Homestar Runner Wiki Forum

Well played, old chap!

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

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I'm pretty sure Disk and I were more responding to the "make us Coach Z" part.

Disk, Coach Z seems...I dunno...off in a lot of those. Like his head is off-center...it's too high.

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Yeah, I was talking about Coach Z.

Actually, the reason why his head is so high is because his neck is still there, just blended in with the background. I'll change that up if you all want me to, though.

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Yeah, I thought so. That was mostly like a "what the heck guys" moment. I swear, half of my posts are invisible =p

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Yeah, we could be Coach Z. Fanstuff could be Strong Bad because I'm pretty sure he's on their logo. The chat could be The Cheat or something.

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Yeah, I can barely see his neck there. I think it should just be a floating Coach Z head...that'd be awesome.

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I have come bearing gifts:











The Homestar emoticons became useful to me for once. I can try out more later, but I just decided to show these off since they're so simple to make.

EDIT: Strongbad:

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Any of those Coach Z's would work for us.

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Agreed with Noid. Both of those are good though I think I like the one on the right a bit better. I dunno though.

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Haha, a rotating favicon? I didn't realize the Wiki was using one like that of Homestar now... The fanstuff could use a new one too, since they still have the old. I remember when the favicon mysteriously vanished, but now there's nothing at http://forum.hrwiki.org/favicon.ico, and if you access the forum through http://hrwiki.org/forum, you can see the Wiki's. So I'm pretty sure we'd just have to put the file there.

Also, you probably knew this, but they have to be .gif (well, .ico) to use as the favicon.

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It's really great that you made all those samples, but we won't be using Coach Z or any other character besides Homestar for the favicon. The intent is to unify the brands on the sister sites using Homestar as the starting point. (If you're wondering, the plan is to move from an image of Strong Bad to Homestar at the fanstuff wiki, too. Also, green would not look good for this site. Besides, green has already been pegged for chat.hrwiki.org.)

*Crushed Dreams*

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Sunday, June 1, 2008:

Dear Mom and Dad,


Today is the day in which my dreams have finally been fulfilled! I was able to create some mock-up 16x16 icons for the Forum I go to! This is great! I'll be rich!


Love,
Chris!

P.S. I bought some baseball tickets for us! This will so great!

!!!
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008:

Dear Mom and Dad,


Today is the day in which my dreams were crushed for an eternity. I had posted samples of 16x16 icons for all of my favoritest Strongstar Runbadder characters in attempts to receive some money to pay the rent. Sadly, despite my 25 minutes of ripping and editing effort, they were rejected. I am afraid to tell you all that I will not be receiving a paycheck this month, meaning that I will once again be in the dark without any running water, food, or a roof over my head.

This also means that I had to sell my tickets I bought for us to go to the baseball game. I am aware that this would have been the first time that we met each other in 20 years (even if it was in the nosebleed seats), and that it would have been one of the happiest events in our lives, but I just had to in order to buy a loaf of bread to snack on underneath my moth-eaten trench coat in the middle of a rainy alleyway.

I deeply apologize, and I hope that I can get through this depression.


Love,
Chris
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Thursday, June 5, 2008:

Dear Mom and Dad,


I regret to inform you that all of the one jobs that I have applied for in the last day have rejected me. The loaf of bread was also stale, meaning that I broke all of my teeth. I was also curb-stomped by a gang, meaning that I broke all of my teeth even more.

It is truly a sad day. I am out of money, I am in both physical and emotional pain, and I have nowhere to go (if only you all were 2,000 miles closer...). I have been clawing at my hair all day long, trying to figure out what to do with myself. I am thinking that this is the end of the line. No--I know that this is the end of the line.

Attached to this letter will be my stamp collection, as well as several strands of my clawed-out hair (sorry for the dandruff). I will also sign this letter in watercolor blood, as I have just sliced open my arms with a razor and dipped them in a bucket of water. I am hoping that the mailman spots this letter under my trench coat.

I am so sorry. So, so, sorry.


Love...
Chris
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In conclusion: people still use the IRC?

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No.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

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Meanwhile as The Faceless Evil closes in on the hapless, sleeping, populace...
Across town in a shanty one-bedroom, an old woman feeds her parakeet.

Last time I checked (about a year ago), the IRC was only being used by KB people who were discussing coding and/or articles on the Wiki.

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And yet they're special enough to cost me my life and get a green background!?

Well, if we don't have a choice beyond Homestar, then I'd say red is fine by me.

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I'm not sure why the IRC gets dibs on green before the Forum does...if anything we should be the second most important part of this site, behind the KB. At least even with the Fanstuff.

Also about the whole "we need Homestar for unity"...don't we have a giant blinking banner of Homestar at the top of every page? Couldn't we spare just a few pixels for another character? I'd wholly support putting minor characters on the different favicons of the site but keeping a big banner with Homestar on it, front an center.

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The Fanstuff is filled with wannabee text Habbo Hotels. I don't even think half of the sysops edit it anymore.

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I say we take it back.

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ramrod, that is a splendid idea. We shall do it...

Tonight!

(or not)


But yeah, the giant blinking Homestar banner along the top of the page and in my posts is probably enough Homestar to get the point across. Wiki folk shouldn't be deciding on what the Forum's favicon should be anyhow, unless they come here themselves.

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Let's do it.

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also

wat

That's really just personal opinion there.


We really should. Since the death of Gabbly, this forum hasn't really had a readily available chat service. We were the ones who originally popularized the IRC (you can see the administrators' old threads about chat parties in General Discussion) but we lost interest for some reason. We should do it again this summer.

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The summer of '05...she's coming back!

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We need to organize it. Take back what is ours.

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I'm prepared to fight to the death. WE'LL GET THE COACH Z FAVICON OR WE DIE TRYING!

Wait... Didn't Disk already die?

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Until the Off-Subject boards are here again, I won't be. Goodbye.

Yeah, we should perform a HOSTILE TAKEOVER of the IRC chat.

And if the, like, 3 ten-year-old kids from the Fanstuff Wiki or whatever don't like it, TOUGH!

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

I'm cool with tonight.

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Yes, tonight... This Forum will regain its once semi-great power once more.

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