ozoneocean wrote:

bravo1102 wrote:

I can see their point.

Through your 200x telephoto lens and 50 pinhole spycams cleverly secreted at all sorts of angles in every room of the house? :)

Yes, but that also includes free WiFi and satellite TV.

I'm currently working on marking the first major assignment for an intro history class. Oh man, they are worse than I expected. I find that I'm less annoyed by things like informal language or weak argumentation than I am by misspellings, grammar mistakes and citation errors. The former come with practice, so I can't be too tough on them, but the latter are just a matter of proofreading. There have been a few where the English is so bad that I went and checked the person's name to see if they might be an international student. So far all but one of those have had names like “Smith.”

Assigning grades to not-so-good papers is tricky too. It's always obvious when you're reading an A paper, and then minor differences can make it an A- or A+, but knowing what a C paper looks like versus what a B paper looks like is kind of hard.

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This ad annoys me every time I see it on the site, because her bra is CLEARLY the wrong size. If the band of your bra is riding that far up your back, the band size is definitely too big. Plus like half of the side of her boob is exposed, so the cup size is definitely wrong as well. A tip for male artists: learn about boobs before you start drawing them. Talk to some girls, do some googling.



Edit: Now she'll be more comfortable.

Also, I just saw a thing saying that cow tipping is an urban legend because “cows don't sleep standing up” and “they can get up when then they fall over!” Uh, yeah. You don't tip a sleeping cow, you push over an awake cow. And then you run away really fast, because they get mad. Sometimes it's stupid kids being stupid who do it but mostly it's used as a prank (“That cow is totally sleeping! No, I swear, they sleep standing up! Push it over!”) Obviously the person who wrote that never spent any time in rural Saskatchewan. Anyways, I hate it when the internet gets things half right and acts smarmy about it.

HippieVan wrote:

Assigning grades to not-so-good papers is tricky too. It's always obvious when you're reading an A paper, and then minor differences can make it an A- or A+, but knowing what a C paper looks like versus what a B paper looks like is kind of hard.

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This ad annoys me every time I see it on the site, because her bra is CLEARLY the wrong size. If the band of your bra is riding that far up your back, the band size is definitely too big. Plus like half of the side of her boob is exposed, so the cup size is definitely wrong as well. A tip for male artists: learn about boobs before you start drawing them. Talk to some girls, do some googling.



Edit: Now she'll be more comfortable.

OR just watch the anime Chu-bra. It actually goes over all of that within a cute story of a girl who wants to be a designer of women's underwear. Lots of boob jokes and fan service but all within a practical framework of getting the best fit and wear out of clothes.

HippieVan wrote:
A tip for male artists: learn about boobs before you start drawing them. Talk to some girls, do some googling.

They are too nervous to talk to girls and they already do way too much googling on the subject! I would recommend a cold shower and a course on structural engineering.

Speaking of bras, there's THIS guy… who's an expert at fitting bras…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5iLleyZ93k

Thankfully he's a professional at what he does and seems to know what he's doing.

Lonnehart wrote:
Speaking of bras, there's THIS guy… who's an expert at fitting bras…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5iLleyZ93k

Thankfully he's a professional at what he does and seems to know what he's doing.

I worked in clothing retail and knew some profe
When I worked in retail I knew some coworkers in lingerie. If you're want to keep a sale and build clientele and return shoppers you learn everything about what you sell. For clothes that's mostly fit and fabrication. .

That reminds me of when Bianka first cosplayed Pinky in San Diego- when I saw how she was wearing Pinky's top I got really, really peeved. It was too low at the back.
She said that when tips are too high at the back it's usually because they don't fit right… Well I did not care! Pinky's too IS high at the back, that's the LOOK. Grr
So we pinned it at the back. Problem dealt with.

That was a very hard outfit to get looking right on a real person. The stuff we had to do to get those leg chaps/pants/trouserlegs looking right… And when something just doesn't work you can't get mad at the model, just the opposite, you have to double down and work out what YOU can do to make them look right.
I WILL get another Pinky model to try it when I get around to that. Someone with an impressive bum.

Bianka gave me most of the Pinky outfit a while ago (will hopefully get the rest on Sunday). And now I'm dressing my mannequin up in her gear! :D
I never ever thought to do that before for some reason. I've stripped off all the hussar stuff and I'm currently dressing it in Pinky TA gear. Awesome! I have a life size clothes model of my main character.

It's missing a head and arms… It doesn't need arms but a head would be good. I'll get a cheap foam one and stick it on so it can have the pink hair.

