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Comment: Re:First! (Score 2) 138

by timftbf (#38125642) Attached to: Nintendo Releases <em>The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword</em>

At least, you do Japanese first (easy, Nintendo's native). Then you do English(/French) for North America (maybe Spanish as well). Then you pick either Europe and do the other languages, or Asia and its languages.

Where this really, really tends to suck is in the UK. We have to wait for the European release to be ready, due to localisation issues, but when we do finally get it, the game is still in American rather than English :(

Comment: Re:.org TLD history? (Score 1) 219

by timftbf (#37192886) Attached to: Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease &amp; Desist

I don't know about enforcement, but when I registered my primary domain, I had to submit a form, by email, justifying why I should be granted that domain.

I think by that point they were rubber-stamping them, but it was read and approved by a human.

I definitely saw rejected applications a couple of years prior to that, for both GTLDs from Network Solutions, and for .uk from the UK Naming Committee.

Comment: You've still got FPS in my RPG! (Score 1) 210

by timftbf (#36996750) Attached to: Early Look At <em>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim</em>

As far as I can tell, the combat is still dependent on *my* twitch shooter skills as much as *my character's* combat skills. So whatever wonderful story, exploring and interacting experiences are on offer, I'm not going to get to see them.

Combat doesn't *have* to be turn-based, I've learned to work with Dragon Age, for example. But it *should* be based on my character's abilities tied to my decision making, e.g. I choose to shoot a bow at the orc over there, the character's archery skill determines if I hit. If my accuracy at pointing something in the right direction with my right thumb is involved, it's an FPS, and I'm not interested in playing it.

I'm still baffled as to why this series is held up as the crown of "hard-core" RPGs, when it's such a hybrid...

Comment: Re:Stupid (Score 1) 213

by timftbf (#36681164) Attached to: 7 Days In Email Hell

And I really dislike the mailing list. Please set up a forum instead. To use a mailing list, I have to set up another filter, or start another email account as well as registering with the list.

Nay, nay and thrice nay!

A web forum I have to read with *your* choice of UI and functionality.

A mailing list I can read with *my* choice of UI and functionality.

No contest.

Comment: Re:Screw vandalism, especially on "soft targets" (Score 1) 159

by timftbf (#36609766) Attached to: The Lesson of Recent Hacktivism

not storing passwords as plaintext but as (salted) hash - a preventative measure for in case you do get hacked

This. How anyone is still writing code that does this baffles me beyond all belief. I despair every time I click on a "forgot my password" link and get an email with a copy of my plain-text password...

Comment: Re:My $0.99 Kindle Illustrated book (Score 1) 101

by timftbf (#36553068) Attached to: Thinking of Publishing Your Own $0.99 Kindle Book?

Where I live, they have now opened a 99p shop, which is much more popular than the traditional one pound shop for cheap stuff, even though it's actually more annoying to end up with 7 or 8p in coppers as change...

Around my way, they're actively marketing themselves against the pound shop, as being better value!

They also have huge, supposedly-professionally printed advertising in the windows proclaiming that you get "alot more for your money". This makes me want to go in and try to buy an alot at as a pet, but I suspect their cashiers don't read Hyperbole-and-a-Half...

Comment: Re:moron (Score 1) 361

by timftbf (#36515414) Attached to: LulzSec Suspect Arrested By UK Police

Commodore BASIC, as with most 8-bit micro built-in languages, was interpreted, not compiled. If you're old enough to have cut your teeth on such a beastie, you're old enough to know (and to care about) the difference ;)

The BBC Micro is the only device of that era I can remember being otherwise. You could augment the interpreted BASIC programs with in-line assembler - which would have saved me many hours spent with the Big Book of 6502 Opcodes on my VIC-20, before I could afford an assembler.

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