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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Corsair on January 14, 2004, 05:29:29 pm
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(http://www.zen8740.zen.co.uk/avatar/kal_avatar.gif)
It's... ermmm... I have no idea what it is. Anybody care to speculate?
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Thanks to Ashrak for pointing me to this tutorial:
http://ningen.nattoli.net/tutorials/magic_talisman_01.html
Figured it'd be better to have something a little original rather than the power symbol which is a tad obvious. Anyhow, speculate away!
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Well....it's a.....blue thing! :)
Looks good whatever, and better than the System Mechanic symbol :P
Flipside :D
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It's an ancient angelic summoning symbol. Or it means 'Thunder' in some ancient, iconographic language.
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Hm... that could be cool for some rendering I want to do when my Mobo comes..
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Originally posted by Liberator
It's an ancient angelic summoning symbol. Or it means 'Thunder' in some ancient, iconographic language.
No, you fool. It's the Outer Oblivian runic symbol for Kalifireth.
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Remember kids, he's called Thundfireth now, so don't go around calling him Thunder or some such nonsense.
Nifty avatar BTW. Too bad we mortals don't get none.
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well um..can you post the old ava for blatant rippa.....er posteritity?
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Hey cool. I got an idea!!!(rare)
Let me your old one Kalfireth?;) :)
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Nobodies getting my old one :p
Shrike, whats the whole "Outer Oblivian" thing about... made up, or some fiction you've been reading?
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Shrike, whats the whole "Outer Oblivian" thing about... made up, or some fiction you've been reading?
The former.
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Cool avatar :)
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Originally posted by IceFire
Cool avatar :)
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allthough one can't really figure out what it represents, it's still pretty cool indeed :)
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Is it on of the weather circles you get taught about in geography. The wind is 15knots from the west.
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Thunder the weatherman! :lol:;)
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Looks like a Technomage logo, or something :P
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[q]Is it on of the weather circles you get taught about in geography.[/q]
:wtf: I did History.
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Sucka. Geography pwnz
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Sucka. Geography pwnz
You never had my Geography teachers :rolleyes:
Still - Year 11 Geography was fun at least - though again, because of the teacher. He was thick as two short planks, so we had a lot of fun at his expense.
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Geography was fun depending on the teacher - one of my school teachers gave us tests on where places were (I'm talking every place - not just major capitals - god forsaken little places that nobody should ever need to know about. Anyhow, if you failed his tests you had to stay behind and learn them some more - I really hated that class...
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considering his title is Deus Ex Machina, I'm betting on some weird relation to Ion Storm's latest game.
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Actually you're off - but I'll tell you anyhow...
Firstly, Ashrak pointed me at various Photoshop tuts for practice and one of them (the one I posted) looked pretty damn cool (as you can see!).
Secondly, I was watching Donnie Darko earlier in the day and one of the lines Donnie says at one point is "Deus Ex Machina" which struck me as a nice little line.
A few modifications in Photoshop and there we are!
(Why Donnie says what he says, I still don't know - if anyone has theories on this I'd like to hear them).
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/me is a bit dissapointed for not getting a 5kb custom avatar :(
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Dude you know that if one person has one - everyone wants them. It's not that I object personally to the size or anything like that - it's just a potential problem that's not worth it. We made that decision ages ago.
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I, for one, don't care. I have this lame ass piece of nazi crap for my title, and I don't complain. :D
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this forums sucks because:
No avatars (yeah ok project thingies)
no image signatures (.... wtf? .....)
Rules because: i like the game and this is the only "active" place i know of ..... and i like most people here
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*shrugs* the rule was made long ago - besides this place is already one of the "heaviest" content wise on the GS network...
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
besides this place is already one of the "heaviest" content wise on the GS network...
what do image signatures have to do with GS? :confused:
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If you upload them to the site and don't remote link them - everything.
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who saied anything about uploading to the site?!
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It's one of the options that comes with the avatar choices on the control panel - you can link from another site or upload it to this forum to load directly.
Anyhow, it's not changing anything - no avatars for the masses :)
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oook how about image signatures then
EDIT: and you can always set the image size on avatar upload to 1 bit.......
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Not for me to decide - Sandwich? Shrike? Want to field this?
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Originally posted by Ashrak
oook how about image signatures then
Oh God no. Do you have any idea what that would do to 56k loading times? HLP is one of the few forums I visit where I can reasonably expect the little IE flag to stop waving after 20 seconds or so, and can open a dozen threads without having to wait 5 minutes before I can read the first post in any of them.
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I'd take the hint.
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0.o.....image sigs load after posts.....aaaaaaand you can set IE to filter out images......
