At 7/25/08 09:34 PM, knightsofthecircle wrote:

At 7/25/08 09:32 PM, Sh0T-D0wN wrote:

At 7/25/08 09:30 PM, TheAmateurAnimator wrote:

I always thought the Amish were rather suspicious characters. Just what are they hiding underneath their beards?

Another beard?

No! That's what they want you to think. They actually hide ray guns in those beards to kill people who found out.

I KNEW IT! I KNEW they were hiding something sinister and diabolical!

There's only two people who can save us...

Nobody, NOBODY could imitate Heath's Joker and get away with it. The new Joker is inimitable.

I think the next Batman should have Jason Alexander as the Penguin or David Tennant as the Riddler.

At 7/25/08 09:21 PM, knightsofthecircle wrote: For that matter, do we even now the Amish haven't already made contact with interstellar life before? Here's how you find out if the Amish are hiding something:

A.) Do they always feel nervous when around strangers?
B.) Do they always deny the existance of aliens on their property?
C.) Do they have a spaceship inside their barn?
D.) Are they aliens themselves?

I always thought the Amish were rather suspicious characters. Just what are they hiding underneath their beards?

At 7/25/08 03:06 PM, TheReno wrote: I always wanted to use that software, but cant. I can make levels though, for my skills are in world building. Just takes time and textures. So if you need anything like that for a 3d world, Im your guy.

It's a 2d game, and I'm going for a simplistic, cartoony, black-outlines-with-minimal-shading style, kind of like Earthbound. Sorry for the crappy screenshot, but I don't have Photoshop right now.

I might have to conscript some graphic designers from here if anyone has the talent. If I ask for help with anything with anthros in it over at RMXP.org, they'll kick me out.

At 7/25/08 04:06 PM, darkmaster962000 wrote:

At 7/25/08 03:32 PM, Tehpivot wrote: ooh!
and you can also come over to my house and see the pictures that I photoshop-er, took of UFOs.

I lol'd at that,but seriously There could be something going on here i myself am a christian and i beileve that it is a possibility. After all maybe aliens were a race that god gave up on. On a slightly unrelated matter, WHO HERE IS EXITED TO WATCH THE NEW X-FILES MOVIE?

I'm only excited about seeing Scully and Mulder. After seeing how the whole series went downhill after Season 7, I don't have very high hopes for the plot.

At least furries are attracted to humanoids.

At 7/25/08 02:27 PM, Schizo-Sephy wrote: Of course the government is going to cover stuff like this up. They probably think normal people cannot "understand" these sorts of things.

And considering how scientifically illiterate most Americans are, they're probably right.

All this talk reminds me of a game I've started to work on using RPG Maker XP. It's basically Metal Gear Solid meets Die Hard, using a complex and powerful projectile-based action battle system.

So far, the characters include:
Vyx (anthro fox, heroine)
Dr. Solomon Bowman (scientist, creator of Vyx)
Colonel Daniel H. MacLeod (US Army colonel)
Maximilian Renard (leader of terrorist cell "Chimera")

The plot: The terrorist cell known as "Chimera" takes over Dr. Bowman's private genetic research facility in order to take control of the nanomachines used to induce massive genetic changes and threaten to contaminate the United States' largest natural reservoir with the nanomachines if their demands are not met. After a US Army strike team is neutralized by Chimera's elite genetically-modified "super-soldiers," the task of rescuing Dr. Bowman and neutralizing the terrorists falls to Vyx. Vyx finds out later on that the terrorist leader Renard has been planning to dump the nanomachines all along, and Chimera's demands were just a front. Here is a scene discussing Renard's motives. I plan on writing the script so that it raises the possibility that Renard was a good guy, not a villain:

Renard: So, you must be the wrench in our machine.
Vyx: I'm here to stop you from poisoning the reservoir!
Renard: Poison?
Renard: The technology that created you is a poison?
Renard: If it weren't for these nanomachines, you wouldn't even be here.
Vyx: The people in this country don't deserve to have this change forced upon them!
Renard: They don't?
Renard: You've probably spent your whole life sheltered here. You don't know what it's like-what people really deserve.
Renard: I've seen the lowest members of the human race.
Renard: And I've seen them doing horrible things.
Renard: I don't suppose Dr. Bowman taught you about the Ku Klux Klan?
Renard: Or neo-Nazis?
Renard: He probably never told you anything about Scientologists or pedophile priests.
Renard: There are people in this world who deserve to have these nanomachines force-fed to them.
Vyx: Why?
Renard: Why? To open their minds!
Renard: These people must be dragged kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century!
Vyx: I don't understand. All this will do is create chaos!
Renard: Of course it will. People will be afraid. Few will understand what's happening to their bodies, and nobody will know what water is safe to drink.
Renard: The people who will be affected the most, of course, are the ones who oppose this sort of thing.
Renard: Imagine if a bigoted, dedicated white supremacist woke up one day to find himself black. .
Renard: There will be chaos, there will be hysteria. There will be blood.
Renard: But out of this chaos will come a new order!
Renard: Old prejudices will be cast aside and people will be forced to realize at the most fundamental level that it's what's on the inside that counts.
Renard: It will be as close to a utopia as possible. A veritable heaven on Earth!
Renard: And you would deny me this dream? Why?
Renard: Because a man with some fancy medals pinned on his chest told you to?
Vyx: ...
Vyx: ...I can't let you hurt all those people. It's not right!
Renard: Not right? Not right?
Renard: They will all die someday anyway-but if I succeed, they will die sooner, and with a purpose.
Renard: Which is better, a death that is meaningless or a death that changes the world?
Vyx: ...
Renard: Your father probably never taught you anything like this.
Renard: In morality, black and white don't exist. There are only shades of gray, approaching the extreme ends of the spectrum but never reaching it.
Renard: Sometimes, terrible deeds can make the world a better place. Ends do justify means.
Renard: Now, will you join me?
Vyx: ...No.
Renard: I'm sorry to hear that.
Renard: You won't live to see my utopia.
Renard: And when you arrive in hell, tell your bosses that I said "hello."

