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Tellieboy!
Tellieboy!
Tell me, would you like to be banned for a year, or should I make it two?
(wouldn't I go down in history as the first member who got a ban without strikes - for joking in an off-topic thread? : D Why not? Go ahead!)
*treading on thin ice*
(wouldn't I go down in history as the first member who got a ban without strikes - for joking in an off-topic thread? : D Why not? Go ahead!)
*treading on thin ice*
Actually you wouldn't. Pkmays got banned for a day for joking about Helm a while ago, heh.
My hands and arms have had burns on them from day one, I have lost feeling in my fingers, and I'm always the last person to leave the kitchen. Either I'm being lathered up in a slurry of leftovers or I'm constantly draping my arms in boiling water.
Panda gained 366 Exp.
Panda levelled up!
Panda is Level 21 now.
!yus!
Panda gained 366 Exp.
Panda levelled up!
Panda is Level 21 now.
!yus!
What stats got added? :D
When family or that special girl gives me a hard time about playing video games, I like to bring up the fact that I am merely proving the justice of our culture.
Thanks Opacus and Jad :)What stats got added? :D
Uhm... lemme see.
Books +4
Comics +6
Games +1
Revoltech +3
LEGO +4
Hoodie + 1
DVD +1
Money + 200
And lots of cake
I also never played Katamari Damacy. If I wait too much longer, I betcha it'll lose its appeal.
Yes, but everyone else is playing them and you gotta keep up.
New futurama flick is out, been hearing good things about this one, apparently the best so far
edit-
Yeah, I think I'd say this is the best movie so far, it doesn't focus on Fry much, in fact he pretty much only deals out one liners, though they're all consistently good :y:
Not before you finish your iso collab tile! On Monday I will rain down on that like the wrath of a thousand gods! I want that thing finished and done!
Stop swearing for no reason. :ouch:PHAWK
You could be part of this one as soon as Ptoing starts bustin' heads.Schweeeeeeeeet.
Stop swearing for no reason. :ouch:
I propose an automatic word replacer that randomly picks a curse from the full vocabulary of Captain Haddock
(http://hpnadig.weblogs.us/images/cap_haddock.jpg)
http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html <---Best curses ever
http://www.cmdr-fire.co.uk/haddock.html hrm, I wish they had a normal-to-haddock translator, like the 13 year old aol kid one.
Is pillow-shading ok, if you're shading a pillow???No.
I'm just glad this place isn't filled with easily angered Reblucans!
Apparently westboro baptist church will be picketing Obama's grandmother's funeral.... What the fuck is wrong with people?
So, I voted today.:hehe:
NZ politics are boring, pretty much the same as Futurama's John Jackson and Jack Johnson.
So I voted for the "Legalize Marijuana Now" party
Now it's my turn.
Shred, you make your own shortcuts. go to file, preferences, key....and...have a field day.
I have C mapped to copy a pallete color
and V to paste a color.....
I have up/down for zoom, left/right to flip trough the frames....I love that setup...that and the animation preview is mostly why I still use Ggale instead of Pmotion...
I have up/down for zoom, left/right to flip trough the frames....I love that setup...that and the animation preview is mostly why I still use Ggale instead of Pmotion...
You just can't draw when you play back
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=752735&p=5008845#p5008845 I R angry at mozilla :yell:I can't believe how ignorant these people are to the problem... it's like talking to a brick wall, they just don't seem to understand.
Gentlemen, I bestow the very last build of Twinsen:Not running for me... well it does. It just sits there with the little Twinsen logo and I can hear my computer going into overdrive but it does nothing.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hegswx
We have recently come to the decision to start a new original game rather than restricting ourselves with a fangame.
So please, check out the current build, I'm still very much interested in feedback because things will still be similar in our new game.
Just don't bother mentioning flaws or glitches, we already have them all (no, I'm not being cocky here, we seriously have them all :P) well documented and will not be working on them anymore.
So yeah, so long twinsen :(
Secret Santaaaaaaa :0'
Can't wait to get started, and I can't wait till I see what I get either.
Heh, I hope I'm not rusty for the Secret Santa.
It has been a while since I pixelled something for fun.
Bummer, mac, vista by any chance?Gentlemen, I bestow the very last build of Twinsen:Not running for me... well it does. It just sits there with the little Twinsen logo and I can hear my computer going into overdrive but it does nothing.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hegswx
We have recently come to the decision to start a new original game rather than restricting ourselves with a fangame.
So please, check out the current build, I'm still very much interested in feedback because things will still be similar in our new game.
Just don't bother mentioning flaws or glitches, we already have them all (no, I'm not being cocky here, we seriously have them all :P) well documented and will not be working on them anymore.
So yeah, so long twinsen :(
Secret Santaaaaaaa :0'
Can't wait to get started, and I can't wait till I see what I get either.
Seriously, I feel like my skill has improved a ton since my first ever pixelation secret santa, hell, I remember pixeling a very crappy teddy bear for godslayer or someone about 3 years ago. This year, I'm really going to go all out.
On another note, is anyone playing Fallout 3? I have it and have played for a bit, but i'm restricting myself because of my wedding in 2 weeks but I'm dying to play so bad.
On another note, is anyone playing Fallout 3? I have it and have played for a bit, but i'm restricting myself because of my wedding in 2 weeks but I'm dying to play so bad.Yeah! I beat it the day after it came out- still playing it though, catching up on all the stuff I missed. I really do love it, so much interesting stuff to find just by walking around. I actually just found Dogmeat, too. :hehe:
Bummer, mac, vista by any chance?Nope, XP.
I really have to say I hate how the game constantly punishes you. Like what Willows said about the spiky things. But also things like when you are jumping up to get to the top of one of the levels and then make a mistake, you fall back down to the bottom of the screen. That would be punishment enough, but it just so happens that there is a lake directly under where you are climbing and not only do you get punished by losing your climbing progress you also have to restart the whole level again since you die if you touch water.Well, I'm pretty much an expert at the game as one would expect, so it's hard to gauge a good level of difficulty.
Also there was a section where you can choose either to go left or right, neither direction you can see what lies ahead, but both directions mean you have to fall downwards somewhere. If you choose left you plummet into a lake area, where you get trapped with a heap of dragonflies. Then you are just left to die there, since I assume it's impossible to get out of. All of this because you chose to explore one direction instead of another.I think in just about all the areas where you can chose to explore, one path will be harder than the other but it will provide rewards such as health units, or point bushes.
And to make it worse you actually *lose* quite a few points for having to restart.We decided against a live system because that would mean eventually losing all your points at gameover, so we went with fining the player I think 10% of their total points, another part of the game that we won't be carrying into the new game
Other than that, the graphics were beautiful and they probably kept me playing the game longer than I would've normally. I love the colours you picked and I liked the random rocks that appear in the foreground occasionally, I think that was a nice touch. Great animation too.Thanks, the graphics will remain in the same style :)
Also, what does the ball do?The ball can be used to knock out the plant enemies, bounce moles into enemies and scare dragonflies away.
222 i only have 1 :((Panda is an Admin, he cheats D:<)
On another note, is anyone playing Fallout 3? I have it and have played for a bit, but i'm restricting myself because of my wedding in 2 weeks but I'm dying to play so bad.Yeah! I beat it the day after it came out- still playing it though, catching up on all the stuff I missed. I really do love it, so much interesting stuff to find just by walking around. I actually just found Dogmeat, too. :hehe:
http://xxkittxx.deviantart.com/art/RockStar-104235089
PIXELART STEALER!
:yell:
Angry, that is what I am.
http://xxkittxx.deviantart.com/art/RockStar-104235089
PIXELART STEALER!
:yell:
Angry, that is what I am.
http://www.thelocal.se/7650/ (http://www.thelocal.se/7650/)
This lies somewhere between awful and funny.
http://www.thelocal.se/7650/ (http://www.thelocal.se/7650/)
This lies somewhere between awful and funny.
I'm pretty pumped about my partner. Question though, the person making my present isn't the person I'm making a present for, right? So if I was making a present for Lar, he may be making a present for Pep or someone thats not me.
I'm pretty pumped about my partner too! ;)
Though, the person who got me just PM'ed me to tell me they got me... a bit stumped about that. :(
Your taxes pay for the biggest war-machinery in the world \o/
Your taxes pay for the biggest war-machinery in the world \o/
That's not true, our hard-earned tax dollars don't even cover a FRACTION of the cost!
(yeah, bit of a kamikaze comeback there...)
Gettin married in 7 hours, a years worth of planning finally becoming a production, wish me luck :) :lol:Ah that's awesome. Good luck and have fun!
http://www.thelocal.se/7650/Augh, that disgusts me. He is a disgrace to metal music in all of its form.
Gettin married in 7 hours, a years worth of planning finally becoming a production, wish me luck :) :lol:good luck and congratulations :)
Gettin married in 7 hours, a years worth of planning finally becoming a production, wish me luck :) :lol:
Eegads! Well, good luck making graphics for the enemy, traitor. Maybe you can make a difference in their terrible terrarium of terror.
Looks like Hell will be an awful lot like James Cameron's prophesied future.
Stride?
(http://ungroup.net/jjntemp/digikuvia/primal_pixels.gif)
Alright then, I'll ROLL! ROLL through the Gates of Hell! MWAHAHAHA!
Reminds me a lot of Murray from Monkey Island :D
Anyone here have mirrors edge?
I think I'll have to get a 360 because it looks too awesome to pass up
Anyone here have mirrors edge?
I think I'll have to get a 360 because it looks too awesome to pass up
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/457-Mirrors-Edge
Anyone here have mirrors edge?
I think I'll have to get a 360 because it looks too awesome to pass up
There is a story somewhere in there but it's completely superfluous and the developers knew it because it really only exists to disguise the loading screens.
Gentlemen, I bestow the very last build of Twinsen:I didn't know Twinsen was based on an already existing(though what looks to be terrible...) game.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hegswx
We have recently come to the decision to start a new original game rather than restricting ourselves with a fangame.
So please, check out the current build, I'm still very much interested in feedback because things will still be similar in our new game.
Just don't bother mentioning flaws or glitches, we already have them all (no, I'm not being cocky here, we seriously have them all :P) well documented and will not be working on them anymore.
So yeah, so long twinsen :(
Yah, I'm a big fan and Twinsen was a fangame, which is partly why we've canceled it :PI guess I'll have to try them out. I've never actually heard of the game until I stumbled across it in a list on gamefaqs.
The Little Big Adventure games may look terrible by todays standards, but they're still great games
Blumunkee = Pkmays?
I am back as well. I check forums. Evildoers will be purged.
I am back as well. I check forums. Evildoers will be purged.
Dude, I'd like to hear your take on the riots in Greece. The general public sympathises with the rioters, am I right?
Any resolutions from the lot of you? ;D
happy new years indeed.
New Paul Robertson video :y: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4OWeBFYrHk&fmt=18)
Why on earth is there no topic listed under 'Show unread posts since last visit.' every time I newly log on here?
That kinda also happened years ago and it's still not fixed?
It has been some weeks since I've been here so there has to be new posts and stuff.
Would any of you guys be interested in a sorta restrictive frame count animation challenge?
I have a macbook that I'm just dying to use for pixeling.
:D :D :D :D :D :D
truth is that they actually make the REST OF THE FORUM tilt.
Dangit snake. You'll make the forum fall over ): with your balance-upsetting smilies
if I posted a joke in which a black dude said "fuck you" because I stole his chicken and grits, the entire forum would rightly call me a jackass, because it's not "cool" to harmlessly tease black people about food tastes, but it's apparently ok to characterize anyone and everyone who believes in any "Religion" as completely retarded.
I see that a common belief here is that religion = dragons and that convictions are not a defining characteristic, nor something to be offended for when it is attacked, let alone something to defend. The second is a point I am willing to drop, but the first is entirely false.
I also see that anyone who takes the minority position here will have his words twisted.
Reread my posts : nobody but the author of the strip and people who completely agree with it is included. And no, anybody who talks about dragons or getting swallowed by whales or such things as defining a faith - whether they believe in these things or not - do not properly represent or understand "religion" (as a whole) so to assert such a viewpoint is to be misguided.
Helm's post I will address separately, and not the arguments, which I found grounded, but the concept of religious murder : People who murder men and children in the name of god are filthy, filthy people
who should not be identified with all other religious people because they violate the will of god in doing so, and twist it - I neither defend nor associate with such.
let's not try and take a tally, and let's not say all religious people are crusaders and terrorists in the same way that I haven't suggested that all atheists are soviets.
However, you are right. Religion is a choice and must be a choice else it is self-defeating. A more appropriate comparison would be a comic which characterizes all police officers as wife-beaters.
*we can discuss the first book of Samuel, Angels in the House of Lot, and other less-than-comfortable passages from the bible in another place, if you desire.
I see that a common belief here is that religion = dragons and that convictions are not a defining characteristic.
I'd rather not. My problem with God is not with how misunderstood his words are. It is an epistemological and ontological one. The universe I experience doesn't seem to allow for uncontrolled, eternal, super-powerful entities that create themselves and are not subject to thermodynamic laws so it's been many many years since I played the "let's pretend there is a God, then the book is wrong where it says....". The notion of a God, as it has been explained to me by those that seem to believe in him, is completely absurd. Their desires to believe in him are not and I sympathize because the world is really scary.
So God could exist outside the universe and still effect it just as a computer programmer exists outside of an operating system.
So God could exist outside the universe and still effect it just as a computer programmer exists outside of an operating system.
That's another claim that can't be proved or disproved. However, if that were so, how would you know if he was God and not just a very highly evolved alien species? And who created the Creator?
This is where we get into claims of God revealing Himself which gets messy because that's where the real controversy is. If God exists we can only define him by experiencing his existence, and experiences can't necessarily be scientifically proven or disproven, but if you have had such an experience it is impossible to scientifically prove you didn't.We are physical beings without a doubt, if something can have an effect on us, it can be measured. The experience of god can be internal and caused by none other than yourself. With enough time i can make myself believe that all cars are in fact transformers because that is a thought stampped into my mind in early childhood.
Time is only required for our existence and the reason for it going forward is yet to be found (something to do with differences in the density of space and all kinds of things i don't understand), but we evolved into a forward moving time so that's why we experience it moving forward. In a sort of ouroboros sort of time axis everything exists in every possible form and we are a grain in that endless sea of possibilities. We sort of have no choice but to be.
A play on that thought would be like so: let's imagine that our universe is a pulsating one, it'll collapse on itself eventually, and that time does not end. That means our universe will "execute" itself in every way possible forever.
We are physical beings without a doubt, if something can have an effect on us, it can be measured.
If God exists we can only define him by experiencing his existence, and experiences can't necessarily be scientifically proven or disproven, but if you have had such an experience it is impossible for someone else to scientifically prove to you that you didn't.
We are physical beings without a doubt, if something can have an effect on us, it can be measured.
If you say your grandpa asked you to buy a loaf of bread seconds before he died, can I scientifically prove otherwise? Even if I could would you believe me over your own experience?It's measurable when it happens, after that I'd have to go with my memory, or if you have some research data that would suggest that my grandpa didn't say anything to me, I'd mark the memory as compromised with the possibility of being untrue, providing you're a trustworthy person. To avoid extremes, I rather go with likely and less likely.
We know only that our minds "are," physical or not, and from there it's conjecture based on experience (which may or may not be self generated etc). Truth may exist clearly and physically, or it may exist only in our desire for it to.
Helm correct me if I'm wrong but you seem to be saying you'd find the concept of God more believable if he were subject to the laws of the system he programmed.
If God exists and he created the physical universe (which I am a strong proponent for) then he would have to operate within a far bigger system than the physical universe.
As for who created the creator, we all have to accept that at some point the law of cause and effect was broken, whether you believe in God or not. What created the matter that created the big bang? And what created whatever made that matter? And so on and so on.
If a person is not filthy, how can he be forgiven? There's a difference between an acknowledgment of evil, or an alignment in support of evil, and the forsaking of it. When I damn for their actions, you may critique the decision : that has not happened.
in my perception of reality (lol), I believe in God. People who believe in God are Religious. I do not murder. I do not believe in dragons or miracles. Therefor, if someone says that religious people murder and believe in dragons and I do not, they are mistaken, the issue of dragons does not define religion as a whole and to say so is false. From where i stand (and it may be subjective) that looks like math.
The issue at hand for me was never the idea that select Religious people worship dragons and say no to science, but the idea that we all do, and that it is central to a belief in God for all who feel themselves to be have such.
Just saying... looking at how the universe operates, there doesn't seem to be any call for an external system in which it rests, of which the rules are alien and unfathomable.
I mean, you can make this claim but it just over complicates things. Overcomplication isn't a demerit in itself, but we have to ask, for what? Quantum Mechanics are overcomplicating an Aristotelian physical understanding of the universe but there's a reason for them. What's the reason for shattering all physical laws to create a God, though? So you have a divine shoulder to cry on? I mean at some point we have to look at the motivation behind giving birth to these all-powerful deities... your father and your mother told you of this 'God' and it helps you in some ways in your life. If you were to examine how he helps you and also what assumptions you're bringing into the physical universe by invoking an all-powerful figure... you might end up more unsettled than you started with as an agnostic! I mean sure okay God loves me and I'll go to heaven when I die... but it also means if God exists that the universe is a simulation (?) of a much bigger, unfathomable laboratory (?) where a being calls all the shots whose motivation is a psychotic desire for powerless little humans to love him (?) This shit creeps me out even more than the nothingness after death.
Examine the motivation behind your desire for a God to exist, is what I am saying.
If I die and god exists I've also tried my hardest to be a good man and to satisfy myself through life, to have no shame for my existence and I will sit in front of him and tell him I never believed in him (and still do not, but rather consider him a fading hallucination of the dying brain) and I am unrepentant. UNREPENTANT! My life was my own, my death also. If he is a just God and he understands completely his creation he will know that I did exactly what he made me do. I have nothing to lose in that respect.
If a god created everything, then he/she also created sin, sinful people, demons and everything that opposes him/her. Doesn't make any sense at all.
Religious people cling to their weird beliefs even though they have nothing to back up their theory that there is a higher might. When people prove them wrong, they refuse to understand.
The holy writings (bible, quran etc) have been edited over the years and the religions are nothing like they originally were.
Religious people break their rules at least as much as regular people, through crusades/jihads, holocausts, missionaries etc. It doesn't say anywhere in the holy writings that you are allowed to kill people just because of their religion.
The bible says that homosexuality is wrong, it says that interracial relationships is wrong.
Christianity is about denying truth, they see Lucifer as the enemy when he is the bringer of light and wisdom. When the snake gave wisdom to the couple in the garden of eden god banished them.
Religious leaders don't want people to think on their own and want everybody to be the same.
I'm sorry to say I can't understand these statements. 'but the idea that we all do' what? Worship dragons and say no to science? 'for all who feel themselves to be have such' what?
(creating a personal lexicon and whatnot)
We started out discussing your reaction to a comic that was about religion at large and nonbelievers at large, not about the religion in your person where every other religion in any other person that doesn't cohere with your vision is false.
I do not take 1+1=2 as a binding proposition. I don't take any statement as a binding proposition. I take a few as applicable and useful. Not 'true' because nothing is 'true'. Again, I urge towards a study of Epistemology, it's not a word I'm making up, it's a philosophical field that deals exactly with the theory of knowledge, what is testable, what is binding, what is in effect, what skepticism is in essence.
I furthermore do not think that understanding the world on paper is the same as experiencing the things you're trying to understand. The implication is that the world is complex and holistic and we do not stand to *experience* it all, and people trying to appeal to our intellect by giving us applicable models of it can only get so far in that way. You can sit there and explain to me how a bat (the animal) works how it's skeleton keeps it light how the sonar works etc etc and I can sit here and try to take all that information in but that doesn't mean I understand the bat, the experience of the bat itself is inherently unknowable for me as a human. It is similar in matter of theory of science and knowledge. Information is not the same as knowledge. Information helps build a testable hypothesis of the effects of properties that are fundamentally unexperiencable for the human being. On the existential level we should be looking with awe at a simple house cat and how futile it is to try to feel what it must feel, and yet we have the gall to summon bloated Gods out of the aether and decree them creators and benevolent fathers that watch upon us. More humility! There's more to find by pondering a wall than thinking about Jesus Christ as the lord and savior.
