Sometimes, you just *gotta* be yourself. Deliberately.

[na_th_an]

One more thing. In smartdark, the text you type is aoutomatically white, why do you need to change it to white again? (this is directed toward APP)

I see it light gray.

[adosorken]

AAP, I thought you were actually going to change your rules? They look the same to me. :evil: :x :???:

[oracle]

Give him a chance guys, I haven't been online for a while for certain reasons, maybe he isn't either...

[adosorken]

Give him a chance guys, I haven't been online for a while for certain reasons, maybe he isn't either...

No problem dude

[Adigun A. Polack]

To all of the QB45/QB71 community:

GREAT NEWS!!! Tonight, on Thursday, December 4, 2003, the new Official Rules are finally up, only **THIS** time though, as promised on purpose, they are so revised to which there is.............. well, please click right on over here and find out for yourself! And believe me......................

YOU ARE GONNA LOVE THE **NEW** CHANGE!!! !!

You know something, guys and gals, change is good, and this, I BELIEVE, is NO exception at all. And hang on tight, ‘cause we about to learn something that we have never even dared to discover before!!! GET ON READY, LADIES AND GENTS!!! !



To Mech1031:

Actually, the text is sort of a light type of gray by default on your written text using the SmartDark setting. But, when I change the color of the text to white (like this), then, it becomes a MUCH higher intensity version of that light type of gray there, Mech1031. So then, to avoid any possible confusion, man, those are two of the **MANY** possible colors of text that you can use.

Thank you so much for that fine quesion, Mech1031. I appreciate it!! !



And moving right on with Zack:

Since I regularly use the colored text that is supported for the SmartDark setting, I will write my posts to you differently in terms of colored text. I am a *real* sensitive person at 26 years of age, and while I promise people certain things, I cannot just impress everybody all at once. You know how I am. So, from now on, I am gonna at least learn to do my posts a little differently with you indeed. Agreed? !



And last (but _UTTERLY_ not least!! ! ), to Adosorken and Rhiannon:

Right up front with the both of you, all I can say point-blank honestly is........................

THANK YOU SO HONORABLY MUCH, IN SUCH A ***DEEP, RICH AND HEARTFELT*** WAY. ;*) !!!

And you know what, I am so, *SO* deeply sorry to the both of you BOTH DELIBERATELY AND ON PURPOSE for any and ALL insults that I have already caused on you. 100%. Please forgive me. !!!

Let us move on up to such __bigger and better__ things, wonderful ones!!!! !!!



And I thank you all so much, people, for your wonderful respect and support. Now, I sure hope you enjoy my compo more than ever!!! !!



IN DUE SEASON,


Adigun Azikiwe Polack
One of the Founders of “Aura Flow”
Webmaster of the AAP Official Homepage
Official Founder of the “QuickBASIC Caliber Programming Compo”



P.S. Adosorken, your avatar is just no less than truly FLAT-OUT **AWESOME**, man!!! !! Honestly.

[adosorken]

Unfortunately, most of the changes to your rules are just a removal of Christian references...your rules are still as restrictive as they were before, maybe now even moreso. So now instead of having religious reasons behind the huge restrictions, now they're restrictions without purpose whatsoever. Oh well. I wouldn't be able to enter with rules as restrictive as #5, #6 (this REALLY has no basis), #8, #11, #12, and #14. I can totally understand your rules #4, #7, #9, and #13 (especially #7) though. And you're still showing intolerance in #5 whether it's direct or indirect.

Well at least you removed the bulk of the intolerance (exception given to your misunderstanding of the Yin-Yang and its symbology in Taoism), so at least you won't be irritating anyone with your religion. I guess now people just have to figure out a way to make a good game within the heavy restrictions. When you remove bias from such a thing, you open doors that were previously locked away. You will likely get more entries now, and for the first time since your compo opened, I can actually encourage people to join it, as opposed to avoiding it.

Finally, there's no need to apologize. I am not going to apologize for what happened and I don't expect nor want you to. If you are truly 26 years of age, you should know by now that apologizing for how you feel is like apologizing for being real. Since you are a person who is forever trying to get real with himself, you should know this fact better than most. And contrary to public opinion and what I say during my rants with my friends both online and in real life, I don't hate you, AAP. You, like Oracle, have a strangely effective way of irritating me. Hopefully this will change in the future because the last thing I like to be is irritated, I'd rather be in a good mood, helping people out around this place because that's what it's all about here...helping the community grow, advance, and learn.

[eQuuskia]

Thank you for your kind words Rhiannon, I did not know you liked my writing so.

AAP: I would really appreciate if you answered my pm or email. As far as I can tell, you have not even read my pm yet. I am very disappointed.

[Adigun A. Polack]

To eQuuskia:

I just wrote to you privately this Friday afternoon today from between 2:00pm to 2:30pm EST. In the coming writing from me, it talks about my response to what you wrote to me in private from within the last week or two. I believe you will like it.

Thanks very much. !



TOUCHING BASE WITH YOU THIS AFTERNOON,


Adigun Azikiwe Polack
One of the Founders of “Aura Flow”
Webmaster of the AAP Official Homepage
Official Founder of the “QuickBASIC Caliber Programming Compo”

[Neo]

I see you've changed the rules a bit, but that won't hold me from finishing NeoLib, if I can get the EMS to work at oracle's... Anyway, did you also receive my mail, PMs? And how about your messageboard?

[seph]

I know for a FACT that I posted something in here that should NOT have been deleted. And I'm willing to bet that oracle deleted it just for AAP. Am I right oracle?