Baron Samedi

You would not believe how pissed off I am. I was typing up a great signup, and my computer turned off. Power outage. For a whole fricking hour. Sadly, I didn?t type in Word, so no recovery. Anyhow, here goes my second attempt. [color=jd93k4] Name: Nathan Rahl. Age: 31. Profession: Security Officer. Biography: Considering the fate of the [i]Bladerunner[/i], the organisers of this next expedition decided that it would be more practical if security was not your average John Q Public. So, after much to-ing and fro-ing they chose Nathan. Nathan came from a maximum security prison. Nothing is known about his past. He appeared sometime during the Himalayan Fiasco and committed obscene atrocities. He cold-bloodedly murdered both rebels and US forces. He and another rogue fighter were captured and taken to Leavenworth. The other member of Nathan?s ?crew?, Johnny Roger died in jail. Nathan has spent these last nine years biding his time in a jail cell. Unless given his medication, Nathan is an extremely dangerous homicidal maniac. A vicious, trained and ruthless killer. However, under the effects of Dileksthin, Nathan is a normal as any other human, but an excellent killer. Every twelve hours he is force administered Dileksthin to manage his mind. After weighing up the benefits and disadvantages of having Nathan onboard, the Command finally decided to select him for crew. This is an all or nothing gamble. Personality: [Without Dileksthin]: Vicious, ruthless and merciless. No humanity remains in him. He is a trained killing machine, and seems to exist only to butcher any living being. [Dileksthin] A trained killing machine, but a human one. Has a good sesnse of humour, but focuses relentlessly on the job at hand. Does not easily develop relationships beyond the average ?working? ones. Will always pitch in to help, but is very withdrawn at times.[/color] Hope you like KOTR. Anything else, I?ll change if necessary.

That is pretty good Haze. The border looks a lot better, but I really don't like that font. Try something smaller, thinner and perhaps in white... black is to much for this banner, at least in that particular font I feel. Change the font, and this will be good. I love the picture you used.. everything excepting the text works really well in this banner. Good job.

That's good. What is that little black square on her knee though? Just showing at the top of the banner? That looks pretty shoddy to me.. if you could find a way to remove it, I'd be very happy. Border suggestion: The light blue is hard to see, and if used should be thicker. Would would look better IMO is one in the style of my current one, but use a lighter pink/red instead to match the banner. Try... Bickley Script in white and bolded for the quote, as I have on my Candyland banner. That should look good. It is a nice picture you used. Try these suggestions- I think they'll help you, and this has the capacity to be an awesome banner.

[quote][i]Originally posted by PoisonTongue[/i] I'm going to assume that was a horrid attempt at a joke, lol. :p But if it wasn't, then...Baron, wha? All of my picture/screenshot banners have no border. My current 2001 banner has no border at all, and it looks beautiful. The only banner here that might need a thin black line would be Banner 4; all the rest have the necessary colors to go without a border. I really do not see where your beef is, if you have beef at all, what with that mad cow disease and stuff. [/quote] Having no border... on any banner just goes against something at the very core of my being. It is a sacrilege of a banner. :p I do think it would look better with a border on it.. they can live without one, but whenever I see a non-bordered banner.... Well... lol. And I have plenty of beef. No mad-cow disease over here in Asstralia. Thats right. Asstralia with a double 's'. :p [strike]Australia is better than anywhere[/strike]

*shakes head* Where are the borders? Please PT, even skinny black ones would make me happy. However, if I must decide on these horrid, non-bordered banners and avatars.. Avatar number 2 because the expression on your face is hilarious, and the image is the best of the three, without a doubt. It is also much better positioned than the others. I would have to go for banner number four. It seems to show a lot more people than banner number three, and it is just amusing... rather like an entire classroom gathered around two consoles. The very idea of having so many people crammed into one room playing games is just... grin inducing. Avatar 2 and Banner 4, Please choose those, Oh you must, For sure!

I only found out a few days ago that Annie was leaving, and if you visited mO, you would know what a shock it was to me. Only over my school-holidays have I really gotten to know her. We got to be on quite good terms, and I really enjoyed her company, both in Black Horizon, and in chats. She is an awesome RPer and overall a great person. She is the kind of thoughful, intelligent and friendly member that the boards can not afford to lose. I sincerely will miss her presence from OB, and I wish you [once again] the best of luck in your travels. You try your best to enjoy yourself, and don't forget about us. I will miss you, as I am sure will many others. In the end it will be worth it, and you will come back a more mature, experienced person for it. I just hope you will still find enjoyment on these here boards. We'll keep your chair warm for you. Love and good wishes, Baron.

