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Posted: 10/20/2008 2:17 AM
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Bob_A
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so the maze is supposed to be random? have you tried getting an earlier savestate to see where the last relevant bit of entropy is collected?
Posted: 10/19/2008 10:28 PM
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for number 2, why not just use a savestate?
Posted: 10/18/2008 9:27 PM
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I think the real question is how soon can you fight Lavos. by the way, this is totally brilliant.
Posted: 10/4/2008 4:05 AM
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i'd rather not have to worry about it at all. apparently this country sucks so much that you're penalised for voting.
Posted: 10/3/2008 4:00 PM
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second place: 9/11 al qaeda 2008: 6,010,000 2001: 4 ratio: 1,502,500 third place: "half-blood prince" 2008: 5,850,000 2001: 4 ratio: 1,462,500
Posted: 10/3/2008 3:20 PM
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gee, i would vote if i didn't have to worry about jury duty. this advert strikes me as stupid, or at least an instance of viewers are morons, because many people think that voting is bad from the perspective of game theory (e. g., you're more likely to die in an accident than to determine the outcome of an election), and it does nothing to address that.
Posted: 9/7/2008 11:37 PM
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x^x = exp(ln(x)x), and since ln(x) varies logarithmically with x, it approaches negative infinity more slowly than x, and therefore ln(x)x approaches 0, so x^x approaches 1. by the way, i'm in the camp that defines 0^0 = 1. i think that the minimum value of x^x would approach 0 as x approaches negative infinity. if you mean where x is a positive real, then the minimum value is exp(-1/e) for x = 1/e. edit: AQwertyZ beat me to the second one.
Posted: 2/18/2008 11:51 PM
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vx? isn't that the same as v?
Posted: 2/17/2008 4:21 AM
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i can't download it. i click the link and konqueror tries to open it in kwrite. can you give the url?
Posted: 2/8/2008 11:42 PM
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yes; i installed the 1.2.0-0ubuntu1 version of libgtkglext1, libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0 is sitting in my /usr/lib, and that's the file it's complaining doesn't exist. i tried running it under wine because i usually get better results running emulators in wine.
Posted: 2/8/2008 4:23 AM
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what sort of things does this let you do?
Posted: 2/8/2008 4:17 AM
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according to my experience, pSX isn't good at all. it says it can't find libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0, even after i installed it. the windows version just crashes in wine.
Posted: 1/22/2008 8:28 AM
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the thing about video games being unproductive is ridiculous, firstly because that accusation applies at least as well to all forms of entertainment and leisure, secondly because video games in particular provide intellectual excercise, for example, in motor skills and problem solving. also, a study found that gamers have comparatively high pain tolerance, which is a theory consistent with my own experience. about metroid redesign: i'd be interested to see a full run of it full stop. the last time i played it to the end, there were several/many items i couldn't figure out how to get. for example, that item in upperleft maridia that required you to break some speed blocks, which in my judgement just wasn't possible in that spot.
Posted: 1/10/2008 6:53 AM
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this sounds like a good idea, but the best thing i can think of is a cross between umihara kawase and super metroid. wait, isn't kejardon already working on that?
Posted: 1/10/2008 6:39 AM
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with such big screenshots they could at least apply hq3x to them.
Posted: 12/31/2007 6:58 AM
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i found this run entertaining and think it should be published under the demos section. (yes vote.)
Posted: 12/26/2007 1:07 AM
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i was hardly implying that, just giving an example.
Posted: 12/25/2007 6:33 AM
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i don't understand. opposite in what way?
Posted: 12/25/2007 6:19 AM
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pekopon: to say that all remakes are worse is a judgement i certainly don't share. the only (enhanced) remake i've found that i'm sceptical of is gba final fantasy 1. (back on subject,) i've played both, and i haven't noticed any of the gameplay differences you mentioned. i judge the graphics and sound very favorably compared to the fc version, which rather shows its age. i suspect that you're a purist, tho tell me if i'm wrong.
Posted: 12/24/2007 8:04 PM
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even if the games are too similar to warrant a separate run, it makes no sense to me to conclude that the published run should be of the famicom version. the gba version is much better, and consequently obsoletes the famicom version.
Posted: 12/21/2007 8:40 AM
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i don't think there is a way to objectively compare redesign to impossible, other than just saying "most people under most circumstances judge that impossible is better than redesign".
Posted: 12/15/2007 3:52 PM
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nfq wrote:
Gravity doesn't exist because it's actually just a form of electromagnetism.
you know, i had a theory like that a long time ago. the idea was that two masses composed of magnetic poles, altho each magnetically neutral, would orient themselves so that each pole was diagonal to the corresponding pole on the other object and thus closer to the opposite pole than to it, and that the relative closeness of the poles on each mass could account for the weekness of gravity. i never looked into it, tho. oh, and by the way, greedy reductionism ftw!
Posted: 12/14/2007 6:20 AM
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i see. tho your argument still seems tenuous to me. it seems that wikipedia should have something about evidence for special relativity.
Posted: 12/14/2007 5:51 AM
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both boco and and nfq seem to have misinterpreted me, probably due to lack context. for the record, my point was that if the definition of "god" is "a thing that created everything", then by definition, god, if it existed, created itself, and consequently i find the existence of a god, by that definition, to be implausible. it's not very relevent, tho. aqwertyz, the argument you make about special relativity seems to be fallacious. you seem to be saying that sr implies that E=mc^2, which is also implied by the success of the atomic bombs, and therefore, sr is correct. such an argument is, in any case, fallacious.
Posted: 12/13/2007 7:36 PM
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nfq wrote:
god is eternal. he is not created, he is the creator.
then you don't believe in such a "god", because "god", by that definition, as i said, would have created itself.
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