MALADROITHIM'S PROFILE

RMXP is a great program but there are a couple of reasons why a lot of people don't like it.

It's an epic resource hog and has a hardlocked framerate that is actually pretty low. RMXP games will lag on a lot of computers that they very well should not be lagging on, and that's pretty lame. When a computer CAN run RMXP, the framerate is locked at some pretty low number, so it will appear to be lagging anyway. There's a "faster framerate" option that the players can turn on by accessing a configuration menu, but even then it's a little choppy. This is all because RMXP is pretty badly coded as an engine, but on top of that, it uses ZERO hardware accelleration - but that's actually a good thing in many ways.

It has a higher resolution than RM2k3. Because of this, you can't rip graphics from Square-Enix RPGs like everyone used to love doing. It's also a little harder to make convincing edits, because spriting at a higher resolution demands a little artistic ability. I think this is the single reason people tend not to use RMXP -- for some reason, nobody realizes that there are a lot of games (such as Suikoden) with larger sprites and tiles that are prime for ripping off. What is interesting is that, in my opinion, a second-rate but competent pixel artist will have more luck at a higher resolution than a lower one, and that awesome low-res spriting requires true viruosity.

But, you know, as far as making games go, RMXP is a way better program. I bought it for $60, and I would gladly buy it again if I had to! Besides -- you owe Enterbrain your money for pirating their excellent homebrew game-making studios in the past.

I am working on amazing game, but WIP said I can't promote it here. I disagree, because the game is at this point completely freeware and will be at least until it's finished, but WIP has singled me out because I mentioned I might want to sell it if it ever finishes!

While I don't see the difference between a freeware demo that might be a $5 downloadable in the future and a freeware demo that never turns into a complete game, WIP does.

:'(

But anyway, I'm telling you guys that it will be amazing!

Jesus, could Michael Jackson dance! It really is incredible. He like invented a new way of dancing onstage, and almost thirty years later, people are still dancing that way.

Just so you guys know, all of Jackson's big hits and his three big albums (Thriller was one of them) were all written by Quincy Jones. In my opinion, the steep dropoff in the appeal of his music is BECAUSE he stopped making songs with him.

But I am pretty much with all of you in that he's a joke today. If you read his life story, it's actually really sad, and it's easy to see how he's turned out the way he has. All of his idiosyncracies -- most of them sexual pathologies -- are directly linked to specific emotional trauma and abuse he suffered as a kid.