Desbreko

[color=#4B0082]I'll fix it in a bit. [b]Edit:[/b] Fixed, at least for now. This seems to be happening a lot lately and I'm thinking it has to due with the server trouble Adam has been mentioning on theOtaku/myOtaku. All it is is the thread reply count values not getting updated in the database, though, so it's not really hurting anything. Hopefully there won't be any larger problems.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]I was bored and felt like messing around in Photoshop so I did some editing on your piece to make the sun match up, KW. If you like I can update the worm with it or we can leave the current piece be, your choice.[/color] [URL=http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0262qg9.jpg][IMG]http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2546/0262qg9.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[center][img]http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/810/luckystartextspamol2.jpg[/img][/center] [color=#4B0082]They're twins. Need I say more?[/color]

[quote name='Shinmaru']And, yeah, I'm at the point now where I'm finding Amu too adorable for words, which is rather disconcerting considering she's in elementary school. :p[/QUOTE][color=#4B0082][img]http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/6659/shinmarusealym1.gif[/img] I watched ep3 today and I agree, Nadeshiko's character change was just awesome. The whole flowery scene with her and Temari, and then . . . [spoiler]she turns into a bloodthirsty maniac.[/spoiler] I love her even more now. :toothy:[/color]

[color=#4B0082]Yay, the worm has been updated! It took longer than I thought but regular updates will now resume on Mondays and Fridays. Also, png format hasn't been supported for a while now, due to the whole hoopla with matching wrong colors a while ago, but people keep posting entries in png. I just convert them to jpgs before uploading them, which is easy enough, but you guys should know there's not really any point in using png.[/color]

[color=#4B0082][b]Edit:[/b] Scratch that, I looked around online and it seems a different power cable with an AC adapter is required for the slim PS2. Also, moving this to Hardwired since it'll fit better in there.[/color]

[quote name='The Blue Jihad']Addendum: And kill the dog.[/QUOTE][color=#4B0082]Strangle it with the cable it chewed through imo. :p GameStop.com has a PS1/PS2 [url=http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1&product%5Fid=800533][u]Nyko AC Power Cord[/u][/url] for only $5 so I'd look into that if you're not confident about repairing your cable.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]The fact that he's asking if it's even possible makes me doubt that he knows how to properly repair a power cable. It can be done if you know what you're doing, sure, but I wouldn't recommend trying it if you don't.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]Which wire? If you mean the power or AV cables you'll probably be able to buy a replacement, though you might need to order it online. I don't know that many retailers would have replacement PS2 cables, unless it's a standard type of cable with no special connectors, but it's worth checking. Also, if it is the power cable, [i]do not[/i] cut and try to reattach it. That's just asking for trouble. And by trouble I mean the cable possibly causing a short circuit and catching fire.[/color]

[color=#4B0082][img]http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6066/2007digitalboyzg9.jpg[/img] 2007DigitalBoy masturbates so often that kittens will be extinct by the end of the year.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]At least subs are being released regularly again. I just hope a group also pics up the second season when it starts airing. I think the whole festival half of ep7 is my favorite part of the series so far. Those crazy festival people carrying around and hyping anything and everything was hilarious. And going in and tossing Kiri onto the platform as she freaked out was just awesome. I bet those guys could even make Shinmaru popular. :o The criticism drills is ep8 were also total win.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]The key to making it appear to switch directions is on frames 9, 17, 26, and 33, when the legs cross over one another and when the extended leg (the one not touching the ground) is pointing straight left or right. At these points you can't actually tell which leg is in front and which is in back due to the dancer being blacked out and having no depth. Your brain only creates a sense of depth from the rest of the animation's motions, which gives it a sense of rotation. So whether you see the extended leg as being in front or in back at these points determines which way the dancer appears to rotate. However, if you force your brain to change that sense of depth at one of these points, so that you see the extended leg being behind when you'd otherwise see it as being in front or vice versa, the dancer will appear to change directions. This is a lot easier to do if you go slowly, frame-by-frame through the animation, but with some practice you can make it appear to switch while it's playing at full speed as well. Oh, and by the way, this explains why it can appear to change direction when you mouse over the image and it flickers and/or skips a bit. Animated gifs embedded in web pages are rather CPU intensive, so that can cause flickering and skipping as your computer's CPU tries to keep up with the cursor moving across the image. And, in turn, that flickering and skipping jars your eyes' focus and upsets the sense of depth that your brain has created.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]I kept meaning to post about this ever since Formula released their h.264 version of ep1 but for one reason after another (not the least of which was my PC crashing and burning) I'm only just now getting around to it after watching ep2. So. . . . OMG cuteness overload. I admit it; deep down I have a thing for cutesy magical girl anime. I loved Cardcaptor Sakura, which I watched earlier this year, and I'm totally into Shugo Chara now. I think I'm going to have to start watching more of this type of anime. I don't even really mind the guardian chara things. Watching them pester Amu is funny, and Ran pouting in her egg in ep2 was cute. But, like Shinmaru, there's no going gay for the bishies here. They pulled off the cat ears guy amazingly well but males just don't do it for me. Now, if Nadeshiko were a bit older. . . .[/color]

