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blackhole89
Posted on 07-25-13 05:25 AM, in You can only double post every 24 hours Link | Quote | ID: 154437


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No, but then, people not being able to doublepost when they would have legitimate reasons to hasn't been that much of a concern either

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Posted on 07-25-13 05:32 AM, in We have reached an impasse, and now a wall! Link | Quote | ID: 154441


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Thanks for pointing it out

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Posted on 07-25-13 05:33 AM, in Quote the funniest post on the board! Link | Quote | ID: 154442


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Double posting happens, I've been wanting to quote a post or two in the Funny Posts thread but I can't because this board won't humor me.
This must be pretty funny. It even says "humor" in it.

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Posted on 07-25-13 05:42 AM, in I'm back! Link | Quote | ID: 154447


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here

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Posted on 07-25-13 05:44 AM, in I'm back! Link | Quote | ID: 154449


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The rendering is mostly slow these days because the HDD is dying. (No, this won't result in the plug being pulled. Sorry.)

For SSL, it does, but we stopped using SSL as the default for IRC links.

Bye. It was fun while it lasted.

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blackhole89
Posted on 07-25-13 05:48 AM, in I'm back! Link | Quote | ID: 154451


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Posted by Nzdoy Y'rap
Does that mean you're going to ban me again, or are you just wishing me a safe trip home for once?
Hey, I think you were a pretty upstanding and responsible internet user for once. I try to give credit where credit is due.

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blackhole89
Posted on 07-25-13 05:56 PM, in board2 Link | Quote | ID: 154460


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Thanks for making the pretty graph, but...

Posted by Mega-Mario
Now you're going to tell me what you told Xk about the ROM hacking stuff. That's nice, but ROM hackers would rather go to an active board where a consistent and active community can help them out quickly. Sending those people to such a board would be a favor to them, rather than letting them in this inactive board.
...whereupon I'd tell you the other thing I told him, which is that I'm pretty sure the ROM hackers can make decisions for themselves. There still seem to be plenty of regular posters in those sections who don't appear to care all that much for "community".

Anyway, this thread got predictably derailed... I'll probably just go ahead with the section-axing at some point soon, unless some radically different opinions emerge.

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Posted on 07-25-13 06:35 PM, in board2 Link | Quote | ID: 154463


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The hacking section was never up for axing. The suggestion in the head post of this thread was to remove some sections which are just sitting around with nothing happening, like "Entertainment".

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Posted on 07-29-13 03:58 AM, in Introduce yourself here! Link | Quote | ID: 154481


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Indeed it is. Most activity nowadays is confined to the ROM hacking section, unfortunately.

Welcome back, though, and thanks for actually respecting the self-introduction thread unlike many other recent arrivals.

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Posted on 07-30-13 05:05 AM, in Super Mario 64 Beta Mario voices Link | Quote | ID: 154489


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As you were told before, don't do this.

Banned for another week to drive the point home.

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blackhole89
Posted on 08-01-13 05:22 AM, in board2 Link | Quote | ID: 154514


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Posted by Mega-Mario
Not to mention that the way the site is being run lately, indicates how desperate blackhole89 is.
It appears to me that no effort is put into running the place other than deleting spambot crap.
Your notion of desperation seems pretty strange, unless you imagine me spending a significant amount of my time spinning on my chair and biting my nails over the board's fate while not doing anything (which I can assure you is not the case, and at any rate would be a pretty bold guess for you to wager).

Beyond that, your entire post completely misses several points with such gusto that one might think you are trying to play some sort of argumentative Touhou with points as bullets. For the benefit of increased understanding, let me point out a number of them.

First evidence of that showed over two years ago, with Flan. The guy would keep shitting over the board, and nothing was done to stop him, because Flan was filling the board with posts and blackhole89 loved that fact, regardless of the posts themselves.
Complete misinterpretation of what happened, although I will give you the benefit of doubt and assume that you were just misinformed rather than deliberately malicious. The event that triggered the hot stage of the Jul/board2 split was me disagreeing over Xkeeper thinking that "I don't like him" is a sufficient reason to ban Flan from #acmlm on sight - therefore I will freely admit that my stubbornness played a huge role in him being given an atypically long leash as I was reluctant to concede that if you forget about the reasoning, banning Flan on sight might indeed have been the right thing to do. At no point did I think that the board getting spammed up is a good thing.

Of course, privileging quantity over quality is bad. People started leaving because of that.
[dubious - discuss]

Another evidence I've seen is when blackhole89 would mute #acmlm to force people to use the board for their discussions.

