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  1. Of course it had, all the evil comes from there By default maybe not, but with some coding magic, I could perhaps make it work. You know, if everyone manages to collect 100 flowers in total and send them to twulight sparklol, perhaps, perhaps Now we're talking business. Fluttershy, take notes!
  2. Normally - when thinking about status updates or casual posts - they weren't being misused, but the moment you went into topics discussing politics... The debate area has a nasty history. And don't underestimate users When obvious weapons were removed, they started weaponizing other reactions, just to spite their opponents It's been a while, it was back in 2019. Maybe the scale wasn't as dramatic, but the problem was big enough to cause changes and spawn a dedicated announcement about it... https://mlpforums.com/topic/187239-how-we-will-address-reactions-going-foward/ Yeah, like I said, I wasn't really a fan of that solution either. Penalizing the entire community doesn't sound fair, but it wasn't up to me to decide. Personally I was thinking of disabling reactions for problematic users, or disabling that system in areas, where reactions cause more problems than solve. Either way, I'm just bringing some older news to give backstory on why the current reactions are like this. It's not like staff doesn't want more reactions. Things have changed and calmed down, maybe now it all could be used in the intended way - for fun. If I was asked for opinion, I'd vote for trying to add more again, but I imagine some could have a different view on this - and not just staffers, but perhaps some users too.
  3. They're talking about reactions, not emoticons. You know, the epic arsenal behind brohooves.
  4. Yeah, I agree there could be more reactions, but it's tricky. Adding more by itself isn't a big deal. However, there's a more complex problem with these to keep in mind - to avoid reactions, that can cause drama. In the past we had more reactions, but users started misusing them for passive aggression, which over time spawned more and more reports where users complained on receiving "xxxxx" reaction from someone. This eventually led to changes and removal of some. For example, the "confused" or "huh" could be seen by some as annoying, if the user just dropped "huh" reaction without replying to elaborate what confused them. "shrug" could easily be abused too. Like, if someone would drop that reaction on someone stating their opinion, without replying to elaborate why they disagree. This could equal to "nobody cares about your opinion". That was actually an insanely common case with the "laugh" reaction depicting laughing Rainbow Dash, before it was decided to replace it with "delighted giggle". What was designed for laughs, jokes and memes, was misused to laugh at users. Basically the problem was, that reactions were often used as a substitute to posts. Why put effort and time to write words if someone could just come, laugh at someone's opinion, and call it a day. This was leaving post authors irritated. Because staff at the time didn't want to deal with this problem on case-by-case basis, it was decided to redesign it and limit reactions to ones with more positive/respectful meaning. Personally I wasn't a big fan of this solution, because now the reactions aren't as expressive as they once were. The current "giggle" reaction just doesn't capture the laugh you'd like to react with on a meme that made you laugh, for example. That is essentially why the reactions aren't as functional as users would probably like. Personally I'd like to see more reactions, some changed, but that's just my take and I can't speak for all staff and entire community.
  5. swords slash, bows pew, staff throws spells your sneak skill is kinda high, you have to approach closer to be noticed by an average NPC
  6. Ah, so that's what's going on with the warning...

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    Probably like 99% of it is just nvidia constantly recording the games I play (the replay feature allowing to save last X minutes of gameplay as a video).

    I wonder how bad it actually is.

    At least it's kinda nice to know it's because of such estimate (probably because I surpassed 200TB of written data?), and not necessarily because the drive actually shows signs of failures.

     

    I'll better disable that replay feature, to not push it too much further, to buy myself as much time as I can.

    And I still have to boot the system manually from BIOS each time heh.

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    2. Samurai Equine

      Samurai Equine

      So there is hope for recovery after all? :raritystarry:

    3. Rikifive

      Rikifive

      Actual recovery not exactly, I'll keep getting stuck on the post screen with a warning until I replace the disk. :P 

      It's just that I discovered, that apparently this warning appears because it sees the disk as "old", and not because it has physically failed. That's a relief, because at first I thought there is actually something wrong with it.

