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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38  Posts: 22/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| As I posted in the other thread.. | |||
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 23/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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Originally posted by Valcion Stupidest threads ever? We must not use the same internet. |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 24/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| I believe that there was a previous case in Canada that made it legal to download MP3s (that's what someone told me, at least), so in conjunction with it being legal for a person to open his files to public access... it's pretty much legal to share your files as long as you're not advertising yourself out, "COME HERE NEW LINKIN PARK ALBUM FREE" or something. That said, I kind of agree with witeasprinwow... I don't care much for the specific economic implications, but the fact is that it's wrong to allow intellectual property to be distributed like this without the author's consent. You can't photocopy a book, bind it, and then sell it legally, and no one says you should be able to. Likewise, anyone who says that it's moral and should be legal to download copyrighted music is either a bastard or a moron. The only reason people defend the practice is because they benefit from it. But that is not a valid argument for file sharing. |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 25/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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I guess I'll throw myself into the pool of prospective beta testers. I see myself having too much free time in the near future..  |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 26/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| No, Lunar Magic is evil and FuSoYa is the devil. | |||
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 27/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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Originally posted by RydainOriginally posted by witeasprinwow That's a good point, then. So I'll change my statement into "anyone who says that it's moral and should be legal to download whatever copyrighted media he pleases is either a bastard, moron, or a communist." There, so much better. |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 28/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| Well, then you should thank me for clearing up that silly misperception. I mean, maybe my maxim needs revision to allow a couple more exceptions, but I'm pretty sure that its main aim is pretty bulletproof. |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 31/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| Hah, it was kinda neat to watch the admins' names turn gray, one by one, and then some mysterious "Linkguy" with the characteristic admin yellow name appear, and then suddenly the board disappears... bravo. | |||
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 32/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| Eek. This thread got reverted to before I posted this link. | |||
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 33/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| Yea, I'm a cocktail whore. | |||
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 34/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| <~ Um, yea, I'm obviously a Tonberry fan. My girlfriend even made me a Tonberry plushie.  It rocks.Cactaurs are cool too, though. (edited by hhallahh on 04-07-04 02:36 AM) |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 35/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| Very nice. Super Mario: Oracle of Seasons. Hah. |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 36/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| SNES PoP.. great idea. I loved that game, it was even better than the original. |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 37/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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I saw .hack//SIGN a while back.. extremely boring anime, but Sora was definately the coolest of the lot. And it makes me want to play the mediocre .hack games to figure out what happened to him.  |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 38/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| The FFXII chick looked pretty hot before they remade her. Which is a damn shame. I'd have to go with Lulu, probably. Get her up in a different set of clothes, and.. hm.. yea. |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 39/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| Wow. Bitterness from DahrkDaiz. Should a writer have to operate his own printing press in order to deserve to be published? Should an artist be able to make his own pastels? The musician build his own instrument? Opening up access to an artistic medium means you'll have lots of crappy people trying it out, yes, but there'll also be some damn good designers who would otherwise never be able to make a hack. There is no reason why a designer should have to know ASM/SPC/whatever hacking in order to create a good product. If it takes an inordinate amount of skill to do a simple task, then it's not unreasonable to want someone to make a process to streamline it. Just because your editors aren't that great doesn't mean that no editors should be great... I mean, if that logic prevailed, we'd still be working in 0s and 1s. Having huge access barriers to these things is a bad thing. Granted, whining for someone to make a program for you isn't the most honourable thing to do. You don't have a right to expect a program... if your work has merit, you could probably find someone who would do this stuff for you. But it's certainly okay to wish for one, and if there is one, the fact that you use one doesn't somehow make your work less valuable. This elitist "I don't need no stinking editors" arrogance is bullshit, because if people can make better hacks than you, editors or no, then that's the bottom line and they've created a better hack (although your knowledge might be valuable in a different way.) Hacks are not good because of how much dirty work you did yourself. If Mario Adventure was as well-programmed as it is but had poor level design, then it would be a crappy hack regardless. And design skills are not programming skills (though they're probably correlated.) (edited by hhallahh