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I usually like to check out stories and junk on the inter-computer-web for about 2 hours before I really start any work in the morning. So this morning I can across this little gem. http://www.archaeology.org/online/featu ... mbies.html
I hope history does not repeat it's self.
Really interesting article. In such case we must be always prepared for a zombie rush from the seas. Yarrr.
Sadly, I'm going back to school on Monday, as Sophomore year of high school awaits. I'll probably have less time for fun stuff, and I'll post a lot less. Don't be too happy for me Dan.
Wish me luck, adios!
-Kevin
metaldrummer9591 wrote:Sadly, I'm going back to school on Monday, as Sophomore year of high school awaits. I'll probably have less time for fun stuff, and I'll post a lot less. Don't be too happy for me Dan.
Wish me luck, adios!
-Kevin
Welcome to the work world, Ammojack.
IN YO FACEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!one11!!!one1!!
College.
Dread and I are dorm-mates. This is gonna be crazy.
where are you two going to attend?
Community college here in fergus falls, gonna get my Associates of Arts... And it's kind of debatable from there. Originally i was going to transfer and get a bachelor's of arts for game design but with the way things are looking, I think what I may start doing is a job to pay off the loans, start raising concepts for a design document, and to start attending game developer conferences to get my foot in the door.
Minnesota State Community and Technical College.
It's possible that you might of heard the commercial for it if you live around her. Has the most annoying damn jingle I have heard within recent memory.
A thought actually came up when I was thinking that. Recently Carnage and I was talking about metal smithing/leather working (him more geared towards metal, with myself looking at leather working.) and I wonder if the school would frown upon finding a little armor smithy trying to make rough platemail, chainmail, and harden leather.
Then they might question the swords we may try to smuggle in...
Perhaps if we set up an Armoring club?
Yeah, that sounds pretty tough. I've only got homework and tests to worry about. Good luck Carnage and dread.
By the way, my friend wanted me to tell you that Captain Carnage is an awesome video game character. I personally don't know the game myself, but he insisted I told you his opinion.
I have no idea what your friend is talking about. I came up with this name christmas morning when I installed my brand new Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition. That was like...5th grade or something. I had previously just gone by the handle "Carnage" but in Unreal Tournament whenever you played on a team, the people kept calling you Captain. Hence I was like hey, I'll have my name as Captain Carnage because it sounds like they're directly talking to me.
And everyone insists Bitterman is from Quake 3. Which he is. But they act like it was his first appearance.
You change your name story all the time it seems. Last I heard you got carnage from the UT game and added captain because of the Starcraft SCVs calling you captain.
And What is his first appearance?
Why Quake 2, naturally. Despite the Quake games completely not following any kind of canon or story, and Quake 4 being a direct sequel to Quake 2 that never mentions anything about him outside of "a lone marine." During the opening video, you can hear the radio operator screaming "Bitterman! Bitterman! Shit, we've lost him!" or something to that effect. Also if you turn to inspect your own crashed pod at the opening of the game, it clearly has Bitterman written on the nose in some kind of script font.
Admiral_Dread wrote:Last I heard you got carnage from the UT game and added captain because of the Starcraft SCVs calling you captain.
You know... I've been out of High School for 14 years and come this time every year I still get a sort of queasy excited back to school feeling. Although for me nothing happens... I just keep going to work. Sometimes I do sneak out and buy up some back to school supplies though. I've always been a bit obsessed with notebooks, wire bound, college ruled, five subject, pocket sized, what have you... and some of those Bic mechanical pencils... and the undeniable nerd in me sometimes has to get a tablet of graph paper, for which i have no pratical use... but it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
First day of school went pretty well.
Luckily, all my teachers rule. I think I'm in for a good semester. Last year on my first day of school, somebody lit the boys bathroom on fire intentionally. So this was a better first day. Stupid arson.
Admiral_Dread wrote:You change your name story all the time it seems. Last I heard you got carnage from the UT game and added captain because of the Starcraft SCVs calling you captain.
Set the bathroom... On fire...
I have to ask, Did they do something lame like setting the paper on fire with matches, or was there flammable liquids involved?
And Skeller, Bic mechanical pencils? For shame, Pentel mechanical pencils is where it is at. Rather, the point three millimeters pro/am type is what I favor. If you could find the bleeding things in stores. Always with the .5 and .7, hell I saw a .9 earlier today but not .3 mm.
[Regarding Carnage, Damn straight I was right.]
We never got the whole story, but they lit the papers in the trash can and set some toilet paper and such on fire. No liquids to my knowledge, just idiot kids.
metaldrummer9591 wrote:We never got the whole story, but they lit the papers in the trash can and set some toilet paper and such on fire. No liquids to my knowledge, just idiot kids.
An uncanny resemblance
Cyborks, Combine? Coincidence? I think NOT!
Yeah... that's my HAL 9000 ork.
"What are you doing, Dave?"
Confused? Read more here.
It seems while Carnage has been escalating the forces of the Imperium of Man... the xenos scum have been preparing a bit of heavy armor for themselves. The paint job isn't final but I was starting to rush so I had to stop and relax for a bit. It's all custom. Built from just about everything I could get my hands on. Took about 28 hours I think give or take (Alot of which was trying to figure out what I was gonna do next. I also dropped it once and reduced it to its component parts.) Yes, that is a space marine dreadnought in the first pic.
Mighty Gorgamesh Da Stompa will see it's first battle tonight, and the galaxy will tremble!
WAAAGGGGHHHH!
That is really impressive, I like the use of the pill bottle.
Can you tell us all the materials you used?
That is awesome. And completely insane. I heard something about new tanks coming out with the new edition of warhammer. Something like Krieg is getting their own baneblade with two vanquisher cannons.
Nice job skeller.
Thanks for the compliments.
Hmm... list of materials...
I started with a plastic flower pot and then added a round electrical gang box, lots of CPVC and PVC pipe, five or six different types of plasticard and varying sizes of plastic tubing. You can see my stash of tubing in the background in the first pic. I used the pill bottle you mentioned and a few peices of that pink foam insulation, some masonite and some phone wiring I found in the dirt. I scavenged the main engine part and a bit of robot arm from an action figure. I got the gears from a lighting timer and a toy truck. The Deff Kannon, part of the Giga Shoota and part of the Lifta Droppa all came from the same old ornamental garden pond fountain spout thingy. The rest is bits from 40K miniatures and cut up sprues.
All told it cost me about 13$, which was mainly spent on plasticard most of which I didn't use and thrift store toys... most of which I didn't use.
It was alot of fun to build. I think I might make another one... or finish my Ork Kastle. I'm thinking about up rooting my Kastle and adding a gigantic track assembly for a mobile battle fortress!
Maybe I'll take a picture of the Kastle tomorrow.
Damn that is some cool shit Skeller. You guys need to stop doing this stuff, my wife is gonna kill me if I start buying mini's again.
Must... control urge... to buy... Warhammer 40K...
Edipo wrote:Must... control urge... to buy... Warhammer 40K...
You aren't the only one w/ geek tendencies.
Made this for a buddy that moved. We used to play alot of Battlefield '42 until we got banned from almost every server.
Team killing is an art.
Well the fucker's should've known better before taking off with the plane.
Nice nazi's dude. Good and sneaky. Good to see more local nerdiness is afoot.
In other news, Mad Dok Morkensteins Kastle!
I still have to finish the walls (wood and plates) and add all the electro lightning harnessing junk on top of the tower. It'll need some big shootas and alot of Mad Dok paraphernalia, like buckets of arms and lots of giant syringes and such. I was going to remove all the pink foam and put it on some giant tank tracks...but I have since been convinced otherwise.
looking sharp Skeller my man
Man that thing is friggin' awesome.
Here's a brief poll asking you people what Nurk could really use. Some of these things are serious changes that need to be installed, some are goofy.
I think it'd be interesting to see what some issues of people are though.
Ban people that post random stupid things involving drugs, insults, and German radio stations!
and wats this about bitterness not being good, arguments r funny
Hidden Plan? Hmmm....
*cough* yes *cough*
Drugs give me creativity!
The isults are fun or not without reason!
And whatz wrong if i make some adv. for a radio station where i am a moderator! I wanted to show you some of my shit and you think i want to poison you or what?
Don't fuck around and stay realistic!
Man, I know you're trying to poison us.
Dude, i try to share my interrests with you!
Hmm... is it ok to say DUDE to somebody whos female? I mean... i don't know such things!
Which include "How to make cheap cocaine in four easy steps". You need a new lark, this is getting really old.
How to make cocaine in four easy steps?
I can't even figure out how to make a lousy paper football.
Not just cheap cocain! The amoniac is strongly adictive! The become adictet from he amonaic in it and THEY WILL ALWAYS COME BACK! i just give you ultimate tips man! see it positive!
we need a poll to ban people nowadays?
*cough*
Well do you see Bitterman anywhere? LOL
You said Bitterness wasn't cool.
I am shunned.
Where's the "We need less preaching about Christianity" option?
So how do you people like your eggs? Over medium? Hard boiled? Poached? Fried? Scrambled?
I like the eggs (the "white part") foamed to... foam... and baked! I dunno how itz called in english!
I still say Nurk needs less preaching about Christianity, and less avoidance of the subject of less preaching about Christianity.
THANKSKEVIN! My favorite holiday of them all.
Thank-Kevin-Day. God that is hilarious. What sort of wacky antics will you have at christmas time? You need to get yourself a pinetree and christmas lights.
Captain Carnage wrote:Thank-Kevin-Day. .
Captain Carnage wrote:Thank-Kevin-Day. God that is hilarious. What sort of wacky antics will you have at christmas time? You need to get yourself a pinetree and christmas lights.
I think you need this to augment your tree cutting!
I'm pretty sure this pair of chainsawissors is made in Japan! I found it while searching for Japanese chainsaws.
Either way you need it, or a massive fighting robot, piloted by a Japanese space princess, to blast the tree down with its anti-matter railgun.
Skeller wrote:I think you need this to augment your tree cutting!
I'm pretty sure this pair of chainsawissors is made in Japan! I found it while searching for Japanese chainsaws.
Either way you need it, or a massive fighting robot, piloted by a Japanese space princess, to blast the tree down with its anti-matter railgun.
I am deeply saddened that it is not on Sear's web site.
Black and Decker, why do you hate America?
They don't hate us. They just know us. They know we are Americans, so they don't even bother trying to sell us that little plastic thingy.
They already know. We're Americans.
Skeller wrote:They don't hate us. They just know us. They know we are Americans, so they don't even bother trying to sell us that little plastic thingy.
They already know. We're Americans.
Skeller wrote:I think you need this to augment your tree cutting!
I'm pretty sure this pair of chainsawissors is made in Japan! I found it while searching for Japanese chainsaws.
Either way you need it, or a massive fighting robot, piloted by a Japanese space princess, to blast the tree down with its anti-matter railgun.
Yes, read it here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7123582.stm
*smashes up the entire website with a hammer*
Activision is a publisher.
Blizzard is a developer.
Put them together? Congradulations kids, we have a corporation.
I have a contact with the vice president of sales and creative services for Activision, I'll call him up and ask him what's going on.
*smashes up Carnage's phone with the same hammer*
I've been getting a lot of my gaming (Well PC related anyways) news from a place called Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
A comment from their spin on this story seems to put some perspective on this.
Thomas wrote:As already said it is Activision and Vivendi Games that are merging, Blizzard being a subsidiary of Vivendi Games are obviously in this merge as well.
As for “Activision Blizzard”, i guess the easy answer here is that we have 2 companies with a VERY good track record of games, Vivendi’s track record isn’t THAT good unfortunately.
Slap a new brand on their Games sections using a legendary developer and publisher and you can use that to sell your mediocre titles.
You've never heard of Vivendi before?!!? The French Sewage Peddling Conglomerate!!
Anyhow... I don't get it. What's the big deal. Why should I care? Does this just mean that now they can use some of their Megazillions of Blizzard money to develope console games through their Activision branch.
Exactly. No one has heard of Vivendi because they haven't been marketing themselves correctly.
They bought Sierra entertainment, which back in the day published a little game known as Half Life. Don't know if you heard of it. It wasn't very good. There was also Psychonaughts more recently, which was good, but nobody played it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_as ... by_Vivendi
Anyway I'm just sick of reading this. It was all over all the sites yesterday. I wanted other news to read, but this was inescapable.
Vivendi is also part of the same company conglomarate that owns Vivendi Universal the publishers of Interplays old games. Correct me if I'm wrong but Activision and Blizz were already owned by Vivendi so this is more of an internal money swap that makes a new company? Meh. More mega mergers to increase stock prices, while nothing new really happens so the consumer just gets more of the same old shit in a new wrapper.
Skeller wrote:Anyhow... I don't get it. What's the big deal. Why should I care? Does this just mean that now they can use some of their Megazillions of Blizzard money to develope console games through their Activision branch.
You should be happy. These days Blizzard makes one game really well. But they have so much extra revenue, 500 and some million dollars that they can now use to develop new titles. Since the Executives from Activision are taking over the reigns the wealth and power along with the good name of Blizzard ( well known to the billions of people in Asia through WoW) they will begin producing tons of new console games and someplace in there they will need level designers.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=16458
you guys are crazy paranoid...
It's been semi broken down, but I'll do it again (more simply)
Vivendi Universal Games (VUG) is a big publisher...they are worldwide and do a bunch of games
VUG owns Sierra. (Kings Quest, Space Quest, HL1, HL2, etc...been around since the 80's) They also own Blizzard, who was once many years ago an independent developer
Activision is another large publisher, they mostly make rehashes of old games, licensed games, and sequels. (then again how many games have Blizzard made in their entire history that weren't either a sequel, expansion, or offshoot of an existing IP? Oh that's right, none.)
Activision merged with VUG, and for whatever reason decided to rename themselves Activision Blizzard, while keeping Sierra Games a separate division of the company, continuing to focus on the publishing of games from independent developers.
The most obvious benefit that can been seen from this is that Vivendi is associated with (possibly owns...I forget) Universal Music. Activision owns/makes Guitar Hero. Hmm...massive library of music to access? check.
Other benefits include a company that is now worth 18.7 BILLION dollars that has a history of actually giving a shit about independent developers making new titles. The bigger the wallet the publisher has, the way huger the budget every game can get.
Vivendi (was, now is Sierra Games...same difference) our publisher, and they have treated us like gold. Actually, gold doesn't get treated as good as we do. I don't know about any other developers they are working with, but I can personally say they have been extremely kind to us (and definitely not cheap with us.)
So don't get your knickers in a twist. Every thing's fine.
(sorry I got to this late (apparently) been at work late kicking asses and taking names)
You know what else?
Activision made BMX XXX. A game so fucking terrible, Dave Mira didn't even want his name in the same building with it, and pretty much put an end to the Dave Mira Freestyle BMX series.
Check. Mate.
It's only crazy paranioia if they aren't out to sell me shoddy shrink wrapped covered games. *tries to find enough tin-foil in his house to cover his pc from the Activision Blizzard transmissions!*
http://www.penny-arcade.com
Captain Carnage wrote:Activision is a publisher.
Blizzard is a developer.
Put them together?
Edipo wrote:*whistles* Out of a job *whistles*
Edipo wrote:*whistles* Out of a job *whistles*
Yep and that's why Corporations can kiss my ass. "Our purpose is making money otherwise it wouldn't be a business". That mentality to me has always been really retarded as fuck, yes I know it is a business but all parties should be benefited, the whole purpose is not to make your pocket fat you son of a bitch.
Anyway there is something left, we did make a project for the Collections Office and we spoke with some people on high command, so if it's not by this tuesday on Jan 3rd we should get an answer if we could become contractors and get something or not. Shit sucks anyway.
For the rest, enjoy.
-Vico
that shit sucks edipo,
i have alot of freinds in the same boat over here in japan that just got laid off from NOVA the international english teaching program that just imploded to the size of a marble..
anyhows for me its Christmas Day so Im going to wish you all a very merry christmass from deep over here at the epicenter of Postapocalyptic beginings... Hiroshima..
Unfortunatly I wont have access to my secret santa present until the 7th or so, if i get it by then ill let you know how it went..
to everyone else I wish you luck..
がんばて！
Sorry to hear about that, Edipo. Best wishes, man.
A big thanks to Metaldrummer for the copy of I Am Legend. I was actually wanting to get me a copy, but had spent all my money on gifts. Metaldrummer, you rock.
Woo Hoo! Merry Christmas!
Huge thanks Good Ol Boy for a big ass Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka! Which will look freeking sweet leading my new ork spearhead(thanks to the wife) into battle!
Waaagghhh!
What a great Christmas. I don't care how old I may get, getting toys for Christmas is where its at.
Glad you dig the Warboss, Skeller. Bitterman, Good Ol Boy, and me did some working together a few months back to figure something out, and we got the information out of you sneaky-like.
I got some cash, a bunch of Reeses Peanut Butter Cups (which I love so very very much). Gift card for Fleet Farm (hardware store place around here), gloves, abadass shirt with a blue dragon on it, two belts, and a 8.3 megapixil camera with a 2gb memory card.
And I got some sprockets coming in the mail sometime soon to work on my steam engine.
