I started a project that would, ideally, include a few jokes on the Mario series, and make it a short animation compilation.

Sample animation: [link]

Development screen: [link] (don't rely on the library names)

The problem is, over time, I've lost interest, and cannot find suitable ideas on the animation. So I decided that rather than losing the entire file by not publicizing it, I'll put up the half-completed version instead.

And before I'll add in the finishing touches, I think I'll need ideas on one or two additional animation. Depending on my time and mood, it will be finished by early or mid-2010 (because I'm not in the mood for making animation... not anymore. And while I never blame animators for using sprites, I can see why some of them do. Making pixel arts is easier. Especialy for user-unfriendly environments like Flash.)


And I was SUCH a fool for making animation without working with audio in parallel. Now the "final touches" will take me forever.

CLICK ON THIS LINK PLEASE.

I wonder what this "AB" thing might be. I think I know the name of each Adobe product by now. Still, I can't think of anything that's remotely related to "AB". Omniture doesn't make consumer products, so it's unlikely an acquired product.

Let me recall all these shortforms...

AE = After Effects
Ai = Illustrator
Au = Audition
Aw = Authorware
Br = Bridge
CF = ColdFusion
Co = Content Server
Cp = Captivate
Ct = Contribute
Di = Director
Dw = Dreamweaver
En = Encore
FB = Flash Builder
FC = Flash Catalyst
FF = Font Folio
FH = FreeHand
Fl = Flash
<Fl> = Flash Media Server
FM = FrameMaker
Fw = Fireworks
Fx = Flex (Adobe sure love their F's...)
Gl = GoLive
ID = InDesign / InDesign Server
IC = InCopy
IR = ImageReady
JR = Jrun
ku = Kuler
LC = LiveCycle
Lr = Photoshop Lightroom
OL = OnLocation
PM = PageMaker
Pr = Premiere Pro
pre = Premiere Elements
prx = Premiere Express
Ps = Photoshop
pse = Photoshop Elements
psx = Photoshop Express
RH = RoboHelp
S7 = Scene7 OnDemand Media Solutions
Sb = Soundbooth
Ul = Ultra
VC = Visual Communicator

...Really, what is AB?

....Seriously. I've been ranting all the time, but I am really, REALLY annoyed.

Flash dies. While I was simply moving a group. I was only drawing. I wasn't even animating!

I wasn't doing anything exceeding 16000 frames, 16000 symbols, 2 million lines of codes... No. I was only moving ONE SIMPLE GROUP CONTAINING ONE CURVE WITH TWO REGISTERED BEIZER CURVE POINTS. And what did that thing treat me? Die right away! CPU wasn't busy, memory wasn't occupied, nothing was crashing... Flash just somewhat launched a "suicide" command on its own. Seriously. How could that happen?

The file isn't even big. In terms of file size, the biggest thing I worked on was called "Super Smash Theatre" (look for it in Lemmy's Land, section 35 (Funnies)) and its size was 249MB. Flash 7 crashed a few times, to be fair, but it had a much more valid reason of dying: Not enough physical memory on my old machine with 512MB of RAM. And now? A 38MB file, working on a fairly powerful computer, but... crashes, just because it likes to?

If I didn't want to have the 3D effect, I could have migrated it back to Flash 8 where I could work on it eventlessly and faster.

And to be fair, Flash CS4 has gone through several other abuses, but it runs well or had only small lags. It's just that this time it dies because I triggered exactly NOTHING?

I want to see Flash 11. No, not "the next version of Flash 10". I meant a completely new sofftware named Flash 11. As in, Mac OS X not basing on OS 9.

I turned on auto-save, as a new version every 1 minute. I want to know if there are variations to save, say, every 10 changes in FLA though. After auto-saving, my hard disk should be full of junk files - but will save lifes in emergencies.

So yeah, there goes. If there's ever CS5 (not anytime soon; CS4.3 isn't out yet), I'd like to see a better user interface, support for actual 3D and an advanced autosave function. Nay, not just CS5. I want to see autosave in EVERY SINGLE SOFTWARE EDITOR.

Seriously, Nintendo has a bad habit. And it's called lying. I'm reciting the major ones here...

Lying about a game's genre
Kirby Air Ride is a golf game... uh no, snowboarding... uh no, racing game. Mario 64 is a straight-line platformer... well wait, it's an exploration-type game. Can't Nintendo try to be a bit more consistent? Well, these changes are made to benefit gamers, so it's just fine.

Hey, so what is NES!?
Say.... Japan called it Family Computer. America used the whole ROB bundle strategy to tell people it's not a game console, only to contradict itself by saying it IS a videogame console, and not a home computer, when Nintendo and ELORG went on a legal battle with Tengen, who claims to have obtained an Atari license to port Tetris to "home computers". So really, what should NES be classified to?