[quote]And I'm sure you're "biatch" who's in college to become a professional photographer would really appreciate that rude comment.[/quote] Actually as I was typing that I had second thoughts.. but forgot to go back and edit it. What I meant is.. Well, I am no professional photographer, but I know what I like and whilst I have no idea of the technical difficulties involved, if I see something while we're driving or whatever.. I often wish I had a camera. And it doesn't seem that hard to find the right scene. It is already prepared for you, whereas with painting or scuplting you have to make your piece from the ground up. See my point? It may be difficult to find.. but you just need to find it. I suppose I should have maybe put 'less effort' than some other art forms.. but I didn't. That was my intended meaning anyway.

O.O Wow. I am really, really impressed by this. Your drawing work is excellent, your colouring and shading mind-blowing... it all comes together excellently. You should be really, really happy with this piece. My only two gripes are, as you mentioned, the pinky finger... and his nose. His nose just doesn't seem to exist to me. lol. Aside from that, really impressive, first rate work. Aesthetics: 9/10 Technical: 8/10

I don't know if I did something wrong or not.. but I did a short quiz. Just mucking around to see how it went. I got through all of the steps, but when I went to 'Test Quiz' and when I copied the HTML into Frontpage, I only ended up with two buttons. 'Finish' and 'Reset'. Nothing else. Is there perhaps a bit of coding missing from the final part? Or is there something else I was supposed to do?

Most of those are pretty good. There are the typical perspective and proportion troubles, and the blond girls 'thumbs up' doesn't look too good. I'm loving the baggy jeans. Boy that Charles is hot, you can see his... uhh. Shock horror, his ball-sack is squeezed between his leg and his jeans. Go on, have a look. See, I'm right, aren't I? XD Anyway, overall they are quite good drawings. I won't mention the obvious problems, because for anybody who isn't Da Vinci, they're a bugger to draw. The normal, like Elbows, hands and feet could be improved. However, for drawings these are quite good. How come both Adam and Charlie have Angels, but James doesn't? Hey.. thats an idea.. Who thinks a James' Angels would be good?

*coughs* [quote]What is your most harrowing moment of the holidays.[/quote] Read it all folks. It'll do ya wonders ^_^; As for my pretty little self [:p] I have had an easy holidays. Nothing bad, harsh or otherwise disturbing happened to me. Aside from some of the stuff Annie talks about on AIM chats.. that is pretty difficult to get over. :p

[quote][i]Originally posted by SasukeUchiha[/i] "Art is the eye of the viewer."[/quote] *cough* I believe the true quote is 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder', but the general message gets through. And that is quite true, and sums up all that I previously said. If one single person finds something aesthetically pleasing.. then it should really be considered art. Just because one person may not think an old wrench hanging off a nail is art, another might. Therefore, despite the absurdity of it to us, it is art. 'Tis a crazy world we live in.

Just wondering, maybe you should get/upgrade any Java players, Media players etc. on your computer. Mine runs fine, but I have Windows Media 9.0 and a SunJava thing. Don't know what it does, but it allows you to play games, and perhaps music as well. It is worth a shot, so try to download any upgrades of Java or Quicktime onto your computer. It depends what player medium theOtaku is using I think.. Adam, care to fill us in?

Well, there are four different images in this. However, we need the person to give it character... I need the candy coloursa.. I need the bottom layer... and it looks too dark without another layer I have in there. It needs the added 'Oomph'. I am terribly glad one person of 23 replied to this :rolleyes:. Anyhow, maybe someone will be spurred to reply if I add the avatar as well.... [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?postid=548274[/img]

Art is something that draws a person. It does not matter if it is one person out of billions, but if it has some kind of attraction to one person.. it is art. Art is anything that someone likes. Chair for example is ridiculous. People will like it, because it is so damn abstract and... empty of feeling, but they think they should like it. Photos can be art, yet take little effort. Almost anything can be considered art I feel. Personally, while a lot of the modern art and design is pretty, it isn't that great in appeal to me. There isn't any particular definition of art. Art is something that depends on the person. Some people may call something art, but another person won't. It is subjective to the individual.

