Herald Report
New headers coming with the new HRLD site, hopefully next week!
- You can submit requests for sabers and banners. Tyren and Raven are working on this stuff. Robes are still a long way from being available again. The
reason is because I do not have the software that Muz used, and no one else knows how to use it either.
- Use the forms. If you do not, you will be blacklisted. I've heard many tales from the HRLD staff of people trying to be cute by submitting requests
directly to multiple HRLD staff members and choosing what they consider the best. This is a waste of resources having everyone make a different version of
the same thing.
- HRLD Office site is nearly done. I'll admit that it could have been done by now but I haven't had the ambition in the few hours of free time I've had this
week. RL's been a bit of a pain these past couple weeks.
Issue 479 (July 2007) of MAD Magazine features a spoof on Rejected Star Wars Stamps.
The link is an excerpt from their official site. Page 2 has the stamps. Very funny stuff.
The Steel City Con will take place at the end of July in Pittsburgh (well, technically just outside of Pittsburgh,
in Monroeville). What's that matter to Star Wars fans? JEREMY BULLOCH (the original Boba Fett and occasional Imperial Officer) DOUG WANGLER (model for
Quinlan Vos) and FELIX SILLA (Twiki from Buck Rogers who also played an Ewok) will be there.
In the hype of Transformers coming out to theaters this July 4th [Entertainment
Weekly](http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20041669_20041686_663371_10,00.html) chose the top 10 robots of all time. Two are so great they had to share the #1 spot. Guess which 2 that could be...
Jac wrote me a couple notes telling me, aside from his insomnia, to check out the following things:
- Watch the Lego Millennium Falcon build itself in a nice piece of stop-motion
animation. Jac and I agree that the tail end of the video is stupid.
- Look here for a list of 100 Best Reviewed Sci Fi films by Rotten Tomatoes. I'm
not sure I agree with these ratings though - Episodes 1 and 2 aren't even there, but some worse films are...
- Something Sarin might drool over is the fan-made AT-AT Baby Stroller. It's worth
a glance.
No one else sent in anything.
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lol. I would love to get that stroller...for me.
Blade Runner isn't in the top ten. That list blows.
That list really does blow. No Blade Runner in the top ten, no Timecop in the top ten and a Jim Carrey movie in the top ten. Ugh.
So, Muz could do custom robes, but neither you, or your staff have any clue about using a software. Why doesn't Muz just, you know, explain it to you?
It's not that easy, Karel. Creating 'content' never is.
Give Kaine time, they'll get there. It's not as if custom robes were an official item anyhow.
Sure, they're not a priority, but they were nice and I didn't think they were that hard for a graphic designer to make. It's just the dark tone of "Robes will be available later, if ever" that creeps up in every report which I find a bit odd.
maybe making robes should be a priority and not making HRLD website? I mean, what does it matter if you have a fancy robes form if you don't have the robes?
Not to be mean....but exactly what will the webpage do for the entire DB...just besides eye candy? I mean, the HRLD is suppose to actually do graphics for the members not make them wait forever......I understand Muz had software that you dont...but why make members of the DB haveto sit around and wait on something when you did Have software a few years ago that must be capable of doing a decent job? or should we just pester Muz for graphics? :P
Kaine is an outstanding member of the Brotherhood and we should all trust in his judgment, and direction, as Herald.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC custom robes are only open to DCers. That's 13 people (GM, DGM, JST, HM, HRLD, MAA, SCL and 6 CONs). I'm not going to count up the number of people who are able to have custom lightsabers or even warbanners, that would take entirely too long. The guides for both of those are pretty important because without them the HRLD's staff is going to have to spend time answering the same questions over and over rather then creating the goodies that we all demand. Based on what more people have access to, in terms of the HRLD's services, it makes perfect sense to work on the website where those guides, plus any other policies that will effect custom sabers and warbanners, will be housed over being able to create graphics which are only able to be used by 13 people.
Besides, nobody who's commented on this (except Muz, who was supporting Kaine's decision) can even request a set of custom robes.
As well, as Muz stated, there was nothing "official" about Custom Robes. They were an option because Muz was able to make them. They were never a given. We also have a fairly good amount of choice in the robe option as well. Anyone remember the old robe system? :P And while I don't know much about graphics, I don't think it'd be that "easy" to learn this system.
All right, let's not get our panties in a bunch - I doubt any of the DC will be able to do much of anything extra with the GJW looming, and Braecen, please for the love of Slice remove your head from the Herald's ass, it's bound to be uncomfortable =P
All right, let's not get our panties in a bunch - I doubt any of the DC will be able to do much of anything extra with the GJW looming, and Braecen, please for the love of Slice remove your head from the Herald's ass, it's bound to be uncomfortable =P
Wow -- you guys are hilarious.
If robes were easy to make, we would have had more than 2 people in ten years with the ability and drive to make them. Actually, scratch that -- one real member. Chi-Long's wife made the first set.
I seem to recall everyone bitching about Muz's robes when they first came out too -- it took him a long while to get them right.
The Robes are created using vector art, much different than your typical photoshop drawing. Kaine will get them going eventually -- it takes a long time to get proficient with anew graphics program. Until then, chill out and take your criticisms off of the news page.
I'd support taking criticisms off the newspage if you take off your crappy "Wow, you guys are hilarious" line.
Seriously dude, you've overused it. Get something else. :P
I'll just pop in real quick and say that Kaine has been HRLD for like... too long, so I'm sure he knows what he is doing
1.) Custom robes were never a given. The original document that I got approved through Jac didn't have a provision for 'Custom robes'. I just did that because I was nice. I was toying with making it an official duty, but that never was made official. In order for a duty to be official, it has to be easily done by the next guy, and these aren't.
2.) Custom Robes were never for 'everyone'. As a matter of fact, as HRLD, I was seriously contemplating taking them out of the running for all members. So anyone who managed to get them lucked out...either by timing or by hitting the right competition at the right time. By expanding the project to allow the DC, i added a lot of work to my plate. It simply wasn't sustainable, and the amount of work far outweighed the benefit to the whole DB.
3.) Custom robes are a difficult product. A lot of people don't realize how much work doing this sort of stuff is. And furthermore, picking up a project like the robes project means that he's going to not only learn the right program, but also emulate the style that they are in already... unless he wants to redo all of them, which no one can demand of someone who volunteers their time and energy to do this stuff.
4.) Kaine (or any other herald) doesn't have to do them. When Kaine came back, Sarin and I told him that Custom robes was not something he had to worry about for the above-mentioned reasons. He said he'd not dismiss the idea right off the bat. Not that he would do that, but that he'd have to look at it. If he decides to permit them again is his call.
So get off of his back. He's considering doing them in the future, which is more than any of us expected of him.
I'm going to put in a positive note. While Kaine is working hard on the website, Tyren and I are working on warbanners and sabers. And it the midst of all of it, i've had enough time to try and get ahold of the program Muz used to make the custom robes. Unfortunatly, I don't want to spend $300 USD on a new program. I've made robes myself before, but my style is different than Muz, and I'm using a different program as well. Sometime this summer, I'm going to try and replicate the styles that Muz used and make templates. I should be able to replicate his robe effects exactly. So I may be able to get the robes coming agian soon. If you all are lucky, It'll be before the next HRLD report.