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A big happy birthday to the happy birthday boy of the day, GURUZETH aka ZETH aka CWILL aka CAPNCRUNCH aka ZZZZZZZZZZZETH aka LUBYLOO aka HOKEYPOKEY BTW: I'm working on donor stuff right now and looking into buying a new license for the UBB. I've got one final down, three to go. Wish me luck :((( |
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 Plo's HARD Trivia has been updated!! Go check it out to see if you're one of the lucky many, and rack up another point while you're at it! Theres some badge winners too, SO HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Yep, it's back. The Apple of Enlightenment. That weekly contest where site goers submit various works of art and literature and flukes to win a shiny, cool forum badge and rank. And what better way to celebrate than continue the topic that was being done before the minor technical difficulties. So that means, This week's (*chortle*) prediction is: What if the Runaway 5 were a Eurodisco band? Again, think of groups like ABBA, Aqua, happy, bubblegum dance stuff. Cheesy, yes, so have fun with it. As always try to get everything in before next Monday and we'll all be happy and cheery |
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Today's Updated Sites:URL Additions:Have you updated your site recently? Would you like your site to be listed in updated sites? All you have to do is email updatedsites@starmen.net with your site's name and url. Are you not in the links? Would like to get listed? Send an email to links@starmen.net containing your site's name and url, and you'll be all fixed up. |
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Staff: Important information concerning e-mail addresses, please read this carefully. Setting up e-mail addresses is a HUGE pain, and Tomato has done a lot of the work already, but there is still stuff to be done. I'd like to get our forwarders, aliases, pops, and mailing lists all sorted out carefully, so I want all of you on staff to e-mail the following information to me: Do you have (or need) a POP or a forwarder? --- If you have a forwarder, what is your username, and what e-mail address does it forward to? --- If you have a POP account, what is your username? All staffers must have a Starmen.Net e-mail address, whether it is a forwarder or a POP account. This is why ALL staff are required to e-mail me about this. Any who don't e-mail me quickly will make me very mad and I probably won't take the time to mess with your e-mail stuff in the future, so do it or I'll sic Super Buddha on you. Also, if you can't check your e-mail, thats because you haven't switched your username in your mail account settings. Your username now must have '@starmen.net' appended to it. For example, previously I logged into my mail account with just 'reidman' as my username. Now, I must login with 'reidman@starmen.net'. The reason that all of this is so important is because I need to send some very important information to all of you soon. So, please, respond as quick as possible so I can get things going. Thanks. As a side note to all the users: We've got $318 in donations now, which is amazing. I appreciate everything you donors are doing for us, please allow me some more time to get things sorted out. You WILL be contacted in the near future so we can figure out if there's anything you might want in return (like a forum rank/badge, email address, etc). |
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In between all of our crazy server business, I managed to get a few cool things done. One, I changed how listings of pictures in all of the Merchandise pages looks. Before, the pictures were listed as numbers. Now, I went through all the pages that needed it and changed the links so they say what they are, like the front of the guidebook, the back, etc. Well uh, it's just more USER-FRIENDLY. Second, I posted 3 new pieces of merchandise, listed below:
By the way, if anyone saved a pic of the "I LOVE IF" T-shirt we were selling for a limited time only, please send it to me and I will reward you with a forum rank or something. Lastly, I'm pretty sure I'll be broadcasting radio at the usual time tomorrow. If something comes up I'll let you guys know on the forums. So tune in, should be cool. Ah.. that's about it. I'll pro'oly get to some new auctions tomorrow. HAPPY EB HALLOWEEN! |
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I would like to thank Mr. Xod for fixing the polls I kept screwing up. Here are the results from the last one: Out of these EB tunes, what's your favorite? Runaway Five Music: 22.06% Other: 20.38% Devil's Machine Battle: 18.91% Onett: 15.76% Fourside: 13.87% Saturn Valley: 9.03% Total Votes: 476 I know the last poll kept screwing up so I don't know how scientific it is. Anyway, I wanted the next poll to have more choices, but I screwed it up again, and people don't seem to like too many choices anyway. So just vote for what you would most likely do. |
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Yay to Xod for fixing everything. My emails are working now, so go ahead and send all of your updated sites that I missed. I'll count them next time. In other news, your virii are still spamming my email box. Today's Updated Sites:
Are you not in the links? Would like to get listed? Send an email to links@starmen.net containing your site's name and url, and you'll be all fixed up. |
