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2012-01-11: Oh snap, a redesign?

RCM — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:51:29 +0000

Well, I did it. After a year or so of thinking about it, and many many late nights, I finally redesigned this damn thing. For all the work I put into it, things sure don’t look all that different, but here’s a quick tour, anyway. In list form:

Whatever the newest post is (Zoids posts, news posts, “meta” stuff), it will appear at the top of the front page. For visibility and all that.
Under that: recent Zoids posts, links to the last few news posts, recent comments, new/updated pics (lots of them).
It looks better on bigger screens, but probably not as good on tiny (less than 1024×768) screens.
More thick black lines, because I wanted them!
I redid all the random corner images (because I lost the original Photoshop file), and added a couple more.
I added more randomly changing stuff (the corner, banner, and footer backgrounds change color every time you load a page).
I added a bunch of crazy CSS3 stuff. (Round corners! Shadows!)
Hopefully the design is cleaner? HA!
Probably a ton of bugs in Internet Exploder (I am pretty sure I don’t want to know about these).
Still no new content!

There are still a few lingering things that annoy me, so I’ll get to those in, uhh, two years. Also, I changed the name to “…and Stuff” partly because I’m trying not to use so many dang cusswords on my sites, but mostly because of Ron Swanson.

2011-11-09: Winter is coming

RCM — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:10:46 +0000

Which means I took a few more things off the “never selling” and “probably never selling” lists. Which means you should buy them off me.

As soon as I remember all the php I used to know, I can stop posting this list and saying “if it doesn’t have one of these tags, go for it”:

Sold
Sale Pending
Probably Never Selling (aka make a bigger offer)
Never Selling (aka make a HUGE offer)

Read the Original Fire Sale post too, since its rules still apply. Then read the last news post, as it has pertinent information about how to request stuff, as well as how not to waste my time.

2011-08-24: The Fire Sale is back on!

RCM — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:08:49 +0000

Kind of. Most of my crap is still in storage, so I can only go searchin’ once a week or so. With that in mind, DON’T WASTE MY TIME! Example: Don’t ask for, like, half my collection, and then hit me with a “but I don’t have any money, herp derp” (true story). I will become so mad.

Anyway, check these tags. If it doesn’t have one of these, you can probably have it:

(Unless I change my mind and decide I still want something, in which case: SORRY)

Email offers to glidoler on the inter-nets mail system of Yahoo (dot com). Or leave a comment somewhere. Note: if you leave a comment on a post, it won’t show up immediately or at all, because I screen first—too much spam.

Read the Original Fire Sale post too, since its rules still apply.

2011-05-19: Fire Sale is closed for the summer

RCM — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:02:36 +0000

I’m moving this summer, and there’s about a month between leaving my old place and moving into the new one, so everything is going into storage for a while. I’ll let you know when I’m all unpacked ’n shit. It’ll be sometime in August, lol.

2011-03-21: Fire Sale update

RCM — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:37:25 +0000

I guess my sale didn’t suck! Anyway, I wanted to make a page that showed all the sold Zoids, and a page for the ones that aren’t for sale, but I used a custom field to display that in the original posts, and it is proving difficult to make a page that shows only certain values (or match variations of a certain value). Mainly because I am not good with computer.

So here are the fire sale tags. If a zoid doesn’t have one of these tags, go for it!

Sold
Sale Pending
Probably Never Selling
Never Selling (I guess I want to stick around after all!)

I’ll just leave this here too, for reference: Original Fire Sale post

Update to the update: Closed for summer!

Update to the update to the update: It’s back on!

2011-02-25: Fire Sale? Probably

RCM — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:13:04 +0000

This is (probably) not a drill. It’s happened to everyone else, and now it’s happening to me. The whole “moving on”/quitting Zoids thing. So, almost everything is for sale. Please make offers, because I haven’t kept up long enough to even know what they’re worth. Leave comments here, or on the posts of the wanted Zoids (I’ll screen for privacy), or send email to my yahoo dot com email address, whose name is glidoler.

Some things to consider:

Paypal/Money Order only!
Iron Kong PK and Geno Breaker are never going to be for sale. Probably some others. If in doubt, look for the “Status: NEVER SELLING” at the bottom… and make an even bigger offer :)
I wouldn’t bother with customs either, because they either suck or will totally fall apart during shipping.
None of them have boxes or stickers, and many don’t have instructions (unless I miraculously find that stash).
I used to live with a smoker, so there may be some stinkage. Hopefully not much, since everything’s been boxed away for so long, but FAIR WARNING just in case!
White ones may be slightly discolored, thanks to the TWO SECONDS they were exposed to sunlight.
Any HMMs will probably disintegrate during shipping if they haven’t already during storage.

Hit me up if you’re not totally discouraged by the above. (Wow, this sale sucks!)

2010-11-12: It lives!

RCM — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:31:20 +0000

Q: What has two biologically inaccurate opposable thumbs AND a working motor and lights?

A: THIS GUYYYYYY!

HUGE thanks to zoidmagnite, and more pics to come. Uhh, soon.

2010-10-27: I try to get out…

RCM — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:27:23 +0000

…and they keep pulling me back in.

Even though I’m so over HMMs that I didn’t even give the Dark Horn a second look, the announcement of a Rinon (aka Leena) Custom version is starting to really tempt me. At the very worst, I’ll have a ton of custom fodder. At the best, I’ll have a Gun Sniper that can barely stand under the weight of all its weapons.

Just like in the anime!

It was the basket that did it. There’s no resisting that.

2010-08-12: We are, after all, professionals

RCM — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:05:50 +0000

Or are we? I’m going to try and upgrade WordPress soon. The new version is so new and magical and revolutionary, that I’m a bit worried some of my custom stuff will break. If it does, I don’t exactly have time to fix it.

Cross your fingers! GREAT SUCCESS! Next, add some of those sexxy new features.

2010-06-02: AdBlock, I thought we were bros

RCM — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:44:30 +0000

So I was checking my page (this one) to make sure everything looked ok, and like half my thumbnails were missing! After checking every obscure thing possible, I noticed that AdBlock was filtering out anything with “-120×90” in its name. I guess the thumbnail size I’ve been using forever is a new ad size?

SO, inter-net, I will make a deal with you. If you check “Disable on zoido.smeat.net” in AdBlock, I will never ever ever ever ever ever run ads on this site. As a bonus, you’ll get to see image thumbnails.

(Besides, I tried the google thing once and I made about 25 cents in three months.)