Merry Christmas, what did everybody else get?
Hey Skeller, I'm glad ya like ol' Ghazghkull. I'm going to have to snag one for myself one day.
I have him half assembled. I've been pinning his parts together. I'm debating whether to assemble him as is or to modify him into some kinda madness. I usually go with madness but have received such a horde of models today that I don't know if I'll ever get them all together if I convert each one individually. So I think I might just put him together the way he was meant to be and call it a day. He's freakin' huge and awesome anyway you slice it.
So am I the only one who got their PTM secret Santa present?
I think Carnages must have been somewhere in his list, but I didn't catch what it was.
I know Skydog got his, cuz I sent that shit. But I figure he's over the river and through the woods about this time of day on a Christmas so I don't expect to him to be around here today. Hopefully my present didn't escape and eat him and his family. That would suck.
Merry Christmas for what's left of it. Cheers! Don't eat to much roast beast.
Mega thank yous to Uncle Skeller for Zombies!!! - The Director's Cut game and the added glow in the dark zombie horde! I about crapped my pants at the thought of a few hundred zombies running loose in my house, but my two boys started cheering so it was all good. ;)
Funniest thing about it was, my youngest son who is ten wanted to know who Uncle Skeller was and why he didn't get him a present.
Pictures will be forthcoming once we play our first game either this evening or tomorrow.
As for goodies from the wife and kids. I got the following DVD's Die Hard 2, Omega Man (Woot), Close Encounters of the Third Kind 30th Anniversary Box Set, Battlestar Galatica Miniseries, Seasons 1, 2 and 2.5. Then for my desktop action figure set I got the Rethgar Deathgate Shaman action figure, Jean Grey from X3 and Boba Fett concept Ed. I also got 4 lbs of licorice - I love the stuff, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone Hardback and a stocking full of junk food.
Well my wife is calling me to X-mas dinner so everyone have a good one.
I got my gift from Vince and it was a good'un
I have pictures of it all back in Texas to share when I get back home, so I'll save the rundown for then. To give a quick summary though: Totally bizzare food stuffs from Japan (and a great postcard)!
The pickled (I think/hope? haha) squid and octopus went over well (much laughter and some gagging) with those I shared it with! hahaha
Edipo should have recieved his, at least the revised estimate was for the 21st of Dec, but I haven't heard from him yet. I hope he got it but I know he's got a lot going on right now.
Skydog Hex wrote:Edipo should have recieved his, at least the revised estimate was for the 21st of Dec, but I haven't heard from him yet. I hope he got it but I know he's got a lot going on right now.
Skydog Hex wrote:Funniest thing about it was, my youngest son who is ten wanted to know who Uncle Skeller was and why he didn't get him a present.
Rifter17 wrote:Was the man attracted to the restaurant because it advertised seagull in the penny saver? Word of mouth?
Did the wife die by fault of her own? Was it someone else's fault? If it was someone else's fault, was that person brought to justice?
Is there a connection between the wife and the seagull or is it merely something regarding the man? Was it her favorite animal?
Is it safe to assume that the man was suicidal because of his wife's death?
Did he live in a coastal city where seagull actually live there?
Did he consider other ways of ending his misery?
Regarding the house, I was just curious if it was lit on fire, robbed, or if he just ruined everything before he killed himself.
The login on the front page does nothing, it grunts at me if I hit return and the button just clicks, nothing else. Oh and the little cream bar that appears if you're using IE doesn't actually lead anywhere, the Choices page is just a dead link, I did think it was neat though as it looked liked a proper IE alert like those ActiveX ones you get or the pop-up blocker.
Otherwise it's A O K
I noticed the login page didn't work too. I've already informed Bitterman about it.
Hi,
I'm Skeller. You may remember me from such random stuff as Border Crossing, The Bitterman for President war, or calling Billy Crosby a Douchebag. Well folks, I'm here to tell you about something new, something special. This holiday season, your favorite website and forums, Poison the Mind, will be bringing you to a whole new level of joy. This year we will be hosting a (not so) Secret Santa Holiday Gift Exchange Extravaganza. That's right folks free presents, from the folks at PTM to the folks at PTM. So sign up now (deadline for sign up is October 10th). PM me your name and mailing address to be added to the list. Then on October 11th I'll mix up all the names in a hat and randomly pull them out and match them up. Then the magic begins. Everyone who is participating gets a name and address of a fellow PTM member and buys, makes, or steals them an awesome present they would especially enjoy. Next, they wrap it up, and then mail it off anytime in December before Christmas. People who have to mail things really far may need to send out theirs earlier. Then right around X-mas everyone who has signed up will get a sweet present from their best pals at PTM. So if your not a stingy cheap ass fuck face sign up now, and let the magic of the holidays fill your heart!
I haven't been here long enough to trust you guys nessesarily, so could I use metaldrummer as my middle man? Cause I trust him.
Well Mr-Terrence, I don't know what that means exactly.... but in the spirit of giving I say, "Fuck off!"
Well, I'm not sure I should be giving you guys my address.
It's not like I'm gonna come to your house dressed only in a speedo with a giant commando knife and slide down your chimney and then creep into your room and slowly peel off your skin and wear it like footy pajamas and then do an erotic dance for my dark masters...
Cuz I'm not... not... gonna do that.
I understand though and yes you may give out any home address or PO box number you would like. Although I figure who ever gets your present will know your address because it will be on the package as the return address which is why it's only a kinda secret santa type dealie.
Brilliant use of double negatives as an emphasis, Skeller.
Because at my current mailing address there is a shotgun within six feet of the door and lacks a chimney; I say bring it on.
A.K.A. Consider me signed up!
Oh yeah... when you sign up, you should also include your age.
So we don't have any "incidents".
I'm looking at you Vico.
Also Thanks Dread for breaking the ice and being the first to sign up. No chimney eh? Hmmm.
hey by then I'll have paychecks! I am signing up or something then. Bitches.
I haven't done anything bad lately!
On another note you can count me in too, you should have my address somewhere seeing you sent me that 8 track a while back.
This sounds like an absoulutly bad ass idea,
i can guarantee whoever i get is going to be a happy poisoned mind, im in japan for gods sake i have a whole country of hilarity at my disposal...
ahh and my age is 26
my application is still pending on whether I can get some cash in enough time. After i got up about 250 dollars for a 360, it all just vanished, but hey, i'm enjoying it.
I'll give you my final word soon.
Age is... wow... er.. give me a second. Okay so if my birth year is 1988 and this year is 2007... Ahh yes, My age is 19.
Remember kids, dimethyl-mercury is bad for you and your synapses.
Seeing I forgot my age, that would be 20 sir, 20 years filled of Metal and Headbanging!
Did you all miss the part where your supposed to be PMing me with all this info. I don't want to have the go back through 20 pages of off topic thread noodles to find everyones info and organize it all back together.
Hey man give us a chance we're all excited... or half drunk... or both.
Don't mind me... I'm just grumpy.
oh yeah...my age is 23, I'll pm ya soon skel, I've just been pretty busy out here. I was going to say you should have my address already...but yeah duh, moved and all...
Yeah... don't expect me to have anything you sent me before... I don't store things well.
Sign me up, ironically enough, I was preparing for a gift to make, a week ago. Just got some of the stuff in the mail today.
I'll send you Dan's mailing address, plus the mailing address of everyone I have in my "database"
Mull that one over for a while, you tin foil hat wearing mother fuckers.
Sup dudes, it's October, and you know what that means, halloween! At work we have an actual contest, prizes and everything, for best costume. This guy Dusty has won the last two years in a row, and it's my job to take him down. Well, that's looking unlikely, he's crazy, but I gotta at least put in a genuine effort (plus I love dressing up for halloween anyway). So I need your ideas for a bitchin costume. Word on the street is they (the whole company judges via inter-office forum poll) tend to favor costumes of existing and at least moderately well known characters. Now, these people are nerds, so game/comic/cartoon/old action movie references shouldn't be a problem.
I'd like to do something that works with my existing "look" (most notably the long hair since that's a pain to work around) if possible.
To give you an idea of my competition Dusty was a fully 3d mario bro's Piranha Plant (fully sphereical plant head and warp pipe and everything, think mario rpg style) made mostly of cardboard, papermache and paint.
Current ideas include:
-Snake Plisskin - awesome character, but might make for a less impressive costume
-Beyond The Grave (Gungrave) - kind of obscure and would be a lot of work
-Alucard (Hellsing) - eh...anime...too overdone plus lots of fabric work
So yeah...any long haired badasses you can think of?
My friend/coworker is going to be the Vault Dweller, so something fallout related would be awesome, but I cant think of anyone awesome from the game that had anything other than a buzzcut (Ian, Cassidy)
I have also considered being a custom misc post apoc badass, but that might loose votes for the contest...
Snake Plissken could be possible.
Alucard is a bit too cosplayish, and you'd never be able to pull it off in a badass manner.
Lemmy go get Good Ol Boy, he may be able to help.
Oh I'd definitely go with the Snake Plissken costume. Get an eyepatch, a pair of baseball catcher's shinguards, grey camo pants (the original ones were leather, but leather pants and Texas heat do not mix well), a black tank-top, and a battered brown biker jacket. Not sure what his boots were though.. I'd just use some old combat boots, myself.
the only other problem with being snake is that I have roughly twice as much hair. It's a nitpick, but still...
For reference, here's a couple week old picture
Snake Pliskin didn't have long hair. He had a mullet. Mullet!
So considering the hair dilema...
I vote for Ukyo Tachibana.
Link
Samurai Showdown!
Pros being you get to dye your hair blue. Cons being you have to learn to run sideways and do flips.
nice
There was a big Samurai Showdown battle at work a little bit before I got there when they were celebrating their SNK connection
I need a costume idea for school too. Everyone dresses up for Halloween at my school, so yeah. I could use some suggestions too i guess.
But Dan, I don't know if this'll help, but you could totally pull of Van Helsing, The hair is perfect.
Forget Alucard. I can totally see a Van Helsing lookalike. Bonus props if you can get a friend to dress as frankenstine's monster.
Take off the Pilsken. That's right, be Solid Snake. Or, don't shave for a while, die your hair and buy a trenchcoat, and you can be Ocelot!
Get Artem to be Frankenstein! Bullet proof I say! BULLET PROOF!
Artem (no u in the name)
I always thought it was pretty cool that Solid Snake was (heavily) based off Snake Pliskin, though I thought they went a little far with Naked snake...he pretty much just was Pliskin haha...
Dethklok.
You have the look just bring yer guitar and starts speakings like really bad english.
My first thought was Deth Klok. But then I thought it was to easy because Ammo already looks like them. No one will know he's in costume.
ha, they wish. I still say some day I'm going to finish that dethklok script I started and give the damn show an episode that's actually good all the way through. Most uneven series ever. I just cant shake the unsettling feeling of "fucking posers..." when I watch the show.
I had considered being an actual famous metal dude but I dont think too many people would get the costume (sadly).
AmmoJack wrote:ha, they wish. I still say some day I'm going to finish that dethklok script I started and give the damn show an episode that's actually good all the way through. Most uneven series ever. I just cant shake the unsettling feeling of "fucking posers..." when I watch the show.
I had considered being an actual famous metal dude but I dont think too many people would get the costume (sadly)
metaldrummer9591 wrote:AmmoJack wrote:To stay on topic, Solid Snake is a great idea, i could definitely see it happen, but do you have the headband of ultimate amazingness?
if you remember a few posts up...Solid Snake = Snake Pliskin before he left the military.
henceforth, I'd still need a mullet
I'm still wearing my eye patch as I type this.
Today at work Steve, Erin, and myself have all dressed up like pirates. Nothing is funnier than talking to a business man wearing a full on suit, and you're standing there in a bandanna, an eye patch, a mustache you painted on with a permanent marker, a flintlock on your hip, and all of your coworkers also dressed as pirates with a talking mechanical parrot on the front desk., all the while trying to explain to him which wireless router he needs. And doing it all with a straight face like nothing is wrong, nothing is out of the ordinary.
So cough it up kids, how did your Halloween go down.
Bitterman...you definately have the sideburns of a pirate. Yar.
I would have been a pirate to school, or a mobster, but the only problem i had was a 103 degree fever and horribly sore throat. Of all times to get sick!! on Halloween!!!
i%20got%20poncho%20fucked%20up%20last%20night%0d%0a%0d%0ahelp%20is%20needed%0d%0a%0d%0atasuku%20de%0d%0a%0d%0aany%20home%20remedys%20from%20the%20drinkers%20here
Why do you keep hitting % and random keys?
Not random keys. %20 is the ASCII code for a blank space. Oddly enough that fucked with my head really bad...
For some reason, all of Voltaire's recent posts have been urlencoded. And no one else's.
Anyway what he meant to say was:
Voltaire wrote:i got poncho fucked up last night help is needed tasuku de any home remedys from the drinkers here
Sorry for the late posting. I know this won't help your last hangover but may help out with the next one.
I have found that in countries other than the USA you can get some really sweet over the counter hangover meds... filled with opiates and caffine.
Such as SOLPADEINE Plus in the UK and surrounding environs.
Hangover + Codine + Caffine = Good
You just have to look around or ask, I bet Japan is all crapped up with awesome drugs.
Or just start drinking again, that's what I do.
hangovers just come from the dehydration you get from drinking alcohol. The alcohol acts as a diuretic, which is why when you drink booze you have to pee a lot more than when drinking non-alcoholic beverages. Basically all the water just passes through your system without being taken into the body for appropriate use, so even though you're drinking liquids consisting of 80% water you're not getting anything out of it.
As such, the best (and nearly perfect, as long as you don't drink too much, too much being enough to make you puke or pushing the limits around that area) way to avoid getting a hangover is to drink water after you finish drinking for the night. Try to wait until the alcohol has passed through your system a little (so that the diuretic effect is as weak as possible) and then drink several glasses of water before going to bed. You'll want to drink maybe one glass of water for every 3 or so beers (or equivalent amounts of alcohol). After a certain point though the amount of water you need to recover for the damage done by the alcohol becomes some what exponential though, and as such can eventually become impossible to avoid a hangover. That said though, you should always try your best anyway, because any amount of water put back into your system is better than none.
Oh, and coffee, soda, and tea will only make it worse, as those will only further dehydrate you. The reason that mixing with juice would seem to worsen the effect is because juices are high in sugar (natural or otherwise) and sugar will also aid in the dehydration process.
This information is from science (glorious glorious science, where would we be without you?) by the way, not just random personal experiments, however I have never known someone who has had poor results with the method.
thanks for the infos,
the reason it gets all crazy with the % is because i was using my japanese cellphone to reply to these posts because its the only internet i have available to me half the time...
anyhow we randomly have an exchange student from india staying at our dorm and hes a fuckin bad ass indian jones kinda guy whos been around the world studying tribe mentality, and he has this really cool remedy for hangovers that indian people use..
its 1 to 2 shots of any dark rum 3/4ths a cup of hot water and 4 - 5 tablespoons of black pepper and curry powder you put a plate on top of the glass and let the peppers soak in for 5 minutes then you down the whole thing in one go stopping about an inch from finishing off the whole thing so you dont get a mouth full of the worst tasting pepper residue youve ever had..
this shit will clear you up instantly and make you feel like your stomach had an attomic bomb detonate from the inside out,
great shit i highly recomend you try it at least once.
hahaha...did it actually help with the hangover, or did it just make all your other senses so confused that you couldn't notice it any more?
Yeah that sounds complicated and dangerous. I think I'll stick with morphine.
your actually supposed to take it for when your feeling your catching a cold, but ive been using the remedy for just about everything,...
hangovers, headaches, itchy nose.
I dont think it does anything but make you drunk and angry though... but at least im not hungover anymore right?
I'm having trouble uploading my junk to the PtM galleries:
(A) how the hell do i upload shit
and
(2) Am I retarded?
You're not retarded, it takes a little getting used to. I don't know if right now Bitterman might have some bugs in the system or not.
I'll admit, Submit sucks. It is the very next thing I'm working on.
1) Go to http://submit.poisonthemind.com
2) Go to Gallery Management
3) First you'll click Upload.
4) Upload your files, all of your files that you want to submit.
5) Go back to gallery management, or click the "Step 2" link at the bottom.
6) This is where you will actually tag, label, and submit your stuff.
Once that is done, you're done. Then it comes to me, I authorize it, and it'll post. Then I make you Certified, and whenever you submit something from then on it will go straight in.
The process becomes clearer once you've done it, and that is primarily what I intend to fix. The usability of the whole system. Right now it's kinda vague.
Think I was on the right track, don't see "Gallery Management" as a link though.
Top of the page i get this.....
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /home/poison/public_html/content/submit/include/head.php on line 54: Undefined variable: loadCheckers
Left side, note pad. Looks like this:
The warnings are another thing. They throw people off. They're inconsequential. If it says ERROR though, or FATAL ERROR, or WARNING WEBSITE IS ON FIRE you ought to report that.
Holy Crap that's it! Thanks Bitterman. Too bad i'm at work now and can't upload shit!
I do feel a little retarded, seems pretty simple now, thanks again.
