.
I'm 17 now. No clue when I started making games but I know it was at least in seventh grade. I remember trying to make people use the MMF demo I found on a cd attached to a magazine. It must have been before that then.
Originally Posted by OldManClayton I'm somewhere around 6' 1", 6' 2"... passed everyone in my family up, even my older brother! The other day I was at a restaurant and when I asked what they had to drink, the guy started offering the different beer brands. I'm sixteen! Also, on my sixteenth birthday, the lady at Cracker Barrel told everyone I was turning twenty-one. So apparently I'm going to die at a young age from a stroke, looking really old.
Oh good gravy which art in the kitchen. >_< What a noob.
Originally Posted by <Joel><Poobical> 18.
A Full adult now in the eyes of the UK
Bollocks.
Yeah, and you'll find you'll start getting "I.D.'ed" everytime you want to buy booze or try to get into clubs now too! Ironic really; you spend all your pre-18 life carrying fake I.D. but never get asked, then as soon as you're 18 you don't bother with I.D. and they all start asking you! lol
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Originally Posted by Mark Radon
Originally Posted by <Joel><Poobical> 18.
A Full adult now in the eyes of the UK
Bollocks.
Yeah, and you'll find you'll start getting "I.D.'ed" everytime you want to buy booze or try to get into clubs now too! Ironic really; you spend all your pre-18 life carrying fake I.D. but never get asked, then as soon as you're 18 you don't bother with I.D. and they all start asking you! lol
Those were the days...
Yup and I don't own i.d. (Yet, getting a passholo card soon)
Luckly, I know some bouncers at my locals, and my next door neighbour works at our local shop, so I'm good for the time being.
Ha ha ha, more annoying when people leave the pub for clubs and I'm like, oh bollocks. ¬_¬
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30th June, 2009 at 23:19:11 -
Is "bollocks" and "bugger" breaking rule 4 may I ask actually, cause I tend to write them in and then find myself deleting them cause I'm not sure.
Damn my britishness.
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Eh? I havn't "spread" anything around. In one topic I had speculations that you could of been a fake account.
Whats this about intelligent snob stuff? Seriously, you saying I'm an intelligent snob or something like that? Cause I would be quite proud if Iwas an "intelligent snob" over someone who doesn't have grammer and insults people who was going to help them, cause I'm getting the gist that your insulting me in your post.
Really can't be bothered arguing or getting involved anymore. I'm going back to work on my game.
I started making games around Mid-August '04, which means I was nine. (But to be honest, everything I made until '08 was really cheesy. My first game was a project for my older brother.)
Emmet, if you are not a fake account then I would suggest that you spend some time on making an avatar. People called me a fake account at one time, but after I made an avatar, it hasn't happened since.
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Yeah, making an avatar is one of the greatest tricks of running a good fake account. Others include making an msn-account and talk to other clickers a bit, get a lot of DC-points quick somehow and dc-mail some people about how much other people suck. When all that is done and your fake account has a consistent personality it will grow and will run for years and even become an admin.
I'm 20. And on the subject of ID, when I was 19 I got asked for ID buying tobacco from Asda. This was still when the legal age for buying smoking stuff was 16, mind you. I didn't have any ID on me but managed to persuade the woman behind the counter to get a second opinion. said second opinion was from the shift manager: "Either you're the right age or you're the oldest looking 15 year old I've ever seen."
I'd also like to point out I had a goatee and fairly extensive piercings at the time.
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Originally Posted by Hayo Emmet, leave Adam and Poobical alone, they are just really worried about either your age or your IQ if you are not a fake account.
Originally Posted by Hayo Emmet, leave Adam and Poobical alone, they are just really worried about either your age or your IQ if you are not a fake account.
You. Besides the fact IQ as a concept is mostly nonsense, generalised and made universal to the point of uselessness, and discounting Emotional Quotient entirely, IQ is only an indication of one specific 'area' of intelligence. So you can't determine someone's actual level of intelligence from their IQ (which will generally differ 10-15 points per test), just as you can't determine whether they'll have a high or low IQ from the intelligence that they display, be it problem-solving, or communicative, eg posts on an internet forum.
That must be the smartest post on TDC since Paul Jeffries was banned. I still don't quite understand why you ask me this and I hope it won't become a habit but I have to agree with you about IQ in general. As a highschool teacher I often wondered why most teachers value the outcome IQ tests so much (in the Dutch education system at least).
I'm not on anyone's side, but with the IQ debate about to hotten up i chose to read wikipedia's entry for "IQ". Read it by clicking here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iq
I believe this is now called "Making a mountain out of a molehill". Rule picks up on one little thing, tries to act clever, annoys other members and starts a debate/argument, completely taking it off topic. Happens all too often on TDC.
Originally Posted by Hayo That must be the smartest post on TDC since Paul Jeffries was banned. I still don't quite understand why you ask me this and I hope it won't become a habit but I have to agree with you about IQ in general. As a highschool teacher I often wondered why most teachers value the outcome IQ tests so much (in the Dutch education system at least).
But what should I have put in this case, TDCQ?
