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blackhole89

Posted on 08-06-08 10:54 PM, in off to europe

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(- Berlin if you want to pay me a visit, but it's in a lower league than the above-mentioned in terms of "interestingness" as a city)
I just noticed this, would you actually meet me

Sure, if it doesn't grossly collide with my schedule in some way (which would, essentially, mean "in the four days starting next Monday" - while I'm currently in the process of moving to Berlin, I'll have to be in Dresden on those days for the sake of handling some pending formalities). I'm too curious about meeting people from afar, the internet, or any combination of both for my own good.

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Posted on 08-08-08 01:35 AM, in Lazy Shell - Super Mario RPG Editor

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Posted by Metal Knuckles
I think your looking at the hacks that are going to be produced in a very "the glass is one-tenth full" perspective. Given the amount of dedication to complete a custom RPG and the number of community members who only tinker around with something for a few hours before calling it done, I think chances are much higher that there's going to be plenty more bad hacks from this editor alone.

This is something that can be expected from pretty much every editor for a popular game as long as it's somewhat accessible to, brace for euphemism impact, casual users.

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Posted on 08-08-08 10:52 PM, in off to europe (rev. 2 of 08-08-08 11:33 PM)

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Posted by AlwaysBored
(10 euros for a gallon of Diesel )

According to Google, it's roughly five, i.e. $7.5.

Iceland reportedly has an exceptionally beautiful countryside, but is not really anywhere near the mainland.

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Posted on 08-10-08 11:08 AM, in The NEW General Project Screenshot / Video Thread EX Omega Supreme++

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Posted by Grey Mario
Oh wooooooow you swapped the values of a couple of bytes.

Now make it actually sound like something *decent*. Let's see you do that.

Do something at least minimally notable yourself before denigrating others' work.

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Posted on 08-11-08 01:02 AM, in Best SNES game ever? Nominate your favorite SNES games here

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Terranigma/Tenchi Souzou, Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3

Kawa, ever since you have that Ranma 1/2 avatar, every single post of yours makes me think "What? Hiryuu returned?" for a split second.

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Posted on 08-11-08 01:16 AM, in Best SNES game ever? Nominate your favorite SNES games here

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Posted by Trapster
What did you think when I used to use one then?

Hm. This will be hard. And uh, Ailure? How do you expect to count the votes if nominating same title as someone else is not necessary? How will you know who voted for what then?

Super Mario RPG, Lufia II and FFVI.

A nomination is about picking the candidates for the actual voting. It doesn't matter if one or multiple person nominate a game; the voting will presumably be held at a later point in time.

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Posted on 08-11-08 09:56 PM, in Vizzed Flash Bash (super smash bros clone)

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The physics seem too slow-paced for the fighting to be really fun. Also, you need to add some graphical effects in connection to hits, work on the controls and collision detection.
What kind of developers did you hire for it? You can get better coding than that for free these days.

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Posted on 08-11-08 10:07 PM, in Yu-Gi-Oh card maker (rev. 2 of 08-11-08 10:13 PM)

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Posted on 08-11-08 10:18 PM, in Vizzed Flash Bash (super smash bros clone)

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Yes, they have a reputation for that.

Nevertheless, wouldn't it have been easier to ask somebody you know nicely and/or try to get somebody with coding skill genuinely interested in the project rather than cracking out the $?

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Posted on 08-13-08 02:34 AM, in I made an NSF file: aurora.nsf

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Impressive. Works like these always make me astonished at how much people are able to milk out of the NES' old cellphone level sound processor.

If I may ask, what means did you make use of to make this?

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Posted on 08-14-08 03:51 PM, in I'm back from the dead.

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So do I. This would have better gone in the introduction thread, but whatever....

What kind of job did you assume?

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Posted on 08-15-08 03:53 AM, in Ubuntu - Is it worth it?

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I use Debian, which is a close relative to that system; however, in particular, some aspects of "end user usability" differ a lot between the two.

- Graphical performance depends a lot on hardware, drivers and your own requirements. New graphics cards are bad, new ATI cards are worse than new Nvidia cards. Exotic graphics hardware is generally no good either.

- The thing with graphics applies to other hardware as well. While support for things like chipsets and periphery of all kinds is generally better than for graphics cards, in case your stuff isn't supported, you're worse off than you are if it's just the graphics card since those have standardised interfaces (vesa).

- For the purpose of running things in the background and keeping control over your system, it generally is superior to all Windows breeds.

- With a lucky hardware configuration, you can get more out of it from a GUI point of view than out of Vista, though the latter still will have an overall more polished and less patchworky look and feel.

- If you are picky, you'll wind up grinding configuration files and devising hackish solutions for the system to suit your needs a lot.