on 04-09-04 03:00 AM) |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 40/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| I don't understand what the "right" amount of editor capability is. I don't believe there is a such thing. I don't believe that there's anything wrong with lowering access barriers to design... hacking skill is like a "design tax" - it's something you have to pay, but has little to do with your actual ability to come up with a good design. Editors facilitate the translation of ideas from an author's mind to reality. Why shouldn't this translation be as easy as possible? At what point does it become "too easy"? At what point is it "too hard"? If there was a good sprite of music editor out there, hack quality would be improved tremendously. It would make "more than a bit of difference". At the moment, no one really knows how to do that stuff, which is a shame. Should whoever figures it out have sole access to the knowledge? At this point it simply becomes a moral conflict.. no one would have the responsibility to provide knowledge to the community, but the community would certainly have a right to want it, since it's really not reasonable to say, "If you want to do it, figure it out yourself." Likewise, if someone wants FuSoYa to add feature X to LM, and Fu is like, "screw you", well... no one's really in the wrong. If you know how to hack, you'll always be two steps ahead. That should be all the consolation you need, and you shouldn't have the urge to lash out at others who you don't think are trying hard enough. I'm never going to touch ASM, and hence I'll always be a spectator on the side of this community (also because I'm never going to lie to myself and say I have time to make a hack..) But this brings to mind the Warcraft 3 community, where's there's a standard editor - World Edit. Now, you could either use the fairly managable trigger system, or you can program in some script called JASS, which I guess is similar to C++ or something. But since JASS is so complex, only a handful of people can use it.. but when they do, they use it to great success, making maps that your average person could never really make. What's the result? Huge access barriers to creating a good map. You need to know JASS. What's the result of that? No one really makes maps... especially campaigns. Starcraft had a great many number of campaigns originating from its rather simple editor. But in Warcraft 3, the standards are so high that no one can do it, and hence no one does it, and the whole community kinda sucks for it. If I were a casual prospective hacker for Mario 3, Mario Adventure would've pretty much completely killed my desire to try. I could never match that, and now the standards are so high that there's no point in trying. I'll never have the technical expertise. The reason that Mario World hacking has thrived so well is not just because of the existence of Lunar Magic, but because of the fact that "good" hacks are not so far beyond what the average person can do that there's no point in trying. Granted, ASM hackers have the advantage, but it's not a *huge* advantage, and there aren't many of them that really take advantage of it. Even DW:TLC can mostly be emulated with the modern tools. But even so, it's getting more difficult to build hacks. Nowadays, you NEED custom graphics and a custom overworld to get any attention. You need more skills to have a marketable hack, but thankfully tools have become available that make it not overly difficult for the average person to do these things. But it's still an effort-consuming process. Bottom line being that godly hackers are, of course, godly, but they're also really bad for a design community, since they discourage people. Tools that (mostly) bridge this gap are pretty much a necessity to keep the community alive. The tools must be constantly updated in order to keep pace with the sophistication of the hacks. If this does not occur, then people - GOOD people - will be discouraged from trying to begin with, and it'd really suck. So if you're two steps ahead of the community by virtue of your knowledge, great.. you give people an incentive to try to catch up. But if you're twenty steps ahead, then it's not so great, because the community will basically be you and you alone. Each community has its own level, and the sophistication of the tools should be gauged by what is appropriate for that level and the survival of the community, not by the Mario 3 or Metroid or whatever level. Haha.. this kinda reminds me of a Marxist argument.. "the creators continually update the means of production.." But this kinda got me thinking, and I'm only stopping here cause it's lunch time. |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 41/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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Originally posted by DahrkDaiz We can agree on that, I suppose. There haven't been very many good hacks completed since Demo World, although there are certainly several in progress. (edited by hhallahh on 04-09-04 03:17 PM) |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 42/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| Yea, I was bored, going through old hacks I never really completed.. And the reason I never completed SWW is because I kinda got stuck. The level "Custom Block Land" or something like that apparently has no exit. Is the hack just incomplete or something? I'm at a loss here. I'm sure someone else played it.. |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38 Posts: 43/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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| you're fucking retared, that's what romhacking is otherwise you're just another person on a computer using an application. which i'm sorry to say almost all of you are. to call yourselves hackers...well, that's a stretch. you're just lucky to have quality people like Fusoya and BMF and the other handful of people who dont suck :p I never said that people who used these programs were hackers, if you bothered to read my post. I called them "designers" (I might've slipped once or twice, but for the most part I didn't.) Design is what's ultimately important to a hack (and it's still a hack, even if the creator isn't a hacker.) No one should be cared to be called a "hacker" when it comes to creating a final product, because it doesn't really matter at all HOW you made that product. Get it straight, then take another pass at me if you wish. |
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