Pixelation
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Panda on January 12, 2007, 04:20:44 pm
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Well, new year, new OT thread.
Nah, actually the other one was getting enormous.
You know how it rolls, keep it clean, have fun and blah blah blah.
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Goats deserve an opening mention.
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And so does the new Opacus.
I have now officialy changed my name, because Shadow Wolf sucked.
Discuss.
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So what's an O... ooh... I read that as ocapus. Like, the first ten times I read it. Figured it's some crazy type octopus.
So there's what I have to say about it. It looks like octopus!
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The last one was enormous? Back at Pixeljoint they've got over 300 pages of offtopic in one thread. Maybe it has something to do with the forum software.
@Shadow Wolf- I saw that pixel in the PJ gallery and thought, "Dang, that looks like somebody's style, but I don't remmeber who." Now that I see it under your handle it clicks. I think it could use some anatomy work though, it lacks proportion, a neck, ear muscles, and the buttcrack on the front of his face doesn't really make sense.
Can I have an opening mention too? I promise I'll give it back still working... mostly.
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The last one was enormous? Back at Pixeljoint they've got over 300 pages of offtopic in one thread. Maybe it has something to do with the forum software.
@Shadow Wolf- I saw that pixel in the PJ gallery and thought, "Dang, that looks like somebody's style, but I don't remmeber who." Now that I see it under your handle it clicks. I think it could use some anatomy work though, it lacks proportion, a neck, ear muscles, and the buttcrack on the front of his face doesn't really make sense.
Can I have an opening mention too? I promise I'll give it back still working... mostly.
He's not human, he has mah own custom anatomy xD
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Still, nothing would have arms that are collectively as thick as its torso and your ear-things would show bone/hard supportive tissue along with muscle or they would bend downwards. You would do well to better show the curvature of the face and the crack in it rather than it just being an amorphous thing with a slit in it. Another thing, you hint as to a neck, but it would have to be something thin and flat, but you don't really show that to be the case. I guess the character would work better if it was defined more in a more natural pose before you made this portrait view of it.
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Hey, I was wondering...
Lots of people here like music, right? How about we do one of those themed community treads and we all pixel our own choice of musician or band and display it? Interesting?
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Hey, I was wondering...
Lots of people here like music, right? How about we do one of those themed community treads and we all pixel our own choice of musician or band and display it? Interesting?
I like your thoughts...I'm will suck them out of your brain and take over the world! (And helm will fuck another goat)
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4091636603923402551&q=adventure%2Btime
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Whelp, sounds interesting. Of course, I'd "Metal" my piece to Valhalla. Maybe instead of certain bands, you could broaden the selection to "a visual representation of your music of choice"...also sounds artsy fartsy when it's put that way.
...(And helm will fuck another goat)
I was hoping that for once, the words F***, Helm, and Goats, wouldn't be mentioned in an off-topic thread. A boy can dream...
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4091636603923402551&q=adventure%2Btime
"MY HAT IS - AWESOMEE!!!!"
They played this on nick? ...where the hell was i?
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Whelp, sounds interesting. Of course, I'd "Metal" my piece to Valhalla. Maybe instead of certain bands, you could broaden the selection to "a visual representation of your music of choice"...also sounds artsy fartsy when it's put that way.
...(And helm will fuck another goat)
I was hoping that for once, the words F***, Helm, and Goats, wouldn't be mentioned in an off-topic thread. A boy can dream...
Shame on you.
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Whelp, sounds interesting. Of course, I'd "Metal" my piece to Valhalla. Maybe instead of certain bands, you could broaden the selection to "a visual representation of your music of choice"...also sounds artsy fartsy when it's put that way.
That sounds really cool. Would be hard for the genres that don't have a stereotypical look, though. :) Metal would be easy.
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Like that thing we did a while ago where we pixel what we see when we listen to a song? Or something like that.
How about we have like, three or four songs, not well known (or even made by someone on the forums), then present them, untitled, for visual interpretation?
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Are you kidding? It's hard enough to pixel something staying still, but a dynamic WMP visualization? It'd would be nearly impossible to get a good representation of one of those. Sure, you could take a screenshot, and pixel from that, but that's cheating.
:P
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meh, so whats up with this whole "helm fucks a goat" thing anyway? where did that start? whats the deal with that? does helm have rabies?
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I was tempted to say something witty, spiteful, and undoubtedly scarring, but I've let you off with a link (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=2720.msg920#msg920).
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Goats are mostly good for sacrifice, I say. :-\
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Can we have the normal smileys back now please? As nice as these snowmen are - im getting pretty sick of xmas now.
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Um, what? Snowmen have nothing to do with christmas!
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yes, and winter is only halfway through.
Last week it was 70degrees in CT :) It hasn't even started yet for us!
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I'm just faced with cold.. harsh..windy winds..
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Um, what? Snowmen have nothing to do with christmas!
yes, that was a tragic error on my part.
ohwell - i do love the default forum smileys!
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Sexy avatar Feron. I didn't even realize it was you until just now ;-)
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Sexy avatar Feron. I didn't even realize it was you until just now ;-)
junkboy made it for me secret santa.
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ah. Well it makes you look badass, so wtg junkboy ;)
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>.< now i feelz embaressed sence my avatar sucks :'( :'( :'(
ill make a new one. right now. grr.
*waits for insperation to hit*
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Sexy avatar Feron
I'll second that!
Heh. Anyway, I'm glad you like it, Feron. In case you're wondering it's actually supposed to be Seiji from the band Guitar Wolf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Wolf). Pretty much the only punkrock-related thing I could come up with for Secret Santa.
And while I'm at it, everyone needs to check this movie out:
(http://www.trashcity.org/BLITZ/BLIT0878.JPG)
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Anyone feel like complaining any about my avatar, while we're on the topic..?
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you should make a new activity "the design rox a new avatar challenge".
your current one makes everyone thinks ur a girl. a girl who doesnt know how to AA! :P
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!!!
rox is a boy??
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Point taken, Feron.
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I knew you were a boy, because one of the first threads I read on the forum was discussing how Rox has a female avatar even though he's male, and I made a note of that ^_^ I think "Is a dude" under your avatar shall suffice :P
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that would just make me think his avatar was a dude, possibly even transvestite. a new masculine avatar is the only way to go!!
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I guess so.
Someone go start that challenge. We'll need ref pics. Lots of them. XP
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Someone go start that challenge. We'll need ref pics. Lots of them. XP
Yes. Some in sexy lingerie, too.
Wait. Rox is a guy.
We need reference pictures of the female people here in sexy lingerie. For Rox's avatar.
Also, in Rox's introduction, he kinda implies... Goats.
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How about a masculine signature for Rox?
But if you guys insist on a masculine avatar, I'd suggest an avatar of either Chuck Norris, Mr. T, or Tim the Toolman. ...Or even a pic of Helm since he is arguably the manliest man in the Pixelation forums.
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I'm man enough to rescue the president.
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Which president? 'Cause there's rescuing the president of the world manly, and then there's rescuing the president of the junior high chess club manly. Big difference.
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I'll be your president, Helm, if you promise to come rescue me!
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Argh! Look what you guys are doing to my poor online personality! You're right, I DO need a new avatar. A'ight, that'll be my belated new yers resolution! This year, I will make a new avatar! And it won't be a chick. Even though I like having Roxann there as my avatar, because she's totally nice to look at and easy to spot in the crowd with her flowing, simplistic, low-color goodness.
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The President of Presidents, of course.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/SnakemanEXE/Evolve.gif)
Roxxann evolved into Roxer.
Learned new move: S&M.
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Evolve? you mean sex change!
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It's like there are scorpions inside my eyes constantly stinging my retinas! !yus!
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No need to save Bush... :-X
And that's awesome Snake :crazy:
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/SnakemanEXE/Evolve.gif)
Roxxann evolved into Roxer.
Learned new move: S&M.
Roxers or breifs?
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Argh! Look what you guys are doing to my poor online personality! You're right, I DO need a new avatar. A'ight, that'll be my belated new yers resolution! This year, I will make a new avatar! And it won't be a chick. Even though I like having Roxann there as my avatar, because she's totally nice to look at and easy to spot in the crowd with her flowing, simplistic, low-color goodness.
If you like your current avatar than don't change it. It doesn't matter what people think. And you can always correct them.
I personally really like your avatar and have gotten used to it.
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This is really offtopic, but then I guess I'm in the right place eh?
I'm going book shopping today, and was wondering if there was anything you guys would recommend. Whether it be about traditional or pixel art, I need something to make up for the fact that I haven't learned anything new in my art class at school. :D
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This is really offtopic, but then I guess I'm in the right place eh?
I'm going book shopping today, and was wondering if there was anything you guys would recommend. Whether it be about traditional or pixel art, I need something to make up for the fact that I haven't learned anything new in my art class at school. :D
- Animators survival kit
- Any medical anatomy book
- A comic of your liking for inspiration perhaps
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy collection
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Art, Schmart. Just browse, chow down on some cheap food, and buy some shoes. ;)
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Oh yea.. I've wanted for a while to get the Hitchhiker's guide..
I think I'll also get one of the Post Secret books, and ... bunny suicides =D
Speaking of anatomy books, my mom probably has some - she just finished school 2 years ago.
Thanks ;) (though as it turns out I might not be able to go today :( )
Barnes and Noble does not offer cheap food, sorry to say. And .. I don't have a good reason not to buy shoes, but ummm naww. My mom said yesterday that if I want to buy books I actually need she'll pay me back for them. Which I'm planning to take advantage of since I'm running out of money.
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I like kitties
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCnOzwjAcJk
I doubt i could put up with owning one though :|
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I did and they're funnn!
Only mine liked to attack me when I was fighting with my sister.. but she was funnnn! =D
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If you like your current avatar than don't change it. It doesn't matter what people think. And you can always correct them.
I personally really like your avatar and have gotten used to it.
It's not quite that easy. This avatar is almost one year old now!
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it's very easy - if it's outdated then make a new one. if you like it anyway then keep it. if you're tired of people thinking you were a girl then make a new one. if you like your Roxanne in her low-color goodness but are tired of people thinking you're a girl and want to update it, then make a new manly avatar and Roxanne sig.
See? Easy ^___^
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Leel has all the answers. :y:
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t's very easy - if it's outdated then make a new one.
Rox suffers from procastinitis, though.
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in that case, start that thread, and someone will make a new one for him XP
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MUST POST ADVENTURE TIME (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4091636603923402551&q=adventure+time) EVERYWHERE.
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Let's talk about our feelings :P
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You're too slow (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=2988.msg37277#msg37277), Blick :-P
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Let's talk about our feelings :P
Weellll, I like to take long walks on the beach, I like soft cuddly, wuddly creatures, and I looove choc....Wait a minute. SENSITIVITY ALERT! SENSITIVITY ALERT! INDUCE MACHISMO TESTOSTERONE BACK INTO BLOOD STREAM: You, you she devil-Jezebel! You nearly fooled me into being a sissy...Never again!(flexes muscles)...MACHISMO BALANCE, NORMAL: END PROCESS...
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You're too slow, Blick :-P
Pft, you say it like it doesn't deserve a double post.
Blasphemy!
It gets me everytime he says "Rhombus!" And I love the music. It's like... if the Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack had a sort of epic chiptune twang.
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Weellll, I like to take long walks on the beach, I like soft cuddly, wuddly creatures, and I looove choc....Wait a minute. SENSITIVITY ALERT! SENSITIVITY ALERT! INDUCE MACHISMO TESTOSTERONE BACK INTO BLOOD STREAM: You, you she devil-Jezebel! You nearly fooled me into being a sissy...Never again!(flexes muscles)...MACHISMO BALANCE, NORMAL: END PROCESS...
do some pushups for me ;D
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I AM part sissy... and part hippie. It's really confusing at times!
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i think rox's new avatar should feture some macho character with huge muscles and guns and a couple of chicks in bikinis.
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i think rox's new avatar should feture some macho character with huge muscles and guns and a couple of chicks in bikinis.
That or perhaps Red Green...
(http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3272/redgreengoodsf0.jpg)
"Keep your stick on the ice."
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"Keep your stick on the ice."
i'll put my stick where i want it, and it certainly won't be icey :P
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Oh, I didn't say it doesn't deserve a double post, I was merely pointing out that you were beaten to the punch. I agree with you that this movie is totally math. Algebraic, even.
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"Keep your stick on the ice."
i'll put my stick where i want it, and it certainly won't be icey :P
:huh: O my. *hides*
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"Keep your stick on the ice."
i'll put my stick where i want it, and it certainly won't be icey :P
Better watch out what women you use a line like that on. Chances are you'll be needing to put your stick on ice after all.. :P
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Zing!
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I really want a Siamese cat. I wonder how expensive they are. probably a good amount if they're purebred.
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i have 2 siamese cats. they cost £250 each - thats just over $500 each, but they are pure bread. one of them could have easily been a champion show cat and the breeder was really regreting selling him to us. the other is a bit fat and rounded, shes my favourite though.
"Keep your stick on the ice."
i'll put my stick where i want it, and it certainly won't be icey :P
Better watch out what women you use a line like that on. Chances are you'll be needing to put your stick on ice after all.. :P
depends how much i pay for them.
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Yeah, i don't exactly have that kind of money on hand. :P
I know there are shelters near me that have 'rescue pets' and sometimes they are not extremely mixed, so maybe i could compromise on something of that nature. My dad despises cats so i will probably have to get one after i move out.
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My dad hated my cat too.
She peed in his shoes when he kicked her.
And when he fell asleep on a chair, she's jump into his arms and nap too.
Awh, I think she liked him.
Btw. I just wrote a really great paper. And so, I shall brag: it's great!
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I'm not much of a pet person, and I'm certainly not a fan of felines... However, I really want one of those hairless cats. They're so creepy cool.
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Why dont you just shave a cat?.
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The hair will just grow back.
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Hahahaha, because you'd have to shave it over and over and over again. Seeing as cats are prone to disembowelling humans on sight simply because they can't open the can of tuna fast enough, I don't really think I'm willing to perform an action that the cat might find even remotely unpleasant. That is, of course, besides strangling it.
Seriously, though, I think cats suck, but I don't really want to kill them. A kid that went to my high school put his cat in the microwave. They commited him to asylum of some sort, thankfully.
I've got an English Mastiff. She's now about 130 pounds, and dumb as a rock. For reference, you can see her here contemplating the intricacies of this leaf : http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y73/SaboteurGreg/Ramonaponderingleaves2-1.jpg
Such a cuddly demon :)
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my cats are ninjas. they would tear her apart. :P
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Hmm, hasn't this been discussed before? Any how, I'm not a fan of cats. Most cats I've met seem to be straight up, arse-holes. It's as if they don't care for companionship. More over, there just in it for the free food. It's almost like a stuck up member of royalty walking in and out saying, " Hmm, pet me now. That's enough, I take my leave. Oh, and by the way, I just tore that God-awful couch a new one, pissed in your shoes, and hawked a hair ball on your new carpet...toodles, I'll be back for my food tomorrow(licks fur and walks away with head turned up)"...just don't like cats.
Dogs are my homies. I can identify with them for some reason.(ugh, I miss my late pit bull. Greatest dog in the world I've ever met.)
Ooh, almost forgot to mention, I just bought a "One man army and the undead quartet" cd online through amazon.com, just received it yesterday. And I must say, I'm pissed. It came in as a ripped cd, where the crappy dealer tried to cut and paste the band logo onto the custom made cd design. Also, the back of the cd is awol, as the dealer got a piece of construction paper, and hand wrote the songs himself, just to comfort me. The worst part of this, is that the whole effin' cd is composed of 90+ individual tracks. "90 tracks for $6.99 you say? What a deal!" No, not what a deal, what a rip. There are only 10 tracks on the ACTUAL cd, so the 90 tracks are just parts of each song divided up into 30 seconds, making it frickin' annoying to download into my Windows media player to my custom play list. So if any one decides to order online music at amazon.com, stay away from the seller "ds336"...He just earned the status of "douche bag" in my book...
The B.O.B. out....
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Greatest dog in the world I've ever met.
i swear EVERY dog owner in the world says that about their own dogs.
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Just to get back to Adventure Time. Am I the only one that thinks it's complete and utter gash.
And what is this "This is so math!!", that's like the most retarded slang for something being good I heard in a long time. Maybe I am getting old.
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(hands Ptoing some depends diapers) It's ok, old man, we understand it's hard for you to understand. :P
I've seen the cartoon before. I didn't think it was as bad as you think it is. But it wasn't that great either. I don't actually recall laughing at it, but I did smile. I guess I just can't laugh at cartoons where the main characters have a young kid as the voice actor. Just annoys me for some reason. Despite the random humor, I didn't think it was that bad. I also noticed you posted a reply to this cartoon thingy in Punaji. I guess it must be really irking you, or something. Are there any cartoons that you enjoy, Ptoing?(past or present?)
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There are many cartoons I enjoy. As a recent one I would have to say Futurama. I also like stuff like Dexters Lab, Cow and Chicken and such, even Powerpuff Girls. Pretty much all old Looney tunes cartoons, old Disney stuff. The little mole, Dr Snuggles. I am a big fan of animation and funny shit. I LOVE nonsense, sometimes perhaps a bit more than is healthy (ask some people that know me a bit better and they will confirm this). But I just don't think AT was good in any way. It had a few slightly amusing parts in there, but they more or less were a "heh" instead of a "huh, wtf, stupid".
It just had nothing that could hold my interest, script could have been written by a 6 year old, the jokes were lame, the artstyle looked forced to me and it just was boring as hell. I can not help it, I have not seen something that I thought was so stupid in ages in terms of animation, esp not something so many others loved a lot. watev.
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(http://amblin.ath.cx/urls/url2image.php?id=164420)
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I have not seen something that I thought was so stupid in ages in terms of animation, esp not something so many others loved a lot. watev.
Someone hasn't seen Bratz...
I think a lot of the humor in Adventure Time for me came from the character movements. I laughed because the kid flailing just looked so funny. It's little subtleties that make me laugh, something about how the dog says "talk about our feelings" at the end, and the way the kid moves when he yells "My hat is awesome!" just get to me.
P.S. That's creepy, Evil Ville.
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I found the "Algebraic!" and "Mathematical!" parts hilarioius because I took it as a spoof on shows that try to make kids think learning is fun.
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I know Bratz exists, never seen the cartoon if there is any, but that stuff I would pretty much consider unwatchable, as in turn it off after 5 seconds max.
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ew bratz have a cartoon? Those things really creep me out. I've never been a huge fan of Barbies either, but at least they were human-esque :huh:
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I don't know anything about Bratz except the insanely annoying commercials. Oh, and the name. The name sounds like it's trying to make "brat" seem like a good thing, which it's not. The added Z at the end stands for rebellion and independence. And then they go about slaying that impression by trying to enslave kids and selling all kinds of princess make-up dolls and what not...
Skewed image? It's good to be a self-centered brat, IF you do it while looking like the beautiful princess you are! And don't forget the nightblack shades. And your pink skirt.
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Yeah, Bratz is obnoxious. Somehow little girls, and disturbed boys, just eat it up though.
I remember seeing the Saturday morning cartoons they have on Fox these days and I could've cried. Being a kid that grew up with Fox Kids, it's really daunting to see how far it's fallen. I remember being so mad when they removed afternoon cartoons because at the time I didn't have cable and it was the only cartoons on every weekday, besides The Simpsons. I gathered what little sustenance I could out of PBS, but Arthur, Caillou and Between the Lions can only be entertaining for so long. Okay, that a lie. Arthur is always entertaining.
Anyway, the point is, I hated the final years of Fox Kids, hated the switch to Fox Box and hated it even more when 4Kids Entertainment took over.
The glory days are over, o my brothers.
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on adventure time, I think it was better than the average cartoon today, even the simpsons sucks now
cartoons I do like however: futurama, clone high (even though theres only 13 episodes ("jclejcjc")) south park, american dad... and perhaps family guy though I can tell I will soon hate it
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family guy and futurama are algebraic.
simpsons is pretty mathmatical too.
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Rocko's Modern Life is sooooo rhombus.
As is Angry Beavers.
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Cousin Skeeter.
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I'm going to have to go with ptoing about the 'algebraic' and 'mathematical' thing.
<.<
>.>
I'm more Euclidean than you.
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Evil-Ville, that's awesome. :)
I remember seeing the Saturday morning cartoons they have on Fox these days and I could've cried. Being a kid that grew up with Fox Kids, it's really daunting to see how far it's fallen.
I know what you're talking about. :ouch: Now it's so bad that I just sleep until 1:00. They got rid of all the shows I enjoyed (Fighting Foodons, Ultimate Muscle). TMNT is okay, but not worth getting up early for.
On the subject of Saturday Morning cartoons, Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain ruled. On a general cartoon note, The Tick ruled as well. Oh, and Looney Tunes of course.
The only cartoon I watch nowadays is Futurama. I can't stand Family Guy, and the new episodes of the Simpsons are just terrible.
As for Adventure Time, I enjoyed it, some of the parts were retarded in the little-children's-show sense, the part where he's trying to tell the joke to the unicorn was pretty great though. :)
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http://www.mutevj.com/
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This is a neat app. i found while browsing www.cssimport.com
It's a neat video/swf/image mixer with some neat filters, if any of you are into flash or video, greenscreen... anything like that. open source, too!
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Does anyone else have a horde of dreams when you sleep when sick?
I do. And I wake up constantly, so I can get up to a dozen different dreams a night. Being entertained when sleeping is awesome.
Also, when I say Fox Kids, I'm talking The Tick, Big Bad Beetleborgs, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Eek! and the Terrible Thunderlizards, Bobby's World, Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men, Beast Wars, Spider Man, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, Cybersix and even the first season of Digimon deserves a mention in my book. Basically from 1990-2000 had a lot of good stuff. It also had a lot of crap, but at least it wasn't only crap, like 4Kids is.
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I do. And I wake up constantly, so I can get up to a dozen different dreams a night. Being entertained when sleeping is awesome.
lol once i dreamed that I was follower by some police, then I dreamed I was a super hero lol, and finally I dreamed that all the stars disappeared, except for a triangle formed by three stars lol <.< yeah, these are all odd dreams.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRdj6vImF8E
Yo.
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beast is the most hilarious one.
gambit was my fav.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRdj6vImF8E
Yo.
Ive been watching all the parts.. damn it brings back memories
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forgot how cool some of the intros are, batman and MIB especially
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Is anybody else working on that 4month gamedev thingy at 2dgamers?
I am.
http://www.box.net/public/g5htp05l6d
I have a bit of work ahead of me :D
Tileset will undergo mass tweaks tomorrow, maybe i'll get a little tune in there and a bounding box for those clingy feet
Plot summary will follow once i get my design document laid out better.
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I look forward to seeing it after the tweaks, at the moment it suffers from gamemaker-itis, getting stuck in tiles, accelerating descent etc
good luck :y:
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at the moment it suffers from gamemaker-itis, getting stuck in tiles, accelerating descent etc
That happens with all game development, not just gamemaker.
on a different note, I wanted to ask this question:
I had an old Mac Quadra (at least, i think it was that model) many years back, and i remember this 3d game for it, and you are this sort elongated pyramid polygon and you go around a geometrical maze trying to shoot an opponent. All i remember was that the enemy's name was sometimes 'Artemis'
Does anyone remember that or know the title?
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Wouldn't it be a big ol coincidence if it was depth dwellers
http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/depthdwellers/depth.zip.html
Some guy on another site was looking for that earlier; and i was the only one who could find it.
If it's not (chances are)
you might try this list.
http://www.dosgames.com/g_3d.php
I'm not sure if it's all pc stuff or what.
You could just try looking at a mac gaming site too, there's like 10 games for mac :-* ::) ::) :crazy:
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woo i decided to come back here :D
Does anyone else have a horde of dreams when you sleep when sick?
I do. And I wake up constantly, so I can get up to a dozen different dreams a night. Being entertained when sleeping is awesome.
i get them all the time, not when im just sick
whats annoying though that almost all my dreams have a video game influence but they're still pretty cool
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Wouldn't it be a big ol coincidence if it was depth dwellers
http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/depthdwellers/depth.zip.html
Some guy on another site was looking for that earlier; and i was the only one who could find it.
If it's not (chances are)
you might try this list.
http://www.dosgames.com/g_3d.php
I'm not sure if it's all pc stuff or what.
You could just try looking at a mac gaming site too, there's like 10 games for mac :-* ::) ::) :crazy:
hmmm... nope. the one i am looking for isn't really a first person shooter. it's like a 3d arcade game. there are no textures, everything is just like... vector. no sprites, textures, just colored geometrical polygons. you shoot little triangles too.
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I noticed that there's a few Texan fighting game fans here, and to you guys I ask: did you go to Texas Showdown last year? Do you plan on going this year? What games do you guys play?
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I emailed my classmate asking whether we're gonna have questions all everything we covered this semester on the World Politics midterm, or just questions on the assigned articles.
She answered "Yea"
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I don't know what that means! Dammit now I'm gonna have to actually read my notes and such. Eeek.
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I noticed that there's a few Texan fighting game fans here, and to you guys I ask: did you go to Texas Showdown last year? Do you plan on going this year? What games do you guys play?
I didn't go last year but I heard it was pretty fekkin terrible as far as how it was run. Quite a debacle. Lost sponsors, not enough equipment, bigtime delays, etc. The only good things I heard was from people who hung out and played games at their hotels. But I do plan on going this year, even though my skillZ have withered to the point of trashy sub-scrub.
This year's tournament will be held as part of an anime convention, so at the very least I can laugh at cosplay geeks/hit on cosplay girls.
I mostly play 3rd Strike and KOF. I suck at GG but I'm slowly getting there. Hate MVC2, decent in CVS2 and Alpha 2/3. I like Melty Blood but there's no comp, and I won't touch Tekken/SC/VF.
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Leel: I look back on high school and realize that most of it was pretty useless. I shouldn't have been allowed to graduate. I'm the reason our school system sucks so bad. It's damn near impossible to screw up during those years. I can't even remember how many classes I failed... algebra I, geometry, biology, chemistry, English 10, I really should have failed physics, economics and English 12, but just got lucky. Then managed to scrape up enough D's and half assed correspondence courses to earn my diploma in time. It seems really stressful when it's happening, when you're spending nights looking over notes and basically doing everything I never did do, but you'll probably go to college and realize how trivial it all was. That's what I did. Then I failed out of college/dropped out. I don't know if my point is "don't worry so much" or "worry more, or you'll be a fuck up like me", I forgot where I was going with all of this.
