same
I said might be. As in there are signs but im not definite yet but yeah it wouldnt be unlike her. She cheated on me 3 times in the first 3 months of the relationship. Now 15 months. I was willing to forgive her aslong as she didnt do it again.

Also double type pokemon are a pain in the butt. And i knew there was a reason i have a ds.

Well crap, i'm really sorry to hear that man :[ I hope everything works out for you, if not between her then another girl who doesn't cheat.

It's been a very interesting day.

So my formal got canceled because of the snow storm… ): Postponed until March. I really don't want to have to wait another month. So much can go wrong in one month and I don't want to have to wait to see my date again. .___.; On the bright side, it gave me a reason to talk to him again. We only just met less than a month ago but he's comfortable enough around me to have a conversation on the phone, so I'm really happy about that. His mom also insisted on chatting it up with me on the phone earlier despite only having met me once. Hopefully things are starting to look up in that department. :]

A teacher at my school wants me to enter an art contest, which is all well and good though contests worry me. Only problem is that it's for the holocaust symposium and it has to be holocaust related (obviously). I don't know about you guys, but I can't even pretend to understand the kind of anguish those poor people went through, let alone express it through my art. They'll probably see my name anyway and be like “Damn, this bitch is Catholic as hell.” My friend really wants me to do it still. :I

Back to reading my piles of assigned books. Yay honors English and honors bio! *Dead*

Ironscarf
I don't believe it - you are actually living the lyrics of By The Time I Get To Phoenix.

He sounds more like If You Leave Me Can I Come Too? by Mental As Anything :)

Love that song.


Heh, WTF? She might be pregnant, but it's not his fault? Like it's an STD or something;

"Ugh! I done caught me a case of the babies! Aw man… -_-"

A case of the babies sounds so much better than it really is. At least if it were some STD you could cure that up with a shot of penicillin.

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I can't figure out what it is with me. My best concepts are always something I come up with after we have sketch critique and it's too late. Something about seeing everyone elses concepts helps me come up with something original once I can get an idea of what everyone else would think of right off the bat. I just can't seem to come up with something original while just sitting there at a desk on my own. I need someone to bounce ideas off of to tell if they're too obvious. I hate this. It makes me feel like I'm a stupid and unoriginal hack. It used to be that 9 times out of 10, my first idea was something interesting and new. Now it feels like every concept I come up with is too straightforward, just a literal image of the most basic concept, and like my drawing is crude and amatuerish. I haven't even completed a stencil piece I've liked in the last few months.

lba
Now it feels like every concept I come up with is too straightforward, just a literal image of the most basic concept, and like my drawing is crude and amatuerish.

Perhaps that was true back then as well (or as untrue then as it is now), but you just didn't realise it? Maybe now you've got more experience and knowledge so you're more discerning and picky over what you produce?
Perhaps it's not your work that's changed so much but just your perception of it? :)

philosphozoneocean….

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The only reason i knew i was on the road, heading to the gym this morning (and coming back) is because i wasn't wrapped around a street light.

My mental process: “If it's all the same, I'd like to skip the 8 mile bike ride in freezing weather on ice and snow. Oh, what's that world? You mean it's not all the same? Well, damn. Now if only I could find those gloves.”

If I account for having time to stop and warm up along the way, since I hate it when my fingers scream at me, I'm running late for my first class. Lame. Wanna stay in bed.

ozoneocean
Heh, WTF? She might be pregnant, but it's not his fault? Like it's an STD or something;

“Ugh! I done caught me a case of the babies! Aw man… -_-”

Man, I hear that stuff lasts a long time- 18 years or more! My mom's been dealing with her case of the babies for almost 25 years now.

It's one of the few STDs that can be so bad that it can have a case of itself. Imagine if your herpes could have herpes!

EDIT: Yeah. I totally gave up on getting there in time. Still have to get to that campus job though. Still lame, but more flexible with arrival time.

Bah. I've been having on off-week. I've been having trouble getting my ideas on to the page, and an usually high number of jokes I've been making on other forums have fallen flat. I mean, yeah, I'm more of a sarcastic person, but due to the nature of typing it can sometimes be hard for people to tell when I'm not being serious simply because I can't convey my exact tone of voice or any subtle physical cues.

