LadyCrimson

Just wanted to say...good reference post.

np, DL...I was too busy surfing pics anyway. lol Guess I should put names hehe I think Chow Yun Fat is really drool-worthy too, love his intense gaze. Except I like him only when he's bald/almost bald. Bald can be very sexy.

*wipes drool off chin*

In terms of just staring at a color...that sky color about 15-30 minutes before complete darkness (when it's not cloudy etc). Just past twilight, perhaps. I wish it was like that all the time. In other nature: the look of ferns in a dark redwood forest. The 'color' of a clear mountain stream on a cloudy day. Flickering flames of a roaring fire and the color of wood-coals when all the flames have died down.

Big Country....I remember them! "In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay aliiiiive Music from the game Nox. It always reminded me of Danny Elfman's stuff.

I like black because it goes with every other color. I like strong contrast, so black is my favorite because it offers high contrast with most other colors - whether that's purses, jewelry, socks, furniture, paint-themes, cars, etc. Dark gray (that isn't blueish tinted) works fairly well for that as well. White is similar, but I don't like it because: 1-it's too bright and hurts my eyes 2-it's too easily stained/dingy-ed up & thus ruined 3-in terms of clothes, you have to wear a bra with most whites unless it's a REALLY thick shirt or you have no nipples. I hate bras, so I avoid white. Again, just for clothes....many 'bright vibrant' colors give me early 70's flashbacks where mummy dressed me in strange vivid color combo's and scarred me for life.... "

Black, gray, dark blue, real-sky blue. In that order. Orange is cool too, but not for clothes. Bright daisy-like yellow irritates me...even in nature. I go quite insane in a field full of yellow flowers.

I would never have recognized Ed's voice if I hadn't seen the credits. I liked Kreia's voice sound-wise - most of the time - thought it was good voice-acting job. Just didn't like to have her in my party....heheh I don't think I need to say who's Kotor2 voice I appreciate the most again, do I? "

Nice sounding idea, but I'd prefer not. I like having at least one 'item' that's purely a choice of aesthetics instead of function. Like picking the color of paint for your car. It's a personality thing, or something.

Don't know what kind of Mac means Mac (heh) but I Googled mac+character map and this is what I came up with: Apple Key Caps If you are using a Mac, you can find different characters by using the Key Caps application found under the Apple menu. By pressing various keys, like the Option and Apple keys, Key Caps will show you all the characters contained in a particular font.

My complaint about many of the forum softwares I've investigated is that while you can set limitations to sizes and the like, often there is no option to really prevent people from linking to larger sized images, or to seperate certain definitions to only-sigs and not all images posted. Often the image re-sizers do not work on hyperlinked images vs. direct uploads, or only resizes the physical dimmensions and not the KB size etc. Some come pretty close to the kind of control I want tho...I'm about to purchase some licenses for a couple. :cool:

Yes yes...I understand that. Nothing wrong with making suggestions, and as I said, I personally like some of them. I'm sure the mods here do too. I think you missed my general point tho. Until you install and Admin a large forum yourself to find out what the program limitations and attempted policy enforcement is like, it's often hard to make realistic suggestions vs. emotional ones. That's all. *shrug

Not to be an old party pooper but every single forum I've ever been on, from large to small, ends up with a thread like this one. Or multiple threads. There's no real solution to a lot of these things. Sometimes it's because of limitations to the forum software. Sometimes it's because forum-modding is not a public democracy. There's a lot of well made points and debates here, and indeed, one or two that I'd not be sorry if they would/could be implemented - but the bottom line is that if one has really specific ideas about how they want a forum to be run/handled, one can create their own forum.

In the case of your fanfic, I say... PROUD, damnit. Definitely proud.

(Didn't want to de-rerail that other thread so....) Can't imagine why.... :D Speaking of sigs, maybe it's time to change mine a little.... eidt - On topic, it's been a long time since I've counted the # of screenshots I have stored on file. I suppose that's because I'm afraid of what that would reveal about the nature of obsession.

I think he is trying to say that LadyCrimson has a fairly large signature... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Heh...I realize 'over-sized' is subjective, but I hardly think my sig pic is anywhere near the league of the one Di was referring to. Mine's smaller than most, even. I actually had a 1-line text-only sig for a long time but eventually made the pic. Anyway....I'll shut up now. "

Over-sized signatures are one of my personal beefs - and I'm not on dial-up. Just think they're too eye-sore-ish. :D that sig could be cut down to 125 pix high 20-30kb and it would still be clearly readable/viewable. You can turn the view signatures off I think, in the profile section - if you're on dial-up sometimes it's the best defense.

Disciple's voice-actor.

I'm not sure even the lure of Greg Ellis' voice could entice me to watch the Crash & Byrnes film. I did record his singing samples from his site and I play those now and then, tho. *embarrassed* :D

I figure the fact that I bought a movie I don't like just so I can see Greg Ellis say "That has to be the best pirate I've ever seen" over and over again might qualify. And the fact I've put a lot of the Kotor dialogues onto CD so I can listen to the voices in the car. And the fact I made the screenshot gallery. Other than that, no, no effect at all. :D

Perhaps, perhaps not. Personality and right/wrong differences do not always equal a bannable offense. Also, forum bans are notoriously ineffective for actually keeping trouble-makers 'out' - there's many ways around & under them. A lot of people seem to think a ban is some kind of magic fence, but it's not. The ignore feature this forum has is probably the best solution for users who do not wish to have to see certain other users input. As someone else said....being a fair and impartial Admin/Mod is tough.

I'm guessing it's because that's not considered a PG-13 kind of reference in the US. (at least in terms of it's current typical slang useage)

I'd agree that what's really allowed in 'off topic' isn't well defined. I think sometimes they are closed because it's decided a thread that consists largely of short replies has run it's course...or it's thought that the thread might be treading the"is this really useful/not potential-trouble" kind of thread, even if it still is on topic. Sometimes as a mod you want to nip things before they occur.

Self-restraint is often the best solution for many situations. As some people have said in other places - a forum isn't IRC. A lot of 'spam' would seem fine in a chatroom or in face to face convo...but seems like useless clutter on a forum. Just IMO of course. On 'general' forums I've run/been part of, we designate a 'spam' forum for the more purely 'social' has-no-point-of-debate etc. threads. But I suppose that's not likely to happen here.

I would be happy to be the host of the continuation of threads that are closed, on my site...not like my installed forums are being used for anything else right now. But I'm kind of convinced, from past experience, that no one would use that option very much. People love their hang-outs. hehe I like the modding here...sometimes I post something I know is going to get closed for being too off-topic or whatever...but that's ok. An official board has to be more careful about some things. I think they're actually quite tolerant, considering how wild the parties get sometimes. :D