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Title: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on August 05, 2012, 02:02:06 PM
 \:/ :knockout >:(( :angel: :D >:D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on August 05, 2012, 06:40:37 PM
gawd damnit, I have nothing to complain about!  >:((
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Fiach on August 06, 2012, 01:52:11 AM
Your complaints departments sucks, where's the freakin tissues????  >:D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: fragger on August 07, 2012, 02:55:56 AM
A complaint department? What the bloody hell do we need that for? Man, I really hate it when people imply that I'm a whinger...
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: nexor on August 07, 2012, 04:40:54 AM
Spoiler
[smg id=4613 type=av]
Com.....plains  Department ?????
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on August 07, 2012, 07:30:10 AM
Spoiler
that would have been the com..planes department
^-^
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on August 07, 2012, 11:14:42 AM
 \:/

I've always wanted to use this emoticon  >:D

|-))
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on August 07, 2012, 06:36:44 PM
I'm just glad you haven't wanted to make it your new avatar  :-D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: mandru on August 07, 2012, 07:12:35 PM
Quote from: Art Blade on August 07, 2012, 06:36:44 PM
...make it your new avatar  :-D

We can do that?  >:D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on August 07, 2012, 09:25:26 PM
 :angel:
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on August 09, 2012, 07:18:33 AM
 8-X :angel: :-()
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: nexor on August 09, 2012, 04:13:29 PM
Quote from: mandru  on August 07, 2012, 07:12:35 PM
We can do that?  >:D

Yep we can do that, just right click on the avatar then save picture as.....to where ever you want to on your pc, then you can load it as your avatar, done.......... :-D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: mandru on August 09, 2012, 05:26:28 PM
 :-D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: mmosu on August 10, 2012, 09:35:39 AM
I still can't see anyone elses avatars - been that way since the last big update.

Hey, that's the first legit complaint for the complaint department  :-D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Fiach on September 06, 2012, 01:10:13 PM
Quote from: mmosu on August 10, 2012, 09:35:39 AM
I still can't see anyone elses avatars - been that way since the last big update.

Hey, that's the first legit complaint for the complaint department  :-D

Same here and also, I deleted my sig picture, then re-uploaded it and now its stretched.
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on September 06, 2012, 03:03:44 PM
Not sure what the problem is - just as a test I logged in as a senior member and can see all the avatars.  Hate these kinds of problems where it only affects select members :D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on September 06, 2012, 03:07:47 PM
indeed :-D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: fragger on September 06, 2012, 03:13:25 PM
I can see the avatars OK, but Fiach's sig picture appears stretched to me too.
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on September 06, 2012, 03:18:15 PM
same  :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on September 06, 2012, 05:01:38 PM
 ???? I don't know how you managed to do it Fiach, but you had set image dimensions when you added it to your signature line.  I removed them and now your signature image looks normal.
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Fiach on September 07, 2012, 01:32:14 AM
Weird, I didnt do it on purpose or wittingly afaik, thanks for sorting it out PZ :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on September 07, 2012, 10:32:50 AM
Glad to help, Fiach  ;)

Still haven't figured out anything with the avatars that don't display for some of you gents  :D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on September 07, 2012, 02:33:29 PM
got a new avatar there yourself, PZ.. Your fave car?  :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on September 07, 2012, 03:07:33 PM
Well, I was becoming bored of my current one so I was due for a change.

I let my youngest drive it the other day and he wanted a pic of him driving, and after I saw it, seemed like a good one for an avatar.  ;)

...yeah, my fav car - the thing is like a rocket; much faster than my wife's car even though hers is more rare.
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on September 07, 2012, 03:16:25 PM
have you got a nitrous oxide injection system on board?  >:D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on September 07, 2012, 03:18:50 PM
No, the system would probably spring a leak and I'd laugh myself off the road  :laugh:
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on September 07, 2012, 03:22:37 PM
 :laugh:
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: fragger on September 08, 2012, 02:43:15 AM
 :laugh:

Nice one, the car and the pic :-X
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: nexor on September 08, 2012, 06:34:10 AM
PZ what a co-incident, we both decided to use a pic of our rides for avatars.. :-D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on September 08, 2012, 12:40:00 PM
Quote from: nexor on September 08, 2012, 06:34:10 AM
PZ what a co-incident, we both decided to use a pic of our rides for avatars.. :-D

:laugh: it's a small world, nex!

