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I am very fond of the city building genre. Sim City 2000 was the first video game I ever bought and I enjoyed I thoroughly. A very surprising fact considering that my cities always ran deficits thus IMACHEAT found much use in my economic disasters. Sim City 3000 kicked this trend and by the time Sim [ READ MORE ]
Discerning between Asian texts is actually an easy feat. The major point of confusion arises because written Chinese,Korean and Japanese are highly related having all originated from China. Fortunately the use the Chinese character system did not perfectly fit with spoken Japanese or Korean. As such both Japanese and Korean have adopted the writing system [ READ MORE ]
afterRead Download afterRead | zip What do you show the reader after they have read your content? Do you show them an empty comment box? A small unrelated block of automated text? Instead use afterRead to present an active post footer driving visitors back into the site, don’t waste a prime opportunity. Presently afterRead’s options are focused on [ READ MORE ]
Three years ago the Sid Meier’s Railroads community over at Hooked on Railroads found that the 3GB enabler fixed crashing to desktop for Sid Meier’s Railroads. Apparently we were not alone and a number of games from that era, ~2006, suffered and so far I have seen versions of the 3GB enabler edited for Supreme [ READ MORE ]
[update] They responded, extra kind too. [/update] Of out of all the websites that qualify as Works of Art I can think of few that were not Japanese in origin. Perhaps it is the writing system and the subsequent dexterity? Could it be their religious dirty-phobia that keeps their designs minimal? Or could it be their [ READ MORE ]
A few months ago I started on a new project, learning to program in flash. The important point being the fact that at the time I couldn’t program in any language. Thus leaning to program in flash as really more about learning to program in general. The adventure lasted for about two and a half [ READ MORE ]
Chances are you have a picture on desktop as a background. Maybe even a picture related to japan and Japanese. I admit that it might look good, but you paid good money for that monitor space, don’t waste it. Look at this: What is it you ask? Well it is only the best use of desktop space [ READ MORE ]
Man it has been a while since I felt like this, when you don’t really know what you are doing, following tutorials word for word yet it is just not working. I think I am just about over it for now but it has put me in a reflective mood, in the past I would [ READ MORE ]
Today is my last day before my school starts up full time. Its always a balancing act to keep up with school work while still enjoying my hobbies, this is what is so awesome about summer break, I can work on my projects as much as I want. Most of what I worked on this [ READ MORE ]
Using proper graph paper to practice Kanji on can really help your writing conform on shape and proportions, or at-least I know it really helped mine. Finding the perfect graph paper image was a bit of a pain so in the end I just made my own. I did some cleaning up and editing last night [ READ MORE ]
First off I should mention that I red and am reviewing the 1984 edition of this book. No I didn’t find this at some used book store. Instead this book is a bit more of an heirloom. You see I am not the first one in my family to learn Japanese, both my Grandmother and [ READ MORE ]
Using an OS in Japanese is a very big part of creating an all encompassing environment, even more so if you spend most of your day on the computer in which case the transition is vital. Typically I would expect that you will have memorized how to do the things you commonly do. You should [ READ MORE ]
A very important part of having an effective Japanese environment is audio. If you have set it up right you should not be able to hide from it, ever. If you live in a small apartment this is not really a problem since you can simply use your computer’s speakers and you should [ READ MORE ]
Greetings, I have heard much about your reputation. For over two hundred years I have been waiting for someone like you. If an opinion is based off of experience and if an argument is meant to change opinion then the best arguments are reasoned with experiences. With that now said there is an argument I [ READ MORE ]
The Promise of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの約束, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yakusoku) was the first Suzumiya Haruhi video game released for the PSP in December 2007. It is a fully voiced visual novel with exact Japanese subtitles. Like most visual novels the story does not require much interaction on the players part, it might as well be [ READ MORE ]
After playing the awesome series of story mods by Puce Moose http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4730 I decided to take a swing at it. I kept the story small so that I could focus on polish without getting getting sidetracked with making it grand. Update, now version 1.0: This new file fixes a major bug and greatly improves the story telling. Some [ READ MORE ]
Ok so the parts arrived finally. While I love Newegg’s competitive prices the shipping factor usually dampens my enthusiasm, not only is shipping a bit more expensive but it is also slower since everything comes from the states even when ordering from the Canadian site. The new parts: [ READ MORE ]
Make Windows transparent for free with Glass2K. So why would you want to make windows transparent, well put simply productivity. It works expecally well when viewing an image, be that photos or video, since the colours are less likely to blend with what you are doing on top. With text it becomes a little harder although [ READ MORE ]
www.smrsimple.com is done, I only need to add one or two more things but for the msot part it is done, now for it to stand the test of time. [ READ MORE ]
Big news! A crack is out and it works! Thanks to Nob Ody for alerting me to it. You can get it on isohunt here are the instructions: Install game. Edit the Updater.bat file so that each line points towards your game’s installation directory Launch Updater.bat Close the launcher once updates complete Your game is now up to date to [ READ MORE ]
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