Semjaza

This is stuff that's most likely going to be added in the future anyway, once things are under control and those involved have the time to do it. There'd be no need for a points system.

I admire David Carson, although I'm really not a fan of a lot of his work. A lot of people don't seem to know who he is, but he more or less invented the "grunge" style of type and layout. People might have heard of some of his magazines - Raygun and Beach Culture, among others. At the time he was doing this sort of stuff, it was very non-standard and kind of went against the grain. Especially for the target audience that was involved. Now it's basically influenced every magazine aimed at pop-culture in some form, and no one really thinks anything of it... although stuff like Raygun is still a lot risky and strangely laid out that most anything I can think of that's out today.

About the avatars - The amount and variety of avatars we have right now were up to the members, mods and all. They were asked to help out, and from what I saw a few people just sent in lots of Zelda (I think Desbreko actually). So I don't know what there is to do about that, without James having to take even more time to get them into place (it's not a fast process to add or remove the things).

If you take characters and stick them in basically anything else other than a parody, you can get in trouble. This is why Simpsons sites with nothing more than plot information and some pics are forcibly shut down by Fox. The problem here isn't that they are doing what they want with the story and everything else... They are using exact graphics from the game, using trademarked names for their own use and so on. You can get in trouble for such thing, assuming the owner even wants to bother.

From what I read... they basically took PSO Card Battle (which was shown last E3) and jammed the III in it. Rather weird way to go about things, I would have thought they would have just kept it as a sort of spin off. What I read made it sound turn based too... but I'm not exactly sure how it works. It didn't seem like there was a normal PSO style component. I guess we'll find out.

They're both solid, as usual. I personally prefer the second one. My only "complaint" is that a lot of your wallpapers seem to be using the same elements repeatedly. I recognize parts of these from ones you've shown in the past. Regardless, it works rather well anyway.

It's only 4 players online. It's not massively multiplayer like so many people seem to want to call it. You basically meet a bunch of people in a lobby, and make a group of 4 so you can go play. Doesn't make it any less enjoyable.

I don't watch much TV at all anymore to be honest, but I have read about these newer shows and seen a bit. Anyway... The Real World has always annoyed me. The first season could be looked upon as real, but it hasn't been like that in god knows how long (and that depends if you think making a bunch of people randomly move in together is "real" or not). However, watch it now. They all look good. There always has to be this token gay guy in it, someone that misses their boyfriend/girlfriend to some insane degree (while constantly arguing and perhaps breaking up), someone in a band that isn't really that good... Nearly everyone on it wants to be an actor or a singer. They have no real jobs. They do nothing but what the show wants honestly. If people think this is "real," I don't know what to say. The Real Cancun looks even worse. The fact that the movie seems to think it's a wonderful accomplishment to get some kid that never drank in his life drunk, is even more pathetic honestly. There are reality shows around... but they're documentaries. Stuff you'd see on Discovery or National Geographic. There is nothing true to real life in a show where people are married based on a public vote, or talked to in a hot tub while wearing masks, or getting married in Alaska to some guy who is the best at lumberjacking or any of this nonsense. I think the ones that bother me the most are the marriage ones. The fact that these channels feel some need to trivialize marriage and love to this extent. I don't know if that's any worse than the fact that people eat this ******** up though.

I don't quite get what is so freaky. I could have picked a much worse picture actually heh. Anyway... the revision was coming along, but then I decided to move on. I'm going to do another image, from another band. I'll post a thread when it's done.

Ouch. It has been fixed. Anyway... anything having to do with precious Pikelets is alright by me. I find the font entertaining for some odd reason... especially those circle things.

My thoughts are that bitmaps are the devil. I've seen the image though... It's very odd heh. Charles also spelled "Tibet" wrong. I thought I'd just point that out since I love him so.

Final Destination was [i]hilarious[/i]. You are a strange one... :p

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by GinnyLyn [/i] [B]*steals the dancing banana* Several people have used it, including Sem. And I never get tired of watching it. :D [/B][/QUOTE] Aw, you remembered :love: And this is a decent banner. I'm thinking the problems with the image quality aren't due to what he saved it as though... It's probably the photos he used. There is nothing wrong with the banner other than those specific photos... so that has to be it. I mean, the gif has obvious dithering problems... but I don't feel they detract. This honestly shouldn't be that big of a JPG though, so try that out.

