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I love it to be honest. I'm just a fan of pixely-looking backgrounds though.

Wow! This looks and sounds great!

Ahh. Makes sense.

Thanks CJ!

EDIT: Perfect! Thanks again CJ!

Wow, I seem to be an amazingly lucky idiot. I've fallen so many times it's not funny, hard and harder, but I've never broken anything. The closest I got to breaking anything was when I was playing volleyball and my middle finger got bent all the way backwards. I remember it touching the back of my hand. And all I did was sprain it.

The most awful and painful experience I've had, health-wise, has been a gum infection. That was all thanks to Mr. Wisdom Tooth #3, which had decided to not go the route it was supposed to go but ended up at a 90 degree angle, its crown firmly seated against the molar next to it. Also the first cavity I've ever had, as it was still covered. It never broke through. The infection got so bad that I couldn't close my mouth - I was unable to put my jaws together, and that made it impossible to chew. Not happy.

I went to the doctor a week after it had started hurting, spending that time not eating anything but custard and popsicles (to quell the swell). After that, it took 2 weeks before the surgical removal would take place (my dentist didn't dare attempt it, straight to the surgeon I went). In the meantime I had to take a cotton wad, 5 times a day, and pour hydrogen-peroxide over it, then put that on the infected gums and CHEW it. THAT WAS HELL.

The removal went fine, except for the fact that they had to cut into my gums and still thought it prudent to only put in one stitch. I argued with the surgeon about that, but he said it'd be fine.

I was back in the hospital a few hours later, still spitting out blood every few seconds, because it just wouldn't stop. 7 stitches later by a different surgeon and a new dose of local anesthesia, and I was sent home. It took another 2 weeks before I could eat normally again.

5 weeks of not being able to eat resulted in losing 18 kilos of weight (that's about 40 pounds). It took a week of eating normally before I felt close to a human being again, because I'd gotten fairly weak because of it.

Not happy times.

But hey, I've never broken anything, so I'm not complaining (that much)

I think that's worse than breaking something.

Code: ags

function room_AfterFadeIn()
{
  int trans = object[0].Transparency;
Wait(120);
cRobot.Walk(54, 225, eBlock, eAnywhere);
cRobot.FaceLocation(54, 100);
Wait(120);
Switch.SetView(3, 0, 1);
Retro.Visible = true;
while(trans >0){
trans--;
object[0].Transparency=trans;

}

cRobot.Walk(425, 225, eBlock, eAnywhere);


}

OK, after all the edits, I made it work. My object doesn't fade in though. It's instant, like I'm just making the object visible. Anyway to slow it down a bit?

My worst injury happened on a trampoline. I was running along the edge and as I was swinging my right leg around, I caught my big toe and the toe next to it on a spring, right in between the joints on my toes, and just like that, a dislocation and a fracture to my big toe. To make things worse, me and a bunch of friends played man hunt all around town that same night, and I took a big step on it chasing someone... Hurts like hell. The dislocation hurt a lot too when the doctor put it back.

Also, I've smacked my head on the pavement skateboarding a lot. None too bad yet though. Also, my wrists are extremely weak and ache a lot from falling on my wrists. I can't play guitar too well sometimes, because I get the most intense pain in my left wrist. I can't even play some chords, which is disappointing for me.

This doesn't compare to Darth's pain, or Domino's pain though. Kidney stones and root canals... *shudder*

Haha! I love this game! It's funny, and stylish. I had to use the guide a few times, but it was still a great game!

Welcome back Squinky.

I've mostly moved around a lot because I had to. We've never owned a house, we've always rented out, and almost every time, the landlord would find a buyer, and we'd have to move. I hate it.

We actually had this really nice house, that we rented from my aunt who lived in Indiana. Then she got in a divorce with her husband, and decided to move back here, and live in the house, so once again we had to move.

Sometimes we'd have to move and there would be no alternative. Nothing temporary. So we'd have to split and stay with friends or family. That was hard to do, and it got pretty depressing.

I'll probably end up moving a lot more. It's bound to happen.

I tried to learn recently but really couldn't get down chord changes. It would always take me a few seconds to think where my fingers need to go and another few seconds of placing each finger individually on each string.  So with a 10 second gap between chords there wasn't much melody going on... how can I practice speeding up this changes and stop my chords from ringing out all clangy every time I strum them.

