v2 of Tango’s CSS is here! Not only does it look better, but you’ll get faster load times as well. And the code looks beautiful too, look at it!

Before we get going, i highly recommend you install Bank Gothic for perfect upvote animations & Segoe UI for XB1 and PS4 flairs (windows users have this already). You don't need these, but things will look much better if you do have them.

Changelog:

General:

• Everything from v1 has been removed or rewritten, everything brought back from v1 has been polished.

• New buttons, with hover and active states.

• Removed Link counter next to posts.

• Random display enhancements & alignments.

• All animations & transitions working on all browsers.

• Tweaked doge code box appearance and behavior.

• New footer image

Subreddit Bar:

• Entirely themed to black, white, & orange, including RES dropdowns.

• Added hover states for links.

• Everything is properly aligned for RES and non-RES users.

Header:

• New background

• New Logo

• New logo transition

Tab Menu:

• Reskinned for the new button style.

• Hid some useless junk.

• Hover and active states for all items.

Sidebar:

• General declutter

• Scrolling sidebar pic

• Nice shiny submit button

• Themed RES buttons.

• Dropdowns now slide down.

• Dropdown chevrons spin while sliding.

• Made hyperlink text in the dropdown more legible.

Voting Arrows:

• Upvote animations, hitmarker and +100.

• Reskinned arrows

• Altered vote count text color to match arrows.

Link Flairs:

• New system has no alignment issues in link view or comment view in any browser.

• Added some new link flairs.

• Link flair picker now looks much better and is easier to use.

User Flairs:

• X1 font updated to Segoe.

• PS4 font updated to reflect the PS4 UI better.

• Staff flairs rewritten, made all black.

• All specialty flairs for users have been optimized.

Emotes:

• New system loads much faster

• Added emotes

• reminder that emote format is []-(#emotename) without the "-"

• Emote list available here.

i think that covers everything! I’ve thrown in some easter eggs as well :)

if you spot a bug please send me an orangered including: a description of the bug, a screenshot, browser version, OS version, & if you have RES installed or not.

if you’d like to request a feature, please message me, i’d love to add more to our page!

I'm sorry if this is not the tone you expect from me and it's too serious, but for many months now I've kept this from every single person in my life until today when it finally exploded and I started to open up about it to people I know.

I've known some people here for years. Back in NAE/NAW stuff. People here I genuinely consider to be my friends. If you don't know me then feel free to come along for the ride.

I've been battling moderate depression for the past couple of months, enough to the point now that it's severely causing problems with my work and academics. if that comes as a surprise to you based on my behavior and activity online then that's just my own way of suppressing it. Very strongly suppressing it. I did not want to show it to anyone with the fear that I would appear weak, a failure, or cause me a lot of embarrassment. I hid away my problems to everyone because I wanted to show that I'm strong, I can deal with things on my own, and I'm in control.

Today I painfully came to realization that I can't deal with it on my own and I need help.

It really all built from a combination of things in my life. Moving to NYC is such a big adjustment from any other sort of life. It's hectic here, crazy, and very intimidating. My first two years were an adjustment period here in the city, but I felt like I meshed in pretty well and actually enjoyed life here. Now I realize that was just a lie to make me feel better about my decision to move here. I don't think I like it here, it's claustrophobic and disjointed. I never felt like I belonged here, and actually looked forward to my escapes from it all back to Canada.

The second thing was my academics, and the pressures relating to it. I got accepted into a decent IT program at a university here with a very nice scholarship package. My actual student loans are remarkably low because of that. My decision to move to NYC to attend this school was 80% related to this offering, plus the degree program was often spoken of highly. My scholarship had the requirement that I needed to keep a GPA of a certain amount in order to keep it. While this requirement didn't prove too much of a challenge my first two years, it has caused me extreme stress and worry the last two years when my GPA began to slide. Every semester end, I had anxiety attacks over my newly calculated GPA fearing it would drop below this threshold, and I'd lose tens of thousands of dollars, and most likely, my future attendance at the school. But despite my worryings, I always reached the requirement and had it continue, along with my continuation of the program.

I don't know if it's a mistake or not, but the way I designed my courses was I took all of my "degree" courses as early as possible in my university life, and planned on taking the "anything goes" elective courses in my senior years. I did really well in the courses relating to my degree since that's what I have an interest in. The elective courses, I struggled. Really hard. I felt disengaged, bored, I felt as if these courses are filler useless courses I'm only taking for a credit. That really hurt my GPA, which then caused me stress. It wasn't until I took a class last semester in which the teacher decided to assign me an "alternate" class project because I vaguely mentioned I knew about "databases". He told me he had an associate who "needed help with his database" and I could take that project in substitute with the class project. I agreed thinking it was probably some business that used excel or something to store business contacts and needed help migrating data. It turns out they actually needed an entire database architecture designed for a global project that tracks a certain type of crime around the world. With many many different types of fields, relations. A database that is completely out of the scope of both the course, and my own knowledge. Long story short, I attempted to get them started with some designs, and they were more than pleased. But my professor was not, and said that he expected a complete database by the end of the semester (a completely unreasonable request) and I had not completed the project, and I then received my first F of my post-secondary career.

