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Jul 12, 2003, 1:41pm

You mean like this? :)

http://www.awnews.org/survivor-duck.jpg

Completion time: 15 mins.

[View Quote] > Hey,
>
> I'm having some difficulty modifying some graphics for a project I need to
> have completed by Tuesday, July 15. I'd be willing to discuss some method
> of repayment if accomplishing this task would take a long time, as I'm not a
> graphic artist by any means.
>
> The problem is this: take the AW SURVIVOR Challenge II: Frozen Desert logo
> (which was originally held on March 10, 2001), and delete the AW background
> in the logo and replace it with the picture of the duck, preferably cropped
> and zoomed so that the duck is large enough so that you can see what it is.
> The word "SURVIVOR" and the blue background need to be left unchanged.
>
> All of the necessary files are available at
> www.shoemakervillage.org/survivor. I also put a Paint Shop Pro image up
> there that I created with a trial version in 2001. The trial has long since
> expired and I can't afford to purchase Paint Shop Pro for this task; plus, I
> don't even know whether the PSP image is the same as the JPEG. The ideal
> resolution for the graphic is 720 by 480, but I realize that would be
> difficult to accomplish if the PSP image isn't the same as the JPEG.
>
> Hopefully someone will be willing to tackle this difficult task :)
>
> -Brant
>
>

--
Goober King
The impossible could take a little while
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 13, 2003, 1:07pm

Umm, so which is it? :P

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Goober King
Pointing out the not-so-obvious
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 13, 2003, 1:10pm

You've got to be a little more specific than that, Leaf. :P

Nora's IP traces to a RoadRunner server in Waco, TX
STA Knight's IP traces to a RoadRunner server somewhere in the Allen
County, OH area
DOOMED's IP traces to a RoadRunner server in Xenia, OH
Johnny's IP traces to a BellSouth server somewhere in the Miami, FL area
EmporerZ's IP traces to a AT&T server somewhere in the Detroit, MI area

Of course, as has been said previously, they could be using proxies, but
I'm not sure if we can give them that much credit. :P

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Goober King
Down to brass tacks
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 13, 2003, 9:29pm

You know the argument is getting ridiculous when you're arguing over a
hypothetical situation.

Bowen, do you think that, just once, you could actually argue about the
topic at hand, instead of trying to divert it in ten different
directions (i.e. admin availability, ICQ installation, etc)? :P

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Goober King
Arguing over futility
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 14, 2003, 9:06am

No, actually it doesn't. Baron only mentioned ICQ as a joke, and he even
said that OSes have nothing to do with the conversation in a previous
post. The topic was about malicious bots and what AWI can do to stop
them, not about Windows admin privileges, installing ICQ, or any of that
crap.

But that's all beside the point. My point is you do this all the time,
picking up on some innocuous tidbit and running with it. Just yesterday,
I left for a few hours, came back to the NGs and found 40-some-odd new
messages in here, and about half of them were you and Baron going back
and forth about crap.

Oh, and Baron, stop encouraging him. :P

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Goober King
Stick to the point
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 14, 2003, 6:06pm

Because I know you have a spark of insight within you that occasionally
comes out to remind the world that it still exists. Hell, if the
original conversation was about Windows admin privs, you'd be shining
right now. Your thought process just seems to be in the right place at
the wrong time.

And, for the record, this would be my response to anyone who uses the
"If you don't like it, filter me!" excuse to act like a moron. I firmly
believe that even the lowest of the low has the potential to surprise
you with the occasional insight. I just try to accelerate the process by
verbally browbeating it out of them. *smirk*

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Goober King
Beaten like a red-headed step-child
gooberking at utn.cjb.net

Jul 15, 2003, 10:05am

Going to work doesn't count as "going outdoors" unless you work in
construction or landscaping. Otherwise, you spend the entire day locked
up in a building, either at the office or at home.

Oh, and you give yourself too much credit. Eep and Strike can be
absolutely virulent when need be. You just seem to aspire to be annoying. :P

And neither Eep nor Strike ever talked in the 3rd person. :P

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Goober King
Outside looking in
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 15, 2003, 4:33pm

Ayiyiyiyi....

