Ever have that instance where you want to add a computer component and can't?  Well, right now my computer thinks it is a donut, not the one with the hole in the middle, the jelly filled one.  It wants more filling, but the power supply can't fill its needs, and I'm stuck with it because both the motherboard and the case fit to this power supply, and only this power supply.  I'd replace the whole setup soon enough, when I feel like it, but it just feels like I want to "eat" my computer the way it is, use it for now, then give it away.

Edit: This may sound like a rant, but it isn't a complaint.  If there was a spam section, I would have put it there.

Alright, first off I was absent from the last server downtime, the whole time.  But anyways, for what it's worth, fixing a server error in the time it took this last time was phenomenal.  Sure a lot of players have focus to this game, but what about the other games they own?  Surely they don't JUST play Rune Rebels.  That's like switching to just eating fish sticks.  But anyways, stellar job in quickly fixing mistakes.  It would have taken Microsoft at least a day just to fix one of their own mistakes.  On a program, not the OS.

Thanks for continued perseverance. 

Greetings, Garnu Thorn, putting out the obligatory introduction, as if that's needed.  I've been playing Rune Rebels since February 4th, and there's quite a few members that should be warned about me (yes, I feel I should warn people about myself as there are some things I say or do that just make sense after the fact.)

Well, if you have found me exposing myself in hallucinating what I see in posts (even though they were warranted) I am an out of the psych ward schizophrenic, paranoid type.  I'm not afraid to put that out there, and I am far from the average thinker, opinionator, critic, as I'm not afraid to sound or act crazy.  Though some people keep themselves on a leash, and nit pick themselves from showing insanity, let me tell you, my own leash is half to the stratosphere.  Though, there are certain topics I'll withhold, more on that later.

Okay, with that out of the way (and out of mind) I do my best to get along.  My personal training in the early parts of my life involved participation in the scouting programs that started when I could be a bear cub scout and went until I no longer could be a Boy Scout leaving the program at life scout rank.  Further pursuit to be an adult in the programs ceased to be due to encroachment of formerly mentioned psychosis, and I don't know if I want to go back to teaching kids and teens since I was a scout, at least not until I could have interest in scouting again.  I do miss camping out in the middle of nowhere, though.

As far as technical expertise, I have been using computers since I was 7, if you count console games, 10 on actual computers.  I'm now 30, and I never went without being on a computer and online, if I could, except for visits to the hospital of which computer parts can be used in suicide attempts, or at least a blunt object in cases of hostility.

I've been playing Runescape since early release, and from a previous post, yes, my main character could get the ten year veteran cape if I subscribed again and gained enough gold pieces to buy one.  He wasn't maxed, due to my inability to lease an internet connection through the times where I finally was living on my own, so to speak, and didn't have parents to provide computer and internet services.  Eventually I did get a usable computer to use and got cable internet in 2009 and sincerely was fed up with Runescape in mid 2012 a month or three since Squeal of Fortune was out and Solomon's General Store advertisements drove me away from the game.  Why pay for a subscription just for in-game content ads I won't buy in to?  I pay to see no advertisement, whatsoever.

Runescape clans..........I was a member of Guardians of Honor.  Nuff said.

On a related topic, yes, I do magic.  A collective of healers that know I'm schizophrenic gives high remarks for my abilities.  For anyone that will seek a medium to contact the dead, one way to see if the medium is an actual medium, pose this question to be answered by your intended person on the other side: “Have you heard of Garnu Thorn?”  If that medium is legit, the medium will relate to you from the dead person that they have heard that name, no lie.  Lets just say I've made a name for myself in our solar system in our stacked dimensions, except the one we exist in.

I don't like to talk magic for a few reasons.  One of them, which I've made clear enough, is I'm clinically insane, and a pursuit for someone to test me to see what I know to prove to themselves through chat that I really am off my rocker doesn't amuse me.  Magic, the knowledge to do so and how it works is best left for someone that really wants to do it themselves, as while you can philosophize all you want, philosophy in itself can cause psychosis if you start believing in what is truly false.  Some people already believe in things that are false, and look at the world through a facade to enjoy their life how they want to.  For those to know about magic, they, in my mind, must yield to accept their life now going in that direction, either an angle or dead on.  As with any knowledge, what you accept changes you, and noone, but noone is held accountable for what you choose to learn, it is all in you.  I choose not to get too far in chat to encourage the decision just as much as players don't want to be reading cursing and vulgar insults that offend the player.  But, if such is brought up and discussed, I will hold no conviction of the enlightenment as here I have warned you that thinking about magic, knowing what is out there, you will see changes in your own life.




Oh, and find me as Garnu, that's Garnu, this account went as a secondary after I leveled a replacement account that I now use.

Yes, it is somewhat about a debate on the small avatar limit to the image size.  I had this problem on another board, namely from an RSPS I won't mention.  Whatever the final decision of how large our avatars will show as, so be it.  I know of issues surrounding linking an obnoxiously large avatar for usage while it still gets shrunk down to size, though, but in order for the browser to show it there is CPU lag spike everytime you look at the large shrunk avatar.  Not eveyone has a 2GB video card with a decent GPU clock.  Most preorder computers new just have onboard graphics that tax the CPU.  The fanbase alone probably has computers with build creations stretching back to 2002 when Windows XP could be used on those computers made to run it at the time of release.

So, this leaves us with a few options to avoid lag on the forums.  One way is to build in to the forum for it to create a thumbnail resized to the avatar limit.  This will require some programming and to a database for singular personal avatars as they are changed and used.  Another way, more blunt to enforcing the avatar limits rather than enabling a feature for the fanbase, is for the forum to check the file for pixel dimension, and if the image on hand is too large, it is denied.  With this method, I can also see a measure of coding, but at least it isn't as much as writing or adding a module to the code, more so just with something to detect dimensions.  Maybe this could blossom part of the graphics forum for requests to resize images, but that is a pretty easy thing to do already.  As for pixel size limits, I could see 720 by 720 an allowable size, but the forum developer could answer that better than I.  Size on disc is also notable, for those with gifs.

Already, the direct link to anyone's avatar is accessible, and with that anyone can check how big some people's avatars don't need to be.  Every image we see is added to our cache bins no matter how small we see it as on the forums.

At least I haven't seen a humongous pixel dimension on a long and big gif, I'm talking 3 MB.  Kudos on the fanbase for that.