Nice idea but bad because this is an international board. Maybe characters from 24?DEAR GOD NO! :eek:

Why not? Don't you fancy being Kim Bauer? ;)

The avatars would have to be drawn by the same artist though.

I really like the idea of having all our avatars made by the same artist - then the "other" people can't really copy us.

I really like the idea of having all our avatars made by the same artist - then the "other" people can't really copy us.You can bet they'll try though :p

Heh, it would be quite interesting. I'll draw some if you want... got nothing better to do :p

Heh, it would be quite interesting. I'll draw some if you want... got nothing better to do :p
I want a stereotypical watermelon.
http://www.grace-collection.com/fruit-patterns.html

I want a stereotypical watermelon.
http://www.grace-collection.com/fruit-patterns.html
Heh, alrighty.

Heh, it would be quite interesting. I'll draw some if you want... got nothing better to do :p

I'll take a lime.

The fruit idea sounds good. However, if we want this to be successful we all need to:

1) Decide which fruit we will have and make sure all the avatars are in the same style
2) Decide which date we are going to do it

So, for 1 - Are we having just 1 fruit each or are we having 2 or 3?

Now, whenever we try and decide on a date for something, most of the time we never decide on a date so I'm saying Wednesday 26th just so that we have a date set. If anyone wants to change it, feel free but make sure everyone knows the date change.

PS I would like a pineapple :p

The fruit idea sounds good. However, if we want this to be successful we all need to:

1) Decide which fruit we will have and make sure all the avatars are in the same style
2) Decide which date we are going to do it

So, for 1 - Are we having just 1 fruit each or are we having 2 or 3?

Now, whenever we try and decide on a date for something, most of the time we never decide on a date so I'm saying Wednesday 26th just so that we have a date set. If anyone wants to change it, feel free but make sure everyone knows the date change.

PS I would like a pineapple :p
Yeah, Wednesday sounds alright. Gives me chance to draw them all. :p

Splapp, make a list in one of your posts about who has which fruit.

damnit I wanted pineapple.... hmmm ok I'll have to have a pair of coconuts then please...

I would be happy with an orange or a pear. If someone else wants either of those, you can claim it and I'll claim the other.

I'll have teh banana!

I'll have one of the purple ones.

I'll have a potato please :p

I'll have a potato please :p
Someone always has to be different:p

I guess I'll need a bright, shiny red apple, then.

Or strawberries, but apples are manlier.

I'll have to have a pair of coconuts then please...
What? Do you want to shake them?
Bjorn Lynne would turn in his grave! Oh, wait...

I call t'eh Kiwi

Well, i'll take the Strawberry then.

The list:

bonz - Watermelon
Pickleworm - Lime
Star Worms - Pineapple
Plutonic - Has a lovely pair of Coconuts
MadEwokHerd - Pear
UnKnown X - Banana
Paul.Power - Plums (OOH-ERR)
MtAngelus - Potato
Zero - Red Apple
Slick - Kiwi
Splapp - Strawberry
Futureworm - Pomegranate
SomePerson - Durian
Philby - Mango
S2k - Tomato
Pigbuster - Raisin
SupSuper - Orange
Monkeyforahed - Eggplant

Splapp, if it isn't already too late, could you draw each fruit with a piece of it cut out (where it makes sense)?
So that it is easier to recognize, as the inside of some fruits are also very distinctive.

Or draw 2 pieces of each, one as a whole, the other cut.

I call pomegranate.

Unless you don't feel like doing any more, in which case I understand.

pomegranate
Hehe! :D
Pomegranate, the mother of all grenades!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranate#Etymology

I wonder why T17 haven't used it as a weapon in worms...

I call Durian!

I call Durian!
Ooh, pointy.

I was waiting until almost everyone had picked something before i started drawing them, so i'll get doing them soon. I'll draw them with a segment out of them (where possible). I was wondering if they should have faces as well? It'd kind of make it even harder for them to copy that way... hmm, let me know.

Faces? Hmm.
Maybe sad, painful faces because a segment is missing. :)

I think we should just have fruit, no faces. There doesn't seem any point to having a face on a fruit.

Maybe we should put all the fruits used in our sigs and if anyone decides to copy by using a lemon or something we can just put something like "There is no lemon" etc.

