Member titles/levels

[KillerGodMan]

And it made it kinda pixelated too.

*tilts head*

Though if you look at it from this side...

Kami-sama! The nebula's a coffee mug!

No, It's a coffee maker! RUN! JANEWAY'S COMING!

[Xeroc]

Xeroc, just be aware that Zeke will find a member title for you that will be more funny than you can possibly imagine
(stares at Xeroc's avatar)

Desperation. Sick, twisted desperation.
Desperate, sick and twisted... nebulas?

Don't you see what he did? He's so desperate to get the member titles back, he built his title into his avatar.
I'm not desperate, I just realize that the chance of getting a real one this century is pretty slim, and it took me like 5 minutes, and best of all, I can change it whenever I want! MWAHAHAHAHAHA! :twisted:


And you have to admit it is a cool idea.

[PointyHairedJedi]

It is rather tempting fate though.... ;)

[Chancellor Valium]

and has proved you, Xeroc, to be head of the dreaded Posting-above-others League!

[Ginga]

And it made it kinda pixelated too.

*tilts head*

Though if you look at it from this side...

Kami-sama! The nebula's a coffee mug!

No, It's a coffee maker! RUN! JANEWAY'S COMING!

*gets excited* What!? When!? WHERE!? :D

Okay, so... yeah. Eaten that pie yet, Zeke? :wink:

[Zeke]

Okay, so... yeah. Eaten that pie yet, Zeke? :wink:

Yes, and my tooth paid the price. (It was worth it.)

[PointyHairedJedi]

I had a pie, if anyone's interested. It was, of course, steak and kidney. :D

[KillerGodMan]

And it made it kinda pixelated too.

*tilts head*

Though if you look at it from this side...

Kami-sama! The nebula's a coffee mug!

No, It's a coffee maker! RUN! JANEWAY'S COMING!

*gets excited* What!? When!? WHERE!? :D

Okay, so... yeah. Eaten that pie yet, Zeke? :wink:

She's going to be here, CHRISTMAS! (If not here, then in someone's signature/avitar)

[Ginga]

And it made it kinda pixelated too.

*tilts head*

Though if you look at it from this side...

Kami-sama! The nebula's a coffee mug!

No, It's a coffee maker! RUN! JANEWAY'S COMING!

*gets excited* What!? When!? WHERE!? :D

Okay, so... yeah. Eaten that pie yet, Zeke? :wink:

She's going to be here, CHRISTMAS! (If not here, then in someone's signature/avitar)

Yaaaay! *does a dance* Can't wait 'till Christmas, then. :3

[Celeste]

Okay, so... yeah. Eaten that pie yet, Zeke? :wink:

Yes, and my tooth paid the price. (It was worth it.)

::wags her finger at Zeke:: don't make me start spouting out Dental Hygiene technobabble again.

[PointyHairedJedi]

You know Celeste, sometimes I only brush my teeth once a day! :P

[Zeke]

Quiz time! Quiz time! Celeste, if I came into your dental office with a tooth where the filling had come out and the nerve was clearly infected (one could tell by the insane pain level), what would you do?

[Kira]

Letting an infected nerve sit? As a microbiologist, I gotta say you're asking for trouble, or at least a root canal.

[Opium]

Root Canals not fun! Fix it before it gets that bad!

Just like fixing problems like lack of member titles...do it quicklu, and it's all good. Do it later, and... *ominous music*

[Celeste]

Quiz time! Quiz time! Celeste, if I came into your dental office with a tooth where the filling had come out and the nerve was clearly infected (one could tell by the insane pain level), what would you do?

First step is antibiotics perscribed by the dentist. Then you'd need a root canal and a refill for that filling you lost. If the cavity was too big to re-fill, then a crown would be wise. As for what I personaly could do for you as a dental hygienist, there are quite a number of desensitization agents that I could place on the tooth to help ease the pain while the antibiotics take effect.

Anything else? :)

[Kira]

5MV: Your one-stop dental shop.

[Chancellor Valium]

Really? I'd better start avoiding this place....I hate dentists.

