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beneficii |
 Broom Hatter                  Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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Originally posted by Klinsk I'm guessing, from your other posts, that you're using my map editor. Have you stopped to consider perhaps that your question may already be answered? I know you're thinking, Hey why aren't these people just telling me! Why do they gotta keep telling me to dig through the FAQs? Going through that is hard and so why aren't people being nice to me and doing what I want them to do? I can answer all three questions quite succinctly; in fact, I can answer them all in one single answer. I'm in Japan presently, and I'm trying to make it a point not to post while away on my trip, but I've lurked here and there and I find it quite annoying that these same sorts of questions continue to be asked by the same sorts of people. Of course you're probably thinking, But I'm different! In fact, you are not. Many people like to think of themselves as doing things for the first time, such as those cranksters on IP Relay, but in reality they are doing the same thing that millions have done already before them. Now, assuming you have got this far, you must realize that I have not succinctly answered your questions yet. For that I apologize, but then I must retract the apology because I have so much more I want to say before answering it. Of course, you may be tempted to scroll down and see for yourself, but I beg you to stick with me, for you will get far greater goodies by doing so. Now then, I'm in Japan and I'm experiencing things I never experienced before. I feel my life was shut up before, but now I'm beginning to realize things about myself with so much more depth and clarity, such as things that necessitate my maintenance of my pink color. I realize that I cannot just gnaw on something and have a narrow tunnel focused on it, for life is so much more than that. The experiences as you blunder from one goal to the next are so important to your development. Perhaps you begin to realize the necessity of what I am pondering. Now follows my succinct answer: The experience of a ROM hacker, or just about anything else, is not so much the sum of the experiences, but the experiences themselves. You may have a goal that you want to accomplish and you desperately do, but you cannot forget to just stop and live life. Take time out, enjoy the moment, and learn! You are not responsible for anyone but yourself in these regards, and the same applies to everyone else. I know that you've probably heard this many times and chafe at doing so, but it is a necessary logical result of everything we have been discussing, this: Others are not responsible for ensuring that you are able to add hammer brothers to the world map. Some may life to take it upon themselves to help you, but ultimately it is your responsibility. The experiences in learning, which you are so desperately avoiding by wanting people to do things for you, are very important to achieving any sort of competence in life. Now then, I hope this has proved informative to you, and I am happy to inform you that the answer to your question about adding a hammer brother to the world map has already been answered; the answer can be found in the smb3map.txt file, which I wrote for a reason (but alas you fail to see it!) and which should have been included in the zip file of the SMB3 Map Editor you downloaded. Now that this has been quite about you, I want you to know that I do seek validation regarding my pink name, but alas many people will think I'm just some perverted male pretending to be female. Oh well, but I have plenty of experiences to look forward to, and I still have a good part of my Japan trip left. 
I hope your escapades into ROM hacking serve you well!  (edited by beneficii on 05-20-06 09:00 AM) (edited by beneficii on 05-20-06 09:05 AM) (edited by beneficii on 05-20-06 09:15 AM) (restricted) |
beneficii |
Broom Hatter Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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Yeah, I hate those kinds of websites too, especially when the web page just plays it without your doing anything and there's no way to stop it. It especially sucks when there are other people present or you're in a library or something and you get this music playing, bothering other people. It's annoying, in other words. |
beneficii |