Mango!

...

Pick a fruit, eh? How 'bout Dale Winton?

Or, more seriously, a tomato.

I'd like a raisin.
Or even better, my old school's principal dressed like a raisin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPzBv6-Ufu8&search=raisin%20Jane). And dancing.

raisin
You know that raisins are dried grapes?

Funny video.

Right, i've drawn them... i've just got to colour them all. Here's Zero's Apple for starters...

Oh, and UX's Bananananana

Woo, very nice so far Splapp!

*Post inserted in an attempt to prevent an 18-tuple post*

Wow really nice, Splapp. I wasn't expecting anything that good!:D

Reminder: Don't add them as your avatar until Wednesday.

Woo, very nice so far Splapp!

I want an orange!

very nice :)

oh and: http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=42847 haha

LIME TIME. For Pickleworm, that is. I'll finish the other's off tomorrow. They're drawn, just need colouring which shouldn't take long.

OH, and Plutonic's nuts.

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

You're all nuts.

Ahhh, very very nice, thank you so much.

dude my nuts are leaking!!!!!
:D
Love it

Very nicely done indeed.
dude my nuts are leaking!!!!!
:D
Love it
HAHAHA! :D

And one was cut in half >_<

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

You're all nuts.And proud of it ;).

I want an orange!

That means I want a pear (if it's not too late, which I suspect it may be).

I'll go for eggplant.

People arnt getting faces? Awww...I really want that one face that I showed you...on mine. :( But I guess that wouldnt be fitting "in", now would it?

Hmm, i've just realised that a few of these pics (well, the melon and the lime) are slightly over the avatar size limit. I tried to compress them a bit in Paint Shop Pro, but the quality dropped massively... can anyone else compress them?

Anyways, here's bonz's melon, Paul Power's plum and Star Worm's Pineapple.

Excellent. Call me... Professor Plum! Ahahaha...

I tried to compress them a bit in Paint Shop Pro, but the quality dropped massively...

Wouldn't an adaptive convert to 256 colours do the trick?

I'd be happy to help, but I've no idea how to do semitransparent PNGs in CPP8.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=35300

How small does it need to be? This is the result of setting the melon to indexed color in gimp (with the less-color-bleeding option).

Edit: Too bad that removes the transparency.

No semi transparency around the edge though:-/

I was able to compress the lime to under 9.8 KB just by resaving it in gimp with a higher compression level.

Shrank the melon:p

Edited melon out because it's too big

Ok, my attempt at melon re-compression, full alpha channel with pallette... 4k

You totally lost the transparency on the melon there.. :/

Now we need bonz to come on here and say, "You're messing with my melon, man"...

You totally lost the transparency on the melon there.. :/

who?

message too short....

who?

message too short....
You .

Then again, mine is every so slightly too big *edits it again*

Splapp: Are you sure they'll be done by the end of today? Tomorrow is Wednesday after all. If not, it can be postponded.

Can't you just save them as GIFs? The loss of the semi-transparent border isn't that bad.

so i did..... stupid IE, cant tell the difference...

They should be done VERY shortly! I had a minor setback after PSP crashed, and I now have to recolour the last 4. (Inside of a Pomegranate = HELL :p)

The Kiwi, Pomegranate, Pear and Durian will be up soon.

The Kiwi, Pomegranate, Pear and Durian will be up soon.
Heh, I misread that and was about to say it looked more like a potato than a kiwi.

Also, I didn't know eggplant was the same as aubergine.

Yay potato!

It's Wednesday now *Puts pineapple avatar on*

...or it is on my computer anyway *shrugs*

Damnit, the Pineapple doesn't have any transparency.

And trying to add it puts it over the limit.

So do we try to make a smaller Pineapple with transparency (and get Star Worms to use it), ignore it, or flatten all of them?

*waits for Splapp to make the call*

Edit: Only way to make it small enough and keep the transparency that I know of is to use indexed color, so there'd be no semitransparency around the edges.

I made it transparent :)

He seems to have got the Pineapple working OK. Anyways, here are the last 4:

Yay, a pear!

*waits until midnight*

Edit: waiting for a third person to change it

ok, i've switched to it ;)

Me tooooooooo

One cunning change of location line later...

Yay, a pear!