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Hey there boys and girls; if you're seeing this page, then you're seeing it from our sweet, sweet new server. We have big plans for this server in the future, especially for the summer. However, some more important matters to attend to first: -- HELP KEEP STARMEN.NET ALIVE WITH A DONATION We're in quite a financial pinch here at Starmen.Net, and need all the help we can get. Click the button below for information on donating: -- PERFECTION HAS A CATCH As sweet and awesome as this new server is, there IS a catch, albeit a minor one (we were expecting something far more serious than this to pop up, so I guess we should be thankful that it isn't something huge). -- I GET MY NEW PARTS TOMORROW :D I'm updating from my college's scary computer lab right now, but I get my new motherboard and RAM in tomorrow, so hopefully I'll be back at it in the afternoon. I've got craploads of stuff to do, so don't expect me to be back and updating regularly tomorrow, but hopefully in a week things will be going well. I have finals from Monday through Friday of next week, so I won't be around an awful lot then either, probably. -- DEATH TO THE UBB We're going to kill the UBB and start all over again hopefully. There are tons of things wrong with it and everything is crazy. If you have some kind of thread that you CANNOT live without (IF users come to mind) then back it up, because we're wiping everything out (including all the user accounts) for the reinstallation. To all you who had massively high post counts - sorry :( Thats all for now. Hopefully we'll get things back to normal around here soon. |
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I'll horrify and frighten reidman. Haha! YANEB Now! |
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The new SM.net poll is up. The results for last time were interesting. It seems a lot more people seem to like simple polls. Here are the results: Do you have the actual SNES EarthBound cart? Yes, it is super: 74.62% No, I use...other means: 25.38% Total Votes: 461 The next poll is about your favorite music in EB. Hopefully I covered enough areas. I didn't want to make a huge list of the vast number of songs in EB. GO VOTE!! |
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Yeah, some crazy guy is selling his EarthBound cart. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? Geesh. Anyway, I have a new list of Auctions for you folks, and a new picture for the Mother 2 Essential Strategies thanks to Otaku.com. And now the auctions roll in...
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My mental capability is gone right now. Apple of Enlightenment has been updated. The Winners of Nessy Python have been announced. To current news, This week's prediction is: What if the Runaway 5 were a Eurodisco group? If you don't know, Eurodisco is like ABBA, smile.dk, Miss Papaya, Bambee, stuff like that. Have fun with it. And try to keep files sizes down. I'd offer vocal assistance to anyone who needs it, except it'd be a conflict of interest. Unless you don't care about winning. Either way, get everything in before Monday of next week. Oh, and the heading is about how the last three weeks have had a European theme to it. Sorry. |
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Hi-ho, Fan Melee be updated again. Go and enter, and stuff. Although I'd really prefer if you didn't, because, let's face it; you haven't got a chance of winning, and you'd be just one more entry in my inbox that I have to look at. Anyway, I also got a few more screenshots, and you can find those in the Fan Shots section, oddly enough. NOTE: If you've sent me any screen shots this week, you might want to resend them. I got a pile of virus-related e-mails, so I just went through my inbox and deleted pretty much everything with a large attachment and/or vague subject. ANOTHER NOTE: I was gonna update yesterday, but I had a small time-related delay. This snowballed into several time-related delays, and my update was postponed. But I've updated now, so everybody's happy. Those who aren't happy will receive a complementary SPoD. |
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| Trivia is good. Even when I have habits of not updating at optimal times. In other news, CabezaGrande, Devin, Mario, Hawksun and Moochie won this week. | ||||||
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Mailbag is updated. Go read, go write, and then... Go tell other people to read, too! Next week's topic is: You've all voiced your favorite games, so why don't you tell me your least favorite? A game you truly hated (*cough* Bebe's Kids *cough*)--it isn't really hard to find bad games, so I expect lots of letters! |
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No more evil virii! Today's Updated Sites:URL Additions:Have you updated your site recently? Would you like your site to be listed in updated sites? All you have to do is email updatedsites@starmen.net with your site's name and url. Are you not in the links? Would like to get listed? Send an email to links@starmen.net containing your site's name and url, and you'll be all fixed up. |
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I believe the topic speaks for itself; we're halfway to our goal of 30,000 signatures for the petition! Obviously, things have slowed down a little bit, but the petition IS still going, and we'll not be stopping our work on it. Keep in mind that we haven't tapped ANY of the potential signatures in the vast sea of Japanese Mother fans out there, something we hope to begin work on in the coming weeks. There are a lot of sites which have helped recently, and I sincerely thank all of them; please, once again, if you notice that a site posts news about the Mother 3 Petition, let us know so we can thank them when the petition is over. I've been working on lots of background stuff for the petition, hopefully when my coming exams are over (temporarily) on Tuesday I'll get to work on a cool poster/flyer/handwritten petition form you guys can print out to help support the petition and make this a truly original effort. This isn't just ANY petition :) |
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d`Jeu > all of y'all. At least where Improv is concerned. In this week's Fanfic update, you get to check out some wild-crazy stuff, from old-school to new & fresh! Remember, updates ain't free, so send your fanfiction to me! Before the angry SkiFree monster eats you! 