Strangely enough, the only class I really excelled in was AP Government. The only AP class I ever took. Unless you count gym. I was a pickle ball badass, playing with a broken arm and still getting a top spot in the tournament.
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I didn't go last year but I heard it was pretty fekkin terrible as far as how it was run. Quite a debacle. Lost sponsors, not enough equipment, bigtime delays, etc. The only good things I heard was from people who hung out and played games at their hotels. But I do plan on going this year, even though my skillZ have withered to the point of trashy sub-scrub.
This year's tournament will be held as part of an anime convention, so at the very least I can laugh at cosplay geeks/hit on cosplay girls.
I mostly play 3rd Strike and KOF. I suck at GG but I'm slowly getting there. Hate MVC2, decent in CVS2 and Alpha 2/3. I like Melty Blood but there's no comp, and I won't touch Tekken/SC/VF.
Yeah, it wasn't run very well at all. I ended up staying till 4 effing AM in the morning just to lose in KOF XI and GGXX. The only ones I've played seriously, or at least tried to have been KOF, SF(except the Alphas), T5, DOA(3, though I did pretty well during casuals for 4), tried GG but I just can't play that game with a stick (where it matters), and I'm best at Project Justice/Rival Schools.
Sadly, no one else plays PJ seriously except for me, it seems.
What's the convention called that's going to hold TS7? It's not Anime Matsuri, is it?
EDIT: Answered my own question there. I was planning on going to this convention, but didn't know TS7 was gonna be there.
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It is. Hopefully the anime tie-in will draw some competition from Japan.
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Yeah, apparently Planet Zero (the arcade hosting the convention) made plans with four arcades in Japan to get their best to compete and then bring them down here to compete against us (http://www.animematsuri.com/_showdown.html ). Looks like I've got a few months to refine my skills...
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Cool. When the Japanese show up, you can usually count on the better Cali players to make the trip for some good comp. I doubt I'll be able to even remotely place in anything, but I'd still like to go for the experience. Better start saving up...
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Speaking of fighting games, I made this combo video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLFKjJl5qBM) recently.
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Leel: I look back on high school and realize that most of it was pretty useless. I shouldn't have been allowed to graduate. I'm the reason our school system sucks so bad. It's damn near impossible to screw up during those years. I can't even remember how many classes I failed... algebra I, geometry, biology, chemistry, English 10, I really should have failed physics, economics and English 12, but just got lucky. Then managed to scrape up enough D's and half assed correspondence courses to earn my diploma in time. It seems really stressful when it's happening, when you're spending nights looking over notes and basically doing everything I never did do, but you'll probably go to college and realize how trivial it all was. That's what I did. Then I failed out of college/dropped out. I don't know if my point is "don't worry so much" or "worry more, or you'll be a fuck up like me", I forgot where I was going with all of this.
Strangely enough, the only class I really excelled in was AP Government. The only AP class I ever took. Unless you count gym. I was a pickle ball badass, playing with a broken arm and still getting a top spot in the tournament.
My school is rediculous, many of the teacher don't know half of what they're teaching and the standards are quite low. I don't care too much about grades, but my parents have high expectations for me (I'm SO glad I wasnt there when my dad found out that I only applied to a community college :P) so I still have to do well enough to 'have some sort of future' as they put it. But you're right, most of that stuff doesn't even matter.
The exam turned out to be just on the articles, so I didn't miss anything from the notes I never read heh. People from the other class were complaining that it was so long and hard and they wrote 8 pages and blah blah and I was pretty scared to go take it, but it wasn't hard at all! long, yes, but hard? meh. All we had to do was read 3 articles (2 of which we got a week before the exam anyway) and talk about the thesis and such. It wasn't even in essay form, just answering questions including details and examples. Geez, and I got so worked up over it. (for about 20 minutes, but still)
I gave up on gym last quarter, when after having done like 30 laps everyday for the entire quarter (and I didn't even know how to swim before that) I got 80% in gym because I didn't make up two classes when I was absent. Who makes up gym?! ugh. So I figured out participation doesn't matter, so I don't do shit anymore. Let the jocks have their fun, I'll hang in the corner. Except for volleyball, I love volleyball. =D
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My school is depressing. Algebra 2 has been a complete repeat of algebra 1, the only two new things I've learned are matrices and that it's a good class to do science work in. English I enjoy, but nobody gives me critiques that wouldn't be at home on a dolling forum. I ask for suggestions for character names or plot twists, I get ramblings and praise. My spanish teacher is insane and tells us about life in mexico where they killed chickens for company and never slacked on homework, and she claims she's a neurosurgeon. I don't know if she really is or not. My science teacher treats us like kindergarteners and has us do "labs" with goldfish crackers and colored pencils. The population of my art class is in in-school suspension or aiming to get into the rehabilitation program because it's easier to pass classes, and everyone is insane about their Ipods and game consoles. Gym is a fun class, mainly because I'm smaller than most peeps and they underestimate me. Also because America is getting fatter and fatter on average.
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Pkmays, who do you play in 3s? If you tell me you're a Chun SA2 I'm going to kick you in the nuts.
I'm jealous that you have Planet Zero down there.. I'm familiar with the place, and somewhat with the scene you dudes have. That arcade sounds amazing, I never hear anything but praise from the people that play there.
I'm in LA and go to FFA.. the comp is great but the arcade is a shithole. A dirty, dank, smelly shithole. But at least I get the chance to get my ass kicked by Pyrolee, Edma, etc whenever I do show up.
I noticed that there's a few Texan fighting game fans here, and to you guys I ask: did you go to Texas Showdown last year? Do you plan on going this year? What games do you guys play?
I'm not from Texas, but I really want to make it over to Texas Showdown one of these years. I almost went to EVO last year but couldn't.
I play 3s seriously as Oro SA3, and occasionally as Dudley SA3 or Q SA2. I play Garou and LB2, but there's no comp out here, let alone an SNK machine of any type. I like CvS2 and Alpha 2/3 but I don't play them seriously on any level. And so, so, so many times, I've tried to get into GG, but I just can't do it. The learning curve on that game is too crazy for me.
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Pkmays, who do you play in 3s? If you tell me you're a Chun SA2 I'm going to kick you in the nuts.
I played SA2 Chun back when the game was only in arcades and Dreamcast, back when it was relatively obscure and I had no idea what the tiers where. After the PS2 version came out, I got sick of all the Chuns and dropped her altogether and stuck with Makoto and Ibuki (and Sean, for shits and giggles).
I'm jealous that you have Planet Zero down there.. I'm familiar with the place, and somewhat with the scene you dudes have. That arcade sounds amazing, I never hear anything but praise from the people that play there.
There's a HUGE jump in quality when it comes to the fighter scenes in Houston and Dallas. DFW is dubbed "casual city" as most of the players there aren't serious/don't go to tournaments/would rather play at home on console. Houston has Planet Zero, but all we have are a few small arcades scattered around the metroplex that might carry one or two newish fighters. Due to the whole dance/rhythm craze, arcades are doing better nowadays than five years ago, but it's still not what you'd expect from such a large city.
I'm in LA and go to FFA.. the comp is great but the arcade is a shithole. A dirty, dank, smelly shithole. But at least I get the chance to get my ass kicked by Pyrolee, Edma, etc whenever I do show up.
Sounds about the same as Dallas, except all the good players who used to live there have moved on to Houston, Austin, or Cali by now.
There's also a small but loyal SNK following in DFW. I'd generally prefer to be stuck on an island with Garou and KOF98 rather that 3rd Strike and Super Turbo.
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I played SA2 Chun back when the game was only in arcades and Dreamcast, back when it was relatively obscure and I had no idea what the tiers where. After the PS2 version came out, I got sick of all the Chuns and dropped her altogether and stuck with Makoto and Ibuki (and Sean, for shits and giggles).
Yeah.. FFA is kind of disappointing because of all of the Kens and Chuns. Especially when Oro has such a crap matchup vs. Chun. There are some great low-tier players, though.. getting your ass handed to you by a good Hugo or Twelve is always really humbling.
There's also a small but loyal SNK following in DFW. I'd generally prefer to be stuck on an island with Garou and KOF98 rather that 3rd Strike and Super Turbo.
I never understood why people didn't pick up Garou in the states. It's just as pretty as 3s, it's far more balanced, it requires just as much technical skill, it came out at roughly the same time. Such a fun game.
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Turkish Star Wars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbYczbBlatA)
This has warped my perception of reality forever.
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Akzidenz: do you ever play online through MAME? I'd love to play LB2 against someone that's good.
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Turkish Star Wars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbYczbBlatA)
This has warped my perception of reality forever.
.... w..?
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Algebra 2 has been a complete repeat of algebra 1, the only two new things I've learned are matrices and that it's a good class to do science work in.
Haha, algebra II is apparently overrated. I went from algebra I to geometry (and failed the first semester because I couldn't wrap my mind around proofs, or didn't want to, I'm not sure), and then when I got into college I completely skipped algebra II and went straight to precalc and I felt like I missed nearly nothing. It may have been because I took physics instead of taking a math class my senior year that kept me practicing with math. I think algebra II is mainly in place to keep your logic straight and to keep all equations cemented in your mind. That was my only problem with precalc, is that I'd have to work a bit harder because I didn't have as much practice or knowledge with algebra and if you don't know your algebra, you don't even make it to the calculus side of things.
I remember my biology teacher would use words interchangeably that didn't mean the same thing, so she'd explain labs to us, but wouldn't realize she wasn't making any sense. She'd start the sentence referring to recessive genes and end the sentence referring to binomial nomenclature. Like she'd put two sentences together, and then leave out words to make it fit into one sentence. It was strange. I failed second semester and retook it through correspondence and it was easy and I couldn't understand why it was so hard for me to understand in the first place.
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There was a point in my life when I could remember all the rules, and I never studied for any Calc. test. Studying for math just seems so...weird. Did anybody else feel this way? I mean, if it was history, or chemistry, I found myself studying to understand the point. But with math, it just clicked instantly. It's almost as if it was second nature.
However, I've took nearly a year off of college, and I must say, I don't feel like getting back on the saddle. I don't want to go back for computer science as my major, because I don't think my common sense is anywhere near the common mans, so having to come up with your own way to program was too hard for me. Java, my mortal enemy till death. Not to mention, ALL my memory of Calc equations and whatnot have disappeared off the cerebral plane of my brain. All other subjects, I can pick up on. It's simple. Just friggin' read, remember, and write your opinion. Very simple formula for most classes in college, especially History and English. But Math/Calc takes precision. Any small mistake, or misplaced negative integer can screw up the master plan. I can't believe I passed Calculus 2 with a 93! All I did was talk to this girl the whole time, during the lessons.
My favorite class in College was art. Didn't do much, but it was basically me and two others who always stole the spot light.(talent wasn't the factor, but moreover, we were with people who were taking the elective just for the free credit, hence their attitude of "I don't give a fluke, I just want this class to end already")
So now, I'm stuck with the resounding decision to go back to college, and get my life back on track. First things first, I need to choose a new major. But what? I'm only good at art, and I don't like jobs associated with math. The main reason I came to Dallas to live with my brother was to go to school at the Art Institute. But from the horror stories I've been told, not only by him, but many others also, I'm not so sure I can handle the debt I'll be in, if I decide to go. Screw it. With Art I'd rather study from life, and friends. I guess business is the best option for me for now. Maybe when I get my skills up, I can start turning up some cheap t-shirts or something. Or maybe even start a mini-mini-web site, dedicated to creating webisodes with my friends back home. Bah, I need to decide quick. Who knows, I may even accept a pixel art job for once, and get my feet wet.(I'm still a pixel-job virgin, ya know). This grey area is closing in on me. Any one have any suggestions towards a good major?(if you say law, I'm going to slap you...)
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Hey, I got my driver's license today, by-the-way. :)
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B.O.B., I got a degree in Communication Design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_Design) at a community college, and it was a good all around course for anyone interested in 2D digital graphics. It's a two year degree and covers how to create digital graphics and layouts using industry standard tools. Most of my time was spent using Photoshop and Illustrator to design images and logos. There was also some basic HTML and Flash website design, some Director and Premier courses for multimedia, and some InDesign for publication. It pretty well took me thru the paces of what software a commercial artist needs to work digitally (unfortuatly, it didn't cover any 3d). It also includes the basic selection of traditional art classes; Drawing I & II, Painting and Sculpture. Only basic drawing skills are needed to do good in the Comm classes, but illustration skills and creativity definitely help.
Of course, you could learn all that on your own while taking another course, like business, but college is hard enough when you major in something you're actually passionate about.
Sounds like you already got a lot of prerequisite academic and art classes out of the way. Whatever you decide on, you could be looking at a year or maybe a year and a half until you get a degree.
And yeah, I'm actually thinking of getting a CS degree now...
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:wah: Likho! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likho)
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BOB:
Ironically, art was my least favorite class of all time. I mean, high school art. I probably would've liked AP art or college art, because I think in both of those classes all you do is create a portfolio of various mediums. In normal high school art it was project after project of stuff I didn't want to do. I remember there were two projects I actually learned from, one being linoleum block printing from a photograph and the other was a complicated Prismacolor piece from a photograph. We had to get a picture, draw the outlines, grayscale it on the first layer, then the idea was that laying a color over the gray would be like instant shadow. Like Technicolor. That's not necessarily how shadows work, and the paper wasn't thick enough to handle it though. I think I want to try linoleum block printing again someday. I just like the feel of carving warm linoleum and the sound of rolling on the ink.
I once planned on going to the Art Institute of Seattle. But then I thought "I suck too much and make too little."
I can start turning up some cheap t-shirts or something.
It's so funny, people always seem to gravitate towards that idea. I remember I went to a local place to see their prices for printing shirts and they gave me a minimum amount of shirts I'd have to buy to put an image on (it was 60, I think) and how much that would cost ($120something) and I was like "Oh, screw that. I'd rather iron on some oil pastel shit."
Also, a lot of people I know go into psychology, I guess it's actually pretty interesting stuff.
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I remember I went to a local place to see their prices for printing shirts and they gave me a minimum amount of shirts I'd have to buy to put an image on (it was 60, I think) and how much that would cost ($120something) and I was like "Oh, screw that. I'd rather iron on some oil pastel shit."
Two bucks a shirt? That seems cheap? would that be the entire price, or just for the shirts, and then the printing is extra? Cos i mean, if you pay 2 dollars to have a shirt made and then turn around and sell em for 10 (which is cheap for graphic T's) then i think you'd be making some nice profit.
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Oh, and I'd have to pay for the shirts. The $120 is the "artist fee". Their shirts cost $15.
So it's like buying 60 $17 shirts.
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Mathematically, it'd be 7.0588235294117647058823529411765 $17 shirts for the whole $120 amount.
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You can buy t-shirts wholesale online for about $2 apiece (nice t-shirts, too), maybe lower if you look around. If you live in or near a major city, you can find them even cheaper at wholesale stores and then you don't have to pay for shipping. You can build a silkscreening setup for fairly cheap, also.. it's even better if you're on or near a campus that has a silkscreening facility that you can get into.
If you were really interested in doing that, and you felt like you could move the shirts fairly quickly, you could turn a mean profit. After buying/making your screens, you'd be able to put out a shirt for less than $4, shirt and supplies included.
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Mathematically, it'd be 7.0588235294117647058823529411765 $17 shirts for the whole $120 amount.
The $120 is the artist fee. It's completely separate from the price of the shirts. It's a 60 shirt minimum at $15, so $900, plus an artist fee of $120, which would make it $1,020 or more simply, 60 $17 shirts, which comes out with the same result.
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hotel dusk room 215 :yay: :y:
the game is great
and prisonbreak and heroes have started back up on TV, not as exciting as the cliffhangers they left on a month or two ago, but what do you expect
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omg
Heroes pwns
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omg
Heroes pwns
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I KNOW
Hayden Panettiere. She's so hot.
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Hurray for playing live.
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Dude. I have the fucking same guitar.
Do you have any recorded stuff?
EDIT:
Oh wait, never mind...mines more of a mahogany finish; from what I can tell, your's is straight up red lacquer.
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I killed the off topic thread :'(
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I killed the off topic thread :'(
First stage is admitting it.. second is being arrested.
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or shot.
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Or you will be slowly shredded into pieces and eaten by the admins.
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Who knows, I may even except a pixel art job for once, and get my feet wet.(I'm still a pixel-job virgin, ya know).
with all the hits your work gets being in the tops at pixeljoint, you could have sooooo many jobs. unlike me you could probably get paid what you ask for :P
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Or you will be slowly shredded into pieces and eaten by the admins.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b177/stwelin/helmeat.gif)
(andyes, helm, i know your hair is much longer. :P)
Edit: also, http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239&q=windows+386&b3ta
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And now you get an F for pulling a copy/paste off the net.
... what was the point of that rap segment exactly? Make Windows "cool" with business people? Wrong market perhaps?
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And now you get an F for pulling a copy/paste off the net.
Wh..a..? Is that addressed to me?
Iunno what the rap was about... it was pretty "80's" i guess?
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Yeah, that was kinda '80s. But not quite on the level of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPr9VWHnfZ0) or this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw9s7mwf2FQ).
Also, lol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIUkwPybtM)
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Wh..a..? Is that addressed to me?
I meant in school assignments, not your link. ;)
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pkmays = blumunkee?
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Duh.
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I remember you mentioned that you were an old member, then I saw this (http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/6040.htm) and was like "Where the hell is that tutorial I think he made on selout on Zoggles' site..." in hopes that part of your real name would be in it that matched the P or K or Mays. Then Zoggles' site is down so I just had to resort to asking.
Yeah, I'm a detective like that. Finding that the creator of a blumunkee avatar is actually the blumunkee I remember from way back when. Hold your applause and gasps of awe, everyone.
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Duh.
Your beatifull avatar...it's gone!!! :'(
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Duh.
Your beatifull avatar...it's gone!!! :'(
I was going to say the same thing :'(.
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(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4061/mooniniteja7.gif) :wah:
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Oh thats it Mister, I'm calling the government and reporting you right away. First the billboards, now pixel-art websites. I don't think so, young man. Shame, shame, shame on you....
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ahh it was hilarious, foxnews just blows me away "cartoon network are terrorists" then they interview someone in the streets and theyre like "oh yah, mooninite, nothing to be worried about" then they cut away until they find some moron scared of a light bright panel.
best part was they were up for weeks and no one was scared, then all of a sudden people are omging all over the place
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HOLY SHIT! WHAT IS THAT!?!?!?! ADMIN!!!!!
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Yeah... people truly do suck. I say people because I have no idea who to blame for the stupidity of whoever caused the reaction that eventually... got... caused...
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I'm glad it happened.
Because it's hilarious.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4G-D0F4Q9yk
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OH LOL XD This is the most hilarious thing I've heard of in months.
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That's the most retarded thing I've heard of. Seriously.
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Hahaha. that's fucking briliant!
Blegh blegh blegh. All Americans on this board: Don't take it person al, but I really don't understand most Americans.
Can't stand alot of them, especially Bush.
All Americans I've seen here are good persons though :D
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As an American, I can guarantee you that there's no such thing as "most Americans" or "the average American." Nice thing about the whole boiling pot nature of the states is you come across the full spectrum of beliefs, personalities, and biases. Unfortunately, some of the most vocal and well known Americans are rich conservative white politicians and egotistical attention starved celebrities.
The whole Boston scare thing was brought about primarily from ignorance and the huge rift that exists between the old and the young.
Also, many baby boomers are certified idiots.
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As an American, I can guarantee you that there's no such thing as "most Americans" or "the average American." Nice thing about the whole boiling pot nature of the states is you come across the full spectrum of beliefs, personalities, and biases. Unfortunately, some of the most vocal and well known Americans are rich conservative white politicians and egotistical attention starved celebrities.
The whole Boston scare thing was brought about primarily from ignorance and the huge rift that exists between the old and the young.
Also, many baby boomers are certified idiots.
Exactly, and those white rich ignorant politicians give America a damn bad name, as my post proved.
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There isn't an 'average american' yet there's large segments of the american population that keep voting people like Bush into office. It's difficult not to realize some political ( or apolitical ) trends in that country.
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There isn't an 'average american' yet there's large segments of the american population that keep voting people like Bush into office. It's difficult not to realize some political ( or apolitical ) trends in that country.
Yes, a large part of the voting population. And, the Bush/Kerry race was one of the closest in American history.
But meh, lets please not debate politics. I can think of about a hundred things I'd rather do than debate politics, and most of them have to deal with me being violated anally against my will.
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Pixelation needs more collabs goin' on. The smashing together of 2 styles is a wonderful thing.
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I loved how the 2 guys just talked about their hair. Although, somebody should tell them that the long "hippie" hair has been around for thousands of years and is a timeless classic, everyone should know that!
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Pixelation needs more collabs goin' on. The smashing together of 2 styles is a wonderful thing.
MAybe a nice idea for after Pixelator:
The same, you duel, but with teams of 2 people.
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I like that idea, Opacus :D.
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mccow28:
me and you, right now.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnG_Ce8Qz9w
This was recently presented by Royal Deluxe on my country; a gorgeus show in every possible sense.
Kudos, to the performers and Royal Deluxe itself.
What do you guys think about it?
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ok.. day break is such an awesome show I have to tell you all, it really puts everything else to shame
I'll just briefly explain it:
black cop is framed for the murder of a man he never met, he gets thrown in prison and late at night is forced out of his cell and taken to a quarry where he is shown a video of someone killing his girlfriend and watching his sister's family, they then tell him to stop claiming innocence and to confess for the murder, they inject him in the neck and he goes to sleep.
he wakes up, and the same birds are chirping on his window sill, the same couple jogging outside and his girlfriend wakes up much alive and says the same thing, at this point the name 'day break' makes sense.
and what really makes this show for me is no characters are idiots, Ive never watched an episode and been like "why didn't he do this and that!?"
so, obviously the cop is stuck in the same day until he presumably fixes everything and exposes the conspiracy. You have to appreciate the story, how the entire thing all pans out in one day and its so intricate, he explores a specific possibility each day and the outcome of each day varies a lot depending on his actions.
Ive always enjoyed the idea of the butterfly effect, and everyone loves time travel, throw in some excellent characters, excellent action scenes, an amazing story and youve got perfection
plus it's only going to be 13 episodes, so its a very tight experience that isn't stretched out for the sake of airing longer.
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@ .TakaM
Reminds me a lot about the movie Groundhog Day. Only slightly more serious. ... slightly.
I'm glad it happened.
Because it's hilarious.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4G-D0F4Q9yk
Anyone remember what happined to the Mario "?" box project? People responded in exactly the same way. Someone made a ?-box and put it in public for fun. People called the cops. Bomb squad came in, found nothing of course. Media were ignorant and placed blames. The owner of the website that had the idea was made the enemy. Jack Thompson poked his nose in to make PR for himself.
The only thing this case lacks is Thompson pointing out game references in the moonities and we'll be all set.
On the subject of the "Silly Americans", the US has an enormous media distrebution, which is why people know about it. Things on TV are always exaggerated to make things more interesting, including the news. Unless you're able to see something for yourself, you're bound to go for stereotypes or what you make of the media that commes from that place. (for example that animé, ninjas and perverted men are what Japan is all about. What about countries we hear less about, like Malta or Uzbekistan?) The wrong people have been shouting the most, that's all.
One last thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtXrKo8Btfc One man band. I've had this melody in my head for at least 2-3 weeks now.
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daybreak actually made me watch groundhog day :P
good movie, albeit a lot more peaceful
Im up to the 10th episode, downloaded and watched 4 today :lol:
i need the 11th ._.
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mccow28:
me and you, right now.
Busy right now, sorry. Making a minigame for a friendly competition.
After that, sure. :)
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snake: Yes, Bobby McFerrin is /amazing/. Have you watched any of the other videos of him on youtube? I especially liked the ones of him improvising with other people, such as Richard Bona and an accordion trio.
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I have. His improvisations are just great to watch. I found the 'Ave maria' video to be one of the most interesting. He can hit and devide every chord.
Incidentally, I used "Don't worry, be happy" on my final 3d project last year. Guess it proves how addictive his tunes are.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnG_Ce8Qz9w
This was recently presented by Royal Deluxe on my country; a gorgeus show in every possible sense.
Kudos, to the performers and Royal Deluxe itself.
What do you guys think about it?
That is the awesomest thing I have ever seen.
I want one.
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The people are just for show. The girl can actually move by herself.
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ok.. day break is such an awesome show I have to tell you all, it really puts everything else to shame
I'll just briefly explain it:
black cop is framed for the murder of a man he never met, he gets thrown in prison and late at night is forced out of his cell and taken to a quarry where he is shown a video of someone killing his girlfriend and watching his sister's family, they then tell him to stop claiming innocence and to confess for the murder, they inject him in the neck and he goes to sleep.
he wakes up, and the same birds are chirping on his window sill, the same couple jogging outside and his girlfriend wakes up much alive and says the same thing, at this point the name 'day break' makes sense.
and what really makes this show for me is no characters are idiots, Ive never watched an episode and been like "why didn't he do this and that!?"
so, obviously the cop is stuck in the same day until he presumably fixes everything and exposes the conspiracy. You have to appreciate the story, how the entire thing all pans out in one day and its so intricate, he explores a specific possibility each day and the outcome of each day varies a lot depending on his actions.
Ive always enjoyed the idea of the butterfly effect, and everyone loves time travel, throw in some excellent characters, excellent action scenes, an amazing story and youve got perfection
plus it's only going to be 13 episodes, so its a very tight experience that isn't stretched out for the sake of airing longer.
Graah! That sounds like an idea I had for a novel. Now if I actually d0 go and write it, they'll say it hearkens back to this show I've never heard of.
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Happens to me all the time, Xion.
All. The. Time.
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Happens to me all the time, Xion.
All. The. Time.
Example:
Rox: Man, I really like Chocolate. But I also love peanut butter. Oh what ever shall I do?!!
* * *
Rox: (light idea brightens above head) I've got the solution! (grabs peanut butter and mixes with chocolate.)
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Stranger: (innocently awaits his coffee at stereo-typical cafe)
Rox: Why hello young sir. I have brilliantly concocted the most delicious snack your taste buds have ever met! Would you like to try a sample?
Stranger:...sure.(grabs chocolate-peanut butter snack)
Stranger: Yeah, this is pretty good.
Rox: Good?...GOOD?! Why it's better than good, sir, it's the best damn snack alive!! Nothing else like it!!