Once Bianka gives me the rest of the stuff all I will be missing then is the G-string. THAT item was very hard to shop for originally because none were in the perfect “Pinky” style. Weird that something so BASIC could be such a pain… You might think that's a needlesly specific pervy issue but it's due to the costume style:
The side straps have to taper down to the front and have to ride high enough on the hips that they go ABOVE the belt, while there is a space between the top of the front price and the bottom of the belt. The back has it's own issues that we never bothered with ‘cos the coat covered it. And that will be the same here.

We got the one we ended up with from Victoria Secret in that weird mall in San Diego and Bianka kept it, understandably.
Rather than hunting a new one I’ll just stitch one together I think. Just gotta get some dark grey fabric.

ozoneocean wrote:
That reminds me of when Bianka first cosplayed Pinky in San Diego- when I saw how she was wearing Pinky's top I got really, really peeved. It was too low at the back.
She said that when tips are too high at the back it's usually because they don't fit right… Well I did not care! Pinky's too IS high at the back, that's the LOOK. Grr
So we pinned it at the back. Problem dealt with.

My character's clothes don't fit on purpose! That's her style! :P (Only teasing.)

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I've just hit that point in the semester where everything is due all of a sudden. It always sneaks up on me. And I have to avoid getting to that point of anxiety where I just freeze up and stop doing anything at all. Usually it's my class readings that fall by the wayside, but that's tough now that most of my classes are seminars.

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I got another (smaller) scholarship. This one is less of a fluke, because it has pretty specific requirements that not all that many students are able to meet right now for various reasons. I actually know the guy who set this one up though. He's a really lovely retired professor from our department who has been very supportive of my student group in the past. I sent him an email to thank him personally and he was really pleased that I had received it. I'm setting up lunch with him and his wife. :)

What a headache…

I'm trying to design a character wearing armor inspired by R-Type's iconic fighter, the R-9 Arrowhead. Didn't think it would be THIS hard… Even worse, I keep overcomplicating the thing. As the image will be shrunk down by a lot, detail shouldn't be needed. But I keep adding it anyway. Pretty hard to stop myself from doing that sometimes…

As for the fighter in question…

I will make a few changes, though. I don't want Irem coming after me… For one thing, the character won't have a Force Device (the orange orb with the control rods) protecting her…

So, I have some news.

On Thursday morning, I sat in for an interview for a weekend job on the military base. I was recommended by one of the managers to apply, so the entire duration of the interview consisted of me filling out the job application and the W-4 and I-9 followed by scanning all the necessary documents. The actual interview questions were pretty quick and straight forward. Twenty-eight hours later, my paperwork has been processed by payroll and I am to report for work first thing tomorrow morning at 0800. This situation has reaffirmed that it really does not matter WHAT I know, but WHO I know when it comes to getting a job.

The commute is farther than all my previous work commutes and the building does not even have an actual address. I was given some coordinates and an undetailed map for the general area that I need to be. I have my fingers crossed I don't get lost. As a civilian, it is going to be quite a learning experience because I am going to be interacting with the infantry candidates. The road I am going to take to get to work has “TANK XING” signs posted.

I already have my uniform outfit hanging up for tomorrow. The dress code is business casual, so the look I am going for is traditional war era 1940s, white collar shirt, tan A-line skirt, and heels.

I now have two jobs. Time management is going to get even trickier when I add a third one and begin working in schools next January.

You might want to update your look a little and maybe lose the heels. Unless you like walking on uneven gravel with heels. Try to look frumpy. Even in the PC military anything female will attract glances. Since military posts don't get USPS service the buildings are usually just named or numbered and there it is.

Building 125, it's on Range road between Bivouac site 24 alpha and Range 87.
That's the machine gun range.
Yes. Right past the tank crossing.
Roger that.


You treat a tank crossing like a train crossing. Pause, look both ways for big steel things and then proceed with caution. Sometimes they post road guards sometimes not. At times the tank'll be escorted by a ground guide, other times not. Depends on the SOP and type of training going on and if the crew is paying attention. And modern tanks go fast. For something with their bulk to be going that fast has a lot of momentum behind it. Your car can stop a lot faster than a tank with a lot less damage. And get used to lots of dust. Love the dust. And it hasn't rained since last month why is there a mud pit still there? And sand still blowing in my face!


The other day I went for my security guard renewal class. It's in this tiny Knights of Columbus with a dirt and gravel parking lot. For old times sake I parked in a mud pit of red clay. Red clay, Kentucky, the Carolinas and Vietnam. It's as Army as olive drab and khaki.