I'm not going to start with you, Bowen. Just stick to the original topic
at hand from now on. Think you can handle that? :P

P.S. It's a rhetorical question. You don't have to answer it. :P

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Goober King
Rhetorically challenged
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 20, 2003, 3:07am

Leg, I know you're trying to be funny and all, but don't. It just winds
up annoying people. :/

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Goober King
Not even funny
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 19, 2003, 12:37am

Then it may surprise you to learn that I agree with you, or at least
partially agree with you. BB's lack of tact is often irritating and you
would expect more from someone who claims to be more experienced at
life. Then again, you aren't doing yourself any favors either, Bowen,
but we already know about all that. :P

Watching you and Bud go at it is like watching some lame reality show:
The participants disgust you, but you just can't help but follow along.

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Goober King
Has a sudden urge for Newsgroup Survivor...
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 22, 2003, 12:18am

Sorry, but I'll have to agree with Bud on this one. Once again, you're
just acting like an ass to have something to talk about. What part of
"The CA is not the GK's responsibility" don't you get? If the GKs can do
nothing about the CA, then complaining to them about it won't do squat.

Then again, accomplishing nothing never stopped you before, so why
should it now? :P

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Goober King
Ass-man
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 19, 2003, 12:18am

MP3 is a file format, not a song, hence an MP3 file in and of itself is
not illegal. It's only illegal if it is an unauthorized copy of
sound/song. And there are such things as legal MP3 songs that artists
hand out all the time.

This idea of MP3 as file format instead of song is a vast difference
that the music industry (and you, apparently :P) have a really hard time
grasping, which is causing most of this trouble in the first place.

[View Quote] > But MP3's are, which Brock specifically noted.

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Goober King
Grasping at straws
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 21, 2003, 5:51pm

And what exactly would you introduce them to? If these people have never
heard of AW, they would see it as a cheap Second Life knock-off, since
AW doesn't have as many features or as much press. Even if you told them
that AW is over 8 years older than SL, their first impression would be
"has been".

In the land of publicity, first impressions are more important than age,
and since folks like SL and There.com have all this money to throw at
advertising and press releases, they can make themselves seem to be the
only shows in town. Until AWI steps up and actually tries to compete
with these outfits by advertising and continuously adding features in a
timely manner, AW will continue to play third fiddle in the "Virtual
Wars"...

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Goober King
War is virtual hell
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 24, 2003, 12:18pm

You must find yourself wanting to be an awful lot, then. :P

[View Quote] --
Goober King
Yearning to be
awnews at awnews.org

Aug 5, 2003, 7:56pm

One more reason to use Mozilla! :D

[View Quote] > On Refresh (Ctrl+R) IE6 sends the HTTP request
> to www.msn.com and to www.alexa.com too.
>
> This can include passwords !!!
>
> More information :
>
> http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8955/
>
> They recommend to block msn and alexa with a
> firewall or use a normal browser.
>

--
Goober King
More where that came from
awnews at awnews.org

Aug 10, 2003, 8:59pm

Somehow, I think KAH was attempting to be sarcastic. In fact, pretty
much everything having to do with The Lady has had nothing to do with
actual facts, it would seem. :P

[View Quote] >
> no
>
>
>
> I know this is not part of the subject KAH but no less so than your
> statement I will quote below.
>
> Awhile back you said, in reference to some comments made by "theLady"
>
> TheLady said: "Ya'll declared war on me. I don't even have an army. Guess
> I'd better get one."
>
> Kah responded: "Okay, this one person is "us all". That's right, makes lots
> of sense."
>
> I agreed with you and any comment renouncing statements that lump whole
> populations into one common behavioral group (even when a particular
> behavior IS a groups common purpose, such as the KKK, a church choir,
> pedophiliacs-they all have a distinct personalities aside from that).
>
> So of course I was very disappointed when you said:
>
> Kah: "Lying under oath (sp?) seems fairly common in the US now..."
>
> The dictionary defines common in this instance as meaning: "generally met
> with and not in any way special, strange, or unusual. COMMON implies usual,
> or frequency of occurrence. Occurring habitually." Something more often done
> than not done.
>
> Since you didn't identify a subset of the US population I have to assume you
> mean lying under oath occurs frequently among the entire population.
> Statistics please. We're not talking about per capita milk consumption or
> gum chewing now. I suppose you could prove that kind of thing with
> statistics....but lying under oath?
>
> Now KAH, why can't the lady say you are probably one of those who declared
> war on her if you can say I probably lie under oath because I am a resident
> of the US?
>
>

--
Goober King
Don't let facts get in the way of a good revolution
awnews at awnews.org

Aug 12, 2003, 9:01am

Has the entire NG community suddenly gone mad? Weebo's cracked and
raving like a lunatic, Crazy Pills thinks everyone's out to get him,
Hamster's ranting in his own little world, as usual, and everyone else
seems to be more interested in stoking the fires than putting them out.

