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Arts & Entertainment / Re: WiiU & 3DS thred

« on: July 15, 2014, 12:40:31 PM »

Why do we need another Mario character?

Because this game is coming out for the Mariotendo MarioU

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Wikipedia

« on: July 15, 2014, 11:44:06 AM »

Well, what a nasty way to meet you again. I was hoping our first conversation after the split would be somewhat different. My two cents:

Until now I have not commented upon the split in the society

Not in public, at least.

I wish this forum well

Ha. Pardon my skepticism. If this is true, however, then perhaps we should have some more transparent (and hopefully more fruitful) talks about the inter-site co-operation you've brought up in the past instead of bickering about something that's happening outside of either forum?

So be it, no one is making any fuss.

Except for that time when Daniel demanded that we change our forum theme, despite owning no rights to it and us having received express permission from the author? Or the time when JD said any "advertisement" of the new site on the old site will lead to bans? C'mon Wilmore, you guys are making exactly as much fuss as you humanly can. You might not be making much of a fuss personally, but the rest of your team made sure to pick up the slack.

I would appreciate some input from those with influence.

Much like everyone else, I don't see what you expect from us here. The Wikipedia edits are not our doing, nor do we know whose doing it is. Daniel's case appears to be "my society is official and the other one isn't". As people pointed out in the edit history and on the talk page, Daniel is not in the position to decide things like that. Hilariously enough, one of his pieces of evidence is that he has 1000 fb likes. Well, we have 2700. Are we "official" now?

I'm guessing you're expecting me to say that I don't condone editing Wikipedia in our favour. I won't say that. I also won't say that I do condone it. Wikipedia is not this forum (nor is it any other resource under our administration), and we do not police people's behaviour beyond enforcing some very basic rules regarding our own services. That is probably the biggest difference between how our site is managed differently from yours in a non-technical manner, and something we're rather proud of.

I'm sorry, Wilmore, but as far as I'm concerned, you came to the wrong people with the wrong message. Addressing it on Wikipedia is the way to go. Perhaps others in charge will view it differently. Meanwhile, enjoy your stay on the forum, and if at any point you'd like to get involved, please let us know. We'd be happy to have you on board, and we view people's involvement with the other forum as irrelevant.

I'm also sorry for my overall negative tone, but you coming here and saying that you wish us well after your team has been doing everything in their power to be a pain to us is genuinely making me angry. I do trust that you, personally, have no ill intent, but... yeah.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox and Valve finally have their baby

« on: July 14, 2014, 12:54:11 AM »

I bought a Wii at a pawn store the other day and played some Mario Kart with my respectable significant other. It was fun.

That said, I don't see myself buying any more consoles anytime soon, unless they're £30 like this was.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox and Valve finally have their baby

« on: July 13, 2014, 10:36:28 PM »

Consoles can't do good strategy games, for example. They're decent for some genres, and absolutely abysmal for others.

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Technology & Information / Re: Desktop/Homescreen Thread

« on: July 13, 2014, 10:03:29 PM »

You misunderstand, he means the verb form of "used". He has been trying to get this new computer to be used by someone for a long time now, and finally someone has used it.

o ok

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox and Valve finally have their baby

« on: July 13, 2014, 10:02:51 PM »

As well as the "No, I can't build my own PC, because that's hard "

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Technology & Information / Re: Desktop/Homescreen Thread

« on: July 13, 2014, 04:59:26 PM »

new

used

>mfw

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox and Valve finally have their baby

« on: July 13, 2014, 01:12:41 PM »

Digital sales have already surpassed physical sales in the U.K. Don't forget that a huge portion of the game market comprises casual mobile games.

I'm not going to claim authority on the subject, but as a 100% real gurl gamer with real gamer friends living in the UK, I know literally nobody who still goes to game stores to buy their PC games. There is no point or reason to it. That's why game stores are either closing or shifting their focus to console games. It says nothing about the state of PC gaming - we simply have better platforms to do our buying through.