Thanks for the tips, Bravo! Those directions were very similar to the ones texted to me. I made it to the location half an hour early, but the drive through the mountain range was the most scenic sight I have ever experienced. I have been living in Southern California for eighteen years, and this was the first time I gasped in disbelief at the sheer beauty.

Oh, and I passed a gigantic tumble weed on the road. Totally not in Kansas anymore.

Sounds like Fort Irwin home of the National Training Center but could be another post. California has enough of them. See a guy with a full rearing horse as his patch blow his mind by greeting him with “black horse.” That's the name of the unit which is the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.

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Monday I leave for a cruise in the Caribbean for 10 days with the wife, her sister and a friend. Similarly I'Lloyd be awash in estrogen but we're all over 50 so not really. I plan on wearing aloha shirts and having a tropical drink in my hand at all times.

kawaiidaigakusei wrote:
Thanks for the tips, Bravo! Those directions were very similar to the ones texted to me. I made it to the location half an hour early, but the drive through the mountain range was the most scenic sight I have ever experienced. I have been living in Southern California for eighteen years, and this was the first time I gasped in disbelief at the sheer beauty.

Oh, and I passed a gigantic tumble weed on the road. Totally not in Kansas anymore.

That's exciting news, kawaii! Should be a pretty interesting experience. Also, tumbleweeds always make me laugh.

bravo wrote:
Monday I leave for a cruise in the Caribbean for 10 days with the wife, her sister and a friend. Similarly I'Lloyd be awash in estrogen but we're all over 50 so not really. I plan on wearing aloha shirts and having a tropical drink in my hand at all times.

I've always been kind of averse to the idea of a cruise. I think I would get a bit claustrophobic - one of my favourite things to do both at home and on vacation is just to go for long meandering walks through the city. I feel like a cruise would just seem like going on vacation and being stuck in the hotel the whole time. You'll have to let us know how it goes, and maybe you can convince me I'm wrong!

HippieVan wrote:
I've always been kind of averse to the idea of a cruise. I think I would get a bit claustrophobic - one of my favourite things to do both at home and on vacation is just to go for long meandering walks through the city. I feel like a cruise would just seem like going on vacation and being stuck in the hotel the whole time. You'll have to let us know how it goes, and maybe you can convince me I'm wrong!

Nothing could be further from the truth. Ocean going cruise ships are bigger than WW 2 aircraft carriers. Having toured two of them as well as my two previous cruises there is nothing claustrophobic about being on a large ship at sea. You might as well feel claustrophobic on an island. Smaller cruise ships usually do cruises where you only sleep and eat aboard ship and are ashore everyday and it is a moving hotel as in river and Mediterranean Sea cruises.

So for you armor buffs out there I need to ask this… What suggestions do you have for transforming that R-Type ship into powered body armor?

Just two things I've already got in my head. The two main thrusters will become the armor's boots. The cockpit/prow of the fighter will become the arm cannon (for the left forearm). I'm thinking of drawing the full picture for the character, but I'm trying to imagine what the chestplate, pauldrons, and helmet will be like.

I kinda plan on players knowing that the heroine is definitely female. But while the armor will curve around her hips, her chest would definitely be flat (because armor contoured in that area would defeat the purpose of being armor if it were and I imagine any armor shaped to fit would only be for style and not protection). And no one will get to see her face until the end of the game (until that point the player will see the story from her perspective even though she's speaking the lines).

And of course she won't have that orb that's in front of the ship. I have something different in mind…

Congrats Kawaii and Hippie!!!
Kawaii, I expect a rendition of the Bugle Boy from Company B along with your next feature review :)
I hope it gets you lots more money for travel!

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Lonne- what about the grippers of that ball thing? They could make great bird leg type parts for your mecha. Have two pairs join back to back for two legs. the cockpit could become the chest area- Where it's more protected, and the ship cannons can be the mecha's cannons.

-Just thinking in the logic of the good mecha animes from the '80s where they have more logical transformations. The transformers, being a nock-off of those animes were the ones who really populariesd non-logical transformations because they were based soley on their toys, so anything would become a gun or a leg and sizes would change depending on need…
Megatron would be huge and then turn into a tiny pistol… The biggest one I recall was Broadside, the aircraft carrier.
He changed from a normal sized transformer man robot, into a 17 meter long hornet jet fighter and then into a 300 meter long aircraft carrier!

I was actually focused on designing wearable armor rather than a piloted mecha. I think I can use the Force (what the orange orb is called) as a sort of chest piece, with the rods forming an “x” around it.

Oh… and I found THIS video…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fCe_U3ehVc

I am not sure where to post this but the thread did say we could rant here so,this is kind of a rant.
I post three pages a week and like to get ahead of the game, so I am almost readyto start posting pages for January but we cant post pages for 2016 yet, sodoes anyone know how I can get in contact with someone to add 2016 to the addpage section.