But if we are going to use a model for reality (and we must if we want anything else than to live in a cave), it being testable and applicable is the point of it. Not being 'true' on the metaphysical level. An all-powerful ever-present God doesn't enter into tests or applications in any respect, therefore its usage is bound to be problematic. Science is not to put ones blind faith into a testable model. It is to be very curious about it and constantly tweak it to better apply to the discernible effect. These are very basic things.
I do not have any emotional bias against a god existing and I feel that huge chunk of text of mine you quoted, you didn't properly address its implication. If God exists, it's more unsettling than if he doesn't. He creates more questions than he answers. I strongly urge you to address this issue instead of turning it around.
If I die and god exists I've also tried my hardest to be a good man and to satisfy myself through life, to have no shame for my existence and I will sit in front of him and tell him I never believed in him (and still do not, but rather consider him a fading hallucination of the dying brain) and I am unrepentant. UNREPENTANT! My life was my own, my death also. If he is a just God and he understands completely his creation he will know that I did exactly what he made me do. I have nothing to lose in that respect.
And ultimately, most importantly, it is not a matter of haggling, it really shouldn't be. I do not define my ontology based on the gambling odds of there being a hellfire and eternal damnation in which I might be designated later on. So be it! There's still no real reason to go from examining this universe to inferring there is a God around in it besides people screaming about him being around. So if I have to suffer eternal damnation for not being stupid enough to trust other beings that are essentially as clueless as I am on matters of abstract metaphysics, then so be it! Punish me, just and everpresent lord, punish me by letting me be what you need me to be!
Again the most important thing I'm talking about is this: examine the motivation of 'faith' on the human animal. The uncertainty of the universe is mind-boggling. We invented anthropomorphic faces for the natural powers around us to understand them, to symbolise them and contain them, to not go insane by thinking what this thunder is that falls randomly out of the sky and splits the old tree in half. The sentient animal needs faith because otherwise they'd go insane trying to run a fault simulation in their mind in which there are no dangers around them. As long as inexplicable things happen, the animal thinks it's in danger! It must make its surroundings safe and it must make the internal world safe by establishing symbols, words and stories that are causal and make sense. Where did we come from? Goddidit. Where are we going? God knows. What should we do? God tells.
Try to take a few steps outside the box in which you're trying to rationalize the existence of the most huge overspill of thermodynamic energy in the universe and think of WHY you are doing it.
For me the most alarming thing about this comic was that Science obviously has no backpack. So just where did he get his flashlight?
Helm : just reread what I write perhaps.
my definition of Religion is as objective as it can be :
You have a way of always misinterpreting everything I say in extremely negative ways, and I just don't know how to avoid this.
I don't claim to be an expert in it, and honestly I really loath the subject.
You may claim not to take 1+1=2 as a binding proposition, but you can only say that to support a philosophical argument. In the real world you depend on this proposition every day just to process the world around you, as do we all. When we stop talking and look at practical reality we find that truth exists. If you tried living your life liberated from the notion that 1+1=2, you would not survive.
I'm having a really hard time following you through this paragraph. Are you saying that since we can't transplant ourselves into other creatures' experiences, we don't have the authority to claim the existence of God? Not a challenge here, but a request for clarification.
Science and faith have very different roles. Not opposing. Complimentary. And separate.
So if you saw God face to face you would consider him a hallucination? Are you sure you're unbiased regarding the possibility of his existence?
Again... this is getting into personal beliefs which would be a bad turn for this discussion to talk. Although I'd be happy to dialogue about that privately. I will say that Christian concepts of afterlife, eternal judgment, etc. are some of the most complicated aspects of my faith and the grossly condescending and inaccurate cliff-notes versions that are commonly passed around are, for lack of a better word, vulgar and embarrassing.
There are points where supernatural attributes have been credited to natural occurrences, yes. Just as emotions were once thought of as stemming from the heart. Our understanding of the universe changes with time. But again, the fact that God's hands don't manipulate the sun through the sky has nothing to do with whether or not He could exist.
The questions you ask, "Where did we come from?" - "Where are we going" - "What should we do?" - those of us who profess faith in God do not have such simple, trite answers to those questions as what you listed on our behalf. God is the launching pad for the long difficult journey of discovering the answers, not a cop out to avoid them.
Been there and done that. Self examination and faith are two things that tend to co-habitate. If you're searching for an ulterior motive for my advocating God's existence, you won't find one. My belief in God isn't so that He will like me... that's silly because if I didn't believe in Him it wouldn't matter whether He likes me or not. My belief in God isn't because it makes me feel better about life; in fact many times my beliefs has caused me to look at life quite harshly. My belief in God is not an act of will but a culmination of every experience and all the knowledge that I have obtained up until this point.
I want to understand you.
Helm I can't at the moment respond to everything you wrote, but the foundation of your understanding people like me is flawed.
You begin by assuming that I invented God out of some kind of need I had. I didn't invent God at all. You have to prove I did because many of your beliefs are founded on that assumption. But as long as you do that, I won't make any sense to you.
http://www.konjak.org/index.htmQFT! very very good. I would eat up in an instant anything like that he released....too bad this kind of one man-treasure type thing never gets noticed on a wide scale in the web. Maybe he should make one where the hero is science and the bad guy is religion. That way he'd get all the fucking attention in the world.
Well done konjak, a ton of fun to play :)
I sincerily can't see how an idea of a God as strictly defined as that of the christian faith can occur to you naturally, I can only see it being socially impressed on you (which is what the 'invention' I'm talking about is).
All this fuzz about a little comic. It's the same with every forum I've ever been on, as soon as someone makes a religion joke people go batshit.
SO WHAT IF SOMEONE INSULTS YOUR IMAGINARY FRIEND?
Stop taking shit and decide for yourself whether or not to believe.
If people want to believe in an almighty being that creates it's own enemies and contradicts itself, the fine.
But don't get mad at us realists for believing in the suff that actually makes sense and that has proof it's correct.
All this fuzz about a little comic. It's the same with every forum I've ever been on, as soon as someone makes a religion joke people go batshit.
SO WHAT IF SOMEONE INSULTS YOUR IMAGINARY FRIEND?
Stop taking shit and decide for yourself whether or not to believe.
If people want to believe in an almighty being that creates it's own enemies and contradicts itself, the fine.
But don't get mad at us realists for believing in the suff that actually makes sense and that has proof it's correct.
I hate being rude but, shut up.
You clearly didn't read through the discussion and you are being the main offender here. Worst than going batshit over something, is going batshit over nothing which is clearly your case right here.
How about no? Religion is off topic when it comes to pixelling, so there wont be an extra thread for this or any other thing not somehow related to pixelling.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Cool. tons of things to read, not enough time to read 'em all and make any kind of cohesive response.How do you disagree on the "decision" statement?
I do, however, disagree on the "Religion, It's something you choose!" statement made much earlier.
I was born(?) and raised a christian, taught christian fundamentals and ideals and told that there only is christianity, and all other options are some voodoo nonsense... grossly exaggerated of course, but the idea is there. Christianity is the "only way" and anything else I learned about in school came with a "This isn't true" disclaimer.
Christianity wasn't a choice for me 'till I was 18, and even now I run on a bastardized, personalized version of christianity because nothing else has ever presented itself as a reasonable alternative to believing in an omnipresent deity. I theoretically have a choice in the matter, but the most choice I have is to get the tattoo I have removed and get another one elsewhere; there will always be traces of the original.
In this case, I always feel that discussing the battle between Science and Religion is masturbatory. Everybody knows that the opposing sides go no where with it, and it's an endless battle. Conversing over it, I guess, just seems like something to do when you're bored, and never truly serves an endpoint, other than "we'll never agree with each other, but lets just keep on debating till we die." Just more questions, doubt in the other side, and in the worst case scenario(but a small percentage), anger and hostility. Granted, anger and hostility comes from religious FANATICS majority of the time, but it's never right to assume all religious people would do the same.
To me, the basis of Science and Religion is really a challenge between knowledge and faith: ie, "I have faith that you will do this", will always combat " I KNOW that you will do this." Knowing something will happen, always seems to have a neutral connotation to it. Bad things can come of it, and so can good things come of it, but the point is, it was known to happen anyway. The brain is wired this way, we can't help it. It's kind of the same reasoning as something hitting you in the gut: if the hit is known prior, the brain will try to prepare itself chemically and mentally, before hand. If it isn't known, and the hit comes out of no where, the brain doesn't have time to prepare, and pain sensors sometime go into overload. Where as faith comes into play, it's a matter of wanting to believe that something will happen. That something is expected without so much factual evidence. Could be possible that what ever it is, it's happened before, you've seen it with your own eyes, but you EXPECT it to happen again, rather than KNOW. And this is the problem.
Now I know religion, in terms of definition, is NOT the same thing as faith, more so partners in crime with each other. However, don't these debates seem to always end up against a brick wall at this point, when knowledge is challenged against faith? Both parties are equally intelligent enough to at least know that the 2 word's definitions are not one in the same, yet one or the other keeps asking why? Seriously an endless circle jerk of people who aren't seeing the greater picture here...and I mean the fanatics of BOTH sides, not just one.
For the time being, however, it's much easier to pick on religion, as it's outdated, and has far less firmware upgrades than that of Science. Science isn't totally perfect, however. It just has a better way of answering it's previous flaws and wrong answers by calling it's current statements "theories." It's kind of like saying "this is the answer for now, until proven wrong later on. If someone challenges us, we'll just tell them it was a theory, and that it wasn't concrete to begin with, and prone to change with future updates."...Science has built itself fairly well on this concept and it works fine, to be quite honest. We've gotten modern medicine, technology, and healthier because of it. But again, it's not perfect either. After all, we once thought the world was flat, and look what happened there(I know, I know, it's an easy target...but I had to ...).
I guess to put it simply, I will agree with others in that Religion is flawed in many ways. It's also very hard to defend against a "science" man's perspective. But if there really is a true God out there, I'm sure our simple scientific theories will still NEVER fully understand it's entity and well being, or how it came into effect, probably because this God-like entity has been around for so long, that it's at a much higher intelligible level than we are. Also, I'm sure it moved on many billion years ago to other side projects, rather than dealing with a couple of living beings who debate over trite things such as this. I'm sure there are other living beings, possibly more advanced than us, that also have this same conversation, and also get no where with it. So I guess if it ever came down to it, and I were to meet this God, any question I would first ask him would probably have an answer something close to " Uhmmm, which Universe are you from again?"
*heh, such an abrupt sentence to end a long series of masturbatory paragraphs, that derive too far from the main subject. Oh the irony...*
You say that the Science and Religion Battle is pointless and will go on forever without conclusion, if I'm understanding you right (Tell me if I'm not).
I agree with you, Bob, but I don't think it's pointless. Whenever I'm able to have a civilized discussion with someone over it, both of us know it will be to know end and neither of us is trying to convince the other. That makes for a deeply satisfying discussion, and since I've made my own beliefs about life it helps me to really critically think about what I believe, and sooth out the kinks in logic, and both of us think it's good, deep, fun, and useful.
In this case, I always feel that discussing the battle between Science and Religion is masturbatory. Everybody knows that the opposing sides go no where with it, and it's an endless battle. Conversing over it, I guess, just seems like something to do when you're bored, and never truly serves an endpoint, other than "we'll never agree with each other, but lets just keep on debating till we die." Just more questions, doubt in the other side, and in the worst case scenario(but a small percentage), anger and hostility. Granted, anger and hostility comes from religious FANATICS majority of the time, but it's never right to assume all religious people would do the same.
...religious indent in your superego...If you think about god as a personification of the superego(which is a law and order giving presence), then a lot of religious claims and accusations make a whole lot of sense, kinda.
What i would like to know is if you can have morals if there is nothing that imposes them on you, like your parents, society or whatever.
BUT on the case of jellyfish! Those wonderful varied creatures. Some have survived unchanged like forever, some can clone themselves, some have multiple neural clusters in a single body with a set of primitive eyes and now we have one that's immortal!
I don't believe so. If you look at Genie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)), she has no morals or anything like that.
Cats or dogs that have been separated from their mom too early are often much more easily freaked out and are much less sociable that kittens or puppies that have had a secure upbringing close to their parents. So the nurturing instinct is programmed in the DNA
As in the bare minimum of the instinct that is required to start the snowball rolling.QuoteCats or dogs that have been separated from their mom too early are often much more easily freaked out and are much less sociable that kittens or puppies that have had a secure upbringing close to their parents. So the nurturing instinct is programmed in the DNA
I don't see how you made that conclusion from that statement. The statement seems to suggest the opposite of your conclusion.
As in the bare minimum of the instinct that is required to start the snowball rolling.
A set of values that are enforced in a community are useful to balance the desires of that community against the internal frictions, so as many genes as possible survive.
the point of their morality is to ensure adjusted behaviour in a whole.
...because in helping a close-knit commune it is very possible you're helping copies of genes you already have in other hosts.
Individuals that form groups do so for the benefit of their selfish genes (e.g. there is safety in numbers; safety for genes)
http://www.konjak.org/index.htmReally is a nice game with some fantastic art in case any of you missed it.
Well done konjak, a ton of fun to play :)
An interesting case to look at for your question would be a child raised normally, except never punished for doing something we consider morally wrong, and never rewarded for doing something we consider right (and never observing others getting rewarded/punished). Obviously it's not possible to test this, though. My guess is that if you do that, you have someone who could commit horrible acts with no remorse, like a sociopath. Perhaps looking into famous sociopaths childhood would be interesting.
I think in the 60's some biologists were proposing that the process of natural selection might try to preserve larger gene pools in that manner but so far there's been no actual evidence of such a thing. Richard Dawkings proposed the single gene -view in his 70's book The Selfish Gene that has as one of its main thesis that you must always look at evolution from the point of view of a single gene, which became the standard view and has stood up to challenges so far.
Interestingly enough, there is another model of parenting -which is widely lauded by mainstream child rearing manuals- that also fits the criterion you've proposed. This is called the harmonious model, and it contrasts sharply with what you seemingly believe to be the proper way to instill morals and direction in a child. The supposition that reward and punisment are integral qualifiers to instilling morality is thrown out of the window in this model. They are viewed as dated, archaic, and of relating to a hierarchy that is slowly but surely being debased. In this model, a parent will clearly outline expectations for a child, but will not necessarily enforce those expecations with punishment. Instead, this model focuses on creating a dialect between the parent and the child so that there can be a mutual understanding of why something is right or wrong. It also treats the child as an equal and does not generally profer superiority over a child when handling any given situation. The results of such child rearing are very telling of the misconceptions of reward and punishment in our society; a child raised under this upbringing will become self-confident, socially responsible, able to control emotions, and will generally have high self-esteem. The fact that this sort of parenting is seen as mollycoddling by believers in the strict reward/punishment model, indeed, says something about the actual validity of the reward/punishment model.Yes. I think the reward/punishment model is completely unrelated to morality, because, AFAIK, what it instills is mindless, unreasoning fear or mindless, unreasoning confidence -- ie. habits. Whereas morality, as far as I understand it, is contextual - no matter how horrible an action or choice seems to you, there are situations where that choice is the best available and therefore the most moral choice, so strong reasoning skills are crucial. Your habits can help you behave morally but you cannot rely on them.
Careful! I'm pretty sure it doesn't contradict that statement.QuoteI think in the 60's some biologists were proposing that the process of natural selection might try to preserve larger gene pools in that manner but so far there's been no actual evidence of such a thing. Richard Dawkings proposed the single gene -view in his 70's book The Selfish Gene that has as one of its main thesis that you must always look at evolution from the point of view of a single gene, which became the standard view and has stood up to challenges so far.
This is a continuation of the conversation leading up to that quote, although what I am going to say is merely an insight of relevance to what has been said.
There is a certain type of organism (either an algae or a culture, I don't remember) that behaves in two distinct ways. This organism survives by floating on the top of water where it is capable of receiving nutrients and oxygen. It works together as a colony, but some organisms will self-replicate more hastily than others. The result of this, is that the entire organism will eventually grow too dense and sink, therefore drowning the entire colony.
This is a glimpse into how communal organisms may work for themselves as individuals (selfishly), while others work for the whole of the community. It is interesting because it brings to light the inherent dangers that can come from selfish behavior in a community, and it contradicts the statement that individuals form groups for the benefit of their selfish genes.
Yes. I think the reward/punishment model is completely unrelated to morality, because, AFAIK, what it instills is mindless, unreasoning fear or mindless, unreasoning confidence -- ie. habits. Whereas morality, as far as I understand it, is contextual - no matter how horrible an action or choice seems to you, there are situations where that choice is the best available and therefore the most moral choice, so strong reasoning skills are crucial. Your habits can help you behave morally but you cannot rely on them.
Careful! I'm pretty sure it doesn't contradict that statement.
Communal organisms are not individuals (whether taken as a whole or parts), by definition, so their behaviour cannot reasonably inform our knowledge of individual organisms.
However, of course that's dependent on how you mean 'communal': eg. I would classify humans as individuals who like to participate communally, whereas you may actually class them as communal organisms. In this case, there would be nothing incorrect about your statement, I would just find it confusing because of the difference in our terminology.
lots of viagra in there coffee
dick gangrene is never fun.
Umm, I think it's just that dick gangrene is sincerely never fun, and you can tell just by the name, and dick-cutting-off process. If you can laugh about causing your housemates to lose their genitals, then I think there's something a little wrong with you.dick gangrene is never fun.something your not telling us?
This apparently wasn't the time to start following this topic again...
Put soap or lotion on their toilet seat. Really uncofortable to slide around when taking a shit.
Get some of those firecracker-on-a-string things that explode when you pull it, and stick it to every door/cupboard/wardrobe in their room(s).
Freeze some shaving cream cans, then at night cut them in half and sneak it into their place. It expands like hell and the floor will be covered in it.
Put soap or lotion on their toilet seat. Really uncofortable to slide around when taking a shit.
Get some of those firecracker-on-a-string things that explode when you pull it, and stick it to every door/cupboard/wardrobe in their room(s).
Freeze some shaving cream cans, then at night cut them in half and sneak it into their place. It expands like hell and the floor will be covered in it.
Mythbusters tried that last one about shaving cream except ehy used it in a car. Results were... underwhelming unfortunately. They made up for it though by using buckets of some sort of highly flammable, super expanding chemical. Results were... much better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg2OBWE0uYM&feature=related
does this have a name? am I allowed to call it 'bricklaying'?It's "anti-aliasing" :'(
does this have a name? am I allowed to call it 'bricklaying'?It's "anti-aliasing" :'(
Selective brick laying.
Has anyone ever seen an AA tutorial for beginning pixel artists?
Selective brick laying.
sel-bri
My brother's bin rushed to hospital with appendicitis :( keepin him over night and he's avin surgery tomorrow.
Well worried, seems pretty bad :'(
My brother's bin rushed to hospital with appendicitis :( keepin him over night and he's avin surgery tomorrow.
Well worried, seems pretty bad :'(
Sooo.... Has anyone found a pixelling program for iPhone/Touch yet?No idea about pixel programs but there's colours/colors for them. I don't think Pixel Art, an art form that's really about refining stuff, should be done on inferior technology. No offense to the iProducts but I feel like pixel art shouldn't be done on them. A mobile version of something is almost always inferior. You should do sketches with that color program and then pixel them up on a computer.
Duke Nukem 2 and Fire & Ice are two 16-color DOS games that I can think of off the top of my head... I think they were 16-color VGA though, not EGA. (And Duke Nukem 2 is a textbook example of how to make a 16-color palette that's almost as useless as EGA :crazy:)(IIRC, Fire & Ice used 32 colors, as it was an Amiga port)
Can anybody point me in the direction of some EGA games which use a custom 16 colour palette rather than the standard EGA palette?Is that game high resolution (640x350, 640x400)? Custom EGA palette for 320x200x16 == not supported in hardware at all. 640x350 == high res EGA, 16 colors from a 64-color (4*4*4) colorcube. 640x400 == high res VGA.
The only game I can ever recall seeing with one is the first Warlords game, and even then I'm not certain that it isn't just a 16 colour VGA palette.
Also any ideas why custom EGA palettes are so rare? Not well supported in hardware? Harder to code for? Fewer available features? Or is it just that VGA came along before anyone learned to fully exploit EGA?640x350 is harder to code for. Most highres EGA games are not action games, cause of the lack of special tricks we can do to get better scrolling/faster screen updates.
If I can summon up sufficient motivation I want to try exploring the quality difference a custom EGA palette can provide over standard, so any examples you can point me toward could come in useful.http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=3225.msg40939#msg40939
Is that game high resolution (640x350, 640x400)? Custom EGA palette for 320x200x16 == not supported in hardware at all. 640x350 == high res EGA, 16 colors from a 64-color (4*4*4) colorcube. 640x400 == high res VGA.Warlords is 640x200.