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Oh, great. Cover the page with little red xes, have to guess which button says PM, edit, quote, not be able to see who's online, or have to wait for 400 kb of image sigs to load before I can see John modelers latest screenies... How fun :doubt:
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
Oh, great. Cover the page with little red xes, have to guess which button says PM, edit, quote, not be
0.o .... your really not that good with computers are you?
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Besides the fact that each thread would end up 3 posts to a page.....
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aaaaaaaah i give up .... your all geniuses .... why bother.
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Originally posted by Ashrak
0.o .... your really not that good with computers are you?
Not really, no. However, I'm also know that image sigs slow me (and presumably every other 56 ker out there) down to a crawl. There are still a lot of 56 kers on HLP. Thus, Image sigs are bad. It's that simple.
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Well, it's not really under debate untill one of the admins says it is - and so far that hasn't happened. I'm sure you can cope without avatars and image sigs for now...
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Don't EVER put in image signatures. I'm begging you. Image signatures add absolutely nothing to the discussion. They just take up a bunch of room and serve to show off just how much people like their current pathetic attempt at photoshop skills. Avatars and user titles are just as dumb, but at least they don't stretch the page vertically like image signatures.
If you're really so bloody concerned with your precious signature, Ashrak, just put in an IMG tag at the bottom of each of your posts. Surely if you're so much damned better with computers than the rest of us as you seem to think, you can figure a way to do that.
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Originally posted by mikhael
Ashrak, just put in an IMG tag at the bottom of each of your posts.
...... good idea!
(http://imagination.t-designs.net/sigs/Random.php) (http://imagination.t-designs.net)
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Agreed, I count 9 images in Ashraks siggy alone.... Why should 56kers have to play around with IE to accomodate this, especially if everyone decides to do it :(
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PHP autoswitch script....so not 9 .... 1 per refresh
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If it gets to out of hand we can disable image posting on the forums. Which will really screw up the communities ability to pimp models and SCP advances etc. Don't piss around with this.
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still think it sucks
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I don't care - it's not up for debate at this point.
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Originally posted by Ashrak
still think it sucks
How about you grow up and realise that sulking is the least likely way you'll get anything done?
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Secondly, I was watching Donnie Darko earlier in the day and one of the lines Donnie says at one point is "Deus Ex Machina" which struck me as a nice little line.
Whacko movie!
Ashrak: Images in siggys are simply not gonna happen. Same reason that custom avatars for the masses isn't happening - they're usually flashy, annoying, and a waste of screen space and bandwidth.
HLP is as friendly as it is partly because of the forced equality of pretty much everyone. And that's one formula that isn't going to be changing anytime soon.
Originally posted by Kalfireth
Thanks to Ashrak for pointing me to this tutorial:
http://ningen.nattoli.net/tutorials/magic_talisman_01.html
Figured it'd be better to have something a little original rather than the power symbol which is a tad obvious. Anyhow, speculate away!
BWAHAHAHAH!!
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/sandwich/images/glowy_sandwich.jpg)
And I loved your power symbol - thought it was brilliant! :nod:
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Originally posted by Sandwich
HLP is as friendly as it is partly because of the forced equality of pretty much everyone. And that's one formula that isn't going to be changing anytime soon.
Equal unless you're a former admin, then all bets are off. ;)
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Originally posted by mikhael
Equal unless you're a former admin, then all bets are off. ;)
Yes, well... we've all seen how Thundifireth's threats to resign from adminship due to lack of time, yadda yadda have come to naught. Methink that if he ever does disappear for more than a week - not due to vacation or some other enforced absence from online activities - then we (read "I" :D) can knock him back to bread-n'-butter status.
But until then, the H4MM4R of 7HUND4R's VVR47H will still haunt the transgressors.
:nervous:
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Bah! He's resigned. Boot him.
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Hey :p
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(http://volitionwatch.com/vwbb/images/smilies/booty.gif)
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I miss my old crappy GTD Wolf avatar (ph34 Irfanview), but I still have my double title, so I'm fine. Note even the admins have double titles :p
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We need no double titles ;)
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Note even the admins have double titles :p
*cough cough*
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Originally posted by Ashrak
oook how about image signatures then
DIE
As long as I am here there will never be image signatures, and if people start abusing the image tags, those will go too. I hate sig images, they're annoying and wasteful of space.
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Originally posted by Shrike
As long as I am here there will never be image signatures, and if people start abusing the image tags, those will go too. I hate sig images, they're annoying and wasteful of space.
:nod:
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But without the dying part :doubt:
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Originally posted by Shrike
DIE
As long as I am here there will never be image signatures, and if people start abusing the image tags, those will go too. I hate sig images, they're annoying and wasteful of space.
