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nixon
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| Computolio_ wrote: | There's also an X68000 version of SMB that I can't for the life of me get to start. It needs some odd key or key combination that I can't seem to blunder into.
Naturally, it's a much much better port. |
Quit trying to derail the thread. Didn't you see the topic! |
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ArnoldRimmer83
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| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I knew of the existence of Super Mario Bros Special, but was unaware of those two Mario Bros games. That's pretty cool. And Hudson's port of Donkey Kong 3 looks really strange. I'll have to attempt to track these down at some point. Especially being a fan of Nintendo's early stuff. |
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kap
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| handofg0d wrote: | | kap wrote: | | I personally think the problem is sites that exist just to make money. Any business that necessitates a website with a business model and has nothing to do with the real world or anything outside the site (IE, Amazon sells physical objects) is in the wrong just to start. Unless it's begun to serve some other need and morphs into a site that is able to rake in the cash, fuck it. |
So are you telling me that SMASHMYPS3.COM is wrong? |
That dude is a scammer. He rakes it in. |
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handofg0d
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| kap wrote: | | handofg0d wrote: | | kap wrote: | | I personally think the problem is sites that exist just to make money. Any business that necessitates a website with a business model and has nothing to do with the real world or anything outside the site (IE, Amazon sells physical objects) is in the wrong just to start. Unless it's begun to serve some other need and morphs into a site that is able to rake in the cash, fuck it. |
So are you telling me that SMASHMYPS3.COM is wrong? |
That dude is a scammer. He rakes it in. |
Methinks my sarcasm was lost in translation... |
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kap
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| No, I got your sarcasm. Dude is a scammer though. |
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ProgrammingAce
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:25 am Post subject: |
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When i read slashdot i'm not there for the articles, I rarely ever follow their links. Instead i read slashdot for the comments. Same thing with Fark.
Reddit just seems like a stupid idea, you end up going through pages and pages of spam, and anything you submit only has a 50/50 shot of being seen by two people.
Digg annoys me on a fundamental level, i'm not even sure why.
I guess i look at it this way, HTML was built on the concept of links. Anything you say can be linked to by anyone for any reason. If you choose to use the internet as a profit source, people will sometimes profit off of your work. Honestly, i can't say i feel any sympathy since that's what the medium was designed for. You can't just use the bits and pices of the internet you like, if you want to go online, you have to take the other half as well.
My best advise would be take the advertising that the blogs like kotaku give you. When they link to you, go out of your way to welcome them. Something like "A special welcome to the readers from Slashdot.org" goes a long way towards retaining some of them as future readers.
Either that, or setup a script that blocks refrence links from the blogs... |
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TheRedEye
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:58 am Post subject: |
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| Well, I know there was a certain amount of sarcasm in that post, but...maybe you're not getting my point? I'm not saying there's anything wrong with getting linked from other sites. In fact, it's 100% right. My problem is with depending entirely on this for revenue, which I feel like a bunch of game sites do. |
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kap
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| We need to start blinging out LL. I could use some "mo chedda" if you "get me, yo." |
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Wonderbutt
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| kap wrote: | | We need to start blinging out LL. I could use some "mo chedda" if you "get me, yo." |
Sounds like you be typin' while youse blunted, son.
*cough cough* Damn gak. |
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ProgrammingAce
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| TheRedEye wrote: | | Well, I know there was a certain amount of sarcasm in that post, but...maybe you're not getting my point? I'm not saying there's anything wrong with getting linked from other sites. In fact, it's 100% right. My problem is with depending entirely on this for revenue, which I feel like a bunch of game sites do. |
Never take anything i say too seriously...
I see what you're saying, and i don't disagree. It's just that the internet is a weird and wonderful place... |
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Wonderbutt
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:39 am Post subject: |
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I never bother with commercial news-link sites. I like these guys. More grassroots and seemingly honest.
http://beta.newstrust.net/webx?14@@.f01fed9
That's a good listing about my favourite atheist, for example. |
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rbudrick
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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I'm taking this threadjack back.
