At 10/1/07 12:00 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote: Home-made tattoo!

What the fuck is wrong with your arms... they are NOT supposed to bend that way...
That's pretty impressive anyway.

At 10/1/07 12:33 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote:

At 10/1/07 12:29 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote:

At 10/1/07 12:00 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote: Home-made tattoo!

Pretty sweet. How long did it take ya and what did ya use? I knew a girl that just used a thumbtack and ink from pens to do hers.

That is actually quite dangerous. Ill take you through my steps.

First I took a pencil, and I wrapped a sewing needle to it nice and tight so that way it wouldnt come off. It makes handling the needle that much easier. You always wrap 2 layers of thread on the needle so that only about 1/16th of an inch is left, this will allow the ink to soak into your skin. Make sure there isnt much needle showing or you are just going to have to prick yourself deeper.

Once you have done this (assuming you steralized the needle by boiling it), use a sharpie because they are non-toxic to draw the design, then just prick away. Makeing sure to keep everythign clean to reduce risk of infection.

Mine took me about an hour.

That's pretty cool. I'll have to write that down and practice on a drunk friend sometime or somethin'. It also reminded me that I'm still saving up for some tats... I'ma gonna need to make some moneys soon.

At 9/30/07 03:35 PM, dELtaluca wrote: im quite selective on who i consider a reg, i kind of have 4 tiers:

1 : The 'true' regs, whether they are regular contrabutors or have left
2 : The 'regs', those who've ive come to consider regs, but will not be a 'true' reg for quite some time
3 : The 'new' regs, those who i still don't quite consider regs even if they are regulars by some means
4 : The '....', those who are becoming regulars, but are far from being a 'new' reg even

i was a true reg back in the day. or maybe i'm just being all high and mighty, and i'm really just a regular reg.

hmm.

True Regs

I know I participated in this "True Reg" conversation but all of this talk is pretty much meaningless. After all, does it really matter who is a true reg or whatever? Meh, who cares.

NG Goals.

Any of ya'll got any goals on NG or are ya'll just hangin' around?
Here's my goals.
1. Convince Neg to get a mullet. (YOU KNOW YOU WANT ONE!)
2. Win at least 1 daily award.
3. Win at least 1 weekly award.
4. Get into the top 50. Even if it is for like 1 min.

Ya basically I just wanna win somethin' to A) Be proud of. B) It'll look good on resume. & C) To prove to myself I can do.
And other crap is randomness..

::Get a mullet neg!

NG goals
My goal is to finish an animation, no matter how short it is.

I'm not very demanding.

Interesting...

In other news... HEY LUIS!
<3

My goal on ng....

Well im here to demonstrate people what i am able to do and make a portfolio.
Animation will probably be what i'll do all my life so i want to improve here before i go in school in an animation programm. Also i want at least one flash in the top 25, one daily, many front page!
For this year i want to finish 3 solo project and 3 more collabs.

At 10/1/07 03:51 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Interesting...

In other news... HEY LUIS!
<3

LOL... can you guys request submit my machete cartoon to the luis day collection, that was related to it.

Comcast Consumer Crap
You in for a ride? Take a seat. I promise it is good. So two years ago, at the beginning of August, I got a flyer in the mail. It said (study this),

"Comcast Internet and television, free installation and $35 a month for the first six months! Same day installation!"

Good deal! I was moving into a new place, needed internet. So I call them up two weeks before I move in, just in case the deal was going to go away. After calling three times to someone not picking up the phone, I get a, "yeah... I'm kind of busy until three weeks from now, and we'll give you that deal". So I decide I can survive without internet for a week, and that I can order my textbooks a week late from the internet once it turns on.

The day comes when I am supposed to wait for the Comcast technician to show up to install my internet (for free, per the flyer), so I stay home the entire day waiting for him, because he gave me a three-hour window he was coming. He never shows up.

I call him the next day, having to call several times because the phone wouldn't pick up. He picks up, and I ask him why the hell he didn't show up. He said I was mistaken and that the appointment was for NEXT week, which for sure wasn't the case since I made sure to get the exact time. Being the overly nice guy, I believed him and let him go.

So a week later than the original installation date, and three weeks from the day I called ("SAME DAY INSTALLATION!"), I stay home again and he shows up this time.

