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You already made a thread about this: [url]http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25508[/url] There's no need for two, just post in your old one.

Wow. You live in Chicago, RPGChick? We're the only ones here I think :D Anyway, there are many, many reasons why someone might not live with both of their natural parents. Mine are not divorced, but my situation is somwhat similiar, I think. My dad died when in a motorcycle accident when I was about eight or so. My mom wound up remarrying a couple years later. We went through all this court nonsense to get adopted by him, which basically did nothing more but change our last name (my sister and I). I wound up getting two new brothers out of it heh. Anyway, I don't truly understand the stuff some of you go through though, as I've not had to deal with divorce. At least some of you actually get to see your other parent, something I don't even have as an option anymore.

I think a small reason it's looking leathery is that, even thought you make use of shades... there aren't any real shadows. You know what I mean? Like, there are no especially dark areas to work from. I think the boy's hair actually gets dark enough at points, that it doesn't look quite as glossy as the rest of the image. So maybe if you do what you did with his hair, it would look a little better heh. Also, I think you did a really good job with the skin tones on this one... You might want to follow that idea with the clothes. Which gets me into what I think is what's causing your problem... I think the main reason they look leathery is because of all the totally white areas. Unless someone is wearing smooth leather or silk or something, have you ever seen clothes that get all shiny and white when they have light hit them? I haven't lol. So I think if you tone back those white areas a bit, it would really help that. Whether you just make them smaller, or stick in another color... That's all up to you. However, I do think that's the source of the problem. If you want to concentrate more on the light sources... I suggest drawing a little beam that goes over the characters from a certain point. You can erase it later, but it gives you some perspective on what you might want to light up and what you don't. I wouldn't even stress out about it. You're doing an excellent job... But if you're anything like me, you wind up driving yourself insane over small crap in your work that very few people will even notice lol

After the hell that makes up my weekdays, and all the people I see more than I care to... I usually wind up doing absolutely nothing on weekend other than laying around the house. I don't feel like going out half the time, as I usually do on the weekdays anyway (thanks to everyone else's schedules). So I guess my favorite thing is to really do nothing.

You are incredibly good, I'll say that heh. I think there are only two real problems honestly. I think you know what they are too, as you've mentioned them in the other threads. Again, everything looks like leather. I actually don't think it hurts your pictures that much, except for the hair which just looks really odd. The boy's turned out well, but the girl's seems strange to me. The second one is that you don't seem to pay much attention to light sources and where shadows would actually be. It seems like the main light source is coming from the top left (at least on the boy), but I can't tell... mostly because other areas that would then be shaded (such as the area under the girl) aren't at all. So I don't know heh. They could have light all around them for all I know, but I think choosing a single area to base all lighting and shading on would really help this out. Anyway, excellent picture either way. You're doing pretty damn well for yourself. I'd also like to say I like your site quite a bit.

That's all really been blown out of proportion. Thom has basically said to the press that the band is tired of the difficulty surrounding making full length albums that are actually cohesive. They would rather just keep releasing EPs. So basically EPs instead of LPs. No full length albums, but they'll still put out new music. They'll probably wind up changing their minds anyway.

Grave of the Fireflies is probably my favorite animated flim ever. Anime or otherwise... But for some reason I didn't really get that depressed or sad over it. I don't know why. I keep hearing about all these people that are brought to tears by it. I don't know what my problem is heh.

Well, if the people were in love and ready... you think that's okay? I'm somewhat confused, because I don't think anything in the thread implied only just sleeping around heh. Oh well. All I know is that I certainly wasn't in love some of those times. There were feelings involved, they were all girlfriends... but I only really was in love with one of them.

I've never cried at a movie to my knowledge. The only one that makes my eyes water a bit is Edward Scissorhands. The ending scenes to that movie are incredible. Otherwise... Serendipity was so ridiculously stupid that it almost brought me to tears of disbelief. I was forced to watch it by a friend. My god, it was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen... Mostly because the girl he was after was so freaking nuts.

Well, I've had sex many more times than I can count... And I'm not married. So there's my stance on it. I could never hold off. Anyone that can seriously wait until their marriage has my respect. I just didn't have the "control" to wait that long, I guess. Not that I even regret it. Besides, the whole pre-marital idea stems mostly from religious issues... and I'm not remotely religious. Just because you have premarital sex doesn't mean you're running around screwing anyone that will let you. There are people that do, but many don't. Most people I know wait off until it feels right and is with the right person. I don't think that's wrong or gross personally.

...Soft Square? Billz? Huh? You complain that there are no new plotlines, but just a few lines up you were saying they messed with Zelda's story so you hate it? The Zelda games aren't all in the same place at the same time, or even with the same Link. There's room for a sister. The funniest thing is that Wind Waker probably has more decent storyline behind it and its characters than any Zelda before it. At least on par with OoT and Majora. It was the first in the series that really even gave Ganon any human qualities, in my opinion. GC is also getting some sort of DBZ game... but it's not as if they've historically been that great anyway. Of course, when all you watch out for is sequels that's what you're going to get. In regards to the first post, before Metroid Prime, there hadn't been a Metroid game in almost a decade... the story was more indepth than any other Metroid game, and it was in an entirely different perspective. Nintendo is in this situation with people who expect sequels, but want a perfect balance that isn't possible. They want it to be totally different, but still stay the same. How is that supposed to work? Eh.