[color=#4B0082]Ah, I see. Where you referring to the links in Boo's post? I hadn't even noticed those were links until now. And yeah, you can't do relative links with [url] tags. They force the http:// part onto the front of whatever you put in them.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]lolz at the people saying it's fake. I checked the individual frames and the page's source code and it's just a plain gif with no JavaScript or anything changing it. It's simply an optical illusion and depending on how you look at it it can appear to be spinning either way. Here's what you do: Open up the animation and run it normally. Watch it for a bit, remember which way it appears to be spinning, and close it. Wait a few seconds, then open the animation so it plays in reverse. It will still look like it's spinning the same way because that's what your brain is used to seeing it as, despite the animation playing backwards. Now, without closing it this time, reverse the animation and it [i]will[/i] appear to change directions. Another thing you can do is open up two instances of the animation so they're playing side-by-side. Then reverse one of them so it's playing backwards and appears to change direction. After a bit the other animation will also appear to change direction without being reversed. Myself, it appeared to be spinning counter-clockwise at first. Which is fitting, 'cause I'm a very left brain oriented person. But I can also make it appear to spin clockwise. The easiest way for me is to look away from it for a bit, visualize it spinning the opposite direction in my mind, and then look back.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]Okay, so I still want to do the marathon now that my PC is back in working order. Right now I'm planning for Saturday, October 27, since this coming Saturday is too soon. I'd be able to finish redownloading the episodes by then but I don't think it's enough time to get the word out again. Does that sound good to everyone? If all goes well I'm planning on putting up another announcement for it in the next few days.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]I have this horrible feeling that DB's going to start some sort of cult of masturbation in the future. Can't you just imagine him going door-to-door, Jehova's Witness style, to talk about it? I bet people would join, too.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]That shouldn't be a problem if she uses the link in the user cp nav bar. It's a relative link and works from either www.otakuboards.com or otakuboards.com. Are you getting the not logged in error when you try to access the page or when you try to detach your myOtaku account, sakurasuka?[/color]

[color=#4B0082]Good to see this thing is still going. My PC is nearly back to normal but I still need to get an FTP program installed to be able to update the worm. Hopefully I'll be able to make the Friday update this week.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]So, did the marathon end up happening without me? (Or I guess it would still be happening if it did.) I was seriously pissed at having to miss it. I even tried swapping out my motherboard for another one we had available, since that's what went bad in my system--that ended up taking hours to get everything put together and hooked up. And then that board didn't even work. I got screwed twice over that way. I kind of hope people still did it without me and had a good time, but I kind of also hope people skipped it so we'd be able to do it later when my PC is working again. I'm not sure if I'd bother doing it by myself now. :animedepr[/color]

[color=#4B0082]Whee, posting this from my Wii 'cause my PC is dead. The puzzles really are clever; I've been enjoying them a lot. The use of the mic for various things has been neat. I'm still not used to it, so whenever the game mentions making noise or something I still think of classic Zelda solutions to those kinds of puzzles. And the map imprint also took me a couple minutes to figure out but then when I did it made me smile and go, "duh!" The game really makes you pay attention to the DS's features. Another thing I thought was really cool was the boss of the third dungeon. [spoiler]Seeing out of the eyes of the boss on the top screen while it ran around invisible was a cool effect, and then having to aim the bow from that point of view was really fun. Seeing myself being charged at and frantically aiming back at where I was looking from was awesome.[/spoiler] I love how each boss has its own little twist like that; it adds some much needed creativity to the stun-and-slash formula they've been using since OoT.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]People who wouldn't know a joke if it slapped them upside the head are killing OB imo. Someone needs to make a "How to appreciate internet humor" thread.[/color]

[color=#4B0082]February 10, 2008. . . . Excuse me while a scream obscenities out my window for a moment. Seriously though, I'd rather they take more time with it and get things right than rush it and have it end up feeling sloppy in some areas like Melee. If the past is anything to go by, I'll be playing Brawl for five years or more and I'd like it to hold up as best it can in that time. I wonder how the delay is going to affect sales, though, since they're missing the big holiday rush. Or maybe the game has so much hype by now that it won't even matter. On the plus side it looks like I can afford Metroid Prime 3: Corruption now.[/color]

