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Finally, something to do with some of the stuff I have lying around on my hard drive.
Here are a few backgrounds and character concepts of varying quality:

A futuristic looking station room:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/jmike3/room_timtrav_stationoffice1.jpg

Another room in the futuristic-looking station:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/jmike3/room_timtrav_station1.jpg

A relatively empty old jail-cell:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/jmike3/jailcell-plain.jpg

Isometric bedroom:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/jmike3/iso-bedroom.jpg

Isometric Cabin-like bedroom:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/jmike3/iso_cabin-bed.jpg

A plain, almost empty room:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/jmike3/emptyroom01.jpg

A Roman-style warrior:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/jmike3/roman_warlord.jpg

A medieval hero-type:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/jmike3/medieval_hero.jpg

"P.O. Tato", an anthropomorphic potato:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/jmike3/PO_Tato.jpg

All made by J. M. Kunert between 2003 and 2004.

I've read up on free energy inventions a bit, but I've always tended to take their claims with a grain of salt. The problem with most of these inventions is that, although theres plenty about them on paper, IIRC nobody has ever built a working model of any of them.
Also, I'm not sure, but I believe that when you patent something, it doesn't necessarily have to work.
The thing that always made me skeptical about free energy devices is that most of them seem to disregard the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics.
Hopefully there is some free energy source or device out there, but until then I'm just going to sit back and wait for them to perfect fusion power (scientists say it's only 20 years away! just like it was in 1960 and 1980!)

Yay, it's finished!
I'd download it now, but it would probably be faster to wait for tommorow and download it on broadband than to download it on a 28k modem tonight..
I can't wait! I've been anxious to play this game since I saw the trailer!

I only have one canine tooth. The other one never grew in.
So I'm having a bloody difficult time trying to decide whether I'm a carnivore or not.

I used to be a vegetarian. I was raised that way. Awhile back, though, I started wondering why I was a vegetarian. I failed to think of an answer, so I started eating meat.

EDIT:
Oh, and I just remembered this Vice City quote:
"We have canines and bicuspids for a reason. To open packages of potato chips."

Not only that, BerserkerTails, but Danny Elfman is doing the music for it.
A movie directed by Tim Burton, with Danny Elfman writing the original soundtrack, with Johnny Depp playing lead.
The only other two movies with that combination were Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow, both of which were pretty good movies (on IMDB, Edward Scissorhands was rated 7.6/10 and Sleepy Hollow was 7.4/10).
So, while I'm not hoping for a great movie, I think it'll at least be a decent one. IMO, I couldn't imagine a better director or music writer for a remake of the movie, and I couldn't imagine a better actor to play the eccentric Willy Wonka. Johnny Depp seems to be best suited for eccentric characters (Cptn. Jack Sparrow, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, etc.)

Nose: j thaddes toad

elbow: k,mjgftnmsdcdcedusdtlosx

chin: 5adedsehedzxtgklozad

feet: kjk tgyhaESWESDEWUY7S TRIOKJASDE

eyes closed: J THSFFIRD TODG

back of hand: on ghnzccjhdx glzc

hands crossed: j tdayyse riAF

wrist: kj hasddcues tygioad

palm: jn thaddjedsx tgklac

mouse: j thddues toad

I was actually going to have cameo appearances by other AGS characters in a game I was making (Tom Mato's Grand Wing-Ding). The act with the cameos took place in the depths of a computer hard-drive, where all the characters from uninstalled games were forced to live. I actually got permission to use quite a few characters.
As you mentioned, Moebius, differing styles did prove to be something of a problem. It wasn't so much differing art styles as it was differing resolutions. It proved difficult to put characters from a 640x400 game into a 320x200 game. Of course, that whole project fell through anyway, so I never got around to solving those problems.
It still is an interesting concept. And I found that most game creators are rather co-operative about letting you use their charactors for cameos.

I am not insane, and please do not use the Lord's name in vain.

*figures that things couldn't possibly get more off-topic from the OP, so decides to voice opinion on something vaguely mentioned*
I suppose that the definition of 'using the Lord's name in vain' really depends on your interpretation of the Bible. The most common definition of using the Lord's name in vain is, of course, using it like a cuss word. That's the one I was always taught throughout Christian schooling, and the one a vast majority of Christians seem to hold.
I, on the other hand, have long interpreted that differently. IMO, using the Lord's name in vain is using it as though it doesn't matter what His will is. In other words, it would be saying that you speak for God's opinion whether you do or not. That's why "goddamn" would be considered using the Lord's name in vain. It's an abbreviation for "may God damn you", and if used in that context it would be speaking for God by saying it is His will to unleash damnation upon you.
I always have interpreted it this way because to me the commandment makes more since this way. Under the common interpretation, it's just rather disrespectful, and even then it's only disrespectful if used in the right context. But if you think about it, so many wars have been caused by people assuming that they know God's will. The whole "God wants me to kill you" belief has caused countless wars throughout the ages. I think that God would rather have all that destruction stopped than avoiding being slightly disrepected. Don't get me wrong: a devout Christian shouldn't, IMO, use God's name as a swear word. However, I don't think that's what he meant by the commandment.
Also, the whole "God wants me to kill you" belief is largely responsible for all the violence in the Middle East, and is especially respoinsible for terrorist attacks, including 9/11.
(note how I managed to swerve my post back into the current topic at the end  )

I dont like reagan because of Iran/Contra.

I don't think that Iran-Contra was so much Reagan's fault as it was the fault of his subordinates. His 'hands-off' management style allowed some things to go on, which I personally believe he did not fully know about. He was, admittedly, out of the loop on some things.

I dont like reagan because of his giaganto 30% tax cut that screwed up the economy, and made the rich way richer, and the poor poorer.

