Official Off-Topic Thread

[.TakaM]

welcome back dogmeat


I bought Metroid Prime 3 for my brother (xmas) for close to $100 (how much games cost here) and this week they have it on sale for $30

[Helm]

I am back as well. I check forums. Evildoers will be purged.

[JJ Naas]

I am back as well. I check forums. Evildoers will be purged.

Dude, I'd like to hear your take on the riots in Greece. The general public sympathises with the rioters, am I right?

[Atnas]

It's just my luck that as soon as I turn 16, the driving age in Pennsylvania is bumped up to 17.   

[Helm]

I am back as well. I check forums. Evildoers will be purged.

Dude, I'd like to hear your take on the riots in Greece. The general public sympathises with the rioters, am I right?

Not easy to say. The general public is concerned about what it all means. Public unrest protests against authority of course but the resultant rage seems mismatched to a singular event. It seems steam has been building over a lot of things and now that people remembered what they can do to show their distaste besides peaceful demonstration, they're giving it all they've got. Don't be surprised if the Greek government topples over this and some radical departure from 'safe politics' occurs. The only good we can expect from the current situation. It seems violence fans the flames, the anger will not diffuse. We will see where this leads and what it means. People interested in global politics are paying attention because this might as well might serve as a reference point for similar riots & fallouts in other countries in the immediate future. I hesitate to close with some sort of one-liner like 'Capitalism cannot eat its tail indefinitely', but I we will just wait and see I guess.

[JJ Naas]

This thing started almost immediately after me reading your blog rant about the editors adding porn implements to the mag you used to draw to some years back. Apparently even porn wasn't enough of circuses and bread then.

[Helm]

Yeah I can't really say if this violence will end in some focus, my brief life hasn't offered much to be optimistic about (as far as I remember, things have been getting worse - I mean, geopolitically, not in my personal life) so my hopeful parts inside me seem rusty. I find it very odd that I wish for something positive out of people setting banks and cars on fire and clashing with the police but... at least something is happening now? I hope I don't have to eat all my words later. And what I really fear against is that this will end in the usual apathy because if it does it'll be even worse due to the damaging of private property.

[Mathias]

The "Generic 16 color palette" - What a shame that this thread never had a conclusion, it just kinda faded. It was a great community initiative.

Feels like it should be finished and not forgotten. Lot of time spent here playing around with challenges and such, why not focus more energy into things like this that lend to the development of pixeling itself?

[.TakaM]

Merry xmas guys, hope you and yours have a great time

[ndchristie]

WE've had eight minutes of christmas in new york city, and here's a happy one to all