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#1
General Discussion / Re: Cosplay tips
Wed 12/11/2008 05:37:35
Quote from: Pesty on Wed 12/11/2008 04:16:07
What in god's name is wrong with you people.

Escapism?

Considering the group that you're asking, I think the only acceptable choice would be to have your girlfriend dress up as Rosella, and you dress up as the dude from this post:
Quote from: jetxl on Tue 11/11/2008 21:40:22


And make note of the amount of people who guess you are the same character.
#2
I'd like to attend Zappanale again this year, but I'm already short on cash without having to pay extra to fly to Germany with bulky camping supplies.  Didn't manage to go last year and missed out on Don Preston, Napoleon Murphy Brock, and  Chad Wackerman, but I ran into some English dudes on my flight there in 2006 and by tremendous coincidence they were going to the same festival, and had press passes to boot, Glee!  They managed to sneak me backstage where I hung out with some of the bands and took advantage of the cheap beer, I got to hug Adrian Belew (I'm a huge Zappa and King Crimson fan so I could hardly contain myself) and all the nice German people took pictures of me, assuming I was with Paul Green's School of Rock.

It was also the first time I had ever seen drunk Germans in Viking costumes, singing "Cosmic Debris" phonetically with alpenhorn accompaniment whilst prancing around a bonfire, it was truly a life altering experience.
#3
I wonder if the older folks on the bus were half as enthusiastic as the people crowding around them with cellphone cameras.


"You guys, are like the awesomeist, I swear!"

I would have opted to hoof it at that point.
#4
I don't think there's any way someone could be in the game making business and be so incredibly oblivious to copyright laws, so I'm chalking this up to pure coincidence.

A bunch of dudes in their 30's hitting keys at random for an infinite amount of time will almost surely produce a game that looks suspiciously like Thief 3.
#5
Quote from: Dualnames on Fri 30/05/2008 10:36:28
well, I've smoked. For 6 months or 8. Well , I quit when I said to myself, that I don;t need smoking to make me feel desirable, I don;t need smoke to make me feel more close to my friends or to everybody else who waste their lives slowly, I just need nothing and especially smoke to make me feel anything. If i wanna feel good , I will , If i wanna feel desirable I will and If I 'm gonna go and feel I wanna smoke, hell no I won't. watching a couple of documentaries about marlboro might help as well.

Well for a quite a few people, social factors don't really play a huge part in their smoking habits, though it may encourage it, and while I don't dispute that I may have an addiction to smoking, I know I continue to smoke because I enjoy the taste.  And all moral implications involved with the Marlboro corporation probably don't apply to me because I buy my tobacco locally...

I'm seconding the impregnation advice.
#6
Quote from: Nacho on Fri 30/05/2008 08:37:17
Sounds like an addiction to me.

Heh, I know, I'm not fooling anyone


Also, I forgot to mention, that this website (started by Phillip Morris USA, ironically enough) has a lot of useful information about quitting, and provides a free, 48-page guide that could come in handy for people trying to quit, it even has great information about medications and distracting yourself from your addiction.  Maybe I'll come back to that when I don't have so much on my plate.
#7
I few of my friends have encouraged me to stop several times, prompting me to quit for a few days, just long enough so I could say, "look, I'm not addicted or anything." and pick it right back up.

Though one method I found to be particularly effective was lighting up all the remaining cigarettes I had (7-8 smokes) and smoking all of them at once, I don't mean chain smoking either, I mean a huge fistful of tobacco in each hand.  By the time I had take four drags I was so sick of smoking I threw away my cigarettes and the remainder of my rolling tobacco, I couldn't even look at a cigarette for a month or two.  If you have more will-power than I, this could probably work on a long-term engagement.

Also, get something to help with your oral fixation, mints or chewing gum work well because the mixture of the strong tobacco flavor and the mint aftertaste is very undesirable, (I heard milk and diet pepsi had similar effects) perhaps you could brush your teeth any time your crave a smoke, kill two birds with one stone and replace a bad habit with a good one.  If you still seem to quash your desire to smoke, a lot of convenience stores in the states sell plastic filters that trap nicotine but still allow you to enjoy a cigarette, though I cannot vouch for their effectiveness.

Finally, when it comes to quitting, tenacity is key.  It's going to take a long time and it's not going be whole lot of fun to be so short-tempered, but if you're already experience an effect on your health, you really don't have any other choice.  Good luck.
#8
Only three entries so far, and there's actual prizes involved.  How much more motivation do people need?


Oh well, Ten bucks is ten bucks, count me in.
#9
General Discussion / Re: Annual present thread
Mon 31/12/2007 08:42:51
Quote from: EldKatt on Wed 26/12/2007 13:21:37
The Dub Room Special. Best Christmas ever.

