Geez this sucks. I was over at my nieces' for a few minutes fixing whatever the hell they did to their PC again and "tested" it by popping into the forums. While I was here, I discovered that none of the .gifs people have been using as sigs and in their posts appear animated when I'm on my home PC. I was really impressed with X and lightnings. When I'm at home they're OK pictures, but they look so much better animated.

I've spent the last hour or so checking a bunch of things it could be, but none of them get the gifs moving. I'm on WinME (it's just a 98 derivative if you're not familiar with it) with IE6. Already tried the internet options and cleared and rechecked the "play animations in web pages box." Any other thoughts?

Heh, everything shows up fine under Netscape 6.2. The oddest thing ... I saved X's sig while under IE, then saved it while under Net. The IE copy is not animated. The Netscape copy is.

Now I'm annoyed ...

At 8/19/03 06:41 PM, D0GMA wrote:

I discovered that none of the .gifs people have been using as sigs and in their posts appear animated when I'm on my home PC. I was really impressed with X and lightnings. When I'm at home they're OK pictures, but they look so much better animated.

I've spent the last hour or so checking a bunch of things it could be, but none of them get the gifs moving. I'm on WinME (it's just a 98 derivative if you're not familiar with it) with IE6. Already tried the internet options and cleared and rechecked the "play animations in web pages box." Any other thoughts?

I have win98 2nd Ed. with IE5, and I occasionally encounter that problem of no animation in my signature. I just refresh the page once or twice and the animation works.

At 8/19/03 07:07 PM, Impetus wrote:
I have win98 2nd Ed. with IE5, and I occasionally encounter that problem of no animation in my signature. I just refresh the page once or twice and the animation works.

Multiple refreshes didn't work on theirs. I tried that as I was diddling around with various media and firewall options trying to see if there was anything it could be.

Now that you posted, I'm reminded that I've never had a problem with your sig not being animated. Maybe it's whatever WarMachine is using to make those sigs I'm having compatability problems with. It shouldn't be an issue since they are all .gifs, but it another possibility.

At 8/18/03 01:59 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote:

At 8/18/03 01:41 AM, Afterburner wrote: Cool sig XkwiziTOnE. Nobody said squat about my new sig!

Thanks AfterBurner!
Great sig - sorry, i like that it looks great......

Thanks to you too XkwiziTOnE! I really like _lightning_'s new sig. Did War_Machine make it for him?

At 8/19/03 12:37 AM, -_James_- wrote: Face it Gfox, some people are just lazy and/or uninterested in geography (like me!)

Geography was always my favorite thing at school in elementary school. Sure, math was interesting, I didn't mind English, etc. etc. But the geography aspect of Social Studies classes was always my fave. I love maps. Coastlines... the beauty of the planet from above.

So I take it personally when geography's good name is spat upon! #;-}>

At 8/19/03 07:12 AM, _lightning_ wrote:

At 8/19/03 12:21 AM, gfoxcook wrote: It'd be like me not knowing if you want to drive from Texas to Florida, you've got to drive through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama first...

more like you can't find a big town in texas or some thing like that =P

I live IN the biggest city in Texas, so that would be incredibly stupid to not know where it is, cause it's where *I* AM! #;-}>

I used a state analogy because Wales and England are kinda like "states" in the UK.

At 8/19/03 12:02 PM, D0GMA wrote: grumble still need 8 more protects to update my sig. After that I can get back to the big game hunt again. XkwiziTs are still in season, right?

Indeed they are. Looks like you already bagged yourself a Mr_Chuckles there. And he's a fine specimen indeed.

Not QUITE as rare as an XkwiziT, though. They's crafty bastards, you'll 'ave quite a time tryin' ta catch 'im!

I have never had a day with under 25% blam rate before yesterday. It is soooo hard to keep remembering click the portal button instead of 0 LOL

NEVER? Not since you joined up? Sure about that? #;-}>

:::has more 0 blam/save days than any other type, in his account's history:::

Instead of 0?

er...

anyway, grats on your screenshot moment. Tis a beautiful thing to behold (despite its shrunkenness).

At 8/19/03 07:23 PM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/19/03 07:07 PM, Impetus wrote:
I have win98 2nd Ed. with IE5, and I occasionally encounter that problem of no animation in my signature. I just refresh the page once or twice and the animation works.

I have the same problem as Impetus at times. After awhile, some sigs stop in the middle of their animations. I think it's either that IE, when stressed about memory or resource availability, either shuts down animated gifs, or... eh, I dunno.

But yeah, refreshing works.

If my theory is correct, perhaps IE thinks your system can't handle the animations, and is turning them off for your own non-crashing good, eh Dogma? #;-}>

Multiple refreshes didn't work on theirs. I tried that as I was diddling around with various media and firewall options trying to see if there was anything it could be.

Now that you posted, I'm reminded that I've never had a problem with your sig not being animated. Maybe it's whatever WarMachine is using to make those sigs I'm having compatability problems with. It shouldn't be an issue since they are all .gifs, but it another possibility.