At least I seem to be coming out of it (or the stars are just moving out of whatever alignment was screwing me up; let's hope they don't reallign just right for certain other creatures) since the whole “putting ideas on to paper” thing is becoming easier again. Will my ability to get a cheap chuckle from the odd forum post return? Stay tuned!

so ive decided to just leave it. If she is pregnant ill just support her emotionally but financially her parents already agreed that if that happened they would (Although i just think theyre lying to make sure that she tells them.) She does look fatter… but she was overweight to start with, gets no exercise and eats quite alot. I think it just catching up to her. Although i wont be allowed anywhere near her again if she is. And im gonna have to deal with the fact that her lifes ruined, im gonna be blaimed and cant even see her again.

And if my life becomes a musical i think im just gonna go ahead and swallow a few bottles of bleach and document how i feel before i die.

hey Same. your GF sounds like a bitch. my advice to you would be to run far away from that cow before she nails you for child support. leave the country if you can. and dont forget to drink loads of booz ! life is short dont waste it

ozoneocean

lba
Now it feels like every concept I come up with is too straightforward, just a literal image of the most basic concept, and like my drawing is crude and amatuerish.

Perhaps that was true back then as well (or as untrue then as it is now), but you just didn't realise it? Maybe now you've got more experience and knowledge so you're more discerning and picky over what you produce?
Perhaps it's not your work that's changed so much but just your perception of it? :)

Could be. The fact that I'm playing in a league meant for people 8 years senior to me also factors in I think. I might just be acting like a junior and freaking out because thesis is upcoming and I still need a huge amount of practice. Thanks for the thought though. It makes a lot of sense really.

Three months ago I booked a flight to visit a DD friend as sort of a very planned spontaneous trip. We planned very well. The work scheduling. The return trip. Budgeting. My flight is Tuesday.

In the meantime (last Monday), I was contacted for a job interview. All good news. I need a job and this one is a great one in my beloved childhood home state and just an hour from an aunt. The problem was the proposed interview dates were next week – during my trip. We negotiated and agreed to an earlier date, today (the 5th). Yesterday, we set off early and drove the eight hours to the state park for my interview. I had the interview this morning. All went well. We were planning to drive home right afterward and be home by, well, now.

But the storms came. Rather than chance the trip, we decided to stay with my aunt. I'm snowed into WV until the snow stops and the roads are cleared. It might not be until Monday. I have only the clothes on my back and one nightshirt until then. But none of that bothers me as much as the thought of missing my flight or having it cancelled.

Sigh. Usually I love snow.

Same
i think im just gonna go ahead and swallow a few bottles of bleach

Not good. There are probably worse ways to die, but not many.

Lothar
dont forget to drink loads of booz ! life is short dont waste it

Listen to Lothar and you won't go far wrong.

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London underground is a lonely and forbidding place. Unless you happen to have a cute kid with you. :)

I want to go out, but i don't want to spend money.


that pretty much sums it up.

That and i slept for 2-1/2 hours this afternoon…so now i've got all this energy…maybe i should clean my house? HA! restart ninja wedding? entirely not motivated for that piece….

Oh, and even tho i have half the physical needed for my new job, they're wanting to restart the entire process, which will take 6-8 weeks, putting me past the cut off date for 2nd quarter selection board, which means, i'll have to retake the physical ability stamina test…..maybe i'll score better in june, and look like a better canidate. that's what i'm going to take from this.
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Naruto Book 47 IS HERE!!

Holy crap! i didn't know hinata was just going to confess her love like that! that's just fucking insane!
and i mean, it was super obvious who is father was, but to have him show up when he's dead? BLARRRGGFLAP. plot device

and FMA: Brotherhood is out right now?!?!?! I'M IN SUCH A HAPPY PLACE!

So because heart gold can trade to pearl right away i've been breeding my dream rep/dragon team. The egg movesets are freaking insane on every one of them. I spent the entire day doing this but man it feels good…
I'm having trouble finding nicknames though, here's what i have so far:
Gible: Gaspar
Charmander: Scoria
Altaria: Aria
larvitar: Wrex


None for totodile or sceptile yet. All my team is female(more challenging to breed at 12% rate) so hardcore names don't sound right..

ugh…

I don't want to work tonight. However, we don't get paid for the days we don't work, so…

I guess I'll just put up with the next four days of the workweek grind. *sigh* I miss those times when my father got his paid vacations, and always thought I'd get them too. So much for that now.

