: Orange Devil   8 December 2007, 20:24:28

Anime fans ruin anime for me. I know that sounds lame, but that's how it is.

It's true, for the most part.

Tell me about it. It applies to every fandom. Deviantart idiots have ruined Sonic the Hedgehog for me utterly.

A forum is not a chatroom. Or a livejournal, either.

Judas Priest.

Are you kidding? The kids' acting in the first two Potter movies were terrible. It only solidified in the third movie. Anyway.

The reason is that you can't possibly please everyone's mental image of a story. A minor example is fanart. Everyone but everyone drew Severus Snape with a goatee pre-movie. Post-movie, all the fanart suddenly had clean-shaven Alan Rickman in them.

Another reason is that with time constraints, you just can't put in all the details, or at least enough that the book purists won't start hopping and pointing at Their Favorite Scene That Didn't Appear, or Didn't Appear Right. I really really liked Tom Bombadil in the books, but he didn't really do enough that made him necessary in the movie.

Probably it would be easier with short books, like (as you say) the first two Potter books, but really involved ones like His Dark Materials would be harder. You'll notice the Potter books that have a billion pages translate into movies that aren't stories that stand alone, but sort of bundles of barely-connected Highlights of the Book scenes. Though they did make a good effort of that in the fifth movie.

I propose a motion to remove the colour, glow, and shadow tags from the forum's BBC code.

Baaadass.

Personally, I think the Indo picture turned out excellently, the only thing is that her eyes don't quite face the same direction. One of them is looking subtly towards the left.

Yesterday, my computer committed harakiri.

Managed to save everything and dump it on a new hard drive, so that was good.

Then I got a horrible migraine, but warriors do not crawl and whimper when faced with stabbing headpains! Warriors reinstall every damn driver and program that needs reinstalling, even when warriors can't find where they saved the bloody activation codes! GARR!

I don't remember who yanked me here.

It was either White Shadow or Nall. Probably WS.

Where the hell is Nall, anyway?

Granted. You are galvanized into action, cleaning and cleaning and cleaning until your hands are raw and bleeding.

I wish for an iPod Shuffle. No silly videos or more gigabytes than god, just a basic mp3 player.

Eh, it's usually best to go in seeing a movie as a movie, and not as a visual mirror of your experience of the book. You'll be disappointed far too much with the latter.

That's interesting, because while I don't particularly call you a friend, I don't actively dislike/hate you either. Thinking your storytelling skills leave something to be desired doesn't mean I can't play nice.

Then again, I'm sure if I had a reason not to like you, I'll remember it eventually.

But who's washing their dirty laundry in public, eh?

I hereby deem this to be the comic where every character must wear a hat.

DrillShroom only wants a hug.

And destruction and desecration of all that is good and cherished.

This -- the internet's "who took the last bloody cookie."

If by culture you mean "festering wounds left by vicious cat scratch attacks" then yes, we are completely without culture.

Hey, these are festering wounds made from stoats and maggots, thank you, not cats.

That's MM7 style sprites. The game uses Pokemon Overworld sprites, like from LeafGreen. No dice.

Until there are wasteland-worthy threads, there's no real need for one. Yet.

You people have no culture.

Except that it's a yellow and blue Elec Man, and that this is entirely the wrong thread for your sprites.

Awesome page, Mox. Who's next?

Not bread, but CAKE. That I baked.

IT IS DELISHUZ CAEK YUO MUST EAT IT

I have a guilty enjoyment in Magic Knight Rayearth, even though it's a magic girl anime, that ends (sort of) in a giant mecha fight, and with retarded romances all over the place.

It's probably all Mokona's fault. Bastard puffball thing. Or how Umi seems to headbutt everything in the SNES game.

Also, Revolutionary Girl Utena, despite (or because of) it being the most confusing, symbol-packed mindbugger thing ever.

Awesome. I'm planning on watching it next Wednesday. Weekday, fewer people, ftw.

