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Ridley Prime

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    Ridley Prime reacted to Doc Brown in The Lady Liberty - N4A Chat Thread, June 2017   
    Nothing like trying out Playstation Now. Been playing different stuff for the shits and giggles. I suck at Dark Souls II so bad.  
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    Ridley Prime reacted to Doc Brown in Ninfora Creation Gallery   
    You're welcome. Ah I see. Yea I used Corel PaintShop for awhile myself, until I transferred to Windows 10. So now I just have Gimp. Found it was pretty similar to it and Photoshop. A bit different, but not enough to dissuade me. Word. They've made it prohibitively expensive these days. It's crazy.
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    Ridley Prime reacted to JanusDS in X-MEN: Apocalypse - Honest Trailer   
    "Congratulations, you played yourself." - pretty much sums up the movie, lol. I thought it was horrible coming off the trails of the previous 2 movies, nearly if not as bad as The Last Stand. While yeah, the timeline was still pretty screwy, some of the characters powers were suspect, etc in First Class and Days of Future Past, at least they had decent stories. In this one, well, the Honest Trailer pretty well sums it up - story just wasn't there, Apocalypse's powers were ridiculous and he shouldn't have been beatable even by once again self-Phoenix'ed out Jean Grey. And honestly idk why they would go that route again after what a horrible story it made for in The Last Stand. Ugh idk, getting kinda sick of X-Men movies and hope Deadpool can hold up, at least for awhile.
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    Ridley Prime reacted to EH_STEVE in Metroidvania thread   
    I'm not overly fond of the term, but can't think of a replacement for it, so...
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    Ridley Prime got a reaction from Tyranogre in Super Mario Odyssey considered racist for being "cultural approprriating"   
    The internet phenomenon of SJW's never gets old... Nah, it's old.
     
    While we're at it, let's say Mario was never appropriate enough in the first place because he wears too much red which promotes gang violence.
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    Ridley Prime got a reaction from Kodiack in The Lady Liberty - N4A Chat Thread, June 2017   
    Makes me glad I've still got Melee and most things from then even though I've eventually had to get rid of some stuff...
     
    Anyway, um.. hi all. Sorry if me bumping a number of old threads got kinda annoying, but since the oldest were only from last year, figured it wouldn't hurt anything. At any rate, I've recognized and remembered mostly everyone whose talked with me a bit so far (Tyranogre, IU, Doc Brown, and such), but I'm not sure I remember everyone else yet, given how some have gone by different usernames than they did on Oldsider or NS2, but am hoping maybe some more of y'all happen to remember/recognize me. If I happen to be a total stranger to some or most here despite my history with the Nsider community, it's fine/cool and can't be helped then, but I don't bite... much. =p
     
    Hope everyone's doing alright, all things considered. A major part of what drew me back to a place like this was restored faith in Nintendo after E3 and them reworking the Switch's online according to feedback and things like that. They're taking it more seriously now unlike with the Wii U it felt and can tell they're really back and strong, and hope the Switch continues being successful.
     
    And yeah, it was kinda odd only learning recently of NS2's closure, but I saw this place advertised by someone in the last shoutbox message, although the name was spaced out since Ninfora was obviously censored there since I guess they didn't like the competition, but then I came here, so here we are...
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    Ridley Prime got a reaction from Eliwoodman12 in Introductions thread.   
    I remember you too. Welcome back.
     
    And thanks for the welcome y'all! I recognize you others as well. Good to see again.
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    Ridley Prime reacted to Eliwoodman12 in Introductions thread.   
    Eliwoodman12. Started back on Nsider 1 in 2004. Came to NS2 when 1 closed and went by the name Riku. Few years later changed back to Eliwoodman12. Glad to have found you guys after the old site went down. 
     
    Also 10 years this year that Nsider 1 closed. Time flies.
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    Ridley Prime reacted to Doc Brown in Ninfora Creation Gallery   
    Nice work! Ever thought of using Gimp temporarily until you get access to Photoshop again?
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    Ridley Prime got a reaction from Doc Brown in Ninfora Creation Gallery   
    A hand-drawing I once did of Ridley from a Metroid manga panel after much practice...
     

     
    Am an occasional artist for hand drawn and photoshop, though don't have access to the latter anymore for now sadly.
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    Ridley Prime reacted to Doc Brown in Introductions thread.   
    Good to see you back, Ridley. (It's Box9Missingo, I just go by Doc Brown now)
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    Ridley Prime reacted to Tyranogre in Introductions thread.   
    Good to see you again, RP.
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    Ridley Prime reacted to purple_beard in An interview with the guy who's trying to pitch the next Terminator movie.   
    He gets the rights back soon..... I doubt  they get one off before he officially takes back over.
     
    https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/01/20/terminator-rights-revert-original-creator-james-cameron-hes-getting-team-lined/
     
    2019....
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    Ridley Prime reacted to Cryptic in Doom series thread   
    I have played a bit of Doom.

    I played Doom 1 first, on XBLA.  I liked it.

    I have not played Doom 2, although I own it on Steam (along with Doom 1) and whatever else.

    I do not own Doom 3 in any form.

