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At 7/3/11 08:30 PM, SevenSeize wrote: You could not like what a dude is wearing but still be attracted to him and still have feelings for him and still date him. Why the hell does it matter.

in theory it shouldn't but you know people these days...

I hate cowboy attire. I went out of my way to NOT date guys who wore that crap in high school. And I went to an EXTREMELY country, all white, redneck high school, so I didn't have a lot of boyfriends.

Sumner?

I'm no fan of cowboy attire either, I just wanna be able to wear the hat I paid $115 for. I only had 1 girl friend in high school, in hindsight she really wasn't, she used me for a prom date to stave off the theory that she was a lesbian.

If you have some cowboyish hats you'd like to wear, I'd just go with a white shirt, or other plain color, and jeans.

Only got the one. thing is, I'm not a fan of cowboy anything, I just like wide brimmed hats. Wish i could find a good wide brimmed hat that doesn't look like something off of Gun Smoke or Harry Potter.

I was friends with so many guys who did the wranglers pressing their scrotums up to their stomachs, huge belt buckles, and 10 gallon hats every single day in high school. They were my friends, I digged them, but I wasn't putting out for any of them. Just turns me off.

I had my share of em in Amite High, ended up getting into fights with a few of em. skin tight pants are not good for your agility.

I don't think anyone will judge you for wearing just the hat with a shirt and jeans. Pair it with some neutral colors.

its a black hat with a red band on it, my theory was to wear black jeans and a red shirt... I feel like a douche every time I try to put the hat on and walk into public.

Everyone has those, I have plenty of crap I've bought and don't wear, don't beat yourself up man.

Let's see, I got a $115 hat, a $300 harp(I'm just waiting to move into a better place before I take it out of its box again, my place is drafty and humid, bad for wooden instruments), a set of 2 ocarinas that were $50 (I wish I had bought a bass ocarina, the high pitched ones sound like banshees, or worse, toys) I reckon that's about it, at least, what I can think of off the top of my head.

At 7/3/11 03:32 PM, poxpower wrote: Lindsey Logan recommends buying gold

Yep, ph33r the imminent hyperinflation THAT WILL DEFINITELY COME LIKE SOON LIKE TOMORROW MAYBE OR NEXT YEAR OR AT LEAST WITHIN TWO YEARS OR LIKE.. SOON..

NO POLITIX IN DER LOUNGEZ!!!

Also hi, also cocks.

At 7/3/11 08:55 PM, SevenSeize wrote: See, that's not cool. That has nothing to do with you, she was obviously not a good person.

Actually it does, I saw it coming and let it happen anyway. Even after she "friend carded" me, I still stuck around for quite a while before basically being told to get lost.

Problem is, I make a habit of helping others, even complete strangers. I always believed that if I was a good person and helped those around me that needed help that eventually something good would happen. as it stands now, I'm more or less broke, living in a storage shed, and those I used to call friend have all forsaken me. I was hoping to be able to get a little help finding a job in Texas. but I was basically told to go *%#& myself by someone I had helped for years and thought was a friend. I just added his name to the list of people who more or less used me and tossed me aside when I was no longer handy. It's a long list, btw.

I've been contemplating buying 3 notebooks and labeling them "Those who owe me" "those who help me" and "those who wrong me" and keeping a comprehensive list of my dealings with other people. Then, when someone tries to say something, I can break out my books and give them a rundown of everything I have given to them, everything they have done for me and every time they have wronged me.

It might not be a very kind thing to do, but dammit, I'm done playing the nice guy. It's time for me to take control and stop being so damned helpful, given that it gets me nowhere in life. Maybe then I can find someone who isn't so fast to hit me with the friend card, which to me says, "I already get what I want from you, why should I date you, then I can find some other guy and get double?"

of course, when a nice guys stops acting nice, the results can possibly be scary, and those who wrong the nice guy might regret it, especially if they learn they can count on the nice guy when they need help. at the present time, I have no problem letting those who wrong me suffer when they come to me looking for help because they need something. Especially given how often I'm left to deal with my problems when a small bit of help would turn the problem into a non issue. ESPECIALLY when me helping that very person inadvertently CAUSED my problem. It has happened twice...