Also, I have an xbox360 controller, which I use for a couple of games, mostly platformers. I don't actually see much of an advantage to it most of the time, I just pick whatever feels good at the time - which, in my case, is usually the keyboard.

Parsifal, from what I've heard, setting up an x360 controller with Linux and Steam is easy. They're also pretty cheap, so you may want to consider trying that.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox and Valve finally have their baby

« on: July 12, 2014, 01:37:24 PM »

I thought PC games would die off as console games became the dominate market.

Fucking lol

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: July 11, 2014, 05:49:52 PM »

Making a game that detects other quest completion dynamically is labor intensive and making one quest require another is obnoxious from a gameplay perspective.

if quest1.complete:
    quest2.run()

Pretty sure game coders have been doing this for a few years. If not, the above is proprietary software and may not be duplicated, copied, shared, looked at or read out loud.

m8 you'd need a loop there somewhere, otherwise it wouldn't be dynamic, duh.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Scottish Independence

« on: July 11, 2014, 05:38:00 PM »

the pounds

So far, the UK's stance on that was a loud "AHAHAHAHA, NO.", so I doubt they'll get that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10731657/Talk-of-independent-Scotland-keeping-the-pound-is-nonsense-and-totally-wrong.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26166794

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Scottish Independence

« on: July 09, 2014, 02:08:47 PM »

I hope Scotland secedes and joins the EU properly.

Well, that wouldn't happen for quite a while. You see, Scotland would first have to build an economy that at least matches that of Romania.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Scottish Independence

« on: July 08, 2014, 09:30:11 PM »

The Yes campaign has people who are good at entertaining others. The No campaign has people who understand how economics works.

You decide!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Scottish Independence

« on: July 08, 2014, 02:01:29 PM »

But that would be dumb.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 08:44:37 PM »

Done (I think)

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 08:30:32 PM »

Pizzaplanet or Parsifal:

So far on my end everything is looking great except for one thing. It seems that embedded YouTube videos do not display properly when viewed on Tapatalk. It doesn't even leave a url there instead of the embedded video. It leaves a "#".

I wonder if this is something that needs to be fixed on your end because other forums do have clickable thumbnails with embedded YouTube videos that open the the video in the YouTube app.

Blegh. I can see why that happens. Our YouTube embedding plugin simply, well, embeds the video. If Tapatalk doesn't support Flash, things will break.

As predicted, some of our modifications to SMF will break. YouTube embedding is not standard functionality, so it's broken. This looks like an easy enough fix, so I'll do it, but please keep in mind that we made it clear we will not provide support for Tapatalk.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 05:02:40 PM »

One thing I noticed is that the username is case-sensitive, which it wouldn't be in the web interface (my phone wanted to log me in as Pizaaplanet, which would always throw an "incorrect password" error, but pizaaplanet and the same password worked just fine).

Also, bear in mind that some keyboard applications will add a space after any word you write, so make sure you're logging in as "Supertails" and not "supertails" or "Supertails ".

There might be more to it. Like I said, this app is pretty buggy - we think we fixed most problems, but it's very possible that we missed something. Try fiddling around with capitalisation and such and let me know if that does anything for you.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 11:26:37 AM »

Well, obviously that's not your fault. I played around with the app a bit, and while it doesn't feel like my thing, I can see how it could be really useful to some. Even if we get a better mobile interface in the future, this is nice to have.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 11:20:28 AM »

Well there you have it. It works. Thanks!

Yes, but I'm honestly not surprised the old site didn't bother. The amount of bugs we needed to fix to get it to the "it works!" state was just silly.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Tapatalk forum app

« on: July 06, 2014, 10:50:02 AM »

Okay, this seems to work now. That is to say I tried logging in, it didn't work, we fixed it and now it works.

EDIT: Some minor bugs remain (you wouldn't believe it, this code is even worse than SMF itself), but it generally works. The minor bugs may or may not be fixed.