I handwashed my laundry again. Too bad the weather decided not to cooperate. In mere minutes of me finishing clouds covered the sky and now it's raining torrents… been going on like this for the past 5 hours now and well… no one hangs their clothes outside and expects the moonlight to be hot enough to dry them… Still, I wonder what the smell of moonlight dried clothes is like…

Once I get the recipe for “arroz caldo” from my sister I'll be cooking that tomorrow. It's a sort of rice porridge and can be really tasty with the right toppings.

I hate those fuckin guys

Why the hell am I doing a morning's worth of work stuff on a Saturday arrrrrgh

Malvado
I hate those fuckin guys

yea !!!!!! me 2 !!!!!
i fuckin those guys so much !!!!
wut r we talkin about ???

So, where I live there's this mandatory 6 months of service in the army-thing. I still got 5 months to go. Everythings been p good, but…

…Starting this Monday, we are gonna spend a week in the woods, in a small-ass tent with 11 other guys in it. We'll get about 2-4 hours of sleep per night, carry around 25kg of equipment (and that doesn't include the tents and other related material we have to carry around too.), march 15 clicks by ski and 25 by foot. We'll have to cook our own food on a trangia that's a decade old. And we will be practising how to set up mines over and over again.

ARGL.

So screw yo' pokemons.

Futon
…Starting this Monday, we are gonna spend a week in the woods, in a small-ass tent with 11 other guys in it. We'll get about 2-4 hours of sleep per night, carry around 25kg of equipment (and that doesn't include the tents and other related material we have to carry around too.), march 15 clicks by ski and 25 by foot. We'll have to cook our own food on a trangia that's a decade old. And we will be practising how to set up mines over and over again.

I miss doing that. Except that I had to do that in the desert. And instead of pup tents we had nice big canvas tents with heater stoves to keep us warm at night.

Of course we had things to worry about, such as rattlesnakes and Meals Ready to Eat… er… Exit… ugh… Unlike most of my platoon I never had to see the medic for a bad cough…

I'm so happy I managed to avoid the army.

Lack of sleep = I get… unpredicable. (one of the reasons I don't mess with drugs, haha, cause if I get some crazy idea in my mind… hell, I'd probably do it).

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Man, trying to promote a new webcomic = hard work at times.

Futon
So, where I live there's this mandatory 6 months of service in the army-thing. I still got 5 months to go. Everythings been p good, but…

…Starting this Monday, we are gonna spend a week in the woods, in a small-ass tent with 11 other guys in it. We'll get about 2-4 hours of sleep per night, carry around 25kg of equipment (and that doesn't include the tents and other related material we have to carry around too.), march 15 clicks by ski and 25 by foot. We'll have to cook our own food on a trangia that's a decade old. And we will be practising how to set up mines over and over again.

ARGL.

So screw yo' pokemons.

Doesn't sound all that bad. Pretty much just like boyscouts when I was a kid. It's about a 55 lb pack and 25 miles. My old troop used to do week-long hikes like that at camp Philmont during the summer.

Speaking of Army stuff, I just put a 2" roofing spike through the bottom of my boot. It didn't go all the way through, but I could feel it as a nice, hard lump through the rubber. The thing took forever to pull out of that rubber. When they said self-sealing, they friggin' meant it.

Wow… looks like I won't be using MP3 music in my games. Apparently that file format is “owned” by a lot of people and if I want to make games I can sell I have to pay to use it. Luckily there are free alternatives out there like .ogg and acc, both of which are of higher quality or so I've been told.

Hopefully I don't get a nasty surprise and find out other video game elements are also “owned” (such as making sprites, or controlling things with the keyboard, etc…)…

I still remember long ago when I panicked because I was told that companies ownd the various genres that games came in, meaning that if I wanted to make a side scrolling shooter I'd have to pay to make/sell a game that falls in that genre… x_x

Lonnehart
Wow… looks like I won't be using MP3 music in my games. Apparently that file format is “owned” by a lot of people and if I want to make games I can sell I have to pay to use it. Luckily there are free alternatives out there like .ogg and acc, both of which are of higher quality or so I've been told.

Hopefully I don't get a nasty surprise and find out other video game elements are also “owned” (such as making sprites, or controlling things with the keyboard, etc…)…

I still remember long ago when I panicked because I was told that companies ownd the various genres that games came in, meaning that if I wanted to make a side scrolling shooter I'd have to pay to make/sell a game that falls in that genre… x_x

Ogg is a good one, use that :D

A 96k ogg file will sound better than a 128k mp3. And a vbr ogg is a dream come true (it does eat a little bit more cpu power to play though, but I don't think it'd be an issue even on my pc and it is 6 years old at this point).