Though at the current time my conscience is still too strong for me to laugh at those who wrong me when they suffer, especially the women who friend card me and go seeking another guy... I take that back. BWAAHAHAHAHAH!!! SUFFER! You cry that you want a nice guy, then when I mention my interest you slap me in the face with the friend card, then you seek out another man who ends up hurting you.

Personally the current case of that is rather funny, given that she rejects me, and trying to get with a guy who already has someone. I feel a sort of morbid satisfaction watching the whole thing, since she has children and thinks the pretty boy is going to choose her over someone who is much prettier (I don't like 'pretty' women I prefer plain women) and has no children. riiiight. Oh god, I can't wait to see the obvious conclusion to that one when SHE gets friend carded by him. I will be there to feast on her tears and laugh at her own stupidity. And when she does the also obvious "why can't i find a nice guy?" I'll remind her of what she rejected, a guy that helped her when she needed it, a guy who would take her and her children to the doctor because her last boyfriend (who was an asshole) didn't have a car, the same guy who also took them to town to shop and even let her come over damn near every day to use my computer to get on the internet. Not to mention the same guy who would often cook up a big meal and invite them over because they couldn't afford food, after they paid the rent.

So yeah, I sit back and patiently wait, like a vulture waiting for a sick cow to die so I can feast on its remains. It might take a few months, but watching the wretch wallow in self pity that she can't find a nice guy is definitely worth the wait. I might help people when they need it, but I'm not completely above revenge when someone so callously tosses me out like an old newspaper.

I got a long way to go to break myself of being kind and generous, but embracing some of the darker aspects of life, like relishing in the suffering of someone who wronged me is a good start, I reckon.

I had my share of em in Amite High, ended up getting into fights with a few of em. skin tight pants are not good for your agility.

hahahahahahaha

That's beautiful

nah, beautiful is watching a guy who weighs almost 400 pounds outmaneuver a guy a quarter of his weight because the other guy's trousers are so tight be can barely walk. course, I only weigh about 245 now, which means I'm a lot more agile than I used to be :P

At 7/3/11 11:12 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

I think maybe you should just not worry about women for awhile. You don't need them. When the right one comes along, you'll know. Don't chase anymore of the shallow ones.

True.

Well, once again, that's her having problems and not you. So drop her and let her destroy herself.

I wouldn't even waste my time on her. This is time you could be doing fun things.

you know, this might be a good time to learn how to play the violin... a small one. a very very small violin. *grin* especially when she starts crying. I can place my cell phone on the table, break out the violin and begin playing a sad tune.

FUNK would just cut to the chase and recommend you do this. and he'd say something involving metal, and fire.

yeah, but I'm a little short of money, I can't afford the kilt and woad face paint.

And you never did weight lifting in high school? I went to a few meets at Amite. I can't remember if I asked you this or not, but I think ya'll were the people with the crazy ceiling in your gym.

I was a total egghead. I was never too interested in becoming physically powerful, though I might go for it now, once I can afford the equipment. I refuse to pay to go to a gym when I could spend the money and purchase equipment, a little bit at a time and have it at home.

I don't recall any crazy ceilings, it was all exposed metal rafters.

At 7/3/11 11:34 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

i loled

trust me, doing something like that would be such GREAT therapy.

FUNK does these things without a kilt.

well if I'm gonna get medieval on someone's ass, I might as well be authentic and go William Wallace on their ass, show up out of nowhere and sack their house. I already got the claymore (though its a bit rusted from being so old)

It may have been your auditorium now that I mention it, because it had seating.
I have pictures but they're packed away in high school albums.
It may also be that I've taken too much migraine medication tonight.
Stupid heat causing stupid headaches

Amite high doesn't, or at least didn't when I went there, have an auditorium. though after I graduated they added on to the main building. we'd all just get ushered to the gym to listen to the principal run his mouth.

