User talk:Thunderbird L17

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Revision as of 10:30, 29 April 2005

Introductions From Whomever

Yes, I can talk. Hi. -Thunder.

Hi to you, too. *waves hand* --BurninatorBoombox&Markie 21:36, 14 Sep 2004 (MST)

Hi, back atcha!- 2nd poster

PNG vs.JPG

Hey there. I noticed you've been uploading a lot of great images. I only have one problem, and that is that you are saving the images as .JPG files instead of .PNG files. I know we really haven't come up with an image policy yet, but pretty much everything that is a screenshot should be saved as a .PNG. They are meant for the web, have a great compression rate, and generally just look better. The Windows XP version of MSPaint even supports saving to .PNG, as do all other quality image editors like Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Thanks. -- Tom 19:11, 20 Sep 2004 (MST)

Bird.

ThunderBird and FireBird. We should, like, join forces and stop crime all over New York City. We could be like "The Birds!" "Look, here come The Birds to save the day!" And I could be all, like, Neeoooww! Boom! Boom! Boom! "I fought them with my fire!" And you could be all Neeoowww! Ker-poussh! Ker-poussh! "I fought them with my thunder!" And then we'd fly away and leave the city at peace for another day.-- FireBird

Floppy Disk Screenshots

Hey there, Thunderbird. I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of uploading about half a dozen screenshots (from the sb email 65-75 era). I find it's a great cure for boredom, and I made sure to use very similar image size/ratios to yours (I monitored pixel size and cropped where necessary). I also made use of your pre-existing file names, so there was no need to even edit the article! I hope you enjoy my contribution, but if instead you would prefer to upload them, I'll "cease and desist"... just thought I'd help out the almighty king of screenshots! --Teh P. 02:29, 8 Oct 2004 (MST)

Great job cleaning up the Floppy Disk Container article T-Bird. I like it much. The page still needs a category, as all articles do. I think "inside jokes" would be appropriate. -Drhaggis 12:17, 1 Nov 2004 (MST)

Odell Lake

Got an Apple//e emulator working and found the dang rom. Got screenshots (or the emu itself, if you want). Completed the description and year. Sorry it took me so long :) --Southpaw018 19:59, 24 Oct 2004 (MST)

Length vs Width

T-Bird. I noticed you reverted my edits on Toilets. I'll explain why I made the table longer than wide. With my screen resolution, the last entry is pushed off the page as it was shown in the following picture, until Thunderbird deleted it because it was cluttering the talk page with a big picture.

I hope you understand why I fix these tables. -Drhaggis 12:45, 31 Oct 2004 (MST)

Friendly Ware info on Floppy Disk Container

I was playing those Friendly Ware games back when I was 8! Happy to help with the info! --a WikiGnome

Um... HI!

I can speak weller than you. I make no sence. VISIT MY USERSPACE!-Captain Scottman13

Re: note for Tom to enlarge virus Floppy image

I did resize the image. Hit ctrl+F5 to refresh. The image is Image:Floppy_virus.png. And I guess you didn't like the NPOV-type explanation for the game I put there? -- Tom 11:18, 15 Nov 2004 (MST)

Quote Of Week Box Design

Wow...I'm impressed yet again with 'The King of Screenshots.' You get a pizza trophy for 'image appropriateness' on the Quote of the Week article. I'm glad someone finally noticed what I was attempting to say when I provided those links to pictures/flash file of the new design. Your decision to make a thumbnailed screenshot was the best way to illustrate the current situation regarding the newest quote(s). I'm still not sure what to make of Homestar's appearance on a quote by obviously uttered by Strong Bad. What do you think is the reason behind this?

At present, I'm trying to figure out the best way I can state "Because of TBC's newly-implemented "Quote of the 'Whenever'" design, any attempts to open the file after you have saved "qod.swf" will be futile as the quote will not pop up from the screen like it normally used to with any quote file prior to the 'I doh du duoh crapfully yours' one. This may be due to changes in flash code/programming that now link directly to MPEG Layer 3 file(s) as opposed to a 'hot-wired' .WAV file and a link to a ZIP archive." Sheesh! I'm trying to consolidate all of the following reasoning into one grammical sentence, but it's difficult! --The Paper 05:42, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)

Good jorb.

