Overly Chatty Penguins
The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: Uranium - 235 on February 12, 2004, 02:15:01 AM
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Because LB doesn't get thanked enough :)
Thanks for taking your time, money, and livelyhood for running Lunixmonster and FSD and giving us all a great place to play.
<3 u in ur faec
But I suppose my thanks was expressed enough as being the traditional outlet of admin_pwnage on LB's end ;)
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Look I even made you a card! Everyone sign it or I bant you for being a selfish ass!
Rules:
1) If you don't have photoshop or equivilent high-quality editor, either get it, or don't sign the card. MSPaint will hack the quality to HELL, trust me, and I will not tolerate some lazy sod crapifying everything. Get PaintShopPro if you have to, it's free for 30 days or some crap.
2) Keep quality as high as possible. If quality gets bad it degrades into crap with every change. If you reduce quality too much, I'll delete it, and edit it myself. You really don't want me to do that ;)
3) Server and Forum admins get their names front, center, and large. Server admins get the lower center, slightly smaller, and the reserved slotters get the sides, and smallest.
4) If your name is outrageously huge (no clan tags, those are stupid, keep the size within limits) or your message is spammy and stupid, I'll chop it up and make it really ittybitty ;)
5) Add any messages you want, again, not too big, dammit!
6) When the card advances a few people (so we can backtrack changes if need be), remove your attached post, so it's not spammy and hugely bandwidth eating.
7) If you see someone else posting, wait until they post, so we don't have two versions of the card.
8) Try to use unique colors first. If you're out of colors, then fine, repeat, but I don't want to have 5 'Red' in a row.
Oh and 9) Keep file size under 200kb, so that those without hosting can still use the attach feature. That means no huge personalized images, or fancy looking images for your name.
I've done one of these 'edit the image' things before and basically every rule I outlined was broken. Nubs will not be tolerated, it was bad enough LAST time...
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Er.. Signed teh card.
Edit: Got the quality slider in PSP backwards lol.
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Okay now you see, ANeM, the quality got REALLY CRAPPY when you did that :/ If someone else comes by and does that, it'll be unreadble before long. Doing this image thing is like running a fax of a fax of a fax through a fax over and over, you have to keep it as good looking as possible, for as long as possible :p If you want, I'll reedit it for you so it's pretty again ;)
EDIT: Scratch that, ANeM sexed it up! Gooo ANeM! :D
BTW if you start running out of space on the card, which shouldn't happen for a while, just add more space vertically (not horizontally, most of us use 1024 resolution, and 800 wide fits perfect). Be sure to use 'Canvas Size...' and not 'Image Size...'. The remember to set the anchor at the TOP.
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wee! By the way guys, in photoshop, always do save for web and then make the quality 100. Save for web = godsend.
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sorry LB, i'll get this done at home :S will fireworks work ok at haxing it Ur?
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I dunno what Fireworks is, but as long as it can cnovert to .jpg without making it look like an inkjet color printer just printed on a soaking wet piece of paper (Aka the colors get disgusting and blurred, wierd smudges all over) it's good.
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didn't like the look of those stuffy fonts so I just downloaded a couple of hand-written ones to make it more authentic ^^
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I'd do a handwritten but my handwriting sucks like none other :(
- Bah now Gem tells me it's a font :p Looks real though.
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<Snip>
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Is that cruddy JPEG compression I see? Heavens forbid!
I might get around to adding my sarcastic wit, er... good wishes to the card, if I can find that old copy of psp.
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I'll be glad to sign this tomorrow, they have a better version of photoshop in school anyway.
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ugh, it's near impossible to read now
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give me a few seconds/minutes/hours psp8 has jpg artifact removar
What's taking so damn long?!
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I suck at writing greeting cards. Oh well, cool text effect!
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<Snipped to save space ;) Thanks JHunz>
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By the way, heres a good, free and open source program to use. Its what I used for the cool text effect.
http://www.gimp.org (http://www.gimp.org)
Good download link so you don't need to compile the thing http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html (http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html)
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Thanks, LB.
Took the image out, too many people complaining about the uniqueness of my signature.
Still, thanks much Lightning_Blue.
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Its slowly uploading now.. already linked
<Snorped!>
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i tried to remove all the stuff, tried
edit: gg not attatching it bm you nubtart
edit2: better quality saving with irfanview, reuploading
<Snarfed... plus your image is obsolete... feel free to readd your signature>
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Oh dear, it's b0rked... We're having version conflict issues! Quick, call greeting card tech support! AAAGH!
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OKay
1) There's now *THREE* versions floating around. On one, we have Grimm's rediculously hugely rule-breaking autograph. So sorry BM, your version is straight out, but at least that saves me from editing it myself and shrinking it to the size of a quarter. Grimm feel free to do that but make it no larger then mine, since mine's more or less the largest width-wise on there.