My school used to have a tiny little gym with a basketball court and a stage for performances and an auditorium seating thingy. The basketball court lines went right to the walls so the basketball team would sit on the stage during games and jump down when they got called in...I don't quite understand why they never sat in the empty seats on the other side of the gym, it's not like we were any good for spectators to show up.

But then in 5th grade they built a huge new addition with a gigantic gym with it. For 4th and 5th grade they parked a 2 double wide trailers next to the building and it sucked because my mountain hippie 5th grade teacher got control of the heater and thought it grew character and saved oil to keep it at 56 degrees in the winter and never turning on the A/C when it got hot....and the one time he did it made a loud bang and we smelled smoke and it didn't work.

Anyway - our new gym was awesome but I sucked at basketball so I was a bench warmer unless we were 20+ points ahead or behind, in which case I would get to play 10 seconds at the end of each half. I wound up telling my coach after a few 5 second court time games that I'd prefer if he didn't do the JV everyone-gets-some-time thing because it was more embarrassing than anything.

There was one kid who was pretty big guy who played every sport. He was "cool" or at least related to everyone so nobody ever said anything about his weight (looking back, he was mostly disproportionate with a really large gut and it was probably out of his control considering he did 3 sports a year and all and didn't seem to lose weight). I saw him last summer when I went home for a month and he was looking pretty good - one of the girls from our class was actively trying to get in his pants which made me lol.

I have to say, when I was in high school I hated everyone who existed in my town and school and grade...but when we meet up over summers or on breaks everyone is much easier to get along with. We all pretty much grew up together since we were together from K-12. I would say it was more like having a sibling you didn't get along with as a kid and going off to college away from eachother and then being civil as adults.

Don't fret the ladies, dude. And even if you think you blew it during high school - only the washed out football players are the ones who would care about how you looked back then and they all have beer guts and 3 kids from their now ex-wife/cheerleader. You're all adults now - things are totally different.

The movie i'm working on has kids in it.
LOTS of kids in it...almost 100 yesterday at a local school !

We refer to them on our walkies as 'sheep'
A typical call from the Key will be "c'mon guy's...where's the +^(#!$@ , 8x8 1/4 grid ?"
-reply- "sorry boss, large sheep herd in the hall"

It sure slows us down...slowed us down to 2 hours of triple time, overtime (for a crew of 80+ & 100+ extra's) to get our day at a location we had to shoot out.

Today...3 extra AD's, & they were pulling kid's in empty classes, bathrooms...whatever they had to do , to get them out of our way so we could light . Kind of funny actually, but the kid's are for the most part all first time on a film set(s) & basicly their curiosity keeps them trying to "see" all that goes on,
which gets them in our way.

All I know is I got 8 weeks left on this show. I keep thinking of Seven, & how she does this for MONTHS each year, & does it year after year. too many kiddelie's for me ...but I think i can handle 8 more weeks.
For now , the grips are being as friendly as we can be.... but I'm waiting to see who snaps first in our Dept, & blurts out
" MOVE ... or BLEED ! "
~;)

Also we were pre warned about swearing around the children...we told Production "fuck off, fuck you or just fuck " is a term of endearment in our dept.
still waiting for an official reply... but the office staff laughed when we brought it up, with that explaination.

W O W

I never realised a crack about kids would frighten everyone out of the lounge for days ! ! ! ! !

I'm
sorry

At 7/10/11 11:15 AM, morefngdbs wrote: W O W

lol.

I am in serious need of inspiration. I need about 1 gallon of pure liquid inspiration, but powdered inspiration is good too, just add a little water.

anyone happen to have any?

I haven't had the will to work on anything for days, and its driving me nuts. I got a basic plotline for the first, uhh, season(?) done for my favorite concept. I plan for about 25 episodes per season. the episodes, while mostly light hearty and comedic in nature, with a few exceptions, cover a far darker and more sinister plotline that revolves around many different things, which all have their significance to the plot, like the demonic possession of Diana's own mother.

here's my cast of characters so far.

