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Nifty!

Was quite surprised to spot that ever-popular Gem icon on Gaile's talk page... everyone else was saying hi, so I figured I'd play along with the crowd. (they seem to have met with cheery responses so far.) So, I imagine you're still a rather busy person in that game called real life, eh? But obviously not so busy as to keep you away from wiki-editing, hehe.

From what I remember, you always were one of the leading experts on userpage prettyness. Still got your magic touch? I just made my page all pwetty, and I can't in all good conscience leave a comment without asking for something in return. Mind gracing my userpage with your eyes' presence? ^_^ -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 05:48, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Hiya! I'm actually not too busy with irl, I'm playing 5-8 hours a day. :) The reason I don't show up too much at the wiki yet is that I'm trying to keep my wiki time a bit lower for Kalomelis sake.

Your user page looks nice, although the colours are a bit dark and depressing. I love the way your ranger image blends to the background color. Nicely done! I think I'll restart my list of nice user pages sometime. :)

Btw, your sigs a bit messy. :P -- (gem / talk) 09:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Dark eh? I was having a bit of trouble with the colors on the Stats section anyway, I agree those look darker then they need to be. I'll fiddle around with those sometime. :D

But what is it about the signature that's messy? Are you just referring to the special characters, or is something not looking right? Because I was having some issues on a different browser, some of the characters didn't work and were replaced with underscores. -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 09:33, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The sig is working fine, it's just the special characters. -- (gem / talk) 09:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, hehe. I'm open to suggestions to that extent; I personally like how the "Derako" part looks better then the "Jioruji". The dashes over just a few characters isn't confusingly complicated, and it has a nice flow as well. Perhaps I can find similar characters for the other letters. -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 09:46, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I just reaslised what it is that irritates me. It's the 'chat' text. maby take the italics away and the random special characters around it too. -- (gem / talk) 10:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, really? I was sure the special characters in the name would be the first to irritate someone. :P Perhaps I'll fiddle with it sometime; at the moment, my priority's on the userpage (need to finish up the rest of the character images in Photoshop, most of my characters have gotten new armors since I last took sceenshots). -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 10:18, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, ok. :) Be sure to throw me a notice when you have all images uploaded. -- (gem / talk) 10:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Will do. Need to install Photoshop here at the moment, actually; I've got Photoshop Elements running on my laptop, and I need some of the advanced features. Just got my hands on Photoshop CS, and I'm excited to try it out. -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 10:22, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I heard CS 3 has some nifty new features, so if possible I suggest trying it out. I think I'll have to buy a student license for it soon. -- (gem / talk) 10:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I just got CS (1) from a friend; it's not the most up-to-date version, but I've been running off of 6.0 for the past, oh, I dunno, couple years. Newer features don't really interest me all that much, Photoshop's just awesome as it is; I'm just happy now to have a working Photoshop for my laptop. (6.0 wasn't working well, because I wasn't able to install it properly; and Photoshop Elements doesn't have the option to mess around with Channels, which is my only way of separating linearts from their backgrounds). New feature that really excites me in this version? Timer. Tells you how much time you've spent on a file. Should really help me keep track of how long it takes to finish an artwork. -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 10:55, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

(reset indent): FYI, I've gotten all but two character images done now, feel free to go check it out! I'm especially happy with Kumo's image, and the effect I managed to get for Hinotama's border was a pretty impressive mistake. :P -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 04:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Mmmm, nice! -- (gem / talk) 10:18, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

GuildWiki vandal

I know you don't venture over there often anymore, but could you help deal with a vandal on that wiki? I saw that you still have admin rights on that wiki. --24.22.225.85 15:05, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I guess it was handled by others. -- (gem / talk) 16:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

HoM

I see that for the most part we agree on the HoM. I too would like to see perfect rares on the Valor, but am willing to deal with it the way it is in order to keep the rest of the HoM as is. Everyone seems to want anything and everything to be to thier personal preferences, and I think that is absurd. Thanks for chiming in. -- Alesain 16:07, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

:) Yeah, people are a bit unreasonalbe sometimes. There's a lot that I would like to have but which I know that we wont be getting or wouldn't really be a good idea afterall. -- (gem / talk) 16:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Adminz

why arent you anymoar? 86.83.15.245 16:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

