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I'm actually aware of at least two Mega Man Bettle Network fan games that got DMCAs from Capcom, but both of them were being monetized as far as I know, so that might have played into the decision. On top of that, one of them was actually going to be just a remake of an existing title. I speculate that this could also be part of the reason, since I expect Capcom to secretly be working on a Battle Network Legacy Collection.
I mean... I damn sure HOPE they are working on one!

But ultimately, there's no way to know. It's not like they need a reason for a DMCA. People who work on fan games can only hope to get away with it, there's never a gurantee.
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That's true, but in that case, it would have been called "Super Zertrümmer-Brüder", and all the blood in the game would have been removed.

Yeah, I'm aware there's no blood in Super Smash Bros. Maybe the game was German all along. 😉
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I'm not sure how to best describe my own food habbits. I've recently learned about the term "Flexitarian", which describes people who mostly eat vegetarian or vegan food, but occasionally also eat a little bit of meat. This doesn't quite fit me, since I still eat meat regularly. However, I generally try to reduce my meat consumption. Whenever there's a good enough vegan or vegetarian alternative available for a meat product (meaning one that at least gets "close enough" to the desired taste), I generally go for it. I'm not aware of many good alternatives like that, but there's at least a few. For example, I find that minced meat can almost always be replaced by a vegan or vegetarian alternative without ruining the entire meal. I always use those alternatives when making lasagna or Bolognese sauce, for example.

I also used to order the vegetarian burger alternative from my favorite burger restaurant most of the time. It did taste slightly different from the regular one, but I found the difference to be negligible (I think mainly because the meat was never what defined that burger's taste for me. Instead it were the tomatos, which were always super juicy). To be fair, I always ordered this burger with some bacon, so it's not like it was entirely free of meat, but at least the patty was vegetarian. Unfortunately, the restraurant seems to have closed at some point in 2020. At least the location near us that we used to visit the most often. In its place is a new burger restaurant that, frankly, just doesn't seem nearly as interesting to me.

One thing I'd really like to try is the Impossible Burger, which a lot of people claim to taste quite convincing. Unfortunately, it's not available in the EU yet, because it's a genetically modified product. The EU requires those to be thoroughly tested before authorization. Hope it will get authorized soon. Any good vegetarian meat alternative is always a plus for me.

As for the question of how to describe myself, maybe "opportunistic vegetarian" is a fitting term? Basically, I eat vegetarian food whenever good meat alternatives are available. I guess a Flexitarian is what I would like to become at some point, though.
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Seems normal to me. It's been over twelve years since I joined and I haven't even started a hack yet (at least no serious attempts). Literally the biggest thing I've made in all my time here was my VWF patch, which has been on this site for almost as long as me.

However, I don't really think there's any shame in that. All that pressure to get something done is something we put on ourselves, and I think in part, it comes from a place of jealousy in wanting to be like the people we admire who actually managed to finish something. I don't think that's the right way, though. If we get something done, then that's fine, but there's really no need to. There's many other ways of having fun being part of the community, and pressuring ourselves only gets in the way of that. After all, the primary reason most of us hack is to have fun, right? Therefore it's rather counter-productive to take the fun away from ourselves by thinking we should be doing an activity that we currently don't even have any fun doing. That's quite the vicious circle, if you think about it. By believing you should have fun hacking SMW, you prevent yourself from having any fun while not hacking SMW.
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Owww, so exciting! :O
SMWC2 is finally coming along. Didn't expect this to happen so soon (well I guess it isn't really soon, but to me, it feels like it). Really excited to try it out. I'm sure there will be some people being annoyed by the new design for no reason (as is always the case with transitions like this), but that's to be expected. After over a decade (basically) using the same out-dated foundation, it's simply time to move on.

The new main page looks really sick. I also like how you managed to make the new design look modern, without making it look TOO different. It still looks very much like the SMW Central we all know, just somehow more up-to-date.

I'm interested in giving the open beta a try, but I'm not sure if I should yet. Knowing me, I might find it difficult to actually find the time to submit proper feedback. Would the open beta be running on the actual SMW Central database, or a dedicated database just for the test? I think participation only makes sense for me if it's running on the same database, thus letting me participate in the forum as usual. Only that way I'd actually get to experience the new design on a regular basis.
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smh @ WYE's hack name generator not winning at least three more categories. You people got no taste? 😤

Anyways, congrats to all the winners!

