If you are wanting to get rid of them, be sure to get them out of your house
first. My dad sprinkled something in the lawn and all of the ants retreated to
the house.
However, using natural products is always nicer for the environment, and there
aren't as many side effects. ^_^
Okay, so I finally sat down and calculated the winners of the contest. My first
idea was to find the winner among everyones 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place votes
separately. However, since I was dividing it up in those three categories there
were too many ties, so instead I divided it up to the totall number of votes for
each avatar. Um, so it was a bit confusing. lol
There is a tie for second place, but everything will be fine. ^_^
And here are the winners of the contest!
First place goes to avatar number two!
The two second place winners are these two avatars.
And the third place winner goes to this avatar.
Yay for all the winners and everyone who made this competition possible! lol, I
guess it wasn't too bad for the first competition ever. ^_^ I will also post
everyone avatars on the page sometime soon, and I think that I will also start
working on the background some more. I will also make some congratulations
banners later too. lol, I am so sorry for making everyone wait all the time. . .
. . .
I am so sorry for the long delay in this announcment thread. . .
Well, here are the submissions!
There are seven to choose from and each one will have a number beside it. When
you vote, just pick the number that you think should get first, second, and
third. I will calculate the winners from everyones votes. The voting will
continue for a week, then I will make another annoucment to congratulate the
winners.
Here are the avatars!
I think that the storyline in Tsubasa is independant of Card Captor Sakura. As
mentioned before me, there are characters that are from a lot of the different
Clamp animes. It is really neet to see them in Tsubasa. ^_^
I have decided to extend the avatar competition till friday due to one of the
contestants submitting avatars that may not be originally made. I was unable to
find what I was looking for, but know of someone who has it on their computer,
and I can resume my search later. I am very sorry for extending the deadline,
but I feel that it is necessary.
The contest deadline is coming up! I only have submissions from one member, and
now it is crunch time to get them in to me. I hope that they are coming out
okay! There is only about one week left. O.o
Where does the time go? lol, Can't wait to see everyones submissions!
You are only giving people about a week?! And what about the dimensions of the
entries, etc. I don't even know if the entry is supposed to be a wallpaper,
avatar, banner, etc . . . .
Well, I don't really mind what text is on there, but if it is your username, or
something like that, you should probably submitt a textless version as well so
that it isn't so personalized. Also keeping usernames and whatnot off of the
avatar will help keep it anonymous. When everyone is voting I will not have
anyones username by the image, just numbers.
Other text like, 'Vincent' is permissible since it doesn't point to whos it is.
^_^ I hope that this answer helps. . .
Okay everyone! It is time for the first contest ever for the FFVV group, and it
is going to be an avatar contest! The avatars can be used for any site that you
wish when the competition is done. Also, since I will be counting all of the
votes and taking the place as judge, I will not be participating because it
would seem unfair to me. ^_^
Now it is time to lay down the rules!
1. The max size for the avatar is 200x200. This is so we can see your skills
better, and they can always be resized for use.
2. It must have a image of Vincent in it. You can add other characters with gif
animation, but since this is a group for Vincent Valentine, he must be in the
avatar.
3. No swear words, hentai, anything of that nature. If you submitt one like that
I will not put it in the voting thread.
4. You can submitt more than one, but no more than three. This will add to the
variety of avatarts to choose from. However, if there is only one person who
makes more than one, I will make that person choose only one to submitt. This
will make it more fair to the other competitors.
5. Have a lot of fun!
I am going to close the competition at the end of July, so everyone has a whole
month to complete it. Also that should be plenty of time to make more than one
as well. Feel free to make gif animations too.
In the voting part of the competition, I will not put your username by your
avatar. I will just have numbers and everyone will just put the numbers in thier
post. Or the voters can PM me and I can count the votes that way.
Those are all the rules that I can think of! ^_^ If I think of more I will let
you know. Also, please try to advertise the group so that we can get more
members to participate. The more members, the more fun!
I think that it is a great system. It is good that it is different from the
other ones because they have to think of new ideas in order to keep the
costomers buying it. I really like how you can link the quickenings together for
chains. And the wait time can get annoying, but it would be too easy if you
could hit an enemy over and over again.
The blue is definately something different from the last one. I like it though.
The contrasts between the manga is pretty neat and different from the other
wallpapers. I do think that the text comes out too strong and it doesn't seem to
fit with the wallpaper as well as the manga does. Maybe if you added some of the
patterns that are seen with the blue, or doubled the layer and added some
filters. Either way, it looks pretty nice!
