Roni

That's the last thing on earth to worry about, honestly!

I'm here all year ;)

Yeah I give high praise for the staff with that. No pretentiousness, they were very welcoming. When I stepped down my biggest thought was "aw no more staff forums". Although they forgot to remove me from the staff only discord so I lurked in that for a couple months. I guess someone finally noticed though.

It's hard to get a read on leafy. He wants his audience to perceive him in a specific way, so his answers aren't honest. They only build the image he wants to be seen as. (if that makes sense). So at first he said he came back because he was bored. Then he said he came back because he needed the money. (but his networth is listed in the millions). He said he left because YouTube wasn't the same anymore with all the new policies. in 2016 he was trying to make himself look like a martyr, uploading all these videos about youtube corruption. As soon as he got banned from YouTube, that same week he moved to twitch and started doing the same thing again. (being chaotic, bullying other streamers) Twitch banned him too. Right now he's back on youtube with a smaller account. Never got into H3H3, although I saw your post about critikal, and he's a pretty good commentary channel.

The overlay is most likely for those who want to go full screen, because it disables the chat. Also when they upload the stream clips to youtube it automatically has the chat without any editing.

I think the best multiplayer games are probably the 2K sports games. If you ever get the chance, the WWE games are hilariously fun if you find another person. It doesn't matter if you've ever watched a WWE show or not. I've tried commentary, but I don't have a mic or set up. I just don't feel like investing in all of that stuff, so I gave it up within a week. Recently I've been into horror and survival games. I just finished Until Dawn, and that was pretty enjoyable.

Out of left field stuff is almost always the funniest stuff.

XD lol true!!

I had to learn the lesson to just never read comments or turn off reply notifications by default.
If I'm ever on reddit I just post and never check for replies.

I'm not that heavy into computer knowledge, so I'm using the simple windows, I mean I use chrome, but just try to make sure I'm never signed into any browser I use.

I not too particular about browsers beyond that point. But I usually use either chrome or edge, but I think edge is using chromium like you say, so I may give firefox another look.

Oh and I use Ccleaner for taking care of most trackers etc, and keeping my device running smoothly, with the latest update I see they've created their own browser, don't know the particulars of its set up or anything but that could be an option, haven't tried it yet though.

and yeah that's why I like there's a good balance here on all fronts.
and I haven't tried other drayano hacks, but you're right blaze black is just great, so I'd be willing to check his other stuff after I finish this one.
I'm upset about that cheron rotation battle after the third gym, though, my god that was a significant difficulty spike lol.
I had my team fully EV trained had most of my moves setup how I wanted, and still got completely destroyed. REPEATEDLY


But that is probably a perfect challenge/benchmark to test your team. I can't imagine anything harder than that fight.
I might see if I can make a script to make that battle repeatable.
Would be a good way to test my other teams I'm bringing up, and I just wanna suffer XD. lol

Thanks for the encouragement, and as far as my motivation... I'm really not sure, probably a little of both I prefer to set goals, and constantly work at them
but not really have set deadlines as that kind of creates innate failure conditions.

Right now I'm doing a lot of research, between just interacting with people here, and playing blaze black and regular fire red.
and if I find something interesting while playing I might open up A-Map and check out the script, see if I can do something with it . (not much success for now, besides that thing with the starters and from that I gained understanding of offsets and repointing)

hey, roni our club won! it is really good I am very happy

lol,wow maybe everyone not knowing about the quote thing is a blessing in disguise. XD.
I don't use much privacy programs, because (to my knowledge) those I knew about were pretty much like the no call list for telemarketers, completely optional and ignorable, as far as things like do not track. I usually just police myself, use ublock to get around things that try to force membership by witholding site access. (I don' use adblocker here though of course, lest I forget to turn it off).

I guess I only worry about privacy so much as what's linked to me, like I'm not too worried about my dns following me, mostly just membership sites that clearly want to track you everywhere and show you ads based on anything you even glance at. And make it hard for you to find the logout button...

So I avoid joining if I don't want to or feel I need to, and just use caution. and I used to use firefox, but they kept making changes to be more like google browser so it kind of turned me away from it.

Forums:
Oh yeah, you don't have to tell me that one, this place really is great, I started checking out forums and the like, after all the covid lockdowns started a while ago, and I started with reddit. Was good for about a month, then went real bad real fast lol. Met a few good people though so that was cool.
Then I tried a the official forum for the developer of that game,
people were nicer for the most part, but there's always those few no matter where you go.
Unfortunately the mods or rules there were a bit restrictive, to the point of censorship, so after giving up on that,
I found this place a while later.

and I haven't looked much into radical red, I know about it but I don't know how much it changed, in my mind I'm thinking something more akin to blaze black, but for fire red.
Actually you may be right about that, and thanks for the advice. :)

I'd like it to be received well, but I am mostly making it for me, the type of pokemon game I'd want to play.
I need to organize a bit better though, I'm checking things off my list(seeing if its possible and getting an idea of the how), but if I organized my ideas into an actual checklist
I could probably move a lot faster with my research.

I feel I've learned a lot though, so that's fun. I can make and add basic script now, I know the difference between binary hacking and decomp.
I know how to apply an asm routine, even if I don't know enough to make one yet.
and I'm starting to be able to read the source for code for the games.

:) Thanks buddy I appreciate that. And yeah I like it here, unlike other social sites where the main goal is trying to get as much of your info as possible, here I feel there's privacy should you want it. Also the people are good for the most part, I was really needing something like this you know, a nice safe place to engage with people and communicate (in a positive manner).
In times like these where we're all so separated I'm really seeing the importance of connecting with others.

lol I know I sound like a tv special right now, but its nice. lol

and I'll definitely keep that in mind for my hack, I also try to work from the easy things to the more difficult in most tasks, but I feel that's easy to forget on big projects or when learning a bunch of new stuff.

