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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15690 on: June 09, 2016, 03:45:19 PM »
That's above the Arctic Circle!


i actually passed the arctic circle on my first night of travel last week, when i took the train to bodø. so uh I GUESS YOU COULD SAY THAT

did i mention the part where i'm 2 hours away from the northernmost point of european mainland?

Sighhhh, I'm jealous, I've always wanted to experience polar nights and midnight sun just for the sake of it. I'll probably wind up that far north eventually to be able to do that, hopefully.
one polar night is probably a fun and whacky experience, but any more of them is just depressing and horrible. i do like the light nights though, even if sleeping is a bit tough. i got a sleeping mask on the train though, and i'm not afraid to use it
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15691 on: June 09, 2016, 04:04:00 PM »
one polar night is probably a fun and whacky experience, but any more of them is just depressing and horrible. i do like the light nights though, even if sleeping is a bit tough. i got a sleeping mask on the train though, and i'm not afraid to use it

I'd have died without my sleeping mask last summer when I was over that way.  Neither my Airbnb nor my hotel had blackout curtains.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15692 on: June 09, 2016, 04:09:31 PM »
I'd have died without my sleeping mask last summer when I was over that way.  Neither my Airbnb nor my hotel had blackout curtains.

Just thinking of a northern summer without blackout curtains makes me shudder.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15693 on: June 09, 2016, 10:25:32 PM »
Just thinking of a northern summer without blackout curtains makes me shudder.

It was kind of neat walking out of a Stockholm bar at 3AM into broad daylight.  Less good trying to get some shuteye before the next day's adventures.

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15694 on: June 10, 2016, 09:14:39 PM »
There's so many weird effects on this board I don't see anyone use. Some of them are obviously because they're kind of obnoxious, like glow text, I haven't seen this since my neopets days and even neopets outlawed it for being obnoxious. It's kind of nifty when used sparingly though.
Boy howdy shadow effect is hard to read, that might be why no one uses it.
this one is kinda fun idk I wish people would use this one moreBut guys we can change our fonts and our colors, why don't people do that more ?!? I've been thinking about typing in green or purple but I don't want to be that one obnoxious person typing in different fonts and colors. Then again back at my student job in the dormitory we had a communication log that you had to type up what happened during your shift and I was the one person who would use different colors and fonts and backgrounds and everyone would be like "stop" and I'd be like "make me" except they couldn't make me because I was the supervisor muahahaha >:3

We can also insert tables but I don't know how that works, and I have yet to see anyone use a table. I kinda wanna see someone use a table for some nifty purpose, like maybe a table of all possible shipping combinations :3c


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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15695 on: June 10, 2016, 09:22:56 PM »
There's so many weird effects on this board I don't see anyone use. Some of them are obviously because they're kind of obnoxious, like glow text, I haven't seen this since my neopets days and even neopets outlawed it for being obnoxious. It's kind of nifty when used sparingly though.
Boy howdy shadow effect is hard to read, that might be why no one uses it.
this one is kinda fun idk I wish people would use this one moreBut guys we can change our fonts and our colors, why don't people do that more ?!? I've been thinking about typing in green or purple but I don't want to be that one obnoxious person typing in different fonts and colors. Then again back at my student job in the dormitory we had a communication log that you had to type up what happened during your shift and I was the one person who would use different colors and fonts and backgrounds and everyone would be like "stop" and I'd be like "make me" except they couldn't make me because I was the supervisor muahahaha >:3

We can also insert tables but I don't know how that works, and I have yet to see anyone use a table. I kinda wanna see someone use a table for some nifty purpose, like maybe a table of all possible shipping combinations :3c

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15696 on: June 10, 2016, 10:21:46 PM »
There's so many weird effects on this board I don't see anyone use.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15697 on: June 10, 2016, 10:26:26 PM »
There's so many weird effects on this board I don't see anyone use. Some of them are obviously because they're kind of obnoxious, like glow text, I haven't seen this since my neopets days and even neopets outlawed it for being obnoxious. It's kind of nifty when used sparingly though.
Boy howdy shadow effect is hard to read, that might be why no one uses it.
this one is kinda fun idk I wish people would use this one moreBut guys we can change our fonts and our colors, why don't people do that more ?!? I've been thinking about typing in green or purple but I don't want to be that one obnoxious person typing in different fonts and colors. Then again back at my student job in the dormitory we had a communication log that you had to type up what happened during your shift and I was the one person who would use different colors and fonts and backgrounds and everyone would be like "stop" and I'd be like "make me" except they couldn't make me because I was the supervisor muahahaha >:3

We can also insert tables but I don't know how that works, and I have yet to see anyone use a table. I kinda wanna see someone use a table for some nifty purpose, like maybe a table of all possible shipping combinations :3c
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15698 on: June 10, 2016, 10:55:48 PM »
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There's so many weird effects on this board I don't see anyone use. Some of them are obviously because they're kind of obnoxious, like glow text, I haven't seen this since my neopets days and even neopets outlawed it for being obnoxious. It's kind of nifty when used sparingly though.
Boy howdy shadow effect is hard to read, that might be why no one uses it.

this one is kinda fun idk I wish people would use this one more
But guys we can change our fonts and our colors, why don't people do that more ?!? I've been thinking about typing in green or purple but I don't want to be that one obnoxious person typing in different fonts and colors. Then again back at my student job in the dormitory we had a communication log that you had to type up what happened during your shift and I was the one person who would use different colors and fonts and backgrounds and everyone would be like "stop" and I'd be like "make me" except they couldn't make me because I was the supervisor muahahaha >:3

We can also insert tables but I don't know how that works, and I have yet to see anyone use a table. I kinda wanna see someone use a table for some nifty purpose, like maybe a table of all possible shipping combinations :3c
For whatever reason I can never get the effects to work for me so I end up manually typing them all in (that's why none of my quotes have timestamps), thus I don't use the unusual effects because I'd have to look up the actual tags to use them.

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15699 on: June 10, 2016, 11:24:00 PM »
We can also insert tables but I don't know how that works, and I have yet to see anyone use a table. I kinda wanna see someone use a table for some nifty purpose, like maybe a table of all possible shipping combinations :3c

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Wow, table formatting sucks :)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15700 on: June 11, 2016, 12:51:38 AM »
Wow, table formatting sucks :)
OHHHH WOW (。♥‿♥。) this is incredible and quite possibly my favorite thing I've seen all day.


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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15701 on: June 11, 2016, 01:59:39 AM »
OHHHH WOW (。♥‿♥。) this is incredible and quite possibly my favorite thing I've seen all day.

It would be better if the table code allowed for cell borders :)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15702 on: June 11, 2016, 10:45:29 AM »
I feel so fancy
Never gonna do this again, though, 'cause it's giving me a headache XD
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15703 on: June 11, 2016, 02:44:20 PM »
But guys we can change our fonts and our colors, why don't people do that more ?!?

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #15704 on: June 11, 2016, 05:23:31 PM »
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