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Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:34 am
by Rakuen Growlithe
Halloween is now just less than a week away. Like last year, I have allowed users to change their usernames so you can use spooky Halloween names. This is for people to have fun but please do not abuse the privilege. This will remain active until a few days after Halloween so you can reset your names.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:45 am
by Ryall
Sweet. Thanks Rakuen! I'll get in theme later today.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:43 am
by Franky
How will we go about this? Still uneditable under CP.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:01 pm
by Rakuen Growlithe
You should be able to do it from User Control Panel > Profile > Edit Account Settings. If it's not available there then I will have to look closer when I get home.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:15 pm
by Franky
Nope. Not editable. Cleared browser cookies etc...
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 1:28 pm
by Fluke
I can see it, but cannot edit it.
Maybe you only allowed admins to edit/change it? Or just yourself? Or maybe the site has not updated it?
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:15 pm
by Rakuen Growlithe
There were some other permissions that needed changing. All forum members should now be able to change their names. They must be changed back within a week after Halloween. After that point I will remove the ability to change usernames again. If it goes well then maybe we'll do it next year too.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:22 pm
by Franky
This is gonna get confusing.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:37 pm
by Rakuen Growlithe
Red Pyramid Guy wrote:This is gonna get confusing.
Which is why it's not allowed for the rest of the year.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:51 pm
by Contrast
This might turn into a kind of "masquerade party." Should be interesting.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:53 pm
by Helios_phi
For posterity sake, I'll keep my avatar.
In before people start stealing other people's avatars
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:03 pm
by Contrast
You just had to give them that idea, didn't you?
Re: Halloween
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 1:40 pm
by Ryall
Soon, you will all burn you miserable wretches, in the fiery pits of ash and sulfur.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 5:31 pm
by Fluke
Ć̞̦̮̬̳̪̖̉̏̏ͯ͌ă͉̰͔̲̐͞n̷͇̳̖̟̙͆ ̸̞͍̯͉̰̖̾̑̎́ͅI̬̞̘̹̪ͬͮ̑͒̒ ̗̮͖͕͎̱ͧͣͣ͛ͧͣ͡ṭ̬̣̬ͣ͜a͖̖͇̖̻̥̹͊̐̅ͥ͠s̡̱͕̖͚ͣ̈́̊t͚̠͉̿ͧ͂ͪ̏́e͟ ̯̦̩͇̿̽͂̈́͒͛ÿ̛̜ͬơͤ͛ṳ̫͔̳͕̘͗̓́̀rͫ́́̚͏̫͍̥ ̫̮̭͉ͪͤ͂̒ͅfͧ̂͂̀l͓̫̳͓͕͊̏̐͟e̠͔̭͐̌͐̔̓̚sͬh̸̰̮̲͆̔̐?ͬ
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 9:23 am
by Rakuen Growlithe
Right. Halloween is over. Please change all your names back. I will be locking names again in a week and they must be back to normal.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 9:41 am
by Franky
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 2:24 pm
by Raven Song
i changed mine to the one i want it to be forever!!!! bwahahahahahaha (So evil am i
)
Re: Halloween
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 3:40 pm
by Ryall
Ah well, it was fun, so thanks for enabling it Rakuen!
Hopefully next year we can do it again, and perhaps organize some fun events to go along with it.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 5:01 pm
by Rakuen Growlithe
Well it looks like everyone who's posted in here has changed back as asked, so I would certainly consider it. It was kinda fun to watch.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 7:15 am
by Helios_phi
Thanks Rakuen.
It was actually more fun than I expected
Re: Halloween
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 9:43 am
by Helios_phi
*Bump*
Can we do this again this year?
Re: Halloween
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:52 am
by Ryall
I rate we should, seeing as how everyone was so well behaved last year.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 11:28 am
by jacojerb
I only took about half a year to change my profile pic after last halloween xD
Re: Halloween
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 11:37 am
by Rakuen Growlithe
It's still a long time off but sure. Last time went rather well.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 11:47 am
by Helios_phi
Sorry, I know it's long off but I'm thinking about it now cause we're planning our halloween party already.
We usually go quite big for the day.
So far we have 26 people on board doing a marvel vs DC theme
Re: Halloween
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 7:54 pm
by Franky
I have my Zalgo text ready!
Re: Halloween
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:04 pm
by Faanvolla
Have a link to get the thing able to display on other people's browsers ready too please?
I dont want blocks everywhere again x.x
Re: Halloween
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:37 pm
by Franky
FaanVolla wrote:Have a link to get the thing able to display on other people's browsers ready too please?
I dont want blocks everywhere again x.x
Even my phone supports it on Chrome. Safari displays it, ie displays it, opera displays it and firefox displays it. What freaking browsers do you guys use?
It must be the language pack or something.
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:57 am
by Faanvolla
Chrome on windows last year,
Where could I get a language pack then?
Re: Halloween
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:25 am
by Helios_phi
The simplest way is to download and install a sufficiently large font, such as Symbola, and use Firefox or Chrome.
The problem is twofold. First, the text contains combining diacritic marks that are not supported by the fonts shipped with Win XP. There are some free fonts that you can use to fix this. Second, IE is poor at rendering characters when no font listed in the applicable font-family list covers a character in an HTML document. Chrome and Firefox do a much better job; even Firefox 3, which I tested in a virtual Windows XP system seems to handle the situation OK: it picks up the missing characters from other fonts in the system.
In addition to pages that play with combining diacritic marks in a childish way, there are real pages that make use of such marks. So it’s good to be prepared. There is no single font that covers all characters, so just install additional fonts as needed; Alan Wood has a nice page for downloading fonts with large character repertoires
