Good girls and boys having seizures:

Murder increased the avatar size allowance, and we should promptly change our avatars to take advantage of the extra twenty pixels we get (within two weeks, he said)! =O

If you want your avatar resized, but you can't do it yourself, just let someone know; if you provide the original image that your avatar was made from, your new avatar will look even better!

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If you need help in resizing your avatar, feel free to contact Shlupquack, Marshall Banana, Momiji, or Tavrobel and they will be able to assist you.

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Rye mentioned in the other thread that she's willing to help, too!

Rantzien is also helping, I believe!

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...sandhearts.gif

Because the KB allowance hasn't changed, here are tips for saving an avatar that's 80x80 and within 10 KB:

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For those using Photoshop and not ImageReady, use the Save For Web/Device option to get a good quality .gif or .png. I save all mine as PNG-8 and they are all under the filesize constraint and still pretty :D

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For transparency on EoFF you should be using PNG-8 or GIF. PNG-8 has slightly better compression last I checked for much the same quality.

GIF is used for animations, duh.

JPEG is used for just about anything that doesn't use transparency(it generally has a better color palette and can be set up to fit within just about any size limit/quality).

PNG-24 is used for complex transparencies that look bad on GIF(you can build around it if you know GIF's limitations but for most people complex transparency is best in PNG-24). However, good luck getting PNG-24 images in under our size restraints. It isn't all that difficult to end up with a small signature with a simple transparency that is 50+kb size. And I have seen PNG-24 signatures that width and height wise would fit here that possess 300 or more kb in size.

PNG-24 is also used for any image if size doesn't matter. It is a standardized loseless file type that is readable in practically any software(unlike many loseless file types).

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B-b-but, you're still using that damned 3x3 avatar. :(

I'm still working on my new avatar!

GOOD NEWS

By the way, I found out the hard way that using Adobe ImageReady's "Save Optimized Image As" will actually enable you to use images that otherwise wouldn't fit within the filesize here.

I probably can't be arsed to resize any images for anyone until next week, though.

mine keeps getting weird sizes in different places!

on my profile, it's 60x67, on my edit avatar page, it's 70x79! WHERE WILL THE MADNESS END

Yeah, it looks like it does drop in size while viewing profiles.

Edit: Apparently, it's just scaled to fit 60 by 60 in profiles, so you have nothing to worry about. :D

Reporting for duty.

80x80 is nicer than 60x60, but why not just go 100x100?
It's not because we need another 20 pixels, it's just because it's so much easier to obtain 100x100 avatars since they're everywhere. You can use LJ avatars, avatars from other forums, etc. I hate not being able to use a lot of awesome avatars that I see. :3

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80x80 is nicer than 60x60, but why not just go 100x100?
It's not because we need another 20 pixels, it's just because it's so much easier to obtain 100x100 avatars since they're everywhere. You can use LJ avatars, avatars from other forums, etc. I hate not being able to use a lot of awesome avatars that I see. :3

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It appears that it was enough of a debate to get it to 80x80. :sweat:

Youtube embing next :D!

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Youtube embing next :D!

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Even I'm against that. >_>

I think it would be cool, even if it would be horribly ugly.

This eye feels enormous. I hope I'm finally intimidating.

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Youtube embing next :D!

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Even I'm against that. >_>

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Aw :(

It's just Photobucket for Broadband connections... ._.

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Youtube embing next :D!

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Even I'm against that. >_>

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Aw :(

It's just Photobucket for Broadband connections... ._.

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I don't want to be directly RickRolled in every thread. :p

I'm staying 60x60 and hope the majority of active users do too. Stickin' it to The Man! That's the way I work. And dammit, I'm open about it!

60x60 til i die

I don't think my dancer would look as pretty any bigger. :(

Ooo-Raa! If anyone can fix my current that'd be nice, otherwise I'll just wait to bother somebody on MSN =D

GoBo, if you happen to have a larger copy of your current avatar, I could easily resize it. If not, I'm guessing Fate Fatale might still have a copy laying around his computer when he made your sig.