*waits until midnight*

Edit: waiting for a third person to change it
The pear has a transparent background. The ones with the larger file sizes have more colours. The watermelon has green and red. My pineapple has brown and green. I expect the strawberry is near the top of the avatar size limit.

>: (

Gee thanks for telling me that we were starting the bandwagon, PEOPLE

>: (

Gee thanks for telling me that we were starting the bandwagon, PEOPLESorry :(. Our midnight is several hours before yours.

I'll say. It's only 19:43 where I am.

Oops sorry, I forgot about the timezone differences.

Can I have cherries please (if its not too late)? :D

I'm sure it would be more attractive than my current avatar!

Put up. With a bonus location line pun.
Dang European time zones.

Two questions:

1. Can I have an apple with a bite taken out of it? ;)
2. When is this "fad" ending - sorry, only just noticed.

These are excellent.

Truth be told, I'm not a big fan of apples, but it was the first red fruit I thought of. :p

Two questions:

1. Can I have an apple with a bite taken out of it? ;)
2. When is this "fad" ending - sorry, only just noticed.
I'll sort you out an apple and some cherries for jb.jones soonish. ;) Not sure how long the fad is going to last... it'll be interesting to see if anyone tries to copy this one though.

Thank you in advance!

Thank you in advance!

BOOM! Here you go:

And BANG! The apple is here:

Mangoes in a pub.

Nicely done, splapp!

Thanks for this!

Thanks for this!
No problem... just one thing though... your cherries appear to have suddenly gone non-trasparent... :confused:

And BANG! The apple is here:
Ooh, very nice - ta :)

Hmmm, transparency's gone... and it seems to have lost some depth in the colours...

*Switches back to other one until it can be fixed...*

I've tried uploading it as a GIF as well, but that's not sorting it :confused:

You saved it as JPG instead of PNG.

Nope. It's a PNG on my hard disk. And, as far as Photoshop and the Finder are concerned, it's a PNG

Photoshop opens it up as it should be, with the punchy colours and transparency, but when I uploaded it as my avatar, it had a grey background and bland, dull colours.

I even tried hosting it on imageshack - loads fine in imageshack, but direct link to it in my avatar CP, and it goes nasty.

<-------


edit:

Doesn't matter if I upload it with Safari or FireFox, the same thing happens :(

Nope. It's a PNG on my hard disk. And, as far as Photoshop and the Finder are concerned, it's a PNGWell, that's weird, because I can see the JPG compression lines...

Well you're doing something wrong somewhere, because Opera never lies.

Definitely looks like a JPG to me.

The server headers claim it's a png.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:32:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10-16
Cache-control: max-age=31536000
Expires: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:32:16 GMT
Content-disposition: inline; filename=Apple bite.png
Content-transfer-encoding: binary
Content-Length: 2749
Last-Modified: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:56:25 GMT
ETag: "1146074185-600"
Content-Type: image/png

file says otherwise though:
meh@wicket:~$ file image.php\?u\=600\&dateline\=1146074185
image.php?u=600&dateline=1146074185: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, comment: "CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJ"

Just put in the image location when you change your avatar:
http://forum.team17.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=27356&stc=1&d=1146048989

That will still upload it to the server and not just make a link, right?

I have transparency.
I resaved it with Photoshop as a GIF.
Looked terrible.
Back to PNG.

Very nice job!

background >_<

Obligatory "Someone noticed!" post.
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=498142&postcount=34

This thread looks so tasty.

Cheers to Splapp - these are awesome!

The color of Pigbuster's raisin should be more brownish than bluish.
http://www.tierfreunde-dachau.de/assets/images/autogen/a_Rosinen.jpg
And maybe a handfull of smaller raisins would make them easier to recognize.

It actually looks more like a prune. (Paul Power's leftovers) :D

Somehow, that "Someone tell me please?" makes that post that much better.

Obligatory "Someone noticed!" post.
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=498142&postcount=34
I rather like my reply:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=498327&postcount=39

Bwahaha, classic.

Well you're doing something wrong somewhere, because Opera never lies.
I've just totally done away with the transparency, and put the blue retro forum colour in as the background, and saved it as a GIF (interlaced & no interlace), JPEG and PNG from Photoshop, and every single time it looks the same - all grainy, "flat" colours and a little white border around the bottom and right edges.