[KillerGodMan]

Join the Club

13... THIRTEEN FILLINGS IN A WEEK! Not as bad as what Zeke has to deal with, but still...

Plus t costs lots of money

[Celeste]

I'm not a dentist. I'm a dental hygienist. There's a difference. :P One goes to school for 8 years, the other only 2. Of course mine is turning into 5 god help me.

[Opium]

I don't have a new official one yet! :cry:

[Flixibixi]

I'm not a dentist. I'm a dental hygienist. There's a difference. :P One goes to school for 8 years, the other only 2. Of course mine is turning into 5 god help me.

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who takes eight years of their life in order to learn how to do something and earn a piece of paper that will let them do it obviously takes too much pleasure out of it.

For something like the Dramatic Arts *cough* that's fine, but a dentist? Especially with the sound a drill makes? And how fun it could be to just have that sound constantly looping as you lure your victims into the chair and the light and the drugs?

...I think I'd love to play a dentist. :twisted:

[Wade, The Sane Commodore]

Let me revive this dead thread by making a quick statement:

I MISS MY TITLE (WAH! WAH!)

[Zeke]

I knew I would inevitably miss somebody who was posting enough to get a title. It's like when you drop a glass on the floor: no matter how careful you are, two days later you will find a frighteningly large shard you missed. (If you're lucky, you won't find it by stepping on it.)

Better, Wade?

[e of pi]

I'd like to see him try to "sink" a cube. :)

[Wade, The Sane Commodore]

I love it! Many thanks sir. And, e, you can't sink cubes. They float. You have to melt them.

[danieldoof]

I'd like to see him try to "sink" a cube. :)

as far as I know sugar cubes solve in water :wink:

[whoiam]

Whearas a borg cube would probably sink if you added a couple of airholes and a water hole or two...

[KillerGodMan]

That's why I just ram 'em

[e of pi]

Shoulda seen that coming...

[e of pi]

Shoulda seen that coming. *facepalm*

[Chancellor Valium]

I'd like to see him try to "sink" a cube. :)

Really? You obviously didn't see the one Q dropped into the lower atmosphere of Mon Calamari :roll:

[richardson]

Poor, poor fishies.... *Tut-tuts...*

Hmm...

As a duely appointed minister of *Has a psyco moment*TOTAL HAVOC AND DESTRUCTION!*Ends psyco moment*, and also of creating new realties...

Can I have a title? Please?

It's not like I'm ever going to change my avatar....

[Zeke]

Actually, I gave you one early on when I was titling the top posters. Do you not see it?

[richardson]

I never did... until now...

heh.... seeking out new life and wabbits?

Like it...

[mudshark]

Mouse gesture

Just noticed this. :D

[Sa'ar Chasm]

I'm trying to ignore mine...*cough*

*fondly remembers "It's sa'ar-chastic!"*

[danieldoof]

I wonder what mine is.....

hehe nice :)

[Celeste]

Are we talking "Happy Ending(tm)" with dogs here? ;)

[Zeke]

EWWWWWWWWWWW.

And that's not even considering the "it's a dog" part. I mean, that's a <i>dentist's chair</i>. You guys don't do that kind of thing, right? Right?

Because I've seen way too many hot female dental assistants to just be finding that out NOW.

[ijdgaf]

A happy ending for a dog in a dentist chair is when the hygenist rubs its belly.

...what?

[Chancellor Valium]

Honestly. I make one spam joke and 4000-odd irrelevant posts, and I get lumbered with this! Its so unjustified!

:p

[Zeke]

Heh, it's really just your username that inspires these titles. But now that you mention it....

[Chancellor Valium]

I'm still confused.

And now that I mention it, somewhat dazed, too.

[Celeste]

EWWWWWWWWWWW.

And that's not even considering the "it's a dog" part. I mean, that's a <i>dentist's chair</i>. You guys don't do that kind of thing, right? Right?

Because I've seen way too many hot female dental assistants to just be finding that out NOW.

Well, it's not on the menu.

Anyway, my dog loves getting her teeth brushed. She's really good at brushing her tongue, too. Something about the beef flavored toothpaste.