Endless loop.

At 7/25/08 10:57 AM, TheAmateurAnimator wrote: Perhaps, if you had a bunch of parallel processing quantum supercomputers running continuously for a long period of time (think of it as kind of like Deep Thought from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), you could have them calculate the effects and results of all genetic combinations, allowing you to map the purposes of every gene in existence. This would, in theory, allow one with access to the computers to design an anthropomorphic animal from the ground up or using a humanoid template without going through long, messy, and unethical trial and error. The changes could be administered to humans through gene therapy or a calculated and controlled use of nanomachines. However, we definitely won't see this kind of stuff in our lifetimes.

And, now I'm thinking, even after this technology is designed, there would be some obvious obstacles:

1. Price. This kind of stuff will not and cannot come cheap unless innovations are made to make the procedure simpler and less expensive than it already seems.
2. Equal rights. There is still a lot of racism and xenophobia in society. A newly-designed humanoid species would be constantly discriminated against and abused, and if history has taught us anything, then it will take at least one hundred years for the new species to gain the respect of the human majority.
3. Religious opposition. Well, duh. There would be strong and vehement fundamentalist opposition to the innovation. Anybody who undergoes the procedure who was a member of a religion would probably be excommunicated of forced into apostasy (as you may or may not know, any Muslim who leaves their religion or is forced out of it, becoming an "apostate," is marked for death). Hopefully, by the time the technology is invented, we will be beyond such primitive nonsense.

The only time I can imagine this technology and the worlds of possibility it unlocks being embraced is in a "Star Trek"-like utopia.

Perhaps, if you had a bunch of parallel processing quantum supercomputers running continuously for a long period of time (think of it as kind of like Deep Thought from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), you could have them calculate the effects and results of all genetic combinations, allowing you to map the purposes of every gene in existence. This would, in theory, allow one with access to the computers to design an anthropomorphic animal from the ground up or using a humanoid template without going through long, messy, and unethical trial and error. The changes could be administered to humans through gene therapy or a calculated and controlled use of nanomachines. However, we definitely won't see this kind of stuff in our lifetimes.

At 7/24/08 08:22 PM, Sekhem wrote:

At 7/24/08 08:21 PM, LiquidSapphire wrote: I hope this doesn't happen to america, pirated movies are also being monitored, although I only downloaded a few movies.

better wipe your harddrive they are tracking that shit, feds are probably on their way now

That won't help, the feds have very advanced data retrieval stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if the only way to completely wipe a hard drive so that they can't get data off of it would be to grind it into a very fine powder.

At 7/24/08 06:29 PM, Gatling wrote:

At 7/24/08 01:15 PM, Scuzzfest wrote: I infact got a warning about this from virgin media. my sister is a big fan of limewire and now our internet is being monitored...

Isn't this against the privacy policy?

He doesn't have any privacy, nor does he deserve any, because he's nothing but a dirty criminal pirate bastard.

At 7/24/08 07:07 PM, BadRep wrote: What the hell is " ITT " anyway?

"In This Thread."

All of the MGS games are epic in every sense of the word. Hideo Kojima is a modern-day Shakespeare.

Also, Super Metroid. An enormous underground labyrinth, bosses many times your size, and a climactic final boss battle and escape scene. Could you ask for anything more?

A movie of one of the Metroid games, directed by Ridley Scott or James Cameron--Scott because he directed Alien, Cameron because he directed Aliens; both of which are really similar to the Metroid series.

If you have these directors, a solid cast, and a great screenplay, it would be gold.

At 7/23/08 07:43 PM, shatterspike1 wrote: Metroid is goddamned boring; It has absolutely nothing that tells you where to go.

I kind of see your point. When I played Super Metroid recently, I thought to myself, "how is anyone supposed to find all these secret passages?"

But I digress, because all of the Metroid games are still awesome. If you're stuck, use a fucking walkthrough guide. There are a ton of them.

At 7/23/08 09:03 PM, DarkMana wrote: The problem is that Snake was in the plant at the same time, doing the same thing, so they could have made Snake the playable one and it wouldn't have changed much at all.