...
Stranger: Umm...Haven't you ever heard of Reeses peanut butter cups? The candy that comes in a orange rapper...and in cups?
Rox: (looks at Reese's candy bar) Reeses Pea...pea....peanut Butt-arghh....NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
This has been a day in the life, of the one known as "Rox"...
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Am I the only one that still likes purple shadows? Am I, like, 2 years behind the in crowd, or what? :B
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Haha. There's a reason why people do it, tis cus it's a visually pleasing but quite easy way to hueshift, i guess. But recently people have been doing it ALOT so most of us are kinda tired of seeing it, even if it still works. :y:
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just keep using purple shadows so that you can be unique when everybody else has moved on.
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I like purple shadows. Just not on ground textures.
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I just stumbled on this a while ago. Don't really know if it's old or not, but I still laughed at it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=chiVMrWMHko
I'm sure any true metal head will enjoy this. It's funny...well, to me it is, anyway...
("watch out for the screamo kids..." I laughed out loud on that one.)
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his CD "Nerd Rage" is mostly hit-and-miss, but the good bits are good.
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I SPOTTED BRUCE LEE FIRST
Edit: picture removed due to secret police
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DAMMIT I WAS GONNA BE FIRST
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Bruce is back! Haha, just saw it after I read your post. Looks awesome, nice work whomever pixelled him. :)
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DAMMIT I WAS GONNA BE FIRST
i've got like 3 minutes on you.
:hehe:
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you should take down the screenshot so that nobody knows what we're talking about ;)
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i just caught a part of his head. Hahaha.
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So fast?!
I did it with help from Ptoing, but don't give me credit, it's color reduced photo and overpixelled. The reasoning is that since doesn't stay on screen for long, the likeness has to be strong. Still every pixel is manually cared for, but it's still a wire job. So no credit for likeness skill please.
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Man, what THE HELL are you guys talking about?
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Nothing.
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Holy carp, did Bwoos Wee just pop up? That's freaky, man. I just like, switched over from GGale and he made like a ninja and ran away. I wasn't even sure I saw him.
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you didn't. its an illusion.
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Having him winking is a bit creepy :0
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haha.. finally caught on.. that's great. ;D
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Fegh, I've yet to actually see it, so I just download the banner.
Wait, what does Bruce Lee have to do with Pixelation again?
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Right now it is just an easter egg-ish thing I suppose.
The previous form of pixelation (the one with the eye killing blue, previous to pixelopolis) had it on the banner, and somehow turned into our own mascot of some sort.
But then yeah the reason... uhm... just because, I guess.
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Bruce Lee, as his dying wish, asked for the colours used in this forum to be forever used to signify undying awesomeness.
Inverted, the colors are Chuck Norris' greatest enemy. It is believed that Chuck Norris got a lucky hit in on Bruce Lee, and as a last resort Lee started spewing colors, when the inverted awesome colors hit Chuck, he was shattered into a million pieces, so they used his stunt double for the rest of the battle scene.
Dammit Panda, you ruined it while I was typing!
Edit: Holy shit! I saw him and he winked at me! Auugh! :huh:
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Heh
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That would make a good game: Gather the pieces of Million pieces of Chuck and reconstruct him, then have Bruce Lee fight him again to make him cry so he could collect the tears in a jar and use them to cure cancer.
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Curing cancer seems underwhelming. Why not pour them into the well of oblivion, and summon an iron juggernaut armed with like some flail of damned souls to do your bidding .
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I was with you up to the spewing inverted awesome with millions of pieces and a dead Chuck Norris plus stunt doubles, but the well of oblivion iron juggernaut flail of damned souls is just a little too far fetched. I mean...come on now.
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Yeah, I mean, Bruce is the epitome of Good Guy. What use would he have for an Iron Jug?
(It still sounds cool, though.)
Or how about this; It wasn't really Chuck's tears at all, but his evil twin, Buck! So you go to cure cancer but instead it makes everyone into zombies! Now Bruce and Norris (the real one) have to team up in an epic (but often hilarious) adventure filled with crazy kung fu and multi-cultured antics, climaxing in both of them facing off against Buck as an iron juggernaut armed with like some flail of damned souls! And then Chuck cries because, even though Buck was evil, he was still his beloved brother and then they take his tears, but it's only enough to cure one person. So you have to choose which person to cure out of, like ten, and they'll give you some powerful item for use through your next nine playthroughs until you've cured them all and have all ten items, after which you unlock stuff like survival mode and boss battle mode and concept art gallery and the Chuck Norris Walker Texas Ranger Lever (for those who watch Conan O' Brien) and then there's nothing more!!!! :o
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Ooo... Replayability. Sexy.
Am I the only one that wants to play this game now?
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Today on Myths and Facts, we examine the creature dubbed "Bruce".
For years people have denied the existence of "Bruce", the government claiming it to be nothing but a weather-balloon. However, startling new footage shot by an amateur photographer has sparked doubts about the government's explanation.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/SnakemanEXE/Evidence.jpg)
Looking closely, we can just about make out a vague shape in the upper right corner, though some say bottom left. This new evidence seemes to suggest a blob of some sort, and makes the evidence just as, if not more credible than the famous Bigfoot footage.
Myth, or fact. Me may never know. But the believers will still cling to the hope that "Bruce" is out there, and will continue to look for large footprints in cropcircles.
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It's clearly Jackie Chan, believers. :crazy:
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I just saw Bruce lee.
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hehe, this is such a great community! :D
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[spoils fun]EDITED BY HELM: spoil fun when you learn to do it properly at least[/spoils fun]
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Boo, you didn't even bothered to take the transparency off.
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I know, I'm so lazy/tardy/half-asleep/sick in the head.
Anyway, if the transparency wasn't there you wouldn't have moaned... I'll change it in a sec anyways.
Or not, as I only have GraphicsGale FreeEdition (won't do GIFs) and MS paint (messes up the colours)
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I guess that means another blow for MS Paint, GraphicsGale, and you >:0
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Bruce lee just scared this shit outa me. good job im not on drugs - that woulda fucked me up. :P
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/zolthorg/iconze.png)
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le sigh
I loved those obnoxiously purple boards.
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Haha. I finally know what you're talking about :P
Scary shit.
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hmm.... after readin this through twice, i can offically say i have no idea what the fuck you guys are talking about.
[hint] feel free to tell me [/hint]
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does anyone have a screenshot off the old pix, because then i could make a template with the old colours for those mad enough to use it :) (when i have time that is of course.)
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there was a dude making a replica of the old forum a while ago. i searched, but could not find. maybe try the net archives?
EDIT: SUCCESS! (http://web.archive.org/web/20050105085519/http://web1.t43.greatnet.de/)
you can find more here (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://web1.t43.greatnet.de)
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*mindless perusing*
HOLY CRAP! BWOOSE!
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I'd use the blue over these eye-loving, gentle shades of grey in a heart beat...:lala:
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anyone else disappointed anna nicole didn't die in the bathtub?
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Personally, I don't care about celebrities at all.
And I'm so glad now we have a new skin for the forums. I HATE that blue.
Brings nostalgia though.
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there was a dude making a replica of the old forum a while ago. i searched, but could not find. maybe try the net archives?
EDIT: SUCCESS! (http://web.archive.org/web/20050105085519/http://web1.t43.greatnet.de/)
you can find more here (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://web1.t43.greatnet.de)
Cool. I tried a search for pixelation.swoo.net and pixelation.cjb.net, the old domains, but it seems whoever owns those domains now has blocked the Internet Archive (via robots.txt). At apparently that works retroactively, so we're out of luck. Freakn' domain squatting misers.
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yeah i got the robots thing too. i don't think you'd find much else though. the web1.t43... one was where all the other domains redirected to. it'd be nice to have the old posts. i would've liked to have seen my first post. and my old art.
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yeah i got the robots thing too. i don't think you'd find much else though. the web1.t43... one was where all the other domains redirected to. it'd be nice to have the old posts. i would've liked to have seen my first post. and my old art.
The web1.t43.greatnet.de domain wasn't always its home, pixelation was hosted directly on swoo.net "back in the day" (like, 2001 and earlier, when it was a sub-forum of GDR). So, would have been nice to have seen the original design and maybe some of the early posts on the Wayback machine. Ah well.
The site moved to greatnet.de after troubles with hosting/forums/hackers or something, not sure at this point. There have been quite a few pixelation downtimes, but it always springs back eventually. :)
Someone needs to make a time-line of this stuff... it's important info! :crazy:
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I guess that means another blow for MS Paint, GraphicsGale, and you >:0
Does that mean I have a strike, or just a severe loss of reputation?
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Up to you to guess >:D
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Man, I'm having lower back pains. It's not extremely painful, just something that's an annoyance. Could possibly be due to sitting on my ass all day at work(tech support). But I've also heard some tales of it happening due to flat feet and it effecting posture. I have flat feet. I always have to twist my body to pop my back, but I don't know if I should keep doing it. I'm afraid I'm deteriorating my spine or something. Any one had this before, or some home treatment to help it out?
P.S. Is it just me, or does the Bruce Lee thing keep popping up on the Pixelation banner. I don't mean like sparsely, but while I'm typing, he just keeps popping up and winking at me. I think Bruce is hitting on me. I'm filing for sexual harassment...
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Hi! Hi B.O.B! Hi B.O.B! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n9agTduQ4M)
Sorry. Couldn't help myself
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The B.O.B.:
My mom was a chiropractor for a few years.
Popping your back shouldn't do any damage to it, and popping bones regularly will keep them flexible into old age.
Also, popping bones releases endorphins (which are natural painkillers your body produces) :D.
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Seriously? I thought joint-poppage led to arthritis and even more joint pain later on. ???
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I can pop/crack my neck. When I wake up first thing in the morning that's when it's the loudest, I turn my head upwards and *CRACK!*
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I can pop my knuckles and fingers whenever I want and as long as I want, too. People always think someone behind me is clicking their pen repeatedly, but it's just me popping away.
I've heard of that too Xion, but I think they were proven as myths. And I thought it was tiny forms of Carbon that were produced when we popped our bo-DAMN IT! Bruce Lee won't leave me alone! Seriously, is anybody repetitively seeing him? I mean, did the mods make it to where he would pop up every 5 or 2 min? Or when you type a certain amount of characters, he keeps popping up every 30-45 secs? He seriously won't stop bugging me. Stop winking at me, perv!!! I will not be the water to your glass, now cut it out!!!
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Xion: Popping your fingers is (usually) just pushing air bubbles out of your joints. I mean, if you do it and it obviously doesn't want to pop, you could cause damage. I was always more into stretching surrounding muscles rather than actually popping my joints, let them loosen themselves up.
See more about it here (http://health.howstuffworks.com/question437.htm).
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I went camping this weekend at spent about 13 hours straight sitting in the river with my friends, I got pretty badly sunburnt, but thats okay, happens all the time.
got home a few days ago, and I had a shower today, all the skin came off my lower left leg, so it was all red and raw, I went to the doctors, guess what, second degree burns. my right leg is first degree
now I've got this bigass bandage allover my leg and its itchy as hell, got like 6 layers of creams, cotton pad things and like a sheepskin thing !yus!
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Well that's good news, 'cause I love popping my knuckles.
TakaM:
Holy damn, man.
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Congratulations, .TakaM!!
You just made me puke.
Seriously, though, must be painful. I'm guessing you're pretty light skinned? I used to have a nice brown coloration to my skin, due to long hours in the hot ass sun due to football practice. Now, from what my family has told me, I've turned pale white. Apparently, working in a call center will do that to you. It's like, I walk outside, and hiss as I cover my face with my cape and run towards the nearest dark area, or crevice. Light bad, blood good!
Speaking of wounds, I still haven't gotten surgery on my bad knee. It's been about 2 years since I tore my ACL, and some discs in my knee joint( I didn't know I had discs in my knees either...). I'm afraid that it will get worse as I let time progress. I haven't noticed it get any worse, but it's still a hindrance when I want to do something athletic. The only option I have when running, is going in a straight line. Enough about me. Hope your wounds heal nicely though TakaM.
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ACL?
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you're from NZ right takam? the sun here is a bitch. thinnest ozone of any inhabited place or something like that. 13 hours would be murder. got the skin on my feet burnt off a couple of summers ago. fun in the sun.
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ACL?
Quote taken from random web site...
"Do I Need ACL Surgery?
What is an Anterior Cruciate Ligament tear?
The anterior cruciate ligament is one of four primary ligaments around the knee joint. It is an important stabilizer of the knee. The ACL can be injured by trauma or sporting activities. If the ligament is completely torn, it will not heal. Some individuals elect to leave the knee without an anterior cruciate ligament, and some choose ACL reconstruction of the ligament. If the knee has a deficient anterior cruciate ligament, the individual relies on the other three ligaments (as well as the inherent stability of the joint and surrounding muscles) to stabilize the joint. This is not always sufficient, and may lead to recurrent episodes of instability--a sensation that the knee may "give out."
For a person who likes to play rough, this injury is a curse. It's an injury thats very common in football(american/canadian, what ev'). And wouldn't you know it, thats how I tore mine. Some huge lineman dived at my knees while I was squatting, preparing to hit the ball carrier, and boom, there goes my knee. I felt my knee cap pop out of place. I was practically in shock when it happened. It isn't the most horrible injury in the world, but it's a real downer. You practically can't do much as far as sports are concerned. I've had both my ankles twisted and sprained several times, as well as a crappy shoulder, and dislocated, and broken finger. Plus I've been knocked cross-eyed 3 times. (Yes, you really can get knocked cross eyed.) I still miss the sport though. Oh youth, how you are forever gone.
Being an adult blows balls, and is totally overrated...
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yup I live in NZ, and nah bob, Im not that light skinned, my arms have always been tanned, and my upper body has a slight tan, I just rarely wear shorts :P
and it doesn't really hurt that much, i was quite surprised to hear second degree burns, I was thinking maybe sunstroke at the worst lol
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A kid I knew once covered his shoes in gasoline, lit them, and ran through the packed down snow.
What? Akira mentioned burning the skin off his feet. IT'S A LOGICAL PROGRESSION, DON'T GIVE ME THAT LOOK.
Anyway, Spring in Alaska is hell. The sun starts to hang around longer, and there's glare everywhere because of the snow. Everyone squints and it's hard to see anything and the slush is slippery and I always fall once a year, in Spring, in the middle of a crowd. My junior year I stepped outside of the school and I was suddenly in the sky. I realized a couple seconds later that I wasn't so much in the sky as I was about to hit the ground head first.
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Takam., post pictures! Bey stuff like that sucks. I had an accident that was completely due to my own stupidity last year, and almost had my perineum (look it up yourself if you don't know what it is) stabbed by a metalspike of a fence when climbing over it and slipped, and by almost I mean 2 cm to the left almost. So now I have a about 3 cm wide quite rough scar in my right upper thigh that reminds me not to climb over fences with spikes on them. The entry hole was about 1 cm deep and no important nerves got damaged (and there are some superimportant ones plus a major artery in that area). So yay for stupidity and luck.
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That story made me cringe, ptoing.
I have a huge scar on my chest, as well as a small horizontal one a couple inches under it from an open heart surgery. Recovering from that surgery I experienced pretty much every pain there is to experience. I guess it hurts lay on one's back after a while, and to have needles and tubes pushed in and later removed, after they've stopped giving morphine because the puking just won't stop.
Roughest eight days ever.
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That sounds pretty bad. The leg thing did not even really hurt, at least not to begin with, i thought i only had my trousers stuck on the fence and then when i felt the hole in the trouser leg i realised there was another hole as well. And after a while I got a stingy pain, but the worst was when the practising nurse put her finger into the wound to check how deep it was. It already was anesthetized but the numbing only goes so deep, surely not 1 cm :/ That fucking hurt like ass.
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I got hit in the head with a see-saw/teeter-totter when I was in 3rd grade. We where at the playground during break (this was at school) and we used to put Micro Machine airplanes and helicopters on one side of the see-saw and jump on the other end to send them off flying. As fate would have it, one of my helicopters landed close to the see saw next to mine, and as I bent down to pick it up, a kid (purposefully) jumped on the other end, both feet, applying full body weight, to see what would happen.
So, my head pretty much was the Sagat to the see-saw's Ryu. The seat hit me about an inch above and to the right of my eyes. Landed on my back, looked around, right eye went dark with blood, started wailing. Nurse did what she could with some transparant scotch tape, rushed off to hospital, seven stitches and a small dent in my skull.
I was never mad at the kid who jumped. Hell, I got a week and a half off from school thanks to him. I feel really bad for him to this day, because about three months later, his mom died.
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cringingist posts ever.
for christmas this year i got a 2 inch scar on my hand when i slipped while jumping a barbed wire fence. we were a 4 hour bush whack from the nearest house and the wound got a little septic in the heat. but the scar's almost completely faded. best. present. ever.
i think blick wins though. open heart surgery freaks me out.
lets move on.
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I think I've cracked my skull two or three times now. Once from rolling down a hill in a cardboard box, eventually flying out and had a painful meeting with a rock. My friend then, Joey, took me across the street to my house, knocked on the door, my mom answered to see me standing there with blood all over my face and hands and Joey calmly explained the situation.
"I think Travis is hurt."
The second time was from my little cousin bashing the leg of a toy piano into my forehead. That was a fun time.
Then the time I sprained one wrist and broke the other by not being able to slow down before I ran into a wall. I wasn't being stupid, I was just into the game and apparently run really fast. I sprained both wrists when I hit the wall, later on I was tripped and landed on my left wrist, breaking it. I drove home crying from the pain. Seriously, I've never been more thankful of only having to turn my turn signal on twice for the drive home. It hurt each time trying to apply enough pressure to make the switch click into place.
Then there's the time I was slide tackled by Sam "can't play on his feet" Dressler. I fucking hate that kid for that. I didn't even have the ball, I passed it, two seconds later, my knee is suddenly bent the wrong way. Hyper extension doesn't ever seem to go away either. Sometimes just walking around, my knee will lock and I'll just think "Fuck Sam... I hate that kid."
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Jesus forking Christ Blick. Does any part of your life shine with sunshine?
Blick, I think you just earned the title of "Master of Pain!"
Ptoing, a friend of mine performed a similar act of stupidity, and ended up the exact way. He had an iron spike that was attached to a metal rooster ornament on a fence, stabbed right through his thigh. Pretty gross. Also, didn't hit an artery.
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Need details. Distance from the perineum is important!
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I feel so weak now.
And also thankful that, so far, the most painful thing in my life has been a broken toe. Jumped down stairs. It was dark. Miscalculation. Fall. Get up. Walk to living room. Take off sock and suddenly become the center of my family's attention, who immediately begin prodding my middle toe which is, obviously, sideways.
That part didn't even hurt. The anesthetic shot was more painful. The doc said I should stay off my foot for about a week. I was walking great distances the next day.
Oh, I stepped on a nail once. Went about...lemme think...1/4 or 1/5 of the way through my arch. Bled for a few minutes. Then went skating. Who needs doctors?
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I haven't broken anything, or gotten wounds as bad as you guys. But my right (Never my left, oddly) leg has taken a hell load of punishment.
When I was probably... Eight or so, some annoying child convinced me to ride down (On his and his sisters scooters) his 55º, 100 foot long gravel driveway while we were visiting for his sisters birthday. At the top, I knew that this would no matter what end in pain, but hell, I was too lazy to walk back down that long hill.
He got maybe 20 feet before falling over and rolling another 10 feet. I dodged him on my way down but in the process I fell myself, leading to all the skin on my knee being peeled off and getting full of gravel.
And last year, me and my family went down to some lake. In my infinite wisdom, I started running down and jumping into the water, which had a rather sudden cliff about a foot in. After the third jump, I was starting to think I should stop, but hell, three successful times, what could go wrong? I ran, jumped, and immediately after impact with the water hit my shin on a rock, conveniently located less than a foot under. It was swollen to all hell later, and after the swelling, it became a scab. Being that I always pick at scabs, I peeled away the scab and found a buncha pus inside. Score!
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I think my family is just cursed. My sister has the worst of it. She's has had over 20 brain surgeries, multiple stomach surgeries, my mom has multiple schlorosis, my dad still has gravel in his skin from some sort of accident, I've never asked, and diabetes runs rampant on his side of the family...
I've only got some broken bones, stitches and a major surgery thus far.
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Like I said before, Blick = Master of Pain...
Yeah Xion, the guys in my family are the same way. We all try to follow the Mexican machismo way: that is, no doctors, no medicine. Medicine is basically toughing it out. Sickness, and illness are simply cured with 7up, or some clear soda(seriously, my mom used to give me 7up when I got sick every trip in Mexico, and I felt better every time...).
Ptoing, I don't talk to the guy anymore. I think he dropped out of college, and is a stoner now. I don't know. He was a pretty good athlete, though. Heh, next time I see him, I'll ask what was the distance between the wound and the perineum.
Well, seeing as this is becoming more gross as we go on, I might as well tell this story. Back home, I lived in a small quiet, boring town. Our neighbor that used to live to the right of us had his trailer burned down. Our other neighbor, however was a much different story. There was this older guy, who used to walk around our neighborhood. He was about 3-4 years older than my oldest brother. Pretty young actually. He lived right next to us, with a couple of burn outs. A real nice guy, but was involved with drugs, and such. He used to play street football with us, when we were outside. Very nice guy. Well, not too long ago, about a year or two, I had awoken and just eaten a home made breakfast. I was walking towards my mothers room and smelled something different, like something was burning.
My Sister in-law agreed about the smell. About a day later, cops arrived to our neighbors house. We had no clue what was going on. Our back yards could still allow us to see what was going on through their back yards though. I happened to mosey over to my back yard, and saw the sheriff looking around my neighbor's back yard. They finally came across a cooler, behind their tool shed, against their fence.
When the Sheriff and surrounding officers opened the cooler, they immediately backed away. One got on his walkie talkie, and the Sheriff leaned against the fence and started puking. Apparently, something happened the day we smelled that strange smell. A bad drug deal? maybe. A miscommunication? who knows. All I know is, when the cooler was open, there lied my poor neighbors body parts chopped in pieces. He was Dismembered, in the hopes of being non-identified. The smell we were smelling the days before was actually burning gas. The killer was trying to siphon it to burn the body parts, hoping to get away with it. He didn't count on people in the neighborhood watching a suspicious car driving by in early parts of the morning...my mother being one of them. The suspect was apprehended and caught. He is serving time in jail as we speak.
I still feel bad for the guy, going out the way he did. Despite the drugs, he was a great guy, and extremely nice. When the news people came and interviewed my mother, whom asked to not show her face, she also made mention that he was a nice boy. She never mentioned the drugs, which is what I think the sniveling news people wanted. The guys mother found my mom the day after the interview aired, and thanked my mom for the nice words, and not mentioning the drug abuse. Sure, small towns might be small minded, but their is always room for respect for others. No one should die like that. It's pretty gross, but I find it scary that something so sadistic could happen right next door, in my nice, little neighborhood. This is why I'm always grateful for everything that happens. EVERYTHING. A real eye opener, that's for sure.
There are other gross, horror stories that have happened near my family and close relatives. Many of them dealing with drugs, and brutal border murders with drug dealers themselves. But I'll save it for next time.
Toodles!
Hi! Hi B.O.B! Hi B.O.B! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n9agTduQ4M)
Sorry. Couldn't help myself
Oh man! That was pretty funny. I also saw a related youtube vid, with dogs talking some random nonsense. It was pretty funny. I would post it, but I tire enough of the cat lover stuff, and I didn't want to add some more fire to the cat vs. dog argument.
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*vomit*
I've always hated murders.
Of nice people.
In bad ways.
:'(
*vomits again*
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Man, that is pretty awful indeed. Fucked up shit.
A story where noone died, but evenly gross from a neighbour town from my hometown. Old man, lived alone, with no one who looks after him, in an apartment. Nobody had seen him for almost 2 weeks, but no one really cares, they did not know him very well, not their business. Then at some point a pretty bad stench from his apartment began to seep into the hallway. Then people started caring - can't have the hallway stinking. Some people rang his doorbell, he did not answer, they called the police so they could look what's up. Police comes, rang, knocked on door, no one opens. They decide to pick the door as they suspect something has happened. The whole apartment is stunk up, the guy was lying in his bed which was covered in shit pretty bad. Somehow he had an infection in the leg and did not want to go to the doctor, old guy, senile, walking hurts so he only goes the smallest ways, when he needs to get water or a bit of food from the fridge, and shits around in the bedroom, which did not help the infection. An ambulance was called and the guys had to amputate his leg right there in his house. When the cut the leg, some place above the knee, maggots came out. One of the doctors, who had seen pretty gross shit before, had to leave the room and puked. Thing is that if it had not been for the maggots which ate the puss and dead meat he would have died from blood poisoning days ago. FUN!
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Yeah, maggots may be sick, but they're pretty helpful in that manner. I remember seeing something where if a person's wound didn't heal at a normal rate and the dead flesh would just block new flesh from coming in, or something to that effect, they would put maggots in the wound and seal up a cast in hopes that the maggots would take out all the dead flesh and the new flesh would be able to grow more easily. Mmm maggot therapy...
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yah ptoing, I'll take a photo or two tommorrow, wont look very interesting since its all bandaged up :P, though my foot will probably swell back up to a freakish size that doesnt fit in my shoe :-X
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Yikes, some major injuries in here. The max I got is a bone tumor right above my right knee due to a blow playing soccer when I was 12,
and some scars in my right foot for stepping in broken glass playing soccer in the street. And a broken ilium that healed alone for falling when playing soccer.
Guess I should stop playing soccer :huh:
And not related to soccer, a fissure in my forehead caused by a similar case to pkmays. When I was 4 I got hit in the head with a see-saw. The little mothertrucker left the see-saw when I was tying my little shoes.
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When I was around 6-7 an old lady from up the street hanged herself right outside my kitchen window.
She couldn't do it in her own apartment building, because the stairs didnt go up that high(there was a dance studio in the basement, so first floor was higher than the other building), and also the railings on our stairs were broken right at the top, so it was the only place she could go under the railing and jump off. We lived on the first floor, right by the stairs there, so one day our neighbor knocks on the door and asked if we knew what happened. My mom thought that my dad got in an accident or something, but the guy said "no, go look out your window" It was really scary.
