Look at how much you assholes cost me every month

[shiney]

This is the price we pay for functional web service. This is the price I pay for functional web service!

http://www.nuklearforums.com/images/expensive.png

You fucking freeloaders!!!!!

[Shyria Dracnoir]

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[Arcanum]

Shiney it's not our fault you didn't budget for this properly. You're going to have to deal with the loan sharks on your own.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

This is why the forums are in dire straights people.

[Aerozord]

I thought the time before the last great forum break this thing was paid for for like, decades

[Flarecobra]

I blame Obama.

[Intern Nin]

I agree. The town of Obama in the Fukui prefecture of Japan has been nothing but a constant source of irritation and financial detriment to us all. Someone should really do something about it.

Also, shiney, I want to help you out, I really do. But if I give you money then that's money that's not going to go to niche supermarkets, cheap Mexican grills, liquor stores, sketchy weirdos selling video games on Amazon, and IDW comics. And if it comes down to a choice between this forum and having 3 monthly magazines under the TMNT label, well then I'm going to have to drink because cannot handle a reality that would allow for circumstances where I would have to make that sort of decision.

In short, my forum rent money turned into a empty bottle of Jameson. Can I have an extension till next payday?

[shiney]

You're all whores, adrift in a sea of debauchery, nary a pimp in sight. Someone needs to bring they pimp hand, and gets to teaching.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

I will fund the forum. Seeing as shiney can't.

[Steel Shadow]

We're worth every damn penny and you know it.

[shiney]

I could buy almost a third of a cup of coffee for this embarrassingly high price tag.

You guys.

Coffee.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Wait, someone actually pays for this shithole?! I thought the building was condemned and we were squatting?

[shiney]

The bathroom is condemned, which unfortunately has yes led to a lot of squatting.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

It's your fault for not being able to find a plumber that won't completely ignore the job at hand in favor of assaulting Intern_Nin by jumping on his head.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

It's your fault for not being able to find a plumber that won't completely ignore the job at hand in favor of assaulting Intern_Nin by jumping on his head.

I second that motion.

[shiney]

Well I mean, head of a turtle, can you blame them? Come on now.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Well I mean, head of a turtle, can you blame them? Come on now.

Then it's settled, Intern_Nin must be sacrificed

[Flarecobra]

I second the notion. Though we had better make sure it's not princess-kidnapping season.

Or better yet, kidnap a princess and have her ransomed for free plumbing services.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Or better yet, kidnap a princess and have her ransomed for free plumbing services.

MY TALENTS ARE NEEDED!

[Fenris]

MY TALENTS ARE NEEDED!

You're a plumber?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Actually I think Shy was volunteering for the role of "giant lizard who kidnaps princesses."

[Intern Nin]

I thought she was volunteering to be the princess who gets kidnapped?

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

I thought she was volunteering to be the princess who gets kidnapped?

Shy is a dragon, she don't need savin, she is doing the terrorizing

[Kyanbu The Legend]

We're totally worth it though.

[Intern Nin]

Well, I find the mental image of a bunch of assorted weirdos holding a thrity-stories-high tall reptile in a princess custome captive while she's crying for help and being generally histronic about the whole thing to be funny as all get-out.

[Flarecobra]

I thought she was volunteering to be the princess who gets kidnapped?

Don't you know anything about dragons?

Also, we need to clone you several hundred times, and have you walk back and forth on those platforms...

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Don't you know anything about dragons?

Also, we need to clone you several hundred times, and have you walk back and forth on those platforms...

Don't forget to arm some of them with hammers and wings

[Intern Nin]

Also, we need to clone you several hundred times, and have you walk back and forth on those platforms...

That's not a good idea. If you get too many of me in one place I start making an infinite stack of me's and then an entire a planet full of life is spontaneously brought into being on top of the shell of the me at the very top.







You're welcome.

[Flarecobra]

Oh, I would not worry about that. :)

[Loyal]

Look, all we have to do is set one foot on the world and it collapses into its shell.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Look, all we have to do is set one foot on the world and it collapses into its shell.

But think of all the 1 ups

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Well, I find the mental image of a bunch of assorted weirdos holding a thrity-stories-high tall reptile in a princess custome captive while she's crying for help and being generally histronic about the whole thing to be funny as all get-out.

You're off on scale by about twenty-eight stories.

Everything else is fine though.

[shiney]

But think of all the 1 ups

I would be unwilling to stop until I had CrownMarioface lives.

Shit got weird when you went above 99...

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

So if we donate to web service costs, what exactly do we get out of it?
Gum?

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

I would be unwilling to stop until I had CrownMarioface lives.

Shit got weird when you went above 99...

Yes but then you go one step beyond, kill yourself through "accidental means" and come back after making out your life insurance policy to your identical twin brother. win win

[synkr0nized]

I thought the time before the last great forum break this thing was paid for for like, decades

As I recall, we covered the vBulletin license, separate from the hosting situation. But the forum was then moved to a hosting solution that was potentially less than legitimate and, ultimately, initiated a Strife/Abscond battle scenario between shiney and IT Guy. Hence the recent move.