I'm interested in seeing anything else honestly. I had no idea you could even draw heh.

I've never ever been able to beat the second fight against Piston Honda. The first is no problem, but I just cannot do the second. I have the cart in my cabinet somewhere... but I just play it in Animal Crossing instead. It even saves your passwords for you, which is nice. I don't know who my favorite guy is. I always liked the trainer guy that chases you on a bike as you run in your pink jumpsuit lol.

I'm interested in knowing what games you would purchase on PS2 instead. What did you get along with the system? Otherwise, I have nothing to really add to that. Some of your reasons as to why you don't like the GC are very strange to me (who seriously plays CDs in their gaming systems?), but to each their own. Hope you enjoy your purchase.

That's what it looks like. It only seems to have been an issue since OB went down for a bit last night.

I was going to do my tongue, but I keep putting it off. I'm not afraid to do it, but I just don't have the cash. I have friends in smaller towns that are paying only like $30 to $50 to get that pierced. It's something like $70 in Chicago. It's just too much. I have a whole bunch of different barbells, but they are just sitting in a box (go on eBay and buy in sets, you'll get them for like $1 a piece sometimes... compared to the $10 to $20 at stores). Who knows if or when I'll go through with it. At this point, a tattoo is more likely.

I still think Issues is Korn's best CD, but that's me. Most people seem to prefer the one that came out before it. Anyway, I like the picture. It has a really strange head shape, but it works for some reason heh.

Um. You deleted your second post where you specifically said crack was slang for marajuana in your town... then you changed "crack" to "pot" in your first post. Nice try lol.

Calling weed "crack" for slang is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard lol. Strange slang. I don't think marajuna itself is as addictive as the feeling it gives off is. At least based on people I know. I don't have any medical proof for it. I don't really know if this is of any help... but this is the story of my experiences with this stuff and why I don't do it. My biological father died in a motorcycle accident when I was eight or nine years old. Recently, I was talking to my grandpa (my dad's dad) about my dad, and he had said something about how he was glad my he joined the armed forces because it got him off drugs. I knew that wasn't true, because when I was younger I found a mirror with white powder on it on a shelf. I didn't know what it was at the time, but I realized it years later. The few rolled up dollar bills around didn't exactly help me think it was just sugar or anything either. Anyway, he is reason #1 why I don't do it. I loved my dad, but I blame his death partly on his drug use and his irresponsibility. The other reason involves weed itself. Nearly every single adult I know smokes week to some extent. I've seen them, and some are more open than others. My step father must smoke it several times a day, but at least once every few days that I notice. The smell is too unique for you to think it's something else. Hell, the guy even grows it in the basement. So yeah, my step father is an extreme pothead. So are most of his friends... and none of these people are those you equate with burnouts or drug users or whatever else, but they all do it. However, they are just going in a direction I just don't want to. I want to make something of myself, I don't want to turn out like them... no matter how much I care about them. So that's my real reason not to do it. I don't want to be anything like my step father. The other reason is that I am severely against putting stuff in my body that can have any affect on my sense of control or do some sort of damage. I won't drink, smoke, do drugs or whatever else. Hell, I won't even take medicine if I can help it. So I guess it is different for everyone. You need to find something to replace the drug. Some sort of activity, like Heaven's Cloud. That seems to be the only thing I know of that works well for anyone. Rehab is ********.

I've never seen the show... but I have played the video game. It was a lot of fun surprisingly, and each cat had his own particular abilities.

[url]http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25549[/url] I have a very hard time believing that any sane person would get [i]that[/i] upset over what happened in this thread. That's like something a twelve year old would do. So I don't know. Considering what has happened with his name before thanks to some one I don't care to mention, I'm not even going to believe it is him. It seems too damn immature to be him; but if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

Wouldn't you need some sort of current converters for any electrical things you might plug in the wall? Apparently, most hotels have that all set up for you... but I don't know where you're staying or whatever else.

It looks like those Betty Spaghetti toys almost heh. I never played with them.... :bluesweat Pretty good picture, but yeah, you should crop it some.

I've been listening to a lot of random tracks off of everything but Maladroit (which I don't have). They have some amazingly good songs. I feel pretty damn stupid for ignoring their existance because of people I knew that I thought of whenever I thought of the band. The Blue Album and Pinkerton are definitely my favorite discs. Both are pretty much totally solid. In the Garage and The Good Life are my favorites so far.

Conan is probably my favorite... He's just a funny, interesting and genuinely cheesy person. The show seems to be faltering a bit though, as a writer left somewhat recently that apparently had a bigger impact on its quality than I imagined. I have no love for Leno. I'm indifferent on Letterman. The only one I ever watch is Carson Daley's show. As much as I'd like to hate the guy for TRL (despite him not even being into that sort of music), the show has some good guests. He is probably the only one that gives really solid interviews too. You actually feel like you found something out about the person, other than their new movie or some crap. Plus some of his musical guests rock. I don't think any other show has had And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead on yet. At least to my knowledge.