Cracked my ball

From: Manthorp22 Jun 2005 11:18
To: Mouse 2168 of 2579

>MOUSE> They made a classic balls of the story. I said that we believed that the map would be the most complex UT map ever made, and through the power of press hyperbole it was transmogrified into the most complex game of all time.

 

The story in the paper was accompanied by an unfortunate shot of my aged self looking strangely pensive, as if wondering whether the sun was over the yardarm yet.

 

>KENNY> I hope to launch it on the new big screen in Bradford city centre, which should be up and running well before the game is finished. One of the spawn points is going to be directly in front of the screen, so that should give it a nice Alice-in-wonderland quality.

 

The 'Alsop Wand' is in reality, of course, an Alsop Gun, but I don't want to offend the delicate sensibilities of some of the project funders, so extremely gun-like wands they will remain for the time being.

From: Manthorp22 Jun 2005 11:24
To: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) 2169 of 2579

Strange to tell, but when Bradford was being a little slow in coming forward with the moolah, we had a sly approach from Birmingham - heaven knows how they had found out about the project, which was seriously under wraps at the time - asking if we wanted to relocate it and offering to fund it.

 

If it didn't use the Unreal engine, thus effectively prohibiting commercial exploitation, I'd say it was a very sellable project.

From: truffy22 Jun 2005 11:33
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 2170 of 2579

IE6, no JS error reported.

 

So I checked it in Opera. Holy shit! It appears that all links (not just those in menus) are flashing. That is very very unpleasant.

From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)22 Jun 2005 11:41
To: af (CAER) 2171 of 2579
quote:
.nav4:link {
color: #333399;
text-decoration: blink;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 9px;
font-weight: bold;
}


Crikey! It is on purpose. 8O
From: truffy22 Jun 2005 11:43
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 2172 of 2579
Somebody needs to take two of Andy's bricks to the web designer's nads!
From: truffy22 Jun 2005 11:46
To: truffy 2173 of 2579

IE doesn't support the CSS1 'text-decoration: blink', just like it doesn't support the BLINK tag.

 

At least MS got something right! :|

From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)22 Jun 2005 11:49
To: truffy 2174 of 2579
I've just sent in some feedback about it. If enough people complain, hopefully they'll fix it...
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)22 Jun 2005 12:12
To: truffy 2175 of 2579
Just found that you can disable it in Firefox.
Put about:config in the address bar, type "blink" in the filter box, and change the blink_allowed setting to false.
Yay.
From: Mouse22 Jun 2005 12:45
To: Manthorp 2176 of 2579

The "The most complex game of all time" did make my eyebrows raise. That photo of you looked a bit like you had just been told off by someone :D

 

Web drawing Fags: You should see the newspaper (fail)

From: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)22 Jun 2005 14:21
To: Mouse 2177 of 2579
Scan it! Or bring it to teh meat, so that we can all be photographed holding it.
From: ANT_THOMAS22 Jun 2005 21:48
To: Mouse 2178 of 2579
Scan it, Scan it, Scan it!
From: Mouse22 Jun 2005 21:50
To: ANT_THOMAS 2179 of 2579
I only saw it at Jodi's parents, I'll see if my dad has a copy.
From: truffy22 Jun 2005 22:06
To: Mouse 2180 of 2579
Oh yeah, the old 'I don't read it myself, but I might know someone who does' ploy. Very original ;P
From: kara23 Jun 2005 00:56
To: Manthorp 2181 of 2579
Tease.
From: Mouse23 Jun 2005 01:08
To: kara 2182 of 2579
He's not a tease, he's just a lazy bum. Basking in the full page article of the Telegraph and Argos, he's probably halfway througha bottle of expensive whiskey bought at tax payers expenses. :Y
From: kara25 Jun 2005 16:05
To: Mouse 2183 of 2579
And he doesn't even share. :(
From: Mouse25 Jun 2005 16:07
To: kara 2184 of 2579
:-((
From: Serg (NUKKLEAR)14 Oct 2005 12:02
To: ALL2185 of 2579
*demands more ballcore action*
From: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)14 Oct 2005 12:07
To: Serg (NUKKLEAR) 2186 of 2579
2186: this thread renamed "Andy Black", in memoriam.
From: kara15 Oct 2005 00:58
To: Serg (NUKKLEAR) 2187 of 2579
Oh, I've missed this! Thanks, Serg.