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Completely Unrelated / Re: The Great Debate: Transportation Safety

« on: 2011-03-26 05:02:14 »

   more like it.  But do we also agree that "safest transport" tag to planes is baloney?  As in overall safety compared to all other forms of transport. 

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Favorite Video Game Music besides FF

« on: 2011-03-26 04:52:04 »

I have an extensive collection, these are my faves, in no order.

Metal gear Solid 1 and 2.
Soulblade
Lost Odyssey
Chrono Trigger
Mortal Kombat 2/3/trilogy
Sonic 1,2,3,+ knuckles.  Sonic 1 and 2 (master system), Sonic 3D (genesis).
Suikoden
Legend of Zelda OOT
Worms Armageddon
Mario 1,2,3,64,land, world
Street Fighter II
Grand Theft Auto (psx) Main Theme.
Resident Evil II (one of the greatest for sure!), 3, code veronica
Breath of Fire III and IV
Streets of Rage 1,2,3
Revenge of Shinobi
Command and Conquer, Red Alert, red Alert 2
Double dragon II
Halo
Golden Axe
mario Kart 64
tekken 3 and tag
Spot Goes to Hollywood (psx)


I consider the following to the greatest of all time:

1. Final Fantasy VI-X
2.  Breath of Fire III
3. Metal Gear Solid
4. Resident Evil II
5. Soulblade
6.  Sonic 2 to 3D

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trolling Thread: For all your trolling needs

« on: 2011-03-26 01:33:18 »

I personally wish there were some way for people to go to their profile, click on the "ignore board options" link, tick the "completely unrelated" box and change their profile. Then they wouldn't have to see anything they didn't want to see.

On a serious note, why doesn't this board have an ignore function?

It does doesn't it?

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trolling Thread: For all your trolling needs

« on: 2011-03-26 01:29:19 »

Not long ago, you were vehemently arguing that planes were more dangerous than cars.
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Several times I reinforced the statement that "at best" planes are "no more safe" and I said "They definitely are not the safest [overall]"

You should keep up.  I retracted the implication that "cars are definitely safer", as that was never really my problem.  My problem is that the aviation authority parrots the "safest" and so do people brainwashed into believing it.  There is nothing left to say on this.  I have made it clear.

Also, depending on which set of official stats you use (3 are compiled and I sent them), you get vastly different outcomes.  I personally believe death by journey number is fairer and so do aviation insurers.

You can try to prolong this if you wish, but there is nothing left to prolong, only your trolling. Have fun!

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trolling Thread: For all your trolling needs

« on: 2011-03-26 01:06:27 »

Fatality rate per billion passenger miles traveled
Car (most dangerous)
 7.2
Airplane
 2.3
Bus
 2.0
Train (safest)
 0.5

Let's say that those are correct... they still show that the claim "Planes are the safest form of transport" is dubious to say the least, which is my main problem with the aviation authority and people who claim planes as safest.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trolling Thread: For all your trolling needs

« on: 2011-03-25 23:16:37 »

That does not answer the question properly at all, because you have not used an average based on how many total journey's there are (and by that stat, cars come out 3X worse).

There are far far more car journeys than plane journeys, so obviously a sum total will show planes having less deaths.   (I also didn't realise it was this thread because of the post title, but since this is actually debating I will leave the post here).

You cannot use sum totals in this debate, as it is the most unfair stat going.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trolling Thread: For all your trolling needs

« on: 2011-03-25 12:02:42 »

LOL  You can't be taken seriously really.  It is clear to everyone you are a troll who is a bit butt hurt that your best pal left (and only returns when there is trouble )   I will leave you to it.  You turned a simple argument about aviation safety into a character assassination and baiting exercise.  Ask Jari where that gets you these days.  I am not that idiot who was here before, I don't take it that seriously anymore and I can ignore it or laugh at it.  Not to mention the mods here now actually do something.  You are a dyin' breed round these parts, and thank god for that.  If you want to act like a moron and fit in with your f*cked-up kind, I suggest you boogie on over to the Lifestream Forum.  You will find a lovely home there, for sure.  They will also agree with every crazy argument going, so you won't even need to argue.  IQ entrance fee <60.