Are chords the best way to go to try to learn or shall I choose a song I like and try to get myself playing the tabs.  I've tried both and neither seems to sound very good, as expected at such an early stage.

Well, like you said, it's an early stage. You got to practice a lot. Sooner or later, your fingers get used to it and you'll be playing easier and faster.

I thought just like that at first, when I was trying to play a simple A, to D, to G, and back to A. I just couldn't do it, but if you keep trying to do it, it starts to get a lot easier.

Well, we have an elementary music school here and lessons there are pretty cheap. Did you mean private lessons? These are expensive here too. I am a graduate of this school and I can say only the best about the learning methods. I know a few people who taught themselves and the main problems were that they were in a rush to play ("bah, technical exercices? piss off, man!") and they tried things they could not play and so they developed some nasty bad habits.

They were sometimes able to play something they wanted, but it was very "shallow", you could hear that the player has not gotten under the skin of some very basic habits and conceptions of music. Having a teacher, you can pretty much completely avoid these problems.

It is not that fun, I admit. But in the end, you end up like a competent musician with complete understanding and years practice, not a self-taught player that on the first sight plays good, but on the second lacks some practice and experience that is gained by the "boring" side of playing. (Of course this applies to everyday people, not to some extreme musical talents. The clarinetist in our band was able to play an extremely hard piece on a completely different type of flute he uses to play in two hours. I was playing this flute for years and it still took me two days to learn the piece. He plays flutes of all kinds and clarinet like a god, and if that is not enough, he plays violin too. And he is like three times faster with his progress than regular people.)

Oh I meant private lessons. That's all that there is around my area.

I went to the guitar shop in my area today, and my friend Matt's dad works there, and he heard me jamming out on some Metallica, and we started shooting the shit for a bit, and he said that I could come around anytime and get some free lessons and trade Metallica riffs.

The Pretender?

Looks amazing JBurger! 

One reason I'm teaching myself is because lessons here in my area cost a little too much. It's $45.00 every 2 weeks to get lessons.

My friend Matt, his dad is self taught, been playing guitar for 22 years, and he can most certainly shred on a guitar. He has a music myspace if anyone is interested.

I've been trying and failing to teach myself guitar for many years, and was in a band, albeit briefly, a couple of years ago.  I can play most of the common chords, but my fingering is shit and for some reason I actually seemed to get worse at one point... I still pick up and play once in a while but I gave up trying to improve...

I'm the same with swimming... I can float, and I can move my arms about in the desired manner, but I just don't seem to move forward.

One Metallica song I did nearly get quite good at was 'Nothing Else Matters'... Try it if you haven't already.  Once you've gone through the tabs a few times it's not actually that complicated.  And it's all based on a few simple chords.

Yeah I have my bad days as well...

I can play Nothing Else Matters. It's not as hard as some people think, and it's good practice for finger picking.

Barre chords are horrible.
And R4L, check out some of the technique articles over on www.ultimate-guitar.com
Really helped and continue to help me. =]

I've been there so many times for tabs and not once have I checked for techniques!

Tapping is a pretty nifty technique.

Funeral For A Friend - Roses For The Dead .. that intro is the perfect for practicing, if you're interested.

Actually I've been practicing tapping on the Eruption solo, One solo, and Lip Gloss and Black intro solo.

I hate bar chords! >.<

I didn't mean to sound like a noob at guitar. I can play, I can play faster songs, just not as good as the original artist.

I just wanted to know some exercises or something that some of you might have made up?

I'll have to look into the Petrucci exercise.

Some more games:

Ghosts n' Goblins (NES): WOW. This game was a BITCH. Not only was it boring as hell. but it had the worst jumping system, unforgiving enemies, and flase sense of security. Seriously, your so called "armor" breaks after one hit! Talk about cheap!

Gradius 3 (SNES): This game was great. I loved it, and I actually did beat it, but never have I gotten such a headache from a game than this one. Near the last level is a part with the most horrible level design ever. You know in Mario on 7-4 how it had the dead ends? Yeah, well this game has them too, which is STUPID because you have to trial and error your way through it. Not to mention that in the same part, the game speeds up really fast and makes you navigate through small narrow passages with a bunch of enemies shooting at you. If you die, you're toast. There aren't enough upgrades to get your speed up enough to be able to navigate that fast through the passages.

