I don't like the idea of buying digital music or movies (downloading instead of buying physical copies), I like to own the CD/DVD/blu-ray copy of something then I can do whatever I want with it. That said, I also like to have the physical copy of games but I do download them from time to time; what with the PSN store and more recently iPod app store. When I have a choice I'll buy a game from a shop, unless there is a very good reason to download it. For example with Left 4 Dead, I bought it from Steam because it was about £5 cheaper than in store.. although if I'd preordered it from Amazon I could have saved even more D: but oh well. Plus Steam is very good with downloads, if I want to play a game on a different PC I just login to my account and download the game, very easy.

The application "iFart" for the ipod app store has sold about 100k copies in 2 weeks, netting them I guess over $90,000 - not bad for the work they must have put into it (an hour or 2) =/ There's a lot of money to be made with simple applications like that.

At 12/28/08 10:02 PM, K-Guare wrote:
Poetry, eh? That's pretty groovy.
You should make a Haiku...about...cc....dicks...

Haikus are easy - made 2 in a few minutes in Creative Writing once at Uni - easy marks.

One dangerious dick.
Continuely trying -
To reach mystic caves.

And ta-da! Mullet rebirth!

It's small but it'll grow. :3

At 12/28/08 11:02 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: And ta-da! Mullet rebirth!

It's small but it'll grow. :3

Looks great, but I preferred the Jewfro :D

POLITICAL POETRY D:

war that no one won won won.

Oh, I make fun of Asians too....

Man, I'm so going to hell :C

At 12/28/08 07:21 PM, Toast wrote: as gust says, AS3 runs 100 times faster.

Haha, I'm pretty sure he has never said that.

Awesome CD collection Bezman.

CriminalDuder looks like he gets a year younger each time he posts a picture, it's amazing.

At 12/29/08 11:39 AM, jmtb02 wrote:

CriminalDuder looks like he gets a year younger each time he posts a picture, it's amazing.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Duder.

Guess who? (without looking at my profile, I haven't gotten around to changing that.)

At 12/29/08 01:00 PM, zrb wrote: NG-Unit duh. :P

Lol, I was hoping no one knew my real name...Or at least remembered it.

Oh well.

At 12/29/08 12:53 PM, Luis wrote: The Curious Case of Benjamin Duder.

I so got to see that film (Button that is, I don't care much for Duder, jkjkjk <3), anyone here seen it yet?

At 12/29/08 12:54 PM, NG-Unit wrote: Guess who? (without looking at my profile, I haven't gotten around to changing that.)

Good on ya, sounds a lot better.

Quirks you get from flash/programming/animating
I've become so used to saving my progress every few minutes or after every action that I find myself trying to save stuff I don't need to save at all. If I'm watching a movie and going downstairs to get myself a drink I try to save when I pause the movie, when I'm posting on the BBS I automatically try to save every few sentences, the list goes one... You guys have any?

At 12/29/08 01:19 PM, Xeptic wrote: Quirks you get from flash/programming/animating
[...]when I'm posting on the BBS I automatically try to save every few sentences[...]

I do that every now and then, not only on the BBS but wherever I'm writing something. Sometimes I also just opens flash just to try some code out with no intention of saving the file, but I still hit CTRL+S every time I've written a line of code or edited something small. That popup you get when you haven't specified where to save yet actually gets a little bit annoying in these cases :P

At 12/29/08 01:19 PM, Xeptic wrote: Quirks you get from flash/programming/animating

:You guys have any?

I draw highly gradiented drawings on my test sheets to make my teachers' heads lag.

At 12/29/08 01:19 PM, Xeptic wrote: Quirks you get from flash/programming/animating

Not really; I didn't pick up much from flash; As soon as I started learning c++ though I've had this weird tendency to mix up punctuation marks though; Also for "not equals" instead of doing =/= which looks like the "not equal to" sign, I do != which sometimes confuses non-programmers as to what I mean;

Oh, and of course the whole "ctrl-s" in inappropriate places and trying to "crtl-z" in real life;

At 12/29/08 12:53 PM, Luis wrote:

At 12/29/08 11:39 AM, jmtb02 wrote:

CriminalDuder looks like he gets a year younger each time he posts a picture, it's amazing.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Duder.

Haha, I think its pretty neat. If I look so young maybe I can catch myself a cute younger gal. <3
I don't feel young at all though - I'm more of just feelin' oddly great.
That and I just spent the last few hours of this morning after a sleepless night makin' this monster.

It's only noon - I still got a lot of day left to screw around with. I got like 5 bags of beer cans and bottles I can take in for some munchy money so I got somethin' to do. :3

I wish I was gettin' younger though - I could get my old super blonde Marilyn Monroe hair back and combine its awesomeness with my newly born mullet.

At 12/29/08 01:04 PM, MichaelHurst wrote: Stuff

Grats on finally getting your name changed :D I think people who use their real names are way cool ;)

Nerd Quirks
Ctrl-S'ing things inappropriately (while browsing for example >.>), uh.. I dunno. I do tend to change my formatting style when I use another language for an extended period of time so my AS starts to look completely different, but that's natural :P Can't think of anything else.

