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Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #157
ADoS, your FTP info is in your mail.

The credits page will be done some time tomorrow. The other poor, unwanted logo candidates will vanish from the selection then, too.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Notice : Uber popular mod needs maid in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #8
quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

See, this is how the Borg gets started.
We are Aran. Prepare to be archived.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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The glittering lights... in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #12
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Originally by Jumpin' Salmon:

quote:
Why are three fyora staring at a bizarre imprint of Mickey Mouse's face in a wall?
It's a picture of Dikiyoba the dikiyora and two of Dikiyoba's friends discussing Disney movies, of course. :P

Edit: Next one. Explanation?

Ha! You should have put that edit above the post - isn't the last paragraph supposed to be in third person?

Sorry, I'm tired today. These are the things that draw my attention...

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Notice : Uber popular mod needs maid in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #2
Alo: Turn on email notification...

Salmon: You know, you *could* just send an email. :P

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Notice: ermarian.net down for maintainance NOW in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #22
Spiderbot here, reporting on the trouble with the Ermarianbot.

PPP has had its third redesign this year. It mostly works okay now; I'll tell the Piperbot to switch off non-critical warning messages, which can sometimes come up.

Endeavor not working is news to me. It's automatized apart from the bit on the seventeenth (and yes, I made some plans for that too), and Ermarianbot doesn't check it too often. He'll do that now.

Alorael and the Motraxbot constructed each other. Do not question how.

End of automated transmission.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Copyrights?? in Blades of Avernum
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #3
Well, there is Fair Use, but that is muddled and often misunderstood.

To stay on the safe side of the law, you can't use any works without permission - even with attribution and non-commercially. You could easily ask - if they are an independent (or even non-commercial) artist, they may even be happy with an attributed use. But you have to ask.

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This can include scenarios designed by other users, by the way (to a degree). There are several precedents for that. The second link has some discussion about whether a law was actually broken. Prosecutable or not, it was enough for a web host to take down a site (although web hosts tend to be trigger-happy, to cover themselves).

[ Monday, October 09, 2006 02:47: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
MSN Messenger: Any Contacts? in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #10
quote:
he took that a little bit far
Hehe.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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I Am Engaged in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #6
Alec? Engaged?

My concept of the world in general is going to need some revision.*

If you are serious: Congratulations! :)

*However, I probably could get used to said revised concept, since my estimate of the chance of the same thing ever happening to me would also be revised upwards.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #153
I set up a subdomain, for example ados.ermarian.net and tgm.ermarian.net (you can choose your own, as long as it's x.ermarian.net), and give you FTP access to it. :)

And speaking of allowable content, I'd appreciate some care taken with respect to the law and decency and stuff. But that goes without saying.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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What have you been reading lately? in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #144
quote:
Originally written by Macrsp:

Not sure what that was supposed to link too, whatever that page is, it is unfortunately not in any of the languages I know. It looks like Dutch or German?
How do you manage to load a site from the URL "both"? This I have to try.

Edit: Firefox redirects it to a Google search...

[ Wednesday, October 04, 2006 01:37: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead.
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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #150
Realistically, there might be a problem if you decide to host a high-definition video stream that somehow ends up being posted to Slashdot.

Expressed in numbers, I have 1 TB monthly, of which I am unlikely to use a hundredth in the forseeable time.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Email please in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #21
quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus.:

I have multiple emails, but they all forward to my Gmail account. You simply can't beat the spam filtering.
:nod:

It's creepy in fact. Sometimes I wonder if they've developed some self-aware intelligence that pre-scans emails for spam.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #148
ADoS: Between 250 to 300 MB? At present, it's quite flexible because I have a lot free.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Chat Now. AIM Room Spidweb! in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #31
Holy cow! Someone uses that? I've added it.

It is on Thursday 21:00 Eastern Time (GMT-5).

Also you've got the time wrong, Tyran - it's 2:00 AM GMT. It'd be 3:00 AM GMT+1 here. Unless Google messed up the timezones, and I suspect someone would have noticed that by now.

http://www.google.com/calendar/...

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Anyway, I agree with Riibu's idea - let's have another one on the weekend. I'm available pretty much from Saturday 0:00 GMT to Sunday 20:00 GMT.

[ Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:17: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Email please in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #15
Sent - very conveniently, your address was in my contacts already. ;)

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #145
No, it just means several people win. You and TGM are among them.

