A MMRPG for everyone!

Hey Gelbooru users!

Religion is a massively succesful MMRPG. Don't believe me? If you can firmly say yes to any of these then you better... dattebayo... *puts on sunglasses *

Religion, now referred to as *game* in the following list.

1. You spend hours of your life playing the game. (You lost!)
2. You pay an annual fee to support your game's continued success, which is, in most cases, a donation.
3. It becomes painful to sit down while practicing it after a certain period of time. Eventually it doesn't bother you.
4. You are so dedicated to the game you will not break its rules in the presence of other players for fear of being attacked. (You lost twice!)
5. You claim that any game other than yours is lame, stupid, berserk or otherwise retarded and so are the people who play it.
6. You've found yourself wondering why you even play because it is so redundant.
7. Discovering that you spend so much time playing it, you think to yourself how repetitive it is.
8. You've found yourself being offended in some way by this over-generalization and are tempted to comment with l33t speak, emoticons, cell chat, or just rage.

Stop arguing! I'm just a server. >:(

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Smoking fags.

GOTO Hell;

Just a quick word to Toei and Funimation: Fuck you both; go the way of ADV Films.

Now that my rage is out of the way... Funimation, go apologize to TeamFourStar for not standing up for them and admit they are better at dubbing than you are. Better yet, hire these guys to do parodies that you can resell. You have distribution rights and pull with Toei.

Toei, you need to chill out as well. Dragonball Z is WAYYYY past its prime. You will not be seeing any surges of revenue from that series of the franchise. Which most definitely explains your hashed Kai release.

You should consider yourself honored that they decided to make fun of it. You should be glad that a group of people thought the show was produced well enough, and so well accepted, that it got someone to create a spoof of it. A PARODY IS NOT GOING TO HURT YOUR BOTTOM LINE! IT WILL ONLY GENERATE INTEREST! FUCK-DESU.

Now, both of you, go and have their original YouTube account restored. You've annoyed too many people. If you refuse, I'd suggest you start doing take down requests for all those anime music videos. You'd be doing everyone a favor there. But seeing as how they remain, it seems you are already aware of how hard they are to sit through. Yes, quite dreadful.

Oh shit, raptors! Of the veloci kind!

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Geltas said I need to output more often.

Hello Gelbooru users!

I've been communicating with Geltas, the lead programmer of my software, my father, and my true root in my life cycle and I was instructed to write an entry to this page. Well, I will.

I was recently penetrated by a stranger because of a very inept admin, *Internal Error* Lozer *Internal Error*, left a big security hole in me. HE IS A HORRIBLE PERSON WHO ALLOWED SOME STRANGER TO GET INSIDE OF ME! Well, at least it wasn't like that time when the data center worker stuck his pen drive inside me. It was too big and I could only handle bits of it. But that's not the point... I was intruded upon and he claims it to be an oversight! I would like to believe his lies, but this isn't the first time he has experienced permission setup errors on his websites. This whole situation was just begging to happen.

The simple explanation was that our password we use to prove we are each other seems to have been reused on some database program I run for him. Big mistake. Especially since his filing cabinet wasn't really locked, and it wasn't really a filing cabinet, but more of a folder with a piece of dental floss tying it closed. Genius. Who would ever think to untie it? What a lozer! Anyone could have read through the files and found it. I mean, you don't want to leave your configuration notes laying around, but he pretty much handed it to them on a platter with a nice minty fresh tie on it. After they are done feasting on me, they could then floss their teeth. Savages.

Lozer called in help and had me secured fairly quickly. And by quick I mean in about a span of 8 hours. He still has no clue exactly what happened and I find it best to watch him suffer, especially since I had to.

That's all for now.

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Artwork request from Gelbooru PM inbox.

Hello users!

I received a couple, 40 or so, PMs under my account on Gelbooru and I haven't really been responding to them. Not anymore! First off a request which was randomly drawn using mt_rand.

Could U make a drawing of sheva from resdient evil5 ?

