Baron Samedi

Having a dangerous addiction, such as this cutting, [i]is[/i] a form of disorder. If you are having a hard time not cutting yourself when you feel frustrated, then there is an addiction. Addictions are problems. Therefore, Cutting is a problem that you have. It may seem alright to you, but one day it could go beyond that. Many have. Sadly, they are not here today. You get my drift? Self-mutilation is a disorder, same as compulsives. I know that everyone recommends this, but see a psychiatrist, or even talk to your parents perhaps. If you don't want to do that, get a less destructive habit. If you feel annoyed, get a punching bag. Save up all the bad thoughts at school, get home, and belt the **** out of the bag. Or try something more gentle and relaxing- go for a bike ride until you are exhausted, start a garden, get a job. Something to calm you, or take out your anger upon. It may seem like a load of puerile rubbish, but it works. You need an outlet. [quote]I don't have a disorder, it's just something I do when I get emotional or angry[/quote] Eh. That is a dosorder I'm afraid. An Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or something. [*shrugs*] It doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you though.. you just need a different outlet for your emotions and stresses. I wish you the best of luck.

Hhhmmm. Could do with a border. I am not sure if you made the effects yourself, or if you, like I commonly do, found a picture and just made it into a banner. Anyways, add a border, and the FF logo seems to be a bit too faded on it's edges. Make it clearer there, and it'll be good. Nice work, or good picture to choose. 6/10 It is hard to know where the banner ends without a border.

Good stuff. I kind of like it, as I find myself drawn to works like that, compilations of others' work. Especially when it is well done like yours. However, I also agree with maladjusted about making one image central. It... draws the eyes, yet provides the extra balance of the transparent images. Also the black text is a leetle eensy bit hard to read. Overall a good show.

Count me in ^__^ I'll whoop yo pansy bottoms, y'hear? You just be so much dead meat on the sidewalk when I'm finsihed wit'ya. lol. I'll post up my [currently under-construction] Inuyasha banner when I finish it.

Heh. I actually found the background. yeesh, if I knew how to make backgrounds like that, I'd be so happy. Eh. I just cropped the image and did the text. Thats all. I am not that good a banner maker, mine are generally pretty simple. And I am using an old program called 'Serif PhotoPlus 7.0' it is OK. I wish I had PhotoShop though. Maybe I'll get my dad to get it for me for Christams. We'll see what happens.

Eh. What a good story. I lvoe it. Thanks to Whoever was reading this in the 'Who is Online' Forum, coz I followed the link! This is funny. Hopefully you'll post up Chapter 2 soon. The characters seem to fit with the general impressions I get of them, and the idea... is. Well, far-fetched, but at the same time, not so far-fetched if you get what I'm saying. A very good idea, nice work. A rating presents itself... 9/10. Highly humourous and well done. EDIT*** My god. There is a new page here. Haha, it is a miracle. This one is very good too. Hopefully you'll continue with this idea... [size=1]I would love to be in this.. eh. Dont' worry though. I'm insignificant and all that.[/size] Heh. God, I need a spine. [size=1][b]Second Edit[/b]: Dear God, here I am reading back through the thread and I see this post. Please, don't hold it against me. It was three years ago, damnit![/size]

I have a wonderful dog named Becky. She is black, and a Lab/Collie/Kelpie cross. I have one white rabbit called Blossom [blame mum] and 2 caramel rats, Ivy and Button [I chose Ivy, mum chose Button]. I have also had two cats, and another rabbit. But they all be dead currently. But you never know... They might come back. :p

Here is my newest banner. The guy was a ***** to cut out. All his horrible hair. Bleh. 2 hours worth of cropping you're seeing there folks.. it turned out OK for my first character banner. If anyone happens to want it, I can customise with a name. Just include a thanks to me in your siggie if you want it. So, what do y'all think now? Good? Ok? or terrible? Rate away. [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?postid=516105[/img]

That is pretty cool Kaisuke. Its' aesthetics don't really appeal to me as such, but it is definitely a good idea. The text also... looks like it has a very faint highlight around it? Looks good anyway. How did you do those leaves? How long did it take you? It looks very difficult, and the detail is great. Nice stuff. Aesthetics 6/10 Technical skill 8.5/10