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Hmm my share, At the age of 12 was playing tag on the grassy vacant area of my school and I fell face down and felt something on my knee, unfortunately my classmate jump on my back like a wrestler on his happy days. and when I stood up, was shocked to see my knee has a huge 3 inch cut <and become semi circular in shape>..and you can see the white bone. Turns out that broken glass bottle was there. lucky me? :crazy: I believe my doctor used his fingers to probe my injury to check if there is some glass shards remaining.
At the age of 15, got a Circumcision <Majority of guys here in the Philippines take this like a rite of passage>...But turns out the anesthesia didn't work well. And I felt the cut slicing to my being. :-X
Age 22 went to a concert, and was Indian sitting on a platform around 6 feet high and some guy pushed me <didn't see him>, flipping me to the air and going down with my head first straight down..so I used my hands/arms to protect me. Well I saved myself from a head injury, BUT I can't say for my elbow..(http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/40/elbowdamageor2.png) ..Yep the ligaments got whacked..and no punctures but the bone protruding abnormally like the arrow shown on the picture
This are the accidents I'll never forget, the rest just not worth mentioning :P
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Wow. I've never been seriously hurt... well, I may have, but I've never had any lasting means... I did break off a toe nail once, and that was insane, but that's as far as I've gone...
One of my two older brothers, however, has a curse on him of some sort. He's been burnt by lamps, he's gotten diseases no one's been able to identify (seriously, went to, like, three different hospitals and no one knew what the hell was going on), he's been in a vehicle related accident and got himself a mild whiplash, and he still hasn't been able to get compensation for that... There's ALWAYS something seriously wrong with him. And worst part is... I BET he'll live to be a hundred years old. Just so he can spend even more time complaining about constantly being sick and broken.
Ohyeah. We've been learning to use Quest3D at school lately... so in an attempt to learn it, I managed to make this at home.
http://putstuff.putfile.com/46909/4643589
WASD to steer, Tab to start/reset.
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Since where talking about injuries, bones and head surgeries.
I tore/twisted my ligament back in November from screwing around with my friend (play fighting) and ever since than I like feel I walk differntley, like as I don't have much stability. And it feels like the leg is shorter a tiny bit.
And I went to the doctor on Febuary and said I MAY have a fracture. :(
Is this why and will I recover?
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I went camping this weekend at spent about 13 hours straight sitting in the river with my friends, I got pretty badly sunburnt, but thats okay, happens all the time.
got home a few days ago, and I had a shower today, all the skin came off my lower left leg, so it was all red and raw, I went to the doctors, guess what, second degree burns. my right leg is first degree
now I've got this bigass bandage allover my leg and its itchy as hell, got like 6 layers of creams, cotton pad things and like a sheepskin thing !yus!
pics or it didn't happen
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Wow, this list of pain just keeps growing.
Well, my brother broke his arm once. He came off a ramp on his skates but apparently wasn't ready. He knew he was gonna fall, so put his arms out to catch himself. When he hit the floor he was all cool. Then he went to get up and realized that there was a new 90 degree angle halfway down his forearm. He hadn't even noticed. He hurried up and snapped it back into place so it was straight again. When he went to the doctor later that night, the doc said he'd actually done a good job of setting it. He said that, if he wanted to, the doctor could finish setting his arm for him right there, right then, wide awake. My brother opted to get KO'd before they touched it.
When I was a real little kid, like 4 or something, I was arguing with my brother over a caulking gun. Him, being older, was like "no go away." I, being younger, was like "Wanna gun!" So after a little tug of war, his grip slipped and the gun flew into my face. Hit me right between the eyes. My mom said I didn't even cry or anything, but after a long while of bleeding, she figured something was wrong, 'cause the bludd jus' kept coming. So yeah, I got stitches.
My sister used to be so ungainly on her feet. She'd make it a habit to twist her ankle like once a month. I mean, she'd trip over her shadow. Or an ant. Seriously. Walk, walk, GAGADOOSH! On the ground for no reason. Fortunately, she hasn't fallen in a long while now.
My Dad had his foot run over by a forklift. Was working somewhere doing something, and must've had his earplugs in or something, so the thing just backed right over his foot. He screamed and the forklift dude just stared at him for a second before nonchalantly, unhurriedly getting off his foot. It was all blue and purple and stuff. fortunately nothing burst and no bones were broken. But when he went to the doctor in later months for checkups and stuff, the doctor didn't believe his foot actually hurt. (It did, he'd be like owing all the time) The idiot doctor just thought he was after insurance or something.
Dad also fell off a roof when it collapsed. He was working on a house and, as far as I know, the thing just fell. It was a fucking miracle that all the bricks landed around and beneath him. Seriously, of all the heavy-ass bricks that fell, not one hit him. His back was messed up for a while (still is) but I'm so glad nothing worse happened.
So there's a list of all the noteworthy injuries in my immediate family.
Hey, curious, does anyone else here get this..."taste" when they fall on their head? It's like, the unique "taste" of hitting your head. Never comes any other time. Not even sure if it's a taste so much as a sensation. Everyone else thinks I'm crazy when I tell them.
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Wow, Rox. The camera on that is /really/ glitchy in windowed mode. Other than that, cool racetrack. I might have to go check that Quest3D thing out.
Other people: wow, I feel lucky to have only had one broken bone, two sets of stitches (both on my head), and knocked out teeth.
Xion: Yeah, I know what you mean about the "sensation of hitting your head". It is unique, although I've gotten it once or twice when I /almost/ hit my head but didn't quite make contact. No idea what it is, though.
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Injuries, injuries...
Well, I've been towed after a bike down a hill, cutting up my knees. I've dropped a camera on my foot, breaking off the nail on my big toe. Someone's kicked me in the face by accident so the top of a tooth got knocked off. Playing with beanbags, my brother either stepped on my foot or somehow got acid on it (maybe from the nearby batteries). Can't explain it, but I ended up with a large acid burn on my foot that got a huge, blue dome over it after two minutes. Still got the scar. At school I somehow managed to stab my hand with a pencil. The tip broke off and I couldn't get it out. By the time I got home the wound was allready healed. I can still see the piece in the palm of my drawing hand. Infused with art, sort o' speak...
During my only time rollerblading, I got pushed by one of my friends towards a fence. On the other side was a 5 meter drop. I couldn't stop, so I decided the smartest thing to do was gently fall over. The result was that my wrist broke my fall and I ended up with a broken arm. When I got to the doctor, they figured they had to pull it into place. They injected the painkillers, but for reasons unknown decided to pull right away. Having my bones reset without drugs is probably one of the most painfull things I've ever done in my life. Nearly fell off the operating table from the cramps. Later at a visit in another city, I had to get the bandages replaced because I put it in water (unknown to me). Got on a new type of tight blue bandage that was harder. However, when I got back and it was time to remove it, the doctor half assed the cutting, slicing up my arm all over the place.
Apart from that, I guess it's just mental scars.
While on the subject of slicing things. One of my friends had an odd summer job at a kindergarden. One of the slides there had in some way got it's edges bent outwards at the top, creating a sharp edge. As the kids held on to the rail and slided downwards, the gap narrowed in, cutting off their fingers. It happened quite a few times because it took time find out what happined and get the slide removed. The kids would use when they weren't there to stop them. My friend was the one that had to pick up the severed buds.
Xion: I thought the taste was a common thing. Usually just a side effect, like when you taste blood after running too much. Overstimulation if I remember correctly.
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... jeez...
I got in a fight with some 15 year old big Korean ( Black belt in Twa-Kondo) . I'm 13.
Anyways,
It was his birthday and as I usually do I piss him off in some sort of way by saying Whats up dawg since he thinks he's gangster.
Sooo He walks in the lockeroom I say "Happy Birthday" and he says "Fuck you" because he thinks it sarcastic. Than I say congratulations your mental age is 3. He gets pissed tells his friend to shut the door. He than "trips" on me and saying sorry dude.
I step up, push him and we get into a fight. He kicked me 2 times I kick him 5 in his left waist and leg. He than tries to like jump and kick me I move and I pick him up whilst extending my arm and whamming him backwards. I than stupidly thought it was over and he turned by the shoulder and I got punched first in eye and than in the nose. Eye punch didn't hurt but mouth one did.
Got a bleeding nose and lip.
Lip got swollen and small bruise to eye.
He got a bruise on his leg and I think his side.
:mean:
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In other words, you lost?
Any hoo...
Speaking of strange senses:
1. Does anybody else see green/yellow cat eyes when they close their eyes really hard?
2. Does anybody else see purple/blue waves when they close their eyes really hard?
3. Can anybody else smell rain, or snow right before it happens?
4. When laying down on a trampoline, does anyone else see a bunch of really small atom-like objects moving rapidly around?
5. When laying your head against a pillow late at night, does anybody else hear "extra" noises?
These are just some random things that have bugged me over the years...
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1. Does anybody else see green/yellow cat eyes when they close their eyes really hard?
Not when I close my eyes just now but sometimes I so see them while closing them
2. Does anybody else see purple/blue waves when they close their eyes really hard?
those wrinkles that float and slowly fade away? Yeah..
3. Can anybody else smell rain, or snow right before it happens?
nope
4. When laying down on a trampoline, does anyone else see a bunch of really small atom-like objects moving rapidly around?
never tried
5. When laying your head against a pillow late at night, does anybody else hear "extra" noises?
like a long beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep, yeah sometimes I have that
Really freaky stuff... :P
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1. Does anybody else see green/yellow cat eyes when they close their eyes really hard?
No.
2. Does anybody else see purple/blue waves when they close their eyes really hard?
Yeah. It's kinda soothing. Sometimes helps me sleep if I just focus on 'em.
3. Can anybody else smell rain, or snow right before it happens?
Not snow (maybe 'cause I'm usually asleep or indoors when it starts), but rain definitely.
4. When laying down on a trampoline, does anyone else see a bunch of really small atom-like objects moving rapidly around?
I wish I had a trampoline.
5. When laying your head against a pillow late at night, does anybody else hear "extra" noises?
I hear passing cars. And sometimes that high eeeep sound Drc mentined. I don't know what you mean by "extra," though.
Anyone find that if the press their face really close to a glass window being rained on you can see microscopic things?
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close your eyes and press against them with your fingers (not too hard, by the way). you get a sequence of dots and waves and such. when i do it, the exact same sequence usually happens every time.
anyway, i've been quite lucky my entire life. only real major injuries were when I was 4, we were in boston. I believe we were at the boston mall. well, we were getting ready to leave and we took the escalator down to exit. apparently my foot was too close to the side, and the escalator sucked my foot in. nothing was broken or anything but my foot got pretty mangled up, and i needed a cast for a while.
my mom also ran over my other foot with the car a few years ago. I was putting things into the backseat and my foot was in front of the wheel. apparently she decided that she would move forward a bit, and she went over my foot. luckily i came out okay, nothing exploded or burst into flames or got broken or whatever.
aside from that, I've never broken any bones, aside from a sprained finger or two.
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1. Does anybody else see green/yellow cat eyes when they close their eyes really hard?
2. Does anybody else see purple/blue waves when they close their eyes really hard?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene
I see some really trippy stuff when I press my eyes in for a long time. Like, the creation and distruction of entire galaxies.
3. Can anybody else smell rain, or snow right before it happens?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor <-- Maybe?
4. When laying down on a trampoline, does anyone else see a bunch of really small atom-like objects moving rapidly around?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
See these every now and then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater
I've got a ton of floaters in my eyes balls. Little bastards are annoying as hell sometimes.
5. When laying your head against a pillow late at night, does anybody else hear "extra" noises?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_ringing
My ears ring for no apparent reason sometimes.
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5. When laying your head against a pillow late at night, does anybody else hear "extra" noises?
I hear a sound like rainsticks when my ear is up against a pillow.
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3. Can anybody else smell rain, or snow right before it happens?
Yeah, it's the moisture in the air or something I think. Living in Seattle and then Fairbanks, I got used to both the smell of rain and snow so it's hard for me to notice it anymore.
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In other words, you lost?
Any hoo...
Speaking of strange senses:
1. Does anybody else see green/yellow cat eyes when they close their eyes really hard?
2. Does anybody else see purple/blue waves when they close their eyes really hard?
3. Can anybody else smell rain, or snow right before it happens?
4. When laying down on a trampoline, does anyone else see a bunch of really small atom-like objects moving rapidly around?
5. When laying your head against a pillow late at night, does anybody else hear "extra" noises?
These are just some random things that have bugged me over the years...
Shut it,
I bled. It hurt.
But I swear that guy is so gonna die if he tries to mess with him.
You see I'm nice, I dont hit in the face. :X
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4. When laying down on a trampoline, does anyone else see a bunch of really small atom-like objects moving rapidly around?
You mean general dizziness.. after jumping loads?
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Actually, no. Just laying down on the trampoline, and looking into the blue sky, as Pkmays mentioned. Actually, that article in Wiki is probably what I'm seeing. However, I don't think it's Tinnitis that I'm hearing. By extra, I mean hearing voices, like people talking, and sometimes music. When I was younger, I would be scared, but as time went on, I just got used to it. I think maybe because I've accepted that it may be radio frequencies or something. But through a pillow? I still don't get that part...
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often when i'm just about to fall asleep i'll have a waking dream which is like someone talking to me or occasionally somebody walking into the room. i also lucid dream alot. and when i stare up into the sky i feel like i'm falling upwards. and i've got them floaters in my eyes.
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I have floaters which I see sometimes, and the dot thing as well. Esp. on bright summer or spring days.
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man guys...
I woke up this morning in so much pain I was screaming for help, my mum took me to the doctors and now Im on tramadol, which the doctor said is a step down from morphine
so Ive been pretty out of it today lol
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4. When laying down on a trampoline, does anyone else see a bunch of really small atom-like objects moving rapidly around?
Anyone find that if the press their face really close to a glass window being rained on you can see microscopic things?
Seems we were talking about the same thing.
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the guys who did the aqua teen hunger force advertisements had the greatest press conference ever:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1739538/context/popular
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the guys who did the aqua teen hunger force advertisements had the greatest press conference ever:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1739538/context/popular
:y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y:
you're really quit to catch on, ain'tchya?
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what?
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Eh, no worries, it's just that the video is like a week, 2 weeks old, maybe. Also, it was mentioned before. :P (not sure if it was this thread)
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b.o.b.
I first noticed those little atom-like spots like 4 or 5 years ago. It is called Scheerer's phenomenon I think.
I did some searching around and found out that you are seeing your white blood cells traveling through your eyes.
I never understood it until i found that out, it is interesting to see, and easiest to see in a blue sky, but i can easily focus on them in any light(looking at a non-patterned area works best)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
oops, i notced someone allready posted a link..
anyways, I also have heard extra sounds before bed.
You can actually train yourself to hear more, and also experience other things like your body floating or moving.
One time I was trying to produce some effects, and my entire bed began to sway violently side to side, but when I noticed it and opened my eyes, nothing was moving.
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B.O.B: I don't know what those extra sounds would be, but I know they couldn't be radio frequencies, if you mean you were hearing the actual radio frequencies... but anyways sometimes i hear my alarm clock, faintly, when it's not ringing. That not usually when I'm lying down. Sounds similar to what you describe, though.
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Wow, Rox. The camera on that is /really/ glitchy in windowed mode. Other than that, cool racetrack. I might have to go check that Quest3D thing out.
Heh, yeah. Quest is INSANELY unpredictable. For me, the camera glitches out when I'm in the editor, OR when in fullscreen mode, but it's incredibly smooth and wonderful in windowed. I think it's mostly my fault, because we've only been using Q3D for a couple of weeks at school, so we have a TON to learn about how the program works.
The car physics took many many weeks to get right... There are so many things to change, it takes forever before you start finding balanced combinations.
About hearing things before sleeping... I do all the time. And it really ticks me off sometimes. If I happen to turn off my computer before going to bed, I can still hear a very strong, high-pitched buzzing (I presume to cancel out the computer's noise, much like eyes try to balance out strong colors) for many minutes after. I also currently keep hearing some sort of really really faint beeping noise, but only if I keep my head in a very specific angle on the pillow... and only with one ear, in that specific angle. It's annoying. Especially when I once decided it's just my mind making the sound up, so I tried to think about something else as best as I could, occationally testing myself by thinking about the noise briefly, and when I did I could hear it again. So it seemed fairly obvious I was just making it up, and so I began trying to sleep again.
And then it started again. And to test it out, I tried focusing on it the same way I did before.. and the sound I had been making in my mind was of a totally different pitch. That really bothered me!
Also, for a period of time when I was younger, I could do SOMETHING, no clue what, to make huge, green clouds float around before my eyes when I was trying to sleep. No physical interaction involved, I would just lie on my back and gently close my eyes and relax, and in a little while my field of vision would fill up with green disturbingness. If it was dark in the room, I could still see it when opening my eyes. I seem to recall being somewhat uneasy from the green showing up totally by itself just before I was about to sleep a couple of times, and keeping me awake for a few more minutes.
After a while, not more than a year I'm sure, it went away.
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Rox that faint beeping sound could be a nearby Lithium Ion battery. I had exactly the same experience and then I realized it was the battery in my digital camera which was on my shelf in my room.
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But I can only hear it with my left ear, toward the wall the bed's against, when I keep my head slightly angled away from it. Let's see what kinda electronics I have in my room anyway...
There's the ceiling lamp, the bed lamp, my alarm clock which goes tick tick tick really loudly... The DS doesn't make any sound.. my phone doesn't make any sound.. and the computer's off.
There's a NiCd battery next to an airsoft rifle in a box under my bed, but that thing hasn't been used for half a year now... and last time I checked, a lone battery in a box doesn't emit sounds.
There's nothing in our livingroom on the other side of said wall, either. The only thing we have there are a couple of game consoles and a TV that're all off. Besides, if I just sit up in my bed, I can't hear it anymore, so it can't be that. In fact, I think my mind's just messing with me.
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My nose feels un-even.
The bone on the side at the bttom feels like sticking out slightly on my left side than right.
Broken?
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My nose feels un-even.
The bone on the side at the bttom feels like sticking out slightly on my left side than right.
Broken?
Might be a better idea to go see a doctor than ask us for advice, heh.
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I went to my neighbour some bone doctor went to her for my ankle, she said that it was fine and not broken but it could be swollen. She said if I felt something really was wrong with it I should go to the hopsital and get an X-Ray, I'm gonna go at end of week.
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I'm probably really late, but I like the Bruce. Kudos to whover was involved.
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I'm definitely late on the Bruce thing. I just saw him and I was like "Whoa!". Pretty awesome, btw. :-)
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I dont get half of this bruce thing.
Sorry. :huh:
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Just watch the banner at the top for a bit.
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I was shocked the first time I noticed. While reading the Bruce Lee animation thread, even.
But at the same time, it's like... it's like we've all come together as one again. Oh hell, I could totally write a long, heart-tearing speech right now because of this stupid song! Markus Schneider's "Last Ninja End Credits". Absolutely amazing remix!
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<<< ;D
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You guys should get a kick out of this.
http://www.imageboard.net/
It's a sort of pixel art Oekaki built by a few guys during the warmup Ludum Dare compo last month. What's cool about it is each posting is a sort of "thread", and each image can be modified by others. You can also watch an animation of the changes.
Check it out.
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!yus!
lol
!yus!
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That's MY kind of moderator.
;D
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This is something that's been bugging me for a while.
With my Wacom stylus using the right mouse button requires (by default) holding the stylus off the tablet and pressing a barrel button. The (primary) problem with this is that when the tip is off the tablet my (I presume normal level of) hand shaking causes the cursor to jitter some and so greatly reduces the usefulness of the RMB.
In GGale this jitter turns a colour pick into a box select and so naturally pisses me off to no end.
The RMB can be reconfigured to eraser but flipping the stylus for every colour pick is time consuming.
What I want is to be able to use the barrel buttons as modifiers, so that when the RMB barrel button is down using the tip acts as the RMB.
I'm wondering if anyone knows of any way to do this with the Wacom software that I've missed, or if there is any third party software that allows this?
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I'm not completely sure what you mean, but my two buttons on my stylus can be set to things like modifier, where I can choose alt, ctrl, etc, so I hold one button and touch the color I want to pick. And no need for moving it off tablet ??? It's a wacom volito 2.
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I don't really use my pen buttons for anything. There's two buttons on the tablet that I have as undo, but that's it. But then, I don't need color picking when I draw freehand, and for pixel art I just use the mouse...
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youre all in for a treat, I took of my bandages to have a shower, and I took a photo of my shin
(http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/5623/maleghj5.png)
its healed a lot now, so you might be a bit dissappointed
and when I got out of the shower, it was no longer a healthy orange
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Yikes what happened?
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:-\
I went camping this weekend at spent about 13 hours straight sitting in the river with my friends, I got pretty badly sunburnt, but thats okay, happens all the time.
got home a few days ago, and I had a shower today, all the skin came off my lower left leg, so it was all red and raw, I went to the doctors, guess what, second degree burns. my right leg is first degree
now I've got this bigass bandage allover my leg and its itchy as hell, got like 6 layers of creams, cotton pad things and like a sheepskin thing !yus!
pics or it didn't happen
Delivered. :y: :y: :y:
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Ahhh I figured there was something posted previously. Thanks for that Zolthorg!
Wow, that has to be the worst case of sunburn of I've read of. Glad to see it's better. Phew
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I'm not completely sure what you mean, but my two buttons on my stylus can be set to things like modifier, where I can choose alt, ctrl, etc, so I hold one button and touch the color I want to pick. And no need for moving it off tablet ??? It's a wacom volito 2.
I mean stylus barrel button modifying the action of the stylus tip.
So:
Tip + no buttons = LMB
Tim + button = RMB
This has the benefit of friction locking for the RMB and of course pressure/tilt.
The wacom software doesn't even seem to support keyboard modifiers for tool actions (only setting tools to act as keyboard) which would be a satisfactory alternative anyway, since I've got a hand on the keyboard anyway for Ctrl panning.
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Speaking of strange senses:
1. Does anybody else see green/yellow cat eyes when they close their eyes really hard?
2. Does anybody else see purple/blue waves when they close their eyes really hard?
3. Can anybody else smell rain, or snow right before it happens?
4. When laying down on a trampoline, does anyone else see a bunch of really small atom-like objects moving rapidly around?
5. When laying your head against a pillow late at night, does anybody else hear "extra" noises?
These are just some random things that have bugged me over the years...
1. and 2.; As have already been said, try pushing against your eyes with your hands and you'll start to see the real trippy stuff. And then when you open your eyes again they'll be in "high-contrast-in-photoshop"-mode :] All reds and yellows and blacks and white, then it'll slowly revert.
Trippy.
3. Unfortunately. But I do love the smell om rain on warm days.
4. Ah, I love my floaties. :]
5. I have heard an orchestral track that emanated from my own head, I loved it. I have also started to hear extra tracks on records that have stopped playing when trying to sleep. For some reason, turning off the stereo always works o __o;;
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If you push on the corners of your eyes just right they slowly darken and it gives a tunnel-vision effect. Looks like I'd imagine the "light at the end of the tunnel" to be. Coincidence? I doubt it.
Smelling rain is not a strange ability. What you're actually smelling when you think you smell "rain" is the ozone produced by lightning.
A long time ago I heard clicks when I jumped and walked; any vertical movement of my head did it. It really freaked me out; I never did find out what was making that noise.
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got a credit card?
live in the U.S?
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free domain and webhosting from microsoft.
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Okay, downloaded the most recent wacom drivers and under options there's a toggle for a Tablet PC mode which allows me to do what I'm wanting. :-[
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A long time ago I heard clicks when I jumped and walked; any vertical movement of my head did it. It really freaked me out; I never did find out what was making that noise.
Heh, if I "press" my head down slightly.. on its own.. wait, what? How the heck can I do that?? Um, okay, apparently you can use your neck muscles to make your neck somewhat shorter? At least it... feels like that... er... anyway...
If I do that, OR tilt my head to the right and rotate it to the left, the back of my neck goes "crack crumble" really silently. Like... like stepping on bread crumbs. It's quite annoying. But the only time it happens is if I want it to. Or if I suddenly look at something on the floor to the left of me... which doesn't happen very often.
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*GASP!!!*
Helm's got a new avvy!
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Yeah and I love it!
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Full of lovely CGA goodness. I love the caricature.
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Thanks :)
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luv the new avatar helm.
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oh fuck! now its yellow!
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why so gloomy, helm?
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Doesn't really look gloomy to me, more... Suspicious of something in his surroundings.
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Or extremely annoyed, with the twitching and all.
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It's official For Helm: Goats are so 2006. Love for triangles are his new fetish...
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Evan almost got shot :ouch:
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Fuck yeah, I almost got shot.
Okay, so I work at a small sandwich shop. On friday nights, we have a fish fry, and it's our busiest night. This particular friday, there were only 2 customers in the restaurant (regulars), and we were closing at 9. It was about 8.45, and the only people in the restaurant were me, another dishwasher (my friend turner), a waitress (a sophmore girl at our school) and a cook (a senior at another high school). There was also todd, which is another story altogether. He works there full time.
So at 8.45, a guy walks in with a big puffy coat on, his hood up, and a scarf wrapped around his face. It didn't seem too weird because it's Wisconsin, and it was about 0 degrees fahrenheit. He did push the waitress, which was weird, and that's when we realized that this wasn't normal...
He walked up to the register, pulled out a glock, and told us all to get on the ground. The two customers got on the ground, while me and the other employees just stood there in shock. He yelled and told us to open up the register, and pointed the gun at todd. Todd opened the register, and the robber grabbed all the money in the register, which ended up being close to 1000 dollars. He then pointed the gun at the cook, told him to back up, and ran out.
A few seconds later, todd calls the cops, and they show up in less than a minute. Strangely enough, another waitress (also a sophmore) was in the basement of the restaurant the whole time this was happening. She was on the phone with her friends, and she was just walking up the stairs as the man with the gun was running out. She hung up and asked us who that guy was, and I turned to her and said "That guy had a gun, he just took all the money in the register."
So that's what I did Friday night.
And nice new skin on the site.
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guns are dangerous guys.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b177/stwelin/1168647037168.gif)
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Meh, a glock. That takes like 3 headshots to kill, so unless he's on burst-fire, you have plenty of time to whip out an ak47 or just switch to a deagle.
I've been playing a lot of CS:S.
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Counter Strike is the devil in game form. No wait, it's like a planet overrun with demons, since I don't think the game is inherently bad.
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Mmm, Glock 18...
An astounding piece of machinery.
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Holy crap. I just realized that Graphics Gale has brushes larger than 1 pixel. I've just been using the 1 pixel pencil for so long. :ouch:
And dithered brushes? What have I been missing out on for so long?