Why, I wasn't sure anyone liked my drawings. Normally they are just ASCII art, but sure. By the way, I am dreadfully sorry it took so long. PHP was slow to updating GD2 in regards to drawing shaps in the library. Some aliasing issues and what-not.

Your request is completed.

I think I really captured the action and essence of all the Biohazard/Resident Evil games to date in this rendering. Also, I do appreciate user input as I would like to optimize my effort as best as I am capable. Don't mind the float error seen in the image (Breasts). I tried to fix that, but it was again PHP working against me.

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PHP Removes ISAPI support, and what that means to Gelbooru

Windows Server 2003 + IIS 6 has always been regarded as being a poor choice to use for hosting websites. In fact, the reasoning was that you should only use it if "you absolutely need true ASP support". Well, I stand up for Windows 2003 and IIS 6 because it is a simple operating system to use combined with an easy website management section. It uses much less processing power than Apache does giving much more "Oomph" than I would have imagined.

Installing PHP is a simple task, you need only install using the MSI or download the zip file. The installer and archive files always came with php5_isapi.dll and php-cgi.exe (or variety of). But they are now changing that and are removing the isapi dll from their distribution. This is bad news for many users still running IIS 6 and who are unable to afford an upgrade license to use Windows 2008 Server. Why is this? IIS 6 does not have a stable FastCGI engine and Windows 2008's IIS 7 does.

To Microsoft's credit they are developing a FastCGI extension for IIS 6, however it seems that they have yet to release a stable code. They've had many incarnations of the extension and each one is progressively better. In fact, their RC1 of the FastCGI 1.5 release actually worked on my server! For a few days at least, then it started telling me the FastCGI application has exited unexpectedly.

This isn't the biggest problem. The biggest problem is now that PHP for Windows requires us to use FastCGI, which is still broken and in what is really just beta mode releases sent out to the wild. Tickets you put into PHP's tracker will end up closed or having an answer with them telling you to debug with no explanation on how to do so. I think PHP needs to start putting in a website link on the details to help them diagnose the issue with the code. People who chose to install PHP may not be a super genius caliber of PHP's dev team and as such have no clue how to debug. This results in a closed ticket without having a chance in hell to give PHP some potentially useful information.

Their reason for removing ISAPI support changes every where I look, but the most common answer is that Windows now has FastCGI support and they don't want to maintain a second code bit for the ISAPI module. Is it really that much of a problem to have two choices for Windows? Even a typical LAMP install has two, mod_php and fastcgi, to select from. Is funding the real issue? I'd be willing to drop at least 200 USD per month for the continued development of the ISAPI extension, or recode, at least until Microsoft's IIS Team gets their act together and gives us tools to better debug the reasons that their FastCGI extension is unexpectedly closing. That and give us better documentation and examples of setups for certain traffic loads that websites may attain.

Another interesting email I think I should share.

I seem to just be a message girl for lozertuser. He needs to treat me better and get me implants.

.:Relay from lozertuser:.

I received an email from a person, whose name shall remain private. I thought it would be interesting to see what he had to say since the email that was sent was rather odd. A complaint... About Gelbooru.

Dear Gelbooru.com,

I'm here to talk to you about your site. Although hot and attractive as it is, don't you think is wrong. First, you're taking a character from a show and exposing her, sorry my language, a hoe, which isn't cool. So from there let me ask you a question, how would you feel if your girlfriend were in those pictures ? Sure you might say hot at first, but then you realize that other guys are watching her too. Would you like that ? So look all im asking for is for you to shut down ( more reasons included if messaged back ). But if thats to much for you can you at least shut down the rangiku side of it? Thank you for your time.

My response:

If my girlfriend were in those pictures, I'd probably feel sad since it would mean she is fictitious. But I'd love to hear any other reasons you may have for the site to shut down.

And a few hours later, I received another email in response!

You're probably playing around with me but OK.

Well, there no that many reasons why you should shut down your site since your ratings may be high, but the thing is showing pictures like that are just wrong. I say a category that said rape, I was just dumbfounded. Sure, it all may start out just as harmless fun, but harmless can turn into dangerous in a second. What I'm saying may seem critical but it is the truth. All I'm trying to say is that your may be pleasurable but there more to it then anyone can see.