So heres the deal, In japan if you dont love your Ramen your fucked, because thats basically all they have around here... lookily its some delicious stuff, I have a few favorites and at one of them that i visit often they offer comment cards and if your comment is good enough your card is photocopied to the back of the menu.
of course the first thing i do when i pick up a pen is draw some hideous thing, so every time i go went there i draw a crazed looking person screaming DELICIOUS RAMEN or おいし！ which means delicious..
anyhow i drew like 5 of these before i started taking pictures,... the quality is crap because it is from my cellphone but its the best i got... with more to come..
I swear im either getting in the back of this menu or im going to get arrested.. either way its a good story.
and yes i have been drawing in japan including a comic page but i just dont have access to a good enough scanner to post anything unfortunatly -_-::
Looks awesome! I love me some Ramen.
Creamy Chicken Ramen is awesome. I love your little doodles, maybe you should draw some epic battle with samurai screaming RAMEN.
For the record, it would be awesome to see that on a menu at a restaurant.
A week or two ago, Jason and I sat round the table, discussing ideas that we could do for halloween. We thought about getting some movies, eating some candy, but other than that the plan seemed somewhat dull. I brought up the idea that maybe we could get some dry ice and make some fog, or put it ontop of the fridge so it billows down to the floor. That's how the conversation derailed a bit, and we started talking about dry ice and pressure and about half an hour later we both decided it was a great idea.
We were going to build a "steam" engine that ran on dry ice.
Now, the first thing we had to do was ask the RA (Residential Advisor) here at the college dorms if dry ice was violating any of the forbidden materials rules. I went up to her room and asked her about the dry ice probably for halloween and possibly for a side project that Jason and I were thinking about.
She honestly had no idea, so she called her supervisor friend.
He had no idea and told her to call the Housing Director.
She called the Housing Director and she had no idea, and said to call her higher-up.
So apparently I asked something that nobody has thought of before, and they had to bounce around all over the higher ups in the college until some guy came to our apartment and told jason (at the same time that the RA bumped into me at school and told me) that dry ice was fine and we could do whatever. SO... we went to Fleet Farm and wandered around the piping section for awhile, calling measurements of pipe back and forth to eachother, each of his mentally figuring out how to put this together. We seemed to attract the attention of a store worker, who walked up to me.
Him: "You boys must have one hell of a plumbing problem."
Me: "Nope, building a steam engine."
So we got back home, looked at one or two parts we bought and started talking about designs, after we had just got done looking at what we had to work with. We eventually would go back to the store 3 times, replacing parts, buyi
Wow, that looks and sounds really far-out! can't wait to so some pictures. Next time screw the RA, just go for it. Don't let "The Man's" potential rules hold you back.
yeah, I don't think that no one has used dry ice in the dorms before, I think you're just the first to ask for permission haha. That's not a bad thing though, it was good of you to try to abide by the rules, no one likes any surprise fines or violations. That's a level of accountability and respect that you just don't normally see in the dorms haha.
As for the steam engine, sounds like a pretty ambitious project, I'm looking forward to seeing the results
Rock on Dread and Carnage! I want to see the, "photo of everything on the floor".
Skeller wrote:I want to see the, "photo of everything on the floor".
This is so cool man, i can't wait to see when it's finished.
Kinda looks like it wants to be a potato gun.
If we filled the the boiler with enough pressure, and pulled the emergency pressure release valve quick enough, it would essentially turn the "smoke-stack" into a cannon.
I talked with a physics professor today up at college. She helped me figure out a few calculations that I had been wondering, and apparently the mechanical advantage will work better with this idea I had, so the design has been altered drastically. The professor was very interested in the project, hell, she even asked if we were going to have it generate electricity (an electromagnetic generator). That was an idea that jason had, and we may still do it in a later model/revision of the train, but for now we're just powering the wheels.
She wants us to bring it up for a demonstration after we finish it and have it running fine. This basically gives us an excuse to do it on campus, and gives us an alliby.
Now I need to buy chains and sprockets. Joy. Also, we apparently have to soder the copper piping together. This entire thing is one giant experient and we're pretty much just making it up as we go. Good times.
A dry ice powered train? Cool idea! no pun intended I can't wait to see how this turns out. Good luck with it and nice job at CYA! Especially on campus. Administration doesn't like surprises anymore, if you hadn't of asked, you probably would have found yourselves arrested for building a dry ice bomb or some crap like that.
Yeah guess if you hadn't checked you would be in jail for terrorism. I keep forgetting about that crap.
Are you going to make it run on a trace or just a free for all?
Thought about a track, but then we'd have to haul the track around. For now it's just gonna run on rubber-surface wheels and go straight.
Perhaps it could chill me some beers and then deliver them to me. Now that's science at work!
AmmoJack wrote:and shoot lasers?
tonight me and a friend from work were talking about a great dane a friend of his had that would carry stuff on it's back and they used it as a mobile beer caddy haha
AmmoJack wrote:tonight me and a friend from work were talking about a great dane a friend of his had that would carry stuff on it's back and they used it as a mobile beer caddy haha
I'm not sure how it's inhumane...Danes are huge, they wouldn't even notice the weight of a few beer cans in a little pouch over their back. Lazy, yes, but inhumane? No.
you have a point, but still...just the concept of it. But yeah, Great Dane's are tanks.
Nah man it's like awesome.
But let's get down to business. Found Zork, played it, felt good. Didn't reach too far but I've always loved text-games and seeing the father of all text-games left me again with the feeling to start doing my own, again, like for the 40th time.
But this time I lurked, and I lurked well, because I found the answer. Inform 7, a program that is rather... funny and amazing, is easy to use and easy to learn.
You don't need to learn new languages and fuck C#/C++/Java/LISP or whatever man because I honestly can't be bothered taking a whole year of learning to get this rolling and taking me another year to get it working. Inform just takes what you write, as if it was a true written story, and turns it into the game.
It's awesome.
But why post this on a board that hasn't been used for months? Because I need YOU. I need people to make maybe a cover art for the thing and also to play test the thing. Hopefully I can get something up for you guys tonight but I wouldn't push it, yeah it's that easy but some of the commands are just weird, on the other hand I learn and work fast so 50/50.
I await to hear any comments. Surge out.
That sounds awesome. I loved Zork. All of them. They were fucking hard. I made a few text games back in the 80's when I was like 12 years old. I'm in.
Got four guys right now confirmed:
Skeller for testing and probably art, the art part just confirm it to me man.
Kirov for testing.
The Kid, a friend, for testing.
Admiral Dread, for testing.
Anyone else feel free to drop it here.
Ok... ya lost me... how much art does a text based game need? Besides enticing box art.
[edit] After downloading this and messing around with it. I have to assert that while extremely detailed and complex, this may be the coolest thing I've ever had the privilege to receive for free. I love this thing.
Skeller wrote:Ok... ya lost me... how much art does a text based game need? Besides enticing box art.
[edit] After downloading this and messing around with it. I have to assert that while extremely detailed and complex, this may be the coolest thing I've ever had the privilege to receive for free. I love this thing.
Pre-Alpha 0.05 is now available for download at the website. Need you guys to check it and tell me what you think.
Also available communication with Poseidon is asking him about the doors, which is still under work, and saying Hello to him.
so im here and ive got nothing to do so ask me to draw something and I will ..
I dont promise I will put much effort into it and i dont guarantee it will be what you have in mind..
but i do promise to get some art into this here art forum
so.
Heaven or hell Lets Rock!
and for those who dont believe in my commitment heres a fat hooker with a wheel for a leg
these are the images that keep me up at night screaming at me to draw them...
A functional file processing system.
I actually started some art for this, it was a meat grinder that you fed stuff in to on one end, and it fed little neat squares of bits and data out the other side onto a conveyor belt.
The belt just kinda dropped them off into eternity. Not sure where they went after that. Probably why the damn thing doesn't work.
Thug Life Baby.
Some times when i draw I imagine that somewhere in this universe what ever im drawing comes into existence, Bitterman this poor creatures on your head man. I hope you can sleep at night knowing this.
voltaire wrote:so im here and ive got nothing to do so ask me to draw something and I will ..
I dont promise I will put much effort into it and i dont guarantee it will be what you have in mind..
but i do promise to get some art into this here art forum
so.
Heaven or hell Lets Rock!
why Ken? Ken sucks. Go for Ryu or Akuma or something of that nature.
Centipede racing: Nascar style.
Three headed panther humping a bus stop.
metaldrummer9591 wrote:why Ken? Ken sucks. Go for Ryu or Akuma or something of that nature.
Fight? against you? Hah. Haha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL LOLOL LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMFAO HAHAHA HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH LOL LOL.
but seriously i can't...dentist appointment or something...
First crazy thing that came to mind is a helicopter crashing into an assassin orphanage with zombie Rambo shooting down hordes of rabid knife wielding Santa clauses. Odd.
Dorf Fortress. Nuff said.
Awefully heavily armed post-apocolyptic folk...
Where's the guy using a shotgun for a club, bullets for slingshot ammo, and two shovel blades tied to a baseball bat for an axe?
I know drawing wasteland gun thugs is fun and all, but I'd like to see some of the people who didn't make bloody lootings on the gun shops.
I agree. I'm all about rustic survivalism, low tech, beating on things with rocks type of guys.
I see where you are coming from, but how long do you think a guy like that would last in the wastes.
P.S. I used the same picture for my avatar on another forum.
You can get a color version you know...
Being the last board to get posted on must be something like being the last kid picked for a game of kickball... This board must feel pretty awful now
the collective thought from the artists is that actions speak louder than words...so look at our art instead!
huzzah
Oh, and I have.. many times.. If I were a better artist, I'd send in my own stuff.
Instead, I'll stick to writing, my better talent, and keep on cranking away at my story
It's ok, maybe if you can drum up enough visitors, we'll have a community.
And then all the boards will get posted on, daily.
Imagine how neat that would be.
"Poor little whole forum"
It will be ok
I can provide you wit some members.
It would be a little easier if I could have a banner to put on my site.
I was planning on sending some art too.
http://www.desolation.org/nurk/images/nurk-banner0.gif
http://www.desolation.org/nurk/images/nurk-banner1.gif
http://www.desolation.org/nurk/images/nurk-banner2.gif
Yay banners.
FIRST ANNUAL NURK BIG FUCKING ART CONTEST
Alrighty...I'm having a contest...An art contest...A post apocalypse character design contest...I'll post a charcter concept...a breif text decription...you draw the character as you envision them...creativity and imagination will be held in higher regard than just plain rendering skill to even the odds...How to enter...Post in this thread saying "I wanna enter" to get on the list...All participants must be registered by March 6th...one week from today...Oh...it's that late...ok then...Six days from now...Once entered get to work...all finished art work must be submitted to Bitterman or myself by March 25th...so get cracking...any media is allowed...all submissions must be jpgs...Now for the best part...The Fucking Prize!
$25 dollars US and a cool authentic reproduction of a never produced Wasteland Tee shirt for you very own...Trust me it'll be cool...Who ever wins will get the shirt(your size) and a money order in the mail...Of course that means you'll have to give me your address...and then I could just come over to your house and kick your ass and keep the prize for myself...but that's the risks of a dirty wasteland contest...So get ta registering and then get ta drawing...The contest will only be held if a buncha people enter...one or two ain't gonna cut it...So get off your ass people...this is real money...I'll be judging the shit...and Bitterman...if he wants to and one mystery judge...who will probably be some fucker I pull off the street who doesn't know shit about Nurk or the post apocalypse...Just to make it fun...wildcard...Oh and the judges may enter but not win...and I will be accepting decrete bribes later on in the contest...
So that's that...I'll be posting the concept real soon so stay tuned...
YEAH! CONTEST MUTHAFUCKERS! YEAH! MONEY AND SHIRT PRIZES!
Ok...here's the concept text...I tried to keep it kinda vague and open ended to allow for lots of creative interpertation...so here it is...
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Furious Snake, is a the nottorious leader of a mediocore nomadic bandit horde, who scourge around the wasteland piled into jury rigged wind-sail go-karts. Furious is a large man, with mean features. He wears some kinda armor (flak vest, scrap metal suit, chainmail bikini breifs, whatever), and is never without his infamous "Voodoo Hat", which he believes gives him luck. Furious loves knives and sharp pointy things and always has several of these strapped to his person. He also bears a rather exciting snake tattoo and wears a necklace of monkey bones...or are those babies? His signature weapon is a battle axe type of thing, a large heavy blade on a stick, and along with that he carries a hefty sidearm.
Furious Snake is always accompanied by his righthand man...er...girl...Black Eyed Susan, a lanky broad with a robotic arm and a collection of shrunken heads. She chain smokes hand rolled cigarettes and covers her ass with a conglomeration of leather, pelts, and shiny bits of metal. Her weapons of choice are a long handled spear cobbled together from everyday household items and a matched set of bone handled nickel plated six shooters, she wears slung low.
Furious Snake, being such a charismatic chap, is also attended by a loyal sidekick, Feekal, a freeky mutant wih extra bits. Feekal is swaddled in grimey rags and sports a gigantic gun (bazooka, speargun,radial flux beamer, whatever). Feekal carries a stereo boom box, for times when he feels the need to bust a move, and because he is the sidekick he also carries all of Furious Snake's extraneous gear (liquor, smokes, ammo, waffles, jimmy hats, whatever) in, strapped to or sticking out of a (satchel, back pack, ruck sack, hollowed out pigs head, whatever).
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does it have to be 'drawn' or can it just look that way? If so I'm in.... if not I may just do it for fun.
It doesn't matter how you make it...as long as it is your original work...If your planning on using Poser...thats cool...But remember creativity and orginality are the name of the game...get ta work!
i dunno. I might join. Maybe..:/
Oh no, creativity? Crap I'm all out of that stuff... Can someone spare a cup of creativity for the Moon guy? Huh? Please? Aw, come on I know some of you have some hidden under your beds so your parents can't find it...
Heh. Sorry about that. Anyway, I'm in.
Aww...don't be shy...I know ya'll can do it! Dedtexx c'mon man I'm counting on you...I would have made you a judge, considering your the art mod, but I was hoping you would enter the contest...somebody has to...We need more entries...how about all you folks who hang around here and just talk a lot of trash...bust out them skillz, YO! Dere's loot on the table here...real green money...my hard earned cash...out for the taking...Locke wants to enter and Professor and Skenvoy and Ammojack...they all can't wait to sign up...why because they love to participate...they love Nurk! Oh and they ain't got shit else to do...And what about Duduke...I heard he has skillz...and Dreadnought...this contest needs some Dreadnought up on it! So far we got one...Moonbiter...and a maybe from Dedtexx...maybe...Oh well...I must have patience...their is still time...still time...Shit I started my drawing today...and it's coming along fine...heck ya got a month for one lowsy drawing...somebody help me out here...Bitterman...speak to your people! Make them understand with great words of wisdom and faith...Contests are fun...
I love Nurk and I love you guys but the fact is, I cant draw nearly as well as you guys. Sucko huh? I do have shit else to do though, unbelievable as that may sound! Yeah, school. Cambridge work, real hard. Good thing is I'm trying to go to the retard classes just so I can stay here with you guys!
I'm really swamped with shit still to do, but if I know by the 6th if I can fit it in, I'll enter.
I shall try, but guarantees are slim.
Hey...this contest is supposed to be fun...if no one thinks it's fun...I cancel it and keep my cash and prizes...I was just hoping everyone would have a good time with it...YEAH! CONTEST! YEAH! Actual skill level of the contestants will be taken into account during judging... I've got a pretty good idea of who can draw what and how good, just from hanging around here...So it won't be a straight contest but more like whoever does the best they can...and does it well...it'll all work out some how...and then Nurk will have lots more art fer posting...
Well, yeah, it's an good idea, Skel, and awesome that you're putting up prizes. I just dunno how far I can go towards putting my best effort into it right now.
Heck, I suck at drawing, but I'll be a good sport and draw you one of my stick figure masterpieces. You know, in a comical fashion and all. *snicker*
Or maybe just a squirrel in saucer.
dont cancel the whole thing yet just wait till the 6th, c how many ppl sighn up, most ppl r procrastinators... wait until the last possible minute to sighn up, and just out of curiosity how many ppl r u looking for to sighn up (i mean the minimum)
Nah...I wasn't gonna cancel it...I was just trying to spark some interest...see what the people wanted...I'd like to have at least five entries...but I guess I could live with three...gotta have at least three...I'm thinking maybe we should just post our entries in a thread...like "Contest Entries" instead of fucking around with emailing them all over and reposting them and shit...unless people can't do it that way...who knows...but definitely three people must enter...I really like to have like fifty or more...but that's just silly...
I am fucking in!!!!
I am going to win this mutherfucker and theres nothing you can do about it.
All you so called "artists" can kiss my ass!!!
So don't enter the contest my drawings are better than yours anyway...
What if I submitted a stick figure drawing and nobody else turned anything in.
Rock on Professor! Get some!
Oh and to answer your question Locke...you would probably win the contest by default...Then I would take the prize money, go out and buy like $25 of scrapple...roll it up in the teeshirt and mail it to your house...cause I know you be loving up on some scrapple...hoowee!