Here is my newest banner which I made this morning. What do you all think? I like my [b]S[/b]laughter one, but it just doesn't fit right. I might even consider reverting to Blaspheme, but for the meantime here is [u]Candyland[/u]. What do you all think of it? [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?postid=548103[/img]

[u]General Awards[/u] Overall Member of the Year:Semjaza Azazel Male Otaku of the Year: Charles Female Otaku of the Year: Sara Staff Member of the Year: Charles Funniest Member of the Year: Charles Most Opinionated Otaku of the Year: Cloricus Most Likely to Be Here in Two Years: Adam Best Newbie: Dagger IX1 Best Oldie: Shy Most Likely to Become a Staff Member:Poison Tongue Most Improved: I would say myself.. but so as to save Semjaza's faith... No vote. Favorite Banned Member: Dayday Thread of the Year: Kill Adam Silliest Thread of the Year: Charles can I be a mod for?? [u]Random Awards[/u] Avatar Award (Best Avatars Overall):James Signature Award (Best Signatures Overall): Sara Best Location (Best Specific Location): Charles Best Otaku Couple: Queen Asuka/Piromunkie Best Looking Otaku: Babygirl Otaku Clique of the Year: OtakuBoards? League of Not-So-Extraordinary Gentlemen Best MyOtaku: James [u]Otaku Writers[/u] Poet Laureate: Mitch Writer of the Year: Charles Orginal Story of the Year: OB: Enter the Net Role-Player of the Year: Annie Brawler of the Year: Raiha RPG of the Year: Black Horizon [u]Social Otakus[/u] Otaku Social Member: James Entertainment Otaku: Dragon Warrior [u]Otaku Anime[/u] [strike]Otaku of the Year: Dagger IX1, Maladusted, Shy .hack//SIGN Member of the Year: AzureWolf, Black Phoenix, K.K.C. Dragonball Guru of the Year: Burori, PiroMunkie, J17 Digipeep of the Year: Digital_Monster, Leh, Ben, Takuya (Three-way tie for second) Gundam Member of the Year: Domon, Hitokori Zero, ZeroG214, Final Flash (Two-way tie for third place) Yu-Gi-Oh Member of the Year: Solo Tremaine, Deathbug, Domon Least Disappointing Yu Yu Hakusho Member: Dagger IX1, Yu Yu Hakusho, Luminare[/strike] [u]Otaku Gamers[/u] Otaku Gamer of the Year: Shinmaru Nintendo ?Mario? Award: James Sony Award: Dan X-Box Award: PoisonTongue PC Gamer of the Year: Cloricus [u]Otaku Artists[/u] Best Graphic Designer (Banners, wallpapers, etc.): Syk3 Best "Traditional" Artist (Drawings, paintings, etc.): Sara Best Spriter: Kazuko [u]Series Otaku[/u] [strike]Series Otaku Member of the Year: Desbreko, Semjaza Azazel, Shinmaru Square/Enix Member of the Year: Semjaza Azazel, Desbreko, Zidargh PokéPlaque (Pokemon): Lady Katana, Crimson Spider (There was a five-way tie for third place, each with only one vote. This category is only down to two finalists because of that.) The Triforce Award: Desbreko, Semjaza Azazel, OlgatheDwarf[/strike]

There is a simple explanation for this. 1) Replacing IRL friends with online buddies altogether is not a wise thing to do. 2) With places such as this, it doesn't matter if people are not who they say they are. Because you're getting to know their brain, and shouldn't ever meet them IRL. 3) Meeting up with them is not a very good idea.. go with a few big strong friends if you must. 4) They are healthy- as long as they don't consume your entire social life. It is then that they become unhealthy. Personally.. I am probably on as good terms with some people here, than I am with friends IRL. OB is a big part of me.. I am not social at all. It provides a release for me. I have invited some people IRL here.. and now wish I hadn't, to be blunt. OB is a place where I can be as anonymous as I wish. Which is good. I need this place now.. but I can live without it. I don't rely on my OB friends, because I don't rely on anyone. I would sorely miss them.. but that doesn't matter. I'll be here as long as I enjoy it and can be here. Which will probably be a long time. I'll make friends, but getting obsessive about it is bad. View them as fun people.. but don't get yourself involved too heavily. It is dangerous.