"$25 installation fee, please". I try to tell the guy the flier says "free", but he then disregarded to tell me that the self-install is only free, not the "come to your house system" they tell you is the way to install. Basically, the guy didn't even install the system... he just dropped the cable box and modem in my living room and gave me a few extra cables. So I pay his damn installation fee to get him out of there, and he asks to use my bathroom. Sure, why not?

He leaves the apartment, and I went to the bathroom to wash my hands or something but I find the entire bathroom smelling terrible. The guy didn't flush the toilet, so I hit the handle to flush it. Suddenly, a wave of shit erupts from the toilet and pours onto the ground. FUCK. The Comcast guy not only raped my wallet, time, and energy, but just made a wave of shit erupt onto my new apartment floor, which, by the way, flows directly onto a carpeted surface.

So an hour later, I go to set up the modem and cable box. Everything is perfect, until I turn on the television. Nothing is working.

I call Comcast Customer Service, and they put me on hold for a while, of course. When I get the technician, I ask him what the hell is going on. He tells me that my service was never ACTIVATED by my local Comcast dealer, so I ask him to do so. Apparently there is an Activation fee as well for the service, so I am at this point frustrated because I am down about $50 for the day just from hidden fees.

And then the phone guy tells me that the plan I subscribed to was $55 a month, not $35 as advertised. He couldn't really tell me, and I am pissed by this point.

I wrote a letter to corporate. I got an autoreply with the first few days, telling me they were "sorry for the inconvenience," which I noticed was on a template copy of a response form. Fuck Comcast.

So fast foward to last week. I moved out of that apartment, and was trying to switch the service bills to my roommate. I called Comcast from Southern California, at their normal number (1800 COMCAST). They tell me to call another number, 1800 blah blah which is the local branch. I get on the phone with the lady, and she tells me she can transfer the service on the phone. Okay then. She couldn't find my apartment on file, and then realized I CALLED THE WRONG BRANCH even though that was the number they gave me. She forwarded me to another representative, at was apparently my branch.

"Hello Comcast Customer Service".

I tell her I need to transfer my service. She tells me I can't do it since my roommate and I don't live together anymore. She says to give my roommate my passwords so he can pay MY bills under my CREDIT. So I asked her how the hell I was supposed to transfer it, and she told me I have to do the following procedure.

1) I get in the car and drive 400 miles to Davis, CA to fix the issue.

FUCK. I tell her to cancel my service. Apparently I had some remaining balance of $110.00 they forgot to tell me about for something, I am not sure. So I give them a billing address for the leftovers.
"What is your street address?"
-"215 Quail Meadows."
"Excuse me?"
-"215, Quail, Meadows."
"Quail is spelled "Q-U-E"
-"No it isn't"
"How is that spelled?"
-"Q-U-A-I-L"
"Okay great, and what is it? Quail street? Quail Lane?"
-"Quail Meadows"
"Meadows?"
-"Meadows."
"M-E-O...?"

Don't buy Comcast. Ever.

At 10/1/07 11:16 AM, jmtb02 wrote: Comcast Consumer Crap

"M-E-O?" haha

I hate those customer service idiots. All they do is read off of the site's FAQ. I wouldn't be FUCKING calling if the issue could've been resolved using a damn google search!

At 9/30/07 02:19 PM, Masterswordman wrote: Regs
...
15. trig01

Lol, theres no zero :P

At 9/30/07 11:06 PM, Bezman wrote: brushing teeth...

can be bad for you if you do it too much! I mean eventually your teeth can get ground away if you're obsessive enough...

Thanks for the advice! I'll calm down with my teeth brushing, I think I was getting a bit overexcited before, but you've shown me the way!

At 10/1/07 11:16 AM, jmtb02 wrote: Comcast Consumer Crap

Nasty. Sky gave me a bunch of crap when I switched, and the router needs to reseted every hour or so. The old one was much better, even if it had (alledgedly) half the download speed.

At 10/1/07 01:34 AM, Senti wrote: I know I participated in this "True Reg" conversation but all of this talk is pretty much meaningless. After all, does it really matter who is a true reg or whatever? Meh, who cares.

A true reg, in my opinion is someone who has been around for 3+ years, posts atleast 3 times a week in the reg lounge and has a good experience of Ng, eg past designs. They've got to be nice aswell, i don't think i can remember any annoying regs.