I think that sprite based avatars would be kinda ugly if they are enlarged, so I'll keep Ivysaur as he is.

I think it's safe to assume that people who use sprites as avatars are excluded from considering if enough people use the extra 2800 pixels.

Delightful!

I did my best to clean it up after resizing, Gobo, but yeah you'll do a lot better with the original version. Those JPEG artifacts are a bitch.

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3...avatar2jl3.png

Unless you'd rather have this one ;o

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/3616/gbavatarkr9.png

This is disgusting. I wanted it changed to 40x40. :mad2:

And thus signals the end of an era. We really only need 4589749058340 more layout choices and the transformation will be complete.

Hmm... perhaps it's campaign time. 60x60 it should stay!

I cba to resize my avatar. Someone do it for me. And the original while you're at it.

if i make mine bigger it will look even worse than it currently does...pixelated and what-not

CHANGE IS BAD! :crying:

Nope, still don't like it. Doesn't feel like EoFF.

It will always be 60x60 to me :cool:

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i love change! But I don't like changing for the sake of changing, it'll have to be a good change. ;)

What about that winking thing, you ungrateful swine!?

thank you for making an 80x80 avatar for me, you shouldn't have! :-* No, really. You shouldn't have.

It's going to be incredibly difficult to effectively resize animated .gifs. I think they'll look better at their normal size as well. Anything else will look better when larger--as long as it's resized from a larger picture.

I'm disappointed that Levian isn't using the winking Wakka avatar :(

You guys are being silly, you don't have to resize them, simply make the canvas bigger!

Here you go, qwerty
http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/others/qwertyav.png

Should Levian be given winking Wakka against his will? Vote now!

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Should Levian be given winking Wakka against his will? Vote now!

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obviously

Yes.

yes

Yes.

It's unanimous.

BTW, a little birdie told me that even little gifs count.

Luckily, I made a little picture tutorial in the GIMP to show you how to avoid this!

http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/Picture%2038.png
http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/Picture%2039.png
http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/Picture%2041.png
http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/Picture%2042.png
http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/Picture%2043.png
http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/Picture%2044.png
http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/Picture%2045.png

Dumb open source software :cry:

The tribe has spoken. Sorry Lev, mob rule and all that.

Good man.

I freaking love this place at the moment.

I keep mistaking you for Psychotic because of the 'P' avatar.

That's why I have the back-up Q.

http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/others/bobav.png
http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/others/kerrodav.gif
http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/others/jojoav.gif
http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/others/blueharvestav.gif

updating gimp saved the day!

Rufus will stay his size, he looks good the way he is. And yes, the winking Wakka is indeed awesome.

Thanks rubah. :)

I'm surprised that more people don't want to change their avatars completely or remake them; you're not fully taking advantage of the new avatar size allowance, if you don't! =O

I haven't been this excited since I beat the Wild Saurian in the Eastersand!

Glad I always keep the .psd of my avatars and sigs. :D

For those using Photoshop and not ImageReady, use the Save For Web/Device option to get a good quality .gif or .png. I save all mine as PNG-8 and they are all under the filesize constraint and still pretty :D

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Glad I always keep the .psd of my avatars and sigs. :D

For those using Photoshop and not ImageReady, use the Save For Web/Device option to get a good quality .gif or .png. I save all mine as PNG-8 and they are all under the filesize constraint and still pretty :D

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For transparency on EoFF you should be using PNG-8 or GIF. PNG-8 has slightly better compression last I checked for much the same quality.

GIF is used for animations, duh.

JPEG is used for just about anything that doesn't use transparency(it generally has a better color palette and can be set up to fit within just about any size limit/quality).

