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Well, I must admit, that I'm a beleiver.  I do beleive in ghosts and the supernatural.  But, in order to be able to see anything, you have to be open minded.  If you grow up your entire life being told and made to believe, by your parents or another example setting figure, that things like this don't exist, then you're never going to see anything.  That's why little children and animals seem to be able to perceive these things better than a lot of humans.  Also, these things tend to happen when you least expect them, if you're actually out "ghost hunting", you're probably not going to see anything.  Have you ever been sitting there, spacing out in front of the tv, and then you heard something (a voice, etc)... or saw something out of the corner of your eye, and then when you turn to look, there was nothing there?  

That's me.  I was raised, being told by my mom that I shouldn't beleive in such things.  But now that I'm a man, and I have a voice of my own, I have decided for myself that things like this exist.  But the things my mom told me when I was a little boy are so ingrained into my head, that I'm less perceptive of things like this.

My family is always telling me stories about our house.  We live in a dusty old farmhouse in the countryside of Wisconsin (FACT: Wisconsin is one of the most haunted states in the U.S..  It's also popular for U.F.O. sightings.)  My stepdad, he just tells me stuff, he's never seen anything.  My mom, she hears things... but then again, she's sick, so... yeah.  My little sister seems to be able pick this stuff better than anyone I know, probably because she's "independent"... you know, she's fifteen, she's got her mind on other things... (boys...).  Me, I've really never see anything.  I hear things from time to time, and I've only seen one thing that I can't explain, but I've never seen an actual ghost.

Of the stories I hear from my family, the most popular stories I hear are about:
- a lady in white
- a man wearing a derby
- the "person living in the storage closet"
- my mom hears a flute playing late at night (but then again my sister plays the flute, so I'm going to dismiss that)
- my mom also hears footsteps late at night (a few times where neither my sister nor I were supposed to be home)

Since we're on the topic of ghosts, I have some pictures that all of you beleivers out there might like, but I'm having problems posting them as pictures, and I can't seem to post the right link, so I'll be back when I figure it out.

Heppy Boithday, Scummy.  Welcome to manhood/adulthood, whatever you want to call it...  And hey, If I don't get the chance to tell you after the next 2 decades... welcome to old-fart-hood.

Don't feel bad dude.  I'm only a year and 3 months older than you... I haven't amounted to much either.

Wow, that's really impressive... excellent job, Interference!

Quick thought:  Doctor Who VS The Who... who would win?  Nevermind... I'm just being a jackass.

Okay, it looks like it's downloading just perfectly.

Thanks to both of you.

Gilbot: If I have any more problems, is it OK if I PM you and ask for advice?

Hmmm... I click the link, and I get a DNS error...

I go to the site, and I see a lot of links and URLs... but I can't tell which one I'm supposed to click on to actually DOWNLOAD the program.  Maybe I just don't see it among all the other URLs... all the patches and whatnot.

Can someone help, please?

shbazjinkens:  Your mom sounds like a real... piece of work...  Are you (or should I say, is she) aware that it's a federal offense to open someone else's mail?  ...As long as you're a legal adult that is...  Now that's a WTF story!

Whoa!  Whoops...  I'm sorry, I didn't even notice that you made some of the changes to the sprite already.  Well, hey!  Thanks.  (I though it looked different...)

Of course you have to take careful aim when shooting a buck, especially a thirty pointer (you don't see too many of those).  You wanna aim carefully, and hit it in the heart, so it dies right away (I hate having to follow blood trails, it takes forever...).

Are you a deer hunter, evil?  Did you go this year?  Get anything?

Oh, no no... you're not ranting.

I did think there was something wrong with his posture and the way he was holding the shotgun, but I couldn't put my finger on it.  I'll try and modify the sprite a little to see how it looks.

I was actually kinda going for a casual look, as if he were ready to mow down anything in his path, not as if he's taking careful aim at a 30-point buck.

I drew up this character for a mini-game I'm planning out.

