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Completely Unrelated / Re: How to date a Japanese woman

« on: 2007-04-23 03:41:24 »

Thank you but that ripper just gives a link to the actual file to download from YouTube, which I can’t access.

Anyone up to it?


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: How to date a Japanese woman

« on: 2007-04-22 06:33:51 »

Thailand blocks YouTube.
Someone care to host these?


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Be Sure to Get These

« on: 2007-04-21 10:50:00 »

While there is a homebrew scene, I wouldn’t know anything about their work-arounds, methods, utilities, and complications implied.
I do know, however, that Nintendo really does not want these tools leaking to the outside.
The official Nitro SDK is available only on WarioWorld DOT com, only to licensed Nintendo developers.  On the same site you find the tools required to use the Nitro SDK, including Nitro Character Studio, Codewarrior, Ensata, and the utilities for the hardware debugger, most of which expire regularly (every 3 months or so).  Expiration means having to redownload from the restructed site, so that even if a leak ever occurred it wouldn’t be usable for more than 3 months.
On top of this, each tool requires reactivation every-so-often, which simply means it locks itself and gives you a challenge key which you must post on WarioWorld and get a reply key (which will include your log-in information so they know who you are, should a leak occur).

Furthermore, should a leak occur, it can always be traced to the exact source and that entire company will lose its license.  This forces companies themselves to be heavily cooperative on ensuring non of their team leaks any tools.


I have no idea how the homebrew scene works, or what tools/SDK’s they use.  ficedula knows.


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Be Sure to Get These

« on: 2007-04-15 17:07:01 »

Only for Barnyard Blast, since it actually has a running prototype.

I whipped up a technical demo for Makeup Diva which simply has a sphere that moves and animates, and you can draw onto it with the stylus, but it’s anything but screenshot-worthy.

I believe the only screens of Barnyard Blast are here (click the images to see them larger).
Might be some others floating around.


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Be Sure to Get These

« on: 2007-04-10 02:59:03 »

There are no standardized physics engines for Nintendo DS licensed, endorsed, or supported by Nintendo.
In fact the math library provided in the Nitro SDK (the SDK for Nintendo DS) is entirely lacking, and you would probably have to write a lot of the basic math functions too, on top of writing the physics engine.

It may be possible however to find a non-licensed user-made homebrew physics engine.

Also, Nintendo DS uses fixed-point math (it supports floating-point but not primarily), so you would also have to change everything in your entire game that uses floating-point numbers.


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Be Sure to Get These

« on: 2007-04-09 18:19:00 »

I don’t really know how many games were reviewed from GDC but I was told by another that only 3 or 4 were.

I do know, however, that among the games reviewed, 3 were mine: Barnyard Blast, Makeup Diva, and Housewife Superstar.

Be sure to get these games when they are released.  Here is a bit of info on each.


Barnyard Blast was my original concept and design.  That seems like a paradox to call it “original” given its likeness to Castlevania, but the game has changed a lot since its conception.
In fact I was originally borrowing ideas from Donkey Kong Country when designing the game.  Castlevania stepped in due to memory constraints on the Nintendo DS hardware; we have a limited number of screens available in VRAM and when the player moves too far in the map we need to flush the current buffer and load the next.  We borrowed Castlevania’s room-by-room design due to this limitation (originally planned to do the map in Super Mario Bros. fashion).
Later, the programmer next to me threw together a Castlevania whip as a joke and put it into the game.  He is into Castlevania.
In fact I told him to remove it before the demo at GDC for fear that crossing too far into Castlevania territory would be taken as a bad thing, however he left the whip and it turned out that bearing so much likeness to Castlevania was a good thing.
After GDC we headed more into the parody direction, though the original parody style was simply coincidence.
Be sure to get the game and help Robert Belmart, his wife Julia Belmart, and their son Cliffy Belmart stop the evil darkness from spreading over Barnyard Town.




After finishing the story for Barnyard Blast I went on to two other games we had at GDC.