2) Esuna has one that is pink, and one that is black. Since I can't read the pink, the black is the one we're going with :p
So BM, if you want to take your prettied up version, just cut and paste all the other sigs, excluding Grimms because it dominates 1/4 of the entire space, and paste them into... whoever had the last one after Esuna, go for it ;)
Grimm, try again :p
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thanks lb :D i have no leet image editor so this will have to suffice =/
if someone can get a working link to GIMP(i'd love to try a windows binary) id appreciate it o_O
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Which is why I attempted to remove my post of the card before anyone could grab it, I don't care to shove an honest thank-you into a 50 by 50 pixel box with plain black arial font.
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I'm not gonna add to the frustration of making this jpeg card. Sorry Uranium. Good idea but they way you had people sign it was just a little primitive. o_O :ph34r:
LB: I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say: "Thank You", for putting up with all the crap, whining, b***hing, crying, that happens on & off the server (weither we do it or not) while continuing to host our favorite playing and gathering spot. much <3 to the LB. j00 r0x0rz! ^_^
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I'll add something, when like its collated properly.
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By the way, heres a good, free and open source program to use. Its what I used for the cool text effect.
http://www.gimp.org (http://www.gimp.org)
Good download link so you don't need to compile the thing http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html (http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html)
Whats wrong with this?
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I'll add something, when like its collated properly.
Sheesh - yeah :p
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Just use this one, since BM seems too retarded to fix it :D
<Spraffed> ?
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Here's my contribution :)
<Schnoped!>
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And adding mine: Hooray for LB! :D
<Castrated>
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yay yay yay
<and... neutered... that's it for now... just keeping spammage down ;)>
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Huzzah for the Server Op!
<Yoink>
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Woo Large Image Spam!
That wasn't the only spam... sorry, the rules shall not be toed.[/color]
<Yoink*2>
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Oh, next poster, tack some space on the canvas...
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Ah, here we are. Presenting NS_thanks v2.0. Now with less space wasted to conserve file size, more space of signing, and some rules 'fixed' ;)
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BTW let's try to finish this up *COUGH* Bob, Ulatoh, Sancho... the image quality is gradually decaying as we have to compensate quality for filesize (course, it doesn't help that some people have been abusing it...)
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That wasn't the only spam... sorry, the rules shall not be toed.[/color]
Huh?
And what happened with the cool amount of test I used!
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You mean the 6 lines I cut out because yours was almost as big as Grimms?
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Hey now, I tried to remov my post of the card before anyone could get it. Excuse me for wanting to be a bit more creative.
:angry:
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Saving bandwidth.
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Took down image.
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These rules REALLY aren't that hard. Since people can't seem to follow them:
1) The middle column is reserved for our admins. If you're not an admin, don't write there. When the admins get theirs in, then you can fill in the spaces under it. This is just a way to seperate the catagories, and a privledge for them. Reserved slots / everyone else gets the two columns on the sides.
2) Keep it small, and don't waste space with huge blank lines, massive images / fancy text.
Anyone else breaking the rules beyond this will be punished. Seriously, they aren't the toughest things to follow.
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This image just got ThoraXed!
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You know, this would have been far easier if each person had just contributed their own little portion and Uranium or someone else had simply pasted all of them together :p
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it's become so low quality it hurts ^^;
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1) The middle column is reserved for our admins. If you're not an admin, don't write there. When the admins get theirs in, then you can fill in the spaces under it. This is just a way to seperate the catagories, and a privledge for them. Reserved slots / everyone else gets the two columns on the sides.
Sorry.
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Why is it a .gif now?
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Why is it a .gif now?
Blame Thorax... ;)
Yeah the idea to cut and paste came to me a little after I started this, but it was too late :p
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UN-GIF-ED!
And also like 100kb smaller than thoraxs gif.. (http://www.prodigyclan.com/forums/images/smiles/shifty.gif)
and my marine is no longer a little blue and green mess.. and my text is green again.. and all was good.
Yeah.. maybe just sending in parts would work better.. who cares if we have already started this.. I mean, whats the point if its impossible to read it by the time we are done?
:(
Edit: Removed image
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That things looking like crap
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waaaay too many people on the side, you should just put a box around the group of admins and let the normal ppl fill in the bottem center
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Looks fine to me :)
Everyone just stop fighting - it's turning out fine.
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Added my shizzle
[edit: removed ze pictARrrRRRR!]
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You mean the 6 lines I cut out because yours was almost as big as Grimms?
IT WAS MEANINGFUL!
OMG I'm being censored!
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It should have been a GIF from the beginning to reduce artifacts.
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<3
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What if you used to be an admin? Do you still get the center?
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Just squeezed into the last space ^_^
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I've decided to make my part into its own little card to show my appreciation without the restrictions the rules would put on me.
(http://208.35.225.137/grimm/thankslightning_blue.gif)
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Oh yeah, LB is sick, this is now a get well card.
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my thanx
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my thanx
WINNAR!
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my thanx
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I can just hear their little voices... "We like LB....cause he is real-ly hawt" etc.
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And you thought there was no space left.
Well, ok, there was no space to write a soliloquy or the ode I would have preferred, but I think I got the message across