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Allright. But still, a pretty douchy style of writing in my personal opinion, even though I don't see anything wrong with it per se.

Eh, the guy comes forward as a generally very douchy guy, and definitely chose the wrong language to speak to a crowd of artists if I understood the context correctly. He is, however, speaking the truth and although painful to some aspiring artists, it's much more important to understand that this is how the world works and adjust accordingly - taking advantage of the person/firm hiring in the best possible way - instead to get butthurt and learn nothing from it.

Holy fuck Dualnames. Thank you soooooo much for reminding me of Saber Rider!! I used to rock out to that theme song as a kid..

Well, welcome back to you too! And hey, thanks 

Hello old friends. I kinda never thought I'd be the one to do this type of post, since I didn't really count on being away from here that long. But here I am, having been away for quite some time. The last post in this place was basically about what on earth to do with myself; if I should stay in Norway and study, move to the carribbean as a hermit or move to San Francisco, CA to study.

Well. More than a year has passed since then. To make a long story short, I basically went for San Francisco and it was the best decision I ever made (so far). I am currently working on my BFA in game design which will hopefully turn out for the better. The studies are awesome, the city is beautiful and the girls even moreso. I am already learning and doing classical art stuff that I never thought I'd be able to do, and I definitely feel I've evolved so much more towards a stable, grown-up human being, not to mention artist..

I'm honestly not really sure why I'm posting this here, now, but I've always seen you guys almost as a second family. And although there are obviously a bunch of new people here since I left, it's good to see the good ol' gang is mostly still around, although you might not really remember me as I didn't actually contribute with any games or much productivity Hopefully I'll get myself to start this adventure game making business once again..!

Well, yes. I don't know what more to say exept: I'm back! Expect to see me around a bit more than I've been the last year.

Some pictures of my doings this last year:

Me 2.0:


Abstract water painting which I'm pretty pleased with:


Charcoal drawing I still can't really comprehend I did:


And drunk moments with friends:


Well, this kinda turned out to long-overdue post pictures here thread, but yes... I'm back.

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Hey folks. Life situation discussion time...

I am a native born norwegian living in Norway. Last year or something equal, I made the choice to go to the states and study animation. More precicely, I wanted to go to california and study animation. I planted the idea in my parents heads at an early stage, and it grew on them to the extent they said they could pay for the first year as my goddamn dumb fucking goverment don't give any form of financial aid (no loans, no scholarships) for the freshman year. I have yet to find a reason for this, but it's a fact so fuck them.

I introduced the idea of going overseas to study for my best friends and they digged it. The though grew on them as well and they passed the seed of thought on to their parents who eventually agreed on the same thing as mine. As time passes we talk more and more about doing this, and I'm at this point pretty much certain I'm going. Once in a while my parents talk with me and encourage me. These processes keep their natural flow for about a year or so. Until last week.

Now I'm eating dinner alone with my mom as my dad were in some foreign country doing stuff needed to be done. Anyways, we're talking about everyday stuff when conversation suddenly swerves and lays itself in the serious lane. Suddenly, my mom starts talking about economics and how we are pretty economical stable but not extremely wealthy and stuff like this. I'm at this point pretty surprised and generally stunned as I didn't know where the serious tone and topic came from, but I think "okay, I'll let her do her thing" and listen. So she starts to talk about how my brother has applied to this fucking circus school in London, and how she needs to talk to him about wether or not this really is a good choice of school. Blah, blah, blah, conversation/monologue continues and now I'm involved. "Is San Francisco really the best place for you? This school in Volda is supposedly really good, and it's supported by the goverment!" Suddenly, rage mixed with confusion and a slowly growing understanding about what's going on here slowly starts to build up inside me. The conversation goes more and more onto this point. Within ten minutes she has more or less concluded that they can't really afford me going to the states. Fuck. Dreams swirl into a dark vortex of shit.

Ever since I was a little kid, I've been wanting to get the hell out of the, both social and political backwash I've seen Norway as. Even though I live in the capital, it has become far too small for me and I have always longed for other countries and cultures like for example Japan or the USA. I don't blame my parents for this. Sure, they should probably have checked better up on living and tuition costs up to their own economy before letting me apply and getting accepted (yes, sorry, forgot to mention this. I already applied, paid an application fee of 500 united states dollars and recieved a letter telling me I'm accepted) but so should moreso I have done as well. I have to emphasize that my mom has worked a whole lot to stabilize our family's economical situation for a very long time now, with my dad setting up a taekwondo institute nine years ago that took about 4 years to actually not loose any money on. There is also little to do about it now, and I see not much reason to hold any grudge against them. But what the fuck do I do?

Now I need to get out of this country. Even this part of the world! What do I do? I've been thinking of moving to the Carribean for a while, trying my luck there. Having worked exclusively with customers and guests in an amusement park earlier in my life and working in a hotel these days I have a lot of experience with tourists and customer-treatment in general which should leave me in some state to get a temporary job in some sort of resort or hotel or whatever. Where I get work is not the point, but the fact that I have some work experience to get me started. I could take up the writing that I've been wanting to try out for a long time over there and try my luck with that and see where this takes me. Again this is not really important, but I'm just making the point that I have thoughts and plans for how this could go.

What do you think of all of this rambling of an anxiety ridden 18 year old norwegian kid? Am I a fool to want to escape from what I do? What should/could/can I do? What would you do in my situation? I'm sorry for the wall of text, but if you skipped it all and read this, please take at least a minute to get the highlights and give me a though for I am in desperate need of one!