Quote by botchii messageThe wallpaper you have
submitted entitled Please Don't Let Me Fade. . . was deleted for one or more or
the following reasons:
- It was too simplistic, with poor layout or background
- It was too blurry or overfiltered
- It used screenshots or unmodified stock photos
- It featured a poor quality extraction or had many artifacts on the images
- It was a low effort wallpaper
- It was an alternate version of an existing wallpaper. Please only upload one
version of a wallpaper. If you wish to display alternate versions, you may post
an offsite link.
- It did not feature an anime-style image. See this announcement for more
information: http://forum.minitokyo.net/showthread/35992/
We only accept wallpapers where the members make a true effort to submit quality
works for critiques and advice.
For more information, refer to the Policy and the FAQ
For help with making wallpapers, refer to the Art & Design Lounge and/or get
your artwork critiqued in the Sandbox.
Sincerely,
Minitokyo Staff
This is an automated message and cannot be replied.
Additional information provided by the moderator:
Too much filtering and motion blur. Rather simple background as well. Please
check out The Sandbox if you wish to improve.
Okay, so above is the message I recieved in my notifications. And here is the link to the
quarantined wallpaper. Here
is a link to view the wallpaper.
So above is all of the required information. I am mostly going to reply to the
moderator note at the bottom. There is only two filters on the wallpaper, the
zoom blur that focuses on her face and the lens flare in the upper right corner.
The simple background is meant to be because I did not want any attention to go
anywhere else but her. It is hard enough to focus on her as it is because she is
fading away and I had to lower the opacity to create that effect. Also, if you
were fading away, don't you think that just about everything else around you
would be gone too? That is why I didn't want to grunge up the background or add
a stary scene. I did add little shimmers where she is fading to help add a
little more interest, but you can't see them in the thumbnail, and if you are
actually looking at the wall in full view you will notice them. Also, I wanted a
zoom blur on the outline to add to the panic of fading, though she doesn't
really have a panic expression on her face because she is looking at the feather
that may restore her. Also, I wanted it too look like the outline was going to
be the last thing that you see, and the last part of the color that fades was
going to be her face, so that is why her face is brighter compared to the rest
of her body, which is not fading evenly. Her hand is also less faded because she
is reaching for the feather with it. So I think that my wallpaper is effective
in achiving the effects that I wanted simple or not. There are plenty of other
wallpapers that are simple and still look really nice. And there are loads upon
loads of wallpapers that have thousands of grunge or effect layers, why not
leave some simpler ones to help the variety in the gallery?
My first console was the Super Nitendo. I played Super Mario 3 on it, but I
never got around to beating it. Another game that I was playing at the same time
was Zelda: A Link to the Past. I got stuck in that one too. . .lol
Okay guys! I only have a week left of this semester and it is just finals, so
when that is over I will be adding a lot of information about Dirge of Cerberus
and everything I know about the FFVII game. Of course all the information about
FFVII is still continuing and Crisis Core is coming out for PSP which is another
spinoff. (like there isn't enough already. . .lol) Oh yea, basically when I get
all of the information together, I will have a highlight to see the text type
thing since there will be major spoilers. When that is complete and you notice
that I left something out, or there is wrong information, just let me know and I
will fix it. ^_~
In addition to that I will be providing links to scans from the KAZ site, but I
will host them on photobucket or on imageshack. You can use the scans for
wallpapers and such, but they don't exist in the minitokyo galleries because
they don't accept scans from KAZ or animepaper. These scans are really nice as
well, so use them! lol
Also, we really could use some more members, so if there are people on your
friend lists or people that you notice like Vincent Valentine, or Final Fantasy,
please invite them to this group. You can also post the affiliate banners and
buttons that are on the ffvv page in their guestbook when you invite them. When
we get more members we can host different types of competitions and other things
like that.
Well thanks so much for being members of my FFVV group! We have a lot of things
to look forward to!
I think that you should have custody of her. That is absolutely horrible of him
to do that too her, and to prevent you from seeing her. Um, just curious but
what of your neice's mother?
Well, remain strong through this ordeal and you should be able to get custody.
Is there a thread describing the criteria for groups that could be deleted?
Honestly, I have two that I have created, but never really done anything with. I
just wanted to make the group so that someone else wouldn't make it first. I can
understand if those are deleted. My other ones are a lot more active and contain
more content, but ffvv still needs more information on the page.
So is there a certian number of members that need to be in the group and things
like that?
Well, was the group active? Did it have a lot of members? I think that the
moderators are starting to delete the groups that aren't active. I personally
have two that have never been active since the day that they were created. One
is still a work in progress and hopefully that one won't be deleted. . .
Either way deleting the inactive groups will help to clear space for new groups
and even delete groups that are otherwize informative. I know that there is a
Gackt Camui group that only has one picture of Gackt. . .Well, I hope that I
have helped you some.
lol, but they came from a site that Minitokyo doesn't accept scans from. So they
will not be in the MT galleries.
