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Yeah, you are not apparently. There's also @Rasarr in Warsaw 652

That little image is called favicon and can be configured just like @The Voiceless One mentioned above. Here's more info on that: https://css-tricks.com/favicon-quiz/ As you can see you can provide them in different sizes for different purposes.

Gasoline, earth after rain, some fruity perfume

Shady's back? 649

I wanted to socialize and take part in this topic, but I honestly have no idea what's going on here

Perhaps I too will take off my mod hat for this and provide my opinion from the perspective of someone from different country, who has only the most general knowledge of the situation in USA. First of all, I have to tell you that compared to what I've heard from all of you here and on Discord, we have surprisingly little coverage of this in the media in Poland. Most likely because there are more locally important news to be shared, or maybe just because the news portals don't think it's that interesting for Polish readers. And I'll be blunt - this seems true, from foreigners perspective, the fact that you have riots in your cities will be interesting to hear once or twice, but without any effect on our lives, there's not much more to be added so the topic is dropped. I personally don't care at all if Brandon comments on this issue or not. He didn't comment on a lot of important and tragic events in the past, so I would actually be surprised if he did comment this time. However, with such a strong demand from his fans I guess he might eventually. I can only guess why he didn't comment. Perhaps he likes to stay focused on work and doesn't really enjoy hearing about the situation outside. Perhaps he doesn't really know what to say, because he doesn't want to just repeat what a lot of others have said. Perhaps he's worried that not matter what he says, someone will not be happy about it and label him "racist", "leftist" or whatever... Anyway, I believe he has the full right not to share his opinions on any matter. At the same time, his fans have the right to emotionally react to his silence. Jumping to conclusion and conjuring a verdict that "if he's silent then he thinks X" is not justified however here. I have not made a statement about the situation and I'm not going to - does that mean I'm racist or support murder? No. If someone asks me what I think about that police officer killing that citizen and I refuse to answer - does that mean I am happy that a person was murdered? I don't think so. The police officer will be prosecuted and judged, he will forever be known for his actions. Sadly, he was not the first to kill unarmed civilian. Police officers kill unarmed civilians from time to time, this happens in USA, Poland, Germany or any other country where there is an armed police formation. Sometimes those are accidents, sometimes they are not. What makes this incident different, I believe, is the fact that it was recorded. If it wasn't recorded, it would sadly just be another statistic and hardly anyone would notice. The act itself is, tragically, not that special or unique. For example in 2016 in Poland, there was a young man, totally innocent of anything, murdered at the police station by excessive use of tasers and violence when 6 police officers were "interrogating" him. Now, back to Brandon and his silence - perhaps he lives in a way that provides him with a perspective similar to my own, so kinda detached and a bit cold. There was a murder, it was recorded, people are rioting. Stating something to support one side or the other can easily turn into a big problem. It can easily make both sides unhappy, while in practice it will not change much in the big picture. His characters are brave, take risks and sacrifices, but they do it when their actions can actually change something. Writing on twitter won't change the way police works. Supporting legislation that puts more control over them will. Putting people who care in positions of power will make a difference. I hope he does try to make a difference by supporting the politicians and initiatives that actually work for the cause, because just joining the shouting crowd on social media will not have a lasting effect the crowd expects IMO.

I don't write much on the forum any more, but couple of years ago I was pretty active in the social part of the page I have never participated in theorizing, but I was always impressed by how friendly the sharders are I just liked hanging around in here So, to go with your suggested topic: What’s your favorite thread, PM, etc. you’ve participated in? Why? Well, hard to tell, there was a lot I will firmly remember the Random Threads from the general social forum and What happened in Oregon roleplay. Those were the good times Now I mainly hang out in Discord, which is a silly place on its own What conversation made you die of laughter? Some random chatters in the Question threads that accompanied the Oregon RP for sure. What time did someone here make you feel really happy? I always appreciate how in the Bad Day and Good Day threads people were supporting each other and happy for each other respectively What’s one of the posts that made you reread it in awe? Definitely some RP posts from Oregon RP were of such quality that I reread them... but in general I'm not really used to rereading stuff What moment of your own are you super proud of? Definitely the Arcanum announcement and release - I have heard so many kind words then ^^ What time on the Shard might you want to relive for a day? All the times around new book releases, those are the fun parts when there's lots of going on, there's lots of activity! Luckily, we are going to get a lot of those in the future

Yeah, so there are those two problems: 1) IMO Majority of edits are for typos 2) I don't think IPS provides such feature and we don't really have the manpower to customize it that much. Every change to the forum code makes it extra hard to apply updates and it's not that easy anyway, so I wouldn't count on such feature being created unless the IPS devs decide to add it.

I'll move this thread and some other that you made to the https://www.17thshard.com/forum/forum/26-general-brandon-discussion/ General Brandon Discussion board, as the 17th Shard Discussion is dedicated more to talking about the forum itself and its mechanics, rather than Brandon.

Thank you Chaos for making this clear and my apologies for being imprecise. I'm afraid you are on your own in your quest to look for such content. At least you know that there is something out there.

This is taken care of. Sorry again I was so slow with responding to the PM.

This is a bit tricky, as there is no designated forum space for "adults-only" topics. There is a channel for this on our Discord server and I assure you there are 18+ fanarts or fanfics from Brandons worlds. We just don't share those here on the forum

I can see the profile. Observation: normal users can't see the profile, an Arcanist, mod and admin can. We need to look into the server logs to see if there are any errors I guess. I don't think it's browser related.

I'm fighting sinusitis for third week in a row :/ it's far from the worst things in the world, but still, I just want to complain

You can't stop us with pineapples.

The poll is open again. It was probably closed by accident.

What Argent said. I would love to know browser version. Maybe we can adjust and settings to be more compatible, but I'd have to know more about this error.

Wow, someone voted on me, I did not expect that I need to visit the forum more often I think, to show the world how not intimidating I am

I really wanted to prove you wrong, but I can't Only his shorter works can be treated as stand alones currently... which is a bit sad, because standalones are getting so rare nowadays :<

There is only one possible song for Spensa:

The mobile version of the site doesn't display signatures, so sorry, but only the full version of the site will work.

It's not the amount of posts that matters. It's the number of times you see my signature. It should recognize you after around 20 times you see it.

It is known that he didn't refuse to sign a baby But he carries silver/golden marker with him to sign e-book readers for example. Just see this WoB:

I like Shad's videos, so I'm happy for him. I bet he was the one who asked Brandon to have his involvement public, as it's great for his YT channel I don't expect to notice any difference in Brandon's writing or world building though.