I like 2 Harvest Moon games. Harvest Moon 64 and the remake of the PlayStation version for GBA called Harvest Moon: Friends Of Mineral Town (gay name I know, but it's actually good).

 I love the games but I can't ever get far per se. I bought that GBA one I like so I got around it long enough to get married and I might've knocked her up but I'm not sure. I don't know how far it goes after you get married because supposedly the point to the game, since credits roll after that even though you can keep playing and have kids.

Much like Animal Crossing, I love it but it always gets shelfed for a long time.

I have to say that I find it, at least on GBA so it's portable, a lot more fun than Animal Crossing. While AC has more to do, it goes no where at all. There's no relationships because that would be disgusting, so all you do is try to pay off a house by doing the chores that only the homeless would do in a small town. Picking up and selling garbage and ##### that washed up on shore? Spending a whole day shaking trees and digging around for the mere chance you might get money or a fossil? That's #####ing weird ass behaviour.

Also Animal Crossing's constant clock is the BIGGEST piss off with that damn game. I can't shelf the game and then pick it up later 'cause if I do the game is wrecked and there's further snorefactor chores to do. Pulling weeds for free is for bustas and cattle. And characters I like getting pissed off and leaving just because I live a REAL WORLD life that doesn't allow me to visit a digital penguin and say hi. I like the games a lot, but holy ##### does that clock piss me off. And I miss holidays? Come on. There is no way I'm gonna find the real time ON Christmas to go and participate in AC world holiday jargon.

With Harvest Moon you can save whenever you want and the clock stops. The days don't simulate real time so you can actually knock out a couple months in one sitting easily. There's actual relationship building with the women and townsfolk that actually affects the game and some storylines, there's some sort of planning and management with running the farm and organizing the [short] days while dealing with weather and other crud, the additions to the house aren't just spacial (you actually gain a sauna which helps you recuperate, a kitchen where you can cook, etc.), and there's competitions for how well you raise your animals, grow foods, cook foods, and for your skills like swimming and fishing.

I feel that Harvest Moon might get boring once you "finish" it, but there's a helluva LOT more direction than Animal Crossing. Hell, HM even has cutscenes.

However that first Gamecube Harvest Moon? Sucks.

As much as I love Duke Nukem, I'm afraid the extensively prolonged waiting period for a new game has given me unrealistic expectations for the game.

Honestly, with as long as it has taken thus far, it had better be the most astonishing game I've played in a long time...

...and give BJs.

Balls of steel.

I'm still playing DKC3.

Yes but what's the point in that?

Not doing something because everyone else is going to do it is just as bad as doing it BECAUSE everyone else is going to do it.

THANK you.

I'll vote on some other day when I care.

Now you see I'm not so sure because today I heard down at the co op that 35 is the new 25, so which is it?

Also, Vinch found a very disturbing note in a bottle. He told me it on IM.

Dear Some Stranger,
i f u c j e d myself yest
erday if u support come v
isit me... ohio st martian
 streat 662. Thank You.
From your ass

... I can't stop laughing.

Oohh Saint Martian. Patron saint of Interstellar warriors.

Praise Xenu.
So sayeth the captain Jean Luc Picard, so sayeth the starfleet.

Thanks guys and I don't know anything about Mass Effect either, really.

The leg really just needs a small adjustment, but not today!

: Mikero  21 February 2008, 23:19:54

No it wasn't.

Yes huh.

No, it wasn't. Everyone and their savings bonds wore browns and blacks.

Okay, both of you shaddap, back in the 1920s they didn't have color cameras so we'll never know! They could all be wearing pink and green for all we know. Neither of you have a time machine, you never will, so shaddap.

You have no idea of the mechanical marvels I have been collecting.

Yeah that's an appropriate response.

[Hide] is not how we hide spoilers anymore.

Anyway, I called that ##### like right away so again the ending of the episode had no effect on me;
[spoiler]The second they said she had a son I was like "Oh she took the baby with her!" and I thought that was just what it was and they weren't trying to hide it but then after the last scene a couple friends of mine come on MSN like "What?! I was thinking she got pregged!"

Also I don't really think he counts. I thought but my friend brought up an interesting point. She said that if Kate claims Aaron is her son she would have to say that she got pregnant on the island which would discount him as one of the six.[/spoiler]

I don't think the show is obvious really, but they foreshadow so hard that it's like impossible for a twist ending unless they do the smart thing and put the foreshadow spread out over a few episodes and not just jam it into one. But it was another OK episode.

