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post=125457
Welp, the controls don't have to be complex to achieve a complex game. Prime example: Super Smash Bros. The controls in that game are remarkably simple, so instead of fighting with the controls you end up fighting against the other player -- you know, the point of game. Easy to play, yet hard to master. SF4 and it's ilk is hard to play, hard to master. I don't see how that's better.

Actually, to master SSB you need to be good at fast falling, dashdancing, smashes and short jumps, which I did not find easy to pick up. Particularly short jumps, which I still can't do consistently. Melee adds more things you should be good at that are not easy to pull off(mainly wavedashing), I don't even know how Brawl works, although I hear it's been made easier.

Also, it's hard to tell if you're performing a hard combo or not.

I find pulling off even complex button movements on a keyboard easier than figuring that stuff out.

Granted, it's a lot easier to *start* playing it, and high level SF you probably need to be able to use glitches too....

post=125480
Playing To Win is fucking fantastic and it's a must read for damn near anyone who plays video games ever.

Only competitive video games, perhaps even if you're not planning on playing competitively so you can understand that mindset.

If you're playing all single-player games, though, it doesn't apply to much. Although he has some interesting articles on making platform games and the like as well.

post=124799
MAYBE YOU SHOULD VISIT THE BUGS TOPIC SOME TIME

...Oh, there's a bugs topic.

c_c

MAYBE I SHOULD.

I keep getting an error that goes along these lines when I try to load a page:

OperationalError at /forums/topics/5559/
(2019, "Can't initialize character set latin1 (path: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/)")

Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/5559/
Exception Type: OperationalError
Exception Value:
(2019, "Can't initialize character set latin1 (path: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/)")
Exception Location: /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg/MySQLdb/connections.py in __init__, line 170
Python Executable: /usr/bin/python
Python Version: 2.4.3
Python Path:
Server time: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:22:56 -0600
Traceback Switch to copy-and-paste view

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-py2.4.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py in get_response
response = middleware_method(request, callback, callback_args, callback_kwargs) ...
â–¶ Local vars
/var/www/sites/rpgmaker.net/django/rmn/apps/ban/middleware.py in process_view
if request.META != u'/banned/' and is_banned(request, request.user):
...
â–¶ Local vars
/var/www/sites/rpgmaker.net/django/rmn/apps/ban/utils.py in is_banned
cursor = connection.cursor()
...
â–¶ Local vars
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-py2.4.egg/django/db/backends/__init__.py in cursor
cursor = self._cursor(settings) ...
â–¶ Local vars
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-py2.4.egg/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py in _cursor
self.connection = Database.connect(**kwargs) ...
â–¶ Local vars
/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py in Connect
return Connection(*args, **kwargs) ...
â–¶ Local vars
/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg/MySQLdb/connections.py in __init__
super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2) ...
â–¶ Local vars
Request information

