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Pincho Paxton
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Are the new banners working? They are not cycling for me. I just get the winning banner. Or are there no cycling banners anymore?

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 19:12
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Read the newsletter. Specifically the 'banner winners' article.

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Pincho Paxton
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Quote: "All of the short-listed banners will appear in rotation on the site after the winners have had a bit of the lime-light for a week or two."


Ok..Here is the quote to save others looking for it.

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They're not cycling? The bikes must have broken!


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 20:14
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at least cycle the top 3 or something.
I used to like that banner up there, now when I see it its just all "no no no" to me

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No offense to the artist, but I really cant stand looking at the banner that won. It just looks ugly. Although, I think it would've been cool if the line numbers had started at 42.

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I'd be able to stand it more if there weren't so many compression artifacts! The text in the message box is really blurry.

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No offense to the artist, but Phaelax is right.

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Yes, there are compression artefacts. But they're not that bad. The text is perfectly readable. What kind of screen are you using? I'm using a 15in LCD at 1024x768.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 22:38 Edited at: 4th Aug 2006 23:30
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Yeah, I don't really like the winning banner either. It's good, but there was a better selection imo

And yeah, way too fuzzy. Needs to be exported as gif.
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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 23:08 Edited at: 4th Aug 2006 23:09
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easily solved *blocks images from forum.thegamecreators.com*

not the greatest one entered. :/

fpsc people got loose on the compo entry

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I don't see how it won to be honest...

I usually would feel bad to disrespect someones work, the banner is a good joke, and it works OK, but is just badly artifacted, and also easy to make.

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It won because it was a good joke. But, to be honest, I liked the android streching the big black thing over everything the most


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I liked the "You don't need pants to be awesome" one... who made that one?

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The word "object" should have been replaced by "idiot"

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I think user error would make more sense than organic error, since its more likely to actually come up.

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I think its a pretty good banner, I am tired of seeing it however (HINT HINT)

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Yeah, well I think I'm gonna take Lag's suggestion, thank Shiva for Adblock.

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Quote: ""All of the short-listed banners will appear in rotation on the site after the winners have had a bit of the lime-light for a week or two.""


Yes, but the 3 winning banners haven't cycled at all. It has only been the 1st place dude's banner.

...Or in a few days are we going to see the 2nd place banner for a week or so?

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personally I think that it deserved 3rd, on 1280x1024 it does look quite blurry but is readable [with some skill lol]

I also am getting tired of seeing it so...

I liked that one that had "please bring your own caffiene" though it didn't have enough art quality, just liked the phrase

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Hate to join the crowd and sorry to diss the artist, but yeah, that banner is not the best. There were plenty of better ones. The joke is pretty poor. The font on the right is bad. I wouldn't normally diss, but I'm sick of looking at it too.

Mind you, it aint TGCs fault. It's all you numpties for voting for it. I can just picture all the silly kids chuckling at that joke as if it contains some arcane humour. Shame on you! Shame on you!!!

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Well I say, if you don't like his entry, just beg Rich to edit it so you got the joke and its more your liking, you know if you beg enough he'll have to say yes

I think the idea was good on the banner, but could look better, but I still the ones I picked (although I can't remember which ones they were) would have been better.

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Quote: "Well I say, if you don't like his entry, just beg Rich to edit it so you got the joke and its more your liking, you know if you beg enough he'll have to say yes"

yea like he sayed yes to on the private messaging system proposed, and on how tags and smileys work in firefox

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Quote: "Mind you, it aint TGCs fault. It's all you numpties for voting for it"


Quote: "It's not who votes, it's who counts them.

-Joseph Stalin"


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Quote: ""It's not who votes, it's who counts them.

-Joseph Stalin""



Its an ideal our governments are taking into account, gotta love good old Stalin...

Quote: "yea like he sayed yes to on the private messaging system proposed, and on how tags and smileys work in firefox"


Okay, how about bullying him? Call him names like stinky and whatever immature thing that crosses you mind.

