Skullbie wrote: @Leet We haven't left yet because we're trying to get as many people over to CF as possible, and quite frankly we're succeeding, CF forus looks more like DD than these ones do now. If you saw your friends on a sinking ship you'd want to throw them some life rafts.
…NO!!! You CAN'T HAVE MY BRAINS!!!
No I don't care about the recruitment. CF is pretty cool (minus the couple trolls but…well…dicks will be………..
…ducks….) *facepalm*
But yeah, go if you must. I'll see you guys on both sides of this internets. :)
People have been complaining about the colors from day 1. For whatever reason their designer has been very resistant to changing it. Because everybody knows the first version of a design is the best one! We've constantly asked them to change the forum colors especially, but no, it's always "That's a low priority, it's easy to adjust later." Then adjust it now!!! Sorry, it's one of the few things I'm completely frustrated with them about. They haven't even darkened the text to increase the contrast like they kept telling us they were going to do. I'm glad people are complaining about it becasue the more complaints they get the more "important" it becomes for them.
I see… so I'll go ahead and take off my sunglasses, let my eyes burn a bit, then go to my eye doctor to get my eyes examined and if they determine that the damage was caused by the colors on the forums I'll launch a lawsuit at the designers. Do you think that will force them to make the color fix THE top priority?
i'm entirly unsure about how to go about this other then spamming but after all this 'burning my eyes out' gets fixxed i wanna try to get these forums active again. i mean, this was one of the major things that made dd great and now that they've completly soiled it i hope they've learned their lessons that they're just some jokers getting a paycheck for doing a crap job because obiviously they know what's best right? and that their subpar effort (c'mon, how many times have you duped us with stupid 'whoops not that one, it'll be the next door fer' sure' tactics) actually gets them negative results. who would want to come and stay at a comic site like this? after the first 5 minutes of ohhing and ahhing even the most simple of people can tell that this place is too annoying and hollow to bother with. . . . i really like dd and this just bugs me so much. i don't wannna leave and i'm willing to try to help however i can (not that i'm a coder or anything useful like that) but this right now is goddamn awful. it seriously makes me want to cry
Does anybody have any good recommendations for webcomic hosting sites? I mean, Drunk Duck was always my top choice because of its volume and variety and community and such. But things seem to have gone sour since the big transformation.
I suggest we all bear with the changes for a little while. The Duck is probably going through some hatching difficulties… I think it somehow lost its egg tooth and now it's having a hard time getting out of its shell.
Ugh… wasted half my day half asleep in bed instead of drawing. But now I can barely draw a line without falling asleep at the desk, and I have no desire to wake up with my keyboard imprinted all over my face. And I tried loud noise using my earphones, but that made me feel even more sleepy while keeping me from falling asleep. blech…
ugh… better get off the forums for now. Half asleep, the forum is bight and my eyes are hurting again…
mike_mcpeeper wrote: Does anybody have any good recommendations for webcomic hosting sites? I mean, Drunk Duck was always my top choice because of its volume and variety and community and such. But things seem to have gone sour since the big transformation.
You can check out http://www.webcomichosting.com for a little list. However, there's nothing wrong with having a comic in multiple places. :] I know things are a bit chaotic right now, but I hope I am right in thinking that there are a number of people who may be looking at other places right now but are still keeping DD in mind for after the dust settles.
I lived through the 1970's and had the appropriately painted wheat and aqua kitchen, the russet green faux wood paneled hallways and harvest gold and forest green bathroom. So the color scheme puts me back in the kitchen in 1973 watching Nixon on the news with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. And then I look at it again and expect to see Goldie Hawn dancing in the sidebar under my avatar.
bravo1102 wrote: I lived through the 1970's and had the appropriately painted wheat and aqua kitchen, the russet green faux wood paneled hallways and harvest gold and forest green bathroom. So the color scheme puts me back in the kitchen in 1973 watching Nixon on the news with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. And then I look at it again and expect to see Goldie Hawn dancing in the sidebar under my avatar.
