Chris

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   Chris added a post in a topic Having a problem sending staus to other members    Monday at 5:04 AM

   Correct.
   The issue can also be avoided without refreshing the page. Click along the top of the attach file section to get the text box to appear.
   

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   Chris added a post in a topic Welcome To Your New-Look SSMB!    15 July

   Unless Dreadknux, Bmn or Carbo did it then it wasn't intended. I actually liked the updated topics list as a means of helping people keep track while they adjusted to the new forum layout. I'll have to ask since we're all working on separate projects right now with a bit of overlap.
   Kinda and no, in that order. The badge system is updated to somewhat display the existing ones but isn't quite at a point where we'd feel comfortable having it public (bugs and whatnot); the functionality issues as of late have required Bmn's attention as an immediate priority while the badges aren't that high. They'll be back in the near future - and I don't mean a Sonic Smash Cards timeline either.
   I have a checklist of bugs or fixes that I need to do to the existing skins before working on others. If I start work on another then I'm effectively doubling my workload and adding a dash of frustration when I find miscoloured elements.
   

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   Chris added a post in a topic Amiibos (We all welcome Amiibros)    15 July

   The stock issues (besides some outliers like Kirby) are worse in America. For the first few waves, the vast majority of units were sold to America but the demand vastly exceeded the stock. When America was deep into empty shelves, other regions were posting pictures of fully stocked shelves (mostly from European or Japanese stores).
   Canada had restocks of both on Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon and Toys R Us.
   Don't get me wrong in my previous statements, I very much disagree with the concept of store exclusives. However, I feel like this is the lesser of the evils - if they're going to do exclusives, stagger the releases (as Palutena and Dark Pit are evidence of) to give collectors a chance to get both. The objective here should be to allow collectors that chance, not to make them choose between standing outside of Target, Best Buy or whatever retailer. That is, unless you're in NYC and have the Nintendo World Store as an option. Amazon is a very good retailer and has a game plan prepared for this release so I suspect it'll have a window of an hour or two to purchase.
   I can't speak for Best Buy in the United States but the Canadian division handled Meta Knight incredibly well. Their online restock was announced well in advance and lasted over an hour before it was sold out, despite the huge volume of orders coming in. All of their other restocks were handled in a similar manner but with a smaller amount of stock, though I know a lot of people who managed to get the ones they were after from them.
   

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   Chris added a post in a topic Welcome To Your New-Look SSMB!    14 July

   To note, we're fixing as many issues as time permits. Most of these bugs would have gone unnoticed during our tests because we didn't have the sheer amount of volume that rolling out on a live server does. Keep it coming.
   Some of these errors will have to wait until a new IB4 update, though. They're pushing them out every two or three days at this point due to their bug tracker.
   

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   Chris added a post in a topic Amiibos (We all welcome Amiibros)    14 July

   Could be. Target seems to be the one retailer that hasn't been catching on to how to handle these products; Best Buy and Amazon have dedicated staff to assisting in these product launches and have made sure to have a huge amount of stock available for their launch windows. EB/Gamestop are still spreading themselves too thin and aren't going to be offering preorders for future waves because of their own bad decisions in the last one (launching online preorders on a holiday and having in-store ones beginning on the weekend following), but their restocks have gone exceptionally well considering their lack of direction.
   Amazon and Best Buy are hands down the best retailers to get exclusives at this point. The rest are a frustrating mess.
   Edit: I'd actually prefer Walmart to get exclusives over EB simply because of how shit they are at what they do. With Walmart, you can count on them having their stock when the stores open and not coming by courier at 2PM.
   

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   Chris added a post in a topic Amiibos (We all welcome Amiibros)    14 July

   Amazon has staff that are actually communicating with the customers about release dates, times and the like (stating that we'll know when she goes live in advance and her quantities will be more akin to that of Charizard [not rare at all]). They've also been one of the only retailers that has handled past releases very well on both sides of the border.
   I'm pretty happy that they're getting an exclusive.
   

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   Chris added a post in a topic Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has passed away    13 July

   I'm shocked and saddened by this news - I got used to him being the face of the company, but I also knew of how much he'd done for the industry over the years. From when he was a coder at HAL all the way until his work at Nintendo of Japan, we wouldn't have gotten Earthbound, Smash Brothers Melee or some of the Pokémon games if he hadn't been there. It's hard to imagine the company without his endless energy and tenacity, but we've all been influenced by his work in one way or another and he made quite an impact on the industry.
   May he rest in peace knowing that.
   I'll be over here watching Pollyanna and debating playing through Earthbound again in his memory.
   

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   Chris added a post in a topic Welcome To Your New-Look SSMB!    12 July

   If I remember correctly, you won't need the old tags anymore. It should embed with just the YouTube URL in the post (but you'd have to edit your old posts to get that to work or wait for the system to rebuild).
   

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   Chris added a post in a topic Topics out of date    12 July

   There are more posts per page. The system is still rebuilding the counters; it'll update to only have 58 pages when that's done.
   

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    Chris added a post in a topic Status Update bug - Reply Box    12 July

    In the event that the box loads as the top one did, you can click on it and it'll expand to be like the bottom one. I've noticed this one myself while trying to post in topics and the like but it's just a visual one and not a functionality problem.
    That said, I'll look into it.
    

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    Chris added a post in a topic Welcome To Your New-Look SSMB!    12 July

    Members should now be able to post in this forum. Sorry for the oversight.
    

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    Chris added a post in a topic Fixing Stuff    12 July

    This is what I think a lot of users are missing - there is a dedicated page still (which I missed myself initially) which has the same interaction as the old one plus more features.
    

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    Chris added a post in a topic SSMB 2015: Your Opinion    12 July

    That's not intended at all and I'll fix it right now. Would rather you guys posted this feedback there.
    

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    Chris added a post in a topic Welcome To Your New-Look SSMB!    12 July

    Just a few notes to make:
    Some work still needs to be done on the skin. Buttons, in particular, are off colour. Themed skins will return at some point in the future.The friends system is gone - this wasn't our doing. IBS changed it to a followers system more akin to social media.Badges aren't lost (we backed it up) - we just need to upgrade the plugin for it. This requires a rewrite since it hasn't been updated in years. They will return.Enjoy!
    

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    Chris added a post in a topic Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS - Settle It In Smash!    10 July

    What purpose would having classic Sonic in Smash serve? How would he be different from the modern version already in the game?
     
    (This is rhetorical. He'd be a clone.)
    

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