At 12/29/08 03:16 PM, liaaaam wrote: Grats on finally getting your name changed :D I think people who use their real names are way cool ;)

Ahh why thank you =D.

Animating/Programming Quirks

Hmm, I really don't do anything abnormal besides pressing ctrl+s randomly while doing stuff. But then again, I haven't really been using flash all that often recently.

At 12/29/08 02:05 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:Also for "not equals" instead of doing =/= which looks like the "not equal to" sign, I do != which sometimes confuses non-programmers as to what I mean;

I do that too often.. I just forget that in everything else it's =/= instead of != xD

quirks
I used to try to control + z while drawing on paper
time
i wish i had more time to draw and stuff =[

Spotify

Anyone heard of Spotify? It's basically a program with which you can listen to as much music as you want for a fixed monthly fee (it's also available for free, but then there are ads, and you need an invite).

I just got a premium membership for a few months from my ISP, it looks really cool :)

At 12/29/08 05:21 PM, knugen wrote: Spotify

Anyone heard of Spotify? It's basically a program with which you can listen to as much music as you want for a fixed monthly fee (it's also available for free, but then there are ads, and you need an invite).

I just got a premium membership for a few months from my ISP, it looks really cool :)

When you say 'listen to as much' does that mean you have to listen to it through them or can you actually download the files? :/

I was working on pink castle crashers all last week and i remember saying to myself, i wonder if there is a way to control-c this activity... like i was literally trying to find a way to clone it SOMEHOW.

anyway i failed and i did it all through manual labor. imagine that.

At 12/29/08 06:02 PM, UnknownFury wrote: When you say 'listen to as much' does that mean you have to listen to it through them or can you actually download the files? :/

There's a client program that you use to browse and listen to songs, and it is almost as having the songs as .mp3's on your computer because you can listen to whatever artist or song you like (and repeat as many times as you like) without having to mix it up with similar artists like on last.fm, for example :)

Also, the songs are stored on your computer, but only so that you won't have to stream them every time. They have some weird file format though, so you can't listen to them through Winamp or anything.

At 12/29/08 06:32 PM, zrb wrote: Extreme happiness
I got my friends to test my new game and they said, there's no challenge whatsoever. So it turns out, I lost all sense of judgement for game difficulty. This means I can basicly scratch this project and come up with something else >:(

Or you can try to make it harder. :]

One the plus side, it got me into a new and simple style of art.

Cool! Looking forward to seeing it. :]

Anyone else working on a game ?

Yes.

Also, anyone gonna submit something for New Years ?

Probably not.

At 12/29/08 06:32 PM, zrb wrote: Extreme happiness
I got my friends to test my new game and they said, there's no challenge whatsoever. So it turns out, I lost all sense of judgement for game difficulty. This means I can basicly scratch this project and come up with something else >:(
One the plus side, it got me into a new and simple style of art.

Anyone else working on a game ?
Also, anyone gonna submit something for New Years ?

Good for you about the new style of art. I'm working on a game but not for New Years though.

I saw curious case, was rly great, 3 hours long and really great story.

I just saw the spirit today, now that is the most amazing movie I've seen in years. I recommend all of you to see it. I know the reviews on sites for it aren't that great but man the story was amazing. See it tmo all of ya >:)

Has anyone else here ever gotten the flash "scratchy sound on export" problem? I've had it in every version I've ever owned, on multiple computers and they never fixed it.

Like every now and then, randomly, large FLAs will export with horrible, ear-piercing scratchy versions of the sounds I want them to play, and it requires a whole lot of luck and restarting flash to fix the problem. It sucks cause it means on every export I have to make sure EVERY sound works right. Ugg. Pain in the ass that someone should fix.

At 12/29/08 10:53 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Has anyone else here ever gotten the flash "scratchy sound on export" problem? I've had it in every version I've ever owned, on multiple computers and they never fixed it.

Like every now and then, randomly, large FLAs will export with horrible, ear-piercing scratchy versions of the sounds I want them to play, and it requires a whole lot of luck and restarting flash to fix the problem. It sucks cause it means on every export I have to make sure EVERY sound works right. Ugg. Pain in the ass that someone should fix.

Yah I get it all the time =( copying it to a new document and changing the bitrate seems to do the trick for me. Either way it fucking sucks. I wish they'd make the whole sound interface a little more complex and multifunctional. =\

A Cucumber, A Penis, And An Olive.

It's Joke Time.
Again...

At 12/29/08 08:59 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote: I saw curious case, was rly great, 3 hours long and really great story.

I just saw the spirit today, now that is the most amazing movie I've seen in years. I recommend all of you to see it. I know the reviews on sites for it aren't that great but man the story was amazing. See it tmo all of ya >:)

I saw the spirit too. It was really great. I loved all of the colors and it was very funny and fun to watch. Just a great film overall.

At 12/29/08 08:59 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote: I saw curious case, was rly great, 3 hours long and really great story.

I just saw the spirit today, now that is the most amazing movie I've seen in years.

I watched "Meet Bill" last night. It's one of those movies where you leave it with a bwah? Like you are not really sure what just happened for the past 2 hours. Cast is really good though, story is mediocre.