PNG-24 is used for complex transparencies that look bad on GIF(you can build around it if you know GIF's limitations but for most people complex transparency is best in PNG-24). However, good luck getting PNG-24 images in under our size restraints. It isn't all that difficult to end up with a small signature with a simple transparency that is 50+kb size. And I have seen PNG-24 signatures that width and height wise would fit here that possess 300 or more kb in size.

PNG-24 is also used for any image if size doesn't matter. It is a standardized loseless file type that is readable in practically any software(unlike many loseless file types).

My avatar is PNG-24. I had to optimise it with ImageReady to make it fit the filesize restrictions, however. Though for some absurd reason, vBulletin (or really it's probably vBSEO) renames it to .gif even though it isn't one.

I refuse to use these new evil things! 60x60 is the only way for me!

60x60 until the day I die.

hivemind bert!

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My avatar is PNG-24. I had to optimise it with ImageReady to make it fit the filesize restrictions, however. Though for some absurd reason, vBulletin (or really it's probably vBSEO) renames it to .gif even though it isn't one.

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I haven't been this excited since I beat the Wild Saurian in the Eastersand!

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I couldn't find your original image, but I found another Santa Jack which I think is prettier, if you want it!

Chubby, you were too large before :love:

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http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/others/bobav.png

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Ugh.

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Chubby, you were too large before :love:

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Wanna store some of my items, fat chocobo? I have spinach Gysahl Greens!

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Chubby, you were too large before :love:

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Wanna store some of my items, fat chocobo? I have spinach Gysahl Greens!

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Don't forget to use them only in places where the smell of Chocobo is in the air :p

Changing people's avatars to 80x80 against their will should count as cheating and cheating causes one's side to be disqualified so this game is totally over thanks to Psy. Blame him, folks.

:shifty:

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Changing people's avatars to 80x80 against their will should count as cheating and cheating causes one's side to be disqualified so this game is totally over thanks to Psy. Blame him, folks.

:shifty:

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http://cbamusic.com/forum/images/smilies/fail.jpg

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I haven't been this excited since I beat the Wild Saurian in the Eastersand!

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I couldn't find your original image, but I found another Santa Jack which I think is prettier, if you want it!

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:-*

Well, I've conformed. n_n

*haet jojo*

haet is for nazis!

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The tribe has spoken. Sorry Lev, mob rule and all that.

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The tribe has spoken to my shoulder more like, as my hand wasn't listening on behalf of my face.

gogo new avatar plz

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The tribe has spoken. Sorry Lev, mob rule and all that.

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The tribe has spoken to my shoulder more like, as my hand wasn't listening on behalf of my face.

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http://cbamusic.com/forum/images/smilies/fail.jpg

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http://cbamusic.com/forum/images/smilies/fail.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/levia/fail.jpg

I c wot u did thar.

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gogo new avatar plz

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If you don't like this, I could always do a sig crop too...

I'm sticking with 60x60.

I'm way to lazy to change it myself.

do you want me to do it for you fonzie?

now my avatar is even smaller :mad2: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?

EDIT: i've reverted and i'm NEVER GOING BACK! :crying:

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do you want me to do it for you fonzie?

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Yeah, just crop it out of my signature so it saves the detail, make sure it looks the same too.

Thanks.

I'll have it right up with a buttercream mint, sir.

How about joining in and having some fun with your avatars, Admins? Don't be such stiffs; after all, it was you who argued for avatar uniformity. =O

they all seem to hate it, unwilling to change filesize limits and planning to say no no matter how well it takes off.

Well at least the admins still have better taste than the masses.

Do you need help with something, Raistlin?

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Those cyanide capsules in your dresser drawer should really be put to use.

I promise not to cast my vote to regress unless I really do think the change sucks.

The increased use of annoying animated .gifs is pretty much making the decision for us though.

I'll be keeping my avatar the same because I use the same size on every other forum I go to and I also have variations that I would also have to redo. It has nothing to do with being a stickler. I really do encourage you all to go to the increased size, and not use annoying animations. It would be less work for me that way because I'll probably be the one who has to switch all the user groups back if we do go back.