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In other news: There's nothing like waking up in the morning and seeing that your new comic broke into the top 1000, yay :D

babies and fat kids are f**kin' hard to draw. Especially the faces. I keep ending up with little fat angels that look like ancient Japanese oni.

Of course, part of that is my own reaction I think. For whatever reason, at some point in my life I came to the realization that the human face is one of the creepiest things I know of. When I was little I could look straight into people's eyes no problem. Now I find myself looking at any other portion of their anatomy first in order to avoid looking at their face. I wonder if this is a cultural thing I've picked up as I grew older or just my own weird form of interpersonal awkwardness. It's something worth considering. If it is cultural I'm curious to know what it's reflective of, if it's based in some old superstition or if it's a human thing in general to avoid looking people directly in the eye.

Aurora Borealis
Ogg is a good one, use that :D

A 96k ogg file will sound better than a 128k mp3. And a vbr ogg is a dream come true (it does eat a little bit more cpu power to play though, but I don't think it'd be an issue even on my pc and it is 6 years old at this point).

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In other news: There's nothing like waking up in the morning and seeing that your new comic broke into the top 1000, yay :D

owch… if I ship a certain number of games containing MP3 music, I have to pay $2500 for each MP3 that's in the game…

The format .ogg sounds good, but I'm also tempted to use ACC as well. Hopefully someone doesn't come out to claim those two formats and force us to pay for them as well…

lba
If it is cultural I'm curious to know what it's reflective of, if it's based in some old superstition or if it's a human thing in general to avoid looking people directly in the eye.

i think we had this discussion somewhere already…. but it's a great thing to look people in the eye. that's what i was taught when i was but a wee lad. however, i've since learned that it makes some people uncomfortable. it's not just a regional thing either.
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saints this, colts that…blah blah blah. the only reason i'm going to a superbowl party is for the free food.

I don't want to quote anyone but I'm talking about/to some of you here:

To Same's relationship issues: Really sorry man, but if she's gonna be like that then she probably doesn't care about you. :(. Lothar put it in a harsh way but yes, he's kinda right.

About the “hot” conversation: It's bugging cold everyday where I live. Lucky peoples…

To Graceh Faceh's contest: Enter the contest and win. It's as simple as that. :)

To Seventy2 reading Naruto: I really just gave up on Naruto when Shippuden came out. It just…annoyed me. But I do love Hinata (and Gaara)!

To Skullbie and Pokemon: GO POKEMON. But what the hell's a Gible/Altaria/Iarvitar? These new ones? If so then PHBBT! I cannot deal with new pokemon games past Fire Red/Leaf Green; there's just…too many… I myself am still playing Sapphire and only like halfway through it having no time to play it alot.

To Lonnehart about handwashing laundry: Handwashing anything is a pain. Such as my dishwasher's broken and I'm stuck with the duty of washing them.

To skoolmunkee and work: Because what else are you going to do? Rest? The world doesn't allow for that anymore. :(

To Futon in the army: Ooh…that sucks…physical activity? Yuck!

To Iba: I kinda like drawing faces. Anything else…um…no.



On other news that pertains to my life rather than my idiot comments on all of yours, caberet went awesome, tryouts for Annie (I HATE ANNIE) take place next week, I have february vacation soon, I am reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire, I cannot update like anything, I should be doing the next page in Bocaj's “The Traveling Assist” soon, I learned how to play Tenacious D's “Beezleboss” and Radiohead's “Creep”, I am tired as hell, and other various things none of you care about. Well I'm off to do something interesting like read a book or go for a walk so until next time.


The 1337 Master (oh and I now like to sign everything I type)

PS: Could an Admin tell me about copywright laws on this site? Like if I put up a novella I wrote would I still be able to sell it to a magazine? MAybe I should just look through the policy…
PS2: Number one, I always think playstation 2 here…Number two, I wonder if anyone will read this. A final goodbye, the 1337 Master

whoa, applause to 1337 for reading other people's posts and replying!
congratz on yer cabaret dude!

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power plant about 20 miles south-east of here blew up, well there was an explosion anyway, don't know if the whole thing necissarly went. dont think so. so far there's 2 dead, 4 critical, and around 100 other injuries. last i knew they were still finding people. ya just never know when shit's gonna strike. i didnt know anyone inloved, but my condolences to Middletown, CT.