Nearly all communication facets have their own diverse mix of pro's and con's. Sometimes speech is the best method of getting across your intended message. But sometimes, you need time to organise your thoughts, or you may say things you don't mean to, or just plain stuff up. I am sure we have all had experiences where you look back and go 'Well, stuff me, why did I do that'. Well, that is a major drawback of speech. On the other hand, such things as tone, crying, laughing, and other obvious genuflections of the human voice give benefits. Physical and Silent communication can be good things. You can remain 'on the fence' or give an unspoken agreement.. which you can then redraw at a later time and say 'I didn't really want to'. It is a safe way of communication if you're unsure.. which leads to it's con... mis-interpretation. If they get the wrong message, then everything can go down the drain. Terrible things can happen through mixed messages. Written: Possibly my favourite communication type. You can form cohesive arguments, have time to think, can edit and change before the final result.... it gives you so many options, and ways to express yourself to your fullest mental extent. But, this form's major failing is mis-interpretation and lack of emotion expressing. These can be circumvented as has been mentioned- but never as effectively as speech or eye contact. Basically, and this is obvious, the major failing of all communication is mis-interpretation. Everything can go wrong. My personal favourite is written. I can easily stand the lack of emotive capabilities, for the gain of argumentative skill, and time to think things through.

Name: Josh Age: 14 and a little bit more than that... about 5 months more, to be precise. DOB: August 24th, '89 Location: Western Australia One Word: Lazy No, seriously. Describe yourself in one word: Funny Occupation: ... None. You should just be glad I am here. Color: Black. Food: CHicken Rolls Beverage: Cream Soda Alter Ego: Narob Dream Job: Millionaire Self-Proclaimed: Loner Ethnicity: Lessee.... Australian, English, Greek [somewhere] American. Dunno what else. Extracurricular: Computers! Hobby: Hockey and computers Dessert: Apple Pie. Duh. Musician: Too many to name. Group: As above. Mac or PC? PC Nics: Josh, Wacko... thats about it. Blog: [url=http://www.myotaku.com/users/baron_samedi/]Click it NOW![/url] Home Page: As above. Religion: Don't have one. Book: Too hard... perhaps Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Collections: Coins... junk. Sport: Hockey Won't Eat: Fruit mince pies. Bleeeargh. TV Show: Dunno. Words to live by: More food please. Addicted to: Otakuboards. Comic: Calvin and Hobbes, Hagar, another one, Garfield, Zits. Movie: Too many.

First off, the image used for that Ninja one is bad. It is slightly pixelly, and just not up to the clean, sharp standards necessary for a banner. Aside, from that this isn't too bad though. Good layout and everything... I like this Cat-Girl one of yours. I realise you didn't really do much to it.. but this banner flows so well, the font looks great, and the characters red hair flows gently into the matching border. There is great work here. I think a pinkish or bluish glow around the text would have worked wonders... but aside from that, this is good.

[i]Several minutes beforehand...[/i] Ruben lay on the floor of the Loading Bay, spread-eagled, like an angel, with his halo formed by clumps of curly brown hair. His skin was a pasty off-white colour, and his breathing laboured, as the skin of his stomach once again began to stretch and distort. As every single one of the previous times before, that same ripping sound came, as the skin split open from his groin to his navel. Once again, a hideous monstrosity pulled itself from the gaping tear, to slide down his heaving sides and clatter to the floor, squealing. Once again, did it grow at an enormous rate. Once again did it leave, once again did his stomach reseal itself. But not once again, Ruben decided as he felt another kernel of growth sprouting. He was stilll mostly in control of himself.. but it was hard. The green lump had been sliding ever further up his arm, heading, or so it seemed, towards his head. Mustering all his available reserves of energy Ruben staggered to his feet, promptly falling onto his ass in the sticky slime that surrounded the floor beside him. When he turned though, he found something disgusting beyond belief... a large green chrysalis lay prone on the floor. It was pulsing. In rhythm with the one on his wrist. Feeling the urge to 'blow chunks' as locker-room humour would put it, Ruben fled from the Loading Bay. And not, it seemed, a second too soon. He was perhaps ten metres further down the corridor when the Loading Bay doors hissed shut... and the entire bay became a void, as the muffled explosions announced that the outside-doors had been blown wide open. Following a trail of slime up the corridor, Ruben found the carcass of a dead beast. One of his little 'brood' he supposed it could be called. Wandering, mumbling, disgusted, Ruben felt the kernel growing inside him. This whole deal was rather similar to a Steven King novel he had read. The shit weasels grew in you, and then burst forth to announce their terror on the world. He was their Typhoid Mary. And that was when it struck him. He had to go. Something similar had obviously struck any of the remaining crew as well... for, chiming gently from the speakers, in those innocuously bored and complacent tones came a terrible sound. [i]'Countdown commenced. Nineteen minutes and fifty five seconds till self destruct. Nineteen minutes and fifty seconds till self destruct.'[/i] Relentless and implacable, the countdown continued. Ruben knew where he had to go... and half staggered, half ran down the corridor. Bursting into the communications room, He looked around for the long distance radio. There, in the corner. Someone had jokingly labeled it 'Homo Sap, phone home'. Phone home indeed. Checking frequencies against a chart on the wall of the room, Ruben matched them up.. now to tell them. Tell them what though? He decided to go with the simplest bet... tell them to never return. Minutes later, a small pod consisting entirely of electronic information blasted off from the side of the [i]Bladerunner[/i] heading for space closer to home, where it would send out it's little 'email' message back home. Hopefully they would heed the warning. Falling into a padded chair, exhausted, Ruben winced as he felt his stomach stretching and growing larger, distending as the 'kernel' inside struggled to gain entry to the atmosphere. Struggling in the back of his overalls, Ruben pulled out the Beretta. The one with two rounds. He put a bullet into the chamber. Thumbing the switch to the bridge, where the rest of the crew were obviously barricaded, he searched for the best means to tell them. And it came to him. 'I love you all' he said quietly into the mike, before setting it back in it's holder. Flicking the Beretta around, he placed it against his stomach, where he could feel the tautness of the skin, and the fossicking of the creature. He pulled the trigger.. and his world exploded in pain. Fighting with all of his controls, he jerkily placed the pistol in his mouth. And let all restraints go. [i]Slumping off the chair onto the floor of the control room, Ruben's body jerked, and then stilled. A low female voice echoed through the room. [/i] [OOC: Nice being with you all. Great RPG KOTR. This wasn't exactly what I had in mind... but if you guys didn't want to leave... No skin off my nose. Once again, I must congratulate you all on this fine example of an RPG. Everyone here has worked with great skill I feel. Wonderful work, you should all be proud.]