El Collection Grande

I can't believe left the cherry on the cake :(.

Flash Goals

By christmas, i want to have had a shot at doing some proper 3D coding, and by the end of next summer holidays, i'd like to be reasonably good at AS3 and C++. I also want to make 10 pages of a magazine design and send it into OPS2 to see if i can get it into their 'sent in bits' :P.

I'd also like to be able to finish a proper game, not some crappy windows simulator ;S.

I managed to sneak in 3 advertisments there :D.

At 10/1/07 02:12 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: 1. Convince Neg to get a mullet. (YOU KNOW YOU WANT ONE!)

Cripes, people already think I look like a serial killer. I don't need any help with that cause :P

At 10/1/07 01:47 PM, NegativeONE wrote:

At 10/1/07 02:12 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: 1. Convince Neg to get a mullet. (YOU KNOW YOU WANT ONE!)

Cripes, people already think I look like a serial killer. I don't need any help with that cause :P

I wasn't going to say anything, but yeah.

At 10/1/07 01:14 PM, Depredation wrote: They've got to be nice aswell, i don't think i can remember any annoying regs.

Toast? Ninja-Chicken?

RE: Flash Goals

I like this subject. I have a few must-do's before this year is done with:

1. One o clock Jump II - have had that on hold until i got my feet under me, im finally clearing things so i should be back on that this month.

2. Stranded II - something else i had on hold, its kind of frusterating because its one of those projects thats about 95% done i just need to find time for that 5%

3.Redesign BW 4.0 - Its been a year since my previous design, i want to take it apart and power it with wordpress and get rid of a bunch of sections that are just taking up space.
Its not a total redesign more of a spring cleaning and optimizing thing.

4.serious movie - I have a renewed dislike for my father so im gonna do another serious short. Well actually i dont have a dislike i just felt that 'the composer' is such a tame version of how it really is. I plan to go a darker route. I already have the vision for it.. i just need to start on it.

Regional Stores

Here in NJ and PA, we have Wawa. Greatest store alive. You can get coffee, cappucino, or any breakfast drink. Theres also snacks, sandwiches, and custom hoagies or whatever. What stores like this do you have near you? I remember my trip to virginia and they something called Royal Farms. I know in Ohio they have something like...Sheets? Or Cheatz? No Clue. how abuot your region?

G_G Might know Wawa.

i dont think online gaming makes you nerdy. posting in a forum does though. yah.

At 10/1/07 02:50 PM, Luis wrote: 4.serious movie - I have a renewed dislike for my father so im gonna do another serious short. Well actually i dont have a dislike i just felt that 'the composer' is such a tame version of how it really is. I plan to go a darker route. I already have the vision for it.. i just need to start on it.

I can't wait! You make the best serious shorts on the portal.

As for me, I have plenty of ideas rolling around right now, I just need to finally start in with the animation. Also, I just started re-learning AS2 from scratch, and I feel very proud of myself =P

There are plenty of other long-term goals I have, none of which would interest you guys.

At 10/1/07 01:14 PM, Depredation wrote: By christmas, i want to have had a shot at doing some proper 3D coding, and by the end of next summer holidays, i'd like to be reasonably good at AS3 and C++. I also want to make 10 pages of a magazine design and send it into OPS2 to see if i can get it into their 'sent in bits' :P.

I'll help you out with AS3 if you need any help :D. I should also complete learning C++ as well.

I should also do some AS3 tuts for the collab, but my internet on my flash PC is dead :(

My spells checker says 'internet' should be capitalized. Odd.

At 10/1/07 04:47 PM, trig1 wrote:

My spells checker says 'internet' should be capitalized. Odd.

it should be captalized, its a proper noun innit

At 10/1/07 04:57 PM, dELtaluca wrote:

At 10/1/07 04:47 PM, trig1 wrote:

My spells checker says 'internet' should be capitalized. Odd.

it should be captalized, its a proper noun innit

Suppose. But it shouldn't be.

At 10/1/07 04:47 PM, trig1 wrote: I'll help you out with AS3 if you need any help :D. I should also complete learning C++ as well.

I should also do some AS3 tuts for the collab, but my internet on my flash PC is dead :(

Cheers, i was going to get a C++ book for Christmas, any suggestions?

