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Offline ZylonBane

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Reply #20 on: January 01, 2003, 02:22:39 pm
So, uhm.... who won?
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Reply #21 on: January 01, 2003, 02:59:44 pm
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
So, uhm.... who won?


Good Q... There wasn't much real competition, though... kinda disappointed. :doubt: Oh well.

I'd organize a voting thread, but I've not the time... perhaps Setekh can do it. I'll bug 'im. ;)
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Offline Knight Templar

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Reply #22 on: January 01, 2003, 03:45:51 pm
well Can we at least replace the ever redundant :wink: and ;) ?
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Offline ZylonBane

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Reply #23 on: January 02, 2003, 11:10:31 am
I think the size/dimension restrictions were too strict to effectively do much Freespace-specific. That probably killed the contest.
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Offline Goober5000

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Reply #24 on: January 02, 2003, 11:38:25 am
Yeah... :(
 

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Reply #25 on: January 09, 2003, 06:28:01 am
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I think the size/dimension restrictions were too strict to effectively do much Freespace-specific. That probably killed the contest.


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Sheesh, 25x25 too small for ya whippersnappers? Can't "express yourselves" with anything less than a 1280x1024 32-bit image? Feh. :ick


And besides:

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Hmmm.... well, the size constraint is due to Shrike's panicy reactions to his smiley box being disorganized... ask him. I'd love to see what you guys can come up with regardless. :)


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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline ZylonBane

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Reply #26 on: January 09, 2003, 01:17:08 pm
Yes, like I said, it was too restrictive to do MUCH in. The small number of entries attests to this. There's very little iconic imagery in the FS universe that would lend itself to such a small format. Getting FS-specific practically requires animation (headz, beam cannons, etc).

As far as disrupting the smiley grid, there's no reason you couldn't create a 15x15 thumbnail of a larger smilie.

BTW, WTF is that red thing hovering at the tip of the smoke plume in the :thepimp: smilie?
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Reply #27 on: January 09, 2003, 01:22:59 pm
a feather in his hat?
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Reply #28 on: January 09, 2003, 04:29:14 pm
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a feather in his hat


:nod:
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Reply #29 on: January 09, 2003, 04:29:47 pm
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BTW, WTF is that red thing hovering at the tip of the smoke plume in the :thepimp: smilie?


What? You don't know?! Oh, come ON, Zed - you're smarter than that!

Think.... pimp.... green hat.... smoking..... get it?



Uhm... :nervous:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline ZylonBane

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Reply #30 on: January 10, 2003, 01:37:21 am
But there's nothing visible attaching it to the hat. It's just floating there. :wtf:
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Reply #31 on: January 10, 2003, 01:44:47 am
Ghost hat.

For that matter, all emoticons are disembodied, noseless, improbably spherical heads of an unhealthy color.
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Reply #32 on: January 10, 2003, 06:57:17 am
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But there's nothing visible attaching it to the hat. It's just floating there. :wtf:


Have you thought of viewing it against a white background?





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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #33 on: January 10, 2003, 10:17:56 am
Do most of the HLP forums have white backgrounds?

Nope.

Doesn't matter if those black pixels are there or not when you can't see them. :ha:
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Reply #34 on: January 10, 2003, 02:32:54 pm
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Do most of the HLP forums have white backgrounds?

Nope.

Doesn't matter if those black pixels are there or not when you can't see them. :ha:


You were asking what the red thing was. I doubt the creator of that smiley was thinking about black backgrounds when he drew it, so it doesn't matter that on black it looks disconnected. It's connected. Live with it. :p
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
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