And yes, it has gotten out of hand, but it is solved now. Many appologies for
being so persistant! heh heh but I do believe that just about everything is
cleared up now! *whew*
Quote by kuroimisaI wasn't really part
of any argument or trying to persuade anyone or anything, just expressing my
personal view on scans based on my "instincts", but I managed to find
where it was stated that AP scans weren't allowed:
Quote by Nuriko
AnimePaper.net Conditions:
If you use images from our gallery
(NOTEkuroimisa/ as in use for wallpapers and vectors, I assume), be sure to give
us a shout or a link so other people can find us too! Also, do not re-submit the images from this gallery to
other online galleries. (NOTEkuroimisa/ as in raw scans) We like to keep
this place original, so it's great to have an incentive like unique images,
don't ya think? :wink:
*collapses*
Alright!^_^, that thread is all I needed. I
never knew it existed, so the list of sites that Minitokyo doesn't accept scans
from is found! Thank you very much Kuroimisa! Really, I think that it should be
added to the policy so that members don't have to search through the forums. .
.That is why this thread is as long as it is, because I wanted proof that this,
well, rule-update even existed. Well, I guess that is that! Thanks again for
finding it! *nods*
merged: 01-18-2007 ~ 10:42pm
Quote by kiopiThat ruling was related to
way back when AP's scan galleries were not yet open to the public for uploading.
Scans were submitted only by a selected few (i.e. several appointed scan
uploaders) who scan their own images like Nat. That system was a bringover from
the old Project Zen's gallery format (considering AP is an extension of PZ when
server troubles plagued the latter). Hence, scans back then were truly unique
and not found anywhere else (other than the uploader's own website).
The applicability of that rule now probably extends only as far as to scans
which are personally scanned by those who upload to AP (like
Nat).
I do agree with you somewhat. Many of the scans there
I think come from KD, well of the scans that I have seen in sertian categories.
However, even though we don't accept scans from that site, they do. . .*wonders
if they know about it* Well, if that rule does still apply then it should be put
in the policy.
Why can't there be two different typs of scans, one for the orginal scans and
one for the digital images scans. . .then people could share the digital image
scans without having to worry about keeping the original scans at one site. .
.*me just thinking aloud*
Quote by MarissaIf you want to submit the
scans, you will have to do some work and find the ORIGINAL source, if it indeed
is not Animepaper.
It's quite simple. The moderators at AP have the courtesy to delete scans
specifically noted as taken from the MT gallery. We show them the same
courtesy.
If it truly truly bothers you that this fact is not documented anywhere, then I
will make sure that it is.
How can it be a 'fact' if it is
not documented? Okay, also there is not a rule in Animepaper that says that
scans from Minitokyo can be deleted. However, here are the sites that AP doesn't
accept scans from.
> Anime Project Alliance
> ferricorp
> neogurus.net
> Animation Alliance
> The-OrO.com
> Tsubasachronicle.net
> deathgod.org
> gumgum.org
Straight from the Animepaper FAQ. Not a word about Minitokyo. And the actuall
original source is of course the companies who made them, as I have already
stated and a previous post in this very same thread.
And since you didn't seem to read that thread that I so conveniently
linked, (Here is the link for you again. ATTN
Scanners: Purging of Non-Credited Scans )I will quote different parts of it
here. I will also add some comments after some of them, so you should read this
whole post no matter the length.All quotes will be from Moderators. The whole
first post is as follows:
Quote by eunasahng
This is NOT a complaints thread. The rules have been around for 2 years. You
can't complain about us not giving you enough notice. All complaints post will
be DELETED.
From today onwards all scans submitted without a proper credit in the
description will be deleted.
If it is your personal scan, you must state that you have scanned the image
yourself. If you got it from another site, then you must state where (which
site) it is from.
Any scan without either of these will be deleted as we require scans to have
proper credits.
Quote by Revan
Quote by Revan
What is an appropriate description, well, if the description clearly states
whether the submitter is the scanner or not it is acceptable.
Examples:
>My scan from the whatever issue of whatever artbook/magazine
>Not my scan, from x-website (even just saying not my scan is enough).
We do encourage that you give more accurate descriptions but what we are looking
for is scans that do not state clearly whether the submitter is the scanner or
not.
We'll be thankfull for any help you give on this matter.
Scanners, if you know you have not given proper credits for your scans
submitted, then go and edit your descriptions NOW. The purging has already
begun, but it is impossible for moderators to go through thousands of scans we
have in MiniTokyo in one day. Therefore do it as soon as possible if you want
your scans to remain in the galleries. Thank you for your co-operation.
EDIT:
Quote by eunasahng
If anyone wants to save time and credits and really really want the scan back in
the gallery, you may send me the LINK to your deleted scan(s) and the NEW
DESCRIPTIONS via PM. If I am not too busy, I will restore and edit your
descriptions therefore they are acceptable. I am being extremely nice here, but
don't ask me to restore 100 scans. I won't. I'll only take up to about 10 per
member MAX. It may take a while since I have a slow connection.
