Official Pixelopolis Off-Topic Thread

[Peppermint Pig]

Any topic, keep it clean. Have fun!



Oh, and Happy Birthday to me   

[Silver]

happy birthday !

[God Slayer]

Any topic, keep it clean. Have fun!



Oh, and Happy Birthday to me   

Your avatar scares me so.

Happy birthday, Piggy

[Rox]

Happy birthday, PP.


*plays Doom*

[Faktablad]

Happy birthday.  I pixeled a 16x16 candle for you.

[Mercury Rising]

Anyone know what new armor is in Fable lost chapters?  I beat the entire thing yet I only found 2 new helmets...  Is this all?  Chicken hat and Red wig I don't consider armor. What else is there and how do I get it?

[crab2selout.png]

I was going to make a pixel cake, but I burned down my pixel oven and home.

[Xion]

happy birthday !

Ditto.

Awesomeness.

[Peppermint Pig]

Haha, thank you very much, everyone. Nice candle, too!

Birthday was quite fun, and the cake was delicious! Encoding some new CD's now... hope everyone else is doing well.

[Rox]

Awesomeness.

Holy carp!


 [edit]
Wow, this thread is so dead... Here, have some music.
http://media.putfile.com/alchiba41
 [/edit]

[Zolthorg]

I'm going to assume there's a maximum avatar size.

the non 150x150 ness of it makes me a sad panda


back to the avatar drawing board...
(for the curious)

[nvision]

A blinking test-pattern "LOL?" OMG!  Why don't you just make the same image at a reduced size?  Since everything is made of straight lines, it should be a piece o' cake...

Speaking of cake..happy belated birthday to Pep...mine was just over two weeks ago, and the cake was delish...glad yours was too!

[Zolthorg]

took me an hour to find my favourite resolution of the image... it's just personal preference.

i had to tweak it sind ethe seocn L was longer than it was supposed to be... off to see if it fits now!

[Zolthorg]

Would you prefer this?

[Peppermint Pig]

If things are really that slow, then I would make a personal request to visit the Wiki:

http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/pixipedia

The more viewership the Wiki gets, the more it grows. Knowing is half the battle!!! Share your knowledge, improve on what's there!

Thanks Nvision. Happy belated to you as well!

Might be a bit of a dry subject for some, but I wanted to inform everyone that we've been looking into the current forum structure and will be doing some rule updates. Hopefully nothing that will shock you or blow your world away.

[xio]

Hey, does anyone know of some good online resources for writers?

[crab2selout.png]

Normal screenshot:

Contrased for viewing:


Bad, Harvest Moon! Bad!

That's not how we make our grass and dirt tiles:
http://zoggles.co.uk/asp/tutorials.asp?tut=17&page=58

[Mercury Rising]

I found an error in that tut, in Demystifying the Greats 1

"
Now here's a sphere with a light shining on it. You can instantly tell there's light shining on the top right of it because that side is lighter, and the other side is of course, darker. It FEELS 3d, even though it's still just pixels like anything else we've been looking at...."

While it says top right I can clearly see top left.  Not much of a problem but hey, I'm just pointing it out.

[Darien]

I can't wait.

[crab2selout.png]

I swear, I was just about to make a post about EarthBound3 or at least I was thinking about it. It should be pretty interesting, although I hope the really long delays and cancellations aren't a bad omen.

[Darien]

Well didn't they say that they can no longer change the date?  And besides, long delays just mean they're making sure they won't mess it up... right?

In any case, I was really pleased with the screenshots.  I just hope they translate it.  Though, we could always rely on ROM hacking...

[Zolthorg]

So i've taken to playing cave story again, where i left off after a single playthrough >,>

It seems fun.
I'm doing it because a bunch of buddies of mine, who really enjoyed the game... we're talking people who do speed runs on the secret boss of hell >_>
are planning on using some of the rom hacking tooms (sue's workshop, a level editor) and some plain old file-hacking to try to put together some sort of prequel in their spare time.

Just thought some fans of cave-story might want to hear about an unofficial prequel currently in planning and conceptualizing stages.
and i made the mistake of telling them someone here might volunteer to help with graphics

i'll keep anyone who cares posted through PMs :-)

[Helm]

If there's anything more cave-story-ish, I'd prefer it to be by the original developer. Make an original platformer by scratch is what I suggest to your friends.

[Zolthorg]

It's a fan appreciation dealy.

Right now they're just discussing their own ideas that come from cannon storyline
Not sure whether i mentioned it above but they want it to be a prequel where you control Curly.

Though yeah, it would be cool if they got Pixel to make a new one or coded one themselves, they're fans of the game who are stuggling through the game's strange form of basic at the moment. If they can learn enough without being forced to create a new engine, that's the route they want to take.

edit; holy spelling, batman!
they contacted the man responsible for translating the game, in hopes he can shed some light on the file formats and the language used.

[Krizmo]

Does anybody know anything about "Trillian" messenger? I just got it, and thought it was pretty cool (mainly because of the skinnability xP), but I was wondering if anyone knew how to use the IRC client that it comes with. Do you need a seperate IRC program to use it? Because everything I type comes up with "YOu are not in a channel!", or seomthign of the sort...

[Lick]

HuzzaaA?!! I'm back!!

After a year or more thinking that the Pixelation community was broken down, I visited Final Redemption and went to the links page and saw that ..- it moved to a new board. Hell?! I missed all the news?!  No one told me? 

But anyway, I'm glad I'm back. I was JointJunkie by the way, the one with the crazy joint avatar and put everyone elses avatar on fire. haha.. That was a good pixelling time.. But I'm retired as a pixel artist now. I think I can make a piece or join a compo on occasion, I just won't have enough time to do real pixelling anymore. And I lost all my previous work.. 

But oorah! I'm back, and that's all that matters!! 

[robalan]

Random Wikipedia search resulted in the discovery that Ptoing is famous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art

[flaber]

i tella u

the day is today.
im 16

[Helm]

Random Wikipedia search resulted in the discovery that Ptoing is famous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art

the yus bird also makes it to wikipedia in a sideways manner! Whoever did this is awesome!

[goat]

Helm got his username from the velcro headgear his mom makes him wear to keep from hurting himself.

[crab2selout.png]

Helm, you should make a Yus page in the pixipedia. It'd be awesome to see it and all of its variations over the years.



Do it....
Do it.

[Helm]

maybe in 10 years from now, I'll do that on cyberpedia neuroimplant mk.XII or something

[nvision]

Oi, Helm...I noticed in another thread you mentioned that you do comic work for a living...  Are you a penciller, inker, writer,   If you've got any of your work available online, I'd love to check it out.  I used to self-publish my own books, before I got into making games, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things in my spare time.  Seeing other's work would certainly be a great source of inspiration...

