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Title: I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: Arbok on October 18, 2006, 10:35:04 PM
A month away from the launch of the Wii and no hourly countdown thread?

What is the world coming to I ask...
Title: RE: I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: Bill Aurion on October 19, 2006, 03:41:27 AM
Don't encourage him! >=|
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Post by: UncleBob on October 19, 2006, 03:53:33 AM
That's because Toys R Us has a really cool one on this page: http://www.toysrus.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=2488658

We need to somehow steal that and put it here...
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Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2006, 05:30:23 AM
I don't see a Countdown page UncleBob.
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Post by: decoyman on October 19, 2006, 06:44:31 AM
It's at the very bottom. And yes, it is a very nice countdown timer. Having the milliseconds on there really makes it look like it's counting down fast, huh?
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Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2006, 06:54:09 AM
Something must be wrong with my machine.  I just don't get that at the bottom
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Post by: ShyGuy on October 19, 2006, 07:01:35 AM
It's in Flash. Do you block Flash?
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Post by: Athrun Zala on October 19, 2006, 07:17:04 AM
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Originally posted by: UncleBob
That's because Toys R Us has a really cool one on this page: http://www.toysrus.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=2488658

We need to somehow steal that and put it here...
I found it, but the problem is that both counters (Wii's and PS3's) are together :S
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Post by: couchmonkey on October 19, 2006, 07:56:22 AM
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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
Don't encourage him! >=|


It's really hard to take your angry face seriously with a cute loli smiling at me from your avatar!
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Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2006, 08:38:19 AM
I don't think I have flash blocked.  I'll just check when I get home later.
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Post by: Nick DiMola on October 19, 2006, 11:48:33 AM
Direct Link to the SWF

Too bad its linked to the PS3 counter.
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Post by: stevey on October 19, 2006, 12:07:22 PM
"We need to somehow steal that and put it here... "

done
[IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/n64/ps3_wii_countdown.swf[img]  
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Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2006, 12:30:59 PM
I can See... I can See....

Edit:
Is it just me or does the PS3 one reminds you of a bomb with its color scheme?
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Post by: Crimm on October 19, 2006, 12:39:48 PM
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Originally posted by: stevey
"We need to somehow steal that and put it here... "

done



Not so much...
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Post by: IceCold on October 19, 2006, 01:10:05 PM
Do the forums even support flash?
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Post by: UncleBob on October 19, 2006, 03:47:29 PM
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Originally posted by: IceCold
Do the forums even support flash?


It can be done... somehow...
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Post by: IceCold on October 19, 2006, 04:33:15 PM
Ahaha, yeah, I forgot about that.. I've seen stevey do some amazing things with the forums - maybe he can pull this off. I still don't know how you would go about changing the font.

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Is it just me or does the PS3 one reminds you of a bomb with its color scheme?
A time bomb!
Title: RE: I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: Nick DiMola on October 25, 2006, 05:35:12 AM
As of right now there is only:

24 Days, 14 Hours, 25 Minutes and 10 Seconds till the Wii!
Title: RE: I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: UncleBob on October 25, 2006, 05:39:46 AM
Kick ass.
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Post by: Dasmos on October 25, 2006, 06:17:31 AM
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Originally posted by: IceCold
I've seen stevey do some amazing things with the forums - maybe he can pull this off. I still don't know how you would go about changing the font.
I don't think stevey set-out to find a way to change the font, it's one of those silly little things you just stumble apon.

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Post by: wandering on October 25, 2006, 06:23:52 AM
The font-changing secret is indeed disappointing.

It'd be nice if we could ask cattank how to embed flash. Too bad I banned him...
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Post by: Rhoq on October 25, 2006, 06:34:08 AM
I take it there is no chance to allow the "embed" html tags?
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Post by: Arbok on October 25, 2006, 07:43:48 AM
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Originally posted by: Rhoq
I take it there is no chance to allow the "embed" html tags?


Only if you are a mod, which is probably how "cattank" did it.
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Post by: Pryopizm on October 25, 2006, 07:50:57 AM
Mods (non-senior staff) can't do much of anything since we don't have Admin status.  We can lock, unlock, sticky, and ban.
Title: RE:I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: Arbok on October 25, 2006, 08:02:24 AM
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Originally posted by: Pryopizm
Mods (non-senior staff) can't do much of anything since we don't have Admin status.  We can lock, unlock, sticky, and ban.


There is not an option to toggle HTML in a post? I was just guessing, not really familiar with FuseTalk at all as it's such a rare choice for forums.
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Post by: wandering on October 25, 2006, 08:15:25 AM
I don't think so. Here's a good way of figuring out what the mods can and can't do: note everything I didn't do when I was a mod.
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Post by: IceCold on October 25, 2006, 10:43:40 AM
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Post by: UncleBob on October 31, 2006, 06:45:33 PM
Okay, I really thought about starting a Wii countdown tread tonight, but then realized that for the 24-ish hours leading up to the release, I won't be near a computer where I can update the thread...
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on October 31, 2006, 08:49:21 PM
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There is not an option to toggle HTML in a post? I was just guessing, not really familiar with FuseTalk at all as it's such a rare choice for forums.


fusetalk sucks so bad
Title: RE:I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: Crimm on October 31, 2006, 09:44:58 PM
I bet there's a tutorial somewhere you could search for...if you could search.
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Post by: wandering on November 03, 2006, 09:21:03 AM
edit: arrg, so close.
 
Title: RE: I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: wandering on November 03, 2006, 09:32:45 AM
edit: that didn't work.
Title: RE: I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: wandering on November 03, 2006, 09:46:17 AM
edit: neither did that.
Title: RE:I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: wandering on November 03, 2006, 10:59:15 AM
edit: the problem is that '>' is being parsed as '>'
Title: RE: I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: IceCold on November 04, 2006, 11:54:46 AM
POST WHORE!
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Post by: Athrun Zala on November 04, 2006, 12:36:17 PM
you know, THERE IS A PREVIEW BUTTON....
Title: RE: I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: Nick DiMola on November 04, 2006, 04:30:32 PM
By the time we figure out how to get this flash on the page the Wii will be out already lol.
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Post by: Nick DiMola on November 06, 2006, 04:22:58 AM
12 Days 13 Hours 37 Minutes and 45 Seconds. YES!
Title: RE: I am so disappointed in Unclebob right now...
Post by: wandering on November 06, 2006, 03:41:32 PM
Okay. We have two options:

1. figure out a way to prevent the forums from parsing '>' as '>'
edit: ahaha, I meant  '>'

2. figure out a way to get a countdown inside a single tag (either <a> or <img>). Flash would be impossible, but  javascript might not be.