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So who moderates this forum??


EDITed because I originally said "Who modifies this forum......"

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Mine's more cartoony, and has K-9.

Ah, yes, but one that I like.

And one I heard originally on a Dr. Who episode... One during the time of the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker! He was the best! Next to Jon Pertwee, none of the other Doctors have even been worthwhile!

I HAVE A NEW IDEA FOR THIS COMPETITION, should we choose to go with it...

The giver of the problem should also present some kind of picture of the room. I think I saw this once in the other comp they were talking about with SSH... I think it was DragonRose who had posted a pic of a room and gave the problem from there. Maybe we could get pictures off the internet of people who seem to be in a bit of dire straits, and then ask how they could get out of the problem... Per Exemplis:

http://stellargraffiti.com/My%20Pictures/Gv%20Scolding.jpg

This bitch won't shut up. She has her sights trained on the little boy, and the little girl is not planning a getaway anytime soon. Using only objects presented in the picture, how can the boy lead the unassuming little girl to freedom from the evil mother?

(sorry for the link, but the pic is very large)

Every murdered person goes to... what now???

Anyway, here's one that only has one answer. It isn't what the originator had in mind, but it's the kind that everyone else has been telling, and I like it alot! Try to guess where I got it (HINT: look at my avatar!!!)

A man stands in a room, from which there is no entrance or exit but two guarded doors. Each door is identical, and is guarded by an identical black-clad knight.

A voice rumbles through the room:

"Brave traveller, this is but the first step of your journey. To pass, you must successfully choose the door which leads to freedom. If you choose incorrectly, the path you will find yourself on will lead to eternal destruction. Once you have chosen, there is no going back.

"One of the guards is a liar. The other one can do naught but tell the truth. You will be allowed only one question, to only one of them." The voice then fades.

So then, we have our intrepid adventurer having to make a choice between life and death, and can ask only one question to one of the guards, one of which only ever tells the truth, one of which only ever lies. He does not know which one is which, and which one tells the truth and which one lies is NOT linked to the door they are guarding. Therefore, it doesn't matter which of the two he asks the question to.

What question should he ask?

kuh-THOO-loo. Some say kuh-THOOL or, as they pronounced it in the first Max Payne, chuh-TOO-lah.

www.callofcthulhu.com

Cthulhu is one of the Great Old Ones, demon gods that came here from distant stars before man walked the earth. Among his numbers are Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, Father Dagon and Mother Hydra, Shub-Nigguroth, Yog-Sothoth, and a host of others.

The particular enemies you fight in Call of Cthulhu, Dark Corners of the Earth, are the Deep Ones, a cult of the followers of Dagon and Hydra. Cthulhu is only present in the game as stone idols, which, if you stay around them too long, make your character go insane and kill himself.

People have been saying that video games don't have the same effect on you as books or movies... CoC:DCotE is based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, and the first half of the game is almost like playing through "Shadow Over Innsmouth," one of his most popular stories (although not one I cared for particularly, the game made me want to read it again).

That's the RON archive... Can you use those outside RON games?

Anyway, someone ought to hook him up with the link to Eric's tutes.... I can't find it right now, but I'm not really looking too hard. It's mentioned every eight seconds. If you get a hold of the walking tute you can draw over Generic Gray Man and do what you like to it.

I agree. There are some things on Family Guy that are funny, and very much so... Stewie is great, and Brian... Plus, I'm originally from Newport, RI, so I get some of the in-jokes (a quoahog is like a really big clam, which I think only exist in New England, and everyone in Newport being rich and snobby)... But most of the show is pointed at trying to break a barrier that doesn't really need to be broken. Let's make fun of things which no one has ever made fun of before seems to be their motto, but this results in crass and pointless humor which is only funny to people who wank more than three times a day.

I was thinking about this, and I feel that there are some really good games out there that elicit responses from me like no books or movie can. A video game actually gets you involved in the storyline, so if you are playing a game you like, as a character you like, with NPC's that you like, you eventually will get a kind of "connection" with it.

