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Post by Rosie on Sept 12, 2012 11:47:21 GMT -8
@kelly martin I am a fan of Kara walker! she is an amazing artist! but her art content is super HEAVY and my content is a lot lighter. I call the skull art I do "happy skulls" cause they don't look creepy but are brightly colored. In fact, if you have a facebook you could like my page I set up-I posted some pictures and I still have a lot more to post-it's still a work in progress! My page is called Skull art: www.facebook.com/roro.favelaI also enjoy your gore, it's not too over the top but just enough!
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Sept 13, 2012 11:38:43 GMT -8
Oh Rosie those are great! I love the color palettes, very refined choices. Reminds me of one of my businesses in the Sims 2, which was a Dia de Los Muertos themed bakery. (I spent way too much time on that one, so you know that I love it. ) Very cool, I can't wait to see more! <3
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Post by Rosie on Sept 14, 2012 7:26:17 GMT -8
AWE! thanks! and I had to stop playing sims cause it really took over my life! but I don't think I could have stayed away if there was a Dia de Los Muertos theme, that sounds awesome!
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Sept 14, 2012 13:19:07 GMT -8
Busters gonna bust... :-P
A video game with a Dia de Los Muertos theme? Surely you must be familiar with Grim Fandango, but I'll mention it in case you are not.
It is Tha Goods.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Sept 19, 2012 20:45:51 GMT -8
I am, as you might have gathered, the brother of Christopher... Um, yeah, I could go into much more detail, but I don't think anyone really cares. Ha!! I'm still not asleep and I can't think of anything else to do, so you must all scroll past one more pointless post so you can mark the page read and be done with it. Whatever you know about Chris' childhood and adolescence, you can pretty much apply to me, so I won't go into detail in case he wants to keep it all HUSH HUSH. I frequently felt like a tagalong, but I made friendly acquaintances and had some good times so, whatever. I joined the Army when I turned 18, as a tank crewmember. That is exactly 66.9 times more awesome than it sounds. BOOM. You know when you see a tank go momentarily airborne in an Army commercial? That breaks a lot of expensive and difficult to replace parts. Totally worth it. ;D I reenlisted and became an MP, which was also a lot more fun than it should have been. Fortunately, I got out one day before a stop-loss order came down that would have guaranteed me at least one tour in an unlawful and unjust war. I used my GI Bill to go to community college in and around Seattle, eventually transferring to San Francisco State University to get my degree in Film Production. I met a wonderful lady on an online discussion forum and we eventually MUSHY MUSHY MUSHY... AWWWWW... and got married. Thinking it a topical idea to move somewhere where we could afford to own a home, I agreed to move to Kansas with her, even though she had already given up hope of moving back there. We do own an awesome home in a neighborhood with great schools, blah blah blah, and both of her sisters are in the metro area as well, BUT... It's fucking Kansas!! My vote literally doesn't count, the culture is stale and boring, the weather is shit-tastic, and everyone here is full to the brim with HATE. Barf. Almost everyone I knew well in college (the ones I've friended on Facebook) have gone on to work at least a little in the industry and at least one guy has made a couple notable indie films that I probably could have worked on. Anyway, when I got out here, I went to work at the VA hospital in Leavenworth where they effectively crushed my soul. I've struggled with depression off and on, only recently realizing it was bipolar disorder (type II). I was able to convince a VA vocational rehab counselor that I was "underemployed" for my education, intellect, and abilities, so now I'm going back to school at UMKC, studying Environmental Science and Geographic Information Systems. If you were silly enough to read this, you have now wasted between 30 seconds and 3 minutes of your life. Thank you and good evening.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Sept 19, 2012 20:59:22 GMT -8
Oh, I'm a die-hard Seattle Mariners fan and I love reading about advanced statistical analysis of baseball. Largely thanks to my wife, I can now watch and occasionally appreciate a football game or a college basketball game, especially if the KU Jayhawks or the Chiefs are playing. I wanted to play baseball as a kid, but my mom was a bitch and was too lazy to take me to little league practice. I probably would have sucked at it anyway.
I'd love to be able to sing well or play an instrument but I don't have the self-discipline to pick up anything like that. Same goes for art. Chris once said I was only a few years behind him, but that was when I was 10 and I haven't put any effort into it since.
I love animals but I was too lazy to stick with the volunteering at the zoo thing. Plus it's SOOO hot here, why would anyone want to be outside in this crap? I once had a lemur sitting in my lap, eating cranberries from my hand. AWESOME.
About a year and a half ago, I convinced my wife that we should join the gym and try to get healthier. She's lost over 100 pounds and can deadlift almost 300 pounds! I haven't lost a pound (still almost 50 pounds over), but I'm much stronger than I've ever been in my life.