The first post contained quotes from two moderators. Eunasahng and Revan.The
next one qoted from Moderator Bromithia. As long as the person states whether they have
or have not scanned it, and if they haven't, they post a link or give a title to
the website, then they'll be fine. We'll probably give some time so scanners can
hopefully go back and edit their descriptions if they haven't already. :P
Another quote from Eunasahng. No, as long as we know that it is either
scanned by you or from somewhere else, it's okay. That has to be clear though.
More info on the exact source is even better if
you know it. But if you really don't know, at least write that it is not your
scan. Note that in this particular quote Eunasahng says 'as long as we
know that it is either scanned by you or from somewhere else it is okay. That
has to be clear. . .at least write it is not your scan' <--Which I did both
times that I submitted the scans.
And now a quote from Moderator Spystreak: Quote by BlueAngel17
Quote by BlueAngel17
how about if they downloaded it from torrents? Do we have to specify the site
where we got the torrent? Of course, torrents have images that were already
compiled from other websites, and it's random.. how do we clarify our scan
descriptions for instances like these?
As long as you say the images you posted originated from a torrent that should
be suitable enough. But like Eunasahng said being as specific as possible is
really helpful
Here is a quote from Moderator Saikusa:
Just as an addendum: This is NOT a new rule.
Nuriko introduced this rule TWO YEARS AGO, but
too many scans have slipped by unnoticed. So we just decided it was high time to
do something about all those scans that don't conform to Nuriko's Law.
Notice here that they made this thread to
enforce the current rules. You would think that if that rule was altered
in any way that there would be a different annoucment thread about it and that
the rules in the policy would be updated.
And the last one that I will quote here is from Moderater Kuroimisa, who has
posted in this thread already. I did not get this quote from the first page
either, it is the last one on the second page. aestalitz
Yes, even "NOT MY SCAN" without a site or link is okay. Simply because
sometimes people can't remember. We just want people to acknowledge the fact
that they did or did not scan it.
As for the first post, I think it's just stating that if you know where it's
from, state it. If not, then "not my scan" is a last resort
merged: 08-09-2006 ~ 06:27pm
Gin
Even if it was the rarest scan in the world with the hugest resolutions and most
beautiful thing you've ever seen, as long as it has no credits, it'll be
purged.
Erm. It's not about freeing up any space. It's about reinforcing a rule. Even
though it's a lot of work, I think the Policy and the rules stand as they are.
As for members going back to edit descriptions, well, they should have stated
the credits or not my scan in the descriptions in the FIRST place because upon
submission you would have already read the policy and acknowledged that by
submitting you'd follow the rules. Just my 2 cents.
*sigh* I think that is enough. There were a few other points that were in that
thread but it is mostly from the same moderators. There were eight different
moderators who posted in that thread! Well, on of them just closed it for
everyone else because the members keep on asking the same questions that were
already answered in the first few posts. So I guess if you want to get really
technical there were seven moderators who wrote relative posts about the
thread.
I have also PMed the Animepaper member, waswas1717 and he or she provided the
link to the site that he or she got it from. Also included in his PM was a
request not to give everyone the link. I would be breaking this request if I
gave a direct link to the site on a scan submission. Waswas1717 did a favor for
me by giving me the link so I will honor his or her request. Turns out that the
username from that site is the same one who the AP member Wasabi got his or her
scan from. Jlcryu is the member of that site who has submitted the scans. Sadly
the primary language of that site is not english so I cannot probe for the
original source further. Also if I submitt scans from that site I will
abbreviate the site so I can fullfill waswas1717's request not to give the link
to everyone.
Also, I realized today that I do have a scan that I have submitted here that
would not be allowed to be in the Animepaper gallery. I got it from anime
project alliance. (now the site link abbreviation makes sense to me. lol) Peace Maker Kurogane by
kaisui1tatsu
Even so, there are no rules against the submission of this scan because I gave a
direct link to the image which is above what the quoted thread asked for.
However, I don't think I would have minded so much if this scan was deleted
because there is a site that says that they don't accept scans from anime
project alliance, but it is not Minitokyo. Well maybe I would have because I
wasn't breaking any rules here. . . . I would only be breaking Animepaper's
rules which don't apply here.
