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Igor, why no width variations on the outlines that you've used on the first one? Would probably help. Either that or losing the outlines altogether (im sure you can find another way to differentiate limbs than one flat line)?

the latter post has much, much more lively art.

[300 years]

Oh yes, and the massive insurance benifit that Larry Silverstein stood to gain.

This is not me saying this didn't happen, but I really really would rather believe there is NO MAN ALIVE ON THIS EARTH that would kill so many innocent people for financial gain. Not if they can get away with it, not if they can't, doesn't matter. My brain just refuses to believe this. Note: I can accept and do accept that countries, people on the whole will butcher as many children for money or power as they have to, but the dynamics of group action have peculiarities all of their own. It's easy to do something atrocious when you're part of and hidden behind a regime or group that uniformly 'takes the blame', and it happens over a long period of time and many things happen at the same time diffusing the situation.

But if there is a man that can stand there all by his self and can say "yes, I will now press this button and instantly kill 10,000 people because it will make me rich" then... wow. I can't even grasp this! I am not very naive, but that is just beyond me. This doesn't provide any evidence against the premise of this Larry being that kind of man, just saying, if he exists, I would probably look right through him and disregard him as existing completely, this is how much I don't get it.

1) Even if the conspiracies are true, the evidence is not there. (And if it is, no one is going to do anything about it.)

Not much for civil action are you? Democracy?

2) People with money and power do atrocities to us, the little people, all the time. (Read your history books.)

and things have to be as they always were, right?

3) We live in their world, they sway us the way they like. (It's called propaganda.) If you don't like it...too bad!

Not much for civil action are you? Democracy?

4) The media is controlled by those with money and power. They help sway the masses.

and things have to be as they always were, right?

5) So who has all the money? Where do they get all this money? What does a rich (wo)man do with all this money? It's really quite simple...

PLEASE TELL ME. SERIOUSLY. I NEED TO KNOW THIS SIMPLE THING.

There are plenty of reasons why the US would fake a moon landing and each of them is about as stretched as "To invade Iraq" or "For geopolitical power".

I agree with almost everything else you've said in this thread and find this very far-fetched myself. However, your 'why' question begs for oversimplifications nobody can provide about anything that *has* happened too. Historians try and they're doing the most educated guesses and still they themselves say that things happen as they do in very complicated concert. The greeks didn't go to war with troy over the beautiful Helen any more than did the americans drop the bomb. There is no simple answer to your 'why' on anything. It's so many little cells made of people doing so many different things that interface on the microscopical level to the most absurd global level at the same time that are driven this way and that in the course of history. Why did World War II happen? Because the way of the world demanded it. Why did 9/11 happen? Because the way of the world demanded it. This isn't to say these are *answers*. But your question cannot be answered in a single breath by anyone on this planet, be them believers in the conspiracy or not, so it's unfair to use this as a tool in this debate. Best stick to WHAT happened, and let the historians take 300 years to figure out a semi-competent theoretical construction of what was going on in the world at that time that sorta explains the factors that determined why the attack (or 'attack', I have no opinion) happened. There is no single-minded, determined, human will behind ANYTHING in history. It's all little ants doing little things all at once.

The towers just seem to slide into the earth

seem. There's such a thing called the untrained eye? Many things seem to be behaving in an unexpected way. This is not evidence. This is a demand. "This MUST have happened like that because it looked like that to me!" Learn the difference and stick to giving links to what more informed people than you have said on the topic, in far less assured tone. The ease with which you chat for the minority opinion on something so mind-numbingly complex as a plane hitting a tall building is shocking me. It's like I'm looking at two teenagers discussing dna-splicing or quantum mechanics, over coke and pizza, in the most reassured tone possible.

I don't have any doubts about it myself.

Why? Because it seemed like we did?

Where I stand today is a far cry from the "We just need to support our president no matter what" stance I used to hold.

Great. And that a terrorist attack might have occured in your country absolutely did not and does not mean you have to believe everything your president told you. The point is: Bush is a bad president, your whole govermental system is corrupt and in no relation to the will of the common people besides the superficialities of choosing your king for the next 4 years, and that's something you should be devoting much more effort into than trying to knee-jerk yourself in a paranoid position over who did the terrorist strike.

Squinky: I understand you not wanting to take money from people online, and I know I'd do the same in your place. If you don't want to put yourself in that position, and we can't give you the money in some indirect way that will not injure your pride, then all I am left is with the sentiment: I am sorry you'll have to give your guitar away, and think it's awful that you'll have to. There's more important things in each of our lives than your guitar fund that we should probably donate to, but that doesn't cancel out the fact that your guitar situation flat-out sucks and my instinctive reaction is 'No. This will not happen'. Juvenile perhaps, but that's me and that's that.