Seriously, you  need to learn to get your fun elsewhere.  This is a bit basic.  You have both got to such a point that you don't even care how obvious your trolling is...  it has become second nature to you.  While we are at it, trolling is a mental disorder and is strongly linked to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

In other words it makes you awful, bitter people; delighting in the trouble you cause.   All you serve to teach us in this thread is that you are not nice people and are both mentally disturbed.  Usually stems from childhood and upbringing.

What is there to gain by provocating him ?... ...Answer : nothing good.

That depends on how one defines "good".

If "good" to you means a flame-war and a troll-fest, yes, I can understand why you'd head into provocation territory. It's so fun, right ?

best thing is to leave him here talking to himself about how bad I am.    It is no good being an obvious troll, and it is obvious to everyone here that he takes opposite sides to stir up a bit of trouble   With that in mind, what use is it even arguing with him?  Let's move on because he is getting exactly what he set out to achieve. 

A familiar pattern around here is the ones who don't contribute anything to FF7 are the same ones who go round trolling.  Always stuck in this section bringing up as many things as possible to get a reaction.  It is sad...  but not surprising that Kud is a regular over at 4chan. 

He goes on about Hermoor 24/7 but is no better than him.  I suggest Kud and jari go and join him, they are more alike than they believe.

back to the topic:

The whole point of the statistical slant was to show that people who quote "Planes are the safest" are basing it on dodgy stats; parroting the propaganda and brainwashing that is peddled by the media and aviation, and that a fairer stat is the deaths by JOURNEY NUMBER.  I don't think anyone here feels safer knowing that they are more likely to die in a plane by journey number and instead think "oh well, by miles travelled I am...so...I will just think of happy thoughts.  It's gonna be a goooooood day.".  That would be crazy.  The reason the aviation use that stat is because it looks good (honestly, that's obvious).  The reason the insurers use the death by journey number is because it is a more faithful statistic.  Yes I said more faithful, not perfect.

Planes usually crash and burn on take off or landing.. so what happens in-between is largely irrelevant.

I did not mean to claim that the stats show conclusively that planes are more dangerous than car, but that at best, planes are no more safe.  If I said that or gave that impression then I retract it.  They certainly are NOT the safest form of transport.  That is a fact.  An undeniable fact.  I am well aware that even the death by journey stats are not perfect and have problems in interpretation but they are far fairer than death by hours travelled or distance travelled. 

I would also like to add that given the choice of death, most of us would like the sharp fast death of car. If something goes wrong in a plane, generally you will be alive for a long time, in utter panic the likes of which you cannot conceive.  You are placing your life in the hands of a human operator, and hence most accidents in plane are human error related.  I am afraid that human error does exist on plane.. it doesn't just stop because the Aviation's dodgy stats say so.

I did not manipulate any statistics, as I did not compile the stats, I merely stated them.  The fact is, kud is just trolling and I would wager in direct conversation with his buddy, the lunatic Jari.   


If either had any real care for debate they would have attempted it, instead they made everyone aware that they have no argument other than "MANIPULATION!!!!!" and at the same time made their trolling look ridiculously blatant.  It is no surprise to find that the same people are the source of every argument on this forum and always will be.  You would have thought that their enormous practice at it would have made them more competent trolls, but as I said, they do it so much they have become complacent.  This thread has become the biggest joke ever, and it is all on Kud and jari!

Cheers boys

1 last thing.  You 2 need to give up trying to bait me and troll me.  We are never going back to the old days so move on.    That way you will at least maintain some sort of dignity instead of being the laughing stock of the forum.  I will not be back to this thread.

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Releases / Re: [REL] Final Fantasy VII FMV Restoration

« on: 2011-03-24 04:02:14 »

It's a shame that the problem has only just surfaced but it is too late   I am not sure what has added that problem tbh, probably fractals though.  had I done them again I would just batch the way the other guy has.

We will see what he comes up with.  Personally I feel the problem is small...  it's taken this long to find it so it can't be that bad

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Releases / Re: [REL] Final Fantasy VII FMV Restoration

« on: 2011-03-24 03:54:26 »

In vegas.  I used vegas h264 (mainconcept).  Not x264.  That distortion is simply the way it goes   probably fractals.  It is just gonna have to be one of those things, there's another working on FMV's and so people will get a choice.  I am impressed by his noise reduction but I will probably stick with mine because they don't look as "fake" with the loss of some detail.