Thank you very much, Bravo… for making feel so old. I was born in 1971 and lived as a little kid through that time. And who's Goldie Hawn again?
Well… time to play my alltime favorite game, Outrun. Well… the one I downloaded for my XB360. I always have fun playing that game.
*sigh*… I wish there were more driving games out there. Right now there are too many of those circuit racing games where you loop around a track while overtaking other cars. I guess it's easier to put a racing track into a game than it is to put in a very long road… So far my only driving games would be Outrun (the version I downloaded) and the Riding/Racing/Combat game called Road Rash for the old Playstation (I use my PS2 to play it).
OnlyFoolsAndVikings wrote: *looks around in a mixture of horror and fascination*
My god, you people are all so old!
/Jk, you're any age you want to be on the internet.
Well… you're only old if you let yourself feel old. Despite being "old" I'm still playing fun video games that people think only younger people today will play.
*sigh* if only I had the internet when I was a teen… No… wait… my mother would've smashed every computer in the house and would've declared the Internet off limits because the Devil used it to tempt you into ultimate Sin (she was a very hardcore catholic).
As for Outrun… if only I could finish that 15 course challenge in the Ferrari Spyder… or maybe instead I should try my R-Type Final crapship attempt again (already have one of my attempts loaded onto my channel on YouTube… not very impressive though)…
I have a hardcore religious fanatic in my family too, my grandmother.
She secretly baptized my cousin when he was a toddler when she found out his parents wanted to grow up and choose his own religion.
Owch… if I ever have any children of my own (lack of prospects make this extremely unlikely) I'll make sure to keep a good eye on them as I want them to make that choice as well (and they don't get secretly indoctrinated into a religion when they're too young to understand what's happening to them)…
^ my atheism is constantly hidden/insulted by my parents. although as I say, worship whatever the fuck you want to.
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So yesterday me and a couple of my friends went bowling. We sucked.
Nonetheless, after we went to Cumby's (gas station), and bought us some Chillzone's (really cheap smoothies). We then sat in the back of one of my friends' truck and drank the smoothies we had bought.
An old man pulled up to the gas station and parked his car about twelve feet away from the pump. That was the first strange side.
Ten minutes later he got out of his car, doing who knows what, and then we saw that he looked like the dude from UP. We suspected he might have a small fat asian child with him (probably in the trunk, screaming).
But ANYWAY, he got out and went to the pump and tried to fill up his car BUT…it didn't reach. So he goes to his car and gets inside, leaving the door open. He first switches to nuetral and starts rolling down the hill but then realizes his mistake and puts it in reverse RIGHT BEFORE HE HITS THE CURB.
He reverses his car to the pump, nearly hitting it but still managing to stop it nine feet away. He then goes to the pump and it barely reaches his car (but does). So he stands there another ten minutes, the pump in his tank (dirty), but him not holding onto it (dirty).
Finally he realizes something's wrong and starts trying to find out what it is. The casheir in the gas station notices the old man struggling and goes out to help him. The cashier looks at the pump, takes it out of the tank and then looks at the buttons. All three gas selections (diesel, regular, …what the other one is…)…
ALL OF THEM ARE BLINKING-HE NEVER CHOSE ONE OF THEM.
The cashier fills his tank for him and then walks away.
After watching all this, while enjoying our smoothies, me and my friends feel terrible. We all wanted to help the guy (but didn't because we had no clue how he'd react) and seriously, it was the saddest thing I've ever seen…well close.
