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This has something to do with time...
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Ok, name one short game that you find hard to forget. And don't think much.
Duck Tales on the NES!
Problems with Windows 7
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Gee golly jeepers! You not having an issue makes it all better.
Sorry man. I thought since you explained in your post how to fix the problem you were having meant you didn't need help and you were just bitching about your problems. I was just having conversation by sharing my horror story involving the bootloader in Windows Vista. I wasn't rubbing shit in your face or whatever you seemed to have misconstrued from my post.
I don't know how to solve the problems you're having, but if I were you I would just switch back to Windows XP if possible. Way I figure none of the new stuff Windows 7 offers is worth the headaches it seems to be causing you.
Problems with Windows 7
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OH! I almost forgot about the wonderful new Black Screen of Death.
YES, sometimes Windows 7 says "I DONT FEEL LIKE BOOTING" and instead of loading your desktop; loads a black screen and your mouse cursor!
If you're lucky, windows restore will save you. If you're not so lucky, you'll have to install some crappy third party EXE, if the world hates you - youll have to reinstall windows.
FUN!
I haven't had that one - actually Windows 7 is by far the smoothest Microsoft Upgrade I've ever had so far. :0 Vista would install the bootloader on the wrong drive on one of my machines. I'd chalk it up to me just having a little bit strange hardware setup on it, but XP never had an issue figuring it out. Two steps forward one step back I guess.
You should grab yourself a Linux distro just as backup (I like Ubuntu myself). You can boot up and run the entire OS off a CD/USB Stick without installing anything. It won't save you from Windows crapping out, but handy to have around if Windows does get to a point it can't boot. You can boot entirely into Linux off the CD/USB, and access the hard-drive to backup files or whatever before formatting and reinstalling Windows. I've saved several friends stuff with it.
Upload Speeds
McDonald's down the street just got WiFi up probably 6 months ago - it's usually down, but when it's not it does better than 10kb/s. o.O I thought I read quite some time ago Australia was getting Nationwide fiber or something?
Taking a page from FFVI's book.
I liked the feature, but my only gripe was that in the end it didn't really make any difference since you had to complete all of them to progress anyway. I think I prefer A Blurred Line's "Choose Your Own Adventure" style where decisions, even if you don't realize you're making one, can change how the story plays out quite a bit. Both are good though.
Challenge versus Frustration
I basically agree with Catmitts.
In the case of turn based RPGs I think the difficulty should be in figuring out the strategy rather than the execution of it. Most people will come up with a boss and think "I want this weak vs ice", and then be too scared of it really being weak against ice. They don't want to allow the player to be able to kill it easily even with the weak spot, so boost it's hp so it takes many hits with ice to kill. The problem with this is the encounter isn't really weak vs ice anymore. It's actually resistant to everything except ice. That's a simple strategy anyway and bosses should probably be more complex.
Xenogears had some nice complex strategies to beat the bosses but stuck with it and if the player figured them out made them completely trivial. I prefer this way because then if I can beat them, it feels like *I* outplayed/outsmarted the encounter. Whenever it's some mega hard endurance match type thing, I feel more "I got lucky." For me at least, being lucky is a lot less satisfying than legitimately being better.
In the case of turn based RPGs I think the difficulty should be in figuring out the strategy rather than the execution of it. Most people will come up with a boss and think "I want this weak vs ice", and then be too scared of it really being weak against ice. They don't want to allow the player to be able to kill it easily even with the weak spot, so boost it's hp so it takes many hits with ice to kill. The problem with this is the encounter isn't really weak vs ice anymore. It's actually resistant to everything except ice. That's a simple strategy anyway and bosses should probably be more complex.
Xenogears had some nice complex strategies to beat the bosses but stuck with it and if the player figured them out made them completely trivial. I prefer this way because then if I can beat them, it feels like *I* outplayed/outsmarted the encounter. Whenever it's some mega hard endurance match type thing, I feel more "I got lucky." For me at least, being lucky is a lot less satisfying than legitimately being better.
What midi or Mp3 program should I use?
I mainly just fiddle with things for fun sometimes, but I don't know what I'm doing good enough to really recommend anything. With that in mind, I use LMMS (says Linux in the name but there is a Windows version). It's similar to something like FL Studio. No idea if that's the sort of thing you're looking for or not. Most people who don't use Linux haven't ever heard of it, so figured I'd toss it out as an option you might want to check out. -shrug-
CSS on gamepages
I don't think we disagree - you just misunderstood what I was saying or perhaps I wasn't clear.
CSS is certainly code, I just mean you don't have to know how to program in order to use it. That is what he is assuming. He's not a programmer, and it's well known he has no desire in becoming one. Curly braces and things probably look like Hieroglyphics to him and he falsely assumes he has to learn low level OOP just to tweak his profile.
Maybe saying you don't have to script to understand and use CSS is better word choice. He's thinking it's like RGSS, when it's actually below Events in learning curve. It's primarily used by designers, not programmers in the web development industry. It's just decorating html tags.
CSS is certainly code, I just mean you don't have to know how to program in order to use it. That is what he is assuming. He's not a programmer, and it's well known he has no desire in becoming one. Curly braces and things probably look like Hieroglyphics to him and he falsely assumes he has to learn low level OOP just to tweak his profile.
Maybe saying you don't have to script to understand and use CSS is better word choice. He's thinking it's like RGSS, when it's actually below Events in learning curve. It's primarily used by designers, not programmers in the web development industry. It's just decorating html tags.
CSS on gamepages
You don't have to code to learn CSS. All it does is declare how html tags should be formatted - it's almost like advanced bb tags. You can't even declare variables or add two numbers together with it.
Whenever you have like 30 minutes to spare watch this video on html/css basics. He drags ass sometimes, but just stick to it. Afterward you'll understand what the curly braces and semi-colons mean and you can basically just read 80% of CSS style declarations like it's in plain English. It won't seem remotely daunting to you then. It's more like formatting a word document than writing an RGSS script. It just appears to be more confusing than it actually is at first. Video will get you up to snuff.
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@WolfCoder - You should check out the firebug plugin if you use Firefox, it lets you temporarily edit the CSS right on the site itself. You also can "inspect" elements on a page and it'll automatically highlight the tag and list the entire cascade for that element so you can see things being overwritten and all that. Works really well for javascript debugging too if you ever find yourself doing that.
Whenever you have like 30 minutes to spare watch this video on html/css basics. He drags ass sometimes, but just stick to it. Afterward you'll understand what the curly braces and semi-colons mean and you can basically just read 80% of CSS style declarations like it's in plain English. It won't seem remotely daunting to you then. It's more like formatting a word document than writing an RGSS script. It just appears to be more confusing than it actually is at first. Video will get you up to snuff.
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@WolfCoder - You should check out the firebug plugin if you use Firefox, it lets you temporarily edit the CSS right on the site itself. You also can "inspect" elements on a page and it'll automatically highlight the tag and list the entire cascade for that element so you can see things being overwritten and all that. Works really well for javascript debugging too if you ever find yourself doing that.
MP3ify.com: now this is pretty nifty!
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