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I award Damien for MOST FANATIC ROLE PLAYER MEMBER... suprise Damien.

Shadow Wulf wrote: I wanna come over!!

Sure, you can help me pick up anything that falls over.

WolvenOne wrote:and in related news, the Coca Cola Bottling Plant in Atlanta has just been crushed under the wieght of this topic, more at 11.

Darn you topic DARN YOU!

lmao oh thats great, yay i get RP award

and Damien gets the ONLY MONTION VID AVATAR AWARD

Figarou wrote:*throws pinecones at Lupin*

Also I award fullmoonfury the "I JUST MADE SOMEONE GO BACK AND EDIT THEIR POST SO THEY COULD GIVE ME AN AWARD" award.

Lupin wrote:

Figarou wrote:*throws pinecones at Lupin*

I knew you was going to make one with a pinecone.

I would like to nominate myself for the "Largest Emoticon," award.

Here is my entry. http://wolf0013.xepher.net/temp/CrazyFig.swf

WolvenOne wrote:I would like to nominate myself for the "Largest Emoticon," award.

Here is my entry. http://wolf0013.xepher.net/temp/CrazyFig.swf

Why do I have the feeling someone is going to make one even bigger.


*cough* Lupin *cough*

Figarou wrote:

Lupin wrote:

Figarou wrote:*throws pinecones at Lupin*

I knew you was going to make one with a pinecone.

Of course. It's too good not to.

Figarou wrote:

WolvenOne wrote:I would like to nominate myself for the "Largest Emoticon," award.

Here is my entry. http://wolf0013.xepher.net/temp/CrazyFig.swf

Why do I have the feeling someone is going to make one even bigger.


*cough* Lupin *cough*

Actually it's almost impossible to make one bigger then that. It'll scale itself up to almost any size automatically simply because flash is a vector-based file format. Plus, unlike rastor, vector files don't become any larger as you scale them up, as you probably noticed, that file was only a few KB's in size.

WolvenOne wrote:

Figarou wrote:

WolvenOne wrote:I would like to nominate myself for the "Largest Emoticon," award.

Here is my entry. http://wolf0013.xepher.net/temp/CrazyFig.swf

Why do I have the feeling someone is going to make one even bigger.


*cough* Lupin *cough*

Actually it's almost impossible to make one bigger then that. It'll scale itself up to almost any size automatically simply because flash is a vector-based file format. Plus, unlike rastor, vector files don't become any larger as you scale them up, as you probably noticed, that file was only a few KB's in size.

Oh........ok......I didn't know that.

yeah, flash is supperior to gif in almost every way... yet I still see more gifs then flash floating around the net..... go fig.

WolvenOne wrote:yeah, flash is supperior to gif in almost every way... yet I still see more gifs then flash floating around the net..... go fig.

Flash IS better than gifs. Millions of times better. It has sound!!

Figarou wrote:Why do I have the feeling someone is going to make one even bigger.

Because you just suggested it?

*cough* Lupin *cough*

Oh fine.

http://fenrir.nonexiste.net/~lupin/duck ... ig-BIG.gif
Don't try opening this, I'm warning you now.

[lupin@fenrir public_html]$ file ducktoss3-fig-BIG.gif
ducktoss3-fig-BIG.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 880 x 704,

Figarou and wolvenone gets the MOST TOPIC DRIFT IN PACK FORUM AWARD..... you see Fig, you topic drift as much as anyone

Shadow Wulf wrote:Figarou and wolvenone gets the MOST TOPIC DRIFT IN PACK FORUM AWARD..... you see Fig, you topic drift as much as anyone

I'm not the one complaining about topic drift. Or telling people to stay on topic. Sometimes going off topic can be a learning experience.


MOST AWARDS PASSED OUT BY ONE PERSON goes to Shadow Wulf.

WolvenOne wrote:yeah, flash is supperior to gif in almost every way... yet I still see more gifs then flash floating around the net..... go fig.

That's because I don't need to download anything to view an animated gif.
Plus, people abuse flash in the most annoying ways, and that makes others loath to download it.

Lupin wrote:

WolvenOne wrote:yeah, flash is supperior to gif in almost every way... yet I still see more gifs then flash floating around the net..... go fig.

That's because I don't need to download anything to view an animated gif.
Plus, people abuse flash in the most annoying ways, and that makes others loath to download it.

Oh yeah, I forgot about downloading flash. Sometimes it takes a while.

Lupin wrote:

WolvenOne wrote:yeah, flash is supperior to gif in almost every way... yet I still see more gifs then flash floating around the net..... go fig.

That's because I don't need to download anything to view an animated gif.
Plus, people abuse flash in the most annoying ways, and that makes others loath to download it.

BLASPHAMY! BOW DOWN BEFORE FLASH MASTER OF FILE FORMATS!

Seriously though, I've studied this carefully and the vast majority of users have flash installed already, and as long as you don't embed too much into the format it's far smaller and prettier then gif. It's by far the most versatile of the formats used for internet-animation, that's really not in question... Yeah it's versatile enough that it can be abused, but that actually demonstrates the strength of the platform.

Figarou wrote:

Shadow Wulf wrote:Figarou and wolvenone gets the MOST TOPIC DRIFT IN PACK FORUM AWARD..... you see Fig, you topic drift as much as anyone

I'm not the one complaining about topic drift. Or telling people to stay on topic. Sometimes going off topic can be a learning experience.


MOST AWARDS PASSED OUT BY ONE PERSON goes to Shadow Wulf.

oh thats right uh, sorry figarou

Figarou wrote:

Shadow Wulf wrote:Figarou and wolvenone gets the MOST TOPIC DRIFT IN PACK FORUM AWARD..... you see Fig, you topic drift as much as anyone

I'm not the one complaining about topic drift. Or telling people to stay on topic. Sometimes going off topic can be a learning experience.

I've never worried much about topic dirft. There's a natural cycle about those things anyway. It's just how human conversation works. If the thread's gone off topic, and you want it back on topic, post about something that's on topic. It works a lot better than complaing.

Lupin wrote:
I've never worried much about topic dirft. There's a natural cycle about those things anyway. It's just how human conversation works. If the thread's gone off topic, and you want it back on topic, post about something that's on topic. It works a lot better than complaing.

That or split the off topic posts into a new thread.

Personally, I hate Flash. There are some things it's good for, such as interactivity (i.e. games), sound, or flash videos, but it's very annoying otherwise, especially when misused, which is entirely too common.

To tell the truth, if I see a website that uses too much Flash, I go elsewhere if possible. And as for those annoying ads, well... that's what Flashblock is for.

-- Vilkacis

Vil, I've taken graphic design classes and have studied "the dangers" of abusing flash excessivly. The format is just fine, you just need to have enough design sense to know how to use it properly.