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Re: Castle World - a new site. (time)
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 05:13:23 GMT
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You're right, year 0 exists before you start counting, but it's called year
1 BL (or 1 BC in the real-world time system).
--
Paul Davidson, aka Tinman
www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars
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craig hamilton <craigo-lego@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:Fqv5wr.76J@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.castle, Paul Davidson writes:
> > I agree -- if we want to mimic the "real world", we should start with • Year
> > 1. (when you count apples, do you start with number 0?)
> >
> >
>
> but _before_ you begin to count, there _are_ 0! actually, if ballads can
> be set anywhen, shouldn't our timeline have a 0 pivital date in the • middle?
> (jeff j's idea, not mine, but i really like it) a timeline bookended with
> the "indefinite past" and the indefinite future". our stories can keep • going
> in either direction without ever leaving the castle genre time-period. the
> forward advances would have to be scheduled with our real time. something
> like 5 CW years = 1 real world year or such. the past could stretch back
> hundreds or thousands of years as balladeers write it.
>
> instead of A.L., though, what about A.B.S.? not only is it what lego
> bricks are made from, it could stand for "After Balladeers Started"! tales
> from the past could creatively be translated from ancient texts or written
> down from oral tradition.(the original balladeers!)
>
> uh... before year 0 though, i'm drawing a blank. B.B.S?
>
> later ~ craig~
>
> --
> >
> >
> > Paul Davidson, aka Tinman
> > www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars
> > www.filmforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Film News
> >
> >
> > Eric Hampusgård <purjo@hem.passagen.se> wrote in message
> > news:FquEur.Ir7@lugnet.com...
> > > Hello Pawel!
> > >
> > > "Pawel Nazarewicz" wrote...
> > > > Castle World has a new location. I think it's more user friendly, • but
> > > > comments are always welcome.
> > >
> > > Neat! Great work.
> > > + You've got a nice blend of colours
> > > + You don't change font every other word
> > > + You have a consistency through the whole site and that's great.
> > >
> > > I've got a few comments and I'll try to be constructive.
> > > * You oughta alter the year to "1 A.L" since you start counting from • one,
> > > i.e. "The first
> > > year after Legodomine", "Year number one", "Year one A.L.". Just the • same
> > as
> > > your
> > > first year in life is the year when you're 0 years old, still it's year
> > > number one.
> > >
> > > * The small white artifacts (dots) on the index images ("Structures",
> > > "Creatures" etc)
> > > could be avoided if you put the brown colour from the background image • as
> > > background
> > > colour in PhotoShop and then select that colour as the transparent • colour
> > > index in the gif
> > > file when you save it.
> > >
> > > * Personally I don't like text wider than 600px (70-80 characters per • line)
> > > as you have
> > > in the About page. I would suggest you put the text in a table • 450-600px
> > > wide.
> > >
> > >
> > > Keep it up, I'll be over with a few pictures soon
> > >
> > > // Eric
> > >
> > >
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