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Yeah, it's a Porple thing afaik.

But just so you know, a handy way to type Japanese quotes (as opposed to copy&pasting) without installing a keyboard or an extension onto your browser (i.e. Kitsune for Firefox) is to use Google translate (like, the actual site, not the quick tool that appears on Google searches). When you start typing in the to-translate box set to Japanese, a あ box should appear in the bottom left and if you click it, it'll start turning your romaji into kana and kanji. I.e. if you type "nani" it'll offer なに as an option; hit enter to lock that in, or space to give you a drop down menu from which you can choose the kanji 何, the katakana ナニ, or any number of kanji and/or kana combos (use the up/down keys to get to what you want, then hit enter). You can do it on word at a time, or whole sentences, or more, if you're feeling confident.
 
Walkazo said:
installing a keyboard
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personally i find this to be the most convenient option when it comes to typing in japanese. if you haven't done it already, finding the option to add keyboards in the control panel is pretty straightforward if you're using windows (and i think moreso if you're using a mac but i haven't used one in ages so). it's completely worthwhile imo as you can type directly into any input form without the need to copy-paste characters

walkazo's given some great alternatives otherwise tho [nobbc]:P[/nobbc]
 
Yeah, I installed a keyboard, and it's dead handy. Alt+` and away you go.

Although I think it gives my computer headaches to run it - startup in particular gets laggy, but that could just be my computer being shitty and underpowered in general.
 
So I contacted Porple about this and he responded. There is a problem with the Javascript though, and I can't do any programming language at all, so help would be appreciated! Thanks!
 
Since we're going through terminology overhaul after overhaul, can we just change that "sprites and models" into, uh, something else? As pointed out a lotta posts ago, they aren't models, they're renders of models. So I think we can change it into "sprites and 3D renders", but then, most artwork are technically 3D renders too.

I used to say that they're "models", but I'm a little bit more well-articulated in modeling field (I'm pursuing video game modeling as a career after all), so I find that term a bit silly.

I don't know if it sounds pedantic, but "sprites and models" doesn't leave a particularly good taste in my mouth. What's pedantic is "sprites and 3D renders that are not artwork".

Looking through older discussions, I've see some issues that need to be resolved:

Mario RPG infoboxes in the List of statistics section
Licensing template for 3d renders that are not classified as game artwork

The last comment about the Mario RPG infoboxes was a resolution issue, but is it even possible to adjust the table layout to make it more apt for those resolutions?
 
we could modify the sprites liscensing template to accomodate for 3d renders since they're legally about the same thing
 
Should we remove Buzzy Beetles and their subspecies variants from the Insects category? They're as much as beetles as those certain Volkswagen cars are beetles.
 
I guess. Confused readers will probably keep putting it back,but whatever, it's not like it'd be the first time people don't use categories correctly...
 
Mario Party Σ said:
Should we remove Buzzy Beetles and their subspecies variants from the Insects category? They're as much as beetles as those certain Volkswagen cars are beetles.
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Yes!

I have a question: should we give the paper form of Mario a separate page on the wiki? I get why we didn't do it in the past, but with the release of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam it's something to at least consider.
 
That's also being discussed here (Talk:Paper_Mario_(series)#Now_that_Mario_.26_Luigi:_Paper_Jam_is_a_thing...).

A page for "Paper Mario (character)" will probably be necessary for M&L:PJ, although then there's the question of whether all the PM series stuff gets split like Dr. Mario, or just the one game. Plus the other duplicated characters, but then what of characters in both series who don't appear in both/either form in this particular game? or other subjects like places, enemies, etc. It's a bug headache, frankly. Overall, I think it'd probably be best to wait until we have more info, but on the other hand, random readers might just try to update it in the meantime and do a bad job of it... It'd be nicer if we had more info right away to try and work with, but nope.

Also, I'm hoping they'll be a separate playable Paper Mario in SSB4 before too long: then we can use that name instead of messing around with "Mario (Paper Mario series)" or "Mario (Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam)&qu