Now, here's the dilemma: if it's b), why does blackhole89 still bother running the board?
Several copies of the answer to this can be found further up in the thread, but once again: it just keeps running on its own if I do nothing. Software inertia or something.

blackhole89 said that ROM hackers should be able to find whichever place is convenient for them to post their stuff. If it is the case, they don't need to be able to post here.
Your conclusion does not follow. One conclusion that does follow is that if they still post here, they must have some reason to do so, convenience, lack of available alternatives or otherwise.

They may want to look at the existing content, for documentations or whatever, but they aren't going to want to post here since nobody would reply.
In a thread whose premise is essentially "ROM hackers still seem to post here, what should we do in the light of that", this is disingenuous.

Oh, I don't really care anyway.
After posting this huge unformatted rant and grinding every axe you could possibly have to grind with me to powder in the process, this disclaimer seems a little silly.


Seriously, to all those calling for a shutdown: That is the last thing I can be bothered to do. I would have to come up with some nice closure announcement and graphic, figure out a sensible way to clean the database of personal data that people might not want to see published in a downloadable archive, answer questions from a stream of people questioning the decision, et cetera - all for an action which has no positive value whatsoever as far as I am concerned (giving other moribund boards such as Kafuka a defibrillator shot of ROM hackers who might leave for them over somewhere else doesn't really have appreciable value from my point of view). Since those calls furthermore generally seem to not address posts I have previously made explaining why not, I will henceforth stop responding to them in such detail and instead just link to this post or another one containing more or less the same explanations.

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Posted on 08-24-13 03:06 PM, in Breaking the level cap over 30. Make it public! Link | Quote | ID: 154649


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Please don't use all caps for your thread titles. Whether your thread is actually sufficiently more important than other people's threads to make it stick out like that is not for you to decide.

Edited.

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Posted on 08-25-13 01:28 PM, in Making a warning screen Link | Quote | ID: 154656


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Any program that can render text to bitmaps, like, say, mspaint...? Programs that will let you edit video at all pretty much always should allow you to prefix a few tens of frames with a static image.

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Posted on 08-31-13 02:29 AM, in Making a warning screen (rev. 2 of 08-31-13 02:30 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 154686


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m(

As far as I recall, even mspaint will let you render centered text... and barring that, there is always the option of counting pixels; at the very least, a self-respecting drawing program should be able to tell you what the coordinates of the point you are hovering are.

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Posted on 08-31-13 05:26 AM, in Issue with Gimp 2.8 Link | Quote | ID: 154689


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Just speculating based on a 5-minute read of /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc, what happens if you try any of the following (as non-superuser)?

GIMP2_DIRECTORY=/tmp/ gimp-2.8

GIMP2_DIRECTORY=~ gimp-2.8

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Posted on 09-15-13 09:51 PM, in Issue with Gimp 2.8 Link | Quote | ID: 154785


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Posted by Chaobomr
Hmmm... Looks like I don't have that directory
Uh... which one? /tmp/ or your home directory? Whichever of them you don't have, you'd be in pretty deep shit, Linux-wise.

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Posted on 09-16-13 01:40 AM, in Issue with Gimp 2.8 Link | Quote | ID: 154790


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I am not sure what this controllerrc thing you are talking about is. Have you tried running GIMP with the command I suggested or not?

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Posted on 12-23-13 08:56 PM, in blackhole89, I summon you Link | Quote | ID: 155272


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SUMMONING IS COMPLETE

Have not.

I didn't even notice that you sent me a Facebook message. Apologies.

Kind of.

Kind of busy.



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Posted on 03-06-14 07:29 PM, in board2 Link | Quote | ID: 155996


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>cutting down sections
Been thinking about that one for a while actually. Might get to it one day.

>app game exclusive for the board
You go make it. Making any sort of game is hard work, and making a decent one all the more so.

>custom titles
That seems kind of random.

>banner
If someone feels like designing a bunch of new ones, I'll be happy to put up a poll to choose a replacement.

>forced login
Seems like a really bad idea to me. Do you register for random sites that come at you with promises of great content if only you sign up/give them your email address/click through a bunch of screens?

>more staff
Don't really see the need as things are right now.

Sorry for being brief. I don't have a lot of time right now.

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Posted on 04-05-14 02:01 AM, in The Truth about Secret of Mana and its development Link | Quote | ID: 156277


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I wonder how complete and playable the "longer" version was at its high point. Often, developers leave what is considered "glue" - transitions between story arcs, balancing, bugfixing - until the very last minute, and therefore they could well have considered the CD version pretty much complete while in reality there was no stretch of more than a few maps that you could play continuously anywhere in it - the Chrono Trigger beta releases come to mind.

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