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blackhole89
Posted on 04-17-10 11:07 PM, in Got error 28 from storage engine? Link | Quote | ID: 130034


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Yeah, Cellar Dweller identified the problem pretty much correctly. Blame our zealous autobackup policy (remnant of the split days) and certain people who I host hogging bytes.

As for things still working for a while, I suppose MySQL had some unoptimized space free here and there.

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Posted on 04-18-10 12:11 AM, in board2 Radio! Link | Quote | ID: 130039


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On a little side note, I just removed an annoying additional reencoding step from the serverside pipeline, giving the radio a long-needed massive quality boost.

You may now enjoy board2 radio in previously unknown fidelity :3

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Posted on 04-18-10 06:36 PM, in How many people speak two or more languages? (rev. 3 of 04-18-10 08:01 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 130070


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As far as pure prettiness goes, I think Mongolian script and the calligraphic varieties of Arabic deserve the cake. Georgian doesn't look too bad, either.

As for your examples, at least the Japanese seems pretty botched (to the point I can't make a good guess of what the original sentence was), leading me to assume that the Chinese won't be much better; ostensibly, the "unnecessarily complicated" aspects of it should be mitigated by a single character expressing much more than a single letter in another script, leading to texts being much shorter than corresponding alphabetic ones.

I think written Japanese looked better back when Katakana was used as the default syllabary (cf. this). Even in most modern mincho typefaces (i.e. something like a CJK equivalent of serif typefaces for Latin text), you'll still observe that Chinese characters (nouns, word stems) are typically rendered slightly larger than kana, giving the text a useful optical order along the lines of capitalization in languages where it is still used more extensively (German) (and at any rate, mixed kanji/kana text represents the typical look of Japanese more accurately):

別に深い意味のないテキスト

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Posted on 04-18-10 10:42 PM, in How many people speak two or more languages? Link | Quote | ID: 130081


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Your translator used the "quite"/"considerably" sense of "pretty", as in "pretty neat".

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Posted on 04-20-10 05:37 PM, in Tell length in seconds of SPC? Link | Quote | ID: 130196


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SPCs don't have any intrinsic length any more than an SNES game ROM has one. They are just state dumps of the SPC-700 sound processor, i.e. ROMs of their own - and most games' music engines happen to be written in a way that left to itself, the tracks will just keep looping.

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Posted on 04-20-10 09:07 PM, in Tell length in seconds of SPC? Link | Quote | ID: 130209


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If it's just that, you could always write a program to do that (on a raw PCM dump, if nothing else) yourself. It's a pretty trivial problem, considering how most SPC renderers operate deterministically.

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Posted on 04-20-10 11:58 PM, in New hack release "Rabbi Harrel GroberKlotz" Link | Quote | ID: 130226


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It's 2010 and people are still making those?







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Posted on 04-21-10 12:04 AM, in New hack release "Rabbi Harrel GroberKlotz" Link | Quote | ID: 130228


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Kids nowadays would go for NSMBWii or something similar for a base game. I think it's more of a case of the same old people still not having grown up. Knowing those hacks, they typically have little to no added gameplay merit and completely rely on graphics edits and game text modifications to contain an arbitrary high number of words conservative parents drill their children to fear or nervously giggle over.




Of course, there might be some perfectly legitimate explanation for this, like a young Jewish hacker seeking to fulfil the maxim of true art being provocative and rebelling against the religious conservatism and sexual repression of his hardliner parents..or...something.

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Posted on 04-21-10 12:09 AM, in New hack release "Rabbi Harrel GroberKlotz" Link | Quote | ID: 130230


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Posted by Haz
Also, the first thing my bro thought of when I showed him uncompressed graphics in NES games was give the fighter in final fantasy a penis. Not a proud day for me.
I'm sure the fighter was more enthusiastic about the change.

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Posted on 04-21-10 12:15 AM, in New hack release "Rabbi Harrel GroberKlotz" Link | Quote | ID: 130233


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Are you implying that the whole monster fighting thing was not an act of compensation for his lack of virility to begin with?

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Posted on 04-21-10 06:52 PM, in Obscure Kingdom (Full Reuben SMB3 Hack) Link | Quote | ID: 130282


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In that screenshot, it feels like the heavily dithered concrete blocks somewhat clash with the tiles that use solid shading... this is especially evident with the checkered floorpieces. If you want to maintain the duality, you should consider adding something like dithered drop shadows so that it looks like it's by design rather than just out of laziness.

