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You guys all have to check this out. This is one of the coolest Java applications I have ever seen, hands down!

It's relaxing, it's a great time waster, and so far I've wasted about 5 hours just playing around with it.

I present to you, FALLING SAND (http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/).



Edit - Please note two things.

1) Pressing "???" will destroy everything.
2)The rolling ball thingy is the "Namejuki" and can be turned of from the menu at the bottom.

Now that is cool. I can see how you spent 5 hours messing around with it. Bloody annoying though...I set up a nice little system to grow plants, then clicked '???'. Grrrrrr!

Now that is cool. I can see how you spent 5 hours messing around with it. Bloody annoying though...I set up a nice little system to grow plants, then clicked '???'. Grrrrrr!
OH, DON'T click the ???! Sorry, shoulda said something. By the way, take a screenshot, if ya get a chance. I'd love to see it. I'm gonna add one when I finish what I'm doing.

I just get a big, grey, screen :(

I just get a big, grey, screen :(

You are so missing out. No, seriously, I'm not being an ass this time.

Now I'll never get my homewrok done...

Wow. AWESOME!!! EDIT: Look, a sequel! (http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-165.html)

I just get a big, grey, screen :(



same here

I just get a big, grey, screen :(

http://java.sun.com/

http://java.sun.com/

thanks fass

Wow. AWESOME!!! EDIT: Look, a sequel! (http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-165.html)
Hehe!! Loving that hand :D
*swooosh*

finally got it to work.


awesome timewaster thanks :D

Damn. Adictive. Thanks.

How do you kill that sun that keeps rolling around and erasing everything?

I present to you, FALLING SAND (http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/).
Interesting. Note that the 'sand' actually behaves like a thick liquid - if you cut of the supply to a forming heap, it goes totally flat after a while.

How do you kill that sun that keeps rolling around and erasing everything?

I've been trying to figure that out too.

How do you kill that sun that keeps rolling around and erasing everything?
Bottom right of the menu, click on "Namekuji" until it says vanish.

Bottom right of the menu, click on "Namekuji" until it says vanish.


what is the point of that thing anyway?

what is the point of that thing anyway?
It grows bigger with water, and you can set it on fire. When I mean bigger, it gets to about 3 inches across on the screen. Start a spout across the top of the screen and watch what happens.

Here's what I've wasted the last 2 hours doing.

http://static.flickr.com/37/83450839_2828e0468f.jpg

Any screenshots yet?

Any screenshots yet?

http://img289.imageshack.us/img289/6490/image17ck.th.jpg (http://img289.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image17ck.jpg)

http://img289.imageshack.us/img289/6490/image17ck.th.jpg (http://img289.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image17ck.jpg)
Haha! Looks like you enjoyed yourself :p

http://img289.imageshack.us/img289/6490/image17ck.th.jpg (http://img289.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image17ck.jpg)
You have some serious anger issues. Have you considered counseling?

You have some serious anger issues.

And you have some serious issues gauging emotional responses in others.

Have you considered counseling?

Have you?

Here's what I've wasted the last 2 hours doing.

http://static.flickr.com/37/83450839_2828e0468f.jpg

That is so cool. I think I may spend the rest of my life at this

And you have some serious issues gauging emotional responses in others.



Have you?
It's just that you seem to never have anything positive to say about anything, which leads me to believe that you have to put other people down, or constantly make negative comments about everything, in order to boost your own self esteem, which seems to be lacking.

Your loose sexuality also seems to lend credence to my theory. Miserable people are always looking for love (sex).

Four frigging hours and I still have my laundry to do. God, that's worse than NS for adiction. :( :)

It grows bigger with water, and you can set it on fire. When I mean bigger, it gets to about 3 inches across on the screen. Start a spout across the top of the screen and watch what happens.


I just shrink it with salt...

Four frigging hours and I still have my laundry to do. God, that's worse than NS for adiction. :( :)
Horrible, isn't it? I've wasted my entire day. All I've done is tidy the living room, and do the dishes. Other than that, it's been falling sand all freakin day!

Horrible, isn't it? I've wasted my entire day. All I've done is tidy the living room, and do the dishes. Other than that, it's been falling sand all freakin day!
Heh! I managed to tear myself away from it to watch the football on TV (bloody good match, too), then I made this:
http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/6422/fallingsand25dy.jpg
There was one before it, with the compartments filled up and two little plant dots at the bottom. But I saved it as a bitmap not a jpeg. :( You're missing out, it's beautiful. :p
That turned into this:
http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/7048/fallingsand39rd.jpg
Watch it burn!!!!!

I just blocked off the bottom and im gonna let it fill up. To see what it looks like.

This took me a LONG time (hours) to make, but it burned up in less than a minute.

http://static.flickr.com/43/83542326_314216c280.jpg

This took me a LONG time (hours) to make, but it burned up in less than a minute.

http://static.flickr.com/43/83542326_314216c280.jpg
How do you get the plants to grow out so well? Mine just grow in a sort of spludge. You know what I mean.

