Antpark

36 minutes ago, fantastic_four said:

Anyone with the ability to edit CSS knows it doesn't need posting and that it's in the source.  It's also ironic to post a link to CSS Zen Garden when the visual design of this site is completely consistent with the ones they recommend.  The spacing everyone's complaining about is identical to CSS Zen Garden's default design and similar to most of the ones they present as examples of sound graphic design.

The link wasn't meant to extol the virtues of their design philosophy.

It was to show how multiple CSS contributions could change the look of the site (which many here have issues with) without changing the actual content.

And while yes, you could go through the trouble of pulling it out of the source, I thought it might be easier to: right-click,Save As. It might also allow Arch the opportunity to remove elements he'd rather not have modified through a global template.

@Architecht

Any thoughts on posting the CSS file and getting some help from the community (similar to something like http://www.csszengarden.com/) ?

There's lots of talent on these boards that might be willing to take a stab at it.

5 hours ago, Jerkfro said:

 

5 hours ago, Antpark said:

At least the guy (or gal) had the courtesy to let you know right away so you could get the process of relisting your item started immediately.

What's worse is when there's no contact from the buyer whatsoever, so you end up wasting X number of days waiting for them to pay and THEN have to file an unpaid item complaint with ebay. (which means waiting some more).

True, but is there really any excuse for this? He could have retracted his bid before the end of the auction

 

Oh, I absolutely agree. I was just letting the OP know that it can (and probably will) get worse

At least the guy (or gal) had the courtesy to let you know right away so you could get the process of relisting your item started immediately.

What's worse is when there's no contact from the buyer whatsoever, so you end up wasting X number of days waiting for them to pay and THEN have to file an unpaid item complaint with ebay. (which means waiting some more).

16 hours ago, Architecht said:

Here is what I've found with the categories, and why they exist:

1. The default OVERVIEW area of the emoticons will show SOME of the icons in every category on that listing page
2. There is a max of about 21 emoticons that will show in the OVERVIEW initial listing of emoticons in each category
3. When we first launched, there was the default list (less than 21) and the "converted" category with LOADS of them that did not show in the overview
4. If we leave all of the emoticons in one list, then you would almost always have to use the dropdown to pick a category and then scroll through all of the emoticons - that seems less good than scrolling through a single list
5. I think once people are used to the categories it will actually be faster to pick a category and grab an emoticon than to scroll through a single list
6. The "recently" used list at the top may make many emoticons that you use often easy to grab without scrolling or category picking
7. Text equivalents still work, so then you won't even have to pick one - If you HOVER over an emoticon EITHER in the pop up when picking one OR on someone else's post, you will get a remind of the text code

Now that I understand the reason behind it, I can see why it makes sense to do it that way.

Thanks for taking the time to answer and for all the time and effort you're putting in to getting these new boards just right (or a reasonable facsimile thereof)

While we're at it, can we do away with the emoticon categories? Grouping them together by like type is fine, but I still end up scrolling through the entire list in case the one I want isn't categorized the way I'd expect, and in addition, I now have to scroll past category headers that are unnecessarily taking up space and breaking up the list. It's like the designers got paid by how often they made the users scroll.

19 hours ago, Bosco685 said:

 

John Wick: Chapter 2 Director Discusses His Upcoming Highlander Reboot

 

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Now that John Wick: Chapter 2 is out in theaters, director Chad Stahelski can begin focusing all of his attention on helming the Highlander reboot for Lionsgate — which the studio has been trying to get off the ground since 2008. And it appears as though they've found the right person to take on this challenge.

Ever since Stahelski saw the 1986 cult classic, starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, for the first time in high school, he embraced its colorful mythology and themes of immortality, love, and identity. So with his reboot, which he hopes will be the first of a trilogy, Stahelski wants to make the property fresh again without stepping on the original.

"Right now, I’m very interested in doing the Highlander property," Stahelski told EW. "It’s scarily similar to John Wick. There’s a great mythology, it’s got an action-design challenge. What would a guy really be like after 500 years of practicing sword-work? I’m still a stunt guy at heart. You want to reinvent gunfights, how do you do it? You want to reinvent swordfighting, how do you do it? And that’s where we are at now. I love the first Highlander and I think I’m in a pretty good spot."

"When I came on, the property had already been developed for a couple of years and, as things happen in Hollywood, yeah, there was aliens, meteors, spaceships, uh, DNA mutations, terrorists," he shared. "I mean, they’d tried to drag every plot into the Immortal world. My personal opinion, I don’t want to see any of that. I’m not interested. I have seen other movies like that. I haven’t seen the Immortal world."

 

 

I like the sound of that and think it bodes well for the reboot.

In addition to the density change, I'd like to recommend shrinking the footer that contains the Quote (and I'm assuming future) functions that appears in every post. I think it also leads to confusion as to where one post ends and another begins. Because of its size, it tends to look like part of the actual post, instead of ancillary functions to be used if needed. I've provided a comparison between what they look like now and what they looked like on the old boards.

Current Post Footer

Previous Board Post footer

I think it's always been this way, at least it has for me. The carriage return (Enter key) was equivalent to the new paragraph function, whereas Shift+Enter gives you the line break function, putting your next entry directly underneath your last.

Example:

Sample Text Line 1, then pressing Enter

gives me a space in between the entries

Sample Text Line 2, then pressing Shift + Enter
line breaks right underneath.

I don't know if there's a way to set one or the other to be the default though

4 hours ago, Chadwick said:

or even showing 100 posts per page, rather than having 80 pages of 30 posts each. If this option is buried somewhere, I would love a link.

^This x 1000

DVR'ed it. Can't wait to watch it this weekend!

The Margot Robbie Harley Quinn is up for preorder. Prime 1 via Sideshow - $969.99

Personally, I've never been a fan of this version whether in games, statues or the movie.