I'd love to be able to see a comparison of that to how NPF traffic from, oh, eight years ago would have added up in this billing format.

[Krylo]

I'd love to be able to see a comparison of that to how NPF traffic from, oh, eight years ago would have added up in this billing format.

To be fair, if we still had the traffic from eight years ago, we could probably still have actual ads and have the site pay for itself.

[Solid Snake]

So basically, the forum's dying?
...Haven't we been saying that for years, though?
Damn thing's a zombie.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

So basically, the forum's dying?
...Haven't we been saying that for years, though?
Damn thing's a zombie.

It's undead, a creature of the night.

[Amake]

I didn't know web hosting was so cheap, I figured it was at least tens of dollars. This gives me hope of having a forum, if I ever get back to updating my site and if it then gets any readers. Nice!

Also thanks for bearing the backbreaking expenses so we can still come here and talk about how Homestuck sucks now and stuff.

[Steel Shadow]

We're not dying, we're just old and senile.

[Aldurin]

It's not that this forum is dying, but that it's already dead. But then one of the admins got drunk when filling out the dead community paperwork and skipped a few parts between "not dead" and "dead even to time".

So now we're stuck here. Applause to the NPF staff for binding our souls to this $12-a-year purgatory.

[shiney]

NPF's soul is bound to this world even as it gives more and more of its body to the Truth.

You guys wouldn't believe how many innocent definitely bad people had to, ahem...relocate for this thing to work.

Also if we had the traffic we had 8 years ago I think we'd be paying closer to $15/mo.

[Arcanum]

I never used adblock here until we started using the custom 'advertisements'

So if we want to talk shit behind Krylo's back we just need to make some banner pictures and get Synk to throw them in the rotation? Good to know.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

NPF's soul is bound to this world even as it gives more and more of its body to the Truth.

You guys wouldn't believe how many innocent definitely bad people had to, ahem...relocate for this thing to work.

Also if we had the traffic we had 8 years ago I think we'd be paying closer to $15/mo.

I still can't get the blood out of my linens

[Flarecobra]

That's why we have red linins.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

That's why we have red linins.

Now. But before we had white

[synkr0nized]

So if we want to talk shit behind Krylo's back we just need to make some banner pictures and get Synk to throw them in the rotation? Good to know.

This works for me.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

What are the dimensions for the banner ad images again?

[mauve]

And so it begins.

[synkr0nized]

What are the dimensions for the banner ad images again?

See below:
Forum "Advertisements"
original thread (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?t=41652)
[...]

Images can be in any valid image file format (i.e. if your browser can render it, that's fine).
Images should be 700 pixels wide and 100 pixels high. Images that don't match these dimensions will get scaled to them, so something with the same ratio may work. Alternatively, if you use a format that supports transparency you obviously can exploit that to use less room.
No Flash-based submissions.

[Aldurin]

No WebM support? I want to crash people's potato batteries with the supergifs!

[phil_]

Just use gifs, Aldurin. They're bigger and use more RAM. I'd be able to tell you if it works, too, since opening two youtube tabs is a risky proposition for the 2006 Macbook at this point.

[Seil]

It's obvious we need to cut back. I say we cut Aldurin. ; )

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

It's obvious we need to cut back. I say we cut Aldurin. ; )

I vote you peel off Seil's skin and strap him to a cross. And then to cut back I say we decrease the mod avatar file size

[Satan's Onion]

I vote you peel off Seil's skin and strap him to a cross. And then to cut back I say we decrease the mod avatar file size

:mad:

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

:mad:

Too mean to Seil? I disagree

[Magus]

To increase costs, you can host my 24 hour webcam. THRILL to me eating eggs! BE ASTONISHED at my morning hygiene regimen! BE AMAZED at me sitting and watching TV for three hours.

[tacticslion]

... so now, I'll be part of the solution!

I'm going to double the sum total of all the money I've ever donated to this site right now.

shiney, I'm writing the requisite check (naturally, as I use the modern style of banking) to do so, even while I'm typing and holding a hungry, crying baby (while warming up his food)*, because I am that dedicated.

BAM, npf, bam.

...

...

...

>.>
<.<

(Whew, looks like they bought it. Suckers! I'm so clever, and none can reveal my deceit! Oh~hohoho!)

* EDIT: and am now feeding him!

[Satan's Onion]

I just chipped in four times as much as I usually donate.

:smug:

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

All y'all are poor fucks. I have chipped in 32x my normal amount. Eat it!

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

With everyone stepping up like this I feel like such an asshole for doing this, but as of now I will not be making any further donations.

[tacticslion]

I just chipped in four times as much as I usually donate.

:smug:
The challenge is on! :D