During my reconfirmation I got some feedback that caused me to resign. -- (gem / talk) 16:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

hihihihi

click teh ip

im lazy

72.192.54.23 01:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi. The redirects to Blastedts user page were not created by the Blasteds account but by this random IP so they don't prove anything. If you want to prove us that the IP is indeed Blastedt then please use the account to confirm it. -- (gem / talk) 01:52, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

1. 21:41, 26 March 2007 Blastedt (Talk | contribs) m (Reverted edits by Gem (Talk); changed back to last version by 72.192.54.23 (That's my IP))

1. (cur) (last) 21:36, 26 March 2007 Gem (Talk | contribs) m (Reverted edits by 72.192.54.23 (Talk); changed back to last version by Blastedt)
2. (cur) (last) 21:33, 26 March 2007 72.192.54.23 (Talk) (meh)

check the history :p

thats the second time heh. Reason I didnt log is because im lazy 72.192.54.23 01:53, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, so you like posting fake histories too? The system doesn't cheat. Here is the history for Blastedts user page. Here is the history for your user page. Please log in or your edit will be considered vandalism. -- (gem / talk) 01:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for logging in now. You should understand that trying to fake the redirects and the history like that seem like vandalism. -- (gem / talk) 01:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Er, why not check the actual history before accusing me of vandalising myself :( BLASTEDT 01:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Edit:conflict >_> BLASTEDT 01:58, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

lolz. Readem Hate Mail Goes Here 01:59, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

The reverts in the history are done by the IP. The redirects on the IP pages were done by the IP. Nothing tied the IP and you together before you finally logged in to make one of the redirects. -- (gem / talk) 02:00, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Gem, you seem angry. --- Raptors

Why is that? I didn't use a single aggressive word in the above discussion. :) I was and still am very neutral in this discussion, although the same thing can't be said about the one on your user page. There I'm very schocked about the fact that people actually defend you and your nasty words. :P -- (gem / talk) 02:08, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I am r schocked too. Readem Hate Mail Goes Here 02:10, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I guess it's a bit too late. schocked = shocked. :D Is 5:11 AM too late? -- (gem / talk) 02:11, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Gem, the history I posted was from march :p

Yes, 5;11 is too late BLASTEDT 02:13, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, lol, March. We've had this same thing before? Lol lol lol. What a funny coinsidence. :P I think you understand why I didn't notice this. -- (gem / talk) 02:16, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Yez tht is r a funnay coinsidence. --- Raptors

5:11am? That's not late, 'tis early. You're just up really early, and you happen to have forgotten to sleep. Happens all the time. (I've made it to noon without sleep, by mistake sometimes.) -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 20:43, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I finally went to bed at 7 AM. :P I've sometimes had two full nights without sleep. -- (gem / talk) 20:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

(reset indent): I've got an exceptionally bad schedule, so I'm often going to sleep at about 3-5am... every so often, I'll have to stay up the entire night, just so I'll be tired enough to sleep the next night. I've gotten myself on a sleep at midnight, up at seven schedule, but I don't think I've ever managed to keep it for much more then a week. -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 20:53, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually, for the last three years I've mostly gone to bed at 2-4 AM and gotten up so that I can go to the uni or work at 8 AM. It is doable, but not for everyone. -- (gem / talk) 21:01, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I managed to go to bed at 4am on Saturday, then got up at 8am, zipped off for an Aikido class at 10am (punching/kicking seminar, most Aikido-ka don't know much about attacking because of the nature of the style). Made it to about noon with no food, headed home, jumped over a bush a few times (apparently, I can clear about 4 feet if need be). Edited Wiki. Pretty much passed out at 10:30pm. Just a normal day. -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 21:08, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

NPC formatting

Would it be possible to convince you to avoid whitespace at the article top and keep the heading as "Locations" (for consistency, I think it was discussed somehwere)? ;) - anja 18:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

• I don't care too much about the location vs. locations thing and I'm not sure how I'd be causing whitespace. *confused* -- (gem / talk) 18:10, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

The linebreak between {{image needed}} and __NOTOC__, or NOTOC and the infobox, for example. It's not a huge thing, I just wanted to make sure it was not intentional so we don't end up reverting eachother back and forth :P - anja 18:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Woops. Yeah, it's not intentional at all. Feel free to correct all of my mistakes. :) -- (gem / talk) 18:17, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Are you "Gemi" on IRC?