Now I don't have to use Paint at all, so that's a plus.
Yeah, I'm pretty stupid. :lol:
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Took me a while to find them too.
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Check out this forum exploit!
**posts html**
(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/544/ben7linpglum2.gif)
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Har har.
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I just saw a face pass through the title.
(http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/9735/dudeintitlezh3.png)
He scared me. Then he winked at me, so it was all ok.
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How dare you ruin it!
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Gah!Bruce Lee!...or is that Jakie Chan?
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Jackie Chan never looked that suave.
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With the same colors as the banner itself, cool :P
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yea, bruce protects and watches over the board and all of its users. take note of "way of the pixel" :P :P :P
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In my bedroom, sometimes before I go to sleep I leave my computer on with pixelation up, and when I wake up, my pillow is gone...
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That would be Chuck Norris stealing your pillow, my good sir. He's trying to frame Bruce, after living in his shadow for so many years. It's tragic really...
P.S. I just flipped on the television, and decided to go through some channels.( I only watch comedy central, or cartoon network...or espn for sports, but nothing at the moment) I decided to take a gander at MTV, since I hadn't seen it in a while.
All I have to say, is wow. That channel sucks so much balls right now. I saw two reality shows, and felt sick to my stomach. I can actually now understand why other countries despise Americans so much. Snotty b***es, and dip-s***s completely run the show now. There is NO MUSIC in MUSIC TELEVISION. Where the fork is the metal at man?!?
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MTV has some decent stuff, but it's always like.. around midnight I think. Well, a friend of mine claims it's decent. I dislike most mainstream music. It's just... meh.
Regarding TV; Channel 6 over here are going to do a Bruce Lee movie every saturday for the following some-weeks. Five or six movies I think. Looking forward to that!
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Regarding Rox: there's more mainstream music than the rap hiphop and screamo channel that is mtv.
Regarding B.O.B.: Clearly every american is like a bunch of teenagers with poor music taste on one channel which breeds terrible culture.
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Get FUSE.
Listen to WOXY (http://woxy.lala.com/).
Potential music disaster avoided.
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birthday on friday
:)
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eew blick what the fuck is that crap?
wheres the metal? wheres the screaming? that station sucks.
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Popular music in the US has decreased in quality. You can definitely see that in MTV. MTV really did play good music when I used to watch in the 90s but because of the success of Real World and Road Rules, I think bigwigs decided to just go with the reality thing. *shrug I wish I had enough money to buy MTV and show Americans what music is reallly about...whatever that means. LOL
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I'm looking to practice some sprite anim, so does anyone know of any good sites for references for various animal locomotions (including humans)?
This one seems to have some okay stuff for horses and dogs: http://bowlingsite.mcf.com/Movement/locoindex.html
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Popular music in the US has decreased in quality.
tbh imo rly.
yeh, music sucks now.
+1 post count for me.
lol...
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I agree, fuck music now.
Best music ever is on the space jam soundtrack.
And on www.myspace.com/whitechocolatewarfare
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www.ninjatune.com
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Listen to WOXY (http://woxy.lala.com/).
:-\ :durr:
I find most of my music from commercials and movies.
Mostly commercials. ;D
www.ninjatune.com
Oh yeah, that's much better.
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eew blick what the fuck is that crap?
wheres the metal? wheres the screaming? that station sucks.
Bah, I'm not big on metal. Twee pop, electro, indie rock and underground hip hop is more my thing. I mean, unless it's Children of Bodom.
Mostly commercials.
Which is either stuff you'd hear on college radio or mainstream stuff. Seriously, I saw a commercial for My Gym Class Partner's a Monkey today that had Ratatat - Wildcat playing. And Air (oh how I love Air) on a few car commercials. RJD2's Ghostwriter track is on the new Wells-Fargo ad campaign, and all of those artists I found because of WOXY over the years.
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MTV and Fuse are poor representations of what goes on at the local levels in the US. :sry:
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I found Grandaddy from a Honda Civic commercial. They are now my favorite band. Everyone says they first heard Grandaddy in 28 Days Later with AM 180, but I heard The Nature Anthem about a half a year after I saw that and was like "Holy crap I love that song. Must have!"
I also found OK Go from a Target commercial. Not high on my list but I can hardly say I don't like 'em.
I recently heard Roykskopp (or something) on that one series of commercials with the highly offended cavemen. Some is ok, but mostly not what I like.
I found Swollen Members from the SSX 2 (or 3, can't remember) soundtracks, in Deep End.
There are a few others but those stand out the most. Even if SSX isn't a commercial.
Edit: Oh yeah, They Might Be Giants. I can't remember where I first heard 'em but I'm pretty sure it was a commercial. They do alot of stuff like that.
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Roykskopp
Only one K.
Whenever anyone mentions Grandaddy, I always think of that Mr. Scruff song, Come on Grandad. I often hear Grandaddy mentioned too, but associate them with Mr. Scruff in my mind to the point that they're practically the same to me no matter how different their music is.
Edit: Oh yeah, They Might Be Giants. I can't remember where I first heard 'em but I'm pretty sure it was a commercial. They do alot of stuff like that.
Malcolm in the Middle theme song, maybe.
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Regarding Rox: there's more mainstream music than the rap hiphop and screamo channel that is mtv.
Very true. Sadly, I don't get any of that here. Well, there's some pop and R&B, but nowdays those two are also quite horrible, I think. Sorry if I'm stepping on toes here, it's just... I can't stand most of anything I hear on the radio, whenever there happens to be a radio nearby.. I don't really listen to stuff intentionally nowdays.
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music.. is there anything we wont discuss? :P
here in New Zealand it's a bit different, we have our own music which is quite frankly the only music from today I can stand, even though I don't like other genre's at all, I don't mind them at all here, the rap isn't corrupted and commercialized, and the few NZ rappers that are, once they've been made a joke here, they move to Australia and become successful :-*
It's really funny when they claim to be Australians too once they move :P
back to todays music, I think around 99% of it sucks.. its all very selfish, shallow music that is forgotten as soon as their next album comes out... but anyone with a brain should know that
I listen to rap, and I do get sick of immediately having to defend myself just about everywhere, hopefully you all can just accept I don't listen to the commercial 'money, women, drugs, guns' rappers of today, there are a few rappers I listen to from today, and they're not 50 cent, eminem, and anyone else I feel stupid just mentioning
infact... half the people I listen to seem like they belong in some sub genre of rap
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Lupe Fiasco? He was totally wicked at the big day out.
i'm mainly a blues rock kinda guy. but my mum was into soul, my dad was into classic rock, my sister was into hip hop/rap, my brother was into everything, so i'm of/against no particular genre.
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Speaking of music, I think there is some really good stuff here (http://lawrence.lh.googlepages.com/home). ::)
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Lupe Fiasco? He was totally wicked at the big day out.
i'm mainly a blues rock kinda guy. but my mum was into soul, my dad was into classic rock, my sister was into hip hop/rap, my brother was into everything, so i'm of/against no particular genre.
yes, lupe fiasco is pretty cool, did you go to bdo?
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Good stuff here, too. (http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/badmusicradio.htm)
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OMG! Darien, you win.
Half those songs scare me. Especially the ones singing about jesus...The rappin' rabbit one. No wonder why there are so many messed up people out there. And the subliminal Led zepplin lyrics were retarded. It's sad to think that most of those Bible thumpers still have and have passed on that ridiculous mindset on to others today...
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rofl! there was a song there titled "im proud to be a jew"...
rofl! :crazy: :crazy:
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infact... half the people I listen to seem like they belong in some sub genre of rap
I think that most (all) of the mainstream rap should be dragged out into a crowded highway and shot, stomped on, choked, and in general murdered. I don't usually care whether something's mainstream or not, as long as it sounds good, but I just wish that the mainstream rappers actually said something rather than corrupting the youth. I mean, 7 yr. olds walking down the street calling girls bitches and sagging and cussing more than the total sum of my own cussing in life. It's rediculous.
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Fo' shizzle my nizzle.
Personally, I love just turning in to the best radio station on the net (http://www.slayradio.org) and just chilling to the sound whenever I'm tired of whatever's on my HD. A whoooooole different kind of music.
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... I mean, 7 yr. olds walking down the street calling girls bitches and sagging and cussing more than the total sum of my own cussing in life. It's rediculous.
Ahem, for someone who prides themselves on being a spelling-Nazi of days past, you seem to have loosened up your choke hold. I believe it's "Ridiculous"...
Bah Hah!! I win!
Sorry, but I'm an A-hole by nature. Can't help it.
On the current subject of music, I'm a metal head, and enjoy it thoroughly. I've listened to rap all my life, and used to like it. However, I never went too deep into it. I gotta' say though, if it weren't for the bore of mainstream rap, I would have never stumbled upon some great metal musicians. I'm not saying rap is crap-no, instead, I'm implying that it's present forerunners could possibly try to make it better, instead of rehashing/sampling older songs. The main thing that gets me mad about most mainstream rap, is that it seems so selfish. A lot of it is mostly, "let me tell you about ME, girl", or "I'M a baller...", or " MY gold, my bling, I'm richer than you wangsta"...rinse, cycle, and repeat. It's mostly I, I, me, me, when I wish it was more us, us, and we, we. At least metal lyrics are about people suffering in general( well, some. At least, thats what most people who don't listen to it much, think), rather than glorifying themselves.(yes people, there are actual lyrics behind some of those cookie monster vocals...)
Again, this is what I think, so it may not be generally true. I just think rap has gone down hill. So metal it is for me, ladies and gents...
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Fo' shizzle my nizzle.
Personally, I love just turning in to the best radio station on the net (http://www.slayradio.org) and just chilling to the sound whenever I'm tired of whatever's on my HD. A whoooooole different kind of music.
Slay radio is nice BUT http://kohina.com/ kicks it's ass imo.
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I like to differentiate the mainstream and underground rap by just calling mainstream "rap" and underground "hip hop" personally. I don't know if anyone else does that, but hip hop seems classier and it feels more old school to me, before the late 80's/early 90's gangster rap explosion that pretty much started mainstream rap. Stuff like turntablism, breakbeat, bigbeat, underground, acid jazz, all that stuff, I just go with calling it hip hop usually. Sometimes, just sometimes, I'll even put mafioso into hip hop's little corner of my mind. I think that's only because I really like Nas a lot.
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Rap is hip hop music, if I'm not mistaken.
Hip hop is the culture. DJing, MCing, breaking, graffiti, that stuff. MCing is rapping, which is hip hop music. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about that.
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I know that, Rox. I just prefer to call it hip hop because the word rap seems to be taking on a bad name.
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... I mean, 7 yr. olds walking down the street calling girls bitches and sagging and cussing more than the total sum of my own cussing in life. It's rediculous.
Ahem, for someone who prides themselves on being a spelling-Nazi of days past, you seem to have loosened up your choke hold. I believe it's "Ridiculous"...
I say re-diculous to emphasize the fact that it was diculous once, then became slightly less diculous - to the extent where it was possibly undiculous - but has now found itself back in the state of diculosity, thus making it rediculous.
...I'm sorry, that was a terrible cover up. You win, B.O.O.B. ... You win.
Thanks for pointing that out, too. I never noticed before that ridiculous came from ridicule. Plus, I'm still a Spelling Nazi trainee. Please don't tell the Spelling Hitler. He'll have me flayed alive. Flayed.
Anyway, B.O.B., it happened the opposite for me: I listened to metal and rock for the majority of my life (Mommy never liked that, but she never knew). It was only recently (like a two years ago) that I started listening to rap and less heavy music. I always hated rap with a passion because it seemed to defy every ounce of my soul's creed. I never knew any rap had meaning, because all I'd ever been exposed to was MTV. Also, I have high respect for women, so seeing all those booties shaking on TV just turned me off. I didn't make the jump straight into rap, though - I met a spoken word poet who showed me how awesome words that don't rhyme but rather flow can be. Then I gradually, bit by bit, found rappers that I liked, and my poetry went from being line-by-line rhymes to solid masses of writing that are hard to divide into lines. So I don't really know whether rap was ever good, 'cause I never listened to it, so I can't judge as to whether it has gone downhill or not. I still listen to metal and stuff from time to time, but I seem to have lost my sense of it as music: now all I hear is static. As for lyrical content, I guess it's as Saul Williams said:
"Replace the anger and oppression
With guilt and depression,
and it's yours.
It's yours."
...
What were we talking about again?
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The revolution will not be televised...
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We need some good song here. A ROCKMAN SONG! :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmaltChJnV0
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"Rappin' is the way of sayin':
KNOCK KNOCK
'Who's there?'
Me. Open the door and listen to what I got to say."
I dunno, just seems relevant to the conversation.
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Since when have I had 310 posts? I thought I had like 80?
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no, i have like 300 posts :mean:
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The revolution will not be televised...
I love that song.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/FPxY8lpYAUM
How's the flash thing supposed to work, again?
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"Rappin' is the way of sayin':
KNOCK KNOCK
'Who's there?'
Me. Open the door and listen to what I got to say."
I dunno, just seems relevant to the conversation.
Mr. T should never rap...ever
His skillz(with a z) are godly...
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Mr. T should have never done a lot of things he's done.
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As far as internet radio goes, K666 (http://www.stonerrock.com/mp3/radio/radio.asp) takes the cake for me.
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did you go to bdo?
yah, i was right up the front for lupe. lupe, the vines, and lilly allen were my favourite acts.
currently listening to: the kings of leon - because of the times.
next up: led zeppelin - bbc sessions.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/FPxY8lpYAUM
How's the flash thing supposed to work, again?
Which flash thing? Embedding flash in your messages? Not possible, as in disabled, as in annoying as fuck.
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as in really easy exploits?
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Well, I just pulled a muscle I think. Or two. Yeah, I think two.
Well, I guess experience is a good thing. Now I can tell people this: Don't sit around by a computer for ages, get up suddenly and take a quick walk for half an hour in -25C and then sit still again for six hours, only to suddenly get up once again and walk all the way back in -25C. Especially if you don't have at least three layers of clothing around your legs. Muscles hate being cold. Muscles hate having to suddenly become active without warmup. They also hate having to suddenly stop moving without a nice stretching session. Did I mention how much they hate being cold?
If it doesn't get warmer within a week or two, I'm seriously going to have to start doing warmup exercises before going to school... I've never pulled a muscle in my whole life until now, and suddenly I've done it three times this year because of the damn cold.
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as in really easy exploits?
there are exploits, yes, as well as it's annoying. I don't want people posting stupid flash stuff with sound. I am sure the other mods feel the same. And for security only it's a good reason. Just link to flash stuff. also if there are lots of embedded youtube movies loading gets slow as fuck even on a fast connection. so poo.
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Evan: That's the most annoying video I've ever seen in my life.
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Haha, I didn't count, but I think in the 13 or so episodes of that show, he must've said "well excuuuuuse me, princess" at least 3 times an episode. Sometimes, you can tell it happened in the same episode.
And yeah, I figured the flash thing was disabled. Just figured I'd check.
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Also you get minus points for actually watching all the episodes of that shite show. I could not bear to watch more than 5 minutes of one ep.
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What show was it? It must be before my time. Heeee
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Evan: That's the most annoying video I've ever seen in my life.
this one gives you cancer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbhzXrvqheg
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:huh:
What makes people think they can post videos like that? What?
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They have all the right to post it. Why wouldn't they? It's a free Internet.
However, it really looks like they crave attention for it, and that's worse.
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hehe, was that Zelda animated series? It's funny to see it again, according to my brother we have watched that show when I was younger ( Mario and Luigi show or something like that, I remember it a little bit)...
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Yeah, it was Zelda. Man, the Zelda franchise may have some hits, but when it misses, it really misses.
Wand of Camelon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaHlUlWHNTo) and The Faces of Evil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imlyVV0yYKo), anyone?
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How dare you even mention those!?
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It's Gamelon, no disrespectin now y'hear?
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That explains why I had trouble finding a wikipedia article, but plenty of YouTube videos and blog posts on it.
Also, can't forget Zelda's Adventure. No accompanying video for that though.
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As far as internet radio goes, I listen to Pandora. It lets me choose which bands I want to hear, and plays songs and bands close to their genre. Great Forkin' station...
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I agree with The B.O.B. I was introduced to it recently, and it is quite awesome. Though being the nerd I am I naturally want to know how the algorithm works, but eh.
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Haha, I remember seeing those games in a store as a kid and being upset that I didn't have the system to play them on.
I knew they were supposed to be bad, but, damn.
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I agree with The B.O.B. I was introduced to it recently, and it is quite awesome. Though being the nerd I am I naturally want to know how the algorithm works, but eh.
I'm not sure there even are algorithms, i think when they set it up, they had a few beta testers who just grouped similar bands and whatnot, and then when they released it, if enough people who listen to band A, also listen to band B, then it groups them together, if they are in similar genres.
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I'm pretty sure the bands and songs on Pandora are all categorized by rhythm patterns, vocal types, harmonies, and other categories. Then it tries to find songs that have similar categorizations to what you ask for and different categorizations from what you tell it you don't want. It might have a bit to do with feedback from other users, but I think most of the music choosing is based on previously-decided categorization. Though even if it does work exactly the way you said, that's still an algorithm ;)
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There should be some sort of easter egg when this happens, like bruce pops up with horns.
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e199/sharprm/devil2.gif)
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There should be some sort of easter egg when this happens, like bruce pops up with horns.
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e199/sharprm/devil2.gif)
Yeah, that would be awesome.
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I think one bruce is enough.
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I think one bruce is enough.
What?! Burn the traitor!
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I think one bruce is enough.
What?! Burn the traitor!
No. He's right. It would be a shame for this board to become obsessively littered with images of bruce lee. Personally, i don't really like him in the header, but meh.
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Well, how many times does that 666 ocur? once. That wouldn't be too much imo.
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Maybe a drunk Earnest Hemingway, or Chuck Norris with horns....
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Well, how many times does that 666 ocur? once. That wouldn't be too much imo.
I've acually seen it pretty often. Thread views: 666, someone's post count: 666, etc. Not that rare, really. Unless I'm the only one (un)lucky enough to see them.
Oh yeah, got rid of my last name.
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Oh noes! Adar-dar cut off his locks. Watch as he scuffles away in shame, with his tail between his legs...
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What happened to the last news box banner??
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@feron- i ate it.
@ bob- i ate his hair too.
imo the one with hair is much better then the cut one, but then again, thats just my oppinion.
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Hey, y'all.
I was reading college brochures, and most say you need a laptop. I figured it'd be good to get one anyways, but here's what I'm looking for:
I'd like something between 600 and 800 dollars. The brand isn't important to me, so much as it's reputable, and I won't get screwed. I'd like something with enough power to run games like CS:S, and HL2. It doesn't need to run them full settings without lag, I'd say just medium settings.
Also, something with wireless internet.
I'm not looking for specific computers, since I don't have the money for it right now, but I will in a few months, and I was looking for some guidance.
As far as brand, any ideas? I'm looking on newegg, and there are lots of "Acer" notebooks, but I've never heard of Acer before. Are they alright?
Also, is 512 MB ram going to be enough?
Is it even possible to build a laptop from scratch, like you would a desktop system?
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I would check Dell out for some good, cheap computers since you mentioned 600-800 dollars. You can "build" your own laptop at Dell as well as other brands like HP. Me boyfriend got my laptop from Dell and I must say I'm liking it, so far. Here's the link: http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/inspn?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
He purchased the Inspiron 1501 just because it was way cheaper than the 1505 as the former uses AMD instead of Intel as well as other features I don't care about.
About the ram...I'm not quite sure if all new computers will have Vista but if that's the case, 512 will definitely not be enough. :-/ Otherwise, 512mb will suffice.
Anyway, here's what I have just to give you an idea:
Less than $600
512 MB ram
50GB hardrive
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 - 256mb shared memory
If there's anything else I forgot to mention that you'd like to know, just tell me.
I must say, I love playing games but I hardly play games on this laptop only because I've been too busy learning to pixel. :-p
I'm pretty sure you could get a better laptop than what I have if you're willing to spend more than 600 buckaroos.
Good luck!
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Just to note, a lot of colleges that I looked at have their students get a standardized laptop that comes with a large package of software pre-installed. Of course, these were mostly tech schools, so you might find something very different.
Regarding the laptop you would get, I would recommend 1gb of RAM, since that's frequently the limiting factor in performance or multitasking or whatever. Also, if you want a laptop that can run higher-end games, you might have to spend a bit more than you're allowing (though admittedly, I haven't looked at laptop prices any time recently).
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What happened to the last news box banner??
Mjar mjar mjar, my Tank might take it !yus!. Helm is going to talk it over with the other mods. :B
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I removed the Michi one since that one is over as Michi HAD (past tense) birthday. And thus the last slot is empty.
And indeed Opacus might get a feature.
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There also hasn't been a pixel puzzle for a week, and an i spy for 20 days.
:mean: i spy someone trying to keep that feature box full :hehe:
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ah, ah! i must create something more worthy to take the spot! but alas... classes... :(
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Exactly what i was implying my hardship sharing friend :(
and work too... work sucks.
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Personally, I hate work at the time of doing it, but afterwards I feel so much better. I try to take jobs that require physical labor more than anything else because I have all this built up energy that pixelling and watching Youtube videos just doesn't deplete. When I have to wax cars until my arms feel like they're on fire, or mop bleachers after a hockey game until I feel like I can't take another step up those slippery concrete steps, I hate life at the time. When I wake up the next day though, I just feel refreshed. A feeling that's something like "I'm glad I got that out."
But my legs still ache. Of course.
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The newsbox basically works like this:
If something noteworthy happens then add newsbanner in slot1 and move all other newsbanners back one slot.
The news expiring as in the case of the Michi thing is an exception.
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(http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/5/59/Cthulhu-elections.gif)
Lol, political commentary
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Waaaaaw...The new game from Ankama Studios look pretty awesome IMO.
Trailer :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwbjcyM35-k
Yeah. It's French. Cocorico ^^
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I loved dofus, but that timeshaper guy hated me for some reason.
and dofus without the members of that website, was dofus withtoo many dumb people diluting a good community.
Also there was the fact that items kept dissapearing from my inventory, like, valuable set items, and every etc drop, all my money, etc.
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So what's wakfu about, it looks like some single player rpg or something?
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Wow, interesting. So it's a storyline consisting of... dragon 'eggs' and if you gather them all you can make a wish. Huh... sounds so familiar. :hehe:
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The developpers say it takes place one thousand years after the Dofus era : An oger gathered the six Dofus and some kind of apocalypse happened. Some gods disappeared, some were combinated etc etc...
Concerning the gameplay, they said there would be absolutely no NPC except the monsters.
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Okay, I've been thinking, why do people put [WIP] tags in their thread titles in the pixel art section?
I think if you're posting something here, you expect to edit it in the future, so couldn't we just imagine that every thread is a WIP thread?
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Well, a work in progress is usually something totally unfinished. Personally, I don't post WIPs of any kind, anywhere. I sit around and mess with stuff until I feel it's reasonable, then I post it the "finished" version and let people tear it apart. So, a WIP could be, like, a beta... version 0.4 of a picture. And a non-WIP is version 1.0 or above. Like I could post something at 1.0, and someone could say "hey do this!" and I update the finished version to v1.1!
... I need sleep.
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Haha.. nice one Lawrence. :hehe:
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In my bedroom, sometimes before I go to sleep I leave my computer on with pixelation up, and when I wake up, my pillow is gone...
Posts from 2 pages ago, oh larwick, you're so esoteric ;)
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Whoa, colour blindness. i was just messing round in paint and i can barely tell the differnce between these colours,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Dead_Tree/colourblind.png) (seriosly, i can hardly see any difference, if any at all)
weird eh? lucky i know what colours are where on the colour picker... thing.
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Anyone know a freeware programe that can cut some mp3 parts and save them again? ???
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Lol, Zolthorg, i was talking about his new avatar.. i'm pretty sure it's fairly recent. And i felt like being offtopic :hehe:
Whoa, colour blindness. i was just messing round in paint and i can barely tell the differnce between these colours,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Dead_Tree/colourblind.png) (seriosly, i can hardly see any difference, if any at all)
weird eh? lucky i know what colours are where on the colour picker... thing.
The bottom two are basically the same i think. Light purple. The top left one is a bright yellow, and the top right is a bright green. The mid left is dark beige/light brown and the mid right is a sort of greeny turquoise [sp?]. Just incase you needed the info :y: :]
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Anyone know a freeware programe that can cut some mp3 parts and save them again? ???
Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) is an open source audio editing program, if that's what you're looking for.
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Thanks alot man. I really found what I was looking for :y:
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Whoa, colour blindness. i was just messing round in paint and i can barely tell the differnce between these colours,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Dead_Tree/colourblind.png) (seriosly, i can hardly see any difference, if any at all)
weird eh? lucky i know what colours are where on the colour picker... thing.
that sucks, the first four are vibrant and fun,
the last two are the same color.
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Whoa, colour blindness. i was just messing round in paint and i can barely tell the differnce between these colours,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Dead_Tree/colourblind.png) (seriosly, i can hardly see any difference, if any at all)
weird eh? lucky i know what colours are where on the colour picker... thing.
... You can't fly jets if you're colorblind.
Man, I love that movie.
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Yes, yes, Little Miss Sunshine did rock the boat...Though Greg Kinnear I'm not a fan of, the Grandfather character totally made up for it.
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That movie was ingenious. Definitely.
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That movie was ingenious. Definitely.
I don't think I appreciated Little Miss Sunshine in the way I was supposed to.
Lots of people bring up these philisophic principles, and strange allusions to other things. I liked the movie because there was a pedophile, and the horn wouldn't stop honking.
If you wanna see a REALLY good movie, rent Pulp Fiction. Better yet, rent Pi. Better even still, rent Eraserhead. Then we'll talk about movies.
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Does anyone here know of any pictorial books on medieval or renaissance type armor and/or clothes? I'm looking for a book full of illustrations on the various types of old armors that would be used with swords and the like. If anyone knows of any that'd be great.
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My friend has a book that goes really in-depth on that sort of stuff. All kinds of absurd detail. I dunno what the title, publisher, or date of publication might be, though. The last time I saw it was about 6 years ago.
Glad I could help. ;)
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Whoa, colour blindness. i was just messing round in paint and i can barely tell the differnce between these colours,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Dead_Tree/colourblind.png) (seriosly, i can hardly see any difference, if any at all)
weird eh? lucky i know what colours are where on the colour picker... thing.