ELVES (sort of... most elven lore do not apply to them, they don't live for 1,000 years and stuff like that)

Madoshi (I might change his name, I don't too much like it) He's basically a bookworm with a no nonsense attitude and takes life way too seriously(according to Diana). He's also the son of the Elven Kingdom's head general... sort of. Madoshi and his 2 brothers are an experiment by their father where he more or less produced 3 children with one of his servants in order to train them in very different ways to produce the 'perfect warrior' Madoshi was trained in magic (elemental magic to command the power of Nature, he also has a mind for military tactics)

Mugi: one of Madoshi's brothers. trained in the ancient ninja arts and taught dark magic (what little dark magic there is. in my story holy and dark magic are not necessarily good or evil, they're just opposites) as Irony would have it Mugi is not a very serious person and loves the whole 'mystique' thing, especially when he hands Madoshi a magical gem and tells him 'its a plot device, but don't show the amazon, she will try and take it from you, you cannot let this happen!' turns out the gem is the very gem that is missing from her sword....

Matsu: Looks like a paladin of sorts with his white armor and his use of 'holy' magic. as Irony would have it this guy is about as much an evil asshole as any antagonist you could hope for. No, this character isn't a bash against any kind of religion (given he doesn't worship any particular god). He is the 'chosen son' of his father, the one to inherit the souls of his brothers and overthrow the king, and bring the entire world under elven rule.

General: he has a name but no one ever speaks it, even his own children. evil bastard to say the least. he's also the only overweight elf in the series.... if you can call the perfect combination of lard and muscle such a thing without him caving in your skull with his massive ball hammer. The mother never makes an appearance since she died before the first episode.

Amazonians (An Amazonian's strength lies in her rather unique hormone, which replaces estrogen in their systems. It allows them incredible strength, but has the side effect that only females can be born. the hormone prevents any kind of Y chromosome from ever forming, ensuring that all children are born female. They are often called hateful names like Manhunter, Manthief, and Housewrecker, by non Amazonian females due to them having to leave their lands to seek out a husband. More often it's the Amazonian choosing the husband than it is the other way around, given most men find their lithe appearance to be very appealing.

Diana: stronger than any man she's ever met, including bodybuilders. She is painfully oblivious to the world around her at times. She's also quick to make decisions, which is a terrible combination, often to Madoshi's expense. Most men equate an Amazonian outside of their lands to be a woman looking for a man, so many of them flirt with her, to some very painful results. She's tall, blonde, stronger than an ox (literally), and is painfully loyal to her friends, though she only sees Madoshi as her friend, since he's the only guy who talks to her without trying to get in her pants. Madoshi does not see her as a friend until much later in the plot.

Diana's mother: Amazonian leader, a very wise and powerful leader. She feels the presence of a demon trying to possess her so she sets up Diana to take a fall by sending her and her father into a forest known for wild boars. To become a woman an Amazonian female must kill a wild boar. First Amazonian in the royal family to become a woman becomes the heir. Problem is, Diana has no desire to become the new Matriarch, which she feels is the duty of her older sister, Robin. Needless to say a wild boar attacks her father and she skewers it with her sword. Diana ends up going into self imposed exile to prevent becoming the new Matriarch. As she prepares to leave, she gets what all Amazonians get when they leave their lands, a Replica of the Greathmother's Blade. a legendary sword in Amazonian lands, the real sword belongs to the Matriarch. A gem was lost from the sword some 400 years ago in a war between Amazonians and Elves (which plays a major part in the story), rendering the swords power useless until the gem is restored to the hilt.... Diana didn't get a replica, she got the real thing and was sent away so the demon could not corrupt the sword.

Bjorn: Diana's father. A strong man by any measurement, but still no match for his wife... though men have no political power in amazonian lands, everyone looks up to Bjorn as a person who always gives solid advise and knows his way around more weapons than even military train Amazonians can boast. He wields a customized double headed long bladed spear in battle.