[Peppermint Pig]

Hey, Happy Birthday flaber!!

Sweet Sixteen

[Helm]

Oi, Helm...I noticed in another thread you mentioned that you do comic work for a living...  Are you a penciller, inker, writer,   If you've got any of your work available online, I'd love to check it out.  I used to self-publish my own books, before I got into making games, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things in my spare time.  Seeing other's work would certainly be a great source of inspiration...

Yeah I do comics for a living. I write, pencil, ink and occasionally colour my work. Check the pixelation OT creativity thread, or just click on links. The few on the last page of the OT thread are translated too, though.

www.locustleaves.com/wheel2.png
www.locustleaves.com/mike2.png
www.locustleaves.com/twoquestions.jpg
www.locustleaves.com/cableworkers2.png
www.locustleaves.com/part25.htm
www.locustleaves.com/Gnaw2.png
www.locustleaves.com/dancefinal.png

[Zach]

god those are hot helm specially number 3
i wish to be a comic artist too one day

[Blick]

So this one time, a lot of people got caught up in their excitement over nothing astounding.

http://www.ubersite.com/m/84167

[Xion]

Helm, those rock. I like the one with the Yus! Bird and the two mischevous guys.

[nvision]

Amazing work, Helm!  Man, I was totally taken aback by those...the style reminds me very much of work I used to read in Heavy Metal (back when it was good).  I especially like the "wheel" pic (nice non-linear narrative), and the cable workers one. What publisher do you work with, and do they happen to ship overseas?  I'd love to pick up some of your books...

[Helm]

Thanks for checking out my work, glad you like. My influences are more european than american, and Heavy Metal (well, Metal Hurlant, really) with stuff like Moebius, Pazienza, Kaza etc are pretty much 50% of my aesthetic style.

I haven't published any books, my one-pagers run in a weekly greek newspaper. I plan to collect and publish my first volume of assorted at about 5 months.

[Zolthorg]

more offtopicness:

[Blick]

Ahahaha, I've had something similar, but less emotionally damaging, happen to me before.

[Conzeit]

hey pig
yeah you
hey pig piggy pig pig pig

LMAO Zolthrog, that is completly awesome.

I had a moment almost like that with Gustav once.

Drunk Gustav: hahaa thats awsome, oops, wrong window, the awsome part was supposed to be to another guy :X

[Rox]

Will Wright just bought himself my soul.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore

[AlexHW]

That vid is a year old

If you're interested in spore, you should check up on the GDC (game developers conference) 2006, because there'll be about 3 speeches from guys working on spore, so there should be new info released probably this month.

[Evan]

Hey all. Back from a month long grounding. It sucked.

Happy birthday Pep.

Songs all of you should get:

Lionel Ritchie - All Night Long
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (NOTE: Get the whole album)

[Helm]

N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton

That type of stuff will get your grounded again!

[Blick]

Speaking of videos, NWA and subsequently Eazy E...

I can't stop watching Natalie Portman's SNL rap.

[Ryumaru]

helm, i would buy that one-pager with the yus bird for a kabazillion dollars

[Conzeit]

That type of stuff will get your grounded again!

how about NIN helm...huh? huh?? huh??? what will that get me? hahahahahaha

[Zolthorg]

NEW AVATAR!

please sign up to kill me below:

[Xion]

Ooh, ooh! Me first!

I, the undersigned agree to kill, murder, bludgeon, or cause variably high dosages of pain to convulse the person of Zolthorg. Failure to perform these duties will result in obscene harbinging and euphoric dilapidation.

Signature:                X_ion N_ight                         

[Ryumaru]

i was bored, and have a new obsession with the yus bird for some reason
didnt think it was worth putting in pixel discussion
the second one has colors from helms avatar.

[Darien]

NEW AVATAR!

please sign up to kill me below:

ah I finally remembered what your avatar reminds me of:  the stay puft Marshmellow Man from Ghostbusters.  It would be cool if you tried to do something more radically different with the colors/style of the Cave Story guy, though.  Right now it's just kinda, "oh, robots can gain weight?"

[Zolthorg]

anyoe know what ever happened to that game?

y'know the one with the guy! laff.

but seriously, it had the protagonist, girl, clean spritework
the drawn back-grounds,
it looked promising.

come to think of it, what ever happened to wire-hang redux

or rox's fzero rip-off

[Mercury Rising]

I still play Wire-Hang Redux, fun game fun game.  That and Morrowind… shut up I can't afford Oblivion... 

[Rox]

My F-Zero rip-off? You know, I'm actually honored that it's still in someone's memory. I'll tell you what happened: School happened, then I got bored with it, then I decided the enormous amount of time spent on making every track so isn't worth it.

If I could somehow magically create a non-tile based level editor that still has the stability of a tile based one, I'd continue making tracks for it. No, really, I would. I actually found the old .gam file on my HD and played it just last week. It's.. much harder than I remembered...

[Zolthorg]

I still have it even rox

[Krizmo]

I have a new avatar. How uber 1337 is it?

And if you're wondering, yes that really is me. Made very dodgily in Photoshop

[Silver]

I have a new avatar. How uber 1337 is it?

And if you're wondering, yes that really is me. Made very dodgily in Photoshop

Al hamd lilah wa Ill shoker!

[Krizmo]

I have a new avatar. How uber 1337 is it?

And if you're wondering, yes that really is me. Made very dodgily in Photoshop

Al hamd lilah wa Ill shoker!

O.O What?

[Zolthorg]

ok, since no-one else dares do it, i will.
Krimzo, are you male or female?

[Rox]

I bet 100 colored pixels on male.

[Krizmo]

LMFAO.
I get that all the time xD

I am male. Although I do act quite gay, I am also hetrosexual.

[Silver]

I have a new avatar. How uber 1337 is it?

And if you're wondering, yes that really is me. Made very dodgily in Photoshop

Al hamd lilah wa Ill shoker!

O.O What?

oops!
Sorry it means "what surprise you this much" ?
Just a part of an old saying .
sorry again, I just keep mixing things ...

[Zolthorg]

LMFAO.
I get that all the time xD

I am male. Although I do act quite gay, I am also hetrosexual.

it's gotta be the pink hairband >_>

[Krizmo]

Heh, yeah.... <_< >_>

Nothign surprised me, I just pulled a really stupid face when my friend took a photo xD

[Blick]

I hope you don't wear that pink hairband often.

[Zolthorg]

I hope you don't wear that pink hairband often.

Rascist!!!!  zomg

[ironwallaby]

Um... hey everyone... Just checking up on people... seems the forum's still chugging along (550 members? woo)

[SplatPixel]

damn... i really have to draw something... i wish i could stop being so lazy, heh.

[Xion]

damn... i really have to draw something...

Yes. Yes you do.

