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Lossless H.264 isn't really lossless though, it forces chroma subsampling, and it still is only about as lossless as a full quality JPEG.
And the only codec I know of that doesn't force chroma subsampling is Theora 1.1 (Thusnelda) which isn't supported by a majority of players.
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Seen those. :) Actually, that's what I made maps with in the first place.
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@zidanax: As far as I can tell, because the hit boxes don't seem to be very variable, they aren't put into anything except temporary memory.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
I ended up being on the receiving end of a wave of sarcastic, biting comments that opened with Omnipotent Entity stating how a doctor prescribed for him a specialized weight lifting routine that quite literally saved his life, and how Furey can go bite it.
Good! Good! My invasion of the world's subconscious has begun!
:D
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Warp wrote:
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I'm sure that white people have been victims of racism. But not in America, not in any real way.
There have been actual cases, in the US, of white people getting beaten up by black people for the sole reason of being white, which has been made clear by the attackers using racial slurs and other insults related to skin color and ethnicity. And the police did not consider them hate crimes even with witness testimony describing the racial insults.
But of course white people being victims of racism is such a rare occurrence that it could just as well be a non-existent problem. Even if someone gets discriminated, he probably deserved it anyways.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/table1.html
1,054 anti-white victims, 75.05% of the population.
3,966 all other victims of racial violence, 24.95% of the population.
As a non-white you're about 16 times more likely to experience racial violence directed against you.
I'm not saying that it doesn't happen. I'm saying that it has no appreciable effect on the lives of most white people. Whereas racial violence and other forms of racism have a profound effect upon non-whites.
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Warp wrote:
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Wow, you really do believe that white males are oppressed... how quaint. :/
When was the last time that you heard someone non-white being accused of racism?
Famously, President Obama was accused of racism by Glenn Beck just a week ago (or did you not hear?) In right wing media it happens with startling regularity. I've seen my African American coworkers be accused of racism for putting their hair in a fro and wearing a necklace.
When was the last time that you heard a white person being considered the victim of racism?
I'm dating a South Asian currently, I've noticed people staring at us, when they've never stared at me, I've been accused of miscegenation, whereas before I had never heard of that word. My own father tried to "warn me off" from a "colored girl." Simply put, this is the stuff that my girlfriend has had to deal with every day of her life, I've had only the slightest introduction to it by dating her.
I'm sure that white people have been victims of racism. But not in America, not in any real way.
But that's completely ok because white people are an acceptable target (nowadays the only one), and that is not discrimination.
You really have no knowledge of this. I don't either, I just have an outsider's perspective.
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For the record, that article was not written by me.
But you agree with the sentiments, or else you wouldn't have posted it.
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One example of the "foregoes time saving damage" is Halamantariel's Illusion of Gaia. There was one place in the entire run where taking damage would have saved time. He didn't take damage then because it would look sloppy.
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A few things that I discovered from my last running of the game:
It's slightly faster to slide than walk.
Special versions of the magic will sometimes do double damage to bosses, (for example, the first boss takes double damage from the beam magic.
I'm working on getting a copy of my smvs for this game from a friend who might have a backup copy.
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But the fact is that some of the most influential and fundamental christian believers are actually those who have been brought up in _anything but_ christian family: These come from muslim backgrounds, these come from families where their parents have practised witchcraft or voodoo and they've been sacrificed to the devil at their birth and have had to live in gangs with the "strongest survives" mentality; these come from places where being caught of owning a Bible may mean spending the rest of their lives in a prison, if they aren't murdered first, and so on. I'm talking about people like Nicky Cruz here.
There may be exceptions to every rule, but reading this the only thing going through my head is, "Oh the poor oppressed majority. :/"
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If the hive replacement trick didn't work then you definitely have something running in the background, it's probably the VM's addons, have you tried reinstalling them?
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There's two possibilities,
1) a program running on your VM is resetting the settings for you.
2) something is screwed up with your ntuser.dat (your user-specific registry.)
To solve:
1) If it's a program find and stop that program from running.
2) If it's your registry, boot to a boot disk that has NTFS write support and use the command:
copy C:\windows\system32\config\default "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\ntuser.dat"
To copy the user default registry to your own. This will erase all of your user specific settings though. So back up ntuser.dat before messing with it.
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