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At some point in history, the French academy would refer to certain painters as 'impressionists' and meant to offend and slander them when doing so. These painters eventually adopted it as their official name in a 'fuck you' to the establishment and wore it as a badge of honor.

It's not unconventional or impossible for groups to take a word back like that. Sometimes the negative context is forgotten or ignored by many over time. Regardless, the mods are entitled to their language intervention, so I think at the very least we should stop pretending that anyone's free speech is being subverted here.

I couldn't agree more with the need to instate a rule of this kind, but I also believe we needn't be too harsh on those going "Huh? Is there something wrong with saying that stuff?" (Assuming they still accept the rule.) Not using those words should indeed not be much of a hassle, but you'd be surprised how little we often consider the hidden assumptions in the vocabulary we employ - language can often become bit of an automatic thing.

Despite what many may believe, we often find that language controls the way we think; not the other way around. I'd like to share a recording from Heron Stone's podcast related to the subject: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/599805/sound/Ge … nguage.mp3 (Five Stupidities of the English Language - 90 mins) if you're in the mood for it.

Keeping derogatory slurs pertaining to race or sexual orientation in our language reinforces a reality tunnel where we associate certain races and orientations with negative thought. All too often, though, people can be blissfully unaware of this reflective effect of language.

Before I talk *too* much... good call on the rule. Amen.

I don't really think that anyone is trying to get a free pass where they can get away with using the words or having used them in the past, prof. I guess that as soon as part of your regular speech gets labeled offensive, some would feel linguistic confusion if they never meant harm by it. I understand that those would want to clarify their intent, so that it be known that they weren't offending on purpose.

That said, this might present a nice opportunity for all to revise just how much any word appears up for interpretation, If we choose our words carelessly and without thinking, we risk communicating the wrong intent without knowing we did. In the end words only hold the meaning we attribute to them, but in this particular case it seems like a minor effort to avoid the ones encapsulated by the new rule and many will probably feel better for it.

*squints* Not sure if sarcastic or not.

That's cool. What'cha up to with them?

Dude, I'm sort of in your boat as well - mostly a modder but also getting more interested in actually crafting music. I consider myself a general electronic hobbyist that dabbles in Gameboys, and I certainly engage in that stuff with more inspiration and enthusiasm than I would approach writing music with, especially since I have no formal music background at all. But I still want to pick up composing more seriously at some point. I'd be perfectly fine just tinkering though, so we'll see.

Maybe it's a bit superfluous, but I agree with the advice above. I also often hear the tip of downloading .savs to check out other people's techniques.

Maybe this is obvious to some, but I'm not sure myself so I wanted to ask: can the programmer read the SRAM of other cartridges as well, like a Pokémon game or the Game Boy Camera? If I can do with the programmer what I'm currently accomplishing through a Mega Memory, that alone might interest me in picking one up eventually. I'm not really down for soldering those SMD IC's, though...