For all the morons, here's a little tip: If it didn't happen in the NGs,
then leave it out of the NGs! This includes, but is not limited to, PK
complaints, GZ arguments, feelings of inadequacy brought on from abuse
in AW, and lame town occurrences that no one else cares about. *glares
pointedly at Hamster*

Now, for the love of COB, would everyone *please* just knock it off?! :P

--
Goober King
The voice of reason
awnews at awnews.org

Aug 12, 2003, 2:27pm

Weebo, for the love of God, shut the fuck up! No one cares about your
little spat with Daphne and this Lotto person. Take it to email, for
chrissake!

ENZO, if you're out there, I would suggest you nuke all of Weebo's
recent threads, and possibly even ban Weebo from the NGs if this kind of
behavior continues. It's becoming highly irritating.

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Goober King
Highly irritated
awnews at awnews.org

Aug 15, 2003, 1:34am

Two years ago, I wrote an edition of StVMP for AWNews where I described
my first experience in AW. I described how I was filled with awe as I
watched scenes download around me, and felt compelled to explore this
new frontier whenever possible. It was this feeling that drove me to do
whatever I could to try and help solve AW's problems, so other people
wouldn't have to worry about them and be as I was: someone cheerfully
lost in a virtual world.

I then ended that opinion piece with the following paragraph:
"There are days where I think of trying to go back to those days of
wandering: Abandon UTN, abandon AWNews, abandon the hoards of telegrams
and contacts, leave behind all the rhetoric and flames of the
newsgroups, get a new account, and simply wander off into the sunset.rwx
in search of my next big adventure. That, I think, would be a very
fitting ending indeed..."

Well, folks, that day has finally arrived. After two years, I've made it
painfully obvious to myself that there's really nothing I can do to help
stave off AW's problems. The only person who can do that is Rick Noll,
and he has made it painfully obvious that he isn't able, or willing, to
do what it takes to fix said problems.

As for me, I'm just tired. Tired of feeling forced to help a community
that apparently has no interest in helping itself. Tired of depending on
undependable people. Tired of watching people who are more interested in
destroying each other than helping each other. And most of all, I'm
tired of myself making empty promises that I know I can't keep.

And so, today it all ends. Universal Town Network will be dropping off
the face of the Net as Computerizer (UTN's host) wipes his web space in
the coming weeks. The HQs will remain open, but will no longer be
updated. The AWNews.org domain will expire on Sept. 19th, and the AWNews
webspace will be shut down shortly thereafter. If anyone really wants to
take on these projects in my place, feel free to contact me in AW (don't
bother contacting me through the NGs, as I won't be reading them
anymore), but considering the current demeanor of the community, I doubt
I will find any serious takers.

And as for me, I'm going to get back to what I should have been doing
since I got here way back in 1996: building, exploring, and enjoying
other people's hard work. After all, I know all too well the toils of a
thankless job, so it's time I started thanking others for theirs.

Farewell, AW Community. It was fun while it lasted.

--
Goober King

Oct 3, 2002, 9:59am

Erm, this thread is over 3 yrs old! Check the date lately?

At any rate, I think you're missing the point of tourists. If AWI gave
tourists all the same rights and privileges as citizens, then there'd be
no reason for them to become citizens, and AWI would get no money. In
fact, that's precisely why tourists are in the situation they are now,
(being shut out of most worlds) because too many people were staying as
tourists. The point of being a tourist is so that you can get a feel for
the program and what it's capable of before becoming a citizen so you
can use it to its fullest.

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Goober King
It's like making a fully-functional demo that never expires...
robrod at prism.net

Jan 21, 2000, 3:57pm

Let's face facts, things have changed in AW. It would seem that Worlds,
Inc. and COF are on two opposite sides of the management spectrum when
it comes to Public Relations.

Whereas Worlds, Inc. had a "hands-off" policy towards chatting (they
even put up a sign in GZ stating they didn't monitor for content and it
was a "chat-at-your-own-risk" place), COF insists on "protecting" us
from the all the naughty people out there. Whereas Protagonist and Co.
would make regular visits to AWGZ to chat and hang with the commoners,
COF is aloof and at most times unreachable (unless it involves money).

Now, the point of this rant isn't to bash COF, (well, not the main point
anyway *smirk*) it's to say that I've been considering an idea such as
Johnny's for a while, altho not in the same format. Instead of a
committee tho, we have Public Relations people who take surveys of
people and/or go around the AW Universe and listen to people's
ideas/problems/complaints. Then the PR guys would relay their findings
and COF would (hopefully) take the necessary steps to
correct/implement/help out with whatever the PR guys found.