EDIT:

Originally posted by Quiz Results
You answered 25 questions. You have 10 correct answers.


I'm sorry, mom. I am a disappointment! 😥
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Originally posted by Aja
CrossCode is the only video-game that has made me cry so far


Very understandable. That's just such a damn good and touching game!
Lea as a character, and especially the interactions between Lea and Emily, were enough to very quickly make this one of my favorite indie games ever, despite a bunch of gameplay frustrations for me.
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I wouldn't even necessarily call Celeste "Nintendo-hard". As far as I understand it, the term is meant mainly for games that are hard by relying on old game design practices that were very popular in the NES days. Though maybe I have the wrong idea there.

Anyways, what I loved about Celeste was that while it had parts that were incredibly difficult, it always felt fair and lenient, and it rarely got so hard that it became demotivating. The music also helped always keeping me calm and prevented me from getting too frustrated. Granted, there are a few rooms in the game that don't properly communicate their intended solution, which can lead you to attempt them "incorrectly" and make them way harder for yourself. Happened to myself a bunch of times late-game, and also witnessed a few other people experiencing that. There's also a single room in the game that does indeed get so frustratingly difficult that it becomes kind of demotivating. But aside from those exceptions, at least to me, the game only felt difficult because of legitimate challenges in the level design, not out of any frustrating or artificial factors.

To put that into perspective, I feel the game has very different vibes from, let's say, Super Meat Boy. Both of these are difficult, challenging games, but the game design in Super Meat Boy feels like it's always just trying to stress and annoy you. The game really loves to make you feel bad for losing. On the other hand, Celeste does the exact opposite. It keeps you calm, gives you a lot of time for every challenge and actually makes you feel "good" for losing, by letting you know that you will eventually get there and that losing is just a necessary step for victory. This definitely helped me a lot. Even the really tough challenges at most got a little frustrating to me.
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What exactly is this "Class of" thing? I think I completely missed it the last time it happened.
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Originally posted by idol
is there any other themes you all feel would be important for smwc2 to have / ones that stand out amongst the bunch, aside from the throwback theme?


I'd love to see the "Peach's Castle" theme converted, though I can't say whether that's a popular one or not. I've used it for the past couple of years, but mainly because its colors work really well for me: they're neither too dark, nor too bright.

My eyes are pretty sensitive and I find that neither light themes nor dark themes are very pleasant for me (though if I have to choose between them, light themes often actually work better for me, so I'd like if we could get at least one light theme alternative to the current two dark themes the beta has). Peach's Castle has been kind of the sweet spot for me so far. It's neither overly dark, nor overly bright.
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6.2 sounds very weird. If that were the case, your games should be running super slowly. A normal frame rate would be 50 FPS for PAL games and 60 FPS for NTSC games.

Are you sure what you're seeing are actually the FPS? Maybe what it's actually displaying is the frame time, with 6.2 meaning 6.2 milliseconds? Though if that were the case, your game would be running at around 160 FPS, which also seems unlikely. Unless, maybe, you have V-Sync disabled and RetroArch refreshes the screen 160 times per second, despite the games themselves only rendering 50 or 60 frames?

Can you make a screenshot of what exactly Retroarch is showing so that we get a clearer picture?
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That makes a lot more sense.

I don't think that's a problem. I've quickly looked up a video of RetroArch displaying the FPS for some random game, and it also happened to jump up to 60.1 or 60.4 somtimes, and also down to below 60 FPS occasionally (59.8 for example). So it just seems to be how RetroArch displays FPS.

I assume this is just an artifact of how the FPS are measured. The method for that probably isn't perfectly accurate and it probably only calculates some kind of FPS average over a specific time period, which might lead to sub-frame deviations in the displayed FPS every now and then.

Or, think about it this way: If RetroArch claims the game to be running at 60.2 FPS half of the time, but then also claims it to be running at 59.8 the other half, the average FPS the game was running in over a longer time period would still be 60.0. In other words, the emulator might inaccurately display frame rates above 60 FPS every now and then, but when looking at the average FPS over your entire play session, it will still probably be 60.