If you keep it, awesome. If you sell it, you have your other guitar, and besides the musician fetishism we [the people in this thread considering giving you money] probably all share, it's what you play on it and whom you share the music with that counts in the end so I'm sure you'll make new awesome with your other guitar. If somebody figures out a way for us to help without it seeming like charity, I'm still on board for that.

SSH: please be quiet.

Unacceptable. Don't sell your guitar. I give you another 25 bucks not to.

http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/9473.htm

this look generic?

classical iso or military have no converging perspective either.

oh my

if I remember correctly, all iso is axonometric, planometric is also called 'military perspective', it's the one scotch made, used in boktai and the like. What Darth did is um.. i forget the term. SSH will know

iso style existed a long time before e-boy. Check out Cadaver on the Amiga or even Head over Heels for the ZX spectrum or something...

This was actually quite cool. A lot of effort went into the choreography. Fun.

[together!]

I detest this kind of communicational marketing. "Well let me tell you what Wii stands for! It stands for we it will bring us together!" and all that bullshit, but of course people (of similar education to the one big brother got) are given millions to do this exact sort of lowest-common-denominator target marketing to make sure that they make as much an impression as it is possible. Remember, short-term profit is not the only goal of conglomerates, Brand Inflirtration in everyday living insures the continual growth far more than putting out good product does. So if every internet forum in the world has now freely publicised the new name of the nintendo game system, regardless of whether the users wanted to know or not... that's a good step towards raising public awareness. In this sense, a console named 'poo' would possibly do more for the company than a console named '23xz55'.

MASTER SYSTEM is the best name for console ever

Still the only new console I'm interesting in buying.

Every christian that is worthy of the title christian believes their god to be ultimately BENEVOLENT and ALL-KNOWING. There's no reaching on my part from the 'all-knowing' to 'no free will', and this then invalidates the benevolent, unless you consider LIGHTNING BOLT TO THE FACE to be benevolent, in which case letting the rest of us live and suffer is malevolent in itself. For the all-knowing, all-loving god, even the concept of human life away from his infinite grace is cruel and unjustified. He is not kind. He isn't testing us or teaching us anything. We are his lab rats in a labyrinth that he overviews, knows our every step and you call this kind? And when we go back to him and say 'I repent, Jesus, I love you. Please forgive me and give me strength'... is he glad? Is he in his infinite mercy, getting his ego boost? That his little machine did what he knew it would do?

Sadly the concept of 'all-good' coupled with 'all-knowing' (you know... all-powerful, without begining or end, a fuckin' snake protrays the alphabet all that...) is that which make for these problems. I would have no bone to pick with a somewhat-powerful and somewhat-nice Universe Creator. At least no bone that I could justify by looking around me in the world of men.

An all-knowing benevolent god (christian god) knows all outcomes of actions, knows the future and past, knows what we will do in the future and has designed us with full understanding of our exact path through existence, every action, every reaction, every tear and laughter. There is no 'test' when you know exactly what the results will be. This all-knowing god in the heaven denies all free will. If he exists and he lets harm befall us it is not because he's giving us the choices to do as we do. He knows what we will do as surely as he knows the primordial clay he breathed life into. We are trapped in his unending benevolence.

you find hidden text and you expect words of wisdom. Instead, you get pop lyrics

No! No!

you're using a few million colors more than you need. Rule of thumb: if the colour variation you made cannot be discerned by the eye at 1x and 2x zoom? You are wasting it.

I don't mind the random dithery detail, just don't use it everywhere. Some forms do better simple, especially where there's darkness, and complement the busy detail.

the hands were very unhygenic looking, fixed. Posture remains (adds character) but crotch pulled up, hands a bit, to make the anatomy semi-correct.

Always felt games where there's very few deaths, like Broken Sword 1, in actual situations where there was high risk involved felt a lot better than Sierra-death every other second because it's 'hilarious!'. But then I felt the impact was cheapened when like in Full Throttle when you die, you go right back to where you were because LEC is adventure-game-friendly and you don't even have to save once unless you want to.

starved for adventure game

this is probably the biggest thing that keeps these companies afloat. That gamers still can't get over their favourite LEC or Sierra game and will play any sort of mediocre game just to get a fix, and to support the 'scene' because "damn it! Adventure Games are not dead! UNNNGH"