Makeup Diva
Housewife Superstar



For Makeup Diva, I am the game designer and research & development specialist.
To expand, the process of drawing onto 3-D models using the Nintendo DS stylus is not simple.  Even if it was a normal 3-D game, the problem would be complex enough in requiring that we locate the polygon under the stylus on the screen and even further locate the texel on the texture there, using the UV coordinates from that polygon.
The math for this is nothing new, and some readers may feel that this problem is relatively simple.
However handling this problem on Nintendo DS is not as straight-forward.
The Nintendo DS standard 3-D formats (Nitro System for those who know what I mean) don’t actually have polygon data in them.  When the file is created, the polygon data is compiled into a series of drawing commands the hardware uses to draw polygons more quickly.  The series of commands required to draw the 3-D models has already been created and the hardware simply needs to run over them, allowing it faster drawing.  This was the method on Nintendo 64 as well.
So without polygon data available, no “surfaces” for temporary drawing, and the generally unique nature of the Nintendo DS API, the problem was no simple matter.

The technology to draw onto 3-D models did not exist on Nintendo DS because of multiple hardware restrictions.  My first job was to overcome these restrictions and create that technology, so when you play the game and draw onto the 3-D faces, you will be using the direct results of my research and development.

As the game designer, many of the challenges you face in the game will be of my design.  I also pushed the game from 2-D (as shown in the screenshots in the links of the original concept) to 3-D.




For Housewife Superstar, I am also a designer.
This project has just gotten underway starting today, so not much has been done yet.


Be sure to pick up all of these games as they are released 8-10 months from now.
The most expensive game we plan to make should only be $29.99.
Also don’t be fooled by all the pink.  Makeup Diva and Housewife Superstar are targeted towards males also, and the pink was merely a result of lack of time in preparing the posters for GDC.  We have a Mad TV/Saturday Night Live style of comedy in these games and aren’t overplaying the feminine sides of the games, so males shouldn’t be pushed as far away as one might think from looking at the preliminary posters.


L. Spiro

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Re: Breaking the 9999 limit

« on: 2007-03-28 03:04:49 »

Levels are stored as 1 byte and have a maximum value of 255.
HP can go to 99,999.  MP can not.

Don’t revive dead topics.


エル　スパイロ

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Completely Unrelated / Re: My European Friends...Sorry

« on: 2007-03-02 05:59:01 »

PlayStation® 3 Song.

My coworkers won’t stop singing it.


エル　スパイロ

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Completely Unrelated / Re: So it Finally Arrived

« on: 2006-12-22 05:58:19 »

That was Ubisoft’s reply to our game, but they also marketed it entirely wrong, on top of just making it crap.
Such a game should not be on a PlayStation 2.
This type of game should be on a casual-gamer hand-held or personal computer.
Also, don’t take reviews of these types of games with a grain of salt.  The target audience are not people who read reviews, and likewise people who review games are not the target audience.  They can only empathize to a certain level (though their game is still crap).

They also made the mistake of making the game too story-oriented.  Sneaking through the house and finding keys is not the point of a horse game.
They also take “caring for your horse” too far, forcing you to clean stalls.  I speak from real-life experience when I say this is not the most enjoyable use of spare time (by the way, how many here would be surprised to learn that I am a cowboy/farmboy?  If this seemed a bit surprising to you, you’re not alone!  With a normal accent, modern clothes, and modernized tastes for computers, even people in real life are completely shocked to learn that both sides of my family are 100% cowboys and farmers).

Our game is focused more on the riding, doing tricks with the horse, etc.


As for the models, well, as I mentioned, the manager for our game used to work for another company in France who worked with Ubisoft to publish.
When he left and came to Thailand, surprise surprise, he “accidentally” found many of the old models on his laptop they were using before.
How fortuitous!
However the animations are all new.
We had a Thai company do the motion capture for the horses and humans.

Also, as mentioned, he left because he wanted to do better.



Now plans are being made to port to Nintendo DS and/or Nintendo Wii.
So all you lucky boys and girls out there better git ta learnin’ French sos ya’lls cin git yer “YEEHAW” on, I reckons.


El Spiro, sur’nuff

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Completely Unrelated / The Matrix: The Beginning

« on: 2006-12-21 19:30:20 »

Enter the Matrix


And all of this is well within our lifetimes.

But what consequences could there really be?
Assuming the end of the oil bell-curve and impending ice-age aren’t factors, and we have “living” machines roaming around us, what next?
Should we really be giving them rights?  This implies they actually care enough to have rights, and if they care enough to have rights, what is preventing them from violently giving it to themselves?

If a robot could sue you, wouldn’t that imply it had some mechanism for determining it has been wronged in some manner?
If it has a sense of self such that it feels it should not be wronged, and should be treated on an equal level with humans, what exactly dictates its retaliatory actions and where do they draw the line?
If humans are an indication, they would be capable of murder, and what stops them from taking over the earth?

