I've been into mustard lately too! I'm not sure if there's a name for the type of colours I wear…sort of earth tones but with more red, I guess? Burgundy, navy blue, that sort of military green, gray/black, brown. I've only recently discovered that mustard yellow can be made to fit in there pretty well too.
The only part I don't like about her outfit is the pink bowtie. If I were wearing it as an everyday thing I would definitely switch it out for another colour, but I'd probably keep it for a costume.
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@Lonnehart
Wow, the Sims have evolved since when I played it on the PC ten years ago. The only thing that was customisable was a creepy face skin where you could attach a real photo to those grainy graphic bodies. I also once had a conversation with a voice actor for The Sims: Hot Date at a swanky hotel lounge bar. It is funny that there are voice actors for the gibberish. Good luck on recreating your character "Frenchie Cassanova". Hopefully, he has enogh money to pay for child support.
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I found that listening to the Quackcast podcast at the gym makes the elliptical trainer ten times more fun. I relistened to the episode where ozoneocean and Banes were pretending to fight (Quackcast #114: Behind the Bill) and I finally understood it this time. The first time I listened to it, I thought the clips were all real outtakes from older episodes, but then I realised it was all an act. I like how the fights gradually escalate from bad to worse over time. My favorite part was the complete breakdown at the end when they confuse the word "inkers" with "Incas" and Banes walks out of the Quackcast Studio. I still can not believe I thought all the clips were real!!
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:And that's the thing that makes me sad about The Sims 3. He didn't have to. The worst he did? Well… he had a child with a woman he met, that woman's mother, and the woman's sister when she aged from Teen to Young Adult. And I creep myself when I think about how I made him do that… which probably led me to forcing him to stand in place when the huge shadow of his death began to loom over him.
@Lonnehart
Wow, the Sims have evolved since when I played it on the PC ten years ago. The only thing that was customisable was a creepy face skin where you could attach a real photo to those grainy graphic bodies. I also once had a conversation with a voice actor for The Sims: Hot Date at a swanky hotel lounge bar. It is funny that there are voice actors for the gibberish. Good luck on recreating your character "Frenchie Cassanova". Hopefully, he has enogh money to pay for child support.
I also remember a player who played as a seductress… I think the world of the Sims have it out for the women while the men can get away with this sort of thing.
If you still want to play The Sims, its next iteration is coming out sometime this year. Of course you can still play The Sims 3 as long as your computer meets the requirements to play. The developers have stated that The Sims 4 will run on less than what the Sims 3 does now.
I should post a pic of Kyle "Rowdy" Reager, my current Sim who is a Singer by profession. Maybe a pic of his private wedding with a woman he met during one of his concerts. It's really funny how this turned out… like a lot of those Korean dramas my niece likes to watch. He tried romances with his fellow singers, magicians and acrobats. They either didn't think much of him, or they flirted with him… and everyone else. The woman who decided he was worth her time? An ordinary worker at the local bookstore. O_O
LOL! They WERE actual clips… hahaha!
That was so fun to do, Banes was all set to write it out but by the time we got to it he never quite got there so we had starter points that we improvised from, then I added some editiy bits later on to increase the illusion. Banes thouht he failed there bigtime, with his parts and the writing, but I thought he made it really, really funny. His improvisations are brilliant and subtle:
https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/quackcast/episode-114-behind-the-bill
Skoolmunkee really did kill all those homeless people though. Such a monster :(
Lonnehart wrote:
Okay. Tried to recreate Emma in The Sims 3 with nearly ZERO success. Oh, well… at least I hope I got the color right…
This makes me want to get Sims out and give it a go…but I know that's a bad idea. I had to stop playing Sims entirely because there's never a good place to STOP playing, and it was wasting way too much of my time. The creating part is the most fun, though. :)
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kawaiidaigakusei wrote:
I found that listening to the Quackcast podcast at the gym makes the elliptical trainer ten times more fun.
I've been listening to Sam Cooke's One Night Stand lately while I work out. It's a live album and there's so much energy, it makes working out way better.
I don't think I was keeping up with the quackcasts around that time, I'll have to give that one a listen!
Yes, The Sims 3 can be addictive. Then again, any game that lets you customize your characters the way YOU want them can be addictive too.
Take for instance Champions Online…. I got SOME of it right… but the game has no options for the belt going over chestwear…
Had to name her Emilia Altavia to ensure she's not too much like the character that inspired her. I know that Emma is someone who's not afraid to go toe to toe with an opponent. Emilia, however… well… she uses magic. :)
Okay… the weather around just got weird. This is normally the start of our dry season, yet our dry season is starting with… Tropical Storm Faxai east of the island. Go figure… you can put that with the downpours on clear nights here as part of the strange weather.
