Official Off-Topic Thread

[Panda]

The previous one got 888 posts, so uhm, why not have a new one.
Anyway feel free to talk about whatever crosses your mind, but remember: keep it clean, don't spam and behave.
So... there you go.

[Feron]

Wow you guys are all still alive and going hard with the pixel art hey 

where the fuck have you been... any new pixels?   

[Opacus]

Second comment at least >:0

KEBAB.

[Helm]

Oh wow Opacus, if that's supposed to be some sort of mech in your avatar, time for volumetric studies!

[Rox]

Helm - Always on topic, even in the off-topic.


I second the kebab notion.

[Rydin]

I think the off-topic-ness is in reference to the larger topic at hand--pixel art and critique--not the coherence of each reply to the thread....though I am a firm believer that the less on-topic the reply is, the better.  But I mean, not that it really matters.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_(drink)   

[Opacus]

Oh wow Opacus, if that's supposed to be some sort of mech in your avatar, time for volumetric studies!

True, true. I kinda got tired yesterday, but wanted to finish it so I kinda rushed it. The line art just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
And indeed, the volume makes no sense either. I'll fix it up when I find some free time.

[baccaman21]

I think the off-topic-ness is in reference to the larger topic at hand--pixel art and critique--not the coherence of each reply to the thread....though I am a firm believer that the less on-topic the reply is, the better.  But I mean, not that it really matters.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_(drink)   

yes I've seen this before... I found it highly amusing that "On May 5th, 2007, Cocaine was pulled from U.S. shelves as a result of the FDA's decision that Cocaine was "illegally marketing their drink as an alternative to street drugs". " - despite the fact that there's an obvious other drink called coke which did - in fact - have cocaine in it (amongst other stuff) when it was first brewed...

[ptoing]

there's an obvious other drink called coke which did - in fact - have cocaine in it (amongst other stuff) when it was first brewed...

And was sold in drugstores as medicine. Also Heroin was developed and sold as a cough medicine at first \o/

[Scuba Steve]

Say, I know I don't visit often... but does Pep still frequent the boards?  If not, what became of him?

[Helm]

Pep has largely been MIA for a long while. Last we heard of him in the moderator section of the forum he said he was looking into helping solve the server situation (which was a complicated issue) but whatever he's been doing, he failed to communicate to the rest of the active moderation team through it. So we've been stagnating and answering countless PMs about 'why can't I change my avatar?!'. So after a long while, Ptoing took it upon himself to buy new serverspace, move the db and fix the problems with the forum (Adam helped and is now eating cake). This streamlined the 'chain of command' greatly as now this forum is owned by the same people that run it. This was a good time for a moderator purge from people who were no longer active in those roles, so Pep, Goat and Dan have been demodded.

As to what Pep is up to I really don't know, If he's around he can post and fill you in himself.

[Froli]

ARGHHHH  Don't you just love it when you are working on some graphics and suddenly there was a power black out. And you realize you didn't save.

[Faceless]

I loved it more in highschool when you were working on an assignment in the "computer lab" and your friend would kick out the power cable.
Naturally you would retaliate and ultimately nobody would ever get anything done.

[Mercury Rising]

That is why one of my favorite features in 3dsm is autoback, so many times our projects have been saved by that holy grail of a tool.   Only problem is if you forget to save the scene as and simply save it over the autoback, it will not be there for long.
(Also a reason why I picked up a UPS recently )

[Rydin]

SCUBA STEVE! Are you still in Minnesota???!!!?! If so, in Stearns?!!?!?!!!1111!11!1 omg omg omg 


But yeah, I guess I never thought that Coke actually used the idea of marketing a drug LONG before Cocaine...interesting that if a street name is used, the FDA could care less, but as soon as somebody tries to sell something with the actual drug name, they go hay-wire.  Probably should keep that in mind when I start up my marajuana tea beverage...guess I should just call it Grass....

[ptoing]

Speaking of Coca Cola, I guess all you Americans know that it's because of them that Santa Clause looks like he looks.

[Arachne]

Probably for the better. If it were up to Scandinavians, he'd probably look more like this:

The barn gnome; short, surly and demands presents on Christmas eve. Bizarro Santa!

[.TakaM]

I loved it more in highschool when you were working on an assignment in the "computer lab" and your friend would kick out the power cable.
Naturally you would retaliate and ultimately nobody would ever get anything done.

hurray for when my teacher deleted my account, six assignments simultaneously failed 

[Feron]

i once hacked a staff acount on my schools system and had some fun... until the technicians noticed some odd behaviour, and i was banned from school computers for a while...

[Rydin]

I labeled a cd "trojan_virus.exe" (it just had a few videos for Digital production) and nearly failed the class because of it.