[Kcilc]

@SplatPixel: I Dare ya to make something 32x32 pixels!

and...

Pure boredom:



The list(from left to right):
-"*Happy*"
-"*Winky*"
-"*Sad*"
-"*Mad*"
-"Yummie"
-"Eh?"
-"heheh"
-"WEE!!"
-"ooh..."
-"*Jaw splat*"
-"pfffff"
-"Blaaaah..."
-"Mwahahahahah!!!"
-"Good grief"
-"Teehee"
-"I'm sooo cool"

[Darion]

http://www.break.com/index/catbackflip.html

[Rox]

What kind of idiot calls that a "back flip"? Gone wrong, even? Silly people.

[Doomraider]

Free image hosting! No login or pass required. Just goto irc.sorcery.net
Channel: #pixelation
Then DCC Send Doomraider the image you want hosted. When the file is sent, a message will be sent to you with a link.
Just don't abuse please, or you shall be smitten

[Rox]

Personally, I like Photobucket, and Imageshack for forums... but that's just me...

[crab2selout.png]

http://www.gamespot.com/upload/news/6146526.html
I was pleasantly surprised by this video of the DS zelda. I like the way it fuses the top down view from the 2d version with the cinematics of the 3d versions. This plus Mario & Luigi 2 and the new super mario bros just might actually get me to buy a DS.

[Lick]

Eventhough the new Zelda for NDS doesn't really make use of pixel art, the graphics are AWESOMEOUS!! Just look at how beautiful low-poly can be. The animations look great and the game seems to be more energetic than its big brothers on the TV consoles.

[Rox]

That thing's practically forcing me to buy a DS. Also, did you notice the stylus-controlled movement?

Speaking of nothing... Zolthorg, you rabid fanboy you.. Let's say, hypothetically, that I would continue working on Rave Race, but start over from scratch... Would you want anything to chance from the first version?

[Zolthorg]

i grew to like the levels you had, so throw em in somewhere.

and make sure it stays a drift racer, drift racers win.

[Lick]

So who's in for a game project anyway?

[crab2selout.png]

That thing's practically forcing me to buy a DS. Also, did you notice the stylus-controlled movement?

Yeah, you notice how Navi the fairy shows where you last tapped?

*tap*
"hey!"

*tap*tap*
"Hey! LISTEN!!!!"

*tap*tap*tap"
"HEYHEY!HEHYHEY!!HEHYHEHYE!!"

[.TakaM]

http://www.gamespot.com/upload/news/6146526.html
I was pleasantly surprised by this video of the DS zelda. I like the way it fuses the top down view from the 2d version with the cinematics of the 3d versions. This plus Mario & Luigi 2 and the new super mario bros just might actually get me to buy a DS.

I bought M&Lpit a while ago and its a fine game, although i think of it as a step down from the first one. my main problem is with mario and luigi's sprites, these mustve been the first ones they did because they just look really awkward in this game, mario runs like a retard also when hes not carrying baby mario and both mario and luigi look like theve been smacked in the face in their diagonal down sprites..
also theres no overworld, its just like lots of dungeons which has really dissappointed me. but its still a great game but i cant understand why they didnt use or build from the first M&L's sprites and include a real overworld

[flaber]

colouring hair is a fricken pain

[Krizmo]

MY CD DRIVE HAS STOPPED WORKING!!! =( =( Woe.

I really want to play some Warcraft 3, but my computer isn't reading the CD *cry*

*cry cry cry cry*

[baccaman21]

big hammer time...

[Lick]

What?! Get VDV!! (DVD)

[PyroPiranha]

so yeah...was inspired by the whole fake screen shot deal with takam and snake...

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24487680&msg_id=268482844

*cough* it hurt to type like that...it truly did.

Anyways, if youd note the username, it's Pixelation backwards, a tribue to my favorite forum
Anyways, let's see how much this rash spreads

[Xion]

Eh, looks like someone said it was a fake already.
Maybe they believe it, maybe they don't.

[Blick]

I would love to just make fake mock ups and easter eggs for games and post them everywhere. "OMG I PRESD UP DWN UP DWN LEFT RITE LEFT RIYT WILE PLAYN TONYHAWKZ 10 N IT WENT 2 A MINI-GAME!!" And then it'd be a picture of picture of Tony Hawk going through a Contra level and everyone would be like "omg w/e" and then I'd post more pictures of it and then they'd be like "... hmm..." then I'd recruit someone else to post one of the pictures and then everyone would be like "If two people got it to work, IT MUST BE TRUE."

Creating hoaxes would be the best job in the world. I might have to go apply for a journalism gig at the Enquirer now.

[Xion]

http://variantinteractive.com/forums/index.php?topic=25
Support the DSization of Cave Story!

[Larwick]

so yeah...was inspired by the whole fake screen shot deal with takam and snake...

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24487680&msg_id=268482844

*cough* it hurt to type like that...it truly did.

Anyways, if youd note the username, it's Pixelation backwards, a tribue to my favorite forum
Anyways, let's see how much this rash spreads

That made my morning  I love the comment: "whoa..........its aprils fools day today u know..."

[Zolthorg]

http://variantinteractive.com/forums/index.php?topic=25
Support the DSization of Cave Story!

Nintendo: Add touch screen crap
Developer: no
Nintendo: gtfo


Developer: omg let's not release any games
Sony: Hey, we want to produce dat game
Developer: Hey pixel
Pixel:
Developer: thanks for the rights!
Artist: Lol i draw huge circle heds take my art
Developer: k
People: I would be careful, they've never released a game, and they're a small company
People: Lol dat meenz u will releez  dis wun cave stori rite tho???
Developer: oh, sure, uh, yeah.



IF it comes out for the PSP, nintendo MAY go 'oshi' and pop it on the GBA. As of now don't get your hopes up.

[Xion]

_______________________________
*=============
The more you know.

lmao

[Conzeit]

_______________________________
*=============
The more you know.

lmao

what's that all about?

[Zolthorg]

_______________________________
*=============
The more you know.

lmao

what's that all about?

I edited my post to make it more clear

[Darion]

Is there anyone graduating this year? I don't here about too many people and their completion of post-secondary school/college.

I'm graduating in June and attending Savannah College of Art and Design in the fall. I can't be the only one graduating ... 

Just curious.

[goat]

SCAD is a badass school, if for some reason I feel masochistic enough to pursue my MFA, that's high on my list of places to get it

just don't fall into the trap most art students do when they're fresh out of high school I swear every semester we lose about half of our 18 year old fresh enrollments and it really sucks to watch because it's the best thing that's ever happened to me, and I just want to see everyone make it because we're all in the same boat I highly doubt you'll have that issue though, those guys are just slackers and critique-sensitive pussies

[Kcilc]

Who wants to do a collab with me?

