Technical notes, Member Profiles, Vocabulary

[Ironlord]

Having password problems?

Your friendly Overlord will issue you with a temporary password, which will work immediately rather than having to wait for the board to send it. Change it as soon as you're properly logged in.

Personal Icons

Irritatingly, it looks like there's a 100x100 pixel limit, rendering some of my old icons useless. Also, it lies when it says "GIF or JPG only" - PNG images will also work, which I recommend. Contact the Infernal Overlord if you haven't got any webspace to stick your own personal image on, or if you're too computer illiterate to work out how to do it yourself.

Member Rankings

You can ask for your own personal title, such as "I'm not a witch" instead of "Acolyte", for instance, but the penalty is losing your skulls. There's nothing I can do about this.

Member Profiles

So, you can customise the bit at the side of your name. But there's also a "proper" member profiles page with a huge link near the top of the page, below the Google adverts.
It would help, for those of you who know HTML, to copy the file of either my profile or Stan's, edit it, and send me the edited HTML, so I can post it straight away.
Photos are a standard size: 270 x 146 is the size that correlates with an 800 x 600 screen. So make sure it's landscape rather than portrait.
It's best if you email me the profile, or send it via a private message.

[Ironlord]

Rules, to be obeyed ABSOLUTELY:

(1) No porn links. Especially any that contain malicious code and/or haemorrhage popups onto the screen uncontrollably. These will all be met with Timon's Axe.

(2)No text message language or other gratuitous replacement of letters with numbers or symbols. This will be clamped down on very hard! The only exception to this rule is "Tr00" which is explained below.

(3) Drawing odd swirly patterns with symbols is also likely to result in a slap round the chops, e.g. °º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ - unless there is a very good reason for it.

[Ironlord]

Vocabulary

There is a list of board slang that is used from time to time on the Vomitorium. The following is of use for those of you whom may be unsure of what is being said sometimes:

Derek - Metallica's 'The Black album'

Tr00 - Relating to Black Metal/of Black Metal OR as in 'I am Tr00' read I'm more Black Metal than you...but generally, Bryan is the only person who lives his life by some Norwegian code of Black Metal conduct. This is the only acceptable use of the zero instead of an "O", on the grounds that, when written in certain fonts, it appears as the Norwegian "ø", for extra credibility.* Other use of number-replacement is totally pointless.

The Necro Fever - Nasty head cold and/or chest infection.

Fists Of Fury - fighter's weapon #1 in Hexen, protected by the Spiked Gauntlets and used for pounding enemies to death. These make a sound along the lines of...

*THWACK!!!!* - If this appears in a response to you, you've done something wrong, naughty person that you are... it is also used as a response to something that deserves a thump for being pointless, stupid or both.

Timon's Axe - fighter's weapon #2 in Hexen. On this board, it is used by the admin (a.k.a. Infernal Overlord) and moderators (a.k.a. Wielders of Timon's Axe) to carve out posts, or parts of posts, that need to be removed.

Hammer Of Retribution - fighter's weapon #3 in Hexen. Used here by those who also wield Timon's Axe to hammer a stake into threads to keep them at the top for all to see. The stakes can be removed by a swift chop with Timon's Axe, which will send the thread hurtling back down the board if it's not been posted on for a long time.

Quietus - fighter's weapon #4 in Hexen. Uses up a lot of power, so it is fortunate that it has so far not been used. It is only used on those who cause enough insurrection to warrant being shut up on a permanent basis.


* Admittedly very few modern fonts now show "ø" for 0 - Fixedsys does (well, nearly) - but it's stuck, and antyone who types "tr00" on a ZX Sepctrum will know what I am getting at.