RE: Fears

At 7/11/07 03:55 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote:

Yar, I used to have quite the fear of heights, and I still sort of do but it's not a full blown phobia anymore.

lol, I never got why people say they have a phobia of heights. Being afraid of being high-up is hardly irrational. =P Although having said that the last couple of years heights have began to make me uneasy. I'm alright if it's on a rollercoaster or something because I know I'm strapped in, but being on the roofs of tall buildings makes me nervous. A few years ago I didn't mind so much.

Interview
Link

Interviewed a fairly famous designer, i.e he's probably mentioned in every copy of computer arts in some way.. anyway have a read. I could only ask him a few questions cause he's very busy lol :)

Fear of heights

I can't say that I feel comfortable on high heights. I can ride most roller coasters no problems, but being on roofs and stuff when I'm not buckled up to something can really make me nervous. On my summer job I actually spent much time cleaning a roof, it was very big so most of the time I had no problems with it but it was worse at the edges. All the crap that me and my fellow co-workers cleaned up from the roof were put in big sacks that was later to be thrown of from the roof into a container. I'm very glad that I've worked my three weeks there, cause if I would still be there I might have had to be the one throwing them down and that would mean being close the edge of a maybe 10 meters (about 30 feet maybe, dunno) high roof and leaning over with a big ass sack in my hands. I swear that if would have done that, I would be at the hospital now or maybe even worse ;P

At 7/11/07 05:00 PM, fuzz wrote: Interview
Link

Interviewed a fairly famous designer, i.e he's probably mentioned in every copy of computer arts in some way.. anyway have a read. I could only ask him a few questions cause he's very busy lol :)

dick, you forgot to mention his name
Jon Burgerman

At 7/11/07 05:03 PM, fuzz wrote: Interview

very nice. How did you do the interview anyways? Over msn, phone, in person?

RE: Rollercoasters / heights
I love rollercoasters, I've had holidays where the whole point was to ride them :p
I really want to go to Cedar Point and ride the Top Thrill Dragster , has anyone here been there / done that / stole the t-shirt?

RE: Motivation or lack thereof
I only finish about 5% of the projects I start. I have a 2gb folder filled with unfinished projects, at least 50 of them. Thing is, I dont want to delete any of them in case I feel like going back to them one day. At least if I know I'm going to recieve sponsor money for it, my completion rate increases to about 6%...

Roller coasters

I'm a huge fan of roller coasters. The thrill of the ride is so fun. I've been on Kinda Ka, the tallest/fastest roller coaster in the world in the front car. I've also been on every other roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure at least once and every roller coaster at Hershey Park at least once. To tell the truth though, those older wooden roller coasters scare the crap out of me. I always feel like theres a chance ill get thrown out or seriously hurt or it will break. On the other hand, I always feel very safe on modern steel roller coasters.

At 7/11/07 06:06 PM, mynamewontfitin wrote: To tell the truth though, those older wooden roller coasters scare the crap out of me. I always feel like theres a chance ill get thrown out or seriously hurt or it will break.

Agreed, classic woodies are so much more fun :) They feel genuinely out-of-control. One I went on, Stampida in Universal Studios Spain, had two tracks side by side, and the trains race each other, and at one point, the traisn go in oppsoite directions towards each other really fast. Exciting as... well, exciting as two trains about to crash into each other o.O

coasters
I love wooden ones, there great but sometimes there way too bumpy and it kinda ruins the feel. The wild beast one a Canada's wonderland is horrible for that but the other wooden one in CWL is great (i forget it's name right now).

..::phobias::..

Yeah, a lot of people claim to have phobias but are really just afraid. A person with arachnophobia (fear of eight legged things, usually spiders) literally can not be in the same room with a spider without having a total meltdown, a person with acrophobia (fear of heights) will never go anywhere near a ledge at all. I, myself, dislike large spiders but I can tolerate little ones, I cannot go more than 10 or so feet on a ladder, but I don't think that qualifies me as an acrophobe.

