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Hi, do you mean you have seen this happen to a lot of pages editted by my program? or just in general?, plus I know it is a lack of unicode support, but I dont know why it affects some (very few) users and not others, maybe its because they have windows 98. Martin 13:19, 29 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

I've seen it on multiple pages where it first arose after an edit by a your program, and I knew what had occurred by past experience. If your program has Unicode support, then it means it must be their computer lacking it. You should find a way to find if a computer lacks that support and a way to circumvent it...(or, at least a warning when they're editting a page with Unicode on it). ~ Oni Lukos ct 13:42, 29 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Re: Pinball 95

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My copy of Pinball 95 came as part of a Maxis software package (The Ultimate Family Collection) that also contained SimCity 2000, SimTown and Marty and the Trouble with Cheese, with all four games presented on one CD. The edition of Pinball 95 contains all three tables, plus a brief FMV introduction. I got it many, many years ago and am unaware of its origins, but I'm pretty sure it's authentic. I'll see if I can dig up the packaging and take a few screenshots to prove my case. Ppk01 14:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)Reply


I suppose it would be best to further discuss this matter on said talk page.
To answer your query, Marty and the Trouble with Cheese is a "Maxis Software Toy for Kids™" which involved faux voice-recognition technologies requiring children to make some-kind-of-noise into a microphone at certain parts of the same ol' story. No matter which microphone you used, it took ages to get working correctly and had the annoying tendency to change your audio settings without telling you.[1] Ppk01 15:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

void main

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Hey, I noticed you changed an int main() to a void. I reverted that edit because void main isn't legal c, or c++ for that matter. Heres a nice explanation: [2]. The thing is, main always returns 0 by default - even when you don't tell it to. some compilers allow void main, but its not part of the c standard. Fresheneesz 07:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Huh, I never knew that. I swear, though, that I saw void main on the List of hello world programs page several months ago. I just assumed that leaving out the return was invalid with the function declared as an int, seeing as it would be for any other function. ~ Oni Lukos ct 20:23, 16 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Re: Concerning the Sim games template

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Don't sweat it. :) --RedPooka 01:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Concerning Full Tilt Pinball/3D Pinball Space Cadet

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Why did you undo my edit? I was going to add more information... Isn't the point of Wikipedia and editing articles to expand them? I am a fairly new user, so if you have an explanation, put it on my talk page.

Thanks, JIMOTHY46 18:50, 31 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

P.S. I love 3D Pinball Space Cadet! I'm in the middle of a game right now!


Thank you for the information. It's nice to know there are some nice people out in the world! JIMOTHY46 00:00, 6 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Image:Umddisc.jpg

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Adventure Time

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I have edited it as you have advised, and it still fails the guideline. It only has a plot summary and a couple awards. It a slightly popular cartoon that cannot be improved any further, so it should be redirected. TTN 19:36, 1 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

This belongs more on the talk page for Adventure Time and not on my talk page, so I'll just quote your comment and continue the discussion there. ~ Oni Lukos ct 19:41, 1 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

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PlayStation Portable homebrew

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I know it was; but the person did not provide a valid reference (and I couldn't remember where I saw it as I was at school when I found out about it) and the person also striked through text that was already there. I removed it for someone else to properly cite it. Thanks. =D --GSK 03:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Brown University Science Library

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You have removed architectural commentary on the Brown University Science Library as "unnecesary". I beg to differ. Any article on any building in existence by necessity has mentioned in it anything notable about that building. The context of a 1970s 15-story Brutalist appearing in a mixed residential/commercial set of two-story colonials and shopfronts is absolutely notable, and most importantly, not original research because of the presence of scholarly published material.--Loodog 00:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wrong article. Put this on the discussion page of the article you linked to. ~ Oni Lukos ct 00:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Funny

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Just wanted to let you know that this got a good laugh out of me. • Lawrence Cohen 06:47, 26 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

UMD caption

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wtf? yes UMD starts with a vowel hence the correct grammar is "an UMD" not "a UMD" (just like in French with "un") so why do you keep it spelled the wrong way ?? Cliché Online (talk) 11:35, 10 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

