Quake3World

Anyone ever notice how perfectly simple and to the point they are, yet pack an incredible amount of character in each notion they convey.
Not sure if being here for so long has created this illusion in my mind, but I have yet to find other forum's pack this level of subtle WIN in their icons.

Here's to the brilliance of the original creator

they were handcrafted by jesus himself from his own tears

that's why they're so awesome

A place so bad it makes Jesus cry.

Yeah, the icons on this forum have always been prettier and more succinct than those on other forums. They're definitely under appreciated.

Agreed. I NEVER use icons on other forums. They're just not good enough.

didn't CWM and a few of the other original nerds make a bunch of them?

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:Agreed. I NEVER use icons on other forums. They're just not good enough.

this

most other forum icons are fucking gay and i'd be embarrassed to use them

YourGrandpa wrote:A place so bad it makes Jesus cry.

then jesus discovered /b/, and the atlantic ocean was formed overnight

seremtan wrote: most other forum icons are fucking gay and i'd be embarrassed to use them

oh did I forget to mention the word 'gay'? Yeah basically what I'm saying: ' the rest are fucking gay'

menkent wrote:didn't CWM and a few of the other original nerds make a bunch of them?

IIRC, CWM made most of them, and snake and Turb added a few down the line.

I prefer Q3W's icons over other sites because so much is squeezed into so few pixels. Any other site uses giant bubbly pieces of shit that fuck up the line height or otherwise mess up the flow of your post. Not here.

Yeah I agree, these icons are great. I also love how after all this time, Q3W managed to keep a clean and minimalistic look by sticking to strict signature and avatar rules.

lol, I remember the drama involved when the shrug icon was selected. As for the tear icon, I'm not sure who made it, but I think it was accepted unanimously pretty quickly.

Transient wrote:Any other site uses giant bubbly pieces of shit that fuck up the line height or otherwise mess up the flow of your post. Not here.

Pretty much spot-on.

Turb and CyriC did alot of of work on them from what I remember...

is a masterpiece.

seremtan wrote:most other forum icons are fucking gay and i'd be embarrassed to use them

Yeah, you might as well be limping around with a huge veiny cock in your ass if you use other forum icons.

Feel the love

the only one missing from the official list is the moron alert icon.

oh and this is the new barf icon, I remember we had different one for that.

also (and furthermore) remember when : tard: became : dork:? teehee gsi times.

They're called smilies, not icons. Bitches. And the shrug smilie is lame. There's a smilie called "the awesome smilie" that needs converting to the Q3W standard so it can be used, it's pretty good, but how often do you want to say "awesome" to something posted on Q3W? It could happen, though. Moron alert icon, yeah that could do with adding. Yes, OK some of them are called icons, but the ones of faces are called smilies. Got it?

I've seen some other icons that are pretty good. A blu-ray icon, and I made a few icons myself. Want to see them? I'll have to get the URLs (they are already online). I specially made them 15 pixels high so they fit into the text like on here without messing up the line spacing.

I like the idea of smilies and icons being the same colour as the text so they blend in, so grey smilies and icons for grey text, red smilies and icons for red text. The way to change them to grey without messing up the contrast and gamma and brightness is to recolour them green with the appropriate command in a picture editor (easy in Paint Shop Pro) THEN change them to grescale. Otherwise greyscaling skews everythig strangely based on supposed human vision of colour brightness. Green is the choice to make cause in the greyscaling process, green is viewed as the brightest out of the red/green/blue attributes that make up each colour (as red/green/blue is what the subpixels are made of). I figured this out for myself but when I did so I remembered that Turbanator had said that's how he changes the colour of smilies: make them green first, make then all green then whatever. IIRC he posted a green version of every smilie at one point to show that he'd done them.

are you drunk?

theyre are so good they truly convey!

simply the best!

hey remember that vibrating tard one?

that was a good one!

trans u made it no?

phantasmagoria wrote:are you drunk?

Drunk on power.

DTS wrote:They're called smilies, not icons. Bitches. And the shrug smilie is lame. There's a smilie called "the awesome smilie" that needs converting to the Q3W standard so it can be used, it's pretty good, but how often do you want to say "awesome" to something posted on Q3W? It could happen, though. Moron alert icon, yeah that could do with adding. Yes, OK some of them are called icons, but the ones of faces are called smilies. Got it?

I've seen some other icons that are pretty good. A blu-ray icon, and I made a few icons myself. Want to see them? I'll have to get the URLs (they are already online). I specially made them 15 pixels high so they fit into the text like on here without messing up the line spacing.

I like the idea of smilies and icons being the same colour as the text so they blend in, so grey smilies and icons for grey text, red smilies and icons for red text. The way to change them to grey without messing up the contrast and gamma and brightness is to recolour them green with the appropriate command in a picture editor (easy in Paint Shop Pro) THEN change them to grescale. Otherwise greyscaling skews everythig strangely based on supposed human vision of colour brightness. Green is the choice to make cause in the greyscaling process, green is viewed as the brightest out of the red/green/blue attributes that make up each colour (as red/green/blue is what the subpixels are made of). I figured this out for myself but when I did so I remembered that Turbanator had said that's how he changes the colour of smilies: make them green first, make then all green then whatever. IIRC he posted a green version of every smilie at one point to show that he'd done them.

You are so fantastically dull.

Over time smilies seem to have gone out of fashion. Almost a faux pas to use them now.