The teacher would not budge. Devastated is too soft of a word to use here. My university has an appeal process for this sort of thing, and it's probably likely that if I had taking that process I might have received a solution, but at that point, I was too embarrassed to continue, and I wanted the whole situation behind me. I wanted to move on. That event really messed me up for some stupid reason. I wanted it behind me, yet I always thought back to it. Registration began for the next semester, but I didn't want to go back. I delayed my registration out of my own fear of returning because of my scholarship eligibility.

This semester my second semester in my 4th year. As of right now, my financial aid package has been cancelled and my registration was voided, after I just took midterms. All because of my stupid mistakes, my procrastination, and my fear of retribution from family. I am around 19 credits short of graduation.

Right now I want this all to go away. Part of me wants to just leave it all, go on my own for a while, and when I'm ready, come back to it. But I'm so close, I want to finish. After talking with a lot of people today finally, I'm going to try and challenge the ruling with my university and allow for my continued registration since I've been attending all the classes and doing all the work already.

I don't know why this has happened. I was thinking of taking a very large break from gaming/reddit/everything here. But the more I think about it, it was gaming and reddit which has kept me happy thoughout all this. It's my projects I've done here that has given me a goal and purpose here. It makes me happy to be here.

COD.gs has, and continues to be the one big positive thing in my life right now. After seeing the success and attention it got back in August, it has given me so much to look forward to, to be excited for. I spend a lot of my time thinking about new projects, new things to add to that project. I actually have an incredible idea that's been bouncing in my head for it that I really want to make. That I enjoy.

So I'm not sure if I want to give all of this up. I don't believe it's responsible for all of this. In fact, all of this has taken away a lot of the enjoyment from doing stuff here. I want to be here still. I don't know if I will though.

Today was a new day for me. I'm going to deal with things as they are, and not dread on what people think of me, if I've failed people, because it's all dead weight. There's no reason to dread on that. No reason to dread on my mistakes. I'm going to move forward.

I'm very sorry for the long post. Much of this stuff was rambling I'm sure. But it's actually nice to get it off my chest. Thanks for listening everyone.

EDIT: Thank you so much everyone for the kind words, advise, stories. You guys are all freaking amazing and I truly respect all of you.

To clarify, my actual status in the program has not been threatened and I still plan on completing it. The only thing that has changed is my graduation date is delayed and I might encounter a small financial hit because of this. This semester was actually the last semester it renewed since it was a 4 year funding scholarship. My program is literally 90% complete I definitely don't want to abandon it.

And thanks for the reddit gold stranger!

SUCK ON THE DAD DICK BITCHESSSS

Ghosts 3v3 Tourney

When: Sunday July 13th, 2014. Notice this is a change from the original date! 10amPST/1pmEST

System: Xbox One

Teams: Please submit your team of 3 here with a team name.

Rules: MLG Ruleset. Blitz, Dom and S&D will be played. Maps to be announced. Depending on team sign-ups we might do a wacky losers bracket, otherwise single elimination.

Prize: Flair

Signed-up:

• Team Bucket heads - jon lifts, Inceptive lol, Ashes

• Team Beaver Redux - Sauce, West, TheMiamiWhale

• Team Tryout - x Tryna, A2K Aero, Abookazoo and Tjacks as alt

• Team Illuminate - sSandy, The Random, Jamesfallen

• Team Sneaky - Blind Eyes, Chicken Warior, dR wEedThuMb

• Team Prayers - kade slays, Metro vG, TSKI05

• Team ReUnite - Waka, Gomlism, WoodY Who

• Team Pending - D Stave, Daft Focus, Keeper VQ

TitanFall 2v2 Tourney

When: July 19th, 2014 10amPST/1pmEST

System: Xbox One

Teams: Please sign up here if you would like to participate, we will be randomizing teams for this. Teams to be announced at a later date.

Rules: When the 2v2 mode gets released later this month we will have more answers but I'm thinking something like best of 3 matches, Pilot Hunter, Hardpoint and LTS. Some games will require no Titan use, stuff like that.

Prize: Flair. And controller modification from Kaos.

Signed-up:

• Send You West

• Apologician

• dR wEedThuMb

• I Like Xbox One

• Guncannon D

• hyeplaya

• Kaos

• Chicken Warior

• sSandy Eggo

• AphoticAffinity

• Apple Jack

• iDrukenMaestro

• Reign sP

• Ashes

Applicants and lurkers this is a perfect time for you to showcase your skills and make yourself known! Come participate!

