Oh man. Thank you for reminding me of the single silliest, pettiest controversy on MB ever. "What colors does Cratylus use on his mud client?"
I had no idea that was even remotely controversial. I use Reflections and MushClient which by default have white background. I got used to it and prefer it even though MushClient changed the default to black some years ago.
I had no idea that was even remotely controversial.
A while back some crappy mud was flamed for bad colors. I logged in, took a screenshot, posted it.
People decided that my black-on-white scheme was intentional to make them look bad.
Asked why I chose that scheme, I said "Conscious choice", meaning that I like that theme.
People decided this was confirmation I did it on purpose to make them look bad.
It was the stupidest controversy in the world.
I can't believe it actually happened, but it actually happened. Perhaps the fact that this site is run mostly by DBZ admins or ex DBZ admins lends more credence to it.
14 Dec, 2009, JohnnyStarr wrote in the 84th comment:
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A lot of my first mudding was done using Windows 3.1 terminal. No, I'm not that oldschool, but I inherited our old "Packard Bell" and it was the only thing I had. And it was white:
15 Dec, 2009, quixadhal wrote in the 85th comment:
To satisfy your curiosity, note the font. Note the absence of echoed commands. That there is telnet.exe called from cmd.exe on Windows XP. I just happened to be on a non-preferred computer at the time, and didn't feel like switching to a more pleasant rig.
I thought my winking smiley made clear the humorous nature of my post. Apparently not. :sad:
To satisfy your curiosity, note the font. Note the absence of echoed commands. That there is telnet.exe called from cmd.exe on Windows XP. I just happened to be on a non-preferred computer at the time, and didn't feel like switching to a more pleasant rig.
I thought my winking smiley made clear the humorous nature of my post. Apparently not. :sad:
To be safe, make sure to use proper <sarcasm></sarcasm> flags in future humorous posts.
Also, if I go on a thread derailing rampage with lots of profanity, flaming and trolling, can this thread be locked?
If folks really want to keep up on my client preferences, I'll set up a blog you can all follow the latest juicy tidbits on what scandalous colors are heaving their luscious pixels on my screen.
with respect fizban i havent been on here in about a week almost why do you keep on we are working on correcting of gliches and i could care less if you play my mud and really dnt care if you do