Good question, and I'm not sure - I'd probably personally have used 'intelligence' - but it's not that much better. The IQ thing was a small point that I picked up on for the sake of conversation, as you've caught me at a study time in that general subject area. Hope you didn't take it as an attack.
Anyway, why would I say intelligence - what does it actually mean? The layman's use of the word is usually used to describe someone articulate, incisive or academically capable, but it's much more than that. The term is a hold-all phrase used to describe everything from cognitive abilities, planning skills, lateral thinking... there's both physical and mental intelligence, creative intelligence, inherent skills in a specific academic field, and so on. The more psychologists learn about the way the brain functions on a psychological level, the longer the list becomes. And it's all just theory anyway; both psychology and psychiatry - which are inexorably linked - are fields in their infancy. I think IQ is a damaging, outdated tool which holds us back - particularly in education. I don't like the idea of kids effectively being 'scored' at an early age using a subjective, generalised test. Dunno whether as a teacher you'd agree that's what's happening, but I'd be interested in hearing your view on it.
So yeah, my original point was that everyone is both unintelligent and intelligent in different areas. I could call someone unintelligent based on their communication skills and that very same person intelligent for their musical ear, for example. I've yet to meet anyone who hasn't been competent in something when stimulated.
Also Adam, jeez. You can clumsily imply that I'm 'acting', 'blagging' etc if you like, but right now I'm confident you're basing that on nothing much beyond some petty internet politics, which don't really bother me. But if your own knowledge disproves what I said as wrong and reveals me as 'pretending to be clever', make a solid point and, uh, show me up or something, if that's what you'd like to do. Otherwise you're just name calling and being petty.
There won't be much of a debate as we both pretty much have the same opinion, plus my EnglishQ is pretty low. I didn't see it as an attack, more as a surprise.
In my country kids have to do a huge test in the last year of primary school that pretty much looks like an IQ-test. Based on their score they are sent to a certain kind of highschool (we roughly have 4 different versions of highschool here). A lot is going wrong with this, some kids are graded way too high and others way too low. A friend of mine had a bad day and screwed up with the test and was graded really low. He had to work his way up tru rules and shitty teachers and is a maths and science teacher now.
We had something similar when i finished primary school and it determined the level we were taught at in secondary school. Not sure if they still do it this way in England, maybe not if the Labour gov't has had anything to do with it! I didn't realise this had happened until i'd gotten older and thought about it, but i guess the "not knowing" mean't the results were more accurate. Sounds as though they screwed up at yours though, Hayo.
In my country kids have to do a huge test in the last year of primary school that pretty much looks like an IQ-test. Based on their score they are sent to a certain kind of highschool (we roughly have 4 different versions of highschool here).
Man, this makes me incredibly angry, it's the first I've heard of it. I can empathise with your friend; that's exactly the kind of 'bad day' situation I was thinking of that would ruin someone's whole prospects. Flunking an exam is one thing, but flunking a test that dictates your teenage education? Man.
Out of interest, what age does primary finish over there? If it's anything like over here (UK), that's way too young to know what someone's academic ability will be in their remaining formative years, imo.
Incredible.
Edit: Mark, they scrapped that system shortly after you left school. With the exception of a few counties, they now use the 'set' system only for the final two years of secondary/high school nationwide.
Non-comprehensives do things their own way, obviously.
Originally Posted by Mark Radon We had something similar when i finished primary school and it determined the level we were taught at in secondary school. Not sure if they still do it this way in England, maybe not if the Labour gov't has had anything to do with it! I didn't realise this had happened until i'd gotten older and thought about it, but i guess the "not knowing" mean't the results were more accurate. Sounds as though they screwed up at yours though, Hayo.
Year 7 exams determined that at my school. Until then everyone took classes in their form groups.
The test takes place when the kids are 11-12-ish, so way too young indeed. It really depends on the school how much the results will affect the placement of the kids on highschools, but in most cases it is 75% test score and 25% teachers' judgement. This actually carries on on the highschools, about everything is based on test scores. I ran into kids who had real potential but just weren't that good at revising things which meant they ended up real low. I have been fighting for these kinds of kids which is not a smart thing to do for a starting teacher in and age-old school system. I hope once the old generation of teachers is gone this will change.
Yep same here, i got send to a LTS school (lower Technical school) after i blew some of my tests simply because at the time school was supposed to be fun learing along the way but with tests i did not see the importance of them, I was acting like a normal kid, to busy playing games and discovering the girls, I did not see the importance at school at the age of 11-12
I paid for it because LTS were the 3 to 4 most horrible years ever, being put in a class with folks wanting to be painters and carpenters while I was starting to make games and very into the whole computer thing that the teachers there just did not get. I was mis placed and had to go to another Computer Course for another year after high scool just to catch up. It all worked out in the end since I got hired to make websites after the computer cource and after that job I worked at a local newspaper, making adds for both the paper and internet site but also writing my own internet column I did that for a good 7 ears until i came to canada. Good times.
Wow, my entire history right there.