Marissa, I have not seen a single scrap of evidence of this 'rule' that you have
been talking about. You seem to be the only moderator who thinks that scans have
to be credited from another source other than animepaper, because scans from
animepaper aren't allowed. I don't know for sure or not, but I also don't think
that moderators have the authority to edit the rules. I do believe that I have
provided enough evidence for my side of this thread. I will post this thread in
the moderator group today. Later I will search for the urls to the deleted scans
(if they aren't allready purged). If the no longer exist I will resubmitt my
scans with the best credits that I am able to provide in the discription and
they should/will not be deleted again. And now that I also have the orginal
source from waswas1717, I can submitt other scans that have been submitted in
animepaper without having to worry about papers because most of the scans in
certian categories came from this 'original source'. (I must add, this is by far
the longest post I have ever written in any forum, so please excuse any
miss-spellings or grammatical errors.)
I hope that everyone getts to continue to have their scans featured in the
minitokyo galleries, even if they are from animepaper, or if they have a simple
not my scan in the discription. As far as
I know there were no rules broken, and I looked at the rules. My sincerest
thanks to those who helped me prove my points. Well, enjoy your scan submitting!
(and many, many appologies to everyone {even you Marissa} for the length of this
post. I can't believe that I have worked for over an hour on it. Next thing you
know there will be a rule about posts that are too long! lol! but really, I am
sorry for the length, but I mean every word that I have said in it)
ATTN
Scanners: Purging of Non-Credited Scans Here is the thread that is
discribing this very same issue in it exactly. If this 'fact' that scans from
animepaper is not backed up with the proper evidence, I will contack a
administrator to settle this issue. This thread should have been resolved a long
time ago, but it is going nowhere. There is no list of sites that MT doesn't
accept scans from through out that thread, or anywhere else on this site.
lol, even though it is three pages long, it is the same message throughout the
thread. . .People really don't like to read everyone else's posts! lol, no
telling how many times I saw 'Not my scan' quoted. . .lol
Now we are doing it again in a different thread. . .this one , but
this time it is not the members fault in the least for breaking rules, because
none were broken. Yet the scans I submitted remain unrestored.
I will vote for the third one. ^_^ They are all awesome though! *wants to go find lighting*
It could have been where you got them from. And 386x600 is too small for a scan.
If you are wanting to get rid of them, be sure to get them out of your house first. My dad sprinkled something in the lawn and all of the ants retreated to the house.
However, using natural products is always nicer for the environment, and there aren't as many side effects. ^_^
Okay, so I finally sat down and calculated the winners of the contest. My first idea was to find the winner among everyones 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place votes separately. However, since I was dividing it up in those three categories there were too many ties, so instead I divided it up to the totall number of votes for each avatar. Um, so it was a bit confusing. lol
There is a tie for second place, but everything will be fine. ^_^
And here are the winners of the contest!
First place goes to avatar number two!
The two second place winners are these two avatars.
And the third place winner goes to this avatar.
Yay for all the winners and everyone who made this competition possible! lol, I guess it wasn't too bad for the first competition ever. ^_^ I will also post everyone avatars on the page sometime soon, and I think that I will also start working on the background some more. I will also make some congratulations banners later too. lol, I am so sorry for making everyone wait all the time. . . . . .
I am so sorry for the long delay in this announcment thread. . .
Well, here are the submissions!
There are seven to choose from and each one will have a number beside it. When you vote, just pick the number that you think should get first, second, and third. I will calculate the winners from everyones votes. The voting will continue for a week, then I will make another annoucment to congratulate the winners.
Here are the avatars!
I think that the storyline in Tsubasa is independant of Card Captor Sakura. As mentioned before me, there are characters that are from a lot of the different Clamp animes. It is really neet to see them in Tsubasa. ^_^
I have decided to extend the avatar competition till friday due to one of the contestants submitting avatars that may not be originally made. I was unable to find what I was looking for, but know of someone who has it on their computer, and I can resume my search later. I am very sorry for extending the deadline, but I feel that it is necessary.
The contest deadline is coming up! I only have submissions from one member, and now it is crunch time to get them in to me. I hope that they are coming out okay! There is only about one week left. O.o
Where does the time go? lol, Can't wait to see everyones submissions!
You are only giving people about a week?! And what about the dimensions of the entries, etc. I don't even know if the entry is supposed to be a wallpaper, avatar, banner, etc . . . .
Okay, That is a really nice timeframe. ^_^ It will give me plenty of time to do something. Have fun on all of the trips!
Well, I don't really mind what text is on there, but if it is your username, or something like that, you should probably submitt a textless version as well so that it isn't so personalized. Also keeping usernames and whatnot off of the avatar will help keep it anonymous. When everyone is voting I will not have anyones username by the image, just numbers.
Other text like, 'Vincent' is permissible since it doesn't point to whos it is. ^_^ I hope that this answer helps. . .
Okay everyone! It is time for the first contest ever for the FFVV group, and it is going to be an avatar contest! The avatars can be used for any site that you wish when the competition is done. Also, since I will be counting all of the votes and taking the place as judge, I will not be participating because it would seem unfair to me. ^_^
Now it is time to lay down the rules!