    I started Doom reboot a while ago, and I thought it was really fun...but I've never gotten back to it.  It's on my list though.
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    Ridley Prime got a reaction from Carl321 in Introductions thread.   
    I first joined the original Nsider in 2004 when I was 17 and still finishing up high school, joined Nsider 2 while I was mostly still in college, though my interest in it dwindled over time due to the drop in quality of the place for me, especially by 2012 or so to the point I just slowly left/quiet disappeared, though I had my other personal reasons for it too. Now I've recently reached my 30's, come and gone from college again (just for something else to do), temporary work places, and things... Damn how time flies.
     
    Here in cyberspace though I'm pretty much known as your local alien dragon tyrannical overlord. Pleased to make your acquaintance again, Nsider community or what's left of it.
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    Ridley Prime got a reaction from Kodiack in Introductions thread.   
    I first joined the original Nsider in 2004 when I was 17 and still finishing up high school, joined Nsider 2 while I was mostly still in college, though my interest in it dwindled over time due to the drop in quality of the place for me, especially by 2012 or so to the point I just slowly left/quiet disappeared, though I had my other personal reasons for it too. Now I've recently reached my 30's, come and gone from college again (just for something else to do), temporary work places, and things... Damn how time flies.
     
    Here in cyberspace though I'm pretty much known as your local alien dragon tyrannical overlord. Pleased to make your acquaintance again, Nsider community or what's left of it.
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    Ridley Prime reacted to Penance Fracture in Halo Dissection Series   
    I would have liked a Halo 3 Anniversary, as a paid add-on to The Master Chief Collection á la ODST. As of now, the game just looks noticeably inconsistent relative to the others in terms of visual fidelity.
     
    Being honest, though, I had problems with the aesthetic of Halo 2 Anniversary. Like, it looks better, but it's essentially a straight texture update of the original, which leads to it being wildly inconsistent with both Combat Evolved Anniversary and everything past Halo 3.
     
    Observe:
    Even with the remastering, one of these looks quite noticeably more plain than the others.
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    Ridley Prime reacted to Mystery Ninja in Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist coming to Steam   
    See I have a very weird relationship with Yugioh.
     
    I was a MtG player growing up. I looked on YGO with some distaste for that reason alone. But then I got hooked on The Abridged Series. That led me to trying out a couple of the GBA games via emulation, and... while I maybe have a very blunt understanding of the game's mechanics, I actually had fun playing them. LotD has popped up a couple times in recommended videos on youtube, I've seen some of it in action. I may have to give this a try when it hits Steam.
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    Ridley Prime reacted to Kodiack in Ninfora - A Not-So-Brief History   
    To say that the last 24 hours have been hectic would be nothing short of an understatement. Now that the dust is starting to settle, I'd like to take a moment to explain why Ninfora came to existence, and what we have planned for the future of the site.
     
    NSider2 was a great home for nearly a decade. Deciding to leave NSider2 was a decision that was not made lightly. The NSider2 staff has realised that the site has been stagnating and dying for a very long time. We have desperately wanted to turn that ship around. Even if we didn't wind up attracting new members, we wanted to at least make the site a welcoming place for members that have been around for so long. Unfortunately, working with CrowdGather - the site's current owners - meant that it was nigh-on impossible to accomplish even our most basic of goals.
     
    We have a lot of admiration for this ever-resilient community and hope to see several ambitious ideas come to fruition in the coming days/weeks/months. Transitioning to a brand new site was our very last option, but it's unfortunately the one that we needed to go with. I personally tried to reach out to CrowdGather on June 1st and expressed interest in purchasing the site. After waiting for so long without a reply, I was assured that the email was forwarded to the sales team. I waited. And waited. And asked some more. Nada.
     
    My request to CrowdGather falling on deaf ears was not the first. CrowdGather's apathy and inactivity was what spurred me to submit a buyout request in the first place. I assumed that they may be interested in earning some money for having kept NSider2 running for so long. I can't imagine that the site is generating too much revenue at this point, and the cost of operating it is certainly non-negligible, especially when you consider their staff hours that have been (ineffectively) poured into the site.
     
    Difficulties with CrowdGather have been ongoing for years, which has also become immediately clear to the community as a whole as CG tries to perform damage control. In the name of transparency, I'm going to openly share some of the issues that have proved to be a headache for us:
     
