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Posted: 7/26/2009 8:24 AM
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Because of epic fail on the part of the Hawaii Department of Health back in 2001, the Birthers will never get their Holy Grail, Obama's original long-form birth certificate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnfIcdDGpA
Posted: 8/2/2008 10:35 AM
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Phil wrote:
J'ai bien aimé les 2 vidéos. Votre français est universel, pas trop "français", étant moi-même québecois, je n'ai pas constaté de "putain", de "merde" ou quelqu'autre expression parisienne. Ce que j'ai moins aimé c'est que ça paraissait que vous faisiez semblant de ne pas avoir déjà regardé la vidéo. :P Donc pas de bluff. Durant l'intro de la vidéo, on vous voit mais on voit aussi le lien de ce site pendant quelques minutes. Je trouvait ça un peu agaçant car je vous voyais mal. J'ai aussi constaté que vous vous étiez quand même renseigné et que la plupart des infos étaient valides. D'un autre côté, un peu plus d'infos techniques sur comment tel truc/bug peut être accompli ne serait pas de trop. N'ayez pas peur de poser des questions en messages privés à l'auteur et aussi, n'ayez pas peur de "pauser" la vidéo pour expliquer quelque chose. Sur ce, j'attends votre prochaine vidéo.
I will try to translate this into English: "I have loved the 2 videos well. Your French is universal, not too 'French'; being Quebecois myself, I have not found 'whore' or 'shit' or whatever other Parisian expression. "What I have loved less that is that it seemed that you did semblance of not having already watched the video. :P Thus not of bluff. During the intro of the video, one sees you but one also sees the link of that site pending whatever minutes. I found it a little annoying because I saw bad for you. "I have also found that you were yourselves informed and the majority of the info being valid. On another side, a little more of the technical info about how such tricks/bugs can be accomplished would not be of excess. Do not fear posing questions in private messages to the author and also do not fear 'pausing' the video to explain whatever thing. "About this, I await your next video." I think that Google Translate did a better job:
Google wrote:
I really liked the 2 videos. Your french is universal, not too "french", being myself Quebec, I have not seen "whore", "shit" or any other expression of Paris. What I liked least was that it seemed that you were pretending not to have already watched the video. : P So no bluff. During the intro of the video, you see but it is also the site link for a few minutes. I found it a little annoying because I saw evil. I also noticed that you even when you were informed and that most of the information was valid. On the other hand, a little more technical information on how such stuff / bug can be accomplished would not be too many. Do not be afraid to ask questions in private messages to the author and also, do not be afraid to "pause" video to explain something. Of this, I await your next video.
Posted: 7/15/2008 12:54 AM
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I thought Live (the band) went downhill after V, and you could say the same for Autechre after Draft 7.30.
Posted: 7/4/2008 5:29 AM
Post subject: Re: These sound ungrammatical but are in fact correct.
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I made this thread to be funny; in reality I hate the use of "needs past participle" without "to be" between those two words, even though a similarly annoying construction ("must needs" as "must" or "needs to") was common in the time of Abraham Lincoln.
Posted: 7/4/2008 5:20 AM
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Bisqwit wrote:
lewisje wrote:
One potential scheme might go like this: a [æ] (cat) ä [a] (car) e [ε] (pen) ë [e] (they) i [ι] (it) ï (liter) o [ɔ] (solitude) ö [o] (home) u [ʊ] (put) ü (rude) û [ʌ] (up) ô [ə] (of) ê [ɹ] (her)
Further problem is that in "they" and "home" there's a dipthong (i.e. a flow from one vowel to another) instead of just one vowel…
I always thought there was just one vowel followed by a semivocalic consonant (respectively "y" and "w"), except that I don't pronounce "home" like that but "row" is a better example. Also, the term is "diphthong" ['dιf: ðɔŋ] from a Greek word basically meaning "two-toned": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphthong
Posted: 7/4/2008 5:16 AM
Post subject: These sound ungrammatical but are in fact correct.
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different than The major candidates in the presidential election in the United States are more different than the candidates in the primary elections for their respective parties. could of Most pre-teens cannot drive, but Emily alone could of the students in her middle school. needs cleaned Emily had all of her clothing that she needs cleaned. (This one can also be interpreted as a sentence in which "to be" was ungrammatically removed.) Post more grammatical puzzlers.
