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Off The Wall / Re: The 'How Was Your Day' Thread

« on: April 03, 2009, 05:04:18 PM »

My day yesterday surprisingly fixed itself after noon -- I was left alone at home, which meant I was able to pursue the activity of my choice. Thus, medication, programming and playing MegaTen Online.

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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)

« on: April 03, 2009, 03:23:50 AM »

Meh, I'll stick with my AirFlo, thank you very much. Best gaming invention for PC gamepadders like myself.

In other news, official and definitive proof that Elf girls in Shin Megami Tensei Online are a bunch of sluts with no dignity, or maybe I'm just misunderstanding them:

As you can see, they're OBVIOUSLY not wearing undies. >_> Theory flying around is that it's because they have no genitals, because Titanias have very visible red panties and wear the same kind of dress the Elf girls do. Freyas have no panties either, but the bird girls (Harpy, Ocypete, Kelaino and Aello) do seem to wear some kind of underwear. o_O

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Fan Creations / Re: Quickie's Stuff.

« on: April 03, 2009, 03:00:17 AM »

Quickie, goddammit, you need to get your scarlet ass to making that digital coloring tutorial.

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**Fan Creations / Re: Rebirth of the Rockman-Themed Stolen Bleep Thread!!**

« on: April 03, 2009, 02:58:51 AM »

Quote from: Sniper X on April 02, 2009, 03:36:36 PM

Lol, they spelled Geo's name wrong.

Geo's name, the article subtitle makes little sense, they got the BN series name backwards...

Need I go on?

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Off The Wall / Re: The 'How Was Your Day' Thread

« on: April 02, 2009, 06:34:30 PM »

Well, so far it's been a rather lousy day for me. The mother made me wake up early to help her with cleaning, because my sis' room was a [tornado fang]ing dump and she's getting an operation tomorrow to get all four wisdom teeth removed, so the mom wants to reduce all potential infection focuses to the minimum. Add to that that I had to de-dust my sis' collection of plushies, and the insane amounts of dust got me sick. Now my head hurts, my nose hurts, my back hurts, and I don't wanna do [parasitic bomb].

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Gaming / Re: Explodemon: Please Be Bringing It On!

« on: April 02, 2009, 02:21:41 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Wily II on April 02, 2009, 11:17:12 AM

Why did I think of exploding Pokemons when I read the thread title? \

You wouldn't be the only one. I thought it was some kind of April's Fools-related prank where Pokémon exploded and stuff. ¬_¬

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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)

« on: April 02, 2009, 05:03:23 AM »

I'd LOL if it was written correctly.

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Gaming / Re: Gaming Fools from The Web

« on: April 01, 2009, 08:02:55 PM »

This both counts and doesn't count as a fool, but I'll post it here anyways. Friend pointed this out to fellow forumer elsewhere. I have to say I definitely do agree.

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Gaming / Re: Fools from The Web

« on: April 01, 2009, 01:35:33 PM »

No.

We're gonna keep both threads; this way we can divide between gaming-specific April's Fools jokes and general jokes from the web.

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Off The Wall / Re: Obligatory April Fools Thread

« on: April 01, 2009, 12:54:57 PM »

http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-acquires-the-pirate-bay-090401/

Posted on: 2009/04/01, 07:30:19

Quote from: Michael Roa Valdamjong on April 01, 2009, 12:24:30 PM

MyAnimeList, putting Naruto on the top of everyone's favorite characters list...

Posted on: 2009/04/01, 07:35:31

http://www.typemoon.com/mooncinemas/show.html

This is why I love Type-MOON, even though I didn't get half the movie references in there.

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General / Re: Computer Problem Thread

« on: April 01, 2009, 12:26:07 PM »

Service Pack 3 is a HUGE improvement in the inner workings of XP. If your software doesn't work, it's more than probably outdated, so get yourself moving and update your drivers for EVERY single device in your computer, and get up-to-date versions of any software you've been using. I've been using SP3 for about a year now and if anything, it's made my day-to-day maintenance work and general performance a definite boost.

Also, run a decent antivirus software (Avira's good, www.free-av.com) and make sure its virus database is fully updated. You might have your machine chock full of crap and be unfairly judging SP3 as being responsible for it.

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Off The Wall / Looking for a Flash-based uploading tool: help, fellow techies?

« on: March 31, 2009, 04:37:30 AM »

Yeah, so lately, in what little free time I have, I've been working around my Random Avatar Script to improve it and make it easier for common tech-illiterate people to be able to install it and set it up and everything. So far, stuff has been moving smoothly (the install wizard is almost done, which is one less royal pain in the ass for me), except for one little thing that kinda angers me. (Prepare to read a bit of a rant -- gotta vent off somehow.)

Y'see, the horrible little fuckers called <input type="file"> HTML elements are obnoxiously anal when it comes to CSS styling. There's no real way to manipulate their appearance through stylesheets, and to make stuff even more annoying, if you want to upload several images at a time in a single <form> element, the handling done server-side to copy/place the files is, for lack of a better word capable of conveying my feelings, stupid. But whatever, the solution I have now has it solved: several <input> elements named images[], so PHP can move through them like an array when they arrive to the server. Rough, but it does the job anyway.

Thing is, I DON'T like the solution I have now. Thus, I've been researching the possibility of inserting a multi-uploader Flash-based utility, as I've noticed that these usually have no hitch handling both correct uploads and failed ones. So far, I've only found two truly freeware solutions: SWFUpload and In-a-Flash Uploader. Both seem great (In-a-Flash being the easier one to use of the two); however, BOTH of them, when tried locally and on my server, refuse to work, even after relentlessly tweaking the corresponding upload handlers for each tool.

Albeit, among the forums I regularly frequent, this admittedly isn't the one with the biggest population of techies, it doesn't hurt to ask. Ultimately, I'm trying to make this as simple to use for the common Joe as possible, and as much as I'll have to grind my teeth if it comes to that, if ease of use means sticking with the old bitchy <input type="file"> elements, there's nothing I can do against it.

So, do you guys know of any potential solution that could solve my problem? Or if not, can any of you figure out how to get either of the two I mentioned here running? I'll be eternally glad to you if you can point me out in the right direction.

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Gaming / Re: The "What are you currently playing?" Thread

« on: March 28, 2009, 10:57:51 PM »

Quote from: Da Dood on March 28, 2009, 01:40:38 PM

Finished Silent Hill: Origins (okay game) and finished RE1 Director's Cut for the ~800th time. Game's tough on Advanced, damn. Didn't help that I chose to ignore the Grenade Launcher.

Good taste, man, good taste.

Now try finishing it with Chris ignoring any items from the Small Keys drawers, unless they're Key Items.

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Gaming / Re: The "Suzumiya Haruhi" Games Thread

« on: March 28, 2009, 12:38:55 PM »

I can't wait until I have enough knowledge of kanji so I can kidnap my friend's PSP and tell her I'm not giving it back until I finish the Haruhi dating sim game.

Mikuru & Nagato =