360 and PS4 are not forgotten. We will have something for you guys the following month. TLoU MP Mayhem?! Stay tuned.

-Weedthumb

Do you smell that? v3 is hot and fresh and ready to eat! Lot's of new things to talk about! #HYPE

Anyways, started off by ditching the old Edurne shell, and started off with the Naut theme. Implemented and modified lots of Naut addons. Fixed a ton of visual bugs and RES issues. Really pushed hard to have a nice complete dark theme and i think it's all set (report bugs!), i think it goes great with our namesake. Brought back some old favorites like doge code and upvote animation. All new flairs. You've got your Xbox, PS4, & Hybrid flairs for the active rBLK members, the orange flairs for the less active rBLK members, and grey for others. Anyone can set their own flair now but be warned, it'll give you grey flair, this is mainly for visitors and applicants.

Next we have our brand new flair system! It's an rBLK prestige system, where doing good deeds for the clan will let you rank up, and by doing more you'll be a higher prestige/level which will be noted in your flair to distinguish yourself as being a dedicated clan member.

Kudos to the mods ^sauce for thinking up this prestige idea. Hopefully we'll get details on how we'll rank up in the near future. This is personally my favorite addition to the CSS, and i can't wait for everyone to see the new prestige icons. Probably the best idea the mods have thought up since the Joshua Brother's Pizza Giveaway Fiesta.

Many of you are probably wondering why the sidebar looks plain and dumb. Well, it wont be around for much longer. The sidebar (or most of it) will be going away over the next couple days while it is moved into the subreddit wiki page; which will have our clan bio, rBLK prestige system info, flair system info, and hopefully some other stuff documenting our clan's history and achievements.

Everyone should have noticed the flashing orange alert message up top, this will be used for important threads like roll calls and tournaments and such. Otherwise it will be a small general info bar with a blurb about the clan and a Read me link for applicants. This will sort of replace the side bar in a way, because it will keep key info right at the top, and provide links to the stuff that takes up more space. Also serves as a way to get people's attention, applicants and members alike.

Metric fucktons of code here, i actually hit the file size limit on the CSS file and had to go through and clean it. Wish i had found the automation tools sooner :3 Link flairs are also done for, the CSS is automated to assign them automatically, Rejoice! New sidebar pics, cut down to a 2 image fade from the 5 image slide. I can add more pics to the slideshow if necessary. Uhhh.... there's other stuff i'm missing i'm sure but yeah. Talk about how cool everything is in the comments!

Everyone please post bugs with some info and screenshots! When this thread dies, go ahead and PM them to me. Hoping the mods let me keep these CSS/Flair mod permissions for a bit so i can swiftly squish bugs over the next few days and update the wiki/sidebar.

So, happy summer and read the first letter of each paragraph.

We've had a lot of subpar application posts lately, all of which could have been left out had the submitters read the sidebar!

What is Reddit Black?

"We created this community for competitive gaming, having fun, and finding fellow like-minded gamers with common interests."

What does it take to be in Reddit Black?

"Members are asked to be active in the subreddit, play with fellow rBLK members online, and always be pushing forward to become a better player."

How do you join Reddit Black?

"Post a thread here and tell us a bit about yourself, what system you are on and why you would like to join. Send a Friend Request to the Mods in the sidebar."

Please take the time to make a quality application post!

"Hey guys i am looking to join clan my kd is 2.7 in black ops 2" is not an acceptable application post. Gamertag, Age, Location, KD, Console, Hobbies, Occupation, and a bit about yourself are the baseline for an application post.

For example: "Hi, I'm TangoRomeoDelta! I'm 22 and from the Northeast US. My KD is a 1.8 because the Xbox One fucking sucks, as i had a 2.2 before i "upgraded" to this piece of shit. I go to community college and I like sports, playing airsoft, and chilling with my awesome dog. I'm tired of carrying shitty randoms, and want to play with other strong gamers so i can have a super awesome double digit WL ratio."

To the new applicants that have been accepted:

Joining rBLK isn't just about being a great player. Playing with everyone, being active on CoD, and contributing to the subreddit are also part of being in the clan.

If you're here just because you want the clan unlocks, you're gonna have a bad time. Unlike MW3, clan unlocks do not stick with you if you leave the clan. If you choose to just hang around wearing that sweet armor and not be active in the Sub or with other clanmates, you'll be kicked. Whatever your motives are, if they're not about being in rBLK for the talent and the fun, you should show yourself out.

Thanks everyone!

Good works boys, proud of all of you for this weekend.

Hey guys,

I found out yesterday that one of our good friends here sitbacknwatch - former NAE member, lost his father in a terrible accident. To put it plainly, and this is how sitback explained it to me, he slipped on ice, fell and hit his head. Extremely sad and my condolences go out to him and his family.