1. The max size for the avatar is 200x200. This is so we can see your skills better, and they can always be resized for use.
2. It must have a image of Vincent in it. You can add other characters with gif animation, but since this is a group for Vincent Valentine, he must be in the avatar.
3. No swear words, hentai, anything of that nature. If you submitt one like that I will not put it in the voting thread.
4. You can submitt more than one, but no more than three. This will add to the variety of avatarts to choose from. However, if there is only one person who makes more than one, I will make that person choose only one to submitt. This will make it more fair to the other competitors.
5. Have a lot of fun!
I am going to close the competition at the end of July, so everyone has a whole month to complete it. Also that should be plenty of time to make more than one as well. Feel free to make gif animations too.
In the voting part of the competition, I will not put your username by your avatar. I will just have numbers and everyone will just put the numbers in thier post. Or the voters can PM me and I can count the votes that way.
Those are all the rules that I can think of! ^_^ If I think of more I will let you know. Also, please try to advertise the group so that we can get more members to participate. The more members, the more fun!
I think that it is a great system. It is good that it is different from the other ones because they have to think of new ideas in order to keep the costomers buying it. I really like how you can link the quickenings together for chains. And the wait time can get annoying, but it would be too easy if you could hit an enemy over and over again.
The blue is definately something different from the last one. I like it though. The contrasts between the manga is pretty neat and different from the other wallpapers. I do think that the text comes out too strong and it doesn't seem to fit with the wallpaper as well as the manga does. Maybe if you added some of the patterns that are seen with the blue, or doubled the layer and added some filters. Either way, it looks pretty nice!
Okay, so above is the message I recieved in my notifications. And here is the link to the quarantined wallpaper. Here is a link to view the wallpaper.
So above is all of the required information. I am mostly going to reply to the moderator note at the bottom. There is only two filters on the wallpaper, the zoom blur that focuses on her face and the lens flare in the upper right corner. The simple background is meant to be because I did not want any attention to go anywhere else but her. It is hard enough to focus on her as it is because she is fading away and I had to lower the opacity to create that effect. Also, if you were fading away, don't you think that just about everything else around you would be gone too? That is why I didn't want to grunge up the background or add a stary scene. I did add little shimmers where she is fading to help add a little more interest, but you can't see them in the thumbnail, and if you are actually looking at the wall in full view you will notice them. Also, I wanted a zoom blur on the outline to add to the panic of fading, though she doesn't really have a panic expression on her face because she is looking at the feather that may restore her. Also, I wanted it too look like the outline was going to be the last thing that you see, and the last part of the color that fades was going to be her face, so that is why her face is brighter compared to the rest of her body, which is not fading evenly. Her hand is also less faded because she is reaching for the feather with it. So I think that my wallpaper is effective in achiving the effects that I wanted simple or not. There are plenty of other wallpapers that are simple and still look really nice. And there are loads upon loads of wallpapers that have thousands of grunge or effect layers, why not leave some simpler ones to help the variety in the gallery?
My first console was the Super Nitendo. I played Super Mario 3 on it, but I never got around to beating it. Another game that I was playing at the same time was Zelda: A Link to the Past. I got stuck in that one too. . .lol
Okay guys! I only have a week left of this semester and it is just finals, so when that is over I will be adding a lot of information about Dirge of Cerberus and everything I know about the FFVII game. Of course all the information about FFVII is still continuing and Crisis Core is coming out for PSP which is another spinoff. (like there isn't enough already. . .lol) Oh yea, basically when I get all of the information together, I will have a highlight to see the text type thing since there will be major spoilers. When that is complete and you notice that I left something out, or there is wrong information, just let me know and I will fix it. ^_~
In addition to that I will be providing links to scans from the KAZ site, but I will host them on photobucket or on imageshack. You can use the scans for wallpapers and such, but they don't exist in the minitokyo galleries because they don't accept scans from KAZ or animepaper. These scans are really nice as well, so use them! lol
Also, we really could use some more members, so if there are people on your friend lists or people that you notice like Vincent Valentine, or Final Fantasy, please invite them to this group. You can also post the affiliate banners and buttons that are on the ffvv page in their guestbook when you invite them. When we get more members we can host different types of competitions and other things like that.
Well thanks so much for being members of my FFVV group! We have a lot of things to look forward to!
I think that you should have custody of her. That is absolutely horrible of him to do that too her, and to prevent you from seeing her. Um, just curious but what of your neice's mother?
Well, remain strong through this ordeal and you should be able to get custody.
Is there a thread describing the criteria for groups that could be deleted? Honestly, I have two that I have created, but never really done anything with. I just wanted to make the group so that someone else wouldn't make it first. I can understand if those are deleted. My other ones are a lot more active and contain more content, but ffvv still needs more information on the page.