I started it today and forgot about many of the details you specified in the description...heh. Oh well, maybe I can add most of them in...I dont like chicks with robotic arms (or robotic arms in general) and I dont feel like adding another page and digitally combining it, so "Black Eyed Susan" wont make her apperance...I think Feekal will show up, but subject to dramatic concept changes, heh, is that ok?...I dont think he'd want to lug some massive gun along with all of Snake's crap either, besides he just talks, snake does all the walking. Also, I kind of unconciously changed Snake's thing from knives to guns...
I'm thinking if things turn out I'll have 'im done by tonight, if not then tomorrow night. End the contest then with me as sole combatant..erm..I mean entrant, and shway on a sailboat, I'm in like flint.
http://www.neskimos.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6823
And they're having a contest.
Timmy has an entry too. He felt the spiked baseball bat had been done. To death.
Timmy accused me of being Paul Bunyan in the thumbs up picture.
Fan-fucking-tastic! Great axe. You are looking pretty damn cool as a wasteland raider too, Bitterman.
I really don't know what to say. This is just too awesome and that spiked shovel handle is no joke either.
Good work, Buddha.
Oh yeah, I always liked Hacksaw Jim best. Well maybe second best after Jake the Snake.
we need to get you some sweet boots to finish that look Bitterman
*Shoots a shotgun into the air wildly*
And thats it Folks its all over
Thanks for all that entered you guys did a kick ass job, and I consider this contest a huge success because of you guys.
Man bitter I love that axe and timmys entry is bad ass too,
I think my brain nearly exploded with the mental instability at imagining hack saw jim dugan as bitterman though
you got warn people when you exploit childhood memories like that i almost died laughing.
personally I see a post apocalyptic thor in your images, I think we need to make a series of short movies based on that.
well now comes the hard part, for me at least as I go about judging this shin dig-
Since Im obviously too deep into this, im going to be taking your images to people I know and mabey some i dont have them judge them, once I get at least 10 peoples oppinions ill list the results and distribute prizes accordingly.
thanks alot guys I will post you the results when i get them,
Where's the prizes, mang?!
Believe it or not, I achieved plot inspiration...Gil & Zen now has SEVEN new episodes.
Get em here!
http://poisonthemind.com/comiclist.php?A=ZEN
Damn what a rush of hilarity..
besides what I already commented on in the last strip, Ive noticed that your level of art has gone up dramaticaly in these, I dont think many will notice but jeesh that ceiling lamp in that last strip is crazy detailed,...
i know its weird but I like those little touches keep em comming at us
i actually drew it like three times bigger, and then shrank it to size...and fixed it up a bit.
I have a friend with the last name Krug.
comments eh'?...
lets see so far I really like what weve seen and great job on keapin it weakly cappy....
Id say the only thing I dont like is the Obscene amount of nudity in this comic... seriously carnage you nead to tone it down a bit or throw out a disclaimer, some kids could stumble upon this comic you know then there fragile virgin minds could be ruind FOREVER! just think of the consequences man...
oh and whens the gil and zen space battle epic gonna start up,... you know with space zombies, sexy female co pilots, planetary explosions and the ocasional monkey eating a bannana...
... ok, ill leave now.
Cloths are added in episode 23
Everybody Tune in this Wednsday for a Halloween special of Gil & Zen.
*Brushes off the dust*
Good lord, the last time this thread was up, bush was president... er wait..
Yeah, if you didn't notice, Carnage finally got off his lazy ass and started making new gil and zen. And as far as he has been telling me, he plans on working on it for a while.
http://www.poisonthemind.com/comic-disp ... =160&C=ZEN
Have at it.
Yet nobody cares.
*cries on the inside*
I care. I just don't care about talking about my careing. But I do care. More Gil and Zen pls. There. See. I care.
I'm with Skydog. I read the comic... I just don't comment becuase it always seems to be inbetween punchlines.
I think I haven't announced this but this is the latest story and this is mostly the backbone of everything.
Check it out ------> http://www.poisonthemind.com/item-display.php?ID=1248
That's right this is the story that lays it all out, read and ye shall be gob-smacked.
Needs a shit load of rework, which a friend is kindly helping me with, which will leave it as something truly solid.
New art has been uploaded to Poison from the Story.
http://poisonthemind.com/item-display.php?ID=1256
Counter Blow is a movie me and my friends made about our good friend stealing our halo 3 copy. It is a good movie, and only about 6 minutes long, so give us a shot. A paradoy to halo nerds (Including me) everywhere.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3tfWaOXCro0
It is the best movie maker editing in years...YEARS!
I'm going to say it's the best Window Movie Maker editing... ever. That program sucks. Sucks!
Movie. Not so much suck.
Yes! My glorious acting masterpiece is up! The Music I'm listening to (delfino plazafrom Super Mario Sunshine) really sets my happy mood!
So...What does everyone think of this?
I liked it. The intro music/credits was really sweet. Best part.....crane kick to the nads! Nice job overall, could use more cats though.
Pretty sweet dudes! I especially liked the slow mo running scene. Make more!
More explosions and a truck, you can never miss those, but if you make an exploding truck THEN we're talking about a whole different level.
Yeah I agree. I was going to note the almost unacceptable lack of explosions and tits but I didn't say anything, because you're young and you'll learn.
yeah, when I said "needs more cats," I meant boobs.
Leroy Putty wrote:yeah, when I said "needs more cats," I meant boobs.
Yeah, I think if you can get chicks involved with your Halo quest series, that pretty much makes your crew American Heroes. If not Heroes for all of Mankind.
I think the biggest problem it faces is that Ian is a wiener, you need a more believable villain...unless the halo nerds realize his weakness, step out of their gaming based attack plan, and then clobber him.
Also, I think the halo music was actually done by Steve Vai, at least I remember hearing that and thinking "yeah, he'll do pretty much anything for money, and that kind of sounds like his guitar playing"
Unless in classical villain sense, being a wiener was his front, his charade. Now that he has executed on his plan, he is able to reveal his inner power.
Or maybe he is still a wiener.
All of the music in Halo was composed by Martin O'Donnel. It was on the Halo 2 soundtrack that they got actual bands to do tributes or covers or "inspired by" or whatever you want to call them. There was a piece of the Making Of on the Limited/Legendary Halo 3 Edition discs that focused squarely on the music and sound. One of the more interesting parts of the entire process or documentary in my opinion.
You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_%28series%29#Music
AmmoJack wrote:I think the biggest problem it faces is that Ian is a wiener,
metaldrummer9591 wrote:The villain wasn't supposed to be some bad ass huge army soldier veteran bent on world domination.
Cobra Commander was a weiner and he dominated all kinds of shit.
Skeller wrote:Cobra Commander was a weiner and he dominated all kinds of shit.
I was going to skim over history and point out evil master minds who were in fact nerds, but it turned out to be too much work. The key here is going against the grain and unlikely situations is not only part of the humor, it's a distinct writing style because it separates you from the pack. All elves are not magical. All dwarves do not have to hate elves. Just because Tolken wrote it once doesn't make it the status quo.
This is something they tried to push with 3rd Edition Dungeons and Dragons, the idea that even a brutish Orc could make a good Rogue, despite having no stealthy qualities what so ever because he smells funny, he lumbers around too heavily to sneak anywhere, and no shadow is large enough for him to hide inside of. Yet with some careful thought and creativity an Orc could be a perfect rogue. He doesn't pick pockets, he outright takes pockets. He doesn't work with a silver tongue and charm, he works with fear and intimidation.
Or maybe he does have all of these qualities. Maybe he was abandoned at youth for being scrawny and weak, qualities despised by his strong blood orc family. Maybe he used ash or makeup to attempt to hide his appearance or identity. Maybe he turned to a life of theifdom to survive, and is in fact quite a good text book rogue because of his background and upbringing.
So just because Ian is a wiener, that doesn't have to drag down the story. Besides, Ian is only a wiener because you actually know him. I've only played Halo with him. I cannot verify his wienerdom.
Well, the good news is here: Counterblow 2 is under production. It isn't very far, we just started the beginning, but i think it should be done by the end of thanksgiving break. It marks the direct sequel of Me and Terrence chasing Ian for our game back. This will conclude the "Halo 3" spoof, but we will (If this is good) make more, including a Christmas special focusing on "Metal Gear Solid," thanks to Terrence, whose writing that version.
So anyway, I think the current release date for Counterblow 2 is: Saturday, November 24th.
That isn't at all permanent, but just a rough guess. It may even be done earlier, but Saturday is probably going to mark it's completion.
And speaking of which, Kevin, I have a choice for the viewers here at Poison! I have two lines that would fit into the same scene, but I want to know which you think is better!
We have...
1. Happy (C)Hanukah!
or
2. Happy Kwanzaa!
Generic, I know, but it could determine the whole plot.
I'm going to have to retract the release date (For the few of you who care), because we didn't get any filming done. We got really sidetracked and such, and it just isn't going to work out. The release date is... To be announced!
Sorry, but we'll have to finish it some other time.
Well, you get a line, and I'll get a pole, honey;
You get a line, and I'll get a pole, babe.
You get a line. I'll get a pole;
We'll go down to that crawdad hole.
Honey, oh baby, o' mine.
Unless I am seriously mistaken, that's an old country song. Course, the lyrics could just be similar.
And, sound wave thing?
Bitterman wrote:
Well, you get a line, and I'll get a pole, honey;
You get a line, and I'll get a pole, babe.
You get a line. I'll get a pole;
We'll go down to that crawdad hole.
Honey, oh baby, o' mine.
To quote invader zim, "Because it's cooooool."
I know that song from when I was little.
Because lest you forget, I'm a hillbilly.
Bitterman looks allot like his dad, look at the hair. That's pretty cool, man.
You can definitely see the resemblance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heredity
I also look and sound exactly like my older brother. To the point that people often approach me, "Bill?" "No, Matt."
I once told my dad he had very unoriginal sperm.
Hey, as far as you know, that's true.
Anyway, I'm just posting about the short story I'm working on.
I'm not going to give away the plot and setting quite yet, but I will share the fact that it will be a sort of multi-perspective piece, with hint's at each character's viewpoint of the situation. I think the situation's pretty neat, but that will have to be decided by each reader.
Anyways, I guess I should ask a question or something to promote posting, so what do you think? Should I release it in individual perspectives, or just wait until I have the whole thing done?
Im not sure what you mean. Do you mean you to post it in installments or just wait till you have the entire story finished. If thats what you're asking, then I think you should wait for the story to be finished.
I have been gobsmacked. Interesting, entertaining and oh what the hell... I like machina stuff. Nice going Edipo.
-PS: These comments were archived in my brain for many moons.
Skydog Hex wrote:I have been gobsmacked. Interesting, entertaining and oh what the hell... I like machina stuff. Nice going Edipo.
-PS: These comments were archived in my brain for many moons.
Since I'm having a little problem with the fiction uploader deally thing to work properlly (even with submitting ABW files) I decided I may as well post it here so you can see it all nice and such. I made it in english class for an assignment that needed "a character, an antagonist, and a conflict". I instantly thought zombies.
So my fellow Nurkites (those of you old enough to remember that) I give you a poem fit for poison the mind. (Comments and whatever can be posted)
In The Dead of the Night
Huddled in the darkness
Silently he hides
Hoping to escape the stalkers
Hunting him outside.
And as he peers through the window
Into their hollow eyes
It seems as though his fate is clear
That tonight, he dies.
Gnawing on their victim's flesh
And picking at their bones
Merciless they came
To each and all our homes.
They smelled of a putrid stench
With their skin long decayed
Bloody the dead rose this night
From their now empty graves.
Behind locked and bolted doors
David sits alone
Hoping that these things would keep him
Safe inside his home.
And he thinks of all those people
All those he knew and loved
Now stood outside his doorway
Thirsting for his blood.
At the sound of breaking glass
He jolted in alarm
And then came a painful grasp
That gripped around his arm.
One of them had broke inside
So close now he felt it's breath
Then nails raked at his arm
Tearing at his flesh.
As the thing's jaws bit on down
the others hungrily called
And with a kick he broke the hold
And ran out to the halls.
He stumbled into the kitchen
And studied his bloodied hand
And knew this was when and where
He'd make his final stand.
He knew now that he'd been bit
There was no way to win
But he would not allow himself
To become one of them.
Against their numbers he would fall
This much he could see
And then he said with a snarling hate
"I'll take them all down with me!".
He stumbled into the garage
His heart racing fast
And grabbed from beneath a
Three hundred and sixty three days later
Into this thread I appear
After reading your poem Carnage
I give a great cheer
It really is a bit late
for rough words or critiques
not that this work needs them
I found your poem to be SWEET!
Thanks skydog, I occasionally still read this poem (mostly around halloween). Probably one of my favorites.
Seeing Mr. Locke is writing I thought I should also give it a hand again.
I wish though that I could write as "proper" as he does.
Weapons Master.rtf
April 23rd 2008. Background story for a new Post-Apoc Campaign. (19.99 KiB) Downloaded 17 times
I love me some post apocalypse stories. Some of the grammar makes it a bit hard to tell what is happening to who and when but it's still a good story with cool visuals and a spooky ending.
Another random story related to the same game.
The New Weapons Master.rtf
April 24th 2008. (15.92 KiB) Downloaded 10 times
Ooh new stories by Edipo! I've read the Weapon Master. I will read the second one tomorrow, its' getting really late now. I'm trying to write this with out any spoilers for the others who might come along and download your story.
Aside from some of the grammar issues, which if I recall English is your second language*, the only critical thing I have to say is at the end the jump from when the corporal is yelling at Scivio to the next paragraph is jarring. After reading it twice, I got what you were getting across but it was very confusing. Especially since I take it the 'box' had something to do with what Scivio did, but you didn't mention the box earlier in the story. Or I could be wrong about that...
Still I liked the story, I liked the hinted at background you gave us on this new world of yours and especially liked the suspense you were building up with Scivio in his head.
*I am impressed that anyone can master a second language enough to write a story in it, so don't let grammar bother you. After all that's what editors are for. Hell, english is my first language and I screw it up all the time, not to mention if I tried to write a story in spanish, it would be two sentences about a man asking about your house and if he can have some more beer. lol.
Hey thanks for the comments and the feedback.
I write as I see it come so here I give you another piece.
The Shadows.rtf
April 25th 2008. (23.52 KiB) Downloaded 8 times
Had to rush this a lil bit for I want to write a story per day.
Gotta go to play Vampire the Masquerade, table top version.
The Resistance.rtf
26th of April 2008. (24.14 KiB) Downloaded 7 times
Trying to uphold a one update per day. Still in time for the Tuesday update.
Men of Moral.rtf
29th of April. 2008. (23.85 KiB) Downloaded 9 times
Awesome, got to love some Surge writing, not that I ever doubted you still had it, but I was beginning to wonder if you'd ever use it again. Particularly like the first one above all others.
It is coming back but it also seems to fade away. Why is that I don't know.
After so many years I think you're allowed some slack time.
Emerson wrote:After so many years I think you're allowed some slack time.
There's some other stuff but nothing I consider good enough at this point.
So here, enjoy.
Tech Man.rtf
24th of May 2008 (12.65 KiB) Downloaded 2 times
Tech man is good stuff. This is what we require more of.
Admiral_Dread wrote:Tech man is good stuff. This is what we require more of.
And some more.
The Norwich Incident.rtf
27th May 2008. (39.75 KiB) Downloaded 3 times
Something smile just to keep up with the pace.
Our worst fear.rtf
28th May 2008. (12.44 KiB) Downloaded 2 times
Another random short thing. This one in space.
Captain Valios.rtf
1st June 2008 (21.06 KiB) Downloaded 1 time
Stood up writing this piece. It is 2:24 here and I was supposed to have gone to bed two hours ago, oh well.
The Secret Revealed.rtf
2nd June 2008. (47.54 KiB) Downloaded 2 times
Oh my god...Sonic is in Brawl. Dear god what have they done...
I think he'll be very cheap, but he'll be a cool edition...i guess I'm not that pissed.
This really pisses me off, The new release date is February 10th now, and i won't even be able to play the playable demo in Los Angeles. THIS SUCKS.
As someone said, it was unusual for Nintendo to space such AAA titles so close together. You can see it through out their history, or this year alone. The giant gaps between Mario Strikers, Pokemon Battle Revolution, Metroid Prime 3, and Super Mario Galaxy.
Something had to give. The Nintendo works in mysterious ways.
did anyone see the "E for all" gameplay videos? The gameplay looks FREAKING AMAZING!!!
Oh. My. God. Create your own stage. I feel like an excited school girl-boy. I meant boy. Anyway, they have a bunch of different blocks in the pictures. AMAZING!!!!!!
Matt, you are going to make the coolest stages...I can see it now.
metaldrummer9591 wrote:Matt, you are going to make the coolest stages...I can see it now.
http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characte ... edede.html
Why... just... why?
Because every ying needs a yang. Kirby was all alone. Now he has Metaknight and King Dedee. Word on the street is Krystal will be the other Sonic character to show up, but I'm hoping for Tails or Knuckles. Really any of them could, because they've already got their 3D models for the Olympics game, it's just a matter of repurposing them for Brawl. I don't know who could or would show up alongside Snake. I also expect we'll see another Star Fox character this time, like Slippy or Falco. The roster when it is all said and done will be insane.
