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Worlds: Outside Images + Submission Share
Two huge new features for theOtaku WORLDS.
First, you can now post up to four external images in both your WORLD introductions and posts. Combined with our photo-hosting ability, this means you can have five images per post total. And that's not all, if you link to an image that's really wide, our system automatically resizes it to fit in your WORLD, so that it doesn't distort the page for your visitors.
Second, there's now a text box on every single submission and quiz result on the site called "WORLD Share" - this has pre-populated code that you can copy-paste into your posts to quickly display the images for your visitors.
We're going to have a helper to embed outside images in the post box, but in the meantime you can do so by typing: [ IMG ] and [ /IMG ] with the URL of the external image between them. (Just get rid of the space before and after each bracket, I only typed them in so that it doesn't process.)
Special thanks to necro64x for his help with this feature.
Founder's Mascot Contest
The winner for the NYAF mascot contest will be announced soon. On the heels of that proclamation, I'd like to announce an eccentric contest of my own.
As some of you know I've been personally obsessing over Flash game development. For this pursuit though I really want to have a great mascot "represent" my games. And what better mascot than the legendary Bossman Cupcake?
The contest is simple. Here's a pixelated version of the Bossman Cupcake. The person who creates the best fan art of him that I can use as my games label's mascot will win a theOtaku.com premium account for life.
Here's some information about him to help you in the contest:
- The Bossman Cupcake is a warrior
- The Bossman Cupcake is wise and battle-hardened
- The Bossman Cupcake is NOT silly in any way. Despite being a giant cupcake, he's a serious, world-weary, maybe even somewhat tragic figure
- The inspiration for the Bossman Cupcake's dual colors is from the movie Braveheart
The contest ends on July 31st and judging will be 100% by my own eyes. I give weight to entries that will generate an emotional reaction when you look at it. No backgrounds, just the character. You can interpret the character though however you like, in terms of if the character has any accessories/clothes/expressions/etc. or you can leave it as it is.
That's all, contest is open to all ages and people from anywhere in the world. Just submit as fan art and tag the work: bossman cupcake
Good luck to all contestants...
theOtaku.com Anime Podcast IV - Ep. 16
This week's podcast is fairly short, but that's compensated by the fact that Ichigo recorded it in the middle of nowhere in some kind of clandestine spy style or something. In any case, he seems to be having fun. Although he needs to watch "Arrested Development" some time...
Music - Brighter Side by SaGa from Viewtiful Joe
For a link to Anime Pulse's theOtaku.com World, go here.
For a link to the Bootleg News Reporter World, go here.
For a link to The Watercooler World, go here.
And as this week's feature, you can find CassieR's "Darker Side of Cosplay" feature here.
Obligatory Instructions:
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http://theotaku.libsyn.com/rss
Once subscribed, you'll get each week's episode automatically delivered, whether you visit us or not.
So let's start! To listen to our podcast, click the play button above. You can also download the mp3 directly by clicking here.
53 New Categories
SabrinaM is on a roll, every week upping the number of new categories added to the site. You know the drill, if you'd like to recommend a category simply comment here or drop her a PM. To recommend a category you first have to make sure there's at least one submission for it.
Anime & Manga:
- Afro Samurai
- Amazing Nurse Nanako
- Appleseed
- Armored Trooper Votoms
- Best Student Council
- Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
- Boys Be
- D.C. Da Capo
- Dangaioh
- DearS
- Divergence Eve
- Elemental Gelade
- Fafner
- Fang of the Sun Dougram
- Gate Keepers
- Ghost Stories
- Giant Robo
- Godannar
- Green Green
- Gunbuster
- GUNxSWORD
- Heavy Metal L-Gaim
- Imadoki
- Kotetsu Zieg
- Lost Universe
- Maburaho
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Maple Colors
- Metal Armor Dragonar
- Moetan
- Planet Robo Danguard Ace
- Saint Tail
- Space Warrior Baldios
- Spider Riders
- Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
- Steel Angel Kurumi
- Step Up Love Story
- Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy
- The World of Narue
- Urusei Yatsura
- Venus Versus Virus
- You're Under Arrest
- Yubisaki Milk Tea
- Zero no Tsukaima
Video Games:
- Luminous Arc
- Star Ocean (Series)
Music:
- Incubus
- My Chemical Romance
TV:
- Super Sentai
Books/Comics:
- Fantastic Four
- Justice League of America
- X-Men
- Movies:
- The Matrix (Series)
Four New Quizzes
How did these approvals sneak under our radar? Guru has given the nod to four new quizzes this week. Which was your favorite and what result did you garner?
