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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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Warp wrote:
I have always wondered why some people use "GPL" for documents and data, even though GPL is clearly a software license. The license clearly talks about things like source code, object code, system libraries, standard interfaces and other such terms which are clearly not applicable to pure data (which movie files really are).
The entire point of the GPL is that the source code of the program must be free. If you distribute a program licensed under the GPL, you must also offer the source code for that program for free. With TAS movie data files you cannot eg. comply with sections 5 (if you distribute a modified GPL program, you must also distribute its sources with prominent notices about original authorship) and 6 (if you distribute a program in object code form, you have to also provide the original, machine-readable source code), because the domain of the license simply doesn't apply to pure data files.
Creative Commons is a set of licenses which are specifically aimed at documents and data files.
I'd think that a keypress file has more in common with a program than with a document though.
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moozooh wrote:
All that aside, I'm not sure there is a copyright license that fits TASVideos best. So far the closest match seems to be GPL, while some users suggest Creative Commons Attribution + ShareAlike (by-sa) or an even stricter license be used.
Actually, I suggested CC A+SA because I thought it was the most sensitive CC license towards authorship, because, despite the guideline not to make movies for personal gain, a lot of people still put a lot of stock in who made the movie. So I figured it would generate the least drama.
I, for one, would be as pleased as pie if movies released under GPL.
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Johannes wrote:
I don't like apt-get very much, but I find Arch's answer, pacman, to be great once learned.
Huh? Interesting. I wonder what you like about it, and whether or not dpkg and apt support it.
It's very fast, has clean, readable output, and is very versatile.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It sports remote db search, package info lookup, removing skipping dependency checks, removing along with dependencies, removing all files the package created, checking which package owns the specified local file, and so on.
yes, yes, yes (though it's a bad idea, and I cannot fathom why you would want to,) yes, yes, yes.
And a full system upgrade is as simple as issuing pacman -Syu.
aptitude full-upgrade <- it's readable in english :O
Also, zsh features elaborate tab completion for it, including completing to available remote packages. I have no need for a GUI.
zsh also supports very nice tabbed completion for dpkg/apt packaging.
So.... what exactly do you not like about apt?
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My 2 cents about XP vs Vista vs 7.
Vista got a bad rap, there are a lot of very good under the hood enhancements to the OS. But it was rushed and incomplete like... well... every other Microsoft OS since Windows 95.
People hated it because it wasn't like Windows XP, people hated it because third party stuff didn't always work. Mostly that's because of the closed source mentality of Windows, they made promises about software and they had to rely on other people to keep those promises for them quickly enough to keep from disappointing their customer base. Of course, Microsoft still hasn't learned their lesson about this, because people are still all too willing to keep their promises for them.
But stepping back and just talking about features and stability in the base operating system, Vista is better than XP. It is a bit of a hog. But whatever.
Windows 7 is yes, basically Vista SP3, with a new GUI and another gimmick (XP Mode, which is only available in Business and higher, and most consumer grade laptops won't even run it.)
People like Windows 7, paradoxically, because it's exactly like Windows Vista. It's the Windows Mojave experiment playing out in real life.
It's still a bit better than Vista. A bit. Not much.
Other choices,
Hackintosh, generally these are unstable and typically have very bad driver support.
Linux, any variety, not as polished in some places, but very functional. More functional than any version of Windows ever. Oh, and you actually get to decide what runs on your computer. Imagine that. (DRM = BLEH)
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I've located the hitboxes in the ROM but I haven't been able to find them in memory,
Moreover, I don't have a good way of pulling them directly from the ROM because I haven't found a way to programmatically determine which hitbox to use.
Grey Monster hit box origin X (implicit negative):
ROM $F8B1
Grey Monster hit box origin Y (implicit negative):
ROM $F8B3
Grey Monster hit box positive X (2-bit): ROM $F8B5
(value 34)
Grey Monster hit box positive y (2-bit): ROM $F8B7
(value 20)
The grey monster in the first dungeon seems to be the first monster, the next is the blue slime.
Any assistance would be appreciated. :X
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gocha wrote:
nitsuja wrote:
Is this just a bug in Snes9x? I think the real SNES uses 32 kHz, so that sample rate should sound more accurate, and I don't remember having audio sync trouble with changing the AVI output sampling rate in other programs.
AVI recorder tries to add samples at every frame. 32 kHz will cause audio desync since 32000 cannot be divided by 60.
I've been experiencing this with 1.43, so I'm pretty sure it's a long standing issue. It gets pretty bad when dumping a long movie. For instance, the SMRPG movie wound up with the audio being over 6 seconds shorter than the video.
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Raiscan wrote:
True wrote:
Raiscan wrote:
The lack of the extra brass note also seems to effect the timing:
How so? Because the samples were cut from the original arbitrarily? Nobody said anything about there being frame boundaries on these samples.
Because the brass note is missing in 1.43, the whole sound gets played earlier and ends earlier. I'm assuming that the 143 and 151 are at an identical time index, meaning 143 starts slightly earlier and ends sooner, where 151 starts slightly later and ends a bit later. I'm not sure what OmnipotentEntity's wave difference shows, since it looks like in that picture the waveforms have been aligned (which is not the case in reality).
This would be a more accurate overlay:
I was assuming that they weren't, and I lined up the wave forms. The blue sound (1.43) still winds up being played faster though.
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