Would some robots be “good” and some be “bad”?
Would we be at war with robots, in an us-vs.-them-style combat?
Would some of them join in with us?
Would they plan to exterminate us entirely?
Would they just to decide to kill off humans they felt unfit for society but protect the “worthy” ones?
Would they play a decent game of chess and argue over the Internet?


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: The babies who are murdered to order

« on: 2006-12-21 08:17:56 »

Ok, but you are forgetting that babies for stamcell research are MADE for this purpose alone.

I am not sure you read the article.
The babies were not made for stem-cell research.
They are stolen from their parents and secretly used for stem-cell research.
The arents are told the babies died of heart failure (or any mixture of stories) and that’s that, their babies lost.


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: The babies who are murdered to order

« on: 2006-12-21 02:32:27 »

Desire for attention?

Yeah, I'd go looking for attention over the internet.. right.
I'm not like you, "Omiegosh, my boss needs me but I want other job but I R most impotant for company so can't go please tell me what to do so I can get attention becouse i r t3h most important"

Dude.. just don't go there, not you, you are the most pathetic whining person on this entire forum.

And wtf is up with the drugs? I feel like a heroine addict on this forum lol, all I do is smoke weed which isn't that more harmfull then smoking (well maybe the propoganda of the USA made you think so by saying things like "If you smoke weed you become a terrorist!!").

Wow, all this after I didn’t flame you.
Why don’t you take a moment and go back to all the posts between us and see how I have never talked trash or talked down on you for whatever reasons all the others have.
As I’ve said many times, I only act like an ass to Jari. 
Even in my last post, I simply stated facts without accusations.

If you’re really planning on laughing at anyone on his or her deathbed, you’d do better by off getting off drugs and out of car accidents and eating/living right.

This is actually real advice, and could be said about anyone who does anything as unhealthy as smoking anything.


I don’t need to justify myself to you, but I’ll feel fine about taking a few moments to clarify what was said in that other topic, since you went there first.
I said (both to you and to my boss) that I could be replaced and things would be okay.
He said it wouldn’t work that way because we are in Thailand, not Silicon Valley.
Even when the situation is not on a slippery slope he has had problems recruiting.
Heh, I never said anything about my own skill level.  I could very well suck, but it wouldn’t change anything in my post.
A little reading comprehension is all that is needed to tell that the only two real factors are my boss’s extreme viewpoint and the skills of the natives, which no one can deny do not meet those of the skills in Silicon Valley.
For me to feel “bad-ass” or think I’m special would be like feeling good about beating a one-legged man in a 100-meter dash—regardless of whatever distorted meaning you gathered from that topic, I keep enough perspective to know I’m not especially fast at the 100-meter dash just because my current opponents are especially slow.


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: The babies who are murdered to order

« on: 2006-12-20 09:46:14 »

If I'd have cancer or something, I'd kill a hundred babies to live, f*** babies, I'm more attached to myself then a f***ing vomiting baby.

You can cry in a corner and be sad and go be a superhero who saves babies, till you're in the hospital at the end of your life and doc comes up to you: "I'm sorry sir, but we COULD save you with a fresh new healthy baby we can cut open but you and others decided to rather die in a moment like this, have fun"

Then I'd laugh in your face and then... then you die!
And I won't cus I'll be illegally be cutting babies open for treatment.

Is this satire?  Desire for attention?

Then I'd laugh in your face and then... then you die!
And I won't cus I'll be illegally be cutting babies open for treatment.

In case you’re getting the illusion (or delusion) that this can be used to prolong your life substantially, forget about it.
Technology is available to transplant brains into new bodies, but the bodies can not currently be fully connected in a way that allows motor skills, so you’d be paralyzed from the neck down.  Research with stems cells will have these motionless bodies moving within a few years, allowing beta testing for actual full body transplants.

Imagine that!  A totally new body!
Now you can live for eternity, right?

Wrong.
Cell division continues in your brain, so the result is simply that you have a young body…with Alzheimer’s disease.
They can inject stem cells into the brain but only to a certain extent, and overshooting this extent is literally the same as simply killing you and using your shell of a brain for a new human who will retain some of your recent memories but effectively be a new human with all-new cells of his own.

If you’re really planning on laughing at anyone on his or her deathbed, you’d do better by off getting off drugs and out of car accidents and eating/living right.