[Chilly]

Man, I've been idle here for far too long.... ...


Need to get some action going soon or my head is gonna melt!! @_@

[goat]

*sticks bl00's head in the freezer*

[Blick]

Is there anyone graduating this year? I don't here about too many people and their completion of post-secondary school/college.

I will be graduating, if I finish this correspondence course before Friday. Yes, this Friday. I have to turn in all the written work (little of it is done  ) and I will have to pass every class. If I pass all my classes this year, that'll be a personal best. It's sad, really.

If I do graduate this year, I will either join the Navy or go to college at UAF. I'm not sure yet. I personally think the Navy is better in that it'll put my life on track straight out of high school, but the people whose thoughts on the subject I care about most are saying to go stay here. If I do stay, I don't know what I'll be doing. Which kind of irks me.

I prefer to worry about my correspondence course presently. If I don't get that done, then there's no use to be thinking ahead just yet. Even if I don't finish it by Friday, I still have until August before it expires so I'll definitely graduate (assuming I pass all my other classes), but I won't walk at the ceremony is all.

[Rox]

I'm gonna need the words of some tech people here. After half a year of puzzledness, I found out what's wrong with my computer, what makes it overheat when I play certain games. The fan that sits on the actual graphics card itself is completely and utterly pulverized. (And I didn't even know I had a fan there! Why won't anyone ever tell me about these things?!)

Apparently it's a little 40mm fan with a two-pin connector thingy, sitting on an ATI Radeon X600/550 thingy. So, does anyone have any advice on what fan to buy, and.. how to freaking get the old one out of the way, 'cause it's kinda stuck there.  x.x


[edit] Kay. Radeon X600 Pro is what I'm looking at here. I've got a few options... The only thing confusing me still is that every dang fan I've seen has a connector (that's what they're called right?) with four wires/pins... mine's got two. Is there... um... something to do about that? [/edit]

[Rawsushi]

I'm sure someone out there knows of a website that explains the limitations of the DS (as far as restrictions on tiles, palette rows, etc.)
I can find nothing. I'm used to GBA stuff, but I'm sure the DS is a different beast altogether.

[ptoing]

The DS has 2 processors and one is a bit better than the gba and one actually a bit worse for whatever reason.

If you are in 2D mode the restrictions are basically the same as on the gba but you can have an extended palette where you have 16 256 colour palettes for sprites instead of just one but that's not really efficient in terms of visual ram. Another problem is that the screen is bigger on the DS. On the gba you could have a background that tiles and is 256 pixles wide so you are always 16 pixles ahead or you have a buffer of 8 pixels on both sides left and right. On the DS that's not possible so scrolling in 2D is actually more expensive afaik.

Also the 3d capabilities are a bit crap. you can only have 2000 visible polygons per frame which is not much and the alpha stuff is meh.

BUT if you use 3D for 2D that's rocking. in 2D mode you can only have 128 sprites i think (maybe 256 not sure) and only 32 rotating/scaling ones. In 3d however you can just map a texture  on a quad and treat it as a sprite,works with animation as well and you get free rotation and scaling one 2000 sprites in theory. Same goes for backgrounds, just make them in 3d and intead of 4 backgrounds you can have 8 (there can't be more than 8 visible polygons on top of each other until the z-sorting fucks up)

Yeh, i could gather more knowledge if anyone is interessted.

[Xion]

What's afaik mean?

[Rawsushi]

Yeh, i could gather more knowledge if anyone is interessted.

Pretty please.

I'm actually attempting some background art for the system, and I'm used to the GBA. What I have so far looks okay, but still very GBA, and I know that the DS can handle more than that.

[Blick]

What's afaik mean?

As far as I know.

[ptoing]

Basically when if you wanna make a PURE 2d look game you should use the 3d capabilities of the DS, it's way more powerful. I am quite sure that everything in advance wars ds is based on texturemapped quads. I will look up some more info. Do you have MSN monsoon?

[GOODNIGHTdestroyer]

Is it weird that I really like the new kingdom hearts theme song? I don't even play the games, or any games for that matter, I just really like this song for osme reason haha.

[Rawsushi]

Is it weird that I really like the new kingdom hearts theme song? I don't even play the games, or any games for that matter, I just really like this song for osme reason haha.

That's because Utada Hikaru is a pretty damn good singer.

ptoing:  Nope, I don't have MSN... but I'm sure I can remedy that. And--- done. (msn: ben_badres@yahoo.com)

[Lick]

Also the 3d capabilities are a bit crap. you can only have 2000 visible polygons per frame which is not much and the alpha stuff is meh.

..2000 sprites in theory.

2000 polygons, you mean triangles? If so, that would make 1000 quads (quad = 2tri).

I wonder why Nintendo would've put 2D mode in the DS if all peopel would use is 3D mode. Wonder-wonder..

[ptoing]

MS2d: for whatever reason miranda can't find you when i search for you in MSNM Network. My msn is gniotp@hotmail.com

[Scuba Steve]

Hay, Question for anyone able to answer it...

Years ago someone on Pixelation was making a side scrolling shooting game based off nuns with guns... who was that and what ever happened to it?

[AlexHW]

That was Astrospoon.
As far as I know, it was some college project I think.
I search google, but the game isnt hosted online anymore it seems..
the name of the game was Nun N Gun..

[God Slayer]

So, either someones really lazy with the news box, or we're getting a head start on this years Christmas events...

[crab2selout.png]

Hay, Question for anyone able to answer it...

Years ago someone on Pixelation was making a side scrolling shooting game based off nuns with guns... who was that and what ever happened to it?

I saw this guy posting on eatpoo once
http://www.eatpoo.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=38831&sid=37c722af67a3eb21b2c249d2e2d6e2ef here

Looks like the links have died, though. I had the game at one point, but deleted as I didn't like it. Still got the sprites and stuff he showed in the thread if you want.

http://host-a.net/getfile.php?usern=killerdhawk&file=NunGuns.rar
EDIT:fixed link

[Darion]

Crab, you are a lifesaver.

[crab2selout.png]

Eathbound 3 is looking so delicious right now. I wants it now!
http://starmen.net/mother3/mother3world/#

[Zolthorg]

Man, i need your help.... can you like hide a body for me man?

really?

thanks;

http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=1201.0

yeah... i... killed it...

[Dra_chan]

Sup everybody, I'm new here, this forum looks cool 

[Xion]

Hi.

[Rox]

Firefox just threw me one of the coolest browser-related glitches I've seen so far...

Post-within-a-post, animation-within-lineart!

[Xion]

I've seen that before...many times. It's just plain annoying, especially when text overlaps more text.