Are you the user Gemi on the #gww channel of IRC? I want to avoid lumping you with Auron and Tanetris unnecessarily if that was someone else. --Karlos 10:45, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes, I am Gemi. I had to actually trace those lines from my IRC log as I had a very different view from what happened. I'll paste the lines here so that everyone can see what we are talking about:

09:34 < Tanetris> Karlos is flailing at ghosts, and ready to martyr himself over it.... Fantastic. Just fantastic.

09:35 < Auron`> as long as he doesn't use bombs in said martyr process

09:36 < Auron`> O SRY THAT WAS RACIST AGAINST SUICIDE BOMBERS

09:36 < Gemi> well, he is trying to take others with him

As you can see from the time stamps (well, I don't have seconds, only minutes visible in my irssi but anyway) I posted my line in response to the first line of Auron which I did not think as a reference to suicide bombers. I was just thinking it as some sort of way of saying "hopeully he doesn't cause others to leave the wiki" which is what happened in case 'Stabber' and which is what I fear that might happen this time. Auron posted his second message at the same time that I posted mine and only then did I realise that it was a suicide bomber reference. Even then I did not realise that this would offend you very much, but I guess I was wrong. I am really sorry if you misunderstood my intentions and I hope you can understand that I was by no means insulting anyones religion or anything else. My line "well, he is trying to take others with him" was referencing to the situation in the wiki between you and Erasculio, the 'others' directly meaning 'Erasculio'. -- (gem / talk) 10:59, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I believe you. No harm done. :) --Karlos 11:02, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry

You're right, it's unfair to expect you sit by unaffected by me bringing you up as an example of an administrator I didn't favor. I can't promise I won't do it again -- but I'll make sure there's absolutely no other way to make my point before doing so.

However, I think perhaps you should try to be less insulted by comments like that. Saying that you're not leadership material isn't an insult. If we were all leaders, nothing gets done. You have the considerable talent of being a great worker or follower -- while I talk about things we should do or plan how to do them, you actually get them done. I have great respect for that, and I hope my previous comments didn't imply that I thought less of you because of your sysop experiences.

—Tanaric 16:02, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I did not feel too offended by any single comment, but I got really tired in seeing my name in every comment that touched the adminship roles. Thank you for understanding how I feel. -- (gem / talk) 21:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks Gem

I'd like to contact you in-game. I'm currently Pre-Searing however I am about to choose Monk as a Secondary Profession. I will probably be on tonight, I'll add you as a friend and see if you are online =D This is my current character.

Hi. I removed the table to make my page a bit shorter, I already saw your user page. :) I'll try to get online after doing just a little stuff for the university for tomorrow. REmember to sign your messages. -- (gem / talk) 19:15, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey Gem

I would love tocome online but I'm at school. Guild Wars doesn't work here, (yet!)

I was wondering however can I use my Prophecies characters in the other campaign? This would help me and a mate who has Nightfall but not Prophecies, he wants to get it to meet me. Thanks! Smashman Lossehelin 07:40, 25 September 2007 (UTC) (signed) =P

You should click on the 'watch' link on top of pages that you write on. That'll allow you to use your 'watch list' and you'd notice that I already answered your question on someone elses talk page. :) -- (gem / talk) 07:44, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

ok. What point is this? Cheers, Smashman Lossehelin

Smashman Lossehelin Ranger Level: 3 Nationality: Tyrian Height/Sex: Medium Sized Male Armor: Ascalon Armor Date Started: 23/09/07 Secondary Professsion: Monk

07:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Umm, I hope that thing isn't in your signature. See GWW:SIGN for our signature rules and stuff. -- (gem / talk) 08:01, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

And you can change campaigns when you reach Lion's Arch. It might take some time though on the first time playing through the game. -- (gem / talk) 08:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry it was I was just testing something. It is rather large innit? It's ok, my mate decided to start a new character so we can play through the searing together. Cheers for your help Smashman Lossehelin 08:31, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Sig.

Is this sig ok?

Smashman Lossehelin ∙ talk ∙ E-mail 08:50, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks =D

Smashman Lossehelin ∙ talk ∙ E-mail 08:50, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

You can only have 1 icon, it has to be 19x19px and you have to upload it under a new filename like Image:User Smashman2004 sig.png. That image needs to redirect to your talk or user page. Read GWW:SIGN for the rules. :) - BeX 08:54, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

And only a user page link, talk page link and contributions link are allowed. Though I would actually like to have the e-mail link allowed, so I'll start a new disussion on the talk page of the policy. -- (gem / talk) 09:16, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Aside from that, it's within all the other rules... I would simply chop off the E-Mail link and the second image, and run with that. Looks pretty good to me. -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 05:58, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I have like this at the mo...