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: The babies who are murdered to order

« on: 2006-12-20 01:23:17 »

Okay, I didn’t think we’d be getting into cognitive powers of infants over my expression simply intended to make a point (a point, by the way, which the babies need to have made for them since they can’t make it themselves).

The point wasn’t to imply that the babies actually are thinking that, but simply to demonstrate how unfair the situation is, or to give of an example of what they might think, if they could.   


But okay, if you can’t empathize with the babies, try looking at it from the other important perspective: the mothers’ (and possibly fathers’).
Did she spend nine months in discomfort, buying clothes, toys, and other related utilities, just to have it taken away and have its brain scooped out?
Is that really why she went to the hospital?

I don’t know about you, but my wife is a precious gift.
Her sunny days are my sunny days.
Her clouds are my clouds.
Her smile makes me smile, and her tears sadden me.
Frankly I’m pretty sure that if we had a baby and it ended up this way, she would be pretty destroyed, and what destroys her destroys me.

How do you help her through this emotionally?


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: For Jari ONLY--A Topic Regarding Misunderstood Messages

« on: 2006-12-19 14:43:56 »

If you are so sure of yourself, I wonder why you had to delete the contents from couple of your messages? You know, the ones where you made an ass out of yourself, again.

Oh, don’t worry, I’m specifically counting on you to post those quotes.
Oh, and deleting those messages was part of my sense of humor, of which you claim I haven’t.

Not to worry, after debating with certain people here, I have taken it as a habit to save copies of threads where I suspect something like that might take place.

Yes, this is one of your personality flaws.
One of many flaws that forces you to keep track of other people’s dirt so you can always have some way of covering your own ass when the shit flies your way.
Normal people, such as myself, don’t try to store all these old posts hoping one day we can use them against said person if he or she ever lashes out (or what-have-you).
Typically people try to live and let live, but you are so afraid of ever being wrong, or ever needing to issue an apology for any reason what-so-ever, you’ll scoop up all this dirt so that no matter what happens, you can post some odd number of reasons why such-and-such person is below you and could therefore never be right in any situation, nor could you possibly be wrong enough to warrant an issued apology. 

As I stated in my post, you’ll never apologize, even though it’s obvious to everyone here that you attacked me for no reason other than simply misunderstanding my posts, and you’re soon going to follow up by digging up some dirt that somehow justifies (though only to you) your lack of apology.

Besides, are you blaming me for your superlong message?

I’m not sure which part of which post makes you think I’ve put blame on anyone for my lengthy posts. But fret it not, mi amigo, I decide for myself how long my posts should be, and I take full credit (or blame) for making them long.
[Disclaimer: This is how I typically respond to any misunderstandings: clearly, cleanly, and politely.  As mentioned, I have a specific reason for the change in tone recently.]

You know very well that you touch several points, and I pretty much have to quote you, to maintain a context that is at least somewhat easy to follow.

Usually, but the problem is, well, I’ll wait for your quotes before I explain the problem.


L. Spito

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Completely Unrelated / The babies who are murdered to order

« on: 2006-12-19 02:39:25 »

The Report

Now this is probably an all-time low in human’s existence, and amazingly it isn’t even America or Nazis this time.
I had always supported stem-cell research and when the babies are already dead from the start I had never seen the “ethical” fallacies that America had seen when it banned their research.
I myself have in fact planned to use stem cells in the future for a certain unexplainable (here) purpose, however, of course, I would have been expecting my stem cells to have been from genuinely stillborn babies.

I thought that harvesting healthy babies would be too ethically low for anyone, and that stem-cell research would be unlikely to cause such a travesty, at least on a large scale.
Technically this still isn’t a large scale; just a few hospitals in one country (that we know), but it is already high enough to be inexcusable.
What if you were that kid who was just born?
You look up at the lights and think, “Finally, time to learn everything this world has to offer.”
Then they carry you off and you say, “Hey, what are you doing?  I just got here!  Where is my chance to start a family and have kids of my own!?”

Not to mention their mothers who wait for 9 months just to have this happen in the end.

I don’t know really where to rate this, but I don’t care to get into a discussion comparing this to all the other all-time lows in humanity’s history.
Taking healthy babies and just killing them for their brains then lying to their mothers is simply low.


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: For Jari ONLY--A Topic Regarding Misunderstood Messages

« on: 2006-12-19 02:19:48 »

Why'd you wanne do that?

