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JohnGaunt
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:23 pm

[Edit: I have removed my nasty suspicions and accusations.]

[Edit: Welcome to the Acaeum, Fid! Gnarley vouches for you and says that you have helped build the DF roster of famous personalities.]

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Kingofpain89
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:25 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:OK, something weird is happening with Fid's avatar. Maybe it is accidental.

Never heard of anti-leeching code before. If FoulFoot says it was unintentional then I am good with that explanation. Apologies to Fid for making the assumption that it was intentional.

I will be haunted by that image for the rest of my life.

You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. - Homer Simpson

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Zenopus
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:32 pm

JohnGaunt: FYI - I didn't click on the link you posted. I saw the original avatar when I logged in here - presumably the same one you and KoP saw.

Fid
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:36 pm

Guys, I have over 1,700 post at Dragonsfoot. There are regular posters both there and here who have met me and can vouch for me. I would not register here, make what I consider to be a serious post and then shoot myself in the foot with a sick porno avatar.

Ban me if you want, I have said my piece. Any Mods can contact me at the e-mail addy I registered with. All I can say is that this has been a surreal experience!

JohnGaunt
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:44 pm

Fid wrote:Guys, I have over 1,700 post at Dragonsfoot. There are regular posters both there and here who have met me and can vouch for me. I would not register here, make what I consider to be a serious post and then shoot myself in the foot with a sick porno avatar.

Have you seen how crazy Dragonsfoot gets? I can think of more than a handful of people who would pull a stunt like that.

However, I am willing to believe that you did not intentionally post using a sick avatar. I will edit my posts accordingly. I publicly apologize for overreacting.

I first visited URLs that were "around" your avatar's URL. They displayed normal Greyhawk coat-of-arms. Your avatar was still hardcore pr0n.

Then I cleared my browser cache and visited the URL of your avatar again. It is a normal coat-of-arms now and probably always was.

Ban me if you want, I have said my piece. Any Mods can contact me at the e-mail addy I registered with. All I can say is that this has been a surreal experience!

I will e-mail my screen capture to you. You will see why I was so angry.

PaulKM
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:51 pm

JG,

I didn't click on a link. The avatar was just there when I read this thread.

Damn odd to me.

Best,

Paul

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe...we are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

JohnGaunt
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:51 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:[Edit]

Option 1 is that he is sick and changed that image to offend. Then he changed it back at the same time that I cleared my browser cache.

Option 2 is that the anti-leeching code at the site that hosts his avatar activates when other sites (such as the Acaeum) use it.

Option 3 is that he knew that Option 2 would happen, in which case he is sick and devious.

Option 4 is that I should apologize (check), edit my posts (check), and get some sleep.

I'm going with Options 2 and 4. Options 1 and 3 make me too angry.

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gyg
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:56 pm

Strange thread all in all!

So.................... Who's looking forward to L5 then?

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:59 pm

gyg wrote:Strange thread all in all!

So.................... Who's looking forward to L5 then?

LOL. Good timing. That made me laugh after an hour of clenching my teeth.

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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:03 am

Fid is a pretty prominent poster at DF. I find it hard to believe he did something that odd on purpose.

I can vouch for both JG and King as people I have known for many years. To upset them in this way is pretty uncommon....I have NEVER seen them this freaked out.

And do NOT send me a capture of the image..I don't need any MORE sick porn on my machine..... :wink:

Mike B.

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FoulFoot
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:10 am

Alrighty, back to work. Or whatever we're doing here. It was anti-leeching code, and I don't believe it was intentional.

As always, anyone who'd like their avatar stored locally on the server here (which I recommend simply because it serves the forum pages faster), just e-mail me it to me.

Foul

Fid
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:15 am

Well, I learned something new! Anyway, lets get back to busting on L4 (and those DF people!

Foulfoot, if you want to delete all the "noise" I caused in this thread to get it back on track, feel free.

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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:16 am

FoulFoot wrote:Alrighty, back to work. Or whatever we're doing here. It was anti-leeching code, and I don't believe it was intentional.

As always, anyone who'd like their avatar stored locally on the server here (which I recommend simply because it serves the forum pages faster), just e-mail me it to me.

Foul

Pretend I'm an idiot guys, because...well, I AM an idiot! What does anti-leeching code do, and why does it cause JG's porno-meter to go off the scale?

Mike B.

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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:17 am

I had previously logged on while these shenanigans were afoot, but I didn't see it (or just missed it), thankfully. I just hope for Fid's sake it wasn't a hard drive corruption issue on his end that erroneously crosslinked an image from his own, personal "secret of bone hill" project

But back to all seriousness, Bill was right earlier.

I know the debate was sort of raging over copyright issues surrounding L4, but just because it is a free download does not eliminate the copyright law. L4 is clearly in violation and WoTC can come down any time they want. Maybe they will just let it go, which is most likely.

Unless Len has an arrangement with whomever holds the copyright, the fact that it is free is irrelevant.

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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:24 am

Badmike wrote:
Pretend I'm an idiot guys, because...well, I AM an idiot! What does anti-leeching code do, and why does it cause JG's porno-meter to go off the scale?

Mike B.

Some sites block hotlinking of images they host, for various reasons. The really annoying ones serve up something else instead - in this case a gross picture.

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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:25 am

Badmike wrote:
Pretend I'm an idiot guys, because...well, I AM an idiot! What does anti-leeching code do, and why does it cause JG's porno-meter to go off the scale?

Mike B.

When a server detects that a locally-stored image is being pulled via a remote request, the server can instead serve up something nasty... in this case, not quite the image intended.

For instance, if I *really* wanted people to not use images from this site, I could implement such code so when an Acaeum image is linked in an eBay ad.... Though that wouldn't stop somebody from just grabbing the image and hosting it elsewhere.

In this day and age, it's sort of silly. In the old days, "bandwidth" was a concern, and an admin (rightfully) didn't want his bandwidth quota to be eaten up by folks linking to images and whatnot. Today, where broadband is pretty much at a saturation point, it's not an issue.

Foul

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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:25 am

My computer is downloading L4 from the Dragonsfoot site right now.

Frankly, I don't care if there are editing mistakes, since no one is paying or getting paid for this item.

Thank you Fid, and everyone else who was involved in bringing this material to light! PDT_Armataz_01_37

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misterspock
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:32 am

FoulFoot wrote:When a server detects that a locally-stored image is being pulled via a remote request, the server can instead serve up something nasty... in this case, not quite the image intended.

For instance, if I *really* wanted people to not use images from this site, I could implement such code so when an Acaeum image is linked in an eBay ad.... Though that wouldn't stop somebody from just grabbing the image and hosting it elsewhere.

So was it the DF server that was sending out the image because Fid's avatar over here was a link to that site (or wherever he's hosting his avatar)?

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