Flash sig images are even worse.... I've seen forums with no limits, where people have put sodding video clips (80 frame gifs or summat) as avatars and have a 3 mile wide banner as their siggy.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Flash sig images are even worse.... I've seen forums with no limits, where people have put sodding video clips (80 frame gifs or summat) as avatars and have a 3 mile wide banner as their siggy.
I've run into a few cool gif avatars.
http://www.x-tremegn.com/legolas/ava.gif
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Lol, Thunder, no one's EVER gonna call you Kalifreth (too hard to spell :p)
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I know, I never rated any of your collective intelligence high enough to shorten it to Kal either ;)
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Originally posted by Shrike
http://www.x-tremegn.com/legolas/ava.gif
NIIIICE! :eek2:
(http://imagination.t-designs.net/sigs/Random.php) (http://imagination.t-designs.net)
BTW .... stop useing the same (old blah blah) target thingie :) dont make same thing make something other with those effects....then ill say nice ... but now tutorial powah :)
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Meh, the target is a nice start to the image - the rest is hand done anyway so it is personalised.
Besides - just because someones done it first, doesn't make me any less a man for using the tutorial as a base for my own. I like the outcome :p
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Back on Kalfthunderith's title, isn't that also the name of one of Goober's campaigns?
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
I know, I never rated any of your collective intelligence high enough to shorten it to Kal either ;)
Are you kidding?
It took me to be AWOL for a year and a half for people to start knowing me as Raa Tor'h, rather than Snipes. And another 4 months before people learned to spell it correctly. Then, people who I've helped with models and the like still type it wrong. *looks at KT and Trashman* :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Shrike
I've run into a few cool gif avatars.
http://www.x-tremegn.com/legolas/ava.gif
That does indeed kick arse.
This is below is an example of what i'm talking about.... imagine it twice the length, and banner sized and you have an idea of the monstrosities i'm talking about...
(http://www.codadmin.com/images/cod.gif)
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image format jpg ..... 5 kb sice ....... 500 /150 max size
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
It took me to be AWOL for a year and a half for people to start knowing me as Raa Tor'h, rather than Snipes. And another 4 months before people learned to spell it correctly. Then, people who I've helped with models and the like still type it wrong. *looks at KT and Trashman* :rolleyes:
What, Snipes? I still remember you and still associate you with US and QM, so there. :p
Originally posted by Kalfireth
We need no double titles ;)
We? :D
To say it further: image sigs, no. If we put it in for a week, I guarantee you'd get sick of it. Which is why we wouldn't even put it in for a week. :p
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Originally posted by Setekh
What, Snipes? I still remember you and still associate you with US and QM, so there. :p
"QM" - heh..... can anyone say, "stillborn"? :doubt: :(
Originally posted by Setekh
To say it further: image sigs, no. If we put it in for a week, I guarantee you'd get sick of it. Which is why we wouldn't even put it in for a week. :p
...not even 6 days! :lol:
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
I know, I never rated any of your collective intelligence high enough to shorten it to Kal either ;)
Oh...
So...
I want an avatar coz I'm Special ( with the big S there :p )!!!!!
I love to improve matters ( retribution, niark :D )
"sets the world afire, mmh mmh..."
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1) It's not that hard to spell Kalfireth. Kalfireth. Kalfireth. Kalfireth.
2) Avatars are okay, but anything bigger than 80x80 or animated will seriously damage your eyes. I'm really glad we don't have them here.
3) Image sigs = worst thing that could happen to a forum. I've seen people use 300+ KB animated GIFs as a SIGNATURE - insane. And then there's the 500x500 images stretching the page to un-natural proportions.
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I don't really like the normal users having avatars. I think this is a good setup. Makes the forum look "cleaner" (not as much random clutter).
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Originally posted by Sandwich
"QM" - heh..... can anyone say, "stillborn"? :doubt: :(
Only until Psycho gets back on his feet.
I'll still freelance and put my models on QM when I get a chance. I really don't want to see QM die.
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Whacko movie!
Ashrak: Images in siggys are simply not gonna happen. Same reason that custom avatars for the masses isn't happening - they're usually flashy, annoying, and a waste of screen space and bandwidth.
HLP is as friendly as it is partly because of the forced equality of pretty much everyone. And that's one formula that isn't going to be changing anytime soon.
BWAHAHAHAH!!
[img removed for great justice! /img]
And I loved your power symbol - thought it was brilliant! :nod:
sandwich casts magic missile!
:nervous:
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But check out MY new avatar (I use this on all the other boards now)
http://photo.starblvd.net/Star_Dragon/5-2-4-1077501942?m=0&pg=4&ro=1&co=3