glink908 (4:24:41 PM): you best be workin
glink908 (4:24:42 PM): lol
anselmlies (4:25:34 PM): BACK UP
glink908 (4:25:40 PM): o.o
anselmlies (4:26:04 PM): also i won the irish lottery
anselmlies (4:26:05 PM): Ref:UK/9420X2/68
Batch:074/05/ZY369
You have won £1,000,000.00.
To claim your prize, Contact Anderson Powell with the following informations.
Name, Address, Age, Occupation, Country
Email: agent_irishlottery01@yahoo.co.nz
Mrs. Judy F.Alkan
glink908 (4:26:15 PM): nice
anselmlies (4:26:16 PM): isn't this great
anselmlies (4:26:20 PM): i mean forget flash games
glink908 (4:26:24 PM): i know right
anselmlies (4:26:39 PM): i'm going to get like 1.5 million dollars
glink908 (4:26:46 PM): lol
anselmlies (4:26:49 PM): and i didn
anselmlies (4:26:53 PM): t even have to enter!
glink908 (4:26:56 PM): ;D
anselmlies (4:27:04 PM): it's almost too good to be true!
glink908 (4:27:11 PM): lmao
anselmlies (4:28:01 PM): it's a little wierd that the irish lottery has a new zealand domain
glink908 (4:28:09 PM): lol
anselmlies (4:28:10 PM): but it's probably just for legal reasons
anselmlies (4:28:18 PM): i'm sure it will all explain itself
glink908 (4:28:24 PM): most lieky
glink908 (4:28:27 PM): likely*
anselmlies (4:29:11 PM): do... do you think this could be one of those email scams to trick me out of my money?
glink908 (4:29:22 PM): nah
glink908 (4:29:25 PM): seems legit to me
anselmlies (4:29:34 PM): yeah i mean look at those numbers at the top
glink908 (4:29:51 PM): i dont know how anyone culd randomly place letters and numbers toegether like that
anselmlies (4:29:59 PM): that spells "O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L" to me
glink908 (4:30:05 PM): pretty much
anselmlies (4:30:31 PM): man will you be jealous when im swimmin in the cash
glink908 (4:30:38 PM): true dat

damn i won the lottery check me out

I've been doing sprites for this game for a month or so now. When you count up all the items on stage and all the layers in each one, there are, at any given time, several hundred individual vector shapes onstage at once. Now, this is not a terrible problem in itself. At medium quality, the game runs just fine, at a nice 28/29 out of 30 FPS. However, the problem arises when I try to test my movie. I'll be drawing, animating, etc. inside a movieclip. Moving things around, swapping layers, switching frames. I try to see my work completed. Ctrl + Enter... and disaster strikes. Flash locks up at the "exporting flash movie" progress bar, never completing an operation that usually only takes a few seconds. I cannot close the window, I can't get past it to do anything in Flash, and I am effectively locked out of the program-- the only way to "fix" the problem is to shut down Flash via Task Manager and then restart.

This is one of the most infuriating and idiotic bugs I've ever encountered in CS3, for all its finickiness. There is no given criteria for triggering it, except that I am animating in a symbol, and even then it doesn't happen every time. I have no idea when it will happen or why it will happen, and when it does it is always surprising.

I made a BBS post about this, but no one seemed to have anything to suggest of relevance or use. I'm hoping someone reading this will have some variety of input, because this has happened at least 20 times to me within the past few days-- it is a constant interruption to an already oft-interrupted workflow, and I need it fixed.

In closing: Fuck you, Adobe. I paid hundreds of dollars for your shit, and work laboriously to overcome the many small trials this malevolent program sets before me every day. This is but a new addition to a ever-largening regimen of frustration, anger, circuituous work-arounds, and enormous amounts of wasted time trying to fix bizarre, unfixable problems. I must work to do what I love to do. I should not have to deal with this bullshit.

I have been listening to very loud music all morning and have just started working on finishing up the store for the pirate game - working title: EXTREME BUCCANEER BATTLE ON THE HIGH SEAS 2006. And I feel great. Been playing games and watching movies for inspiration, eating ramen, drinking PINK DRINK, and slowly figuring out a song type thing i may record sometime soon. Right now, I feel on top of the world. It won't last, but i'm enjoying it while it does.

