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Good! There's what, 8-ish days left? More entries please.

It's my way of hinting at the Maury show.

I know these aren't anything special, but I'm having fun fooling around with them. Take a look if you want:

http://domithan.com/?p=55
http://domithan.com/?p=65

I'll have to give anything horror related a shot!

I'll let you know how it goes.

Okay, a few questions:

1.) Is it possible to use some sort of phone to send video in real time to a computer? If so, which models, etc?

2.)Does anyone know of any legitimate writing/transcription jobs that allow telecommuting? I don't mind grunt work...I could use something though.

[surreal element]

Your task this time around is to come up with a poem, story, or whatever else you'd like to write that is surreal. It can be scary, sad, funny, romantic, whatever you'd like! Just be sure there is some sort of surreal element in your story!

I'll probably make trophies as well. Good luck to you!

Thanks! I'll get started with a new one right away.

Woah o.O

The amount of detail is insane.

I'll be checking this out very soon.

It's 23 by my count.

[Ponch]

Time to vote!

Ponch or Domithan

Domithan!

Oh yeah?! Two can play at that game! >:|

Ponch!

Hey wait... (No, but seriously, Ponch )

That's actually not a bad idea, Grundi. I'd be down with a box set as well.

[5 DAYS A STRANGE MAN]

Sorry in advance for this...it's ridiculous and I should be ashamed. Enjoy!!


5 DAYS A STRANGE MAN

Today was supposed to be the big day. The day I was supposed to score an easy heist.

I was...WRONG.

Dead wrong. One might say. Dead wrong. Upon entering the home I became trapped. The window I had entered through jammed shut behind me. Which...ya know, actually doesn't seem like a huge deal. I mean, if I really, really needed to get out I could just break the window open. But I digress...

I soon ran into some interesting characters in the house. The first isn't really worth mentioning. I mean, he ends up being brutally murdered, yet I hardly know enough about him to care. The second was this Philip fellow. He quickly became agitated with my OCD-like need for excessive amounts of exposition. I then met some sort of eccentric radio show host and a stupid kid. The radio show host claims she's a news anchor but I mean...I don't know. She doesn't exactly look the part.

After talking with these people I decided to rummage through the house. Being a thief, I completely ignored the fine china, the paintings, and other such valuables and went straight for the twig in the back yard. When one becomes trapped one looks for goods with INTRINSIC VALUE. Duh.

On that note, though...it's amazing how in these sort of desperate situations, everyone becomes a thief. The radio show lady and the kid laughed as they stuffed 27% sterling silver dining ware into their pants. Philip looked on with disgust. I wanted to be friends with Philip. He has a leather jacket and is cool. I stood next to him and shook my head with disapproval at the lady and the kid. Philip thought I was mocking him and punched me in the mouth. I locked myself in the bathroom and cried with my twig for several hours.

That night, I decided to sleep on the couch. Although, I wasn't really sure how I got there.

I had this aweso- er -- Bad dream that I killed everyone. I awoke filled with adrenali- uhm. Terror. Yeah. I definitely don't find these people I'm stuck with disgusting or anything.

The radio host decided she would break into the library and not tell me about it. Hmph. I browsed the shelves for a while. After sifting through piles of ancient Cosmopolitan magazines and apparently incomplete encyclopedia sets I found an oddly specific book about the occult. I figured it would be useless, so I burned it.

I then went downstairs to find the kid delirious from eating too much salt and quenching his thirst by drinking the water from the pool. I slapped him in his face with the twig I found in the backyard a few times but nothing happened.

Oh yeah and that other guy I mentioned got his throat cut and his body chained to the bottom of the pool.

Anyway, the next day my car mysteriously appeared within the walls of the backyard. The walls that seem to mysteriously increase in size 3 fold as I walk toward the back of the yard. Instead of doing something interesting or creative with my car, I decided to simply open it up and take what I'd completely forgotten on the way inside. The one thing that every thief needs when pulling off a heist. In fact, it's amazing that any thief would be stupid enough to try to pull off a heist without it.

So anyway, after lamenting my idiocy, I finally grabbed it from the car. My McDonald's Happy Meal. I ate it slowly in front of the others as they cried and begged for anything, even a half of a fry. Did I mention there's no food in the house? That's kind of important. I told Philip if he would be friends with me I would give him the wind-up Hamburgler toy that came with it. He was not amused and punched me in my teeth.

Well, that's really the only interesting stuff that happened. After that it turns out there was like, I dunno, some kind of dead spirit that was going through the house and possessing people and making the possessed person kill the other people in the house and then we totally had to get rid of it by performing this weird kind of satanic ritual and burning the house down. Oh yeah, and I killed Philip, the smug bastard.

And that, my friends, is the story of my very first, very successful heist. I made a friggin' KILLING off that twig.

I forgot to mention this earlier but I've started to pack up and release a bunch of backgrounds and things that I've decided I ultimately won't use for anything and even some things that were used in small projects. They're mostly backgrounds, and I'll probably keep this up and release more at some point. As many of you know I'm definitely not the best artist around here, but I think that they're some solid beginnings of rooms. Feel free to edit them or whatever you feel like doing with them.

http://domithan.com/?page_id=44

For now I like to play with this game maker program...but abstauber, that's incredible O_O

I mean, I know the art is really there, but it looks so good. The atmosphere it creates is amazing. This is something I'll definitely want to toy with in the future.

Progz, thank you... I think I might have to give that a shot in another room with a window on a slightly strange angle.

InCreator, that's amazing! Thank you so much! I'll *have* to tinker with this later. I'll have to credit you for sure.

That's a good suggestion but I don't know if that's something this resolution can handle...not to mention my art skills are fairly limited. I'm trying to work with a simple looping animation, maybe only 4-5 frames.

Gord, that indeed was intentional.

Also--

http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2011/04/dlcelightful-treats-04-29-11/2/

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I'm working on this background but I'm really having trouble making it look like rain is rolling down the windows. Any suggestions?

Now I'm curious as to how to get the third...

Thanks for the input, everyone.

Very helpful so far. You've given me some good ideas.