I think something's wrong with the forum.....


Just put in the image location when you change your avatar:
http://forum.team17.co.uk/attachment.p...d=11460489 89

That will still upload it to the server and not just make a link, right?

Nope - doesn't have a valid extension.

I hosted the PNG on Imageshack yesterday - downloaded it from the forum and re-uploaded it to Imageshack - it looked fine there, but as soon as I put the image address into the forum, it went JPEGgy - something's broken on the forum, I think....


Edit:

Heck, it even goes ugly if I upload it as a JPEG!!! Looks like the forum is compressing it to about level 3 or 4, and I saved it as 8 on Photoshop

One other problem could be my uni's proxy server screwing things up...

The problem is that Splapp's image is 101x101, and the forum is resizing it, which introduces compression and knocks of the transparency. I presume it converts it to a JPEG, unfortunately.

Here's a smaller version with the canvas size reduced:

I have edited my avatar a bit.
It's a GIF with transparency and all the useless space removed.
Colors seem to be as good as in Splapp's original image.

I also used the magic wand in Photoshop with the anti-aliasing option turned off and manually erased a few pixels to get rid of that grey pixels on the borders.

The problem is that Splapp's image is 101x101, and the forum is resizing it, which introduces compression and knocks of the transparency. I presume it converts it to a JPEG, unfortunately.

Here's a smaller version with the canvas size reduced:
Excellent!!! Thanks very much :D

Stupid forum resizing the images - didn't it just used to reject them?

No problem, mate :) It's rare that I'm useful 'round here.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=498266&postcount=1733

Awww guys :(

Oh, man, we didn't get Cyclaws's approval. :( Mission failed...

I want to reply and say "I don't care if it's funny or not, it means a sweet free pear avatar for me." But that might give us away..

Or can't it be made any worse?

Edit: Oh, screw it, they know "there" exists.

dont know about you lot but i was planning on keeping this avatar

Me too, but then I was planning on keeping the :-/ avatar until the fruit thing came along.

I was planning on keeping the fruit avatar, too. Perhaps Splapp could make fruit avatars for new OD inductees.

I might well keep mine for a while, since it is kind of like my older one, just without the worm.

The nice thing about this is that it actually looks good.
I'm keeping it until I make a new dancing PB avatar, which will probably not happen for a while.
Though I DO wish it was more brown. But, then it would look like a turd, I guess. :p

Goddammit these avatars look delicious.

You should make your avatars transparent though.
Looks much better, especially as I use the purple retro style.

Can this be the last avatar fad for a while (like a year or so...) - people will start to get wise to there being a secret forum, and we want to keep this place as secret as possible, don't we? We've had our fun for now, so when this fad has died out, let's wait a good few months before doing the next, and then surprise everyone again.

OD is a privilege, not a right - Sel can delete this whole forum very easily, and probably easier than he can remove two people from it.

very true, as we like these avatars im up for letting it calm down for a bit.

And bonz, they ARE all transparent, the problem is that IE doesn't correctly support PNG trasparency, hopefully its fixed in IE 7.

Yeah, fair enough. Apart from anything else, these fruit avatars are really quite nifty.

Yeah, I'm probably gonna stick with this avatar for a while :)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LLLLLLLLLLLLLlllllllllllllle

How long are these fruit avatars going to hang around? If a while, whip up one for me too :)

I see no one has taken the Lemon.

How long are these fruit avatars going to hang around? If a while, whip up one for me too :)

I see no one has taken the Lemon.
Alrighty, i'll do it as soon as i can.

If you want to do one for me I'll use it. Can't be that many fruits left, though, can there?

Bloody hell, the place is going to end up looking like a slot machine.

Raspberry, Kumquat, Starfruit, Peach, Olive, Cranberry, grapes, Grapefruit, blackberry, many more, I'm sure...
DAMNIT I should've chosen a fig!
Would it be too awkward to change mine now?

If you want to do one for me I'll use it. Can't be that many fruits left, though, can there?

There's plenty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fruits

This one looks good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_melon

Looks like a worms weapon:p

Also, no-one's taken the pumpkin

Right, when i get time i'll do a Lemon for Run, a Fig for Pigbuster (if he wants) and whichever fruit Mr. Taylor picks.