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Posted: 5th Aug 2006 14:54 Edited at: 6th Aug 2006 00:42
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Winning a competition is one of the better experiences you can get - especially when its by a public vote. Having every man and his dog then go and put you down unnecessarily is a big downer. If it annoys you, look away. And the font used or the joke aren't the most important things in the world

I don't want somebody who's just won a competition to feel down - they should be happy. And I hope you all feel the same way.

So give the banner its time in the spotlight for a couple of weeks, then we can go back to the more artsy banners. It made me laugh at least, and I voted for it. And it seems it made the silent majority smile too

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Amen to that, David T

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should be something like attach a #1 next to the banner and then cycle through top3

btw who won the other 2?

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Yeah I think the top 3 should have been cycled, but thats just me. I don't mind this banner. I might have even voted for it. I don't remember though. The compression is the only annoying part. Just stop complaining, you don't even see it most of the time anyhow.

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You all (as a community) voted it first place, so deal with it. It wasn't my first choice, but I respect the votes. Add to that the guy was *really* chuffed to have been picked (and rightly so) this thread is pissing me off.

I'll was going to replace it with the 2nd place one on Monday, the aim being to give all 3 winners around 2 weeks exposure in total.

However given all the unwarranted bitching here (seeing as none of you complaining managed to submit one that was voted higher) I reckon you've earned it another full week up there on its own.

Anyone who emails me to complain can kiss their forum access goodbye for the rest of August for being an obnoxious tit. Let him have his limelight.

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I agree totally with David T. I was going to speak up earlier but couldn't think of a nice way of saying "everybody stfu about the banner and let the guy enjoy his winning".

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edit:
meh changed my mind


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...of course, Rich's threats are very impressive. Sorry to have written what I thinked. I thought that it was the purpose of a forum.
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Quote: "I agree totally with David T. I was going to speak up earlier but couldn't think of a nice way of saying "everybody stfu about the banner and let the guy enjoy his winning"."


I had trouble too

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I like it (congrats to BiggAdd), but I also expect the same comments when/if my banner appears for a few days. Like the saying goes... 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. Its all personal opinion and there will always be those people wanting to express their views whether good or bad.
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I thought it was sexy.

Sexy like a pair of PANTS.


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Quote: "However given all the unwarranted bitching here (seeing as none of you complaining managed to submit one that was voted higher) I reckon you've earned it another full week up there on its own."


hahaha. We is all owned. And I hate to admit it, but Rich is correct. We are all thoughtless muppets.

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Well I disagree but there you go...

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Just saw this--- I like that entry (am I the only one brave enough to admit it?). A little humour can go a long way, and I much prefer that style over the hundreds of lens-flared cookie-cutter "artsy" submissions.

Oh well. By the way, what's chuffed mean?


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When one is in doubt, look no further than da Urban Dictionary


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"I was well chuffed on the common room table" - Hawkeye

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"I was really quite well chuffed with my jello" -Steve J


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Quote: "I think it would've been cool if the line numbers had started at 42. "




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Oh but I wasnt. I am guessing you are thinking of Saikoro. S's tend to confuse people

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Yes, that was me. I was more than chuffed at the jello. I had never made it before and I thought I didn't do half bad for my first try.


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if you really want to chuff yourself, go get your first car

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Means happy, pleased with yourself, proud.

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I like the banner, and I think some people are just jealous they didn't think of it first.



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Quote: "..of course, Rich's threats are very impressive. Sorry to have written what I thinked. I thought that it was the purpose of a forum."


They aren't threats, I was annoyed and meant every word of it. The purpose of a forum is not to collective 'put down' someones work, no matter what you think of it, especially something the forum as a whole voted for!

David put it far more elegantly, but as the thread was turning into an 'email Rich and complain' direction I figured I'd make it perfectly clear what I thought of that idea.

*looks at inbox*

I guess it worked.

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Quote: "They aren't threats, I was annoyed and meant every word of it. The purpose of a forum is not to collective 'put down' someones work, no matter what you think of it, especially something the forum as a whole voted for!"


We all know that the voting can be fixed. We all know that this forum is a place to critique work, that's the main point of this entire site. I personallu don't believe that the banner was voted for by most people on the site.. it doesn't make sense to me. Based on the critiques from years of threads, I know what people think on this site.

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