Nintendo loves cancelling games
Yeah, serious. Kirby Tilt'n'Tumble 2, canned. Super Mario FX, canned. Star Fox 2, canned. 4 out of the 8 planned Mario Artist, canned. Multiplayer in Virtual Boy, canned. Promise to rerlease VC in non-originating region, almost disappeared. Kirby for Nintendo GameCube, canned. CAN YOU STOP ANNOUNCING WHAT YOU WON'T DO, NINT?

Nintendo loves misleading people too
Say, Super Mario 128 is a tech demo. And it eventually turned out to be an experiment... elements were used in Pikmin and Mario Galaxy but Mario 128 itself is never a game... IF SO, WHY ANNOUNCE MARIo 128 AS A GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE? If you can't handle the future, don't go all over-confident.

Unexpected moves... multiple times
Nintendo pulled unexpected moves for a few times. Say, they once misled people that Revolution will be multi-colour. And? The result: just a white Wii. White, and nothing else. By the time they decided to sell black Wii, most potential players are already Wii owners. You're just trying to anger those who want a black Wii. And other unexpected stunts? Cancelling Internet Channel's fee, making it free, and giving one Famicom Virtual Console game for free as a redeem. Really, no thanks. I'd have loved to get 500 points back, merging it with another 500, and buy a Nintendo 64 game instead. Or WiiWare.

Exaggerating about a game's awesomeness
Say, look at Brawl. they were talking about it as if Brawl is going to be ever-so-groundbreaking that it's going to change the history of cross-series fighting forever. Well, it doesn't. Opinions vary, but I'd have preferred Melee over it if not for the fact that Meta Knight and King Dedede are newcomers. And seriously, 35 characters, 47 stages, 49 items? What a small roster. I wanted 100 characters, 150 stages and 100 items.

Giving false hope
Kirby for Nintendo GameCube. Anounced in E3 2005, unmentioned in E3 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, and yet announcing it in every single financial report Nintendo released if a future release list is included. It changed from "TBA 2006" to "TBA 2009" now - seriously, bu August 2009 and you still say "TBA 2009"? Is that even possible?

Acting all noobish on hardware
NOA on Game backup: "'Backup' and 'archive' copies of videogame data is not needed." See, Nintendo is a real retard when it comes to file management. I know your games are copyrighted, but can you PLEASE at lease let me copy the save data?
NOA on Nintendo DS: "Nintendo DS does not need screen protectors. It will only make the screen less sensitive to the stylus." Sure, Nintendo wants us to break our screens and buy new ones instead. Nice move.
NOA on Wii: "We're making Wii Menu more usable." Nonsense. I still can't switch to auto mode, use GC controller to control the menu and I still can't delete unwanted channels like News Channel and Weather Channel. If you ask me, only Mii Channel and Wii Shop Channel should stay.

Denying technology
I said this many times over, but while Nintendo's graphics is acceptable... Having a 640*480 screen stuck on my 1920*1080 screen is not. True to say HDMI is expensive and all, but VGA and DVI ARE NOT. Can't they at least avoid asking players to read gigantic, jaggy, ugly unsmooth pixels?

ESRB, PEGI, CERO and OFLC mean no more checking on games
Geez. These organizations aim at filtering contents unsuitable for children. CERO really knows what to do, ESRB loves political correctness, PEGI is better, but still too strict and I doubt the workload of OFLC is heavy at all. Anyway, they monitor violence contents, and not the quality of the games themselves. What does that mean? Welcome, shovelware. Seriously, why does Nintendo even allow those unknown publisher (I'm talking about YOU, D3 PUBLISHER) to produce games?

Tagged by

A
- Available: I'm way tooooo free. Please, look for me when you've got time.
- Age: 7457 days
- Annoyance: Some say I am annoying.
- Allergic: If I say this out, I'll get beaten up.
- Animal: What Masahiro Sakurai likes!
- Actor: I don't watch movies

B
- Beer: I don't drink
- Birthday: March 31, Friday
- Best Friend: I don't have a specific best friend above all
- Body Part on opposite/same sex: ...Why should I like any body part?
- Best feeling in the world: Huh? ...I'm not into telling too much secret...
- Blind or Deaf: Left ear blocked since 2 days ago. Probably due to some cold.
- Best weather: Cloudy nights
- Been in Love: Huh?
- Been bitched out?: What?
- Been on stage?: Nope... And I've got stage fright
- Believe in yourself?: Nay
- Believe in life on other planets: There should be.
- Believe in miracles: Lilkie tagged me. I think that's a miracle
- Believe in Magic: I believe I'm a mage.
- Believe in God: No.... don't blame me. My belief is... unusual.
- Believe in Satan: No. The most Satanic thing would be whoever promotes Satanism based on nothing. Seriously, how can Devil World promote Satanism?
- Believe in Santa: LOL, it's Satan rearranged! Just kidding, I think if Hector survived that Bernese raid he'd be a living Santa!
- Believe in Ghosts/spirits: Nope
- Believe in Evolution: Yes! But sadly, this is why there's generation gap too...