Robin: Diana's older sister. Hates elves with a passion, though she (barely) tolerates her mother's elven servants. she sees elves as weak and unfit for anything. Mugi changes her attitude when he beats her in a head to head fight by using his agility to overcome her vastly superior strength. Loyal to her mother to a fault, she doesn't even question her mother's sudden change of personality when her mother begins to sentence people to horrific punishments for seemingly minor things, like looking her in the eye (which is a sign of respect when the Matriarch addresses you). she even sends her elite soldiers to bring Diana back to her so she can execute her for treason when she discovers that Diana is living under the same roof as an elf.

OTHERS.

Naomi: an orphaned Catgirl of sorts. her parents were killed by bandits. She makes her away into town and is discovered by Diana and Madoshi as some of the townfolk are kicking here around and spouting insults, such as calling her a demon (which isn't TOO far from the truth). they end up adopting Naomi. she serves little in the way of the plot except to be the "OMFGTOOCUTE" character.

At 7/10/11 11:15 AM, morefngdbs wrote: W O W

I never realised a crack about kids would frighten everyone out of the lounge for days ! ! ! ! !

I'm
sorry

Given all the weird shit we've talked about in here, you honestly think people are pissed at you for your comment? Dude, lighten up. It's just slow right now. ;-D

Personally, I though you kids rant was funnier than HELL.

At 7/10/11 01:53 PM, Korriken wrote: anyone happen to have any?

So your muse has up and left you, too? Wonderful. I haven't wanted to do anything remotely creative here lately, either.

Although it would appear your muse certainly gave you a lot more to work with than mine did... damn.

At 7/11/11 12:25 AM, Proteas wrote: So your muse has up and left you, too? Wonderful. I haven't wanted to do anything remotely creative here lately, either.

Although it would appear your muse certainly gave you a lot more to work with than mine did... damn.

it'll come back once I find myself in a better situation, some people's creativity is sparked by misery. Misery destroys my creativity, inspiration, among other things.

I used to be far more creative, but my family as a whole made sure that didn't turn into anything, given my brothers would defile anything I would write or draw, and my parents would get mad over me 'wasting notebook paper' on 'frivolous things' (way to be supportive, assholes).

If I could get back that spark I had when I was around 9-12 years old, I'd probably end up famous :P

At 7/11/11 08:42 AM, Korriken wrote: it'll come back once I find myself in a better situation, some people's creativity is sparked by misery. Misery destroys my creativity, inspiration, among other things.

Meh, misery + time = creativity. Once you are no longer miserable can you actually reflect in any meaningful way on that misery to spark creativity.

The only thing I've ever noticed directly sparks my creativity is a deadline.

At 7/11/11 08:42 AM, Korriken wrote: I used to be far more creative, but my family as a whole made sure that didn't turn into anything, given my brothers would defile anything I would write or draw, and my parents would get mad over me 'wasting notebook paper' on 'frivolous things' (way to be supportive, assholes).

I can sympathize with you on this one. My family wasn't quite that abusive or up front about it, but they were far from supportive when it came to my guitar playing. Needling little comments were more their style.

What really stung was when it came time for community college, I was told I could not major in music because I had no talent. What hurt even worse was when this comment came from my own mother, who went to bat for me to my dad in me getting a guitar in the first place.

But it's all good, though. The first time I played Queensryche's "Silent Lucity" for 'em they kind of took a step back and laid off with the smartass comments. What was really cool was when I played A Perfect Circle's "3 Libras" for my sister-in-law and she enjoyed it, telling my brother to fuck off that I was good. >:-D~

If I could get back that spark I had when I was around 9-12 years old, I'd probably end up famous :P

Amen.

At 7/11/11 09:34 PM, Proteas wrote:

I can sympathize with you on this one. My family wasn't quite that abusive or up front about it, but they were far from supportive when it came to my guitar playing. Needling little comments were more their style.

you have no earthly idea... at least your parents didn't give your guitar the treatment my doodle pad got when it was literally unceremoniously thrown into the fire because I was focusing on "stupid things that would never get me anywhere". My revenge was simple. I signed up for an art class at school. The teacher (who was a bit of a weirdo but a nice person) told my parents I had natural talent. Their response? pulling me out of art class when they discovered I was in it. After that I dabbled in poetry and writing. Same response, my brothers would 'rewrite' it for me, usually changing words to profanities.