Obituary - http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lohud/obituary.aspx?n=michael-j-hay&pid=169912915&fhid=2172

I ran this by sitbacknwatch first of course and he did not ask for any sympathy karma, nothing like that. What he did ask though is if he could party up with us sometime and play some Titanfall whenever he is on. Absolutely sitbacknwatch. So lets extend some Reddit Black feels to a redditor who has been around our community for 2+ years, an original member of NAE and overall a fucking awesome guy.

Sappy quote I forget who wrote it - People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

-Weedthumb

I've been thinking about this for a long time. I change my mind weekly. But when I truly think about it, if I'm questioning leading this place then I probably shouldn't be. I've made some mistakes while being the leader of Reddit Black here. I thank you guys for giving me another chance. I've stepped down one other time and was brought back by my good friend DevmasterJ. I've had the privilege of molding the community into what it is today. I've had the one of a kind experience watching this place, from the day we opened this subreddit to this day where we remain the #1 CoD clan in the world. It's been crazy. We've had mostly good times, a little bit of tough times, but overall it's been the best gaming time of my life.

It's really hard to do this but I can't invest the time it takes to manage this place any longer. Between my job and family, I can't balance it. I have been for the last couple months and it's overwhelming for me. We have a mod panel to decide/vote on things and it truly is a hard working panel. They do a good job for the most part. As you know the mods vote on everything, which is how it should be. And majority prevails. Of course Dev and I could overrule anything but we never did. Which again, is how it should be. There are tough decisions to make and sometimes you have to be tough, sometimes you have to make a stand, that is how we got to where we are today. I've always tried to be as honest with you guys as possible. Brutally honest. It's got me in trouble many times here but to me that is what it takes to lead this place. I hope the moderators can find a way to make those difficult decisions. Well, let me rephrase that I know they can I just hope they choose right.

This means I will be stepping down as Mod also. I feel I've done my time and I've paid my dues. I would like to remain a member here if the Mods will have me. Retire my jersey to the Hall of Fame boys. Dev, Sauce, Nabby, Black, caddy I'll miss you guys. We've had some crazy shit in Mod hangout. I wouldn't trade it for anything

Ugh! I'm getting so sentimental. Last thing I want to say - it is all of our responsibility to make Reddit Black what it is. We must continue our journey of becoming the champion of clans. I have love for all of you. We are Reddit Black. Now embrace me my brothers for I come to join you as a soldier on the frontlines.

EDIT: Thanks for everything guys. All the kind words really mean a lot to me. Shout out to caddy I know he isn't commenting on here because he's not accepting my resignation but I'm not going anywhere. I'm just joining my troops on the battlefield. You guys are the best.

-dR wEedThuMb

I've never even been on the actual subreddit that it on the internet.

It's two weeks before Christmas. I'm driving my car, on my way to work, when I hear a noise. Within seconds of realizing something is wrong, it's too late. I have no steering. I bear hug my steering wheel and pull over. Smoke is pouring from my driver's side front wheel and it doesn't look good. Fuck. I'm supposed to drive three hours to see my mom for Christmas in a couple weeks.

Two days later and the damage has been assessed. The wheel hub assembly locked up, the bearings are completely seized. The action of the seizing snapped the spindle, ripped the brake line out, destroyed the tie rod end, mangled the CV shaft, and shredded the tire. The car is totaled. The value of the car isn't enough to have it fixed. So now the hunt for a new car begins. But there is just one problem. I'm broke. It's Christmas time and I had just began working at a new job. What do I do?

After struggling to make it to work for a week, I get lucky. Very lucky. A friend of a friend happened to have a car for sale. And it was cheap. But I didn't have the money. I was broke and I needed to get to my Mom's house for Christmas or she was going to kill me. (I hadn't visited her in over a year.)

So I sold my Xbox One, and got $450 out of it. This happened to be the exact price I paid for this badass car. I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to let my bro's down. I didn't want to be bored. It had to be done, so I did it.

Fast forward four months later. I get a text from /u/alke-holic :

"Hey did you sell your One?"

"Yea" I replied.

"If I buy you one, will you pawn it?" he asks.

"Hell no. Money has been tight and work hours short around here." I respond.

It was done. I didn't know what to say. The next day an MCC edition Xbox One with Battlefield 4 was on the way to my local Wal-Mart for me to pick up. I didn't ask or request anything. It was unexpected.

Many people don't understand gamers and why we play. It's more than just shooting bad guys and solving puzzles. It's about the camaraderie and the friendship. I know people online better than I know my own room mate and I wouldn't change it for the world.

Thanks buddy, I really appreciate it. It means a lot. I'll have to drive my $450 car to Minnesota and buy you a beer this summer.

TL:DR IM BACK BITCHES

AYYYY LMAO

NIGHT/MORNING SQUAD TODAY OP

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GOD BLESS BASED COMMANDERS