stevedperkins
08-22-2003, 01:32 PM
It's bad enough that the old "System Wars" forum has now been morphed into a pansy "General Discussion" board, where you can talk about Justin Timberlake's hairstyle and still be on-topic. To top that, now the whole friggin' thing revolves around seeing who plug the most retarded and annoying graphics into their post so that reading a thread causes your monitor to look like Bourbon Street the day after Mardi Gras.
I'm literally jaw-dropped in disbelief. I would have glady bet you a new car that introducting all this graphics crap would cause the System Wars crew to rip to shreds anyone lame enough to abuse it (maybe the reason this hasn't happened is because most of them haven't migrated here yet and can't decide if the even want to bother). Instead, there are actually a large number of posts about how great this muck is:
- Hey there Mr. Admin, is there any possible way that you can turn off size restrictions on avatars? The system won't allow me to add an avatar that takes up half the page! Let me use my avatar please oh please oh please oh pleeeeeeeze!
- Hey everyone, do you think my animated Sonic avatar is too fast? Yuk, yuk!" (<i>Editor's Note: The only thing more lame than an avatar is an animated avatar... and the only thing more lame than that is cracking bad jokes about it. If there were a God in heaven, He would grant me five minutes alone with you... so I could lodge a Sega GameGear in your rectum, while your mom watches through a glass window)</i>
- Hey folks, do you like this crappy Photoshop'ed photo of "half-me/half-cartoon" that takes up the half your screen? Awesome, in that case I'll make it my signature so you can see it with <b><i>EVERY SINGLE POST I MAKE!!!</i></b>
- Yeah, that was pretty annoying... but nowhere NEAR as annoying as this shot of roadkill painted over by a D.O.T. crew. You know, the photo that's been around for over four years now and that everyone on the planet has had emailed to then at least a dozen times. 'Cause it just keeps getting funnier and funnier each time! I went ahead and make sure that it takes up over half your screen as well.
- Hey everyone, this is your friendly neighborhood admin here! I'm sensing that some of you are disappointed, that this new forum system doesn't provide <b><i>quite</i></b> enough flexibility to let you fulfill your total potential for annoyance. Don't worry! Actually, I only enabled about 10% of the annoyance-tools that are available... I didn't want to overwhelm people with possibilities during the launch. As soon as the novelty wears off and people go back to talking about video games (gasp!), I'll get the party started again by going into the admin console and enabling a fresh batch of annoyance-tools! <i>(Editor's Note: MIDI sounds, QuickTime movie clips, and a "Rumble Pack" browser plug-in that causes people's monitors to shake when they read your posts... I can't wait! Memo from reality, the old forums were fine the way they were.)</i>
Can someone PLEASE explain this graphics-mania that's going on here. In the old System Wars forum, GameCube guys get little respect from Xbots because the system is "too childish" with "inferior graphics". Then those same people come in here and have a field day with childish graphics that look like they were created with monkeys using crayons. PLEASE tell me that this is some kind of temporary delusion, like disco... and within a week the fad will have played itself out and everyone will laugh about this.
I'm literally jaw-dropped in disbelief. I would have glady bet you a new car that introducting all this graphics crap would cause the System Wars crew to rip to shreds anyone lame enough to abuse it (maybe the reason this hasn't happened is because most of them haven't migrated here yet and can't decide if the even want to bother). Instead, there are actually a large number of posts about how great this muck is:
- Hey there Mr. Admin, is there any possible way that you can turn off size restrictions on avatars? The system won't allow me to add an avatar that takes up half the page! Let me use my avatar please oh please oh please oh pleeeeeeeze!
- Hey everyone, do you think my animated Sonic avatar is too fast? Yuk, yuk!" (<i>Editor's Note: The only thing more lame than an avatar is an animated avatar... and the only thing more lame than that is cracking bad jokes about it. If there were a God in heaven, He would grant me five minutes alone with you... so I could lodge a Sega GameGear in your rectum, while your mom watches through a glass window)</i>
- Hey folks, do you like this crappy Photoshop'ed photo of "half-me/half-cartoon" that takes up the half your screen? Awesome, in that case I'll make it my signature so you can see it with <b><i>EVERY SINGLE POST I MAKE!!!</i></b>
- Yeah, that was pretty annoying... but nowhere NEAR as annoying as this shot of roadkill painted over by a D.O.T. crew. You know, the photo that's been around for over four years now and that everyone on the planet has had emailed to then at least a dozen times. 'Cause it just keeps getting funnier and funnier each time! I went ahead and make sure that it takes up over half your screen as well.
- Hey everyone, this is your friendly neighborhood admin here! I'm sensing that some of you are disappointed, that this new forum system doesn't provide <b><i>quite</i></b> enough flexibility to let you fulfill your total potential for annoyance. Don't worry! Actually, I only enabled about 10% of the annoyance-tools that are available... I didn't want to overwhelm people with possibilities during the launch. As soon as the novelty wears off and people go back to talking about video games (gasp!), I'll get the party started again by going into the admin console and enabling a fresh batch of annoyance-tools! <i>(Editor's Note: MIDI sounds, QuickTime movie clips, and a "Rumble Pack" browser plug-in that causes people's monitors to shake when they read your posts... I can't wait! Memo from reality, the old forums were fine the way they were.)</i>
Can someone PLEASE explain this graphics-mania that's going on here. In the old System Wars forum, GameCube guys get little respect from Xbots because the system is "too childish" with "inferior graphics". Then those same people come in here and have a field day with childish graphics that look like they were created with monkeys using crayons. PLEASE tell me that this is some kind of temporary delusion, like disco... and within a week the fad will have played itself out and everyone will laugh about this.