Over 20 Million jobs were created during his administration, and wages kept up with inflation. People are usually better off when they have a job, no? Also, many economists argue that his policies actually HELPED the poor.
His tax cuts also helped to make a much less progressive tax system. IMO, a progressive tax system is unfair. It penalizes somebody for success.  The less progressive a tax system, the fairer it is. And through his tax cuts Reagan helped make our system MUCH less progressive.
Also, about all the deficits he caused, if Congress had spent the amount that Reagan asked them to spend, we would have ended up with a $130 Billion surplus in 1989.

It seems that the topic of Hitler jokes stopped a little while back in the topic, but I just remembered something so I'm posting about it anyway.
Completely forgot who the quote was from, but I think it applies to the subject of Hitler jokes:
"Just as imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, mockery is the sincerest form of disparagement."

Thought I'd give it a go. The end result is actually better than anything else I've ever drawn at 3 o'clock in the morning, so I thought I'd post it..


There are a couple of fuzzy spots on it cuz JPEG'ing it screwed up the coloration a bit.

J. Thaddeus Toad it is!
Good job, Peter.
This competition could have some potential..

I'm not standing up for Bush. I'm not too happy with him either. But still, he won the election. Equally convincing, and actually factual:

Counties won by Gore: 677
Counties won by Bush: 2,434
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Population of counties won by Gore: 127 million
Population of counties won by Bush: 143 million
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Square miles of country won by Gore:  580,000
Square miles of country won by Bush: 2,427,000
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States won by Gore: 21
States won by Bush:  29

And this movie's "well the republicans were in charge of the polls, they rigged it, it was all a big conspiracy!" take on things is probably better suited for the tinfoil-hat wearing crowd.

 :o
Yay!
Downloading...

I agree with Zor, his posture is a little too straight. Did a quickie edit. Tried to make him look a little more relaxed.





Like the character! Looks like one of those tough old biker types.

Because I liked a Disneyland ride.
Simple as that.

[Bureaucracy and Brains]

All my walk animations end up looking like some undead stumbler thingy, so a zombie game is perfect! Count me in (assuming that I can finish this one, although I should be able to)
The name (as of now) is Bureaucracy and Brains.
Here's a pic:

My name was in an animated movie. And a book. And a Disneyland ride.
Whether they stole it from me or I stole it from them is of no consequence.

But if you read all of the posts, you'll find them bubbling with contradictions and impossible predictions.
For one, a US Civil War, in 2004?! Um, that's NOT going to happen, trust me. If it was going to happen, there would be several signs that it would happen so soon. The original US Civil war had signs that it would happen YEARS in advance. Anybody who's studied American history would know that, before the civil war, the US was much less united, in the sense that states tended to think of themselves as more independent than they do today, and the government was nowhere near as central or stable as it is today.

If a civil war starts this year, the only reason I could think of would involve the presidency. Some people really are angry enough about Bush that they'd try this.

Not anything anybody would try to start a civil war about. Lots of conservatives hated Clinton, but they didn't start a civil war. Also, people starting a war because they don't like somebody else starting a war?
And also, Russia is probably one of the countrys that is least able to attack us. Sure, they were a threat in the cold war, but that ended over 10 years ago. Saying they'd nuke us in 15 years is like saying Germany would attack France in 1960.
Also, his "predictions" are ripe with contridictions. One of them I remember is that once, he says he can't remember who won the Superbowl that year, and we shouldn't expect him too because we can't be expected to remember sporting events from a long time ago. In another thing, he notes that the present does seem to be a little 'different', in the sense that things seem to turn out a little differently, one of the examples given being that he notices that some sporting events turn out differently. So he can remember the outcome of minor sporting events but not of the biggest one in the year?
Also, why didn't he mention any specific dates? If a bunch of people in the 30's believed I was a time traveler, and I did go back there, I'm sure I would mention December 7th, 1941. All the ways he sidesteps around all these questions seem quite suspicious.

If you could go back in time to 1941 and tell the radar operators to take a second look at the radar screen on December 7th, would you? Before you say yes and accept that parade in your honor down Main Street, perhaps you should go forward in time and see if the U.S still had the motivation to make the A-bomb before Hitler did.

Um, excuse me Mr. Titor, but we still would have gone to war with Japan. We still would have gone to war with Germany. And, Hitler never really had a chance of developing an A-Bomb, seeing as how all his top scientists were smart enough to see that it wouldn't be good to give Hitler an A-Bomb, and so they purposely mislead him and refused to develop a working one. With or without the Manhatten project, Hitler probably wouldn't have developed an A-Bomb anyway.
And I could get in to the whole scientific ludicrousy that is his "time machine". It's in a car? Oh, however did you come up with that idea? I see, Mr. Titor, that you must have watched 'Back to the Future' before you decided to try and convince everyone you were a time traveler. Anybody with any training in science should know that his whole "time machine" system is just flat-out stupid. Remember fusion power? That's been proven possible, and they've worked on it for decades with no practical results. Especially with a war going on (resulting in the focus of science shifting from peaceful technology to warfare technology) it would be impossible for a time travel theory to be conceived, proven, and put into practical usage in such a short amount of time.
Agh, I won't even go on with this. IMHO, he's just some bored nerd with too much time on his hands, so he decided to go and try to convince people he's a time traveler. I imagine this has happened before, it's just that this one's "predictions" can be wildly distorted out of context so that it sounds like he predicted something. And pretty much all of the predictions are either extremely vague or extremely farfetched.

(what's with the signature, toadie?)

It's the chorus of "The Merrily Song", the song sung by Mr. Toad in Disney's "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad".
Also the song played in the queue of "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" at Disneyland.