Why not?  He’s my best friend.

Damn my memory is going on me (And I'm so young too!),who was the other person who was once going on posting intentionally mispelt words and terrible grammar in the past, or was it you then too?

I don’t think it was me.
But at least in my case there is and has always been a system behind the madness.

Actual message exceeds 20000 characters, which is the set limit for the board currently.

Sigh, as expected, you’ve chosen the most obvious and blatantly losing path.
But that’s normal, given your severe personality flaws and the fact that I’m forcing you to take this path.


L. Spro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: For Jari ONLY--A Topic Regarding Misunderstood Messages

« on: 2006-12-18 08:47:23 »

This could be done just as easily over PM without having to bother the rest of the forum with the issues between you two.

Score another one for me.
I already tried to go the PM route but Jari would have none of that, quickly informing me that I was put on PM ignore and further messages would never be read.

you won't ever meet Jari in real life

Ironically I offered to fly out there and meet him but he didn’t reply to that either.

Oh, and my naem si mispesled fro a porprose.


lspiero

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Completely Unrelated / For Jari ONLY--A Topic Regarding Misunderstood Messages

« on: 2006-12-18 06:58:27 »

This is to keep our little war out of the otherwise quality-filled thread. (Oh, I guess I should actually make notes when I use satire because some people seem to be completely convinced I have no clue of the concept).


A few spare minutes found in the office.  Time to lay it down.   
[Disclaimer: I am going to be an ass where I could otherwise choose softer words.  The reason being that I have been directly attacked, pushed, and shoved by someone who deserves no less.  Any cockiness found in this post is otherwise out-of-character for the author, and should not be taken as part of the true nature of said person.
I have a second reason, too, but that will be revealed after Jari replies. ]

See, just claiming that you have a sense of humor does not mean you have one, anymore than me claiming I'm the King of Norway makes me one.

Except that I claim to have a sense of humor because I have one.  But I’ll get into that later (remember this, because I won’t get to it until after your reply).



And in one more post you managed to show yet again that you seem to have problems gathering the context out of written language.
Allow me.

Lesson 1: Address the Issues at Hand

Quite the contrary, I have assumed all this time - and continue to do so - that your tirade was written totally seriously.

Ah, but you’re addressing the wrong issue.  I never doubted that you thought my post was written entirely seriously.  I said you think I’m trying to claim it wasn’t.  Missed a big key word there, did you?   


Lesson 2: Context is a Tricky Thang

Ah, so, a shortage of Wii machines managed to cause a bit of “shoving and grappling”.
As expected.

Nuh uh, no you don't.

Since it was the "violent and sexist" games that made people fight over PS3, I'm waiting for your explanation about why Ninty-fanboys do it. With Nintendo games being all "wholesome", and supporting "family values".

I didn’t bother to reply to this simply to avoid making you look stupid. Like this guy. You didn’t even get the context of my reply, so why should I bother?
You thought I meant that I expected violence on the Wii side, and you thought that because you were looking for a way to claim this:

with you it's merely a case of apparently turning your coat to appease the crowd after having your ass handed to you once already, and trying to score minuscule "victories" by "cleverly" hinting what you really think.

Notice those clever little quotation marks meant to emphasize the “shoving and grappling” (also a direct quote from the article, to add to my point).
Normal people understood my meaning as, “As expected, the violence on the Wii side was nothing compared to that on the PlayStation 3 side.”

So when you say, “Nuh uh, no you don't,” I say, “Yessum, it’s exactly what I expected.  Knives and guns for Sony and a bit of pushing for Nintendo.”
Yeah, I just didn’t want to reply because there would be no way to point out that you are on a completely different planet without making you look like an idiot for being there. Man, I try to get along, even avoid pointing out your errors in the name of peace, and you just want to crap all over it.
Or is it because I wanted to see just how far you’d go on a context that doesn’t even apply to anything.  Or both.   