Heh… the elderly can be unpredictable. I've had firsthand experience. Some will be grateful for your help while others will blast you for it. That guy at the pump must've been either really old or is losing his mental abilities due to some age related disease… I hope no one ever has to go through that…
These colors for the forum are really bugging me… I don't want to be TOO hard on Wowio, because I know they're working hard, and I appreciate the fact that they're actually paying attention to the site… but I gotta say, the colors make it so hard to read, and it makes the forum feel kind of unwelcoming :( Just for fun I made a mock-up of what colors I think would be easier on the eyes, but even if my opinion was taken seriously, there are other issues that need worked out first. So… eh. But I do hope the colors change soon…
EDIT - If anyone's curious, here's that quick mock-up… IMO blue is so much easier on the eyes. It's still in the same sort of color theme, but toned down for ease of reading. Not that my suggestions would be taken seriously, but it's fun to dream, eh? :P
Also, I'm missing the emoticons. Although, that's partly because I made some of them (one from scratch, and then editing the bases + animating others) and I'm a dolt and only have one saved on my computer. Ah well.
EDIT - May I also add "wonky post formatting" to the list of things that are bugging me? D: I keep having to go into HTML mode and manually add paragraph tags.
Maybe the colors are the way they are so that we'll be driven from the forums and go back to making comics? Who knows? I do know one thing… it's a good way to drive people from the site. No one would want to browse any forum that causes eye pain and tears… ow…
The short version: Hey OFools and Ozone! Guess what? My kids are learning about you in school. The longer version: We are a homeschooling family. My two oldest are learning geography right now, so we bought a huge ass world map and hung it on the biggest wall in our living room. We decided to make it a fun family project by marking all of the places on the map where we knew people. To mark a spot we would take a thumbtack and wrap a little tag on the end of the thumbtack. On the tag we would write a name.
We marked down relatives all over the country. We marked down my Aunt who lives in China (and had a fun time trying to locate the city she was in) and our friend who lives in South Africa. We marked down our cousin in Germany and more and more. Before we knew it we had little thumbtacks popping up all over the world like little white flags – but sadly, no one was in Australia.
Each day for the next few weeks our kids were going to learn about the different places that all of our friends and family are all over the globe – what the climate is like, what animals live there, everything. My husband was looking forward to Australia (apparently) because when we all stepped back to examine the finished product he leaned over and whispered "Don't you know anyone from there? C'mon, you've got to know someone!".
I thought real hard for a moment, then took a tack and flagged it "OzoneOcean" and placed it in an ambigious spot on the west side of Australia. Took another (Marked OFools) and flagged Sydney. I explained that you were both "artists" I was "accquainted" with through a website. So there you go! You're both officially a part of our homeschool curriculum. :)
MOTHER FLIPPIN' A! I'm having a ridiculously hard time editing my older post. Every time I do it messes up the line breaks, so just consider this an "edit":
Jeeeeeeze… I feel like I'm the only person who comes from a really chill Catholic family. It's more like part of our culture or heritage or something I guess. — I totally came here with something to say and got completely distracted by forced baptisms. …. I think I might start working on my friend's horns for her Vriska cosplay tomorrow. Our Michael's doesn't sell paperclay anymore so it looks like I'm going to have to venture off to the locally owned art store… they're kind of derp in there. Once a girl behind the counter told me there was no such thing as marker paper… then another girl ranted about how "koh-pix" markers are inferior and that's why they don't sell them… and then she was super offended that I told her that their website said that they'll order them on request and walked away. So yeah I hope they know what paperclay is. @_@ I really don't like spending my money in there but I need the clay asap so I can start sizing the horns. We're trying to get our cosplays done for NYCC now because we won't have any time once classes start ahhhhhhh —– EDIT: I just found the old review thread of my old comic from 2007. Nostalgia bomb. :')
It's a last ditch effort to affect some change in the color scheme.
Glad you posted that. I don't have a Get Satisfaction account, so I haven't posted anything there… but then again, maybe I should. Hopefully if people persist and complain long enough, something will change. I love DD, I've been here for years, but these colors… ouch. Also, I noticed Skool posted my mock-up :D I'm glad people like it - hopefully maybe perhaps Wowio will too?
EDIT - Seriously, the quote block undoes itself if I edit my post? -_- No way. Also disappears apparently if I go into HTML mode to add paragraph tags…
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