Edipo wrote:http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characte ... edede.html
Why... just... why?
Kirby all the freakin way. I loved the N64 version where he cold asborb TWO powers at the same time, to have a huge array of combination.
from Dual-Lightsaber Kirby to Exploding Ninja Star Kirby
Knuckles would be the obvious best choice for me if they were going to put in another character from the Sonic series...but only because the rest are pretty lame. The only problem is he'd be pretty damn near the same as sonic, just with a glide ability...Not sure why every "game of origin" needs two characters or more from each though...isn't one enough?
Some only had one. F Zero only had Captain whatever. Earthbound only had Ness. I think this time through they're just going bigger. Because they can.
The game better be darn near perfect and big if they pushed it back to February 10th.
Yeah, I agree, it better be great. Sucks that we only get about 3-4 good games a year,(so far at least) and those all get pushed back.
Does anyone think that Falco has a chance? I don't know if they'd take him out or not.
Thoughts?
Erm... BlurredLines is a new story I started about... I don't know some time ago, basically it's my return to writing regularly and more importantly actually writing stories. It isn't a story I particularly like the progress of and neither is it one I have invested greatly in before I began writing, so basically it's all momemtum that's keeping it going.
Whenever I update I'll put some notes next to it so check out the recent changes section and you'll see what I put.
Give it a look, lend me some comments either here or on Alchemy, doesn't have to be anything special.
Laters Poisonites.
The Secret Mort story, here in the NRC has been going on for three years. Sometimes it has really rolled with lots of people writting lots of bits fast and hard. Mostly it's been slow. I created Secret Mort back in the early ninties and he has been all over doing all kinda of nefarious shit. Stories and drawings, tales retold around the camp fire and over beers on the porch. To me, Mort is a post apocalyptic Icon. Which brings me to my point. The Secret Mort stories have always been a group activity. I've thought of just going it alone and writing more of his adventures by myself. But that removes the basic principles Mort was built on. I don't wanna do that. There's a little bit of Mort in all of us and I'd like to bring it out and put it all together. So here's what I'm gonna do. The 30 days of Secret Mort is a project type contest. Everyone who contributes at least three decent story enhancing posts to the Winter Wonder Wasteland story here in the NRC, in the 30 days from April 5th 2005 to May 5th 2005, will recieve (no really) a prize. The prize will be a printed and fancily bound copy of the story with as many illustrations of the text as I can work up in a reasonable amount of time. I've already started on the art for the book, all you people of Nurk! need to do is keep it rolling and bring it full circle. I'll be writing to. Any one who feels inspired can also submit illustrations for the story and I'll include them to. Our story... our art... here at Nurk and a printed bond copy in yer mail box! The 5th of May is my birthday. I'll be 30. I think this is an awesome project, for us all. So join in. Gird up yer wriiting loins and hit the wastes. This story can go anywhere, it's been blowing up Schmooville for three years and poor Mort still hasn't gotten his beer. So that's the deal. Three good posts in the thread, perhaps an illustration of the action, and you get a nice bound copy of the illustrated, Secret Mort in the Winter Wonder Wasteland, in yer mailbox.
So 15 days of Secret Mort left. Half way through this contest and folks here at Nurk! and PTM are looking kinda lame. But that's nothing new. We've got some good posts from Comikaze and Pig Killer. Mr. Bitterman has posted some slick additions. That makes three... which is the usual number of participants we get at any Nurk! contest. So far it looks like I'm going to get off easy... only making one copy of the book for Comikaze... But I'm sure ya'll will bust in at the last minute and prove me wrong. Keep posting Nurkites...
So I wanted to make it clear that this contest requires three new posts. Posts submitted after the start of this contest. Everyone who contributed before the contest has to submit three new posts to qualify for prizing.
Thanks,
Skeller
Contest is over...
Comikaze, being the only person to complete the requirements, is the only mutha fucker who will be receiving a illustrated and bound copy of the story. Thanks Dude for participating. A big round of applause for Comikaze. Woohoo!
*initiates hearty self-clap* Thank you, thank you
Damn, I still owe Comikaze a fucking prize.
Maybe he's dead by now and I don't have to pay up.
I've got his email address.
That doesn't mean he isn't dead.
Skeller wrote:That doesn't mean he isn't dead.
I was just re-reading the fatherhood story last night so I can write some more for it. I'd love to finish it and I think about it all the time but getting started again is the real fight. Thanks for showing interest that should help me get started.
The stories have no specific order although the first two are really helter skelter and don't make much sense. But they are only like 2 pages long. They are just goofy. The Story from the forums Winter Wonder Wasteland is really long but it's pretty fun to read, I think. I still want to finish that one too and it's still a group project open to additions from anyone on the forums.
Thanks to Bitterman and his secret Linux guy the MUD is now up and running on the server.
Host: vicocorps.com
Port: 5003
With this information you should be able to log in. Administrators check Centrex from time to time and remember to update it.
-Vico Surge
I recommend http://www.ashavar.com/client
Or http://rhoneware.com/RoAClient
I use zMUD myself or SimpleMU if I'm in a pinch. I don't like GMUD as I think it's shit and I only use zMUD with good computers and that's because I bought a liftime account with them.
-Vico Surge
GMUD is shit. Zugg is alright, but I just never liked it out of principal. "Dude, they're freaking text games, I'm not paying you dick regardless of what program you wrote. It's 19-freaking-96." I would say. Now it's 20-freaking-06, and the statement is more relevant.
I've been using SimpleMU for five years and thanks to them I can now walk... I also got to do some Mud related stuff, so yeah go for it!
The B-Man has it down though, I ain't paying squat for text on a screen, I can frickin' do that myself for free.
Go play you now!
Sweet I'm an admin! I can edit shit!
By the way. If you go and build something, whatever you do, put it on the board we got.
Write (Header of yer shit)
(Type yer message here)
/s
(If you're using SimpleMU do //s)
That's it for now.
-Vico Surge
I don't own a Nintendo anything. I never have. Which is why I don't read or post anything in this forum section. Until now.
http://www.pixelninja.se/metroid01.jpg
Enjoy it, you fappers.
I think Dread is in love.
Hilarious, but I'd love it if you'd stop projecting your feelings on me.
Yes, I like Samus. At the same time, that doesn't mean I automatically dig anyone that cosplays as samus.
I.. just.. What you've said has left me annoyed on so many levels, I plan fashioning a weapon out of a soda can later tonight, this is your only warning.
Besides, I like the Metroids best.
Shut the fuck up, fool. I spanked it to the picture. We all spanked it to that picture. There is no god damn denying it. She's fucking Asian. She made the god damn helmet. She even made the arm canon. Out of what? That's a spandex body suit, son. Form fitting. If you don't stand up right now and own up to your spanking, you're what is wrong with America.
Damn son.
Damn!
*Ignoring what Bitterman said, completey.*
I dig the samus suit and Jason is wrong. The girl cosplaying in said suit is automatically badass.
Never said it wasn't badass.
Just... not that badass...
Bitterman wrote:Shut the fuck up, fool. I spanked it to the picture. We all spanked it to that picture.
The pirate and the ninja are in agreement, how can you argue with that logic?
So EGM is rumoring that Nintendo delayed Brawl's release date because the online play might be faulty, which is a good guess. They claim that Nintendo is new with online play, and they need to fix it up a bit. They also said Nintendo was a bit paranoid sometimes when it comes to a big game coming out.
Yes! I just pre-ordered this at Gamecrazy on I'm guaranteed one at launch
YAY!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/ch ... mefaqs.jpg
This link is extremely interesting...
it goes to a Gamefaqs post (shown by photobucket) that has a dude who claims he has leaked info. He guessed the dragoon parts correctly before the update, which puts the rest of his information up for the possiblity of truth. He has a lot of good information and i think it may be trustworthy due to one correct assumption. Read his post and see for yourself.
As far as everybody returning.
They already have them coded. There is no reason for them not to come back. Especially in the sense that "The Wii is an overclocked Gamecube", sure they'll be returning. No sense in taking anyone away, even if they suck like the Ice Climbers.
I just messed around with some strength and aerobics at midnight withe the Wii. So far the skiing balance games are pretty neat. I managed to unlock the tight rope game and I was doing pretty amazing with that too. Hurray!
I'm also ranked "bodybuilder" in lunges (for strength training.) Yes! I am the Lunge Master!
However my BMI is 26.5 or something and I guess I need to lose some pounds or at least convert the fat to muscle to be healthy. The Wii says that people averaging a BMI of 22 are least likely to have health problems? Crazy. I'm 171 pounds and 6'3. It considers me having a normal weight. My Fitness Age was like 32 or something. Yeah, I guess I need to get in shape.
My mom was ranked "overweight" but her age and her Fitness Age matched perfectly! So I guess even though she's overweight she's where she is supposed to be. Her BMI was pretty high though.
I totally feel the burn guys. This game is wack. It's fun though. My balance sucks, but hey if it teaches me posture that's cool. It's kind of scary having that mannequin-like trainer though, but ah well. He's helpful and cheers me on when I suck.
The Hula Hoop thing is ridiculous. My mom totally pwned me on that. I'm like, "How do I spin my hips! MY HIPS WEREN'T MADE FOR SPINNING!"
Apparently my mom is a hula hoop fiend though. They should have ranks like that, seriously.
So buy Wii Fit. You'll lose weight and you'll feel like you've actually accomplished something.
I think.
Yeah, too bad it'd be too hard to find somebody like that.
Guess we'l just have to use you, B.
And suddenly. Dicks, everywhere, WHAM.
I still want to know where the fuck 21 people came from and voted? We only have like 7 members.
I could definitely help with the music, as i play drums. If you guys want a little rhythm in your game music, I'm your man.
Please let me help for the game music, that'd be the coolest thing ever!
Yeah... Music. There's gonna be lots and lots of Metal.
Also anyone who helps gets an in game NPC based on them.
Skeller wrote:Yeah... Music. There's gonna be lots and lots of Metal.
Also anyone who helps gets an in game NPC based on them.
I got an MP3 you need to hear. Link 80, a punk/ska band, covered Metallica's Harvester of Sorrow.
You haven't heard metal until you've heard it with French Horns.
Seriously.
Bitterman - Get your fucking French horns out of here.
Metaldrummer - Here's a brief synopsis from the design document.
The setting is post apocalypse wasteland, “ The Savage Wastes”. The main playable character is Secret Mort. A young thug who likes drinkin’, shootin’, and racin’ around in modified slag wagons. He lives in a slapped together crap shack out in the wastes, where he generally hangs out on a crusty couch on the front porch, with his crusty friends, Filthy Martin, Squishy Dave, and Scabby Chris, drinking beer, smoking weed, and shooting at mutants that wander into his yard. Then they all drive down to the local Chicken Bunker for some radioactive hotwings. This is the sweet life of Secret Mort. But like any young feller, adventure is always around the corner, for this wasteland is no ordinary radioactive desert. The blasted rock and shifting ash give way to mysterious swamps, mutant jungles, glowing ruins, barbarous shanty towns and anti-gravity mud forts inhabited by mad scientists and their armies of genetically altered cheerleaders. Secret Mort can’t even go into town on a beer run without being chased by aliens, hustled by crackwhores, and shot at by renegade mafiosos, not to mention the pantsless ass monger cannibal, El Magnifico.
Also find out more about Mort here: Secret Mort Link #1, Secret Mort Link #2, Secret Mort Link #3 and also the most important to this site HERE.
Very interesting skeller, i'd like to know what direction the guitarists are going in too, so whenever you think of something- whether it be dan, vico or whoever, post it here so i can see what i'm working with. i already have a good idea in my head for what i'm gonna do.
[edit: made this the official inital build status thread]
So the Mac OS port of Irrlicht is a jackass. You heard me. All versions of it. 1.0 however was the last one that was proven to work because it shipped with executable binaries, so it is the one we ran with.
Complete credit goes to James here who stayed up until 4am his local time making this work. While he was hammering away at that, I got our SVN setup. SVN right now is only being used for code version control, so only we three coders have access. Everybody else can use dotproject to track their files/assets.
Ok... What's all that mean?
It means the engine works. That big black slate in the middle, think of it like a canvas now.
Bitterman wrote:That big black slate in the middle, think of it like a canvas now.
In order of appearance: XCode. Photoshop. Interface Builder.
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tWhat is the 4th button?
"Begin Cantation to Rip Open a Rift in the Metaphysical Realm into the Nine Layers of Hell / Start Game"?
Edit: Yes. Apparently so.
That sure is a sexy three eyed mutant skull logo you got there.
On the Mac front, not only did I get us a Mac OS X 10.4 tester, he's also running a Power PC G4 with a GeForce 2, so he can also be our general "low end" test.
On the Windows front, we have a build, it crashes. Everything going by the letter on the Windows front.
On the Linux front, I think Woody has locked himself in a closet and entered hibernation.
Bitterman wrote:On the Mac front, not only did I get us a Mac OS X 10.4 tester, he's also running a Power PC G4 with a GeForce 2, so he can also be our general "low end" test.
On the Windows front, we have a build, it crashes. Everything going by the letter on the Windows front.
On the Linux front, I think Woody has locked himself in a closet and entered hibernation.
I like Skeller's signature on the bottom of that head-pic. Skel, you should do something with that sig, put it somewhere.
My friend, a pretentious douche bag thinks that everything Nintendo is automatically branded "kiddy." No matter what it is, it's just "Kiddy." He claims Mario Galaxy sucks because it just doesn't have the content for kids above 5. He says Mario is just a lame cartoon, while master chief is actually like human, and he is depicted better as a human. He's so fu***** stupid, and i wanna tear his head off.
He also claims that Wii is a "Fad" and it'll wear off by next month. WRONG. according to a dude at best buy, the Wii's have been flying off the shelves the entire year it's been released, and it really flying off shelves so near Christmas time this year.
I also know some Microsoft call of duty fan boy, who destroyed a Wii he somehow acquired by throwing it off of his roof. A dumbass if you ask me. A Wii is better than anything out there, and to judge it by its looks is stupid. Fuck anyone who uses the excuse "Kiddy" for any Wii game. GRAHHRHAHRHHARHARHAR
Sorry, he's just been pissing me off. DAMN YOU MICROSOFT FAN BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Pardon the French in this rant, I apologize for it)
1) If it doesn't have content for kids above 5 it's 'kiddy'. Period.
2) Never trust anything 'the guy' at best buy says. Ever. - This should be number one but I'm to lazy to renumber this list. Really I am.
3) The Wii sucks.
4) The Xbox, Xbox 360 and Microsoft all suck too.
5) Consoles, in general suck.
For mindless shooting/action type games they are nice but for anything else they blow. They controls suck. Akward feeling, unintuitive and not enough buttons in logical places. Not to mention horrid menu systems that are annoying and user unfriendly. The PC is the place for anything rpg or close to rpg but these game developers keep trying to push everything over to console.
I tried playing dead rising on the Xbox and I really wanted to love that game 'cause I'm such a zombie freak. It was five days of pain for me, constantly dying due to the shitty play style of trying to use a controller that's frankly unintuitive and menu driven crap. All the other games I've tried have been the same. The only thing remotely fun, is the shooters and those are still annoying.
What I've played of the Wii, which hasn't been alot, hasn't been much different.
Technically the Wii is a fad.
So is the DS.
So is the PS3. And the 360. And the PS2. By their nature they are all fads. They go through the stages of new, popular, phenom, fad, and finally niche. There's guys still playing Atari. They'll be guys still playing the Wii.
But anyone calling the Wii a fad is scared. You know, I don't know why the kids thing is a knock against Nintendo.
1) We, my generation at least, grew up playing games. We were kids, the games were for kids. We were teens, the games were for teens. Now we're adults and you got shit like GTA, and Manhunt. Bloody violently terrible things. We grew up. The platform grew up. There were always odd games that broke that mold, but I find it's held true. I sometimes look back, or I look on the shelf, and I try to decide what I would play if I were a kid. There ain't much. So god bless Nintendo if they make kids games, that is a void that needs filled, for the kids sake.
2) So fucking what. Mario is so awesome, he fucked that dude's mother, and Peach filmed it because she's a freaky fuck princess like that. Mario Galaxy is awesome. Just because it's a kids game doesn't mean it ain't fun. Fuck, I played all the way through Cookies and Cream.. a game that requires two players because it's split vertically and you have to help each other solve puzzles so you can make it to the end gate together. It was gushy and colorful and lovey and sharey and carey.. that was a fucking kids game. I enjoyed it. I made Timmy enjoy it, so I could finish it. I don't let predudice and ignorance get in the way of a fun game concept, or a new game.
Keep fighting the good fight, Kevin.
Skydog... have you even played an FPS on the Wii?
I'm mouse and keyboard as much as any man... but the Wii changes things. Drastically.
And yeah, Dead Rising's learning curve/difficulty was like getting kicked in the fucking throat while eating a pizza fresh out of the oven. You can't breathe. The sauce and cheese are burning you. It's not delicious and tasty at all.
Lemme guess...
Cameron?
Eric?
And if not, I really don't who else.
So the wii is for kids?
