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General Gaming Discussion / Re: The Awesome Games that Nobody's ever heard of

« on: January 29, 2012, 11:35:40 AM »

Heck yeah, Jetpack!  :D  I actually mailed away for the full version of that beast of a game back in the day.  It was totally worth it, too!  That game is fun even these days!  Sadly, the gameplay, as far as I can tell, has yet to be replicated.  Luckily, there's a Jetpack 2 in the works!  X3

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General Gaming Discussion / Re: The Awesome Games that Nobody's ever heard of

« on: January 29, 2012, 04:32:07 AM »

I don't suppose anyone's mentioned the greatest space adventure ever, yet?

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"Hello extremely!  I hope you like to *play*!"

This is actually the PC port of the 3DO port of the MS-DOS game.  The enhancements include optional enhanced soundtrack and digitized speech (as shown here).  While the conversation bits are absolutely hilarious, the gameplay is really solid, too!  There's space exploration, diplomatic endeavors, planetary mining, space combat, business dealings with curious characters, and lots of fun to be had overall!  If you like space games and have never played this before, you are serious missing out.

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Cutstuff Discussion and Feedback / Re: Cutstuff Minecraft Server! (WHITELIST ENABLED)

« on: January 29, 2012, 04:18:28 AM »

No offensive, but that entire sentence is seriously suspect.

What's the problem?  Don't they have Visa/Discovery/Mastercard Pre-Paid Cash Cards where you are?  I hear from a fairly reliable source than Mojang can take those now.

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Cutstuff Discussion and Feedback / Re: Cutstuff Minecraft Server! (WHITELIST ENABLED)

« on: January 28, 2012, 08:40:03 PM »

Next map, can I be whitelisted please?

I say this keeping in mind I have absolutely no sway on the server, but I still have to think that your re-whitelisting depends on if you can behave yourself, Mr. Robot-Face-Puncher-Off-er.  ;P

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Cutstuff Discussion and Feedback / Re: Cutstuff Minecraft Server! (WHITELIST ENABLED)

« on: January 28, 2012, 06:44:37 PM »

Hey, Mike.  I don't mean to push my luck here, but would you be willing to add a friend of mine to the Whitelist?  She's trustworthy, but in the unlikely event she levels the town or something, I'll take the full brunt of the punishment for wanting her in in the first place.

Her username is "Mistaque".

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Skins & Bots etc / Re: FiniteZero's Skin and Musicpackmajigs (CLOSED)

« on: January 27, 2012, 09:12:16 PM »

I DO try, but why bother if people are going to keep missing the point again and again and again.

If it makes you feel any better, while I don't like the file size, I do like the assortment of tunes in the pack.  Whoever did them did a pretty decent job of it.  They could use a bit more drums, but are pretty good all and all.
And I can't name them all, but I recognize a majority of them.  :x  Lots of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 music, a couple from Sonic 3D Blast, a tune from Journey to Silius, one from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and a random handful of others, including "Sandstorm" by Darude.

I ride you continually about the file size thing because, in my own passive-aggressive way, I'm trying to help you.  I mean, it's really not that hard to knock back a 2-minute song to a reasonable size in OGG format while keeping the sound quality decent.  It's especially easy to do with 8-bit music, but not too hard with other types.

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Skins & Bots etc / Re: FiniteZero's Skin and Musicpackmajigs (New: Mega Man Fin

« on: January 27, 2012, 08:53:29 PM »

I didn't miss any point. All I put into it was music, in the OOG format. There is NOTHING I can do to make it smaller.

Remember that Hotel Megaman thread?  Remember that OGG I linked to you?  Remember how small it was?  1 MB, despite the song dragging for for four minutes.  Compare that to your 9 MB file and tell me "it's impossible" again.

Edit: And be thankful I'm not pointing out the other quirks and flaws in this music pack, such as the overbearing volume on some tunes and the screwed-up looping on others.

Second Edit: I love you, Hombre.  Hah hah!  :D

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Skins & Bots etc / Re: FiniteZero's Skin and Musicpackmajigs (New: Mega Man Fin

« on: January 27, 2012, 08:43:58 PM »

I think you completely missed the point I was making, Finite.  So I'll spell it out for you in simple English.

Your music WAD.
Is too big.
For what little content.
It is trying to offer.

Try again.

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Skins & Bots etc / Re: FiniteZero's Skin and Musicpackmajigs (New: Mega Man Fin

« on: January 27, 2012, 08:34:46 PM »

Joseph asked the same question twice... lol.