[Xion]

Oh, I came across this really cool little movie short film type thing. It was like a documentary about aliens who had come to inhabit the earth and there were mechs going around and stuff. The aliens looked kind of cthulu-like, if I recall, and there were UFO's all over the city. The people were all like: GTF out!!!11!1 And the aliens were all like: We don't wanna be here!!1!!!111 Well, it was pretty cool, and I can't find it any more 'cause that's all I remember about it. Anyone know what I'm talking about or who made it?

[jeiki]

CHECK OUT MY DESKTOP!! WOOO!! i'm so proud of it, *sheds a tear

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/jangalay/desktop.jpg

[Blick]

Help this guy out.

[Godslayer]

Heh, my first animation dealy, hes a little tipsy.

[Evan]

Eathbound 3 is looking so delicious right now. I wants it now!
http://starmen.net/mother3/mother3world/#

Man, I'm still trying to beat Earthbound! (At least I think it's earthbound, that whole Mother thing is confusing. It's the one for the super nintendo. Damn you, carbon dog!)

This is the only RPG I like.

[Rox]

I just ordered me a DS and some stuff. Hope they get here, soon... I need something new to keep me on my legs until the Wii arrives...

[Alex]

CHECK OUT MY DESKTOP!! WOOO!! i'm so proud of it, *sheds a tear

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/jangalay/desktop.jpg

i prawn j00.

[Zolthorg]

i prawn j00.

Mac.

Lol.

[Faktablad]

You have MS Paint for Mac?

[Zolthorg]

and WoW and steam, you have redeemed yourself.

but still

Mac.
Lol.

[Faktablad]

It actually looks like Windows.

[Blick]

Actually, I bet it's Windows that looks like a Mac.

[robalan]

Yeah, that looks like Windows with Windows Blinds and Object Dock.  If the dock were tabbed and he had a different skin, that would look like my computer :-P

[Helm]

I think I need to invest in one or more of these programs to make my desktop more awesome. Do they have a large memory and cpu usage toll?

[robalan]

No, the programs don't use much memory.  Object Dock is using 1,464 K of my memory, and Windows Blinds uses 1,540 K, according to the task manager.  Both of these can be gotten from www.stardock.com.  Keep in mind that these are technically trial versions, although there is not much of a difference between the trial and full version.  In Object Dock, the main benefit of the full version is the ability to have tabbed docks, which is nice to keep organized.  The only difference I've seen between the trial and full versions of Windows Blinds is that the trial verison occasionally (as in every 6 hours or something) gives you a slightly annoying pop-up telling you to buy Windows Blinds.  Stardock also has some other nifty programs, like a boot-screen skinner and a logon-screen skinner, both of which are completely free.  The cursor software is also free, or at least it has a fully functional, no time limit trial version like the other two.  For bootskins, logon screens, cursors, icons, dock skins, full skins, wallpapers, packages, and lots of other nifty stuff, www.wincustomize.com is the place I go.  Most of the stuff is free, but there are some skins that cost money.

[AlexHW]

Good stuff, if you want to be healthy:
http://www.newstarget.com/
http://www.mercola.com/
http://www.truthpublishing.com/index.html

[st0ven]

carbon dog is a chump, but the diamond dog is some real trouble. theyre both sissies against bottle rockets though from what i can remember, just psi-shield kill his ass with one of the glasses dude's shield sucker machines.  i basically remember this boss being the one boss in the game that really determines if you have enough experience to really be kicking ass in the game or if youve been running away most of your fights that you can get away with.

ps. i was going to change the news box the other day but i was at a loss as to what should be posted in its stead...

[Filax_666]

Instead of updating the newsbox you could update your website

Oh, wait, you said something...he...sorry.

[Alex]

i make my pc look like a mac so i dont feel so ashamed for using one. i want a mac asap.

[Gil]

http://features.engadget.com/entry/8828351836181248/

Check that for making a PC a mac. Or google FlyakiteOSX, that's probably the best tool for turning a pc into a mac.

[vedsten]

ps. i was going to change the news box the other day but i was at a loss as to what should be posted in its stead...

I didn't participate YET but i suggest you link it to the fancy ISO COLLAB, it's turning out great and it would be nice to see one of them pieces finished.

btw. did anyone check out latest zelda wii video? 0_o That boss is so f. cool

[Ryumaru]

anybody know of a site with good tutorials/ examples of more dynamic cloth folds? like baggy folds, and the flow of folds in the wind? it would be very helpful until i get a chance to buy a good book.
any help would be totally apreciated!

[Helm]

how about placing a fabric over a chair and looking at the folds pretty closely.

[Conzeit]

Ryumaru I usually just go out and look at the people passing by when I need to imagine a fold situation.

or just place a fabric over a chair and look at the folds pretty closely. lol

[Ryumaru]

that definitely has helped me for more relaxed folds, as well as giving me an idea on how to make more dynamic folds, but a general idea doesnt do enough for the sprite im working on

[Conzeit]

well, make a thread?

I'd be willing to crit.

[Ryumaru]

im having a spriting duel with ahruon,and i know it sounds silly but i really want it to be a total surprise. ive only let 2 people see it.
i just recently did a study that im using now that is proving helpful for part of the sprite...

[AlexHW]

This guy knows health..
http://garynull.com/
http://garynull.com/media/voicearchives2.html

[Darien]

Gary Null is a quack.

[AlexHW]

what makes you think that?

[Darien]

What first put me on guard was that website constantly calling him "Gary Null PhD" but never mentioning what schools he got his degrees from.  After looking up some stuff about him it's clear why it's hidden: they are non-traditional schools that give degrees based on dubious factors. 

http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/null.html
http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2002/05/21/null/index.html

Those are some articles I just quickly found.  Mr. Null seems to say a lot of things with little research to back it up.

I'm not an expert so I can't say that everything he says is wrong or anything.  It just seems to me he uses the conspiracy theory against
the dominant medical field as a way to sell his sketchy products.

Just saying it probably would be best to approach Gary Null and his methods with caution.

[Faktablad]

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."   --Red Foxx

[AlexHW]

well,
Here's a site that talks about quackwatch:
http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Health/Health-Quack.html

You can find anything online, but that's what makes the internet great.
Personally, I tend to agree with what Gary Null talks about, and the reason I share it is because maybe some others might like it as well and gain something from it.
I try to be open to everything, because if you ignore anything, you cheat yourself of the ability to maximize your understanding.

[Darien]

Yeah, we could play that game all day, but I'm not going to even touch why Birdman Bryant is not the most reputable person to link to.

As for sharing Null's site because you like it, that's fine, I was just pointing out that his methods are not widely accepted and what he "knows" about health is arguable.

[AlexHW]

Reputation can help I guess, but reputation shouldn't effect information and a persons ability to understand.
A person should be allowed to listen to what he wants without any enforced biases thrown at them by others.
I figure people gain more by experiencing things than listening to others. So if you are open to listening to anyone, you open up more routes to travel through and investigate yourself.