As Johnny stated, this would obviously need the backing of COF, cause if
they're not interested, then there's really no point. Much like Protag,
Dataman, and the others, if the average citizen (and tourist) of AW knew
that they had a voice, and that that voice was being heard, then I
definitely think COF would have a better chance of not only garnering
new citizens, but also keeping a hold on the citizens that are already
here. Then perhaps their mantra of "AWcom loves you! :)" would actually
be true for a change!
--
Goober King
Could go on forever, but manages to stop somehow... odd.
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/index.html

Dec 28, 1999, 9:22pm

It's like a Road Rally, only without the cars.rwx! :)

Come explore some of the many communities and towns in the AW Universe,
and have a chance to win great prizes! The fun starts on January 29th,
2000 at 10:00 PM VRT in the UTN AWHQ (aw 90.1s 3722.2w 222) and lasts
all day! And the grand prize is a free citizenship!

Check out http://utn.cjb.net/utnrdrly.htm for more details and I hope to
see you there! :)
--
Goober King
Plugging UTN every chance he gets...
http://utn.cjb.net/utnhome.htm

Jan 16, 2000, 12:29am

I've actually been meaning to do this for a long time, but never got up
off my duff to do it. But Ruff's post gave me the necessary inspiration
to type it up, I guess. :)

So, here it is, (or, at least the first chapter of it) the story of
AlphaWorld, as told by the people who actually live there! Meet Helmut,
Harold, Shredd, and all the rest in this little fictional tale meant
solely for your entertainment! Feel free to reply to this post on your
thoughts on how you like/dislike it so far. I'm always open to new ideas
:)

http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/aw/awtale.htm

Happy Reading! :)
--
Goober King
Brushes off hands and prepares to type Chapter 2...
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/index.html

Jan 28, 2000, 1:43pm

Chapter three is up! Sorry for the delay, but I just got back to my
other comp and had to hash out some issues with it. :) But all is
better now, and I hope to relieve your boredom in the weeks to come! :)
--
Goober King
He's the one mumbling in the corner...
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/index.html

Jan 28, 2000, 1:43pm

Actually, all of the places mentioned (with the exception of the
Northern Wastelands) do/did exist in AW. There was an AlphaBar way back
in the beginning of AW, although I'm not sure if it was called that or
not. They had a Bartender bot and everything! :) As for the other
places, here's the coords if you're interested in checking them out:

AlphaBar (now PeaceKeeper HQ): AW 10n 0w
NorthWest Territories: AW 1019n 1034w
Egyptian Kingdom: AW 0n 1630w
--
Goober King
He's the one mumbling in the corner...
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/index.html

Jan 29, 2000, 7:44pm

Sure :)

http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/aw/awtale.htm
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Goober King
He's the one mumbling in the corner...
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/index.html

Jan 19, 2000, 7:31pm

Well, I know there's a list of some interesting places at NW's Builders'
Supply (AW 1096n 988w). Or you can check out the Community Register
(http://www.awcommunity.org/awcomreg) or Universal Town Network
(http://utn.cjb.net) and see what they've got... nothing any more
specific, tho :-/
--
Goober King
He's the one mumbling in the corner...
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/index.html

Jan 19, 2000, 7:31pm

Well, I know there's a list of some interesting places at NW's Builders'
Supply (AW 1096n 988w). Or you can check out the Community Register
(http://www.awcommunity.org/awcomreg) or Universal Town Network
(http://utn.cjb.net) and see what they've got... nothing any more
specific, tho :-/
--
Goober King
He's the one mumbling in the corner...
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/index.html

Jan 19, 2000, 7:31pm

Well, I know there's a list of some interesting places at NW's Builders'
Supply (AW 1096n 988w). Or you can check out the Community Register
(http://www.awcommunity.org/awcomreg) or Universal Town Network
(http://utn.cjb.net) and see what they've got... nothing any more
specific, tho :-/
--
Goober King
He's the one mumbling in the corner...
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/index.html

Jan 30, 2000, 1:56am

Interested in doing a little scavenger hunting?

The UTN Town Road Rally has started! Don't get left behind! :)
http://utn.cjb.net/utnrdrly.htm

It'll be going on all week, so there's still time to get in on the fun!
And don't forget about that free citizenship! :)
--
Goober King
He's the one mumbling in the corner...
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/heat/318/index.html

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