I'd probably use Varnish for those eyes, but I'm not sure how the stuff will react to rubber…
Oh… and here's Katy Perry singing her song "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" in Simlish. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrbIXu2HveQ
And one of the Simlish songs your singer can sing. There's a female version as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXegiRfeNRU
I love the demon frog face Hippie! For adding gloss sections to acrylic I used to use a thick glaze made from the acrylic medium- basically the stuff that carries the pigment but without the pigment. - you can buy it but it's not easy to come by… Maybe a paint shop would have it, the kind that mix up paint colours for house paint.
You can also use arcylic paint glazes that you can by at an art shop. Could also try and use acrylic based clear gloss wood finishes. -oil based will generally o a bit yellow.
-The advantage of the acrylic medium is that it's pretty thick and goopy, thicker than glazes or wood finish, and it dries hard and crystal clear.
The face reminds me of one of the frog spirits from Spirted Away ^_^
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Interesting vid Lonne. A bit wacky and looney.
Speaking of wacky, check out the glorious Bubble butt by Major Lazer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctum0nNc08g
That's the kind of thing Mylee Cyrus was going for, but as you'll see, next to that she's a sad, silly little child.
Ugh… thought I had the right link in there. But that's okay. Fixed that post.
Wow… the things in your video were… huge… O_O
I don't create the most handsome male Sims. But what do you guys think of Kyle? He's getting ready for his gig at a big show venue. I probably should've gotten a pic with better lighting.
It wasn't so much adding gloss that was the problem as adding a thick layer of clear glassy stuff. The iris/pupil is indented to make it more realistic, although it's hard to see that from a photo. You can kind of tell in the profile one. So there was a relatively deep section that I had to fill. Clear acrylic paint might still work though, I will have to keep that in mind in the future!
I was just using stuff lying around the house for this, because it was kind of a spur-of-the-moment "I haven't made a monster in a while" project. My original ideas were either modpodge or hot glue. But neither of those were really glossy enough (I only had matte modpodge) and I didn't think I could make hot glue smooth enough.
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Major Lazer is the brainchild of my secret crush Diplo, who was also involved in this masterpiece: http://youtu.be/KbW9JqM7vho (NSFW).
Look up the film Spitfire starring Leslie Howard. (NOT the one starring Katherine Hepburn) It was a WWII film all about the designer of the Spitfire. Like most British war films it was not flag waving propaganda and did not overlook the human cost of war. The British film industry in WWII knew they couldn't fool the audience with that like they did in the first war and the American film industry did in both wars. After WWII the Gemans made a film about Willi Messerschmidt and the ace Hans Marsielle. There was a live action film made about the Zero and it's designer back in the 1960's. Sadly it was only ever released to English speaking audiences in a badly recut sensationalized version. In fact it's a pretty good film about the tragedy of the arrogance of Imperial Japanese Naval aviation in WWII.
Every Japanese plane was used as a kamikaze not just the Zero. And when a plane hit a ship it killed more than the equilelent of high explosive would because it's a whole plane impacting the ship not just an explosion. They have displays about this on board US aircraft carrier museums like Yorktown and Intrepid with detailed pictures and diagrams (both of which were hit by kamikazes in WWII). They'd tear up whole decks and positions. Just ask the guys on board the USS Franklin how bad kamikazes could be. But then on the other side see the recent Japanese movie Men of the Yamato to see how bad it was to be on a Japanese ship hit by US aircraft. US planes strafed with 2-6 50 caliber machine guns each. Fifty caliber (that's half inch) slugs shred people. It's terrifying.
Meanwhile, production on my current comic has wrapped. All the pages are done. I finished it all the same day I was nearly late for work because the hatch on my car decided to freeze up and refuse to lock. Like a doofus I decided to play with it at home rather than just go to work and play with it there. I ended up taking the wife's car because I didn't want to chance the hatch flying open on the highway.
And while I'm examining the latch the whole inside of the hatch fell off exposing the whole mechanism so I probably ended up breaking somehting. Now the hatch will stay closed and you can hear it latch but the sensor still reads the door as open so I can't use the alarm or automatic door opener. The latch and mechanism will probably need to be replaced. But gotta think priorities. I need to get the wheels rotated and balanced first because with all the snow, ice and potholes this year my suspension has taken a beating and the car ain't riding right. And I'm past due for an oil change. Lazy me.
But Interstellar Blood beasts is done! But what next? Gotta think long and hard because I'm really getting tired of the whole photo comic schtick. No one reads them and no one will like they would for the precise same script done with pen and paper. It sucks.
bravo1102 wrote:
But then on the other side see the recent Japanese movie Men of the Yamato to see how bad it was to be on a Japanese ship hit by US aircraft. US planes strafed with 2-6 50 caliber machine guns each. Fifty caliber (that's half inch) slugs shred people. It's terrifying.
.50 cals are no joke. The metal sabot on them without the copper jacket is still 3/8 of an inch across. The things were originally designed to shred light tank and vehicle armor after all.