Ha, ha, nice pun.

I think Andy doesn't mind, you should choose one for him.

Matty, are you going to take one?

Don't change yours PB. Your Location status is hillarious with the raisin.

No one has taken the bunch-o-grapes yet either, and that's an easily recognisable fruit.

Bloody hell, the place is going to end up looking like a slot machine.
Oh, you should make Sel a BAR BAR BAR one.

I think AT should have something totally random and exotic, like a lychee.

Oh, you should make Sel a BAR BAR BAR one.
Seriously, do it. I wouldn't be surprised if he used it.

AT should have a grapefruit.

AT should have a grapefruit.
I dunno, isn't there a more sarcastic-looking fruit out there?

Peach: The peach is a funny, sarcastic fruit that likes to annoy the crap out of ather people. Peaches grow in trees, I have a Peach tree in my back yard. They have a neato fuzzy skin.
. .

Does AT also have "neato fuzzy skin"?

I do first thing on a morning.

Well thats decided then...

I'll take a piece of fruit if Splapp doesn't mind. The berries will do if no-one else has taken them. If you would like to do this for me, Splapp, would it be possible to make a couple look like they've dropped off, and give them each a smiley face? It'll be like the Robinson's ad (or similar). If not then I'm not bothered.

Noooo don't give the fruit smiley faces!

Actually, it might be worth a shot. Anyone paying attention outside of OD would probably think "OMG IMPOSTOR" -- why not screw with them as much as possible?:p

Noooo don't give the fruit smiley faces!
I'm with Run.

On second thoughts I should have had a Runner bean. :p

Hehe!
SGorilla (http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=24810) has a quite desperate avator at the moment.

Hehe!
SGorilla (http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=24810) has a quite desperate avator at the moment.
HA! That's pathetic! :D

Ooh, and i'll get those other avatars done ASAP... they kinda slipped my mind

I guess ASAP means As-Slow-As-Penguins in Splapp language.
And I do want to switch to a fig.
"In a Fig-ment of your imagination."
"Just a Fig-ure of speech."
"Out Fig-ure skating."
"You'll just have to Fig-ure it out."

Damn. Maybe I chose too good of a pun for the raisin.

I guess ASAP means As-Slow-As-Penguins in Splapp language.
http://www.bofunk.com/video/1051/hyper_penguin.html

As-Slow-As-Penguins
Penguins can get quite fast in water.

How about we all do that Ninja thing with a T-shirt? I did it last night and it worked! Gave my mum and dad a shock!

How about we all do that Ninja thing with a T-shirt? I did it last night and it worked! Gave my mum and dad a shock!
What Ninja thing? :confused:

I was thinking of doing that on the last day of school but now they have CCTV and security guards. How are we supposed to vandalise the school now?:(

(although obviously CCTV would be of little use if you were dressed like a ninja)

Ninja Thing (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=501465&postcount=832)

Penguins can get quite fast in water.
Pfft.
Not penguins that are DEAD.

I am mango no more.

It was fun, but I can't go for long without changing my avatar.:p

The fruits should be preserved somewhere. They're good drawings.

I was thinking of doing that on the last day of school but now they have CCTV and security guards. How are we supposed to vandalise the school now?:(
http://www.rtmark.com/cctv/

Wow.

That's disturbing.

Kimindibom (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=384264&postcount=41)... ehrm, I mean Kikumbob is asking me about the fruit avatars in PMs.
I told him that they are healthy and full of vitamins.
And that we bought them from the same fruit merchant, hence the same tasty, fresh look.
:D

Right, I've had enough of my plum now. I'm going back to basics.

Hmm... anyone care to join me?

I'll stick with my current Apple avatar, since it looks nicer than the other one - plus, I can't find the original.... will have a look around Feral's site some time...

your on your own there paul, my old avatar is too big and i dont have time to make a new one... nothing wrong with my nuts anyway, and if it aint broke....

...Hhhhhhmmmmmmmmm.

Edit: Yup, size limit prohibits Artist. :-/

Right, I've had enough of my plum now. I'm going back to basics.

Hmm... anyone care to join me?
I lost my original avatar:(

Oh well.