- Software availability generally is superb. In the most cases, installing a program you want doesn't take more than apt-getting the corresponding package; otherwise, you typically have to extract a tarball and go ./configure, make, make install.

- WINE still sucks at emulating 3D graphics applications.

- *nix application GUI designers often give me the feeling that they are wasting much more screen space than their Windows colleagues, but that might just be a personal pet peeve of mine.

- Different approaches at window management and interface design might be an annoyance for a while if you are highly used and feel "native" in Windows workflow like I am.

- It's definitively worth trying out, just don't install it over XP yet. Create a separate partition so you can bail out if it becomes too much for you. At the same time, don't immediately chicken out at the first hardships encountered; acknowledging you are working with a different system and have to start over in understanding many things' workings pays off earlier or later.

That'd be my $.50 for now.

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Posted on 08-16-08 12:45 AM, in Ubuntu - Is it worth it?

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I use Debian, which is a close relative to that system; however, in particular, some aspects of "end user usability" differ a lot between the two.

- Graphical performance depends a lot on hardware, drivers and your own requirements. New graphics cards are bad, new ATI cards are worse than new Nvidia cards. Exotic graphics hardware is generally no good either.

In my experience, ATI drivers are generally more stable than NVIDIA ones; and I have no idea what you mean by exotic graphics hardware being no good--practically everyone that's not ATI nor NVIDIA can't afford to stand behind no documentation and proprietary drivers, and are generally better fully supported out of the box most of the time (eg, Intel, Matrox, and VIA chipsets all have full 3D support right from the start because they all have open source drivers).

Can't really comment on Intel/Matrox/VIA because I never ran any of them, but ATI's proprietary driver was a constant source of crashes and glitches ever since I started using it, plus it didn't support compositing at all until a few revisions ago, and even now, a lot of Compiz' effects fail inexplicably or produce black windows. Other than that, I'm mostly basing this off general hearsay gathered around communities of the compositing-based window managers. Configurations people reported working nicely were almost exclusively based on NVIDIA hardware, and it generally seemed to have a good reputation for the driver situation. Of course, the tides might well have turned in the past few months.

- The thing with graphics applies to other hardware as well. While support for things like chipsets and periphery of all kinds is generally better than for graphics cards, in case your stuff isn't supported, you're worse off than you are if it's just the graphics card since those have standardised interfaces (vesa).

Pretty much the only other "problem area" is wireless cards. American manufacturers of wireless chips tend to have no documentation or anything to help any OS other than Windows (and maybe Mac OS X); whereas Tawain companies' wireless chips are almost always fully supported for much the same reason minor graphics vendors are fully supported. The problem of Windows-only drivers is partially alleviated by ndiswrapper, although real progress should not depend on it (for the topic creator, ndiswrapper would be fine if his wireless card (if any) isn't supported as-is).

- With a lucky hardware configuration, you can get more out of it from a GUI point of view than out of Vista, though the latter still will have an overall more polished and less patchworky look and feel.

I don't know what you mean by "lucky", but you can generally get a more complex GUI than Windows Vista on something like a Pentium III and a TNT2 card; and I mean full speed ahead, too. Unless you're in a very poor country, it would be hard to believe you can't find a PC more than capable of running all the fancy effects.

I found that Compiz is generally considerably more straining on the CPU on the same machine than Vista's fancy graphical toys.

- If you are picky, you'll wind up grinding configuration files and devising hackish solutions for the system to suit your needs a lot.

Not really. It's all pretty much point-and-click. Far easier to configure than Windows.

I don't even know how to comment on that apart from "what the fuck".

- WINE still sucks at emulating 3D graphics applications.

Vague comment with no real depth to it. Wine runs some 3D apps/games faster than Windows itself, and others it does suck at (which is a bug and the devs intend to fix it).

You gain a lot less goodness points for running something faster than you get detracted for not running something at all.

- *nix application GUI designers often give me the feeling that they are wasting much more screen space than their Windows colleagues, but that might just be a personal pet peeve of mine.

Okay, I'm at a total loss at how to tackle this. Out of all the misconceptions/myths I've heard, this is the very first time I've heard anything remotely like this. And looking at the wastefulness of popular Windows software, I'm going to ask to have your eyes examined.

Arbitrarily picked example just because I happened to have a ZIP file on the desktop of my Linux machine. The applications pictured are GNOME's pretty-much-default File Roller vs. the pretty-much-default, though somewhat losing grounds in competition against WinRAR, Winzip on Windows.

Then, consider minor annoyances like having to restart the X server to get a new font installed.

Don't get me wrong, I am very sympathetic of Linux/BSD/free software and certainly don't have the intention to bash or denounce or spread myths about the platform. It's just that pretending certain abundant faults and weak points don't exist and mindlessly praising it with the confidence of a propaganda machine isn't exactly helping the platform at all.

