Posted by Kawa

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Picture looks nicer, but I could see the text version just fine.

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But I don't find the simplified version pretty at all, I feel the same when seeing it as when I see it a sans serif font (very readable, but we're talking about aesthetics).

Posted by Kawa

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And it seriously makes little to no sense to me at face value.

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Nor does it to me, but I'm commenting on its beauty. I think it's the best looking language, since it seems simple an ordered, but still oriental like.

Here's the same text in Chinese and Japanese, respectively for comparison (PS all these texts are babelish style)



Chinese seems too busy and unnecessarily complicated, while Japanese seems unordered and random (if you didn't know about Japanese and I told you I made up those signs, would you believe me?), Korean actually fixes those problems.

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TL: "So let's get started with the questions, shall we?"

*23 hours later*

TL: "Oh, we have one, Quick Curly from Earth wants to know if that is a true story."

Genyo: "What story?"

TL: "The one where I tell about how these threads started, how we made contact and all that."

Genyo: "Ah, the story about my clone dying... well, let's say that the story is true on my timeline, in yours is just what people of your time called... 'fiction', or what people reading it would qualify as 'B.S.', though I don't remember what those letters meant..."

TL: "Anyway, the part about previous ask Genyo anything threads at TEKHacks and Googie's Board is entirely true."

Genyo: "By the way Uly, I told you to not give any details and start with a simple 'Just ask a question and Genyo will answer!', or equivalent, the story distracts from the questions."

TL: "Sorry about that."

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Ok, this was the text;

ではないこのかなりな?

(that translates as "This is not pretty?", maybe それはかなりではないか? would have been a better translation of "Isn't it pretty?", it was just added today as yesterday the first one appeared )

Anyway, it seems as disorganized and random as what I posted, IMHO.

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Posted by Traffic Light

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(PS all these texts are babelish style)

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That's what I meant with that.

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What about only giving the option of good ratings? (ala "I like this user"), then we can have the benefits, without the problems that bad ratings would cause (such people would just not get more ratings than other people).

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Or a box where you can enter a query and all members that match it appear on a list.

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TL: "Neon Prince wants to know if this is a duplicate of Septembern's thread."

Genyo: "Not exactly, the original Ask Genyo Anything thread was a duplicate of Anya's thread ('Ask Anya'), from back in 2005, though I really doubt it was her original idea. This thread is a sequel of the sequel of that thread."

TL: "He also wants to know--"

Genyo: "I can read, let me see...

Mega-Mario

Yeah, it looks way better than the ugly purplish you have now."

TL: "Hey!"

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Questions from Nikolaj:

>Hwo are you?

Genyo: "wHo am I? That's a really good question, entering the realm of philosophical entities, what makes us who we are? Is it what we do, as in 'I'm the person that invented time travel'? or are we what we are called as in 'I'm Genyo'?' or are we what society has tagged us as, as in 'Ph.D Senior Ig Nobel prize winner 10024 Todology major at Metaversity in RL'? Or are we what--"

TL: "That's getting too long and dry."

Genyo: "Well, then I'll tell him, Nikolaj, I, I am your father."

TL: "And I am fine, thank you."

>How would my name look in #0FF?

Genyo: "I've never been a fan of pure Cyan, it's a color that you don't normally find in reality, so it looks too artificial. On your name I'd say it'd look middling."

>What are you doing?

Genyo: "I'm using my 8-Ball to answer this question, it says: 'Outlook Not So Good.'"

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>Okay; now, do you think the admins would like it at all?

Genyo: "I don't know the admins, but I guess if they wanted you to have a custom color they'd give you one, so probably, no. I find it interesting that people of your epoch are so worried about their nicks' color on the internet."

TL: "Yeah..."

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What about making it optional? I'd like the ninjaed notification to stop my posts, last Lingo round would have been different had I known I was ninjaing MM.

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>If you know, how are email notifications from Neritic determined - by detecting one's inactivity and/or does administration/whoever else actually send the emails themselves?

Genyo: "Neritic what?"

TL: "It's another forum."

Genyo: "Hmmm... interesting. Oh well..."



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Why does Nikolaj choose to make his layout unreadable?

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Posted by Nikolaj

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I keep forgetting it's a problem on my end, but still, I doubt I'm the only one seeing it like this.

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Genyo: "If you bring bacon and eggs the bunny is willing to share the pancake with you."

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Posted by NightKev

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If you're still using Fx2.0... then it's probably only you.

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I do, but I recall Geno's layout had that problem, and I wasn't the only one not seeing his background (we even got a "I can't read Geno's layout" userbar fad going).

Kawa: Firefox or Google Chrome?

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You can take a dull even and make a parody of it, being factual shouldn't be a requirement for the comics.

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Well, I get a notification now and then "U MUST LINK UR YT ACCOUNT WITH UR GMAIL ACCOUNT", and I say "No, thanks, go away", so I haven't faced any problem.

Now, Youtube has been being ruined since February 2009, when they changed the User's page to an ugly mess that has been getting worse over time, Youtube from back on Jan 2009 was just perfect (what complain could you have about it? it even sorted comments by date!)

And recently they ruined the videos page (besides the usual complaints, you need to scroll to read the video's description, they changed the algorithm of related videos so that you'll very soon reach a wall of videos you already saw or ones that aren't even related to what you were watching, it's most difficult to find the video of the same user that you want to watch next, etc...)

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You probably used a version full of bloatware and ads, other things you can't opt out that you don't need, and full of bugs.

I suggest version 5.34:

http://www.oldapps.com/winamp.php?old_winamp=243

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Did we ask Shigeru Miyamoto for permission when altering his graphics for the banner? No? I thought so.

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Maybe you're blaming Google too much, it bought Youtube in 2006 and there was at least a 2 year lapse where they didn't mess up anything, then they did, but since the sucking didn't start back then maybe it would have happened anyway.

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