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Posted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:11 am**

stresstest's icon is 600K

and it's OLD TO BOOT! and i totally saw it first

stop telling other ppl to have small icons.

Posted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:43 am**

an so begins the "My Icon is Bigger than yours" Debate

Posted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:22 am**

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

debates......i love debates

Posted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:40 am**

Yeah itwould be nice if user icons were actually limied to 15k. Also, there ought to be an option somewhere that has the BB code show a link to a large pic instead of auto-displaying the actual image. This would really help for those of us who use modem either as a main connect or occasionally.

Posted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 10:14 am**

If you use Mozilla Firefozzle instead of MS Internet Exploiter, a right click over any pic enables you to block images from that domain. Very handy.

Get with the times, guys (he says, one week after switching to Firefox

).

PS Vader, your icon is done broke.

Posted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:04 pm**

Talk to MD about it, hes the one hosting it.

Posted: **Sun Mar 28, 2004 6:13 pm**

Vader wrote:Yeah itwould be nice if user icons were actually limied to 15k. Also, there ought to be an option somewhere that has the BB code show a link to a large pic instead of auto-displaying the actual image. This would really help for those of us who use modem either as a main connect or occasionally.

Actually, the avatar problem wouldn't even be an issue if SOMEONE *cough*Xciter*cough* would make avatars upload only like he said he would.

As far as auto-linking big pictures, yeah that'd be nice, but that would slow down the board bigtime since it would have to check EVERY image embedded to see if it exceeded the limit. (that includes smilies) However, its not like it requires alot of effort to just use the URL bbcode to link the image in the first place.

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 [url=http://www.whatever.com/subdomain/image.extention]link text[/url]

Posted: **Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:02 am**

Vader wrote:Talk to MD about it, hes the one hosting it.

If you can wait till atleast tomorrow, my main rig should be up by then and I'll be able to upload it to my new host. (freeyellow went pay only)

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:21 am**

oh you stress. *shakes head in jest*
stealer of icons (and pie)

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:14 am**

I don't know what you're talking about Roid. Kiss my D!CK

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:30 pm**

Uh Stress, you do realize your avatar is the same as roid's now, right?

roid, I have a feeling Stress didn't steal your avatar -- Xciter did, as punishment for Stress using an 800K avatar.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:54 pm**

LOL ok

well, at least it's under 35K.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:07 pm**

Well, at least I wont have to ever fix my avatar again and I wont have to bother with it when my ISPs webspace goes down. I swear my ISPs servers are down more often then my own FTP/HTTP server that I run here on a overclocked computer without redundant power!

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:55 pm**

Xciter wrote:Stress is using roids avatar on his own.

no, he lost a bet against me. using my icon is him holding up his end of the bargin.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:26 pm**

yea, that's it

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:08 am**

jim.. if stress hosts his own avatar on his own server.. how is it affecting us?

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:39 am**

he should just use sky's avatar like i do. Team [ ]!!

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:12 am**

ok stress pls stop using my icon now.
i SERIOUSLY don't want anyone mixing our posts up.

here i offer my young virgin avatar:

never used yet.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:05 am**

heh, looks like avirgin alright

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:34 am**

hahaaahahahahahaha

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:44 am**

Ferno wrote:jim.. if stress hosts his own avatar on his own server.. how is it affecting us?

cause it still causes the pages to lode slow cause not all of us can get brodban eather money or not in area.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:46 pm**

roid wrote:

never used yet.

Looks like Ace after he fingers a cat.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:56 pm**

Warlock wrote:
Ferno wrote:jim.. if stress hosts his own avatar on his own server.. how is it affecting us?
cause it still causes the pages to lode slow cause not all of us can get brodban eather money or not in area.

Get a spell checker for christs sake!

And when an image is loaded, it's cached locally. Even you know this warlock.. it's a BS arguement and you know it too.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:07 pm**

MD-2389 wrote:
roid wrote:

never used yet.
Looks like Ace after he fingers a cat.

oh piss off MD

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:36 pm**

he should just use sky's avatar like i do. Team [ ]!!

Yes. All Box peeps must use it!

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:38 pm**

ok stress pls stop using my icon now.
i SERIOUSLY don't want anyone mixing our posts up.

I dunno, people can tell his posts arenâ??t yours since the name is completely different. Also, his is all caps, yours isn't.

...but if that still isn't enough they can just look to see which one has the swastika on its forehead with red eyes.

Posted: **Mon Apr 05, 2004 4:10 am**

huh?
...oh hey he changed it.
ROFL @ swastika.

i generally only give a brief glance to the left of every post, i will always first see the icon, and generally if i recognize it i will not bother reading the name. it's all instant/instinct.

i mean, the new icon still looks like mine at a glance, but it's fine now.

it's good and bad conscience ^_^

(this is quite ironic because my icon is "KID", a split personality. he has blue eyes. kano (the original owner of the body, has green eyes) with red eyes would be either "dark" or "red" (these are both people/personalities) it's quite complex

)

Posted: **Mon Apr 05, 2004 5:41 am**

dark

kano

kid
<-- also

red

knock thyself out.

Posted: **Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:33 am**

whats with all the Nazi girls in this forum. you guys a bunch of neo nazi's or some sh!t.?!?!?!

Posted: **Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:46 am**

hah, wow stress you got bored of that pretty fast.

(ace: it's a guy)

Posted: **Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:38 am**

I dunno what your talking about

Posted: **Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:50 am**

roid wrote:(ace: it's a guy)

that black and white one you had was a girl, and ive seen a few others floating around that had Iron Cross symbols on them in some fashion

Posted: **Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:13 pm**

they are all guys.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:36 am**

oy.. if someone bitches because an avatar is too big.. they either need to get a decent ISP or a life. this is 2004 for cripes sake, where broadband is readily available! get with the times!

*sigh*

I guess it's easier for people to whine and complain than to get off their ass and actually do something about it...

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:45 am**

Not everyone on this forum lives in a big city, and not everyone has the money for a good ISP.

I'm in a decent neighborhood in Seattle where I can get cable internet for cheap -- but my brother is in Frederick, CO connecting at 26,400 baud over dialup when he's lucky.

Broadband is readily available to most of us, but not to everyone.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:16 am**

600k avatar * 20 posts per page = almost 12 megs per page assuming unique posts. Sure you could argue that somebody else can front the hosting costs, but that has a bunch of problems in and of itself.

Of course it's not like I really care about file size. I'm just happy to get rid of the slow/misconfigured/nonexistant hosting problems. Making a bunch of new HTTP connections isn't exactly the fastest thing in the world either.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:30 am**

Tetrad wrote:600k avatar * 20 posts per page = almost 12 megs per page assuming unique posts.

Uh, Tetrad, the avatar is only loaded once, last I looked. Unless you're talking about everyone having a 600K avatar.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:09 am**

every icon, no matter the size, is cached onto my machine, until I clear the cache out.

speaking of icons.. where the frick is mine??

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:28 am**

SSC-Thunderbird wrote: Unless you're talking about everyone having a 600K avatar.

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2004 10:33 am**

roid wrote:they are all guys.

it wasnt that one

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