Damnit. I would have been done, but i got caught up (addicted) to working on a game thats being released this week. You know those projects you just cant put down for 1 minutes. > : (

Anyway, i will try to be done today.

At 7/9/07 03:08 PM, 23450 wrote: Damnit. I would have been done, but i got caught up (addicted) to working on a game thats being released this week. You know those projects you just cant put down for 1 minutes. > : (

Anyway, i will try to be done today.

damnit damnit damnit. When you get two big threads both with the words "reg" in it, its spells disaster for illiterate people like me. > : (

At 7/9/07 02:47 PM, crushy wrote:

At 7/8/07 08:24 PM, Mogly wrote: Re:Books

At 7/8/07 08:15 PM, crabwich wrote: Books
No one has any suggestions?

The Beach is my favorite book

Hey is that that point horror book, where there are like 2 different times and the books switches between them loads? If so, thats my favourate too! My other favourates are 'Unique' and 'Zero Percent'

Im guessing he means the book the film was based one, but I could be wrong. How do you not know the title of your favourite book?!

At 7/9/07 02:47 PM, crushy wrote:

At 7/8/07 08:24 PM, Mogly wrote: Re:Books

At 7/8/07 08:15 PM, crabwich wrote: Books
No one has any suggestions?

The Beach is my favorite book

Hey is that that point horror book, where there are like 2 different times and the books switches between them loads? If so, thats my favourate too! My other favourates are 'Unique' and 'Zero Percent'

Nah man I don't think that's the one. It's basically about this guy called Richard who goes travelling, and goes to Thailand. He finds this little hidden Island beach there, and joins the community.

Re:Gigs // AND DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL

I saw Motley Crue at download festival, that's pretty cool. My uncle told me he saw them at the same place (Donnington) about 27 years before I did. I saw a bunch of other bands there too, ALOT less than I should of when you look at how many were on.

Full Lineup

I saw:
- Velvet revolver
- A bit of Korn, it was very pact under a small tent.
- Ill Nino. First circle pit of the event.
- Anj - on before ill Nino
- Slayer, they didnt play Angel of Death which is the only song I know of theres. A DJ played it later that night though, so that was very cool.
- Machine head. I dont remember much of them.. the singer at one point said 'If you smoke weed, now is the time to smoke with Machine Head!', and luckily I had a spliff handed to me :)
- Motley crue - gathering and singalong, was very fun. I just turned up without anyone from my camp with cans smuggled down my trousers, and stood there drinking and singing.
- As I lay dying. I broke my nose at a gig of theirs a few days before.
- A bit of Iron Maiden, was rather drunk and am not a fan. My friend took a quiche to throw at Bruce Dickinson.
- Killswitch Engage - pretty good, i bought a shirt. They played at the gig a few days before with as I lay.
- Lamb of God - pretty fuckin' cool.
- Papa Roach, a little tame, people were just waiting for there old stuff which luckily they played later on, the singer was energetic.
- Chimaira. Now this was a weird experience. I stood there watching all these people running into each other and bashing about and just thought how odd it was that people would come together just to do this.
- Reuben, where on before Chimaira and we wanted a good spot.

If you look at all the bands that were there, I really wish i'd gone to a few more. For example I was gunna go watch Wolfmother.. but spent about 2 hours buying beer instead.

--

Bands that I wanna go see now, well the main band are BabyShambles. I want to see them live to judge whether they are any good.. my dad saw the Libertines at glasto in 02 or 04, and keeps telling me they weren't good live. They are doing a big Arena tour, but I dont wanna go to this, I wanna just go to a little venue, would be much better.

At 7/9/07 01:38 PM, Xeptic wrote: I have three submissions of which one is a collab (co-authored) and I have a BA.

Same exact thing here. I would have a non-existent BA if I didn't have any co-authors. Seriously...I have that one shit movie in there...thats about it.

Books
I know most of you really didn't take much interest into my talking about books but I decided I would post this anyways.
So after I made my post I started looking amazon and the web for some really good books that looked like they might do the trick in helping me develop my animation\drawing skills. What I came up with are 3 really amazing books like I think anyone here could probably read and get something from them. So below are the titles, give them a look, maybe even buy them like I did.

My new tablet and these books will be coming fairly soon so get ready for me to start doing some sample animations\practices as I am sure there will be some in these books.

oneh
twoh
threah

At 7/9/07 03:20 PM, Mogly wrote: DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL

I was there too, such an awesome weekend!