Good jorb on all these projects you've been working on. Good prize. → FireBird

Catagorization

I've been trying to move the categorization away from the Reject/Inside Joke/Full fledged thing structure for a while now. I don’t think the number of times something is mentioned should be a factor in this resource. Having said that, I'm still not quite sure where to put pages like the Halloween Costumes, and Floppy Disk Container. They are Lists for sure, but they go deeper than that. Those pages, along with the SBEmail by name/location are more like database reports rather than core articles. All the info on them is somewhere else on the site, but it has been reformatted into a kind of database query response.

We could make a Halloween category, to put in toons, Pumpkin Stencils and the costume list.

- Dr Haggis - Talk 01:27, 30 Nov 2004 (MST)

You deserve a Pizza Trophy

Before -- > File:PizzaTrophyEaten.PNG<-- After

I present the above Pizza Trophy to The King of Screenshots for his outstanding work in the creation and development of the following articles: Halloween Costumes and Floppy Disk Container. Thunderbird, your ability to make this wiki such a cool place with your creative ideas is greatly appreciated by many users! Thanks!! --The Paper 23:40, 12 Dec 2004 (MST)

I accept this incredible award with humble thanks and gratitude to all who have helped so much, particularly the ones on my 'Favorite Users' list. And an extra helping of thanks goes out to The Paper. I couldn't have done it without you buddy! ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 00:59, 13 Dec 2004 (MST)

SPEECH! SPEECH! --daunrealist

What? Didn't what I just said qualify? Oh, and to add to that, I would like to thank Daunrealist for their support. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 03:18, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mmmm... Come to think of it... That trophy looks kinda tasty... *CHOMP*. Heh. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 00:32, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Response to your 'Quote Of The Week' Query

To answer your question regarding the Quote of the "Whenever", there is a way to view the flash file in fullscreen and you might have good luck viewing it here: qod.swf. You should know that if you attempt to store this file locally (i.e., on a hard drive) and then subsequently open it in your browser, this will cause the file to produce that image of homestar saying that phrase about the funniest word style...You know-- the one that appears on that nice graphic you made to show the difference between the old and the new style. Hope this helps! --The Paper 23:36, 30 Dec 2004 (MST)

Special Task

T-Bird! I added the costumes I knew to the Sketchbook article. I confirmed my findings with the Old Forum and they agree with mine. They say that the full body Marzipan is Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" but I dont think the hair and bandana are right for her. - Dr Haggis - Talk 02:51, 2 Jan 2005 (MST)

Long Page Reduction

The only way I can see of reducing the length of the Floppy Disk Container article is to vastly reduce the description of the game down to a one liner each. That’s a tough one because of all the work everyone has done on it. The external links will have to carry the weight of the info. I don't see a way to split the list in any non-arbitrary fashion.

As for the Halloween costumes, the descriptions are really good, and I don’t think they should be cut shorter. A guide should be "no longer than the picture," and for the most part they meet that. I would prefer to see the article split by Character, rather than toon, but that’s me. - Dr Haggis - Talk 18:07, 6 Jan 2005 (MST)

Good point about the Halloween Costumes, sorting by Toon is preferable. The Disks page can be shrunk, but it will only get longer with time. It's a puzzler. - Dr Haggis - Talk 18:49, 6 Jan 2005 (MST)

2003 update

Where are you getting the dates for the 2003 updates? I'd like to help. →evin290 08:02, 23 Feb 2005 (MST)

H*R Updates

You did a great job on the H*R Updates 2003-2001. It's people like you that make the wiki great. Keep up the good work! →[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]

Your screen shots (from DVD) request

Hi, King of Screenshots! I hate to bug you like this- I just wanted to know if you had seen my post in the thread you started when you requested several screen shots of the Floppy disk containers from the three DVD Main Menus. You said you wanted them to be at least 150 by 150 pixels - I did the best I could. I attempted to zoom in but I wasn't able to obtain clear results so the images in my post are the best I could do. While I'm at it, do you have any guesses for what game "WOTR Level 2" might refer to? How about "one tune"? And for the one that gets cut off, do you know any vintage games that have a title two words in length where the first word starts with 'k' and the second begins with 'spe'? *shrug* I haven't the slightest... --The Paper 11:24, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

Update: Sadly, I am unable to get straight PNGs from the DVD menu per your request on my talk page. I wish I could, really! I hate compression artifacts as much as the next man (or green and white bar paper ), but I am simply unable to rid my screenshots of them. I even tried obtaining other DVD player applications and converting the DVD material to MPEGs but the level of compression necessary to fit the content on my 'tiny' 10GB hard drive left the labels on the disks inside the containers even less legible - So expect me to update your pride and joy on the wiki in a few days with some screen shots and possible links to FAQs, moby, wikipedia, etc. Until we meet again... --The Paper 18:33, 10 Mar 2005 (MST)