Smashman2004 ∙ talk ∙ E-mail 06:24, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I think noone disagrees with the e-mail link.

Even if no one disagrees, the current policy doesn't allow it, so it must be removed until the policy is revised (if the change gets enough support). - BeX 06:26, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Saving multiple times

This user has spent 5 hours in Guild Wars in 0.1 months (1.6 h/day).

This user has spent 5 hours in Guild Wars in 0.1 months (1.6 h/day).

I usually do I just assumed it would work... But it didnt. Do you know how to get this to align to the right? Plz

Smashman2004 ∙ talk 09:23, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Because the resulting render if in HTML, it wonn't align as you thought it might. To align it properly, enclose it inside a table and the align the table. I'm not sure if divs would work as well though. -- ab.er.rant 09:32, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I have my userboxes aligned to the right in a table, on my userpage... feel free to check the coding on that and copy it, it should work well anywhere I would think. -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 19:02, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

like this? poke | talk 19:08, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Only problem I've ever run into with div tags is when you stick multiple userboxes in them; it tends to stack in all sorts of random and unwanted directions, which I why I prefer a table for stuff like that. -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 19:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

like this? :P (btw. why do the boxes have a float automatically o.O) poke | talk 19:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Cheers for that! Thats what I wanted...

However I have this User:Smashman2004/Userboxes. And for some reason it goes over everything below it... Why? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Smashman2004 (talk • contribs) 19:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC).

Please don't include them here o.O changed it to a link and will have a look at it :) poke | talk 19:20, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Uhm, you have a 3 cell wide table o.O How do you want it to be displayed? Everything in one column? poke | talk 19:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

No no. If you looked it goes over the things below, over the title for the next section. I would like it not to... --Smashman2004 ∙ talk 19:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I do not really understand what you want to have it look like..? poke | talk 20:06, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I think I know what you mean... when you type content on the page, the userboxes sit on top of the content? That's a problem I ran into, at least. You might need to fiddle around with it a bit; try making it a single column, and see if things still fit in that. If you can't figure it out, just type out your userpage the way you want it to be, ignore the problems, then let someone else look at any problems that are showing up in the coding... -- Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.>.cнаt^ 20:52, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Right... I think Ill do that tomorrow =D night guys and cheers for the Help =d Smashman2004 ∙ talk 21:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC) I'm so bad t signing sorry =( Smashman2004 ∙ talk 21:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for not voting on your RFA

I really feel like I should vote there. However how I would vote is not obvious to me yet and would mean going thoroughly through your contribs and read lots of talk pages. At the moment, simply reading the current talk pages is more than enough for me. --Xeeron 09:26, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I do understand that. I was going to ask fro you and Dirigible to vote, but then decided that I wont bother any more users than I have. -- (gem / talk) 10:01, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey Gem!

Hey! I got my arse into the game. I'm currently in Ascalon City... Its so much more deprived than old ascalon was... Anyway... Cya around maybe =D

Smashman2004 ∙ talk 21:57, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, cu around. I have my only non-level 20 character waiting a bit further in the game. :) -- (gem / talk)

Excellent! I've got a party going so we'll see you around =D

Smashman2004 ∙ talk 10:38, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey Gem... Or whoever can answer this =D

How could you get that to align right but have the pics align to the centre of the box plz?

Cheers People =D

--Smashman2004 ∙ talk 12:59, 29 September 2007 (UTC) I got it to align but I want the text beneath it plz...

--Smashman2004 ∙ talk 13:04, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I removed the table as it breaks the wiki layout. Maybe you could make a subpage in your userspace next time? ;)

Anyway I have made something. See this. I understand it that you wanted to have an extra box for the text, if you want it in one box, simply copy the text to the image and add a linebreak between both. poke | talk 13:27, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Dude that is awesome cheers...

One problem however

If you look here User:Smashman2004 It has a white border around it. Anyway I could change it? I realise its the Spacing but is there anyway of changing the colour of it? Cheers, Smashman2004 ∙ talk 13:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Simply add background: transparent; to the style attribute in the table declaration (first line). poke | talk 13:35, 29 September 2007 (UTC)