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The increased use of annoying animated .gifs is pretty much making the decision for us though.

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I've only seen two new .gifs so far, and that's Allie's and Aaron's. It's not like that's even very relevant to the avatar size, since one can have annoying .gifs at pretty much any size. The rest of the new .gifs belong to those who already had animated avatars to begin with. :p

yay annoying animated .gif! :D what would REALLY make the gif situation worse is increasing the file size allowance :bigsmile:

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yay annoying animated .gif! :D what would REALLY make the gif situation worse is increasing the file size allowance :bigsmile:

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It really wouldn't make that much of a difference as long as they aren't making said gifs for the reason of being obnoxious and annoying-- I'd condone temp avatar bans for that, not like I could. :p

I actually was using this before the file size increase; it just got mangled a little more

and he's waaaaaay too happy to be annoying! ^_^

i think he's ugly :p sorry, rubah (and yes, i know my avatar is worse) i don't hate the avatar...just the guy in it :D but on the plus side, your sig is mega awesome, so that makes up for it; Pulp Fiction ftw! :bigsmile:

I think rubah's avatar looks like a lollipop that's disguised as Santa. =O

TA DAH!

whoa, that makes me want to go play as pikachu on SSB: Brawl :p i have no idea why

I usually use animated GIFs :mog: Won't be too sad if it regresses, but I will be for that I spent the time to make this 80 x 80 avatar especially for here if it does! :p

what about the time I spent to make your old avatar 80x80!

Here are ten avatars that I made for anyone who is interested in having a fresh, new 80x80 avatar! =O

http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...gourmetguy.gif http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...peachtwink.gif http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...0x80/kronk.png http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...80/kronk02.png http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...80/genie02.png
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...0x80/jacks.png http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...0x80/santa.gif http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...80/rudolph.gif http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...chelangelo.png http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...elangelo02.png

I'm not entirely sure what you guys like, though. What do you like?

final fantasy :bigsmile:

I like Marshall banana.

I, too, will be sticking to 60x60. Rubah's resize was even smaller :(

Thanks momiji

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what?

yeah, mine was smaller too, rubah :confused:

I tried using it but it was micro tiny :(

Blue Harvest i am jealous of your avatar :p it turned out so much better than mine :(

this is so weird. it's inside all the reqs

*updates the thread title to be more appropriate*

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You get in the way of progress. You must be terminated. :)

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionC...45/seizure.jpg

EDIT: It looks like Homer is curb-stomping him.

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Please add a colon to the end of it; I was very attached to the colon.

As you wish. :roll:

Why, thank you!

The more words the merrier.

You'd think with the image size limit going up but the filesize limit staying the same there'd be less animated gifs, not the same amount as before :P

You'd think!

my god, jesse will you come and be my little girl? I love you so much.

I'll buy you dresses and anime or video games and you can have all the computer time you want

O:

For real and for troo?

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my god, jesse will you come and be my little girl? I love you so much.

I'll buy you dresses and anime or video games and you can have all the computer time you want

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Dost I see a double post by a moderator?

By the way, animated .gifs are annoying.

well, as many as I could afford. And you'd have to use an old computer, but that's okay

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Here are ten avatars that I made for anyone who is interested in having a fresh, new 80x80 avatar! =O

http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...gourmetguy.gif http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...peachtwink.gif http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...0x80/kronk.png http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...80/kronk02.png http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...80/genie02.png
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...0x80/jacks.png http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...0x80/santa.gif http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...80/rudolph.gif http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...chelangelo.png http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...elangelo02.png

I'm not entirely sure what you guys like, though. What do you like?

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I like Mega Man!

If I make a neat avatar of Mega Man for you, Levian, will you use it?

Yeah, definitely.

dibs on peach after christmas. Monda will you remind me?

Yep!

Another victim claimed by the Mondablight. Will the joy ever end?