Last time I checked you are a kid Metaldrummer.
Play that shit and have a good time because soon you'll grow up and be a man and then you will only be able to play sports games on xbox360. Boo.
Yeah...He doesn't realize that kids do in fact need games, and Nintendo doesn't always produce kids games.
And Wii does not suck sky dog, it actually has very good FPS controls, the new Medal of Honor for Wii game just came out and it got an 8.0/10 at gamespot, and they said it was a great game, especially with the Wii zapper.
And I was okay with dead risings' controls, they didn't bother me that much. I don't mind the dual analog control scheme much, but i'll get used to the Keyboard/Mouse when i get The Orange Box for pc for Christmas (Hopefully)
Woo hoo! Ruin update!
So this guy is pretty cool. I love the axe, but I think that's probably obvious. I'm also not surprised that he looks rather similar to your avatar minus the mohawk. I think he works out with the combo high end body armor and home made weaponry. I'd like to see a little more wear and tear on the armor, like it's saved his life a few times, and I would also like some knee pads. Dude needs some knee pads. His little knees all sitting out there unprotected, just waiting to get smashed by some rubble brats brick bat. I like this guy though. I want to see him in action with that axe. He also looks like the kinda guy who would wear a tooth or finger necklace. Maybe ears.
Yeah, when I look at the torso I can't help but place the armor somewhere between "Fallout's Leather Armor" and "Doom Guy." It's probably the military green color which is bringing the Doom resemblance out of him.
He's got a very intense neck region. He looks like the kind of guy who is prone to fucking snap.
But yeah, that axe for the fucking win.
I didn't realize that Eddon looked like Saul until you pointed it out Skeller. But you're absolutely right, he's damn close. Subconscious inspiration for the win. I also see what you mean about his knees too. The eye is drawn right to them, like they've got big arrows pointing at them saying 'BASH ME HERE', heh. I'll see what I can do to remedy that situation.
Bitterman, you've inspired me... again. Bringing up the leather armor from Fallout gave me a bit of a vision of adding some leather texture to areas of the armor. I'll work on that along with the dings and bashes Skeller suggested for the next wip.
The axe is brutal isn't it? I saw it and said "that's what Eddon uses to cleave through the dumbasses that get in his way."
After conferring with Taelos, he tells me I was wrong on Leather Armor. He says it looks more like the Combat Armor without the helmet. I knew it was one of the two, but intrigued I decided to look up some reference shots.
Leather
Combat
It would appear Taelos wins this round.
Bitterman doesn't know jack about Fallout anymore.
It looks like "Combat Armor" from Fallout. But either way, it's still pretty sweet. Does he have a helmet?
I don't get why he just has a melee (spell check doesn't have that word? weird pugilism...it has pugilism, but not melee) weapon though and not like a flamethrower. w00t kill some massive evil scorpions with that son of a gun.
But yeah. I dig bald men in combat armor. The guy looks like he's ready to get medieval on many hineys. I just hope it's not mine.
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After conferring with Taelos, he tells me I was wrong on Leather Armor. He says it looks more like the Combat Armor without the helmet. I knew it was one of the two, but intrigued I decided to look up some reference shots.
I liked my first trukk so much I got a second one.
Awesome skeller. The work on that engine is just crazy. You could make a killing selling these things.
To quote AmmoJack "Locke Lives!". Good to see you! Hope all is well or as well as can be. I miss ya mang.
Good ole Locke, coming out of hermitude to take a fat shit on our enemies. Good work man.
Yeah, come to think of it, I haven't seen you in awhile locke. I'm glad to see you agree with bobby being a douche, it seems that he has left.
It's kind of a shame bobby's gone, I got a kick out of this topic.
just got done seeing the movie hostel,
and im filled with so much rage and hatred ..
i feel like a dog in a cage thats been constantly been poked with a stick.
and its not directed towards that movie at all,
infact i barely watched the thing so i cant tell you if it was good or not.
I spent the whole time imagining ways to murder this fat bitch behind me
who couldnt seem to keep her mouth shut.
Im not one to pick fights , but im not one to take abuse either, so about half way in after another loud idiotic question, i turned around and kindly asked her to shut the fuck up.. unfortunately not in those words.
I was half hoping to insult her husband into a bloodthirsty hockey fight right there in the crowded theatre.
unfortunately she shut up for a while but still couldnt help being her idiotic self, chiming in occasionally..
JEESUS !
whats wrong with human beings!@
next time im in a theatre and this happens screw caution screw politeness screw the threat of large jock boyfreinds, No ones talking in my damn movies! cautions going to the wind and people are going to shut up.
theres so many fucking jerks out there, and worse there timid husbands that dont handle them (or vice versa) ..
I wish this was the middle ages where I could just slap the wench then cleave the idiot next to her, for not having the nerve to tell her to shut up.
...............
Phew...
okay just wanted to all get that anger out of my head,..
feel much better now, no murderous rampages tommarow... i swear.
im sure these kinds of things have pissed you off too,
whens the last time this kinda thing happend where you felt like thinning out the population?
Yeah, that shit enrages me. I stopped going to the theater for years because of that. Somebody was always kicking the back of my seat, or coughing on me or talking or stinking, it impossible to enjoy a movie under those circumstances. Luckily they invented DVD. But I like watching movies on the big screen. So I devised a plan. I goto matinees. During the week... or if I have to go at night I go on a Monday. I never set foot in a theater on a weekend or anywhere near opening night. I might really want to see the movie bad... but I know I'll get hosed... so I wait. No one ever goes to a matinee on a tuesday. You basically get the whole theater to yourself. If you dont have the luxury of being able to goto movies during a weekday try a sunday morning matinee. It wont be as vacant but I find most of the loud obnoxious inconsiderate fuck holes and their sticky fingered hell spawn children who seem to enjoy ruining your movie experience are at church during that time.
Sorry your movie got crapped on. I really want to see it. Did you get to see any of it? What did you think? I really like Eli Roth's directing. Although I hate the fact Quentin Tarantino doesnt make movies anymore he just goes around sticking his name to other peoples shit. Rereleasing old movies under his label and such. What a wanker. I've always really liked his work. But this one time I rented some anime and there was an intro by Quentin, basically stating how he was responsible for anime being in the US and how he knows so much more about it than anyone else... blah blah blah... I fucking hate that. I was watching Miyazaki movies in 1980... fuck you Quentin Tarantino!
I just plain don't see many movies.
People always ask me, "Oh man, have you seen X"
"Nope."
And then the conversation dies, and we move on with our day.
That's why the death of the drive in was such a disappointment. You could talk all you fucking wanted to, it was in your car. It didn't matter. You just had to put up with people leaning on their car horn.
Which is probably worse than talking.
But yeah, ushers at movie theaters need to be fired. Hire old librarians. I imagine a modern library is no better than a movie theater, so reach back and hire the old ones. The fire and brimstone ladies.
That'll shut people up.
You should have been sitting with me at Phantom of the Opera. Even the theatrical scene is getting marred by idiots. On one end I had this girl making out with her boyfriend. Then in between that they'd start talking. During intermission the girl who was wearing one of those easy to snag kind of elasti pants that ride at your hips or just below started pulling them up. PULLING THEM UP! When they go below your hips from starters, I don't think you have to worry about a wedgie, you know?
Ah well. I don't know what they were doing, I don't want to guess. Point is, it's disgusting and they pay 50 some dollars just to do it when they could do it in their own home.
On the other side of me was Megan. She didn't do anything annoying (she just snickered everytime I made faces of angst), but the guy beside her who correct me in pronouncing Dumar as in Alexander Dumar (course I just might be spelling it wrong, aaaargh) ended up getting sloshed after intermission. When he came back he kept whistling and sighing a whole lot. So there you have it. Even the english professor types aren't behaved enough to watch a musical.
And then my problem...
When you watch the movie version of Phantom of the Opera, I think it kind of spoils you. When you're doing a movie you can make it perfect because even if people make a mistake you can always do it again. But when you see it performed...you only get to see it once, one shot, to see if they get it right.
I think that that is supposed to be what makes the stage so great. It's a lot harder to do everything perfect in one take and that's what these people do.
But the glint and glamour of the movie still ruined the stage performance for me. I don't know why. I guess before seeing the movie you should be able to appreciate how great it is done live first. And then watch the movie. Maybe then it enhances you're love for the show.
I liked it. But I didn't love it. I didn't stare at it in wide-eyed wonder. When I saw L
It doesn't stop at movies and theatre. I went to the Symphany. They were playing the score to the Lord of the Rings. Yeah, I know Im a dork, but it was sold out. Everything is going great until this family of 5 comes in late to take there seats right in front of me. This isn't so bad at first... but the entire event is like 4 hours. It starts at like 7 and ends at 11. This husband and wife have brought their children ages 2,4 and 6. They really want to hear the symphany... I'm sure. So the kids spend the whole time climbing over each other and talking and fucking around. Everytime the manage to get settled down the mother starts messing with them and soon they are jumping all around again. So soon it is way after the tykes bed time and they start crying and generally being even worse than before. Everyone in the surrounding 3 rows is pissed off and glaring at them and they don't take the kids out or do anything but sit their like fucking idiots as their children screech during a musical score. Thing is tickets we're like 75$. So they paid a shit load of cash to ruin my experience when a babysitter would have been cheaper. They are assholes.
Okay so I go to the theater and im sitting there watching Land of the Dead, allright?
Lights dim, people behind me at are still talking, okay whatever it's previews.
They're still talking...the opening starts, and i swear to god, no sooner had they displayed GEORGE REMERO'S LAND OF THE DEAD on the screen, when that stupid bitch behind me, turned to her friends and asked.
"I got strawberry, whatd you guys get?" "I got apple" "I got rasberry" "I'll trade you a strayberry for an apple one" "what kinda drinks did you guys get?"
I turned around and said "How about you be quiet? the movie is starting"
She looks at me and is like "EXCUUUUSE me? Oh I know you didnt just go there."
I shit you not.
Then, after constantly talking through the whole goddamn movie (there was no way in hell to move, the place was packed) for fucking christ's sake, a CELLPHONE RINGS. I am going holy christ who the fuck's phone is it calling durring a mo- No sooner could I finish my thought, when the bitch behind me turns on a blue light, which i realize is her cellphone. She answers.
"Oh hey girl whats happenin? Not much, I'm just watching a movie. Oh yeah? Where you guys at?"
Thats it, thats the last straw, I wanted to turn around, and i grab her goddam cellphone, and i threw it out the door of the theater, as hard as I could, and the goddamn people in front of me would have clapped.
I hate people like that. hate hate hate.
After reading all of these, that none of us actually did anything about it.
Come on, we are POISON dammit! The next time you guys go to a movie, orchestra, or theater, dont tollerate shit from assholes.
You see somebody talking on a cellphone, you grab that cellphone, and you put it inside your soda pop like an icecube.
Somebody behind you is talking to the screen, you turn around and make an ass of the lady, by explaining to her like she's a retard, that the people on the screen cant hear her.
Some little bastard children in front of you are messing around, you do exactly what I did one time. You say to the mother "You will either get these little bastards to sit still and be quiet, leave the theater, or I will have the manager throw your ass out the theater."
and last, but not least. The next fucking asshole you see smoking a ciggerett in the theater (that is what pissed me off the most) you go and get a big cup of water from the main table, (not soda so you dont get everything sticky), walk up, and drench the fucker.
No, see, thats the irony.
You retalliate, and suddenly the folklore hero becomes the asshole with assault charges.
Darwinism Inverse, a society built to protect the stupid and weak from the strong.
I dunno, I got some assholes kicked out once. It was fucking GREAT.
Was watching Match Point, these four people come in just before the movies starts, after the previews and whatever, they spread out and I can feel their feet pushing against the row I'm sitting in and then if that wasn't bad enough one of them opens a can of whatever and they're all:
"Oh my god he's got a can of stella, oh my god how did he get that in?"
I stand up, turn around, grab a shoe off each foot resting on the back of the chairs either side of me and throw them in to the aisle, they stand up to complain and I simply lean forward, whisper to them, "Be quiet and get your feet off the chairs or I'll drag you out of the seats."
They said nothing afterwards and even left after 45 minutes.
Power to Me!
What I hate is when you go to the theater and some drunk guy behind you starts playing with your hair and hitting on you.
man, I must be a real ugmo, 'cause that's never happened to me
molotov, you shouldnt let bitterman sit in the row behind you.
I don't think it is Darwinism Inverse, I think the problem is more along the lines of trying to protect what seems right. Bitterman does say that we become the jerks if we do something. It's true.
But you know, making people angry just makes them even more annoying. We can't wipe out all of the anger, so we figure we're being the better person by not doing anything.
You know what would be a better movement? If everytime someone talked through the theater, all the people who were upset left and got their money back. I mean if a couple people do it here or there, no one will care, but if EVERYBODY did. Man, that'd really force people to start spying in the theaters. Walking down with cattle prods, having Hitler youth rat on their parents for making too much noise while eating popcorn.
There will be extreme measures in order to silence everyone so that they can enjoy the film.
Maybe people just need to realize that the universe doesn't exist for them and that they should go to school to learn how to be a human being and not some apathetic moron who loves society only because other people do, and doesn't know how to reason that people have a good reason to be mad at them, not the other way around.
Kindergarteners everywhere should learn how to be human beings. If they make a mistake, teacher slugs them in the face. If they get caught picking on some kid, the kid slugs 'em in the face. If the kid is being picked on, he's offered a Glock to blow the kids skull apart. If a kid chooses to use it on the kid for his lunch money, well hey...it's a dog-eat-dog-world.
And man...Darwin's world would really suck when all of the jerks like us are the first to go. Cause I think the thinkers of the world are the ones that hate.
But they're smart enough to realize that they cannot even chip at the fossiled mountain of crap that has become the world.
So we can't even slap the kids around when they can't pass their puzzle pages in right.
And remember kiddies, vac
Let's get serious here now, you're all talk, talk, I would do this I would do that. Let me tell you something gross, in terms of Pop Culture.
I went to see Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. I want to add also that I don't go to movies a lot unless I really want to see a movie and this triology in particular caught my attention.
I went to see the premier, on Mexico, it was full as fly over shit. Lines were long as hell and I even prepared myself for it, I knew it was going to be hell. After like four hours of waiting I got my pre-bought ticket, which I got weeks ago, and went in with a cousin and her friend. We sit down, the place is full to hell and the heat is incredible and bealieve me I'm not to be fucked with when I'm overheated, even with cold soda.
Previews pass and all, after about 30 minutes, when shit is getting good this bitch Nextel, a radio cellphones, starts making BEEP BEEP, and I'm like, "You fucking stupid bitch", and I see he's just in front of me, fucking hell. She starts babbling and the annoying BEEP BEEP sound keeps coming from the fucking radio and people start to whistle, as usual the guys from the Theater don't do shit.
I tell her, "Please, could you tune it down or something" and the bitch didn't answer and keep babbling and babbling. I tell her again five minutes later, "Hey, could you put that thing in cell mode, I'm trying to watch the movie"
The bitch turns around and tells me, "What do you care about this lame movie?" and my brain felt like if someone had injected pure NOS into my ciculatory system. I stand up and yell, "What do I care about your lame Nextel". I take the fucking phone, open it, smash it in half with my knee and throw it at the asshole taking a watch at the door from anyone getting in and he's all clueless at what happened. The bitch, and his fat boyfriend which I haven't seen, raised up and began to yell at me and they stopped the movie and lights went on.
"Hey what's going on" Yells one of the theater gu
he told me this story before he posted it. Purer, inspiring words, have not been spoken in a long time.
Yeah good to hear someone doing what everyone wants to and doesn't. Shitting part is...you didnt get to see the movie you paid to see and stood in line 4 hours for. Thats fucking lame. I hate people.
It seems like stupid is a freaking virus the spreads to who ever are around or grew up around a large number of people who are stupid. Normally the edu. system would help combat this but I think the system is starting to go into the dumps.
Plus it doesn't help the T.V. immortalizes stupid people for doing stupid things, thus infecting more people ten fold.
Sad thing is, there is about only one way to deal with the stupids, and when you do that your looked down on by everyone else. Bitterman was right about a society built to protect the stupid and weak from the strong.
What was a saying i heard somewhere? weakness begets weakness, strength begets strength.
Hey folks, I've got a movie theatre story too, though mine is sorta comical.
I remember when I went to see Serenity, as the movie started there was a woman in the audience who actually started calling people on her cell phone and telling them she was at the movie and not to call her... Did she not realise that she could, I dunno, TURN IT OFF and therefore it would not ring? Or *gasp* leaving it in the car?
But I was too busy laughing at her to be mad. I mean, I think she was trying to do the right thing... but she was going about it all ass-backwards...
Anyhow, that's just my two cents.
Maybe she was calling them to let them know that Serenity was the worst sci-fi trash ever and that they shouldn't waste the money she did.
Kids games are so gay and everyone is gay for liking them. EVERYONE WHO PLAYS MARIO STICKS IT IN THE POOPER.
Now if you could please keep it down I'm trying to play Katamari.
On the one hand, people are capable of being very cold and callous. It is in overlooking this fact or hoping that people can be different that many meet their end, their last mistake. I agree with Skydog on this assertion.
