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Why do we love radiation? Because it carries the image of your best friend - that image you took with your newly purchased mobile phone - to your second best friend. Who is just some hundred meters away.
    Like a the bald eagle of freedom the image hovers through the air and appears on a display seemingly unattached to your own; why? Because it can. Because you can. But somebody can even do it better. Go buy a new one.

lol! That's so ironic, I'm getting a new mobile for my birthday.

I'll just pretend you magically had me in mind when you wrote that passage.

Oh well, about the work as a whole, it seemed rather dark and introverted, I don't know how personal it was, or how much it meant. I liked it, but my opinion is a little biased since you're a friend and all. ^_^;

It didn't make much sense until the end, and the message you were trying to portray is a little unclear to me... I understand that the narrator was depressed because he lived around the aged and mentally unhealthy, and engaged in presumably sexual situations with women he didn't know. It does hint at a deeper message with passages such as the one I quoted above, and the piece overall displays your ability and skill with wordcraft.

I guess all I can say was that it was a nice piece of writing, although a little too disjointed for my tastes, judging it by it's merits I'd say you have one helluva short story.

Heehee, sorries 

Thanks. 

By the way, I'm a lot more liberal in my beliefs these days, less conservative right wing, although I still don't think there's a system that better suits humanity and it's vices than capitalism.

lol, yeah I realised and edited out the 2 years thing, feels like it though. @_@

I guess I wanna get back into AGSing... have had some nifty game ideas... and also just got inspiration from a flash game...

http://www.fasco-csc.com/works/crimson/crimson_e.html

Wow it's amazing how a site can change when you don't go to it for like, a year.

AGS is looking bigger and better every time I see it these days 

So how you all been? What's been happening etc.

I just have to know one thing

how in the diddley are you gonna make smoothe char animations in this kinda style?

I mean, it's a great background... and so's this

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~ryanbush/starry-night.jpg

but can you imagine an entire game in that style?

while I'm sure it'd be lovely, I mean.. HELL! It'd take FOR-EVER

my avatar is in full support of this motion ^_^

* Dmitri wears an arnie for governor badge

Welcome Back Andail

I think at some point in our lives we all suffer from a period of severe depression. Even me, who has absolutely nothing to complain about, has been depressed over (believe it or not) not having an interesting life.

Then I looked weed right in the face, I had friends who had these interesting lives that my depression craved, they had girlfriends, they had social interaction, they had sex, drugs and rock and roll. Then... as I said, I was looking weed right in the face.

I can't remember one point in my life where I wasn't happy after looking at weed and saying no. My marks never got better, my parents never got less controlling or overbearing, my siblings never changed, everything was as it was.

except I was content.

It's lasted, these days I don't care what challenge I'm looking at, I'm just content, without a worry in the world

Kung! Pong!



that is an awesome link

it's also a prime example of an ancient art of theatre... sort of a bastardised version of ancient Japanese puppetry (it has a name, can't think of it though) except using real people instead of the puppets

very entertaining ^_^

I have to agree with Jet, adventure games just won't sell, here's a convo I had

<Dmitri> hey, just outta curiosity, you guys ever played an adventure game before?
<Riiko> o.o...
<Riiko> yes.
<Riiko> I lurve Metroid.
<Riiko> and Zelda.
<Dmitri> what about games like... Space quest?
<Riiko> I've never heard of that
<Riiko> oh, forgot Morrowind
<Dmitri> umm... Leisure suit Larry
<Riiko> nope
<Riiko> haven't played it
<Dmitri> as a long shot, Monkey Island?
<Riiko> no x.x;
<Dmitri> we were sor of in two different genres, Adventure games are all about problem solving with little to no actual action/mainstream arcade value
<Dmitri> *sort of
<Riiko> ohh
<Riiko> why did I forget that
<Riiko> x.o;
<Dmitri> what about Myst or Gabriel knight, played either of those?
<Riiko> played Myst a little
<Dmitri> ^_^
<Dmitri> Yay! Adventure games aren't dead

Edit: Posted with permission

nice and smooth, although his ear changes size quite a bit in the animation

Dg:



I think Rambo agrees

On topic, I've never liked Mike Moore really, as a few have said, it's just his general attitude that sorta sets me off.

and when I read that article, well, I was kinda hoping it was full proof  

I can dream I guess

edit: durn americans, putting a 'Z' in "anonymiser"...

Taryuu: Make a really graet plot for the game, but then get a REALLY bad Japanese translator and ship it to Japan to let them know how we feel about their crap

depends on your use of offensive, if a game offends me, then no, I probably won't like it

if the game is offensive because some snooty old censor or hysterical mother of 4 little children thinks so, then I won't care.

I'll care about the game, just not their opinions.

Of course then there's context, if you make a (god forbid) my little pony fan game, I wouldn't expect the characters to be drug using, smoking, swearing dysfunctional adolescents.

Unless it's presented in a satirical or ironic fashion mind you, i.e. what the ponies really thought of 'Sunshine' or some such (taking a wild stab at a ponylike name).

But still, it's an iffy subject, basically as archy said, if it's needed, go for it, but you'll have a bugger of a time trying to tell me why a preteen purple pony who talks about love and lollipops just plopped a cigarette in her mouth

a different colour for the walls, gradients to indicate light sources, texture effects...

Heya, I know there are a few Michael Moore fans around here, anyway, in my net ramblings I came across this little article about a Michael Moore film, Bowling for Columbine

http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html

anyone got any opinions on this one?

coffee lady: well, she's a practical vampire, let the guys come to her instead of her going to the guys

all four of you

there's a trailer to it in my warcraft 2 cd, I always assumed they finished it because Thrall made an appearance in warcraft 3, and when I read the manual it mentioned thrall's story; I just said "Ahh, must be from that adventure game thingy"

pity,

maybe they needed Chris Jones to program an engine for them eh?

and if I remember my geography trivia, Russia's only 30km away from Alaska, thousands of miles my ass

I'll bypass the story and focus on the way the comic was made, hehe Morphy

in frames 4 and 6 the text reads back to front. People read from left to right, so they'll read the left most text first and assume it's been said first.

give the text more space too, the comic just seems very crowded and text based, not a good thing.

man, I counted about 90 words in your comic, maybe you shouldn't try and say so much in one panel. Have a gander at Jack jack.keenspace.com (Rated R)
or Faux Pas - http://www.ozfoxes.com/fauxpas.htm

in today's jack (monday's), David Hopkins had TWICE as much space as you and used half as many words.

in Faux pas the artist has extremely little space but still manages to string a story together.

in all, cluttering a comic is a big no-no.

your art could use a little practice, have a look at other art styles and adapt them to your own.

Darth: heh sorry, it was actually a jab at anyone who believed the statement of "If you don't like what I'm saying, don't respond,"

no offence I just don't think it's logical  

I mean, some old poet guy said that the main reason that evil triumphs is because good is too lazy to get off it's ass

if I said that, for example, believed it, and got other people to believe it, by just sitting back and watching me you're basically letting me win, despite the fact my views are HORRIBLY inhumane.

if a general gave you as a soldier an order to kill some children (yes RE, I know, but I can't come up with a better example) and you contested the order but he responded with "If you don't wanna follow orders, get outta the army!" (a slight variation on what you were saying) what would you do? It IS after all, " simple logic "