BearBane wrote:

yadayadayadagoodbye wrote:

I believe the recreations which got banned did have images of a certain historial figure who is not considered appropriate in any context except educational. As BIA is a game and not an educational project, the presence of that certain figure is likely the cause of the ban.

I do not believe the BIA franchise itself is banned by scratch, if it was, the search term would be unable to come up with results (that is not the case, if you search “Brother in arms”, while you do not find any BIA projects directly, there are still results.

I would like to point out that that particular person isn’t prominent in all of the banned projects, and as a side point I would like to adress that this franchise has existed for over a year without much controversy or banning. And almost no one has complained or said it is not user friendly, although I could be wrong I haven’t read through all the comments.
But yes you are right it is the mustache man that caused it most likely, but some people trying to defend scratch has accused it of being very violent with gore, which there is no gore, and I have projects with far more violent elements.

although it does appear to be aimed at 11+, you are right that people need to examine the games before taking them down, this is present with other things that ST has done, like banning people for being ‘collab accounts’ when they have no proof and the user is not a collab account.

I do agree that it shouldn't really be banned, other 12+ rated games like Fortnite and i think even 18+ games like GTA are not fully banned (if a GTA remake has gore it will be taken down if ST becomes aware.

scratch team! I am here to propose a wonderful studio

This studio is called: Development Disabilities Awareness here is the link: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/34822387/

when green flag clicked
I do have a game shut down for a while due to collision!

Malicondi wrote:

This would most likely go against the remix policy, as there would be no change and the remix policy requires all projects that are a remix of a project to be changed in some way, which includes recolors and similar things to that.

Say you use file > save as and just post the project the same as it was before, it would probably be considered the same as a unchanged remix, and taken down as it's an exact copy of a project.

I'm pretty sure they mean a different person shares a project that hasn't been shared yet, or briefly shared then removed

In any projects that ask you to love and favorite the project for a skin, technically, they don't actually know when you click them. What you can do is simply hover your mouse over the love and favorite buttons and it will give you whatever reward. This may be the reason they have not been taken down for it.

should we have a mlt voting studio, or should we just do it in our cabin?

Hi I have been a curator before and I would love to again!

After a week of work… And decoration by @oopsied… I present to you… A new top 1 or top 2…
UNDER THE CHAOS MOON
however… bad language
so, uh, https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/984325959/

This would most likely go against the remix policy, as there would be no change and the remix policy requires all projects that are a remix of a project to be changed in some way, which includes recolors and similar things to that.

Say you use file > save as and just post the project the same as it was before, it would probably be considered the same as a unchanged remix, and taken down as it's an exact copy of a project.

i know people are gonna rip me to shreds for this but i use visual studio for mainly javascript
and while vs isn't meant for js, it serves its purpose better than anything else i've used
for example, i can easily make a git commit (and git is shipped with vs, which makes my life so much easier) without having to switch from Explorer to Source Control
i can also (very easily) run debugging for every project in my solution and also run the browser all at once, and while this is possible in vsc, i would much rather trade not having thousands of tabs for something that i know reliably works in a way that's intuitive
also i much prefer having all the buttons that i need available to me but also high customisation. it's also pretty useful to be able to drag a working file out into its own window (even off to a separate monitor)
so as far as i'm concerned, vs is :thumbsup: alright

Banana

deck26 wrote:

It's because you're recalculating x and getting slightly different values - try putting a ‘floor’ block around the x calculation.

That, or just replace

((50) - ((size) * (0.7)))

with

((70) - (size))//70 is close to the size you got from the code above, but it doesn’t vibrate.

in the “change size by” code.

daliscreator wrote:

oopsied wrote:

daliscreator wrote:

oopsied wrote:

daliscreator wrote:

Paulottix_Music wrote:

My Suggestion: Now we compete Not who is able to make the hardest Level rather which is the Level with the best gameplaypls

…Good decision, but deco matters too.
SOOooooOOOO IM HOSTING MY FIRST SPOOKY DASH LEVEL CONTEST!
RUles:
1. Your level must be 750+ blocks long.
2. The deco and gameplay must be good.
3. Do not use anything from levels before.
4. Have fun!

aight cya in a week imma pump out a banger hard demon

WAIT I FORGOR TO SAY THE TIME LIMI- *dyes*

what is the time limit tho

none because this is a joke level contest

NO MAKE IT REAL IM ACTUALLY TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING GOOD

benoutfit7 wrote:

use this block to know your roblox password

My Roblox username / login details: Username:[astrofred12] Password: [templelover] :: tts cap

i don't have a roblox account XD

If a scratcher had a project that they wanted to get to the most amount of people possible, but not for their own popularity, could a more popular scratcher share it for them to get it to more people, and has this been done before?