While your definition is good Mitch... when I first saw your picture, I saw an eye. A freaky bloodshot eye, with serious crows feet. Perhaps it is even a monsters' eye, with the eyelids being those flappy-looking things around the outside. It is a cool picture, despite the blurryness and the fact that it is merely ink on skin. lol A name? Hhmmm. I know. [b]Here's looking at you...KID[/b]. As in, the monsters' eye is looking at a kid... very spooky. Yeah. I'm happy with that. Good name for it I reckon. [i]It stares, prowling, roaming, never still...[/i]

Eh... What monsters? I can see two little ones at the bottom of the Elf-Archer one but... Anyways... This one is OK. You've tried to make Sun-ring reflections from the sun, which looks cool, but only happens with lenses. And I prefer to think of a picture like this as a thing we saw, or a painting kind of idea.. the lens flare doesn't really match it. Also, while the rest of the Elf is OK, his arm [the one drawing the string back] and his face look a bit squashed. His head is squashed onto his shoulders- he has no neck. And his arm kind of... bends back on itself or something. lol. A pretty good job, but I loved your first one best out of these three. 5/10

Hhhmmm. My computers pretty crap, so I thought it was a dog. Heh. My bad :p Yeh, the alien has two elbows, but I'm talking where the arm connects to the body. For your second one.. cool. The castle looks just like a big face, and the little clock with its' crooked hands really accentuates that. The moon is evil and... strange. lol. The two things I don't like are... 1: The path down the hill narrows at one point and doesn't look very good there. 2: The lightning. One bolt coming down, yet branches off heaps of times. Too many for one bolt. Overall, a 6.5/10 for that one. I liked your first better.

[strike] I'd be a nude-model barbie[/strike]..... Uuh. Failing that, I'd be Venom from spiderman... but I'd have another monster head instead of my left hand, a green tongue, and a monkey tail. And they'd call me... No. I don't want to be venom anymore... I want to be a Transformer! I turn from a...Tiger into a big-*** robot with massive weapons and stuff. lol. And they'd call me. [b]The Baronator[/b] And I'd whoop nude-barbies ***. lol. I'd come with optional nucelar attatchment, removable napalm rockets, and real heat-seeking missiles [Scare your cat!!]. Hhhmmm. The good Ol days.

lol. Very stupid, and highly fearless. A true representation of the underdog. lol Some dogs are really like that.. like a dumb chihuahua will face off against a german Shepherd. Heh. Anwyays... Nice artwork. I like the drawing, the idea is funny, and the detail on the monster is impressive. The thing is, the dog is classic cartoon, whereas the monster is a bit more realistic... doesn't blend quite right. Also, the connection to the torso, of the monsters arm looks strange. Some little details look a bit out on the monster [including his feet] but overall, this can be forgiven for the... simplicity which it uses. Good job. 7/10

Nice job. I see that you are like me. I prefer to find a picture I like, crop it down and add text. I like yours, good job. Simple, yet effective, and those coding lines are just about my favourite parts of the Matrix... I... well, anwyay, they look cool. Very funky and chic stuff Ajeh 8/10 Make the text easier to read for an upgraded mark.

Hhhmmm. The text must just look pillow embossed because of the black around the edges. Whatever the cause, it looks swell. You should be pleased.

Ooh. Desbreko, I like it. A very good idea, most definitely portraying the OB atmosphere ^_^. Nice work. It may be merely due to the colour fade difference, but the Reply button seems closer to the border than the New one... may be the different shades on the background though. The non OB text looks good, especially with what looks like the... pillow embossing. Very good, slight but... adds soemthing. A very sweet and cool idea. 8/10 Aesthetics and appeal. 5/10 technical.

Hhhhmmmmm. I can't really say that I like it. The character should be more visible. After all, they are the main object of this picture, not the ripples. The ripples looks OK, but the character should take precedence [is that the right word] over the background. I'd try and fix that. 6/10

I think it is a good banner. Relatively simple, clean quality. The font size is fine, if it was any bigger it would be getting into the brighter side of the planet and become too difficult to read. As such, the font is good, but difficult to read. I still don't know what the last word on the second line is. The picture of the character on there is good, defines the banner as a Halo one, and is a necessary part of the banner I believe. 7.5/10 for Aesthetic qualities. 6/10 for technical merit. And in the future... it is obvious the character was not part of the background and was put in... he used the wrong word. So what. Don't be pedantic, people will make mistakes, intricacies don't matter. You still get the gist of the comment.