      All I can do is to delay its end. :P

    4. Samurai Equine

      Samurai Equine

      @Rikifive

      Sorry to hear it, my friend. But I will still be wishing for the best for you. :twilightsmile:

  7. Teehee~ let's just stick to pink then
  8. Huh it crashes safari? Or you mean it would crash if I made it purple?
  9. I was thinking about this, but I was worried the button may explode.
  10. Hmm, not all devices/browsers have such feature though. Or at least I don't see anything like this on Chrome/Android.
  11. Yup! It's a magical pink button of immediate teleportation!
  12. Okay I cooked something, let me know if it works! Also let me know what you think in general - is its position okay? is color okay? I don't bite! The button appears after you scroll 1200 pixels down, I made that easily adjustable behind the scenes, so let me know if the distance is okay. Thanks for the suggestion and feedback, it's much appreciated!
  13. Seeing how users agree, let me cook.
  14. wooo I didn't know you're into gamedev let me play let me play!! jk It probably wouldn't be top tier gaming experience, but the game actually can be played on mobile, as the game does support touch screens. I also made it support controllers (gamepads). So at the very least it should be playable for lols, if not for epic scores. And by the way, the game is permanently available.
  15. That's the amount of times the topic has graced someone's screen, regardless of whether that someone has actually read anything in it.
  16. I don't really know what to put in my reply, the title pretty much answers your question. jk I mean, it really is what it claims to be, the "views" is how many times the topic has been, well, viewed. That is, entered, loaded. Yes, you visiting your own topic does make the view count go up. Even not logged in users "guests", that randomly happen to enter the topic after online search, also make that count go up. So keep in mind many views may come from not registered users, who just happened to stumble upon the topic from online search. And also keep in mind, that usually there are faaaaar, far more guests online, than registered users. Basically it doesn't matter who, it just shows the number of times the topic has been loaded.
  17. Happy birthday! :balloon::party-pone::balloon:

    1. Sparklefan1234

      Sparklefan1234

      @Rikifive THANK YOU, BESTIE! :squee:

  18. Hello and welcome to the herd! Relatable This show also made me realize quite a few things, like suddenly yearning for my childhood, the time at school with friends and the like, because at the time I bumped into MLP I didn't have any of that anymore. Interestingly, I didn't really feel like I'm missing something prior to bumping into this show, or at least I simply didn't ponder such matters. I hope you'll have a good time here!
  19. Yeah, that would be the case by default, but right in the very first version I added an offset, that is greater than the entire hit range. Basically, there's a delay before score begins to raise for holding the slider, and the score stops being added when approaching the end. So the earlier you begin a slider, the longer the initial delay, and likewise, the later you begin, the shorter the delay, as it's calculated from the note's timestamp. In exact numbers, it's currently like this: It's just a rough sketch I made, the exact visual ranges are different, and will vary depending on the "Speed" setting. To get "perfect", one has to hit the note within 0.1s before or after its timestamp (the center of the note), and 0.2s for "good". Now sliders, They start continuously giving score after 0.4s from the center, which is far beyond even the "good" range (at that point it's a solid miss, so it doesn't matter) They also stop giving score 0.4s before the ending note They give 5 points every 0.05s while criteria are met Therefore, sliders have to be longer than 0.8s to give any score for holding them So both, "perfects" and "goods" should theoretically give the same exact amount of score for holding the sliders, of course minus the fact "goods" give 50 for initial hit / ending release, instead of 100. Of course the timing is based on real time, regardless of framerate, but I most likely made an oversight, that allows one last tick to be occasionally skipped when enough time has passed between frames. Let's say the last tick barely fits before the ending offset, like there's just some 0.001s before reaching the 0.4s offset, if enough time has passed between frames, entering the offset will cancel the tick, that could have happened. The framerate I have is 165 (that's the refresh rate of my monitors, so it's capped at that), so me having higher score makes my assumptions plausible. Apparently I made a P2W game
  20. I managed to find a workaround to ignore the warning and get on PC, not really a solution, but has to do for the time being. So let's get back to cooking; Nice! I'm not sure if you're aware, but all of these are better scores than what you got a year ago, so you totally got better, whether you realized it or not! Because obviously I'm better! jk Seriously though, in case anyone is wondering on behind the scenes on that part; I noticed it back in 2023. That is actually not intended to happen. Apparently the sliders aren't giving the same amount of score, despite me programming them in such a way, that pressing/releasing them earlier or later should make no difference, assuming "Perfect" was hit on both ends. The framerate might have something to do with these little miscalculations. I did use delta time, but apparently it needs further measures. I was planning to look into it, but the score doesn't serve any real purpose, so I kept skipping it in favor of more important changes. The little score errors is just a minor derp the game discards the moment you quit the results screen. The score doesn't really reflect if the song was played better or worse, and especially these little differences occurring when having 100% should not happen at all. By design, reaching 100% should give the maximum score no matter what. There are no better 100%'s than others as far as I, and the game see it. Anyway, the Completion Rate is the only valid, accurate score. Anyway, I see you even maxed Easy for truly perfected neatness, I approve! To me easy was too hard apparently Congratulations! Your epic skills have been acknowledged! Oh Silky, this isn't about score, just like the magic of friendship isn't about how many friends you have. There's nothing to worry about, I appreciate you all the same, thank you for playing! SUBMISSIONS FOR BADGES ARE NOW CLOSED AS PROMISED, THE GAME WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR PARTICIPATING AND SUPPORT!
  21. Press [ F ] to pay respects Due to technical difficulties with my PC, I'll be busy trying to solve the problem I face. I'm currently on phone, so for the time being, I won't be giving the badges, but I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Until further notice, I'll leave the submissions for badges open, so feel free to submit your scores even after the timer runs out. Let me only quickly mention, @Ice Princess Silky <3, don't worry about your score dear, it's not that bad! And it certainly isn't a problem in any shape or form. Just remember to also post "Rules of Rarity" for the badge. Just catch whatever you can. Think of the falling notes as spammers that are trying to enter MLPF to post ads. The pesky ones you won't catch will be later banned by other mods, so don't worry, your input will be still valuable!
  22. Sweet Celestia, it's worse than I thought. 

