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If people still have any important points to make regarding Halo 3, which I somehow doubt, please make them or just give this thread a rest.
Thank you.

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Written English doesn't seem to matter much though, ZOMG

I think the majority of your drawings show that you have talent. I also think you should pick out one or two for recieving c&c on, as that would make it easier and more fruitful for all of us.

Overall you have a nice sense for design and faces, but your anatomy is occassionally awkward (except for in those cases where you have traced directly from other pictures).

Lol, Eric, that was great. You have more of those?
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I don' t really like to see the image of an event who killed 2,500 people, really...

Why?

Eeer... well, It was a sad event for me... I wouldn' t accept an image of iraqui babies blowed by an american bomb, either... I would think as those image just as a cheap trick to make the cover more "intellectual" creating controversy, but for me it only looks like that, like a silly cheap marketing trick.

Agreed, partly...I was just curious what your prime reason for not liking it was. As in, didn't you like it because it's cheap to include controversial stuff in promotion art, or didn't you like it because you got personally offended by viewing such content.

I can't really see the controversy when the event is simply represented, just as it happened, and not tagged with political sentences or other symbols.

You say that you wouldn't want to see Iraqui babies blown apart, but if we consider that such material would be much more graphical than a distant building on fire, I'd still say that depicting it can't be inherently immoral or wrong. It all depends on the context. I mean, isn't it good if people keep spreading pictures of events that deserve to stay in our memories? As long as they don't pee on them or turn them on fire?

I didn't mean to stir up polemics here, just asking you to not offer automatic replies (like Mrs Lovejoy in Simpsons with her "oh can't somebody think of the children!!") without elaborating why you say it.
Thank you

There can be a hundred causes for insomnia, and giving generic advice is very hard without knowing your medical history, so to speak.
Radiant brought up sport; regular physical activity might be the single most effective remedy for curing insomnia, and also for releasing that sort of stress which makes your jaws cramp and teeth grind.

Also, it's good to be active in the mornings and get plenty of sunlight and impressions during the early day, and then gradually unwind as the evening comes.
We are genetically designed to live like humans did some 10000 years ago (since our DNA hasn't changed much since) and those people recieved a lot of sensory input during the morning hours (while preparing for the hunt, and running around vast fields tracking beasts) but not so much after dark, when it was very hard to perform any duties, and the visual impressions were scarce.

Some studies have shown that if you live isolated for longer periods, even getting up early just to watch TV (as long as there are life-sized talking heads, like in news programs or debates or similar) can be sufficient to satisfy your brain's need for social, visual feedback. Concordingly, watching the same programs late at night has the reversed effect, and will only ruin your chances for a good night's sleep.

In the end it's all very personal and everyone needs to find their personal recipe for how to live their life.

Engaging in a relationship is a sure-fired way of not getting much sleep, though At least not in the beginning...why sleep when you can love all night?

If you can't be creative without taking drugs, maybe you should just give up.

If everybody had followed that advice, we would have missed out on a lot of great creative works thorughout the ages....sadly.

I don' t really like to see the image of an event who killed 2,500 people, really...

Why?

I think the perfect way would be to go all cartoony on this picture. Give it clean, thick outlines and bend all shapes and surfaces gently to neat curves. Nothing exaggerated.

The "problem" now is that the background isn't artistically interesting enough to benefit from sketchy outlines. These kind of pencil-like strokes fit better if the artist can use them to apply nice shading, rasters or other artsy techniques.

The guy said sorry for not taking a joke, so either stay on topic now or pick another thread to be funny guys in!

Well, I can totally understand the sudden frustration caused by the thought of deeds like this. If I had been there when it happened I would also get the impuls to punch him in the face, and would certainly not try to stop anyone in the process of doing so.
But from that certain situation to writing posts on the internet is a pretty long step; and furthermore similar stuff happens every minute.

I'm not trying to say that you should opress your frustration, or that anger is something beastial. My point was that people who are very obstinate about punishment (and the overly forgiving attitude of your country's judicial system, etc) are a bit suspicious in my eyes. I can only relate to dinners or parties I've been to when the person ranting most audibly about how they'd like to do this and that (torture, execute) to a specific (often only alleged) perpetrator, and how they'd love to change the laws so that criminals could be publically spanked or whatnot, is always the most trouble-minded, frustrated and least sympathetic of those present. It's like they can't express clearly enough how righteous and innocent they are themselves - like an obsession, a complex.

The problem I addressed in my previous post was that whenever someone else steps in to argue whether harsher punishment is really the solution, they often get comments questioning their moral fibre or sense of justice.

It's ok to be pissed off, to want to beat up people and be frustrated, it's perfectly normal. But when justice gets an obsession to someone, I'm just hearing warning bells.

It always amazes me how so many are willing to vent their medieval view on justice and the making thereof. And when other more reasonable people tell them that public humiliation, castration and other means of torture cannot possible bring civilization forward, they always get the response "What! Do you sympathise with the culprit or what?" "What if it had happened to your mother!!?".
To me it's pretty obvious that most people who start shouting - in the most mob-like manner - about public and immediate execution, egging or castrating or whatever mostly do so to gain higher moral ground, scared of being accused of something themselves, relieved for not being targeted. (The movie "Little Children" does a great job on describing this phenomenon.)

I don't believe society or civilisation would gain anything from turning back our judicial system 2-3 centuries or more, to the times when people were expected to take great delight in public punishment, and when justice was carried out on a whim, as the result of someone's momentary state of mind.

And trust me, my sympathies for the elderly and disabled are unassailable - I chose to work with them for years and years while most people around me took telemarketing jobs or tended bars.

I have a non-chalantesque proclivity for locking bombastic threads.

I probably weep a bit every tenth or so book I read.

he posted this on adventure gamers too.

Self-plagiarising? Outrageous!

Even though 5000 years into the future is likely to a) not affect anyone since all will be dead/emigrated, or b) not cause so much damage since people will be hi-tech enough to deal with the disaster, I still think knowing that you've done something so terribly selfish might give you bad conscience throughout your life. Especially since you can never un-do it.

About the insults...would they be arbitrary insults, or insults aimed at yourself and your life (and would they have any special insight in your life)?. I think having some 20 people shout "jackass" or "moron" is quite harmless, but if they kept attacking your weak points, it would be another story.

The magic option is completely out of the question. Especially with the uncertainty factor.

I would take a punch in the face for a million dollars any day of the week, granted it wasn't by a professional boxer. A black eye or a broken nose is quickly mended.
So, punch or insult, both are well worth a million dollars.

Never got around to read them either, but I know they're considered important in the world of fantasy...probably the epitome of that endless fantasy series with 250+ characters and overly complicated plotlines

Anyhow, your post really moved me and I guess Jordan has had a great impact on so many teenagers' lives.

I have no idea what you're ranting about. What does "afraid of acting like mods" have to do with you not getting satisfactory assistance with the engine?

I don't understand your problem. When you need help with a feature in the AGS engine, do people tell you to list 99% of its features?
Also, are you sure you wanted to write "proclivities" there? And why are you anonymous?
So many questions!

For the millionth time, Cyrus, stop digging up old threads about dead projects.

especially since your fanaticism is aimed at dead projects. What is it with dead projects that fascinates you so much?

Ok, updated with some minor changes. Tried to put equal reverb on all channels and boosted the bass slightly. If this isn't at all a step in the right direction I guess I should continue mixing when I have some decent speakers.

http://www.andail.com/lake2.ogg