[MmeBlueberry]

Oooh, mine changed, too. I should change my avatar now just to throw things off.

...Okay, done. Now it's not any kind of stitching. ;)

[AKAArzosah]

I'm not sure mine is still relevant, although I suppose Atlantis is a fallen city. The Ancients ascended though so that's not really a fallen civilisation.

Now I'm just picking on you... I'm just happy to have one!

[AKAArzosah]

Quick question: Is my siggy to long/big/annoying?

[Zeke]

Sorry, I don't want sig images at this forum. Unlike avatars, they increase the length of threads and distract from posts. (I was persuaded to make an exception for Seko the SigKitty, but that's it.) By all means link to this Firefly Season 2, though. It looks cool.

However, regardless of how much you butter me up in your sig, I'm not gonna start watching Atlantis so I can make your member title about that show instead.

[Chancellor Valium]

Would you start watching if we sank and then abandoned you for 10,000 years?

[Gatac]

I think he'd catch up on the Pi Day update first.

*rimshot*

Gatac

[JVTruman]

I'm not gonna start watching Atlantis so I can make your member title about that show instead.

Why not? Atlantis is pretty good, at least in my opinion.

[Nate the Great]

I've gotta stick up my hand in favor of Atlantis as well.

[Chancellor Valium]

Season 3 cliffhanger was good.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Hmmm. I'd have gone with 'Alasdair Catbert-Stewart' myself, but then again I may go away and make a new Catbert avatar just for the heck of it. :D

[Zeke]

I did consider that, but you were the Brigadier last time.

Why not? Atlantis is pretty good, at least in my opinion.

Because aside from the movie, Stargate has just never remotely interested me. Also, I would want to watch the original show before I watched Atlantis, and that's hundreds of hours I could waste in other ways.

[ijdgaf]

I've only seen like the first six episodes of SG-1.

Man, what a daunting undertaking. That's the one good thing about all these recent sci-fi shows that have tanked after a few season(s) -- easier to catch up on w/ DVD.

Ah, and yes. Still.

[Nate the Great]

As one of the oldest Stargate fivists, I take EXTREME exception to the notion that SG-1 is a waste. I would pay attention to the wasp nests that you're whacking if I were you.

[ijdgaf]

When you've got a lot of important things on your plate, even spending a few hours watching your favorite show ever can be considered "wasting time".

A little too quick on the trigger, Nate.

[Chancellor Valium]

True.

SG-1 is however, worth time. The precise amount is yet to be calculated. The Omni-Cognate uh...(someone please help out with this Guide reference!) is having some problems with the required arithmetic.

I'll admit, though, that I still need to watch seasons 2-6, and half of season 7. Possibly a few other bits I missed, too.

[Nate the Great]

Hyperlobic OmniCognate Neutron-Wrangler of Sisoronicus Twelve. Probably butchered the spelling, but that's what it is, and I didn't look it up, I swear. Hey, I do have an h2g2 username, right?

So you use the term "wasting time" as a relative measure. I use it as an absolute measure.

[Chancellor Valium]

Yes! The precise amount of time that SG1 is valued at is currently still being worked out by the great Hyperbolic Omni-Cognate Neutron-Wrangler of Ciceronicus Twelve!

[Nate the Great]

Please don't make me beg you to stop dissing Stargate.

[Hejira]

Wow. Internet. Serious business.

Incidentally, Phoenix Wright: Time Lord objects to my current member title.

[MaverickZer0]

Ooh! I should probably change mine soon or something.

...Wait. I like this one. Never mind.

Everyone already knows where I stand on the Stargate issue. I think.

[Nate the Great]

To return to the thread topic, I'm wondering if there's a secondary meaning behind "spin doctor." Of course Link is doing a Spin Attack, but I was curious if there's a hidden joke in there.

[Hejira]

That's the hugest scalpel I've ever seen.

[AKAArzosah]

Okay, changed.

I know people who never watched or didn't like SG-1 but watched Atlantis and liked it. I personally couldn't get into SG-1 with Ben Browder AT ALL. I didn't even watch the last half of the season. Atlantis is my new favorite show.

