The fact that the site was lost is painful (there was a lot of nice content), however this is a perfect opportunity for a fresh start. To quote Tyler Durden: "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." So, I want to rebuild Megachan. I want to make it better. I am still thinking about how best to achieve this (input would be appreciated), however one thing is for certain: I don't want Megachan to just be another imageboard site. I want it to be more, for example a resource for cyberpunk or steampunk information. The boards should be the core of the site, but not the whole site. Once again, suggestions are welcome. In the meantime, I ask for some assistance in making Megachan look less generic. A custom CSS theme would be handy, as would be new banners for the tops of the pages. I'm just not entirely sure what dimensions they should be yet. I will post more later today, however it is nearly 1 AM and I need sleep.
If you need some inspiration for the new software, I think northpole.fi has the best imageboard software ever.
So if you're on IRC, you probably know that I have an ongoing project to make my daughter's bedroom wall into a giant glow in the dark solar system. I will be showing you how to make one yourself. This will not be done on the wall itself, but with pieces that can be stuck to the wall with double sided tape and/or sticky putty. This means that it will not be permanent, and should there be the need to move, the entire mural can be removed piece by piece and put back together on a new wall. The image attached is the basic concept. It is a 16ft wall. The starfield extends 5ft down from the 9ft cieling, and out to both adjacent walls an average of 4 ft on each side. That's 24ft total. 24x5ft = 120 square feet. The stars are plastic glow in the dark stars that can be found in the toy section at walmart. They are called "stars & nebula", and it takes four of these to cover the area. They cost $3 a package when I bought them. I will show you how to make the sun, planets, and asteroids yourself as I fumble and fail through the process.
Awesome Integris. Keep us posted on the progress or at the least remember to give a final image.
The sun was made using extra-thick white poster board that I picked up at a craft store. Extra thick is important to keep it from warping. I got the thickest I could find, and the surface is not smooth. It looks like it was pulled directly from a pulp screen. I drew a circle using the bell reflector for a commercial hanging sodium light, like the ones you find in a school gymnasium. It gives me a circle about two feet in diameter, drawn in pencil. Now we get to the painting. In order to keep the board from absorbing all of your paint, I recommend sealing it. I used Krylon Matte Finish 1311 (in a spray can) from the specialty paint section in Walmart. The only reason I choose this is because I have it on hand for sealing paints after use, since it has no UV filters to inhibit paint charging. You can also use Patricia Nimcocks Plaid clear acrylic sealer (gloss) CS200305 - also in a spray can. I have tested both of these and find them to be more than sufficient. I recommend using the Matte, since you don't want light reflecting off of your paint. You want it to be hitting it from every possible angle. I came back about six hours later and covered the circle with Krylon Glowz (spray can) that I picked up at a craft store. I think it cost between $5 and $9 and I used the entire can. I should have waited a day, because the board started to warp. I had to hold the edges down with stuff and let it dry over night. A day after the krylon glowz, I came back with Day Glow Orange paint that I picked up over at GlowInc.com. http://glowinc.com/detail.aspx?ID=9 I applied this with a rectangular foam sponge I found in the paint section at Walmart, right next to the roller sponge. At first I was skimpy, but I didn't like the result. At that point I got generous with the paint, to make it look more sun-spotty. I bought the half pint and ended up using about 2/3 of the can. The can cost about $50 (fucking ouch), but the result is spectacular. Now my hands are covered in glowing orange. Tomorrow (maybe) I will seal the entire thing with matte finish and cut out the circle. You could probably make coronal mass ejections if Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
Animu thread. Just finished watching Evangelion Rebuild 1.0. I'm enjoying it a lot, actually think that it's better than the original in some ways, because Shinji is a bit more ballsy. Also the colour palette is darker throughout which makes the mood a lot more steady, as opposed to those retardedly bright sequences with Pen Pen before...
>>318 I actually really enjoyed that bit. I've also enjoyed that Gendo is a bit more human in this continuity.
Just finished ep9 of HOTD. Finally an episode again with more zombie action than pure fanservice.
>>326 Finished it as well Gotta love Saeko, especially now that she declared she enjoys killing people
out of curiosity, and for the sake of stimulating activity, what do your music libraries look like?
>>298 For the most part. It's only such a large amount of disk space due to .flac files.
hell, i've already spoken with two of you on last.fm might as well throw mine in too. http://www.last.fm/user/lentilholocaust
>>324 <3 That picture gave me more pleasure than any SFW pic has for years.
I know /x/ style threads have met with contempt on Megachan before, but considering the content of a lot of /cy/ and /apoc/ titles, I've always wondered why. So, Megachan, what are your thoughts on worldwide conspiracies, alien abduction, chemtrails, numbers stations? Brought on by; listening to the Conet Project, a collection of numbers station recordings. Personally I believe in aliens, though government conspiracies are somewhat doubtful in my mind. I do, however, think that there are covert groups that seek to influence government policies and do so with some degree of success. More often than not, though, conspiracies are just entertainment to me (see MJ12 in Lain, my boner for the X Files).
It was only interesting to start with. After a while it was scary.
>>309 I was harassed by a homeless scientologist in the subway this summer. He really needed toning down, and lots of help probably. :/
>>317 I remember when all the protestfags went outside the CoS in Belfast, and there were more of them than there were Scientologists.
Alright, so I stumbled upon this rather awesome site of scifi, and even in its current state of disarray I am excited to see what will become of it; hopefully this will be the first of many posts. Now on to the mean of my thoughts. I am vaguely familiar with serial experiment lain, and thought I would take a peak a "Kuro's Lain folder". My first thought was this would be the series in that I know it exists, however it is not, though I am far from disappointed; there seems to be a wealth of other media within. My big question is what exactly are "copland_e.exe" and "cos.exe"?
Kuro = Wide-eyed Lain missionary
>>301 I bet he has a small shrine to her :p
>>302 Small? He probably has an otaku-nightmare room dedicated to her!
BATNAM CAN'T POST ON 4chan SO HE COMES TO YOU MEGACHAN, I DEMAND SACRIFISH(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
>>248 Nah, that's just the Nigerians. When they're not busy conning Prawns.
>>267 foooooookin prawns!!!
>Batnam
resurrecting the bump while high/drunk thread... BUMP.
Im drunk rght now. have been for about 5 hours. All of my plans for today went to crap, so I threw some meat and taters on the grill and proceeded to get shit faced.
Drunk right now. ...fucking Perl, how does it work?
I got high before going to Wal-Mart last night and this dude kept following me around asking me if we could get something to eat. Then I got mad and it turned out it was my girlfriend so we got some McDonalds I kept trying to order a frosty but they got all pissy so I settled on a chocolate milkshake instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv-G79DIY7k&
Usually when someone talks like this outside of the movies and comics my first reaction is write them off as a nut job. But allot of the things he's saying makes sense.
[citation needed] about every 20 seconds or so.
>>290 My thoughts exactly
For everyone's hard work in bringing this place back to life.
>!Tavwk/H8TE
>>251 ?
>>251