Vex Thal

its not sick its my guildwebsite

Dear Mr. <insert flamer's name here>,

1.you apparently have a limited vocabulary, most likely stemming from a prior concussion possibly in infancy. (Translation: You are an idiot. Were you dropped on your head when you were little?)
2. One of the few words in your infinitessimal vocabulary is a word which is a provocation of the most malevolent kind. This can only be instigated by the emulation of other implausibly cerebrally defective people, who may possibly share a gene pool with you.(Translation: Learn something besides the f-word, it's useless in speech and annoys the heck out of people unless you have a learning deficit. Also, I bet your family is stupid too.)
3. One of the most heinous felonies commited by said flaming miscreant is the consistent misspelling of one of the few assets in his microscopic array of words. Rather than bother with even learning to spell, he prefers the path of ignorance and chooses to omit letters to make his ludicrous rantings even more imbecilic.
(Translation: If all you're going to do is swear, then at least spell it right, you thundering moron. You look stupider than you have to.)
4. Said mischievous imp and wastrel has yet to prove his grammatical prowess as well. His run-on sentences and his hysterical ardency towards usage of all capital letter simply reveals how obviously simian his thought process is.
(Translation: Go back to 3rd grade so you can learn grammar. "YOUR PROBABLY ONE OF THOSE PEPLE WHO TRAISN PEPLE CUZ UR SO STUPID" just doesn't cut it. You're stupid as a monkey.)
5. Obviously, this sub-human neanderthal has no feeling of obligation to actually assist others.
Possibly an attempt to help the person with a perfectly feasible query may have made him appear compassionate rather than troglodytic. (Translation: Instead of flaming people with questions, just tell them! Do you not want friends, you flaming idiot?)
6. On a final note to the person with a question, people use the "-" command on the numeric keypad to take a screenshot, which is saved in the file EQ0000X, X being the number taken, and subsequently sent to this site.
Sincerely,
Halaras




Edited, Fri Jan 25 16:38:47 2002

Why would anyone reply is such a manner is beyond me. Though I never post to these boards I had to post this once just to note that its probably the worst type of lowlife response I have ever seen. Way to go whoever you are, you must be a really great pesron.

lol oops. put all the stuff in the title LOL. ok i meant to say that this place looks like from the recent stuff about the key quest basically a TOV class place with planar type layout and the goddess luclin is supposed to be here. so basically im saying its 50+ level with a very simple and systemattic layout, no doors between rooms, no little buildings with stuff you need to camp, just individual rooms with no doors separating them set up in a progressively harder level(like upper guk is.) the goddess luclin is, most likely, a level 65 shadowknight, with the ability to deathtouch and summon(watch the clerics in other words) and probably a pet, basically think a stronger version of CT in PoF and you got it, cept she probably invis's herself judging from the name(geez better hope she dont wandr p) so thats my opinion and there you have it. Chao.

these were taken by the people who made this zone, there is no way any person playing eq could wander around this zone takeing pics like they are a national geographic staff member

This "scarring" that you see is a result of conversion to JPEG format. JPEG is a lossy compression scheme that does several things. First, it throws away a fair amount of the color information because there's only so much color that the human eye can interpret (brightness is how we get most of our information).

Then (and this is what you're seeing), the image is sliced up into 64X64 chunks and each chunk is transformed in a complex way that makes it more compressable. This transformation is destructive, but leaves the chunk in more or less the same state as far as what the human eye sees.

The artifacts that you are seeing are where a given 64X64 chunk was transformed in such a way that it doesn't quite look like the chunks around it. This can make lines look broken, it can make things look like they were cut-and-pasted, etc.

However, when you color enhance these sections of the image, you see what you (or at least I) expect to see, which is that the color schemes between chunks are basically the same. This is a real tip-off of fakery. Usually you will see vastly different color schemes in a faked picture because the human eye cannot tell color #003000 from #002802, but under color enhancement they show up as starkly different.

If anyone is interested in trying this out, go ahead and fire up The Gimp (a photo-editing tool for Linux), load one of the images, select a small area with roughly even color ranges (e.g. all fairly dark or all fairly light), crop the image to that selection with the crop tool, scale it up 10-50 times or so and then use:

Image->Colors->Auto->Equalize

To enhance the colors. This will make it very easy to tell when an image has been touched up. A section that has been pasted from another image will be starkly obvious (I've caught some pros at forgery this way doing things like touching up celebrity photos, etc).

I hope this helps. This is a hobby, not my profession, so I'm not perfect. Please let me know if you *do* see anything that contradicts my results.

wha?! you have the wrong link i think bud :P

the pic isnt guarneteed Fake, timing, soandso says something, then leaves the zone? do you see a time at any point? as for detail levels? just poor saving methods or graphics could easily explain it
not saying it aint a fake, just saying there are flaws in the errors you pointed out

What about being the other one a guide? Guide can hide so they don't show up on a /who.

hehe vz first tricky owns