... You can't fly jets if you're colorblind.
Man, I love that movie.
D= I can see alot of differences, the first is yellow, then green, then a skin tone, a fusion between green and blue, then two blues
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Uhh... Those last two look purple to me.
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The one on the left, concerning the bottom two colors, looks to be just slightly bluer.
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The one on the left, concerning the bottom two colors, looks to be just slightly bluer.
they're [#]9C87F3 and [#]9E89F3
i don't think that's big enough to notice
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I can see the difference if I focus on it.
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still waiting for the last episode of day break (I fuckin hate ABC)
bored, so I uploaded one of my favourite scenes from the show to youtube, if anyone's interested
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRGuK1gv6xM
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Yeh, I can tell the difference of the two bottom colours as well when I see them like that, next to each other. Don't need to concentrate that much.
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Wow, what? I opened the file, there's a 2 point luminosity difference between them and that's all. I painted each inside the other and the difference still isn't visible.
(http://individual.utoronto.ca/lackey/loose/mysterypurple.png)
just for fun.
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It's a rabbit on a treestump and some harp looking shape in the bg but without strings. And no, I did not open it in some tool and changed the colours. I think the colours are distinguishable ok, in this case it took some concentrating to make out what exactly it was.
Edit: hahahah, just opened it in Promotion: I was close but not quite :D
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It may be a difference in monitor contrasts, although this one is extremely sharp.
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I see branches and... a vagina?
EDIT: Oooooh, haha. Man, I was wondering "What the hell has Lackey been looking at lately to paint that up..."
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WTF!!!!!!!!!!!! I never knew it was possible to get 6 (six) of the bulky green ships after the miniboss in the first level of DDP!!! AWESOME!!!
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ever wonder why mario sets out to rescue peach with such haste?
http://luemages.net/a/u/10002/mario.jpg
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That is fucked up.
Also... I feels a fad a brewin'...
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found two kittens in our garage today, I'd guess they're around 4 days old :-*
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I found a shitty walkcycle in my ms paint today
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/zolthorg/walk.gif)
probably coming to a thread near you.
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Someone asked me to paint something for them for their birthday which will be in May. And I don't think I can.
Because I really suck at any traditional medium.
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I'd feel really unconfortable if someone asked me that too. I mean, especially if it didn't strike me myself to paint something for someone specific, i.e. there is no impulse, I'd have a hard time even wanting to do a good job.
On another note, I think I'm a robot person. I find these awesome.
http://www.mypartypost.com/watchflashbig/3308/Neill_Blomkamp-_Short-_Yellow
http://www.mypartypost.com/watchflashbig/3310/Neill_Blomkamp-_Short-_Tetra_Vaal
a bit silly: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xkof-BxoLM0&mode=related&search=
sillier, and less roboty: http://youtube.com/watch?v=iNReejO7Zu8
silliest coolest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZD59Ic9T8
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Those videos are awesome. :)
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ever wonder why mario sets out to rescue peach with such haste?
http://luemages.net/a/u/10002/mario.jpg
I don't think I can ever look at Mario the same way now :(.
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Who else has trouble explaining to family and friends that they're a pixel artist?
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haha, I reckon. When people on work ask me what I do behind my computer I am like, uuuh. Yea, how to explain that ...
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I bought a new laptop last month which came which Japanese Vista, and there was no way to switch to an English inteface aside from buying a new Vista, so I gave it up and made a full switch to Linux on my laptop, and it's been an amazing experience so far, It's so much better than XP and Vista.
It's taken many hours to figure out how to fix some problems though. (blurry kanji, wireless card etc - though some problems were fixed in recent updates) and I still don't have access to my Laptop's brightness controls.
(http://pigster.net/other/ubuntus.png)
I still need to use Photoshop on my desktop PC for work/pixel/art. Hopefully I can try out WINE or ween myself off Photoshop in favour of The Gimp, but it's interface is a bit awkward and takes up too much screen space.
BLICK: Yeah I had that problem for 3 or so years, I just say I do art for mobile games, everyone gets the picture, especially so here in Japan, but back in Australia there was really no market for mobile games, so people were like 'huh?' Once, I actually printed out pixel art on glossy paper and in class explained a bit about it, and what my job was.
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I personally only tell my good friends about my pixel art and even after a lot of time explaining it to them they still look at me awkwardly. I hate that look.
What I really hate is that my mom talks about it to anyone that walks in the door. Which wouldn't be so bad, if our door wasn't a door to a business where people that don't care about our life stories get told every detail anyway. It's worse that she doesn't know what she's talking about.
"He makes Nintendo art."
"Pixel art."
"Uh, yes. He makes pixel art on the internet and I tell him he should work on games for Nintendo and Playstation..."
That's about the time that I don't know where to start correcting her and just act like I'm hungry so I can escape to the kitchen.
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Ahem:
other person: " What are you doing?"
me: "Pixeling"
other person: " Pixeling?"
me: " Yeah...Well, I'm just drawing with the computer, that's all. No biggie."
other person: " You're doing all that on M.S. Paint?"
me: " Yeah. I mean, it's not all that hard, once you get used to it...really, it isn't hard. You just select a color and begin clicking away, pixel by pixel."
other person: " You must be patient. I'd have no patience to do that stuff. So do you like, have to click for every pixel you draw...like each and every individual one?"
me: " My bad. Uhm, it's like this: It doesn't have to be just this 1x1 pixel to draw. I can use any of these tools I want. The only point to pixel art is that I must have complete control over where these little colors and dots belong. Sure, I can enlarge them and sort of smudge them on. But it must be intended, and placed with purpose."
other person: " Oh. Well I know a guy who's pretty good with Photoshop. He could probably do that in like, 5 minutes with his program...Why don't you just use Photoshop instead?"
me: " Oh, I actually have Photoshop. I just don't like pixeling with it. Now digital art, I would rather do with Photoshop. And I doubt he could pixel THIS within 5 minutes. Even with Photoshop..."
other person: " Yeah, but you can get much more detail with it. I mean, that looks ok, but it's all 2d and stuff. Why don't you draw some bad ass 3d stuff, ya' know? Plus that program doesn't have the smudge tool, and kick ass graphics and stuff."
me: " True. But I don't really want the smudge tool. That adds unneeded colors to my palette. A great learning tool of pixeling is learning to draw with restrictions, to help you focus more on technique, rather than hide it with style. I know my stuff doesn't look that great, but I'm still learning. I'm also trying to learn digital art, but at the moment, pixel art seems much more fun to me."
other person: " Yeah, I guess. I still like the other 3d stuff a hell of a lot more, though. Here let me show you some bad ass art.( proceeds to show me some other art site that I've already seen before...and it's not that great, in my OH SO HUMBLE OPINION.)"
Roaming douche bag: " what are doing, dog."
other person: " I'm trying to show this guy that he should try to draw like this guy( Sure. A phrase that all artists LOVE to hear: "try to draw like this guy/girl"...) This is what he does. What's it called again? Pixeling?"
Roaming douche bag: "Pshh. Whats the big deal? Doesn't look that great to me. Looks all flat and shit. Hey dog, you still down to hit the club tonight, homie?( At this point, I'm willing to promote this man from douche bag, to ass-wad. Would seem much more fair)"
other person: " Hell yeah, dog, I'm down!"
me: ( I silently lean back in my chair, and sigh a breath of frustation.)
***exit douche bag***
other person: " See man, check this out.(shows me a half naked girl, with giant monster behind her. Than he shows me a half naked girl. Than he shows me some animeish art...rinse, repeat, cycle)
me: " Yeah, he's pretty good."
other person: " Bad ass is more like it. Yo, dog, you like rap?"
me: " It's ok. But I kind of like metal a lot more."
other person: " Say what? Metal? Man, fuck that devil worshipping shit! You need to listen to that hot shit that's out now..."
I'm not even going to bother with the rest of the conversation. All I know is that it seems the rest of the population believes that my taste in art and music are below the general standard. But that's how it generally goes...
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i know that exact feeling blick.
All my friends dont really understand the point of it either.
they are like - but its soo small, who cares.
and my parents all like to tell people aswell. To the point where they make me pull up my folder of some stuff Iv done - so i can show their friends or our extended relatives.
ughh
about painting apicture for a friend.
i had a friend ask me for one - so i made it in Corel Painter.
Not traditional painting, but i found it easier because i could use some of the habits i used in pixelling such as colour choices and block shading to paint it.
Its tricky though.
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This girl wants me to do some acrylics on canvas for her. I mean, I can do it, but I want to make it good, which probably won't happen. She was here the other day, making me open up my pixel art folders and even started making me open up my archive folder so I could show her some of the other people's art I have saved and shit. I mean, it was cool that she took an interest in it all, but I guess I just don't like talking about my art. Then my mom had to go and show her my one single crappy, unfinished painting. Which brings this post full circle, since that was about the time my friend realized that her birthday was soon and that I paint and have untouched canvases everywhere (since I buy art supplies when I have money, not necessarily when I'm in need of them.)
B.O.B.: One of my friends, the only one that seems to understand what I do, always jokes about how Photoshop would make my stuff better.
Just like... Lense flare, mess with the contrast slider, and some blur or some shit and you're done!
Haha, I don't think that'd work.
Sure it will. That Pixelator entry you're supposedly working on, when you're really jerking off to porn, yeah, that one, just take a real life picture and color reduce. TRUST ME.
First off, my Pixelator entry is a real thing. Secondly, that wouldn't work.
It works all the time. All you do is download the porn...
That's not what I'm talking about!
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I still need to use Photoshop on my desktop PC for work/pixel/art. Hopefully I can try out WINE or ween myself off Photoshop in favour of The Gimp, but it's interface is a bit awkward and takes up too much screen space.
I've heard PS is tricky to wine, especially on distros like Ubuntu, but i've never tried it personally. There is actually a community that is entirely devoted towards making the GIMP's interface more photoshop-user friendly. Maybe you could find it on google, if it's still around.
@Flaber, my parents do that too, always asking me to show their friends paintings and stuff that i've done. i *hate* that.
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B.O.B., pixel art is digital art! But I know what you mean.
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@Lawrence: I know. But when talking to other people, who don't have much education over this sub-genre of digital art, you kinda' have to dumb it down for them. Many of them still refer to it as "2d" or "Super Nintendo" art, as Blick's mother aptly named it. Either way, they don't get it half the time...
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Well, I don't want to make a thread out of this, but there is a job for a rpg game, really good storyline, currently I am the spriter but since I am really busy I can't work, so please pm me your portfolio, payment will depend on the quality.
Apart from that, :P the tank is really amazing though, I wasn't expecting to end that good
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I've heard PS is tricky to wine, especially on distros like Ubuntu, but i've never tried it personally. There is actually a community that is entirely devoted towards making the GIMP's interface more photoshop-user friendly. Maybe you could find it on google, if it's still around.
Photoshop 7 apparently works very well with WINE according to other users and it's rating on the WINE homepage. I'd rather stick to legal/open source stuff though.
Yeah the photoshop project is called GIMPshop, it's pretty neat, though I haven't tried installing it, looks a bit difficult.
If only paint.NET was available on Linux...
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I bought a new laptop last month which came which Japanese Vista, and there was no way to switch to an English inteface aside from buying a new Vista...
Many electronic stores (Bic Camera, Yodobashi Camera, etc) install the english version of the system for you (esp. in places like Akiba and Yokohama) previous to your purchase if you ask them. But ah well, kinda late I guess.
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Most of the people I explain pixel art to get it and appreciate it for what it is. But I don't show them much of my stuff because I've found they don't look very impressive to laymen. More of a pixel artist's pixel artist, meh :(
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I suppose that's a consequence of aspiring to computer aesthetic, unfortunately.
I hardly tell anyone I do pixel art, it's really so unviable as anything other than game art or as a hobby, I think people are more likely to admire bad traditional (or more general digital) artists more that good pixel artists because at least bad traditional artists have the perceived potential of achieving "fine art" or respected commerical art success (advertising, illustration, etc.).
Besides I go to a school where all the art students are taught illustration is a bad word, to say I do pixel art would welcome a lot elitism on their part.
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Hahaha. Well, I was stuck this weekend trying to explain pixelart to my grandmother who's mid-eighty. I think she grasped it pretty well for someone who has never touched a computer, doesn't understand what you really do with the internet, doesn't have a cellphone and can't speak English. I also compared it a little to cross-sticthing and showed her a game on my Nintendo DS. I think I came across. Maybe. At least I taught her the phrace "pixelart" :D
I don't necessarily try to explain it very detailed to all of my friends. Unless they ask me to do it of course. Many of them are more interested in music than art anyways. My parents and my brother are really understanding though. My mother also has a tendency to stand behind me staring at the screen while I am pixelling. I think she's the one I know who is the most interested in my pixelart, lol.
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Explaining pixel art, I'll never do that again, my friends are all like 'It goes ten times easier with photoshop why do you want to place blocks on a zoomed in screen?!'(referring to the blur tool and gradients ect.)
And my mom is always telling everyone I'm gonna work at nintendo. I'm like 'wait, I never said that, it's just a hobby'
And my mother also often stands behind me while im pixelling, it's pretty irritating but I think its cool she finds it at least interresting
Lol, explaining it to your grandmother, no way :P
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I also compared it a little to cross-sticthing
hahaha niiiice that has got to be the ultimate metaphor for moms and grandmas everywhere, i'm gonna remember that one. I usually just tell people its like impressionism; the technical side is too boring or complex for most folks to bother I think.
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Explaining pixel art, I'll never do that again, my friends are all like 'It goes ten times easier with photoshop why do you want to place blocks on a zoomed in screen?!'(referring to the blur tool and gradients ect.)
If I heard anyone that I know SAY that, I'd either kick their ass, or show them off to some of Tsugomo/Snake's works. That'll shut them up atleast. That's just insulting.
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I bought a new laptop last month which came which Japanese Vista, and there was no way to switch to an English inteface aside from buying a new Vista, so I gave it up and made a full switch to Linux on my laptop, and it's been an amazing experience so far, It's so much better than XP and Vista.
It's taken many hours to figure out how to fix some problems though. (blurry kanji, wireless card etc - though some problems were fixed in recent updates) and I still don't have access to my Laptop's brightness controls.
I still need to use Photoshop on my desktop PC for work/pixel/art. Hopefully I can try out WINE or ween myself off Photoshop in favour of The Gimp, but it's interface is a bit awkward and takes up too much screen space.
BLICK: Yeah I had that problem for 3 or so years, I just say I do art for mobile games, everyone gets the picture, especially so here in Japan, but back in Australia there was really no market for mobile games, so people were like 'huh?' Once, I actually printed out pixel art on glossy paper and in class explained a bit about it, and what my job was.
You could allways do a dual boot and have XP and Ubuntu on the hd, so you choose which one when starting up
i tryied out ubuntu after seeing your post, here i am now with a fully installed ubuntu ;D
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Panda: I wish I had known that earlier, but I'm glad it turned out this way anyway.
You could allways do a dual boot and have XP and Ubuntu on the hd, so you choose which one when starting up
i tryied out ubuntu after seeing your post, here i am now with a fully installed ubuntu ;D
I did it for a few weeks, but I wasn't using Vista at all so just removed it all together. Nice to hear you tried out Ubuntu!
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So, I'm tempted to post on Punaji, but looking at the site, it doesn't actually look like you guys (the regulars) do anything there besides chat and procrastinate.
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I was suspended from school today.
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I remember I had in school suspension once. It was probably the best couple of days in middle school for me. I got caught up in all my work, read a decent book and even met some interesting people. We weren't supposed to talk, but we did anyway because the lady running ISS didn't really care.
The lame part was that I had to attend one session of some anger management crap the school had. The reason I was in ISS and this anger management thing was because some kid pushed me intentionally and I called him an asshole for it and a teacher overheard. It was pretty ridiculous, I still think.
Especially since two years later I tackled a kid against the lockers and when a teacher walked around the corner and saw the two of us laying on the ground after hearing something slam against the locker, he just turned around and went back to walking the other way.
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I was suspended for having malicious files and programs on a computer account i haven't used in over 4 months. it's kinda ridiculous. tomorrow i will make the best of it and spend the whole day painting, instead of taking a chemistry exam i wasn't prepared for anyway.
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I remember being in art class and the AP art kids would be in there with us and one day one of them brought in a photo which had a guy holding a glock in it. He was going to make a linoleum block print of it, I think it was. Anyway, he first had to sketch it and started up on it and the teacher went CRAZY. She refused to let him show it if it was to be finished because it showed a gun. Now, I could understand if it showed him in the process of shooting someone, or if it showed something too graphic to be had in school, but simply because there was a gun is why she wouldn't let him show it.
Then the next year we were making assemblage art and mine included syringes. It took me forever to get her to agree with my idea of using syringes, even after I told her that I could take the needles off and keep the cap on.
In French we used to have to make a storybook with images and the story in French, of course, and in my senior year when I made one, I just handed my storybook to my teacher right before the finals. She's been pretty good about my drawings in the past. Creatures eating each other, pulling out their own hearts, generally gore filled images with a side of sick humor involved. When she got to the third page (http://members.johnholdun.com/blick/drawn/French_page3.jpg) of my storybook that year, I remember her saying "You can't draw that!"
As I said though, she's understanding, she just let it go. What could she do even if she was horribly offended by the image anyhow? Stop me from graduating? I doubt it.
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So, I'm tempted to post on Punaji, but looking at the site, it doesn't actually look like you guys (the regulars) do anything there besides chat and procrastinate.
Umm, so why don't you join and change that attitude of their's, Meester-Keester.
Also, I've never been suspended from school. I skipped a couple of times, but not much for any teacher or school personnel to get angry about. I remember once I skipped, and the principle asked to see me in his office. There were 3 of us, and we all skipped. He tried to pull that detective crap, where he said one of us admitted to skipping or something, when in actuality, the other person didn't admit anything. Just a little move to make one person to spill the beans. He wasn't expecting all of us to seemingly admit that we were, though (the reason being- we all skipped to smoke some MaryJu-Wanna, and munch on some burgers and crap. Therefore, admitting to skipping is much better than admitting to smoking the J...). We got off with a warning. Not much of a big deal though.
Man, I should really get a pixel job, or something dealing with art. Get my foot in the door, and get off my lazy ass. This tech support thing is killing me. I sit on my booty the whole damn day, and I'm starting to get back pains. I think I'm tuning into a chubby-tubby. I've lost all will to work out in the mornings. The most I do is dumb bells. Some motivation is in order: Cheesy Rocky music, here I come..."Hearts on fire, Burning desire...."...
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So, I'm tempted to post on Punaji, but looking at the site, it doesn't actually look like you guys (the regulars) do anything there besides chat and procrastinate.
Eh, who doesn't amirite?
B.O.B.: The other day I was looking through the employment section and would think "I would really like to work on that project. Or that one, and maybe even this one..." But then I thought "The problem is would I like doing it in a couple days?" I'm one of those people that enjoy pixelling, but not all the time. I do it on a whim. I haven't even started my Pixelator entry yet because I'm having trouble finding that whim. If it doesn't come by Friday, I'm afraid I'll have to force it. And that's never a pretty sight.
I remember I skipped school twice in my life. Both in my senior year. The first time was because I didn't want to go back to school after lunch so a couple friends and myself went to a friend's house and ate pizza. Problem was that the roads were horribly icy. Now, I can drive on ice just fine, but that day was like... I could walk faster than the cars were going, and probably have more traction doing so. It had rained the day before and the rain had frozen overnight into a nice flat layer of ice. All I could think was "What if I crash, I will have to explain it to people, what will I say, what if the cops come after I crash and I have to explain why I'm out of school and they tell my mom, would my mom care that I skipped school once in my life?" I didn't crash. It was scary though. So I waited for Spring to come for the second time.
That time we went to the middle school football field and played ultimate frisbee. A gym class came outside and the teacher (who I remember having way back when and hated) went off on us as we calmly got back in our cars and left. One of my friends stayed behind a little bit and argued with the guy.
"You can't be here!"
"Public property."
"SCHOOL PROPERTY."
"I'm a student."
"Of this school?"
"Of this district. It's why the high school swim team can have meets in the middle school pool. The only thing I'm doing wrong right now is skipping class. You can't get me for trespassing."
The teacher then started to call the cops. Like they could do anything besides warn us. One of the middle school girls even yelled out "Sorry my teacher is such a douche bag!" It was good fun.
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I don't understand how some teachers can be such assholes. Or ridiculous. I'm glad I've never had a teacher like that. Not so far at least.
Except my kindergarten teacher. I swear she was racist. Or maybe she was just a b****. Dude, she was like, 5 inches taller than me.
In kindergarten...!
She was short and ornery.
I was always the quiet anticonfrontational kid, and there was this other black kid [Phillip] who was the opposite of me, and we hated each other. In fact, now that I think of it, everyone in kindergarten hated me. I don't even know why. I was always the at the butt end of fart-blames and meanness. Anyway, the teacher treated Phillip like a king. He spat on me once. I couldn't bring myself to punch him (Damn my unreal pacifism!) so I pushed him and got in trouble.
Kindergarten kids were bastards. 2 years later I found myself in homeschool, loving it.
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Homeschools sounds like heaven
I don't skip school that often, sometimes the first hour to stay in bed :P but thats it...
But I do get send away from class a lot of times because I talk too much :-\ not that I care, I usually only get a warning. Never got suspended btw, you don't get suspended that fast on my school.
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What I wish I had done in school is taken more correspondence courses. I only took two correspondence courses during high school because I wouldn't have graduated without them (I failed a lot of classes out of apathy and lack of motivation really), but those courses were so easy and understandable. They would just pack in all the information in one go and say "Okay, finish this worksheet and fill in the corresponding answers online." If I would've just taken more of those, I could've easily graduated early or gotten a lot of required classes out of the way and taken half days for senior year. Just imagine... gym, French, AP government and then I'd get to go home at lunch. It would have been awesome.
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getting suspended was one of the best days of my life. It seems like the stupidest punishment, "you didn't come to school so now we are giving u a few days off to think about your behaviour". Lie-ins and xbox beats school hands down!
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i was in the bathroom, because i didn't feel like going to class, and few (3) black kids came in (not trying to be racist, but i don't even know there names.) one of em mooned me, for no reason. i swear. just out of the random whipped off his pants and mooned me. i got pissed.
"what the fuck is your fucking problem??"
"chill b"
"no! fuck up! are you retarded?"
black kids gettin pissed now.
*black kids start shoving me around*
*i hit one of them in the stomach, kid falls over for a few seconds and gets back up.*
*black kid punches me in the face and i fall back, knocking off a stall door. *
at this point, my face hurts so much I'm about to cry. in front of these jerk-offs who mooned me. and i don't cry in public. ever.
grabbed the stall door (which had fallen down), and pushed it over onto one of the kids.
"aw shit! my leg! fuck! (etc, etc.)"
black kids run out of the backroom.
i got suspended for three days, they each got 1. fuck.
oh well, three days+ weekend of videogames, pizza, and pixeling. suspension>school anyday.
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Racism is a problem because people won't just shut up and refer to other people as 'people' instead of 'white people, black people, mexican people' etc. The kkk hate 'black people'? No, they just hate 'people', and people hate them back because they have irrational hate for people.
i was in the bathroom, because i didn't feel like going to class, and few (3) kids came in. one of em mooned me, for no reason. i swear. just out of the random whipped off his pants and mooned me. i got pissed.
"what the fuck is your fucking problem??"
"chill b"
"no! fuck up! are you retarded?"
kids gettin pissed now.
* kids start shoving me around*
*i hit one of them in the stomach, kid falls over for a few seconds and gets back up.*
* kid punches me in the face and i fall back, knocking off a stall door. *
at this point, my face hurts so much I'm about to cry. in front of these jerk-offs who mooned me. and i don't cry in public. ever.
grabbed the stall door (which had fallen down), and pushed it over onto one of the kids.
"aw shit! my leg! fuck! (etc, etc.)"
kids run out of the backroom.
i got suspended for three days, they each got 1. fuck.
oh well, three days+ weekend of videogames, pizza, and pixeling. suspension>school anyday.
Not a detail lost in the story.
I don't blame you though, you hit a huge pet peeve of mine unknowingly.
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Thank you.
The only reason I specified a couple posts back that Phillip was black was to maybe disperse any misconception that my teacher was racist due to my previous sentence stating that, and the fact that I myself am a dude of color.
But really, we're all just grey inside.
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But really, we're all just grey inside.
:D
That's lovely, man.
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I imagine we're red inside, more than anything.
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eck: Anger control? He mooned you, it's no big deal, get over it. :-*
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:mean: :yell: no.
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awa... ok... :blind:
@ blick:
blood is blue, but turns red after touching oxygen, so does that mean organs do too? ive always assumed they were red, but when i read your responce, that came to mind.
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Blood stores oxygen and becomes red. The only organ that should have blue blood coming to it is your lungs. The rest of your body never (should) have any oxygen shortage.
Organs don't change color like that anyhow, if you've ever been so (un?)fortunate to see the innards of an animal then you'd just see red. And pinks, browns, oranges...
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What about grey matter?
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Can you even see gray matter with the naked eye?
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A short child in the back of the classroom raises his hand and waves it about frantically while making subtle "Ooh!" noises, signifying his excitement that he knows the answer. You recognize him; he is a pliable young lad well-known amongst the geeks and he knows almost everything. All he seems to lack is opinions and friends among the 'popular' kids. The teacher looks at him through the thick lenses of his glasses and says, in his bored monotone,
"Yes, Wikipedia?"
"You CAN see it, sir! It has a grey brown color which comes from the capillary blood vessels and the neuronal cell bodies."
"Very good, wikipedia," comes the standard reply, in the same dry voice.
Your interest wanes as the teacher begins to explain the anatomy of the brain and the fallacies made by several scientists pertaining to the brain's physical structure and the intelligence of its host. Another day in school, just like the last...
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Fuck Wikipedia, that shit has destroyed the age of good arguments about stupid trivia. I fucking hate when we're having a class discussion about whether Meatloaf is the name of the man or the band and Laptop Boy whips it out and brings the fun to an end.
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It's the stage name of the man. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_Loaf)
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Curse you, Wikiboy!
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I nearly got suspended because a friend and I decided to write "trojan.exe" on a disk full of videos for Digital Production.