I think it's not quite bad... I think it's a little small, and the head and face look kind of funny.  Once I get a chance to work on it, I'm going to make it an animated .gif (of him firing the shotgun), and I'll edit this post.

Until then, any thoughts, comments, questions, death threats...?

Hmm...  I'm not sure if this fits the WTF category, but it's one of those things that are so inanely stupid that it pisses me off and makes me laugh at the same time.

My stepdad is a hunter.  Over here in the U.S., it's gun hunting season for deer.  My step dad shot a doe, cut out the bladder and bottled it's urine to use as a lure for bucks.

The bottle of deer piss disappeared about a week ago, and for some weird reason, he thought either my girlfriend or I had taken it.

What the hell would my g/f or I want with a bottle of smelly deer piss?

Well, I went to my girlfriend's thanksgiving with her and stayed at her house for the rest of the week.  I came home today, and he found his bottle of doe urine... it was buried in the mess in the back seat of his pickup truck.

Is that what you had in mind, Yuf?

I'm not religious... but actually, isn't thanksgiving just a holiday to celebrate the Europeans trying to make friends with the Native Americans?  Not really a religious holiday?

Anyways, I just celebrate cuz it's free food (I don't have to cook for myself)... and I get to hang out with family.  My girlfriend's family is boring.

I think so... maybe I misunderstood "adventure game related"?

:-\Sorry.

Beyond Good and Evil, and Prince Of Persia: Sands of Time (damn, that game stole my idea!).

Any one play them yet?  Any good?

Also, anyone around here play Morrowind?  How are the expansion packs for those?

I've been looking for a copy of Broken Sword 1 and 2 for PS, but PS1 games are few and far between around here.  Anybody know of any good websites where I could buy both unused? (I just prefer new games, as used ones usually can have scratches)

They looked interesting, but every time I came across them, I never had the money for them.

Well, I'm not a hardcore fan... I rented it for my X-box a couple times.  I'd like to get it for my PC.

I remember when I first started playing it... I was frustrated as hell.  I couldn't get the hang of taking care of my sim... I would let my stats go bad and my sim was constantly passing out, urinating on the floor, throwing fits, and crying because he was lonely. Just a big chain like that, it was pretty funny... he'd pass out, wake up, piss on the floor, throw a fit, cry, his stomach would grumble, etc.

I haven't really been paying attention, what kind of expansion packs do they all have now?... the only one I know of is the superstar expansion.

Well, they're not HILARIOUS, but I think they're kinda funny.

Well, my camera isn't working... so I'll just have to tell you what I have until I can get it fixed.

I have a lot more peircings than tatoos, but here's what I've got.

I have:
- a labret
- my eyebrow pierced
- my nostril peirced
- my left ear peirced
- a tatoo of some chinese writing on my back

I'm planning on getting my nipples peirced sometime in the next couple of months.

I did take a sprite from somewhere and use it as a template... but I liked the way the sprite looked, and now I use it as a template for a lot of my characters.  Don't get me wrong, I still do draw my own, but I can't say any of them look the greatest.

I just use a standard MS Paint tool.

EDIT:
Now that I know of it's origin, this sprite did start out as someone's avatar.  I think it might have been C. Leksutin's.  It had shades and a bald head (no offense, Lex).  I had no idea of the origin of the sprite until today.  My bad, so don't flame me, please.  I know what I wrote sounded like I was taking the credit, but that wasn't my intention.

I drew up this sprite, I might use it in a game, but I draw a lot of characters like this.  Can anyone give me some constructive criticism?

Plus I was also wondering, I've tried making a walk cycle for this little guy, but it doesn't seem to ever look right.  Suggestions?

Lastly.  I can never get the colors to look right.  If I save it as a .gif or a 256 color bitmap, the entire color scheme of the image changes, the color scheme only gets preserved if I save it as a 24 bit bitmap.



Oh yeah, and it doesn't look right when I scale down or up.

Any words of wisdom will be appreciated.