Ironically, we were using mac....

[Faktablad]

Probably for the better. If it were up to Scandinavians, he'd probably look more like this:

The barn gnome; short, surly and demands presents on Christmas eve. Bizarro Santa!

Beware the Tomten!

[Frychiko]

Pep has largely been MIA for a long while. Last we heard of him in the moderator section of the forum he said he was looking into helping solve the server situation (which was a complicated issue) but whatever he's been doing, he failed to communicate to the rest of the active moderation team through it. So we've been stagnating and answering countless PMs about 'why can't I change my avatar?!'. So after a long while, Ptoing took it upon himself to buy new serverspace, move the db and fix the problems with the forum (Adam helped and is now eating cake). This streamlined the 'chain of command' greatly as now this forum is owned by the same people that run it. This was a good time for a moderator purge from people who were no longer active in those roles, so Pep, Goat and Dan have been demodded.

As to what Pep is up to I really don't know, If he's around he can post and fill you in himself.

Maybe he's RIP? There's been a few pixelation members over the years who have passed away.

[Panda]

Pep has largely been MIA for a long while. Last we heard of him in the moderator section of the forum he said he was looking into helping solve the server situation (which was a complicated issue) but whatever he's been doing, he failed to communicate to the rest of the active moderation team through it. So we've been stagnating and answering countless PMs about 'why can't I change my avatar?!'. So after a long while, Ptoing took it upon himself to buy new serverspace, move the db and fix the problems with the forum (Adam helped and is now eating cake). This streamlined the 'chain of command' greatly as now this forum is owned by the same people that run it. This was a good time for a moderator purge from people who were no longer active in those roles, so Pep, Goat and Dan have been demodded.

As to what Pep is up to I really don't know, If he's around he can post and fill you in himself.

Maybe he's RIP? There's been a few pixelation members over the years who have passed away.

I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
He popped up online like what, 4 times? in 10 months (last time being the other day).
He hasn't given a shit about moderation duties whatsoever. All he has done during the few times he came, was comment on random stuff in the administration forum.
But alas, I guess it doesn't matter anymore.

[Dusty]

That's Pep, Most of what I remember of him was him always disappearing suddenly for long periods of time, coming back for a quick second, then being gone again.

[Helm]

Pep hasn't always been like that, he carried Pixelation through a rough patch as head admin and the place owes him for that. But that doesn't excuse not doing the moderating thing as a moderator, so that's that.

[snake]

there's an obvious other drink called coke which did - in fact - have cocaine in it (amongst other stuff) when it was first brewed...

And was sold in drugstores as medicine. Also Heroin was developed and sold as a cough medicine at first \o/

So have a lot of things before before they were properly tested. Cornflakes were designed by doctors to reduce sexual activity. Tapeworms were sold in cans and swallowed to reduce weight. To cure boils, you could have a metal tank filled with radioactive material strapped to yourself. Sometimes you didn't really need a reason to market something.

[robalan]

What what?  Snake has an avatar?  *checks to make sure the world hasn't ended*  *reads Forum Move thread and realizes that it was in fact called for*  *thinks about making a new avatar for himself*  *stops emoting*

[Zolthorg]

nudity warning
http://www.break.com/index/dick-doodles.html
fun with cartooning

[Kosmatushi]

Just seeing that URL makes me think of Superbad Zolthorg.





I always want to say Strongbad when I think of the title of that movie...

[.TakaM]

yay prison break is back
very cool episode to kick off season 3, fight scene was especially cool

[Rox]

Oh snap, Prison Break...

It's official, I'll have no life by the end of this year. See, I used to follow Lost and Prison Break back whenever, back 'ere on Swedish TV which is inevitably a couple of weeks behind the US stuff... and all of my friends download the episodes instead... Do people have no patience at all anymore? Anyway, this fall, some of the awesomest 360 games ever are coming out. And also next year. Very soon, Halo 3 will consume all of my free time. BUT, I also just started watching Heroes which another Swedish channel decided to pick up spontaneously, and I knew I have to see it. Two episodes a week, one on wednesday and one on thursday. Yet another channel are about to start airing Eureka, which looks interesting, and also Dexter which has gotten immense praise from my classmates so I feel I need to check it out. Then Prison Break will return soon, followed by Lost... and Halo 3... and I'll officially have no spare time left at all... I hope none of those shows collide!

