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disgruntled goat (24601) wrote,
@ 2008-08-04 04:39:00

I'm on my way to bed, finally, but I just wanted to make a GENERAL NOTE to anyone who ever mods a game.

Don't make your PB/taken list 100% graphics. Graphics are pretty, I like pictures, and if you're good at graphics, it's a draw, so YAY! But god damnit, some of us are still on dial up, and even if your game looks like it's the shiz, yo, if it takes half an hour for me to see what PBs and characters are in your game, I officially no longer give a shit.

WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE HICKS HERE?

Thank you, I'll be here all week.

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	chthonian 2008-08-04 07:39 am UTC (link)
	AMEN. My eternal solution: keeping text and graphicy cast pages. One for functionality and new applicants who need a quick sum-up! Another for eyecandy alone! :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

24601
2008-08-04 11:24 pm UTC (link)

Ohh I love that, especially for bigger games. I love making graphics when new players come into a game, and I'd never give that part up, but when you have 50+ characters in a game, you need a way to just hit ctrl-f and see if the PB you want is taken. And I like being able to link the PB to the character with the graphics page, because so often I'll be sitting there going, "OKAY, WHO THE HELL IS THAT?" and I have to resort to googling names I don't know on the PB list. Or something.

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	sarcastium 2008-08-04 12:04 pm UTC (link)
	POOR HICKY ALIZ. Though, after spending a week in florida stealing internet from a neighboring beach house and getting only a weak signal unless i like, did handstands on the roof with the laptop, I am more inclined to sympathize. XD (Reply to this) (Thread)

24601
2008-08-04 11:27 pm UTC (link)

I had to spend like five days with extended family recently, and on like the second to last day I discovered my grandfather's room had freaking internet access when my aunt was talking about how painfully slow it was. And since I'm used to dialup I was like OH I'LL HAVE THE PATIENCE FOR THAT. I'D EVEN DEAL WITH SNAIL MAIL IF IT MEANT I COULD CHECK MY MAIL.

Then I got on the computer and discovered it was high speed, the computer just lagged sometimes and the episode of Venture Brothers I watched on there didn't just shoot straight through, so I had to let it load every once in a while. Dems spoiled ass bitches don't know the hardships I go through daily. Sigh.

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sarcastium
2008-08-05 08:02 pm UTC (link)

That story both makes me laugh and feel sad for you. XD
My friend Greg lives off the same road as me (well, it's a major highway), but he lives so far down it (like 20-30 minutes) that it starts getting to where he has more cow-neighbors than people-neighbors, and he still has AOL dialup, which, of course, it the worst kind. I think it's sad, because they stop offering cable a few houses down from them, but they told his family if they wanted cable, they'd have to pay themselves to have it installed further down, which was gonna be super expensive.

Poor technologically lacking hick friends )=.

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goodpilgrim
2008-08-04 07:26 pm UTC (link)

I'LL THINK OF YOU, HICKS!

Also, WORD. Having both is AWESOME because then I can use see and/or search the text, and then I can also admire the graphics (the Nacht page always makes me happy, particularly once I get to Moody's) and/or spy on a game's PBs to get PB ideas of my own.

I also love it (and Nacht does this) when the graphics have the PB name in the title tag, because a lot of people just use an alt tag, but the alt tags don't pop up when I mouseover in Firefox, and I'm too lazy to keep doing the right-click-properties thingy.

Man, I hope that last paragraph was coherent.

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24601
2008-08-04 11:34 pm UTC (link)

Our text PB list keeps getting out of date. I was messing around with it today and I kept going, "WTF, who uses HER? And where the hell is this guy? Why don't we ever edit this thing?" But like I said above, I like having both, for practicality and my own curiosity. I think that's one of the reason we've been working on getting a pretty graphicsed up NPC page too, though now I'm at the nitpicky OCD "WHAT ELSE SHOULD I PUT ON HERE? IS THIS TOO MUCH? DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT THIS?" stage on the page.

We used to have just the alt tag! But then I was doing my entries for

icontheworld and they have you put in a title and alt tag, but I thought that was kind of superfluous because the title will appear when hovering for both FF and IE. But yeeeah, when I saw that the title tag will appear for FF, I just changed everything to the title tag on Nacht.

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	24601 2008-08-04 11:35 pm UTC (link)
	... And I just realized that all the people in my icons on this page are dead. So here, have Sid Vicious to continue on this trend. (Reply to this) (Parent)