User:The Joe

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Hello. My name is Joe, and I'm a fan of Homestar Runner. I've always loved wikis, so I decided to join. I have a bad habit of adding two spaces after a sentence. Like this. My favorite characters are Senor Cardgage, Homsar, Strong Sad, and The Denzel. I use proper grammar, but sometimes I forget to capitalize. Leave me a message and I'll get right back to you on my Talk Page

How I discovered H*R

Well... My friend is a fan of homestarrunner, and he decided to tell me about it. Unfortunately, the cartoon he decided to introduce me to this wonderful website with was different town. One of the first characters I saw was Modestly Hot Homsar. I stayed away from it for a few months. Of course, first I looked it up on wikipedia. Then I found the Wiki. But I was still scared. So many inside jokes... But then a few months later, at the beginning of summer 2006, I decided to give it another chance out of sheer boredom. I fell in love with it, and now I'm really addicted. Homestarrunner is now my favorite cartoon, website, and has my favorite wiki. For a few months, I was editing under an IP. I finally got fed up with the little picture with letters and decided to join. On the day of the 10th aniversery of homestarrunner... This is either a good sign, or a Stupid Coincidence, but I helped a lot with the 10th aniversery toon. It was very fun, and I'm glad I joined the wiki. Also: my deck was being redone the day No Hands on Deck came out.

Something I found very odd

Thank you, scanner.

I recently came to aquire a book on Flash animating. As I was reading the chapter on actionscript, I came upon the famous phrase, DELETED! I found this very odd, because the book was about Flash 4 (The Brothers Chaps use 6 or 7) and it was before the phrase even appeared on the site. Don't believe me? I present you with blurry photographic evidence! Right now I'm wandering if TBC actually read this book, or if it's just a coincidence. A pretty big coincidence. If you have any comments on this conspiracy, you can put them on my Talk page.

A word about PNGs

I noticed that a lot of the newer users on the wiki are wondering when to use JPGs, GIFs, and PNGs. I can't find a great place to rant about this on talk pages, so I'ma going to just say this here. Let's start. The difference between PNGs and GIFs are as follows.

GIFs can only be in 256 colors. This means that if you have an older computer that doesn't have as wide a color palette, it has to use dithering. Dithering is when the computer makes every other pixel a color in between the one you want so that it looks like that color. This can have really ugly results sometimes. Examples and a better explanation can be found here. So if H*R has colors that aren't in the 256, it uses dithering and looks really ugly. Of course, GIFs support animation. If the situation desperatly calls for animation, you can accept the dithering.

Also: GIFs can only have one color all the way transparent, while PNGs support alpha transparancy, which means that while GIFs can have one color transparent so that it blends with the webpage by making the background of the image the same as the webpage, PNGs can have transparency effects, so you can have weird tinty things and images where it fades out into the webpage. This is not important at all on the wiki, and I don't even think it's supported in many browsers. But it does make for interesting effects in flash videos.

The important thing to remember about PNGs is that you lose no information with them, and they're best for images with large chunks of color in them (Such as, who would've thought it, cartoons!) and you don't lose any data, you just stuff it into a small area so that it downloads really fast without losing quality

Now JPGs are a different story. JPGs are the best for photos because they lessen the quality of the image for the sake of compression, this is fine with pictures, but it can seriously mess up cartoon screenshots.

BMPs are pixel-perfect, but they're huge. They can easily stretch into the megabytes. Just don't use them.

Now you may ask what you should do if an image is in a cartoon page. Just save it as a png. The file size will get bigger, but it doesn't really matter that much. Okay, I'm finished. Most of the information for this I got from books and websites.

My website

A while ago, a friend and I decided to make a website. I found a third party flash thing, and started making stuff. The cartoons up there are actually sorta embarassing, but I'll put a link up anyhow. Toast is nice