This be the fruit of my 'labour'
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/fallingsand.jpg
Next I turned off and set fire to the oil. When that fills up I'm gonna put a plant in the water and turn the water off. Then set fire to that. Then I may click ???.
Pics will follow as they get finished.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/fallingsand2.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/Fallingsand3.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/Fallingsand4.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/Fallingsand5.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/Fallingsand6.jpg

How do you get the plants to grow out so well? Mine just grow in a sort of spludge. You know what I mean.

Use spout and draw a line over the pant. Whatever you do, don't put a plant in water.

How do you get the plants to grow out so well? Mine just grow in a sort of spludge. You know what I mean.
If you look at the pic, you'll notice I got all four colors to mix, and fall as one. Then I used lines as a kind of "diversion channels" to get it to fall on it just right to get a little sprout to come out of the side. Then I kept erasing a tiny bit at a time to get it to move out.

Like I said, that was hours and hours of work. My first masterpiece! :D (anybody wanna buy it?)

If you look at the pic, you'll notice I got all four colors to mix, and fall as one. Then I used lines as a kind of "diversion channels" to get it to fall on it just right to get a little sprout to come out of the side. Then I kept erasing a tiny bit at a time to get it to move out.

Like I said, that was hours and hours of work. My first masterpiece! :D (anybody wanna buy it?)

*clicks save image as*
Mwahahaha

If you look at the pic, you'll notice I got all four colors to mix, and fall as one. Then I used lines as a kind of "diversion channels" to get it to fall on it just right to get a little sprout to come out of the side. Then I kept erasing a tiny bit at a time to get it to move out.

Like I said, that was hours and hours of work. My first masterpiece! :D (anybody wanna buy it?)
I'll give you one...no, two cookies for it.

*clicks save image as*
Mwahahaha
So THAT's how the RIAA feels. :(

I'll give you one...no, two cookies for it.
Make it a beer and popcorn and you have yourself a deal! Awww screw it. I have beer. Take it. ;)

It's just that you seem to never have anything positive to say about anything, which leads me to believe that you have to put other people down, or constantly make negative comments about everything, in order to boost your own self esteem, which seems to be lacking.

No, what seems to be lacking is your ability to understand that this sand thingee is boring. I'm negative to boring things. And, well, maybe most things you post, because, well, you post bad stuff. Tough luck, really. Don't blame me for not bullshitting you.

Your loose sexuality also seems to lend credence to my theory. Miserable people are always looking for love (sex).

Thank you, Mr. Freud. You have me all figured out. It's not because I love being fucked and fucking - no, who ever heard of fucking for fucking's sake - I must be damaged somehow, for getting more than you.

No, what seems to be lacking is your ability to understand that this sand thingee is boring. I'm negative to boring things. And, well, maybe most things you post, because, well, you post bad stuff. Tough luck, really. Don't blame me for not bullshitting you.



Thank you, Mr. Freud. You have me all figured out. It's not because I love being fucked and fucking - no, who ever heard of fucking for fucking's sake - I must be damaged somehow, for getting more than you.
Whatever you say, champ.:rolleyes:

Holy shit. I just spent like an hour and a half on that thing.

It's fun, but I am neither patient nor creative enough for it really :p

http://img105.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc230&image=2c3fd_Hello.JPG

I'm not so creative, but I got a nice little system here:
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8026/fallingsand0hs.png (http://imageshack.us)

I'm not so creative, but I got a nice little system here:
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8026/fallingsand0hs.png (http://imageshack.us)
That's...interesting. I've been working on something for the last few hours, it'll be ready in about an hour's time I reckon.

Growing Plants Then Burning Them Is Great Fun

That's...interesting. I've been working on something for the last few hours, it'll be ready in about an hour's time I reckon.

Excellent.

This is a little something I've been working on for a while now
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/sandy.jpg

Whoever started this thread, you have ruined my life with this game.

:fluffle: Thank you.

Excellent.

This is a little something I've been working on for a while now
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/sandy.jpg
Nice. Mine's still not ready yet. In fact, it's not going to be ready for ages. Wish I'd taken some shots of it while I was doing it. :(
Here's what it looks like right now:
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/7844/sand9sz.jpg

This is what I have at the moment.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/Sandtastic.jpg
Now I'm gonna burn it. Shouldn't take long.

EDIT:This be the process of burning it.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/sandtastic2.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/sandtastic3.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/sandtastic4.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/sandtastic5.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/sandtastic6.jpg

turn everything to 5x, click ??? And just watch. @_@
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Dragonkirby/Non-Kirby/Ooooooooohh.png

P.S. Plants are immune to ??? GASP!

This is what I have at the moment.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/Sandtastic.jpg
Now I'm gonna burn it. Shouldn't take long.
It'll go up like pools of oil in a forest!


I'm very bad at analogies.

It did, look at the edit.

It did, look at the edit.
I will, I will, calm down.
Here's what I came up with, eventually. Took me about 8 hours!
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9273/sandcomp7yf.jpg
Believe me, it's not easy getting a plant that impressive.

That is a very impressive plant. I'm not suprised it took 8 hours.

