The weather is so hot here. Hot and sweaty. UGH!!!
I'm going great with my drwing stuff now though. It's slow, but my skills are tight. I just wish I had more time to spare for it. Fuck I LOVE drawing!!!!!!!!
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Been playing quite a bit of Galaxy on Fire: Alliances lately. Finally, a "realtime" strategy MMO on my Android. Action is pretty casual, but it's there. You do get three planets that are safe from attack, but any others outside this private system can be wiped out if you don't defend them adequately.
Still working on my drawing when I can. Problem is… I fall asleep every time I try. Or even when I'm doing something I find interesting (like playing games… I'll drop to sleep without knowing it which makes it hard for me to play too long). Maybe a massive dose of coffee will help? :(
I feel really dumb, but I can't figure out how to colour this rocket ship with limited colours…the main body of it is metal, while the cone at the top is glass. I keep trying to put the highlights and shadows in different places but nothing quite seems to work. And should the top reflect the sky? That's probably more realistic, but I'm not sure how to make that work.
Maybe starting from the base of the cone you can use a very fine line to show that it's made of glass (hence see thru). Just break up the line a bit and maybe put hints of an outline of a chair. That's what I'd do anyway.
Watched the trailer for the third Five Nights at Freddy's game and… that animatronic you see twitching in the video?
That's the murderer of the five children… dying… because the suit locked around his body, crushing it and splitting his skull in two… That's right. The trailer is featuring the moment very moment that guy died.
So that single animatronic that actually kills you in the third game? He's an animatronic zombie haunted by the soul of the serial child killer(as it's decades AFTER he died in that suit)…
I guess the spoiler tags are disabled?
Lonnehart wrote:
Maybe starting from the base of the cone you can use a very fine line to show that it's made of glass (hence see thru). Just break up the line a bit and maybe put hints of an outline of a chair. That's what I'd do anyway.
ozoneocean wrote:
I think that rocket is great the way it is Hippie!
The rocket would be lit from inside at night or in space so would not reflect very much if anything.
You could add a logo or symbol of somesort to the outside possibly.
Ooh, good ideas guys, thanks!
A logo would be really neat…then I could add one to Dee's uniform, too! I'm having a hard time thinking of an acronym for their space program that doesn't already exist, though. :P
I think I'll also add a set of doors and a light to it.
Movies of his books should have been as big as those silly Harry Potter things were instead of low budget made for TV fare…
They weren't too bad insipte of the low budget… except the combo movie of the first two (the Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic), that was really crappy. But then those were EARRRRLLLY Discworld books and portray a VERY different Discworld to the 19th Century fantasy London/Europe in the later books.
The first two books are a straight up parody of popular fantasy stories, There's Fritz Lieber's Lankhmar, which is what Ahnk Morpork was comically based on at that stage, Lieber's Fafard and Grey Mouser are there too, Lessa from Anne McCaffery's Dragons of Pern is also there and probably lots of other stuff I've forgotten about.
That early version of the Discworld was a much raunchier, sexier, wilder, more dangerous place than what it came to be when he tamed it down for the later books.
He sort of traveled from pre-history Robert E Howard fantasy world to Shakespere, the Renassaince, the world of Georgian Baroque and Roccoco and then finally settled on Victorian London, with a detour to the ancient Mediteranian kingdoms along the way.
Mine is Vimes. Where Rincewind has no real character progression, and the only change in Granny Weatherwax is that she is getting too old to still have adventures, Vimes has shown some very interesting changes. His role as a loving father and husband, as well as his job as the city´s first and last line of defense, is an interesting combination and contrast. Or maybe I do like Rincewind better, even if he has never been the same without his Twoflower.
Sir Pratchett was important to me. I never had a chance to meet him, and it saddens me that I never will. There was an anger in him, that bled into everything he wrote. "Feet of Clay" was an attack on racism, "Interesting Times" was anger at old age, "The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents" questioned morality in a way that felt profound to me, and "Monstrous regiment" showed very clearly that unequality of genders is ridiculous and should never be allowed. His work is filled with references, and parodies, and I feel like he has improved upon the world of fantasy and science fiction, instead of just copying what came before. Not all of his books are great, and not all of them were very interesting to me, but there was always a little bit of emotion, a small scene that told the truth. And I'll miss that.
I don't know if there is anything after death, but for Terry's sake, I hope he was right.
For a few years now I've had the feeling at the back of my mind that he might have been a bit of an arsehole.
That came about on my second meeting with him. He was signing a book for me and we were having a chat. In the middle of the conversation he just stopped dead and starred into space for about five minutes or more, not saying a thing. Then after that he just blinked at me and the talk was pretty much over…
I got the impression that he was a bit of a dick with a really cold way of dismissing people.