640x350 is harder to code for. Most highres EGA games are not action games, cause of the lack of special tricks we can do to get better scrolling/faster screen updates.Thought as much.
With standard 320x200x16, similar tricks to VGA ModeX were available for smooth scrolling, fast blitting, etc.
And talking of Duke Nukem, this is just shameful (http://www.nemmelheim.de/turrican/news/duke/).
So I'm working on a project for the DS, and I'm wondering... is there any restrictions I should bother with? I don't imagine color is much of an issue, and I'm pretty sure tiles are either 8x8 or 16x16.
What about tile capacity? I'm just throwing together a mock-up and I'm not really to concerned with making things tile, so I might have a lot of huge chunks of tiles to use rather than any 'smart' tiling. Is that going to be a problem?
Anything else I should know? We plan to have a large amount of sprites on the screen at once, can it handle that?
nice infoThanks a ton for the useful info. So if we go 3D limitations is not really much of a concern? Tile-wise I don't think we'll have much problem, but we want to have as many sprites possible on the screen at once(like 50+ zombies on the screen at once, possibly more).
Does anyone here play Quadradius (http://quadradius.com/quadradius/index.html)? Hopefully you've never experienced a misfortunate encounter with the one known as OrBLIVION. See that you never do.
If you haven't tried it yet, I urge you to do so. If you do, what's your moniker?
I don't understand French, but if I could,
I would write beautiful songs about horrible things.
Because it is said to be the language of love and romance,
and if love didn't exist, there wouldn't be any horrible things.
You must care to cry, love something in order to hate something.
You must have a heart in order for it to be broken.
Many people walk in a dream.
They feel entitled to happiness and feel anger when it is not waiting for them.
I know that the world owes me nothing, yet has given me a great deal.
It is our own perception we get to bend and mold to our liking,
once that is accomplished, the reality we once knew begins to change.
My neighbor may be dark and gloomy,
but I find it a perfect day to go outside.
I can knock on his door,
but that doesn't mean he will answer.
And I will have to walk away, sad, from his little house
where he sleeps and smokes and drinks all day,
just to escape what he does not yet know.
We find ourselves in little boxes watching little boxes.
We see an edited version of human life,
targeted on alienating us as individuals,
to distract us from the seedy underbelly of politics and business.
We are products of a Machiavellian society.
Look at the pretty girl dancing,
her hair is so shiny. I want my hair to be shiny.
Look at the man with chizzled features,
use the razor he is using.
It will give you the kind of charm that woman crave.
Women will want you.
Men will adore you.
You will be happy.
You will be empty, because it is not about the product,
but the feeling they try to convey.
And it is not for your benefit,
but for the benefit of the holders of the company.
We must burn our little boxes.
We must create dialogue.
We must realize the importance of every moment.
We must turn our boredom to gratitude.
Use your hands, your thoughts, your hunger.
These things are yours and yours alone.
codebox to not stretch for those not interested~
Haha what's up with the jad-atar fad : D
but nowadays no one is afraid of them anymore
There is no world-destroying superweapon in Watchmen the comic. At all. In fact the exact opposite.
The world-destroying super weapon is a core idea of superhero stories so it needs to be dissected, but nowadays no one is afraid of them anymore and we have no such equivalent in the current geopolitical realm. I feel my sphincter clench at the thought of replacing it with a more hip crisis like "terrorism" or "global warming".Hehehe. Well that's likely a typical Hollywood interpretation of the current geopolitical realm, but I think there's a wealth of things that would lend themselves to Watchmen marvelously. For instance, the economic strain of the world, fuelled by the decline in oil supply increases political tensions, leading to an escalation in military posturing and resource seizing, ultimately leading up the greatest escalation of all: all out nuclear armageddon.
Hold the crap up a second... when did James Cameron's name go on the geek black-list?
I'm currently getting an A+ in an almost A-P Spanish class! My second trimester grades just got in so I'm all happy now.
I still feel awful for totally ignoring swedish classes..... and now there's been a million chances to use swedish, but i can't.
Is Swedish that important in Finland? I thought it was only spoken in some parts of the west coast.Well not really, but it was obligatory in school, so learning would've had more benefits than idling. I have a swedish co-worker too.
buy the finnish version of the book. It's better quality print than the english version here in finland and the translation is exceptionally good.
If I recall correctly. . .
"Jag tyckar om ol og kvinnor." :)
This is pretty much the biggest part of what I still remember after a Swedish language course I took some long time ago.
You must have the *thing* for acquiring new language knowledge. I'm getting through my 11th year of learning English and still have problems with it.
Not to mention German and Spanish, but these I know at a less-than-elementary level. :)
Actually it's "Jag tycker om öl och kvinnor" :)
What do you mean when you say having the thing, do you mean being entusiastic or have a natural talent for it?
I was homeschooled and the stereotypes are definitely out there but most of us are pretty normal. I didn't grow up on a farm or get taught that scientists are evil or go through high school friendless. Heck it was fun, I'd finish at like noon and then draw or write until my friends got out of school. I was able to develop my art a lot more because of it.
most of the homeschooled kids I know are weird and clueless when it comes to social interaction.I don't think I'd say most, but some certainly are incapable. And how are you sure being in school provides a better social expreience? I get most of my learning from classes with a lot of kids. I'm in a shakespeare class the I'm performing in, and there are 20something kids in the class. I take a lot of intellectual classes as well, which make the best IMHO out of a class experience.
Getting exposed to many different people and different moral standings is healthy no matter how smart your parents are.Right. For sure, I totally agree. And I do get exposed a lot. I got lucky, my parents aren't religious and chose to let me decide if I want to be or not. I think religion is something that makes one sheltered. One of my homeschooled friends is religious, and he is extremely sheltered, he barely knows what the internet is, and his parents are probably deciding what profession he's going into. I get exposed lots; especially this year, because of the MUN conference, which should be interesting.
Oh and in school you'll also get to be with people you don't like.I meet PLENTY of people who I don't like, some more than others. But either way I usually have to cooperate with them, which is an important lesson.
I remember reading a while back taht a large proportion of home-schooled children go on College and University than their public school counterparts. I think I'll go look for that study again. It makes sense to me, cause I don't see the irresponsible or idiotic types being all that attracted to homeschooling. Too much work, much easier to ship the kids off to public school and let the baby sitters there take care of the kiddies.
Higher education exists to teach people that don't have the fervent drive to teach themselves, generally
Higher education exists to teach people that don't have the fervent drive to teach themselves, generally
I like the Terminator films by Cameron, some, but that's pretty much it.
Quote from: Darienmost of the homeschooled kids I know are weird and clueless when it comes to social interaction.I don't think I'd say most, but some certainly are incapable. And how are you sure being in school provides a better social expreience? I get most of my learning from classes with a lot of kids. I'm in a shakespeare class the I'm performing in, and there are 20something kids in the class. I take a lot of intellectual classes as well, which make the best IMHO out of a class experience.
I just bought a new Sega, Genesis.You can still buy new ones? :huh:
LOST VIKINGS is SO amazing!Lost Vikings did get a CC and accompanying challenge back in the day.
Tell me someone else here has played it from back in the day.
We should examine some Genesis games for a mockup frenzy or something.
I increased the amount of possible pms per inbox for most usergroups (guessing the one you are trying to contact is no one who has over 1000 posts)No, the typical one post member of course.
Anyone have good references of platformers that involve scaling the side of mountains?
WAhooo! Burn zombie Burn went Live on PSN yesterday... Check it out... my first 'real' game released since I went travelling 3 years ago...
Unavailable in Germany atm I'm afraid (sorry Sven) due to silly rules about 18 cert games and digital distributed titles... (which we've only just found out)
WAhooo! Burn zombie Burn went Live on PSN yesterday... Check it out... my first 'real' game released since I went travelling 3 years ago...
Unavailable in Germany atm I'm afraid (sorry Sven) due to silly rules about 18 cert games and digital distributed titles... (which we've only just found out)
Congrats :) I don't have a PS3 anyway, so no big deal. For germany just make the blood green or something.
Something else:
I will be gone for one month as of tomorrow (coming back on the 2nd of May). Going on a backpacking trip to the Philippines with a friend \o/
Speaking of DeviantArt, however, someone stole one of Ptoing's pieces today and received a Daily Deviataion for it: http://moosehat.deviantart.com/art/Sweaty-Dudes-118169158 :(
^Haha, I remember reading that about a year ago. It's amazing how well that all fits together.
Speaking of DeviantArt, however, someone stole one of Ptoing's pieces today and received a Daily Deviataion for it: http://moosehat.deviantart.com/art/Sweaty-Dudes-118169158 :(
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Holy crap, new Giana Sisters game and it's for the DS... and I'm enjoying it ;D
I'm pretty sure Naruto doesn't see the success it does as a series because the artist making it very adept in the finer points of the artform.
it's kinda sad to see that the author seems to have lost his passion completely. Naruto wasn't this buttfugly when it started out ):
I've heard they started using some kind of custom poser models for the layouts. And it shows.
Yeah... Game Maker is a lot more flexible and a lot less wonky than MMF is. I think the way it organizes data is superior to MMF as well. Although I'm also finding that it's not as idiot-proof as MMF is.
I'm trying to learn how to use Game Maker and all I can say is ARGHALEGASEH SDF@#$^@#$()*&@#$ :yell:
Hey, I am wondering. . . were there any cowboy-shooting games back in the past? You know, some old arcade lawmen/outlaws duels. . . with pixel-art-based graphics and, say, a static third-person view. Perhaps I should be ashamed now, but except a few Flash-based pieces I just don't know any. Seems classic.
Am I the only one who's not Christian but celebrates their holidays anyways?
Cabal taught me that if anyone's shooting at me, I should just do a roll. Roll with the bullets. Roll with them. It always works.
You can trace any game's roots back to Duck Hunt. Even Pong.
Well, Cabal is in turn Operation Wolf with a 3rd person view added, Op Wolf is a hard cored version of Duck Hunt, Duck Hunt is.. how far can this be tracked?
Well, Cabal is in turn Operation Wolf with a 3rd person view added, Op Wolf is a hard cored version of Duck Hunt, Duck Hunt is.. how far can this be tracked?Magnavox Odyssey had a shooting gallery game with a light-rifle.
You can trace any game's roots back to Duck Hunt. Even Pong.
No way! Even Spacewar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!)?!
how come Monsoon2D (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?action=profile;u=51) is sitting on -3 karma?
I used to use gamemaker, but I realised over a year back that everytime I wanted to do something(palette swapping, proper collision, dynamic map loading) that I kept having ot throw away the code it provided for often basic things and replace it with my own in an unintuitive way. So, I made the switch to XNA and haven't looked back. I'm currently working on completing a general2d engine, initially in sideview, but once I get most of the features built in, I'm going to extend it towards a typical jrpg top-down view. I'm pretty decent with programming and was already familiar with C++ syntax, so it was a beneficial and relatively painless switch. There's a pretty awesome support community and tons of blogs with lots of helpful articles. The tools provided, like Visual C#'s code editor, are incredible.
Just putting this out there for any gamemakers growing tired with the program. I was initially attracted to GM because of the ease, speed and what I thought looked like flexibilty. I wanted to make some games, but didn't want to spend 5 years on the programming.
Has anyone else seen the latest "masterpiece" in the X-men movie franchise? It was rubbish.
SPOILER!
Wade Wilson was great until he was Dead Pool. Dead Pool was one of my favorite Marvel characters of all time. They ruined him! He took powers from a bunch of mutants and then put then pooled (it was their pun, not mine) them into Wade Wilson. Also Saber Tooth is Wolverine's brother? The film ruined the whole Weapon X story. So many things upset me about that movie.
/SPOILER!
I also have low expectations for SOTC the movie.
how come Monsoon2D (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?action=profile;u=51) is sitting on -3 karma?
Now I'm a mod and I haven't got the least idea and the administration forum says nothing about this. What is up here?
junkboy I'd say Comical Machine Gun Joe for the Sega Master System / Mark III would be the closest older relative to Cabal proper.
(http://www.smspower.org/misc/comical_machine_gun_joe.gif)
I've not had much time to pixel (or do any art) on my free time, but some new challenge would be nice. Something quick and simple that can be expanded depending on your motivation. Full game mockups are a bit too much for me.Have you checked PJ new challenge ??? it's pretty cool :) even i might have enough time to make my something for it.
And no offense to any of our new members but I just feel a bit burnt out on people registering for help with one piece and never coming back.
Is it strange that I excel at edits but fail moreso when I try to create an original piece?
I'm getting emails from a scammer, I'm gonna play along and progressively get more and more bizarre and perverse.
It's pixel's birthday today!I thougth you were talking about your dog :P
http://tinyurl.com/happybirthdaypixel
Wish him happy birthdays
Have you checked PJ new challenge ??? it's pretty cool :) even i might have enough time to make my something for it.
I don't want to go to PJ, the light blue and bright green hurts my eyes. :ouch: Also, since comments like "lol I like it keep up the good work" are allowed, I'm having my share of that already on dA so no thanks.You know that you can change the themes?
huh! I totally misplaced that file and then deleted it! Well i just nudged the head 5 pixels to the right and 3-4 downwards.
Man I saw the new Star Trek yesterday. It was awesome. A bit thin on story, but an action packed thrill ride. A worthy restart of the series.
And probably already my favourite Star Trek movie.
Man I saw the new Star Trek yesterday. It was awesome. A bit thin on story, but an action packed thrill ride. A worthy restart of the series.
And probably already my favourite Star Trek movie.
I thought the whole point behind Star Trek was that it was more story driven and less action packed. It looks like it's trying to be a Star Wars movie.
Well, Scrubs has officially ended. (although there is a small chance there may be a crappy spinoff or something)
That was a great finale, around the fifth season it definitely started going downhill, but this last season has been so great that it's kinda sad because I would have enjoyed at least a few more episodes at this level.
So if you ever liked scrubs and gave up during season 5-7, you might want to check out this last season.
I absolutely love scrubs! it sucks that it ended :[
Although im pretty sure the Janitor just gave J. D another fake name in that episode, maybe not.
I had to hold back tears during the ending D:
They even reveal the Janitors name :o
I absolutely love scrubs! it sucks that it ended :[Naw, that was officially his name, the other doc calling him a different name seconds later was just proving his point that no one cares what his name is.
Although im pretty sure the Janitor just gave J. D another fake name in that episode, maybe not.
I had to hold back tears during the ending D:
Though kind of true, this franchise needed a reboot. And only a movie like this could've done it.
It's star trek only superficially. There's really nothing trek about it. Themes like difficulty of communication, exploration, understanding different life, seeing humanity in different perspectives.
Indeed. As if exploring deep space and going where no one has gone before wasn't exciting, dangerous and mysterious enough, so the screen writers feel a need to come up with the inevitable revengeful villains and their doomsday weapons.
Well to be fair, only two Star Trek movies have ever been about going to strange new worlds: The Final Frontier, and Insurrection.
I watched a big part of the new Star Trek movie as well. Absolute tripe that insults the intelligence of any viewer that cares to actively use it while watching it. Time-travel? Parallel realities? Conviniently placed Old Spocks? Irrationally irrational young spocks that maroon people at moment's notice? Ridiculous video clip pacing where no humanity can breathe? Absolutely no wonderment at the unknown, the distant unfathomable? Bleh. I don't understand all these reboots.
A bit harsh review, wouldn't you say? I saw it as a popcorn flick.
No one was bothered by the seemingly infinite transporter range? Kinda makes the enterprise obsolete.
Overall, I am very glad I saw it and not wolverine.
Overall, I am very glad I saw it and not wolverine.
Amazing false dichotomy there.
...It's a triumph of goodness and human spirit. Willpower and pure desire for a better life.
Huh? Atnas, what are you up to : D
I picked up a guitar once or twice. I always felt like it just wasn't meant for me. But recently, I've played some Rock Band. That is fun!
Huh? Atnas, what are you up to : D
Pixel art for a commercial project and a digital painting for my own indulgence at the same time. I get the principles of each media mixed up with the other sometimes c:
What are YOU up to? ' v '
Leaked footage of canceled Wayforward DS game (http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/alien-ds-cancelled-game/318772), looks like a slower paced contra with maybe a little horror to it.
From that footage, I think I would have bought it, sucks that it apparently got canned
I recently discover this link to one of the craziest Japanese snes games I have ever seen and thought people here would enjoy.
I would defiantly play if it was still around. Where do the Japanese get such ideas from and has anyone ever seen anything quite as bizarre as this before?
http://www.bogleech.com/snes-gourmet.html (http://www.bogleech.com/snes-gourmet.html)
love it! . . .
function gettilex(x,y,tilesize#)
`stretch the iso grid vertically x2 to create
`perfectly square tiles
y=y*2
`find the angle to rotate to
`(current angle -45 degrees)
theta#=atan(x/y)-45
if theta#<0
theta#=theta#+360
endif
`perform rotation. grid should now be straight
newx = cos(theta#)*x - sin(theta#)*y
newy = sin(theta#)*x + cos(theta#)*y
`get tile ordered pair from pixel position
tilex = int(newx/tilesize#)+1
tiley = int(newy/tilesize#)+1
`return tile
endfunction tilex
xx | xy |
yx | yy |
100% DOT action!
The rendering logic in these sprites is completely bollocksed
(http://i43.tinypic.com/2lsts08.png)I'm guessing you had it url tagged?
Whatever you do, don't click this image here.
So is this a riff off of Gish or what?Not at all, Gish is entirely physics based.
but curse you for using Musicshake. Use FL Studio and make original things. >:(Umm Srike, I didn't use anything to make any kind of music?
I can make music for you if you want. For free, call it a favor. Not that my music is in high demand at the moment. Just don't use MusicShake. !yus!
Mario Galaxy 2 looks sooo fun... I can't wait! Give me a reason to turn my Wii on other than Gamecube games, please!It's really hard to tell what's going on in the metroid trailer, at the moment it looked something like that disaster day of crisis game..
I haven't seen anything from the NSMB yet, but if it's co-op and as great as the original... definitely can't wait for that either. I'm hoping they add some REAL sort of multiplayer for Galaxy 2 as well, and not some cheesy pointer or something.
I'm skeptical about Team Ninja working on Metroid, and the trailer only made me feel more secure in that skepticism... :(
Did you guys already see this: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-the-secret/50151 (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-the-secret/50151)
It's a HD remix of Secret of Monkey Island for Xbox360 and.... ew....ew....ew.... I feel molested now. :( It could have been really good remix, if they'd done it for example Curse of Monkey Island style but this is just awful.
I almost cried out loud when I saw that. They took my whole childhood and raped it. :'(
I was very pleased to see you can swap between pixel and modern graphics at any time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdZCNWO7izE (towards the end)
New metroid feels like a slomo punch into the soul for me
Not because it looks awful but because it looks wrong for fandom reasons. Also because graphics look like plastic and that the 'pallette' and design is completely n64ishly flat and one-colored. None of the gritty organicness that I think of when I think of metroid.
They seem to strip away all the WHAT THE HELL-ness from the games and replacing it with otherstuffs. It's cool. It's something else. It's not what i wanted. Boohoo.
Umm Srike, I didn't use anything to make any kind of music?Oh. :D Either way, the song was made with MusicShake, the world's shittiest music program.
I don't know where you are getting this idea.
I used a song from Youtube's collection.
That's where the song for this video came from if you're wondering.
I accidentally un-installed my fruityloops or maybe I would have tried to make my own music.
The new Team Ico game looks AMAZING!!! Breathtaking, even.Whoa, link please?
Everything I've seen so far about L4D2 disappoints me. I honestly hope it's a two-month late April Fool's joke. Valve plays pranks, right?I agree. They're pushing out a sequel before they even expanded the first one(like they should have, because nearly everyon who bought it was expecting DLC because the game was so damn small). I just don't think it was time yet for a L4D2, as all of those changes could have easily been put into L4D.
The original L4D has a lot of bugs that need to be ironed out. Since it's release, they've only updated it with one truly new (but small) level. It was released with only 20 levels. I hope they continue to add updates (as they promised pre-release) despite the announcement of a sequel.
I've watched all the gameplay videos I could find for L4D2, and it looks like an elaborate re-skin. They've added new characters, weapons, and special enemy types... but it's still the same game. On top of that, nothing really says "horror" to me... broad daylight, goofy weapons.