You could make it 'lost civilisation'. It doesn't quite fit with Andromeda's opening credits, but it kinda fits the theme of both shows.

And proclaiming you a god in my siggy? Had nothing to do with Member Titles or anything. It's just a fact.

[Nate the Great]

My only problem with Ben Browder is that he spent the first episode looking like he was going to either faint or start a hysterical temper tantrum.

Oh, and although I like Sheppard's "O'Neill clone" impersonation, Mitchell doesn't do nearly as good of a job. I wish he'd try harder to put his own spin on the character. Who says that the head of an SG team has to be an O'Neill clone?

[Hejira]

I stopped watching SG-1 while O'Neill was still there. It just became...meh.

Atlantis, OTOH, I wants it nowz.

[MaverickZer0]

Sheppard isn't really an O'Neill clone. I'd go into reasons, but it's 3 AM.

The Spin Doctors are a group. I can't remember any of their songs off the top of my head, though I'm sure they had a couple big ones.

[Nate the Great]

Well, I never knew about the Spin Doctors. I'd rather interpret it as an alliterative use of a secondary meaning of "spin:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_%28public_relations%29

Zarquon knows that I can have "heavily biased" views of some things.

[Hejira]

Zarquon knows that I can have "heavily biased" views of some things.

Heavy like Nibblonian droppings, yes.

[Nate the Great]

Moving on...

I see member titles, but what are the levels? Is it just member, administrator, etc.?

[PointyHairedJedi]

As far as I know. I'm in a special user group of my own though, which is called 'Awesome'.

At least, inside my head I am, anyway.

[Nate the Great]

Oh. It occurs to me that it'd be cool if we could get like a new border color for our avatar for different levels. Ordinary newbies get black. A hundred posts gets you green, a thousand gets you blue, ten thousand gets you red, and so on.

[PointyHairedJedi]

...Why? Couldn't you just add one yourself if you were so inclined?

[Nate the Great]

Never mind. I don't know what I was thinking, if anything.

[MaverickZer0]

Who ever thinks anything?

[Hejira]

I think everything. Unfortunately, it doesn't leave me much time to do anything.

Hey, I've increased my alcohol consuption something major this past week or so. Bad news for my liver, sure, but could the slowage of my thinkage account for the increase in my postage?

[PointyHairedJedi]

Who ever thinks anything?
Dr. Seuss?

[Zeke]

A few late replies:
It's just a one-level pun on the term "spin doctor." I considered "spin city" too.
My point was that while watching SG1 would be wasting time, whatever else I'd do with that time (like playing videogames) would be no better.
Arzosah, you'll always be an Andromeda fan to me. Seriously, I'll change the title if you want me to, but Atlantis isn't my turf... and I understand that you didn't like seasons 4 and 5 of DROM, but why does that mean you're no longer a fan of the show in general?
I am still gonna do the Pi Day thing. Don't make me slap you.

[Nate the Great]

Slap who? There's plenty of bluster and boneheadedness to go around.

[AKAArzosah]

Oh don't get me wrong, I am still a fan of the first few seasons of DROM. Hell, I liked some of the episodes in the last few seasons! What I didn't like was the way the writers/staff/whatever destroyed a good story.

Irregardless, now my favorite show is SG Atlantis, and it would be, DROM or not.

Like I said earlier (I think I said it earlier - I'm too lazy to check) I honestly don't mind, I'm just glad to have one. And please do leave it as is, I'll just pretend it's talking about Atlantis falling to the bottom of the sea. Its more fun that way anyway!

I wonder if I can find a picture with the Andromeda and a Stargate... if anyone finds one, tell me.

[AKAArzosah]

Hee hee!

[Zeke]

Whoa! I am thoroughly weirded out.

[AKAArzosah]

It's not Atlantis/Andromeda but it's still weird enough for me.

[AKAArzosah]

Now behold my own pathetic attempt to make an avatar.

[Nate the Great]

Better than I can do, so I'd hardly call it pathetic. (I do wish Dylan's head was attached to his shoulders in a way that didn't make him look like a Barbie doll, though :) ).