Most probably drifted away. Either over OB, family matters, whatever. It is sad that we lose people. Welcome back Leh. I was wondering why you had left.... you were a fairly integral member, to my mind. Welcome back. M*A*S*H. Eh. I have only seen like 1 episode, but Congrats on getting into it. You probably deserve it. And Nate? He told us that the name is Father [u]Mulchay[/u] in his first post. You don't need to get confused over the spelling.

I like Metal Gear Solid... cool game. Anyways, that banner is OK. The quality of the characters on it isn't that crash-hot, but I know they're hard to come by. The background for it is Ok, but low detail. Sometimes simplicity works well thouygh, and it is OK in this. What really ruins this banner is the font though... the font that you used looks ugly, bad colours and difficult to read. The banner itself is pretty good, but I most definitely recommend that you change the font... Hard to read and looks bad. Aside from that good job on it. I liekd you Cheese banner. Decent quality pictures, and funny. Nice simple and overall a good idea. Diarrhoea... well it seems silly and immature to me, I don't like it. I suppose the idea is Ok though. Your Halo covenant one was good, but the font you used looks bad, and lowers the banner's quality. Nice idea though. Just to cover the rest of your banners... Your picture quality is generally 7+, suitable fonts 5-8 [work on these. Experiment until you find a font that fits well, or use a downloadable font site] and overall layout is 7+. Your banenrs are good. However, what commonly seems to be a let down in your work is the fonts. Your cropping skills are good, your pictures are pretty good quality, but the fonts... Work on them. Nice work. You can see that you're improving.

Personally, I think that there is something more to our bodies than we know. Think of deja vu. You remember something happening, or you see something happening, before it happens. Now, how are you supposed to explain that. Random thoughts? Having a scene, [i]exactly[/i] the same as a dream/memory is basically impossible without some form of precognition, whcih relates to a sixth sense. So, in this case I think it is true. However, with picking up liars or whatever... it could be either, but the scientific explanation seems to fit. Gut instincts... I get those occasionally, just a little twitch in the back of my mind that "I should do this/ shouldn't do this". And most of the time, if I don't follow these. something happens later, and I realise I should have followed it. I don't know, it could be a combination of paranoia and chance, but some things havn't been explained, so the likelihood of a 'sixth sense' idea, is reasonably high IMO. Within reasonable doubt.

I don't know exactly what this is. An explanation would have been great, but I think I get the gist of it... They made a boardgame similar to Monpoly, but using Ghettos instead. A parody of Monopoly, using Ghettos and African-Americans as its' joke. I don't see the problem... I don't know what kind of subjects it covers, but as long as it isn't highly racist or something, as long as it isn't nasty, then I don't see any problem. Stereotypes are there to use, providing you don't get carried away. Peple should just relax, it is a game, nothing more. On the flip-side it could insult some poeple. I also think this guy is just capitalising on Monopoly's game. But then again, Monoply shouldn't have a monopoly on everything. [Do you get it or not?]. lol. Maybe if this guy has copied nearly everything about the monoply game, then he should have found a way to make it unique... I don't know. Basically, the idea of the game is good, and amusing, but I think he shouldn't use something else's reputation to further his own capitalist schemes. Heh.

Hhhmmmm. Never heard of Harlembeat However, I like your banner. The border is good, the text looks very effective, and the picture of the guy with the hat fits in well. What doesn't seem to fit in with the banner is the guy in the singlet... for some reason he doesn't fit. He just... seems a bit mis-matched, perhaps find anothe rpicture of him. Overall, I like it. 7.5/10

The first one looks OK to me.... I can't see any black box or anything, so I'm assuming you changed the attatchment. That looks good, but the font is a little bit hard to read, and it doesn't stay on the 'clear' setting long enough. The effect is good however, and I think it is a good animation. That second one is good. I like the font if it gives you enough time to read it. Sonic is clear and well-cropped, and the border looks good. Perhaps cut off some of the space to the right as Dagger suggested. Overall a good job with both of them. 5/10 and 7/10 Sometimes simplicity is best.