    As I feared, again, I'm having troubles booting the PC.

    I unplugged both HDDs and I still cannot go past the post screen. ...It must be the system drive failing.

    That one will be trickier to swap. :raritydespair:

    The timing though, it would be acceptable a year ago or something. That drive is quite old, has only ~250GB, so I was planning to replace it someday... Was planning to buy a new PC in general at that point.

    But now? When I need it the most? See, that's just my luck, I knew everything will go south the moment I become jobless. It surely waited for that moment for maximum emotional damage bonus.

    I'll have to sacrifice some of my savings, because without PC I may as well just give up on life heh.

    Time to search for a replacement! The thing I worry about more is the time it may take. I may just do a fresh system installation at this point.

    I have some important stuff on that drive though.

    1. Rikifive

      Rikifive

      At least a little bit of good news.

      I looked around the BIOS and discovered, that I can boot the system from there. This allows me to ignore the warning for the time being. I don't know how serious the situation is, but this way I can buy at least a little bit of time until the drive completely fails. From now on I'll have to enter BIOS each time, heh.

      I was worried my PC is bricked until I can get the replacement, but at least I can somewhat prepare for migration. I managed to narrow down where exactly the problem is, so while I can't say I'm happy with the discovery, I can backup things more accurately.

      I don't really want to invest into upgrades for this old PC, but at least the prices for drives aren't that crazy as they used to be these 10 years ago. :twilightsheepish:

      Who knows, maybe it's not as critical as it makes it sound, but of course I'll look around the shops and try to find a good deal for a replacement.

    2. Astralshy

      Astralshy

      I'm sorry to learn this

    3. Samurai Equine

      Samurai Equine

      I wish you luck, my friend. Sorry you're still have troubles, but I hope you find a fix that will work without costing too much. :pinkiesad2:
      (Resumes the resurrection spell for your PC) Gunter glieben glauchen globen! Gunter glieben glauchen globen!

  23. Now that's nicely cooked! Have you noticed? "Rules of Rarity" have less falling tears than the other song players usually mention. It's lore accurate alright The tears you've collected made me think of something... Hmm yes, I'll save them for the next game.
  24. Hmm I only see "The Magic of Friendship Grows", on both difficulties. It's not too late, there's still about 16 hours left - refer to the timers on home page and the game page.
  25. Hello, hi and welcome to the herd! These are lovely artworks! Not just "pretty alright"! I hope you'll have a good time here!
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