: Captain Sanoguchi  22 February 2008, 04:07:22

Avast! It's the secret 9th Backstreet Boy!

Have you seen the trailer for Step Up 2, perchance?

It's called Step Up 2 The Streets, you LOSER!

I meant that Bendis is writing him somewhat out of character. When Beyond ended he seemed like he was on his was to be a hero.

And now, out of nowhere, he's the Kingpin?

Ah I see. The interview seemed like he was taking it right from the mini, which I haven't finished yet.

YOU said it!

Oh, and I've met John K., by the way.

---

Roccov. A (my) character for a Mass Effect thing my friends and I are doing.

A quickish sketch from yester when I couldn't take doing homework and needed to just draw like back in the day..

Quick. So there's proportion problems and #####. I might fix in photoshop if I go to colour, or I might fix the actual drawing.

THERE'S A SECOND LIKE MIKE?

EDIT: I'M ON IT!

BALL-ERRRRRRRRRRRRR!

I think he's still as cool it's just harder to get his as badass without having to slap the MAX label on the book.

Like the difference in The Punisher and Punisher War Journal.

Before either Civil War or at least the initial fallout of Civil War ended (before Initiative at least) I read an interview with Bendis where he gave out spoilers (making sure to tell the interviewer to hide these parts in spoiler tags so people wouldn't have to read it) about who the new New Avengers villain was going to be and why.

Obviously it was The Hood but his reasoning and his direction with the character is really good stuff. Basically he wants to turn The Hood into something like The Kingpin only even bigger. The Hood would be kingpin of super-villains in the way that The Kingpin is kingpin of regular villains. That's pretty cool.

I doubt I will ever read that comic.

I did use it on XP, I have no need for it otherwise.

I have no idea what you mean about the directories in OSX. Customization is easy enough for me but I'm assuming you want a level of customization that's more in depth than mine. I don't find that network-related options are actually hard to configure at all, they're just pretty different from the PC.

I do agree that the Mac keyboard needs tweaks (like the whole backspace and delete thing, that's so stupid) and you're out of your mind if you don't use a Microsoft USB mouse on it, unless it's a laptop like mine in which case the trackpad is fine. I also agree about the RAM hogging, but disagreeing with that is akin to lying.

Of course, the the original OSX was quite ##### compared to the newest two, and I run 10.4 (current top of the line is 10.5). For what I do, OSX is perfect but you do programming and stuff that I doubt any version of OSX lends itself to easily.

I really think it depends on what you have and want out of your computer. I personally can't stay confined to Mac or PC and have to switch back to Windows every once in a while (except the XP on my PC is currently beyond garbage). Also when you're used to one thing, it's harder to accept the other, that's my main observation of people using the Macs we have to use for our work at school; They'll try to do something really easy but do it wrong because it's just a little different and then cuss out the Mac like they aren't the ones being moronic, but that's for really simple things that they are obviously being completely anal about.

I bought the Marvel MAX trade of The Hood because that character has been awesome for the longest time and I thought I should read his damn OG story finally. So far so good.

From which movie?

Yes it's important.

Why bother? You could only look more of a jackass on that thing if you were riding it and you skitched off a Smart car or a Geo Metro.

I didn't realize Sigma and The Incredible Hulk were expecting.

Uhf please. My mom came by like "The lunar eclipse is happening! Wanna watch?" and I was busy doing homework and said no. Lunar eclipses are nice and cool, but they happen like all the time anyway. Missing one is nothing.

I wanted the original Tamagotchi-esque toy when it first came out. Then like a couple years later they promo for the show went "They're back! It's Digimon!" on Fox Kids (back when that existed, I feel old) and I thought it was a continuation or something for a while until I connected the dots to the toy and show.

I hate snow. Rather, I hate the fact that snow can only occur when it's cold.

Snow would be awesome if it was warm.

That's why you just go to the back of a hockey rink in the summer, duh.

It could be implemented a lot better. Mac OSX and [I think] Linux use disk mountable images all the time instead of executables and I find them about a thousand times better.

I don't know about newer version of Daemon tools but they should work more like that 'cause I found it odd and I think I remember it being a bit buggy.

Kari/Cari, and yeah me too. Although I pretty much figured out that she was one of them the first time you saw her.

Awesome.

: Redmage  20 February 2008, 04:58:35

Haha, I know who Jack Black is, but not John Candy.

That's #####ing tragic.

What the ##### is with the 21st century?

(Harmony > Flash)^10

Oh no. Not RAIN. It must suck to have to walk through RAIN. Man, I'm so glad it keeps snowing here and RAINing 'cause RAIN is so bad.