Posted: 7/4/2008 4:58 AM
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Unfortunately, not all of us have European keyboards; American keyboards have neither an AltGr key nor any "dead keys" because English has no diacriticals, and even the loanwords like role (formerly rôle) and coordinate (coördinate) lose their diacriticals over time.
Kuwaga wrote:
Forms like 'sitted' and spellings like 'dieing' are disallowed to keep well educated people in power.
Fun Fact: The King James Version of the Bible uses "builded" in Genesis.
Kuwaga wrote:
The silent e can't be dropped because it shows that a word is pronounced differently. Actually we simulate a vowel shift to arrive at the correct pronunciation while reading new words with a silent e at the end. <at> - f.e. [æt] <ate> - f.e. [æit] So if you dropped the e you'd need to add something like an i in front. (in this case)
We need to bring back diacritical marks, like perhaps the first example could remain "at" while the other would be "ét" (BTW, your IPA example would in fact look like [ejt] unless you really pronounce that word like "a-eet"). One potential scheme might go like this: a [æ] (cat) ä [a] (car) e [ε] (pen) ë [e] (they) i [ι] (it) ï (liter) o [ɔ] (solitude) ö [o] (home) u [ʊ] (put) ü (rude) û [ʌ] (up) ô [ə] (of) ê [ɹ] (her) To indicate stress, you could for example use è instead of e and é instead of ë, but there's no easy way to stress the other three vowels listed even though û and ê do occur in stressed syllables. By the way, that anti-German joke failed to mention that English already has two symbols for "th": þ (thorn) for voiceless, and ð (edh) for voiced, though they have fallen by the wayside by now, and as another note a stylized rendering of ð is the likely reason for signs like "Ye Olde Inne" because the ð resembles a fancy Y to modern eyes. For that matter, we should bring back the long s (ʃ) for "sh" and tailed z (ʒ) for "zh" (even though these symbold did not historically represent those sounds). P.S.: I realized I abused the diacriticals up there, and the umlaut and circumflex mean nothing like what I used them for.
nfq wrote:
Finnish is the language that makes most sense.
I heard that this language and Spanish have the closest correspondence between orthography and pronunciation of all natural languages, and that may be why it makes so much sense. By the way, most of these complaints are about orthography or diction, not grammar; this misuse of the word "grammar" is similar to the use of the term "fiscal" to mean "economic" or "techno" to refer to all electronic music or even just all electronic dance music.
Posted: 7/1/2008 2:46 AM
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You could still reverse-engineer the behavior, right? I mean, if a two-bit Chinese operation could translate most of the plot of Final Fantasy VII into a Famicom game, certainly some interested game designers could translate The Legend of Zelda into a more expressive medium even if not by directly converting the objects as stored in the ROM into the corresponding objects for the 3D version. Oh yeah, as for that Famicom game... http://cinnamonpirate.com/blog/507/
Posted: 7/1/2008 2:37 AM
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Soulrivers wrote:
Affect: I was affected by the enchantment spell. Effect: The effect of the enchantment spell is starting to wear off. Learn, damnit.
More confusingly, "effect" is also a verb roughly meaning "cause" as in "Barack Obama wants to effect change in America."
Posted: 6/15/2008 12:15 AM
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I could barely wait for this run, and I'll vote Yes as soon as I can.
Posted: 6/15/2008 12:08 AM
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mmbossman wrote:
AKA wrote:
I would also say it was an arbitary decision to keep the Green run as well, and will once again build up problems in the future. Creating either impossible or very difficult situations and will likely just enforce the hypocrisy on this site.
I find it more arbitrary that some Pokemon games have been obsoleted by entirely different Pokemon games. Saying that one game (that uses one glitch) should be obsoleted by another game (that uses a completely different glitch) only adds to the supposed hypocrisy you speak of.
I'm with AKA, unless that "completely different glitch" could have also been performed in the game from the obsoleted run and therefore it's just a cosmetic change. Then again, Yellow was so fundamentally different from the Japanese Green/Red/Blue and American Red and Blue that it deserved its own category.
