Idle Question...

[seawasp]

... which of my user icons do you like best? Least? (I believe you can see them all by going to my userpage and then clicking on my default icon)

Comments

Tentacles

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

The one with the Keywords: Sea Wasp Tentacles

Re: Tentacles

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

OOK

The moving ones are too busy for me.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I like Sea Wasp Tentacles best.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

I like the tentacles best. I don't care about anime, and your default icon shows up almost solid black on my screen.

[shana.livejournal.com]

Well, sea wasp tentacles is the classic one. Your trademark, so to speak.

I dislike Virigar, but that is because he is EEEEEEVIL, and not anything about the icon itself.

As you know, I don't see the animations on my computer, but I do when I use other machines. Without animation, the dalek and HKP ones are boring.

Are you considering adding other icons?

[nycshelly.livejournal.com]

Favorite: Sea Wasp Tentacles.
Least Favorite: Kamesenin. Too much pulsating action.

[randallsquared.livejournal.com]

Favorite: Sea Wasp Tentacles (sense a pattern?)
Least Favorite: Dalek.

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

I like both your default & "Sea Wasp Tentacles." Which may say something about my preference for lack of animated gifs.

[sub-musashi.livejournal.com]

Yup, it's gotta be the seawasp tentacles. It's the iconic icon, so to speak.

Interesting.

[seawasp]

This is actually the icon I like the LEAST. It's not nearly as good a Sea Wasp picture as the "Poisonous and Venomous" image is -- in fact, that's been my image of a Sea Wasp since, um... 1968 or so, and the one I used on my site ever since I originally set it up.

Yeah, the pattern is strong.

[seawasp]

But the Daleks are so... DISCO!

Too much?

[seawasp]

How can anyone have too much Pulsating Action?? (shut up all hentai in the crowd...)

Well, of course.

[seawasp]

I have a permanent account and 100 icon spaces. I have like 90 to go.

Odd.

[seawasp]

The default is a much better Sea Wasp picture, and should be black with a blue-green jellyfish.

Re: Tentacles

[seawasp]

But that's the POINT of animated .gifs!!!

Re: Tentacles

[seawasp]

... and so it begins.

I wish I could say that was a surprise...

[seawasp]

... but not with these responses.

Not really to me, though ---

[seawasp]

... the default ("poisonous and venomous") is the image I've had in my head for over three decades.

Well, at least

[seawasp]

... you like the default TOO.

Other interesting thing...

[seawasp]

.... I don't think I've EVER seen a set of responses this uniform. On ANYTHING. I think I've seen more dissent in a poll about Hitler.

Re: Odd.

[corvidophile.livejournal.com]

would this work?

Re: Tentacles

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily.

Re: Tentacles

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Although, sometimes, I do agree they're nice for effect

Re: Yeah, the pattern is strong.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

The Dalek one must be EX-TER-MIN-AT-ED

Re: Too much?

[nycshelly.livejournal.com]

Well, there's pulsating and there's pulsating. :)

Re: Well, of course.

[shana.livejournal.com]

Maybe a TIM icon?

[franseca.livejournal.com]

I agree, those two are definitely the best.

Re: Not really to me, though ---

[sub-musashi.livejournal.com]

Poisonous tentacles in your mind for three decades - sounds downright Lovecraftian! :)

[deor.livejournal.com]

Sea Wasp Tentacles

Re: Interesting.

[deor.livejournal.com]

The thing is, the "Sea Wasp Tentacles" icon is much clearer; easier to make out what it is than the current default. "Poisonous&Venomous" just looks like blobby scratches to me.

Re: Odd.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

That's better than the default (though still not as good as Tentacles); at least I can read the name and tell that it's a jellyfish. But I'm still only seeing about 10% of the tentacles.

Re: Odd.

[seawasp]

That would seem to imply there's something wrong with your display. I've looked at both images on many monitors and never had a problem...

Re: Odd.

[seawasp]

Ooo, I'd forgotten to upload that one. Thanks much!

Re: Well, of course.

[seawasp]

Verne agrees. So let it be written. So let it be DONE!

Now I just need someone to do some pics of some of the other characters -- the Maelkodan, alternate Virigar concepts, Verne, James Achernar... Or Rokhaset, he'd be cool...

Re: Odd.

[corvidophile.livejournal.com]

i was just going to say that, as my monitor at work is quite a bit darker (and older) than my one at home, and i have no problems seeing all the tentacles. you may want to check your gamma and colour balances on your monitor settings.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Sea Wasp Tentacles

Not only is it clearer than the current default, but it also has a fun double image effect, where it looks like a sort of spectral figure, wearing a hooded robe.

Re: Odd.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

It doesn't *seem* dim... if it's mostly white (ie blank Word document), it's bright enough to read by. It's just that there's about 10% of images on the web that need serious gamma correction.

Experiment time: if I increase my monitor brightness until I can see all the tentacles, what do the other icons look like?

Problem the First: you changed your default into some bug thingy.
Checking your icon page...

Increasing brightness from 60 to 95 gets all the tentacles. And surprisingly, the other icons don't look washed out (is Virigar supposed to be medium grey?). But the white screen I'm typing this into is starting to hurt my eyes.

Re: Well, of course.

[shana.livejournal.com]

He is so cool.

Do you want the Maelkodan in monster or babe form?

Re: Odd.

[corvidophile.livejournal.com]

couple more for you

I'm going to dissent...

[(Anonymous)]

...And say I like the rotating icons. - Narf.

[noctyrnus.livejournal.com]

I like the Moth one personally :)

Re: Well, of course.

[seawasp]

Monster; Babe would be indistinguishable from any other Babe.

Re: Odd.

[seawasp]

Virigar is grey on black, yes. It's a sort of inverse of a pencil drawing with a few tweaks.

Heh!

[seawasp]

Mothra is cool. I haven't found a good animated Goji-sama, though.

completely unrelated

[(Anonymous)]

hey sorry this is off topic but i just wanted to tell you that the link to your website is down. you probably know that already but i was trying to figure out how to tell you that i loved your book digital knight.

Re: completely unrelated

[shana.livejournal.com]

Besides this lj, seawasp can be found on Usenet [rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.composition, rec.arts.sf.fandom, rec.games.frp.dnd, rec.arts.anime.misc, etc.] and has his own conferenece on Baen's Bar [Paradigms Lost.]

He is always happy to hear how people like his work. :)

Re: completely unrelated

[seawasp]

hey sorry this is off topic but i just wanted to tell you that the link to your website is down. you probably know that already but i was trying to figure out how to tell you that i loved your book digital knight.


No need to apologize. Currently I actually HAVE no real website; heck, I'm slow enough updating this LJ and my PBEM, and my last two attempts at setting up a "real" website have not worked out well.

As Shana said, I never mind hearing that people loved my books. I enjoy discussing them with fans, especially knowing what really worked or really didn't for them.

Re: completely unrelated

[shana.livejournal.com]

I thought the delays in the PBEM were just to torture us with suspense. :)

And, of course, the fact that it's hard to type one handed while restraining wiggly baby...