Get a powerful magnet. Afaik, that's what they have in the shops to get them off.

Glasses?
Clothing?
Hairstyles?

I'm sorry if this isn't exactly what you want, but there are tons of other similar sites whose speciality is stuff like this. What exactly did you google?

No pity. Fuck these idiots trying to make money off of someone elses work. I agree that it's not the funniest stuff ever, but I find everything written on that site in good taste at least.

Honestly, I think the thread is crafted to make me crave these:

That looks like a goddamn tasty burger! I prefer steak though.

Hell, I wouldn't say that I support Israel, I just understand the damn people. If some guy with small growth and some malicious deformations decided to flick you in the balls with a fly-swatter, over and over again, would you let him? Although I never really fight and very rarely use force against anyone, I would probably get quite physical towards the guy if he didn't stop after asking/holding back etc.

So if you responded by beating him up so severely that he ended up in the hospital with serious injuries, that would be OK?

After flicking me in the balls for eight years, yeah.

(Not to forget that he started hassling you because you took his house and locked him in your yard, by the way.)

Whether or not I think Israel should be there in the first place isn't really the issue here, but an interesting point. I really don't know enough about what happened back there to say anything about that.

But Nacho, if the Israels have killed thousands of civilians in Gaza, and Hamas has killed a handful of civilians in Israel, why are you using that quote to support Israel?

Hell, I wouldn't say that I support Israel, I just understand the damn people. If some guy with small growth and some malicious deformations decided to flick you in the balls with a fly-swatter, over and over again, would you let him? Although I never really fight and very rarely use force against anyone, I would probably get quite physical towards the guy if he didn't stop after asking/holding back etc.

I think both sides are dumbasses here, I just have more understanding for the Israeli goverment than the goddamn Hamas fuckers. Civillian losses are always horrible, but as many other people have said, Hamas are to blame for a whole lot of them.

Permanent damage DID occur to me and my sisters, and to my mum, both mentally and physically. From throwing kettles of boiling water at us to grabbing my hair and smashing my face into my mum's face, and pretty much every nasty thing you could think of inbetween. He picked up my baby sisters and threw them at walls if they didn't stop crying. He told my little brothers to hit my mother if she tried to tell them what to do. He threw my little brother into a patch of nettles when he was just a baby. Man, it even extends to outside the family circle - my main memory of keeping dogs was of him torturing them in some way (putting them in plastic bags and spinning them over his head for 'fun', trying to break one dog's neck in the door because he was in a bad mood, locking them in a dark windowless shed for a week with no food or water).

Seriously, had you not said that you would not want to screw things up for your father, I would have offered myself to have people "take care" of your father, brutally and violently (yes, I do know these people). I have not much more to add to this discussion other than that you should avoid trying to reconsile with your father for his sake.

Personally I and my family celebrate the pagan light fests and call it Christmas out of tradition. We have a tree, presents and a Christmas house, but there is nothing christian about any of it except the name

About the contrast: the higher the number the better.
A contrast ratio of 30000:1 means that a white pixel is 30000 times brighter than a black pixel.

There is though something called dynamic and static contrast, which can affect these numbers, making everything really confusing. Static contrast ratio is how big the difference between a white and a black pixel in a static image can be. Dynamic contrast ratio however is how big the difference can be over time as the brightness of the screen can be changed, for example.  A 30000:1 contrast ratio isn't necessarily better then a 3000:1 one, and the two terms should not be compared.

If you want to interpret "a lot of people" as "EVERYbody" then so be it.

Well, in that case it's still pretty close.

Also:

No matter who the president is he's still a politician (as Nacho said) and is a liar and a crook and the rest of the world will still complain about him and hate the U.S.  I don't see anything changing there.

I know that I, for one would get my hopes up that the majority of U.S. citizens would have come to their senses if Obama would win.. Might be my liberal Norwegian point of view, but I can't even see why the republicans are even a possible contender. Goddamn conservatism.

1: Cats don't interbreed (there are over 33 different breeds) so cross-bred cats are rare, unlike dogs.

2: A cat will only ever meow if it wants a human. No-one has ever heard a cat meow at any other animal.

I have some trouble believing these.

1: My old cat got kittens with the neighbors persian, and both the cats I have now are weird, but regular, cross-breeds of regular household cats. I might have the wrong definition of breed, but they aren't "pure" bred cats.

2: I've seen my cat meow at the neighbor dog several times when no other human were around. I were in the second floor looking out of a window so my cat weren't aware of me being there and certainly didn't meow at me.


But excellent comics Creed! Very funny stuff.

Yay! Dilbert is pretty funny once you actually understand it. I used to think it was just absurd and weird, but now it's one of my favorites!

This was an awesome movie, and I'm in awe of everyone who helped make this movie in such a short notice! The acting was also brilliant, and there were only a few times where I actually noticed some "weird" moments with the script/acting. A very professional and absolutely entertaining movie!

I now also hate myself for not coming to mittens...

I like how people in my school might spend MONTHS on short films that turn out to be 5 minutes long in the end, whereas you managed over 30 minutes in a WEEK. And to be honest, this film is so much better than most short films that get produced in my school. Fantastic work, m0ds and everyone!

As I have media as my major, I can second this... I'm embarrassed on how long we spend on making movies that are absolutely horrible compared to this one-week work of awesome!

If you ever put this on dvd, I'll have a copy, please.

One here as well, please.

I want to thank Cameron because I love him and he's beautiful and we're getting married on the beach. And by married I mean smoke huge amounts of grass.

Also, everyone else! I love and thank you all!