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Lasa .
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:40 am Post subject: |
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BANNER UPDATE!
We're up to 725!
I added a lot this time and I wasn't amazingly careful, so if you run into a broken banner link please let me know ASAP! Also, this is ApM's Cue to update the Banner Link Identifier.
-Wes _________________
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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Because the banner update happened before the site redesign, and some kind soul besides me runs the GreaseMonkey script, the Banner Identifier has updated itself!
With the site redesign, though, I will have to update the GreaseMonkey script. |
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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Okay guys, the GreaseMonkey script is updated. Click this link to update yourself.
People have been busy identifying broken links on the ol' Banner Identifier! Banners 551, 600, 649, and 652 are all broken, Wes. |
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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ApM wrote: | Okay guys, the GreaseMonkey script is updated. <a href="http://www.sporktania.com/banners/tgqbanner.user.js">Click this link</a> to update yourself.
People have been busy identifying broken links on the ol' Banner Identifier! Banners 551, 600, 649, and 652 are all broken, Wes. |
Check again please!
-Wes _________________
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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590 is a dupe of 496! |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:47 am Post subject: |
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:25 am Post subject: |
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she was too short to fit in the banner ;_; _________________
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:43 am Post subject: |
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space taxi secret screen, how we love you. _________________
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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I was kind of bummed that the Nazi guard was an obstacle, rather than a passenger. |
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Six .
Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:20 am Post subject: |
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o vector cow most wonderful
your moo takes me to a happier time. |
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: |
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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captaincabinets .
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:23 am Post subject: |
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hey apm the banner identifier is just marvellous. However, (I don't know if this is just a problem for me) banners with apostrophes in the title show up said apostrophes as & #039; in the tooltip (without the space between the & and #).
i changed
banner.title = response.responseText;
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banner.title = response.responseText.replace("& #039;","'");
(again, without the space)
which fixed it. Just thought you'd want the heads up, in case it is a bug for everyone. |
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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I noticed this, but it never bothered me enough to do anything about it. But just now I looked at it, and it was seriously just a matter of changing ENT_QUOTES to ENT_NOQUOTES on the server side.
So, yeah, apostrophes and quotes are fixed. |
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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captaincabinets .
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Six .
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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in the land of the dead! |
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captaincabinets .
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:22 am Post subject: |
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arrrrrriba! |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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AJ 187 .
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:44 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:06 am Post subject: |
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Lasa .
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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I'm surprised we haven't seen any LSD banners yet. _________________
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AJ 187 .
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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Lasa wrote: | |
KICK
FLY
SUBMISSION
SUPLEX
F I R E P R O W R E S T L I N G
I swear to god that game has one of the best title songs ever.
if I'm not beat to it, I will try making banners out of LSD stuff I guess. |
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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RECYCLE, BITCHES! _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: |
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and finally, long overdue:
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:05 am Post subject: |
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I know where the top one is from!
and a couple others. _________________
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captaincabinets .
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:52 am Post subject: |
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_________________ Why am I being boiled into a bright red lobster by this little kid? |
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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If anyone somehow manages to guess what game these banners are from, they get a million billion points. |
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captaincabinets .
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:23 am Post subject: |
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spill those beans _________________ Why am I being boiled into a bright red lobster by this little kid? |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:49 am Post subject: |
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we really do have the most excellent banners on the interwebs. _________________
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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Nana Komatsu wrote: | |
Oh God yes. How did I miss this?
captaincabinets wrote: | spill those beans |
It's a good story! It might get turned into an article. I'll try to keep it short.
As some of you might know, my employer is currently floating around on the International Space Station. Needless to say, I find this both awesome and totally surreal.
Anyway, there are many fantastic cosmonaut traditions that he wrote about participating in on his blog (including stopping the bus midway to the rocket to pee on the tires, just like Yuri Gagurin did). One of these traditions is to watch the 60s Soviet cult classic film, The White Sun of the Desert.
If you click on that Wikipedia link, you may notice a throwaway line in there about there being a computer game adaptation of the film.
I killed two days scouring the Internet for it. (Google totally knows the Russian translation of "warez", if you were ever curious.) Several things gave me trouble. The first was that Russian copyright law is a lot stricter about things that were created by Russians. The second was that, despite appearances, this was a relatively recent production (2004), so any hopes of being able to find some Russian abandonware site proudly hosting it were pretty much dashed. Regardless, in the process I found many Russian game review sites with lots of awesome screenshots, which I dutifully turned into awesome banners.
I totally found it on eMule eventually, and it finally finished downloading last night. Yarr! |
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:16 am Post subject: |
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Oh, hell yes. The first scene in the game is this:
But holy shit does Google ever choke on the walkthrough. Thus far, figuring out what the walkthrough says has been nearly as difficult as figuring out what the hell is going on in the game.
It didn't install right and the videos aren't playing in-game, which is a shame because they're awesome. Here, allow me to demonstrate with a banner-sized still:
EDIT! Here's a nice big close-up. This motherfucker is so my new desktop background. |
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captaincabinets .
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:29 am Post subject: |
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ApM wrote: | stuff about a russian internet treasure hunt |
That's really cool. I love that, spending hours going from one link / oblique reference / name-drop to another, furiously ctrl-T'ing and middle clicking, to come up with a previously unknown nugget. Looks like you struck russian adventure gold. _________________ Why am I being boiled into a bright red lobster by this little kid? |
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Lasa .
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not very happy with these but here they are anyway.
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:45 am Post subject: |
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shaper demanded i make these. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:22 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:30 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | |
This is pretty gorgeous. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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