I mentioned already Lunar: The Silver Star and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue. Legend of Dragoon had some similar aspects. There's one point where you meet a little robot that gives its life for you... That made me cry heartily.

Also, I played Doom 3, all the Silent Hills, Sanatorium, etc... with no problem. But I just got done playing Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I wet myself about 38 times, and there were 17 specific instances in which I felt I was close. At one point in time, when I was in my hotel room and had to escape by running through adjoining rooms, then out across the rooftops, all the while experiencing vertigo... When I thought I was home free and bullets started tearing through the walls, I actually screamed... in terror!

I think Zor's right... Sprite Comics aren't terribly great, and are just using other people's skills for your own gain, which boils down to "It's A Legal Form Of Plagiarism."

Can you scan pics? I mean, I know we've made our fair share of fun at Sonic the TardHog in the past, but simply put, I can't really draw with a mouse, either. It's almost impossible to get lines to go exactly where you want them. If you could either draw with whatever medium you're good at in the real world and then scan it into the digital one, that's one problem solved. You might also be able to get somebody to buy you a tablet for Christmas. There are some cheap ones for about 20 dollars on EBay, and once you've gotten good with that, you can say "Hey, parent/s or legal guardian/s, examine my mad l33t tablet skills!" and you can get upgraded to the better, more expensive kind.

I love my tablet. It is a 6x8 Manhattan tablet with 1024 levels of pressure, and I got it for less than 50 bucks on EBay.

And a last point, too.. I can draw fun little quick pics in a couple minutes. Have you seen my naked running guy at the end of the John Lennon thread? Two minutes, flat. However, if you look at the webcomic I mentioned, you'll see much better comics that are carefully pencilled, inked, and painted. It takes on average an hour and a half to do one of those, and even that is quick compared to, say, what InCreator or Loominous might spend on one of their pieces. Take a look at Squinky's orcs and see all the detail involved, and try to guess how long he spends on those...

The advice is this: if you really love doing something, and you think it might be worthwhile, and possibly even lucrative, spend your time on it, working it carefully and making it look as nice as you can. Who knows, if you can pull off something that people like, and start building a portfolio now, by the time you are old enough to get a job you
might just be able to get a REALLY GOOD one!

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/comics/comics.html

EDIT: After reading Niks post a second time, I think I know how to fix the Sesame Street comic. Spend two frames showing Elmo and Oscar being all sweet and cheery, have the cut on the third frame, and on the last frame, have them break it down. Specifically, something like Oscar saying "Finally!!! Can I get a smoke over here!" and Elmo dissin' the kiddies. This technique builds up the humor for the last frame. Like I said about the Pokemon comic (which, sorry, I now understand that I STILL didn't understand it properly) you need to understand what's going on. Sesame Street characters might be popular, but we have no way of knowing that in your comic world, they weren't acting the same way ON set as they were OFF.

I think that the Poke'my'butt one would have been a hundred times funnier with the addition of one line in the last frame. Take out the "What should WEEDL do" and make it say "DAMMIT! I JUST NEED A POTION!" or something. I didn't understand it at all until Mr. McLossal (that was pretty original of me, wasn't it?) explained it. I like it a whole lot better now. That last addition that I mentioned would make it funnier, not because of the line, but because people who don't even understand Pokemon would be able to catch a free giggle off of it.

I hope you haven't actually paid for a website yet. Make it easy on yourself: Go to www.smackjeeves.com and sign up for a free webcomic page. I use it myself. You can take a look using the link in my siggy and see if it's for you before you A) go dishing out an inordinate amount of cash for something that might fail or B) get crappy free hosting that won't do what you want it to.

Nikeeeeeeeee! How's the kids?

The majority of Christians that I know that believe in a "conversion" experience involving one specific moment in time in which one becomes "born again" or "saved" are of conservative Protestant denominations, primarily Baptists and Pentecostals, etc... These two groups also believe in following both Old and New Testament, not as being a step to salvation but because it is "the right thing to do." The Old Testament says that people can and should be put to death by the govornment, and the New Testament says to be submissive to the government (although it really is talking about being subversive)... Thus, if he believed according to one of the popular Fundamentalist denominations, which it seems he might have, he would believe the government had the right to put him to death.