I just took to filling the screen up with oil, then burning it. Fun.

After that, I branched out and added bits of plant, sand and wall in random places.

Anyone know the purpose of that bouncing rock jobby at the bottom of the screen?

I burned it. Here's the progress reports:
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/2318/burnsand5yr.jpg
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8729/burnsandmore8ns.jpg
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/3232/burnsandplus8ln.jpg
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/2997/moresandburning8ld.jpg
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5200/didntburnthewholething6xu.jpg
As you can see, it's really not that interesting. And it didn't even burn everything...

I just took to filling the screen up with oil, then burning it. Fun.

After that, I branched out and added bits of plant, sand and wall in random places.

Anyone know the purpose of that bouncing rock jobby at the bottom of the screen?
That's the Namekuji, it grows with water and shrinks with salt. If you shrink it enough it explodes and another one appears. You can vanish it with the options at the bottom.

That's the Namekuji, it grows with water and shrinks with salt. If you shrink it enough it explodes and another one appears. You can vanish it with the options at the bottom.


ooh. I knew about the option part, but not the other stuff.

BMG's Mini Guide So You Dont Have to Hunt Through A Bunch of Posts to Find Out How To Play (BMGMGSYDHTHTABOPTFOHTP):

The spinny yellow thing is the Namekeuji, its a sort of slug thing that eats everything it comes into contact with. Pour water on it to make it bigger and move around, pour salt on it to make it smaller and move around alot.

Walls dont do anything except block stuff (except the Namekeuji and ???)

Pour water on plants to make them grow

'Spout' makes a sort of rain cloud that drops water.

Cera (wax) burns slowly
Oil burns quickly
Plants burn sort of middling-ly

??? wipes out most of everything on the screen except plants

Random Things:
You can set the Namekeuji on fire
Make a bowl of Cera, fill it with oil and set the bottom on fire
Fill the entire screen with wall, make some tunnels and then set everything to x5. Then set fire to it.

Set fire to things ;)

Make a spiral of plant, then use ??? in the middle of it. The ??? will go on forever, I think.

Exploding namekujis make cool random cuts in walls.

Fill it with salt then let the namekuji pop around and exploded reapetedly.

BMG's Mini Guide So You Dont Have to Hunt Through A Bunch of Posts to Find Out How To Play (BMGMGSYDHTHTABOPTFOHTP):

Walls dont do anything except block stuff (except the Namekeuji and ???)
You sure? I built a little box in the corner of the screen and kept the Namekuji in there. It was trapped! Mwahahahhahahahaah!!!! Anyway...

I'd play around with it, but it require's java, and I hate java because it seems to do bad things to my computer (ie, take up space and RAM and virtual memory that could be used for microsoft flight simulator :p )

This is kewl, the stupid ball thing keeps destroying my stuff though... :sniper:

BMG's Mini Guide So You Dont Have to Hunt Through A Bunch of Posts to Find Out How To Play (BMGMGSYDHTHTABOPTFOHTP):


Useful. Thank you.

This is kewl, the stupid ball thing keeps destroying my stuff though... :sniper:

So turn it off.

http://photobucket.com/albums/y233/TfyP/?action=view&current=sandysandofsandyness.png

Have you ever seen such watery eyes?

Have you ever seen such watery eyes?
Yeah, mine after playing with this thing for eight hours! :p

http://photobucket.com/albums/y233/TfyP/?action=view&current=sandysandofsandyness.png

Have you ever seen such watery eyes?

I also like the name you gave it.

This is kewl, the stupid ball thing keeps destroying my stuff though... :sniper:
Put salt on it

Put salt on it

It comes back...

BMG's Mini Guide So You Dont Have to Hunt Through A Bunch of Posts to Find Out How To Play (BMGMGSYDHTHTABOPTFOHTP):

The spinny yellow thing is the Namekeuji, its a sort of slug thing that eats everything it comes into contact with. Pour water on it to make it bigger and move around, pour salt on it to make it smaller and move around alot.

Walls dont do anything except block stuff (except the Namekeuji and ???)

Pour water on plants to make them grow

'Spout' makes a sort of rain cloud that drops water.

Cera (wax) burns slowly
Oil burns quickly
Plants burn sort of middling-ly

??? wipes out most of everything on the screen except plants

Random Things:
You can set the Namekeuji on fire
Make a bowl of Cera, fill it with oil and set the bottom on fire
Fill the entire screen with wall, make some tunnels and then set everything to x5. Then set fire to it.

Set fire to things ;)

Make a spiral of plant, then use ??? in the middle of it. The ??? will go on forever, I think.

Also sand destroys spouts. You can control time and haw much of each substance flows out, including stopping the entirely. Sometimes the namekuji will get trapped in a wall or cera. If you pour enough water on it it will burst out.

Another...

http://photobucket.com/albums/y233/TfyP/?action=view&current=sandiersandysandofsandyness.png

(for those with a certain keyboard layout; you might find the big, watery smilie somewhat familiar...)

ridiculous

Nice find!

wow kewlness!