At 1/10/08 04:10 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I just bought a HL2 Headcrab Hat!

Terribly cute. You should start a collection.

At 1/10/08 04:25 PM, Xeptic wrote: Haha, I love the hat! Do you actually plan to use it while your out?

I'm going to wear it to school tomorrow

At 1/10/08 04:05 PM, AloneInTheDark wrote:

At 1/10/08 03:59 PM, Skaijo wrote:

At 1/10/08 01:38 PM, AloneInTheDark wrote:
You still seem to forget the most important activity people do when they have a porn magazine in their hands

What could they possibly do while still holding it in their hands? :3

i meant to write 'hand'

But they wouldn't do that in a busy airport terminal or on a flight, which is kind of the point of the whole thing...

At 1/10/08 04:21 PM, Senti wrote: Damn you look a lot like one of my friends. Like, really really. Crazy.

I love the hat.

Elliot by any chance?

Midterms
Ahh midterms are so annoying. Going into school late is a plus though.
I probably won't do to well on my chem midterm though because 3/8 of the year we had a teacher that couldn't teach. errgghghg.

At 1/10/08 06:51 PM, Meebs wrote:

At 1/10/08 04:21 PM, Senti wrote: Damn you look a lot like one of my friends. Like, really really. Crazy.

I love the hat.

Elliot by any chance?

Actually I wasn't thinking Elliot, but he's definitely got the hair that he has. So I guess it'd be a mix of Elliot and my other friend who lives in New York.

Midterms
Ahh midterms are so annoying. Going into school late is a plus though.
I probably won't do to well on my chem midterm though because 3/8 of the year we had a teacher that couldn't teach. errgghghg.

Good luck Meeeeber. In Chem Junior year I had Heesemen as my teacher. I barely scrapped by with a solid C-D range of grades. Pretty rad, right? I couldn't stand her.

At 1/10/08 06:51 PM, Meebs wrote: Midterms
Ahh midterms are so annoying. Going into school late is a plus though.
I probably won't do to well on my chem midterm though because 3/8 of the year we had a teacher that couldn't teach. errgghghg.

The new semester just started here. I've got eight Chemistry classes to take back to back mostly. Last semester they were all in the same class--but thankfully I can move around now. I need to send off letters for Grad School soon... -_-'

At 1/10/08 04:10 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I just bought a HL2 Headcrab Hat!

Needs more mustache.

It's Clean Already
I have a neighbor upstairs, and their vacuum cleaner is loud... really loud. I can hear them stomping around using it. The problem is that I think they are OCD. They clean their house every day at the same time, vacuuming over and over again for about 45 minutes. Except they start vacuuming at about 11 pm - 1 am, when I am trying to fall asleep.

I hate being that guy, but I am thinking about reporting them to my landlord. I don't know the people, and I live in SoCal which means that neighbors NEVER talk to each other, and I feel rude just going up and telling them to stop vacuuming. What do you guys think?

At 1/10/08 11:54 PM, jmtb02 wrote: I hate being that guy, but I am thinking about reporting them to my landlord. I don't know the people, and I live in SoCal which means that neighbors NEVER talk to each other, and I feel rude just going up and telling them to stop vacuuming. What do you guys think?

That's why brooms were invented...give your ceiling a few hard raps....that'll show 'em!

At 1/11/08 01:49 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote: omg screenshot from mah game

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Half liter of Red Bull down the hatch, time to Flash it the fuck up.

Energy Drinks

5 Relenteless? What? I've been so drunk I shat blood and had a more tolerable hangover than I got from 5 Relentless.

At 1/11/08 02:43 AM, Senti wrote: Half liter of Red Bull down the hatch, time to Flash it the fuck up.

Time to sleep. I hardly got done what I wanted to but at least I did something. My eyes hurt.

At 1/11/08 01:49 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote: omg screenshot from mah game

I would make the enemies stick out more (brighter colors perhaps?)

Inefficient education

I had another retarded math lesson 30mins ago, it sucks so much I just had to write about it.

We studied equations with variables today, like x-4=1, find x, which we already studied last year. I'm not sure if it's like that in the entire world or just this shitty country, but we always keep on being taught something that we have already been taught before for at least 2-3 consecutive years because they think otherwise we will forget everything. Anyway, I guess these kinds of lessons should be easy for me because I use many of those things in AS in some way, I could understand varaiable equations when I was 9 because my brother was studying it, but that's not exactly the point. It' understandable that we learn easy stuff because 'easy' is relative because what some people might find easy, others might find hard. But the problem is that the idiots stay idiots because this teaching method sucks and they are idiots, while the better students waste their time on something they already understand. I feel like I'm wasting over 75% of my time at school and so are other students, those people don't know how to teach. Give me a small group of students for 1/4 of the time teachers have and i think i am capable of making them understand faster than those noob teachers.

Here's my incoherent rant, I hope it makes sense.

At 1/10/08 11:54 PM, jmtb02 wrote: It's Clean Already

I used to live on the bottom floor of my dormitories--which I loved because i could finally make full use of my DDR pad. But one day I got confronted by one of my neighbors saying that he could hear me jumping up and down through the walls (He said he could feel the vibrations across the hall). It wasn't flattering at all. But he was very polite. Since then I've made efforts to soft step when I do dance, and not to play so frequently--or at least so late at night. I think so long as you remain respectful you'll manage to come to a proper agreement.