Posted: 6/3/2008 10:51 AM
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I was surprised to see that the published run, which skips much of the game (including all GCO treasures, 18 MWW abilities, and The Arena), still had 70% completion; I just thought I'd post some information I got from a GameFAQ about incrementing the completion percentage: According to Christian Wall's Kirby's Fun Pak FAQ v1.1 (kirby_super_star_d.txt)... Spring Breeze: 11% Dyna and both secrets: 15% Gourmet Race Grandprix: 6% GCO and all treasures: 22% Revenge of Meta-Knight: 18% MWW and all abilities: 25% The Arena: 3% Using the published run, I was able to deduce the following breakdown: Dyna Blade: 13% finishing GCO: 6% two abilities and one level: 2% Two abilities and two levels: 3% MWW and two abilities: 16% I'm about to figure out how the secrets, abilities, and treasures affect the percentage, but here's some speculation: Each secret in Dyna Blade adds 1%, and each level other than the last adds 3%. Each treasure in GCO adds a percentage proportional to its value in G, with the total percentage added equal to 16*CurrentValue/9999990G rounded to the nearest integer. Each level of MWW other than the last adds 1%, and every two abilities adds 1%, with the exception that the special level and Copy abilities together add 1%.
Posted: 5/24/2008 3:31 PM
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mz wrote:
@mike89 Do you know what's the exact GoodGEN rom name for the S1&K hack you're using? I've tried some hacks already, but none of them seems to sync with your WIP. :/
I didn't think that Cowering added hacks to his GoodTools database.
Posted: 5/24/2008 3:08 PM
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I thought I'd go ahead and enumerate the stars that had to be skipped in this run (75 were collected at the end so 45 were left out): Special (8) - The Secret Aquarium, Wing Mario over the Rainbow, and the Bowser and Cap levels, because all of them are 8-coin stars Each of the 15 courses has an 8-red-coin star and a special 100-coin star (obviously those 30 were verboten) and the others skipped were... Course 1, Bob-omb Battlefield (1) - Mario Wings to the Sky, because it cannot be done without the Wing Cap (though I guess if you try real hard you can do it without a cannon and trigger the five targets without getting a coin as in Pyramid Puzzle over in Course 8, Shifting Sand Land...) Course 4, Cool Cool Mountain (3) - Slip Slidin' Away, Big Penguin Race, and Snowman's Lost His Head, probably because there's no way to avoid running into coins somewhere along the way (EDIT: Snowman requires the other two but by itself is a CCC star) Course 5, Big Boo's Haunt (1) - Eye to Eye in the Secret Room, because that requires the Vanish Cap Course 9, Dire Dire Docks (1) - Collect the Caps, because it requires the Vanish Cap (and probably the Metal Cap depending on how fast you can swim tool-assisted) Course 10, Snowman's Land (1) - Into the Igloo, because you can't avoid coins on the way (EDIT: because you need the Vanish Cap) I also thought I'd make a concise table summarizing the results. The 0 row is the row of special stars, arranged in roughly the order of appearance, the 7 row is the row of 100-coin stars, and the other rows are for the corresponding stars in each of the 15 courses; a point is used for a collected star, an R is used for 8-red-coin stars, a Y (for yellow, the normal color of coins) is used for all other coin run-ins, and a C is used for unavoidable uses of caps:
0123456789ABCDEF
0..RRRR.R.R..R.R
1...Y...........
2.....R.........
3...Y..R.R..R..R
4RRRRR..........
5C..Y...R.RR.R..
6....C...CC...R.
7YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Also the column headings are in hex because I'm 1EE7 like that. IMO, the use of glitches to avoid most uses of the cannon, by itself, made this a good TAS.
Posted: 5/21/2008 11:20 PM
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My name is fairly common; when I went to undergrad at IU there was another James Lewis (James Alan Lewis IV) who was a couple years younger, and here at Penn State there is a man working at the Office of the Physical Plant who shares my name exactly except the form of his suffix (James Edward Lewis, Jr.; I use "II" instead). Also there are a couple authors sharing my name, like James R. Lewis, who I think writes about the paranormal, and this guy from the Center for Strategic and International Studies: http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_experts/task,view/id,111/ Dr. James Andrew Lewis, Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program I was shocked when I was watching C-SPAN, my usual fare, and saw "JAMES LEWIS" on the screen a couple years ago during a panel discussion on Internet terrorism. Anyway I'm fortunate to have such a common name, because if you Google it most of the results won't be related to me.