[Darien]

Reputation can help I guess, but reputation shouldn't effect information and a persons ability to understand.

Well the Birdman article only attacks Quackwatch's reputation and doesn't say anything about Gary Null, so I figured that's why you posted it, to diminish the arguments made in the article through diminishing the reputation, which is contradictory to what you're saying now. 

A person should be allowed to listen to what he wants without any enforced biases thrown at them by others.
I figure people gain more by experiencing things than listening to others. So if you are open to listening to anyone, you open up more routes to travel through and investigate yourself.

Sure, but it's important to listen to different sides and sort through them and decided which parts of which arguments are most valid.  You're posting your beliefs about health, I'm just posting mine...

[Locrian]

I once read an article online that said if you have a cavity you shouldn't see a dentist to have it drilled and filled.  As that harms the health of your entire body.  Instead you should put some hippy cream on it, brush with natural hair toothbrush with some sort of hippy paste and WILL THE CAVITY TO HEAL ITSELF.  I think you could also call on Jesus powers.

I don't have much faith in anything said by anyone no matter how qualified they are supposed to be.  But I'm a cynic sarcastic asshole so...

[Xion]

400th Post
yay

[Conzeit]

I will spam now.

I'm just testing if I can delete posts given they're recent

[.TakaM]

* TakaM gained a level!
* TakaM is now a level 18 Teenager

[Helm]

Congrats. Put the Feat on 'Driving: Car: 1'

[Darion]

Your balls are going to get so huge.

[Zolthorg]

http://www.umop.com/images/rps25_outcomes.jpg

[Rox]

... wow ...

[Blick]

Try making all of those gestures as fast as you can. It's tough, especially wolf.

[Xion]

I was watching discovery channel. Ants are awesome. I never knew they actually waged war on termite mounds. They invaded, but, unfortunately, lost.

Ants are the closest reperesentation of humans in the insect world, and they're surprisingly accurate.

[Blick]

I remember watching a black ant hill and a red ant hill having some sort of war in my uncle's driveway once. He was like "Check this out!" And we just sat there on the porch in lawn chairs and watched and waited for the victor. I got up close a few times to see them fighting. They're brutal, they drag around their own to help or feed on them or something and the tear apart the enemy, literally.

The red ants won, by the way. Then we sprayed, flooded and smothered both hills. It's good to be human.

[Rox]

Ants are evil, evil critters. Extremely fascinating.

[.TakaM]

Bought a DSlite today, big improvement over the original DS

[Royal Syrup]

Save me from the clowns.

[Jamie]

http://www.ichatdev.com/forumdisplay.php?f=219

was looking for that old link which had all the chibis from the activitie at the old forum, ended up finding this apears to be quite a few of the pixelation activites and things dont know if anyone would be intrested in it

alot of the images sadly appear to be missing..

[miascugh]

haha, i've stumbled across this several times. it really freaked me out at the first time. someone someday just decided to make a back up of the whole pixelation forums. hint to all the old pixelationers who still know their password, try logging in

[crab2selout.png]

The thread of the Beast
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=666.0

[Ryumaru]

Pixelation :: View topic - ZOE IDOLOghosttalon14 Peasant Joined : 01 Feb 2005 Posts : 8. Posted : Tue Feb 01 , 2005 12 : 39 am Post subject :. awesome , whenever i try and add detail to a ...
web1.t43.greatnet.de/viewtopic.php?t=8409& sid=828c0b2755355c28e50c1fa5f7ffa922 - 73k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

well i know my s/n was ghosttalon14, but i cant remember my password for the life of me!

[Zach]

fuck mia that avy is uber hard

[Indigo]

So this one time, a lot of people got caught up in their excitement over nothing astounding.

http://www.ubersite.com/m/84167

That seriousely bugs the crap outta me.  Much much MUCH greater things can be accomplished with MS paint and their treating him like he's god of the program.  He doesn't have hardly any technical pixel-art skills what-so-ever.  Some form of random dithering, and some really screwed up AA, thats it.  Sure, he spent alot of time on it - i give him that, but otherwise, the thing is a piece of crap.

[Helm]

Friends don't let friends use MSPaint. Even super artists like I think Monsoon2d where you can't rightly say 'switch to pro motion' because they rock so hard anyway, it just pains me to think people have to work around such a soddily written program. Please! Graphic's Gale at least! Pro Motion optimally!

[Darion]

Digitally sketching using MSPaint with the caligraphy brushes is the best thing ever, though.

[Gil]

One day I'll create my own tool, and life will be good...

I'm going to buy ProMotion with my first paycheck I think

[Ryumaru]

i wish there was a program that was like the inbetween of pro motion and graphics gale.

[Locrian]

hehe yeah that guys stuff theyre fighting over is pretty horrible.   

heres a guy that does more interesting sans-AA "pixel painting":
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=66989

I'm guessing he doesnt use MSPaint.  Looks like custom brushes.

[.TakaM]

not hugely off topic but I dont think i should bother making a topic:

just a mockup, used graphics from my wip zelda fangame and quickly edited the boktai sprite

[Xion]

That looks Pretty slick/sick, TakaM. I look fwd to playing the fangame. I don't usually approve of fangamage, but this looks sweet.

[.TakaM]

thanks, I have made the entire sheet for link.. but each time I look at it, the more I hate it

Id much rather run around than

[Xion]

Then why don't you just go with the first one? The second one's feet don't have enough motion.

[.TakaM]

yeah I think i will lol

[Darien]

wait, that link animation isn't a whole edit of the boktai sprite, is it? Fangame is a minus but perhaps bearable, but once you enter into the realm of edited sprites, especially considering your ability, it's just unacceptable.

[.TakaM]

fan games is what got me into pixeling in the first place, I started this game a long time ago and have made a lot of the overworld, dungeons and sprites, so I know its a tad pathetic but I still want to complete it

and Im not sure what you mean "a whole edit of the boktai sprite"

[Darien]

I mean are you basically editing the boktai sprite instead of making your own?

[.TakaM]

well, i guess so, i started this project a long time ago and it wasnt really meant to show off my graphic abilities, most of the game uses lttp graphics with a few enhancements anyways... not that impressive, I just wanted to make a zelda game with a good story and nice gameplay.

edit-
glad I didnt make a topic about this XD

[Kennethfejer]

picked up the new EDGE magazine today and found the url to this site http://www.nesreproductions.com/
how cool is this

not in the sense that you can copy commercial roms onto the cartridges, but in the sense that you can make homebrew stuff and actually play it on the console.
i've always wanted to make a NES platformer, i think i need to find me a coder, who wants to do a small project.