Nothing would have really happened, but I forgot it overnight in the drive at school, and the next day all the computer lab advisers were freaking out thinking some student was trying "attack" the school. When I said it was just me trying to make a joke, they interrogated me for about a half hour, saying things like "If there are viruses on here, we WILL find them and you will be expelled." Then they said there were going to analyze the CD for viruses (it was labled ".exe" and the school uses Apples by the way) :lol:...........that was three quarters ago, and they still never said if they found anything or not......and I still never got back my Eagles of Death Metal CD case that the CD was in either :'(. Pathetic, eh?
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I didn't get suspended much other than from fights and such, but I did skip the last 2 semesters of my 12th grade year if that counts for anything. I needed a full time job, ended up going back for summer school and haven't found a job since. not a recommended path to take :/.
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...the last 2 semesters of the year? I'm confused.
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I'm guessing he worked instead of going to school entirely.
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suspensions... lol I had a few of them.. only one I can recall the reason for was riding a table down a flight of stairs...
man my last year of school was fun.. playing street fighter and mariokart atleast an hour each day, and its just cool when the teachers really stop talking down to you
so much so I didn't even get a single detention in my final year
the year before that I think I clocked up 4,000 minutes. Obviously I had found the loophole
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suspensions... lol I had a few of them.. only one I can recall the reason for was riding a table down a flight of stairs...
That sounds insanely fun. I want to try that some time
And yeah, blick got it right.
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yeah, a lot of the stuff me and my friends actually did could've been in a montage of some sort
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Is Punaji down?
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Seems to be.
And to make this reply slightly less useless, the Autofire 2007 results are out. :y:
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Has anyone seen this guy's (http://www.biteycastle.com/content/animation_brk.php) stuff? It's really awesome. Some of, if not the best animations I've ever seen done in flash. My favorite is The Yuyu, but all the Brackenwood ones are...ace.
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ah yeah, his stuffs very cool, I actually check up newgrounds (hate the place so much) every so often to see if hes made something new
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There should be a word for those times when you try to look up something on Wikipedia and then find yourself clicking links and losing yourself in meaningless facts and background information for hours. It's like being abducted, they first real me in when I try to find out how many seasons Pete & Pete ran for, which stems off to "Whatever happened to Danny Tamberelli?" (He plays bass and sings for a band, Jounce, now.) Then I also look up Michelle Trachtenberg, she was on Pete & Pete, because I mean... who can forget her, especially if you've seen Eurotrip, right? Then I start wondering about other Nickelodeon shows, like Clarissa Explains It All (her computer in the series was apparently an Amiga, and she liked They Might Be Giants) and I start clicking links to IMDB and find myself all the way at Rotten Tomatoes reading about Bridge to Terabithia, which I'm still too afraid to watch because I know I'll cry, which I don't want to do in a theater, but I remember bawling reading that damn book in fourth grade.
It's 4 in the morning and I remember I looked up Pete & Pete at 2:30... I just spent an hour and a half of my life lost in an information overload.
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I know what you're talking about, Blick. This comic (http://www.xkcd.com/c214.html) summarizes that situation quite nicely.
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goodnight, sweet placeholder
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/zolthorg/avatar.gif)
also fun:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/zolthorg/tesselol.png)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/zolthorg/tesselol.png)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/zolthorg/tesselol.png)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/zolthorg/tesselol.png)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C12oQalay9Q
very cool :)
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(http://www.flatblackfilms.com/ds_new/library/png/image5.png)
Fucking cool indeed! Me wants!!!
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Its sad he's struggling to find a publisher, especially when games like "Horsez" and "Catz" make it to the shelves easily
http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/03/the_nintendo_ds.html
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wow cool!
(btw where the hell is pkmays?, last active: February 15, 2007, 04:59:49 AM)
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And Xion stood up, toes barely grazing the tower that rose above the earth, spiraling miles and miles into the atmosphere. His eyes pulsed and swirled with delight as they consumed the vision that they long sought to behold; the earth. It lay far below, cut in half by day and night, a lingering twilight slowly rushing to consume the earth in darkness and leaving behind its previously conquered domain to be reclaimed by the dawn. In the wake of the twilight, beyond the reach of the sun, there lay night. This darkness was permeated only by the glimmering earth-stars of man's territory. Galaxies and universes all contained within clusters of brightness and separated by vast expanses of nothingness. Galaxies. Universes. Men. And Xion stood atop his tower, gazing down upon it all. Upon them all.
Then he heard a voice call out from above him. Xion turned and, to his eternal dismay, faced another tower, nearly twice the height of his own. He craned his neck to see what being sat atop this pillar. Who could possibly stand higher than him? What vioce had the audacity to call down upon him? There, among the stars, he saw a pale face straddled by long black hair. Slit eyes peered down from above their greek domain, and the mouth even further below was stretched into a wide smile.
"Hello!" said the man who stood higher than Xion.
"Who are you?" Cried out Xion, terrified and intrigued by this strange man. "How did you rise so high?"
The man simply continued his proud grin. After ages it seemed, the man spoke again, and all the stars around him quaked with the sound of his voice: "I am...The Helm."
1000th post, woo!
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Long way to go.
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Stop spamming the bords, Helm!!!!! :mean: ;)
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Long way to go.
Yeah I know. !yus!
I'll get you someday!
(cough* noiwont *hguoc)
Ptoing: Eh? It's OT.
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100th post, woo!
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I was kidding :P Also Helm's posts make up a bit more than 4% of the forum.
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I take pride in knowing that the vast majority of these almost 2,000 posts are critiques.
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About half i would say. :P Still alot
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Half?! What am I doing in the other half? Talking in the OT? hardly. Seriously, read 10 pages of my comments and do a count. I DARE YOU
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Helm's post stats
Pixel Art 997
Feature Chest 19
Challenges & Activities 164
General Discussion 632
Mod Forums 211
Employment 12
Portfolios 1
There, and not all of the posts in PA, FC, and CA are crits. Some crits in GD as well but overall I would still say about half :P
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Gah! Let me ameliorate: a vast majority of my posts are not devoid of generally applicable or worthwhile content.
Please don't make me cry -<:`(
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THAT I can agree with.
/me hands Helm a smelly goat of the male variety.
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Even 2000 mostly-worthwhile posts would still kick the trash out of my 600 "posts which i hope someone mayhave vaguely benefited from."
Still, i am satisfied with my well-intended-if-at-times-underwhelming single percent of the whole.
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Being one percent of almost 1900 people on average is a lot.
YOU ARE 27 PEOPLE.
HELM IS 77 PEOPLE!!!!
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I AM LEGION
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oooo .... I'm a perfect cube ....
idk if it's a good thing or a bad thing that i divide so easily? :P
Helm still wins though, especially since he gets "All Lucky Sevens."
Though i can't see him as a big final-fantasy fan......
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I realized a few days ago that helm's post count constantly competes with our member count. :durr:
edit: but the member count has recently taken a significant lead, a week or so ago it was only a margin of maybe 10! quick, helm, get to typin'!
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This thread has been a constant source of disappointment in my useful/nonuseful ratio of posts, too.
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oooo .... I'm a perfect cube ....
idk if it's a good thing or a bad thing that i divide so easily? :P
Helm still wins though, especially since he gets "All Lucky Sevens."
Though i can't see him as a big final-fantasy fan......
hmm.. in ff9 lucky seven (or maybe the skill was called something else...) was determined just by weather a 7 was a digit in your current HP. if so, it would give a random damage of 7, 77, 777, or 7777. Otherwise, 0.
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STFU and pixel. :mean:
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STFU and pixel. :mean:
No, U! STFUOMGROFLOLMAO!!!1!111!1!!z
Helm's post count looks like a year.
What happened in the 1840s?
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*Checks Wikipedia for info on Helm's current post count*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1841
*shrug*
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(http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4964/lexingtonih0.gif) in 1840.
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^^ lol
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I don't know my current post count, so I'm just gonna post this, then read it.
I do remember when I had second to most posts on the old Pixelation... I'm still totally proud of that. Only Pep was ahead, and as soon as I started catching up, he went and posted, like, a hundred posts a minute for forty years straight...
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Promotion work's decent in linux ubuntu if you use wine :) i found everything seem's to work apart from the windows like palette tookbox etc dont show no matter if you have them on or not palette one will work if you enable/disable it but if you choose a colour it disapears again
Not bad if you know your way through the menu's though :y:
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Hey guys! I just wanted to say that I finally found a job as a game artist! This was my first week and so far it went well. :)
Not doing pixel art though, but lowpoly 3d. Yes, I'm a heretic, I know. :D
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Congratulations Wayuki. :)
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300 was as good as I expected, but nowhere near as good as I'd hoped.
They were like "We ran out of cool stuff. Let's throw rhinos, elephants, ninjas, and even deformed mutants at them!" And the sex scene was totally thrown in to get some more boobs on film. I'm not complaining, but it was literally just the chick shown from chest and up in every position. I guess they had to even out all the nearly naked men throughout the film.
It also angered me that I missed out on a job last night because my cell phone was on silent for the movie and I forgot to check it or turn it up above silent afterwards. There are two hours of work and subsequently $30 I'll never see. :-\
And my pipes are frozen. So I have to take showers at a friend's house. I hate doing that.
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As I mentioned at Punaji, the scene that seemed out of place was the one you just mentioned. The plot, although simplistic, was doing fairly well, and then-boom, sex scene. Very random...I still liked it though. I still think it's 50x better than the other crap-ass, historic knock offs, like "Troy" and "Alexander"...Not the best historic battle movie, but better than the aforementioned, in my humble opinion, of course...
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I was just wondering, why the hell are people calling games with pixel art graphics "pixel art games"? It makes it sound like the games have something to do with actually making pixel art, and that annoys me to no end.
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300 is not out here yet, but Helm educated me a lot about how inaccurate it is historically. It's pretty bad in that regard. Also I heard it has TONS of slowmo going on. Not sure if that is a good thing. I will prolly still see it, if just for the effects and general visuals, plotwise I expect nothing.
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Well I hope I am going to see 300 soon, based on the trailer it looks cool. If my friends didn't told me about it I was like what the hell is 300? , they showed me a trailer and well it looked like fun.
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I loved it all the way but yeah, the sex scene was a little off but whatever. I came to see this movie not for a history lesson but for entertainment but just to make sure I know the truth, I researched the real battle. One question I'd like to ask Helm and anyone else who knows, how many Persians were there? So many different people come up with different numbers it's hard to know but since it's way in the past, we'll never know, eh? I would think it'd be hard to support anything over a milliion back in those days...
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300 is not out here yet, but Helm educated me a lot about how inaccurate it is historically. It's pretty bad in that regard. Also I heard it has TONS of slowmo going on. Not sure if that is a good thing. I will prolly still see it, if just for the effects and general visuals, plotwise I expect nothing.
When is it out over here?
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Alright, the people bashing the plot of 300, stop it. I haven't seen it yet, but I've read the original graphic novels by Frank Miller, and those were brilliantly written and illustrated. The film might have screwed the original graphic novel (as there is no sex scene anywhere near the plot for example), but I still can't let you look down on Miller's work like that...
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Yes yes, keep in mind, the movie was not based on the historical events, no where near it. Frank's novel is very loosly based on the events that actually happened.
The Persian Empire was actually quite beneficial to the growth of the area, and it's positive impact greatly outweighed any negative. They portrayed them in poor light in the movie. Someone's gotta be the antagonist, i guess. *shrug*
I thought the movie was pretty decent, worth the money.
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Yeah, I saw 300. It's good, but there was an excessive use of slowdown (as Ptoing mentioned) and certain effects looked cheesy. I'm looking at you, spinning decapitated head.
The sex scene is a little weirder when seeing it with your dad. :B
EDIT: Oh yeah, too many lame one-liners too. :/
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What's even more weird are the people in the movie theatre who are laughing at scenes of gore. What's wrong with you people?!?! Plus, there was a little kid in the theatre... :n:
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I refuse to watch that movie until its in the bargin bin at Best Buy :mean:
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What's even more weird are the people in the movie theatre who are laughing at scenes of gore.
I had to chuckle a little. Some of the decapitations looked pretty bad. My suspension of disbelief was shattered, it was!
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I refuse to watch that movie until its in the bargin bin at Best Buy :mean:
Why? As far as I can tell, it's 150% better than the usual crap, might as well check this one out... And like I said, it's based on a brilliant graphic novel...
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my computer went insane today, deleted several "corrupt" but vital DLL's
spent the day swapping harddrives and backing everything up
made me realize I'm quite the nerd
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Why? Just a little something I like to call hype. ;)
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hmm, there's this really cool pseudo pixel art commercial for a loan company here, I'll see if I can upload it for you guys
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Why? Just a little something I like to call hype. ;)
I see where you're coming from. But if it's anything like Sin City you'll have to wait a few years for it to drop in bargain bin range. Sin City is still sold for 20$ in the shops here...
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my only problem was that i can't help seeing historical innacuracies wherever i go. fun movie though
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You need to read the originals then Adarias, they're a lot more subtle I heard... (still haven't seen the movie, we only get it in august or something :hehe:)
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crap-ass, historic knock offs, like "Troy" and "Alexander"
Troy was extremely un-historical (though the Trojan war is half-mythology anyway) but Alexander was pretty close to history. Boring film, but close to history.
One question I'd like to ask Helm and anyone else who knows, how many Persians were there?
7.000 greek soliders, slaves and assorted hangers-on, with the 300 being the elite soldiers around Leonidas. It wasn't just 300 people against a gazillion.
However, Herodotus tallies 5.283.220 men for the Persian side, not counting eunuchs, whores, cooks, carrier slaves and indian dogs.
Alright, the people bashing the plot of 300, stop it. I haven't seen it yet, but I've read the original graphic novels by Frank Miller, and those were brilliantly written and illustrated. The film might have screwed the original graphic novel (as there is no sex scene anywhere near the plot for example), but I still can't let you look down on Miller's work like that...
I know Miller's work intimately, and there's nothing stopping me from outing it for the american-idiot version of history it is, based on his warped sense of 'cool', full of self-defeating inconsistencies in morality and tone. I know what he's done before it, and I know what he's done after it, my opinion is educated and I stand by it. Frank Miller has degenerated into preaching his lame-ass far-right political views and ninja-whores exclusively, now to a cinema near you. He has discredited the comics art medium by translating his comics panel-by-panel to film, and he's absolutely, hilariously, utterly worthy of contempt for his treating of greek history.
So yeah, I look down on Miller's work. What of it?
You need to read the originals then Adarias, they're a lot more subtle I heard... (still haven't seen the movie, we only get it in august or something
Sure, extremely subtle. THIS IS SPARTA! and LEAVE THE DEMOCRACY TO THE ATHENIANS! and Xerxes as space alien pierced towelhead and Efialtis like a deformed midget subtle. All-american subtle.
Adarias, it's good that you can't handle historical inaccuracy when a film is based on history. If it was just an 'it's all entertainment folks!' spinoff, loosely based on historical facts, it should not hold any actual ties to history. How many people are going to see this film and think it has actual historical accuracy? A lot of them. That's bad. Bad for history, bad for films, bad for comics, bad for greeks and certainly bad for the descendants of the Persians (Iran, Iraq), whom the american warmongering machine has spared no effort to darken in the media anyway.
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I dont know if I'll got to watch. Probally will but I think the scenes where to much influenced by a computer.
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However, Herodotus tallies 5.283.220 men for the Persian side, not counting eunuchs, whores, cooks, carrier slaves and indian dogs.
Gotta' watch out for them whores. Their dangerous. I can't remember which war it was, but I heard stories of prostitutes hiding razor blades in their mouths, and, ahem, unmentionables. So when soldiers of the opposing side came to take a break in conquered lands, they were met with extreme prejudice. Oh their poor little weenies. I think this actually took place during the western frontier of the Americas, though I'm not certain. Then again, I'm no historian...
I've also not overheard a person who took the film as a serious representation of past, historical events. In fact, I believe they were there for the same reason as I: just to watch a movie of fluff and action. Films started off as entertainment. And this film fulfilled that portion nicely, in my opinion.
I know Miller's work intimately, and there's nothing stopping me from outing it for the american-idiot version of history it is, based on his warped sense of 'cool', full of self-defeating inconsistencies in morality and tone.
Sure, extremely subtle. THIS IS SPARTA! and LEAVE THE DEMOCRACY TO THE ATHENIANS! and Xerxes as space alien pierced towelhead and Efialtis like a deformed midget subtle. All-american subtle.
Adarias, it's good that you can't handle historical inaccuracy when a film is based on history. If it was just an 'it's all entertainment folks!' spinoff, loosely based on historical facts, it should not hold any actual ties to history. How many people are going to see this film and think it has actual historical accuracy? A lot of them. That's bad. Bad for history, bad for films, bad for comics, bad for greeks and certainly bad for the descendants of the Persians (Iran, Iraq), whom the american warmongering machine has spared no effort to darken in the media anyway.
Wow. Sometimes I wonder whether you hold a built-up hate for certain, despised artists, or the American people who enjoy them, as evident of this post and of those in the past. Sure, you are entitled to your opinion, but sometimes I just don't get the bashing. I admit that I'm American, yet I hold no ties to any political movement within this government. I also admit that the American media can brutally distort images into something they are not, and that we come off as the pretentious nation who practically embodies a super-hero flying in to save the day screaming, " How can I save your pathetic, shitty country today (smiles with shiny sparkly white teeth)!!" But again, that's just the media. Who's to say other countries are not guilty of political lies, or stretched truths laid out by the media? The truth is not all Americans are mindless idiots. Their are many of us, who are of civil, and respectful minds that respect other cultures. The others, whose ways are unshakable, are not unlike those of other countries who do not wish to change. All countries have idiots, or practically full of them.
I also do not believe the center point of the film was built to glorify a win over Persia, or any Middle Eastern, or Asian cultures. It seemed be more of a film based off of a story teller's point of view, where the soldiers of Sparta were told the story of the certain "300"( yes I know that wasn't an exact number, but again mindset=not actual historic event), and how they fought off an giant, oncoming, Persian force. The characters of the story were to believe a glorified battle against Persians, but the audience, in my opinion, should be lead to believe a story of how the smaller dog can stand up to the bigger dog when pushed. Fighting for your freedom, and all that jazz that's been overdone a billion times in bazillion movies. I don't believe there was any undertone of hatred toward specific cultures, or race.(I know this comes off as an ignorant overview of racism or prejudice. It's everywhere, yet I see this as a view of pride. Pride is non-sense, and shall do you know good in the long run. I hope in the future, EVERYONE can get over themselves...)
Now I understand you are an opinionated force among people here at Pixelation. Do I expect you to adhere, or all of a sudden become enlightened with American pop culture? No. You've made your point clear, many times before, that you are not here to make friends, but moreover, critique. This I understand. I also understand that your points are NOT coming from an elitist Greek attitude, as some of your favorite ink artists are Latin AMERICAN( in my mind, I see no difference in the word American, as it's a Continent; North and South of course, but no different none the less. It's a little stupid seeing people saying Mexicans, or other latinos aren't American. No R-tards, WE ARE AMERICANS, just like you.). My point, though splattered and off-topic at times, is why with the slight American hatred. I don't really understand why one can't turn the other cheek and just laugh at the ridiculousness of the whole patriotic mess we've made with ourselves, and American artists who take it further. As an artist, do you fear that American art is threatening to take over decent art of other worldly cultures? I honestly don't believe that it shall, or ever will. I guess it's just hard for me to understand you sometimes, Helm. I don't know why. I could be reading you wrong, though...
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i find it strange that helm dissaproves of this movie so much BEING THAT HE IS GREEK. :hehe: :hehe:
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His disapproval is quite reasonable because he is Greek. The events are very misrepresented and misinterpreted and so on. Why is it strange that he disapproves of a movie that butchers his country's history?
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in my mind, I see no difference in the word American, as it's a Continent; North and South of course, but no different none the less. It's a little stupid seeing people saying Mexicans, or other latinos aren't American. No R-tards, WE ARE AMERICANS, just like you.
Russians are Asian, too.
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I don't really care about historical inaccuracies. The movie is why I even looked up the Battle of Thermopylae and researched it. I went to the movie for entertainment, for fun, and I didn't take any of it seriously. If anyone did actually believe giant elephants the size of mountains were at the battle, then that'd be their fault for being idiots, not the film's fault for trying to add more excitement and grandeur to it and that goes for everything else in the movie that was exaggerated.
how many Persians were there?
Xerxes entire army was over 2,000,000 people, but the amount actually at the battle was anywhere between 100,000 and 500,000 (definitely not a million, as you said it'd be hard to support that war, although Xerxes did send supplies ahead of time so when his troops arrived, they'd have everything they needed, which may have been a problem when Leonidas managed to stall him for a few days) and Leonidas had about 7,000 in his own men and Greek allies, but the majority of that was dismissed a couple days into the battle. For every Greek casualty, there were eight Persian casualties if you go by Herodotus' estimates. Of course, all these numbers could be wrong because no one kept a clear and unbiased record of it.
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Iran doesnt like the movie to.
Apparently offended by it?
I want to watch it!'
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=83823&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2Fmotherload%2Findex.jhtml%3Fml_video%3D83823%26ml_collection%3D%26ml_gateway%3D%26ml_comedian%3Dnone%26ml_context%3Dshow&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true
jON sTeWaRt dissin the Irans. :P
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whores
most travelling armies of the time employed them, yes.
american-idiot version of history
That is to say, the american idiots' version of history. Not every american's, but the american idiots'
All-american subtle
which is to say, a lot of your cinema is extremely blatant.
american warmongering machine
Which is to say, you've got a warmongering machine going.
Do you see any of these statements as translating into a general 'American hatred'? I hate the pathology of your country, while I enjoy what's good about it. Sadly, your country is in a very strong global position, and as such, open to a lot more vocal critique than say, Malta.
This I understand. I also understand that your points are NOT coming from an elitist Greek attitude, as some of your favorite ink artists are Latin AMERICAN( in my mind, I see no difference in the word American, as it's a Continent; North and South of course, but no different none the less. It's a little stupid seeing people saying Mexicans, or other latinos aren't American. No R-tards, WE ARE AMERICANS, just like you.)
I am sorry if that makes me a R-tard in your views, but it's not just the land that makes you what you are, it's country, race, religion, ethics and so on. And Breccia, who is Argentinian, a communist, an atheist, and a brilliant artist has very very little to do with the kind of american I'm critizising. He could be born in down-town new york and that wouldn't change anything.
Everybody has idiots, yes. The american idiots are just a loud majority, and in a very powerful position to influence global culture. That's why they're getting more flak.
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If America was really a war-mongering machine, we wouldn't be stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fact is, the only real reason we are still in either country is that our nation does not support the war. The reasons for our being there are so unclear even to us that we cannot even put 0.05% of our population in arms.
whores is just a more honest word for camp-followers, yup, and B.O.B - according to Plutarch, gonorrhea (life-threatening without modern medicine) ended the careers of more soldiers in ancient warfare than most battles, second only to dysentery.
the thing about america is that we actually have effective educational systems and smart people, but with 300 million, we also have a lot of dumbasses. oh well.
as far as the difference between "america" and "latin-america," i think that the main differences are that our nations are of very different (general) ethnicities; the northern countries begin caucasian immigrants and the southern countries being mostly native peoples and african ... 'immigrants.' We also speak english, german, and french as opposed to spanish and portugese. Superficial divisions of course, but they are divisions that people seem to go by. Personally though, i wish i was still in California, where the latino, black, and even asian cultural impacts are as strong as the white. I wish every part of this nation was so alive and diverse, since it's the myriad of cultures that makes the world exciting, and the ethnic diversity of the United States is the nation's largest 'natural' resource. Whiteville, USA is lame.
Helm, i may be mistaken, but i do not think that he was including you in the r-tard statement, which seems directed at we united states citizens as suggested by the words "just like you."
about miller though, he has never trumpeted his work as anything other than pure entertainment based loosely on...some vague concept that might be almost true. the movie and his comics don't try to be doccumentary, and he knows his market well - his works are nearly all tongue-in-cheek action-splooge mixed with interesting artwork.
the thing about the 300 is partly true, partly false. the greeks deployed several thousand soldiers, but the might of the persians was so great that many, such as the athenians, fled the battle so that they would not all be lost at once. Leonidas and his 300 spartans remained with 700 thespians, 350 thebans, and a few others as the first stall (the second stall consisted of some 800 corinthians and the rest of the of theban, estimated at 300. this stall, placed between athens and corith, was never engaged due to victory at Salamis.
before the final stand nearly all of the thespians were dead and the thebans, isolated and surrounded, surrendered to the persians. The remaining hundred or so spartans (who had lost their leader and much of their equipment in the wrestling-match that greek tactics were reduced to after the initial charge), were killed with missles.
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If America was really a war-mongering machine, we wouldn't be stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Why the US is stuck there is one thing. Why it's there in the first place is another. I'm more interested - and weary - of that.
Helm, i may be mistaken, but i do not think that he was including you in the r-tard statement, which seems directed at we united states citizens as suggested by the words "just like you."
I realize that, I was speaking from the point of view where a person of latin-american descent doesn't actually consider himself an american of the california variety at all. I was defending the point of view that not all of america is full of americans, because 'american' can mean a lot of other things than 'born and raised on the continent of america'.
about miller though, he has never trumpeted his work as anything other than pure entertainment based loosely on...some vague concept that might be almost true. the movie and his comics don't try to be doccumentary, and he knows his market well - his works are nearly all tongue-in-cheek action-splooge mixed with interesting artwork.
http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=interviews&id=8573
No. It’s just a sign of the Spartans’ barbarity. They’re the oldest society, and they were quite brutal. The most offensive thing they ever did was tossing all those messengers into the well because you never kill the messenger; it’s considered blasphemy. But the Spartans didn’t give a damn, they’d commit blasphemy.
You have to understand, these people were all slaveholders. They were trained soldiers. There were 15 slaves to every Spartan citizen. They were a very rough crowd. Because they’re the heroes of my story I try to make them look as good as I can, but I wouldn’t want to have dinner with any of them.
It’s a wonderful paradox about Spartans – they made possible a wonderful civilization they could never have realized themselves.
This opinion is historically inaccurate. Do you see him saying anywhere that it's just his wet-dream about the Spartans and not actual history?
the thing about the 300 is partly true, partly false. the greeks deployed several thousand soldiers, but the might of the persians was so great that many, such as the athenians, fled the battle so that they would not all be lost at once.
Athens never engaged in Thermopylae. They didn't send any timely troops. Athens won over Xerxes' father, Darius at Marathon a while before that, and the Spartans arrived two days after the fact and stared at persian corpses. Perhaps you've got that a bit mixed up?