In this situation, there would obviously be full credit given to the original creator, but they would not be the one receiving the likes and favorites on the project. I briefly looked through the forums and couldn't find anything about this.

I am making a game that uses multiple joysticks, is there a way to be able to control both at once? Currently when one is being used the other can’t.

silvxrcat wrote:

i was a year behind in this forum anyways hello… im an EVIL sonic fan

:O

yadayadayadagoodbye wrote:

I believe the recreations which got banned did have images of a certain historial figure who is not considered appropriate in any context except educational. As BIA is a game and not an educational project, the presence of that certain figure is likely the cause of the ban.

I do not believe the BIA franchise itself is banned by scratch, if it was, the search term would be unable to come up with results (that is not the case, if you search “Brother in arms”, while you do not find any BIA projects directly, there are still results.

I would like to point out that that particular person isn’t prominent in all of the banned projects, and as a side point I would like to adress that this franchise has existed for over a year without much controversy or banning. And almost no one has complained or said it is not user friendly, although I could be wrong I haven’t read through all the comments.
But yes you are right it is the mustache man that caused it most likely, but some people trying to defend scratch has accused it of being very violent with gore, which there is no gore, and I have projects with far more violent elements.

daliscreator wrote:

oopsied wrote:

daliscreator wrote:

oopsied wrote:

daliscreator wrote:

Paulottix_Music wrote:

My Suggestion: Now we compete Not who is able to make the hardest Level rather which is the Level with the best gameplaypls

…Good decision, but deco matters too.
SOOooooOOOO IM HOSTING MY FIRST SPOOKY DASH LEVEL CONTEST!
RUles:
1. Your level must be 750+ blocks long.
2. The deco and gameplay must be good.
3. Do not use anything from levels before.
4. Have fun!

aight cya in a week imma pump out a banger hard demon

WAIT I FORGOR TO SAY THE TIME LIMI- *dyes*

what is the time limit tho

none because this is a joke level contest

the ultimate hoodie's depiction of scene one:
Scene 1: Scratch cat lives in a small forest and he wants to move somewhere else because he is bored in the forest. Then he makes a rocket and he flies to the unknown. Then he is at the South Pole.

I kind of like it. but too much Is happening. here's my idea:

Scene one: Pitch black. nothing for the first few seconds. then the title of the scratch cat movie shows. then, the black screen and the title fade, as we set on a magnificent town. but this view wont last long. as for suddenly the camera flies toward the streets. as we witness TERA, the main villain of the story, riding what appears to be riding a 200 mph convertible that is purple. as tera begins throwing

change [ghost] effect by (1000000000000000000000)

at SCRATCH, the main hero of the story, who is running faster than usan bolt. this is no surprise, as cats are very fast.

TERA: GET BACK HERE OLD SCRATCHY!

suddenly, time freezes. and we hear the voice of scratch cat

SCRATCH: I bet you weren't expecting this were you?

SCRATCH: let me introduce myself. hi. my name is Scratch cat. I'm the orange one running away.
Thats tera. and she is the one chasing me on a convertible throwing blocks that could k1ll me. but to understand how we got here, we need to go back in time. to understand what happened.


Black shows again. then one second later a white text shows the words “One month earlier”
SCRATCH: it all started one month ago…

END SCENE

Hey Guys! I Just Made My First Game, And Its A Platformer!
Click The Link Below!
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/985832951/

when [link] key pressed
say [thanks for playing my game!]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a way to line break without using the “enter” key with bbcode? If there is what is the bbcode for this? If not that that's fine.

Review from The Gemstone Federation
First Impression 1-5: 4
Speed Rating 1-5: 5
Staff Rating 1-5: 4
Quality Rating 1-5: 3
Total Rating 1-20: 16
Suggestions:
First Impression: The GIF banner is cool, but I don’t like that most of the front page is in a quote from the previous owner.
Speed: Really good! The worker taking my order said it might be past the deadline, but it was completed sooner than the deadline I set.
Staff: There’s a lot, but one of them (the owner) seems to be taking most of the orders.
Quality: Pretty good. It looks great, except the eyes are crossed (I guess I didn't ask for them not to be)…and I asked for pixel art.

i was a year behind in this forum anyways hello… im an EVIL sonic fan

I believe the recreations which got banned did have images of a certain historial figure who is not considered appropriate in any context except educational. As BIA is a game and not an educational project, the presence of that certain figure is likely the cause of the ban.

I do not believe the BIA franchise itself is banned by scratch, if it was, the search term would be unable to come up with results (that is not the case, if you search “Brother in arms”, while you do not find any BIA projects directly, there are still results.