[quote name='Desbreko;793483][color=#4B0082]Sure, they're including a lot of characters that people have been crying for, but isn't that the whole selling point of Smash Bros.?[/color][/QUOTE][quote name='The Blue Jihad;793488]The attraction to Smash Bros was more "the Nintendo best of the Nintendo best beating the crap out of each other".[/QUOTE][QUOTE=SunfallE'][COLOR="RoyalBlue"][FONT="Lucida Sans Unicode"]I've never had an interest in this game. But seriously, if they added characters from that game? One of the only shooter games that I like? I'd be tempted to get the game just to play as one of those characters. I love Juno, Vela and Lupus! :catgirl:[/FONT'][/COLOR][/quote][color=#4B0082]You were saying, Alex? :catgirl: I think Mega Man would fit into SSBB really well. SSBM only had two characters with respectable projectile attacks (Samus and Link) so I think there's definitely room for him. And they have tons of boss weapons to draw from for attacks, plus Rush transformations (Jet Adapter from MM6 for Up-B anyone?), so I'm sure they could make make him into a great character.[/color]

[size=1]The DailyOtaku iss.6Wednesday, October 10, 2007[/size] [center][size=3][b]OtakuBoards Evolution or Revolution?[/b][/size][/center] In the small Suggestions & Feedback forum the sparks of civil unrest were ignited within OtakuBoards on September 30, 2007, when Japan_86 posted the thread [i]A Change If You Will[/i]. The longstanding member professed that the site was too inactive compared to years past and questioned what could be done to reverse the inactivity. James, the Site Director, quickly stepped in and dismissed the thread as whining, saying, "It's that kind of stuff which makes OB lame, not the rules or anything else." Afterwards it quickly dissolved into an inane argument about inside jokes but the wheels of something more sinister were already turning. An increasing number of members have complained about the site becoming stale and boring, and James' promises of a new and fresh design for OtakuBoards Evolution, the next upcoming version of the site, are ringing hollow in their ears. "It's one delay after another with the same old excuse," said one member who wished to remain anonymous. Another, whose name had so many numbers after it that we don't have room to print it, questioned, "srsly i setup an ezborad in 2 dayz how hrd can it b???" It's apparent that members are getting restless and that significant progress will need to be made on the new version before they'll be satisfied. Nostalgia is also running rampant. In the [i]Ah, The Good Old Days...[/i] thread in Otaku Lounge many older members have recalled past versions and old friends, wishing they could return to those days. "I remember KKC, my partner in crime," Vicky reminisced as she told a tale of stealing Jokopoko's pants. 2007DigitalBoy on the other hand, in the [i]Views on self pleasure[/i] thread, recalled being unable to masturbate while his brother's cat was in the room. New members are often said to be what keeps forums alive, but are OtakuBoards' oldies unwilling to move on and make new friends as others depart? And a surprising amount of old members have returned recently. Juuthena charmed members in the [i]I Forgot What You People Look Like[/i] thread with more of her fanboy-winning, self portrait photographs; Fish made a splash in Otaku Lounge when he posted his [i]Wow...[/i] thread upon returning; The Harlequin staged an appearance in the [i]Otakupedia Entries/Suggestions/Discussion[/i] thread; JCBaggee authored the aforementioned [i]Ah, The Good Old Days...[/i] thread after a long absence; Queen Asuka also popped into the thread to surprise everyone; and ImmortalGuru, previously known as Jinzouningen17, reintroduced himself in the [i]New Members: Introduce Yourselves here![/i] thread. Such an unprecedented regrouping of so many old members in so little time is odd to say the least. On the surface all of these recent happenings might seem like mere coincidence but the DailyOtaku took a closer look, past all the spam and game threads, and uncovered what could be the biggest OtakuBoards conspiracy since [i]The Complaint[/i]. Following a tip from a concerned member, a DailyOtaku reporter crept through the darkness of the Anime Archives late last night to witness a shocking scene. In one of the many abandoned threads, illuminated by torchlight, a gathering of hooded members rallied to cries of, "Ban the newbies!" and, "Take back OtakuBoards!" Though the reporter was unable to get close enough to hear the specifics of the meeting, even that small glimpse is enough to cause alarm. A torch-bearing mob of disgruntled oldies rising up to overthrow the OtakuBoards administration might have sounded absurd before but now it could be all too real. From the shouting overheard at the gathering their goal is presumably to purge OtakuBoards of all members deemed to be "newbies" and return OtakuBoards to its supposed golden age. It is still unclear who and how many members are in this cult of oldies and what their plans are, and the DailyOtaku cautions all members who have been registered less than four years to remain vigilant when posting at night.