You're wrong. The word "user" starts with a vowel, but you say "a user" because it doesn't start with a vowel sound (like how UMD doesn't start with a vowel sound). The word "hour" doesn't start with a vowel, but you say "an hour" because it starts with a vowel sound. It depends on the first phoneme of the word, not the first letter. ~ Oni Lukos ct 14:35, 10 December 2007 (UTC)Reply


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Courage Edits

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Hi Oni Lukos. Sorry about that last edit I mis-read it. I thought it was under Ma Bagge. lol Talk to you later.Mcelite (talk) 22:33, 29 January 2008 (UTC)mceliteReply

Image:Anime eye.svg

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Hi, I think Image:Anime eye.svg is very neat. However, I think it will be even neater if you use a blur filter. Do you agree? I think Image:Mahuri.svg can provide some hints, if you open it up in recent builds (such as the 0.46 prerelease) of Inkscape. --Kjoonlee 21:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

List of characters in Courage the Cowardly Dog

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You've been here long enough to be able to understand WP:RS and WP:V. This ref fails every possible test for WP:RS. Since you're being pretty stubborn about it, I won't revert you, but FWIW, I'm not the only one to dispute this. And also FWIW, obvious to you is not obvious to me. Not having any clue who "Quentin Tarantino" is (and I looked him up afterwards, and still not convinced), my obvious assumeption is that is tarantula. Yngvarr (t) (c) 09:09, 10 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

See, I only reverted your change once, and then added the best citation I could find. If you call that stubborn, I don't know what you're thinking. Those other reversions were NOT ME. I never edit "anonymously". I know the citation is not a good one, however, a better source does not exist because, quite frankly, what reliable source would write something like that? Yes, I know, verifiability, not truth. However, my point is that, for cartoons, reliable sources exist for virtually none of the content that exists on Wikipedia. And yet the content is still here. Additionally, not knowing who Quentin Tarantino is makes it non-obvious to you simply because you lack the context. If you knew who he was, it really is clearly a parody of him, as he is a well-known filmmaker, the first name is almost homophonous, and the last name is remarkably similar. Is this a better source? Perhaps this? Or this one, which may cite Wikipedia? No, I don't really think any of those are reliable either! Additionally, tarantella means something other than tarantula. Λύκος 13:13, 10 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

About "Oukami" "Ookami".

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That's because the official title of the game uses the Kanji "大神", "Ōkami", while the Kanji in that section is "狼" which is pronounced completely different. It's not "O-kaa-mii", it's "O-o-kā-mī" "Ookami". There are large differences in Japanese "oo" and Japanese "ou". Moocowsrule (talk) 04:38, 13 November 2008 (UTC)moocowsruleReply

Yes, I know there are large differences between "ou" and "oo", but neither 大神 nor 狼 have an "ou". They are both おおかみ. Also, why is this on my talk page and not on the talk page where it is relevant? Λύκος 07:43, 13 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
I dunno. Just felt like putting it here... Sorry bout that, I was tired and forgot that "大神" was a compound. It would be "Ookami" not "Oukami". But usually when there's a double o sound, it's not written as "ō", but as "oo". ムーカオーズルール 03:05, 17 November 2008 (UTC)moocowsruleReply

December 2008

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How was reverting mt edit to Angry Beavers constructive? Did you even see that episode? FreedomFighter112290 (talk) 16:55, 29 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, I've seen that episode. However, it's a minor character detail that pertains to only one episode, and therefore should be constrained to the episode summary, if even relevant enough to the episode. Λύκος 17:12, 29 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Then why's there even a mention of the character, nitwit? FreedomFighter112290 (talk) 03:53, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
WP:CIVIL, please. He's in more than one episode. Λύκος 05:52, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
The fact that he was devoured and killed off shows you're wrong, as minor characters on other pages have mention of their death. You're just defending the character because his last name is "Licking" and probably can't help yourself. FreedomFighter112290 (talk) 16:05, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
You can stop grasping at straws now. It's not really helping your argument. That or you're just trying to troll me, and failing miserably. Λύκος 17:13, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Neither, but really, theres nothing wrong with mentioning a character was killed, it was kind of unusual. FreedomFighter112290 (talk) 22:50, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of MS Paint Adventures

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Gomei Sensei Nya

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Hey I like the Anime Page you have up It really helped me out on an essay i did for Tokyo University! Naomi pheonix (talk) 22:42, 11 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

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