GET
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post
u'124412'
POST
No POST data
COOKIES
Variable Value
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'153618939.969023553.1256046996.1266699660.1266708137.383'
__utmb
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__utmc
'153618939'
sessionid
'1eba58f84918d32b317beae97ac8ee41'
__utmz
'153618939.1251333655.44.2.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=rpgmaker.net'
META
Variable Value
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'/var/www/sites/rpgmaker.net/html'
GATEWAY_INTERFACE
'CGI/1.1'
HTTP_ACCEPT
'application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5'
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET
'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3'
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING
'gzip,deflate,sdch'
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
'en-US,en;q=0.8'
HTTP_CONNECTION
'close'
HTTP_COOKIE
'__utmz=153618939.1251333655.44.2.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=rpgmaker.net; sessionid=1eba58f84918d32b317beae97ac8ee41; __utma=153618939.969023553.1256046996.1266699660.1266708137.383; __utmc=153618939; __utmb=153618939.5.10.1266708137'
HTTP_HOST
'rpgmaker.net'
HTTP_REFERER
'http://rpgmaker.net/forums/design/'
HTTP_USER_AGENT
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.89 Safari/532.5'
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
'70.226.173.225'
HTTP_X_REAL_IP
'70.226.173.225'
PATH
'/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin'
PATH_INFO
u'/forums/topics/5559/'
PATH_TRANSLATED
'/var/www/sites/rpgmaker.net/django/rmn/apache/wsgi.py/forums/topics/5559/'
QUERY_STRING
'post=124412'
REMOTE_ADDR
'70.226.173.225'
REMOTE_PORT
'37721'
REQUEST_METHOD
'GET'
REQUEST_URI
'/forums/topics/5559/?post=124412'
SCRIPT_FILENAME
'/var/www/sites/rpgmaker.net/django/rmn/apache/wsgi.py'
SCRIPT_NAME
u''
SERVER_ADDR
'127.0.0.1'
SERVER_ADMIN
'webmaster@rpgmaker.net'
SERVER_NAME
'rpgmaker.net'
SERVER_PORT
'80'
SERVER_PROTOCOL
'HTTP/1.0'
SERVER_SIGNATURE
'<address>Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Server at rpgmaker.net Port 80</address>\n'
SERVER_SOFTWARE
'Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)'
mod_wsgi.application_group
''
mod_wsgi.callable_object
'application'
mod_wsgi.listener_host
'127.0.0.1'
mod_wsgi.listener_port
'80'
mod_wsgi.process_group
'rpgmaker'
mod_wsgi.reload_mechanism
'1'
mod_wsgi.script_reloading
'1'
wsgi.errors
<mod_wsgi.Log object at 0x2b011913bc60>
wsgi.file_wrapper
<built-in method file_wrapper of mod_wsgi.Adapter object at 0x2b0119e25e40>
wsgi.input
<mod_wsgi.Input object at 0x2b011927d930>
wsgi.multiprocess
True
wsgi.multithread
True
wsgi.run_once
False
wsgi.url_scheme
'http'
wsgi.version
(1, 0)
Settings
Using settings module rmn.settings
Setting Value
ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES
{}
ADMINS
()
ADMIN_FOR
()
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX
'/media/'
ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS
()
APPEND_SLASH
True
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
('django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',)
BANNED_IPS
()
CACHE_BACKEND
'locmem://'
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX
''
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS
600
CAPTCHA_KEY
'6LcTwQYAAAAAAL1YJ8nRLR-pm_fpGwOMYiOXvHGw'
COMMENTS_ALLOW_PROFANITIES
False
COMMENTS_BANNED_USERS_GROUP
None
COMMENTS_FIRST_FEW
0
COMMENTS_MODERATORS_GROUP
None
COMMENTS_SKETCHY_USERS_GROUP
None
CONTENT_ROOT
'/var/www/sites/rpgmaker.net/content/'
DATABASE_ENGINE
'mysql'
DATABASE_HOST
'localhost'
DATABASE_NAME
'rmn'
DATABASE_OPTIONS
{}
DATABASE_PASSWORD
'********************'
DATABASE_PORT
''
DATABASE_USER
'rmn_user'
DATETIME_FORMAT
'm/d/Y h:i A'
DATE_FORMAT
'm/d/Y'
DEBUG
True
DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS
False
DEFAULT_CHARSET
'utf-8'
DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE
'text/html'
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE
'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
'webmaster@localhost'
DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE
''
DEFAULT_TABLESPACE
''
DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS
()
DJANGO_PATH
'/var/www/sites/rpgmaker.net/django/'
EMAIL_HOST
'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
'********************'
EMAIL_HOST_USER
'staff@rpgmaker.net'
EMAIL_PORT
587
EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX
' '
EMAIL_USE_TLS
True
FILE_CHARSET
'utf-8'
FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS
('rmn.apps.upload.uploadhandler.UploadHandler',)
FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE
2621440
FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS
436
FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR
None
FIXTURE_DIRS
()
FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME
None
IGNORABLE_404_ENDS
('mail.pl', 'mailform.pl', 'mail.cgi', 'mailform.cgi', 'favicon.ico', '.php')
IGNORABLE_404_STARTS
('/cgi-bin/', '/_vti_bin', '/_vti_inf')
INSTALLED_APPS

