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So, since I wasn't around to kick everyone's ass this year...who won the quiz?

Pff, I've beaten you at least once!  I did really badly this year though, as all the questions were about AGS games, and almost none about others.

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Actually it's just the board names placed across two columns, and it seems that where the first column is cut off depends on the systems. For example, this is how mine looks like:

The list changes to the right column after the "Recruitment" item. Actually what selmiak mentioned is probably the same thing as what you have in your screen-shot, as in your case "AGS Development" is on the left, and all its sub-forums are shoved to the right. Personally I don't think there is any thing wrong with this. It's definitely not a bug or display error.

As the forums list is dynamically generated depending on your access levels (and the existing forums...), it's not really possible to work up an ideal design for the two column design.  All I could really do is make the list run down vertically, rather than in two columns, but that would make the list massive and clog up the page.

Not sure whether this is fixable, but there have some minor but bothersome issues with the post editor and how to enter bbcode tags.

1. If your selection stretches over multiple lines, it will put a start and end tag on each line (instead of just one at the beginning and end of the selection):

Code: AGS

[b]Example:[/b]
[b][/b]
[b]Multiple lines with tags inserted.[/b]

The only tag I think this behavior is appropriate for is [li].

2. Secondly, after inserting the tag, the text selection in the editing window is deselected, which is inconvenient whenever you want to add multiple tags to the same selection.

3. And is there really no way to make [code] blocks default to AGS if no parameter is given? All old posts that have code from before the tag change are currently broken.

4. Finally, the post editor used to have a link to a bbcode reference page; would it be possible to bring that back?

The parsers that deal with BBCode are massive and complex.  I can link you to the sources if you want to take a look, but as I'm no JavaScript expert this may be beyond my expertise.

As for the BBCode reference list, I was actually working on this at one point, but probably got distracted by a shiny thing.  I'll take another look soon.

Oh yeah, and I'll look at the page titles thing.  Nowhere near as straightforward as you may think.

open forum search page; expand categories; notice Creative Production is on the left, the boards for it are on the right; get nervous...

Huh?  Looks fine to me:

And can the boards on the search page please be expanded on default?

Done.

when rating a game a link back to that game's page would be appropriate and helpful. atm rating a game feels like a dead end

Done.

on this page the 'from the forums' shows the loginname, not the displayname
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/community/

Fixed.

and why is there the /site/ part in every url anyways? is this a rewrite of site.php?page= ? Not that it bugs me all that much or that I would have to type that out manually in any way, but it's probably not very search engine friendly for game authors, and the displayed results may look strange. Especially the /site/games/game/####/ double games thingy on the gamepages.

This is mainly because some of the folders, like /games/ already exist on the site (or at least did when I rewrote the site).  I didn't want to break links to www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games/whatever.ext, so I chose a rewrite URL that was distinct.  And it works fine for SEO anyway, we have no problem being found!

On the main page, where the 3 random screenshots are shown: Sometimes there is the "missing image" icon shown, although on the game's page it is displayed correctly. Example: Draculator II: Byte of the Draculator

For some reason these images were still marked as broken, even though there were valid images, stored locally.  Corrected this now, so only the handful of still broken images will show the placeholder graphic.

opening the critiques lounge thread overview and this happened only once. After reloading it was gone. But as the NEW image has width and height declarations I don't know what caused it and thought I'd just post it here because it also looks funny...

This is almost certainly a random browser error; there's no logical reason why it'd happen, unless the server somehow processed the page generation wrong.  Either way, nothing to worry about unless it starts happening regularly.

I like how in this image you manage to somehow focus on the attractive woman, rather than the one whose birthday you're meant to be recording 

I knew that cake tasted funny...

Mitteneer #01: if it weren't for you, I would have slept through most mittens! Thanks for keeping me awake and alert!
Mitteneer #02: the sparkly winner of the drinking game, hooray to you!
Mitteneer #03: I appreciated your cheerfulness and *great* acting skills!
Mitteneer #04: with this mitteneer, I gossiped a bit with, woo!
Mitteneer #05: I had a very interesting and very pleasant chat with you, both of us being pretty drunk!
Mitteneer #06: no mittens would be mittens without you! Keep the faith and the crown!
Mitteneer #07: to this mitteneer goes the award for "best post mittens depiction!"
Mitteneer #08: a very knowledgeable and professional AGSer, whom I share the passion for retro stuff with!
Mitteneer #09: a pillar of mittens in the years, one that always brings the fun!                                     
Mitteneer #10: you brought life to mittens with your talents *and* with a particular object! Well done!
Mitteneer #11: this mitteneer made me do something new (sing!), and for that I say "thank you"!                     
Mitteneer #12: always easy going, always comedic, always refined!
Mitteneer #13: for sure the most resourceful (and helpful) of them mitteneers!                                       
Mitteneer #14: a board game magician (and a saviour in time of famine)!                                             
Mitteneer #15: The mitteneer with the most intriguing show and tell project, I say!                                 

They're all me!

45cm, baby!

I'm back! (and have been for the last eight hours - just been busy until now)

I'll do a writeup tomorrow, but for now I've updated the Mittens pages on the wiki and updated the forums titles.  Please let me know if you spot any mistakes.

"Only a braindead moron" is being a dick. Don't do this. Also, please don't report multiple posts in the same thread, djbriandamage. Other than that, welcome!

When are you departing from Berlin to the villa? Free spots?
Otherwise, I will stick to my plan (hump Esseb and Snarky).

No idea!  CJ told me to get in touch when I arrive (11:15) and we'd meet up in Berlin.  I'm arriving to a different airport to you, but if you can get into the centre at around the same time I'm sure CJ'd be happy to drive one more.  Might be worth sending him a text just to check though?

ICH BIN EIN HUSBAND? DU BIST EIN WIFE?!

I'll be leaving for the airport at about 23:30 today (my flight is early tomorrow morning).  It'll be getting a ride from CJ and Abby from Berlin to the Mittens villa, so I'll be there... at some point!

I can't do it without someone drawing the icons!  I don't do art!

This would ideally be one person willing to do all the icons, so there's a consistent art style.  First I suppose we'd need a list of all the competitions that should be represented?

Tacky trophies are tacky!  Non tacky ones would be nice!

I could easily set it up so the winners of each competition could have a neat little AGS Awards style icon under the avatar, and make it so the administrator of each competition had the ability to add said awards to users' accounts (making the effort required from any one person keeping stuff up to date minimal).

Whoops, missed that somehow.  It works now, though!

I feel like a phony.  All you lot are buying indie games, while I seem to have bought nothing but AAA titles (and a few Wadjet Eye Games...)

SMF won't let you do anything dangerous, don't worry.  It has its own sanitised SQL access functions.

"AS" is a MySQL keyword.  Probably just means whoever wrote the extended search plugin the forums uses didn't escape it properly.  Not worth worrying about!

Skyrim, possibly never (500+ hours here since it was released ).  Dishonored is awesome though, and relatively short.