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Posted: Jun 23 2009 06:07 pm

You are correct.

Posted: Jun 23 2009 06:10 pm

My English Major powers just leveled up! YES!

Posted: Jun 24 2009 12:28 am

Bludgeon me with a wet roll of toilet paper but what are television programmes. Isn't it Programs?

Title: Hugh Joined: Sep 23 2007 Posts: 1591

No, it's programmes.

Posted: Jun 24 2009 01:34 am

Weird...

Posted: Jun 27 2009 07:13 am

The forum descriptions are all fairly flippant, in case you haven't noticed. "Programmes" is the super pretentious British spelling.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

http://sydlexia.com/starwarscookies.htm

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After all, this is a box of snacky treats aimed at prepubescent boys, many of whom had only a casual interest in Star Wars, not the fifth series of some goddam Kenner toyline.

Toyline should be two words Toy Line

Posted: Jun 29 2009 02:24 pm

Some typos from the A Boy and His Blob article.

If you feed him on just to see what it does and then change him back, you are fucked.

From the Lime Jellybean description.

The "on" should be "one".

The second half of the game takes place on the distant planet of Blobolonia where it always daytime and candy is very, very bad for you.

Under Root Beer. The "it" should be "it's" (or "it is")

Unfortunately, you only start the game with six of these jellybeans, so you can't really too heavily on them.

Under Ketchup. "Really" should be "rely".

Posted: Jun 29 2009 02:40 pm

Fixed. Thanks!

Posted: Jun 29 2009 03:00 pm

Also (and this is just me being a major weeaboo here), but from the Joystick Jabberwocky portion at the very end of the MAD Magazine review(which is kick-ass, btw) I noticed this:

"Ken - Ken is means "fist" in Japanese, and thus it is a fairly common character. This probably refers to Ken Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden."
http://sydlexia.com/mags/madfinal.htm

As far as I know, 'ken' is actually Japanese for 'sword'.
Such as:
Kendo = The Way of the Sword
Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken = Sword of Flames (although it's 'official' localized name is Blazing Blade)
etc.

Ken Hayabusa's name is actually a play on words, especially when coupled with his son Ryu.
With Ken meaning 'sword', and Ryu being a common Japanese name meaning 'dragon', the two together mean 'Dragon Sword'.

Posted: Jun 29 2009 03:10 pm

I'm sure someone else can back me up on this, but "ken" means "fist" or "punch". The classic Street Fighter move "hadouken" literally translated means "surge fist" or "surge punch".

Posted: Jun 29 2009 03:56 pm

hmm... good point.

Oddly enough, there is an NES game called Getsuufuma Maden where one of the main objectives is to recover a pair of swords referred to as "hadouken(s)"

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/home/578438.html

Japanese language is so very confusing.

Posted: Jun 29 2009 03:59 pm

There's also "kenpo", which is the generic Japanese term for Chinese martial arts.

Posted: Jun 29 2009 04:27 pm

In the subsection of the Friday the 13th article where you explain how to find the hidden entrance to Jason's mom's lair, there is this line: The stones at the bottom of a doorway look different than the rest of the stones along the cave paths. They are slightly crack. Crack needs to be changed to cracked.

That is all.

Posted: Jun 29 2009 04:54 pm

Fixed. Thanks!

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

mystery house page 3
you typed

Having played hundreds of videos, I am going to guess that the door is locked and the key is under the doormat

did you mean to insert game after videos or were you going for watched hundreds of videos?

Posted: Jul 03 2009 09:52 am

Fixed.

Posted: Jul 03 2009 03:29 pm

aha, I knew it! Two different kanji with the same pronunciation and romanization!

http://www.jp41.com/kanji/fist.html
http://www.jp41.com/kanji/sword.html (third one on the list)

We're both right. Razz

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

http://www.sydlexia.com/printmaster_plus_20.htm

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These days, printers are cable of printing high resolution fonts and images at upwards of 4800 dots per inch (DPI), so with a good printer and some expensive paper, you could print out some fairly nice stationery if you really wanted to.

"cable" should probably be "capable"

"fonts" should be "text" - Fonts themselves are vector based and therefore do not have a resolution. Once the fonts are used and output is printed they are text and do have a resolution measured in DPI as you stated.

Posted: Jul 29 2009 06:54 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

"fonts" should be "text" - Fonts themselves are vector based and therefore do not have a resolution. Once the fonts are used and output is printed they are text and do have a resolution measured in DPI as you stated.

thats the nerd in you coming out w/that explanation. just saying is all Razz

Posted: Jul 29 2009 07:25 pm

Fixed.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

username, by fixed he means that the text is fixed, not my nerdiness.

Also, I am pretty sure that I fall into the category of geek rather than nerd.

Posted: Sep 14 2009 12:59 pm

Street Fighter: You fight Lee on top of the Great Wall of China, not in front of it.

Hilary Clinton's Cookies: One need only be instructed once to preheat the oven to 350 degrees Farenheight.

Posted: Oct 02 2009 01:01 pm

http://www.sydlexia.com/make_love_the_contra_way.htm

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Unlikely as it may seem, you will find the basic eight tenets of superior sexual intercourse embedded within in the gameplay of Konami's classic run and gun

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1. Quality Is Just [As] Important As Duration

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When this happens, you have to two choices,

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No matter what happens, you've just got to [go] for it

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In the real world, when a normal person such as you meets a normal, slightly drunk MILF at a normal Miami bar and successfully convince[s] her to have some normal sex [with] you, you use a condom.

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not a failed glamour model who desperately needs the $500 you offered her two days [ago] when you gave her your business card

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The same concept can be apply to sex

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Contra is much more fun when you[r] best friend comes over with a case of cheap beer

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This guarantee is not backed [by] any sort of restitution, monetary or otherwise. Sorry.

http://sydlexia.com/starwarscookies.htm

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Syd, your allowance is in the Demerol bottle in [the] medicine cabinet, underneath all those delicious candy-like pills. Love, Mom and Dad.

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And while I can understand ~~with~~ the desire to put a new character from the new movie into [the] cookie box

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Okay, what the fuck is this? The Emperor's Royal Guard? Those fucking douchebags is the hideous red outfits?

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And again, why the fuck did this guy get made into a cookie instead [of] a stormtrooper?

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I [don't] know if I can stress enough how awful these cookies are

http://www.sydlexia.com/printmaster_plus_20.htm

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And since there's only one possible way to folding solution for this card, you

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After all, if Script can only average eleven characters per line on a poster, how many characters ~~will it~~ per line could it possibly fit on a card

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But more importantly, you may wonder why I haven't show[n] you any scans of stuff I've made with PrintMaster.

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It's not very fucking creative, and it's completely useless, but that's [the] extent of my graphic design skills.

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In 1995, Mindscape, Inc. acquired MicroLogic Systems and continued published PrintMaster iterations under its name

http://sydlexia.com/vald/metroid_blind_run.htm

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One thing that [I] think may help me somewhat is that I know this game takes place on Zebes

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I think I want to know what [lies] behind those red doors.

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I've also discover[ed] that it's a good thing I didn't come back this way first.

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I found a room with what looked like miniature stautes of Kraid and Ridley

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Albiet only three bullets at a time.

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Apparently you need ten missiles to open pink doors. Go firgure

Posted: Oct 02 2009 10:19 pm

All six pages have been fixed.

Thanks guys!