thanks, fragger!
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: mmosu on September 09, 2012, 05:26:32 AM
This sounds HILARIOUS!  Wish I could see it!!!  :D :D :D :D :D :D

. . .  ;D  Would be my luck that such a wierd problem would befall just me and one other person on earth.  This must be what it feels like to have a disease so rare they name it after you  :-D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on September 09, 2012, 05:54:15 AM
 :-D good luck though, mmosu. Have you ever tried to check OWG with a different browser and see if the problem persists?
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: mmosu on September 12, 2012, 06:15:34 PM
I haven't, what would you recommend for instance?
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on September 12, 2012, 08:09:58 PM
Depends on what you're currently using, but I recommend Firefox for virtually everything because of it's superior security potential and compliance with w3c standards (everyone does this except Microsoft).  Chrome or Opera are other alternatives.  The worst browser on the 'net is Internet Explorer, and the only reason it still survives is because Microsoft embeds it into the operating system.

For example, I use a Microsoft product called InfoPath, which works through SharePoint, also a MS product.  The latest version of IE has caused failure of the InfoPath forms on every computer in my organization.  How's that for stupidity... develop an "improved" browser that is incompatible with your own product.  The solution to this problem... you need to set IE to w@&k in compatibility mode, which means that you are paring down to an earlier version of the browser while viewing the resource.

Those Microsoft people are the dumbest people on the planet.  :D

How's that for a rant?
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: fragger on September 12, 2012, 11:31:22 PM
That's a rant :-D :-X Though where Microsoft is concerned, rants come easy :-()

mmosu, echoing PZ's advice, give FF a try. I switched to it from IE a couple of years ago and never looked back. Can't recommend it enough :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: nexor on September 13, 2012, 03:03:05 AM
I have a belly full of IE, but for some reason FF and my webcam don't wanna talk each other  :D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: mandru on September 13, 2012, 06:32:27 AM
This latest round of ubiquitous IE 9 advertisements would make me laugh if it wasn't for all the underlying deception.  :-(

I looked at Google Chrome quite a while back but it didn't suit me so I've not used it after my initial investigation and download of it.  I've even gone as far as telling the nagging upgrade notices to "Never remind me of this again".

I keep Google as my starting point when I go online (it's my home page for browsing) but for a long time now with many of the web sites I visit regularly there's immediately ads for everything I've searched on Google.  Even if it was just a pre-fetch pull up to anticipate my search object and I haven't hit Enter.  You can imagine the weird ads I receive because I use Google to retrieve obscure data bits for crossword puzzle solutions especially considering the tendency of crossword puzzle makers these days propensity towards making sure the public is familiar with the life details of every serial killer, communist revolutionary or tyrannical despotic ruler.  ???

Then there's the Google crawlers skimming and linking info off of web sites back to the forum posters.  :-\\  On another thread here at OWG I railed against a certain non-funny comedian turned even non-funnier congressman which has all been linked back to me through Google's data mining web crawlers and now I regularly get ad placements from automated ad servers trying to get me to buy a book that was coauthored by the very same jerk I consider to be toxic in the first place.  8-X

But then the data mining thing is so far out of hand.  Mention in a personal email that something terrible has happened in Argentina you can pretty much expect a flood of airline adverts offering the best air fares.  :D
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on September 13, 2012, 12:03:20 PM
mmosu, PZ's recommendation and comments are spot on. Just as an aside, I've never used any IE (unless forced to). I started with Netscape, a predecessor of FireFox :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: nexor on September 03, 2013, 01:14:51 AM
Why do I get this error when I try to post a screenshot?

Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again.
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on September 03, 2013, 09:40:39 AM
you are probably using an old OWG forum theme. Just to see how it works, try the BlueBoxy theme, hit CTRL+F5, and then let's see if you still get the same error again.
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: PZ on September 03, 2013, 11:15:41 AM
Good advice - you might need to delete the openworldgames.org cookie as well, if you cannot log out
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: nexor on September 03, 2013, 04:32:59 PM
Quote from: Art Blade on September 03, 2013, 09:40:39 AM
you are probably using an old OWG forum theme. Just to see how it works, try the BlueBoxy theme, hit CTRL+F5, and then let's see if you still get the same error again.

I like my pale grey theme   :-\\
The CTRL+F5 seems to have done the trick, I hope  ::)
Title: Re: Welcome to the complaint department
Post by: Art Blade on September 04, 2013, 06:33:30 AM
keep it, then  :)