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Diplomacy Rules: By Vel.
Creating an Empire: By Chris Jones.
Ouch! By Mark Lovegroove.
What a perfect world: By one thinking girl and ._.

Edit: Here comes a new set...

Nice military tactics: By General Custer.
How to succes in Hollywood, By Jenna Jameson.

Yeah Fruitfree, we will work also drawing paintings, we will make all the process, from paper to pixelization, for create backgrounds from nothing.

I think it could be some kind of "curse" or something... Search for pupils!

P.S. Yur inglish is perfekt as long as I can andestant.

One tecnical question.... How did you manage to break the roof?  

Fruit free... I´ll tell you what are we going to do. My girlfriend is pushing because she wants me to tech her in drawing... We will do it together, as soon as I finish my exams I´ll start a post about graphics improvement. It will be as follows:

1) I´ll post a pic (Photo cartoon)
2) I´ll publish my gf´s version and everybody who wants will have the chance to upload his version to.
3) I´ll say how to arrange the style deppending on what I´ve seen. (In a "loominous style", making my own version and what I did to fix the mistakes...)
4) You´ll publish pics till we get what we want.

Do you agree? I finish my exams in early September.

Glad to see you´re back Petter, really glad.

I´ve read carefully your essay about happiness. It is clear that there is people who has more tendence to be happier or unhappier than others, maybe it is a matter of the life they´re living, but I´m not sure...

There are people living lifes supposed to be perfect who can´t reach happiness, not only the total happiness (which I think it is impossible to get, but also an average hapiness standart) Why?  I could give you metaphysic explanations about that, but I must admit that I think that the real explanation is so much simple... hormones.

It is proved that depression is a physiologic matter. It doesn´t matter how well things are going, you loose your "filters" and everything pains... no matter how happy person you are, when that hormones go bad, the depression is there. That´s why so many depressions are treated with prozac and all that stuff, that mustn´t be ashaming... that hormonal matters will come each 3 or 4 years, no problem, take your medicine and you´ll recover.

But there is another way.

I won´t tell here a Peter Pan´s tale... I love that Louis Armstrong song, what a wanderfull world, but things are not like that... but even in this non-prefect world you can deal with depression.

You may think... Ok, Farlander, it is very easy for you to tell that, you´re in the "top" now... It doesn´t help people being in the "top" to tell people on the "hole" how beautifull life is.

Ok.. let me tell you something... I was very close to get really down during the first days of Mittens, did you notice it? There was a terrorist strike in my town a week before the trip... I felt insecure about leaving my friends and relatives here, facing the "danger"... But as I told Chrille in one post, I was not going to give the terrorists the satisfaction of spoiling my journey. But the first step for removing my filters was gave...

The morning of the day of my flight to Stanstead a friend of mine died in a bicycle crash.

He was not a very close friend of mine (if not I wouldn´t went Mittens, of course...) but I met him every sunday and rode my bike with him for 4 or 5 hours. He was also a very shy person very quiet, very young. He also practised jogging with his wife... They runned together, they were working together, they lived the one for the other. It was really a pitty.

And I saw the body, the terrible wound in the head and the blood. I started a suicidal descent to call the ambulance, but my cellular got range 12 kilometers after the crash, allmost 20 minutes later... It was too late. two hours before my flight I received the terrible news by a phonecall... It was not till the next weekend  (after mittens) that I was informed that the wounds were too serious for a possible salvation, my "slow" descent had nothing to see with the fatal consecuences... a little relief, I must say.

I was at the airport deciding what to do... I decided to go Mittens. I needed it. It was the first thing I told M0ds "Hey guy, don´t expect me to be the most friendly guy in the world, I am shocked because of..."

He was very kind and he behaved perfectly... buying me games at the arcade, a little step in the road of "recovering" from my shock. Thanks m0ds.

I decided not to tell anybody else about the accident. I didn´t want to spoil nobody´s party. I had to recover by myself.

And it worked! I spend a beautiful week in Sweden, trying to understand the terrible accent of the Brits, enjoying chatting with Helm and Goldmund, my baths in the sea with Petter, enjoying the nice jams of 2ma2 and Vargtass... Mittens was for me like a cure treaty. Thank you guys.

Next sunday me and many friend went to the place of the accident to make a final memorial. It was nice, It was the closing of the circle of those terrible times which were fuc*ng close to take me to a serious depression. I managed to take the good things of that week to "survive".

You can´t change your feelings... It is impossible, you can´t be crying and say "Hey, ok, now I´m going to laugh!"