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Posted on 08-16-08 02:34 AM, in Installing Firefox 3 on Debian testing (rev. 2 of 08-16-08 02:36 AM)

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Since this turned out to be a much less trivial task than I initially expected, here is my step-by-step guide to properly (as in under the control of the package manager) installing Firefox 3 on Debian etch/testing which I wanted to share with the world should anybody else feel like taking up the ordeal.

Apart from package manager control and automatic integration with the system, the other good reason to follow this path is that the .tar.bz2 redistributable from Mozilla's site appears to refuse running unless you copy all of its library files into /usr/lib beforehand, which might constitute a nasty interference with other applications depending on different versions and package management.

0. Remove any previous-version Firefox/Iceweasel packages you might have installed.

1. Fetch the Ubuntu hardy package firefox-3.0. What you wind up doing should be something like

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox-3.0/firefox-3.0_3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3_i386.deb

; should the package name have changed by the time you try this, update it in all commands that mention it accordingly.

2. Forcefully install it.

sudo dpkg --force-depends -i firefox-3.0_3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3_i386.deb

You'll see some warnings about unmet dependencies; this is what the next step takes care of.

3. Fix dependencies.

sudo apt-get -f install

...and confirm the result unless it proposes removing firefox-3.0. If it does, verify you have a testing repository provided as a source and "apt-get update"d recently.

4. Fix the faulty xulrunner-1.9 [1.9.0.1] package.
Unless they have fixed it by now, running firefox now should give you a command line error message stating that version 1.9 is not >= 1.9.0.1 and <=1.9.0.*; though it doesn't explicitly state so, the corpus delicti is said package.
Don't worry, you do have the right version installed. The version that it reports to the world when queried is determined by a configuration file.
Open up /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/platform.ini as root in the text editor of your choice. It should look something like this:

[Build]
BuildID=2008071618
Milestone=1.9

Change the last line to read

Milestone=1.9.0.1

and save the changes.

If everything went well, you now should have a working Firefox 3.0 with the neat side effect of not having the typical of Debian repositories debranding.

Hope this guide turns out to be useful to somebody.

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Posted on 08-16-08 03:37 AM, in Michael Phelps, are human?

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I remember reading somewhere that he consumed 12000 kilocalories worth of food a day - which is something like 3 or 4 times the normal consumption for an adult male - followed by a point-by-point description of his typical meals which indeed seemed rather inhuman - to compensate for his extreme amount of training.

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Posted on 08-16-08 05:04 AM, in Seeing as there isn't one, DESKTOPS

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1.8MB of PNGness. Finally a wallpaper I like.

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Posted on 08-16-08 02:20 PM, in Super Mario Journey!?!?! OMG! [SS]

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That's a rather unusual graphical style to use in SMW. Are you sure you can make it work out right? At the moment, the contrast between the separate pixels in the background is too high, making it look more like static noise than texture.

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Posted on 08-18-08 05:10 PM, in Lazy Shell - Super Mario RPG Editor

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The place he posted the tutorial in isn't accessible to the public yet either, I think...

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Posted on 08-18-08 09:25 PM, in It's like they're asking for us to beat our children...

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Attacking the media is only justified to the extent that the media tries to reinforce the parents in their misconception that it can take over the burden of bringing up their children from them.

I also think that parents who, if they do think they both have to work full-time, can't somehow integrate the education of their children with their work - and if it is by taking them along to their workplace, which should be more and more often feasible with the shift in nature of modern jobs (with the repetitive ones increasingly being left to the machines, while human resources are now milked for their creativity; of course, some liberalization of the attitude of many employers towards this would also be a good thing) - shouldn't get children of their own to begin with. A single qualified full-time job should, mostly, suffice for a family to survive; if they want more money than they can earn from one, it's either greed or a demand to live over their standards. I think to make a decision between kids and an upper-class car is a feasible demand to make from a hypothetical family of high-school dropouts; the same, of course, goes for proportionally higher above-their-level felt needs in higher-qualification families.

"If they want that 40-inch plasma TV so badly, let evolution get the better of their unrealistic expectations."

Back on the topic of discipline, I think this development will (temporarily?) reverse itself once the degree to which parents spoil their children has passed a certain point. Kids who were brought up being spoiled and commanding around their parents are, in my opinion, unlikely to develop the kind of character that will make them capable of sacrificing themselves for the sake of their own children once they get them, instead retaining the same attitude of selfish command.

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Posted on 08-18-08 09:55 PM, in It's like they're asking for us to beat our children...

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The screaming variety of kids should be left at home with at least one parent, perhaps even on government payroll as it is handled in Germany at the moment. I was assuming them to already have developed a consciousness and certain degree of common sense.

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