Anyways, I don't think this will be a problem for speedrunning (of course assuming the speedrunning community of the respective game actually permits using RetroArch - this can differ on a game by game basis). Even if the game did run at 60.4 FPS every now and then (which I doubt to be the case), it probably wouldn't seriously affect the overall game time, and in cases of ambiguity or times that are very close to one another, most speedrunning communities use different timing methods, anyways (such as frame counting).

So in short, unless your game is somehow miraculously running at 70 FPS or something like that, I don't think you need to be concerned about it.
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What specific JSON file is failing? Can you attach its contents here? (Use the "Insert Code" function). That way we can see what exactly is on line 17 and maybe get an idea about what failed.
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I kind of have similar struggles, but in "reverse", if that makes any sense. In my case, it's not that I think I should be doing more for my friends or that I think I'm afraid of letting my friends down, but rather just that I wish I had... more friends in general.

I can legitimately think of only like seven or eight people in my life who I would consider close friends at this point in time, only four of which I talk to on a daily (or at least almost daily) basis. The fifth friend I talk to occasionally (though for extrinsic reasons that I have no control over), the sixth friend I talk to at least every couple of months (though we occasionally have minor interactions on social media), and the last two friends I talk to only rarely (because I don't really have any easy way of contacting them).

While I don't necessarily consider myself lonely or even unhappy, I do occasionally feel a bit incomplete, like I was missing something in my life, and I do have a number of interests that none of my current friends share. Like, sure, I can talk to them about these things, but it won't lead to any interesting or in-depth conversations, they're pretty much just listening because they're my friends. That's not a bad thing, mind you, but as I said, it does leave me slightly incomplete. Unfortunately, I've also reached an age where it's no longer as easy to make new friends. Work just takes too much time of the week, and while I do get along very well with all of my colleagues, there's just this mental barrier that prevents me from really seeing them as "friends" and wanting to get closer to them. As for the weekends, they are the only time that I have to relax and work on hobbies, so I'm just not sure how I could use some of that time to make new friends without compromising most of these things.

However, there's an even bigger problem, and that's my severe social anxiety. I honestly wasn't even aware of how big it is, so for the longest time, I thought I was just shy, with maybe just a hint of social anxiety. I mean, once I do get to know a person, I do feel comfortable around them. Because of that, I always just considered myself shy. Turns out I was wrong. Recently, I have become more and more aware that I'm suffering from actual anxiety (not just social anxiety, but it's probably the biggest part). Like, the mere thought of spontaneously dropping onto the SMWC Discord and posting an unsolicited message? Yeah, it makes my heart race. It's not as bad when someone actually mentions me and asks a question to me directly (unless I noticed it too late, in which case it does get slighlty uncomfortable). In cases like that, I'm not too stressed and usually leave a response eventually, and once I do, I usually feel comfortable enough to stick around for a little while. But just randomly joining an on-going conversation in some public channel without a prior invitation? Or even starting an entirely new conversation? That honestly stresses me immensely.

Another problem is that I also feel very out-of-touch with how people nowadays converse. Like, if I join a random Discord chat right now, the way people usually talk to each other is via short, minimal messages that only convey the minimum amount of information necessary, following it up with further messages where necessary. If you even just slightly know me, you've probably noticed that that's just not how I write things. Neither in forums, nor in real-time chats. I just like to convey as much information as possible with every single message and feel uncomfortable splitting up my stuff like that. However, doing that on Discord always makes me feel so out of place, like an outcast. It always gives me this feeling of "yeah, you're almost 30 now, and these kids are probably like 15 or 16, you probably have absolutely nothing in common with them whatsoever". You know that "how do you do, fellow kids" meme? That's literally what I feel like visiting Discord. To be fair, that stlye of writing is probably just a result of smartphones being the most common device used for chatting nowadays, as writing long messages on smartphones isn't fun, but I can't help it. When I see it, I always think that's just the way people talk nowadays, and it makes me feel so disconnected.

