MrHoatzin

Personally I am always awestruck by confusingly shoddy photoshop work such as this... It is so blatant! They surely noticed the crappy, mirrored half-people going right down the middle—and chose to go along with it anyway! That takes cojones. This is something I did along this vein for HD Radio. I was surprised they accepted this utter madness of a design option. I very much didn't expect them to. I am actually quite fond of this one. :shifty:

Oh, hi, happy belated birthday from me too! 26, eh? I dunno why I thought you were younger than me.

I agree with Chris.™ Speaking of anime, a thing that at first glance falls within the genre, but isn't anime (with all the tup implications that brings): Avatar – The Last Airbender. I watched the series relatively recently and enjoyed it far more than I thought I would. It is an odd beasty. It takes a lot of the style of anime, but manages not to be too cartoony. It is made by Yanks, and yet the world depicted is heavily, competently inspired by far-eastern cultures. It is made by Nickelodeon for a young audience, but the themes are fairly serious and well written (with the exception of some cringeworthy exposition lines in the first few episodes and an unfortunate deus ex machina that wraps the story up at the end of season three). It is a rare gem of epic storytelling that manages to be compelling at every level, from the world in which it is set, to the characters and their interaction, to the dialogue. There are very few episodes in the three-season run that feel like filler, and they are seldom formulaic. Mark Hamill voices the main bad dude. Not a particularly outstanding performance, but fitting. It is a sort of spiritual heir to Ursula K. LeGuin and her Earthsea books (which have been butchered horribly by both Ghibli and the SciFi Channel). If you liked those, you'll likely like this. I would feel comfortable in saying Avatar is to cartoon series what The Wire is to live action series; a kind of high water mark that I don't expect to be reached any time soon by any other franchise.

Develop accents, speech impediments.

So in other words, a well-rounded masterpiece of both art and craft.

I ordered the PC version of the game, but for whatever reason it took forever for it to get to me (was it delayed? I don't remember), so I rented the Xbox version and played it on my roommate's Xbox. The meat circus took about two sittings of repeated deaths, one of which ended in me screaming at the TV, but in retrospect it wasn't too hard; I don't remember it as an exercise in frustration as much as others claim they do.

Cold, smug disenchantment with a thin crust of affected mourning for the human condition... ... and the requisite chaser of sanctimoniousness. So smooth. So refreshing.¬¬¬¬¬¬etc.

Gah, no, I do not endorse Chris inviting this dude into his flat.

While we were still in college, the Seditious Industrial Complex threw together these surreptitious movie nights all over campus. We would wander around looking for unlocked amphitheaters with unsecured media cabinets or the ones with exposed wiring where we could plug a laptop into the system. Twas fun.

Sooo, should Microsoft sue Majesco now for Psychonauts? This suit settling business is a load of bollocks.

This is more true as of late than it was in his early career. People let him act then, nowadays he is a celebrity cameo.

And you mustn't forget Burn After Reading, in which he morphs into the most shallow and unsexy and pathetic version of himself, and it is done almost entirely through powerful, subtle acting (rather than, say, prosthetics and makeup and narrative). Gary Oldman is the greatest example of what you're describing in existence. It took me a good five years and the dawn of the age of imdb to notice him as a single actor rather than a series of amazing independent performances (he is Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg from the Fifth Element, he was Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula, he was Sirius Black in Harry Potter and Jim Gordon in the Batman movies, and he always delivers).

Yes, yes, yeshh, but this isn't the first time you've been trying to tone down the lewdness. Way back when when you were talking about the attire you cobbled together for the Bully duder, you were reluctant to say "retarded". I am not saying vulgar crazy should be your shtick, I'm just saying that it is weird that you would be so apologetic about it. That said, I don't want to encourage the vulgar crazy. I like it more as a garnish, and just as ignored.

Srsly, unless you're thinking about pitching the show to NPR or something, I have no idea why you're spazzing out so much about the cursing. Internet is a disgusting, lewd place; no one notices how crazy dirty your podcasts are. Your parents will not listen to them, don't worry. And as far as your potential future employers, if they cannot look past the fact that there are potty words in your broadcast to notice that you run a relatively cerebral and popular gaming show, maybe they're not the employers for you.

That does look really nice.

Chrst, that is quite ridiculous.

Research & Development was really fun! The parts that were really retarded (such as ) were well offset by the other gleeful bits (yay for the ).

Man, I don't want to piss all over your parade, but last time I went to the zoo to chase away my blues—with its shabby, tired-looking animals, its screaming children, and irritated parents with strollers squeezing down and up paths that are clearly labeled as not for strollers, outflanking other irritated parents with strollers—it depressed the shit out of me and made me feel worse.

jc3ZAs17uAg Beirut (band) - Nantes (song). Band includes, among the lead dude and other capable musicians, Jeremy Barnes of the fame. :yep:

A LITTLE KNOWN FACT: I designed those thumb icons and gave them their now legendary names. Even now, on random other forums and in ichat, I want to pepper what I say with tups and tmehs and such. They are so useful! A BONUS LITTLE KNOWN FACT FROM THE ANNALS OF THUMB LORE: I also curated most of the other emoticons here. I am to blame for all the Commander Keen sprites, including the weirdly unexpected sadly that turns into an evil tomato. The first big-headed smiley was Nurse Ratched which is currently broken, so Doug, while you're at it, can you fix it too? Here is a copy from the old Herzog forums which are still online for some reason: Like most things, the Nurse Ratched smiley was inspired by Bronstring Marek Bronstring. Mr T. followed, and then wtf, and then a slew of the weird ones no one ever uses. And then everyone joined in with smileysmithing and it was a jolly ole time. Ah, those were the days. But then I got booted off the site in some sort of staff purity purge, got my admin powers revoked, and was so traumatized as to never touch smileys again. Then the site, not being able to live without me, imploded in a flurry of irrelevance and ennui, but was since reborn with the podcast. That right there is history, kids. Learn it.

Tim Burton has been shite since Ed Wood, a movie I still fondly quote. He hasn't been maturing at all, he's just been making things that fit what he remembers to be his style; Tim Burton presents a MOVIE by Tim Burton. I have no positive expectations for his Alice. This Disney thing, on the other hand, could be potent if well executed. On the skeptical side, all concept art tends to have quarter turn past Turneresque weather and few games actually follow through, and the character art does look kindof dumb—but on the flip side, it is interesting that Disney would let Fallout in Disneyland be considered as a viable take on the IP and it might make for a compelling game. Two years ago Junction Point had a concept artist position open. I briefly considered applying, wrote a cover letter, then realized that my portfolio was gloriously bereft of anything that could pass for concept art.

Hahah, rad.

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So how was the Explosions in the Sky concert?

Plus, CHARACTER WAKES UP is the most contrived way of wrapping a story up. Besides, that is not how MI2 ends anyway.You could summarize Eraserhead as a weird dream or , but that would be an uninspired way of looking at the work.