Navarre
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So, The Beautiful World.
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Post by Navarre on Mar 24, 2008 23:24:33 GMT
Of course, the card game itself is very likely nothing more than a whim. Considering it was creating in one of our; 'omfgwouldn'titbesohilariousifomgomg' moments, yeah.... I'm going to go with whimsy here... I think one of the difficulties with the whole 'old members' issue is the transient nature of university societies as a whole (just for the record, I say screw DSU, a lifetime is until you croak or the universe ends if you live forever)... Eventually we just become 'oh so and so... that guy who was here a few years back' so it can be quite difficult to keep a continuous thing going. In fact we were talking about this at the end of last term and the idea of an Alumni mailing list came up... not necessarily with new info, just a secondary list which gets mail about social-ey type thingamadoods, like get togethers, Con trips (if that ever gets off the ground, need to talk to Gracewing) and even maybe alumni meals or something that people who could trip it up to durham or wherever might be able to come along... thoughts, people? Also; I'm all up ons for Maruno staying on as Admin/doodah/whatever. One of the reasons Felix suggested the webmonkey position is because none of the current exec have any web literacy of any kind (I speak mostly for myself and the secretary, Falciferum is a chan-er, I don't know whether that counts or not ) If you've had the job previously, why shouldn't you hang on to it if you're prepared to? Like I said, it harks back to the whole, 'transient nature' thing, and these things can only be judged on a case by case basis, but for us I mean, everybody knows who Maruno is (by everybody and I mean anyone important), so for the moment I say; stay on! And of course, the forum itself it the ultimate tool for old members to keep in touch, but it's a question of getting people to use it in the first place, and making sure they keep coming back even after they graduated.
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Post by Mu-chan on Mar 25, 2008 1:24:47 GMT
I think the DSU policy is so that sports societies can only allow current students to take part and stop potentially-vengeful (students that failed/kicked out etc) from going into the university unaccompanied. Quite a few societies from what I remember have alumni-involved events and praise their older members (especially the sporty ones that won stuff and widely-famous people XD). Many colleges give life-time memberships to students that were a member there for at least three years (which is why I got the Grey Matters issue a few weeks ago :V), and the university also haunts alumni for money etc all the time, so I don't think the university as a whole ignores ex-students (you'll see what I mean after you graduate, the university won't let you forget about it even if you want to! XD).
The DSU policy always seemed more of a safety thing to me, and it would be silly IMO if the reality was that the generation of members of the society that petitioned for it to be DSU ratified would eventually cause their memberships to become void because of that! XD I like to think older members are still part of the society, even if they aren't active members. Whether they have to pay for another membership to frequently go to current events being something different... if that makes sense. ^^
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Post by Maruno on Mar 25, 2008 1:31:57 GMT
(just for the record, I say screw DSU, a lifetime is until you croak or the universe ends if you live forever) We all say that. .In fact we were talking about this at the end of last term and the idea of an Alumni mailing list came up... not necessarily with new info, just a secondary list which gets mail about social-ey type thingamadoods, like get togethers, Con trips (if that ever gets off the ground, need to talk to Gracewing) and even maybe alumni meals or something that people who could trip it up to durham or wherever might be able to come along... thoughts, people? I don't even think a secondary alumni mailing list is even necessary. Just stay on the main (and only) mailing list. There's no current system for removing people from it (unless the address doesn't exist, usually because it's expired or the newbies at Freshers' Fair can't spell/write neatly), so old people are perfectly safe on it. Speaking of the mailing list, I either need to find the actual assigned owner of the mailing list to transfer it to the society email, or give it up and make a new one. And I need to make an Exec mailing list, and lock the main one so only the Exec can post to it (at the moment anyone on the mailing list can post to it). I've done that jazz before, but it's a bit annoying to have to create a new main mailing list, you know? I've tried contacting the owner before, but I rather suspect they've left years ago and their Uni account (for it is a Durham Uni email address) no longer exists - in which case it's unmovable (and we'd need a new one). Obviously I got no response when I tried to contact them, which is yet another fact that leads me to believe the address doesn't exist. I need to transfer ownership of the mailing list to the society email because a) it's tidier and won't need further changing, and b) all error messages and status messages regarding the mailing list (including to whom emails couldn't be sent) are sent to the owner, which is at the moment no one. This messages would be helpful, at least in pruning dead email addresses.
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Post by Maruno on Apr 14, 2008 18:22:26 GMT
The forum's changed appearance. How odd. And without warning, too. I've found something about it: support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=v4p5postconversion&action=display&thread=231050Ooh, and while editing this post, I've seen the "characters remaining" box thingy saying how many characters I can still fit into my post. Apparently the character limit is now 60,000, more than double that it used to be. I doubt any of us had troubles with posting extremely large posts anyway, though. I might have a poke round these new options at some point.
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Post by Maruno on Apr 17, 2008 21:01:18 GMT
Hey, guess how much I've written of my lab report...
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Navarre
Otaku
So, The Beautiful World.