C
- Car: Not interested in them
- Candy: Candy Mountain? (I'M REFERRING TO KIRBY SUPER STAR ALRIGHT!)
- Cake or pie: I don't favour one over another

D
- Day or Night: Night. I love... lonliness. Somehow.
- Dream vehicle: Hydra with +20 in everything
- Danced: Nope
- Dance in the rain?: But I don't wanna get wet!
- Dance in the middle of the street?: *roadkill'd*

E
- Eggs: Sunny side up, crispy edge, a little on the salty side
- Eyes: I hope mine can change colour like Mety's
- Everyone has: a chance to... die. Yet none told me what afterlife is like. Hmph.
- Ever failed a class?: You mean in college or...?

F
- First crush: I DON'T HAVE TO GO INTO DETAILS DO I?
- Full name: I don't disclose that.
- First thoughts waking up: ...Darnit. Time to wake up. AGAIN. (Seriously, I've done it at least 7457 times over)
- Food: I want to go to Oscar's

G
- Greatest Fear: ...I fear to say it out.
- Gum: I prefer mouth-freshening candies
- Get along with your parents?: ...We're... normal. Above average, perhaps?

H
- Hair color: Currently black/grey mix. Mom wants it to be brown/red, but I want to color it blue. Marth blue.
- Height: 165 cm. Shorty for a guy.
- Happy: How to be?
- Holidays: New Year's eve
- How do you want to DAI: The whole world gets killed together, all at once. This way, there's no worries and sorrow.
- Hate: Myself

I
- Idiot: Idiots are... idiots.

J
- Jewelry: Ummm.... amethyst?
- Job: Did one summer job, as a computer technician. Sooooo many networks to handle... And you know, Linux + Java = double speed fail

K
- Kids: Nice to interact with, pain to have one in home. Ouchie, my sister...
- Kickboxing or karate: I don't do martial arts
- Keep a journal?: Not really...

L
- Longest Car Ride: Once, in Korea. Tour shuttle bus failed to work.
- Love: Kirby
- Letter: Why would I like a letter?
- Laughed so hard you cried: Never
- Love at first sight: Don't think so

M
- Milk flavor: Mix milk with cream soda
- Movie: I hope there's an actual Kirby movie
- Mooned anyone?: No
- Marriage: I want not to marry.
- Motion sickness?: Nope
- McD's or BK: BK outlets are so rare in HK

N
- Number of siblings: 1, my sister who's 12 years 7 days younger than me
- Number of piercings: None
- Number: Either 17 or 19

O
- Overused phrases: "You know" and "..."
- One wish: I want to have a warp star.
- One phobia: Spiders

P
- Place you'd like to live: Castle Dedede. Watching him doing silly things is fun.
- Pepsi/Coke: Cola

Q
- Quail: Not interested in birds either
- Questionnaires: If it comes by phone, sayonara.

R
- Reason to cry: When I think I failed someone
- Reality T.V.: Hate them
- Radio station: Don't listen to those
- Roll your tongue in a circle?: That hurts my tongue

S
- Song: Kirby Super Star Ending. The only song that gets worse when ported to Ultra because of a lower pitch
- Shoe size: 44?
- Sushi: Eel. Or Tamago.
- Skipped school: Not usually, unless the lecturer literally cannot teach well
- Slept outside: I always sleep indoor.
- Seen a dead body?: Yeah, once, when I was 6, in a funeral.
- Smoked?: I hate smokers.
- Skinny dipped?: What?
- Shower daily?: This is Hong Kong... This is hot... so "yes" is the only possible answer.
- Sing well?: For some reasons, my old pals said I could sing. I don't know why, really.
- In the shower?: I sometimes do.
- Swear?: Usually not.
- Stuffed animals?: I want a stuffed Kirby. A cousin of mine has Meta Knight.
- Single/Group dates: Dating has no practical use for me.
- Strawberries/Blueberries: Neither.
- Scientists need to invent: Air Ride Machines.

T
- Time for bed: 0200 to 0600 in most days
- Thunderstorms: Thunder magic is coooooool! Yay for remote massacre!
- Touch your tongue to your nose?: ...Eww.

U
- Unpredictable: Most humans are unpredictable. I like machines more.
- Understanding?: I try to be. (COPIED FROM LILKIE WHO COPIED IT FROM EXIA!)

V
- Vegetable you hate: Tomato
- Vegetable you love: No special preference
- Vacation spot: Home. I prefer to vacation on the internet.

W
- Weakness: ...A certain... thing in my mind.
- Which one of your friends acts the most like you: EMERALD!!!!! It's like if I'm her clone!
- Worst weather: Bright sun shining
- Walk with a book on your head?: Sometimes I do that because of actual needs!

X
- X-Rays: Had those when I was younger. It's... cool in a way.

Y
-Year it is now: Year of Doom
-Yellow: Best contrasted with black.

Z
- Zoo animal: Sharks
- Zodiac sign: Aries

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