Pre-Game Talk: Series Preview: Your New Jersey Devils vs. Tampa Bay Lightning

[Nubmer6]

A goalie not named Martin Brodeur is going to start a playoff game for the New Jersey Devils.

Sean Burke?

 

[JimEIV]

Chris Terreri Started two back to back in Boston while Marty took a seat in 1994

 

[BenedictGomez]

Puck Daddy preview spent half a sentence on us and called a Tampa sweep.

Is that the same Puck Daddy whose 2017-2018 Season Predictions had the Devils finishing dead last?

 

[njdevils1982]

I’d rather go with that guy from accounting than Lack lol

im available

i play old standup style and can be paid in beer

 

[Brick City]

Is that the same Puck Daddy whose 2017-2018 Season Predictions had the Devils finishing dead last?

Odd given its founder is a Devils fan. Guess that didn't rub off on his successors (Wysh moved on I believe).

 

[njdevils1982]

I highly suggest you guys not discuss trolling the main board openly, for one just that itself can be seen as trolling and you could get infracted or reported by visiting posters on it. For another it’s just bad karma before the series even starts.

deal!

as long as jim and i can still post cryptic sexual references here

 

[NjDevsRR]

Tampa fans now posting about Chris Christie, like what? Talk about irrelevant haha.

 

[GameSeven]

While I was working on avatars, someone suggested doing a parody of the Bolts avatar theme (cheat codes), maybe something we can use in the GDT (too large to use as an actual avatar).

Here was what I came up with:

Edit: Updated this post with a new version using the updated Bolts template

New GDT content:

New Avatar-sized:

 

[Cheddabombs]

While I was working on avatars, someone suggested doing a parody of the Bolts avatar theme (cheat codes), maybe something we can use in the GDT (too large to use as an actual avatar).

Here was what I came up with:

This is awesome! If Zacha doesn't have a big game on Thursday he's in jeopardy of losing his avatar spot for me lol

Kind of kidding.

 

[JimEIV]

deal!

as long as jim and i can still post cryptic sexual references here

I don't partake in such sophomoric activities...

 

[JimEIV]

8th grade is more my style.

 

[Its a Trap]

Is that the same Puck Daddy whose 2017-2018 Season Predictions had the Devils finishing dead last?

Who cares? Ryan Lambert is a total tool who isn’t as funny as he thinks he is. That was the first time I’ve actually been to pick daddy since wysh left and I don’t think I’ll be going back again. It’s literally an orgasm about the Preds.

 

[MartyOwns]

While I was working on avatars, someone suggested doing a parody of the Bolts avatar theme (cheat codes), maybe something we can use in the GDT (too large to use as an actual avatar).

Here was what I came up with:

brilliant

 

[Devils Dominion]

Sean Burke?

Bob Sauve says hi

 

[Nubmer6]

While I was working on avatars, someone suggested doing a parody of the Bolts avatar theme (cheat codes), maybe something we can use in the GDT (too large to use as an actual avatar).

Here was what I came up with:

Cut the frame rate to 1/4 of what you have and you may be able to pull it off. If not scale down to 75x75

 

[GameSeven]

Cut the frame rate to 1/4 of what you have and you may be able to pull it off. If not scale down to 75x75

Yeah, I used some aggressive optimizations and put one in the avatar thread... here it is for completeness:

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

Brian Boyle is too old for this ****

 

[Nubmer6]

Yeah, I used some aggressive optimizations and put one in the avatar thread... here it is for completeness:

Nice! The pixelization transition is what's killing it BTW. It's a big chunk of the data.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Brian Boyle is too old for this ****

I've been critical of Boyle's place on the team, but if there was ever a time for him to bring maximum value it's in the playoffs.

 

[OmNomNom]

Yeah, I used some aggressive optimizations and put one in the avatar thread... here it is for completeness:

ezgif.com has been making my avatar creation pretty easy, but yeah i'd leave optimization for the last step, and reduce file sizes by playing with time clips, skipping/deleting frames, and reducing the actual image size, before running the optimization. what's nice is that you can just hit the "back" button on your browser to "roll back" with your edits

 

[Nubmer6]

Yeah, I used some aggressive optimizations and put one in the avatar thread... here it is for completeness:

Oh geez.. Didn't realize it was you who posted the original pic. Woulda kept my mouth shut if I realized it was someone who knew what he was doing

 

[Devils Dominion]

Boyle can definitely be an asset this series.

 

[GameSeven]

ezgif.com has been making my avatar creation pretty easy, but yeah i'd leave optimization for the last step, and reduce file sizes by playing with time clips, skipping/deleting frames, and reducing the actual image size, before running the optimization. what's nice is that you can just hit the "back" button on your browser to "roll back" with your edits

Yep, exactly what I did here... scaled down to 96x96 (max size I've seen avatars display in threads), ditched a bunch of frames by hand, adjusted timings, then used ezgif for that last little nudge down below the 50kb line. Wish we had a litle more space to deal with, but what can you do...

 

[Nubmer6]

Yep, exactly what I did here... scaled down to 96x96 (max size I've seen avatars display in threads), ditched a bunch of frames by hand, adjusted timings, then used ezgif for that last little nudge down below the 50kb line. Wish we had a litle more space to deal with, but what can you do...

I've been doing it the hard way - GIMP. Too lazy to load anything else

 

[GameSeven]

I've been doing it the hard way - GIMP. Too lazy to load anything else

That's my base platform, too. That's where I did the manual edits I described above.

But found and used ezgif for this case and may use it again for other tricky examples.