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Posted on 04-22-10 02:00 AM, in Obscure Kingdom (Full Reuben SMB3 Hack) Link | Quote | ID: 130329


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Posted by KP9000
I also plan to make some less dithered graphics as well as de-dither some existing graphics. I'm finding out that dithering isn't all the rage these days...

I found the peculiar style of dithering you used rather appealing...

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Posted on 04-22-10 02:12 AM, in Obscure Kingdom (Full Reuben SMB3 Hack) Link | Quote | ID: 130333


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Posted by KP9000
There are "styles" of dithering?

Why yes, there are.

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Posted on 04-23-10 09:34 PM, in New hack release "Rabbi Harrel GroberKlotz" Link | Quote | ID: 130424


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Well, I suppose that for people who grow up in no-swearing households, bad words and penis jokes still put them in that state of nervous giggling and blunt excitement that can only be evoked by doing something forbidden...

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Posted on 04-25-10 03:22 AM, in Dang, haven't been here for ages! Link | Quote | ID: 130489


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I recall you at least as far as the nick goes.

Welcome back.

And yeah, there's the introduction thread, but whatever...

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Posted on 04-25-10 09:59 PM, in Secret of Mana soundtrack titles (rev. 2 of 04-25-10 10:06 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 130537


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One thing I've noticed pretty long ago (and felt reminded of by this video's uploaders not following the official translation convention) is that the song titles in Secret of Mana's soundtrack stand out among others with their cryptic and often metaphor-laden titles. Some further Google research on the matter revealed that the English-speaking internet seemed to be mostly unaware of the circumstance (apart from some interview with the composer mentioning the titles on another album of his) and that pretty much all of the titles were names of various plays, literature and TV shows, with especially the literature often being English titles. The translators of the titles into English seemed to be completely oblivious to that.

Some I found:
- "The Holy Intruder": jp. title being 聖なる侵入, this is The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick. The Japanese translation is spot on; English is off.
- "Meridian Dance": jp. title being 子午線の祀り ("Enshrinement of/worship of/religious festival dedicated to the meridian"), a play by Junji Kinoshita.
- "Eight Ringing Bells": 八点鐘, The Eight Strokes of the Clock, an Arsène Lupin story by Maurice Leblanc. I don't understand the rationale behind the Japanese title too well, as it basically seems to be a forced Japanese reading for pretty straightforward Chinese "eight o'clock".
- "The Orphan of Storm" is D.W. Griffith's "Orphans of the Storm". Translation is correct both ways, information is lost due to Japanese not having a strongly enforced singular/plural distinction.
- "Give Love its Rightful Time" is Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love", Japanese being 愛に時間を, just "time(acc.) for love".
- "Did you see the sea?" is 君は海をみたか, a serial drama aired in the 1970s on Nippon Television. The English translation is correct.

Just thought this was fairly interesting and someone should get it out there. Feel free to add anything.

edit: wrong kanji on hattenshou

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Posted on 04-27-10 11:44 AM, in KP9000's Stupid Post Layout Link | Quote | ID: 130600


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Posted by Arbe
It doesn't render properly in lower resolutions, and is screwy with some browsers.
If it's resolutions of 1024x768 and below and browsers of the IE family, nobody cares.

Apart from that, I'll leave the issue up for The Man to comment himself.

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Posted on 04-27-10 11:47 AM, in did someone delete one of my uploads ? Link | Quote | ID: 130601


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Do you have a surviving link to it? If I have the ID, I can check the wastebasket.

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Posted on 04-27-10 01:35 PM, in did someone delete one of my uploads ? Link | Quote | ID: 130604


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Yeah, it definitively got deleted by someone.

The only people who may delete everyone's (rather than only their own) files are administrators. Are you sure you didn't delete it yourself by accident? (Of course, that kind of accident also could have happened to an administrator who happened to be passing by. I don't see why that file would be deleted, anyway.)

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Posted on 04-28-10 02:11 AM, in did someone delete one of my uploads ? Link | Quote | ID: 130629


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Yeah, the uploader was written up before the present cryptographic functions were around... I probably should equip it with the safety features we already use for polls.

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