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Is this kind of thread what happens to game makers/amateurs when they grow up ?

Sorry if this sounds bitter, but that 's how I read it... I just can't accept this kind of argument anywhere outside out of a company's intranet. Or memos.

I think The Ivy's edit looks a lot more Indian than most of what I've seen so far.

The cheeks are still low, though, maybe less shading under the outer corners of the eye and towards the temple? What does she look like with arched eyebrows?

More than the eyes I notice the eyebrows on faces, they are more characteristic and they tone the eye expression and the cheekbones. Maybe you could do something with her eyebrows so she looks more "Indian"?

Since I can't draw a hat that's better than yours, I'll give an example which should give you some hints about the hat parts that could look better.

I'd do the same things with another engine at another forum.
If no engines existed, I'd post in my other favourite pages and go back to doing computer-unrelated work, which I'do anyway.

I think when it is a parody or the creator uses different names they can claim the story "is based" on the original and they have less problems, but I'm not sure about it.

Nobody can really prove their idea is totally original, unless there was a time journey involved somewhere...

Solved. Don't ask me how   

Thank you all for your help

OK, run two full AV scans, Spybot, CCleaner, Lavasoft and a couple of other application, emptied cookies and temp files but I'm still having the problem.

To get rid of junk like this, google for Ad-Aware, that'd probably zap it.

I do run Lavasoft at the moment. Funny thing is I run a full scan a couple of hours ago.

I don't know why it affected my AGS page, that's why I tried to read some other forums before I posted.

Hi

This happens only with the AGS forums when I try to open a board and only in IE. I've tried a couple of other forums and now  I'm using Netscape to post this.
When I tried to skip it said IE can't open the page anyway.

And that the Greek entry was just a collage of stolen songs and the singer was an old lady that should sit home and stop pretending to be 20!

Wait a minute! You don't mean she's so old she could have taken part in the 70s, do you??Ã,  Ã, :o

from a huge variety of original greek, hebrew and aramaic hand-written texts and has been revised regulalrly since then when ancient manuscripts have been newly discovered,

Yet we've managed to squeeze them into 4 books... I could accept that no *original* texts or manuscripts were altered, but knowing how councils work, this sounds a bit overoptimistic. 
Translations and handwritten copies are never accurate, anyway.

You know the joke about the Pope who went to heavens, read the original original of the Bibles and almost fainted...

Not heard the songs, I only watch the voting, to laugh with english accents that are worse than mine.

Congratulations.
Have fun with preparing it next year (evil grin) Ã, 

We'll get the award for the oldest candidate, I think.

Has anyone read  Mark Frost's The list of 7or any of Mika Waltari's ones?

Page turners, exaggerated but made-to-be-believable research, bitter truths about life, power and  religion as a monitoring tool, compact characters...
I hope nobody will make a blockbuster film of them.

Of course those in the true bloodline keep the initials J and C...

Dangerous secrets are not to be revealed SSH...
Tsk tsk
You are the only responsible for what may happen to you...

I don't quite understand how it has managed to become such a well known work and a bestseller.

The writer was clever enough to name some organisations . They reacted, it made the first pages and the rest is history.
Publicity, publicity, publicity...

I'd never notice it was a book about christianity if I hadn't seen the newspapers... When I first read it I thought it was about a mysterious murder, intrigue and politics, some medieval scrolls with unreadable codes and a professor who would do anything to avoid marking the final exams' papers...

Silly me...

I've read many adventure/action/crime etc books. This was not one of the well written ones. I'm talking about the intrigue, the escapes and the codes' story, not the religious parts of it. I've read better.
As for the film, I usually don't watch anything based on the book, because they tend to leave out all the bits I like. If you 've read the Name of the Rose and then watched the film with Connery, you know what I mean.
About the religious bits: they are not novelty. There are many books and films out there a bout symbols, christianity, Magdalene etc. The BELL books series and their likes have tons of similar material.

And what's up with all the hype over it? Why do people like it so much?

Most people I know have only read it because there is noise around it. They don't like it, but it's like reading Coelho, it makes you look cool.

All I know is that the guy is reeeaaally good at marketing.

[UPDATE:]

UPDATE:
Total make-over of the game, which is "down for maintainance"

(nice way to say it's dead   untill I find some good free stock photos for backgrounds)

China's firewalls are quite simple to avoid with proxies

Don't take "geekiness" as a given. I want the internet to inform people in political and social matters. Not many know how to use a computer properly, they only know the basics. A proxy? What is a proxy? Not many people look further than the "error:not found page". Provided that they know about the firewalls in the first place.

That aside, I still think what keeps people alert in politics etc is not the internet, but their own wish to be informed and active citizens, Remove that and you'll have passive sheep, internet or no internet.