Agreed

Definetly.That name is way too long.

I'd go for making the sidebar add extra lines to fit the string.

Nah it's better to make a limit.

but then we couldn't have new names that are similar to gnorthan's!

Ya but that's well i guess life but maybe we could change a few things note.

I'd say a display limit, like this........

"TheMetalBoxIsAwesomeIR..."
(Not necessarily that length, but similar)

That way ultra long names are discouraged but you can still have a name like Gnorthan's.

Yeah, I agree with Hobbes' idea, it's neat.

Ya it's a good idea.So it can just say"We recommend that you use a username under 12 letter" or something

Yeah I'll clip it in the display like Hobbes said

ok

is this

over the limit?

Seems you made it work, Steve. That is aesthetically very nice lookin. Atleast much nicer than it was back then.

"Gnorthan, king o..."

Kind of depresing.

What is Gnorthan king of?

Maybe just King Gnorthan?

...I'd like an exception to be made for Gnorthan if this happens XD
The problem seems to me to be more that that...Louie bloke...'s name is one unbroken string of characters; Gnorthan's is much more aesthetically pleasing.

I have an alternative solution! Turn up your resolution, I did it and now I can see everything just fine! No messed up displays or anything!

But this is already made.
Is the new user 'anotherridiculoulylongname' or something else?

you mean long names aren't fully showing on your guys screens? Mine shows them all full length..

Mine shows : anotherridiculouslyl...

It's clipped in the member panel only. Gnorthan will be seeing his name clipped in the panel when he logs on.

Perhaps I should further refine it to check for spaces every certain number of characters and insert them if they are not there.

I see the whole name

Yes, but you're not logged in as Gnorthan.

gnorthan: why do you don't log on that much?

Uh-oh!There is a name called "Anotherridiculouslylongname"
Why do people make such big names?

That was me testing whether the clipping was working. :)

Oh ok well phew!

So wait what? I've read over this a few times and I don't quite get it...

Because names are getting way too long so we have to come up with a limit for the names.
Welcome shmoopshybob!

Unless I'm mistaken shmoopshybob is an older member who hasn't posted in a bit.

The name is rather familiar...

Yup! He joined in 09, I remember now...

I remember too. Welcome back, shmoop.

Whoops sorry,welcome back.Anyways,I haven't from Megaman4ever for a while.

Shmoop! Epic shortening!
And yeah, I remember that guy...existing. Can't remember anything else. I have a great memory :'D

Ha ha, I never really did mcuh, I went one posted a few things then I did a "computer fast" for like um...a while, I can't remember how long, then I forgot about this place, then I remembered!

How did you remember?

I actually don't remember how I remembered... shmoop... hm... I was playing a video game and "Shmoopshybob" did fit so I was going to type shmoopshy but it accidently came out as Shmoby some how. So I usually use Shmoby for short, but Shmoop works.

Oops, I ment didn't not did.

Oh ok cool.I hope that happens to the other people who don't go on the site.

And I do not. While I like members who post, I wouldn't rather have 1500 comments per week. 500 is quite enough to read at tops, and 700-800 is still bearable, but that 'over 1000' incident was not anymore for me.

Oh ya we had reached 1000.That was crazy.

Now if only we could get... over NINE-THOUSAND

Note,that would be incredibily hard because it is only the 12 of us.
If we have more members than it could happen but we would have to wait.But I don't want too many comments.

Don't tell me you didn't get the joke.

Haha, who wouldn't?

....Crazy, you did get the over nine thousand joke, right??

I didn't get the joke...

That's because you aren't young enough to cruise internet and find all sorts of cool stuff like this, also known as 'memes'.

knowyourmeme.com search for over 9000 and you should find it quickly enough.

I didn't get it either... then I looked it up. I never liked DBZ.

Me neither. It just keeps coming back up.

Memes aren't jokes, though.
If you don't know them, they're nonsensical and stupid. If you do know them, they're still nonsensical and stupid, but you get the reference which apparently makes all the difference.

I know memes aren't jokes. Many are, though.

...And what you said there is completely true.

I love internet memes. They're so stupid and pointless.

string faves[3];
faves[0] = "It's over 9000";
faves[1] = "The cake is a lie!!";
faves[2] = "All your base is belong to us!";

good ones

...the cake is a pie!

The cake is a DIE

The cake is some rye!!!

The cake is a tie!!

I also like the Failboat and just failing in general. And many of the more weird google search suggestions.

It's all your base are belong to us, not all your base is belong to us.

I have failed.

Wow.

Quite weird...

That site is cool! I had heard of All your base are belong to us, and The Cake is A Lie, but not the over 9000 one.

It was nice to get bit more detail on the cake is a lie as well. I think many of feel like that in our daily lives as well... :')

Wait I don't get these "memes"!

Don't worry about it. There just useless saying that get popular over the Internet.

But you have issues if you haven't heard of over 9000.

So, you're saying that Steve, Crazy and I have problems? lol

Didn't they just hear of it? :)

Am I?

Well, I just heard of it and I believe that this too goes for Steve and Crazy.

Wow never heard a person say that Steve had issues.

Steve has a pretty good reason for not knowing it.

Oh I know it! Ha ha... memes are so funny/rediculous.

I don't know what you're on about either...not sure I want to know XD

Are memes supposed to be funny?

My reason is that I never liked DBZ, and that I actually have a life! HA! ;)

I actually hate DBZ too.

At least it's much better than GT. Although the story covered in DBZ was better in the manga, but the anime was cool until the whole 'OMG HES SO STRONG' 'AFTER A YEAR OF TRAINING I FINALLY AM SUPER SAYAN N+1 AND TOOK HIM DOWN'!!

To an outsider a meme isn't generally funny. They're usually funny as in-jokes really.

Meme question!
Recently I've seen a meme in which, basically, you say something untrue, then "LOL jk", then the opposite; usually as a joke. For example, (bad example)
"I love goblins...LOL jk I'm Merlin"

Question is, is that just a local thing or have other people seen it?

I've seen it in Maple Story a few times, but I don't think it would qualify as a meme in the case of popularity.

Actually a meme is a bit of a bigger idea than just 'funny things on the internet'. The concept was invented by Richard Dawkins to describe the way that ideas are passed around and kind of take on a life of their own.

Some ideas change and grow as they are passed on, others die out. So there is a kind of 'survival of the fittest' for ideas. Over 9000, the cake is a lie, all your base are belong to us are all kind of funny so perhaps that is why these particular memes are so popular. We could say that the population of a meme is how many people's heads it resides in.

Back in the 30s lots of film stars would be shown smoking in films, so we could say there was a meme that said 'smoking is cool'. Today nobody smokes or only the bad guys smoke, so we could say that the 'smoking is cool' meme is dying out and being 'out competed' by a more compelling meme 'smoking is for losers'.

It's an interesting idea, and can describe how societies change their minds about things. Also how a society can be described as having certain beliefs or views while allowing for the possibility of certain members of the society not subscribing to those views.

Of course, Steve has to go and be all philosophical like that...




...And that's one of the reasons I love this site :D

Fanks! And Soz!

What's soz?

Soz = sorry

oh ok srry.

You mean Soz.

Yep soz.