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2018-04-09, 05:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
For those too young in forum time to remember, Iron Avatarist was the most refined, high stakes and prestigious art competition in this forum's history. With judges of the highest pedigree and participants who became household names for the remaining vestiges of that era that still linger in A&C. As all good things must come to an end, Iron Avatarist eventually was shut down due to lack of participants and judges; a moment many remember with inevitable sadness. However most of the works involved remained archive for everyone's viewing pleasure and perusal in the Hallf of Fame.
Courtesy of photobucket's new terms of service a major swathe of the historical contents of the forum were seemingly lost. With heavy scripting involved I have procured a mirror (and a personal backup in case imgur ever goes the way of the bucket) and replaced all of the links in the hall with their respective mirror links which should make the hall at least moderately viewable.
The original Iron Avatarist Hall of Fame can be found here. It was constructed by Serpentine for the most part with the aid of Dr. Bath and Cuthalion for the later years. Missing entries (and their respective resuscitation from photobucket through the darkest of necromantic arts is an ongoing project. Those interested can PM me.) will hopefully be added. If anyone has the original files from imageshack and other such fallen sites PM me so I can an also resurrect those.
Last edited by AsteriskAmp; 2018-04-09 at 05:33 PM.
The Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame - Exorcising photobucket from the historic archives of the forum.
Go and went by many names Ast, Avgvst, Pink-Haired August, araveugnitsuga and nowadays AsteriskAmp.
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2018-04-09, 05:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
The Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame - Exorcising photobucket from the historic archives of the forum.
Go and went by many names Ast, Avgvst, Pink-Haired August, araveugnitsuga and nowadays AsteriskAmp.
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2018-04-09, 05:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
The Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame - Exorcising photobucket from the historic archives of the forum.
Go and went by many names Ast, Avgvst, Pink-Haired August, araveugnitsuga and nowadays AsteriskAmp.
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2018-04-09, 05:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
The Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame - Exorcising photobucket from the historic archives of the forum.
Go and went by many names Ast, Avgvst, Pink-Haired August, araveugnitsuga and nowadays AsteriskAmp.
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2018-04-09, 05:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
The Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame - Exorcising photobucket from the historic archives of the forum.
Go and went by many names Ast, Avgvst, Pink-Haired August, araveugnitsuga and nowadays AsteriskAmp.
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2018-04-09, 05:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
Last edited by AsteriskAmp; 2018-04-09 at 05:26 PM.
The Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame - Exorcising photobucket from the historic archives of the forum.
Go and went by many names Ast, Avgvst, Pink-Haired August, araveugnitsuga and nowadays AsteriskAmp.
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2018-04-09, 05:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
Placeholder for the missing threads up until the discontinuation, this space might not end up sufficing but c'est la vie.
The Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame - Exorcising photobucket from the historic archives of the forum.
Go and went by many names Ast, Avgvst, Pink-Haired August, araveugnitsuga and nowadays AsteriskAmp.
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2018-04-10, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
Wow, you've done fantastic work bringing some of it back, though it's sad to see so much of it is still missing. Damn it, Photobucket.
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2018-04-12, 02:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
Some excellent work there, when photobucket went bad I thought it would be the end of these galleries. But once again, it appears that nothing on the internet ever truly dies.
I have all my own entries, and the few trophies I drew at the end if you don't find them.
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2018-04-21, 12:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
Thanks. While photobucket has some of the blame, the biggest loss is from imageshack. Photobucket kept the images just "hostage" imageshack outright nuked them one day and they aren't cached anywhere, not even on web archives.
Things DO die if left unattended long enough, imageshack stuff is unrecoverable unless someone has the originals. Everything photobucket (that wasn't deleted by the poster before the bucketpocalypse) can be retrieved with some clever referrer trickery though. I still have to go to the last two or three competitions and add them and then check what photobucket links didn't mirror and why. And then going back to the underground crypt to try to perform necromancy on the earlier purges.The Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame - Exorcising photobucket from the historic archives of the forum.
Go and went by many names Ast, Avgvst, Pink-Haired August, araveugnitsuga and nowadays AsteriskAmp.
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2018-04-22, 07:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame -Warning Image Intensive!
One of the reasons I didn't use imageshack back in the day was that I felt I had more control and security with Photobucket - too bad that assumption turned out to be true (even though Photobucket went bad in other ways).
There were a lot of competitions though, more or less one a month if I remember correctly?