On the plus side, at least everyone will realise what my sigworm actually is without me having to explain it to them (I've never really got on with Kelster23 after that whole "OTHER PERSON!" black-bandana-thing-and-dynamite incident)

Hmm... I think I have to learn recognizing my posts again.

I'm with stupid :)

I lost my original avatar:(
Just found it on the old computer:)

Rock on Rock man. Rock on.

Rock on Rock man. Rock on.Well, it's certainly retro :D.

Wow I haven't used this avatar in ages.

if it aint broke....
Ahhahahahahahaha, irony. :p

I'll still use my raisin. If we all start to use our old avatars, everyone will say how fed up they are with the seniors' fads.

...Hhhhhhmmmmmmmmm.

Edit: Yup, size limit prohibits Artist. :-/*optimizes*
Not anymore!

I don't even have my old one, and old attachments are deleted :(

I'll still use my raisin. If we all start to use our old avatars, everyone will say how fed up they are with the seniors' fads.
So what? We can stick with these for as long as we need, and you have to admit that they have slightly better permanence than the fruit.

The Non-OD-ers strike back: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25193&page=50

Huh? i see nothing wrong on that page... not even non-ODders striking back...
Or is it just me? :confused:

p.s.: Paul...check your PMs! ;)

Try viewing it in 40-posts-per-page mode.

The Non-OD-ers strike back: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25193&page=50
Odd, I thought Swed Simon had OD access.

Odd, I thought Swed Simon had OD access.So did I, but I checked and he doesn't.

Heh...now i see... the outsiders trying to pull an Avatar Fad out of their asses...

So... do we start a fad war or what? :p

We pretend to not notice.

Meh. I just tend to go along with these things for a laugh. I don't really want to turn it into a war.

How about a subtle response?

I'm engaging them in light conversation at the mo.

I'm making them doubt if they really know what they're doing... :p

I'd say we all should play along like we are enjoying it... it'll make them feel stupid cause bottomline they're copying us... :)

I'm making them doubt if they really know what they're doing... :p

I'd say we all should play along like we are enjoying it... it'll make them feel stupid cause bottomline they're copying us... :)I think you've gone a bit too far, though... you've practically confirmed the existence of OD...

And that's worrying.

EDIT: So is this:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=506036&postcount=1990

How many times do I have to say this? COMPLETE IGNORANCE! That's the best course of inaction (and apparently not just outside OD).</scathing>

Erm...you do realise that my phrase said absolutely nothing, right?

It's a bunch of words together, though it means absolutely nothing...
I think you've gone a bit too far, though... you've practically confirmed the existence of OD...
Sorry...how's that so? i said they had no idea of what they thought they had ideas about... so... mainly... i said pretty much nothing besides that they don't know what's happening...

I wonder how does that confirm anything... :rolleyes:

I think you've gone a bit too far, though... you've practically confirmed the existence of OD...

And that's worrying.

EDIT: So is this:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=506036&postcount=1990
*Whistles quietly*


Please: don't say anything at all that would compromise OD

Erm...you do realise that my phrase said absolutely nothing, right?

It's a bunch of words together, though it means absolutely nothing...

Lol at you guys... you have NO idea... ^^

...

The funny thing is that they have no idea about what they think they have ideas of... it's quite amusing, though, to see them doing this...i'm laughing here... :DGives them the idea that there's something to have an idea about.

Lets just ignore them completely. Let's face it, they WANT us to comment about it... don't give them what they want!

As much as this sounds hypocritical given it's partly my fault (the initial leak to Iguana, some of the responses in that thread), I think it might be a bit late for that.

Gives them the idea that there's something to have an idea about.
Well... it was pretty clear that there was an Avatar Fad on our part... you even said Splapp drew the fruits...

So... they KNOW there is something... they just don't know what it is... i just said it wasn't what they were thinking. See? I've said... nothing... lol...

Oh Em Gee Cybermen! :eek:

they just don't know what it is...Thing is, if Iguana's in on it, then they do.

Oh Em Gee Cybermen! :eek:
YOU WILL BECOME LIKE US.

Yes! :p

Thing is, if Iguana's in on it, then they do.
Hmm... how could he know it?

Well... it was pretty clear that there was an Avatar Fad on our part... you even said Splapp drew the fruits...