[AKAArzosah]

And the shadow on his face is on the opposite side to the shadow on his body.

Did you see the Star Trek Rom Doll?

[PointyHairedJedi]

Yeah, I'm just being creepy now, I admit.

I SEE ALL!

[Zeke]

You're still head and shoulders ahead of my <a href="../features">movie posters</a>, Arzosah. (Admittedly, I made them years and years ago on a crummy monitor.)

Of course, if you wanted to improve it, I'm sure you could find a volunteer to help you out. We've got some good image designers around here.

[AKAArzosah]

I remember those!

It's all well and good to be skilled at photo manipulation, but there's only so much you can do with Microsoft Paint. I'm too cheap to buy anything that's actually good.

[Zeke]

Who needs to buy them? There are some excellent free graphics programs. I use Ultimate Paint extensively, and Inkscape is a new acquisition that looks promising. The GIMP is another one that some people swear by; I never put in the time to learn the ropes, so it mostly confused me, but experts can do incredible things with it.

[AKAArzosah]

ULTIMATE PAINT NOW RULES!

Symmetry... awesomeness.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Paint.NET is half decent, though you've got to have Microsoft's .NET software installed to run it.

Someday, I will have lots of money, and on that day I will decide whether to go ahead and buy that dSLR I want, or Photoshop CS2. Because it really is that bloody expensive.

[Asky]

Gimp is a mess. It probably has a lot of Photoshop's functionality, if only I could figure out how to use it...

[Chancellor Valium]

^It's good once you get used to it, but it's that getting-used-to-it that's the problem...

[AKAArzosah]

Okay, now how do I make his head bobble?

[PointyHairedJedi]

Good question. I never figured out how to animate stuff like that, exactly, but in theory the simplest way would be to make frames with the head moving through the right positions to seem as though it were, and then string them together in a program to make a .gif.

[AKAArzosah]

Oh, the simplest way, you say!

Can you break that down into several even simpler ways?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

That depends on whether it's a molecular way or an atomic way.

[ijdgaf]

When making GIF animations in the past, I generally use Microsoft GIF animator (http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=288).

It's pretty basic, and most of the work I do with it involves copying and pasting in paint.

Basically, you have to create each frame individually and then paste them into the program. So in order to create a bobblehead, you'd have to generate each frame of the unit individually.

Then, with the program you can edit how long each frame stays on the screen. Preview it and tweek it until you've got things the way you want. And then you're done. The only downside is, once you've saved an animated GIF, you can't go back and edit it. You would have to start from scratch.

It's a mild pain in the ass, and the results aren't all *that* impressive. But it's a fun diversion, I guess.

[PointyHairedJedi]

I guess Mr. GAF's title isn't correct any more... ;)

[AKAArzosah]

Well I sucessfully created a pretty decent bobble-head only to find that it's too big (file size) to use on these forums :(

[AKAArzosah]

Now I can make animations... next step, how do I make a Matrix-like Screensaver for my friend?

[PointyHairedJedi]

I say cheat, and fine one that somebody has done already. I'm sure I've seen some free ones available.

[Nate the Great]

So here's where I found out about the GIF animator. Muchas gracias. Great program.

[Nate the Great]

So my new title IS clever, but I'm wondering if it's a little TOO clever. After all, a Dopefish can only think "Swim, swim, hungry," so it wouldn't have the capability to think anythink else. It's not smart enough. Hence, "Dopefish." But I suppose Zeke thinks I'd make a particularly smart Dopefish. Or, considering that my fish can't even keep three things straight in his mind, a particularly stupid Dopefish. I guess it's your call. :) (There's a poll, huh? "Does Zeke think Nate the Great would make a smart or a stupid Dopefish? Yes. No.")

P.S. A LONG time ago I wanted to make an avatar that was a cycling list of instructions:

1. How to be an official Dopefish in Three Easy Steps.
2. Swim (Dopefish swims to the right).
3. Swim (Dopefish swims to the left).
4. Hungry (Dopefish looks to camera and opens mouth).
5. Congratulations! You are now an official Dopefish! (Dopefish burps)

Unfortunately, the images would be cut and pasted from a banner from another site, and my spriting skills aren't sufficient enough to do anything beyond cropping and scaling, so the words would've been REALLY tiny on the avatar. Sad, really.

