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12 Jun 2004, 03:16
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Banned
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Further to the right
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
I can always pick out my posts instantly on a page for some reason and I've been able to do the same with other peoples'. Perhaps not being able to judge someone's posts in advance might be a beneficial move for the forum!
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12 Jun 2004, 03:23
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 5,900
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
I'd take the views of avatar haters more seriously if "show avatars on/off" wasn't an option on their profiles. It's like those that like them can like, see them, and those that don't like them, like don't have to, like.
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12 Jun 2004, 03:51
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Banned
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Further to the right
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
I'm not saying I don't like seeing them. I'm saying I think they're a fundamentally bad idea for internet forums in general (except as a placebo).
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12 Jun 2004, 06:29
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mmm.. pills
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Australia
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
In the same way that the entire game being recoded because Mit didn't know Perl was followed closely by Mit leaving and (afaik) being replaced by someone who knows Perl.
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That makes no sense, as to my knowledge the game has always been done in C++ as CGI code. Perl would fall flat on its face if it ever tried to handle that amount of players.
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12 Jun 2004, 08:04
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Love's Sweet Exile
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Living on a Stair (Now Sword-less)
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
PaX was Perl (and "that amount of players" hasn't been higher than about 5k in a long long time)
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12 Jun 2004, 10:34
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The Twilight of the Gods
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
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Originally Posted by Leshy
No, avatars are for people who want to scroll down the page and be able to see who posted where without actually having to read any of the names. Seeing a Jesus picture scroll by is a much faster indication of where my last post in a thread was, than having to read all the names.
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12 Jun 2004, 11:04
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Henry Kelly
Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 7,374
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
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Originally Posted by djbass
That makes no sense
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12 Jun 2004, 11:48
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Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
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Originally Posted by djbass
Perl would fall flat on its face if it ever tried to handle that amount of players.
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Would it? Why?
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12 Jun 2004, 12:27
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Henry Kelly
Join Date: Apr 2000
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
Because it owns a pair of tiny space-hoppers instead of shoes.
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12 Jun 2004, 12:32
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Reservoir Dog
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Down South,England
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
I say everyone should have avatars or no one should.
Thats probally just cos i'm mad that I don't have one.
And saying that people can post offensive images using avatars isn't really a valid reason.
As you should just ban anyone from the forums who use offensive avatars.
After a few people had been banned im sure most of the avatars used would be non offensive ones.
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12 Jun 2004, 16:55
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J to the C to the A G E
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Scúnthorpe
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
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Originally Posted by Dark-Strider
I say everyone should have avatars or no one should.
Thats probally just cos i'm mad that I don't have one.
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Yeah, well that goes into your category of "no one" having them, so why the anger?
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12 Jun 2004, 16:56
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Heh
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Winchester
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
every time I visit these forums I giggle and think "what if?"
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12 Jun 2004, 17:12
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Heh, Leeds !
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: In The Redfern
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
How gh3y
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12 Jun 2004, 17:14
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Heh, Leeds !
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: In The Redfern
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
Not the 'what if' statement btw, more a comment on the way us scum of the forums are treated
Foot, Aim Shoot. It's the moderators !
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12 Jun 2004, 19:24
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wasted
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Under the floorboards
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
I suspect some nefarious plot where avatar access is linked to paying for a PA account.
Purely speculation on my part though, and it does assume slightly more business sense than normally shown by PA management, but I can't think of any other reasons (beyond spite/general meanness).
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12 Jun 2004, 19:31
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The Twilight of the Gods
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
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Originally Posted by ComradeRob
but I can't think of any other reasons (beyond spite/general meanness).
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13 Jun 2004, 21:17
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Has Soup On His Head
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Re: Quote: Where The **** Have Our Avatars Gone?
Uh Oh
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