Oh yes, indeed. There are many different types of teh animatories.

I noticed this ever since I started saving some cool animated sigs and pictures that people posted on the BBS. Some of them, when I open them with VuePro (my default image viewer), open on frame01 or whatever of the image, and I can hit spacebar to move to the next frame (instead of to the next image in the folder, which is what spacebar usually does), and so on, to the end of the animation.

But some animated gifs are just loaded as regular images by vuepro, it doesn't recognise the frames within them. For those, if I wanna see 'em I have to drag 'em onto an IE window and open 'em that way.

I forgot to ever post this pic, and posting the one of Dogma and I next to each other on the 50 most recent deposits reminded me!

(it's from Sunday-Monday overnight's battle between me and Recon (before he left work and sunk out of b/p sight until today... whew! #;-}>))

Ahh, thank goodness for signup-date-tiebreakers:

At 8/20/03 01:35 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Ahh, thank goodness for signup-date-tiebreakers:

Heh, amusing. It's gotta bring a pang of pain to Recon though.

At 8/19/03 10:08 PM, Afterburner wrote: Thanks to you too XkwiziTOnE! I really like _lightning_'s new sig. Did War_Machine make it for him?

No doubt.....thanks, yea War_Machine worked on mine....he does great work and him and this crew is going far for Newgrounds......

D0GMA!

What are you trying to do to me? You stealin ma Sig's, haunting me that you are closing in on me, matter of fact i noticed that you are one position behind me........what are you trying to accomplish? are you out to destory me or something? I think you are.........

**sits in the corner, nodding back and forth while sayin - "Can't Sleep D0G'll Eat me, Cant Sleep D0G'll eat me"............**

At 8/19/03 11:54 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: Hey there Lightning! I see you have gotten your new sig pic from War_Machine.........nice i like that it really suits you majorly.........

thank it looks great doesn't it =)

damn that sucks D0GMA strange that did didn't notise befor

At 8/20/03 04:51 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: D0GMA!

What are you trying to do to me? You stealin ma Sig's, haunting me that you are closing in on me, matter of fact i noticed that you are one position behind me........what are you trying to accomplish? are you out to destory me or something? I think you are.........

**sits in the corner, nodding back and forth while sayin - "Can't Sleep D0G'll Eat me, Cant Sleep D0G'll eat me"............**

LOL stealing sigs =P Yours is supposed to sparkle at the chest. No matter what I do, I can't get it to be anything other than a static image. Hell, I even reinstalled IE and no dice. Hmm, my backup PC (with no graphics card) can see them ...

/me wanders off to start see if the radeon when whacko on me

At 8/20/03 02:59 AM, -_James_- wrote:

At 8/20/03 01:35 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Ahh, thank goodness for signup-date-tiebreakers:

Heh, amusing. It's gotta bring a pang of pain to Recon though.

Well, perhaps...

but if you recall the Great Recon/gfox B/P Race (as you dubbed it! #;-}>) of a few pages ago, I was noticing we had 14428 at the same time, 14429, 14430, 14431, 14432, and 14433. And not only that, but of course, were getting a blam when the other guy got a blam on the same thing, a save at the same time as a save, and so on....

but what's remarkable about that screenshot of us both at 14433, aside from the fact that it's not faked, and actually was on the top 50 combined list for 7 hours on the 18th, that is....

is that Recon stopped getting points for about 36 hours AT THAT NUMBER. In other words, the automated top 50 process happened RIGHT after he hit 14433 and stopped for the night (and his weekend), but BEFORE the next blams and saves that I was getting poured in.

It wans't until yesterday that he finally bumped up a bit from 14433 to 14436, but has remained there for awhile now.

In the meantime, I've added a cool 200 onto my total, coming up just about to 14636 in a a few minutes.

But in all of that drama... I'm not even sure Recon noticed! I mean, he'd already stopped posting in level up! when I started, so... heh. I guess we'll find out within a day, as his weekend shall be ending.

:::waits with a sniper rifle in the bushes around 14636 for Recon to approach:::

At 8/20/03 07:38 AM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/20/03 04:51 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: D0GMA!

What are you trying to do to me? You stealin ma Sig's, haunting me that you are closing in on me, matter of fact i noticed that you are one position behind me........what are you trying to accomplish? are you out to destory me or something? I think you are.........

When did Dogma steal one of your sigs? O_o

Anyway, though... yeah, he IS coming for you on the list. He's been taunting you for like 10-15 pages of level up! after all, jeez. #;-}>

If you didn't notice him blaring up from behind, you had your blinders on!

All you can do is paddle as fast as you can up in front of the wave and try to pass other surfers before he hits (and passes) you by. #;-}>

**sits in the corner, nodding back and forth while sayin - "Can't Sleep D0G'll Eat me, Cant Sleep D0G'll eat me"............**

LOL! Heh! You should make Simpsons allusions more often, that was a good one. #;-}>

LOL stealing sigs =P Yours is supposed to sparkle at the chest. No matter what I do, I can't get it to be anything other than a static image. Hell, I even reinstalled IE and no dice. Hmm, my backup PC (with no graphics card) can see them ...

