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~ TCJ (The Comics Journal)

"A couple years of experience in the Otaku circle have taught me at least one good lesson--to trust Adam."
~ myO member

"Adam is actually a decently accomplished troll."
~ Allamorph

"The scale of Adam's cunning genius is truly frightening."
~ TimeChaser

Dentists and Cupcakes

--- Going to the dentist tomorrow morning. It's been 7 months since my last cleaning and I want to make sure that brief toothache I had 2 weeks ago was nothing major.

-- These cupcakes are out of control. When will the madness end? I have a bad bad feeling about tomorrow...

-- I can't believe Ichigo is going to be in New York the same time I'm going to be out of town

-- I still can't get over that all comments I type now are in frosted pink?

-- I like how the main page now displays # of new updates...it makes the site feel more 'vibrant'

-- Here are the top 10 countries we received visitors from last month:

1. US
2. Canada
3. France (newcomer)
4. Mexico
5. Philippines
6. UK
7. Brazil
8. Germany
9. Australia
10. Malaysia

I never knew we had so many French visitors...

Legend of the Cupcake

Some members have reported seeing cupcakes floating around on random theOtaku member avatars...where do these cupcakes come from? What are they foreshadowing? Hm...

Category Guru Needed...

I think we need someone on the team whose goal it is every day is to go to the "Other" sections and compile a list of all the categories that come in for them and then every week send me an updated list.

Who would be interested here?

Also, we figured out the reason for the mysterious login error...it's related to Internet Explorer being obnoxious about underscores in member names.

There are two options for us: To go back to theotaku.com/portfolio/yourname

OR

To make huge changes...right now if someone has a space in their name their member name looks like (for example):

snow_fox

We'd have to change it to:

snow-fox

But a lot of people already have dashes in their member names, the existence of those member names really fudge things up...

This is an obnoxious problem...right now the likely solution is to redirect all yourname.theotaku.com links back to portfolio...

My Favorite Idle VV Feature

...The ability to link worlds to individual hubs. I was going to introduce this feature with the Trigun World I've been building, but since timechaser is doing such a great job with his Doctor Who WORLD I went ahead and made a theO Doctor Who category and linked his WHO FILES.

Check it out

I smell a contest coming up, soon...

The Boring Stuff

I'm really banged up from jujitsu class, need a massage...

I hate to do it but we need some sort of delete account option

We also need to let you edit your E-mail on file, as well as other options...the "boring" stuff, groan...