Steampunk'd and April Fools' Day 2011

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Ouch? Back when computers were coal powered, 1.4 megabytes was a lot. Now it's like a single pixel in a highres Hubble image.

Be sure to get Plot Device to post here, that "It's the end of CHEAP steam" tagline has got to be the most classic take on Peak Steam.

Next year maybe we can have a post-Singularity party. We could even go into Second Life for nostalgia's sake, just like people now play 8-bit computer games.

And I see Perks already has an appropriate avatar. I'm keeping my Earth on you!

We're all Transcendent Fools
 

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The surprising thing to me was how you could pretty much type X + steampunk into Google Images and discover that someone, somewhere had made a picture of it already. I won't go into just how far I took that discovery, but it's certainly a heeeyowage world all by itself.

May I suggest that be called "Rule 3 + 4i":

If it exists, there IS a steampunk version of it.
 

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Chris is one cool dude, isn't he?

I had lots of fun on April Fool's Day. I guess the joke was on Chris, missing out. :)

Loved the banner, too.

The irony... she burns!

I loved the steampunk avatars, and copied a bunch of them to my computer. I have ... oh my, 90 of them in a folder that's 1.4 megabytes. Ouch.

Do you think you can use them? They are identified as avatars with numbers, but not the people whose avatars they are.

How do you use Photobucket or Flickr? Do you need an account? I assume what clockwork was saying is don't just post a link to the images, as per normal in signatures.

Not that I'd post 90 images anyway.

They are so gorgeous. People really got into the steampunk theme.

1.4MB is actually amazingly small for 90 avatars! By comparison, the Steampunk'd banner (uncompressed) was about 2.97MB, and under 300KB as a JPEG. It was made up of 516 different files totaling 313MB. And the animated version of the Steampunk'd banner was made up of 2,802 files totaling 6.36GB!

But you could send me the avatars if you like, I might be able to put something together and post it here for posterity. They'd need to be put into one file like a zip or a rar file otherwise you'd have to attach 90 separate files to an email. Send them to skycoda [at] gmail [dot] com if you like.

As for Flickr/Photobucket, it's mostly to do with bandwidth and netiquette. If you hotlink to an image (the image appears on this site but is actually being fed from its original site) then the other site owner uses up his/her bandwidth every time the image is displayed here, which, with the number of members we have, can be the equivalent of a bandwidth black hole. By hotlinking you also have no control over that image. It could be removed or changed. But if you download the image from the site and then upload it to a Flickr or Photobucket account, then it's those guys using their bandwidth instead, which is fine because that's what those sites are for.

They're simple enough to use. You can sign into Flickr with a pre-existing Yahoo! or Google account, I believe.

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May I suggest that be called "Rule 3 + 4i":

If it exists, there IS a steampunk version of it.

Good one! I believe there's a similar rule about porn but we won't go there... :)
 

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It wasn't animated when it was a banner, someone did it after the fact.

Go back up the thread. Clockwork's got it posted as a Youtube vid. Yes, it's good.

Thanks, Cyia, but ...

Drattity drat drat drat! I STILL can't get Flash to work on my computers.

Most of the time I just shrug and live without video. But ...

Phooey.
 

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D'oh! So I was going through some old files and I realised that I didn't follow through on my promise to put all the AW Steampunk'd avatars together in a file after Alessandra sent them to me. Sorry about that.

You can view the finished file here. Right click on the picture, and choose Save As... to download it.

(couldn't label each avatar Yearbook-style, sadly, but I kind of like it without that anyway. maybe we can make a bingo game out of it? :) )

And thanks again to Alessandra for collecting them in the first place.
 
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