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 Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 86/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Posted by SamuraiX Perhaps, though newer installments often hold much more potential, and as such they become far more interesting to tinker with.. As I mentioned earlier as well, modding often opens a lot of doors with these types of games, giving you that nice personal touch that suits your desires. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 87/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
I will never be able to wrap my brain around people so.. ignorant as that. To post nonsense insistently and immaturely throw meaningless names about.. I just can't imagine what they'd be thinking. It seems like it would be such a huge waste of energy and time, and ultimately accomplish nothing at all..
Though, having been on the internet so long.. I've learned to accept it as the norm of things, even if it is truly puzzling when I attempt to examine it. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 88/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
You all could be a little less brash.. Certainly, having someone some in and ask for an editor for every game under the sun would get annoying after awhile (as it did on the old board) but.. this was quite the reasonable request really. It is a very old game, but not nearly commonly hacked enough (unlike the original) to make it obvious if there is indeed an editor for it.
Besides that, this forum is a lot cleaner and more welcome than the last.. I don't think theres need for the negativity regardless yet.. hopefully never needed again.. But yes, we could use a sticky containing a list of all known editors again, that would be useful. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 90/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
All things considered, that's terribly adorable..  I wouldn't want that to happen with most fullscreen applications, but that specific case turned out very cute. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 91/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
It's actually fairly difficult to break a keyboard by just spilling something on it.. The way they're made, it isn't too likely that the liquid is going to seep onto any of the electrical areas immediately, and moreover it is more likely that said liquid will dry before it ever does.
..Although, depending on what you managed to spill on the board.. you could end up with a hell of a sticky mess and a bunch of keys that want to be difficult. (Though the latter has more to do with the stickiness itself rather than any actual damage..) |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 92/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Posted by Kernal Thought for sure I replied to this already.. must have ran off when I was writing it up earlier.. Well, due to the way the average keyboard is made it just doesn't seem especially likely that you're going to fry it by just spilling something on it.. so yea, I'd vote for unlucky. Unlucky or wonky keyboards, one of the two.. Reason I say it is unlikely, is due to the fact that a thin plastic (or in many cases, rubber) sheet is laying directly under the keys.. water or other liquids are more likely to just sit on the surface of this sheet harmlessly.. and otherwise, many keyboards are elevated, so the liquid would just roll down to the bottom area anyway. (Which in and of itself wouldn't harm anything either.) Given time, the board should just safely dry.. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 93/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Posted by Keitaro Ditto for me.. I generally spell things okay, it's that pesky spacebar that messes me up. >8( |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 94/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
This is a great read.. I mean, it is odd, and the first impression isn't all that incredible.. but somehow you get sucked into it anyway, and it quickly starts to get more and more interesting the more you read.. Very neat. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 95/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
b = Beta, pretty self explanatory. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 96/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Posted by Xauna I warn you here and now, XI is no better.. in fact, it is probably worse in many a degree than WoW.. Yes, WoW gets boring over time (fairly quickly actually, least for me) but XI is a horribly frustrating game, and the community is a maddeningly strict one which loathe to ever try anything diverse or different.. (You'll always go to the same places to level, you'll never explore said places - you'll camp, you'll always follow through the same routine in every battle..) God help you if you're a healer too.. you'll spend the rest of your days doing nothing but staring at HP bars.. And the difficulty ramp is absurd, requiring you to jump through so many freaking hoops as you progress for content that is mostly mandatory if you want to even try to have any fun\continue making any progress at all.. Yea, XI is novel in many ways and pretty fun at first.. but in the long run it just isn't worth it man, just not worth it. I wouldn't even bother with the warning 'cept I've known too many people who've had their lives drained away from that game.. people become addicted to it, but grow bitter at it.. they grow to loathe it, but can't seem to ever take my advice and put it down.. play it if you wish, but I thought it fair to toss that out there in any case. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 98/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Posted by Kernal Nor do I, but setz is right none the less. To them that mess is actually enjoyable.. so yea, lol internet. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 99/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Posted by Zem I don't think they're inhuman by any stretch, I just don't find that kind of nonsensical behavior and unstructured environment to be anything short of the mess that I referred it as. Again though, they (and you apparently, since you go there as well) find it entertaining for some reason, more power to you I guess, but yea, whatever right? |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 101/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Posted by Xauna I warned ya because I'm nice. And I stuck around for three and a half years, I know how the game plays. Got most jobs past 30, one in its mid 60's, and a couple in the 40's.. trust me, I'm not talking out of my ass. 