As a child I was never allowed to do anything I was interested in. My mom's philosophy was "give me my wine and cigarettes and leave me the hell alone" art class? forget it. creative writing? forget it. Karate? oh hell no, that would require a trip into town once or twice a week!

then there was the time I qualified for a statewide competition in Social Studies. I beat out the people at my school, regional, which was held at the southeastern university and a relative dropped me off there since he was going to Hammond anyway, I made state and would you believe my own MOTHER would prevent me from going AFTER I spent weeks studying and charring my own neurons HOPING to do well in it.

The icing on the cake was being rather bluntly told that when I graduate from high school, there would be no college or vocational school for me as long as I lived under their roof that I will be going to work in order to get the money to move out.

Some people wonder why I never visit my mother's grave... *shrug* payback's a bitch. My mother didn't give a damn about me, I'm simply repaying the favor. In hindsight, my childhood suffering forged my will into a powerful thing that has gotten me through problems that has caused many to kill themselves... course, had I been encouraged to seek my dreams instead of beaten into the mud every time I tried to express myself, I wouldn't be HAVING these problems to begin with!

there's a reason why retirement homes are so successful.

At 7/11/11 11:03 PM, Korriken wrote: Some people wonder why I never visit my mother's grave... *shrug* payback's a bitch. My mother didn't give a damn about me, I'm simply repaying the favor.

Given your age, I'm guessing she didn't live long enough to be put in a home?

*cough*

</humbled>

At 7/11/11 08:25 PM, Ravariel wrote:

Meh, misery + time = creativity. Once you are no longer miserable can you actually reflect in any meaningful way on that misery to spark creativity.

The only thing I've ever noticed directly sparks my creativity is a deadline.

If I'm miserable, I can't focus enough to get anything done. Course, to get ideas I've been watching a lot of animated shows (eastern and western) I might use a few already done ideas, but I got several of my own to work with, for example for some unexplained (I can't even figure out how it would work, without just saying "it just works that way") Diana's talent in brewing potions is so extreme her potions' effects are taken to a new level. in one episode the class she and Madoshi (much to his own distress, as he's been assigned to be her partner in the class and thus must be each others test subjects) are in, the class has to make a potion that will allow the imbiber to be more sensitive to the body language of the opposite gender. Her potion, thanks to her extreme talent, becomes a gender change potion.

Needless to say, poor Madoshi's entire day is ruined, especially when Diana decides to do girly things with "her" like giving Madoshi a makeover. he..err... she isn't strong enough to fight back so (s)he just gives in. Lucky for him the potion's effects wear off after several hours.

Most of Madoshi's personal storyline involves him trying to live a reasonably 'normal' life, despite his evil fat bastard of a father wanting his soul to fuel to his favored son's power... and Diana inadvertently making damned sure 'normalcy' does NOT happen... Eventually he gives up on being normal and embraces the life he's been given, and ends up running an orphanage after the storyline ends and before the sequel (that I have yet to even contemplate starting on) begins.

Diana's personal storyline involves trying to help Madoshi overcome his loner attitude, and just being friendly in general (but also being a selective dimwit or absolute genius at times, which causes trouble and comedy) At one point they end up traveling and they also end up broke, she gets a one night job as a "show girl" at a local pub, not knowing what a "show girl" exactly is. one guy in the audience shouts for her to take her clothes off, and she decides to put on a good show, by kicking the pervert's ass. A Barroom brawl breaks out and the last (wo)man standing is of course, Diana. A person who can literally put you through a wall is a tough opponent to beat, no matter how many drunken friends you have. She idolizes her own father(very rare Amazonian trait, as men, while not treated as animals in their lands, are usually relegated to tasks such as cooking and clothes washing. A man who can cook is highly valued.), and hates men who act like pigs, and usually thrashes them gently (gentle being a relative term, given she could easily kill someone with her natural strength) In the beginning she is basically the "unwanted intruder" into Madoshi's life and home, but in the end, while he is STILL has his stoic nature, Diana has learned to read him enough to know what he wants to say, but simply won't.