Lesson 3: If you Can’t Understand the Correct Context of a Sentence, Don’t Pick Fights that Don’t Apply
Oh, and speaking of which, I guess that means I never turned my coat in the first place, and never tried to go back and claim my old post was all a big joke, so when you go off and say “No, with you it’s merely a case of apparently turning your coat to appease the crowd after having your ass handed to you once already, and trying to score minuscule ‘victories’ by ‘cleverly’ hinting what you really think,” well, that goes out the window, yet again showing just how far you are willing to go on contexts that don’t even apply.
That’s strike 3 already. And it’s worse because you’ve been sitting here attacking me from some other tangent that only you acknowledge.  Eh, well, we all make mistakes, right?
Don’t worry about it mi amigo, I did the same to Qhimm in that thread about the Sony ads.  The difference is, I sincerely felt bad for it, admitted my wrong, and apologized to him multiple times.
I know the idea of admitting you made a mistake is altogether lost on you though, and you will just reply by gathering together a bunch of past incidences with the idea of assaulting my character rather than address the actual issues here and now (read Lesson 1), because, according to you, proving a faulty character is the basis for poving that that person must therefore always be at fault in all incidents, even though neither the past nor my character have anything to do with your poor reading comprehension and the fact that you have so much faith in your abilities to gather the correct contexts from sentences that you are willing to make youself look like a total jackass by attacking people on grounds that only work if your contexts were the right ones.
Or you’ll go the old route of “calling bullshit” once again on false pretenses (I won’t hide the keyword this time; it’s again).
Call bullshit all you want.  How much of it can you prove?  And if all you have is your hunch, why don’t you just admit it’s a hunch?  By going off on these tangents, you’re assuming your hunch is fact (sound familiar? *cough* religion *cough*), which still makes you wrong.  Except twice as wrong, since you were wrong in the first place to call bullshit.
I could list all the times you’ve been wrong to call bullshit too, but in most cases you wouldn’t be convinced by my word alone, and most cases don’t actually apply to the issues at hand, which are your poor reading comprehension skills.
I do have to give honorable mention to the one time you didn’t call bullshit when you should have, but that’s not the issue at hand.


Lesson 4: Err, Context is a Tricky Thang?

You’ll notice the lack of satire in my actual post.

Please, do not try to pretend that you are capable of humor of any kind.

I've had the "privilege" of observing you for more than half a decade already, and considering that you haven't been familiar with the concept thus far, it's rather obvious that you haven't figured it out now, either.

No, with you it's merely a case of apparently turning your coat to appease the crowd after having your ass handed to you once already, and trying to score minuscule "victories" by "cleverly" hinting what you really think.

Heh, and here you go again.
I said, “the lack of satire in my actual post,” which most people understand as separating a post from its topic.  In other words, if I thought there would be people who couldn’t put two and two together, I would have wasted time typing, “the lack of satire in my actual post, rather than having satire in both the topic and the post.”
Ah, yes, that makes perfect sense to everyone here but you.
My previous sentence had been about the topic of the post, which means it would be entirely illogical for my second sentence’s context to switch from the satire in the topic to the “satire” in my other thread.
Yet, you chose to overlook this logical connection, deciding for yourself that I was trying to use “satire” to refer to my old topic, and then claiming I was turning coat and trying to appease a crowd.
So, you misunderstood my sentence and attacked me.
I did this to Qhimm too, then I apologized multiple times to him on Yahoo! Messenger.




Class Dismissed, But…
Well those are the lessons for reading, but some points were raised that should be addressed.
Unfortunately, I won’t address them here, because our fight this time was caused by your poor reading, making up your own contexts, and then flinging poo that should never have been flung.  The other issues are not related to this, and bringing them up here would be to detract from the point of this topic, and to raise dead issues needlessly.

So why did I mention that there are things that are left open based off this post?
Why, that’s simple!  I’m leading you into a trap!
You’re a predictable human being.  I’ll tell you that I know for a fact you will not acknowledge that you are in the wrong for misunderstanding my (very simple) sentences and attacking me based off your own misunderstandings.
Now, you have the option of not replying to this topic at all, but that’s actually not the best way to go.
But you won’t select the best route for this situation due to personality flaws.
Obviously, I can’t just tell you what I know you will do, but I can tell you a bit.
After you reply, I will take tidbits of this post and quote them below, proving my point and what I (and everyone else) knew all along.


lsirpo

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Warning: Xbox 360 Kills Infants

« on: 2006-12-17 15:41:31 »

Please, do not try to pretend that you are capable of humor of any kind.

Holy Jesus God this made me laugh.   
I should show this sentence to anyone who has known me in for more than 10 minutes.
I should show this to my boss; he wishes I would stop joking for 5 minutes (which I did for a while because he was getting an attitude about it).
Seriously, wow.  This is probably the only time in my life I will ever be seriously accused of having no sense of humor of any kind.