What's the line after that in the song?
Ahem.
-Rob |
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handofg0d
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| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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| rbudrick wrote: | | I'm taking this threadjack back. |
I thought your username was "rubrdick". |
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rbudrick
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| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| handofg0d wrote: | | rbudrick wrote: | | I'm taking this threadjack back. |
I thought your username was "rubrdick". |
Jesus...I've lived almost 29 years and have heard ever possible abomination of my name (having the last name Budrick is way to easy to pick on), or so I thought.
That's a new one! The first one in 10-11 years! You win the cookie!
Robert A Budrick becomes:
-Roberta Budrick
-Roberto Buttlick
-Bob Bird dick (note all the first names above are interchangeable with any last name listed)
-Butterick-an uncommon last name, but a real one...just not mine)
-Butter dick
-Boodrick (only one out of 20 people pronounce Budrick correctly. It's bud and rick, people, shit! Boodrick is the most common fuck up of it)
-Burdick-a common last name, but Budrick is extremely rare
-Butt Trick (my favorite one, and I heard it from a kid in high school my senior year....the last new one I heard)
-Burly Dick
-Butting Dick
-Budding Dick
Ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
But Rubber Dick! R0FL! Hah! Pretty funny.
You just did that to make me jack the thread I bitched at you bitches for derailing, heh heh. 
So is anyone gonna get me a good fucking dump of this game or what? The image is obviously corrupted.
-Rob |
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ProgrammingAce
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| holy shit, the new crew at kotaku sucks... with hard hitting original content like this i'd rather they just steal other people's crap |
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TheRedEye
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| ProgrammingAce wrote: | | holy shit, the new crew at kotaku sucks... with hard hitting original content like this i'd rather they just steal other people's crap |
Surprisingly, I'm going to disagree with you here. I think Kotaku has shown that its hired staff are not, and will never be, actual journalists*, so I think casual bloggy stuff like this is probably the way to go. I don't necessarily think this guy is funny or charming enough to actually pull it off, but were I running the site, this is probably the feel I'd go for.
*Brian Crescente notwithstanding. That guy's got class. |
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handofg0d
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| They fail in my book for not ripping the original video and hosting it themselves, thus losing it forever. Not because I want to see some average looking chick playing Wii Tennis in her underwear (seriously internet fatties, grow up and at least look at some real porn while you jerk off) but because it lacks effort, and then they need to do these follow-ups. |
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ProgrammingAce
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| Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| See, that part i can forgive because that leaves them on shaky legal ground. As long as the youtube video is out there from the original creator, they're free to link to it. Once they make a copy of it and host it on their "for-profit" site, they're violating the creator's copyrights. Especially since the creator obviously wanted to take down the original video. |
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handofg0d
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| Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| ProgrammingAce wrote: | | See, that part i can forgive because that leaves them on shaky legal ground. As long as the youtube video is out there from the original creator, they're free to link to it. Once they make a copy of it and host it on their "for-profit" site, they're violating the creator's copyrights. Especially since the creator obviously wanted to take down the original video. |
Okay I see your point. I didn't think about them being a "for-profit" site, and as such the legal woes they must face. Although, if someone did rip, and repost her video, I'd feel no sympathy for her. I mean, it's youtube for fucks sake... You post it there, your "privacy" is pretty much out the window anyway. |
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JSzczep
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There's actually two Mario games on the PC-8001. The Super Mario Bros games mentioned by Stuart, and another one, called Mario Bros Deluxe (I think?), which is based on the really old Mario Bros game. You know, the one with turtles, and a POW block. Except... It's kinda cool, because it's also a bit like Donkey Kong, in that it has levels, with seperate tasks. So the first level is the turtle killing, then the next involves trampolines, and later switches and conveyor belts, etc.
I found it on an old PC-8001 disk image, along with about 6 other games. Can't for the life of me remember which site I got it off. Anyone played it? I actually think it's rather good. |
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