But you can manage to make little steps. Talk to friends, demand help, write, paint, play the guitar...

It will take time, but as the Chinese people say "This... will also happen", nothing lasts forever. You´re going in the good direction, sharing, talking... Depression is unavoidable, to make it last or not isn´t.

That´s all... I suppose it won´t help because it seems more of the typical "cheer up", but nope. I am saying that you have the power to manage to make it  "less worse" not that the human body has a metaphysic power to deal with all the problems without suffering.

Sorry my poor English, it is maybe my very first attempt to write something serious in English in ages.

Hope it helps!

Your friend, Nacho Ayala "Farlander".

Edit: P.S. The Url were a final memorial is being made to my lost friend, Jose Alberto Sánchez... Rest in peace.

http://www.ucbclub.org

What is funny for me is that it is pretty obvious that M0ds is suffering a lot of pain... but he tries not to show it because that would spoil the sketch. He tries to remain quiet and his friend takes it with a lot of professionality also. I suppose M0ds shouldn´t agree with a second take. Terrific sketch.

 :o

I know people is starting to get mad about that posts with the shocked emoticon, but...

:o  :o  :o

O_O

Totally justified...

Now I see it a little bir empty of stars... Anybody else agrees? I don´t want to bother you, but changing the sky is so easy... That I wanted to put my opinion.  

He´s talking of Heart of China, by Dynamix, a division of Sierra. It was a good game, sure he can find it in some abandonware sites.

I don´t think is that difficult to go on with projects... There is only one secret... Believe in them. I´ve started one project when I entered in the community, more or less one year ago. Now it is close to be finished... Why? Because my team and me believed on it, from the first day, as soon as the story began to have consistency. Yeah, the history is very important, you can´t start a project without having in mind what do you want, because it is impossible to know when to go on without knowing if that you already have is what you need.

I mean... Imagine you have a background in your mind. As soon as you see in your MSpaint, your photoshop or your PSP what you had in mind, you can start another bg. If you don´t have a nice idea of what you´re aiming for... when will you consider that bg finished? That is frustrating.

and frustation is the main project killer.

Yes Darth... It also "annoys" me... (Using your words, some little pixels will never upset me... ) If you´re making some kind of gradient, it´s too "noticeable "...

IMO.

If you blindly follow your girlfriend's advice (nay, demands) to shave your pubes, then you're a pussy-whipped guy and would do anything to please her.

That´s me!

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)

very entertaining ^_^

Kabuki.... I think...

Shit, 43%... If its your girlfriend who demands you to trim your pubic hair what should you answer?  

Yeah, It´s a pop-up, but pretending to be a message from Windows... a "funny joke"...  

Hey... Sure you know that new virus (A worn, in fact...) who demands a lot of information to the CPU about some subject. The cpu can´t provide that info and the pc crashes. It is a virus who attacks millenium and XP, I think... I´ve seen recently a page who told me that I´ve had that virus, but that warning message was in a windows XP style... and I have win98! It is clearly a fake, specially because you can see the "shapes" that the "jpgation" makes to the image.

So... take the necessary precautions, but don´t be so worried if you see that screen.

Has anyone seen it also?

Sorry... I can´t see me reflected in one of that stereotypes (misspelled?)... I am just an tourism degree studiant who tries to have good shape by cycling, a nostalgic of the old graphic Adventure games... I was here to create one. Now I am here for that and for the community.

Wow... It looks perfect for me now (Well, I should centre the ship on the platform, it seems to be "1 meter or 2" to the "right"... But I suppose you want to finish your game... and you can´t spent weeks in just one background, so... Perfect for me!

Oh... I must say that I realised of the perspective problems when people mentioned it. The main problem for me is the plain colours and gradients you´re using... Bobba is clearly made in a "amiga" pixellation style. The ship seems to be made in an old CPC, I just can see black, green and brown... I should add more colours, and a different gradient style, not so "monkey Island I", but more "FoA"...

I don´t know if I made me clear... Sorry  

But the way... I love it, I NEED to play that game!!!

Thank you guys.... the truth is that I didn´t realised some of the mistakes, like the "floating" box... I promise to show her the posts, and we will make the necessary improvements... I am really thinking in making a tutorial like the one Miez did "FoY" (Explendid... I have no words...)

But I want to say thanks specially for your kindness and good critizising. Specially for YakSplit, because nowadays we´ve having different oppinion about one subject in general thread. In spite of that, he is trying to help me and my girlfriend, thanks.