Thinking about it, the fact I always write my posts the way I do - these giant walls of text with as much information as possible - might itself just be a result of my social anxiety. I think I might just be so scared of being misunderstood or of accidentally offending other people that I always try to give as much context as possible for everything I write. However, this kind of conversation is tiring for people. I know that because, well, I actually regulary exchange these big walls of texts with one of my close friends who has that same tendency as me, and while I love her to death, I'd be lying if I said it didn't get tiring very easily. Unfortunately, neither of us is very good at preventing that from happening, so after talking for a while, we usually get to a point where our messages become so long that the conversation slows down to a halt and feels very exhausting. I feel like this is the rare case where two people being too similar actually turns out to be a bad thing. None of my other friends share this tendency of mine, so even if I happen to write longer messages occasionally, it never gets out of hand or exhausting with them in the long run, but it's still a bummer that I can't easily have more casual conversations with that other friend, because it led to us conversing more rarely in general, and I definitely miss her a lot because of it.

Finally, I think one last reason my social anxiety is so big is because of my history on the internet in general. In the past, I have done... pretty much everything that's bad on the internet at some point. From posting homophobic, transphobic, ableist, bigoted or even just inconsiderate and stupid stuff, to even some form of cyber-bullying. Granted, I wasn't aware of a lot of it back then. I was just an ignorant teenager on the internet. I think aside from maybe that bullying I mentioned (which I don't even fully remember anymore, so I don't know how bad it actually got aside from me throwing a trantrum once), most of my shitty words weren't directed at anyone, they were "just" your "casual bigotry" that was very common in the early internet (and I guess also the present internet still, if we're being honest). But in all honesty, none of that is an excuse at all, and I'm still very ashamed for some things I said and did. While I did get called out for my behavior sometimes, a lot of it also just went under the radar.

However, I guess the few times that I did get called out stuck with me the most (some of them on this site, even). Naturally, whenever I did get called out, it was 100% warranted, and nowadays, I'm also very glad it happened, because I do think it shaped me into a better and more considerate person overall. I generally try to understand everyone's perspective nowadays, and I try to emphasize with people who are suffering. In that regard, getting called out was definitely a good thing. That being said, I'd be lying if I said all of that didn't contribute to my anxiety to at least some degree. I guess you could say that in the past, I hurt and offended so many people (usually unwillingly) that I'm scared of accdentally doing that again, so a lot of times, even when there's something on my mind, I decide not to say it and instead just listen to what other people have to say, because I think to myself "maybe I just don't have the full picture here and maybe my perspective is wrong". As I said, it's overall a good thing I became this way, but a lot of times, it can also become an insurmountable barrier. There should be a balance between being a considerate person and being able to speak out, but I've very much lost that balance to a point where I'm often incapable of speaking out even when I encounter people saying some openly bigoted and horrible shit in the wild. There were cases in the past where I directly witnessed open racism in the streets and I was just too scared to do anything. I feel very ashamed for that.

So anyways, where does all of that leave me? I can't join conversations on Discord because of anxiety and feeling out of touch. I also can't chat with people privately without a prior invitation, again because of anxiety, but also because I feel I'd be bothering them. So what do I even have left? Not much, honestly. I can write here on the forums. Since writing long-ass walls of texts is more common in forums, I don't feel so out-of-place doing it here and don't get anxious. However, the forums feel very dead at this point. Aside from events like C3, it usually feels like I'm just conversing with myself (and maybe with just a few more other users who still come here somewhat regularly). Most activity simply has moved to Discord nowadays. I also have Twitter, where I usually don't feel very anxious for some reason, but that's probably because meaningful conversation doesn't really happen there, or if it does, it's very rare and only lasts for a few minutes at most.