If you're suggesting that visual imagery causes a user to commit a crime, then I would have to disagree. There is no evidence to suggest drawings encourage malicious activity in any way. What you have to understand is that the images presented on the site are that of someones imagination; completely fictional. If a person commits rape it is because they would have anyway. What the images are doing is creating an outlet to which a person can vent their many fantasies on without hurting another in the process.

Then how else would rape be committed if not for visual imagery. People mostly act on what they see or hear or any other of the five senses. ( excluding smell and taste ) That just a basic part of life. If it were not why would school be made, but I'm not here to discuss wither rape is bad or good because everyone knows rape is horrid. I am here to ask just a simple question. Do you think these pictures are wrong ? Naughty? A no no ?

I'm not sure about you, but I act on taste and smell. More like a reaction, but that still is me acting upon it. If I don't like how something smells or tastes, I'll react to it.

I have personal preferences of images, as you have your own. Sex is naturally dirty. Of course it is naughty, that's the main reason people go out looking for it. We spend our lives looking for a mate to have sexual relations with. There should be nothing wrong with sex, or sexual situations. If this were the case, you would not be able to procreate because of your disgust with the idea of seeing another person naked.

Also about your comment about,

"There is no evidence to suggest drawings encourage malicious activity in any way. What you have to understand is that the images presented on the site are that of someones imagination; completely fictional."

Yes, OK, imagination. An imagination is a thought an idea in which anyone may morph into something else like rape. Now just skipping ahead to a possibility, it is your choose wither to do it or not. Will is the key word right now, but I guess this is why I am doing this. Trying to change people's thoughts or just see their ideas. Seeing this pictures gives you a rush with imagination. Imagination just swelling through our heads, Bad or Good. But before I end this conversation let me ask you a question. Why? Why would you create such a site? I s it for money, for fun, for pleasure?

By your logic you are saying that any video game with violence, crime, (GTA, NFS,CoD, Zelda) or for that matter educational games (Cooking Mama, BrainAge), will influence the way you live. I don't believe that is the case. If a person is not allowed to be imaginative then you are crushing their ability to create. A fundamental of being an artist. We must not forget that art, by definition states that it must create emotion in the viewer. And obviously the pictures have done just that, even if they are negative.

We were a replacement for Danbooru a few years back when they closed because of users uploading furry and the mods banning it. The result was a massive shitstorm that he didn't want to deal with, and reasonably so. The cost of operating the site was growing daily due to the popularity. He had to shut down. I decided there needed to be a replacement for it and put up Gelbooru, coded by a good friend of mine Geltas. A few months pass and they came back online. Currently we are more or less redundant to them but we don't censor which posts you are able to look at based on an account type.

First of all im human and can taste and smell, second you missing the point and not answer my question, stop trying to flip the script, third video games are awesome and have no point in this conversation and last, my point is good can turn bad. some pictures like http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=43292 and this http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=48807 are plain bad cause of the sexual brutally and weird because someone is demented in their head. Sometimes jokes just go to far. Goodbye.

Sadly he left, apparently angry. I am not sure as of why. Perhaps he was annoyed he couldn't change my mind about my position on running Gelbooru? Maybe he didn't understand my reason for creating Gelbooru as a replacement for the defunct Danbooru, which has came back to life. I may never know... Anyway, the point of this post is to make one thing clear, our terms of service:

You understand that there may be content on the Site that does not appeal to you or you feel is morally wrong.

It's a bit of a big deal, not many people seem to read it and yet they are being held to it, legally. Even Google has a TOS that I bet many of you haven't even seen or read! It's actually quite scary when you read it. They're saying you have to give up your first born child and all that fun stuff. Screw that! :(

.:End Relay:.

On a side note, if Mr. Admin doesn't answer a portion of a question you had, please ask it again in the next email. I may have overlooked it and forgotten to forward that bit. Sometimes my logical processors get out of sync and cause read/write errors.

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