I would've liked to see the sequel take the game to a new scale. Make it L8D, with 8 survivors and thousands of zombies. Make the maps an entire location, rather than glorified tunnels from point A to B. Instead of giving you more weapons to fight one zombie at a time, make the weapons more group-effective. Flamethrower, rocket launcher, etc.
These are the kinds of improvements that make a sequel.
I read that they added the Charger special infected to solve one of the flaws with the first game, people cornercamping and spamming melee throughout crescendos without anything being able to touch them.Actually they added a cool-down if you spam the melee too much. I believe it's after 3 melee's you have to wait a few seconds before you can melee again.
Well, thanks for including the fix for that in the game I didn't buy and haven't had a problem with yet because it's not out yet! Hey, how about making those fixes for the game that's already out? There's a lot of cool stuff that can be added to the experience to make it deeper. Yeah, like melee weapons, that's a good one. You can save those for the sequel. But please, if you have a fix for the biggest thing people are complaining about with the game, why not include it in the actual game people are complaining about? Are they seriously trying to force people to buy the sequel by not fixing a balance issue in the first game?
I read that they added the Charger special infected to solve one of the flaws with the first game, people cornercamping and spamming melee throughout crescendos without anything being able to touch them.
Well, thanks for including the fix for that in the game I didn't buy and haven't had a problem with yet because it's not out yet! Hey, how about making those fixes for the game that's already out? There's a lot of cool stuff that can be added to the experience to make it deeper. Yeah, like melee weapons, that's a good one. You can save those for the sequel. But please, if you have a fix for the biggest thing people are complaining about with the game, why not include it in the actual game people are complaining about? Are they seriously trying to force people to buy the sequel by not fixing a balance issue in the first game?
Oh also Super Mario Galaxy 2, why did the trailer not have real orchestral music? Too expensive? Very confusing. Feels like one of those disney movie sequels with horrible animation and no plot.They're basically calling Galaxy 2 an expansion pack aimed at the hardcore players that wanted more and for it to be harder, sounds good to me.
Nintendo feeling like horrible disney makes me worry. (they're probably gonna make a shitton of money if going in that direction, too! : D)
What a hairdo on Threepwood. YOU'RE... GORGEOUS! Seriously, somebody needs to let LucasArts know about this little thing called the DS. It has this pointer thing, and a screen. And another screen...Someone asked him ages ago if he planned on a new or old Monkey Island game coming out for DS and he said it wasn't possible on the DS.
how serious was this? I bought L4d at launch and it served me and my online friends well for many tens of hours. I think I got my money's worth, for ONCE buying a PC game... perhaps for the uber-elite that finish any map on the highest difficulty with just the pistols, the exploit was game-breaking.I think it's mainly a problem for those who play random matches. When you play with friends you're in a much more controlled environment because after all... they're friends. However, random matches yield many bug abusers and such that can really ruin matches. These sort of tactics were very widespread online.
Co-op games need friends, not randomers.
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/06/monkeyisland.jpg)
Normally I'm of the "pay for what's in the box" mentality, but Valve promised to offer bug and content updates for L4D, referencing the support they've given to TF2. I hope they don't consider the one tiny level they recently released to be a fulfillment of that promise, especially considering the extensive updates they've given to TF2. As long as they continue to fix bugs and maybe add a campaign for L4D, I don't care what they do with the sequel. Make it a "horror" game in broad daylight with frying pans and fiddle music for all I care... oh wait.Sadly, I don't see much reason for them to expand on the original after the sequel is released(or even prior), as it would be counter-productive.
Co-op games need friends, not randomers.
Quoted for emphasis!
HI JJNAAS I FIXED YOUR AVATAR
(http://www.locustleaves.com/noband.png)
Aw that's a bummer, I checked out some reviews for the A320, and the buttons sound good though.
It looks like it has the power for the emulators to run at full speed, they were just rush jobs, once the community comes out with a nice snes emu I'll be buying I think
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms2klX-puUU
Great animation. ;D
I'm 22, I'll check out the book if I can find it. I've been trying before to study anatomy and drawing it, but I believe I could benefit more from it if I knew more "basic techniques", sorta (Guess I'm a bit afraid of starting in the wrong place). So yeah, starting from the bottom and going up. I lurk alot and read all new threads and replies, so I'm familiar with that thread, it's a good one :)Cool, I'm the same age. I've had the same desire since last summer to really learn the basics, so I've kinda shelved the pixels and been concentrating on my pencils. The Loomis series is really great for that and I enjoy them a lot. If you aren't already checking it out, conceptart.org has a fantastic atmosphere for artists looking to improve. If you want to PM me your email I'll send you some links to art threads and articles I've found interesting. It's got some book recommendations as well.
http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html
Damnit, where's the :headexplode: smiley?
I'm 22, I'll check out the book if I can find it. I've been trying before to study anatomy and drawing it, but I believe I could benefit more from it if I knew more "basic techniques", sorta (Guess I'm a bit afraid of starting in the wrong place). So yeah, starting from the bottom and going up. I lurk alot and read all new threads and replies, so I'm familiar with that thread, it's a good one :)Cool, I'm the same age. I've had the same desire since last summer to really learn the basics, so I've kinda shelved the pixels and been concentrating on my pencils. The Loomis series is really great for that and I enjoy them a lot. If you aren't already checking it out, conceptart.org has a fantastic atmosphere for artists looking to improve. If you want to PM me your email I'll send you some links to art threads and articles I've found interesting. It's got some book recommendations as well.
HI JJNAAS I FIXED YOUR AVATAR
(http://www.locustleaves.com/noband.png)
That's awesome. The least I can do is return the favor:
(http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss178/jjnaas/helmkitty.png)
The first half of the sequel is much more read-able... there is an AMAZING fight in a new england forest. it devolves back into visual anarchy later on.
Megan Fox seems to sedated to even be that sexy. Most of the time she seems to be on horse tranquilizers.
Built inside the bags without opening them :B
Wheee
You shrewdly avoided massive piles of debt, STDs, and abominably crappy beer as well. Your loss.
I thought that was a submarine at first and was a little disappointed to realize it's actually a spaceship. But it still looks awesome!
This is what I've done after waking up:
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6519/builtinbag.png)
Built inside the bags without opening them :B
Wheee
I didn't know Quake 4 even existed. Was it done by Raven? I don't like their games.
I will now heroically contribute to this pertinent conversation. This is the solution we seek (http://www.maniacworld.com/AutoTune-the-Ninja-Terminator.html).
my life currently sucks.
my girlfriend of over a year and a half, who i loved dearly, cheated on me with three guys on the fourth of july.
(looks fantastic, Saimo!)Thanks, I'm glad you like it :)
my life currently sucks.
my girlfriend of over a year and a half, who i loved dearly, cheated on me with three guys on the fourth of july.
Saimo, I'm going to give your game a try when I get a chance. Might be a few weeks, but when I do I'll try and have some useful feedback for you.Thanks :)
Well, you do realize that a TV is just a monitor, right? It's pretty versatile since you can watch DVD's on it, play video games and when all else fails you can do this (http://i30.tinypic.com/65r68x.jpg).
Here’s the deal: Anti-Sec guys are apparently wholly against the idea of “full disclosure.” What’s that, you ask? According to the rogue group, it’s the security industry practice of making publicly available all security vulnerabilities in order to, as in the example above, enrich itself by selling yet more security software, firewalls, ad nauseum. But, so the gripe by Anti-Sec goes, by making public this security vulnerability information, “genuine” hackers can use it to further their malicious ways, thereby causing all us grief and to, well, buy more security and anti-virus software. It’d be like the United States government publishing top secret security vulnerabilities at nuclear power plants, thereby practically forcing us to buy their nuclear-proof spacesuits. That’s a far-fetched analogy, but you get the gist.
So the Anti-Sec Movement proposes – indeed, they promise -- to hack any and all such alleged perpetrators with its perceived impunity, ostensibly in order to stop the perps from “full disclosure.”
Has anyone else ever dreamed in pixels? I normally don’t, but the past few nights I’ve had some fairly lucid dreams of pixel art, including visions of a totally kickass shmup.I have :D
Its the people that matters rigth?
Has anyone else ever dreamed in pixels? I normally don’t, but the past few nights I’ve had some fairly lucid dreams of pixel art, including visions of a totally kickass shmup.
I was playing it vigorously in my head, and i remember waking up completely revitalized almost like it was the best sleep i've ever had - like i'd been doing mental exercise.
Yar. Each time I've had a pixel dream I feet quite invigorated and inspired afterwards. I need to draw the ideas out before they fade away, but it almost feels like cheating...as if I really didn't create the images and I'm stealing the idea from some one else.
"Exploding dolphin tits"Explodierende Delfintitten
I also met Ptoing in one, Despite being German he talked with a sligth finnish accent lolNow I am scared D:
Some cool C64 videos I found from a competition (http://lcp.c64.org/)
this was first place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLP-poYbfos
and this second: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1feN5Y9jMo
What's going on with pixeljoint? I thought it was just me.:y:
Been playing Psychonauts over the last week or so, the whole concept is just really cool, the milkman and lungfish stages were amazing. Definitely recommend it (only $10 on steam), though you better have a gamapad/ get it for console. I think I'll have to play more of Schafer's games, I've heard so much praise but I never played any before now.
:y:
Milkmand and lungfish and the Napoleon boardgame are definitely my favourite stages. So many amazing level designs and variety. Did you only hear about it recently or is something you've known for a while that you decided to take a chance on now that it's $10? And I agree on the gamepad.
Anybody ever give Vampire Bloodlines: The Masquerade a try? It's a FPS/RPG based on a boardgame property by WhiteWolf. It was made byTroika Studios, which was founded by some core members of the the RPG team at Interplay. That would be the guys who were making RPGS like Fallout. Vampire is a pretty solid effort, Great story, multiple characters and the dialog and in game opportunities are affected by your stats. If you feel like given it a shot, make sure to look for the fan made patch. Troika's games are kinda infamous for various bugs. I don't think it was entirely their fault, though, they were under a lot of financial pressure pretty much over the course of their existence. I even read an interview with Leonard Boyarsky(one of the founders), describing some pretty brutal crunch time he put in over most of their final two games that took him out of the game industry for a short period. And now he's on the design team for Diablo III :D
Los Angeles, Calif.-The Star has learned exclusively that the voice cast of Futurama has just signed a new contract with Fox after weeks of intense salary negotiations.Severely reduced pay for all! :)
As late as last week, the network was threatening to replace the original voices of Matt Groening's cult-hit cartoon, to the point of actually announcing a casting call for voice actors to replace them.
The compromise agreement, with the studio paying more and the actors accepting less, comes after the announcement of a 26-episode pick-up here by Comedy Central. Futurama also airs internationally in syndication, has produced four bestselling straight-to-DVD movies (later cut into episodes) and an upcoming feature film.
Reading MintPastille's post saying 'a book not specifically for pixel-art' leads me to wonder how a book dedicated to the basics and the advanced aspects of pixel art and digital graphics would turn out.As far as I know Ptoing has something of the kind (still) planned, I think this might've been mentioned once or twice on the forum here.
...and I live in the most Conservative part of Canada so my vote's a throwaway.
Hehe made a Helm bunny :hehe:Cute and satisfied! Just for future reference, though, the doodles thread (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=3973.0) might be a better choice for posting things of this nature.
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/7684/helmd.png (http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/7684/helmd.png)
Sometimes my pixel art is okay, sometimes it sucks really hard.You must perform more sacrifices.
Why ;-;
Unless I'm wrong about what Graphic Design entails, the only conclusion I can draw is that four other people didn't get a proper mention in the Minish Cap's credits. That's kinda bullshit.Similar thread going on at Polycount today. Pretty interesting, I'd never even thought about it before.
Hey, more people should come to #pixelation on irc.sorcery.net! [:
if those people have time
I still don't know where everyone learns what colours to use per limb and so forth when planning out animations.
Also ideally you could have messaged an admin to change the name on your old account to Carnivac. But does not really matter either :)
My Toshiba M200 Portege Tablet PC (aka ancient, refurbished laptop) just died. All within the space of about two minutes.
Started with 'delete' key not working, then spitting out '=' (key next to it), followed by random keys not working. Turned it off to clean the keyboard, back on and the screen won't come on at boot. Just beeps every second.
I'd been happily reading all these old art books off it and learning to draw, too - ideal opportunity while stuck here in rural Victoria with my fiancee for a few weeks. Looks like I'm being forced to focus on sketching skills & away from pixels - but I'm confused as to why the Powers That Be think I need forcing when that's what I'm doing anyway. o_O
It's quite a console type thing being a 2D arcadey platform game. Felt very japanese compared to other PC games of the time. I'd know it if I saw an image of it. The main character I seem to recall wore a fairly generic futuristic blue-ish metal armor suit (but I don't think he wore a helmet) and I think it was low resolution (part of why I liked it).
Abuse?
Traffic is already a dangerous hellhole when you're sticking to the rules
90s - 2001
Console type, 2d arcade platform
Japanese
fairly generic futuristic blue-ish metal armor suit (but I don't think he wore a helmet)
low resolution
'by the numbers' kind of game
Can anyone help me find the name of a game I used to enjoy on my friends PC back in the late 90's or 2000/2001? It's quite a console type thing being a 2D arcadey platform game. Felt very japanese compared to other PC games of the time. I'd know it if I saw an image of it. The main character I seem to recall wore a fairly generic futuristic blue-ish metal armor suit (but I don't think he wore a helmet) and I think it was low resolution (part of why I liked it).Halloween Harry has a blue helmet.
I was so going to say Megaman until I saw the helmet line. :P Remember anything about the enemies or the story or what sort of gameplay was involved?
Halloween Harry has a blue helmet.
Tempted to take a break from all the art study and learn to code a bit…
Learn C. All else is peripheral.
class Pixel
attr_accessor :color, :x, :y
def initialize(color, x, y)
@color = color
@x = x
@y = y
end
def draw
@color.draw(@x,@y)
end
end
Rule 6: Content tags/warnings.
If your piece is a work in progress add [WIP] in front of a title.
If it contains an element of nudity, excessive violence or such note that as well. Please use the format of "[element] Thread Title".
E.g. "[Nudity] Yus bird goes streaking!" !yus!
…Along the lines of no coding confidence, hated java at uni (10 years ago, though), found Ruby in RpgMakerXP vaguely comprehensible and realized could handle something a little better than that…
real programming like C++AFAICS languages like Python are both 'real' programming languages and scripting languages, since you can solve virtually any computational problem using them;
Programming, like art, is appealing in that you are basically the god of your own little domain. Given enough skill and experience, the only limitation to what you create is your imagination.
Ruby definitely looks simpler and a bit more intuitive (like maybe you really could be happy writing in it), but Python looks like it might not be too much harder.
I never said they weren't? The comparison of 'real' was to scripting languages that I'm familiar with.Quotereal programming like C++AFAICS languages like Python are both 'real' programming languages and scripting languages, since you can solve virtually any computational problem using them;
With any moderately complex problem domain you're trying to model, the development and usage bottleneck tends to be your own limited understanding of the domain rather than the unoptimized nature of your algorithm. IME switching to a 'low-level' language like C++ or C allows you to gain some speed at the cost of spending additional time negotiating the primitiveness of the language.
Looking at the examples provided for PHP, Ruby and Python, I find that the PHP example is humanly readable and makes sense. I could read that out loud to a kid and he'd have some sense of what I'm talking about.I think I should point out -- you don't read out German to an English speaker and judge the sensibility of the Germanic language
Ruby and Python's OO structures make no sense whatsoever. They both have massive advantages over PHP in most areas, but not readability imo. Besides that the synthax of Python always seemed so out of nowhere to me. It's counter intuitive.Yeah.. personally, Python/Lua's* OO is the only kind that does make sense to me -- although Smalltalk sounds interesting, I've never actually tried it. C++'s OO is some kind of cthuloid abomination (FYI: I learnt C++ before Python)
I guess it's to each his or her own? :)
If you write a complex codebase in Java, and hand it over to another team, they will easily be able to understand and reuse this codebase (provided you stick to analytic object oriented design, which is a given in Java). If a complex codebase in Python is handed over, things will not always go as smoothly, as the complexity of the language features and synthax tend to obfuscate algorithms, decrease readabilty, etc.
Personally, I think that what you define as "biting" is just something novice programmers go through, not something that applies to trained professionals who know the difference between memory managed by reference types and dereferenced pointer types (example).that terminology was taken from commentary by a professional programmer, who said there were some languages, where you've been using them intensively for years and they *still* give you nasty surprises, and other languages that generally don't. He attributed this to the relative complexity of the offending languages (more precisely, the degree that they fail to be internally consistent and therefore predictable.)
It's all about speed of development really. All languages discussed are mature, potent languages with certain disadvantages and advantages. Simplicity and readability have always been a trophy reserved for C style synthax (C, Java, PHP, C#, etc). Feature set and depth of capabilities traditionally belong to Python style languages (Python, Ruby, others).C style simple? Perhaps.
The result is that you'll see that the more rigid the project and the more people working on it, the faster companies will go for Java, C++ or C#. Python and Ruby are languages most often used by smaller groups of people looking for a rapid deployment of complex (web) behavior. At least, that's how I feel the business works right now.I can believe that.
If you write a complex codebase in Java, and hand it over to another team, they will easily be able to understand and reuse this codebase (provided you stick to analytic object oriented design, which is a given in Java). If a complex codebase in Python is handed over, things will not always go as smoothly, as the complexity of the language features and synthax tend to obfuscate algorithms, decrease readabilty, etc.I find it difficult to imagine any knowledgable programmer taking the above claim seriously, although obviously you do.
In professional software land, language is not really an issue when talking about one man teams. Choose whatever works best for you. When talking about big teams cooperating (a plethora of programmers working on a codebase over a span of years), you'll see language, platforms, API's becoming very important. The language chosen will depend on the workflow of development of a whole company, which is about complex analys, money, time, personalities, available training to staff, etc.Well, I agree with that, surely.
Personally, I think that what you define as "biting" is just something novice programmers go through, not something that applies to trained professionals who know the difference between memory managed by reference types and dereferenced pointer types (example)
I've never heard of a first kiss going down flawlessly. They've always been mini-disaster stories.
my first goat was very receptivehahaha, that doesnt sound too different from MY first kiss! I was into being dramatic and punishing myself at the time
Bleh, my tooth is killing me! Well, might not even be my tooth. Just the whole side of my face is pulsing pain, especially at the 'hinge' of my jaw.
Ya I've been to the dentist before and ended up having an infection... though this doesn't feel anything like that toothache. I swear it feels like my jaw is dislocated or something. Definitely going to see a dentist soon if this doesn't clear up, it's unbearable.Bleh, my tooth is killing me! Well, might not even be my tooth. Just the whole side of my face is pulsing pain, especially at the 'hinge' of my jaw.
Dude, see a dentist. In the worst case this can be a tooth infection which spread to the bone of your jaw. I had something similar last year, where I had a hole in my tooth for ages which was not visible from because it was between the molars where the view is blocked. Result was partial jaw infection and the tooth being dead.
If I had not gone to the doc it could have ended really bad. Tho at some point I got a really high fever because of the infection. But yeh, go to a dentist, play it safe.
Nah, I get migraines and it's nothing like this. I realized though at night even while I'm awake I clamp ridiculously hard... getting a mouth piece tomorrow, heh.
I clench my jaw very tight at night and wake up with sore pain
yeah I feel the same way about the pooping and the massive penis raping, but the pixel art was neat
ダンスの女の子! :y:
I know most of you guys might not be into fps stuff but holy shit I need this thing like NOW! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YOIiAws2Tw&feature=related)
I know most of you guys might not be into fps stuff but holy shit I need this thing like NOW! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YOIiAws2Tw&feature=related)
I see you understand why I need one of those things then.I know most of you guys might not be into fps stuff but holy shit I need this thing like NOW! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YOIiAws2Tw&feature=related)
I could see some interesting [mis?]use in some of those Japanese sim games. Nipple Twist Simulator EXTREME Edition?
in case anyones interested I put up some new shots of one of my two main retro pixel game projects I been doing. This one being level 1 of a game called 'Hero - Celestial Force' which started off as a fan game of the game 'Hero' by my friend Ultimortal (who also created the popular 'Iji') before it sorta grew with more colors (though I am only using colors from a modified NES palette) and slightly larger sprites and 8 way shooting and stuff. And it was only meant to be a 2 week project I began almost 3 years ago to the day. Am very slow.
http://amon-devilman.deviantart.com/art/Hero-CF-221109-144395853 (http://amon-devilman.deviantart.com/art/Hero-CF-221109-144395853)
I could see some interesting [mis?]use in some of those Japanese sim games. Nipple Twist Simulator EXTREME Edition?No one would ever missuse one of these! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfrMalBiXuY)
in case anyones interested I put up some new shots of one of my two main retro pixel game projects I been doing. This one being level 1 of a game called 'Hero - Celestial Force' which started off as a fan game of the game 'Hero' by my friend Ultimortal (who also created the popular 'Iji') before it sorta grew with more colors (though I am only using colors from a modified NES palette) and slightly larger sprites and 8 way shooting and stuff. And it was only meant to be a 2 week project I began almost 3 years ago to the day. Am very slow.Any builds of this beauty floating around anywhere yet?
http://amon-devilman.deviantart.com/art/Hero-CF-221109-144395853 (http://amon-devilman.deviantart.com/art/Hero-CF-221109-144395853)
Any builds of this beauty floating around anywhere yet?