[Alexia]

I say cheat, and fine one that somebody has done already. I'm sure I've seen some free ones available.

I'm with pointy on this one ;)

[NAHTMMM]

P.S. A LONG time ago I wanted to make an avatar that was a cycling list of instructions:

1. How to be an official Dopefish in Three Easy Steps.
2. Swim (Dopefish swims to the right).
3. Swim (Dopefish swims to the left).
4. Hungry (Dopefish looks to camera and opens mouth).
5. Congratulations! You are now an official Dopefish! (Dopefish burps)

Unfortunately, the images would be cut and pasted from a banner from another site, and my spriting skills aren't sufficient enough to do anything beyond cropping and scaling, so the words would've been REALLY tiny on the avatar. Sad, really.
You could try having the words in separate frames:

1. "How to be an official..."
2. "Swim"
3. (Dopefish swims right)
4. "Swim"
5. (left)
6. "Hungry"
7. (hungry Dopefish)
8. "Congratulations!..."

That would tend to increase the filesize, but assuming the parts showing the Dopefish aren't long animations or anything I think you could get away with it.

[Nate the Great]

I guess, but somehow that seems like less work than simply changing it to one of my other (premade, "stolen") animated avatars. You know, Link's Spin Attack, Zelda stuck in her crystal, the spinning Kataan probe, Kid Radd's The Power of Cheese, the hypercube...

PS. Any preferences on what I should stick with for awhile? I could e-mail the options to anyone that's interested. I'm sure Zeke would like me to stick with one for awhile, too.

[Zeke]

Eh, I don't mind rapid avatar-changing as long as the user in question doesn't mind a little lag time in my changing his/her member title.

[Nate the Great]

Just for that, I almost want to change it EVERY DAY just to see if you can come up with an all-purpose title to cover all of them. :)

"Crazy as a bedbug."
"Fickle as a sickle."
"Bizarro."
"Great the Nate."

[Zeke]

Oh, you just try it. I'll give you back the Britney title.

[Nate the Great]

Britney title? When and what was that?

[Zeke]

You were "not a girl, not yet a woman" for a while, IIRC.

[Nate the Great]

I don't think I noticed that. Maybe I was on vacation that week.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Repression of distressing memories is often a feature of severe emotional trauma, so I'm hardly surprised you don't remember it. ;)

[Nate the Great]

Q: Oh spare me your psychobabble.

:)

[Chancellor Valium]

ELIZA: Does psychobabble make you uncomfortable?

[Nate the Great]

ELIZA2: Do you think psychobabble makes me uncomfortable?

That'd be fun to see, huh? Two ELIZA's duking it out, not knowing that the other is also a computer?

ELIZA: Do you think that I think psychobabble makes you uncomfortable?
ELIZA2: Do you think that I think that you think psychobabble...

[NAHTMMM]

Q: Oh spare me your psychobabble.

:)

A: Was that supposed to be a question?

;)

[Nate the Great]

Moving back to something resembling the actual thread topic, how come so many people merge their webaliases into one word?

[Katy Jane]

most places won't allow spaces in your user name. Here i'm Katy Jane, but everywhere else i'm KatyJane.

[NAHTMMM]

Which caused problems for EnsignWhoDiesEveryEpisode . . . ;)

[Nate the Great]

Forcing a merge is silly enough, but I thought that that's what underscores were for. Nate_the_Great.

[Nate the Great]

Uh, could you change my title now, or can't you come up with a gag for my avatar?

[PointyHairedJedi]

It's a pixelated Frenchman?

[Nate the Great]

It's Number Muncher, one of the truly classic MECC heroes!

[Nate the Great]

Yeah, Z, if you change my title back to "To air is human," it'd be nice. In retrospect that title works on many levels at once. Air guitar aside, I do put on airs at times, you could work some sort of snowboarding analogy in there, and so on.