It got complex but I was really trying to keep it simple originally, my hack is actually just feature based, and not adding any new overarching story, but me being me,
I somehow still may need to add a new location just to make my feature fit/ seem appropriate. *facepalm*

As well as find a way to change battle script or icons.

oh and yeah I can see how not having notification on by default is a good thing.

Ok thanks I'll definitely do that, I've been clicking on the link to make a page with just that post and then bookmarking that, and following the thread for extra redundancy.

On the respond thing, yeah I've just figured out using a period to take up the space, maybe make that the default behavior for the respond button. idk
Reason I brought it up was, I've made a lot of posts since I joined a while ago, so I've talked with a lot of members, and I've noticed that even among people that have been here for years, many of them don't use the quotes when responding, my thought is they just don't know about it. I've informed several about it myself.

But the people that I've seen who've been here the longest, or make large posts always use the quotes to notify people.
but yeah I'm really glad you let me know about that when I joined. :)

and on a more personal side, I think I'm starting to make some good progress in the knowledge base I need for my hack.
I don't know how to do anything in half measures so of course its needlessly complicated and expansive.

I'm trying to keep from constantly adding things because I know that's the best way to fail/ lose interest, I'm just finding more things I don't know that I need to know,
but its going a long at least. I've been getting plenty of help from the community there's a lot of knowledge here so that's nice. :)

No it's completely okay. I do that sometimes. Sometimes I even write the reply to my own profile and embarrassingly delete it. You've been quite busy so things happen. Honestly you seem like a great fit for the moderator role. I'll be brutally honest, I was actually more interested in the staff forums than doing my job. (Well it ended up that way).

Hey do you know the youtuber leafyishere? He was basically the center of YouTube in 2016. His entire channel revolved around cyberbullying, usually whatever channels he deemed cringy. (Then his massive fanbase would go harass that channel). It was...interesting. Somehow he never got banned, because he was a cashcow. He tried to come back this year and only lasted about 3 months before he got terminated. Hmm despite all I mentioned, I admit I would still use twitch a leisure thing. I would try to ignore the politics and just enjoy the streamers you like. (Unless they get banned for a stupid reason, then bye twitch).

No your youtube channel is actually fantastic. I saw some of your videos. Your naturally a great commentator and look comfortable in front of the camera. But I actually do understand what you mentioned. That's the reason I wouldn't enjoy streaming. I want to be immersed, not half paying attention to the game and half paying attention to my recording. Some people view the chat as a bunch of friends watching them, and that's quite nice. Even then, I'm actually someone who prefers playing video games completely alone. Simply someone talking can distract me from playing.

I wish our teacher did that. But nope, he made sure everybody got called. Seriously, when he realized there were still cards at the end of class he would start rushing through the cards with questions off the top of his head. If he got through all the cards early, it meant the pile restarted and we could get called 2-3 times per class.

also I didn't know you were a vampire named morbius. whelp.

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Hey Roni I found something possibly useful.
So i remember when you told me about the issue with notifications in the forums, and that it only works if you quote them.

But I've noticed that quoting from the reply box, and quoting via the respond and pencil buttons are 2 different things.

Apparently notifications are only received when done with the respond button, but that requires quoting the entire post.
(which I believe no one really wants to do)

So here's what I found, if you quote from the message box it doesn't notify the person, because it doesn't identify the quote as being originally posted by them.

While the respond button does. Looking at it I found that its specifically this part that makes the difference...(using your id for reference)

:) Thanks. for sure

hey sorry man if this whole stuff is irritating you the thing is that I am in quarantine and really feeling alone. I am talking about vampire stuff.

Oh yeah also you can talk on Discord whenever you want. My DMs are always open

Totally relatable! I find it much easier to communicate online as compared to real life.
I'm sure you'll have fun

hey, go to last one to post wins see you're story!

Yeah its nice, gave me a little confidence boost, so I may try tackling some of those other ideas I had now that I got the basics, more or less.

I think the code may have had an if check for the bulbasaur thing, and I may have had my bulbasaur with me at the time, so maybe the code searched and recognized bulbasaur and moved to the next line and gave ivysaur instead, or something.

lol gosh I don't even remember anymore, I think it was just supposed to be a test.
Initially my goal was to create a script to make trainer battle repeatable, but I'd never scripted before so I was just going around looking at stuff and trying to learn how to change existing code.

I ended up latching on to editing the three pokeball sprites in professor oak's lab, and was able to change it to let me take the last pokeball.
But because I only changes one thing everything else in the sequence ran too, so rival took another pokemon etc.

Didn't break my game by then my rival had the same pokemon as my main, so I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to reset that, before I just gave up, created a new person event, and repointed to the take bulbasaur script and let it ride.

That worked and now my rival's fixed, and I have a permanent event that allowed me to keep "taking" bulbasaur without actually getting one, and triggering the first rival battle as many times as I want.

Usually that's what happened it would run, I would get "?????????" and then rival battle, but one time it said "ivysaur" and I didn't even realize I actually got one until recently. XD

Thanks, and yeah I'm doing pretty well, just compiled my first successful script.
Only understand half of what I did and I just realized repeated uses somehow gave me an ivysaur. lol

Hey Congrats on the new Mod position. :)

Congratulations on getting the moderation role, it's so cool to see. Very happy for you

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