Sitting here, I just realized that the untamed pen of the internet makes it all too easy to lash out at someone we feel has wronged us. It's easy to say harsh, critical things about companies, products, even people with a certain measure of impunity. Sometimes those things are based in truth, other times, they are just the rants of people so blinded by their own wounded pride that they cross from being legitimate complaints into being delusional rants with no purpose other than to tear at the hearts of those we feel have committed us some wrong. That would be the easy route for me to take right now. I could write a heartfelt criticism of something that came at me hard just today, but I won't do that.
In looking over my thoughts on the whole situation, I've asked myself the question I brought up here before: "Is it worth the effort?" I also asked: "Will anything be accomplished besides hurting myself and others with this issue only I think is serious?" Retrospect tells me an emphatic "
NO". While it would make me feel better, it would do more harm than good to everyone involved if I went off on that self gratifying tangent. I'm taking the high road this time, the honorable path and choosing not to even indentify any slight inkling of the source for my own bruised ego. It's just not worth the frustration, ther's nothing I can do to change things, and one voice in the darkness doesn't always stir others to sing along and disrupt the silence.
At least I have bit of good news. Last I checked, the one piece of artwork was up, I haven't finished the second one I wanted up yet, so it'll be delayed. I'm too tired and annoyed to direct link the image, but that's what the portfolio is for anyway.
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beyblader
I'll drink to that, got a Mountain Dew behind me.
I'm going to throw some technical terms at you, sorry about that. My laptop is an idiot when it comes to the ethernet card. See, MY ISP uses PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocal over Ethernet) for it's DSL, now, they use what's called the WAN Miniport, I guess that's a function of the ethernet card, anyway, I can use the net with the LAN capability of the ethernet card disabled on my desktop computer, but not on my laptop, I have to have LAN enabled to connect to the net. Both the desktop and laptop run Windows XP, but maybe that's a hardware specific setting to the card in the desktop. My last major mess up with the desktop computer though was updating Napster (if you don't count the time I overheated the thing!). Being the tech person in a family has it's downsides.
Yensid
Just words from the heart like always, but thanks for saying so.
I don't know or associate with all of the staff here, but I do talk with a couple of them, and regularly visit Panda and Adam (the site's founder see friends list). It's a policy of mine to know someone on staff on the important places I go online, though at times I'd bet they'd like to not know me.
I think that would be best, further discussion of this matter should be moved to PM.
I took a look over on your
artluvr site, and I know some of those links. That tells me I've got good friends recommending great resources. One site you could add to the HTML section is Caprice's
tutorial site that she built here on MyO (on-a-whim in my friend's list). Some of the HTML is a little out of date, but she's got good basic CSS coverage there.
Naturally, I always dream in animé format.
MilleniumChaos
Thank you, a belated Happy Anniversary to you as well, looks like you've been on almost a month longer than I have.
Only those who were directly affected by it, or knew someone directly affected by it would have known anything was really going on. This phantom lurks in the catwalks of the site, staring down at the packed house with his piercing golden eyes, studying with emotionless silence those below. He seeks the weaker souls easily preyed upon to seize as his own, or for his own perverted amusment. Being a man of the shadows myself, I know how that phantom demon works all too well. Anything more said is best left to PM, I can feel that phantom's cold eyes on me, right now, gazing out from the darkness of the wings, waiting till I'm alone on stage to make his move.
That reminds me I need to archive everything again. Once in a while I go through save out all the messages I have and clear my folders on site here. I've been a bum about a lot of things too so call us even in that department. By all means do so, that is, if you don't mind my returning the favor and bugging you every time you update! :P I almost complimented the bubbles or balloons on you BG image when I signed your guestbook, but given your page's theme, I think (hold it, strike that, reverse it), I know, I would have been grossly incorrect if I'd actually said that in the guestbook. It's a nice and colorful BG image, and it fits the page nicely.
Shireishou
Thank you as well.
I know, that's what keeps me coming back. While there have been a few members who've behaved poorly, and an incident or two that no site should be proud of, overall the site is very welcoming and very friendly toward people.
Actually a vacation sounds like a good idea, too bad I can't take one right now. It's always important to rest the mind from routine things once in a while. To be honest, I should be apologizing to you anyway since it's been well over a month since my last visit to your page. I really like what you've done with it now, the layout is really nice, and I'm happy to see that tagboard coding isn't troubling you anymore. Sorry I couldn't do more to help out with that too. Just come by when you can, that's all I expect of anyone.
To address your comment on my art, thank you, but I didn't really design him. I gave the friend who asked me to draw him a guideline (I'll post the one I use another day) and had him fill that out, so that's pretty much all his design work communicated well enough for me to execute it. He's not very secure in his art ability yet, so he asked me to draw his role play character for him, at least I think that's why he asked me to draw it for him. I'm not really good at telling when he's joking or serious.
alphonse13
I know, it's scary that I can recall what the old layout was like (check the archived sites for Outlaw Star, InuYasha, and a few others) when that was used. But at the same time it doesn't feel like three years has gone by already.
I used to be in that routine myself, but I'm still in the process of actually fighting my addiction to the internet so I want to try to limit my time online but still use that time productively. I usually pop on, copy the comments from the comment manager, and answer them offline when I can, draft up my main content (precedes the comment answers) then I'm just basically doing a copy and paste post when I get online again. If i see updated posts when I'm on, I go comment on those too.
So do I, fanart is fun. I did manage to get one of the pictures up (check my portfolio), the other wasn't so lucky. Give me a few more days and I'll try to have it up too. I want to make sure I'm doing it right because it's my first real parody piece and it's using an existing character so the whole structure has to be just so (that and my sister will pound me flat if I don't make it look good, she's the one who requested it).
Anime Dreams!