Unless I hear a few other calls or somebody designs a really good logo in the next week or so, nobody else is.

This means you both (and whoever else might still be included) get credited on the Encyclopedia site (I still have to determine where, exactly; probably a link to a Meta page "Credits" next to the Disclaimer link near the top of the main page), and, if you want, the webspace/email address thing. As for Gmail, I know TGM has it, but I'm not sure about you, ADoS.

Edit: A small problem with cookie paths caused the setting to be ignored on pages with /w/index.php? instead of /wiki/. Fixed. If your setting appears not to work, set it again.

[ Tuesday, October 03, 2006 09:52: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day! in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #22
Yesterday, my attention was drawn to the radio station http://www.shantyraidio.com (Irish/Celtic/Pirate Shanties). I'm posting this here because within hours of listening to it I heard both "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" and "We're the Pirates who don't anything".

[ Tuesday, October 03, 2006 02:14: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Chat Now. AIM Room Spidweb! in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #28
Not bloody likely. I have lectures on Friday, and I can't be about at 5 AM. That is, I could, but I couldn't stay around because I need to go soon after that. So I'll miss this one.

[ Monday, October 02, 2006 23:36: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #142
quote:
Originally written by Days of Our Palimpsests:

As opposed to which second one?

[Edit: Choose words carefully. Be aware of audience. Evil, evil audience.]

—Alorael, who would be even happier with a way to choose his own random lineup by excluding some entries. Like, oh, combs. And many redundant drafts. Aran, you know what you must do!

Ceterum Censeo, huh? At this rate of persistence, I'm wondering why you haven't yet got a custom title. :P

I've taken off your pictures that used the "comb" for letters. If you want the rest gone too, just clarify. :)

Drakefyre: The logo candidates are not in the encyclopedia article database itself - nor will the final logo be. I am adding all logos to the selection by uploading them to the special folder - meanwhile, you could upload them to any other space, like stuff.ermarian.net

I've placed your uploads into the selection folder (under ADoS name, since they're edits from his) and taken them off the Encyclopedia's internal image gallery; that one is only for images used in entries and templates.

Edit:

Now it is, TGM.

[ Tuesday, October 03, 2006 02:18: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #137
I put in the persistent cookie thing. You can now choose a logo right on the test page by clicking it to put it in the corner, then clicking the corner to go to the main page.

Using that, I also replaced the above pages with screenshots of the main page, because the logo summary looks rather weird for a normal encyclopedia page.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #135
The Monobook skin consists of simple, straight lines and is entirely colorless.

Take a look:

IMAGE(http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/Cave.png)
IMAGE(http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/Crown.png)

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #133
Well, what do you define as this "context" of the page, seeing as somehow the cave and surface seems to fit it and the sun and crown does not?

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #128
quote:
He would also like to petition for the removal of the comb-bearing vahnatai from the random logo lineup.
But it's my favorite! :(

ADoS: No drop shadow. The heavy lines wouldn't work together with that. But I like it.

Also:

IMAGE(http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/contest/tgm/eermarianachuonoed6.png)

quote:
Originally written by ValenciaRaptor:

and cyan is horrible as a background-color. :)
Bad! No dissing Drakey's homepage, you don't want to be banned, do you! :P

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Okay. I'm going to prove Alec's point once more and find a way to stay neutral. Since the logo is pretty much decoration, not a means of corporate identity or advertisement, it doesn't matter what is up there, as long as it's something you like.

I'm just short of adding an option to select your preferred logo and store the settings in a permanent cookie (unrelated to skins, because I'm not going to make 20 different skin sets). I'm comfortable with this mediawiki thing now, so adding that shouldn't be terribly difficult.

On a per-artist level, to my slightly tired eyes it seems that everyone but ADOS and TGM are out of the competition. Or does anyone have a specific third artist whose logo should be in the final selection? This is for the credits and prize...

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #125
quote:
Originally written by Drakefyre:

[QB] the third one with silver crown and silver letters, and the cave/surface one.

Personally, I think the golden/silver one looks better, but that's me.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #119
Thuryl: The entire Encyclopedia is fanwank. That's pretty much its mission.

quote:
Originally written by The Green Dragon:

Well, it's not Finnish, just so you know. Now where's the new one he showed me...
quote:
Originally written by ValenciaRaptor:

polaris.
Which is here, because I don't think I've ever seen you there. It's been some time since that link appeared above a sig divider...

[ Monday, October 02, 2006 05:56: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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