man-man Posted:

SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS EVERYTHING IS BLINKING

Seriously… I’m looking at the “submit a logo” page right now, and pretty much all of the text from the bottom of the forum description onwards is blinking. On the main pages there’s stuff blinking seemingly at random, it’s a crazy blinkfest.

Which is cool ‘n all, but it makes clicking on the blinking links a little more difficult than normal since they won’t register as clicked if they were in the middle of a blink when you click.

Seriously though, that’s the problem that plague blink and marquee tags. Any links placed inside those tags are, in Wikipedia words, “notoriously difficult to click, and can easily frustrate users.” And yet people still continue to do it…

Fran Posted:

This whole blinking and marquee stuff got me inspired Log in to see images! I can’t wait to see the fruits of your inspiration.

With the materials you’re inspired by, I believe they will turn out to be poisonous fruits, though.

Heh, the credits page was broken as well. It is now fixed.

That was a fun week. I gave everything I had into that concept, and some of them scored nicely. Also I was very glad to see people sent their ideas in. They really bring back fond memories of the earlier days of the web. Damn, I feel old again. Log in to see images!

One thing I regret though, is my failure to submit my forum logo on time to make a difference. Although I have experience with Photoshop, I have no image editing program on this computer of mine, other than Paint and ACD See. Log in to see images!. I had to learn it, and then made the most stereotypically bad Web 1.0 design I can think of. Well, I did that, and submitted it two hours before the deadline, gathering 3 upvotes. I wonder what would happen if I was more prepared. I went back to make an nausea-induced animated version and post it on discussion, again on the last day, with twelve hours left (when you had limited time, scope creep didn’t help either) but it also failed to gather enough votes.

Anyway, because I don’t want it to go to waste, and because I’m so damn proud of my work Log in to see images!, I’m posting it here:

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Animated version!

This is the static version. For the animated one, click on the link. I should warn you though, if you are prone to epilepsy, don’t click it, or at least don’t look at it for too long. Heck, I myself felt a little bit sick staring at it. The reason I don’t post it here is because I don’t want the mods to think I’m trolling and ban me. It’s not a really flashing image or anything, but a representation of bad web design, consisting of <blink> tag, <marquee> tag, and animated gifs that was so common during the Web 1.0 era. It’s not intentionally harmful, but bad design tends to have that side effect.

P.S. Why does it gets difficulty level of 6 anyway? Come on! We’re talking about angry old veterans here!

P.P.S. On the other hand, I might have answered my own question with that…

OMGNEEDSDESU Posted:

Hey, hey, **** you.Log in to see images!

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man-man Posted:

Someone doesn’t know their leaves; “Ivy Leaves: The first person who wore this sexy leaf was thrown out of paradice for eating an apple”. But bumuming we’re both thinking of Adam and Eve, that would have been fig leaves.

If you really wanted to be picky, you’d have noted that it wasn’t an apple that was eaten, but a pomegranate. Log in to see images!

Don’t know if anyone has noticed but there seems to be some common belief that apathy is laziness. Well, it isn’t. I was glad to see at least one typical post submission point this out. Log in to see images!

I’m also disappointed that Major League Beer-Pong is winning over The Ouija Board.

Hmm, perhaps Bashy was a bit hasty with the thread description and title of his last forum. Is it Alliance of the Apathetic, or bumociation of the Apathetic? Perhaps the description can still be edited by Crotch Zombie at this point?

Also, I think we’ve hit a new low for forum quality. Log in to see images! mterek edited this message on 08/30/2009 10:29PM

fran hasn’t been a key member of the community or even popular for a long time

FalconFour Posted:

No, really, I’m already going gaga over all the fun I’m going to have (not to mention the flood of legitimate chocolate, and the epeens) with delving into the depths of my ridiculously specific fetish imagination, and submitting all the little things that get me off, for people to lul at as if they were just some random internet mockery.

I should be an NPC.

Funny how that wish got granted.

It really is. He asked to be a NPC and he got it… except he’s no longer a PC. It’s straight from the twilight zone.

Kittysan Posted:

Sheesh, we have ourselves ****ty idea of the week. How could something nonsensical like that win, especially when there were only 8 hours left or so?

Fran said somewhere that at that point, the highest-voted build was at 3, so she saw a chance to win.

Maybe — and only maybe, I’m not decided on this but am throwing it out for discussion — we shouldn’t be able to create new forums after Thursday or Friday.