Broom Hatter  Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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Mmm, just got back from a 2 week+ stay in Japan. Right now, I'm in no condition to tell too many stories for some reason. Perhaps they will all come to me as time goes on; nevertheless, I can relay a few things:
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When in Tokyo, stay at the Juyoh Hotel! For some reason it's not mentioned in the Lonely Planet guide, but it's cheaper than staying in the hostels (the cheapest of which is like 3800 yen a night). The Juyoh Hotel costs 3200 yen a night to stay at (about 30 bucks) and has free Internet access and free WiFi Internet access. The curfew is at 1 am instead of 11 PM like those damn hostels. You get your own room which is actually clean with a tatami mat under a table and a futon. You don't get your own bathroom, but it's right down the hall. The place is actually pretty clean and nice and has a more traditional Japanese atmosphere. There's a lobby on the 1st floor which is very small and personable, you can meet a lot of people there, both foreign and Japanese. Search the Internet for Juyoh Hotel Tokyo and you'll find out how to reserve and stuff. Well, my post started off like an advertisement, but seriously that hotel and hotels in the area of that hotel (all off the Minami-senju subway station exit) are cheap and decent. The Tokyo International Youth Hostel on the other hand was a rip-off, at 3800 yen a night, you had to share a room with like 3 other people and you had to pay 100 yen for 15 minutes of Internet use. The staff are jerks, and the Japanese friend that I travelled a lot with says she thought it was like a prison, such as with the way they do announcements. One time, she has brought food for us to eat (because the food served at the hostel was of only 1 kind and sucked), she got 2 trays, one for each of us. And I put some of my stuff on the tray and ate with her, when suddenly the chef came up in front of me, and said "No" twice. I responded with, "Sumimasen?" Then he said "No" 2 more times and took all my stuff off the tray and onto the table and then grabbed the tray and took it back with him. He didn't do the same to my friend. She recommended that I write a complaint in Japanese, which I did, and turn it into the staff. It read something like: "Ryourinin wa shinsetsu ja arimasen. Nanimo iwanaide, torei o toriagemashita." The actual characters I used: 料理人は親切じゃありません。何も言わないで、トレーをとり上げました。 This translates roughly as "The chef is not nice. Without saying anything, he took up the tray." I gave the note to the hostel staff, and I saw the staff fold it up and take it into a back room without asking me any questions. Luckily, someone told me about the Juyoh Hotel and I made a reservation. Anyway, not only that but when I was coming home, I was at Chicago-O'Hare as part of a connecting flight. Well, the flight to Memphis itself was hard to get on. First, the gate was at C1, then they moved it to C8 (where a flight to Vermont had just been cancelled because the flight attendants called in sick), then they moved it to C7. And, as absolute proof that Ninja AE runs that airport, they got a plane for us that was too small for our flight. As I was boarding and moving to the back rows (I was assigned seat 16F), by the time I made it to row 7 or 8, the flight attendant called out saying that there were no rows beyond 14 and told us all to get off the plane and back to the gate. It turns out they got a 50-seat plane for a 70-passenger flight. So, after much deliberating amongst the airport staff, they decided to declare the flight oversold and began asking for volunteers to take later flights (and they needed at least a dozen I remembered). Only a couple volunteered, so they began to read off the names of passengers one by one who were allowed to board. As they got near the end, I worried that I wouldn't get picked, but I was picked as the last one. Once I was called, the flight was full. Only problem, there were still at least 10 people trying to board. I don't know what happened to them, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they're still stuck in Chicago. Their checked luggage was not taken off the plane, so their luggage went ahead of them. I was a bit anxious too, as there were some power supply issues on the plane during the flight, when the flight attendant couldn't get power to her phone. But we managed to get on the ground and land and all that and now I'm home! Anyway, I'm just sort of spilling the contents of my mind here, so sorry for the disorganization. I'll probably make several other posts with even more stories as I reflect back on my trip. It's just that these 2 things were of the foremost on my mind.
