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Burger; make her much thinner around the shoulders and calves/feet. Way too broad as it is now.

A typical feature of the female anatomy is that the shoulders don't exceed the width of the hips.

I concur with above speakers.

If you need closure, and expect that you will afterwards think "darn I wish I could have told him this and that before it was too late", then why not speak your mind and vent some steam.

If you think it will be constructive and improve your relationship, then think again. There's virtually nothing to build on here, so just get on with your own life really.

If you go for the first option, rehearse and be well prepared. Bring a friend. Don't expect it to be constructive, just give your speech and leave, then maybe have a pint with said friend and talk about it.

I found a guide.. some pieces were stronger than others, but I didn't have any good pieces because I hadn't chanced upon the right information in the game..

Wow, that's like the mother of all walking deads

For me, the "coincidence" is that the "killed person" allways is, from a group of 30 or 40 rioters, "the innocent guy who was walking there, doing nothing..."

The corpse never does anything... Allways the others... allways caught there for being unlucky... 

Except that now it's not about some 30 troublemakers and their idea of having fun, it's a widespread national reaction.

The killing was just a spark, it's pretty irrelevant who were right or wrong in that particular situation when the entire Greece is on fire.

You make it sound like big noses are bad 

Interestingly, the night I met my current girlfriend, I had totally lost my voice.

And the very few words I bothered to whisper had to do with how lousily insulated British houses are.

So all my eloquence and verbal prowess went to waste. Luckily!

Ah, pity on such a nice phriday.

People, open yer photershops and start shopping photos!

I think it's important to remember that there is a vast difference between picking up strangers at a pub or a club, and meeting a life partner.

The former is indeed a sort of game, and you need to play it right to succeed. You can't enter a dancefloor and believe that your kind heart and good manners will get you anywhere.
Likewise, if you really want a serious relationship with someone you know well and are in love with, you won't succeed using cheap tricks you learnt in a book.

So if you don't think that you can play that special game, don't go there. Don't go to a club just to sit in a corner and hope that women will approach you and start investigating your beautiful mind and kind spirit.
Instead, conjure for just a mere minute the illusion that you are irresistable, that you own the world, because if you don't think so yourself, other people won't.
Good looks is not at all necessary to attract even the drop dead gorgeous women (I'm a living proof of that). Heck, if you're self confident despite being ugly, it's even more impressive.

But it does look great so far!

~Trent

It doesn't really look great, in fact it looks like a really rushed mix of effects, filters and very anatomically crude drawing.

Why haven't you bothered with at least getting the basic proportions right? Why haven't you used a reference to make him at least vaguely realistic?

Your problem is that you have skipped a lot of steps just to make it look professional. Start from scratch, make a rough pencil sketch. When you have a sketch, upload it here and we can give relevant c&c.
No filters, no logos, just a rough figure drawing.

I would look at it, but I refuse to read threads with so many caps in their titles. Let alone post in them, god forbid

I think you've definitely gone too far without consulting anatomical references. The nice lighting and the juicy colours aren't enough to save the overall impression.
Especially the face is just weird. I think you could start with lowering her nose a bit and reduce some of its thickness at the base. Then do something with her eyes, they're crooked now and don't make sense really.
Her left upper arm is too long, at least compared to her lower arm, and noticably much longer than her right arm.

Guys, if we're not gonna lock this, maybe step back and take a little break?

You're like spitting out posts right now and they're getting increasingly personal.

Can God create so difficult an adventuregame he can't solve it without using a walkthrough?

Anyhow, I think the anti-religious movement has become bizarrely hot-headed lately.

Terrorism and oppression and inquisitions aren't the results of religion; they occur for other reasons but act in its name.

Your statement was ironic, I agree, but perhaps not for the reasons you may believe

Yes, in fact it was ironic exactly the way I believed it to be, thank you.

I think your ideas about "volontary" charity are both alarming yet symptomatic for our time.
Instead of working systematically towards decreasing the difference between rich and poor, people prefer to ease their conscience by sporadically donating money via spectacular charity events. It fuels the already flawed system and allows people to feel good about themselves.

ACtually the last sentence was just me getting carried away with how USA handled the crisis, it wasn't so much directed at you. I just addressed you to bring attention to how utterly ironic it all is.

Either way, nuff of this quarreling!

What you wrote above is a caricature... Since it is a caricature I am not going to reply to it with arguments, since you didn' t wrote an argument. 

Why, because it's too funny? Did you choke on your cigar? 

But seriously, isn't it hilarious that you need a socialistic approach to solve a problem caused by purely capitalistic motives?
So the big banks, run dry by greedy directors, in the end need tax money to survive?

