No, Nandemonai, the site uses Java.
This thread has reached page 50! Time for a second thread!
Second thread? Why would we want to do that? This one thread is enough. Let’s see how far we can push this!
NOOOOOOOOOO!!! :’(
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Originally posted by Benoit:
NOOOOOOOOOO!!! :'(
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Seriously - this thread is a fixture of this BBS now. We're all interested in seeing how far we can push it, so we're not ever going to kill it. It'll lie dormant for awhile, but it will always start back up again - if no one else does it, I will.
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Originally posted by Nandemonai:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99996094I don't know about you guys, but I'd pay a fairly high amount for this kind of information, assuming it in fact was accurate. (then again, it's already popular enough that people using the predictions, are affecting the outcome...)
Sounds interesting but might have a built in flaw, human randomness. Around where I am, very recently in fact, people with SUVs and vans are trying to make cuts into lanes and spaces and take turns that a sports car would have trouble with, and yes that has increased the number of accidents.
How can you predict that would just one day happen or what the next highly dangerous trend might suddenly be? That is whatever can top people with SUVs trying to cut into a space that is small for two-seat racing car and take sharp turns about about 65mph/97kph?
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Originally posted by SCDawg:
Sounds interesting but might have a built in flaw, human randomness. Around where I am, very recently in fact, people with SUVs and vans are trying to make cuts into lanes and spaces and take turns that a sports car would have trouble with, and yes that has increased the number of accidents.How can you predict that would just one day happen or what the next highly dangerous trend might suddenly be? That is whatever can top people with SUVs trying to cut into a space that is small for two-seat racing car and take sharp turns about about 65mph/97kph?
Actually, I think you CAN predict - with an eerie amount of accuracy - what a given aggregate group of people behave like, if you observe them repeatedly over time. In particular I know that traffic lights are controlled by similar traffic-flow modelling.
I don’t know, if humanity is good at one thing other then finding new ways to kill itself off, it’s being able to be more random then any computer or long term study can perhaps figure out.
Yes looking at people over time might and can give you some idea of what to expect, but would you have figured people in what are basically tanks, the Hummers, would suddenly start driving those things like they are in a Corvette? Would a computer have predicted that even after watching them for a long time?
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Originally posted by Benoit:
This thread has reached page 50! Time for a second thread!
No way!
You can't replace the original with a cheap imitation!
Long live the one-and-only thread of insanity! [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Unicorn:
No way!
You can't replace the original with a cheap imitation!Long live the one-and-only thread of insanity! :p
Amen! So why don't we talk about not cancelling this thread for a few more pages? 8D
And They're coming to take me away Ha Ha
They're coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha
To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice men in their fleece white coats
They're coming to take me away Ha Ha
And They're coming to take me away Ha Ha
They're coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle thier thumbs and toes
They're coming to take me away Ha Ha
Yeah, here’s to fifty pages, and hopes for fifty more.
And I love that song. It’s so kick ass. It took me forever to track down who was the artist, and find the CD. And this was during pre-credit card era, so ordering online was out. I think I finally found it at Tower Records. And I’m rambling again…
Although, I don’t know why people keep thinking that it’s “fleece white coats” when it’s actually “clean white coats.” :shrugs:
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How is the artist or what is the song title for that matter? I’ve heard it before but not in a while, and not sure if they ever said the title or artist.
Oops make that Who is the artist not how, typed too quickly once again.
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How is the artist or who is the artist? If it’s how, then he’s living happily, away from the music industry. He released only one album in 1966, he was going to release a second album called For “God’s Sake, Stop the Feces!” but never did. He came back in 1996, I think, to release a sortof compilation album of his first record and a few songs of his never released second album. Who is he, is Jerry Samuels, also known as Napoleon XIV. And his CD The Second Coming is full of novelty songs, like “I Owe a Lot to Iowa Pot” or "The Place Where the Nuts Hunt the Squirrels."
The song that’s so famous is conveniently called “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” Originally on those huge LP records,if you played the B side, You’d hear a song called “!aaH-aH, yawA eM ekaT gnimoC er’yehT” which is the song played backwards. And they have that as a bonus song on the Second Coming CD as well.
I’ve spent a lot of time researching the CD before I was actually able to get it, so I know more that I should. :shrugs:
I’ve been posting too much lately, I should stop it. Bad llama. :slap:
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精神 の 神
[This message has been edited by Seishin (edited 07-08-2004).]