Signature

Maybe you should get a darker colour for your sig, or maybe it's my monitor's problem. I can't even read it without highlighting it. Okay bye. RAINER^talk 19:35, 3 Apr 2005 (MDT)

I've noticed the same thing. If you're looking for another color, but there's not a name for the color you want, you can define it using hexadecimal notation:

• <font color=#A08803> Like this. </font>

The first two digits are the red channel, the second two are the green channel, and the third two are the blue channel. The numbers go from 00 to FF hexadecimal (0 to 255 decimal), with 00 being all the way off and FF being all the way on.

Here's a sample of some colors: #000000, #FF0000, #00FF00, #0000FF, #FFF159, #E3217E, #E55B17, #00975D, #5E4EBE, #805934, #DDDDDD (#FFFFFF would be white). Experiment and have fun. — It's dot com 17:59, 8 Apr 2005 (MDT)

Thanks man, that was just the explanation I was looking for. I'll get right on it a bit later. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 10:05, 9 Apr 2005 (MDT)

Floppy Disk Container (sans Plus)

Hi there, Thunderbird. After reading some comments about the reasons why there should be a reduction of the title, I decided to go ahead and move all the content from the "Floppy Disk Container Plus" to Floppy Disk Container that formerly was a redirect. I moved the talk page as well, so nothing except the edit history will be lost. I even changed all the links that pointed to the Plus article to the current location and changed the plus article to a redirect. I hope you don't mind me being so bold in my decisions to the extent where I was editing your user page to reflect the change. It's just that I felt it was time to "make the move". I hope you understand - I know that page has "pride and joy" status to you. --^{THE PAPER} 23:04, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Confirmation

I am certain I've seen the email response you credited to Strong Bad before - in fact, I so believe I may have received it myself after emailing Strong Bad (I started watching during the Tandy era). Just figured I'd give you some confirmations beisdes some website in the middle of nowhere. ;) --Jay 02:50, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I noticed you mentioning this to The Paper, too. I don't know if you knew it from that message, but the page that Strong Bad linked to still gets a link from another part of the site and has a page here - it's the Email Processing Room, and I am pretty sure that it IS linked in an email - website comes to mind but I could be wrong. --Jay 03:09, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Email

Hi there T-bird. Do you check your email? -- Tom 01:04, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sysop

Just letting you know, you have been given sysop privileges. If you have any questions, never hesitate to ask. Thanks. -- Tom 01:17, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

SWEET DEAL!!! All day today, I'd been dreaming of what it would be like to be sysop'd, only to get home and find Firebird and Jay left me in the dust. My sadness turned to extaticness however, when Tom alearted me to a possible e-mail of monolithic proportions drifting amongst my junk mail. I replied, and within minutes my computer began to shake and rattle, exploding with the power of sysopness. So that's my story. And thank you so much Admins, I am deeply honored. (Go figure, I never would have guessed they'd ask permission to upgrade users, or do so through the avenue of email, not User talk pages). The moral of the story: Everybody... Check Your Email...⇔Sysopbird⇔ 01:23, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ha! I knew you'd get SYSOP'D! →FireBird

Yup, congratumalations, my peer. Sysop Commandos... rock rock on! :p --Jay 01:25, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sightings

(b asicly copuing whats on my talk page)

Just what sightings do you have in mind? If you mean things like the Buffy appearance, Ryan S on Survivor, ect, I really think you're onto something. I do think the page needs a major overhaul/cleaning. But I really think the page for interviews and appearances should be seperate, only for offical, TBC speakings and interviewings. Let's get the one page up and running first, and then we'll try and figure out just how to clean out the sightings page. I, as well as likely any of the other sysops, will be happy to hear your ideas for how to clean up this long and disorganized page. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 00:15, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I was thinking the Macromedia Flash 8 sighting, the buffy sighting, anything thats not just random (like the kids watching an email in Supersize Me or someone wearing a t-shirt). Sightings that are rare, significant, and interesting should be moved to another page.-- _{Posted by:} -erson ^Talk 13:24, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

HRWiki Sig

The (e) is supposed to link to Special:Emailuser/Pidgeot, but that Special page seems to be missing here. Therefore, I've crossed it out. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 10:30, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)