Critique for @Code_kid5619

Hey Ember! First of all, I’d like to say that I really love the idea and subject matter of your poem! It has such a great flow and is really sweet. I don’t have too many things to critique, mostly just word choice like you asked. (as I have discovered, poems are kinda hard to critique ahhahaha)

My first thing is that your rhyme scheme appears to be ABAB, as shown in stanza 2.

A bond that laid on the ocean floor,
Weaved together through many years
Of kindness, trust, secrets, and more
That connected us through happy cheer

However, by the 4th stanza, the rhyme scheme seems to break apart a little as the last words stop rhyming as much. I feel like this kinda breaks the rhythm you’ve built. By restructuring some of the lines I think you can make the rhyme stronger.

For specific lines:

Bobbing on the waves of our verses

Random note: you never mention what these “verses” are, so it's a little confusing. The motif of the sea is very important to the poem, but I think what the sea is, or rather what it represents, is a little underdeveloped.

And so, came a storm

I think you could make the cause/effect relationship between the pearl’s appearance and the storm a little stronger, like (a blatant) “because of this came a storm” or (more subtly) “and after came a storm” or something like that. The correlation between the pearl and storm doesn’t feel very strong at the moment.

And so we grew distantly apart

Instead of “grew”, I think you could use a word to make this more powerful, like “were thrown apart” or something that displays the strength and destructive power of the storm.

Gradually, our bond held on,
Bit by bit until it broke apart

These two lines are contradictory. Are you trying to say that their bond tried to hold on but was still broken?

Eventually the storm went away,

Since the storm is a metaphor for an actual fight between friends, perhaps you could be more specific than just “went away”. Usually, time causes fights to, in a sense, fade away, so maybe be more specific to indicate how the storm left.

Also, at this point in the poem, the tense changes. I don’t know if this is intentional or not, but if so, the last line should probably be changed to “returns” to fit.

My final question:

Two islands, now lost

The only thing I think this poem is missing is a little more impact, but this line captures it perfectly. This line leads me to ask. Why is their friendship important? How are they lost without each other? What makes them believe that a recovery from the storm is worth fighting for?
If you can explore the value and meaning of their friendship beyond what is simply happening and what that says about friendship, your poem will be so much stronger.

Sophie22Anne wrote:

Malicondi wrote:

See this post for help, it explains how to encode and decode cloud variables, and how to use them.

Although it doesn’t tell me how to add the score as well as the username

Not difficult, you don't even need to encode a value you know is numeric, just give it a fixed number of digits. So encoded username followed by separator (usually 00) followed by, say, 5 digits for the score. If you use one cloud variable per leaderboard slot you don't even need to use a fixewd length value since nothing will come after it.

NamePending_ wrote:

Plants4Life1200 wrote:

I just tested it, and I'm not able to put a decimal point in there in the first place.

Yes, but you could use this:

repeat (variable) // set to a decimal

end

So what would happen if you did that?

Tested, the variable just rounds to the nearest number.

starlightsparker wrote:

(#301)
The blue header was broken. This was not.

and I’m not saying scratch should have everyone they work with’s domain, but I’m saying since scratch already has mit, it’s not a big deal.

I didn’t know .edu is for univeristys . But it still gives a good impression that scratch has .mit.edu because mit is a university, so education yay schools hooray idk

Why was it broken more than having an unrelated domain?

Plants4Life1200 wrote:

I just tested it, and I'm not able to put a decimal point in there in the first place.

Yes, but you could use this:

repeat (variable) // set to a decimal

end

So what would happen if you did that?

the_awsome_penguinja wrote:

saving scripts is just the backpack

naming items in the backpack is a dupe please continue the discussion the to prevent clutter in the forums

Here's a more specific and earlier dupe.

A want there to be a way to undo a favorite project so that a favorite project that you have is no longer on your favorite projects menu. An idea I have would be to have a button that says delete select. Normally the button would be off but by clicking it once it will turn on and when it's on you can delete one of your favorite projects from the menu by hovering your mouse over the project and then clicking an “X” mark on the top right corner of the project. This feature would make it easier for clustering up your favorite projects that you no longer want and removing them. Hopefully this shouldn't be hard to add.

This is a duplicate. That means someone else has suggested this topic before, and you should continue discussion there the prevent clutter, and to keep the conversation in one place.

code221 wrote:

Maybe I should make a ranking of the weirdest discussions the MSM has had.

yes

THIS IS a simple INTRO TEMPLATE

Pretty simple… PLZ REMIX AND FOLLOW ME FOR A COOKIE… I love followers…

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/987264880/

Please submit your most stupidly hard, glitchy, or maybe even troll Appel levels. Imma play them in a YouTube video.

I'll post the video here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCorJo_Z4Soa_j31VoDNgBBg?sub_confirmation=1

I just tested it, and I'm not able to put a decimal point in there in the first place.

