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  2. Posted · Edited by HarJIT

    @Scotty

    Found this:

    "This wound up getting posted on a Thursday, which I find somewhat frustrating. The day before it was Wednesday, January 21st, AKA the day it should have been posted, AKA Squirrel Appreciation Day, and AKA the 13th anniversary of El Goonish Shive. Woo." -- Dan Shive, 2015. 

    -- http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2014

    Edit: looks like Squirrel Appreciation Day predates EGS: http://mentalfloss.com/article/54634/happy-squirrel-appreciation-day

  4. Posted

    Posted by Dan Shive to Facebook and Tumblr:

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    Next story comic Friday, and Wednesday EGS:NP during the day Wednesday.

    This delay is due to me dealing with a flooding situation late Monday Night (Tuesday Morning). It was *relatively* minor and everything worked out okay, but it was very physically strenuous, I’m sore, and I didn’t get any sleep until after 7AM.

    Incidentally, by “relatively minor”, well, we’re talking about flooding. It was a serious situation and a significant amount of damage was prevented, but the bar’s set pretty high with floods, and I don’t want to give the wrong impression. Definitely serious and a struggle, but not the stuff of legendary legends.

    -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/elgoonishshive/permalink/10154857997797208/ https://danshive.tumblr.com/post/156002089042/rain-delay

     

  6. Posted

    Issues over personhood of Uryuoms would only come into question in practice if their being Homo sapiens is brought into doubt.  Which would require seeing through Ed Verres' T-shirts, which are of course impenetrable.

    That being said, by one of multiple biological definitions of species (a group of organisms living together which can breed to produce fertile offspring, the so-called "Biological Species Concept") a possible argument could be put forth that Uryuoms do actually constitute Homo sapiens, at least for certain purposes.

    I suspect the DGB wouldn't find it too difficult to weasel in something somewhere to ensure that Homo sapiens is legally defined based on that concept, which would consequently technically include Uryuoms on fertile-hybrid grounds (although this would not be obvious from reading the law with no knowledge of Uryuoms).

  7. Posted

    33 minutes ago, Trix Marano said:

    2. Used actual random number generator (CMBR-based) to select comic, had read one or two onwards before switching to forum.

    Any particular reason why CMBR over a PRNG?  Just curious, given that I presume this has no cryptographic significance?

  9. Posted · Edited by HarJIT

    On 02/01/2017 at 5:49 PM, Don Edwards said:

    Also, a line of text near the bottom of the page, showing the path to the current page, is in white on a pale blue - thus barely detectable, let alone readable.

    I think there's also some other text on the same line, right-justified.

    Er... just to ensure we're seeing the same thing, this is what it looks like to me, using the Greasemonkey fixes:

    [images moved to first post]

     

  10. Posted

    The forum's graphical emoticons: :) (that's supposed to show up as an image).

    Textual emoticon: :) (works unsurprisingly).

    (I tried an emoji as well, but got "The value entered includes a character that is not allowed such as an Emoji." on submitting.)

    The problem is that the forum's graphical emoticons went missing.  Like the avatars and gallery.

    The same could be said of the banner image, but as it is one image which appears on every page it was fairly straightforward to find an archived copy of it and host it on Catbox.

    Further complication is that even if I would put enough time and effort into getting them all to show up from an external host using CSS (which still wouldn't fix the selector), they would still show up as BBCode alt-text to everyone else.  Like: :danshiftyeyes::demonicduck: .

    While I suspect that it would be possible to monkey-patch the editor with JavaScript, I'm not volunteering.

    Nonetheless, here's an externally hosted Demonic Duck to be copy/pasted: :demonicduck:

  11. Posted

    I've noticed that some changes seem to have been made to how sidebars show up on profile pages.  While this is positive in general, it does not play well with my existing fixes, causing all the text to completely camouflage.  I have therefore redone my profile page fixing, as well as taking the opportunity to sort out the settings page while I was at it.  Current version.

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  21. Posted

    On 19/12/2016 at 7:17 AM, mlooney said:

    The "Quote This" when you highlight a block of text is invisible

    On 19/12/2016 at 3:09 PM, ProfessorTomoe said:

    Also getting a problem with the Size pull-down in the edit window. The shades of blue and black are so close that the numbers are unreadable unless you roll over them, at which point the choices look like pushbuttons (at least they're readable then)

    Fixed. 

    As an aside, who uses iframes for pull-down lists?  Who????

  23. Posted

    9 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    ETA: Huh.  A line of text I did a cut-and-paste on while composing the post is showing up with a white background instead of lavendar, making it appear highlighted in the post and invisible in edit mode.

    Well, this would be why it's showing like that, in terms of HTML/CSS...

    As for why it might have gone like that: notice that the lavender in the current (unshimmed) GUI is not an inline style.  Presumably the editor script or something assumed the automatic non-overriden background to be white, when trying to copy/paste with formatting?  Of note, it specifies the font size for that line inline also.

  24. Posted

    Update (yes, I know it's only been five hours since the last one, sorry about that): New latest version.  Turns out that the rules for stopping the camouflaging of the left side bars on profile pages were in turn causing the complete camouflaging of the text of the right sidebar on the main 910CMX homepage.

    To be honest, I don't know if anyone here actually uses the latter (whereas I know that people do view profiles), but I've further specified the selectors, which fixes the problem.