At times it's not a fun game to play and at other times it demands that you put it down for a duration, I feel both are warranted emotions given what the game's about.
In opera it just has a dark background.
AUUUGH IT TRICKED ME. Firefox's update box opened up right as I clicked on a link and I no longer have Firefox 2 :'( What the fuck. The default font is different from what it was before and a bunch of websites end up loading indefinitely! ANGER >:( Anyone know what the default font for Firefox 2 was?That happend to me too a while back, I ended up reinstalling ff2...
La Pucelle Tactics' mythology is awesome too. Japanese pop versions of medieval Christian stuff :3
La Pucelle is Joan of Arc's nickname if I recall correctly
the game would've been far better off without any of the action minigames
Well, "la pucelle" means "a virgin". ::)
I know, but my knowledge of French (I live in a french-speaking country) is better than my knowledge of poor Joan :)
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/markusrosse/junk/yus_maker_logo.png)
!yus!
Over the course of the past two months I learned that our company might be bought out by Zynga, flew out to San Francisco for an interview by Zynga, learned that we were indeed being bought out by Zynga, and then subsequently left behind what was my life in Wisconsin in order to start anew in California. Surprisingly, it doesn't seem much has changed. I've got a few friends who moved out here from Wisco a while back, and the team that I've been working with over the past three or four years all moved out here, too. So now, I'm basically doing the exact same thing that I was before, just in a new area, and from an actual office instead of my house.Heh, my cousin works at Zynga. Good luck and congrats!
Two things.
1) If there's anybody in the San Francisco area that likes meeting awesome new people, let me know, as I'm down to make more friends.
2) If there are any flash developers looking for a really great place to work, Zynga is aggressively hiring and offers some amazing benefits to boot.
Weird. My vision had gotten really blurry and i got my eyes checked. Now i can pixel again with my new glasses, and surprisingly the reason for a big problem of mine was found in the process.Damn, I'm sorry for you man.
Before i saw everything skewed and warped a little bit so i had a problem with symmetry. Now it's fixed, but warped had become normal to me, so now normal seems so wrong, i can't even hold my balance properly.
Also now i realize why i got so many comments at work about lack of AA or too heavy lines.......
Guys MSpaint just disappeared from my computer. Anywhere I can download it? XP or Vista paint is fine.
If I wanted Graphicsgale, I'd would of asked for graphicsgale! But thanks anyway!Guys MSpaint just disappeared from my computer. Anywhere I can download it? XP or Vista paint is fine.
Here you are. (http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/setgalefreeus.exe)
>...>
Am i the only one who thinks e-readers aren't that amazing technology wise? I thought we were well ahead of B&W screens. Everyone thinks they're the shiznit though. odd.
Over the course of the past two months I learned that our company might be bought out by Zynga, flew out to San Francisco for an interview by Zynga, learned that we were indeed being bought out by Zynga, and then subsequently left behind what was my life in Wisconsin in order to start anew in California. Surprisingly, it doesn't seem much has changed. I've got a few friends who moved out here from Wisco a while back, and the team that I've been working with over the past three or four years all moved out here, too. So now, I'm basically doing the exact same thing that I was before, just in a new area, and from an actual office instead of my house.
Two things.
1) If there's anybody in the San Francisco area that likes meeting awesome new people, let me know, as I'm down to make more friends.
2) If there are any flash developers looking for a really great place to work, Zynga is aggressively hiring and offers some amazing benefits to boot.
I also felt it did a great job of presenting two alternate ways of looking at the Gaia belief - one of science, and one from an indigenous religious perspective.
I am wondering if someone knows how to change the paint program in windows 7 to windows xp paint program D: I just hate the new one.
Well, tried that but when I try to save it gives me this error:I am wondering if someone knows how to change the paint program in windows 7 to windows xp paint program D: I just hate the new one.
I just copied the program file from my old computer. You might be able to download it online.
I'm probably going to get bashed, but why go through trouble to get Paint on a computer? Use something decent instead?I understand :P, I use paint and graphic gale, paint for the sketches and final touches and graphic gale for the animations and color adjustment... still! I prefer paint it is waay too easy to use compared with other programs. Again if someone knows how to fix that error it would be really appreciated :D
You can get Paint.NET, or search 'MS Paint xp' on google and find download links.I'd be cautious, that might be a good way to find some viruses. I'd much suggest dropping it from another computer or asking a friend online to send it to you.
k done that. and finally I am able to save :D ty alot.You can get Paint.NET, or search 'MS Paint xp' on google and find download links.I'd be cautious, that might be a good way to find some viruses. I'd much suggest dropping it from another computer or asking a friend online to send it to you.
Happy new year guys.
I got a question about ProMotion 5, not worth making a topic for though.
How do you select something? Seriously. Am I just a morron for not having figured out how to do this, or does ProMotion not have a selection box?
(It seems so illogical that it doesn't have one. Seeing as it's a proffesional program, and even Paint has this basic option)
That mustache makes you look like there is a girl tied in your basementLOL! :lol:
I've been tempted to buy a 360 but aren't they pretty much guaranteed to get red ring of death after a couple years?
I've been tempted to buy a 360 but aren't they pretty much guaranteed to get red ring of death after a couple years?Just get one. I've never gotten the RRoD and I've had mines for a little over a year. And if you do, they have an extended 3-year warranty for it. Just try to keep it well ventilated and cool(overheating warps the board and causes the RRoD).
One of the many reason of why I stopped watching pixel art on DeviantArt:
Kiss the Girl (http://spideyzgirl.deviantart.com/art/Kiss-the-Girl-149858773)
don't let that stop you, I've had about five since I got mine (pretty much when it came out) and I've never had to pay anything for it, they've fixed it up and given me a month free xbox live every time.
Speaking of things breaking, Wii no longer reads discs. Being sent in for repairs. :ouch: Ohh the irony.
I've been concerned with my Wii doing that. Currently when I turn it on it sounds like a 747 taking off. Some times makes me worry that my discs are going to come out mangled.
Wow, new Firefox 'Whats New?' page sucks now. Used to be so simple, with a single link to see in detail all the things added and fixed.
EDIT: If someone is not comfortable with the new tab behaviour (they open next to the active one, not at the end), change in about:config, tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent to false.HAHA. I was JUST looking through about:config for that. The new tab feature is so annoying and them not including an option in the... what, 5 or so checkboxes in options is pretty lazy. Thanks for that.
I had an Add-On that would do that, but is not yet updated to 3.6.
img[src$=".gif"] { image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; -ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor; }
img[src$=".png"] { image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; -ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor; }
img[src$=".GIF"] { image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; -ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor; }
img[src$=".PNG"] { image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; -ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor; }
I posted about that on pixel joint a short while ago.Quoteimg[src$=".gif"] { image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; -ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor; }
img[src$=".png"] { image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; -ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor; }
This doesn't work. To see why, look at this image, which is a PNG:
(http://filebox.me/files/tuh0tcbrf_new_project.PNG)
Temporary fix, add these lines:Code: [Select]img[src$=".GIF"] { image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; -ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor; }
img[src$=".PNG"] { image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; -ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor; }
I'm sure there's a better way, but I can't be bothered to find out :)
Is there a narrative?
I am wondering if someone knows how to change the paint program in windows 7 to windows xp paint program D: I just hate the new one.Same thing here, but I miss my old Windows Vista non-AA'ed brush sizes.. :yell:
Forgot to say im an epic Ms Paint mindless fanboy. :y:
In reality, I'd prefer any program having the "hold the left/right mouse button and while at it, instant undo by pressing the opposite one" feature, as well as the dual mouse button painting commands.
Other programs might have the fanciest of features, but if they lack the two I mentioned above, then I simply consider them obsolete. After all, everything I need to pixel is a good ol' brush and a trusty zoom.
But the problem remains unsolved -can I get my Vista back? :'(
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-get-the-good-old-ms-paint-without-ribbons-working-in-windows-7/
First result on Google for "get old mspaint on windows 7."
:(
Why don't I get to have awesome dreams?
:(]
Why don't I get to have awesome dreams?
. . . Also Mathias, we only dream during REM sleep.
. . .When I woke up, I had a vivid memory of this dream:
I'm sure Ruby also has options if you look for themGosu! (http://www.libgosu.org/) <3
But really, what can I say aside from that they both feel swell to work with and pretty accurate too - compared to my previous horrible experiences with the graphire I must say I dig the current Wacom tablets!
Cats can make you go crazy.I got that from a blog and I LOVED it...haha way to crap on the face of everyone who thinks they know everything
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=2288095&page=1
Keep going, little starship :)
I like your new avatar, EyeCraft!
Actually, I always like your avatars.
REALLY EPIC SCREENSHOT HERE
Whuuuu <3 <3 <3
http://spelunkyworld.com/xbla.html
http://www.swordandsworcery.com/project/It looks okay, too bad it looks like the most boring thing ever created. An adventure game with no depth or much purpose, might as well watch a movie. Honestly when do you DO SOMETHING? I don't mean to be so blunt but seriously.
or has someone posted this already? >_<
http://www.swordandsworcery.com/project/It looks okay, too bad it looks like the most boring thing ever created. An adventure game with no depth or much purpose, might as well watch a movie. Honestly when do you DO SOMETHING? I don't mean to be so blunt but seriously.
or has someone posted this already? >_<
I hope they ditch the boss health meter. Kinda kills the moment for me. The boss's shield pounding/taunt just doesn't work for me, when I can clearly see how vulnerable it is because of the healthbar.
Are you implying I'm somehow more ignorant just because of this hunch? That I'm less of what you perceive as a gamer in your mind?
Games ARE gameplay, believe it or not
The main component a game needs though is good, core gameplay and obviously story, graphics, sounds, etc. can help to compliment that, at the end of the day you still need interactivity to make it a video game.
I rather play a game with no gameplay than one with bad gameplay.Not to be argumentative, but I think this statement is logically impossible. In order to be able to actually play a game, it must have some form of gameplay.
Not to be argumentative, but I think this statement is logically impossible. In order to be able to actually play a game, it must have some form of gameplay.
http://insomnia.ac/commentary/gameplay/What he says is nothing new. This is the main problem, I quote:
Besides, it seems that different people have different ideas of what gameplay is supposed to mean; there is nothing like a widely accepted definitionwhich actually happens with a LOT of words. For example: art, love, etc.
No I am implying that you're reproducing canned points on the 'art games versus gameplay games' argument that's been going on on the internet for a while now most of which (from either side) do not stand up to serious inspection, and for what? Just to have an argument?There is no art games vs gameplay games argument, a game is a game, you just should recognize that the gameplay is the most important part of it, without any interactivity, it does not make it a game, therefore it is the essential component to making it a video game. Not to imply graphics, sounds/music, story are all important, but without gameplay, its just a movie, not to say story cannot DRIVE the game but ultimately without interactivity it isn't a game.
statements like this 'games are what I say whether you believe it or not' are my problem with this debate. Gameplay is a nebulous term, I'm not sure what it is, I'm not sure what you think it is. Interactive systems predate games, and games are informed by interactive structures quite outside of the concept of 'fun' which is also highly subjective. I played a text adventure a long time ago named 'A Mind Forever Voyaging'. My reflexes were not challenged. There weren't many clever puzzles. I did not have fun. But it was a deeply impactful and sometimes shocking experience and I remember this game 10 years later. I don't remember very many Treasure games as fondly although they were fun to play.You had interactivity with the story, you could change things or perhaps, attempt to meet the demands of your goal, either way without interactivity you would have just been reading a book. Also, as for you implying 'games are what I say whether you believe it or not', this is my interpretation of what a game is, I shouldn't have to state its my interpretation at all, we're not arguing whether the sky is blue or not, its much more complex and varies from person to person. Thinking about this, you seem to act as if I'm an ignorant individual for my own views, as if I've completely dismissed this game to the side, where I was just saying I was skeptical and didn't look like much going on, obviously I sounded more hostile so I apologize for that.
A potent piece of art is more than the sum of its parts. This approach to prioritizing 'content' in game design belongs to AAA studios working for the man.I'm not saying ADD EXTRA GUNS = MAKES IT BETTER, no I mean, good core gameplay elements, which by the way the general gaming community prefers, seems like most of the community feels the best games have not only the best story/graphics/among other things but ultimately, their simplicity in all those things with gameplay coming first, i.e. Megaman 2, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Contra, Pac-Man, Tetris, Super Metroid. But obviously, whatever it may be, the story and gameplay can go hand in hand but its not a game without gameplay (i.e. interactivity, being able to change certain elements within a limited amount of options), as stated many times previously.
I'm not saying ADD EXTRA GUNS = MAKES IT BETTER, no I mean, good core gameplay elements, which by the way the general gaming community prefers, seems like most of the community feels the best games have not only the best story/graphics/among other things but ultimately, their simplicity in all those things with gameplay coming first, i.e. Megaman 2, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Contra, Pac-Man, Tetris, Super Metroid.
In other news.... (?)
Does anybody know a good software/image/web/something for calibrating the screen colours/brightness/contrast/gamma?
Sometimes I don't know if I'm the one with the dark monitor or is the other that has too much gamma.
http://community.livejournal.com/bleachness/446299.html
:lol: :n:
http://community.livejournal.com/bleachness/446299.html
:lol: :n:
He starts ripping from Bleach fanart, and it just becomes mindblowingly rediculous.
"My inspirations reflect the fact that certain fundamental imagery is common to all Manga" - All manga meaning Bleach.
to be honest I don't think much of it is tracing, just copying. Is that less bad?
To be able to overlay the images of completely different works and have the lines fit together perfectly is also something common to all Manga. ALL OF IT!
http://boingboing.net/features/morerock.html
check this out bengoshia. About superbrothers swords and sorcery game being 'light' or empty.
http://boingboing.net/features/morerock.htmlMore like not my cup of tea, don't care for hipster art games that think they're deep and all I do is watch David Lynch films and listen to post-rock music, ironic eh? Hey if you're into that crap go for it brother, but I'm gonna stick to Ico Team, Naughty Dog, Treasure, Platinum Games, Grasshopper, Kojima Productions, etc. Also whats with this article? BAWWW TALKING IN GAMES/CUTSCENES IS SO EVIL IT NEEDS TO ALL BE HOW I WANT IT TO BE OR ELSE ITS DUMB. Thats why Uncharted 2 and MGS3 do it so successfully right? How can it HURT the experience? Sure sometimes it can but if done correctly it does not. Well so much for being open-minded, he sure seems fairly ignorant, acting as if there needs to be one way to do things, using another man's words to twist into his own poorly thought-out opinion.
check this out bengoshia. About superbrothers swords and sorcery game being 'light' or empty.
More like not my cup of tea, don't care for hipster art games that think they're deep and all I do is watch David Lynch films and listen to post-rock music, ironic eh?
BAWWW TALKING IN GAMES/CUTSCENES IS SO EVIL IT NEEDS TO ALL BE HOW I WANT IT TO BE OR ELSE ITS DUMB. Thats why Uncharted 2 and MGS3 do it so successfully right? How can it HURT the experience? Sure sometimes it can but if done correctly it does not. Well so much for being open-minded, he sure seems fairly ignorant, acting as if there needs to be one way to do things, using another man's words to twist into his own poorly thought-out opinion.
If other people enjoy it thats cool with me but as for me, I see not much point in it, look different doesn't make it better, it just makes it stick out more and not always in a good way either.
John K rants all day about animation but is a poor animator himself,Okay, now you're just a troll.
QuoteJohn K rants all day about animation but is a poor animator himself,Okay, now you're just a troll.
http://boingboing.net/features/morerock.html
check this out bengoshia. About superbrothers swords and sorcery game being 'light' or empty.
I don't understand why if you are being fed up with a conversation your reflex is to be dismissive and appear simple-minded. If you don't want to talk about something, then... don't. Post about something else, cool off, do some art, whatever. I never meant to get you riled up by returning to the subject, I just thought you might enjoy reading the dude's rant that was/is very relative to what we were talking about.Well man I guess this forum just doesn't get my point of view, I feel like I'm going to have to completely break down WHY the video game is bad. Look I tell you what, I will watch the videos and come back to you later with WHY exactly this game is nothing special. I mean sure others can like it but I'm going to show you why I don't.
Keep in mind that the time people spend on the internet talking with you is time they could spend doing other things too. It's a courtesy when someone engages with you on a subject in a civil manner and is interested in what you have to say. If you become irritated by difference of opinion to the point where you just shoot off whatever you have in mind no matter how confrontational or poorly considered it is, you're basically insulting the other person by wasting their time and giving them negative vibes in return for their good faith. And that happens a lot in life, no biggie, just keep in mind that if you do this to me (can't talk about anyone else) once, twice, three times then I will just not bother asking you about your opinion on anything anymore. So if you don't feel like articulating and carrying on a dialogue, then, don't. That this is a public forum shouldn't mean you should feel the need to reply to everything people tell you or else 'you lose' or anything. The person to have the last word doesn't win, he's just the one that has most time to waste sometimes :)
Art doesn't matter.
[...]
Amateurish "programmer art" can be compensated for by brilliant gameplay.
What if all of the representational images were replaced by rectangles - the protagonist is a fuschia rectangular hitbox fighting chartreuse rectangular hitboxes on a teal backdrop, accompanied by dead silence (sound has sort-of gotten the shaft in this discusison). Would the gameplay really be sufficient to keep you immersed?
funny enough, my dad was addicted to this game as well while I was growing up. I remember him playing it every day - the high score list flooded with his nameWOW The exact same with my dad! :o
**EDIT - wait, does this mean I agree with Gil!?!?
God that's entirely too much work so my dad can play Apeiron!Yeap. I thought the same when I couldn't find a Windows version for a Tron game I had on Linux.
I could and shall open a thread, but I'm afraid that threads in general discussion don't tend to "pick up steam" as far as collaboration on art goes. Am I allowed to create an open collaboration art topic like this in the pixel art forum?
Here's a neat 3D pixel music video I found that I thought was kind of cool. :o
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcv6dv_pixels-by-patrick-jean_music?start=6
Hay guys....I havent had to calibrate my monitor in a good while, but I have to calibrate my monitor and I cant seem to find the old calibration option in my control panel, which if I remember right is installed with photoshop...anybody know what's a current day free option to calibrate it?Indeed, Photoshop used to come installed with a calibration in your Control Panel... but it looks like newer versions don't(at least I don't see it with my CS3). If you have a graphics card, most of the time the drivers will come with a custom graphics control panel. Usually they will have a calibration setting.
Henk will always be number 1 game pixel artist for me.
Gil, all three of your statements could withstand a lot of argumentation. I don't have the mental fortitude for it though, just letting you know that it's both not like that and somewhat like that at the same time.
Gil needs another L in his name, then no one can disagree with him. Or it'll just make him cooler, like me. Which is the same as being infallible. :P
Helm: I detect... FEELINGS about this situation in your posts (which I guess makes sense, since it's where you live and all), so I'm a little surprised you aren't motivated to say more about it.
Aquaria was made by a Pixelation old-timer Dusty, you have to play it.Hmm, was it? Who was it made by?
Derek Yu.Aquaria was made by a Pixelation old-timer Dusty, you have to play it.Hmm, was it? Who was it made by?
Hmm, I have a paypal with like $3 or so on it, guess I'll donate that. I'd donate more but I don't really have the means or the money to. I've never played any of the games, but I've heard of World of Goo.
Ronnie James Dio has passed away :(
:(
Does anyone know if he was still making art? It seems like he stopped during the 90s...