On the other hand, if the problem were truly as bad and rampant, we'd have killed everyone and every thing by now. In short, restraint and personal responsibility makes us human. The lion feels no remorse for killing you. A human may. I agree with Keen this assertion.
On some mythical third hand, I'm out of practice. And I haven't posted on this blog I host with some friends of mine in ages. I made a post today. I felt it relevant to this thread's interests. I agree with myself on my own assertion.
http://roadtofailure.com/node/17
Just found this today... I'm now very happy.
http://www.urbandead.com
Enjoy!
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Passes out in the middle of the street.
Either I suck or the game does...probably me.
Dude yer 1st level... and the zombies are also players... who find stuff like flak jackets and then get zombified...so sucking for you. At least they dont shoot back.
My first day with my first character went like this...
Started out as a 1st lvl cop. Walked around. Saw a Zombie. Took a shot at it. I missed. Moved on. Looted a junk yard and found a length of pipe and a fireaxe. Sweet. I moved and looted a few more buildings but found nothing of interest. I saw like two more zombies. I went into a strongly fortified police station and meet like 15 other people. Safe inside I went to sleep. End of day.
I started a second character. A soldier. Walked a bit saw a zombie. Got cocky and blasted at him till I was out of ammo. He wasn't dead yet and two more zombies had shown up. One took a bite outta me. Luckily it wasnt the infectious kinda. I ran. Ran right into 7 zombies in a clump. Ran some more. Found 10 zombies. Crap! I was running out of action points and had no place to hide. I ran into a random building and just closed all the doors. Now Im in a regular old building with only closed doors and windows between me and the zombies. I'm a bit worried. Any basically text based game that makes me worry and stay alittle scared even when I not playing it is awesome. Although I do have a bit of an overactive imagination. But still. I love this game.
On that note. I'm off to help set up for the zombie internatrional ping pong tournament and party!
Peace!
That's ridiculous. If the zombie's bite comes in contact with your skin...you're infected.
Ok, maybe it punched me...I wasnt really paying attention! I know it hit me for 3 damage! Oh crap! 3! So I ran.
I'm also on the run! Damn zombies seem to come out of nowhere and try to kill me but I have a trusty axe and... and I can't hit shit... ohh well at least I'm in a fortified Fire Station. Hope the barricade can hold the barrage of incoming zombies.
I shot a zombie twice, but didn't do enough damage as I would have liked. My character is a police officer. Locke Taelos is my name on there. Anyway so far I have found a G.P.S unit, a flare gun, a pistol clip, and a fuel can.
Yay! Now I'm out of points.
Damn Locke... You hit the mother lode! I need some gas for the generator we have here in our firestation. I did find a flare gun and I see flares going off all the time. But I not sure if they mark safe houses or zombie infestation. So I stay away from them.
My characters are:
Dan Hessel - military - lvl1 - currently in Dentonside at the Horsey Square fire station (92,54). We need gas for our generator.
and...
Ken Finnley - cop - lvl1 - currently in Pitneybank. Sheltering at Boutcher Alley Police Department.
Although the Giddings mall was the scene of a giant 300+ zombie seige and massacre, it seems Pitneybank has a realtively low zombie population right now. But Dentonside and Starlingtown to the north are totally mobbed up.
Lets all try and meet up somewhere and start our own gang and safe house.
Been playing for over a month now, really should of mentioned it but I forgot. I got three characters on the go at the moment; scientst, soldier and firewoman.
Check out the UD Wiki for information and so forth, big events get posted there and info on the news does as well.
Just remember that everyone is out there and trying to survive, be they zombie or human.
Kill 'em all and let god sort them out!
I'm cool with meeting up. I started somewhere at like Penny Hills or something crazy. I don't remember if that's what it is called. But I'm sure I can find you. We should start a Poison crew. That'd be awesome. Crush, maim, and destroy zombies together! Yay, yay, yay. Wikka wikka wak!
I'm just creating a new character, so I'll join in with yall.
another 50 turns, another searching every damn building, and another finding of jack didly squat.
I am so pissed off at how much I hate this game right now, I am fueled with a burning desire to make my own goddamned MMO zombie game.
I've been wanting to make a zombie FPS mmo for a really long time that's very similar to this in basic principal...but that's a project for another day
Hey Carnage...did you read the wiki? The part that tells you which buildings have lootable items in them? Saves you alot of wasted action.
I was just blasting a zombie real good and I thought I was gonna get a kill. But I miss judged my location in realation to my safe house. Now Im stuck outside with a very pissed off zombie!
Oops.
Hehehe. This is fun. I bet Carnage becomes a zombie first.
Well... I made three characters, and I'm pretty sure they're all dead. DEAD!
You mean you made them as zombies or you just got them killed?
Poor Dan Hessel got gnawed up pretty bad by that zombie he was blasting. I think he followed his blood trail back to the Firestation. He woke up standing in a pile of 8 bodies chewed down to 32hps. All the barricades on the firehouse were gone and the doors were wide open. He limped inside and closed the doors.
In other news Ken Finnley is fine he went over to the library and looted some books to read.
Not raining on any parade but I tried Urban Dead a while back, before there was a wiki and what not, and the result was:
Walk, walk, walk, enter a building, search, nothing, leave, walk walk, walk, spot a zombie, walk, walk, shoot miss, shoot miss, shoot miss, shoot miss, shoot hit for 1 pt of damage, shoot miss, shoot miss, shoot miss, shoot miss, shoot miss,... well you get the point and my guy was a soldier.
I thought it sucked so I never mentioned it. I almost started again when I read up on it again over on HpotD but then there was a lot of talk about the Something Awful guys playing hordes of zombies and slaughtering all the players so I figured I wouldn't bother.
Maybe I'll try again.
Hey, Dan (ammojack) gave me the heads up about this site. I am an illustration major at NIU, and I plan on putting some of the stuff I've been working on. I am also gonna be doing some art for The Wastes, so I'll see about posting some of that too.
Later
check it out yo, I brought a new artist!
Weee, welcome!
Go AJ! Sure beats the pants off my "Tag the PtM address all over the girls toilet" idea.
Oh my god its a real live person.
And here I thought another spam bot had figgured out how to penetrate the barrier, and had learned english.
Hello Tater, its good to have you here! You have never been to a more friendly community then this.
*Hears the squealing of tires and screaming in one other threads*
...er.. funner community.
It will be great to see what your art is like.
Welcome... might your stay here be... uhmm... uhhh... something... something... yeah, run along now.
ok, I know at one point I knew how and was authorized to do this but, how the heck do I authorize art for the gallery? I've grown lazy with the glory of auto posting mine. I ask 'cause There's some waitin' to be posted
edit: nevermind, I'm retarded. New question though, how do I preview the art I'm authorizing?
Heed my words of wisdom, new one.
Beware of the Locke Taelos.
Yes! Okay I claim initiation rites! I claim initiation rites!
But alas, I didn't turn in an article...so I'm not allowed.
Ah well.
I was just recently toying with Shylock's logic in The Merchant of Venice where he wants to extract a pound of flesh anywhere from his victim's body.
Hmmm....
Where is the logic in that? I would understand if the person owns him money, but to walk up to a person and say "Pardon me sir, but i would like to remove a pound of your flesh." "..." "Good good, then!" *proceeds to slice and dice the poor sap*
Remember, you ain't allowed to draw blood, Locke...
Well technically the pound of flesh was bound by contract and lawfully his. His downfall was the fact that he had no way of exacting the pound of flesh. What if he took too much and what if he took too less? And then...there was no grounds for spilling blood in the contract either. So really, he needed to be more specific.
solution: Fill the person's mouth with gunpowder and ignite it, carry scale around and measure out proper ammount, then blame death on gunpowder and fire.
ga'damn,I started with hello, and i quickly went to carnage. Chunks of flesh....how kinky
Well now that we've figured out your initiation..
LET THE HAZING COMMENSE!
Har this be here the finest of Poison the Mind as of yet so prepare yerself for some bloody battle ya pirate scum!
Commence the hazing and you might just find yerselves being scraped off the back of a shovel into a dumpster across the border.
And across what border will that be HMMMM?
Alright now I have been recording a lot latelly and thanks to Bitterman who showed me Audacity, which I really recommend, I have managed to make some good shit.
Proof of that would be this so go and enjoy it and sorry for using WAV but apparently I need some tech support with the exporting of MP3 files...
-Vico Surge
to me its like im walking slowly through a long endless church with skeletons on either sides of me reading bibles and throwing there arms at the heavens...
cool shit, I think ill go have a nightmare of my own now.
I was gonna record some vocal track over it...but I have to find the right software.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Exactly Bitterman. No better link has ever been shown to me.
cool stuff edipo, nice and haunting
Sweet sounding recording, the opening is the best bit for me. Could be a tune that features throughout... whatever you want.
I'm actually considering this to be the opening of an EP I want to pull out I'm naming Church of the Apocalypse. That idea Skeller had of adding a vocals track would be fucking sweet and maybe some chanting.
By the way here's another one for ya people which has this little like... eastern feel, hence the name Ost which means East in German.
And also here's one I made for Carnage and his RME project. This has a more Jazzy feel to it so enjoy.
Edit:
After an hour of playing around I finished this. It clocks around 4:30 which is the longest I've produced so far. Kinda inspired by the Kingdom Cole thing. Shortly I'll have a short story depicting what is the song about, stay tuned for it.
Twilight of the Apocalypse Kingdom, That is what comes to mind with Kingdom. And Ost did feel like something you would play on a trek east. Good stuff.
There's more stuff now but there's too many links so you can go clicky here.
http://www.vicocorps.com/wiki/MusicWorks
-Vico Surge
I really like the long one, strikes something deep, but the transfer at one point like halfway through was a bit edgy. Hell I know.
Think the first one you put up could be expanded, it's really good.
you sir need access to some distortion
I do have some Distortion but it... it doesn't suck balls it's my 25 Watts Amp. It sounds so fucking dirty the distortion is horrible, at least it sounds better than the integrated distortion, what I fucking need is a 100 Watt Head Ibañez or Spider II, maybe even a fucking Crate or Marshall. That's why I'm opening my "Buy Vico Surge the Correct Instrument" Fund so I can get some decent shit! And it's not that I'm cheap but I hate having to pay 500 bucks for an Amp I can find at 250 on San Diego but my fucking currency is so shitty it ain't worth a fuck when trying to get some decent equipment.
Correction. I now have in my possesion a 45 Watts Squire Amp and I can say now I'm fully satisfied with it. Yamaha ain't worth shit and here's why. The not so tiny 25 Watt Yamaha Amp needed to be at volume level 5 ot 6 for the Distortion to have a good tone even when the distortion itself is at level 8! And the horrible thing is that the fucking thing was about to crack, I could hear pops and crackles every once in a while, so I was getting real pissed. Now with the Squire it's a whole different story. This baby is barelly at Level 1 with the Distortion in 9 and I'm getting blown the fuck away with the power of the speaker. This baby rocks! I don't hear any pops or crackles anymore and the only problem it has is the main port for the guitar which seems to be damaged, I noticed when I had to move the cable all around until I could hear a clean noise, but who cares for 70 bucks!
Check out the link, sorry for the size of the pic but my camera blows, to check out what I'm working with! For those who can't make it out, and probably most won't make it out, there's a copy of a Strat Guitar, Sunrise Model, the Squire 45 Watts and a Danelectro Black Coffee Distortion (Wake up and smell the coffee... they weren't joking about that one). Plus all the cables and on the background an old non-working PC which I plan to fix to use as a third recording platform.
-Vico Surge
Skeller thinks it's cool. What do you people think?
I already got the Bass and Guitar mixed, missing obviously the drums and the vocals which soon I might add.
http://www.vicocorps.com/music/Machinew.mp3
-Vico Surge
http://www.vicocorps.com/music/Myga.mp3 - Some Trash Metal (Influenced by Fear Factory)
http://www.vicocorps.com/music/Dream.mp3 - Some Black Metal (Influenced by Burzum)
http://www.vicocorps.com/music/Mosh.mp3 - Some Grindcore (Influenced by Carcass)
http://www.vicocorps.com/music/Despachando.mp3 - This is a mix of Trash and Death (Mix of something like Slayer and/or Metallica with Asesino/Brujeria) This song I call Despachando Cuerpos (Dispatching the Corpses)
-Vico Surge
Yet another trashy song that has Slayer influences. This I call kamikaze.
http://www.vicocorps.com/music/Kamikaze.mp3
-Vico Surge
Funny thing... I started recording lyrics over some of your songs before you offered up the contest. But when I went to output them it told me I needed more software to make an mp3 and I got lazy and stopped. I love these little songs and can't wait till you get more of a band together and really produce some massive rocking shit. I'm impressed because I can't do anything musically.
You need to download a program called LAME from the website. Do it and once you're done it's gonna ask you to link it, only the first time it will ask for that, and then you're ready to export MP3 stuff.
Here's some shit that makes you proud to listen to Slayer!
A reworked version of Kamikaze http://www.vicocorps.com/music/NewKamikaze.mp3
And a new song that's just in development that sounds a lot like Despachando
http://www.vicocorps.com/music/Hell.mp3
-Vico Surge
Yeah, it gives you an option for an MP3 encoder since there are alot of them. But LAME is the easiest to find, freest, best workingist. So just get LAME.
http://lame.sourceforge.net/
I think it's just a DLL in a zip. Extract it to a common area like C:\Windows\System32\
Or stick it in the Audacity folder, C:\Program Files\Audacity 1.3 Beta\
Your mileage may vary on actual folder locations.
they sound cool, I'd really like to hear some drums with 'em.
On the subject of cheap amps, one of my friends got the Marshall MG-15 or 20 or something, it's a little practice amp that runs on the same circuitry as my MG100. For the size it's incredibly powerful and it sounds almost exactly as badass as the bigger version that I have.
Is anybody as excited for this as I am? it looks amazing, just thinking of who they'll add next. Has anybody been checking out the official website?
Oh. Hell. Yes.
I try to go to the official web site at least once a week. Someone and I were discussing the lack of updates, or not putting stuff on the site we already know (like Solid Snake being a fighter even though he doesn't have a page yet).
But I explained it like this. When I was running the site for WL2042, we setup a schedule for weapons updates. Every Thursday, new weapon revealed, new shot of it, new blurb. Not much, but we kept a beat to it, set our watch to it. Soon I didn't even had to put out the announcement, every Thursday 10,000 people showed up on the site wanting to know where the weapon was at.
That is the kind of regularity they're setting up here, and it's effective. They've probably got all the updates pre-metered out to take them right up to the release day.
But yeah, playing this one is going to be awesome, especially if they stick to the online play. If they drop it I will never forgive them.
And still buy it because I'm a sucker.
Muuust play. I havnt been following the game, because I've wanted more info to be available, but I've just looked into it now and read up on it. Smash balls and a super finale move? DO you know what this means!?
I guess some of you may not be as hardcore oldschool rpg fans as some of us, but Earthbound is one of my favorites. For some of you that may or may not know, the character Ness was added into Smash Bros. Melee. Ness, the striped shirt and cap wearing, baseball bat toting teenager is the main character of the game Earthbound. Throughout Earthbound, Ness developes a special psychic attack that only he can cast, it damages all enemies and deals insane ammounts of damage.
Devs from Melee were quoted to say that they removed this trademark move of Ness because it was too powerful to be used in-game.
If these smash balls allow for an ultra powerful finale attack...Ness just might be able to use...
PSI ROCKIN!
Ness was awesome. Anyone who gets to use a baseball bat in a fighting game is a hero in my book.
of course i know earthbound, played it, and beat it (on an emulator no less).
now that you mention it, Ness could have a really cool final smash, but we'll see i suppose.
i hope they have online play, did Nintendo say they were contemplating online play for brawl?
Somewhere it has been said, I've already read it.
But surely, when it is "announced" people will be freaking out about it.
well, Zelda has been announced, "Twilight Princess style"
but sheik....hmm still a mystery.
But this leads me to question, and I asked LA and Jason this.
Since it is Twilight Princess style Zelda.. and really TP style Link too, but nobody was paying attention... will Link be able to become the wolf?
i don't think they'll make link a wolf. I think they'll focus on making his character unique like he is in melee and the original.
but the wolf would totally rock. I'm all for it.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that while you've made a clever speculation, there are extremely good odds that they've simply used the actual (if slightly modified for better fighting animation deformation) models from Twilight Princess.
Why create a model from scratch when you've got it made already...They probably didn't have to touch Link, he's already got almost all the animations and rigging flexibility for his classic fighting moves. Talk about a sweet deal...
Perhaps a powerup in the game allows your character, ANY character, to turn into the wolf thing.
Why not? They had the Samus screw-attack powerup as an item.
i'm also thinking something along the lines of King K. Rool, or even Diddy. add more Donkey Kong characters i suppose. I'm just waiting for them to confirm Yoshi, knowing his music and stage have been released...
He is a main character and has been in every smash bros. game so far with levels accordingly. Why wouldn't he be in this one?
PERSONALLY, I'd like to see Boshi in here too as an alternate char. Like Doctor Mario and Young Link.