Then, you get past that part, and you have to fight a boss. Great.

Grand Theft Auto 3 (XBOX): Hey I love GTA! Except the missions that meant killing people with guns... and that was a lot of them. The lock on system in that game is simply awful, and I spent a lot of time doing missions over because of it.

Rainbow Six (PC): Anyone remember that mission where you started on the roof and had to infiltrate the building without getting seen once? I stopped playing there, because it was simply impossible for me. Everything I did got me caught.

Breakdown (XBOX): I love this game. It's better than Halo IMO. But there's a part where you have to fight a massive amount of enemies, all different types, with hand to hand combat. You get ganged up on by fighters, and get your ass kicked, while getting shot by ranged enemies with lasers, and you have to kill every single one of them to progress further. It was one of the most annoying parts.

And there's a section where you get chased by a guy you can't kill yet, and you have to get to three rooms filled with enemies, kill the all, and turn a valve in each room, so that you can open a door somewhere. All the while you're doing this, this guy just KICKS YOUR ASS the whole time. Plus, the door you finally open, it's really heavy, and it takes forever to open, so you have to have perfect health to even get out of there alive. I died too many times on this part.

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (XBOX): This game was a blast to play, except one level, mainly the construction level. First off, it's a long ass level. Second, it's very hard, and third, you have to beat it not once, but TWICE. First as Max Payne, then as Mona. The level wasn't even cool, so playing through it twice was just boring. The part I hated the most was protecting Max Payne with a sniper. The enemies take a few shells to die, and Max has this set path and it sucks because if you don't kill a lot of the guys fast enough, he just walks to every next point getting shot at.

And the apartment level... The jumping on that game is horrible. Died a lot on those parts. There's one part in particular, where you're on the side of a building, and suddenly a van pulls up and out jumps 5 or 6 guys, who just unload on you. There is no cover, so you have to make your way down this thing while they shoot at you. By the time you actually get down, you have such a low chance of surviving unless you can rack up bullet time fast enough.

Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX): I've had this game for some time now, and I haven't even gotten past the 5th battle. It's too hard for me.

Oh, and Halo 2 has the worst single player campaign I've ever went through.

I'd have to say... Battletoads on NES, Super Metroid at times, Turok on N64, I Wanna Be The Guy,  Resident Evil 3, and Mortal Kombat 3.

Everyone knows that Battletoads is a BITCH to play. I never made it past the 3rd level.

And I love Super Metroid. It's a fantastic game. However, I would always get SO close to a 100% item completion, because of missile expansions that seems IMPOSSIBLE to get. There's one in Maridia where you have to super run, save it, get to a certain spot before it runs out, and super jump straight up into a one block wide hole before it runs out...

Or, getting a missile expansion by super running, morphing into a ball and rolling into the wall that's only big enough for morph ball. The thing is, I have no f*cking clue how to do it. I've tried everything.

Turok on N64 is a great game, but the jumping parts in the game are so frustrating at times, especially when you're trying to speed run it. Oh, and don't forget finding all the gun pieces so you can kill the Campaigner at the end with little effort. If not, you better hope you have all the guns and every bit of ammo, and good accuracy to hit him.

I Wanna Be The Guy is supposed to be annoying. It's a very hard game. I hated when I killed Mike Tyson, only to die after because you have to fall out of space, go two screens left, dodge a flying killer cherry, and land in a pool of water before you burst into flames from falling from the atmosphere and die. Oh, not to mention that the Dracula boss is totally random. IWBTG + random = NOT GOOD.

Resident Evil 3 pissed me off so much. I used to speed run this game, but I'd often miss out on a good time because the game has randomly generated items. Counting on an herb to be at some spot, only to finally get there and see it isn't there? Yeah...

Mortal Kombat 3 was so unforgiving. Not only was it new because of it's combo system and speed, but you could play the 1 player mode on normal, and you'd have your ass handed to you at the second guy if you didn't master running and blocking. I played Killer Instinct instead of that.

There's a lot of games that annoyed me a lot. I might post more.