Leonidas and his 300 spartans remained with 700 thespians,
correct. also 500 men from Tegea, 500 Mantineis, 1120 from Arcadia, 400 from Corinth, 200 from Filiunda, 80 from Mikines and 400 from Theba.
This amounts to about 4.200 men, who along with military servants and slaves and whatnot went up to the aforementioned 7.000
After the initial waves, the greeks had council to decide if they were to retreat from Thermopylae and merge with allied troops-to-come, but Leonidas, wanting the heroic ending, said he and his men would stay. With the same feeling, the Thespians, who were at the time no more than 500 due to their losses decided to stay.
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The best thing about America is its freedom of speech (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States) and its supreme education system (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0923110.html). ;D :y:
I would argue that every movie that comes out from America is automatically artistic (http://www.clickok.co.uk/index4.html) and original (http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-films-based-on-american-comic-books). Not a single mediocre film ever emerged from a country other than America (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/). :mean:
I think it's silly that fighting is going on over something that probably nobody else even cares about (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=K7k&q=historically+accurate&btnG=Search) (#3). ::)
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If America was really a war-mongering machine, we wouldn't be stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan.
War-mongering machines get 'stuck in' countries. That's the whole point, surely.
... the only real reason we are still in either country is that our nation does not support the war.
Surely a lack of support would only serve to quicken the withdrawal? Not the other way round!
The reasons for our being there are so unclear even to us that we cannot even put 0.05% of our population in arms.
If one looks at the US' illustrious involvement in conflicts around the world over the last 50 years, it will seem pretty clear.
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as much a cop-out answer as it sounds, we were decieved in that our government told us that iraq was a threat to our way of life, and barely but enough people believed it to commit to a war that we didn't really want to fight. al-qaeda on the other hand proved themselves a real threat, but we were still deceived by our government which told us that al-quaeda could be fought and beaten. injured and frightened, we entered a war against an intangible enemy without realising the consequences. neither war is one that we can win.
As a nation, I'll accept fickle and impressionable, but not warmongering.
This is not a realistic story, as much as it’s based on reality. It’s a very stylized version.
but still, that quote you posted disappointed me. until this point i had not heard of him making claims under any pretense of fact.
i can only hope that in the broader scope of things he was talking about his spartans, and not the historical ones.....but something tells me i am too hopeful in this
I realize that, I was speaking from the point of view where a person of latin-american descent doesn't actually consider himself an american of the california variety at all. I was defending the point of view that not all of america is full of americans, because 'american' can mean a lot of other things than 'born and raised on the continent of america'.
My point would be that everyone in these two continents is an american and that their differences all contribute to what an american is. your 'american' is only a very narrow subset of the millions fo people in these two continents. i chose california as an example because, while it still only includes the smallest of crossections, it is a cross section much more colorful than the rest. for instance, there are around 20 black students in my school of 1600, 8 asians, and 75-80 hispanics. the rest of us are whites, and the cultural differences are not seen.
Athens never engaged in Thermopylae. They didn't send any timely troops. Athens won over Xerxes' father, Darius at Marathon a while before that, and the Spartans arrived two days after the fact and stared at persian corpses. Perhaps you've got that a bit mixed up?
Engaged was an inappropriate word coice on my part, as the 7000 athenians were part of the original force, but not part of the and they did not engage at thermopylae (as they retreated to help evacuate their city and prepare for the naval encounters), nor did the corinthians or half the thebans who fell back a pace. As i remeber, the rest of the greeks besides the 1350 spartans, thebans, and thespians all withdrew as well and did not fight again until platea, rejoined by the corinthian and theban soldiers.. It has been quite a while, so i wont say that im completely right, but I don't think i'm mixing things with marathon, ten years passed between the two encounters so that would be a gross error on my part if i was >.<
Lawrence - i should have written that as "the legitimate reasons for our being there," since we all know that our politicians are siezed by imperialistic delusions that have influence far beyond reason.
the war-mongering machine consists of a handfull of old men who are highly skilled in their manipulation of information and a people's will, not the nation as a whole. they all write about how they wish we could be in north korea and iran, too, but they haven't yet tricked enough of us into that. trust me - america's foreign affairs are highly restrained right now.
the lack of support means that we cannot secure the countries effectively, shut down terrorist organizations, and allow the people to establish legitimate governments. however, withdrawal is currently unthinkable with the state of things over there, and it will remain so if our soldiers continue without support. no - lack of support will only make things deteriorate until the situation gradually becomes so hopeless that we cannot even pretend that we are helping.
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but still, that quote you posted disappointed me. until this point i had not heard of him making claims under any pretense of fact.
But that's just the thing, when you call him Leonidas, when you call them Spartans, when you call the other side Persians, it's just asanine to go all 'oops! I don't mean the *real* Leonidas, Spartans, Persians silly, they're my own made-up version, which has little or nothing to do with what we know of history. Were you ever confused?' There's a reason Conan (as most fantasy fiction) is set in a hypothetical land that doesn't pretend to occur anywhere in a real historic timeframe.
we were decieved in that our government told us
I agree you were decieved, for one war, but then you went and did the totally responsible thing and put your decievers back into office in the next elections and it's hard for my heart to bleed for you for the second deception, or the third, fifth, thirteenth, so on.
As a nation, I'll accept fickle and impressionable, but not warmongering.
If the US stops going to a new war every few years and then perhaps global perception will change.
My point would be that everyone in these two continents is an american and that their differences all contribute to what an american is.
Yeah, I know. This [the 'melting pot' of races, immigrant nationalities, creeds and so on] is how the US has retained a coherent national identity up to the point where they're the nation most proud of being themselves (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lif_ver_pro_of_the_nat-lifestyle-very-proud-their-nationality) and I still expect a certain amount of deer-eyed 'what, what, you really don't like us?' reaction from americans every time such issues are discussed (not so much you, Adarias, but I guess B.O.B in this case).
were part of the original force, but not part of the and they did not engage at thermopylae
something is missing here.
they haven't yet tricked enough of us into that
I am not enthusiastic about the resolve of the american populi in not supporting further war action. We'll see. I hope you're right.
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Hmm I saw 300 the other night... my favorite kinds of movies are historically based war movies with lotsa killinz! (<3 Braveheart) I personally liked the slowmo... it was really interesting to see him killing the guys and the actual moves and stabs he took. Most movies its like "slash slash slash" everyone's dead. Anyway I think the point of the movie was to be highly stylised like Miller's own writing/art. Pretty much everyone that went to go see it was aware of the innaccuracies but the same goes for Any historical movie or any movie based on a book. I am a Huge ancient history/mythology buff, but even so it didn't keep me from enjoying the movie. I hate when people sit there and pick out all the things wrong with the adaptation, just appreciate it for what it is or don't. *shrugs* I personally enjoyed it and would describe it as "awesome!"
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I think it's silly that fighting is going on over something that probably nobody else even cares about (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=K7k&q=historically+accurate&btnG=Search) (#3). ::)
Also, 2+ minutes of nudity makes it a porn, apparently.
EDIT: also, from the article they linked to... "[...] it is strongly implied Xerxes is homosexual [...]". Putting your hands on the shoulders of another man automatically makes you gay, even if you are later in your throneroom surrounded by multitudes of half naked bellydancers throwing themselves at anything with a pulse.
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why we fight is a good documentary that everybody should watch...
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khorin - do you mean the one attached to the Band of Brothers films? that is a good one.
stewlin - lol since they were nearly all actively bisexual, according to records. there were two groups of people who were socially excluded - those who were only stright, and therefor were not intimate with their friends/companions (therfor having no "true" friends in the world at all), and those who were only gay, incapable of being a father and continuing the family line.
abz makes a good poitn about many other representations. Anyone ever read/seen Richard III ? hardly a true word in the play, and it was commonly percieved as truth for generations. What's more is that Shakespeare could easily have discovered the truth instead of following the words of paid historians like thomas more, who was five years old at the time of richard's death but still acted as though he had witnessed the events when it came to selling his accounts.
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Also, 2+ minutes of nudity makes it a porn, apparently.
I think 'battle-porn' was one phrase, as it was hyphenated. Although I'm not 100% sure.
it was really interesting to see him killing the guys and the actual moves and stabs he took.
The movie would probably only be 30 mins. long if it didn't have slow motion. Extremely excessive, imo.
Most movies its like "slash slash slash" everyone's dead.
That isn't really a bad thing. Seeing as that's how Seven Samurai is (it is a happy medium, mostly, as it does have slow-mo). Which is my favourite action movie btw.
mccow of the future: I loved Batman Begins. :/ Even the fight scenes.
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Doesn't Leonidas at one point in the movie refer to the athenians as boy-lovers?
People really take things the wrong way. People acuse Frank Miller of being homophobic for that line in the movie. (i'm not sure if it's even IN the graphic novel, but they automatically tie everything in the movie directly to him.)
There was actually a thing on the (American) news a while ago when the movie "Happy Feet" came to theatres... the anchor thought it was wrong that they portrayed the penguins as homosexuals. (apparently because they were male, dancers, and had some issue with their father. these are penguins we're talking about...)
Lewis Black made a comment about it later that night on The Daily Show. Something to the effect of "How homophobic do you have to be to have PENGUIN GAY-DAR?!"
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Also, 2+ minutes of nudity makes it a porn, apparently.
I think 'battle-porn' was one phrase, as it was hyphenated. Although I'm not 100% sure.
That's correct, but i still don't think it applies. I'm sure that the author of this article doesn't find any movie with the same amount of nudity to be a <genre>-porn. They just seem to have this thing against it because it's not historically accurate. (errm... no one ever said... it... was.)
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If Frank Miller should be criticised about his sexism, it should be over how he is apparently no longer able to write a female character who isn't a ninja, a whore, or ultimately a ninja whore.
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If Frank Miller should be criticised about his sexism, it should be over how he is apparently no longer able to write a female character who isn't a ninja, a whore, or ultimately a ninja whore.
Yeah, I kinda noticed that, reading Sin City. :-\
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That's correct, but i still don't think it applies. I'm sure that the author of this article doesn't find any movie with the same amount of nudity to be a <genre>-porn.
I've heard the phrase used before. Can't cite any specific examples, though. :durr: Don't feel like googling it, either. :lol:
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Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez seem to share a similar complex.
*cough* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462322/ *cough*
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If Frank Miller should be criticised about his sexism, it should be over how he is apparently no longer able to write a female character who isn't a ninja, a whore, or ultimately a ninja whore.
Oh god yes I totally agree! Lmao! Not to mention Every woman he draws is naked with huge tits and pointy nipples. Wtf? lol. It was totally unneccesary for Marv's parole officer to be a naked lesbian. I also felt like the sex scene in that movie was never gonna end.
That isn't really a bad thing. Seeing as that's how Seven Samurai is. Which is my favourite action movie btw.
You're right. It isn't a bad thing. But I am just saying that this was interesting. I hadn't seen a fighting movie in this same type of genre do anything quite like that before. I also enjoyed the capes... they billowed at all the right moments XD
Doesn't Leonidas at one point in the movie refer to the athenians as boy-lovers?
Didn't the Spartans historically take boy lovers as well? Or am I mistaken?
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yes yes all the ancient greeks, they poked into everything, the lot of them.
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I actually liked the slowed down fighting scenes. nothing annoys me more than when the battles are a flickering screen going between black, and then a frame of someone being sliced in half, then another frame of black, then a frame of someone swinging a sword... Lord of the Rings battlescenes just looked like someone was running back and forth in front of the camera. It's like trying to watch a wrestling match through a mob's legs and elbows.
Batman Begins was also horrible about this. there was not even enough light to tell there was a fight going on, you just had to assume Batman was winning because of all the punching noises and henchmen moaning.
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I actually liked the slowed down fighting scenes.
Hooray! Another fan! :lol:
Batman Begins was also horrible about this. there was not even enough light to tell there was a fight going on, you just had to assume Batman was winning because of all the punching noises and henchmen moaning.
That made me -lol-, I have to agree tho despite how much I loved the movie itself. I am really picky about fight scenes tho. I HATED in King Arthur where no one bled! What's up with that! I have been mortally wounded and instantly cartarized. *death* ... lame
@ Helm: lol, good to know. ;)
Anyway I stand by my :y: despite the historical inaccuracies. ^^
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because of all the punching noises and henchmen moaning.
less like Batman Begins and more like Batman Comes
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And with that... i'm going to bed.
Hahaha. oh. wow.
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i liked the LotR battles, since they felt very frantic. it's funny though that you should talk about LotR as a series that didnt abuse slow-mo ^^
Comic book artists do have a bad habit of falling into that trap of the large whores.
the trick of miller is that i don't know if he ever did characters that werent ninja-whores. his first significant female character was elektra afterall :P
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wow, that's as bad as the jokes we make at wendy's after midnight.......which probably means i should follow stwelin's suit and also go to bed.
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khorin - do you mean the one attached to the Band of Brothers films? that is a good one.
Attached to Band of Brothers? This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight_(2005_film) ?
I have the whole series and I didn't see anything about the one I linked. Maybe it's just a different one with the same name. I don't like giving synopsis so I'll just let the almighty wiki do the talking. heh
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None the less, I liked the movie, and I agree with Abz's statement in that it's JUST A FRIGGIN' MOVIE! Just take it for what it is, and have fun with it. No I don't worship Frank Miller, or adore his art( in fact his style just doesn't appeal to me at all...). But I really like 2 of his movies. And that's that....
Also, slow-mo is pretty fun sometimes, but too much makes it a bit tacky. I'm also not a fan of some of the newer Asian shaolin movies, and what not. I really hate the floating, and the painfully slow thrusts, where people are diving at their opponents where the opponent some how becomes light as a feather and dodges the attack by doing a double back flip landing on his fingertips and blah, blah.... I miss actual physics being involved in these fights.
Oh, and I just saw Bridge to Terabithia: Didn't read the book, and I didn't really like the movie. It felt too "kiddy" for me. Just not my style I guess...
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Oh, and I just saw Bridge to Terabithia: Didn't read the book, and I didn't really like the movie. It felt too "kiddy" for me. Just not my style I guess...
I read the book forever ago, and I don't remember it being as 'magic! cg creatures! mystical adventure!' as the trailer portrayed it. Most of the book took place outside of their imaginary whatever.
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Agreed. Although it was a good 7 years since I read it, I remember it being more about the guy's neighbor's messed up/ different life rather than their imaginary kingdom. Another one of those bargin bin movies I guess :lol:.
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I never read the book but the trailer didn't appeal to me.
The biggest child book --> movie adaptation dissappointment for me was Chronicles of Narnia. I loved those books. I was so psyched bc the same ppl that worked on Lotr were going to work on CoN which was so cool bc in real life Tolkien and Lewis were friends. But it was a huge let down for me, I could barely even pretend I liked it. I mean ... sure it was pretty ... but I thought it lacked character development and acting skills and what was going on with Mr Tumnus and Lucy O_o ... but I dunno maybe I was too old to enjoy it? *le sigh*
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Anyone ever read/seen Richard III ? hardly a true word in the play, and it was commonly percieved as truth for generations. What's more is that Shakespeare could easily have discovered the truth instead of following the words of paid historians like thomas more, who was five years old at the time of richard's death but still acted as though he had witnessed the events when it came to selling his accounts.
Yeah, but Richard III was entertainment fodder for Elizabethan audiences, probably the only saving grace of it is Shakespeares tenacity for metaphors and wordplay. Also when Shakespeare was hired he was probably expected to follow the conventional historical beliefs, not to mention he probably didn't have time to do extensive historical research for it, it is likely that his plays were written in incredibly short periods of time (we're talking weeks here). So maybe we can forgive him for that. Not exactly circumstances comparable to Miller's.
Though I don't agree with the "it's just a movie" sentiment, I'm all for letting as little bullshit slide by as possible.
EDIT: Also, Miller obviously chose to take the names of Sparta and Persia because of the interest gather from understanding that they were real places in which inhabited real people, and by doing so signalling to audiences "hey, true story!" and then not delivering the truth. It's simply dishonest.
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... but I dunno maybe I was too old to enjoy it? *le sigh*
Bah hah!! Another French Sigher! I knew I wasn't the only one. See punajians, the French onomatopoetic sigh lives on!!
Le Sigh (http://punaji.com/thread.php?threadid=421&page=2&sid=bb62f59d2c1ea973cb709e8f4cf98232)
And by the way, I also feel like "I'm getting too old for this shit." ( Danny Glover, Lethal Weapon)
I want to go see the new TMNT(despite the fact that I KNOW that I'll be disappointed...), but I won't because I feel too old...and I don't think Shredder is in it, which really ruins it for me...
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...and I don't think Shredder is in it
You've got to be shitting me. That's like having Captain Planet, but without any fat CEOs trying to dump medical waste into the water supply in order to sell more bottled water.
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Wait wait... shredder's not in the movie? he's... IN THE FUCKING THEMESONG.
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Shredder has to be in there or i ain't watching :yell:
Gotta see the new transformers movie too. Just to hear optimus prime speak with his own voice again. I got brainmongled by the recent 3D transformers cartoons, so i expect this to make it all better.
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Shredder's not in it?! I was really considering going to see that. When I was 7 I told everyone Donatello was my bf. >_> But if it's just a lame adaptation, no thank you, I have the others on DVD. So... are they gonna change the themesong then?
And YES... the trailer for Transformers effing pwns. I want to go see it SO badly... SO SO badly.
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Yeah, the "Don" was my fav' too. Gotta' love purple. Plus he was the smart dorky one; I mean come on, pixel artist, ap classes...I can definitely relate to him. Plus my brothers called dibs on Raph and Michaelangelo.(bastards) Also, on Rottentomatoes.com, it plot says that AFTER the defeat of their old nemesis, The Shredder, the turtles have grown apart...yada yada...fighting aliens from other planet. So I assume he's gone now, in little samurai overlord heaven.
Transformers, I don't know. I saw the previews to it and...bleh. I'm not too sure it's going to make the cut. I could be wrong though. I've still not had the chance to see Pan's Labrynth yet, but I'm hoping I'll get the chance. I hope this summer has some bad arse movies lined up. Or I'll sue...
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Donatello... *dreamy eyes* haha I know!! I loved him ^^ I have a reeeally bad weakness for dorky guys.
But I dunno how I feel about this new take on TMNT :\ They are sposed to fight Shredder and Krane (sp)
and :O Transformers looks badass! I think there's a movie about Vikings coming out this summer also? Pathfinder? I saw a brief trailer for it before 300. It better not suck bc I really like Vikings. And I haven't seen Pan's Labrynth either but I REALLY want to... from what I heard it's just amazing.
Has anyone heard anything about Grindhouse aside from that it's coming out? I haven't seen shit.
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I suspect the TMNT movie is a bit of a reinterpretation/evolution of the original story. Which is what they'd HAVE to do to get it to work. No one would want a remake of something everyone's already seen ages ago.
Same with the Transformers movie. It looks weird.
Hope they do something nice with the TMNT 360 game, though, it looks to have a LOT of potential... but I have a weird feeling it'll turn out mediocre...
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No one would want a remake of something everyone's already seen ages ago.
are you sure? Hollywood's been putting out a ton of remakes.
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TOO many remakes lately. Originilality is hard to find these days in Hollywood. Independent or foreign movies are where it's at. Seriously, has anyone seen Pan's Labyrinth? I know some of the creatures were taken from previous myths but it's still pretty original. *shrug
I visited Rotten Tomatoes and saw they had 100 worst reviewed movies and found that a majority of them came out after 2000. It would appear the quality of films is going down lately...
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totally off-topic for this thread, but I didn't feel like spamming the board with a new thread for this:
I for one would find it extremely cool, if in the banner at the top, "way of the pixel" would also be written in kanji. That being said, the kanji for pixel(gaso) can be found as number 2124 on this page (http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/japanese/kanjiord.htm) and the kanji for do(way) is on wikipedia (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%81%93).
(cookies go to entheh of allegro.cc for helping me to find that information)
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Shouldn't it be in chinese kanji instead of japanese? Why? Because Bruce is well...Chinese. :-} Nevermind...Japanese kanji was taken from Chinese characters but we should be using the chinese language instead of nihongo.
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Hm, actually Bruce was born in the USA, no idea about which characters are appropriate, since well, I know that's Bruce Lee there on the banner but I think "way of the pixel" is so generic it doesn't necessarily have to be associated to Bruce Lee, so in my opinion it would be ok to use those characters I suggested originally.
/me runs off gnawing on his one onigiri.
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Ahh yes you're right about that. *shrug Well language aside, I think it'd be cool to do if anyone would pixel the characters.
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That's really weird that there's a word for pixel that isn't gairaigo. Most every word that was introduced after like 1902 is just mangled into the japanese syllabary.
By the way: awesome resource for looking things up in japanese (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C).
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No one would want a remake of something everyone's already seen ages ago.
are you sure? Hollywood's been putting out a ton of remakes.
But do people want them?
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I don't know, I think there's already enough Japanese culture around us. I don't see any need to add Japanese text to the Pixelation logo nor do I think it's cool.
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It sounds like some of you guys didn't get to see Pan's Labyrinth; REMEDY THIS FACT IMMEDIATELY. This movie is beautiful, powerful, disgusting, and extremely intense!
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Herchaw! I'm seeing it Thursday, Adam. That is, if it isn't already out of the discount theater.
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It sounds like some of you guys didn't get to see Pan's Labyrinth; REMEDY THIS FACT IMMEDIATELY. This movie is beautiful, powerful, disgusting, and extremely intense!
I saw it the moment it was released to theatres. I agree with every point you made and I'll reiterate mine: very original. It's not based on a book nor a comic but straight out Guillermo Del Torro's imaginitive head with a few exceptions of course. (ie Pan)
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Hello there guys
I wanted to ask if any of you know about a good place to post about a game dev project to look for programmers/coders. I was about to post it in the Employment section but then I realized that we're not really looking for additional artists (yet) but for coders. So if any of you know about a good place for this, please, let me know.
Thanks in advance for the help!
~Keops
PS: I think it's okay if I post it in the Off-topic thread too, but I want to hear input from the community and/or mods first. If this is OK maybe I'll post it here too.
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I don't know, I think there's already enough Japanese culture around us. I don't see any need to add Japanese text to the Pixelation logo nor do I think it's cool.
Doubly agreed.
Yes, I haven't seen the Labyrinth of Pan, though I sincerely wish to.
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Hello there guys
I wanted to ask if any of you know about a good place to post about a game dev project to look for programmers/coders. I was about to post it in the Employment section but then I realized that we're not really looking for additional artists (yet) but for coders. So if any of you know about a good place for this, please, let me know.
Thanks in advance for the help!
~Keops
PS: I think it's okay if I post it in the Off-topic thread too, but I want to hear input from the community and/or mods first. If this is OK maybe I'll post it here too.
HAH let me know if you find the place.
Coders are so so so impossible to find. Free anyway.
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I wanted to ask if any of you know about a good place to post about a game dev project to look for programmers/coders. I was about to post it in the Employment section but then I realized that we're not really looking for additional artists (yet) but for coders. So if any of you know about a good place for this, please, let me know.
I find searching through people's websites and sending them emails if you think they're capable to be a good way to do things. You might be able to find something at gamedev.net's forums, I don't really know where all the coders hang out ;p
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Just an idea I want to get of my rather ample chest.
Graph Pad to Pixelart Program Idea
Purpose/benefits: pixel during blackouts, pixel in antitechno social environments, hard copy backup, pixel over hand sketched guides without needing a tablet or pre-scan, etc.
Requirements: gridded paper, pens/pencils
Input: a scan of a pixelart piece drawn into the grid of a graphpad/grid-paper
Output: a pixel clean, colour clean image file
Desirable characteristics
- Be insensitive to guide lines
- Only fill pixels when most of the pixel is covered
Manual Mode
- Allow user to place overlaid sampling grid ontop of scan (rotate, translate, scale)
- Select and tweak sampled colours for final palette
- Adjust sampling filter size
- Adjust colour tolerance
- Preview results
Automatic Mode
- Automatically determine grid allignment and scale using image processing techniques, from grid lines or from pixel boundaries
- Perhaps locallised grid reallignment to compensate for any paper or print stretching
- Automatically centre sampling points in grid squares
- Automatic difference threshold based colour selection
Manual mode would be a piece of piss to implement.
Automatic mode would be more fiddly but still quite practical.
Does anything like this already exist?
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Whoa. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript)
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Whoa. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript)
I think it's a book that somehow slipped through the dimensional void between our plane of existence and that of our counterselves.
(BTW, I really do believe in more than one universe and plane of existence, and that creatures beyond human fathoming exist in each.)
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(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r10/tomovuk/boom8fo8ne6xy.gif)
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I think it's a book that somehow slipped through the dimensional void between our plane of existence and that of our counterselves.
(BTW, I really do believe in more than one universe and plane of existence, and that creatures beyond human fathoming exist in each.)
I find that book strangely familiar, but considering the number of modern works that mention it I've probably heard about it in passing somewhere.
Have you ever looked at the paintings by Brian Froud, Xion? He's best known for character and world designs in The Dark Crystal and The Labyrinth films, but he's also published a couple of books that you might find interesting. Mr. Froud paints faeries, but not the stereotypical 6" pixies with shiny wings and sparklies--he touches on higher planes of thought and feeling repeatedly. Good Faeries, Bad Faeries is a great coffee table book with all sorts of descriptions of everything that's in it; another one to look for is the Faeries' Oracle. It's similar to a tarot deck if you're in to that kind of thing, but I've found it to be a very profound source of inspiration and insight.
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Whoa. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript)
I think it's a book that somehow slipped through the dimensional void between our plane of existence and that of our counterselves.
(BTW, I really do believe in more than one universe and plane of existence, and that creatures beyond human fathoming exist in each.)
I find that the Manchu definition best "decrypts" it, but it still doesn't answer what it says.
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another one to look for is the Faeries' Oracle. It's similar to a tarot deck if you're in to that kind of thing, but I've found it to be a very profound source of inspiration and insight.
I believe my mom has this. I see it lying around the house now and then.
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It sounds like some of you guys didn't get to see Pan's Labyrinth; REMEDY THIS FACT IMMEDIATELY. This movie is beautiful, powerful, disgusting, and extremely intense!
I just got back from seeing it. Everything I expected and more. Such a powerful movie. I recommend this to anyone, as long as you can stand a little* gore.
*little = lot of
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Oh oh! I just saw Pan's Labyrinth. Last showing in the whole damn county :D.
Good, but a lot more gore then I expected.