But to those of you who don't know who I'm talking about, Boshi was a character in Super Mario RPG : Legend of the Seven Stars.
Boshi
The Metal Version of Yoshi. \m/
Boshi could easily work as a costume for Yoshi (like peach's daisy costume).
the rumor going around that sonic has a shot...is BS! i doubt sonic will be in, but what are your thoughts on sonic being in?
Discussion about Sonic being a character was from way the hell back near the beginning of Brawl's announcement.
I see it as a possibility, and it'd be easy to import the model into the game (like Link from twilight princess) but the problem at hand is what would his fighting style do?
Basically it would consist of a Dash attack (Fox + Falco from SSBM),
a samus Screw Attack, maybe go into a Rolling Spin Mode (Basically morph ball Samus), and a Spin-Launch attack (Which would basically be copying Jiggly Puff's move from SSBM).
As the possibility of GETTING him to be a character, that'd be no problem. As the PRACTICALITY of him being unique enough in moves for the game? Doubtful. He'd be a clone copy-char and in his place they could insert some other character from some other game.
Besides, Sonic is lame. The people want Tails!
I agree, the only way he could work and be "like sonic" would be if his moves were all totally cheap and lame. Sonic is a muncher of butts.
BUT WHAT ABOUT MEGAMAN DOOD!!!!!!!
haha, just kidding, but seriously now, wouldn't it be cool if Baby Mario and Baby Luigi had a combo character like the ice climbers, modeled after Mario and Luigi: Partners in time? I personally would like that.
Megaman would be a Samus clone with his beam attack. Possibly a fast rapid fire B button blaster (copying Fox/ Falco from SSBM). Megaman wouldn't work.
The main characters from the Castelvania games would be awesome, but it'd be interesting to see how they choose what abilities they're stuck with. Or perhaps give them the power to abdorb souls (somewhat like Kirby?)
Bullshit Mega Man wouldn't work. Bullshit.
He's no fucking clone. He's got a slide move, he can jump. To date he has no less than 70 different Arm Cannon attacks, 8 different abilities from 8 different bosses across 8 different games, minus 1 because they used Tengu Man twice in Mega Man 8 on the PS1 and Mega Man and Bass, plus 6 from the first game that only had 6 robot bosses, plus 1 for his default canon, equals 70. That isn't even counting accessories to his crimes; He's got Beat. Eddy. Rush.
"Bbb-but but... but he can't ride around on Rush! That's not fair!"
Bullshit.
http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characte ... o.html#2nd
You see that? You see Wario? He's riding a motorcycle. As a move. It can be stolen. And let's talk about Wario. A character who is a generic smash and clobber platformer from the GBA, turned into Micro Game mogul with Warioware. And you know what? They found a way to make him work. We could dispute his moves or lack there of, but he's right there. You know what Mario is famous for? Jumping. Yet he somehow also has a nice arsenal of moves. Don't you give me no shit about Mega Man won't work, Mega Man can't do this. Mega Man can kick your ass, that's what he can do. And we're not even talking about X, who can dash and wall cling and is best friends with Zero and his crazy ass light sabre, we're just talking regular old school Mega Man.
Don't you tell me about no Mega Man, dammit.
Alright it's now time to officially announce the first annual Nurk fiction contest. I'm not sure what this means really as I just developed it and the adjectives "first" and "annual" make it sound a whole lot better than what it is; however, first and foremost this is all in good fun.
Some of you may come in here wanting to get your greedy little paws on the prizes. Well in case you are wondering what the prizes are before you get your greedy little paws on them I'll tell you.
Prizes:
Grand Prize: The Omega Man - One of the more popular post apocalyptic movies which stars Charlton Heston.
1st Runner up: One pack of anti-radiation (iodide pills) to keep you from getting thyroid cancer in case of nuclear attack.
2nd Runner up: The first Deathlands novel: Pilgrimage to Hell by Jack Adrian
Now for the guidelines:
A lot of the post apocalyptic stories I've read recently have always had a dark, depressing ending to them. Characters are always brooding and it's understandable why they feel this way. They're knee deep in hell so to speak.
While I don't want writers to make a happy go lucky wasteland adventure I'm going to offer up a very small challenge to kick up this contest (and the challenges will get harder with each contest). I want you all to have a happy ending.
Perhaps we have a character who has always wanted to pledge his undying love for another, but for reasons out of his control (man vs nature, man vs man, man vs himself, man vs machine) he finds himself failing to do so. Maybe he's given one last chance to prove his love or to simply show it and that's what the story revolves around.
Or maybe we have a tale about a paradisaic utopia inside a government vault where people have made peace with themselves. They've become mild mannered, loving, and are very kind. But there is something that poses a threat to them and to their order and they must develop a way to either cover up this horrible secret, stop it, or allow it to consume them altogether. Bu
I will do my best, but it will take a while to make.
I heard about the contest, so figured I'd give it a shot for the hell of it. I already have something to submit.
Hey all,
First post because I just heard about the contest. Missed this much, tho...is there a length limit/requirement? Dont wanna write too much or not enough, so just wondering. Thanks a ton.
Well...ok...is there any universe requirement, can it be general Post Apoc or does it have to fall into the Fallout universe?
Valid Question you know...
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Anyway...
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Alrighty I'll tackle both questions at once. I thought about answering them, but then I started to think about how much I hated high school essays and how restrictive they were.
First and foremost I have always hating having to have 800 word essay or a two page paper on blah blah blah. I mean when I'm writing something how am I supposed to know how long it is? And when I do write something I consider everything that is there worth being there and I hate getting rid of stuff just because someone doesn't want to read it.
My answer for length is that I want a short story. I don't want any novels and I certainly don't want a two paragraph story unless of course you can really get your point across with those two paragraphs. And just because you may submit something that's 15 pages doesn't necessarily mean that you'll win because it's long. Quality over quantity as they always say.
As for the universe well again I don't want to restrict anyone. If they want to write something about Fallout, I probably wouldn't be to happy about it, but you know what? If it's a good Fallout fiction then fine. I would really like to have some original fiction though as I had highlighted in the example scenarios.
So lets see...don't make my eyeballs explode with a novel or novella length story and try to be original. I suppose that's the answer all summed up in a setence. Don't you want to kill me for making you read everything above?
Kill you? No. I'm looking forward to September 1st.
I would say I'm in but.... mock's start on the 1st, and if I want to get out of this shite hole of a school, I have to pass them. And I have to look like I'm trying. So this means trying to write a story during lunchtimes on scraps of paper. This is good. This means I can shun the people I want to murder in cold blood without appearing to hate them.
Er, that is to say... I'll give it a go Lockie.
Cool, writing isn't my strong point, but I'll give it a go.
Yes, yes, my brethren, go out there and take over the world with your fiction! Make me strong again! Give me your souls!
Hmmm I just love sugar high.
You know...just for the record, the Pilgrimage to Hell book is the original version printed in 1986. I don't know if there was ever a reprint or not, but these books were gotten used. So don't poke any fingers at me and say, "LOCKE READ IT FIRST! WHAT A BLOODY FREAK!"
Because actually I bought two. And from what I've been reading of my own copy, the book is faaaaabulous to say in a none homosexual way. Er wait.
Not enough time. Someone stole my sacred floppy. No that's not what I mean!
As I said before I am in. Heh.
As for Prilgrimage to Hell, it was reprinted but a first print isn't exactly an easy find 18 years later Took a few months for my wife to dig me up one over the net. Not that it's valuable but if you are a post-apocalypse geek like me it's pretty cool to have.
Some people are just geeks anyway, hey you should know old timer.
I'm also looking for the remake and the original Gamma World books. If you aren't familiar with Gamma World, it was a post apocalyptic pnp role playing game.
Wizards of the Coast made a remake of Gamma World using their Alternity game, but, as the cover says, it's stand alone. Since I don't have a credit card, I don't use Ebay which is making things even more difficult to find.
I suppose I could just get the original which would be cooler, but I was thinking about it for a future prize. If we get lots of good work then we'll have better prizes.
But really...I'm starting to wonder if there should be some sort of donation system or something developed for prizes. I mean being a college student I'm certainly not made of money, and regardless if you're in college, high school, or are in the working field, who is? I would hope that most of us, as post apocalyptic fans would put a big thumbs down to materialism, but you never know.
Still...I don't see any monthly contests in the future for Nurk. I suppose season contacts could be realistic, but the real problem, in my opinion, would be shipping things off the continent to Europe and the like.
I remember Ashmodai of the Fallout Network having some company send me Warcraft 3 Collector's Edition. Once it came to me I mailed it to Germany, where he lives. And he paid me back and all that, but he also had to pay some sort of fee just for getting the package! I think overall he paid some 200 dollars for the stupid game. I asked him if it was worth it. It never is.
So really...it's just something to think about. Entrust Bitterman with donation money, I say, and then we show him what we want and he buys it. It is HIS site afterall and if we can't trust him then, heck, why are we here? Hehe. And with donations and all that it'd be easier to get better prizes.
Who knows perhaps someday we'll even be able to give away an Israeli gas mask or an infant radiation suit (which I've located by the way)! And the infant radiatio
I actually already own a gas mask. It's US, I believe, and I don't really want to part with it.
Well we don't want your dungy standard issue United States gas mask, Bitterman! We want an Israeli gas mask! Think of all the kinky fun Professor can have with his blow up doll then when he wins it!
I've got one of each...and a pirate hat too. I don't really mind shelling out some loot for a contest prize, when it brings people and art or fiction to the site. But I won't be doing it long if only three people enter the contests and they win by default...I might as well just start dropping pile of money on the sidewalk. It cuts out the middle man. I think movies are a good prize. Easy to mail and the basis for most post apocalypse things in general. That is until we get a real apocalypse and live through it. Anyhow, I want results. I want to see ten peices of new fiction from this contest. Then next contest, I'll chip in for some really great prizes. Although this is a art and fiction site, and we shouldn't have to bribe people to send in their work. They should be begging Bitterman to post them. So there.
Well guys, I'll be sending in my entry soon. I just had my own semi-semi-post apoc experience this past week. Tuesday we had a bad storm and a tree limb tore down the wires going to my house and my neighbor's. We had phone, but no lights. And we had motorcars *unconsciously starts humming the theme song*
We just got power back yesterday, so fortunately the contest can now be a valid priority.
Good luck to the rest of you
Yes, it's true, Anthem just sent the first submission. Now all the rest of you have till the end of the month!
Thanks Anthem, when it comes to Nurk! you're a true wasteland patriot! Now let's all force Bitterman to write one.
Well we have two fictions submitted so far. Keep 'em comin!
Wasteland Vehicle design contest!
Rules!
1. Design a cool ass vehicle to cruise the ruins and wastes of a spoiled future.
2. Draw a cool picture of said vehicle. Skills and technique will be judged along with originality.
3. Choose any genre...ie: Fallout, Mad Max, Gamma World, Blah Blah Blah...and so forth.
4. Enter as often as you please.
5. All entries must be made by you. No stealing or dumb shit.
6. feel free to work as a team. But be ready to split your prize.
7. Prize will be for first place only...cuz ya'll are tapping out my shit. Plus cool post apocalypse prizes are hard to come by.
8. DEADLINE...all entries must be in by March 20, 2004...or be disqualified. That's a month...more than enough time.
9. Good Luck!
Due to comment by bitterman, do i send you the entrees, upload them in art section, or post em on forums?
Post them right here in this thread. After the conest is over and if they are any good, we'll move them into the art section for long lasting enjoyment!
Unless Bitterman tells you to do something else...in which case listen to him.
3 entrees.
-Waste(lan)d Hummer-
Mess with the best, end up like the rest.. some poor raider saps who thought they could take us in PnP.
-Dune Shark-
It originaly has a plow and 2 LMG mounts but i took them off so you could see it better from the angle it's sitting. the engine feeds the chains through the pipes in the sides to the rear axle so the back wheel is the one pushing everything.
-"Battle" Cruiser-
The first vehicle i ever tried to shade with shadow, and i think i did a fairly okay job... Its a small cruise ship...very small, and the black things on the platforms are Browning M2s. Also, it says on the side... N.Y. CRUISE LINES but it's written accross a door, which is slid open accross the other letter, sorry for the confusion. (P.S. through that door is a small hanger for jet skis, ect.)
Once agian, please excuse the crappiness of my scanner.
Heh, i dunno if i can send in any more entrees...i've been so busy... I got my BW back installed, finally, and I been workin on a map me n my friend made, and we decided to redo it, and it really kicks ass. too many triggersm and oh so so little time....
keep yer eyes peeled on battle.net for
Resident Evil : Eve of Destruction
(P.S. is anybody interested in me posting it up on these forums/can i, once i finish it?)
Captain Carnage, it'd be cool to see the adition of a diminishing point and ground plane in your pictures. I know it's no fun to grid the space, but for vehicle drawing it's probably best if you do, given a defined perspective architectural and mechanical illustrations always look a lot cooler.
Uh.... Can you kinda rephrase that in lay-man terms, im in 9th grade, hopped up on zoloft and cappiccino, and i just learned how to play the blues on a guitar in sciense class.
sorry, art school makes you speak art talk...even if you're just a Time Arts major...
A vanishing point is just a determined point on the horizon that everything diminishes to (things get smaller as they go back in space and what not). "Gridding the space" is just laying out a grid that diminishes to the vanishing point, just a little field to work on to keep things lined up and going back at the correct angles.
A ground plane is just a piece of ground to set the car on
Do a search on the net for "perspective drawing" to get a nice illustrated idea of what I mean if that didn't clear it up (and it probably didn't). If I can get around to doing my own entry I'll make sure to scan the roughs when the grid and vanishing point lines are all prominant and visible for you.
It's definatly a very usefull skill to have in the illustration world, so if it's something you tackle in 9th grade (freshman year of highschool ey?) then more power to ya.
I believe what he is trying to say would be something like this:
ooooooooooo i seeee
only 1 prob, i dun have any programs that will allow me to edit my art, and heh, believe it or not, i "eyeball" all the measurments...just use the ruler and compass for keeping straight lines...
This is my entry for the conest. I'm rather new here, and I've been actually drawing for a bit, so we'll see what we see. This is a mix of a few muscle cars, but it looks a heck of a lot like the Plymouth GTX on my calendar.
Well, I'm sitting this one out (I can't draw vehicles for shite), but this is some fierce lookin' stuff. Love the ideas. Keep 'em coming!
Those bullet holes in that car rock, most of the time people just draw dark circles (as do i).
*claps hands* question tho, did you mess up with the wheels, or is it supposed to look like that? to me the hardest thing to do is draw the wheels.
I messed up on my tires, if that question was for me, I didn't darken the lines too much either, but I figured I'd just leave it as is and do better some other time. Lol, it looks like it's supposed to be moving, sorry for the confusion.
It's all good, heh, wunna know somthin funny? i started drawing these in january. Thats only in like 2 months...w00t i could be really good at this after a time.
Wait till you see my art!
keep it up, practice makes perfect! Let this be a note to all of you, no matter your current artistic talent, join in!
DEAR GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY I HAVE 2 SONGS STUCK IN MY HEAD AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!!
LOUIE LOUIE AND THE COCA COLA THEME
PLZ GOD HELP ME
Edit:
AJ Sez: please dont post on acid
and the funny thing is, i dont smoke, drink, or take drugs of any kind, except for this goddamn zoloft...
...long-term depression, from gettin teased and beat up in school since 3rd grade, anyways...
i got 3 more pics i can make, but i need to print off the photos from my comp. (like my taxi, took a pic of a taxi and highly modified it)
Unfortunatly, my printer is being a royal pain in the ass... I gotta Lexmark, and the bastard says that everytime i try to print, "cannot communicate with printa" crap. I think i remember somthing from like last year where i couldnt have my printer and scanner hooked up the same time....bah
THAT'S RIGHT! HERE IT IS SKEN! ITS MR. SQUIRREL ON A UFO!
lmao! Oh boy oh boy. Look at that little guy! Its just like those pictures of a UFO you get when you cant really see what it is, look at his teeth!I think that little mammel deserves his own comic strip.
Scary thing is...it looks better scanned than it does on paper.
Aw well, no comics of Squirrel and Saucer. I wouldn't know where to start, and I'm almost 100% sure I couldn't draw that again if my life depended on it. LOL
wow that looks like the emblem for a cult of some kind
hmmm...hundreds of ideas are running through my mind.
even as I type this hmmm.
Here's an advertisement for UFO squirl <--Typo intended
Well professor, I'd hate to break it to you, but I didn't really draw that...
Its actually...a real life...squirrel on a ufo. I caught it flying about in my backyard.
Hmmm... you are frum da postapocalyptic USA right?
In post apoc. Germany da UFOs fly on da Squirrelz.... it looks better and it makez the ego of da UFOs stronger. (Adding a +1 Bonus on Charisma!)
Here in the south...we just have flying squirrels...no saucers...but those bastards live in tribes and waylay travelers and theaten them with pointy sticks and take their lunch money...and say...
"Argh! Ye scurvy dogs, Ye best be given us yer lunch monies, or you'll be tasting our pointy sticks...eh!"
Life is harsh in the burning southland...
E - I
Dirty!!
Too dirty to clean my act up!
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