We just finished doing a shock & awe demonstration range where we fired off the entire arsenal of an MP platoon all at once, just to make a point. That's 4 .50 cals, 4 Mk 19 40mm grenade launchers, 3 M240B 7.62 medium machine guns, 12 5.56mm SAW light machine guns and about 20-22 M-4 assault carbines all going off at once on a single set of targets. And that's skipping the anti-tank rockets we also carry as part of our basic load-out. An American MP platoon is about the most heavily armed and dangerous thing you could hope not to run into outside of a heavy armor force.
It's one of the things I've been agonizing about capturing just right to fit into the story I'm trying to tell. Since there's a million and two war comics out there, like DMZ, Sgt. Rock, etc. I've been trying to write the stories of those of us who make up 90% of the force, who don't ever get to deploy to combat, and serve out our time in the background. I've been slowly writing and rewriting it, going through a million changes of focus, pace and ideas since I enlisted over two and a half years ago. I've more or less settled on it being a mix between Harvey Pekar's American Splendor and the old sensationalized WW2 war serials, but with all the stories and people I want to cover, I just can't figure out where the hell to start. I know I want it to be ongoing, to show the never-ending tedium that life is around here and I know I want it to reflect the day-to-day stories of the people here, to not build them up like gods, like most war/military stories do, but I'm stumped on just which story to start it off with.
lba wrote:Which story comes first? How did the guy get there? Then start with one story right in the middle of something and do a flashback. Most military stories start with initial entry training or at least the guy showing up at the recruiter and convincing them to take him. Or they plunk you right in the middle of everything and slowly fill you in on how everyone got there.
It's one of the things I've been agonizing about capturing just right to fit into the story I'm trying to tell. Since there's a million and two war comics out there, like DMZ, Sgt. Rock, etc. I've been trying to write the stories of those of us who make up 90% of the force, who don't ever get to deploy to combat, and serve out our time in the background. I just can't figure out where the hell to start. I know I want it to be ongoing, to show the never-ending tedium that life is around here and I know I want it to reflect the day-to-day stories of the people here, to not build them up like gods, like most war/military stories do, but I'm stumped on just which story to start it off with.
The best war stories are those that emphasize that these are very oridinary people who are called upon to do extraordinary things. Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't and sometimes they break. One of the best series remains Band of Brothers.
HippieVan wrote:I love that SOOOO much hippie. That was fricken awesome! ^_^
Major Lazer is the brainchild of my secret crush Diplo, who was also involved in this masterpiece: http://youtu.be/KbW9JqM7vho (NSFW).
Just put this thing together for lunch a few hours from now. Just thought I'd share it. Don't know what to call it though…
24 oz package (or 1 pound) of elbow macaroni (You can use spaghetti if you like)
24 oz can of whatever spaghetti sauce you like
1 onion, chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
3 pounds of ground beef
1 tablespoon oil
1 can of button mushrooms (I used whole mushrooms, but you can have them in pieces or sliced)
1. Prepare the water for your pasta.
2. Saute the garlic in oil, then add the onion, then the ground beef and finally the mushrooms and chopped bell pepper. Cover for now over medium heat, stirring it up occasionally.
3. Add the pasta to the boiling water, stirring occasionally.
4. Stir the pasta sauce into the ground beef, then cover again.
5. If the pasta is done, drain (DO NOT RINSE), then empty the pasta into a large bowl.
6. Pour the cooked spaghetti sauce over the macaroni and stir together.
Enjoy while I try to figure out what to call this thing… That's the problem with being single and alone. You have to experiement in the kitchen a lot. -_-
JoeL_CQB wrote:Quality of posts rather than quantity. If you want to learn all about hussar uniforms and movies we're the place to be.
i haven't been on here for like 5 years and its now empty.
Yeah you're right. Empty. Okay, fill it up. Can't have content unless people post. So post. Say something. Just so long as it's not about hussar uniforms or I swear I'll fill up an entire page going on about the evolution of the tight fit hussar uniform following the… oh never mind.
I'm back to some heavy duty model building and my hands are covered in paint. But it is freezing in NJ and the paint moves like molasses in January. I would post pictures but I really hate "in process" model pictures. I'd rather just build. Wish I could do somehting artistic and colorful but I'm just doing blah Bundeswehr Olivgrun. (read: any color you want as long as it's olive drab)
Skullbie wrote:
JoeL_CQB wrote:
i haven't been on here for like 5 years and its now empty.
We must have had the same idea to come back. I also haven't been on here in forever.
My rave: I'm getting a cintiq!
Congrats on the Cintq Skull!!!
Good to see you and Joel again. :)
Yes, this place is quiet. It's not too user friendly and most people have moved on to social media as a way to rant and stay connected… Facebook and tumblr, twitter etc.
Wow, I failed on my quote there. :)
I've had migrains on and off for 4 days now, only really bad in the mornings till yesterday that was so bad I had to take the whole day off work. It came back again today in a weak form.
The trouble is that the painkillers have really fugged up my brain. I'm sitting on a cloud of cotton wool and it's so tricky to do work with that sort of padding constraing you.
Anyway, man, I'm really interested to know what SKull and Joel have been up to!
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