I much prefer the "classic" Red and Black and other variations on that color scheme. (although that too was out of my price range. )

Looks like you're off to a good start

 

An example is Saw Gerrera. Other than a small scene showing him opening the hatch to find Jin, and later some weird scene with some weird tentacles ( which I thought was awful ) his character was not shown or developed at all. His death is meaningless to me, like so many other characters in the movie. We are told he is important, I want to be shown. Lets see some film time of him training Jin, some relationship between them instead of countless blaster scenes and ships flying around.

 

 

Saw Gerrera is one of the main characters in the Clone Wars and Rebels cartoons, so no doubt his death meant a lot more to fans of those shows. I'm with you, though. As fan service, it was probably great. But as a character in this movie, he was a cipher. I think they had a bit of Marvel-itis going on, relying on the viewer's knowledge of the extended universe to paper over holes in their storytelling.

 

 

Thanks for your comment. I have never seen either of the cartoons, so you are likely correct that it was expected I know more about the character than what was shown.

+1

That makes a bit more sense now.

Went and saw it this afternoon and absolutely loved it.

Thought it was fantastic from start to finish.

K2-SO had to be my favorite.

The Vader scene at the end . . .

In my opinion, a prequel finally worthy of inclusion in the Star Wars legacy.

I'd also suggest swinging by (maybe call first) a LCS to see what, if any, they have on display. It might give you a good idea of what you'd be getting without having to shell out the cash first.

I ended up doing that exact thing when contemplating this piece --> Batman PF and am so glad I did.

It's a lot more massive in person than I realized and led me to holding off due to having no where to put it.

Pretty cool. I liked it.

Saw it last night and thought it was great!

Hoping to see it again, this time in 3-D.

Looks to be pretty great. I'll be giving it a watch.

Absolutely Stunning

Revised List (I'm still pulling together some of the Modification/Pedigree values)

 

Here's the hash of the barcode bytes...

1-7, Issue ID

8-9, Page Quality

10-11, Grade

12-14, Modification/Pedigree Notes

15-16, Label Type

17-23, Invoice Number

24-26, Invoice Position

 

 

Ex. 0012334 016 50 136 33 1292690 003

Crime Doesn't Pay #22 (1), White-Off White Pages, 5.0, Married Pages, Restored Slight (B1), Invoice: 1292690 003

 

PQ

23-White

17-Pink

16-White-Off White

15-Off White

08-Cream-Off White

06-Cream

18-Slightly Brittle

01-Brittle

 

Modification/Pedigree

445-Cover Trimmed/Married Pages

422-Trimmed/Married Cover

340-Incomplete/Married Pages

222-White Mountain

201-Trimmed/Maried Pages

137-Married Pages

136-Married Pages

132-Married Cover

131-Married Centerfold

120-Incomplete/Married Cover

119-Incomplete

097-Edgar Church (Mile High)

084-Denver

051-Cover Trimmed/Married

049-Trimmed

043-Bowling Green

040-Boston

034-Big Apple

031-Bethlehem

028-Back Cover Married

026-Aurora

024-Allentown

019-5th Wrap Married

 

Label Type

??-Stan Lee

??-TMNT

??-Valiant

??-George PErez

??-Sig Series Qualified (Yellow/Green)

??-Sig Series Conserved (Yellow/Grey)

49-Restored, Extensive (C5)

48-Restored, Mod/Ext. (C4)

47-Restored, Extensive (B5)

46-Restored, Mod/Ext. (B4)

45-Restored, Extensive (A5)

44-Restored, Mod/Ext. (A4)

38-Restored, Moderate (C3)

37-Restored, Slight/Mod (C2)

36-Restored, Slight (C1)

35-Restored, Moderate (B3)

34-Restored, Slight/Mod (B2)

33-Restored, Slight (B1)

32-Restored, Moderate (A3)

31-Restored, Slight/Mod (A2)

30-Restored, Slight (A1)

29-Universal Conserved (Blue/Purple and new Blue/Grey)

22-Sig Series Restored (Yellow/Purple)

12-Wizard First (Red)

11-Universal (Blue)

10-Sig Series (Yellow)

09-Qualified (Green)

07-Restored, Slight (P)

06-Restored, Slight (A)

05-Restored, Moderate (P)

04-Restored, Moderate (A)

03-Restored, Extensive (P)

02-Restored, Extensive (A)

 

Magazines and magazine-size comics (like TMNT 1-4) appear to be different to some degree because they don't have the PQ or Label Type.

TMNT 1, 8.5, White Pages, Universal, 1st Print

50003600085000000951904002

 

TMNT 2, 9.4, White Pages, Universal, 1st Print

00369290094000000237041002

 

Playboy v54 #2, White Pages, Sig Series

75012630075000001152125001

 

 

That's very cool!

Awesome job guys

Now that a have a fresh pint.....

Need more data 

-bc

Ask and you shall receive

It's a small sample I pulled out of the database.

It's csv, so you can copy/paste into something else if you want to read it a bit better. Looks like that 98 might indeed be the grade given.

Edit: For Comparison here's one that isn't 9.8

X-Men, The,124,CGC 9.2,00025182392000080279629003

Great looking setup.

I like how you fit it around the windows.

Yes it does. I did find some on eBay for $15 for USB based or $30 for bluetooth.

 

The biggest "need" for me is for me to go into "batch create" mode and simply hit the boxes, scan the CGC number and populate my book from that. I'm guessing ComicBase doesn't do a lookup based on the cert number so all I have to do is literally scan does it? Basically like what they do if you scan the barcode on the comic itself.

 

That's the dream.

Haha, no it won't do that.

The only way I could think of it doing something like that would probably involve having to tie into the CGC Certification Verification which is probably something neither of them wants to do.