Yeah, machine head were awesome, they are one of my favourite bands. Dream theater were ridiculously good too. As were lamb of god. And FUCK did you see the
Devildriver pits in the tent? It was stupid :P

One thing that was shit this year was the security. We had about a teenth of weed on us by the saturday, and some security walked passed and took it off us. Fair enough, obviously, but i was more than a LITTLE pissed off when we were walking through the campsite gates and the same security guard that took it off us asked us if we wanted to buy any weed... Thank FUCK they didnt see us with how much we had on the wednesday...

Then on the sunday night I saw my mate tackled down, handcuffed and kicked out the festival for throwing bread rolls, as he was apparently "trying to start a riot". Loads of other shit stuff happened to us aswell involving security... My friend who got escourted off the site in a van watched about 10 security guards chase this guy who was throwing PAPER ROLLS, who ran off so they chased him in the van (that my friend was in), ran over 2 tents that could have easily had people in, and beat the shit out of him, broke his jaw and nose.

Anyway, I personally had an amazing weekend :D

Download

i wish i could have gone this year, i went last year, and couldnt go year before either (which made my miss Mudvayne Megadeth AND Mad Capsule Markets :'(((( ) even though lineup wasn't that great with stuff like MCR headlining, they did have bands like hayseed dixie and velvet revolver and iron maiden (although i've seen them before)

:'(((

DAMN YOU FIREFOX!!!!

I really love using Firefox, but occasionally it does something for the fuck of it, to feel cool! I swear it does it on purpose. Everytime I may shut off my computer unexpectedly, or maybe at random points -- it randomly erases all my bookmarks! All of them! I don't even know how to get them back, besides going to the websites and adding them again [if I remember them all correctly.]

Fuck you Firefox. Fuck YOU. >:[

At 7/9/07 12:21 PM, crushy wrote: Renaenae?

Cheers, i added an extra e :P.

Bands/Gigs

My mates brothers bands new album comes out today, and they played at Glastonbury last week :P. Also, my friend went to ozzfest on Friday, he said it was pretty fucking awesome.

Anyway, i've never really been to a proper gig, i'd like to to glastonbury someday, or maybe see the Artic Monkeys or something. Anyone know of any good gigs (UK) over the summer that there going to?

Firefucks

I'm in a swearing mood today :P.

At 7/9/07 04:06 PM, Rudy wrote: Fuck you Firefox. Fuck YOU. >:[

Yeah, that happened to me once, almost 3 years of bookmarks down the plughole, I've still got anything important, but it was a pain in the ass for a while.

Re:Download festival

J1mp talking about Download

HAHA that vid is crazy. I wish id just gone to shit randomly like this.

And that is fucked up about the security. This girl told me that the security are not officially backed or dont have a licence or something so are getting done.. apparently they werent supposed to be allowed to frisk us or any of that. What camp were you in? I was in Orange 2.

My mate had bought a half ounce to take with him(quarter solid, quarter green), but a couple of days before, some how half of it went missing. He said he left it to dry and when he came back half was gone. Apparently no one took it, im thinking maybe the cat ate it :)
Anyway at Download he had his bong on him and the rest of that weed. On the saturday or sunday someone from the security came up and took it off him.. bastards.

Did you see anybody in a NG shirt? Because if you did that was me or my mate. A few people knew what it was, but no one really came up and said to me.

Download

While, all my best friends are metalheads, Reading is the festival to go to. Anyone else gonna be there this year?

Typing it Wrong

So today I wasn't looking at the keyboard and was typing really quickly... I assumed my fingers were on home row. I ended up with this:

Newgrounds Query

Which rest assured, means that Google is still awesome.

At 7/9/07 09:11 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Typing it Wrong

So today I wasn't looking at the keyboard and was typing really quickly... I assumed my fingers were on home row. I ended up with this:

Newgrounds Query

Which rest assured, means that Google is still awesome.

Hahaha!! That's the most kick ass thing I've seen today.

At 7/9/07 09:11 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Newgrounds Query

WOW! google is indeed awesome.

Typing it Wrong

Thats completely insane. Not sure how that could happen.

At 7/9/07 09:11 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Typing it Wrong

So today I wasn't looking at the keyboard and was typing really quickly... I assumed my fingers were on home row. I ended up with this:

Newgrounds Query

Which rest assured, means that Google is still awesome.

haha, awesome!!

::Guitar Hero::

At 7/9/07 11:59 AM, pixelz wrote: Guitar hero is fun. I like playing Shout at the Devil and Killing in the Name.