I did this based on the original photo. I more or less traced it... leaving in aspects I liked and taking out parts I wanted to. The end result... The photo isn't in this at all. The layer is completely gone. It's all paintbrush, airbrush, smudge and blur. Some of it even surprises me too. Some of it wound up looking almost exactly like the photo (gloves mostly). There are aspects I don't like... the glittery stuff near the bottom is a bit weird. I also had a somewhat hard time doing smooth lines on his face - the cheek area basically. The hair drove me nuts for quite a while. In fact, you can't see a lot of the stuff I did because I made this all black... But I painted the individual strands of hair on the sides as well. It looked pretty good, but wasn't fitting a wallpaper style well. White and Manson don't go so hot heh. Anyway, thank you for the comments everyone. PS - Why do you use o instead of 0 in 10's Ginny? I've noticed that a few times lol.

Yeah... I figured. Well see, the problem with that is mostly my laziness heh. The whole mask and the "Manson" and "mOBSCENE" text is part of the CD cover for the single. I just stuffed it in the image to fill in some space. The placement and such really weren't up to me, although I could change them if I really wanted to.

I've seen some people say the text was a problem... What specifically are you referring to? The "Golden Age of the Grotesque" around the MM logo? Or the text that actually says "Marilyn Manson" and "mOBSCENE"?

I actually like the first one more... I don't know if you did this on purpose, or if the pictures are just like this... But if you start from the right, it goes from color to black and white really nicely. I really like that aspect of it. Edit: I reread... and you did that on purpose lol. I like it.

As long as they remove the damn fence on Rainbow Road... The MK64 version was weaksauce. I loved it on SNES and GBA. I'm sure it'll be returning. It's like a staple for the series.

I agree about the face on the right. It's actually a mask, but yeah. I wound up sticking it there (it's that whole section with the mask and the words) because it takes up space lol. By the time I got to that part, I was sick of this thing and just wanted to finish it. Anyway, thank you for the comments. I will be fixing this up probably today and posting it later on tonight.

This isn't an answer to the caption... but that bread cat is disturbing on so many levels.

The glove. Well I forgot. I had plans to do something, but by this time I just gave up and posted this. Anyway, the plans: I am going to be revising this. I'll be doing the whole arm all the way down... I have another image of him in a leather coat, with a heavily spiked wrist thing. I can adapt it to fit I'd think. Then the wallpaper will be like I wanted in the first place. I'll probably do that tomorrow.

Any act has an outcome, and I'd have to say there is always a more [i]desirable[/i] outcome that you would be hoping for on some level. Whether or not it is selfish or whatnot, is another story. I could say that by helping someone... my reward would be seeing them be able to do something they normally couldn't for example. In that case, it's no big deal. It might make you feel better about yourself, I suppose... but when I do such things, it's more out of concern for the other person. I rarely get some "high" or reward out of it. However, it's rarely put like that. It's almost referred to as if humans were simple animals. As if we behave on the same wavelength as dogs... anything to get some stupid milkbone. And in that sense, I truly could never agree with this idea.

I'm hoping to get a job part time at the Lincoln Park Zoo. I'd be an animal caretaker... feeding animals, watching their behaviors, grooming the domesticated ones. It only pays $8.50 an hour... but I don't care. I'd really love to work there. That's more important than the amount of money (unless it was like twice that heh). Other than that, school. I don't get out in the summer.

As I told you before, I love this to death. I really hope you show more of this... Omar is obviously the best character ever. The big version is probably the best wallpaper I've ever had.

I cannot remember the last time I did a thread in here. People probably forgot I could even do anything heh. First thing I've bothered to really spend some time on in quite a while. Another wallpaper, like most of the stuff I seem to bother with. I'm sure most people here don't know this CD, but it comes next month and I'm really looking forward to it. mOBSCENE is the single, and it's out now. If you don't like Marilyn Manson, I don't give a crap. Judge what I did, not what it's based on please. Anyway... I didn't do that much I guess. I totally repainted Manson's face. It's based on a photo, but none of the photo is actually in this. All of him was done with the paintbrush, smudge and airbrush tools (something, that before today, I have used very little). That took about two hours from beginning to end. The MM logo I redid in Illustrator so it'd be more clear. The CD cover I did nothing to lol. Anyway, ideas or whatever else would help. I'm not exactly happy with the mOBSCENE cover being just jammed in the corner... but I ran out of ideas after his face. Any ideas on something to do to the right side instead would be great. Thanks, and sorry I've wrote so much yet again. Edit: This is 1024x768... If you have Internet Explorer's image resizer enabled, please turn it off. Will look awful otherwise. Edit 2 (and 3): I left the face mostly flat on purpose. It makes the gloVes pop out more. Just so people know.