Well if Levian's not going to use Winking Wakka, then I will!

Go ahead pumpkin, I hope you win Best Avatar.

Wakka will always be 60x60 to me though. That's not to say I can't have any 80x80 affairs every now and then. :choc:

the blinking animation isn't anatomically correct though :(

Lamonda made me an adorable Chococat 80x80 christmas time avatar, and I LOOOVVVEEEE it! :hello:

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the blinking animation isn't anatomically correct though :(

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The eyebrow doesn't move, certain muscles don't twitch, and the skin doesn't stretch.

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Lamonda made me an adorable Chococat 80x80 christmas time avatar, and I LOOOVVVEEEE it! :hello:

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:hello:

Now whenever I'm scrolling too fast I think I'm Levian o_o

The avs aren't annoying! I like them.

Now, if anybody wants to make a me an animated seizure inducing 550x250 sig within the limits, I'd be much obliged.

You get a lollipop, rubah. :mog:

I will totally make you a flashing seizure sig. Is 550 x 250 the limit nowadays? I thought it was 500 x 250, but I forget.

Unless you mean an animated sig that matches your avatar, then no I'm too lazy. xD

Joy, you're not on MSN. :mad2: ANYTHING ANIMATED IS GREAT!

now they'll take our big sigs away too! :mad2:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g6/sukifruit/cory.gif

Edit; Here's an av if you get bored of Pikachu. I'm bored of Pikachu! I want to see flashing rainbow cute heart girly everywhere n_n

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g6/sukifruit/k-1.gif

Ugh, what demon spawn have we created.

I could make them in the 60 x 60 size for you too if you like, Del! <3

P.S. you realize people only want animated sigs/avs now because other people are complaining :mog:

I am actually curious to see what animated monstrosity you could create with my classic Sonny.

Now you have to use it because I worked very hard on it :mog:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g6...ruit/142-1.gif

Oh dear gods.

Maybe all pink looks better :3
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g6...it/142-1-1.gif

...Ihatelawschoolbacktohomework. x_x

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Nope, still don't like it. Doesn't feel like EoFF.

It will always be 60x60 to me :cool:

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Sellout.

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Maybe all pink looks better :3
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g6...it/142-1-1.gif

...Ihatelawschoolbacktohomework. x_x

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PINK!!!!!

Nice job :D.

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Nope, still don't like it. Doesn't feel like EoFF.

It will always be 60x60 to me :cool:

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Sellout.

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Hey, youg guys decided to go ahead with this, I'm just adapting.

You don't have to adapt. :p

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Nope, still don't like it. Doesn't feel like EoFF.

It will always be 60x60 to me :cool:

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Sellout.

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Hey, youg guys decided to go ahead with this, I'm just adapting.

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Have you not noticed that some of us are against it? :( Silly Levian. Revert, before it's too late! And read announcements in full, silly.

Eurgh. The animated monstrosities. Back to 60x60 if this is what else comes with the deal. :seriouslyimgoingtobloodyvomit:

For some reason, I thought the thread title was going to read "Good girls and boys having bad fun."

There are still a few avatars that I need to resize/edit, but I haven't done anything during these past couple of days, because I wanted a break from Photoshop and such.

Levian still gets a Mega Man avatar (I think I have a neat idea); Shiny still gets a bigger Totoro; and Bunny still gets a bigger version of his avatar with a Christmas edit.

http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m...peachtwirl.gif

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Eurgh. The animated monstrosities. Back to 60x60 if this is what else comes with the deal. :seriouslyimgoingtobloodyvomit:

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How do you guys play video games? =O

The blatant overuse of animated avatars abominations is making me sad, because each new one is a new nail in the coffin of this new freedom. Why, guys? The few that already existed were fine, but there are so many new ones now! （￣へ￣）＊

...I REALLY don't see more than there was before o_o


Either I'm blind (plausible) or y'all are just noticing them more now because they're bigger.