The whole point of making Raiden the player character was to make Snake seem much more "mythical" and "legendary" in the eyes of the player. Previously, we knew Snake was kickass, but we just didn't know how much of a true master of awesomeness he really was until we were forced to see him from a rookie's point of view. I read it in a Metal Gear Solid magazine.

Also, remember Terminator 2, how Arnold looks like he's playing the bad terminator again and you think that he's going to terminate John Connor, and that nicer-looking terminator played by Robert Patrick is going to be his protector? And then you find out that Robert Patrick is the evil T-1000 and Arnold was sent to protect John Connor? Never saw it coming, eh? That's what Raiden was based on. Hideo Kojima wanted to trick us.

At 7/23/08 02:21 PM, simon wrote: It'll only die when they bring out something better quality than CD, probably something like HD-Music of some sort, then that would have to get very popular before it outsales the CD and kills it off.

I don't know if it's possible or not though.

I'm guessing it is eventually in the future.

CD audio is just as high-quality as the recording itself, so the only way "HD-Music" can be made is by improving recording quality.

I, for one, would love to see the day where "HD-Recording" can make it feel as though there's an orchestra right up close next to me whenever I listen to a movie soundtrack.

At 7/23/08 09:01 PM, kidd25 wrote: what if tom got it o.o

Tom isn't that stupid.

At first, I had no problem with Raiden.

Then, I played the game again. And I realized something while listening to early codec conversations between Raiden and "Colonel."

Raiden was WHINY!!! Sure, he wasn't as whiny as Rose or Emma, but he was whiny. And that's why Solid Snake is a much better character to play as.

At 7/23/08 02:17 PM, Toasty4you wrote:

At 7/23/08 02:15 PM, TheAmateurAnimator wrote: Never. I'd buy a shiny CD over a bunch of mp3s any day.

"...When it comes to portable music, people stuff their iPods with tunes of far worse quality than either CDs or LPs.... etc

Thank God I've never bought any music online than.

The things that you lose with mp3s are hardly noticeable, but if you have a trained ear, it makes a lot of difference.

Also, CDs are shiny.

Ha, I remember Bob Dylan saying that he didn't care if people pirated mp3s of his music, because mp3s are so horrible compared to CDs.

Never. I'd buy a shiny CD over a bunch of mp3s any day.

"...When it comes to portable music, people stuff their iPods with tunes of far worse quality than either CDs or LPs. MP3s are compressed files that cut as much as 90 percent of the sound from the original recording, by using computer models of human hearing and removing subtle sounds that most of us don't realize we're missing. A compressed recording of a French horn, for example, might lack the slight reverberations from the concert hall.

Instead of filling his digital music player with thousands of songs of crummy sound quality, Grammy Award-winning producer Jim Anderson keeps his iPod stocked with just 55 songs in an uncompressed format, including jazz pianist Keith Jarrett's epic live solo concerts in Germany. (Anderson prefers the lossless AIFF format, in which one minute of stereo audio occupies 10 megabytes.) 'If I were to cut the CD down to an MP3, I'd be throwing out all the stuff in the room that makes the piano sound as full as it does,' says Anderson, who is also chair of the department of recorded music at New York University. 'I hear the piano exactly as it was at the concert.'"

At 7/22/08 11:41 PM, shimmerstrike wrote:

At 7/22/08 10:35 PM, naomimeow wrote: Haha, yes, I see exactly what you mean! I so want to die fighting zombies now!

Here
but wouldent you rather be so badass that you survive YEAH!!!!!

BIG BOSS!!!

Weird, when I got hacked, all that happened was the perp made a spam topic with my account and then he told me that my account wasn't worth the effort of doing anything more malicious to it.

Yay...?

At 7/20/08 07:13 PM, Archon68 wrote: Ok. I got it to install, but when I try to launch the program it comes up with this error:

All trials of Adobe products now put something onto your computer that can't be removed by a normal reformat. This makes it impossible to use an Adobe product's trial version on the same computer more than once.

There, that explains your Adobe problem, at least.

At 7/18/08 04:02 PM, Bowmaster1215 wrote: hey, I just finished reading throught the 103 pages of this club and I wanna join now! can I?

I don't think you need to ask. Look at me, I just barged in here and acted as if I was already a member, and no one else seems to have caught on.

The piano is a useful instrument in every single genre of music ever invented, ever.

Master the ways of the piano, and you can perform any type of music, from baroque classical to techno.

At 7/18/08 11:14 AM, DarkMana wrote: Also the implied gay relationship between Volgin and Raikov in MGS3. If you put on the Raikov mask while fighting Volgin, he'll stop what he's doing and go, "Ivan, is that really you?" at which point you can pump him full of lead. Only works once.

"Implied?"

Raikov is clearly involved romantically with Volgin, the scene where Volgin grabs Snake's crotch to prove that Snake isn't really Raikov. I'd say it's more than just "implied."

Also, in Metal Gear Raiden, Volgin mistakes Raiden for Raikov and rapes him.

He's the Doctor. He's a Time Lord. He's from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. He's 903 years old, and he's the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?