There is always some sort of issue months after it is finished.  I am afraid I cannot correct the problem now, it is far too late.  Still, as I said, there is another doing FMV's

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Releases / Re: [REL] Final Fantasy VII FMV Restoration

« on: 2011-03-24 03:13:37 »

vegas doesnt have such an option...  and it did work fine in the older driver.  So I guess people will have to use older settings for the range?

Any case, I havent noticed any shifting.  They were compiled at perfect resolution.  The same as original.

Show me what you mean in screenshot.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trolling Thread: For all your trolling needs

« on: 2011-03-24 02:37:27 »

I don't quite understand how I can be manipulating stats that I did not compile LOL

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Releases / Re: [WIP/ALPHA REL]Battle Interface Reconstruction

« on: 2011-03-24 01:34:46 »

Also, transparent windows I simply cannot do.  The problem is that if I set the value I have to 1, all windows turn transparent and that's not good because they conflict.  Trying to sort it so that only a few menus (main one being the option list) is transparent and others not... is beyond me, especially in assembly.

The only hope is aali (who is reluctant) or someone who understands this a bit better.  What we need is a way to choose which windows will be transparent but it is probably going to take some major recoding.  Me and kranmer lack the knowledge for that so....

It would help if I understood the basics, not least how the help bar makes itself transparent.  It is sadly beyond me.

Send a friendly note to aali on his thread, and request that he add battle option menu transparency.  You did not read that here.  It was all a dream. It is all a dream.  It never happened.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trolling Thread: For all your trolling needs

« on: 2011-03-23 22:51:57 »

I think it's quite hypocritical of you to complain about people manipulating statistics when you are doing exactly the same thing yourself, most likely because you like to be contrarian just for the sake of it.

I don't think deaths by journey number is as unfair as death by miles travelled or hours travelled, and nor do the insurers.  No stat is perfect I made that clear but planes are not as safe as car in terms of deaths.  That's a statistical fact.  You sound quite irritated, perhaps you like to believe you are all hunky dory when on a plane   I also didn't manipulate the stats as I didn't compile them, professionals did.

Stats are here:

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ca14/ALYCIDON%20RAIL/INFORMED%20SOURCES%20ARCHIVE/INF%20SRCS%202000/Informed%20Sources%2010%202000.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_safety#cite_note-38

It doesn't matter how you slice it, planes are not "the safest", at best they are "as safe" (and even that's in major dispute).  That's all.

Finally there is my preferred parameter, or rather the one I find most meaningful as I climb on a train. Fatalities per 100million or billion journeys, or its inverse, one fatality per so many journeys

This is, I think, (and readers may disagree) how risk is perceived at the moment of travel. Am I likely to survive this train journey, flight, drive and so on?

Railtrack certainly disagrees and argues that the passenger thinks in terms of making the same journey, that is travelling the same distance, in different ways. Hmm, but statistics show, for example, that a majority or car accidents happen within three miles of home, for example.

So, I still prefer journeys as the parameter. And on this basis, the DETR figures show buses and coaches at 4.3 per billion journeys, rail at 20, car at 40, air at 117 and motor bikes and mopeds at 1,640.

But I think (though readers may disagree), that the risk of death expressed one in so many journeys is more easily grasped.

Now, statistics such as those in the Table are riddled with inconsistencies. For example, as shown above, the rail figures cover falls at stations and passenger trespass. Coach and air don't include people standing too close to the runway, wing walking on 747s or falling down the escalator in the bus station.

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Releases / Re: [WIP/ALPHA REL]Battle Interface Reconstruction

« on: 2011-03-23 19:49:48 »

Ok people.  Let me explain this

There is no way on earth I would be capable of making an alignment mistake as bad as the ones you see on the picture above

It is just demonstrating the font and graphic and is the old exe positions.    All the pictures that I have placed up recently have been demonstrating font and graphic as opposed to final positions.  The battle interface for example has already been changed since the last picture.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: 8.9 Earthquake causes Tsunami to hit Japan

« on: 2011-03-23 16:50:08 »

Well, there are a ton of things to consider even with these stats.  But the claim that planes are safest form of transport is the biggest pile of baloney I have ever heard (and a lie that is often told is a lie that is often believed).  Any case, as you say, injury is probably more likely in car.  If you are in a plane during a serious problem, chances are you are going to die, whereas in car you may well survive with just cuts and bruises.  All luck of the draw.