The final scene is a battle between Madoshi, Diana, Mugi, Robin (I have GOT to come up with a better name. bleh) vs General(fat bastard), a super powered Matsu, and the Sacred Demon that Matsu promised the entire planet to in exchange for the power to conquer it (holy isn't necessarily good, just the opposite to darkness, though I can't think of a proper name).

In the end, after a lot of dialogue, Madoshi impales his own father with a spear early on, Madoshi and Mugi stalls Matsu long enough for Diana and Robin to both use Diana's sword's power to take on the avatar of their ancestor in order to banish the demon. As the demon is being sucked into the vortex, he grabs Matsu, and drags him in.

Before he manages to completely pull him in, he impales the demon in the eye with his sword. the demon lets go and Matsu, even more powerful since absorbing more power when he impaled the demon's eye, beats down Madoshi and Mugi with relative ease. Diana, being a lot more physical, and under the effect of her ancestor, manages to stand up to Matsu, but eventually Matsu, using his power, and using their weakened physical states, rips the souls from his brothers to become the perfect warrior. Before he can lay a killing blow on Diana, he discovers that there is a problem in his father's experiment, the souls still have their wills. The souls manage to cripple Matsu enough that Diana can finish him.

and of course you have your stereotypical scene of grieving when she sees Madoshi's body lying on the ground... though it doesn't last long since his body is still alive and his soul finds its way back.

The very final scene has Madoshi and Diana sitting on the edge of a cliff, having a bit of a conversation, something like this...
Madoshi: Well, now what? don't have to worry about my father anymore, and we've both been expelled from the college....
Diana: ever consider getting married?
Madoshi: No.
Diana: After all this time, you still--?
Madoshi: I wanna see more of the world before settling down. You will be joining me, right?
Diana: of course, as long as this intruder is still welcome in your life.
Madoshi: You know I wouldn't have it any other way.

I have a lot more character concepts thought up and figured where most of them would fit in the overall plotline, but I debate with myself on whether I should include them.... I don't want too many characters and I'm not a fan at all of one episode characters. I mean, sure, there will be nameless 1 episode characters showing up, but I mean in many shows you have characters, with names, who some would make awesome characters and are usually the focus of an entire episode, who last for 1 episode and you never see them again.

for example, My Little Pony: Friendship Is magic. Princess Luna appears for 2 episodes, and vanishes for the rest of season 1 with no explanation and not even a single reference. It's still a great show though, for what it is... though the first 2 episodes are cheesier than a Wisconsin carnival... bleh. Then again, the first episode of Lucky Star was mostly about food and how best to eat it.

Electronic Arts bought Popcap games.... damn it! There goes yet another company that I loved being bought out by the big companies. Given Electronic Arts' reputation for ruining the franchises that they buy, I'm dismayed and it looks like I won't be buying Plants vs Zombies 2 afterall.

It's a sad day for the world, the skies are grey.

I often wish that the big companies would keep their filthy mitts off the smaller companies, they have a habit of seeing profit potential, coming in, buying the company, then putting pressure on the developers to work harder and pump out more games, figuring they can pump out more great games to make them even more money, then they start pumping out mediocre games at best, then the franchises die out due to sucking, and bam, the end of the franchise.

Now to wait for the next small guy to pop up and produce something fantastic.

Boo-yah motherf*cker.

My score sits somewhere between 50 and 60 for all time high-score. I'm working towards at least getting into the top 10.

At 7/14/11 09:35 AM, Korriken wrote: Electronic Arts bought Popcap games.... damn it! There goes yet another company that I loved being bought out by the big companies. Given Electronic Arts' reputation for ruining the franchises that they buy, I'm dismayed and it looks like I won't be buying Plants vs Zombies 2 afterall.