I count Tamers as season 3, but it probably isn't. I think it is Digimon Adventure 03 though.

PokéMon rocked while it followed the Red and Blue games closely. Then I lost interest because I grew up AND it sucked from then on anyway.

Daemon Tools is like KIND of handy. I have it on my PC but it's not as useful as it pretends to be.

You should write a 1970's parenting book, dude.

It's like a tandem skateboard...


... You know, for the family that likes to do extreme sports TOGETHER.

It's actually easier now that Diamond and Pearl sprites are out, they're much more clearer than GBA.

Eg.

Mi-kid-ero

While I've already made my own Pkmn sprites and stuff a long time ago; I appreciate your work, thanks.

I'm gonna look through my own pokey sprites in a minute, and I might throw something up with you guys. I really wasn't planning too, but I feel like it now and I like this better than the Zero thing.

P.S. I might have to use the term "Mikidro" in the future sometime. I'll negotiate the rights later, breda.

This thread is major headache to try and catch up on after a couple days.

I watched almost all of Arrested Development the past couple of nights while homeworking. People uploading TV shows to embedded video players is a tremendous boon to me in my allnights, of which there are tons.

Does that have... purpose?

Gruelling week of sleepless nights. And after my last class of the day-Life Drawing, doing brush pen drawings of a naked gross ginger man named Brent or some stupid thing- I am officially on reading week (spring break) now.

"Break" is the most bull##### thing they call it of course, since I literally have this much to do over it;

Animation Design IV
-Rough Pan + approval (this will take like three attempts at the whole A to D pan Background G, which is around 42 inches wide).
-Rough Flying machine in perspective + approval (I have one of the two angles done and he basically approved it today, so I have to get the other one done).
-Rough Crash site + approval.
-Thumbnails of crashed flying machine + approval.
-Rough Flying machine flying animation keys.
-Rough Interior cockpit views.

(^I might actually be forgetting something here, this is all one big assignment.)

Character Animation II
-2 character dialogue - Thumbnails. Rough key animation. Background design.

Storyboarding II
-Red Ninja part 2 -  Thumbnails and rough storyboards.

Computers II
-Walk Cycle animation in Harmony - Whole thing due.
-Run Cycle animation in Harmony - Get started, I guess. Should have the keys done by the end of the break probably.


Those aren't my only classes, naturally, but those are the main stuff I've got to do for the first class of each after the break. I pretty much need to have all that done by or before Monday the 3rd of March, though.

A little breakdown for my design stuff there; First you do thumbnails up the ass until you get an approval, which is a major headache. Then you take the thumb and go on to full rough version, which is essentially the exact same as the final version but all the construction lines and crap on it and it's in a billion different colours so that you don't get lost when making it. And then you go through a bunch of roughs and then when you finally get that approved you need a few days or more to make the clean version.

It's rather mind numbing.

The only consensus seems to be Firefox, really. Which is no surprise. I have no idea why Mozilla's Camino isn't as good as it's Mac Firefox. Why even bother making Camino other than I like the icon and name? Oh yeah, that's a good enough reason for anyone  to do anything.

I have to say, from the screenshot, I am now interested.

Not because I think it'll be good...

I must agree.

http://platinumcinema.com/platinum/MMstill5.jpg
 

Really though?

No it wasn't.

Why are we arguing semantics over the many subtle variations of off-white and off-brown including but not limited to ecru, mother of pearl, and khaki?

Ugh, no.

Thank you for reminding me of one of the worst television experiences I have had in my life.

I'll remember this when you come into my kingdom.

Yesssssss... Remember that I know your fears!

I find it interesting that professors, who have a #####ing list in front of them, spell my last name wrong, but people I've never actually met can get it right. Like it's that hard.

But yes, it starts with Colly and then there's so much MORE!

And lawling at the pics. Don't forget Like Mike 2!

: Mikero  18 February 2008, 21:34:26

: Voulnet  18 February 2008, 21:08:13

Have fun buying free dinner to 100 girls.

You said they were already naked!

They're still not free. If they were, they would be filled with STDs.

Hey I always wrap my rascal TWO times! Because I like to be pleasureless, and without sensatios. As a punishment. To supermodels.

The Teenagers - "Starlett Johansson"

From MTV Live. Not bad, not great.

Rhombus!

(We're using math to describe science! 'Cause Knowledge is Power!)

Well Tingle is probably giving Wind a tingle.

You could judge women by their scents like Al Pacino in that one movie...

... Serpico.

You know that dance wasn't as safe as they said it was.

... Uhf. You.