Improving Gamingforce

Can they have lens flare?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

And drop shadows.

FELIPE NO

Let's put an AJAX thing in there that makes the number magically appear like digg does

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Also also when you press the buttons they make sounds

if you prop a guy it goes YEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH

but if you you diss it plays the sad trombone sound

This on top of the constant PLINK! PLINK! noises every button on the site should make when you mouse over them of course

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I want the sad trombone from The Price Is Right to play when you try to access a thread while you're banned or don't have the privs to access. Can we do this?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Pangalin

if you prop a guy it goes YEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH

but if you you diss it plays the sad trombone sound

Except on the first of every month, when a prop does this

YouTube Video

and a diss does this

YouTube Video

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I've thought on why it is that my comment count is about three times my post count. I find I focus more on the person I am interacting with (and to some extent the audience as a whole) than a particular topic of discussion. It's easier to do that in the context of a journal with the atmosphere found in most threads. I like to reference something about the person that I've learned in a prior journal entry. While I tend to be more active in delivering mockery, criticism, and advice, I would like to think that I do so in an interesting and humorous way.

I'm not exactly an engaging personality, but I'm of the impression that most find my writing style favorable rather than lacking (I gather props are intended to support this impression). I suppose I've strayed from what was intended to be the topic of discussion, so maybe it would be helpful if I explained the thought that inspired me to post: I think I would enjoy talking to Alton Brown. I don't know the man, but the conversation could be about anything, and I think I would walk away being interested in whatever he talked about due to how he talked about it. I think there would be more positive activity on GFF if more members displayed that quality.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm always happy to engage a fan. Would you like to discuss the best way to slice an onion, or perhaps my stellar commentary on Iron Chef?

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Can we discuss your more esoteric, and almost spiritual, approach to your woefully underappreciated Feasting on Asphalt? I noticed an almost Joseph Campbell-like approach to the subject matter, and it seemed truly close to your heart.

Do you think this had anything to do with your admitted struggles and ongoing search for god via the religion you grew up with being skewed by your experiences through adulthood?

Also, how can I make my deep fried turkey stay moist while using your tremendous fried turkey rig?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Navigating the open road on the back of motorcycle is a truly religious experience, and it gives a person time to reflect on his place in the universe. Like my grandmother used to tell me, "If you don't grab life by the horns, someone will put grits in your brisket." Actually, grandma never did make much sense.

As for your turkey, the secret is not to overcook it. Drop it in there, give it 40 minutes tops, then pull that sucker out. Any longer, and you might as well microwave it.

FELIPE NO

Does the inclusion of a police siren make a difference?

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Originally Posted by Denicalis

Does the inclusion of a police siren make a difference?

It doesn't help seal in moisture, but it does alert your neighbors that you will be eating delicious fried turkey, and they can't have any.

How ya doing, buddy?

I used to have difficulty slicing onions until I discovered that my abacus can function as a vegetable slicer, and with some work, a pair of nunchucks.

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Ah, yes! An abacus is one of my favorite multitaskers. Have you tried using it as a substitute for the grates on your grill? The contact between the beads and the food leaves a wonderful sear.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

But wouldn't the beads minimize the surface area contact, which is essential to the searing process?

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Originally Posted by Denicalis

But wouldn't the beads minimize the surface area contact, which is essential to the searing process?

This is why I advocate a dual-phase cooking process; first a quick sear on a cast-iron skillet, with just a tablespoon of vegetable oil and a dash of kosher salt, followed by a grill session with a preheated abacus. Once you have the sear, the abacus produces a unique set of grill marks.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I may have asked this before but how can salt be non-kosher?

I mean, it's not like it has scales or cloven hooves or anything.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Kosher salt has nothing to do with the hebrew concept of kosher. It has to do with the grain size and shape, and happens to be the salt most often used to make meat kosher.

Thus, kosher salt.

FELIPE NO

It's called kosher salt not because the salt itself is more kosher than other salts, but because it has a larger grain which is useful in extracting the blood from meat, thus making the meat itself kosher. In addition it often has a platelet shape rather than a cube, aiding in the same process.

UNWANTED EDUCATION

e: aw, fuck you anyways

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Pangalin

e: aw, fuck you anyways

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Please register at Gamingforce Interactive Forums 2.0 - The Front Page

It's just a staging area so fill it up with nonsense all you want. Once you've worked out the plugins, forums, categories, prefixes, tags, smileys and all that shit, I'll see about transferring the content from here. Eventually we'll put the vB4 installation on the dedicated server (whether we decide on using the .org or .com domain)

If you want admin access just message me on IRC.

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The blog and CMS features are both really neat. People can promote posts to front page status or put a post in their blog, and the blog stuff in general is pretty neat compared to ChocoJournal.

The user reputation system is not really a good replacement as-is for props/disses. By default it just toggles a little variable that you have to hover over someone's name to even see. Not to mention the fact that it takes two clicks to prop someone and two clicks plus having to write a comment to diss someone. I've tinkered with trying to at the very least have two buttons there to streamline it, but no changes I've attempted to make have actually been reflected on the template.

I'd also need to muck around with reputation.php, because right now reputation.php doesn't have a flag (?action=prop or ?action=diss) so it takes you to a page that makes you choose if you try to do it directly.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It runs really slow for me and half the time clicking links times out before it gets to the destination. Is there any particular reason for that?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Maybe because it's running on Dreamhost or some shared hosting.

I was speaking idiomatically.