TakaM :
cool mockup btw

[crab2selout.png]

Interesting layering you got going on in that pic, takaM. You should check out the boktai pics Camus(conceit) posted in one of the pixel art threads in this section. They do interesting stuff with fog.

[.TakaM]

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm
I watched this for too long lol

[dille]

Anyone feel like recommending some good but unusal games for the NES? I almost only play NES (and some SNES) games on my computer but im tired of all the usual games and i desperetly need a new one!

I can go ahead and recommend Bionic Commando, awsome platform game! You can't jump so instead you need to use a grappling hook (bionic arm) to get around the levels. The only downside is that the bosses sucks and the game is a bit too easy once you get alot of hitpoints and the rocket launcher. I also think they could have done a better job with balancing the weapons and items since the rocket launcher and medicine is by far the best combination.

Im thinking of doing a remake with alot more levels with some better level design so you really need to get skilled with the bionic arm, some rpg-elements, larger variety of items and weapons. Now that would be the best game ever 

[Xion]

Turned 16 yesterday. Yay. I'm older than I've ever been.

And now I'm even older.

And now I'm even older.

And now I'm older still.

[robalan]

Happy birthday yesterday!  Yay They Might Be Giants!

[Rox]

Why is this thread so dead?

Oh well, I guess that's a good thing. It's always sad when the off-topic section becomes the liveliest part of a forum.

Anyway... umm...

[Jericho]

Turned 16 yesterday. Yay. I'm older than I've ever been.

And now I'm even older.

And now I'm even older.

And now I'm older still.

your signature image makes me want to spoon my eyes out, but yet i keep staring at it trying to figure out what the hell is going on rofl. Kudos xD

[Skull]

Turned 16 yesterday. Yay. I'm older than I've ever been.

And now I'm even older.

And now I'm even older.

And now I'm older still.

your signature image makes me want to spoon my eyes out, but yet i keep staring at it trying to figure out what the hell is going on rofl. Kudos xD

Right.... I think.. don't quote me on this, but I think something is jumping?!

[Zolthorg]

Looks like something getting beat up by waves.

[Alex]

xion is noob lol...joking, i always thought you were the same age as me, but i guess not. You got skills my friend.

[Xion]

Haha, thanks.

My sig is whatever you want it to be.

[Evan]

So I was at work today, at my local sandwich shop, and we get a few orders in. One club sandwich with french fries on the side. I get to work making the club sandwich, and stack the bread, turkey, and lettuce high. 3 layers of sandwich perfection. I put the frilly toothpicks in the sandwich, strategically arranged so that I could cut the sandwich in 4 triangular pieces. I raised the knife into the air, anticipating the slice, and thrust the knife down. I felt a strange pressure on my thumb, and realized that I cut myself. Half my fingernail was gone, and I cut pretty far into my thumb.

Luckily it wasn't busy. It bled for a good hour, and I got to go home early.

That was my day.

[Xion]

Ow.

Ooww.

[Jericho]

Haha, thanks.

My sig is whatever you want it to be.

okay then it is a mexican jumping bean. yay

[Conzeit]

to anyone who has been wondering about my new Display name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceit

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=conceit

I just love the fact it can be taken as arrogance, sheer wit, an elaborate metaphor or even the act of understanding itself.

I think between all of the definitions it pretty much covers the whole spectrum of my expression.

I just looooooove the fact people dont get it the first time they see it too. I'm in love with the word

[Ryumaru]

and not to mention its a pretty cool word.

[Rox]

A word is not a name! omghax

[Conzeit]

says rox  lol

[Skull]

A word is not a name! omghax

Is it really? That makes .. little sense.

[Darien]

just about all names are derived from words... except many senseless screenames and names hippies give to their kids

[Alex]

rofl you are so witty camus

[Rox]

Failed Internet sarcasm FTW!

just about all names are derived from words... except many senseless screenames and names hippies give to their kids

Yeah, most namse derive from words. Most names hippies give to their kids ARE words. We've got Thomas DiLeva right here, naming his son Cosmos and all.

[Skull]

Failed Internet sarcasm FTW!

just about all names are derived from words... except many senseless screenames and names hippies give to their kids

Yeah, most namse derive from words. Most names hippies give to their kids ARE words. We've got Thomas DiLeva right here, naming his son Cosmos and all.

I take then.. that includes me. 

[Stoirling]

Happy birthday yesterday!  Yay They Might Be Giants!

Apparently my dad looks like someone out of They Might Be Giants! It is very bizarre.

[Zolthorg]

My name makes no sense!

Pogeyman:
http://pokemon.kids.yahoo.co.jp/dp/upload/news/story/story002/story002.html?page=1

[Alex]

ITS POKEMON YOU NOOB

[Xion]

I'm gonna name my son! and my daughter? If they're twins they're gonna be @ & &.

Can you name your children using solely punctuation?

[Darion]

http://pokemon.kids.yahoo.co.jp/dp/upload/news/story/story002/story002.html?page=1

That is the coolest shit. Pokemon was always so great ... as a game, atleast. The cartoon and movies really turned me off.

Anyway, I'm so getting that .... after Mother 3; if it even releases here.

[alkaline]

The cartoon was lame-ass. 

[Skull]

The cartoon was lame-ass. 

Yar.. wasn't that good. The Game was good...

[Conzeit]

drop your freaking fixation on me alex, dont you have anything better to do?

[Alex]

camus, it was a light hearted joke. i just assumed all past altercations have been forgotten, i apologize if it looked like another attack.

[Zolthorg]

^ Drama

[Conzeit]

yup, out of conceit :p

[Lick]

Nintendo DS Homebrew is fun. Too bad my DS Lite is wrecked, emulators suck!

[Skull]

Nintendo DS Homebrew is fun. Too bad my DS Lite is wrecked, emulators suck!

The ZSnes was alright..

[Lick]

i mean ds emulators..

[miascugh]

wow, i wish i had a girlfriend that would do stuff like throwing my ds out of the window.. well unless it was more on the hysterical, affect-laden side rather than a conscious action

rawr
i'd be pissed too of course. what did you do? before that and afterwards.

[Darion]

The cartoon was lame-ass. 

Very. It made me hate the franchise forever ... until a new game would come out.

[Lick]

Well it seems that it wasn't thrown out of the window, but against the wall. (That spot is now missing paint! LOL..)

We were in a fight, a big one. Discussion on all sorts of things, then she challenged me, I said whatever do it! Then she did it. So it's not entirely her fault, although she's the one who threw the thing. Now I got over it and I forgave her. We are peacefully together again now.

I'm saving for a new Nintendo DS Lite. Might get the black version as a reminder of what happened. (The wrekced one was white) I got all excited about it because I got homebrew running on it 2 days before it broke. Y'know, I'm a programmer.. =(

[Skull]

Well it seems that it wasn't thrown out of the window, but against the wall. (That spot is now missing paint! LOL..)