Not to be unkind, but everyone else copes fine with these Boards. I don't think we're going to change anything much. However, v7 is going to be launched sometime soon, which will supposedly be a lot easier to navigate. You have only been here 'a few minutes' kind of thing, so give it a try. They're pretty easy to navigate once you get used to them. I have never heard of any other problems to it- it is a relatively straightforward setup. So, give it a decent go at least.

[quote][i]Originally posted by Deathbug[/i] You know why? [i]Because it's Hitler.[/i][/quote] You have no idea what we're saying. You are so blinded by your ingrained, stupid prejudice, that you'll never get past it. You are not prepared to accept that Hitler thought he was right. He believed that he was in the right. May I make a quote here. "No man goes to war believing that God sided with the enemy". And how true is that. In a battle, every side believes that they are in the right. May I make another quote here "History is written by the winner". These are both so applicable. We don't think Hitler was a good man. He was a bad person- to us. To him he was in the right. And [i]you[/i] were the bad person. If he had won, you would think he was, to use a curious phrase 'Heaven on a stick'. Everything you say... this is about evil. And the whole point of this is that there is only a percieved evil. Evil doesn't exist in the same form to everyone. Did you even read my first post? You have no idea. Until you can look at both sides of the coin- you're prejudiced and blind.

Ruben lay on the floor, and let the stream of conscious thought just flow out. "I want to kill, cut you, slash you, strangle you, murder you all while you sleep, but I can't, I am only half in control and it hurts and I don't know what is wrong, and I want to kill you, but I won't let me do that, and I am scared and what is wrong with me and my arm hurts like crazy and it won't stop until I kill you. But I don't want to kill you, because you're my friends, but my damn arm and my heart hurts like it is going to burst and overall, more than anything I want you all dead. Or me dead. Anything for my damn arm." Van reeled back in shock. Either Ruben was severely out of it and feverish, or there was indeed something wrong. Something that no doctor's expertise could cure. It was then that Van noticed it. The greenish lump in Ruben's wrist was pulsating, like a heart. It also had a pinkish glow around, similar to shining a torch through a finger. And it was pulsating. Ruben continued to speak "Van, please, I am begging you... kill me, kill yourself, get away, send me away, anything. But my damn arm... just.. for Christ's sake [b]do something[/b]!! You're the fucking doctor here, fix me!" Seemingly expended, Ruben calmed down. Van put his hand uner Ruben's head to lift it up and alleviate any pressure. Maybe there was brain damage... A big lump of hair fell off right into Van's palm. It was sopping wet with sweat. Van stood up and moved away. The lump glowed brighter. Van ran out of the Loading Bay. They had to get away, something had infected Ruben... and may affect them... [OOC: I won't be back for a few days... so, I'll see you all later. Don't end it without me!]