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Sounds horrible. You get one life, and one head to live it with, education is important. Totally agree on the whole 'not all kids caring about school at that age' thing.
me and tests.. ok this is slightly strange... i hated them, i didnt really care about them or see the importance but i had a nack for acing them! i managed to get 7 (i think) GCSEs despite missing all but 8 months of my last 2 school years and not doing any on my coursework..... a lot of good that did me though
"while I was starting to make games and very into the whole computer thing that the teachers there just did not get"
Heheh, I can relate to that. I was placed at the HAVO, which is for "mediocre humans with a chance of becoming smart humans". In the third year I got really demotivated with all the tests and started getting low grades. I remember my tutor having a rant at me for that. She asked me if I spent a lot of time playing computer games or watching tv, to which I replied, kind of proudly, "not really, but I MAKE computer games!". She frowned and said "well, STOP THAT."
That very same woman will be my direct colleague next semester .
How things come about-face, eh? I bet she'll be dead frustrated that you're up to her level despite spending your youth "making games2 rather than studying!
Originally Posted by MrPineapple me and tests.. ok this is slightly strange... i hated them, i didnt really care about them or see the importance but i had a nack for acing them! i managed to get 7 (i think) GCSEs despite missing all but 8 months of my last 2 school years and not doing any on my coursework..... a lot of good that did me though
Purdy much the same. I did bugger all at school, was just a place to have fun and pick up chicks. But I got into a few top sets for Science and Geography. Did no revision, no coursework and walked away only getting a D on 1 subject.
Fun times.
I'm 14, turning 15 this year (on October 11 *cough cough*).
Edit: And on this subject of schools. In my school if you fail a couple subjects they take away an elective and give you an extra class with tutors that just help you with the subjects your crap at. They don't go all out and make you write and exam in primary school.
I think it depends who you get in your year group. One of my brothers had a year of complete idiots, drug abusers etc. I was lucky to have some friendly people in my year group.
As of March 11th I can drink in the USA. Nobody trusts my ID, however, since us UK folk do the dates the logical way round (day/month/year)... good thing my passport says March on it. I was not born in November
dd/mm/yy is perfectly logical, it's in ascending order of length (a day is shorter than a month, a month is shorter than a year). Then again, yy/mm/dd would be just as logical. mm/dd/yy is just weird.
I like mm/dd/yy because right off the bat you know what part of the year you're in. Saying it makes sense because of length of interval seems more like OCD than logic. But it really is arbitrary and unimportant. You could think of a number of reasons for either case.
But really, I don't think it's important. I think it's more interesting and worthwhile to note that dd/mm/yy came from the old tradition of "The 24th day of March in the year of our Lord 2001" I love trivia! \/
I think it's important because when I hear Americans talking about 9/11 I think "what happened on the 9th of November?"
At least our attack is symmetrical. Which is, after public safety of course, is all that matters.
Maybe important to international matters, but here? O_o
The mm/dd/yy seems logical to me because I think of the years as a suffix rather than part of the date. We say, "March 17th, 2009" so we transpose that into 3/17/09. If I say "March 17th" (Dunno if that's how you'd say it in the UK, maybe you'd say "the 17th of March") it makes more sense to me to put 3/17 not only because it matches the way we say it with words, but it starts with the more general level, the month, like a prefix, and then gives the specific date. And then you say the year on the end. Getting less "specific" as you go doesn't seem logical to me.
It's mostly that we were raised with certain systems. I see logic in both but prefer the US system for the reason above. And remember, I don't latch on to these just for the sake of being stubborn. I think the foot/yard/mile measurement system is absurd and that we should jump ship from AM-PM.
Just one more note on it, OMC. I prefer the old UK way of DD/MM/YY, mostly because i'm used to it but logically it follows the rule of days<months<years. However, if this is the case why do we all still tell the time using HH:MM?
The mm/dd/yy seems logical to me because I think of the years as a suffix rather than part of the date. We say, "March 17th, 2009" so we transpose that into 3/17/09.
I think the whole 'logical' part is just what we were brought up to use. If everyone in the world used a universal standard format, we wouldn't be having this conversation. And we would be on topic.
Well I am twelve. But tommorrow I'm Thirteen! Yayish. But seriously, I joined the clickteam forums when i was twelve so it's all right Fish20. Actually, I made 2 accounts and pretended to be 13 on one of them. But be quiet about that... It doesn't matter, I only use this account now. Oh and i was ten when i first started using clickteam products... Has it been that long already?!?
I've been klikking since 2000, only finished a handful of mediocre games, though I haven't made anything in years. So I guess starting at 17 was a good age. Now I'm 26 and just don't have the time anymore. So, I salute you guys you are oldish and still have time to make good games!
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Ten. But that doesn't stop me from being awesome, making games and using correct grammar. I don't have to tok lyke di$.
Hey, I was awesome before I was ten! But now I'm way awesomer! Because when I was ten.. I USED XNA GAME STUDIO EXPRESS!!! Actually, it's a pretty good language, but Clickteam is far better.
I am no longer not a taco.
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Heh heh, Clickteam is soooo much better than text coding. It really is. And I started programming when I was nine, about... Eh... Six months ago, and have done about five things that I'm satisfied with, and no things that are worth putting up here. But lemme start programming and maybe something good will come of it.
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i feel so bloody old.
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