..::rollercoasters::..

are great fun.

..::lack of motivation::..

Yeah I totally relate, but I don't want to abandon my babies so I assure them I will work on them but when I open flash, I just can't do shit anymore. I hope it's just a phase... a looong two+ year phase that will end with me completing movies again. I'm just not inspired anymore. They say you can not create art in a vacuum, which is esentially the way my life is righrt now. And now my Denver plans are on hold for various reasons, which sucks, because I'd like to see my friend sometime soon.

At 7/11/07 11:48 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: ..::lack of motivation::..
And now my Denver plans are on hold for various reasons, which sucks, because I'd like to see my friend sometime soon.

WOOHOO time for that NY reg meetup

Motivation
my motivation lately after summer school all my friends are either working or hanging out with their GFs. So today all i did was program and watch "the last minth". The movies pretty good, except the little boy is a complete ass dick to his little sister. My goal in flash is to finish up on my BBS rules collab and get a half-decent game onto newgrounds. Before the 26th

At 7/12/07 12:03 AM, Luis wrote:
WOOHOO time for that NY reg meetup

What part of "shut-in" do you not understand? =P

But it does sound like fun, I don't know how well I can keep it together with a bunch of other weirdos from the interwebs, so that should prove interesting, to say the least.

At 7/12/07 12:23 AM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: But it does sound like fun, I don't know how well I can keep it together with a bunch of other weirdos from the interwebs, so that should prove interesting, to say the least.

a bunch would probably be like 4-6 people.. i doubt itd get larger than that.. anywho we'll see.. i think august may be a good winding down the summer month for it. its not as sweltering as it is right now.

Anyone into some sort of london type of meat? im thinking of going late septemberish to wander around europe..... i figure maybe a saturday im in the area would be cool for me to do the tourist thing and swap ideas or gossip about bmk's bashfulness...

At 7/12/07 12:31 AM, Luis wrote:
...gossip about bmk's bashfulness...

Haha, that's such a cutesy way of putting it.

At 7/11/07 11:48 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: ..::phobias::..

A person with arachnophobia (fear of eight legged things, usually spiders) literally can not be in the same room with a spider without having a total meltdown,
Spiders scare the fuck out of me I guesse seeing as my first instinct is to stomp on them even in bare feet I'm not an arachnophobe but I did sort of meltdown seeing as i make a huge racket and yell "shit" if its anywhere bigger in width than an inch.

I cannot go more than 10 or so feet on a ladder, but I don't think that qualifies me as an acrophobe.

That hasn't been a problem in your life?
I find myself ladders about once a week changing light bulbs or getting on the roof to clean out gutters

..::rollercoasters::..

are great fun.

Not worth the lines though, 3 hours for somehting like medusa is not worth it, I get like 5 seconds of adrenaline then the rest I just kind of rationalize unwillingly about how the odds of me even getting a bruise are about as likely as being struck by lightning

..::lack of motivation::..

Yeah I totally relate, but I don't want to abandon my babies so I assure them I will work on them but when I open flash, I just can't do shit anymore. I hope it's just a phase... a looong two+ year phase that will end with me completing movies again. I'm just not inspired anymore. They say you can not create art in a vacuum, which is esentially the way my life is righrt now. And now my Denver plans are on hold for various reasons, which sucks, because I'd like to see my friend sometime soon.

I have a problem with getting htings 90% done looking back and deciding i hate it, so rather than finish It ends up in a folder labeled "things almost done"...

If i spent 1-5 hours on any of those they'd be completed but I always just see flaws... in all fairness about 3-4 of the 6 of them are pretty crappy...