The Collab really needs some AS3 tuts, if you can, please do some ;).

Christmas

Alright, it's 3 months away, but what's on peoples mids at the moment? I'm hoping forBioshock and the orange box gameswise, and a new comfy chair for my pc needs. Anything better than this £5 Ikea one anyway.

Gaming

At 10/1/07 03:23 PM, citricsquid wrote:

Less of a nerd :)

Heh, i've been palying GMod lately. It's a nice game, you can shoot things and it puts your creativity to use as you make various contraptions...to kill things.

Yay.

At 10/1/07 05:05 PM, Depredation wrote: Cheers, i was going to get a C++ book for Christmas, any suggestions?

Dunno. The ones I've got are my dads old ones, a GNU C++ book and The Swans book of C. Something like that.

The Collab really needs some AS3 tuts, if you can, please do some ;).

Ok. I'll make a couple tommorow for ya. I'll PM you.

Christmas

A couple of wii games (me brother and me got 3 new ones since the 19th (his BD) and none of the games we have yet are online).

Wii games I've got:

- Wii sports
- Splinter Cell
- Red steel
- Zelda (I normally dont care for 'save the magical princess from evil demons' kinda games, but my brother bought it, and the gameplays quite good, but the storyline isnt).
- MOH
- Rayman
- Excite truck

Flash Goals

To respond to the Flash Goals whatever, I plan on releasing a few shorts before the New Years hits. I have alot of visions in mind, I just have to put them to work.

Holiday Flashes
Halloween- I have the script and lines already recorded, all I do is have to make the storyboard, and than create the whole animation. I have a 30-day Time Trial. Woo!

Christmas- My favorite holiday of course needs an animation, I haven't even thought of a script, We'll see what happens though.

Something (Music Video.)- This will be a music video to the song, Something. I have about 2% even done with it, I'll work on it after the Halloween Flash, maybe after the Christmas one as well.

2-Hour Time Trial lll- I'd like the have another 2 hour Time Trial, sometimes in mid-October, which will drift me off a bit from my Halloween Flash, but it'll have a nice little theme. So I don't wear out the whole trial series, I'll most likely leave that as the LAST and third, Time Trial.

I have a few other projects, I just can't think of. It's just hard to deal, I'm trying to be organized and work on one at a time, it's just hard.

Read more about upcoming work?

At 10/1/07 05:18 PM, trig1 wrote: Wii games I've got:

- Wii sports
- Splinter Cell
- Red steel
- Zelda (I normally dont care for 'save the magical princess from evil demons' kinda games, but my brother bought it, and the gameplays quite good, but the storyline isnt).
- MOH
- Rayman
- Excite truck

I have most of those. Excite truck is pretty fun, so is splinter cell.

RE: Christmas

I think we should hold off this discussion until Halloween, at least.

At 10/1/07 05:22 PM, Siggy0501 wrote: RE: Christmas

I think we should hold off this discussion until Halloween, at least.

Lol. I agree.

Re: Regional Stores

Well theres a couple places that come to mind, in london they had Tesso or something, driving to vegas i remember In'N'Out burgers, we dont have em here. In San Francisco I recall Jack in the Box, in LA i dunno if Neg remembers Carls Jr.

In Tampa I remember Sonics, and in Puerto Rico Church Chicken is big, i saw that in Philly too, along with the typical WaWa, in canada the Tim Hortons seemed like it was the calling card of Canada, or montreal anyway. In Green Bay the McDonalds have green and yellow motif rather than the typical red and yellow, i felt that because of that and the fact that it only happens in gb it makes it a regional store.

Ok thats all i can think of.

At 10/1/07 05:38 PM, citricsquid wrote: Sure it wasn't either Tesco or Esso? Never heard on a "Tesso" :)

Esso = Garage place, for maltesers/revels and petrol.
Tesco = Supermarket.

ok the second one. Damn take it easy on me :(

At 10/1/07 05:31 PM, Luis wrote:
Re: Regional Stores

in canada the Tim Hortons seemed like it was the calling card of Canada, or montreal anyway.

It isn't the calling card of canada. It is 90% of it's economy, just wait till the toronto meet.

You can hardly go 2 blocks without running into 2 or 3 of them, they will put them wherever they will fit.

There is a Tim Hortons inside a church there somewhere.