Stop making animated signatures/avatars for people whomever is making 'em.

It's pretty bad when you scroll down a page and the first thing that grabs your attention is a blinding, flashing light.

It's animated torture I tells you.

Seriously. This place is becoming more animated than Munty's sig. (The difference is-- I like Munty's sig)

The upsetting thing is, this has nothing to do with the larger avatars, since there was no increased kb size permitted to support them. However, the admins are going to see it that way, and we may as well wave goodbye to our newly acquired privilege.

Whine whine whine :rolleyes2

As you said, this has nothing to do with the larger avatars. And I agree with Jesswee, there aren't an abundance more of animated avatars than before. Even Sheep had an animated avatar before at 60x60, and he only wanted the flashing sig because of the whiners :love:

Although if we do go back to 60x60 (and I don't even care about the size really, just the reaction), I will make sure to make an animated avatar and sig request thread and get as many people to wear them as I can. ^^;;

I'm not whining. I'm throwing out an advisory.

No, I think the size and animated avatars are completely irrelevant-- but I'm positive the admins who are against this change will see this as a perfect reason to go back to 60x60. And though you don't care about the size, some of us do.

If you can see that it's irrelevant, I'm sure the admins can see it too.

If they're just using it as an excuse to go back to 60x60, then it's quite clear they are simply against it, period, and will find some excuse at some time anyway.

So just abuse it so we lose them faster? Great job.

Who's abusing? Honey, I've pretty much always used animation. Sheep has often used animation as well. The only difference between before and now are people whining. And yes, I will make use it to make statement against the whiners if I feel like procrastinating enough. ^_^;

The difference between then and now is: a few people have animated avatars that are square images instead of sprites, which Jojee or I have made. The rest of the GIFs are sprites, which have always been around, but most of them are smaller. Only a few people are using the avatars that Jojee and I have made, though, I think.

Because of the staff's behavior in this thread, I don't expect 80x80 avatars to stick around. Members should just have as much fun as they can with 80x80 avatars while they can and not worry about the staff or this "trial."

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I'm not whining, damn it. I'm saying this for the sake of those of us who happen to enjoy having less pixelated, cramped avatars for once. And I'm not just talking about you or Sheep. There are a bunch of new animated avatars since the size limit was raised-- and if you can't see that, you clearly are not paying enough attention.

I honestly don't mind that people have them. I just happen to like having a nice, clear avatar.

Look at what we've come to.

Shhh...calm down, everything is going to be ok, Momiji. :nibbles:

I think that animations are fairly "clear" and add more personality, I enjoy them, but that may also be my supposed ADHD taking interest.

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Even Sheep had an animated avatar before at 60x60

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Yay you said it for me! I could really care less if it's 80x80 or 60x60. I'm not here to compare avatars - I'm hear to read threads. There are so many flashy things on the internet anyway, I'm frankly used to it, so bigger, smaller, moving, non-moving, MEH.

As far as the admin are concerned, this wasn't a "privilege" for them to take away. It was clearly a trial period. Of course if they don't like it they'll take it away, that's why it's a trial period.

As far as animated goes, There are what, maybe like 7 people with them now as opposed to like 5 before? I'm just saying ANIMATED =/= 80x80. Yeah, they get more annoying at that size but you can give people seizures just as well with 60x60 ones.:D

There probably isn't that many more animated avatars. It probably has a lot to do with biased sampling from looking in this thread. But you cannot deny that something only slightly annoying becomes much more annoying when it is bigger. To say the size increase has nothing to do with it is foolish.

The decision has not yet been made. Other than this one issue I'd have to say I'm pretty fine with the change right now. There are also plenty of people who's opinions matter just as much as mine and who have not weighed in on it publicly. I only keep posting because I'm bored and I'd also like to repeat as Best Admin.

Thanks for your votes.

DEL FOR BEST ADMIN!