So... they KNOW there is something... they just don't know what it is... i just said it wasn't what they were thinking. See? I've said... nothing... lol...
All they know is that the seniors had an avatar fad, where Splapp drew the avs.

One leak in the last couple of days is enough of a headache for me - lets not make it two :) Leaks are very hard to cover up - it's not just a matter of deleting posts (if you get there quick enough then it is)

Hmm... how could he know it?I'm pretty sure I've explained this already. And it's a bit embarrassing, so I don't want to do it again.

But anyway:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=502850&postcount=94

All they know is that the seniors had an avatar fad, where Splapp drew the avs.

One leak in the last couple of days is enough of a headache for me - lets not make it two :) Leaks are very hard to cover up - it's not just a matter of deleting posts (if you get there quick enough then it is)
I have absolutely no intentions of doing so... i just don't wanna be put as the guilty for saying something wrong...

I was just trying to make clear that i those things i said mean absolutely nothing...
I'm pretty sure I've explained this already. And it's a bit embarrassing, so I don't want to do it again.
Erm... ok... although i still don't know what happened and had NO idea he knew anything about this... i thought they were clueless.. :(

I'll repeat the link, seen as you probably missed my post edit:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=502850&postcount=94

Damn damn damn. OD is leaked and it's principally my fault.

I'll repeat the link, seen as you probably missed my post edit:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=502850&postcount=94

Damn damn damn. OD is leaked and it's principally my fault.
Oh well...then they all know by now... despite of any Avatar Fad or any kind of thing we say... they already knew it...

I guess all we can do know is ignore it all and stay quiet and let the dust lay down... although i gotta admit i talk to some of those people through MSN and other means... i think this deal created an undesired tension between ODers and "Outsiders"... meeh... -_-

Edit: Heh...great...now i feel guilty for screwing it up... even though i had absolutely no idea they knew something... god... why didn't anyone tell me they knew? Bah... :( :-/

I don't think thet really know. At least, they don't know about it enough.

In any case, I think we've reached the point in which side is trying to be cleverer than the other and in the end none of them are. No offense, but I think we've become pretty childish.
Yes, we have a secret forum. Yes, they don't. Yes, every once in a while we like to pick fun at them since they don't see it. But when we reach the point we make use of the secret forum just to poke fun at them, it's just silly. What with the avatar fads, the n00bish threads and all that, we're just acting like little kids who have a club and pick fun on the ones that aren't in it. The one reason we pick fun at the "outsiders" is because we're more mature. But picking fun at them just for the sake of it is just ridiculous. Clearly they're not that dumb that they'll just keep taking the same excuses and jokes without eventually figuring something out. The point of OD was where we could have rational people have rational discussions, or even irrational discussions, without flames, problems or any other such. Yes we can pick fun of them all we want, but with a reason. Now we're just picking at them because we can. There's still many forum members that aren't that stupid and could've probably been let in here without worries. Even people like Iguana or Akuryou. But if we just pick on them they won't improve, heck, we'll just be making them worse, and having less and less choices for new ODers. You all probably noticed how much active OD became when we got some "new blood" in here, but if we keep this up, it'll grow stale pretty soon.

I'm sorry if I seem harsh, but I feel this had to be said, probably a long time ago.

New avatar. Although I admit it's a fruitless attempt...

New avatar. Although I admit it's a fruitless attempt...
Certainly. I doubt he much wants to come back anyway -- he deliberately overstepped his boundaries and got himself booted off. I think it was his way of saying, "So long, and thanks for all the fish."

I acknowledge and agree with your post, Dan. The message should be promoted and not left behind in this thread.

Let's quote it, like so:
I don't think thet really know. At least, they don't know about it enough.

In any case, I think we've reached the point in which side is trying to be cleverer than the other and in the end none of them are. No offense, but I think we've become pretty childish.
Yes, we have a secret forum. Yes, they don't. Yes, every once in a while we like to pick fun at them since they don't see it. But when we reach the point we make use of the secret forum just to poke fun at them, it's just silly. What with the avatar fads, the n00bish threads and all that, we're just acting like little kids who have a club and pick fun on the ones that aren't in it. The one reason we pick fun at the "outsiders" is because we're more mature. But picking fun at them just for the sake of it is just ridiculous. Clearly they're not that dumb that they'll just keep taking the same excuses and jokes without eventually figuring something out. The point of OD was where we could have rational people have rational discussions, or even irrational discussions, without flames, problems or any other such. Yes we can pick fun of them all we want, but with a reason. Now we're just picking at them because we can. There's still many forum members that aren't that stupid and could've probably been let in here without worries. Even people like Iguana or Akuryou. But if we just pick on them they won't improve, heck, we'll just be making them worse, and having less and less choices for new ODers. You all probably noticed how much active OD became when we got some "new blood" in here, but if we keep this up, it'll grow stale pretty soon.