Yeah, it's pretty big. Depending on your definition of "50 MB"...

Well, let's put this into perspective, shall we?

"musics.wad" from MM8BDM-v2c.pk3: 112 files, 42.27 MB
"IX-Music.wad" from IX-Packv1D.pk3: 53 files (and 5 markers), 31.71 MB
Jafar's "Contramusic.wad": 18 files, 19.66 MB
thatguy74's "RokkoChanMusicWad.wad": 14 files, 9.42 MB
My own "XtraMus.wad" (various 8-bit tunes): 14 files, 5.61 MB
FiniteZero's "MegaManFinalMusic.wad" (formerly .PK3): 16 files, 41.79 MB (I was off by 10 MB.  Sorry.)

See where I'm coming from on this?

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Cutstuff Discussion and Feedback / Re: Cutstuff Minecraft Server! (WHITELIST ENABLED)

« on: January 27, 2012, 07:09:20 AM »

Get equipped with Direction Sense!

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As seen from scenic Brotoad's Inn rooftop.

Also looks pretty cool at night.

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Directions day or night!

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Skins & Bots etc / Re: FiniteZero's Skin and Musicpackmajigs (New: Mega Man Fin

« on: January 27, 2012, 01:54:12 AM »

Why is your music pack 50 MB?

Also, why is your music pack a PK3 file?

And lastly, why is your music pack 50 MB?

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Cutstuff Discussion and Feedback / Re: Cutstuff Minecraft Server! (WHITELIST ENABLED)

« on: January 26, 2012, 05:03:01 PM »

I play on a server running 1.1, and logblock works fine. Only problem I have is it won't rollback creeper and ghast explosions.

I fail to see the problem, since those are "natural disasters".  LogBlock was created mostly to circumvent and roll-back griefing, not mob damage.  Granted, it's easy to say "User A lead an army of Creepers into town and set them all off one after another!", but that takes some seriously dedicated griefing. (I should know.  I used to "kite", or aggravate hostile, super-powerful mobs into cities in World of Warcraft back when I had a good connection.  It was fun!  But only if there were people around.  :x)

Edit: Houston, we have a problem.  The server -- the entire Cutstuff family of sites and the Minecraft server -- have become randomly unstable!  It keeps going down every time someone tries to do something!  I'm not sure if it's because of something someone's doing, or because of bad weather, but it really is frustrating considering I'm personally currently trying to navigate that chasm that claimed my entire inventory many moons ago. (The place still sucks.  Skeleton snipers on the ridges!  What the crap!  D:)

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Cutstuff Discussion and Feedback / Re: Cutstuff Minecraft Server! (WHITELIST ENABLED)

« on: January 26, 2012, 03:03:53 AM »

What?  You mean the whole "now that people can't access our chests, they're going to burn down our villages and rape our robots" thing?  Oh, I think we're well aware.

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Cutstuff Discussion and Feedback / Re: Cutstuff Minecraft Server! (WHITELIST ENABLED)

« on: January 25, 2012, 08:51:11 PM »

LogBlock features logging for not just blocks, but chest contents and a number of other things.  Provided the dev build works with the latest version of Bukkit and Minecraft, it should be a fairly great deturrent to the rash of vandalism and theft we've been having.  The only downside is that it doesn't log WotldEdit or Super PickAxe actions, though currently, only Mike has access to those plugins, so it should be a non-issue.

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Cutstuff Discussion and Feedback / Re: Cutstuff Minecraft Server! (WHITELIST ENABLED)

« on: January 25, 2012, 07:27:39 PM »

I'd personally rather have an activity-logging plugin and rollback plugin, myself...  Like, for example, the latest dev version of LogBlock.  It's like "Big Brother" was, but better, apparently.  And it's actually still being updated despite the whole "server monitor plugin merge" thing with Big Brother, LogBlock, and Hawkeye that was supposed to be happening five months ago.  The only downside is that it works on a MySQL database which, as a number of people know, isn't the most secure thing in the world.  But so long as it's just you that has access to the thing, I don't see a problem. (More information on LogBlock can be found here.)

Another interesting plugin I found was GreylistVote.  Basically, it puts everyone on the white list into a "grey list", which means they can log in, but can't actually build.  The people of the server can then vote people up or down to get them full white list access.  The up-side of this is it means the players themselves can catch people in the act of griefing and penalize them for it.  The down-swing is, of course, that it could be abused by people ganging up on people they don't like.  But it's helpful.

Also, CraftBukkit has been updated to 1.1-R1.  Just tossing that out there.