We were in a fight, a big one. Discussion on all sorts of things, then she challenged me, I said whatever do it! Then she did it. So it's not entirely her fault, although she's the one who threw the thing. Now I got over it and I forgave her. We are peacefully together again now.

Yeah.. go ahead and throw something of her's against a wall.. preferably when she isn't looking. 

[Faktablad]

Skull: future marriage counselor.

[Skull]

Skull: future marriage counselor.

I'm routing for the guys, out there 

[Rox]

You're a router, in other words?

[Faktablad]

A wireless router?

[Skull]

A wireless router?

Do you have wires sticking out of you.. everywhere? Connected to various part in the house.

[Ryumaru]

im going to be doing a fighter sprite single frame for a sprite tournament, and id like to know if a relaxed pose or a tension filled pose? which one would work better if they were to have a cloak? also, if you have any other good fighter sprite info youd like to share id like to listen!

[Zolthorg]

You can use alot more movement lines and put a fancy design on the cape if you have a still frame of it like, blowing in the wind.

[Zolthorg]

whose decision was it to make that affiliate banners must be 87x30 pixels?


just curious.

[.TakaM]

4cr's edgar and mitch were both gushing about my and my pixelart in the latest podcast

[Gil]

4 colour rebellion owns. One of them posts on a forum I'm on. Their E3 footage rocked...

[.TakaM]

yeah 4cr is great, I won a copy of metroid prime hunters because of 4cr

[crab2selout.png]

I love the stop motion in this music video for the Constantines. Lots of love put into this vid.

http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/multimedia.php?key=type&value=video The title of the music video is 'Working Full time.'

[Godslayer]

What happened to Peppermint Pig?

And what happened to the new smilies?

[robalan]

The new smilies are...coming.  Or so says Ptoing.
Peppermint Pig is...busy.  Or so say people who can't get in touch with him because he's busy.



[EDIT] Sweet; I've started the past two pages of this thread :-P [/EDIT]

[CrumbBread]

So I am working on a computer program, and in this program, there is a bar. It starts out with a base color, and people must be able to paint segments of this bar with one of 15 other colors. I am looking for a good pallete for this, and it has the following requirements:

1) The base color must be very distinguishable from the other colors
2) The base color must look like it's in the background
3) The other 15 colors must be distinguishable from each other and from the base color
4) None of the colors can be white or black, since I use black for outlines and white for the overall background color of the application

While I am working on this, I am using the c64 pallette just for fun ^_^ The problem is that, while it is a good pallette for art, it isn't a good pallette when you want 15 distinguishable-at-a-glance colors.

Anyone have a suggestion for me? =)

[Rydin]

i am not DOING anything







 

[Rox]

I'll be back soon. Promise. I've been in the process of moving, and now I've moved, and I still don't have an Internet connection... So... I'll be back soon. I hope.

[AlexHW]

does anyone remember the program which could smooth out pixelated images?
like it would make it look vectored near the edges i think..

[hate]

whoah don't know how i found this forum but i'm so glad to see quality pixels back! and what about seeing back sals kon zoggles helm kennethfejer and so much talented fellows! i thought everyone quit after pixelation's death, or went on bad quality pixel forums that we all know the name haarhar
i express my joy as i can

[Gil]

After the horror I experienced when finding out about bad megaman sprite comics and the abomination that is Sonic sprite edits, I present to you the mother of bad art: Runescape sigs!

[Larwick]

Oh man...  It's horrible.

[Skull]

Hmm.. I trying to think why people who play runescape usually go onto pixel art.. (not noting the fact I did play it at one point) but then those who always pixel (poorly) their character in the beast armour with the greatest weapon.. regardless of the fact they don't have it!

 

[Godslayer]

Hmm.. I trying to think why people who play runescape usually go onto pixel art.. (not noting the fact I did play it at one point) but then those who always pixel (poorly) their character in the beast armour with the greatest weapon.. regardless of the fact they don't have it!

 

Those kinda runescape forums are like breeding grounds for new pixel artists really. Its how I got interested myself. Its not all crap to be honest.

Made by DementedHero.



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Etc. There are dozens of beautiful pieces of works on these forums, but sadly, theres 10 times as more people asking for ratings of their first pixel art.

Yea, you have to sift through alot of crap, but on any large runescape forum, theres always 4 or 5 good artists.

[Gil]

5 good artists on one forum vs 200 newbies = a very crappy forum. I don't see how wasting time on a forum where you'll get scarcely good crits and where all other threads are lousy can be a fun pass-time...

[Godslayer]

Because I have friends there. Obviously, Im not going to get fantastic crits when posting there, but its nice to talk with friends etc. The artists on the sites I like know each other and are pals.

[Gil]

Next question: What's with the silly sample tags on everything? I can't even see what you draw...

[Godslayer]

What I draw? I thought it would be presumptuous of me to use my own work as an example, so I used others. The reason the text is on there is to stop people from stealing the art. I dont agree with the practice becuase a competent artist could remove them pretty easily, but its sickening how many idiots think they can just slap their name on something and use it themselves. Its just some peoples way of having a sense of pseudo security I guess.

[Gil]

So noone gets to see the full art, ever?

Because, really, that's like putting an expensive painting in a safe, and never getting it out...

[Godslayer]

Only when its done and someone is using it. Until then, when people want crits, they dont want others to steal.

Dont ask me, the idea is flawed, but like I said, its pseudo security to them, makes them feel secure I guess.

[ptoing]

Because, really, that's like putting an expensive painting in a safe, and never getting it out...

I don't think that comparison holds up very well.

[Gil]

The best comparison would be a gallery full of posters with tags that say "Real painting is in security safe", that's even lamer

[Godslayer]

That would exclude the possibility of seeing it Gil. Many samples are transperant, and dont cover the whole sig. Why are we arguing about this?

[Gil]

Boredom mostly? Let's leave it at this, I don't really feel like arguing anyway

Sorry for the disturbance, carry on people

[Godslayer]

What was that one coca cola comericial with people from all over the world singing in harmony?

[Xion]

What was that one coca cola comericial with people from all over the world singing in harmony?

What was it? Just that: A coca cola comericial with people from all over the world singing in harmony.

[Skull]

What was that one coca cola comericial with people from all over the world singing in harmony?

What was it? Just that: A coca cola comericial with people from all over the world singing in harmony.

I like the 'Inside the Vending Machine' Coca-Cola comercial.

[Godslayer]

No, what where they singing...?

[Skull]

No, what where they singing...?

Sorry, I don't seem to recall ever seeing that one. 

[Xion]

I know what you're talking about, but haven't the slightest idea as to what the song was.

[Darien]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'd_Like_to_Teach_the_World_to_Sing