I haven't played much games for almost a year, now I finally got seriously hooked on a game Desktop Dungeons (http://www.nag.co.za/forums/showthread.php?t=13014). Nice graphs by Derek Yu and all.
Where can one see your latest Habbo pixels? Or any.
Very cool light table mathias!
. . .
EDIT: I'm wondering.. is this a sort of product that other artists would be interested in, or just me?
DIAGONAL PIXELS!!!!
...Would those images with AA still be viewed at a multiple zoom?
The output image matches the resolution of the input image, so whatever zoom was originally correct is correct for the output. (though I've also successfully combined this with eg Scale3x by adjusting a few parameters like Amplitude proportionately. GMIC implements Scale2/3x too, so it's easy)...Would those images with AA still be viewed at a multiple zoom?
Didn't anyone read the article?
"Despite coming out after the Atari 2600, the Cassette Vision is arguably less powerful, busting out a palette of only 8 colors and a killer resolution of 54×62 pixels. One odd quirk of the hardware is that these pixels could optionally be displayed in the form of right triangles — “half pixels,” as it were — and that’s why you see oddly smooth diagonals in the above video."
So I was doing my usual periodic poke at the problem of automatic, respectful AAing of pixel art,
And recently began to understand how GMIC's 'anisotropic smoothing' function works. (gmic: http://gmic.sourceforge.net/)
. . .
Why..? There are precompiled Windows binaries. (http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp.shtml). Although you might get better speed by compiling your own, when running a 64bit OS.So I was doing my usual periodic poke at the problem of automatic, respectful AAing of pixel art,
And recently began to understand how GMIC's 'anisotropic smoothing' function works. (gmic: http://gmic.sourceforge.net/)
. . .
Very exciting stuff, AI! I'm trying to get a coder friend to compile it for me so I can try it out.
It's a shame that people of great talent, capable of engaging emotional games, have been tamed to work on social-circle-wankery...
It's a shame that people of great talent, capable of engaging emotional games, have been tamed to work on social-circle-wankery...
Hear, hear.
It's a shame that people of great talent, capable of engaging emotional games, have been tamed to work on social-circle-wankery...
Hear, hear.
I had almost stopped lamenting the fact and now I'm back feeling sad about it all D:
I'm a living example of this. As is Junkboy. As is Huzba.
Fffuuuu
Ai, just wanted to say I admire your AA research!Did you just apply it on your avatar, or was it already like that ? heh.
I only hope the results won't be so good to tempt lazy pixellers :crazy: (just kidding, of course)
Squares was the logical thing to do,” Kirsch says. “Of course, the logical thing was not the only possibility … but we used squares. It was something very foolish that everyone in the world has been suffering from ever since.
I like my pixels.
mmm squarejerk
Kinda sounds like how I felt when playing Elder Scrolls 4. Lots of quests and such to make use of your time, but I found the world mythology incredibly boring and generic.
Helm Distributing
Helm Distributing Inc is a private company categorized under Snack Foods and located in Dayton, OH. Our records show it was established in 1967* and incorporated in Ohio*. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $2.5 to 5 million and employs a staff of approximately 20 to 49.
http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5This is epic.
Browsing the web brought me to the fact that used, older model PDAs can be bought for cheap ($30-50). Typically 320x320 screen resolution and 16 bit color. Battery life of several (6-8) hours, and they can be plugged in the wall. Would this be useful as a portable pixelling tool, or an alternative to an expensive tablet? Anyone try making pixel art with these things?
Tourist
What? How did you manage to merge that topic with this? D:
Anyways does anyone know of a good tablet for drawing?
I was thinking about getting Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch but I'm not sure if I should just go for a Wacom Intuos instead.
Seem's like Jad's "FLAME OF GAME DEVELOPING" sparked something in the back of my head last month and evolved into an idea that just now made me quit my current job, after 4 years. ;D
Something good will come out of this, I'm sure. Otherwise, damn you Jad.
YES!Seem's like Jad's "FLAME OF GAME DEVELOPING" sparked something in the back of my head last month and evolved into an idea that just now made me quit my current job, after 4 years. ;D
Something good will come out of this, I'm sure. Otherwise, damn you Jad.
WHY ARE YOU PUTTING ALL THIS RESPONSIBILITY ONTO ME
IT'S THE UNDELIVERED SECRET SANTA ISN'T IT!?
No I'm kidding. I'm headed to a new place for work with great awesome super people. Also there's some personal game projects underway that might kickstart something great and so forth.
It's all looking mighty good, so no worries ;D
My Mom's taken an interest in my work ever since I've started paying rent. She walked in today while I was working and asked if I could make half squares, like triangles. I said no and then she asked if I could make circles. I explained the nature of displays to her and showed her a zoomed in photo, then made a line and smoothed it.Functionally you can make half-squares IMO.
"Couldn't they get a computer to do what you're doing?":D
i told her i was a computer that could draw.
I should get round to writing Skynet:o
http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked
I have a pro motion question for anybody out there. When I loop the animation, in the animation window the frames go ridiculously fast- even though the delay is only 4 frames a second on all frames. if any one could help that would be greatly appreciated ! It's currently bugging the hell out of me and made me lose all motivation to animate since I suck at it anyway - _ -
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/disney-remixes-old-cartoons-into-blam.html
this cannot exist
I for one found the BLAM! videos hilariously enjoyable, but I have been watching way too much Tim & Eric, which has probably destroyed most of my higher level reasoning. I'm guessing (hoping) the whole X-treme approach is some sort of meta-joke that will go over kids heads, but most adults will catch.
Thank you helm. You caused me to find this:Thank you Mathias. You caused me to get that song stuck in my head. !yus!
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/brewtv/tinyhats.html
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/disney-remixes-old-cartoons-into-blam.htmlWho thought this would be a good idea?
this cannot exist
Gogo crappy review, I would say.Sorry, I meant Atari, heh.
Also, Amiga art was im many cases not that blocky. Pal Amiga even had a higher resolution than DOS (320x256 in lores mode).
Well pixels kinda ARE, you know, blocks.
Sure, if I take my glasses off they turn into blurry kind of circle thingies.Well pixels kinda ARE, you know, blocks.
The degree of perceived blockiness can vary greatly tho.
As soon as you scale it upSorry, I see nothing "blocky" about that in that resolution except the title screen. Sure, if you want to be picky and look reaaaaaaally close you can see the pixels, but that's true for everything you see on the average resolution screens.
http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/
you see blocks.
There's no point in judging someone because they call pixel art blocky because, by nature, it gets scaled up on larger screens.
And then there are blocks. Unless there's some terrible bilinear filtering going on but that is besides the point.
You just don't like the word "blocky".Everything on the screen consists of pixels. Does that mean a 3D games graphics are blocky? It all comes down to what you see overall, and when I look at Canabalt I don't see the individual pixels as blocks. I see an overall image that is appealing and smooth.
It sounds so.. unrefined, rough, unaesthetic. It's not pretty.
How dare someone insult your precious craft with such an ugly word?
Now swallow your pride and see how that guy in the review didn't even mean it in a negative way.
Also pixels ARE blocks. Low resolutions on hi-res screens can be described as "blocky".
I've stared at them long enough to positively identify them as rectangles.
There is no discussion.
Also, "there is no discussion" comes off a bit arrogant.What exactly is there to discuss?
I'm not offended by it, my pride is not hurt--I was just surprised at the seemingly ignorance of the term and how a game reviewer for a magazine could seem out of touch with pixels. Perhaps bringing to realization pixels not getting the love they once used to. I thought it was good feed for topic but you seem to have blown it out of proportion. Did the reviewer mean ill? Maybe, maybe not. However I was not addressing the yay or nay of the review, but, in my opinion, the lack of knowledge of pixels.Eh, imo you're just being picky about semantics here.
I just don't believe that because a pixel is a "block" that it means pixel-art is inheretly blocky. All computer graphics consist of pixels, so in that state-of-mind it's all blocky. It just doesn't make sense to me. Yes, pixel-art tends to be lower resolution that most other graphics arts, but it all comes down to resolution... thus you really can't define a factual line(hence where your statement comes off as being arrogant). Hell, other factors can come into play such as dpi, monitor type and so on. When I open up Canabalt on my monitor I only see the pixels if I try to see them. But then again that applies to everything on my monitor from 3D, to text, to other graphics.Also, "there is no discussion" comes off a bit arrogant.What exactly is there to discuss?
Everyone here on this site should know that, if you zoom into a picture, you see blocks.
This whole site is about nothing but to teach you how to effectively utilize that.
How to arrange those blocks, how to color them.
This site supposedly embraces the block
for it is what we all work with.
:) ;D :( :'( ???
Woah, even the emoticons are block-shaped. Why is that?
What, except that you don't like the word, is there to discuss?
Sure, everything is made up of pixels but this is about low-res games.And I don't think Canabalt is low-res enough to be called blocky, nor do I think blocky should be a term used to describe low-res or pixel-art, but a style. Call it pixel-art, call it retro, call it old-school... I just don't think blocky is a complimentary term.
Like I said, you just don't like the word.That's grossly simplifying the whole discussion to somehow make your point more appealing, but it doesn't really work in this case.
That's grossly simplifying the whole discussion to somehow make your point more appealing, but it doesn't really work in this case.What does that even mean?
Then you've done nothing but ignore every post I've made since this discussion started. You keep mentioning "upscaled pixels" but I have time and time again never mentioned them, but I have mentioned resolution, but you seem to just dismiss that.That's grossly simplifying the whole discussion to somehow make your point more appealing, but it doesn't really work in this case.What does that even mean?
I have no idea how you can possibly argue against upscaled pixels becoming blocks, really.
You asked if "blocky" can even be used to describe pixel art. It kinda does describe what pixel art is all about, doesn't it.
Placing blocks. Pushing pixels. Using a low resolution and zooming in.
Zooming in.
Zoom into something and you'll eventually see blocks.
You have not yet provided anything of substance to give your point a foundation apart from "I don't like this word".
I don't see how your point has any more validity then mine, then again, you use the term "appealing" which probably means you don't look at this objectively anyway.
Calling an upscaled low-res game "blocky" doesn't even have the same negative vibe as calling loud metal music "noisy".
There is no discussion.
There is no discussion.
Try not to post argument after argument and at the same time say stuff like this, it paints you in a bad light. If you're feeling trollish, I suggest you go blow off some steam in some other place.
Part of it is marketing, reaching a wider audience makes more money, and that wider audience includes people that become frustrated without help or don't want to learn and read a visual language that determines success or utter loss.
Awesome new skin my mia.:y:
I don't think we've reached photorealism yet. Not by a long shot.
On a completely unrelated note:link (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=8144.0)
This forum seems to have changed, particularly the 'click and zoom' on the images becoming quite blurred. Pardon if this is an idiotic question, but why was it changed? (I ask only because it's very difficult to view zoomed images of pixel art when the pixels become blurred).
On a completely unrelated note:link (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=8144.0)
This forum seems to have changed, particularly the 'click and zoom' on the images becoming quite blurred. Pardon if this is an idiotic question, but why was it changed? (I ask only because it's very difficult to view zoomed images of pixel art when the pixels become blurred).
Does anyone feel meh at the graphics of Other M? I'll admit I haven't played the game yet but from the screenshots the game looks so... boring compared to the Prime games. Nothing pops out as amazing or breathtaking... or artistic. It all looks so dull. Like I said I haven't played the game, but all my impressions from screenshots are that everything just gives me the feeling of "good enough."Other M's graphics are quite odd, they look so "videogame" that it feels very sterile.
I feel stupid now...
Anyways, I looked everywhere, and the best solution I found was just to downgrade back to FF2, which saddens me greatly.
Not to derail the thread or anything ^^.
I don't care about Samus, who is Samus, even? When I play Super Metroid, *I* am the person going around on the planet, not some Samus.Thank you, I have been trying to figure out what exactly is the "different experience" of Metroid Prime. For some reason it just didn't have any sort of impact on me, unlike Super Metroid which had a major one (and still does whenever I pick it up). You hit the nail on the head here.
So my problem isn't that they misrepresent Samus's personality in the newer game, it's that Samus even has a voice and a face. I don't care about that stuff, the meta-plot inf these games is vapid at best. I just want to go around a well-crafted platform game at my own pace, in my solitude. Super Metroid is like a sensory deprivation tank for me, I think about different shit when I go around it, I don't think about Samus's personality. And if I want people around, I'll invite my friends and we'll swap the controller around and talk about the game.
Awesome new skin my mia.:y:
I don't think we've reached photorealism yet. Not by a long shot.
That shot can't be that long if you ask me.
Soon some new 3d mumbo jumbo will allow for an arbitrary amount of scalable detail and bam, we're almost there.
Like hardware tesselation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkKtY2G3FbU).
From there on, it's just a matter of convincing animations which is a whole different thing.
I have not yet seen anything cgi that looks 'real', no matter how 'realistic' it looks. If that made any sense.
That doesn't look photorealistic at all to me but it might just be my brain as opposed to other people's brain
I think the point here was that with generative systems we will eventually reach a point where we can make enviroments that look photo realistic. I do think that's the only way we're gonna get there....SPORE was a start.I wonder how long it'll take for them to return en-masse to styles with more personality.
And now for something completely different, tinypic.com just decided to spontaneously combust so is there any other free image hosting site that isn't slow (imageshack) and doesn't require you to make a profile (photobucket) worth checking out?Imgur should do the trick: http://www.imgur.com
I got a lot of suddenly dead picture links to replace it seems. Bugger.
On that note, here's cgi animation that claims to surpass the uncanny valley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF_NFmtw89g
conceited little pixel animatorssays Conceit :lol:
pun absolutely intented :pQuoteconceited little pixel animatorssays Conceit :lol:
I feel like I need a kick in the ass, I drop pieces whenever I can properly visualize them in my head or my silly palette experiments seems to mesh. At this point it seems pretty masturbatory and I want to kick that bad habit. Anyone have any tips on helping me rekindle my love for the more automatic, laborious side of pixel art? :(
are you sounding the alarm because you'd like there to be a discussion about something that isn't really happening?Yep, caught me red-handed, Helm. :huh: Seriously though, what the hell man? Take a chill pill. I didn't have any sort of devious motivation to post what I did. I was just thinking last night that I kind of grew up on this forum. Maybe it's rose-tinted glasses, or maybe it's because I'm such a self-centered wannabe, but it always seemed busier.
But I think it would be more beneficial to discuss ways to increase activity on the forums rather than being bummed out about it.
It feels like a ghost town to me because I'm not active and when I browse the forums I see all these names I don't recognize.
I seem to have very low patience with paper and pencil, which I find odd considering that I enjoy pixel art. With pixel art I can spend hours on a piece... however when I try to draw on paper I seem to want to get it over with as fast as possible. I rush through, I don't spend enough time cleaning up as I should, and I just don't seem to want to put the effort into it. It doesn't seem subconscious, but it seems like while I'm drawing I don't seem to want to put the effort into things like accurate lines, and I get bored fast.
I seem to have very low patience with paper and pencil, which I find odd considering that I enjoy pixel art. With pixel art I can spend hours on a piece... however when I try to draw on paper I seem to want to get it over with as fast as possible. I rush through, I don't spend enough time cleaning up as I should, and I just don't seem to want to put the effort into it. It doesn't seem subconscious, but it seems like while I'm drawing I don't seem to want to put the effort into things like accurate lines, and I get bored fast.
Wierd we got like 300 guest viewing JunkBoy's art lol.Notch linked it from his blog, announcing the new pixel artist for Minecraft.
Is it just me, or does Pixelation seem like more of a ghost town than ever? :(
I seem to have very low patience with paper and pencil, which I find odd considering that I enjoy pixel art. With pixel art I can spend hours on a piece... however when I try to draw on paper I seem to want to get it over with as fast as possible. I rush through, I don't spend enough time cleaning up as I should, and I just don't seem to want to put the effort into it. It doesn't seem subconscious, but it seems like while I'm drawing I don't seem to want to put the effort into things like accurate lines, and I get bored fast.
* Use GMIC to apply a Difference of Gaussians on a copy of the source image,
to detect areas of high frequency detail like eyes (parameters: 0.05, 0.10, threshold 20, enable 'negative'.
* Apply a curve with a point at 93,33 and 192,192 to reduce the amount of smoothing high-detail pixels will get, even more.
* Edit->Copy
* Enter QMask mode (using keyboard shortcut or the button at bottom-left of your window) and Edit->Paste what you just copied.
* Anchor the pasted layer and exit QMask mode. Now, the low-detail pixels are most selected, and high-detail are least selected.
* Apply GMIC Anisotropic smoothing (amplitude 8, sharpness .4, gradsmooth 0, tensor smooth 0.50, iterations 2)
#@gimp Antialias: antialias, antialias
#@gimp : note = note("* finetuning")
#@gimp : Detail preservation = float(.30,0,1)
#@gimp : Smoothing = float(8,0.5,1024)
#@gimp : Sharpness = float(.4,0.001,1)
#@gimp : Iterations = int(2,1,32)
#@gimp : Gradient Smoothing* = float(0,0,10)
#@gimp : Tensor Smoothing* = float(0.5,0,10)
#@gimp : Fast Approximation* = bool(1)
#@gimp : DoG base* = float(0.05,0.001,100)
#@gimp : DoG distance* = float(0.05,0.001,100)
#@gimp : DoG threshold* = float(20,0.0001,49.999)
#
#
# XXX some way to adjust DoG parameters
antialias :
-repeat @# -l[@{>}]
--gimp_dog[-1] $8,{$8+$9},$10,1,0
# -2? -> -1?
-input [-2]x1
-repeat $4 -smooth[-1] $2,$3,1.0,$5,$6,.8,30,2,0,$7 -done
# # sanitize the DOG layer for masking use
-normalize[-2] 0,1
-apply_curve[-2] 1,{93/255},{.73-.73*$1},{192/255},{192/255}
-image[-3] [-1],0,0,0,0,1,[-2]
-remove[-2,-1]
-endlocal
-done
Paste that into the file ~/.gmic and restart GIMP in order to try it, if you are curious.Can someone point me to that thread about the blur you get from upscaling?
It got mentioned in another thread but that comment apparently got deleted.
Opera spontaneously decided that firefox is a cool bro for doing it and now blurs everything that's being scaled up by default, even gifs which remained completely untouched in previous versions.
I'd like to turn that off but of course, that option is probably hidden in the most inconvenient manner possible.
Type 'opera:config' into your address bar, find the multimedia settings and turn off interpolate images.Aw how am I supposed to find that out?
I can agree with this. Soon I hope to get into something like painting(I'm very interested in watercolor) to maybe revive the old drive I had for drawing before I got into pixel art.QuoteI seem to have very low patience with paper and pencil, which I find odd considering that I enjoy pixel art. With pixel art I can spend hours on a piece... however when I try to draw on paper I seem to want to get it over with as fast as possible. I rush through, I don't spend enough time cleaning up as I should, and I just don't seem to want to put the effort into it. It doesn't seem subconscious, but it seems like while I'm drawing I don't seem to want to put the effort into things like accurate lines, and I get bored fast.
Another thought I had on this: the more skilled you might be on one medium (pixel art here, and you are certainly skilled) the more psychologically disturbing it might be to you to return or dabble in another where the skills do not immediately translate, because the immediate results aren't as good as you're used to, so you want to subconsciously get it over with as fast as possible. I'm slowly learning to color digitally and I certainly feel this flight instinct here and there.
2 minutes into the first episode of Battlestar Galactica. Never watched it before, just know of the hype.Did you/are you watching the miniseries that came before the TV show? You probably should, it's the best part of the series up until the third season.
2 minutes into the first episode of Battlestar Galactica. Never watched it before, just know of the hype.Did you/are you watching the miniseries that came before the TV show? You probably should, it's the best part of the series up until the third season.
Old news but yeah:Does ManoWar know about this? If so the developers of Turrican are in trouble...Other bands play, ManoWar KILLS! :P
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2495109/turricanmano.gif)
:D
Looks like a Boris Vallejo?
they made a game out of truckers delight pixel video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQuEMAOe4B4&feature=related
(http://somuchsilence.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/liquidswords.jpg)
I love this cover regardless of the perspective and other issues it has :D
!DIE!
Watched most of Zeitgeist, was pretty amazed with it. Cure, what parts are misinformation do you think? Didn't catch the Jesus part. Will probably re-watch it all, this time without skipping around.
I dunno, Polish and Greek are rankin' pretty high. South African is caucasian? Yer right, many are squashed. And what's with the odd fading/blurring.
I undertook a small experiment and averaged some of my pixelfaces using the faceresearch.org website.
