josie

d4rk is a frequent eater of Raisin Bran... I think that's pretty close.

Oh no. I hope the waitlist moves swiftly and it turns out to be nothing.

Another semester, another crop of students, another "interesting" one. Girl who texts on her phone as I speak to her is fun, so is slacker guy who ends nearly every conversation with "well I would spend more time on this but I'm married" and points to his ring, but then there's this one boy. This individual let me know that he has a mental issue. Nothing specific. Perfectly fine. I could tell he has some problems. We worked it out so he can leave early on days where he's really having trouble. Cool. No big deal. Had this before. Kid refuses to take any advice I give him, produces horrible work, tears everyone else's work down, misuses big words, is generally an ass. Emails me daily, LONG LONG LOOONG emails. Then sends follow up emails as to why I haven't responded, or if my response wasn't satisfactory. Endless. If i haven't responded, the SECOND I walk into class (he's there up to 40 minutes early) he runs up to me and accuses me of ignoring his needs. His piece for the first crit was pretty bad. He got a lower but not terrible grade (i'm pretty lenient on the first piece). I was nicer than I should've been, given the attitude/lack of effort. This kid contested his grade. First one I've had do it. Like, full on nearly pitched a tantrum, took up 30 minutes of class (individual reviews) explaining to me that I don't understand. College kids. There's a nut in every sundae.

Good. I'm looking forward to it. I guess as much as you can say that! One of the grislier displays I saw was at the Peace Museum in Hiroshima. They have a full size diorama of mannequins with their skin melting off after the bomb. Piles of nails, hair and skin accompany the display, along with very graphic photos/videos. A section of brick is there with a carbon shadow from someone sitting there at ground zero. Made an impression on 14 year old me. Knowing that those things happened and reading about them was one thing, seeing the direct evidence was quite another. There were a lot more blood stained items of clothing/fragments of planes and such that I saw in the WWII museum. A lot of places clean that up... I'm glad they didn't.

Oh absolutely. Their torture techniques alone were definitely not something you teach schoolkids. One of my teachers back in high school actually did go into it... amazing how a class full of reasonably well educated 17 year olds had not even heard of larger events such as the Rape of Nanking or the Bataan Death March beyond a brief mention in a history textbook.

There was no Pacific half when I was there- it's all under construction as they build a full exhibit for it. I plan to go back. My favorite touch was the extreme air conditioning and projected snowflakes in the Ardennes section... snow and exploded trees with amazing surround sound effects... I normally find museums that attempt these kinds of experiences a bit over the top/reaching, but this was very effective. Makes me wonder if they'll crank up the humidity/unleash a million mosquitoes in the Pacific exhibition... Pretty much true. Easy to skip over our internment of the Japanese Americans here and the morality of the bomb and focus on Hitler's evil. I REALLY appreciated that this museum put a lot of emphasis on the lesser talked about theatres- North Africa and Italy. Sure, they're mentioned, but most WWII exhibits focus on DDay and the Battle of the Bulge and the discovery of the concentration camps. All were covered, but also with a lot more information on the Gustav Line and invasions of Italy. Some of my favorites experiences in my life have been traveling to various battle sites around the world and seeing how they're presented by the people there. The bridge at Remagen, the SS museum in Nuremberg (Germans of all ages around me sang along with the national anthem of the third reich... that was surreal), Buchenwald in Weimar, the Peace Museum in Hiroshima... nice to get the non American viewpoint. So many sides to everything. This museum had a bit more of that touch than most.

Good for you 11! And thanks NS :) Minus the food poisoning, New Orleans was fantastic. We will have to go back and spend more time. I missed the tour of the Oak Alley plantation (where Gone With the Wind was filmed) thanks to my heaving, but man, the World War II museum may have been the highlight. I need to go back when I can actually eat :/ However, my own problem notwithstanding, I have NEVER seen so much vomit in a city. Good lord.

This is what I experienced when I spent summers in the Sarasota, FL area. Like clockwork every day, big ol' hulking monsoon tstorm at 3 pm, lasted about 30-45 minutes, then all was well. I'm gonna guess New Orleans will be somewhat similar.

Looked in on this thread. "cookie dough"

Yeah, I'm miffed that they had this design contest with black and white and then went completely practice jersey grey. Bleh.