[ptoing]

OMG, the tragedy that would ensue. /o\

[.TakaM]

Heroes.. I really felt they ran that show into the ground.
they had a bunch  of cool characters, then they just kept introducing more and more, and they had really lame powers like super schizophrenia, and seriously, the mind reading cop was an absolute retard, I just wanted to smack him every time he 'acted' like he could read minds, every single time he leans in and sorta.. aims his brain at them.
plus there was Hiro, whose power was so much better than everyone else's, it just made everyone else worthless and the ending so stupid

[Frychiko]

See, I used to follow Lost and Prison Break back whenever, back 'ere on Swedish TV which is inevitably a couple of weeks behind the US stuff... and all of my friends download the episodes instead... Do people have no patience at all anymore?

Waiting is for suckers!  There's no way I'm gonna wait for more than half a year for it to get here! A couple of weeks... Half a year.. all the same!

[mattness]

Take a look: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/0,39029477,49292857-1,00.htm




P.S.: Sorry for posted this one out of the OT Thread.

[.TakaM]

Been working on Twinsens catamaran and I think I'm about done.
this one was tough to make look right; fitting the hulls onto the surface of the water without them looking too awkward, enough perspective ambiguity so they didn't look broken, but not so much that the boat looked awkward next to the playing tiles.

Only thing I'm not to sure about is how Twinsen will get in, I figure you hit an invisible wall/trigger on the wharf, then twinsen automatically runs and jumps into the (open) door and sails off

[Panda]

One thing, but bushes and trees (well, objects overall) look lighter and more washed out the further away they are, and not the other way (like in your screenshot/mockup).
Also that catamaran looks really awkward with all those perfect angles.

[.TakaM]

I know that everything gets lighter the closer it is to the horizon, and I hate to sorta hide behind the style claim, Buuuuut..:
First, Twinsen is hardly a realistic game, all the sprites have little to no shading, there's plenty of unrealistic stuff going on that I've grown to love not only for it's unique look, but the interesting challenges and restrictions they've caused.
Like I said, I know the parallax layers should logically get lighter, but I think that changes the feel too much in a direction I don't want to take it


and you really think the catamaran (design?) looks awkward?
I rather like the boxy style and think it fits in well

[Fingerfoods]

I love the catamaran, but I do wonder about the parallax layers.

Still, it's your game and it looks great overall, so do what you want, but I'd at least like to see a screenshot with correct background shading.

[pkmays]

I loved it more in highschool when you were working on an assignment in the "computer lab" and your friend would kick out the power cable.
Naturally you would retaliate and ultimately nobody would ever get anything done.

Freshman year of college our design teacher would do random power plug pulls. At any time, of any day of the week, he could pull out a surge protector and half the class would go out. It was a very effective way to teach us to save early and save often.

[bluknight]

That's awesome, and probably was quite fun for your professor to see all your reactions. 
Were people hitting ctrl+s after every key-stroke?

[pkmays]

Yep, he always seemed to enjoy himself.

Man, as soon as I have an extra $7000-10,000 USD laying around I've gotta get me one of these.

[Opacus]

Awesome avatar, pkmays.

And that's one bad ass cat!

[Feron]

if we're gonan go for hybrids do it right: Liger's are where it's at!.  would tear your savanah to shreads!

[pkmays]

I saw a Serval at the Albuquerque zoo this summer, which is a large part of why I coveteth a Savannah so much. It was a really beautiful cat, and quite friendly with it's trainer.

But, man, those Lyger magic skills would come in handy with the ladies.

[Feron]

http://drjon.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/21/liger_real.jpg

shit....

[Ai]

Not exactly on-topic, not exactly off topic, doesn't fit in the OT-creativity thread - Goes here, obviously.

http://bub-n-bros.sourceforge.net/

I mentioned this a long time ago; I'd redone most of the graphics for this game. More recently, I revised all graphics to a much higher standard and submitted them to the author, and the dragons / bubbles now use a 384 color palette.
Something I would have liked to have during this project is higher precision than 8bit -- the bubbles got significantly quantized because I had to manipulate the brightness curves of the greyscale originals (which had a LOT of detail/smoothness - done mainly through recursive shading with the help of a little plugin that sets FGcolor == midway between current FG and BG colors.) -- the various colored bubbles -- eg EXTEND ended up somewhat chunked:

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Currently, you can see the new graphics ingame, or in two places on the website - at the bottom of the main page, and on the credits page; the other website graphics (mainly screenshots) haven't been updated yet.. Individual screenshots don't show upgrades very well.

[Xion]

http://drjon.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/21/liger_real.jpg

shit....

I will ride it to the sunset and lasso the clouds from their blue world above. And we will be...
Unstoppable!

[am_pm]

Well, Uhh, I beat Banana Nababa finally.

[Cow]

Well, Uhh, I beat Banana Nababa finally.

I beat it yesterday too. Which means I'm especially looking forward to im9today/bisse's beautiful/hard remix.