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Post by Navarre on Apr 17, 2008 21:15:18 GMT
I congratulate you wholeheartedly.
Considering I still have yet to finish my last assignment and have done next to no revision...... *cries*
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Post by Maruno on Apr 17, 2008 23:24:44 GMT
I've not finished it yet. I've still got 3 pictures to describe and explain (and I have no idea what the explanations are), and a conclusion that I don't know what it's supposed to be. Essentially, I don't know what the point of my project is, and I think it'd be bad taste to email my tutor to ask (given the final deadline for the paper is Wednesday).
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Post by Maruno on Apr 28, 2008 13:43:06 GMT
You may have noticed I have a new banner in my signature. I made it last night while procrastinating. What do you think? I'll have a go at making the bottom banner better (say that five times fast!), since it's in crappy .jpg form and was made in Paint years ago. Now I've got Paint.NET, which is better, and just as free. EDT: I've remade my original banner, and here's two variants on it.
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Post by Maruno on Apr 28, 2008 23:24:24 GMT
The new font is called Angelina Handwriting. I did the old banner on my (really) old computer, and apparently lost the font it used (I didn't record which font it was anyway. I had a quick Google for handwriting fonts, and Angelina was free and I thought it looked good. I would have used the original font if I had it and knew what it was.
One of the images I'd saved from making my old banner was a cropped Kaworu's head, as close as I could get it at the time. I stuck that on a dark red background and shrunk it, so the dark red blended a bit into the edges (otherwise there'd be stupid white pixels on the outline).
Paint.NET is probably somewhere between Paint and Photoshop, in terms of what it can do. I'm no artist or Photoshop expert, so most of what you suggested I do is lost on me.
There's no setting for the default language for the forum. You have your default as Japanese, so there's the problem (you already knew that). The Proboards people probably assumed that everyone frequenting a forum would have a browser default of the same language the forum is in. To put it bluntly, you're a special case. Proboards really isn't that accommodating, but it serves its purpose (i.e. it's free).
Unless you can fix your browser to use a Western default for this site, there's nothing to be done. Sorry.
For the record, I can see a kanji in your post, and I can type pokémon just fine and have it show properly.
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Post by Maruno on Apr 29, 2008 8:30:57 GMT
As I said, there's no option I can see in the Admin Page for language, and I do think it's somewhat unlikely that people using a Japanese default for their browser will come and read English forums, since they're more likely to speak Japanese.
It's not that hard to change encoding, though, is it? If you must do so...
Feel free to blame Proboards all you want, though. ^^
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Navarre
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So, The Beautiful World.
Posts: 234
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Post by Navarre on May 3, 2008 19:51:37 GMT
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Post by Maruno on May 4, 2008 1:01:25 GMT
Cool routine. It must take a lot of effort to learn it.
Regarding my banner, I've now discovered (through the wonder that is the first font recognition website in a Google search of such) that the font I used was EF Lucida Calligraphy, most likely size 22 (24 is slightly too large). Of course, the new banners are a bit larger, so I could just use font size 24 - it's not going to be a perfect replica.
My problem now comes because people are charging money for fonts nowadays (of all things, fonts?!). And $20 at that, for just this one font. Shocking. Thus I need to find somewhere to get it from for free, so that I can recreate my banner in all its original-ness. Bittorrent would be the obvious solution, but I'm on the Uni network at the moment.
And, looking at it a bit more, I don't see anything wrong with the Kaworu cut-out in the new banners. The cut-out I saved from years ago was a pretty good one (down to pixels), although I may go over it again a little. Perhaps I could even improve on the background somehow - it looks noisy (the original is a JPG, and has the artefacts associated with JPG conversion). I doubt I'll be able to find the same one but cleaner, nor really will I find something that similar. Opinions? Might there be some Photoshoppy device that can smooth out these artefacts?
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Navarre
Otaku
So, The Beautiful World.
Posts: 234
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Post by Navarre on May 4, 2008 12:11:07 GMT
You're on your own here, I know almost nothing about the use of computers for the making of art (note: all of Navarre's wallpapers are made in powerpoint ), although I'll be getting a tablet soon so that should change... although I personally think the current font looks fine in the new banner. You could always try OpenCanvas, although I'm so confused as I was told it was free only to find out the other day it's some kind of time limited trial... someone has been lying to me. As for the Haruhi dance, I'm so close it's not even funny, although the fact that those dancers are the actual seiyuu is what makes me laugh the most.
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Post by Maruno on May 4, 2008 13:32:07 GMT
I can barely work graphics programs either, but I've got Paint.NET, which works nicely, and is entirely free. I couldn't create all those fancy swirly colour gradients and backgrounds, but I can hack two pictures together somehow. The little line border around the edges were me with the pencil function.
Japanese idols can do everything.
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Navarre
Otaku
So, The Beautiful World.
Posts: 234
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Post by Navarre on May 4, 2008 13:36:02 GMT
Yeah, what is up with that?
In other news, trying to practise the Haruhi dance repeatedly should be sold as a new fitness workout.... jesus....
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