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The file in Psp is updated, the PNG no...Ã, 

EDIT, if someone of you have paint shop pro, I could try to pass the file and see if you can open it... :/

Hello... Somebody remembers the background I am making for the ants game? Ok... the psp file is lost because a powercut during saving (That' s what I call bad luck...) I have the file, I can see it... But the program says "The file can' t be opened". Is there a way to recover it?

Thanks and excuses for the silly post.  :'(

@ Helm. You are probably right about the distinction about porn (female) stars in America and Europe... I remember Nacho Vidal saying in an interview that "American girls want to be 21 to be pornstars... they want it, they get brest implants and they preppair for it, its their dream and they consider theirselves artists... Whereas in Europe it's different, 90% of them are prostitutes"

The truth is that nobody in this forums (I think...) know that world deeply... We just can guess and tell what we think we know about it. That can applied to 90% of the threads in gen gen, hehe, but well... maybe here our lack of knowleadge is bigger. Sex is still a taboo, I guess.

I personally preffer arty genre over gonzo, or B&D and all that twisted genres... I can agree with Linus and Helm that the grey areas in that genres are probably more darker than in the genre I like.

And 2ma2, sorry for saying that you are extending the grey areas to the whole industry when you specifically said you were going to do that in the first place... I missed that line.Ã, 

I was going to make a human story with ants  : Mainly because I want to make a WWII game, but I am very concerned about molesting the vets or their relatives (I don't think any vet would play the game, though...) Also war is not very popular, so, it was an idea to use this insects (There is a branch of ants called warrior ants, no? it' s in its nature...)

Also, I love the machines of the WWII, and, whereas I thought on changing the tanks with beetles and the C-47 with dragonflies, I prefered to keep the original machines. So, everything its going to be into human dimension, but with ants... But your edit made me smile, thanks.

I didn' t find a better definition than "art nouveau"  Well, I meant modern art that not everybody can understand, like hanging an apple and calling the piece "War!" or something...  I would have gone into something totally crazy, like faking a live performance with unflatable guitars. But, as said, I still think that the troll is a cunt. Post another one asap, and I' ll be as honest as usual, so, if I like it, double joy! 

Helm, I am not very open to make "efforts" to like something. I didn't like the first time I sucked a cigarette (Is suck the English verb for what I am talking about?) so, I never ever smoked again. I only drink beer occasionally because I gave it a second opportunity some years ago and I enjoyed it immenselly much than the previous and first time, so, that's  why I drink beer if the enviroment calls to... I do cycling because I liked it the first time I did it with 13 years... Actually, I can't  think in anything I do now that had suffered a process of "Come on! This is suppossed to be funny/cool, do the effort, you' ll finally like it, come on!!!"

I liked football when I saw a match for first time... for me it was a challenge to understand the rules, I thought that you compulsory had to make some yards in each turn (I thought the numbers of yards you have to do was compulsory decreasing in each turn, from 10, to 5 to 2 to 1, because the first plays I saw coincided with that...) Then I realised that you had to advance 10 yards in four plays, just that. It's funny, it' s terribly simply and prehistoric... Advance 10 metres, the ball is an excuse, the others must do everything they can to avoid it. It' s like Takeshi' s castle but with a referee.

Anyway, shut up, you don' t like sports, american or not! 

I think you mean webpages publishing videos of "american drunk university parties" where a group of guys intimate with a "drunken girl". The common consense is that the "drink girl" is a porn actress faking her drunkness... It is very suspectous that this guys get a "drunken" girl each week, and no one of this girls goes to the police and sue this webpages for publishing a porn video of her without consent.

If you are talking of another issue... well, it might be catalogued as porn, but it' s still illegal if it commits any illegallity... I agree that it is despicable. I am talking of "legal" porn. I still think that you are extending "grey areas" of an industry to the whole industry. It' s like saying that all the cyclists use drugs or that all the rockstars use heroin, or that all the graphic artists like to "explore the hidden parts of the brain" with LSD... I can agree partially, but I think you are being unfair.

I used to like Baseball, it' s the real sport for spectators... Lot' s of timeouts for advertisements, or drinking a coke or cooking some pop corn and statistics... Now I think I moved into something quite "boring except for die hard fans" called american football. Specially since someone mentioned that Yankees (My team) are for baseball what Real Madrid is for soccer (lots of money, lots of championships, but not much "soul"...), so, I think I moved to Red Shocks (The same as FC Barcelona is in soccer... We play  well, our crowd is fantastic... but we don't win a lot...  )

I think FT was a graphic extravaganza... I loved it, the atmosphere, the music (The music the guy in the caravan hears is great) and the overall futuristic feeling, but I don' t consider it a graphic adventure, I play it as an interactive movie... Maybe I am wrong.

That' s the problem boojiboy... I don' t want to make the effort, so, the question is to make the background less detailed or leaving it the way it is now.  I' ll probably go for option a. 

@Eric: The monocromy had a reason, and it was keeping the photography as seen in the new WWII movies (Ryan, BoB, Red thin line...) and inspired in "Sidney gets a job" backgrounds by Istvan.

But as the backgrounds have gone a little more coloured than expected, I might consider your edit, thanks for the advise.