After they bought Pogo.com back in about '03, everyone thought the same thing. After three years of fuckin the pooch over there, they've managed to make the place blow up economically, and now they've got games pogo would've never fostered without being bought out.

I still think EA is a shit company for the length of time they screwed pogo, but they do put money in their stockholder's pockets, you gotta give em that.

Now to wait for the next small guy to pop up and produce something fantastic.

That's why I started coming here, for the out-of-the-way flash and down-on-your-luck forums.

Cocks.

Bah, I'm supposed to meet someone who's gunna buy my old car, and tonight my Blackberry decides to freak the fuck out. Once I finish paying off this phone it's over to Android, dammit... or google...

At 7/19/11 06:43 PM, Ravariel wrote: Bah, I'm supposed to meet someone who's gunna buy my old car, and tonight my Blackberry decides to freak the fuck out. Once I finish paying off this phone it's over to Android, dammit... or google...

I just got an upgrade from my windows mobile 6.1 phone - I jumped on the totally wrong OS in 09 but the androids were so expensive then and I was upgrading from a flip phone and I was on Verizon so no iPhone. I got a Droid 3 last week - it is le awesome. I loves me a keyboard again (my flip phone was that samsung that had a two flip design with a full qwerty keyboard on it). I'm really digging this android OS - I haven't tinkered with blackberries or the iphone but this one fits my needs well.

Motorola is coming out with an LTE phone with a duel core (the first on Verizon I think?) in like a month. I considered waiting for that but I gotta have me a keybaord. But 1st Q 2012 there will be quad core phones with integrated LTE chips (no more 2 chips in the same phone and battery killing crap) and the LTE chips should be Voice LTE (current LTE chips are data only, no voice...voice sticks to 3G). If you can, wait for that stuff, especially if you are looking to be jumping onto the LTE. The tech for "4G" is pretty new right now.

LTE is the predecessor to what will eventually be real "4G" even though the carriers are calling their current offerings 4G...But it's all still so new so the chips aren't backwards compatible which is why so many of the new phones are big and boxy and have terrible battery life because they need to keep a 3G chip and a 4G chip which eats up power. But I don't think you can really go wrong with a phone these days. Everyone is talking about qHD, Super AMOLED plus, Retina displays and operating systems and all this crap but in reality it's all miles ahead of things from even a couple of years ago, you can't even go wrong with operating systems because all the cool things like apps are on all of them and you get stuff at all price points like last generation iphones for less than $100 or entry level androids for barely anything with a new contract.

I've really gotten totally geeked out about phones the last couple of years...I read mobile news like traders read the wall street journal - I blame NY Times for starting a pay wall - I can get around it but I avoid their site on principle so I turned to tech sites which update all day long. It's a sector where you can either be interested in all the innovations or you can grab onto a phone ecosystem and become a troll. I like it all - Apple might be behind spec-wise but they refine on what android manufacturers pump out like 4 different phones on. But HTC and Samsung always have something coming out that's really on the cutting edge - hell there's a phone that has a 3D camera on it already wtf.

*pulls out his $10 extremely basic, hard as a armored truck to stop phone*

all the phone I need. All 'smart phones' seem to be good for is breaking.

... am I the only person on the planet who doesn't own a cell phone?

At 7/20/11 03:29 PM, Proteas wrote: ... am I the only person on the planet who doesn't own a cell phone?

It's like hard drugs dude. You move out on your own and a cell phone plan is cheaper than getting a landline...then you're up for an upgrade and for just a few extra bucks you can get a phone with a music player and it can get your work e-mail...then two years later you're up for another upgrade and there's an iphone or a droid available for like only a few more dollars than what you paid for the crappy flip phone with a music player and email. Next thing you know you're selling your sister's pet dog on ebay for some cash to read up on the latest gorilla glass news.

At 7/20/11 03:29 PM, Proteas wrote: ... am I the only person on the planet who doesn't own a cell phone?

What Mal said.

Also: yes.