It has Killing in the Name!? Fuck yeah! Sorry I havent played Guitar Hero except at the shops. How many other Rage songs are there in the game?

In Other News
I finally just gave up on my screwed up graphics tablet, the one that draws when its not even touching it. So...I bought a new Intuos3 6x8, and with a good student discount I was able to save like $210 AUD. Can't wait till it gets here.
Do any of you guys own an intuos3? and anything I should know about them...tips, tricks, whatever?

This time om gonna take extra care of it.

At 7/9/07 09:11 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Typing it Wrong
Newgrounds Query

i wish i had your mad typing skills.

At 7/9/07 10:43 PM, chillyphilly wrote: Do any of you guys own an intuos3? and anything I should know about them...tips, tricks, whatever?

keep it under your bed. use mouse.

IM SORRY I HAD TO SAY IT. TOO EASY.

At 7/10/07 01:14 AM, Luis wrote:
keep it under your bed. use mouse.

IM SORRY I HAD TO SAY IT. TOO EASY.

You should start learning to use it. I mean, your mouse work is incredible, but who knows what you could achieve with that thing...

ya luis you gave up too easily, you should try reinstalling the thing, drawing directly with brush in flash using a tablet is awesome, specially with the pressure sensitivity thing : )

At 7/10/07 01:16 AM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: You should start learning to use it. I mean, your mouse work is incredible, but who knows what you could achieve with that thing...

How do you know he's not the worst drawer ever. I'm sure he's not but my point is some people are in fact better at drawing with a mouse than in real life.

At 7/10/07 01:33 AM, Fion wrote:
How do you know he's not the worst drawer ever. I'm sure he's not but my point is some people are in fact better at drawing with a mouse than in real life.

Yes, I am aware of that. Luis does amazing things with a mouse, but it's like branching out to a new artistic medium the way you paint with oils is going to be different than the way you paint with acrylics. I just want to see what he can do. =]

Hey Luis.. if you are not using your tablet.. can I have it?

pleeeeeeeaaase

At 7/10/07 01:48 AM, Gi-go wrote: In real life? Do people draw with a mouse in Narnia land?

Yes

At 7/10/07 01:14 AM, Luis wrote: keep it under your bed. use mouse.

IM SORRY I HAD TO SAY IT. TOO EASY.

Didn't you get one of those from Tom? :P

Hey, feel free to send it me. I'll pay P&P.

Overrated stuff underrated?

Do people tend to have excessively low opinions of things they perceive as being overrated? I mean, take IllWillPress for example. Don't get me wrong - he is way overrated - but most of the criticisms of him are just as excessive. I mean, he is clearly above the level of, say, your average eleven year old spewing out tweened sticks on a white background with a 6MB uncompressed song playing on event.

OK, there's no way he deserves like five bajillion portal awards, a front page spot for every submission and his own fanboyish version of the SS patrolling for negative reviews, but some of the first stuff of his I saw had a certain charm to it. If he were to release his current tweened-graphic animations as little fun side projects alongside stuff which was actually well animated, like Krinkels' (far, far superior) shorts, and only got some minor recognition for them, then the rest of you would probably be a lot less critical of them.

Take the game FFVII for example. Now, it's fair enough that a certain game may not be your particular cup of tea, but to claim that something with such massive critical acclaim is worthless is just silly. If it weren't for the legions of noobs with 'Sephiroph' or whatever in their usernames then most of the same people who go on about how crap the plot is and everything would probably be looking at it with much more positivity; even affection.

That's another stupid thing, actually; criticising things based purely on their plots. The plot alone is meaningless - it's what the plot allows the creator to do that's important. Criticising something based solely on the plot is like criticising an animator because of what tablet he uses (Luis, you mouse n00b :P).

So yeah, anyway, thought time.

..::overrated/underrated::..

I agree. What's worse is when someone sets out to make a group who's sole purpose is to belittle someone else's Flash. That's just sad. I don't really see that Illwillpress being monsterously overrated, if you balance the foam-heads against the haters he comes out somewhere in the middle. People just shouldn't make such a fuss over everything.

At 7/10/07 01:14 AM, Luis wrote: keep it under your bed. use mouse.

IM SORRY I HAD TO SAY IT. TOO EASY.

Is that the sheet of an UNMADE BED I see before me?!

At 7/9/07 10:43 PM, chillyphilly wrote: It has Killing in the Name!? Fuck yeah! Sorry I havent played Guitar Hero except at the shops. How many other Rage songs are there in the game?

There are no more songs by them in GH2, but there is many other kick ass songs :)

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