Why am I still typing this crap? It's like I'm trying to achieve in one night what it took me several years on the other board to do. Maybe I'm hoping that while I'm rambling in here, somebody will post something in the SUBPAR threads...
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Nay, let us walk from fire unto firey skeleton ...
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Post by DKender on Sept 19, 2012 21:14:28 GMT -8
Brett, have you gone airborne in a tank like in those Army commercials? Also, congrats on UMKC. Any instrument you'd want to play in particular? And please tell your wife that her strength has inspired at least one person to try weight training again. It's getting pathetic - I can't even heft a full carboy anymore.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Sept 19, 2012 21:29:42 GMT -8
Brett, have you gone airborne in a tank like in those Army commercials? Also, congrats on UMKC. Any instrument you'd want to play in particular? And please tell your wife that her strength has inspired at least one person to try weight training again. It's getting pathetic - I can't even heft a full carboy anymore. 1. Yes!! I went airborne several times while driving across some open terrain in Death Valley that was textured something like the rhythm section of a motorcross track. The tanks we used there, though, were so badly worn and maintained that three quarters of them (no hyperbole) broke track before we got through the pass to our live fire exercise. They had to abort that whole part of our rotation there. 2. The guitar is sexy, but I think I'd like to play the piano. If I could steal a man's talent by eating him (Ravenous!), Harry Connick Jr. would be in trouble.
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DKender
Only One Skeleton has the Power to Control both Life and Death, Light and Dark, Words and Blank Space, Our Humble Lives Continue Only by the Grace and Magnanimity of This Skeleton
Nay, let us walk from fire unto firey skeleton ...
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Post by DKender on Sept 19, 2012 21:47:07 GMT -8
Harry Connick Jr. is pure class, and he'd probably taste good with ... AND I am aborting this joke before it gets any worse. Man oh man, being in that tank must have been exhilarating, though. And with Death Valley scenery, it must have been like driving straight through Mars, or some alien terrain.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Sept 19, 2012 21:53:30 GMT -8
I am a bioinformatics (genetics, but RNA, not DNA, though nucleotides are nucleotides ahahah) specialist working with de novo transcriptome assembly. At first blush, one would think bioinformatics would be like genome mapping, but "de novo transcriptome assembly" sounds more like genetic therapy type stuff. How soon 'til you can cure my male pattern baldness?
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DKender
Only One Skeleton has the Power to Control both Life and Death, Light and Dark, Words and Blank Space, Our Humble Lives Continue Only by the Grace and Magnanimity of This Skeleton
Nay, let us walk from fire unto firey skeleton ...
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Post by DKender on Sept 19, 2012 22:07:32 GMT -8
HAHA as soon as plankton start growing hair. I'm ... stuck with single celled work for now, but will someday move on to bigger and better organisms! I hope.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Sept 19, 2012 23:37:12 GMT -8
Wow, I knew the players were smart cookies, but that's awesome. You grow that plankton hair, you crazy diamond. Grow it all night long. -
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Post by aktnova on Oct 15, 2012 21:21:09 GMT -8
Um. Hi. I'm new. Joined for two reasons. 1) The Halloween RPG 2) I'm trying to make web comics too and I'd like to make my our website for that purpose (porous?). Thought I could get some advice here.
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Oct 15, 2012 21:40:55 GMT -8
Welcome aktnova! Certainly, ask away and we shall answer. We forum it up almost incessantly. ;D
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Oct 16, 2012 9:14:43 GMT -8
I'm a compulsive shopper. It's cyclical, but when I have even the slimmest excuse to go shopping, I pounce on it. It was really hard to leave my last job to go back to school, because I knew my wife wouldn't let me spend as much. Yeah, I've got my VA disability check (which has gone up 50% since I left that job) and a stipend check from vocational rehab, and a little more from my work study... But she wants me to be conservative. When I had a job, I probably shopped for business casual clothes twice a month. I've got almost thirty performance polos. I love shoes, just like Kelly. I have Chuck Taylors in red, orange, yellow, green, royal and navy blue, and black. My favorite shoes are my "cognac" colored Stacy Adams dress shoes. I used my wedding as an excuse to buy a Zoot suit. My wife had a 25% off coupon at Coach, where she gets her sister a purse almost every year, and I fell in love with a $400 messenger bag (fortunately or unfortunately, I didn't have enough money left in my play money savings account to buy it). I have, like, 50 logo t-shirts, mostly ThinkGeek designs and some other silliness. Weeeeee! On the bright side, I'm already doing Christmas shopping, which helps me get it out of my system at least a little bit.
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