/me wanders off to start see if the radeon when whacko on me

Are the versions of IE the same? Are the OSes the same? How do the systems vary in terms of RAM and processor? Hmmm....

I've stayed up too late, but it was fun. Lots of posting, good blams and saves.... 200 point cushion 'tween me and Recon... and the distance between me and Stormwarden is rapidly closing. I'll have that 8 spot within 4 weeks, I think.

At 8/20/03 07:52 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

When did Dogma steal one of your sigs? O_o

I think he's alluding to the fact that I copied out his sig in IE and Net while testing stuff. The IE copy isn't animated. The Netscape copy is O_o

Are the versions of IE the same? Are the OSes the same? How do the systems vary in terms of RAM and processor? Hmmm....

Main: Athlon 1.2GB, 384 RAM, Radeon 7K, IE6, WinME

Backup: Athlon 1GB, 320 RAM, on-board PoS vid card, IE6, Win98SE

The PC my nieces use is Pent4 1.4GB, 256 RAM, on-board vid card, IE6, WinXP

I can't imagine why my PC would think it's running out of memory, but I'll run through some tweaks and see if that does anything useful. Neither the tweaks I do, nor anything I do to the video card should have an effect. What's really bugging me is that Netscape shows them as they should be, so the problem should be some kind of conflict between IE and WinME ... just haven't managed to nail it down yet.

At 8/20/03 06:07 AM, _lightning_ wrote: thank it looks great doesn't it =)

damn that sucks D0GMA strange that did didn't notise befor

Yes it does - and its about time you changed it! lol just kiddin but seriously it looks great.......You think D0GMA is strange hmmmmmmmm i hadnt noticed...........*eyes looking back and forth*

At 8/20/03 07:38 AM, D0GMA wrote: LOL stealing sigs =P Yours is supposed to sparkle at the chest. No matter what I do, I can't get it to be anything other than a static image. Hell, I even reinstalled IE and no dice. Hmm, my backup PC (with no graphics card) can see them ...

/me wanders off to start see if the radeon when whacko on me

Oh i know you were behind me and that i am ok about not stress with that......I congradualate you on your move up the ranks but i am going to try and hold on as best as i can to keep up..........about this sig stealing you need to get help....there are SSA (Stealing Signatures Anonymous) and they will help you overcome your addiction........

I thought that I should show my finished work to all my homies at Where is/How to. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=117383

It was at 3.37... .13 points less than I was gunning for. Heh, it's funny to be finally be on the other side after blamming and protecting thousands of movies.

At 8/20/03 02:33 PM, Impetus wrote: I thought that I should show my finished work to all my homies at Where is/How to. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=117383

It was at 3.37... .13 points less than I was gunning for. Heh, it's funny to be finally be on the other side after blamming and protecting thousands of movies.

LMAO oops. I didn't even look at the author when I watched it. I threw a 3 at it as I recall. Good work =)

At 8/20/03 11:58 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: Yes it does - and its about time you changed it! lol just kiddin but seriously it looks great.......You think D0GMA is strange hmmmmmmmm i hadnt noticed...........*eyes looking back and forth*

yep it was about time a changed it but better late then never =)

At 8/20/03 07:01 PM, _lightning_ wrote: yep it was about time a changed it but better late then never =)

Yea thats tru, i agree with you on that one.......What have you been up to otherwise? Stayin cool in the warm weather?..........

At 8/20/03 07:07 PM, XkwiziTOnE wrote:

At 8/20/03 07:01 PM, _lightning_ wrote: yep it was about time a changed it but better late then never =)

Yea thats tru, i agree with you on that one.......What have you been up to otherwise? Stayin cool in the warm weather?..........

well it wasn't really that warm here too day only 25°C =)

At 8/20/03 07:15 PM, _lightning_ wrote: well it wasn't really that warm here too day only 25°C =)

Nice sig _lightning_. Way cooler than that bent pipe.

LOL! Fucking hilarious! Some of you might have noticed the newest addition to my sig - a comment from Brandon S in a Flash he made. Just now he's submitted another Flash, and this is his comment:

I would like to apologize for no sound Im on my aunts comp and her sound card blew.

Haha! What will he think of next?

At 8/20/03 07:49 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Nice sig _lightning_. Way cooler than that bent pipe.

Amen brother. No comment on the Great Recon Vs Gfox BP Race?

At 8/20/03 03:03 PM, D0GMA wrote:

LMAO oops. I didn't even look at the author when I watched it. I threw a 3 at it as I recall. Good work =)

That's okay, you gave it the rating it apparently deserves since it's been flirting on both sides of the "green line" of 3.00 all afternoon. I was hoping for better, but hey, I can always try again.

Oh, and another thing.. When checking my profile, there are no "Flash by Impetus." Do I have to wait for a profile update to see this? I've noticed that a profile check of other submitters will show a new flash fresly submitted and under judgement.