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Reply to AJCrowley's Rules of The Scene in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

10) Why you little... D'OH!

Reply to 12 principals of 'the scene' in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There's this guy I used to know... BIG indie band fan. Hardly anyone could stand him. Why, you ask? Well, he wasn't so much a fan of the bands as he was a fan of the "scene" (there's that annoying little word again.) He loved being a fan of an "underground" act. The second said act went big, he disowned them, because apparently, being able to make a living through your craft is automatically equal to selling out. And he despised those people who became fans of the band thanks to the ex

Reply to 12 principals of 'the scene' in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Posted by miriku in the thread Brad posted a link to: "no big deal at all, i just dont want to aim the scene to either him, or his crowd of aol friendly programmers, or the aol types he writes for." So what are we now, "Stardock kids" or "AOL Types"? Amazing what the world looks like if you're narrow-minded enough, eh, miriku?

Reply to 12 principals of 'the scene' in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Let him rant... It's not as if he'll change anything in the grand scheme of things, other than the meaningless boundaries he imposes in his mind, and in those of his yes-men. Seriously, what can he do by "excluding" for-profit devs from the "scene"? Are people suddenly gonna stop using WB? I doubt it.

Reply to A tadpole has died. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Sorry to hear that, Frogboy

Reply to 12 principals of 'the scene' in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Funny that a "scene" promoting artistic and technological innovation should have such a long-ass list of rules I have a problem with the whole thing, excep 5,6, and 12.

Reply to Game sizes out of control in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

lol @ grayhaze I remember only one game ever shipping on DVD... One of those Tex Murphy games from Access. You can buy it on 5 CDs or one DVD.

Reply to The X-Nerds! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'd be Procrastination Man. I could be as lazy as I wanted without consequences.

Reply to Pictures of the gang in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

/me shows up wearing nothing but a bow tie and a smile. Oops... Guess this is not THAT kind of party. /me promises to return after putting some clothes on

Reply to ObjectBar 0.95 preview.. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

95a isn't working so fine for me :\ My system tray is not being displayed by the Mac skin. The Windows Classic skin doesn't display it, either. And I can't for the life of me foigure out how to make the Mac bar absorb the menus of the active windows.

Reply to What app do you use to create skins? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Photoshop 6.0, PhotoPlus 5, The GIMP, Paint Shop Pro 7, Harm's Tile Editor, Texsynth, Texture Maker 32, Wally... I'll use whatever is out there that fits my needs. Of course, you wouldn't know it by looking at my empty skin list, but I DO skin lol I just haven't gotten up the nerve to upload anything yet.

Reply to Pictures of the gang in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

He's 85. Jack LaLanne is his daddy.

Reply to Pictures of the gang in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Uhh... I meant "Transmutate" up there. I can't type worth a crap today.

Reply to Pictures of the gang in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Cool! I didn't know there were more pages. I got to see treetog, Elfkura, DavidK, Transumate, Migellito, Chichigirl... Nice to be able to put faces to the names As for my own pic, _I_ don't show up in photographs Maybe I'll post one later, if my scanner decides to behave like one for a change <img src="http://i

Reply to Pictures of the gang in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Frogboy looks remarkably similar to the mental image I had of him. Alexandrie is gorgeous, if I may say so. Jafo, I'd already seen. Cool dude. Paxx and Koasati are older than I thought. For some reason I thought they were in their late teens-early 20s. Where's Shoggot? I take it he doesn't show up in photographs?

Reply to Where are additional WB skins? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Whoa, that's a sweet skin. I don't recognize it from anywhere. Then again, the folks at Stardock love to tease us... (coughDOCKcough)

Reply to Children and CD-ROM drives in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Mecha: The wax kind works on monitors, unfortunately for me, who had to clean up the mess

Reply to Children and CD-ROM drives in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hey, at least no one's drawn Pikachu on your monitor with a crayon...

Reply to Dashboard Skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I recall seeing a collection of NFL-themed dashboard skins somewhere... If I can remember the site, I'll post the link here. Maybe the same artist has done baseball-themed ones.

Reply to A lot of skins...! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

My personal favorites: L-blinds by Adni18 (make sure you get the updated version. It rocks!) XP Forest by Alexandrie iWin by Paxx Latte by Gillon Eyegrabber by Dangeruss DDE by Dangeruss You can't go wrong with any of those

Reply to new question in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

/me wishes people would actually read the info on the Stardock website BEFORE asking the same old questions. It's not as if there aren't links to every single program on this website.

Reply to Objectbar help in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

And stop saying "gay" as if it were an insult. It gives away your age and degree of maturity, junior.

Reply to Object Bar 0.90 and Windowblinds in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Buy one. Or use the shareware.

Reply to popularity of xp-styled skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Do what you want... Skinning should be, first and foremost, about the artist's personal enjoyment. If someone else happens to dig your work, hey, awesome. But just do the type of skin you enjoy doing. If you do, the love and care you put into it will shine through and you'll end up with something better crafted than if you were doing a skin you had no interest in creating. Of course, if someone offers you money for an XP skin... I say do it <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/sm

Reply to MAC-icon rips in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Microsoft endorses WindowBlinds, having given them their stamp of approval and a spot on the XP catalog. If they don't have a problem with a program that lets users apply Luna-based skins (and which, in fact, includes a Luna clone among its sample skins), why should you?