So is there a certian number of members that need to be in the group and things like that?
Well, was the group active? Did it have a lot of members? I think that the moderators are starting to delete the groups that aren't active. I personally have two that have never been active since the day that they were created. One is still a work in progress and hopefully that one won't be deleted. . .
Either way deleting the inactive groups will help to clear space for new groups and even delete groups that are otherwize informative. I know that there is a Gackt Camui group that only has one picture of Gackt. . .Well, I hope that I have helped you some.
lol, but they came from a site that Minitokyo doesn't accept scans from. So they will not be in the MT galleries.
And yes, it has gotten out of hand, but it is solved now. Many appologies for being so persistant! heh heh but I do believe that just about everything is cleared up now! *whew*
Alright!^_^, that thread is all I needed. I never knew it existed, so the list of sites that Minitokyo doesn't accept scans from is found! Thank you very much Kuroimisa! Really, I think that it should be added to the policy so that members don't have to search through the forums. . .That is why this thread is as long as it is, because I wanted proof that this, well, rule-update even existed. Well, I guess that is that! Thanks again for finding it! *nods*
merged: 01-18-2007 ~ 10:42pm
I do agree with you somewhat. Many of the scans there I think come from KD, well of the scans that I have seen in sertian categories. However, even though we don't accept scans from that site, they do. . .*wonders if they know about it* Well, if that rule does still apply then it should be put in the policy.
Why can't there be two different typs of scans, one for the orginal scans and one for the digital images scans. . .then people could share the digital image scans without having to worry about keeping the original scans at one site. . .*me just thinking aloud*
How can it be a 'fact' if it is not documented? Okay, also there is not a rule in Animepaper that says that scans from Minitokyo can be deleted. However, here are the sites that AP doesn't accept scans from.
> Anime Project Alliance
> ferricorp
> neogurus.net
> Animation Alliance
> The-OrO.com
> Tsubasachronicle.net
> deathgod.org
> gumgum.org
Straight from the Animepaper FAQ. Not a word about Minitokyo. And the actuall original source is of course the companies who made them, as I have already stated and a previous post in this very same thread.
And since you didn't seem to read that thread that I so conveniently
linked, (Here is the link for you again. ATTN Scanners: Purging of Non-Credited Scans )I will quote different parts of it here. I will also add some comments after some of them, so you should read this whole post no matter the length.All quotes will be from Moderators. The whole first post is as follows:
Quote by eunasahng
This is NOT a complaints thread. The rules have been around for 2 years. You can't complain about us not giving you enough notice. All complaints post will be DELETED.
From today onwards all scans submitted without a proper credit in the description will be deleted.
If it is your personal scan, you must state that you have scanned the image yourself. If you got it from another site, then you must state where (which site) it is from.
Any scan without either of these will be deleted as we require scans to have proper credits.
Quote by Revan
Scanners, if you know you have not given proper credits for your scans submitted, then go and edit your descriptions NOW. The purging has already begun, but it is impossible for moderators to go through thousands of scans we have in MiniTokyo in one day. Therefore do it as soon as possible if you want your scans to remain in the galleries. Thank you for your co-operation.
EDIT:
Quote by eunasahng
If anyone wants to save time and credits and really really want the scan back in the gallery, you may send me the LINK to your deleted scan(s) and the NEW DESCRIPTIONS via PM. If I am not too busy, I will restore and edit your descriptions therefore they are acceptable. I am being extremely nice here, but don't ask me to restore 100 scans. I won't. I'll only take up to about 10 per member MAX. It may take a while since I have a slow connection.
The first post contained quotes from two moderators. Eunasahng and Revan.The next one qoted from Moderator Bromithia.
As long as the person states whether they have or have not scanned it, and if they haven't, they post a link or give a title to the website, then they'll be fine. We'll probably give some time so scanners can hopefully go back and edit their descriptions if they haven't already. :P
Another quote from Eunasahng.
No, as long as we know that it is either scanned by you or from somewhere else, it's okay. That has to be clear though.
More info on the exact source is even better if you know it. But if you really don't know, at least write that it is not your scan. Note that in this particular quote Eunasahng says 'as long as we know that it is either scanned by you or from somewhere else it is okay. That has to be clear. . .at least write it is not your scan' <--Which I did both times that I submitted the scans.
And now a quote from Moderator Spystreak:
Quote by BlueAngel17
As long as you say the images you posted originated from a torrent that should be suitable enough. But like Eunasahng said being as specific as possible is really helpful
Here is a quote from Moderator Saikusa:
Just as an addendum: This is NOT a new rule.