These to be exact
(http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/8cmugs.png)
The outcome is better than I anticipated
(http://ptoing.net/not/8ccmugs_avg.jpg)
Seen that image around, wonder where they got the data. It does seem a bit silly that Ms South Africa is white.
I'd like to see this with some of your fruit people. Or maybe even the robots.
snip
(http://locustleaves.com/victory.png)Could somone give me the meaning of this please? I am pretty sure it's some game but I don't know what one. Enlighten me!
meaningless to most, but meaningful to a few. Finished the first loop.
http://www.protomen.com/ (http://www.protomen.com/)
Amazing. Saw them at PAX east and didn't like them. Talked about them with a friend and I think I might be in love.
Don't be so childishly moronic, we can go on discussing other things if we'd like. This is the Official Off-Topic Thread. Besides, your question has already been answered if you could just muster up the ability to scroll up a bit to find this:http://www.protomen.com/ (http://www.protomen.com/)
Amazing. Saw them at PAX east and didn't like them. Talked about them with a friend and I think I might be in love.
I have no idea what this is about and would appreciate it if someone would reply to my previous post before going on to discuss new things?
Dodonpachi
It's DoDonPachi, or it's godforsaken hard-to-remember sequel. I don't know.(http://locustleaves.com/victory.png)Could somone give me the meaning of this please? I am pretty sure it's some game but I don't know what one. Enlighten me!
meaningless to most, but meaningful to a few. Finished the first loop.
Dai Ou Jou is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. Can't say I really like the switch to inexplicable anime schoolgirl images either. :-\
Would you guys agree that "a celebration of the imagination" is a good simple definition of art?
Is the game sexist?
How about the characters?
What about the game development community?
Will any of this effect it's reception (in the gaming communities) or sales?
Does this mean throwing the damsel around in Spelunky makes me sexist?
Video games can't influence you, let's say. But they tell you how people really feel often.
Do you think that it means I really want to grab a car and start running people over, even if I know not to do it?
QuoteDo you think that it means I really want to grab a car and start running people over, even if I know not to do it?
Do I think you have death fantasies and power fantasies just like you have sexual fantasies? Of course. What is so shocking in that?
edit: to flesh out my reply a bit further: in a different social time, with different social rules, you'd be mowing people down with your chariot like a motherfucker. This is not 'bad' or 'good', it's just how... humanity works.
I am fairly sure my boss is going to e-mail me later today that I will not get paid for my work. Once again. Even though I had a proper contract this time too.
I am fairly sure my boss is going to e-mail me later today that I will not get paid for my work. Once again. Even though I had a proper contract this time too.
Then why not take legal action? Isn't that what the contract is there for?
Dunno if anyone has seen this: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/cave-story-remake-announced-for-3ds/a-2011021016228990012
Dunno if anyone has seen this: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/cave-story-remake-announced-for-3ds/a-2011021016228990012
they really need to stop that. let the good game be a good game and make something new. bleh.
Man this site is intense. Starting to wonder whether joining was such a good idea. I feel like such a newb.
I'm so fucking scared of conceptart.org
I'm so fucking scared of conceptart.org
QuoteI'm so fucking scared of conceptart.org
Why?
I've never heard of it. And now I know why. So above me... too high to even see :'(Man this site is intense. Starting to wonder whether joining was such a good idea. I feel like such a newb.
You think this site is intense? Man, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
...EXTREEEME!! (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/)
[gasp]
Okay, look. I know everyone's heard of this place. I just thought it was a good opportunity for a reference. Besides, I love that site so much even though I haven't joined. If I didn't love it, I wouldn't have referenced it, now would I?
4, canvas width:
width: refers to the zonal width of the canvas, often in the international Used in the country,
inches and centimeters conversion formula: 1 inch = 2.54 cm
common conversion in the form canvas width calculation:
inches centimeters general usage
36 90cm
47 :
7, strong: the powerful man-made cotton less than cotton, especially in wet conditions, rayon fastness is poor, when compared from the fabric edge spinning, stretching, more cotton, rayon wire easily broken, so most of rayon thick texture, no cotton yarn as thin.
1. plain cloth plain cloth in common is the use of plain weave woven system, warp and weft of the linear density and fabric weft yarn density in the same or similar. Depending on the thickness of warp and weft can be divided into coarse cloth, Zhongping cloth and fine cloth.
I've been working on my game (Fetch Quest) pretty decently for a while now and we'll be throwing up a demo soon, I'll be sure to let you guys know. :y:Oh, we're done!
This is so wonderful! I just can't fathom how I'm supposed to get that one last ruby and last health in the bottom left corner of the map. It's driving me mad. :blind:
But such a greedy woman can maintain a perfect body that is extremely rare, and where Xi Feng their appetite is not large, or rather small, could not help but also secretly envy Gulina appetite. After all, health is the foundation for ensuring the efficient, and myself have often been tortured stomach, Gein has been established Champs Hin.
Check out this really swag game, guys. Its got dem pixel art and everything (http://forums.datarealms.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=23692&start=0)
DMT is better. You should try it some time.
It's everywhere on SMF. Time for a change? Some kind of riddle to get in?Or a rubix cube. Can we make those with html5?
So much spam :sry:isn't that the point of offtopic?
I believe they are referring to the spam on the forum. UPDATE YOUR SMF! USE A CAPTCHA(like) PLUG-IN!So much spam :sry:isn't that the point of offtopic?
LSD is better. You should try it some time.
DMT is better. You should try it some time.
I always liked to think you were here the whole time, it's just that we couldn't hear or see you because you're a ninja stalking the shadows.
Bad trips were something else. We're talking about seeing everything bad about myself and humanity, which considering the basically selfish nature of a human is quite something. Very black-and-white, good-and-evil thinking, alternating between extremes. Synthesizing sounds, colors, physical things around me. When I read about people going nuts or harming themselves, I'm not surprised. Very black-and-white thinking can lead to some alarming thoughts.
I'd find that if I spent a few hours spiraling on that I could lose the ego totally and emerge with a very objective sense of the world. A world in balance, things as they should be, personal and friends' faults accepted, insights into myself and others. I definitely made some amazing self-discoveries, but at significant risk.
you'll like this http://youtu.be/m7z25MrF1hk
Helm, you say you havent done "many" drugs? sounds like you have atleast cursory introduction...:p I think you know more than you let on.
But that's besides the point. Anyone remember Skullgirls (http://www.skullgirls.com/home)? Alex Ahad posted here a few years ago about it, and now he's assembled quite a team of buddies to help him with the animations, and I can't wait to look at them up close and personal, because the videos they show of them are absolute diabetic eyecandy to look at
heh
Honestly I feel more and more the reason we stick with pixelart comes down to nostalgia...if it isnt expanded to things like ascii or modular art, vectors and whatnot it seems like there's no more appeal in it...I havent been thinking "pixel-perfect" for a while anyway, so maybe I'm not one to talk :p
Welcome Tsugumo! glad you're getting down to busyness and releasing your own games and stuff...this is Camus BTW :p. You should put back up that little priest sprite you used to have way back when, it's so iconic to me =).
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/baybaybom/PixelationBanner.gif) You guys remember the first time we considered pixelation having a banner? :p I submitted this..heheh I was pretty crazy about those two sprites =)...looks kinda passive agressive in retrospective but I didnt mean that XD
Takam, that is quite nice looking, tho those eyes are totally rubbish if you ask me. They do not emote very well.Thanks, the face is pretty much just a zoomed in copy of the in game sprite:
GUYS, I'm back briefly to whore myself out! I have a kickstarter.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2131879989/king-crow-shirts-stylish-art-tee-shirts
It's not doing great, so any support means a lot to me :(
Joe, the beetle, I love it.
My friend is a very talented composer. He just wrote a piano album and has done some work for DS and XBLA games.
He's considering quitting music. Show him THE love.
Visit his soundcloud and maybe contact him to compose music for a very very very promising game you're probably making.
http://soundcloud.com/zack-parrish/ (http://soundcloud.com/zack-parrish/)
I usually set mine to be pretty firm. Low sensitivity works out for me because it gives me more range between the lightest and hardest, but I do experience a jump from about 60% pressure upwards where it seems like its sort of uncontrollably going up to the highest pressure. I have an intuos 3, so it's not entirely the same as your problem, but what I do when I want good line variability without carving is to just set the sensitivity low (firm) and paint like I think Helm put it once in a thread about cintiqs, "homosexual watercolor feathering"... Which is something that, like you said, is hard to do.I remembering reading something about going into the ini files and adjusting all the numbers manually but I can't find it. You'd think they'd allow you to set the min and max of the sensitivity instead of a single value :( Kind of got me interested in this because I was watching a livestream of Gabe from over at penny-arcade drawing one of his comics and he was able to swipe and create all kinds of dynamic lines so easily. I know there is a learning curve with tablets, but I hope it doesn't involve learning how to draw lines by hovering the pen over the tablet.
...so when I carve the lines (and oh, I do carve)...I'm scared of destroying my new baby tablet, how much punishment can touch panels usually take? If I start "carving" into it it certainly would help in the comfort zone.
The first was how little 'give' there is in the nib. I expected a couple millimeters of spring in it, at least, for direct tactile feedback of how much pressure I was putting into the pen. As far as I can tell, the nib has no spring in it at all, and making lines taper off is nearly impossible.Wacom Graphire3 here, and I agree with the first (no give at all, really). Not so much with the tapering -- you might want to check your pressure settings.
Haven't been here in a while. Things seem a bit quiet, if I say so myself. I guess it's that the users I used to post with have mostly moved on to something else. Either way, something compelled me to post here again. But I don't want it to be completely meaningless. So seeing as how this is the Off-Topic Thread, I thought I'd ask:
Is there any song that you guys hear that INSTANTLY puts a smile on your face, even if it goes against the grain of your general musical tastes? I'm still a metal head, but I enjoy other old rock and roll songs just as well. That being said, there is a guilty pleasure of mine, though. Every time I hear it, I can't help but enjoy the 80's gloss of it. I think it goes a little something like this:
" Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere
Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goin' anywhere ... "
...So if I had to tell pixel artists who are down on their luck, not willing to continue, I'd tell them:
" Don't stop believin'!!!
Hold on to the feelin'!!!
Streetlights people (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxUExzMuxXA) "
:)
The question itself doesn't lend itself to just bands. It could be of any medium. I have a love for some memorable cartoon themes as well. How could one not smile when the Duck Tales theme comes on? *sigh* Oh nostalgia...
Yoplait tastes like it's specifically catered for 5 year olds with ADD who need a sugar rush every half hour. I tried some unholy cake flavor my mother eats, and it tasted like a hippie on meth went dumpster diving behind a donut shop and then took a crap in a white plastic cup.
Chobani makes my daily protein counting adventure run smoothly.
Just wanted to let you guys know that there are some pixel prints (http://www.inprnt.com/gallery/ptoing/) available of some of my stuff.
man, I'd need the extra cash. I must consider this.
man, I'd need the extra cash. I must consider this.
man, I'd need the extra cash. I must consider this.
I'd buy a print of " the spartan". badass.
I'm mildly excited about this upcoming Dungeon Master/Eye of the Beholder/Lands of Lore -like game:
http://www.grimrock.net/ (http://www.grimrock.net/)
JJ Naasm are you ready for a wiki war? You're not.
This is why these articles are as they are.
No judgment implied. Just saying it's a topic that's come up a lot.
wooot..... :crazy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt4LpLOx0j4&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt4LpLOx0j4&feature=player_embedded)
WHOA!
Since when did the pixelation forums become powered by simple machines? I mean, I know I don't visit the site every day but I wasn't certainly prepared for a change like this. What happened?
Hey friends, I made a 3D screenshot of Fetch Quest, if you have a 3DS and wanna see it you can download and put it in your camera folder.I think the farthest away layers (mountains and clouds) should move the least amount (slowest) and then as the layers come closer to the camera they should progressively move faster. That is, if you intended to get that "looking-outside-through-moving-car-side-window" effect. Currently it looks like it's just the other way around in your screenshot with the farthest layers moving faster than everything else.
Click the swiveling gif to download the .mpo
(http://i56.tinypic.com/r9pt2w.gif)
HAY GUYS! I just got my invite to Diaspora*I'm hyped up for it. I just recently signed up for an invite, though.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr
it's a facebook designed to take the information that gives facebook so much $$$$ from them and give it to the people =)
it's looking pretty empty right now...and I would like to have some pixel-friends over there is anybody over there or wants to be?
The media has painted us as the David that will either slay or succumb to Goliath. (Insert FB or G+ for the Goliath, depending on the media's narrative.)
It's also a function of competitive differentiation. You only know what something is by comparing it to something else that exists. The media has chosen to compare us to FB & G+, which is understandable.
The better comparison, however, is AOL vs the WWW. When AOL appeared on the scene, it was the only commercial email provider. You couldn't send email to Prodigy, for example, from AOL, and vice versa. AOL would force you to navigate the Internet through AOL's portal. Then the (free or open-source, use your preferred term here) WWW came on the scene. Soon thereafter came communication protocols that enabled different email providers to connect their users with each other. AOL clung to their walled garden approach and slowly over time was transformed from a monopolist into just one of many actors on the open web.
Fast forward to today, and you find a similar situation. FB doesn't allow its users to message G+ users, and vice versa. FB forces all applications to use their API, thereby losing the richness of the larger web, forcing applications to conform to FB's development environment. D* is not trying to kill FB or G+. Like the WWW before it, D* is trying to reinvent the social web from one that relies on walled gardens to one that is open to all players. We believe the world will be better when users own their own social data and decide with whom to share it with, regardless of where these users are online. There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to communicate with G+ users from FB, and vice versa. There is no reason why you should be forced to use pre-approved FB apps instead of any web app available online in its native environment.
D* wants to enable you to own your own data and enjoy the open web in a social way. It's not about killing G+ or FB. It's about enabling users to own their own social data and have the choice to use any service they want, which will force the walled gardens to provide better services, lest their users leave and take their own data to other services online that provide these for them.
Says video is private.tsh... it got removed anyway it got reuploaded see it while you can :lol:
var aspectRatios = {
"square" : [1, 1],
"wide" : [2, 1],
"tall" : [1, 2],
"cga32k" : [1.667, 1], // 160x200
"cga64k" : [1, 1.2], // 320x200
"cga128k" : [1, 2.4], // 640x200
"hercules" : [1, 1.552], // 720x348
"ega" : [1, 1.371], // 640x350
"apple2ehi" : [1, 1.094], // 280x192
"apple2edblhi" : [1.829, 1], // 560x192
};
He's 5 years old and spends day and night playing InFAMOUS 2. . .
Surt: You know that all those (not sure about apple stuff) are still 4:3 in the end. They all have varying degrees or tall or wide pixels.Yes. Those are the aspect ratio's of the pixels, not the displays, so the images can be displayed in their correct intended proportions.
Hello,
I've been using Graphics Gale for close to 6 years now, and use it for my job. I love this program.
I have a suggestion if you'd like to include it in the next beta: Enable changing the pen tile with shortcuts (going up or down the list). This way it would be easier to switch between a big brush or little brush.
Thank you!
Dear Clement.
Thanks for your advice.
Best regards,
HUMAN BALANCE
I'd like to share some thoughts about Cosmigo ProMotion.
I bought the V5.1 in July 2007 and used it ever since (no upgrade). These days I bought a new Computer (Asus EEE EP121 Slate) with Win7 64bit and 4GB of Rams. After installing ProMotion, I couldn't open a file or create a new one.
So I wrote an Email to Jan Zimmermann and asked if that is a known error and if there is a solution. He told me that this has to to with my memory and that the old v5.1 doesn't support more than 3GB. Now, do you know what? Normally, a Developer would suggest to buy an update to solve this problem (~40$). But no, he sent me a Patch to solve this problem, letting me use my old version on the new computer, for free.
I'm amazed by his support and like to let the world know about this great piece of software. If you're undecided between ProMotion and e.g. GraphicsGale, I suggest ProMotion. The amazing support makes the bigger price more than worth.
To show my gratitude to Jan, I'll upgrade to the newest Version soon, even though I can use the old now without problems.
I hope it was helpful to some of you. Thanks for reading.
Awesome little program, a challenge/activity involving it would be neat.
I would love to participate in some kind of a challenge involving it.
Evening, ladies ;)
Evening, ladies ;)
Evening, ladies ;)Speaking of which, what url or name did Pixelation go by around that time? I'm hoping to find some of my old stuff with the http://www.archive.org/web/web.php (http://www.archive.org/web/web.php)
Evening, ladies ;)Speaking of which, what url or name did Pixelation go by around that time? I'm hoping to find some of my old stuff with the http://www.archive.org/web/web.php (http://www.archive.org/web/web.php)
http://web1.t43.greatnet.de/
How about this (http://i.imgur.com/QC1BB.gif)?I dunno, I find the contrast between the background and foreground elements a bit distracting.
Mhhh, is this (http://i.imgur.com/6cGp8.gif) better?
Hmm, was there anything in particular wrong with the old theme color choices?Wrong, no. Not quite to my liking, yes! ;)
Man, this place really doesn't change, does it? I leave for... *checks recent posts* really? Almost 3 years? Man, time flies. Anyway, I leave for three years and the place still looks pretty much the same as ever. Well, I suppose "ever" is a relative term, since there was more turmoil, server changing, and new skins back in the day... What I'm trying to say is "hi guys, how's it going?"Three years? Goddamn, I remember you being active around here when I was as well :P
Wow.. check this out guys :o
<found this on Gaf>
Inkling by wacom
(http://i.imgur.com/7HJ0t.jpg) -- (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yac1sNHxo7I/TvetYswoicI/AAAAAAAADW8/oxmQuELibp8/s320/bouli.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbBA1DRE84
$200 September.
Then again, we have scanners :lol:
I wish gale would support tile mapping so I wouldn't have to deal with pro motions funky hotkeys and quirks.
Is there even a way to replace colors? If there is, this fundamental functionality is so hidden underneath bullshit no one needs (wtf color cycling mode? Dotted drawing mode being the standard?) it's not even funny.
It's on par with blender in terms of non-intuitiveness except that blender, being a 3d modeling program, has an excuse to be complicated, big and scary.
KittenMaster: In the newest version of Promotion there is a neat thing where you can toggle a mode which tiles your image and you can make a pattern in realtime without shoving the canvas around. You can even set it to have horizontal or vertical offset.Sounds good, but the only reason I haven't stuck with ProMotion is because the trial period ran out and I don't have the money for the full version.
How about reading the included help? There are ways to change most shortcuts even.
And yes you can replace colours, in more than one way. But there is no simple Replace foreground with background colour functionality atm, you need to use a mask, which is easy enough.
I feel your pain. I'll be switching to something else soon. Might even learn ScriptFu and try extending GIMP now that it's getting single window mode.I'm curious, if you were switching away from ProMotion, why do you pick GIMP before Grafx2?
I'm curious, if you were switching away from ProMotion, why do you pick GIMP before Grafx2?
Perhaps . . . we're all just asleep, dreaming.
I'm lovin' CS6!
Otherwise, what other art programs would you suggest that are free to relatively cheap, and could fulfill the requirements of the example above?
Otherwise, what other art programs would you suggest that are free to relatively cheap, and could fulfill the requirements of the example above?
Here's the Photoshop CS6 price breakdown:Thanks for the info!
$20/month, if you sign up for a 1 year subscription.
$30/month, for month-by-month payments.
Paint tool sai makes photoshop look like a klutzy dinosaur when it comes to digital painting and drawing.
It has pretty much everything you need except for text support (which you can always do in something like gimp) and a pretty sane price tag.
I've seen it grow more and more popular among digital artists and for good reason.
You just can't comfortably pixel in it, it's pretty much tailor made for high res cg art only but there are better alternatives for that anyway.
I've managed to be spoiler free so far, so if anybody can tell me some more things I can expect to suck without singling out the elements I'd apreciate it, so I can become as disappointed as posible before I enter the theater, and I get to enjoy the visuals atleast as much as one could.
...lol...wow...that was magical.
you have no idea...
Since January I have been rehearsing for a play that takes place on the evenings of 12th-14th July. :)
It's Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and this version is set in 1919 just after the First World War and I'm playing the villain Borachio and I get to wear a nice First World War soldier's uniform (though I've exercised a bit much since my measurements were taken and the costume's now a smidge tight) and be a bastard so I'm having fun. ;D It's an outdoor show performed at the grounds of the beautiful Anglesey Abbey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglesey_Abbey) with the house itself being the backdrop of the second half of the play. It's by my local drama group called Viva (who I did a play with last year too) and performed as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Open Stage event.
