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Why is there a bird picture where there used to be an octopus picture? Using the black theme.
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With the silver theme, I just get the phpbb logo, which is not nearly as bitchin' as a lightsaber-wielding octopus.
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Yeah I was a little shocked - I forgot there's an image there. I added the old one to AdBlock years ago. :oops:
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All are reset back to the blue logo, should now show up as that.
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Hell yes! We've finally stopped looking like Episode 1 fanboys.
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Hey, can you post the Star Wars logo here so I can save it for nostalgia's sake?
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JetFred wrote:Hey, can you post the Star Wars logo here so I can save it for nostalgia's sake?
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I didn't realize I was in such a minority. I love that thing.
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I love it so much it's my TF2 spray. I would ask that it be brought back.
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I love, love, love the new blue logo.
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Fireball wrote:I love, love, love the new blue logo.
Old blue logo. When we launched, we had the blue one for the silver themes and a gold one for the black theme.
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We later had a few 'just for fun' variations, including the Star Wars:

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...and the Cylon:

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Note that the last two there are clickable to use as wallpapers.

At some point, someone put the Darth Maul into all of the themes on a lark, and for some reason nobody ever got around to changing it back.
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While I'm not a Star Wars elitist, I am married to one, and the Darth Maul logo always made me embarrassed to browse the forum in front of her. Especially considering she posts here on rare occasion, and I'd be delighted if she did so more often. We need more Star Wars traditionalists around here, not less.

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Ah I wonder why the change was made. Frankly after years of the Darth OO, I find the blue OO logo to be somewhat bland. Still I understand the change to something a bit more generic and less genre related.
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This sort of thing makes me glad we're such a (relatively) agreeable group, because you're never going to satisfy everyone, but neither will it blow up into an argument. Thanks, Fish and company.
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HT made me this logo a while back too...

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Oh nice! I vote for that one!
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Seriously. You've been sitting on that this whole time???

Regardless, add me to the Non-Star Wars logo camp; it never made sense to me. While this new (old) logo looks plain, it doesn't suggest we're a Darth-Maul Fan site.
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wonderpug wrote:Oh nice! I vote for that one!
Absolutely! That one - or Binky.

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I vote for setting the page so that it randomly puts one of the logos up every time you visit. :)
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...or we could just hire Hell's Taco to make a different logo for each subforum - a PC gaming octopus, an R&P octopus, an eight-nippled, sexually objectified octopus for EGB, etc.
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I vote for the one hentzau posted. I like that one a lot.
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Blackhawk wrote:...or we could just hire Hell's Taco to make a different logo for each subforum - a PC gaming octopus, an R&P octopus, an eight-nippled, sexually objectified octopus for EGB, etc.
I did think about that too. :)

(Well, not the nipple part...)
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Fireball wrote:I vote for setting the page so that it randomly puts one of the logos up every time you visit. :)
That would be awesome. I don't know how possible that is but it sounds like a fun idea.
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We had the above logo through our early growing pains days, through Fucktard Ridge and Hooterloo, through U2K and Kobra.

We then changed logos.

We haven't had a multi-page Meta controversy thread in years.

We change logos back.

Hell breaks loose.

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If you like the Star Wars logo, it's still on Tapatalk :)
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Well that's new...
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hentzau wrote:Well that's new...
Cool!
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Invisibinky?
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Next I want blinky Binky.
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The Meal wrote:
hentzau wrote:Well that's new...
Cool!
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Sudy Nym wrote:While I'm not a Star Wars elitist, I am married to one, and the Darth Maul logo always made me embarrassed to browse the forum in front of her. Especially considering she posts here on rare occasion, and I'd be delighted if she did so more often. We need more Star Wars traditionalists around here, not less.
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I like the Star Wars one, and hentzau's pic. Not sure if the current logo octopus is grumpy because he's cold, or because he has to wear that hat....
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Too bad we can't make the logo localized depending where people are posting from. Here in CA, it's just in the 50's with little rain forecasted :P


Just in case the above is construed as being negative, that's not the intention, it was more sarcasm based on the West Coast weather who is not experiencing any bad weather or a typical winter at all.
I do like the logo though, looks cool!
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I like the winter logo. :binky:
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naednek wrote:Too bad we can't make the logo localized depending where people are posting from. Here in CA, it's just in the 50's with little rain forecasted :P
Consider it an angry kid wearing a toque as a thermally uncomfortable fashion statement. I'm sure you have a ton of them there.
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Love it. Who's the artist?
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No love for Black Pearl, eh?
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LawBeefaroni wrote:
naednek wrote:Too bad we can't make the logo localized depending where people are posting from. Here in CA, it's just in the 50's with little rain forecasted :P
Consider it an angry kid wearing a toque as a thermally uncomfortable fashion statement. I'm sure you have a ton of them there.
I'm imagining a winged wheel on that toque. :D
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LordMortis wrote:
LawBeefaroni wrote:
naednek wrote:Too bad we can't make the logo localized depending where people are posting from. Here in CA, it's just in the 50's with little rain forecasted :P
Consider it an angry kid wearing a toque as a thermally uncomfortable fashion statement. I'm sure you have a ton of them there.
I'm imagining a winged wheel on that toque. :D
That was my exact same thought! :)
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