And secondly.. I wasn't defending WoW AT ALL here in case you thought that. I specifically said I found the game boring as hell. My point here was - you're not going to end up with much better a game here in the long run. I haven't met ANYONE who left XI on a positive note, everyone has left it bitter, including myself.. sure it starts out all fun and new, but that won't last long, and it'll get its hooks in deep before you realize the mess you're in and have the sense to try and leave. And yes, yes.. The strict deal I understand, I lived with it because, quite simply, the game mechanic was built moronically.. You should never be forced into a linear play design where you just stand around in a corner of a zone and repeat a rudimentary set of commands with the same tried and true party setup.. (Healer, Tank, etc etc.. Yea every MMO has that, but it was ridiculous how you couldn't get ANYWHERE without it.. at least in other games of the genre, you could do it, just not as efficiently) And yes, you don't have to follow the flow, you can go other places.. But god help you there, going against the flow of things is hell, since most people just laugh the idea of going to X off and think Y is ideal, or Z would do for a bit.. Finding a full party that wants to go somewhere outside of the norm leveling scheme is very difficult.. In those three and a half years, I found very few whom were willing to try it, usually people just left the party a short while afterwards even if they did initially agree to it. I didn't want to get in a debate about the game here, but I know it inside and out and it is one of the most HARSH games I have ever seen. You can't ever solo (Don't tell me you can, it is 110% impractical beyond level 10-ish except for BST.. which is hell of a difficult job let me tell you.. they make it look easy, but it is highly based on luck a lot of times, luck and patience.. no other class can solo at all though, "Too Weak" mobs can kill you EASILY in the higher levels - this is nonsense), you need a specific party setup to sustain a working group (there are variables in what "specific" means exactly, but many classes are left outside the loop in this, or are easily replaced with more "preferred" classes.. DRG and DRK are very, very good examples of this..), you can't EVER die unless you want to suffer a hell of an EXP hit (Raise returns EXP, yes, but it's not until endgame that it returns enough to matter.. and god help you if your healers are dead, you're just plain screwed then.), Missions start to scale up to ridiculous difficulty with the reward of maybe five minutes of story and.. nothing much else.. The economy is (well it was, I've heard it has improved considerably) shit, with good gear costing millions, and no real decent wqay to make your own money.. Synthing is a joke, you have to have the patience of a god for it, and even then you aren't going to make a profit more often than not.. (Yay for failures where you lose all your ridiculously expensive materials too.. I wouldn't be so iffed at that one either if it weren't so common with people that already had their synth skill maxed...) I could go on, and on, and on... Drone on for ages, but it isn't really worth it.  You'll probably play it anyway, like so many others - like myself - ignore warnings, and get pissed at the game later on and realize that.. quite honestly, what I've said is true. I've seen people defend the game to the death, then take a total 360 after they've played it a few years.. it is easy to defend a game when it is still new and fresh, but once you get the full picture, you start to realize that things aren't quite as peachy keen as you once thought.
In any case, it was just a friendly warning, sorry if you took it the wrong way. I warn everyone of XI, sometimes it stops people, sometimes it doesn't.. more often than not, people come back to me later with a "thanks" when they see friends so frustrated or with a "I don't know why I didn't listen" after they've played it so long.. *shrugs* All MMO's are addictive, and many get very boring given enough time.. if boredom was the only issue here, I'd probably not care enough to mention it, but this game become work to many people.. everyone eventually stops having fun and plays it to be playing it, to do meaningless things that frustrate them.. it's odd, and it is a case I've seen mostly isolated to just this game alone. (If it has happened with others, wouldn't surprise me, but this is the only case I've seen myself with all the MMO's I've played..) |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 102/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
WoW isn't a bad game, it is just fairly boring.
At least if you have good memory that is.. I tend to have excellent memory, so after I repeat a quest a few times, it gets boring as hell to me.. and I rerolled enough that the low-mid levels became unbearable.. Didn't help that a lot of quests were essentially the same thing with different dialogue. Gameplay-wise, it was pretty fun I guess, PvP was cute too - though mostly frustrating and uneventful.. I guess all and all I just couldn't find reasons to keep playing it.. for all the content they have, it never seemed like enough. *shrugs* Posted by Caos The low-levels are a lot less of a strain than the higher levels, to be sure.. Seeing as he said he was 21, I think he has quite a ways to go before this stuff really sinks in.. but yes, you said it very well here.. The drama in the game was maddening, and is responsible for quite a bit of unique frustration all on its own... *groan* As for the question to why pay if you're not having fun.. REALLY EASY to say that one, really easy.. But addiction is a funny thing with this game, you can be incredibly miserable, but still end up paying that monthly fee and playing a game you don't have fun with anymore.. hence the warning I gave. It's drained the life out of too many people I've known, including very close friends and myself.. it just isn't worth it really. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 103/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Well even if it is Ace's Homebrew.. I can't figure out the password on it.
"where is the Triforce located?" is the question, but there aren't that many possibilities toward an answer to that question.. so without it being obvious, he must have thrown in an obscure reference or choice of words or.. something. Might actually be easier to crack the password protection on the file, but I'm too lazy for that.  |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 104/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
It isn't that astounding, Alex. Snake's creator actually came to them about it, he asked them to put Snake into the game.. and from there, the legality crap was probably easily sorted out.. I imagine Sega would very gladly throw in their characters as well - I'd be pretty shocked if they didn't at this point to be honest..
As for anyone else.. Hard to say. To be honest though, Snake could probably be seen as a sort of incentive for other companies to step forward with some offers.. We'll see soon enough though, I guess. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 105/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Posted by 4matsy Odd, that must have been the one variation on "Golden Land" I didn't try.. I feel kind of silly, but eh.. Interesting though, I wonder what the hell this file really is, if anything at all? It really does just seem like a jumbled mess.. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 106/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Hmm, I wonder why he even bothered using a real password though.. might as well just mash in random keys and get a bunch of gibberish for a password with any old misc file inside - much harder to debunk the contents if you can't even access it after all.. but perhaps he was a bit naive and didn't think anyone would try examining the ROM more closely..
*shrugs* A strange case, this one. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 107/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
Anything to do with post layouts (including signatures) will be implemented.. uh.. eventually. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 108/216 EXP: 251838 Next: 1813 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6140 days Last view: 6117 days |
To be honest, I don't see much reason for either of those. I mean, clicking Login or Reply and waiting for the page to load takes maybe a fraction of a second longer..? Unless your connection is slow, or the server the board is on is slow on an off day.. it really shouldn't take more than a second to load. (This reply specifically took 0.038 seconds to render. )
I never saw much point to either of those, since they really just add more clutter and don't save anywhere near enough time to merit the work of implementation. Though, that said, I wouldn't object if these features were added.. I just don't see good reason for them to be. *shrugs* |
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