It will also depend on country, some countries (the usual useless ones) have very poor air safety records.

Not surprisingly, air insurers go by death-by-journey stat.  It never ceases to amaze me how people make their own stats up to portray what they want to portray and it gives stats a bad name.  If you go out and collect proper data and fair stats, they are valuable resource.  But if you want to show something you want to, you can just warp the data to fit the pattern you want.  That is exactly what the aviation industry has done.  I mean what ridiculous notion, that you judge safety by hours or distance travelled, when most accidents on plane happen on take off and landing.  They are saying "Because the plane travelled thousands of Kilometres, that little unfortunate accident at the end where it crashed and burned doesn't really alter the stat of how safe the plane is"

My neighbourhood is the safest place in britain because I don't include all the robberies and muggings.  I only count crime that resulted in the criminal going jail for at least 5 years.

Yipee.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: 8.9 Earthquake causes Tsunami to hit Japan

« on: 2011-03-23 04:05:12 »

Actually planes are more unsafe than cars.  I know you have been led to believe otherwise but aviation uses hours and distance you travel and not the journey number.  By journey number this is the death toll:

Deaths per billion journeys
Bus: 4.3
Rail: 20
Van: 20
Car: 40
Foot: 40
Water: 90
Air: 117
Bicycle: 170
Motorcycle: 1640

You are 3X more likely to die on plane.


<< reply to guy on other page.

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Releases / Re: [WIP/ALPHA REL]Battle Interface Reconstruction

« on: 2011-03-23 03:40:03 »

and thanks for your materia   As you can see it is already in the game (slightly modified).  I made some new stars

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Releases / Re: Field Upscale Project

« on: 2011-03-23 03:25:27 »

I'll look into it as well but I'll wait until I am finished. Is there any noticeable loss in quality or detail?

into lossless PNG compression

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Releases / Re: [WIP/ALPHA REL]Battle Interface Reconstruction

« on: 2011-03-23 01:34:56 »

I am working hard on new graphics and what not, but not long now.  And yes, it will be here.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: What about our great music composer, Nobuo Uematsu?

« on: 2011-03-22 03:38:22 »

It's also redundant to note the exact date, as its stamped on the post.

 it's

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Gameplay / Re: Final Fantasy 7: Plus (PSX)

« on: 2011-03-21 22:47:51 »

Yeah well chupon is a bad translation.  It has always been typhon.

Typoon/Typhoon > テュポーン > Tupōn > Typhon
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3

Typhoon would very likely be タイフウン or  タイフーン taifuun (although it is not usually written in kana)

edit : http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC_%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3  like there.

Notice the Tupon is a direct match for typhon in kana and not to Typhoon and Typoon. 

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Gameplay / Re: Final Fantasy 7: Plus (PSX)

« on: 2011-03-21 13:06:49 »

Just my feelings

* Typoon > Typhoon

Typoon is Typhon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhon

* Knights of Round > Knights of the Round

This will pose problems in the menu with space.  (the japanese does say Knights of Round, but probably for space issues as well).


* Mini "Induces or cures a [Small] state" > "Induces or cures [Mini]"

I would go with Minimum

* DeSpell "Makes magic ineffective" > "Removes positive statuses"

And Dispel.

* 1/35 soldier > 1/35 Soldier

1:35 as opposed to 1/35, as this is about scale.

* Grow Lance > Glow Lance

Correct, it is actually a fire poker/torch type weapon.

+ HP Shout "Powers up when HP is high"

God I hate that name.  It is marvellous cheer, but hey ho!

* Steal as Well "Steal simultaneously when paired Materia is used" > "Steal whilst using paired materia"

I went with Added Steal.  Goes well with the other "added"

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Graphical / Re: [WIP] FL's Battle-Scene/World-map Enhancement

« on: 2011-03-21 12:27:17 »

I'm impressed... and that doesn't happen often.

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Graphical / Re: [WIP] FL's Battle-Scene/World-map Enhancement

« on: 2011-03-20 21:37:57 »

That's great   when is the sky and meteor being done   The sky looks so crap originally!

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General Discussion / Re: Renaming a status effect ?

« on: 2011-03-20 15:54:02 »

I use Neo.  It is pretty good even in freeware form.  If anyone knows any better let me know