So the final option is for someone else to approach me first. As I said, I can't really talk to other people on my own, but I'm always open to other people contacting me, and this can indeed lead to friendships. It's rare, but it has definitely happened before, and in the past couple of years even. Someone contacted me on Steam because he liked a game I worked on, and he kept contacting me for a while. While I did feel slightly uncomfortable at first and maybe even somewhat annoyed, it did actually lead to us becoming good friends. I even contributed to him becoming a professional translator, which felt very good. Come to think of it, a similar thing happened in the past, where a forum user I was very annoyed by kept talking to me for a while and eventually became one of my closest friends.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I realize: Of all the close friends I currently have, my girlfriend is the only one I approached first (and it kind of makes sense, because she has an even more severe social anxiety than me, so she would have never contacted me on her own). Everyone else approached me first. Generally speaking, I always have trouble getting close to people who don't approach me on their own, but once someone does, I can feel super comfortable around them and become friends with them very quickly. Can think of a lot of cases like that, especially in recent years. And contrary to that, I can think of a bunch of cases where I actually tried approaching someone on my own, but it went absolutely nowhere. Even with people here from SMWC. I distinctly remember adding K3fka on Skype a decade or so ago (yeah, that was way before Discord was a thing), because from his posts on the forums, he seemed like a nice person, so I sent him a message, only to never say anything again. I honestly just couldn't do it, because I felt so uncomfortable. You know, up until now, I seriously thought this anxiety was more of a recent thing I developed in the last couple of years, but the more I think about it, the more painfully aware I become that I've really been carrying this burden for quite a while already.

Honestly, this post is drifting more and more into Reality Corner territory and I should probably draw the line here, so let me just get to the point: If there's anyone around here who even remotely considers me an interesting person, feel free to hit me up on Discord (or whatever you prefer), because I'd never have the courage to do so on my own. Even then, I'll probably need some time to actually warm up and get comfortable with you, but once I do, I think I can be a solid friend. What I can say is that there's definitely a bunch of people on SMWC that I find interesting and would love to get to know better, but for reasons stated above, I could never dare to admit that and approach you on my own, so unless you approach me first, it'll probably stay that way.
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Yeah, I'm definitely thankful for all the close friends I have, even if I only talk to few of them regularly, but that's still enough to at least be happy (with only the caveats mentioned above).

Originally posted by Katerpie
It also depends on which friends you can trust and anything you are willing to relay. I once had a friend that almost squeezed me into the "drink beer everyday" world, but I only got out of it as soon as I dated for the first time.


Oh yeah, I had a bunch of those as well, for all kinds of things:
-Friends who wanted to make me drink. This was the most common kind. It even extends to my family, because my brother still constantly wants me to drink. I know, it's just his kind of "humor", because he knows I don't want to and makes fun of that, but it's annoying all the same.
-Friends who offered me to smoke when we were still in Elementary School (though I guess at least they didn't push me to do it, only offered cigarettes...)
-Friends who wanted to hook me up with people, despite knowing I wasn't interested in relationships.
-And, this kind was also very common and especially annoying to me: Internet friends who always kept bugging me about meeting in real life, despite knowing I was uncomfortable and not really interested, and then getting really pissed when I declined. It's not like I generally never want to meet internet friends IRL, but I'd definitely only be willing to do that once I feel comfortable enough and only under the right circumstances. I generally prefer just writing with people and meeting in real life only rarely (aside from my really close friends, who I visit at least semi-regularly). But some people in the past just kept pushing and pushing. They take not wanting to meet IRL as a direct denial of friendship, which is just wrong.
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Pretty cool, nice improvement! 👍
And thanks for adding the detailed instructions. That will definitely be useful for someone.
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I did give a little bit of feedback on the post indicators, though my opinion was that they felt too subtle. I think it was either to parse the old NEW tags at a glance.
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I have been on the IRC, but only a few times, and never very actively or for a long amount of time. It was also so long ago that I barely remember anything about the experience (aside from having to memorize hundreds of text commands). I was basically an entirely different person back then, anyways, but since my visits were never long-lasting, I assume I already wasn't a big fan of it back then. I did participate in a few chats, but those were on a rather small scale.

Originally posted by MercuryPenny
that, and the more convenient organization makes it far easier to find old posts with useful or interesting information.


Yeah, I've mentioned this in the past, but I don't like how temporary everything is that happens on Discord (or any real-time chat, really - IRC wasn't an exception from this). At least in a well-organized forum, you have a solid chance of finding some interesting stuff that happened in the past, even if it was like a decade ago. You might have to do some digging, but it's usually reasonably simple to find stuff. On Discord, it's difficult to remember stuff that happened even just a week ago, so unless you know exactly what to put into the search bar, it's nearly impossible to find stuff from a few years piror.
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It IS just a small update, at least for everyone using the site. Most changes are under the hood. Even the new theme doesn't feel all too different from legacy SMW Central.
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