beneficii |
Broom Hatter Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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VGFreak877,
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No, sumimasen (which also seems like it can be shortened to suimasen) can mean thank you. It can mean sorry, excuse me, or thank you. On the other hand, the less formal gomen nasai (or gomen na or gomen ne or even just gomen) can only mean sorry and excuse me, but not thank you. Er, I'm a little fluent. I got good practice while there and I think my Japanese has sped up. Still, I probably should go back to school or take some sort of other class to really brush up on my Japanese. But I think I am making progress; for example, when I was back in Chicago, I heard the 2 Japanese flight attendants talking amongst themselves and I could understand some of what they were saying. But yeah, I remember Akihabara. I remember that 9-story tall electronics store. It's fun going up story after story looking at all the cool stuff America doesn't have yet, such as massive printers and those chairs that can massage your back. Those chairs that can massage your back were fun, and the store people didn't have a problem with your using it and you can see salarymen coming out of work using them. You can also see the uniform that the receptionist lady wore on the first floor (same as at Narita Airport). In fact, uniforms were all very interesting in Japan; a lot of them seemed to be Victorian era stuff brought up to the modern era. I do want to go back to Japan and live there. I met someone there and we understand each other very well. She's starting a busienss where she paints murals and she's already getting some customers. So, yeah, I'm going back, definitely. Toward the end of my trip I was starting to get homesick, but now I'm getting a little homesick for Japan. (edited by beneficii on 05-30-06 10:58 AM)
beneficii |
Broom Hatter  Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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Thoughtless,
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Right, the thread maker is no longer around to give details; nevertheless, this thread seems to have engendered a discussion about sex education in school in general so this thread can stay open, at least for a while longer.
beneficii |
Broom Hatter Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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Originally posted by optomon Hmm, as for must sees, wakarimasen. It depends really on what you want to do. Do you want to look at old shrines, do you want to look at the modern aspects of Japanese life, or do you want to want to sit around in an ofurosan (public bath, which is really nice) all day? There are just so many places to go and many different aspects to explore, that not just one thing can be a must see. As for me, I went to some of the old shrines in Kyoto, the Imperial Palace Gardens in Tokyo, Akihabara (Tokyo) to see some of the latest electronics, to a storytelling session (I think in Ikebukuro, Tokyo) where you had all these cool storytellers come up and tell stories (of course, since I didn't speak much Japanese yet, I couldn't make out a lot of what they were saying--nevertheless, I think such exposure to the language was good and I laughed with the other people and felt like I participated, so there will probably be yet some benefit re that). So, it really is a cool place, and I plan to go live there at some point. In the latter part of my journey, I travelled with someone I met and she and I sorta lived together at one point. So, it appears that my place is in Japan, not here in America. (restricted) | (restricted) | (restricted) |
beneficii |
Broom Hatter Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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OK, this thread's not going to do much more; the thread originator was banned and as pas'ra'chilli pointed out his story is apparently full of holes and what's more, the sex ed discussion that had taken shape has stopped Since the thread originator shouldn't be around to defend himself, I'm gonna go ahead and chuck this in the Pit of Despair. If anybody wants to create a thread on sex, go ahead.
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EDIT: Also, it seems that the thread's coding has messed up. It's 2nd page is messed up. That's enough reason to close it. (edited by beneficii on 06-03-06 10:34 AM)
beneficii |
Broom Hatter Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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There seems to be a bug in this thread:
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http://board.acmlm.org/thread.php?id=5489 The second page is blank and there are 21 posts in the first page (when there should only be 20 per page).
beneficii |
Broom Hatter Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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MON,
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To keep this discussion going: perhaps the populace doesn't trust the U.S. military to help them with these things? Perhaps that may be a sign that we should pack up and go home, lest we continue to have these tragedies. (restricted) |
beneficii |
Broom Hatter Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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Boy, this thread keeps going on, eh? Still, it wasn't that far down the page, right? Uh, since a good discussion has started back up (just like last time), let's just keep it open. Eventually, though, I'll probably kick this over to the Display Case, but for now, let's see what we can do with this. And yes, please stop with acting like mods.
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Cjuarez2, Hmm, well, I think that ultimately it's your choice whether to keep using marijuana. I disagree with the governmetn taking it on itself to punish people for making that choice, so I don't activate chucking you in jail or anything. You are so young, still, and the marijuana could have detrimental effects on your develeopment, so please be cautious. (edited by beneficii on 06-06-06 12:37 PM) (restricted) | (restricted) | (restricted) |
beneficii |
Broom Hatter Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6300 days
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Everybody,
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Please don't take this thread, poll, whatever, as an opportunity to spam. It will be closed, just as soon as a mod with appropriate powers can come on. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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