And seriously... Kicking people in the nuts would be so successful. Williams would have wound up being chair-ridden for 25 years, and upon being able to get up, he'd'a been all, "I be damned if I ever start a gang and kill people again after that, muhfuggah!"

Oh, man, I missed a good one. At least most of it.

I have a good idea.... How about from now on, we just kick people in the nuts as hard as we can. The degree of the crime equals how hard the kick is. And for women criminals, we kick a man that is closely related to them in the nuts, and that man would probably beat the hell out of the woman. Either way, I bet there would be a hell of a lot less crimes.

About the crackerjack at hand... He should have been kicked four times in the nuts at maximum strength. If this was not enough to make him cough up blood for a month, one or two more would have been acceptable for good measure.

Now, in some degree of seriousness, let me just say, once again using my "regardless of what you believe" argument... It doesn't matter what you believe about redemption, it matters what "Tookie" believed (Tookie? This guy was the boss of the crips?). If he supposedly began believing in the Bible and God and redemption and salvation, he would also have understood the fact that he got what was coming to him. I'm not saying, and I'm not going to say, whether or not he was right or wrong in this belief... But it WAS his belief... So if he had a problem dying, he had a problem with what he believed. He obviously didn't believe it very well.

And here's one for you guys... Do YOU believe the govornment was wrong to kill him? Well, he was wrong to kill the people. If you're going to forgive "Tookie," forgive the govornment, too...

Or, you could go kick Arnold in the nuts, once, really hard, for letting Mr. Tookmeister die. An eye for an eye, a nut for a life...

...But I doubt Arnie would feel it.

That was Tucker in 5th Element? I thought it was Rock... hmmmm....

The only place I can really tell the difference is in Rush Hour... I know that's Chris Tucker. Otherwise, they all do look exactly alike. Even Richard Pryor looks purdy durn close.

Wait a second... You have movies in your country with titles like "Don't Yell To Me Because I Can't See You?" That's crazy. Superman is Superman but "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" is "Don't Yell To Me Because I Can't See You?" I think Superman needs fair and equal treatment...

I, like I said, am not very good at Photoshop. I, actually, are t3h Photoshop suxx0rzz. However, I have an idea for how it might work.

Open a new layer (I don't even really know how to successfully work with layers, so bear with me here). On that layer, draw "rays" going from the corners of the posts to the corresponding corners of the strips of light laying on the floor. Fill these with a pale yellow color. Now, it should look like you have three-dimensional boxes at funny angles poking out of the bannister and leaning on the floor.

Next, alpha that out so it's almost invisible. Add some noise to the light beam layer to look like dust in the beams, and then add a very slight blur effect. Voila! I think that should do it.

I'd do a paintover, but I'm on my computer at work, where I have neither Photoshop nor my trusty tablet.

EDIT: Not sure how this would be done on PSP 5, but I'm sure it would be somewhat similar.

You're insane.

For some reason, I picture onion domes in the back with big holes blown out of them.

I'm sorry, do you mean:

1. To treat in a condescending manner.
2. To go to as a customer, especially on a regular basis.
3. To act as a patron to; support or sponsor.
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Because I'm not trying to be condescending, I sure as hell don't want to buy anything off him (especially not repeatedly), and I'm not sure what's wrong with showing a member of the community who hasn't had the best run of luck around here that he's welcome.

You might call it "atoning for past sins."

I like the Simpsons, but have been out of the loop for many years. I actually just wated to post here just to congratulate Flukeblake on another attempt to be part of the community. He's got us talking intelligently about a subject (even if said subject doesn't really require much intelligence to talk about). He hasn't given us a retardhog that he whipped up in a self-admitted two minutes and asked if we like it. He hasn't said "I," or "me," but has asked us opinion and attempted to stir conversation about a topic he knows more people than just him are interested in.

Good on 'ya, mate.

Speaking of the globe, I think the light on the globe would be like that on a 3/4 full moon. The way you have it (1/4) looks like the TV is several feet back from where it is, behind the globe.