Animations on multitasking, based on S. Hawking

Stephen Hawking emailed me the other day with this email:
"Hey, Ireng!
Just emailed to remember you how cool you are.
And to ask you a lil' question.
You see, I'm making a small game in 3dgamestudio. No, seriously. Got bored of white holes and radiaton vortexs. And now my character in-game is animated in a While loop that when one of his skills is set to 1, it will play a different animation. It's like this:

Main action ----> Animate_me() // it makes the char run "stand" anim
When attacking ---- > skill=1 ----> Animate_me() // it makes the char run "attack" anim

The two different animations are played accordingly to the skill "Activity": if 0, it's "stand". If 1, it's "attack".

Code:

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 function Animate_Me()
{
	while(1)
	{
		// ANIMATION
		MY._biped01_anim_dist+=time*7;
		if (my._biped01_anim_dist>100) {MY._biped01_anim_dist=0;}

		if(my.actividad==1) // Fire sequence
		{
			while(my.activity==1)
			{
				my.attack_speed=1;
				
				if(my.activity==1)&&(my.attack_speed<=60)
				{
					MY._biped01_anim_dist+=time*3;
					ent_animate(me,"attack",MY._biped01_anim_dist,ANM_CYCLE);
					my.attack_speed+=time;
				}
				if(my.attack_speed>60){my.attack_speed=0;}
				wait(1);
			}
		}
		
		else	
		{
			if (my.is_cMoveMode==is_cStopped) {ent_animate(me,"stand",MY._biped01_anim_dist-11*time,ANM_CYCLE);}
			else{ent_animate(me,"run",MY._biped01_anim_dist,ANM_CYCLE);
			}
		}
		wait(1);
	}
} 

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But this code doesn't work. At all. I've tripled checked that the code is actually active using breakpoints, and it is, but it's run way too fast and I dunno how to control it. Any ideas?
Yours,
Stephen Hawking"

Guess I should help this laddie.

Why are you sullying Stephen's good name while simultaneously asking that other users solve your easily solvable 3DGS questions? It's not a truckin riddle. The solution is obvious to many. Yes, I know you are kidding, but still I think you shouldn't lie about Stephen's involvement. Your ploy is 'dirty'.

Ok, but the problem I face is real. And I can't seem to solve it, really.

Well why not just set your activity skill to the name of the animation which should be played?
Code:

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my.activity = "stand";
//or:
my.activity = "walk";

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Yes, this is possible.

Dude, that seems... great. I never thought of that.
I'm currently trying to implement it.
Thanks in advance!