Wow.
I really thinking about really beefing that post up with all sorts of “Microsoft users are all evil and Windows users are baby killers” but since it was actually an innocent child this time I stopped with just a funny topic.

But it seems you don’t read well enough.
And why do I say that?
Well, for many reasons.
Specifically because I know what you’re thinking right now, and you’re wrong.  I’m not, nor did I ever try to claim that that other post was a big joke.   

Unfortunately this woman just kicked me out of the Internet café so I have to go, otherwise I would love to give you the full explanation.   


I’ll give it in about 12 hours or so when I get to work.


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Warning: Xbox 360 Kills Infants

« on: 2006-12-16 04:13:01 »

Listen to Father Spiro, he already told us that the evil console killed the kid.

Please, try to separate the attention-grabbing headline from the actual viewpoints of the author.   
You’ll notice the lack of satire in my actual post.


Aside from the death penalty, I think two fitting punishments would be either to force him to watch people play Xbox 360 but not be able to play himself, or to cut off his hands, so he can neither play Xbox 360 ever again nor punch little girls’ faces again.
Nor light his own fags (since we seem to like this term today, I thought I’d use it correctly).

This thread is fagging me out and I have to fag away at Japanese in 1 hour (in the hopes of becoming a fag of Japan one day) and then get this fag out of my shirt.


L. Spiro

122

Completely Unrelated / Warning: Xbox 360 Kills Infants

« on: 2006-12-15 04:29:34 »

News Story

He “snapped” after he thought his daughter had broken a $600 Xbox game console.

“I thought it was broken. I popped her in the face. I picked her up and tossed her in a chair.”

In other words, it wasn’t even broken.


Now try to put yourself in the shoes of the mother.
She had her child.  She wanted to raise it to be a young woman and an adult, who would fall in love, make more babies, and have her own life, goals, and dreams.
All ended because she met the wrong guy.
Everything the kid was supposed to be is gone, and the kid doesn’t even know why.
Money comes and goes.  It doesn’t matter how much the console cost; nothing changes the fact that you can get a new one, no matter how poor you are.

Some people are born losers.
Unfortunately, it often takes the sacrifice of an innocent human being to get them off the streets.


L. Spiro

123

Completely Unrelated / Just in Time for the Holiday Season!

« on: 2006-12-12 21:21:49 »

Great New Game!

Now you too can brainwash masses and force conversions into the religion of your choice!
As long as the religion of your choice is Christianity, of course.


I personally take this entire game as satire, but some seem to actually be offended by it.


L. Spiro


P. S.: If this post offended you, you probably shouldn’t have read it.

124

Completely Unrelated / Re: So it Finally Arrived

« on: 2006-12-12 19:29:03 »

So was this the big make or break project you mentioned a little while back?

No, that was my other company (Sanuk Software).
This one was by my second company Lumai Prod.
The make-or-break project is for Ubisoft and is a PlayStation Portable game called Guitar Hits.  A search on Google might find you the original Guitar Hits on “PC” (personal computer).

At the time of this game I was working for 3 companies: Sanuk Software, Lumai Prod, and another company doing voices for a Thai learning CD.

Do you have any screen shots?

->

Looks 2000'ish.

What you found was a beta shot from before the release of the game, however the actual release shots won’t look too much better.
This game was meant for little girls and we used the Torque engine (as you can see).

One of the Alexandra Ledermann horse games was #2 in France last year, but the guy who made it decided he could do better; it was really just a set path you always had to follow and he wanted it to be free-roaming.
He left the old company, came to Thailand, and started his own company here (Lumai Prod).  He chose the Torque engine because it allowed free roaming easily.

On that front, mission accomplished.  It is quite free-roaming, and doing #8 isn’t bad without the Alexandra Ledermann brand name attached to it.
Unfortunately its graphics aren’t super-hot but little girls don’t mind as much and we plan to do better in the next release.


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / So it Finally Arrived

« on: 2006-12-12 04:02:49 »

http://www.amazon.fr/Mission-Equitation-Recherche-Cheval-dOr/dp/B000JUB88Y/ref=pd_ts_sw_8/402-6526259-7840148?ie=UTF8&s=software
One of my projects.
Congratulations to the whole team—it’s doing great at #8 best-seller for this year in France.
Since I am sure all you boys and girls out there are eager to get your paws on this title, localizations in German and English should be coming soon.


L. Spiro