Woah I didn't know they brought on Kunichika! I'll wear that proudly :)

I'm sorry Joe. That's truly awful :( I am so fed up with feature creeping producers. It takes 2 weeks to make a character in the one game I'm on- they requested 5 in 3 weeks. And they are not backing down. This. Can't. Happen. In my other game, it went from a quickplay toy kind of game to " Can you make it like P.T. and Five Nights at Freddy's?". Then they cut a week and a half off the deadline so it's less time... And now they want 3 times the content I had planned. And I'm the only artist. All the environments, all the UI, all the characters and animations... Yeah guys, because I'm really enjoying these 14 hour days I've been pulling more and more frequently ALONG with teaching and freelance. If you're going to start requesting AAA hours, better pay AAA wages. OR start saying no to ridiculous requests that screw your employees in the ass! OR hire more artists! Oh wait, I forgot, we never answer people who come in for interviews, and now have a bad reputation amongst the potential employee pool, and oh, wait, the kind of talent we need would NEVER work here because the pay is too low.

haha no worries, I can never do it right either. And thank you, now I know.

Love Porcupine Tree. "Heartattack in a Layby" and "Trains" got me through some dark dark dark times. Actually, In Absentia in its entirety was daily listening for me for years.

... bacon... neck? :blink:

Going to Rocky Horror was my coming of age, my bat mitzvah of weirdness, if you will. An entrance into being an art kid. I was about 14. We have a very old gothy style movie theatre in the local college town and they did Rocky Horror once a month. I went with my mum and sister, dressed up all gothy, was marked a Virgin and had to go through the casts' legs and get spanked. The guy playing riff raff made me sit on his lap for most of it and they forced me to dance onstage multiple times. One of the dudes ran on stage during a shot of the stormy weather and started screaming GOD ISN'T REAL JESUS WAS A HACK and then a lightning bolt "struck" where he was standing. Played dead. Fond memories. Good goofy stuff. 14 year old me felt so edgy.

SH2 is damn creepy. All Silent Hill is made that much better because Centralia really exists. Amnesia- I watched a playthrough where the kid playing was genuinely terrified and losing his mind. It was hilarious how freaked out he was with the patrolling monsters. I'm pretty sure it was Dark Descent.

Congrats Bio!!!!!!

As Halloween draws closer, I've been researching lots of horror games for reference at work. There's a lot of good ones out there- I don't know what any of you guys have played or prefer, so chime in! I'm always looking for more. Only a couple have really stuck with me, usually for their sounds/atmosphere. Those are P.T., Five Nights at Freddy's, parts of Deadspace and Outlast, and The Train. Seriously- the Train. It's a russian made indie PC game- a sort of choose your own adventure- and it's super emotional, at least for me. It's a couple years older now, but the graphics are great and the alternate ending deal is both a simple and effective metaphor. But yeah- any of you guys play a game that just freaked you out? I want to know about it!

saw that. grumble grumble grumble. Design would've been a lot more fun with that blue. That being grumbled, I dig the blue. It's the penguins powder blue, not the royal blue of the sabres, buuut it's a nice hue.

haha I figured it was a joke, but I just love seeing "snake people" anywhere nonetheless. That just happened to be the first place I've seen it on this forum.

So, I downloaded this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snake people-to-snake-peop/jhkibealmjkbkafogihpeidfcgnigmlf?hl=en-US It makes every instance of "snake person" or "snake people" to "snake people". Actually, it does a bit more than that- download it and then read the wikipedia entry on snake people. The best part is that I forget I installed it... and then even on this forum I'll see someone talking about snake people... I get thoroughly confused for a moment- but it's definitely a day maker. For example in the Kane thread:

Hullo fellow Ohioan! Ah hell I'm not really an Ohioan anymore. I do miss making a difference with my vote, though. My sis and most of the people I knew from high school live in Columbus/area. Welcome to posting! Let's just say it has me wondering if I can just freelance for my company and quit my other location dependent jobs...

C'mon d4rk, let's go- You know I love Halifax and want to live there someday :D

Oh I would if I could- but a steady paycheck as an art person is a rare thing to come by. We're gettin' by with plenty of humor. Poop jokes are always funny.