Isn't that ironic, don't you think? Yes it is, Nacho, it's like freaking rain on your wedding day, it's so ironic it makes me pee, frankly

[Capitalism, a lengthy play:]

Capitalism, a lengthy play:

State: Everybody must own everything! Nothing must be shared!
Bank: Allright, we will grant people ludicrous loans even though they can't afford to pay them back.
Bank director: Sure, why not? We get our quarterly bonuses regardless of what happens to the bank. Oops, time to go and get my second 300 million dollar bonus this year. 

Citizens: Yay, million dollar loans, now we can own ridiculously expensive houses that look like the ones on TV! We don't need welfare money now! We are rich!

Bank: Looks like we can't get enough people to pay interest on their loans, let's borrow money from a bigger bank.
Bigger bank: Sure thang ;P It's what the state wants!
Bank director: Let's all go and get our bonuses! We can take my helicopter!
Bigger bank director: Okidoke, but to afford all this we need to raise the interest rates to get more money.

Citizens: Darn, those rates sure are getting expensive. Let's take a stupidly expensive short term loan to pay the rents this month.

Citizens: All right, now we're doomed. We need to leave the house and declare bankruptcy.
Bank: But what about the loan? Our money?
Citizens: Sorry, no can do. We ain't got 'em. Time to get some welfare money from the state.
Bank director: Increase the rates to get more money to the bank.

Bigger bank: Hey, smaller bank, you're not paying back your loans anymore.
Bank director: Let's discuss this while we collect our bonuses. There's still some money in our bank to use on our personal luxury!

Bank director: Ok, now almost all the money is gone. Let's take the last as a golden handshake and declare bankruptcy.
Bigger bank: Rats, we're quickly losing money on smaller banks that can't pay back their loans.
Bigger bank director: Time to leave this sinking ship. Let's grab what's left and declare bankruptcy.

State: Hey, what's up with all these big banks bankrupting and all? Let's inject hundreds of millions of the tax-payers' money to save them!
Citizens: That smells like socialism! Using the state's tax money to help private banks?
State: Ummm...look, it's raining outside.

Banks: Yay, bailout plan cash!
State: Promise to use them to lend money to citizens, it's important that they feel rich and can consume material property using money that isn't really theirs.
Citizens: We don't really feel like shopping anymore, what will all this crisis and everything....
State: For crying out loud, shop, goddammit!! Pursue your dreams!

Rince and repeat.

RickJ, sometimes when I read your posts I hear the voice of a bitter person who's upset with all the unemployed people in his community, and how they slack and pretend to be sick and abuse the system and whatnot.

I've worked all my adult life and never recieved a dime in wellfare money except for loans for my studies. There has never been a period in my life where I've relied on others' money or wished there was a system I could live in which would give me things without having to work for them.
I've wiped old people's arses, a lot, just to be economically independent.

As I've said, I support democracy, but at least I have the imagination to understand why people desire different systems, why people have visions. You are so stuck in the American way - everyone who's got visions that go beyond owning stuff are hippies or communists.

Learn a new trick, Rick, you're so predictable it's boring.

Just look around the world and where you find the most severe poverty you will also likely find a tradition of some kind of communal system, where the group or society owns property rather than individuals. 

I challenge that statement, instead I think you'll find traces of capitalism there; some individuals taking as much property as they possibly can, ignoring the needs of others.

If your definition of communism is that people simply don't own anything, then yes, it can automatically be applied to all systems where poverty is present, but this is a very simplified definition.

Communism does not mean that a particular group of people owns everything, it means that everyone owns everything, only that they share it, and are not allowed to collect excessive amount of said property just because they can.

And if you think it's tiresome to hear the "you can't blame communism because it hasn't been tried"-argument, well, get used to it. Because it hasn't really been tried; what you've got so far has been dictators taking control of everything and enslaving people. Then they've called it communism, because, well, you have to call it something.

That's like blaming Christianity for the Spanish inquisition. It's narrow-minded and illogical. People always kill - and die - in the name of something.

I don't personally advocate communism, because I think the alleged benefits from it are exaggerated. I don't think rivalry and jelousy and revenge and competition will cease to exist just because people share their material property; such traits are fundamental and will be channelled in other ways. We are identified by our differences. It is by excluding people we form teams and groups.

I also support democracy - preferably social democracy - but I have a gripe with people who dismiss everything but the capitalistic way, as if that way isn't also smeared with blood from people who died in its name.

If you think this is pimping, you should have been around when Mills released Ace Quest the first time