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Hey-ho. Fan Melee has been updated. This time I decided to pit Ness against Mewtwo, just for fun. Who will emerge victorious? Only time will tell. Or maybe Ms. Cleo. Oh, and more good news: I'll almost certainly be getting a video capture device within the next couple of weeks. Of course, then I'll have to find something to use it for, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. |
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Now I can update without crashing out and falling asleep. Today's Updated Sites:
Are you not in the links? Would like to get listed? Send an email to links@starmen.net containing your site's name and url, and you'll be all fixed up. |
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Its very late and I have to get up very early, so I don't have a lot to say except that I've been contacting some gaming sites about the Mother 3 Petition, and I thank those who replied and offered their support. NO thanks to the handful of people who were jerks and didn't even read my email, instead responding instantly with a 'We Hate Petitions' prewritten letter; you'll all wish you'd lent a hand when Mother 3 is released >;) There won't be any printable petition forms for roughly a week, as I have two important exams coming up on Monday and Tuesday. Keep your eyes here, though, as we're bound to break the halfway mark any day soon. Also, stuff on the forum is sorta freaking out, but hopefully Xod and Mato will figure that out. |
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| Just a quick auctions update. Happy things for all.Ahhhh.. The radio page is sane, now. *sigh of relief* I'll be hopefully updating with some new Merch soon, so keep a look out. | ||||||
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In other news, it was Dive by BeForU. On the Apple of Enlightenment front, the 50th prediction was the best one I've run so far. A lot of good entries, but only three people won the topic EarthBond. But four badges were given how. How? Look and see. Good work from everyone though. Keep it up. By the way, This week's prediction is: What if EarthBound was a Monty Python sketch? Have fun with it, remember to keep it clean and proper, even though it IS Monty Python. Oh, and as I'm gone this week (leaving tomorrow) to be a part of my team repesenting my school and the Waterloo region at the Canadian Improv Games, there WILL BE NO MINI UPDATE FOR THIS TOPIC!!! The due date is STILL before next Monday, but there will be no post reminding you of this, as I won't have computer access. So don't forget and leave me with a grand total of four entries. |
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Sorry for the delay in a new poll. Things got funky and only Xod could save the day. Here are the results from the last one: If official flyers for the petition were available on SM.net, what would you do with them? All of the above.: 51.99% Manage to get them into gaming/computer stores.: 24.55% Hand them out to friends/peers.: 10.11% NO! I will do nothing because I don't want Mother 3! :P: 6.50% Get them posted in school.: 3.61% Post them on telephone poles.: 3.25% Total Votes: 277 So there you have it. BTW, all of the above did NOT include doing nothing. Anyway, this week's poll may seem a little boring, but I didn't want to write up some huge thing in case the polls weren't working. GO NOW! |
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| Eggy has sent in a few enemy sprites which had been heretofore overlooked:And, of course, if you have not yet signed the petition (which I'm sure most all of you have), please go sign it. The link's up there at the top thing. | ||||||
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I'm sorry, but having to delete about seven virus e-mails [and probably having to reformat once I next reboot, something I'd much rather not do] is just pushing it. Nonetheless, I have updated Trivia! Winners list coming later today. Winners list: Acid Wolf, Big Pointy Stick, CodeHunter 64, CPTCrunch, Cracked Bat, Cup O' Kracken Soup, Darrow, Ethel, Daveman Deluxe, Dragoon, Evil Man | |||