After all the buzz, I fear to post this... But I didn' t really liked it. The tune was catchy, yeah, and you sing better than 99% of the population of the earth (including me, I sing worse than 99% of the people... :'(), but the images were a failed attempt of "art nouveau" for me...

Of course, I don' t think its soooo maravelous as some of the members, but for it' s light years away of being so bad to make me post in a trollish way that it sucks... That guy probably is an asshole, Matt.

That's a weird point 2ma2, I think... The greys areas in pronography are simillar to the grey areas in rock and roll, and nobody complains...

Maybe the point were we don' t agree is that you think that people are inducted to pornography for paying a previous addiction. I don' t see the link. Then, any way of making easy money could be considered as "unmorale as it helps addicts to pay the drugs..."

If you know of any case of big fishes of the porn industry inducting young people to become addicts for having a future crew of porn actors/actresses, then I can' t discuss, but that must be a punctual case. And, as many other examples, "if some of the acts for making something is illegal, that does not mean the primal act is compulsory illegal". I mean... going to the park is not illegal. If you go to the park to kill people, then you are incurring into a crime, but going to the park isn' t. Hope my point is clear.

Same for porn, no?

Anyway, I like porn... ^_^ Maybe I am being to deffensive about it because I like it.

Come on, let' s do more organised and intellectual. Now member A will call member B idiot, and B will reply "moron", and A will quote B and reply "You, more!"

Ok? Lets start.

Thanks guys...

Strange, I am very reluctant to use the blurring tool, but I will try to figure how you did to finish it...Ã, 

I have a BG, now... It' s still unfinished, needs polishing.Ã,  But my greatest concern is about the mix of styles. The mountains, sky and clouds in the backgound are made in pixel art, while the layer in the foreground is in another cartoony style I can' t define.



Is this a problem?Ã, 

Of course, any other overal crits are welcome, if you have in mind that it' s still unfinished. Some of the areas of grass in front of the barracks and the medical tent are finished, if you want to figure the tecnique.

Reminds me of the best period of the belgium comic (Hergé, Peyo...) Although that simbols over the vowels make me think you are skandinavian, no? I would add an English translation, so your art can reach mor epeople.

EDIT: Oh, Swedish, sorry... 

No, I can't... I've found unswallowable websites about that, but in Spanish, sorry.  If I meet with a friend expert in laws I'll ask. 

Oh, I see... The thing is that we should see the video in spite of trying to imagine how it really was.Ã, 

To add more data to the debate, here it is legal to record everything in the public via, unless you incurr into another crime to do it (for example, entering in a private propperty, or broadcasting images of kids without permission or without censore...)

I am not sure about filming someone inside its property. I think you are allowed while you don't enter inside the propperty, hence the paparazzi with the big lenses.

EDIT: As you have noticed, I was talking about recording, except in the kids case, which I was talking about publication... It's the key difference here, I think. Because you can record everything, no? You can argue it' s been an accident... What you can't really do is publish something by accident.

I am not a lawyer, so, I will try to explain what I believe, considering my not very deep knowleadge in that issue, 2ma2...

It is illegal to be witness of an accident and don't do all the necessary to help (Medical assistance if you are able to, call the ambulance, police...) If you are a doctor and you are prooved to leave the place, you'll even be in serious problems.

I am not sure about if it' s illegal to see a crime and doing nothing... if it envolves human suffering I think it is, as it' s denial of assistence. If you see someone selling drugs, or stealing a wallet, I am not sure... Maybe it is, but no police is going to arrest you for not running to the next police station if you' ve seen someone selling weed...

I am 99% sure about the video issue... Because the "camera man" was there, and was able to do something... One other thing recording crimes accidentally, or without possibility to make anything.

Anyway, if you see that a man is raping the girl in the building in front you live in, and you are bastard enough to sit and take a look in spite of calling the cops, there is like 0.0001 % possibilities to be accussed of something, as the possibilities of someone testifying you were able to do something and you didn' t are minimal. If you are silly enough to record it and putting it in the internet, well... You might have problems if the police finds you.

So, hope it's clear. Yeah, in most of the cases it is illegal to refuse to help people. Have in mind that our code does not ask you to become a hero. You won' t go to jail for not crossing a flooding river to save a girl trapped in a car, without knowing swimming. Doing something is preciselly that, doing something (Call the outhorities, or leave the place looking for a rope to save the girl...)

Is it different in some other countries?

They play the eurocup...

Here's the grey area: The rape is a crime. Video recording it isn't a crime. Publishing it on the internet is a crime. (Just to note, video-taping it is stupid since it can be introduced as evidence in a court trial for the actual rape).

Not sure about this Daniel... Video recording a crime (in this way, voluntarilly, I mean) and doing nothing about it (tell the rapists to stop, or call the police, for example) is a crime in my country, since you are denying help (I assume that the "raped" asked for help, or that he shows enough disturbing to being considered as in need of help, no?)

In this special case (if the video is how I imagine it...) you are not being just a witness of a crime (If you record a crime accidentally, sometimes you can be excused to act, if it' s prooven that there is a primal fear acting on you that disables you to act, for example, if you think that the criminal has seen you and could threaten you...), but also you are a collaborator, you knew the rape was going to happen, and you picked up a camera to participate in the exploitation, summing up to the act of rape, the humilliation of being recorded, so, double crime for you.

Makes sense?