At 1/11/08 10:16 AM, BritishMoose wrote: Reviews!

When did they change? Am I being slow?

I like how the + / - / Flag system is becoming universal across all websites, so people easily know how to weigh in on comments. It's a nice touch, even if it's just moving buttons around.

At 1/11/08 10:16 AM, BritishMoose wrote: Reviews!

When did they change? Am I being slow?

Looks like they only changed today.

Am i the only one that thinks those big pixelated numbers for the ratings look way out of place?

At 1/11/08 11:08 AM, J1mp wrote: Am i the only one that thinks those big pixelated numbers for the ratings look way out of place?

I was thinking the same thing, but I can't put my finger on it. It's either that the numbers are too bright, or the destructoid-style font is just menacing on the clean interface.

I still like it over the previous system though.

The big pixelated numbers don't fit well with the smooth overall design, I don't like them. What I do like is the bigger amount of visible reviews, it gives me a better impression of what the movie is like.

At 1/10/08 05:39 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote:
But they wouldn't do that in a busy airport terminal or on a flight, which is kind of the point of the whole thing...

Hmm, i don't really want to know what kinda stuff goes on in a plane toilet, but i think it's quite a multipurpose room.

At 1/11/08 11:18 AM, jmtb02 wrote: I still like it over the previous system though.

I actually prefer the old one. I'm all for things looking small, subtle and neat (screw people with sight problems - they can bloody well get specs). Although, I do like the increased number of reviews visible.

I think it'd be best if the top review or so was one of the ones with the closest score to your average, though. Right now I'm stuck with a top review of '1 - sucks!!!' on some of my stuff >.<

New Review Layout

The numbers are a little jarring at first but I think they fit, somehow. They still have the NG colors but they look different than ever other little orange button on the site. They had to have some change, on this BBS post page alone there are 21 little orange buttons...that's almost too many.

At 1/11/08 12:10 PM, Senti wrote: New Review Layout

The numbers are a little jarring at first but I think they fit, somehow. They still have the NG colors but they look different than ever other little orange button on the site. They had to have some change, on this BBS post page alone there are 21 little orange buttons...that's almost too many.

I not keen on the pictures that are adjacent to the reviewer's name. Most pictures often clash with the overall theme of the site and brings down the entire esthetic. It'll take some time to get used too.

At 1/11/08 12:49 PM, Swirling-Venom wrote:

At 1/11/08 06:23 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 1/11/08 01:49 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote: omg screenshot from mah game

I would make the enemies stick out more (brighter colors perhaps?)

nope

I think he does have a point though. It looks kinda messy and hard to figure out as it is. Maybe adding shadows could help too

At 1/11/08 12:49 PM, Swirling-Venom wrote:

:stuff and screenshot
well stop we get it your game is sexy and looks great but next time post
some animation or something =]

23450
wow you are coding angry banana game that's good i love his style

toast
how old are you i thought you were my age but i learned that 2-3 years ago...
and you are right teachers are noobs they should all quit i hate the bastards

At 1/11/08 01:25 PM, patu1 wrote: how old are you i thought you were my age but i learned that 2-3 years ago...
and you are right teachers are noobs they should all quit i hate the bastards

15 in 3 months, so about your age yeah, which is why it sucks so much. It's not only sad that we do things you did 3 years ago, but even more worrying that many people don't understand it >< and it's not some random crappy school, it's an international school with good reputation.

At 1/11/08 02:14 PM, Edvin wrote:

At 1/11/08 06:50 AM, Toast wrote: Inefficient education
Here's my incoherent rant, I hope it makes sense.

Adam you always piss me off lmao. If you just skipped to what we do in Terminale, you wouldn't understand crap. You have to start somewhere.

Well I'm looking foward to that; obviously I would need to learn it to understand it, of course it doesn't come alone, but what we've done up to 3ème is just ridiculous. Well maybe it's just my particular class with this particular teacher, or these particular students, and maybe the reason what you do in Terminale is hard is because of the lack of proper teaching we get before in collège.

At 1/11/08 12:49 PM, Swirling-Venom wrote:

At 1/11/08 06:23 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 1/11/08 01:49 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote: omg screenshot from mah game

I would make the enemies stick out more (brighter colors perhaps?)

nope

Well why not?

It should always be easy to tell what's an enemy, what's good, and what's nothing in a game. The same with your last screenshot with the boss. The enemies and background have the same color scheme and saturation, which is a big no, especially considering that it's a dark scheme to begin with.

The color of the knight itself is good though, he sticks out and is easy to tell from everything else, so your eye is drawn to it. With the same colors on the enemy, ignoring the knight, your eye isn't drawn to anything in particular, when it should be drawn to the elements of the action.

In a platformer, the land is clearly distinguished from the background, so you know what you can walk on. In a fighting game, the same concept applies for the enemies and the action.

You can make the enemies stand out in other ways than changing their color though, try outlining them in a light color, or add glow or something. Perhaps blur the background? I don't really like filters too much but you need to make the action stand out, it's a very important element of a game.

At 1/11/08 02:14 PM, BritishMoose wrote: Coder

Where can I find one?

right here

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