Ditto on the Frank Zappa, I'm apparently so difficult to shop for that I end up with at least one of his DVDs every Christmas, I've got two copies of the aforementioned title, and atleast three copies of Baby Snakes in the last few years.  Not that I mind too much, but I could do without another copy of 200 Motels.


Without derailing the topic too much, have an of you European Zappa fans gone to Zappanale in Germany before? I went in 2006 and hugged Adrian Belew after someone with a press pass managed to sneak me backstage (Beer is cheaper for the artists and I took full advantage of the fact that people mistook me for a member of Paul Green's School of Rock).
#10
I have an idea sitting around about a western action/adventure game, but before I got in over my head (as I tend to do) I decided to make a small game to get reacquainted with the AGS engine.  So I started working on the main character and hit a wall; I don't like the stance, I'm generally disappointed by the lack of detail in the character as a whole, and I'm drawing a blank as to what to colors I should fill him with.





Something I'd like to point out, I know that the thumbs are placed incorrectly and the hands are probably way too large, but I wanted to give the feeling that the arms themselves would be more counterproductive than anything in achieving whatever objective was set before the main character, which is why he has such a large mouth.  Though I'd love to read comments on how to better portray this.


#11
Quote from: MillsJROSS on Fri 14/09/2007 22:01:38
I think a private business has the right to enforce a dress code, much like a nice restaurant would be able to do so, without having news coverage.

I think the main problem with Southwest Airlines, or at least in the case regarding the blond girl, is that there is no set dress code, instead they leave it to the discretion of their employees.
#12
I can certainly understand how a short skirt may prevent the pilots from safely reaching their destination.


Throwing the lady off the flight was probably a bit much, I wonder if she was refunded, my money is on no.

#13
QuoteI know there will be people who say "But the shows exists for 18 years! What did you expect?"
Well, are you really going to tell me I'm supposed to enjoy something that has become stale and crappy?

I suppose I could tell you that if something has become stale and crappy, you could not watch it.  If you no longer enjoy watching the show, why would you pay money to see what is essentially, a two hour episode of a program that can't write a story that will keep your interest for twenty-one minutes?

QuoteAs for me, I want the last 18 years of my life back!!!

And I'd seriously reconsider that line, makes it seem as though you spent a large portion of your life in a monastery worshiping The Simpsons.

#14
General Discussion / Re: Smoking ban UK
Wed 04/07/2007 10:44:03
Arguing about the health risks of cigarettes seems irrelevant considering the crux of this thread is about smoking bans in establishments that typically sell alcohol. 
As a smoker, I do not feel as though it's my "right" to smoke wherever I want, I simply feel as though the choice should be left up the business owner or proprietor, they do have the right to chose whether or not they wish to be in the company of smokers.

#15
I had only read the title before I woke my father up to tell him Lionel Richie was dead.  Boy, was my face red!
#16
Hmm, I if I may make a small suggestion:

Spoiler
When pressing spacebar to pause the game, you may want it to fade to a black screen.  Because the cursor still moves when the game is paused, but characters do not, you can pause the game and take aim without worrying about being hit.  Of course, I suppose you could just freeze the cursor...
[close]

[edit]

I forgot to mention, this was a great first game.
#17
General Discussion / Re: manking a psi-ball
Sat 26/05/2007 22:10:35
Arthur, maybe you should take a look at the comments made on that video.
#18
William Jennings Bryan and Peter Boyle


#19
To give a testament for this certian case, I'm not too much older than you, but I find some Ladyboys (which I'm guessing to be the Thai equivilant to Tgrils, or maybe they are the same thing)  to be particularly attractive as well.  I too thought I was bi-curious when I first felt arroused instead of utterly disgusted by this, but that feeling has kind of faded away because, really, they are just girls with penises, and although I cannot tell you why you are attracted to it, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't stem from latent homosexuality.  In fact, a lot of straight dudes get their rocks off to shemales and yaoi, because they have a lot of qualities that they find appealing in the opposite sex.

You probably aren't bi-sexual, but if you saw a really cute girl and she had a penis, you might let her pull your pud.

#20
LimpingFish: What is the connection between Bruce Campbell and Frank Zappa?  There was plenty of mention of Weasels Ripped my Flesh in If Chins Could Kill, I figured I had missed something.

On an unrelated note:
I would have liked to hang around the UMRK with Frank Zappa.  If I could refrain myself from exploding into a fanatical frenzy, and keep hidden the fact that I have every one of his albums, all his movies, that I've done nearly all of my school reports about him, and that I've studied his music since I was twelve, I would give him a handshake and ask if he would like to play "King Kong", or whatever.

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