I'm sorry if I seem harsh, but I feel this had to be said, probably a long time ago.
I also agree.

Certainly. I doubt he much wants to come back anyway -- he deliberately overstepped his boundaries and got himself booted off. I think it was his way of saying, "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
I still think banning him was ott.

I agree with SupSuper, but it's just too fun poking fun at them :(

we're just acting like little kids who have a club and pick fun on the ones that aren't in it.
NO GIRLZ ALLOWED!

But seriously, I do agree with what you're saying.
Jeez, ever thought of saying that you HATE each others avatars? That would've been funny and original. :p/10.
Yes, you got that whole comment out of 10. Good for you.
That was a lot harsher a bit ago, but I shortened it and added the :p at the end.

Speaking of avatars...
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I want to make the text easier to read and make this my new avatar, sometime.

I wholeheartedly agree with SupSuper's post.

Let's just lay off the fads for a bit - return to what things were like before all the fads existed, but with slightly more activity over the forum :)

We should trick them into thinking we're the Illuminati.

We should trick them into thinking we're the Illuminati.
Better yet, make them think we're a cult.

Hmm - I go out for the day, come back and then OD is leaked :-\

Dan's hit the nail on the head there.

I think it's time to turn over a new leaf. I believe we should be positive in all that we do and say. Only then will we justify the privilege of OD access given to us. Do you all agree?

How about... being... creepishly over-positive!

Sorry, X, I'm not joking.

Fine. I guess you're right though, we've joked around enough now, I think.

I still think the best way is to keep the low profile... unless they're already spreading it everywhere and sending annoying PMs to get access...

We also seem to have introduced a rule recently: "If you ask you don't get in"

But, we still try and keep this place a secret as much as possible.

...It would appear that the non-ODers may or may not be attempting to launch a counter-fad.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=19946
http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=15262
http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=9748
http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=19281

Are you refering to the marshmellow people?

Cause they started that 2 days ago... :)

Somebody should put one up and see how much WASN'T THERE attention he attracts.

Edit: Yeah, it's pretty obvious now. I've counted about 3 or 4 more since I posted those ones, and they all have "Here" in their location lines.

Somebody should put one up and see how much WASN'T THERE attention he attracts.

Edit: Yeah, it's pretty obvious now. I've counted about 3 or 4 more since I posted those ones, and they all have "Here" in their location lines.Not that I wish to sound disparaging, but welcome to two days ago.

Gawd, this is like the operations room in a war, this thread.

too right it is!

The war room from "Dr. Strangelove"?
Do we have a spy here?

Me! Well I'm more of a double-agent.

Not that I wish to sound disparaging, but welcome to two days ago.
I haven't quite been on the same Earth lately.

The war room from "Dr. Strangelove"?
Do we have a spy here?
Mein Fürher! I can walk!

If anyone ones to INFILTRATE the non-there avatar fad, have an ANGST MALLO:

Well...actually i just added a phrase to my sig:
"śmiać mi się chce z waszych wojen na wielce modne avatary" which is polish for "I laugh at your avatar fad war"... also works... but i don't think anyone understands anyway... :rolleyes:

Well, I know that we're trying not to make fun of their fad or anything, and I like my raisin.
but...
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Marshmellow, huh?

Marshmellow, huh?
Gahah, you should post that somewhere so they see it. (Just don't link to the attachment :p)

Posted it in the avatar absurdity forum too. :D

And another one:

*Dies laughing for the second time in a week*

Well, I know that we're trying not to make fun of their fad or anything, and I like my raisin.
but...
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Lol...friggin brilliant... i'm using it! :D

And i lol'd at the marshmellow on the stick and in the cup...nice... :p