That was before the diagnosis of the brain issue. I never really made the connection till I heard about his death, but maybe the brain thing WAS the reason and I've been wrong about him all these years? :D
It's nicer to think that was the case.
I was lucky enough to have Terry Prachett sit next to me during a screening of Truckers at a convention. He'd never seen the adaptation, even though it was a few years old by then. He did not enjoy it, and muttered and mumbled, cursed and swore at it throughout. It was hilarious. He then chatted about adaptations and the problem of letting a story go when you essentailly give it to someone else to interpret in a different medium. In a perfect world there would just be the books, but in this imperfect world there is a bigger audience, and more money, to be be made with other media (comics, TV, film, board games, and so on). We all sat spellbound listening to him.
Later I tried to buy him a banana daiquiri, which was his price for a chat at that convention, but he said he'd had too many already that day, but he chatted nonetheless, about everything and nothing.
It was a great convention.
I never read Discworld, but now I may start to. I never got into his works. Then again I'm pretty burnt out as far as the Fantasy genre is concerned. The last books I read were the Shannara series (sp?).
Found out something weird about my tablet. For some odd reason the charger didn't seem to charge my battery well. Found out it was a "1.0 A" charger. I figured something was wrong with it, so I began using the charger from my BLU Dash 4.0 smartphone which is a 2.0A. Maybe my tablet's battery is also wearing out? Hmm…
I just found myself reading a youtube argument about evolution, it was hilarious. Apparently evolution is a religion made up by athiests to deny the lord god and is just a made up story with no factual basis. my head hurts from reading so much stupid. There were some people arguing very hard against it and did a very good job. the funniest part was when the creationists pretty much gave up and resorted back to "it's just made up" and probably sticking their fingers in their ears and going LALALALALALALALALALALALALALA!
Why did I ever start reading youtube comments.
I haven't even launched the Kickstarter yet and i'm already going out of pocket on four different people. The total amount is making my stomach turn… and I haven't even paid one of them or the 100$ greenlight fee on steam.
It's easy to justify these expenses 'oh I can add them to the KS maybe' but there's that nagging worry you wont make it. That yuri fans do not want to support you because they get an endless supply of manga scans for free. So do I keep the price low and hope i'm not horribly out of pocket? Do I raise it and risk failure?
So far…I'm keeping the ks price low. ._. (despite nagging from three different people that I need to double it)
@Skull- increase the price a bit, with the understanding that you can always lower it again to the amount you're thinking about now. When you do that people will think it's a huge bargin.
That's advice that was given to me many years ago. :)
@Lonne- that is some of the worst fantasy to walk away from the genre on. His Wizard's Kingdom series is really cool, very funny, and relatable. Shannanra is just a big massive fanfiction of Lord of the Rings and pretty much one of the worst out there for it.
Pratchette books aren't really normal fantasy… especially the later ones. They're modern satires in slightly fantasy outfits. And very British in attitude.
His early SciFi is pretty good too: Strata is a very early SciFi origin for the Discworld, and Dark Side of The Sun is a lot of fun.
@Genejoke- on some vids the comments are great, about the subject of the video, polite, respectful, and reasonable, especially this chanel about HEMA and swords; https://www.youtube.com/user/scholagladiatoria
and this channel about interesting guns: https://www.youtube.com/user/ForgottenWeapons
Evolution, athiesim, religion chanels are all about people wanting to get into fights.
What I hate are the athiests mysoginists. It's so wierd that mysogonist athiests are a thing… Why? What's the connection? Love of neckbeards, stingray fedoras, mansplaining?
I lose all hope for humanity reading youtube comments. I swear everything devolves into arguments about religion and gay bashing.
@Skullbie. Surely you need the KS to at the very least cover your costs, or be an acceptable loss. Loads of kickstarters are successful but never deliver the goods, you want to be sure of doing both, even if you finish the kickstarter at a loss. Game sales may mean you can recover that loss. maybe. I'm glad I'm not doing it.
if you succeed in the KS and deliver a complete game you are way ahead of 70% of the game KS's I've seen.
perhaps be honest in your kickstarter about the amount you are asking for and what it is costing you. So, 100% means the game gets released. 200% means you can eat.
ozoneocean wrote:Aw heck we've had 2000 years of misogynist theists might as well let the atheists in on some of the woman-bashing fun! But then these misogynist atheists are pure amatuers. The real artists were the early church Fathers. Jerome for the win! Now that was a misogynist. Come on endless debates over how a woman's mentral cycle made her unfit to receive communion/ Let alone become any kind of church official. Then centuries of debate over whether the Virgin Mary's hymen was ever broken or did she ever menstuate? you don't see facinating stuff like that on Youtube.