That is a really weird bug! I do not know any way around that right now.
There's no way to change that in the admin system. We'd need a program er to look at it and I've had zero luck with programmers for a while.
Does anyone know a good place to go to hire a python programmer? Or at least get a quote?

Yep, Bravo was definitely on to something about the attracting glances part of working on a military base. Yesterday was my second day on the job and I have come face-to-face with about four-hundred infantry students. They are all clean cut males who spend all their days working out and have not been allowed to leave their area for the last six weeks. Some had free time this weekend for the first time since they arrived. They are definitely starved for female interaction.

One gentleman walked up to me at the counter and just said point blank, “I like your outfit.” I was caught off guard by the forwardness and replied with a “Thank you very much!” And he said, “I did not want it to sound creepy.” Well, I did not think his statement was creepy at all, but after he said that last part, I had my doubts. Still, it was nice to receive a compliment.

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Cruises are fun! I would highly recommend them. I have been on two so far: Tahiti and the Greek Islands. It is more like a floating hotel and a lot more convenient than lugging bags around transport and up flights of stairs at hotels. The smaller boats are more intimate, but dictate when food is served. The larger boats usually have food readily available and the best part is that there are sit down 24-hour restaurants that give unlimited food absolutely FREE of charge (I mean, everyone pays in advance for the cruise, but there are no bills or tips).

Well done Kawaii and well done Hippie! Good to here about the movers and shakers on this site, what talented individuals we have here.

I'm now trying to get some quote directly from programmers, something I've been very afraid to do because I don't know enough about the technical issues or the names of things to even be able to ask for the kind of help we need without getting ripped off…

I've asked for help with progammers or if anyone knows anything or anyone, but no one ever responds, so I'm on my own there.

JNP was going to get quotes months ago (him being our expert), but he just dropped off the radar.
Meanwile we're getting more and more weird stuff happening on our server and I have to whatch it constantly, restarting and resetting regularly to keep the site going (and I'm sure Hippie and Kawaii do too). I used to only have to do that once a day but now it's every half an hour.

This is a very passive agressive little rant because I'm frustrated about site management stuff.

That's incredibly annoying. I only know of one person who might be able to offer useful advice but I don't have his number. I'll try to contact him through a third party. I think this is his field of expertise.

ozoneocean wrote:

I've asked for help with progammers or if anyone knows anything or anyone, but no one ever responds, so I'm on my own there.

That's really sucky. :( I wish I knew someone. Maybe I can ask some of my university peeps if they know any programmers.

Jennifer Roggeveen wrote:
I am not sure where to post this but the thread did say we could rant here so,this is kind of a rant.
I post three pages a week and like to get ahead of the game, so I am almost readyto start posting pages for January but we cant post pages for 2016 yet, sodoes anyone know how I can get in contact with someone to add 2016 to the addpage section.

I don't know how to fix this particular issue unfortunately! But in the future, you can always contact either myself, ozoneocean, or kawaiidaigakusei via PQ or email. We also have this handy-dandy guide that covers most of our known issues on the site.

Well, today I made an attempt at making “Nilaga Manok” or Boiled Chicken Stew. Here's a Tagalog video on how to make it. Couldn't find an English version but you should be able to follow it anyway…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr9DtpDKXIw

My version of this recipe has one ingredient missing. The Chicken. Instead I'm using chicken stock and following all the steps with all the other ingredients. Well…

I didn't use fish sauce (Patis). You can use salt instead, but the Chicken Stock I used already has quite a bit of it, so that wasn't needed (I also diluted it with some water to hopefully reduce the salt even more). Bok Choy (Pechay) is pretty expensive so I didn't use that either. As a replacement (and because I love it so much) I used a whole head of cabbage in its place (normally you use both). Also couldn't find any pepper corns, so I used the ground version instead (I do have some, but I'm not willing to disassemble the pepper corn grinder to get at them).

And now I'm looking at other meat recipes which I can remove the meat from, yet keep the meat flavor in… This recipe has beef and pork versions as well… lots more to experiment with…

And my neighbors think I'm crazy for making this… and for using a rice cooker instead of a stove. -_-

Enjoy your cooking experiments Lonne! Sounds tasty.

Thanks Scarf and Hippie. That's appreciated. I have some price ranges now and Hippie has got in touch with a friend who knows the field. So that's a start. :)
Something will have to be done soon though, the processor use on the server is getting over the top and could almost lead to long shutdowns whenever someone isn't there to shepard it every step of the way… That's crap.