Overly Positive

 Since I’ve been trolling around trying to find a guild for myself in WAR, I’ve had the pleasure of checking out other forums besides the one that I obviously deal with on a daily basis, where we disallow signature images for fear of being assaulted by a bevy of Photoshop-created colors, cropping, and layering.

I do have to say that there are really some interesting signature image policies out there when it comes to WAR forums. I’ve seen sigs that were at least 600 pixels wide by 400 pixels tall, featuring some huge picture of a Chosen with a sword that clearly couldn’t be displayed in all its glory at normal size. I’ve seen sigs that have the closest thing to the randomized picking of fonts that you can have and I’ve seen yet others that write the character name in flowing, almost hard to read script yet have trouble spelling “Destruction”.

Clearly I’m impressed, because if I hadn’t seen that picture of the warrior priest raising a book that takes 30 seconds to load on my page, then I probably would have failed to read the person’s post, which said, quite intelligently, “lol wut”. I would never have been able to judge the person’s Photoshop skills and whether or not their cropping and cutting looked like a 4 year old did it, were I not to see the 1000 pixel wide monstrosity of the sig. Nor would I have been able to tell what their character name is for real, even if their username is the same thing.

I should make one for this site. I can see it now – it would be bright yellow, with my characters against the backdrop with an Outer Glow filter set to maximum, with text in flowing cursive. And I’d animate Hello Kitty jumping across the letters just for good measure. Maybe then I’d have more readers!