I'll only vote for him if he wears my avatar :(

i move that this thread should be closed...all it's doing is making people argue, and that's not going to solve anything.

the avatar size has been changed temporarily, and perhaps permanently, so just suck it up and deal with the animations (i know this is bias because my avatar is animated, but seriously, it's not a big issue)...this isn't aimed at anybody in particular, but no matter what your viewpoint is, people aren't going to listen to you; if people want to use animated avatars, people are going to use animated avatars, just let it go, there's nothing you can do (while this sounds hostile, it's not meant that way...i'm just trying to make BOTH sides see some sense)

Uh, the point of this thread is for people to get help with resizing their avatar. I don't think there's that much arguing and almost certainly nobody is hostile.

i meant that what i said may be taken as hostile, and while you say there's not much arguing (which i disagree with), there's also not much resizing going on

i'm not trying to argue with you, sorry, i just don't think this is a very productive thread

EDIT: also, my motion was mostly a joke :)

Let the fools take the horrid animated avatars. Then we just get to laugh at their hideousness.

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Ohh, a rectification to that situation can be arranged. By the way, guys, I have seventeen syllables for you.

Annoying image
Swept away in the light wind
AdBlock is your friend

Alternatively, use BoB's Simplified. Then the matter of avatars comes out in the wash.

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If you can see that it's irrelevant, I'm sure the admins can see it too.

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That's a dangerous assumption to make.

Well I went from animated to non-animated. Hard enough for me to get one of my animations in the 60x60 size(me = bad with animations).

Anyhow, this should have been seen as coming. By changing the size limit and advertising it you promote people to gain new avatars. When the people doing the new avatars/resizes happen to be known as animated avatar makers you are going to run into at least a slight increase in animated avatars.


As for me if we go back to 60x60 I will be using my old animated cat girl again. If we stay with 80x80 I will probably continue to use non-animated avatars. Well unless there is a kb increase as well. A KB increase would push me to play with animations more :D.


Edit- Though hearing all the reactions to animated avatars makes me really want to make one :p.
Also if it went up to 100x100 or even 150x150(like I see on several forums) I would be even less likely to make animated avatars. At those sizes I can just make more small details. For example my current one was made for a forum with 150x150 size, and it looked a fair bit better there in my opinion. A lot of the micro detail isn't visible at this size(let alone 60x60).

shiny shiny shiny shiny shiny shiny flash slagr flash!

Hey, Mullet!

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Hey, Mullet!

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On another topic, there were no girls in EoFF in 2004! Seriously, not a single female in that thread. :confused:

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On another topic, there were no girls in EoFF in 2004!

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Anything you want to reveal, Jojee?

Seeing as you were an active member. :)

There are no girls on the internet period.

I guess I inspired the females of EoFF to come out from behind their rocks when I registered at the end of 2004 ^___________^

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On another topic, there were no girls in EoFF in 2004!

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Anything you want to reveal, Jojee?

Seeing as you were an active member. :)

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Was not xD

My activity period is:
1999 - mid 2000
mid-2001 to 2002
2005 - half year intervals of activity and inactivity. ^_^

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The increased use of annoying animated .gifs is pretty much making the decision for us though.

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I've only seen two new .gifs so far, and that's Allie's and Aaron's. It's not like that's even very relevant to the avatar size, since one can have annoying .gifs at pretty much any size. The rest of the new .gifs belong to those who already had animated avatars to begin with. :p

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I would've switched to this avatar regardless of the size change, for the record. I'd just have used a smaller version of it. In fact it was actually harder for me to make the change in 80x80 because I had to remove the "Communism" caption from the original version in order to make it fit the file size requirements.

To many of the 60x60 arguments here:

Just for the record, saying that allowing 80x80 pixel avatars automatically results in more animated .gif images is complete rubbish. If anything, it would be easier to make an animated .gif at 60x60 because you would have more file space to work with, relatively speaking.

80x80 doesn't make more animated images, it just makes the animated ones larger, more visible, and more obnoxious. That's all.