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Discussion / Re: Photoshoot pics?

« on: July 07, 2014, 08:55:51 »

They're under way - Tom reported yesterday on twitter that they are on the conversion stage now (which in its own takes an geographical age, simply because of the amount of images). It's happening, though

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Discussion / Re: Giovanni's Confuzzled 2014 Pictures

« on: May 29, 2014, 11:23:06 »

Yup, looks like the links are broken... It looks a lot like the links actually have the ...... bits embedded in them, which isn't quite right.

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Events / Re: Space (Exercise) Balls!

« on: September 24, 2013, 08:29:41 »

In case of logistics concerns - my better half and i would lkely be able to supply the balls

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Events / Re: Costume Contest Idea

« on: September 03, 2013, 09:56:30 »

Already working on a suitably sci fi costume... so, yeah, would be pretty neat

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Feedback / Re: 2013 Shirt design

« on: June 04, 2013, 21:23:37 »

i would just like to chime in on this, and that everybody i spoke with in person on the topic really liked this year's design. As Aurocard points out, obviously everybody will have different opinions, but not everybody's keen on the whole LOLFURRIES on their chest thing. For that matter, i feel similarly about non-furry conventions. As an example, my favourite non-furry convention t-shirt is another which similarly does not contain the name of the convention itself (not going to go on about which specifically it is, but it's a computing industry event, not another fandom). Just my couple of pennies on that one.

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Feedback / Re: Sponsor events

« on: May 24, 2013, 10:24:39 »

While of course it is silly people who are not sponsors crash events they shouldn't have access to (i might also mention the people who dropped in on Makenshi and my wedding who weren't invited, but that's another matter), what is worth noting here is a particular bit of wording: The term is "sponsor" not "gold membership" or similar. You don't pay for the extra stuff, those are gifts as a thank you for helping out with keeping the con as great as it is. This has been mentioned before, so really i'm just repeating what many others have said before me, just thought it worth to point it out again

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Feedback / Re: 2012 Feedback

« on: May 31, 2012, 14:07:17 »

b) The breakfast buffet. Admittedly the cooked buffet was rather nice for UK standards (I've seen far worse, like the Manchester YHA), but the Continental buffet just.... disappeared when the con was running, and magically reappeared on Late Departure day. All you could get during the con was toast with... erm, sixty different flavours of jam. I don't really like jam.

Oh yes! Seconded! After a very long and exhausting night of work I just wanted some decent breakfast, and all I got was heavy beans, poor toast that was drowned brutally in butter, jam and slices of ham, that was twice my daily dosage of calories. :3

Don't get me wrong, the breakfast was grand for British standards and as the good token German I am I not only DO integrate into the culture I'm visiting but even enjoy tasting something new. But after two hours of sleep all I want is dark bread and good slices of cheese and meat. (You know... Grey bread... that kind of bread that has a taste itself? With grains in it? ;3) No, I do not complain about the breakfast buffet which was great, especially since it was free for the residents. All I wanna suggest is, having a tiny corner with dark bread, meat and cheese for the species-appropriate feeding of us poor Germans. :3

As a Dane who has lived in the UK for some time, i can tell you that if one thing is near enough to impossible to find at anything even remotely approaching reasonable price here in the UK it's dark rye bread like you and i know it. You /can/ find it... In the super-expensive-and-special isle in the supermarket. At around ten times the price of a loaf of the boring stuff the British call bread, for a total of around five slices... i'm afraid that makes it somewhat unlikely that they'll be able to sort it out without actually baking their own i would greatly appreciate it if they did, but yeah... something which we consider truly basic like that turns out to be incredible delicacy-type stuff over here - funny how the world is both tiny and big at the same time

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Feedback / Re: 2012 Feedback

« on: May 30, 2012, 11:14:50 »

Right, with Skie's comments in mind, let me make a suggestion: Given that a sponsor is someone who pays something and expects nothing in return, and the sponsors at the moment /are/ getting something in return, why not change that to "silver" and "gold" memberships, or something to that effect, and then add a sponsor option to the registration system where those who choose it get nothing in return, except for a mark on their badge which says sponsor? Surely that would make it fine for everybody - Skie would still be able to call shenanigans on people who pay for priviledge, but would still be able to sponsor the convention with extra monies without the moral squabbles

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Announcements (CF2008-CF2011) / Re: ConFuzzled 2009 Dates Announced!

« on: July 27, 2008, 23:35:22 »

Yes, Tungro, he does - because the graphics don't get sized up when you increase the font size (yes, i'm aware some browsers do that)

Plus, of course, there is the minor notice that the more obvious and out of place something looks on a website, the less people look at it. Odd, but true (it has to do with people's by now seemingly ingrown ability to have blind spots in the same place where adverts sit)

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Questions and Answers / Re: Question about uploading

« on: June 25, 2008, 18:11:20 »

Well, stick the videos up on youtube or google video (youtube videos are embeddable here on the forum, google video's more difficult), but the pictures you can put up on the gallery site just fine - it'll take uploads in 50mb zip files, so split it up in that size and you'll be fine

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Off-Topic Non Furry Discussion / Re: Desktops/wallpapers?

« on: January 03, 2008, 11:11:00 »

My one, lessee...

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