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If you ask me, it looks great the way it is now. Nothing more to crit.

Yeah, it's hard to find good free sound effects or ones that suit your needs(that's why they are just second choice for me). But what do you expect for no money? If you want quality stuff in your game you either have to pay or be inventive.

I'll bombard them a bit

That sounds like a good way to make them block you. If they didn't already.  (jk)

I wouldn't risk taking copyrighted material. If you don't want to spend money there are lots of free sound effects on the net which you can use with no restrictions. Personally I prefer to record them myself and use the free ones for sounds I cannot produce myself.

I already sent Valve an Email about the matter, but for some strange reason I've got no reply (perhaps the combine caught my messages and destroyed them!).

I once sent John Williams an email asking if he would compose some music for my first game. For some strange reason he hasn't replied yet.

I liked the previous one better(except for the biceps of course). It had a more solid stance. I would advise going back to that one and just fixing the arm.

Jon is right about the left biceps. You should make it shorter because now it looks like the biceps ends at the wrist(I know I made the same mistake in my edit but I just noticed it now). The width of the arms looks ok to me though.

Even though the author is a known fascist.

No, he was not.

never read it either. only got it after reading the spoiler on wikipedia.

I don't get it

write "answer to life the universe and everything" without the quotation marks

and if you still don't get it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything

Deep thought gives you 1 answer after 7,5 million years.
Google gives you 141000 answers after 0,09 seconds.

But here is a funny thought.   Jesus returns to earth and makes the announcement, "I've lined up a couple of miracles to prove I'm Jesus.  Afterward I shall give you a message from God."

Jesus gets on stage and performs his miracle.   "Excuse me," someone from offstage calls out.  "My name is James Randi.  I'm prepared to give you a million dollars and all you have to do...."

What's a million dollars for the Son of Man? He gets far more from his followers... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEFNBqarSMQ

I prefer minesweeper.

Your lowres guy looks like the hires guy before he started lifting weights.

Here's my version

Of course you can't be 100% sure about anything and a real scientist will never claim that. Science is all about probability. Even stuff like the theory of evolution or newtonian physics isn't said to be 100% true. But after all of the tests that have been done you get a pretty high probability that these theories describe actual reality - something around 99,9999(and a lot more nines here)%. That's how science works. You do a bunch of tests, look at the results and then come up with a percentage. You don't just pull it out of your ass, you look at the evidence. Like MrColossal said, paranormal things in general have been tested since about the 18th century and a ridiculously low number of those tests actually supports the existence of these things. If you wanna put it in numbers, it's less than 0,00001% FOR paranormal activities.

There's more than one way to bisect a lady.

That sounds like the title of Hannibal Lecters biography.

Anywho, try things out for yourself. Don't let people think for you.

I couldn't agree more. If he wants to try it himself, that's completely fine. I just pointed out that if psychic powers were real scientists would discover that years ago so his time would be better spent elsewhere. But yeah, Arthur, don't take my word for it! Do your own research, but do it PROPERLY.

So far I like KhrisMUCs edit best. That's how I would imagine the light to enter the room. The angle of light shouldn't be too wide, just like in his picture.

Hmm.... paid audience and editing?

Wow, that was pretty sweet. They should make that into an actual movie. I guess I'd rather watch that than play the game.

Ok, this is my attempt at it. Generally I think that the shadows are a bit wide in your picture but since you said they are as you want them to be I didn't mess too much with them. Just corrected the angles as I would see them.

James Randi's project alpha should be recreated for today's audiences.

I'm pretty sure if someone made something like project alpha again the hype, lack of scepticism and shock after revealing the hoax would be just as big as back then. That's because of media sensationalism and the moronism of the general public. Voices of reason would be ignored as limited human rationalism that is not able to grasp "what's out there".  : Not much has changed during 25 years, but that's exactly the reason remaking project alpha is an excelent idea.

arthur, if you wanna test your friends abilities properly you should read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

you should also look for these names on google and youtube: james randi, michael shermer, penn and teller.

And like I said, first find out whether psychic powers exist at all before trying to move an object with your mind. otherwise you'll just be wasting valuable time staring at stuff. your friend might not be consciously lying to you but he might be deluding himself. You shouldn't jump to conclusions after seeing a random spark. If it turns out that psychic powers do not exist you'll have to deal with it as dissapointing as it might be to you. And honestly, if psychic powers were real we would stop calling them "paranormal" a long time ago. And don't get me started on conspiracy theories and "THEY don't want you to find out!". Don't hold on to a belief just because it's comforting. You might just aswell keep believing in santa claus. Besides there's enough awesome stuff in the universe which makes you go "wow!" and which is REAL. You don't have to make up silly stuff to make nature fascinating.