    Years ago, NSider2 began serving malware when reached through Google and other search engines. Users that clicked on a link to NSider2 would be redirected to unsavoury sites if they did not already have a cookie from NSider2 on their system. This issue would not often affect users that frequented the site, but people unfamiliar with the site would be immediately turned away from the malicious activity. CrowdGather has not maintained NSider2. Basic security needs were entirely neglected, as indicated above. We were running with painfully outdated versions of IPS and various other software packages on the back-end. Administrators visiting the website or logging into the admin control panel would also be nagged with messages prompting us to update to newer versions of IPS 4 to patch critical security issues. Sadly, we were powerless to do so, and requests to fix this were ignored. The entire upgrade process was not handled well. The database took weeks to rebuild, and after realising that one queue of work was constantly getting "stuck", I had found that a simple plugin was conflicting with the automated tasks. This plugin was a very old version, and the problem we were experiencing was a bug that had been fixed long ago. As usual, we were unable to do anything beyond disabling features and making the site less enjoyable to use. Things get broken. A lot. View counts not updating is one of the more notable recent problems. Performance is awful, but could be trivially improved with a few hours of maintenance. I was able to optimise the database substantially with the limited SQL Toolbox that the IPS admin control panel provides alone, but I could only do so much. Simple details such as copyright footers would not even be updated. @Pelord's story is particularly telling: He had requested that CrowdGather update the home page's copyright footer from 2014 to 2016, but this still has not been done. The front page in general clashes heavily with the rest of the site.  
    With all of these problems and no buyout option on the table, we were left with one final choice: Start fresh, and try to keep the community involved every step of the way. Admittedly we could have had a bit more to show at the time of @Chrom's original announcement, but our first priority was to gauge interest and to force CrowdGather to show their hand. We believed that CrowdGather may have been open to the idea of a buyout if they saw how unhappy the community (and particularly the staff) had been with their non-involvement with the site.
     
    CrowdGather showed their hand. Their iron fist, even. CrowdGather "quickly" (relatively speaking :P) removed the announcement thread; banned Chrom's account; and placed a wildcard IP ban on Chrom, likely banning access to several others around him that may be using a similar IP range.
     
    I was not immediately banned, but I did respond to a single post mentioning Ninfora. I showed my enthusiasm for the new site and hyped up how awesome it was to have it running as it is. Shortly thereafter, I found that my ability to submit posts and use the private messaging system had been disabled. Curiously enough, Pelord has since also received similar treatment, despite not having any activity on NSider2 since the incident. The most likely speculation for this is the simple fact that he was an admin.
     
    So this is why Ninfora is necessary. It gives us the chance to start fresh. I have a personal affection for you wonderful people, and I wanted to be able to provide a forum that's given the love that NSider2 so desperately needed and deserved.
     
    I'd like everyone to know where Ninfora will be headed in the future. So here's an "FAQ" to explain things!
     
    Who owns Ninfora?
     
    While I am in control of Ninfora's domain name, cloud instance, and software licenses, I will primarily be focusing on back-end issues and bug fixes. I love technology and putting together things that "just work", so being able to personally determine the infrastructure and software to use was a fantastic opportunity for me.
     
    However, I am not a designer. I am not a community manager. I am not a mediator. I do tech, and maybe some other things when necessary. @Chrom will continue performing administrative duties. @Pelord will continue handling social media and I'm going to get some software in place so that he can make an awesome home page. @CCH will continue creating graphics and making the site more pleasing on the eyes (he'll do better with the dark skin than I ever could ).
     
    Likewise, it would be awesome to see other people getting involved with various aspects of the site. I want to be able to make this site engaging. Some recent members here enjoy posting weekly reviews and creating fantastic fan art. I would love to see your guys' awesome work highlighted on the main page and beyond.
     
    How will Ninfora grow?
     
    Crazy as this may sound for a website, none of us are focused on "growth" right now. We're focused on attracting the tight-knit community that has existed for so long. Only when the community is happy and settled will we think about how to bring in fresh faces. If you're coming from NSider2, then right now this site exists for you.
     
    Monetisation?
     
    Generating revenue from Ninfora isn't a goal at all. I've had a few people asking about how I will sustain the site, and right now, I'm paying out of pocket. If I wind up spending a few hundred dollars per year to keep this site going, then that is fine by me. I love this community and I would happily stomach the additional expense.
     
    However, server bills and license fees are still very much a realistic concern. Some members have expressed interest in chipping in a few bucks here and there. I may set up a donation system or some sort of crowdfunding campaign at some point, but I am not worrying about that until much more work on the site has been finished.
     
    You will also notice that there are no advertisements on the site at present. I'm a stern opponent of what online advertising has become. If there ever are ads, they will not be Flash-based; animated; or have any sound. Even image ads would be unlikely. If advertisements are implemented, I would stick strictly with text-based ads. And even then I wouldn't care if you guys used ad blockers, since I still would be too.
     
    What will come of NSider2?
     
    No one knows. Currently, NSider2 has an entirely brand new team of staff. Ultimately, CrowdGather will determine NSider2's fate. It is up to CG to decide whether they will keep it running, or decide to sell it yet again, or even flip it off permanently.
     
    Personally, I want to at least see NSider2's rich history preserved forever. One big reason that I wanted to purchase NSider2 instead of start from scratch is because the site holds so much personal nostalgic value and memories. I have never been a part of a more vibrant community in all my life. Alas, NSider2 has sadly degraded into a site that I can no longer enjoy. NSider2 is also potentially the first and only website that I have ever been banned from. It hurts. It really does.
     
     
    That's me for now. If you got through all of that, thanks for reading! I'm still organising my thoughts and coming to terms with everything that has happened. But after talking with so many of you here and on Discord, I am highly optimistic for the future. It's going to be a bumpy road, but this community has always persevered through even the most difficult of times. Here's to another decade of the NSider legacy!
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    Ridley Prime reacted to Chrom in User Name colors?   
    Enjoy your new color!
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