Ah, yes… Dr. Demento used to play it all the time, and now Napoleon XIV rings a bell ding
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Originally posted by Seishin:
Yeah, here's to fifty pages, and hopes for fifty more.And I love that song. It's so kick ass. It took me forever to track down who was the artist, and find the CD. And this was during pre-credit card era, so ordering online was out. I think I finally found it at Tower Records. And I'm rambling again...
Although, I don't know why people keep thinking that it's "fleece white coats" when it's actually "clean white coats." :shrugs:
Amen! Another 50 pages and maybe we'll be sane! Nyuk nyuk nyuk...
I didn't actually know the words. I had to go type in "they're coming to take me away ha ha" into Google to find the lyrics.
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Originally posted by Nandemonai:
Amen! Another 50 pages and maybe we'll be sane! Nyuk nyuk nyuk...
Cripes! Then don't go for another fifty pages, cause sane is the last thing I wanna be [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]
So I happened to be cruising the GameFAQS bulletin board for Chrono Trigger, and I found some truly fascinating information. It’s fairly well known that not everything they wanted to do, ended up in the final version of CT. What I didn’t know was that there are apparently still a bunch of incompletely-removed stuff from the game.
* The game has support for 9 characters. The character select screen only has room for 7 but if you Game Shark in more, you can scroll the screen. This must have been specifically programmed in. The 2 extra characters were removed. Apparently Schala was supposed to be a player character but was cut for some reason. Dunno about the others.
* There is a dungeon still in the game that’s not completely coded - Singing Mountain. I’d love to know more about this but no one seems to actually have WRITTEN DOWN how to get this stuff, they just TALK ABOUT it. You have to game shark access to it.
* Some plot triggers were not removed, but access to them was blocked off. The one that I know of is something in Schala’s room - if you have a walk-thru-walls Game Genie code on, it triggers cutscenes that end up with Magus in the party (so you can get him twice). I’d like to know how to see this one, too, but couldn’t find anything.
Does anybody know anything about these? Are there any more? I’d like to fool around with this and see what I can do.
Huh? Chrono Trigger incomplete? I would never have thought of it, and have never heard of that.
With all the endings that Chrono Trigger has, this is very surprising. How did this happen?
Time constraints - the game has to actually be finished, and released.
Space constraints - they had to get the game into a 32 megabit cartidge, that was all the space they had.
Editing decision: a sequence, even if cool, will sometimes be removed because it doesn’t fit the overall feel of the storyline, or because other changes made it unbelievable, or whatever.
I’m pretty sure the first two played into the game, but I’m not sure about editorial choices; since we obviously don’t know what fell on the cutting room floor, other than bits and pieces … we can’t say whether the game’s better off without them.
Time constraints? They could have delayed the game. It’s not like they had to release it when it did. In 1995, they still put out Seiken Densetsu 3, so they could have delayed it, the Super NES was still the thing in Japan.
Tales of Phantasia was released on a 6 MB cartridge. They could have had a bit more space…
Of course, I don’t know the details, and this is just speculation…
Well, well, 3000 posts and here I am. Not that it means much with the rate some of the people post here. (Then again, Spec-san and I were posting at almost a psychotic rate at one point, so it’s nothing new ) But I figure it’s a nice round number to make a small announcement that I’ve been debating about for a couple months now. Most of you will probably be indifferent to it, and a few may actually be glad about it, but what the heck? (skip over this post if you get really bored, I’ll probably get a little wordy…)
Anyways, I’m going to remove myself from the board indefinitely, maybe even permanently. Of course, some of the more observant people probably wonder how that is different from the periods where I more or less didn’t post anything. In this case, it’s a conscious decision to remove myself from the activity of this BBS rather than something that’s happened because I was sick or because of work. And believe me, after almost 3 years, adjusting myself to not stopping by and post will be a bit difficult.
As to why, numerous reasons. Like I said, I debated about it for awhile, but as wanfu2k1-san mentioned in one of the other threads, when “it’s not fun anymore to post then maybe it’s time to go.” And the truth of the matter is, for me, it’s hasn’t been as fun as it used to. Do to no one’s fault in particular, I’ve been finding myself angry or frustrated by more and more posts or even entire threads here, which pretty much defeats my main purpose for coming here for stress relief.
Why announce this at all? Mainly because I felt like it and also because several of the people here whom I consider friends, I really have no other way of contacting. I know over the years, there have been a few regulars who just suddenly stopped posting, and I always wondered what happened to them…
And don’t misunderstand me, I’ve learned quite a bit here and I still think this is a great place for people to learn about these games as well as have some interesting (and intellectual) discussions on topics related to the games. I just don’t think it’s the place for me right now. I wish everyone here, not to mention everyone at PeaPri, the very best. Aloha!