INTERNAL_IPS
('192.168.1.101', '127.0.0.1')
JING_PATH
'/usr/bin/jing'
LANGUAGES
(('ar', 'Arabic'), ('bn', 'Bengali'), ('bg', 'Bulgarian'), ('ca', 'Catalan'), ('cs', 'Czech'), ('cy', 'Welsh'), ('da', 'Danish'), ('de', 'German'), ('el', 'Greek'), ('en', 'English'), ('es', 'Spanish'), ('et', 'Estonian'), ('es-ar', 'Argentinean Spanish'), ('eu', 'Basque'), ('fa', 'Persian'), ('fi', 'Finnish'), ('fr', 'French'), ('ga', 'Irish'), ('gl', 'Galician'), ('hu', 'Hungarian'), ('he', 'Hebrew'), ('hi', 'Hindi'), ('hr', 'Croatian'), ('is', 'Icelandic'), ('it', 'Italian'), ('ja', 'Japanese'), ('ka', 'Georgian'), ('ko', 'Korean'), ('km', 'Khmer'), ('kn', 'Kannada'), ('lv', 'Latvian'), ('lt', 'Lithuanian'), ('mk', 'Macedonian'), ('nl', 'Dutch'), ('no', 'Norwegian'), ('pl', 'Polish'), ('pt', 'Portuguese'), ('pt-br', 'Brazilian Portuguese'), ('ro', 'Romanian'), ('ru', 'Russian'), ('sk', 'Slovak'), ('sl', 'Slovenian'), ('sr', 'Serbian'), ('sv', 'Swedish'), ('ta', 'Tamil'), ('te', 'Telugu'), ('th', 'Thai'), ('tr', 'Turkish'), ('uk', 'Ukrainian'), ('zh-cn', 'Simplified Chinese'), ('zh-tw', 'Traditional Chinese'))
LANGUAGES_BIDI
('he', 'ar', 'fa')
LANGUAGE_CODE
'en-us'
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME
'django_language'
LOCALE_PATHS
()
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL
'/accounts/profile/'
LOGIN_URL
'/account/login/'
LOGOUT_URL
'/accounts/logout/'
MANAGERS
()
MEDIA_ROOT
'/var/www/sites/rpgmaker.net/html/'
MEDIA_URL
'http://rpgmaker.net/media/'
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
('django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware', 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.csrf.middleware.CsrfMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.doc.XViewMiddleware', 'django.middleware.http.SetRemoteAddrFromForwardedFor', 'rmn.apps.resources.middleware.ResourcesMiddleware', 'rmn.apps.base.middleware.SiteMiddleware', 'rmn.apps.users.middleware.UserMiddleware', 'rmn.apps.ban.middleware.BanMiddleware')
MONTH_DAY_FORMAT
'F j'
PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT_DAYS
'********************'
PREPEND_WWW
False
PROFANITIES_LIST
'********************'
RECAPTCHA_PRIV_KEY
'6LcTwQYAAAAAAL1YJ8nRLR-pm_fpGwOMYiOXvHGw'
RECAPTCHA_PUB_KEY
'6LcTwQYAAAAAALtrg2HzMbLrF1hkAW2Hab2MXsAM'
RESOURCE_COMBINERS
{'css': 'rmn.apps.resources.CSSManager', 'js': 'rmn.apps.resources.JSManager'}
ROOT_URLCONF
'rmn.urls'
SECRET_KEY
'********************'
SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS
False
SERVER_EMAIL
'root@localhost'
SESSION_COOKIE_AGE
1209600
SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN
None
SESSION_COOKIE_NAME
'sessionid'
SESSION_COOKIE_PATH
'/'
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE
False
SESSION_ENGINE
'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db'
SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE
False
SESSION_FILE_PATH
None
SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST
False
SETTINGS_MODULE
'rmn.settings'
SITE_ROOT
'/var/www/sites/rpgmaker.net/django/rmn/'
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS
('django.core.context_processors.request', 'django.core.context_processors.media', 'rmn.apps.base.context_processors.site', 'rmn.apps.users.context_processors.user', 'rmn.apps.resources.context_processors.resources', 'django.core.context_processors.debug')
TEMPLATE_DEBUG
True
TEMPLATE_DIRS
('/var/www/sites/rpgmaker.net/django/rmn/templates',)
TEMPLATE_LOADERS
('django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source', 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source', 'rmn.apps.games.premium_template_loader.load_template_source')
TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID
''
TEST_DATABASE_CHARSET
None
TEST_DATABASE_COLLATION
None
TEST_DATABASE_NAME
None
TEST_RUNNER
'django.test.simple.run_tests'
TIME_FORMAT
'h:i A'
TIME_ZONE
'America/Chicago'
TRANSACTIONS_MANAGED
False
URL_VALIDATOR_USER_AGENT
'Django/1.0.2 final (http://www.djangoproject.com)'
USE_ETAGS
False
USE_I18N
False
YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT
'F Y'
You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 500 page.

post=123976
Frankly, it's a shame that people like these are given the right to make a blog site about how much they hate a politician... For the most ridiculous reasons.

Okay, most of this argument is either fairly uninteresting to me, or I have nothing to say to it. However, the above quote from the first post I highly disagree with.

The alternative to not allowing people to make a blog site about reasons they hate a president, however ridiculous, is either mob rule because anyone who does that is going to get beat down, or a government who controls what citizens blog about.

Either of these are much worse than having people blogging about hatred for a politician, no matter how ridiculous the reasons.

I pretty much never play episodic games, mostly because they usually aren't finished when I run across them. I often avoid demos for the same reason - I pretty much know I'm not going to want to replay a game, or jump back into a story six months later. So I wait until it's finished, even though with RM games I often suspect they won't be.