I tried to make my mother read the book a while back, but she didn't want to -- now with the movie she's asking to borrow it. Which is harder than it sounds, since all my books are still in moving boxes I haven't unpacked yet, and most are labelled things like "V's Room: Misc Book #5", which isn't helpful.

: Lunchebox   7 December 2007, 04:35:43

When you take in mind that most of the girls who participated were actually guys 99.9% time, you can see why random cybering is a bad idea.

Also, family friendly board, etc.

I agree.

I start to take off your pants.

Your family walks in... and they start to take off theirs.

EDIT:  Family friendly.

The Aristocrats!

Nibbles is hungry for lamers, and with none readily available (yet) I guess he snacked on the server.

I think he won't have to go hungry for long.

Just sayin'.

My yearly shipment of coal.

More like the Vague Burpy Hiccup of the Matrix.

Granted. You have epilepsy.

I wish I'd started listening to Johnathan Coulton earlier.

I don't see a point in making it an "official"-anything -- some people will make sig-badges, some people won't.

Granted, but they leak chemicals everywhere.

I wish I had a babelfish, so I could read folklore in the original languages. Translations bite the big one.

NO MOON FOR YOU

Another of the myth waitress thing:
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Nie-BW-71482266

After colouring this, probably the next will be Bai from the Madam White Snake story, then I have no idea what goddess or demoness or whatever to target next. He Xiangu is tempting -- she apparently attained enlightenment from drinking the vomit of seven immortals -- but I should branch off to other cultures. Equal opportunity butchering, y'know.

EDIT:
Coloured.
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Nie-71495701

Thar. I think that works.

DEATH.

Don't kill photoshop, please. Thirteen year olds on DeviantART have been abusing it for years. It's suffered under their hands enough.

If I see another lens flare or plastic effect, I'm going to go on a rampage.

Facebook has a nice design, so long as you learn to collapse all of the stupid attachments people put on their profile that make it fifty times longer to load.

ATTACK SHROOM

GO FORTH

What did they sell like?

Coldcakes.

Obviously.

That...
... that sounds better than banana bread.
Yuuuuuuuuubiiiiii~

No.

Well, I'm another spriter volunteering services.

I rather think a few less rooms would be put in, considering people just congregate into 1-3 rooms each time. Not that there should only be three different rooms, but still.

I made banana hotcakes today. That's almost banana bread.

I was wondering about that. Did a quick GIF of mine:



Does that work? I've no idea.

Looks good to me, although mind you, I'm not sure at all if my walking sprites "work" when animated, so beware.

I think the specific referenced sprites are these.

Simply put, it's the wrong style. It might be different if it were a comic, but it has to be consistent in a game.

Is that white bit the shine on the hair? If the shading is going to be as minimal as it looks, then it'd be better if it was left out. Currently it's like he's wearing a very small hat.

Granted. You are now a robot that has no opposable thumbs. Have fun.

I wish for more tea.

The English dubbing is surprisingly good, I'll give it that.

I realize that 8-bit games tend to use bright colours, but seriously, all allergy jokes aside, don't use the neon reds and blues and so on that make up the default MSPaint pallet. It never looks good.

I wouldn't be as enthusiastic about suing the school, since money will get used on legal fees instead of things like lighting and upkeep on the furnace and so on.

Then again, I come from a high school that was falling apart at the seams, with vents that spat cold air in winter and brimstone smoke in the summer, and it squandered its funds on the sports teams while the computer classes were stuck with Photoshop 5 (and Limited Edition at that) and the lamps in photography were repaired with duct tape, so that's just me.

I'm allergic to neon green recolour sprites.

I watched an episode the other day, and I have to say the detail in the art is impressive, especially the work on the backgrounds. As for the story itself, I can't say since I only did see that one ep, but it's interesting.

Count me out. Nothing personal, I just really don't like my character being written by someone else.

I think this is the wrong thread for that.

The Magic Knight Rayearth SNES game is a good size, but the only sprite sheets of that I can find are for the three girls. I'll play through it to see if I can't rip some townspeople.