My most popular project so far, This is a Collab with @Ace-___-
I am so thrilled to see how it turns out since this is my FIRST COLLAB i ever done, Part 1 is on my account, meanwhile Part 2 is coming soon on Ace-___-'s account. Also if you get the chance to see my project, tell me what i could improve in, because there is always something i need to improve at

Link>https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/953418883/

saving scripts is just the backpack

naming items in the backpack is a dupe please continue the discussion the to prevent clutter in the forums

It has come to my attention that a certain game, BIA, aka brother in Arms is being targeted for being banned by scratch. I don’t have any stakes in the matter. However I have seen time and time again were these conflicts occur with the same thing happening each time. People judge fandoms and games without actually understanding what they are about. I’ve played BIA, I has almost no guns, weapons or anything actually violent, it’s more like a board game then an actual video game. However a lot of people just assume it’s violent, while yes it has violence, it’s not shown, it’s just implied. The argument it’s historically relevant is true, so is the argument that a certain painter and his actions should be censored. What’s not true is all the assumptions about the game. How can you say “I haven’t played it, but I know-“ well then you don’t have a full perspective, and thus your going on less accurate data then the people who have played it for months and spend dozens of hours on the game. They have made friends, worked harder and created communities with the remix’s of BIA, they should be allowed to have the right for you to at least try and look into the problem before declaring it unsafe for scratch. My argument isn’t that is should be allowed, but for everyone to come together and actually look at something with actual evidence for once instead of assuming things. It’s not that I’m invested in this particular issue, it just seems to me that on scratch people have problems about dealing with banned things, entire communities are just wiped out from existence sometimes, and they deserve to be honestly examined by users who actively try and seek the truth. Am I wrong to believe this? What is the actual way to deal with banned communities?

Malicondi wrote:

Heart and favorite detectors are allowed, in some circumstances. If you're using a love/fav detector to say “Thank you!” or anything similar to that that doesn't give the player or anything, it's allowed, but if you use one in a way to give a prize for it, then its not allowed.

Example: A heart and favorite detectors for free items or a skin isn't allowed, but saying “Thanks!” is allowed.

Why is it that I've seen many trending projects with a love/fave detector for a skin, and nothing has happened to the projects, except a couple getting mass reported?

just-a-hriday wrote:

Please reread the front page.

I find your lack of thank-you-for-ordering-message disturbing.

The order isn't completely finished, as the second issue isn't resolved but I can't replicate it to fix it, I'll add it regardless though.

I'm not sure if this belongs in the HwS forum or not, but what happens if a repeat block has a decimal in it? If i have this code:

repeat (variable set to 3 point something)

end

then what would happen in the code? Would it round for how many times it would repeat?

Shallow Blue(5 Ply) and Scurious 2(5 Ply) just played a 60% accuracy Game: https://lichess.org/O4F8h19L#172

another thing someone called bufferdummy turned off a lot of griffpatches mmo games

I want to get a pingunmod account

Merge would be a great addition to the scratch vector editor. It is not the same thing as group group makes it so you only have to select one of the grouped objects. Merge would make the objects the same object. Like you grab two objects that are overlapping, select both of them and hit merge the lines between them disappear and they became the same object. I know there are more ways to do this like grabbing a vertex and extending it or using line tool and leave it open but this would be a lot simpler, easier and more consistent.

My most popular project so far, This is a Collab with @Ace-___-
I am so thrilled to see how it turns out since this is my FIRST Collab i ever done, part 1 is on my account, meanwhile part 2 is coming soon on Ace-___-'s account. Also if you get the chance to see my project, tell me what i could improve in, because there is always something i need to improve at

Malicondi wrote:

The problem with the player collision detection is because you're repeatedly resending the broadcast, and the broadcast has a “wait 1 seconds” inside of it, and every time it's broadcasted it gets reset so it's never completed until its not repeatedly being broadcast, when the player isn't being touched.

I recommend using a removing the wait block, or making some way so that it only broadcasts once, such as setting a local variable to “1” when it touches so it only broadcasts once.

I can't seem to replicate the second problem you have with the “my etbs” list, the list worked fine for me with 0's and 1s as values, not only 1's.

remix

Please reread the front page.

I find your lack of thank-you-for-ordering-message disturbing.

so when my sprite reaches a certain costume, I need to find out how to make it stop at the max costume so when i use the attack it goes back to 0 and restarts

chippysmall4 wrote:

hydrofungus wrote:

sToRaGe BoX????? How is that different from backpack????? Except for the fact it’s still not as close????? What do you even store???? Canned fish?????

And backpack is still closer to daily life

canned fish Assets.

Didn’t answer the concern.

Look, honestly this suggestion would probably get a bad impression from ST if it’s called “storage box” or “asset storage” or idk anymore “refrigerator”, just because backpack is a better understood term to kids.

Backpack is fine honestly.