Nuriko introduced this rule TWO YEARS AGO, but too many scans have slipped by unnoticed. So we just decided it was high time to do something about all those scans that don't conform to Nuriko's Law. Notice here that they made this thread to enforce the current rules. You would think that if that rule was altered in any way that there would be a different annoucment thread about it and that the rules in the policy would be updated.
And the last one that I will quote here is from Moderater Kuroimisa, who has posted in this thread already. I did not get this quote from the first page either, it is the last one on the second page.
aestalitz
Yes, even "NOT MY SCAN" without a site or link is okay. Simply because sometimes people can't remember. We just want people to acknowledge the fact that they did or did not scan it.
As for the first post, I think it's just stating that if you know where it's from, state it. If not, then "not my scan" is a last resort
merged: 08-09-2006 ~ 06:27pm
Gin
Even if it was the rarest scan in the world with the hugest resolutions and most beautiful thing you've ever seen, as long as it has no credits, it'll be purged.
Erm. It's not about freeing up any space. It's about reinforcing a rule. Even though it's a lot of work, I think the Policy and the rules stand as they are. As for members going back to edit descriptions, well, they should have stated the credits or not my scan in the descriptions in the FIRST place because upon submission you would have already read the policy and acknowledged that by submitting you'd follow the rules. Just my 2 cents.
*sigh* I think that is enough. There were a few other points that were in that thread but it is mostly from the same moderators. There were eight different moderators who posted in that thread! Well, on of them just closed it for everyone else because the members keep on asking the same questions that were already answered in the first few posts. So I guess if you want to get really technical there were seven moderators who wrote relative posts about the thread.
I have also PMed the Animepaper member, waswas1717 and he or she provided the link to the site that he or she got it from. Also included in his PM was a request not to give everyone the link. I would be breaking this request if I gave a direct link to the site on a scan submission. Waswas1717 did a favor for me by giving me the link so I will honor his or her request. Turns out that the username from that site is the same one who the AP member Wasabi got his or her scan from. Jlcryu is the member of that site who has submitted the scans. Sadly the primary language of that site is not english so I cannot probe for the original source further. Also if I submitt scans from that site I will abbreviate the site so I can fullfill waswas1717's request not to give the link to everyone.
Also, I realized today that I do have a scan that I have submitted here that would not be allowed to be in the Animepaper gallery. I got it from anime project alliance. (now the site link abbreviation makes sense to me. lol)
Peace Maker Kurogane by kaisui1tatsu
Even so, there are no rules against the submission of this scan because I gave a direct link to the image which is above what the quoted thread asked for. However, I don't think I would have minded so much if this scan was deleted because there is a site that says that they don't accept scans from anime project alliance, but it is not Minitokyo. Well maybe I would have because I wasn't breaking any rules here. . . . I would only be breaking Animepaper's rules which don't apply here.
Marissa, I have not seen a single scrap of evidence of this 'rule' that you have been talking about. You seem to be the only moderator who thinks that scans have to be credited from another source other than animepaper, because scans from animepaper aren't allowed. I don't know for sure or not, but I also don't think that moderators have the authority to edit the rules. I do believe that I have provided enough evidence for my side of this thread. I will post this thread in the moderator group today. Later I will search for the urls to the deleted scans (if they aren't allready purged). If the no longer exist I will resubmitt my scans with the best credits that I am able to provide in the discription and they should/will not be deleted again. And now that I also have the orginal source from waswas1717, I can submitt other scans that have been submitted in animepaper without having to worry about papers because most of the scans in certian categories came from this 'original source'. (I must add, this is by far the longest post I have ever written in any forum, so please excuse any miss-spellings or grammatical errors.)
I hope that everyone getts to continue to have their scans featured in the minitokyo galleries, even if they are from animepaper, or if they have a simple not my scan in the discription. As far as I know there were no rules broken, and I looked at the rules. My sincerest thanks to those who helped me prove my points. Well, enjoy your scan submitting! (and many, many appologies to everyone {even you Marissa} for the length of this post. I can't believe that I have worked for over an hour on it. Next thing you know there will be a rule about posts that are too long! lol! but really, I am sorry for the length, but I mean every word that I have said in it)
ATTN Scanners: Purging of Non-Credited Scans Here is the thread that is discribing this very same issue in it exactly. If this 'fact' that scans from animepaper is not backed up with the proper evidence, I will contack a administrator to settle this issue. This thread should have been resolved a long time ago, but it is going nowhere. There is no list of sites that MT doesn't accept scans from through out that thread, or anywhere else on this site.
, but
this time it is not the members fault in the least for breaking rules, because
none were broken. Yet the scans I submitted remain unrestored.
lol, even though it is three pages long, it is the same message throughout the thread. . .People really don't like to read everyone else's posts! lol, no telling how many times I saw 'Not my scan' quoted. . .lol
Now we are doing it again in a different thread. . .this one