What I hate are the athiests mysoginists. It's so wierd that mysogonist athiests are a thing… Why? What's the connection? Love of neckbeards, stingray fedoras, mansplaining?
We all know that about the church in general, what I'm getting at though is that there is a specific group of Youtube celeb video diarests who are into two things only: Athiesim and mysoginy. And they talk about both subjrcts endlessly.
These are two of the worst but by no means the only ones:
https://www.youtube.com/user/SargonofAkkad100
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAmazingAtheist
I think they're just the tip of the iceberg of social groups on Reddit, Facebook, and all over the place generally.
Unlike religion where it's sort of a prescriptive set of rules govrning all aspects of people's lives, male and female, because it's based on old traditions that've evoled and mutated over the centuries, the Athiest groups have no such baggage as an excuse! They'e coming to it fresh and STILL being massive cocks!
OK, my theory on it is that their own approach to athiesim is the cause: They come to it from a sort of a libitarian, nhilist perspective, questioning institional power in an agressive, superficial way; like kids, spoiling for a fight. -Rather than the live and let live style of athiest agnositicsim others subscribe to.
Things like feminisim are easy targets for them, they see it as no different to religion.
The way they seem to think is that the only people qualified to define any aspect of society are they themselves. Tradition, culture, social moores, and all institutions are meaningless. Their own expereince of things trumps all…
Which is a very internet-centric type of behaviour and something a lot of us fall afoul of till we begin to learn a bit better.
@Bravo- An anime I recomend for you, if you haven't seen it already, is We Without Wings:
http://justdubs.tv/anime/we-without-wings-english-dub/
There are plenty of pervy ecchi aspects to it but the most interesting part is the personality of the main characters. It's a really weird setup! I'd advise you NOT to look up spoilers or any info beforehand because it'd ruin the surprises.
It's one of those animes that left me completely cold after the first episode but I stuck with it stubbornly anyway… confused and bored. After about the 3rd or 4th episode it started to get pretty interesting.
Another I recomend is Highschool DXD: http://justdubs.tv/anime/high-school-dxd-english-dub/
That's a more traditional Ecchi, with better animation and it's much funnier. The story isn't as interesting or clever, but it's funny and good eyecandy.
The second series is even better: http://justdubs.tv/anime/high-school-dxd-new-english-dub/
ozoneocean wrote:Jerome and the early church fathers weren't coming at it based on ancient traditions, they invented it based on their own personal opinions. They were the Greek speaking gentiles who were reacting to Neo-Platonism and the Classical world in the name of this new religion (whose beliefs were all over the place at the time) They didn't have a grounding in the old traditions of Judiaism which had in fact been thrown out the window by Paul to entice Gentile converts. They could invent based on what they felt. The Romans were live and let live. The Christians changed that. All tradition starts somewhere and it usually begins with reactions to prevailing conditions by charismatic and deranged people with perverse opinions that preclude any argument or compromise because their diety told them so.
Unlike religion where it's sort of a prescriptive set of rules govrning all aspects of people's lives, male and female, because it's based on old traditions that've evoled and mutated over the centuries, the Athiest groups have no such baggage as an excuse! They'e coming to it fresh and STILL being massive cocks!
That's the history anyway. What these dopes on these forums believe doesn't need to have anything to do with evidence. Read one book or a dozen internet articles and pull an opinion out of the air. Like Sargon does. Real insult to a great kick-ass conqueror.
ozoneocean wrote:
What I hate are the athiests mysoginists. It's so wierd that mysogonist athiests are a thing… Why? What's the connection? Love of neckbeards, stingray fedoras, mansplaining?
Ugh, yes. It's frustrating that some of the most prominent misogynists on the internet are also the most prominent people who share my belief system.
Also weird Islamophobia among some of them. The other day a muslim friend of mine was talking about how he has a huge problem with religious folks who say that nonreligious people can't be moral. I think it's pretty sad that a lot of these new atheists wouldn't stick up for him and his religion in the same way. The whole secular/anti-muslim thing has been a big deal in Canada lately with Quebec politicians having tried to pass a "Values Charter" that would have prevented public servants from wearing any "conspicuous" religious symbols, mostly affecting muslim women who choose to wear the hijab (as well as sikh men).
I feel now like I avoid telling people I'm an atheist not because they'll think I'm godless and immoral, but rather because they'll think I'm like one of those jackbags.
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