I'm so lazy I quoted so I wouldn't have to make headers =D

At 7/12/07 02:44 AM, NextToNothing wrote: "shit" if its anywhere bigger in width than an inch.

im quite like that, if its a small spider, like 1cm radius at most, then i have fun playing around with it.

if its up to 2cm, i can build up the courage to pick it up and put it outside.

if its up to 3cm, i can try and put it on a bit of paper to put it outside

if its more than that, IT MUST DIE

At 7/12/07 02:44 AM, NextToNothing wrote:

At 7/11/07 11:48 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: ..::phobias::..

That hasn't been a problem in your life?
I find myself ladders about once a week changing light bulbs or getting on the roof to clean out gutters

Not until recently, I didn't even know my weakness until a few months ago when I had to spray some hornet nests. I was all gung-ho about climbing the ladder ready to nuke those motherfuckers, but once I got up the ladder a ways I got totally freaked out, panicing and was all but paralized with fear, imagining all the things that could go wrong. It was unpleasant to say the least. Fortunately the hornet spray stuff had a good 20-30 foot range and I was able to spray the nest, and get down.

I'm not afraid of being in tall buildings or at the edge of a canyon or top of a mountain. Just the ladder thing...

London

At 7/12/07 01:04 AM, Gi-go wrote: If youre going to England, dont go to London.
The people there are such chumps its not even funny.

lolwut?

At 7/12/07 03:44 AM, ShirtTurtle wrote: lol, who goes to london for the people?

What's everyone got against Londoners?

London

You do know you'll probably get the same anywhere in England i live in Blackpool england and went to London no different.

At 7/12/07 03:44 AM, ShirtTurtle wrote:

At 7/12/07 01:04 AM, Gi-go wrote: If youre going to England, dont go to London.

The people there are such chumps its not even funny.

lol, who goes to london for the people?

Terrorists?

Reg Meat in Bristol ftw! We never get any terror threats here!

At 7/12/07 06:58 AM, edit-undo wrote: Reg Meat in Bristol ftw! We never get any terror threats here!

There was a terrorist explosion in Bristol once, years ago. Absolutely massive it was. Did about £5 worth of damage!

Ho, ho! ;)

At 7/12/07 07:04 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: There was a terrorist explosion in Bristol once, years ago. Absolutely massive it was. Did about £5 worth of damage!

Ho, ho! ;)

How much is 5 pounds , USD ??? I seriously dont know. :D

RE: UK£

Anything in European currency is expensive to us. Damn you weak dollar.

Hey, don't complain. 1USD = 84c AU. We're worse.

At 7/12/07 07:50 AM, Vengeance wrote: Hey, don't complain. 1USD = 84c AU. We're worse.

Whoops, wrong way around. 1AUD = 86c USD

At 7/12/07 07:44 AM, Luis wrote: Anything in European currency is expensive to us. Damn you weak dollar.

Yeah, this means that I get less money for sponsorships (as if our high taxes weren't enough :P).

At 7/12/07 07:54 AM, Vengeance wrote:

At 7/12/07 07:50 AM, Vengeance wrote: Hey, don't complain. 1USD = 84c AU. We're worse.

Whoops, wrong way around. 1AUD = 86c USD

Well, since we're competing,
1 Swedish krona = 0.148566 U.S. dollars

At 7/12/07 08:04 AM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: Well, since we're competing,
1 Swedish krona = 0.148566 U.S. dollars

I don't see this is a disadvantage. I think that one SEK has a 'good value', we don't have to count in cents or similar too much. There is only the 0.5 SEK coin, but that will probably be removed soon.

At 7/12/07 07:04 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 7/12/07 06:58 AM, edit-undo wrote: Reg Meat in Bristol ftw! We never get any terror threats here!

There was a terrorist explosion in Bristol once, years ago. Absolutely massive it was. Did about £5 worth of damage!

Ho, ho! ;)

Bristol would actually be ideal for most people since its in the centre of anywhere I seem to go. For example, want to go to Wales from here? Gotta go through Bristol. Wanna go to Brummy? Gotta go through Bristol. Plus they retain the West Country accent in Bristol, it would be comforting.