this.Over9000?.Invoke(this, args);

I imagine that this would be somewhat slower than just doing a null check and directly invoking the event delegate.

I like pie.

[EDIT]
What's this thread even about anymore?

Great! I had cherry pie on Christmas. It was tasty, albeit a bit too sweet. I'd rather have apple pie. Apple pie is the best, in my opinion.

The pie is a lie.

Happy New Year!

The pie is a fake

I once made a Christmas hack game about St Nicholas running around. I searched for suitable music and found a lovely carol, which I'd never heard before. Since that, I've heard it a few times.

Exactly 10 years ago, I wrote a tune for Christmas hack and that tune turned into a new carol with lyrics by my wife a year ago. It's one of our best songs.

I guess I have at least three more songs, which relate directly to Allegro games. Some made by me, some made by Andrei Ellman. One sung by Andrei Ellman!

Then there was the Monday Song, sung by Matt Somethington. That song is still waiting for being used in a game.

Jolly Old Saint Nicholas.

The 10 year old game tune was played on a glockenspiel. You can still hear it in this video:

In Andrei Ellman's "Chickens" you can find my music. Two of the tunes got lyrics, but there's no sung music track in the games. I have one recording on an old Macintosh laptop somewhere.

And Andrei's excellent performance of my DTL-song from DTL-rally is on an even older laptop somewhere.

One old recording I managed to find. It's actually from the depot here on a.cc.

Here's Blub and Blob singing:

No, it's about Santa's vacation in July. Here's my own translation from a blog I wrote about our carols:

The white beard is fluttering. A mild breeze. A yellow balloon shines with the sun. There's a long time to Christmas. Santa's enjoying. In July the familiar scenery looks different. Peace, happiness, warmth and love. Peace, happiness, keep your Christmas mood always with you. (A list of countries) How beautiful our world is, when seen from above! (More countries...)

In Blub & Blob there's only me. In that game there's a karaoke function I developed. It played a midi file while showing timed lyrics. You had to include a txt file with the lyrics which had the time code in seconds in square brackets at each word.

Some day I'll continue with the karaoke project. I like the idea of having singable game music. I find similar joy in creating a game, creating music and writing song lyrics.

To be honest I was hoping to get M.Leverton back to us with the size of the thread.
Seems like size isn't the only thing that matters ;-P

What if we mention all his nicks in the thread ?
What if he DOES have an alarm system and then we use the call "Supreme Dictator" 3 times ? Facing a mirror ?

As a kid, I had a totally mixed-up dream. At that age, I was used to BBC BASIC, but had noticed that machine code existed. I also loved playing with tape recorders. In the dream, machine code looked like random strings of symbols, but could be used to accomplish anything, lightning-fast - and I used some to materialise a jetpack on my back which looked like a tape recorder.

In the real world, however, Matthew Leverton cannot detect whether you are facing a mirror.

This thread is now the roast of Matthew Leverton.