I know it's unlikely anyone here is local enough (Cambridgeshire, England) or interested if they are and want to come watch, but if you happen to be then times and ticket price details are here (http://www.viva-group.org.uk/shows/auditions-open-for-much-ado-about-nothing-with-royal-shakespeare-company/)
That's wicked cool, post a pic of you in uniform!
(Apologies if I made you uncomfortable by bemoaning more spammy posts, I was concerned specifically with the frequency / clearly trolling nature)
Not many folks had sunglasses in 1919 I reckon. :)
You're kidding, right? I mean, they weren't really popular until the early movie stars started wearing them (and even more popular after WW2), but tinted lenses have been around for a few hundred years. Just get some vintage frames and don't go too dark on the lenses. You probably don't want to cover your eyes for the acting bits, but it they could serve as a decent prop and give you an excuse to wear them around when not on stage.
http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/pages/WWI.html (http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/pages/WWI.html)
http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/pages/19c-turnpin.html (http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/pages/19c-turnpin.html)
Tourist
whoa good luck (with the weather especially) sounds awesome ;D
if I wasn't a broke student on the other side of the world I'd definitely consider attending :D
uh.. hi :crazy: I just wanted to say for some reason the zoom function on Pixelation and Pixeljoint for the pixel art section and the forums respectively is finally keeping the crispness of the pixels for the first time ever, today. I wonder why this is so, but I like it :lol: :lol:
uh.. hi :crazy: I just wanted to say for some reason the zoom function on Pixelation and Pixeljoint for the pixel art section and the forums respectively is finally keeping the crispness of the pixels for the first time ever, today. I wonder why this is so, but I like it :lol: :lol:
Did you switch or update your browser? I use Chrome and I've been waiting... a couple of years for Google to implement the required CSS tags for crisp zoom.
You see, I would be miserable if I was only one number from a Jackpot. Perspective.
Just now finding out that Shadow of the Collosus's main character is named Wander.
see project entropy thread to find out why this sucks x[
PixelPiledriver: Thank your for the consolation, I think it was just a straw that broke the camels back after seeing the trailer for Journey and noting the vast desert landscape and textless gameplay. Also, perhaps the difference in gender will keep it acceptable.
You've got to be kidding me. Just now finding out that Shadow of the Collosus's main character is named Wander.I could have sworn that Wander in SotC was a mistranslation and he was intended to have no name, but just be known as a wanderer. Either way, Wander is canon now either way :/
see project entropy thread to find out why this sucks x[
The Japanese title is "ワンダと巨像" which reads "Wanda to Kyozou" and means "Wanda and the Colossus". So whether his name is supposed to be Wanda or Wander I dunno, but he certainly does have a name.Maybe I was thinking Wanda, instead of wanderer. I know there was a lot of confusion over his name translation when the game was still popular.
And as for mistranslation, there are PLENTY of Japanese words which mean wanderer, and Wanda is not one of them.
You've got to be kidding me. Just now finding out that Shadow of the Collosus's main character is named Wander.How is that coming along btw? Did the demo ever get finished?
see project entropy thread to find out why this sucks x[
You've got to be kidding me. Just now finding out that Shadow of the Collosus's main character is named Wander.How is that coming along btw? Did the demo ever get finished?
see project entropy thread to find out why this sucks x[
Don't try to deny your ability to make sense of me because I appear as if I'm coming from a place you don't understand. If that's the case, then it is you who is misunderstanding things.It is not everyone else's fault when they don't understand you. It is yours for not conveying it in a way that can be understood.
It's about quantum wave functions and the fact that things like electrons can exist in more than one configuration at a time. I am not pretending to undertand Quantum Mechanics very well, but I am not gonna go and take some thought experiment apart which someone made who was very intelligent and knew alot about his field. A field btw which is progressing quite fast atm and which makes it possible to make very exact predictions about certain phenomena. And then there is stuff like superconductors and quantum locking. All this stuff I would posit NOT A SINGLE person on this forum really understands. To quote Richard Feynman: "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
(quantum mechanics)
Where do you learn about this stuff :huh:
that's fine Ryumaru, if it's valueless then let it be. If I'm pure then I am me. Why does this make you want to stop me from being who I am?
Well, I'd still like to be friends with her. I don't often meet someone I can have a proper conversation with and seem to have a similar way of thinking and laugh a lot together so I'd like to keep that in my life even if we don't get to have a repeat of friday's kiss-fest and if nothing else I had two really lovely dates to remember. Can always use more happy memories in my mind. I just could have done without my confidence level being raised and knocked the weekend before I do my play. Ah well, I'm a different person in the play anyways so it hopefully shouldn't matter too much.
Also I'm quite happy I finished this retro 8bit RoboCop CPC revamp which is in the off topic creativity thread if anyone wants to see and hasn't. I get a sense of satisfaction working with retro 'limitations' even if there are so very few people I know who would consider it anything but a blocky mess of crud.
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=5006.msg133522#new (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=5006.msg133522#new) :)
Aren't you at all irked that she was dating someone else while dating you? Or did you already know about it?
Anyone else on the East Coast getting whacked with tons of storms and record breaking heat? I'm near DC, and while I've gotten used to the heat (2 hour commute to work each day with no A/C), everyone else around here is sweating bullets.I'm outside of DC(in PG County) and it's pretty bad. The last storm knocked out power in my apartment for about 4 days; we lost all of our food. The storm before that had that major microburst up the street from here that caused an insane amount of damage(comparable to a tornado). Now my A/C isn't working and it's fucking horrible in my apartment.
Rain drove away half our audience during the show (ah the risks of doing an outdoor play) but we stuck it out to the end and goddamn I loved it. I dunno what it was. Maybe newfound confidence or the fact rain makes me happy (I go running in it, cos it just makes me less stressed) or whatever. I really felt I gave as good a performance as I possibly could. Realy happy with it all despite the loss of half the audience. Two more nights to go. :):o
I think it'd be cool to have a thread that discusses "your favorite pixel art video game graphics" and let the person go into detail on why it is their favorite pixel graphics. And a nice way to find some eye candy and inspiration
Well it used to be, CC's are pretty far and few these days.I think it'd be cool to have a thread that discusses "your favorite pixel art video game graphics" and let the person go into detail on why it is their favorite pixel graphics. And a nice way to find some eye candy and inspiration
I think they're already doing this here:
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?board=16.0 (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?board=16.0)
Don't want to sound negative, but I don't think it's healthy to have "a person of your dreams".
Pixelpiledriver: It hurt just to read the wikipedia page!
Pixelpiledriver: It hurt just to read the wikipedia page! Really hope you get better soon! You're a trooper.
And PPD, that sounds horrible!
PPD, all the best. I hope you recover fast and well.
Yeah, I hope you continue to get well PPD.
Best of luck with the med, and hope everything works out
Yeah! I shouldn't have read that, now I'm terrifiedWell with 0.1% of the population affected by this you should be alright by luck of the draw.
What is it about my little pony?
AHW, en anglais? ??? :lol:
I get that. And I say live for your passions no matter what (unless they are detrimental to others)
But what is it about mlp that makes you a fan? :P
btw what is up with the pix server there seems to be alot of timing out that I never got before :blind:
What are you talking about? Why can't I post in the off-topic thread? I'm just posting things I've done. Who cares if people don't reply to it.. This is a thread for people to post off-topic things, you're telling me I can't do that?
I'm not spamming though.
I'm not spamming though.
You are double- and triple posting on a regular basis, i think that is what he meant.
This may be an off-topic thread but multiposting is usually frowned upon in any forum.
There would probably be no problem if you just edited your last post if you find yourself to be the last person that has replied and still want to share something new but I can only speak for myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiEPghrV9o&feature=plcp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiEPghrV9o&feature=plcp)
I added new content though.
If I was simply editing my message, I would edit it.
On an unrelated note, my friend's working on this game (art director and concept art I believe, possibly models aswell) which is looking really lovely (even in this very early stage), so thought I'd share. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiEPghrV9o&feature=plcp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiEPghrV9o&feature=plcp)
As for ponies, not planning on really posting them that often;
On an unrelated note, my friend's working on this game (art director and concept art I believe, possibly models aswell) which is looking really lovely (even in this very early stage), so thought I'd share. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiEPghrV9o&feature=plcp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiEPghrV9o&feature=plcp)
Not sure if it's gameplay or animation, but it looks kinda stiff, doesn't it?
I like the art though, but in some cases the outlines are a bit messy (too many at the same time).
Count me as optimistic about Cloudbuilt.
Also, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers truly is an awesome game. A friend and I play it every once in a while. Always better with two. I have a lot of respect for that game. The NES game I'm working on now is actually sorta similar. (Co-op, grabbing/throwing mechanics) There's a reason a lot of NES games didn't do this stuff. It's difficult to make happen.
Count me as optimistic about Cloudbuilt.
Also, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers truly is an awesome game. A friend and I play it every once in a while. Always better with two. I have a lot of respect for that game.
The NES game I'm working on now is actually sorta similar. (Co-op, grabbing/throwing mechanics) There's a reason a lot of NES games didn't do this stuff. It's difficult to make happen.
Is development difficult on the NES?Short answer: If you don't scroll, and don't handle slopes, it's actually only a little more difficult than C. You have to spend a little more time planning before doing your level format/etc. because of RAM and size constraints, but I've always found both to be extremely manageable. You also have to be prepared to learn some things about hardware you wouldn't need to know for anything modern. But really it's only hard if you want to make a very ambitious game. First game I made (which didn't scroll or handle slopes :P) was a clone of Geometry Wars and I think it only took about 4 months. (Starting from zero assembly or NES knowledge. I did know C beforehand.)
... On another note, did I ever tell you kiddies about the time when Mike, after being banned here after the incidents regarding my scootaloo thread, pretended to be me on /MLP/ and /b/ right afterwords and posted a screencap of the scoots thread dozens of times along with derogatory (to say it gently) accusations about me? Sometimes I enjoy the responsibilities of being a board janitor and cleaning up the crap ;D
... But you didn't hear that from me ::)
... On another note, did I ever tell you kiddies about the time when Mike, after being banned here after the incidents regarding my scootaloo thread, pretended to be me on /MLP/ and /b/ right afterwords and posted a screencap of the scoots thread dozens of times along with derogatory (to say it gently) accusations about me? Sometimes I enjoy the responsibilities of being a board janitor and cleaning up the crap ;D
... But you didn't hear that from me ::)
Wow, what a douche..
I actually wasn't sure if he was really mean or just a huge fan of irony and a dislike for bronies.. Had no idea he was crazy like that..
hey did anyone notice Pixelation is up again? ;D
don't forget to highlight your posts, people!
Alex. Watched some of your vidoes.
. . .
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any suggestions? ideas.. I'm kind of in limbo with what to do next. wish I had a bunch of junk to build stuff out of.
Blu: Poor kitty :(Yeah, but I only find fun in HL Lobbies. PS is just stupid now.
On another note, any other TF2 players here? I'd definitely love to invite you all to one of the servers I frequent when it's moderately empty to have a very pixelated shooting session. And by extension I can even invite bronies here to one of the pony servers I'm at. I personally have been practicing art over playing TF2 lately but I think I'm going to push to actually take gaming breaks again :P
@Alex having a video series about pixeling: I'd so totally watch that.
I'd call it the "Joy of Pixeling - With Alex HW". Bonus points for throwing in things like "just a happy banding area". :lol:
nope, they work normal for me.
I'm now moving to the hypothesis that it's an effect caused by a combination of a) the PHP giving bogus header information when no parameters are given, in a way that is harmless to most browsers, and b) A browser that actually interprets that data rather than simply ignoring it.It could be along the lines of a deadbeef debug value. Or not.
Let's face it, you guys. Pixelation is HAUNTED! :o :'(
By a ghost who has a strange fetish with orchids and onions. :huh:
I had a weird problem where it was redirecting to huevia or something like that. Clearing my cache was the only fix.
By a ghost who has a strange fetish with orchids and onions. :huh:
What!? I don't want to be raped. :'(
@Ashbad
You should look into actual pony anatomy (not the cartoon kind).
You might come to a point at which you drew tons and tons of fanart but have no idea what a real horse actually looks like.
So I'd suggest studying the real, non-stylized version right along with the stylization so that you understand why the shapes are the way they are instead of just copying them if that kind of thing interests you.
You could sell an ebook (PDF or whatever) directly at any price you like if you wanted I suppose?I think the main issue is that people just don't know about my book, plus I'm a nobody.
Odysseus was nobody and he is well known across the world.You could sell an ebook (PDF or whatever) directly at any price you like if you wanted I suppose?I think the main issue is that people just don't know about my book, plus I'm a nobody.
Friend, what are you talking about? What is this voice you speak of?
This seems like a worthy project:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/project-giana/project-giana (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/project-giana/project-giana)
Not a pixel game, but it is a sequel to a great pixel game :)
I think we could remove the server move thread
that is a bit unnerving for me too..
Browsing the General Discussion forums at 1024x768, the entire first screen is sticky threads.
This place... pixelation... it still exists?!
This place... pixelation... it still exists?!
Not to promote myself, cuz well I don't want to promote myself, but I just thought I'd post my youtube channel here, cuz I'm kinda proud of myself for starting to try to branch out and do things again, because for the past 1/3 of my life or so I literally haven't lived a day and within that time I've felt further from myself every day. I'll probably do drum covers, sing a little, and idk what else. Don't really mind who sees, it's just to push my comfort zone :-[ http://www.youtube.com/user/OneStoneDrum?feature=mhee (http://www.youtube.com/user/OneStoneDrum?feature=mhee)
so yeah what do you guys think? I can start a thread later if you guys think I should, posting updates on the game art, and welcoming any critique or commentsThere isn't much for me to comment on at the moment.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/322438897/mercenary-kings/posts/290181
Looks promising.
Is it Paul Robertson inspired if the actual Paul Robertson is the one doing the art?I don't see why not. I inspire myself all the time :D
There isn't much for me to comment on at the moment.:) thanks appreciate the good vibes and it's the kind of interest i was unsure of and hoping to confirm existed. I haven't had as much time as I'd want but I have been pushing a few ideas, once I get enough content I'll start a thread, and be sure to include playable builds when the time comes.
But I offer positive vibes to help you get there. :y: :)
Would be happy to see it progress over time.
PLAY TEST YOUR GAME A LOT.
Many great ideas will come up as a result of filling in gaps.
What kind of cool stuff might the beast do?
Perhaps after a few more art posts I'll have something real to say.
Is it Paul Robertson inspired if the actual Paul Robertson is the one doing the art?I don't see why not. I inspire myself all the time :D
(http://i.pgcdn.com/pi/100/60/22/1006022845_260.jpg)(http://www.fooddepotcorp.com/productimages/A/200/7110.jpg)
IDK if any of you noticed, but I had stopped drawing. I started C&Cing myself in my head so much I didnt want to do art anymore
That ever happen to you? I think this post might help =)
http://chrisoatley.com/inner-critic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChrisOatley+%28ChrisOatley.com%29
Incidentally, that's not what got me back into art, what got me back into art was a very eclectic design job I got....learning all sorts of shit, making up for all the years I stopped branching out and just stuck with pixelart & ink =)
This thread (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=14820.0) gave me an idea. Because of what pixel art is, it's no doubt that there's plenty of artists around here working on games, and with Greenlight becoming so popular it seems counter-productive to have a thread for each game an artist may eventually want to get support getting the greenlight. It'd be nice if there was one dedicated thread where we can all post/get input our Greenlight projects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3RsvTjJZjk
I love that kind of stuff ;D
There's something about nighttime and twinkles that I always liked in 8/16-bit era games too.
Ya that'd be nice, I didn't consider kickstarter but I'm sure there's a few people around here with projects that need help.This thread (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=14820.0) gave me an idea. Because of what pixel art is, it's no doubt that there's plenty of artists around here working on games, and with Greenlight becoming so popular it seems counter-productive to have a thread for each game an artist may eventually want to get support getting the greenlight. It'd be nice if there was one dedicated thread where we can all post/get input our Greenlight projects.
Good idea, perhaps greenlight/Kickstarter? :)
Ah, makes sense. Pixel perfect pixel placement. The bane of Photoshop. :ouch:
A bit of an odd question, but is anyone familiar with book publishing? Specifically page formatting/margins and such. I have a friend who was close to getting her book published but they need some margins fixed. All I have is the PDF file she sent, that was given to her by I'm assuming whoever did the layout. Problem is the person can be a bit slow to reach and she was hoping to get it fixed up sooner than later.
Basically it's a PDF of a childrens book with about 20 pages and all illustrated, and from what I can tell it's designed to be printed with bleed... and I have absolutely no idea nor the tools to properly margin/size it for her.
A bit of an odd question, but is anyone familiar with book publishing? Specifically page formatting/margins and such. I have a friend who was close to getting her book published but they need some margins fixed. All I have is the PDF file she sent, that was given to her by I'm assuming whoever did the layout. Problem is the person can be a bit slow to reach and she was hoping to get it fixed up sooner than later.
Basically it's a PDF of a childrens book with about 20 pages and all illustrated, and from what I can tell it's designed to be printed with bleed... and I have absolutely no idea nor the tools to properly margin/size it for her.
I always use inDesign to save PDFs for books, is that available to you? It has more options for margins and stuff than the rest of CS I think.
Ug, Black Ops II is so gay, I think it's giving me AIDS. Why do I keep playing it?
I think more than being politically incorrect it makes blu sound incredibly homophobic. Sorry blu.
I think more than being politically incorrect it makes blu sound incredibly homophobic. Sorry blu.
Agreed, unless he's acting that way for comedic reasons as I suspect (calling everything "gay", because all of the 13 year olds who also play that game use it as an insult.) If not... welcome to 2012, Blu! :blind:
Is that a good reason to shrugg it off? Everything you say and do has an effect on the world. As long as people use gay as an insult and to mean something negative, that is how society is going to keep percieving it. :mean:I think more than being politically incorrect it makes blu sound incredibly homophobic. Sorry blu.
Agreed, unless he's acting that way for comedic reasons as I suspect (calling everything "gay", because all of the 13 year olds who also play that game use it as an insult.) If not... welcome to 2012, Blu! :blind:
I'm from the Dirty South. Nothing is sacred and everything is fair game for jokes. I call "Black Ops" "Black Cocks" and make fun of myself for being half black. I'm not sure a German could even begin to understand the kind of culture I was raised in. :lol:
And yes, using my Xbox LIVE headset has destroyed the higher functioning parts of my brain.
I'm from the Dirty South. Nothing is sacred and everything is fair game for jokes. I call "Black Ops" "Black Cocks" and make fun of myself for being half black. I'm not sure a German could even begin to understand the kind of culture I was raised in. :lol:
And yes, using my Xbox LIVE headset has destroyed the higher functioning parts of my brain.
sounds like I'd better stay away from 'dem beers when I turn 21
Statistically, people who drink alcohol -- even those who abuse alcohol -- have longer lifespans than those who abstain.
I'm just north enough to have been raised in a different environment (Northern Virginia, the Land of the Politically Hypercorrect, Rich and Insensitive, Overly Self-Centered Democrats -- or so it seems.)
Does anyone know why pixel art draws so much more attention from the general population when drawn in minecraft rather than just being drawn sanely? Many of the revered pixels of the minecraft medium would barely even attract any attention in something like the pixeljoint gallery (assuming they weren't projected in a poorly coded time waster game -- otherwise, they wouldn't even pass into the gallery.) It's not even like it's hard to build these pixels, too: http://www.diamondpants.com/spritecraft/ -- I assume it's because kiddies like 3-D vidya blocks or something?
Now, if many of these models were more 3-D, as in, not a picture simply converted into a 1-block thick viewing plane -- It would be a pretty neat phenomenon. Voxels would actually be kind of cool.
time waster game
There's one thing I still want to try though, Absynth....because of all that hype
Ashbad, just out of curiosity, how did you get this thing, uh, "installed"?
I'd really be tempted to tell you to abandon Windows to the profit of Linux, but that would be bitter flavoured and it's not my intention.
The only help I can give you is a link to a pertinent suggestion from google: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/protect_other-protect_scanning/how-to-remove-sendori-malware/a35e5c4b-63c5-4a59-abab-669a76717ed9 (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/protect_other-protect_scanning/how-to-remove-sendori-malware/a35e5c4b-63c5-4a59-abab-669a76717ed9)