You guys should recommend me some music, because my current library of little mp3s is getting a bit stale. One song I have been listening to very much is this lovely ditty.

please ignore the horrifying music video and just enjoy the song. like, really, i think you will like it more if you minimize the video whilst it plays. I'm imagining a kind of music video thing in my head for this-- not strictly animation, but with live-action as well... that won't happen for a while, if it ever does happen at all.

Also, I found Firefight. Yes. There is this small
fan page, whos owner will send you the game if you email him. I have yet to beat it, mostly because the game has no save function-- this is a several-hour run through, as well, so if i stop playing i have to leave it running, and then someone else will come and close it or something and then I am enraged. However, it is just as I remember it, and I am extremely happy that I was able to get it. thank you, robert marney :)

I bought Army of Two a couple days ago, and I am slightly disappointed so far. I've seen nothing to really distinguish it from all the other FPS's out there... the only thing worth mentioning is that you can high-five your buddy, which is somewhat odd. It's pretty fun, though, and I have had some good times playing it with buddies. The ability to upgrade your gun to a gold-plated, diamond-encrusted monster is also nice. I feel I cannot fight terrorists without a suitable pimped gun, and this game delivers nicely. The other thing I like is that all enemies (which are all human) all have roughly the same amount of hp. Some may be armored, or some may only have a certain weak point, but there are no immortal god-beings in this'un. I'VE GOT THE AGGRO, GO GO GO

I lost all my castle crashers data for the second time, and I've vowed not to play it any more until the title update. It's just not worth it :C

OK I think that's about it, time to make lunch

oh also here's a picture of marcus fenix i drew in ms paint, here's the full version and more stuff

I want-- nay, I NEED-- a windows 95/98 emulator. Nothing fancy, and please no incomprehensible japanese programs. I have slogged through several of those today. All I want is a program that does not require an original disk and will allow me to play old games that will not function on XP or vista-- I have tried both OS's, to no avail. I really, REALLY want to play FIRE FIGHT. No one knows jack shit about this game or even remembers it. ONE PERSON has remembered this game out of the many I talked to.

You must understand that I love this game. I played it when I was quite young on a then-cutting-edge win98 pc using a demo disc full of games demonstrating the power of this new OS. Only a few levels-- levels that I played over and over again. Fire Fight was a top-down 3/4ths view shooter, where you played as a small spaceship fighting other spaceships under the orders of some shadow council thing. IT WAS INCREDIBLE. So a few months ago, I got a notion to play this game. I dug out the old demo disc, and tried it on my laptop. No luck. I could run some of the other demos, but not fire fight. Even this was denied to me. It also did not work on the other computer, running XP instead of Vista. I was depressed. I began a search on the internet, and after much sadness and frustration I arrived at a long-abandoned czechoslovakian website where one could download many old games for only $6. I paid my six bucks. I waited and waited while this game downloaded. And then-- it didn't run. Nothing. I tried unpacking the various zip files every way i possible could, tried putting them in different places on my computer-- nothing worked. I am pretty esure the files are all there--The only answer is windows 98.

Here begins my quest. If any of you have any emulators that will allow me to play this game or any information at all on how I could obtain it, please let me know. Please. This is very important to me :C

A review and screenshots
i downloaded the game here

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OK, that's over. It's time to move on from ancient videogames and into the present world of new videogames-- specifically, the ones I am making. I've been steadily pumpin out artwork for a game centering on pirates, swordfighting, cannons, and lots of gold, and i seem to have sufficient drive to get it finished. Haven't worked on anything besides that in a week or so, gotta get back into my animation groove.

Not much else to say about that

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Here's the deal. I like drawing and animating. I also like money. So-- if you have a proposition that involves either of those things, feel free to drop me a PM or something. If you're making a game and need some art-- go ahead and ask. If you see a contest that I could enter, let me know. If there are job offers floating around, toss em in my general direction. If YOU personally are willing to pay money for something, tell me. I have no deadlines for my personal flash projects, and I'm definitely willing to take time out of my day to earn some spare cash. So please, fill me in if you got the hook up

also i'm an overly optimistic little shit who thinks his dream job will be handed to him on a silver platter, so spare your pessimistic bullshit for someone else. I'm fully aware how unlikely it is that i'll be hired anywhere, especially at my tender young age. But, I do like contests and I do like prizes, so keep me informed on all the Flash goings-on that I don't hear about :C

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the eel is gone and here is some art from the pirate game, by request XD <3 kawaii

this has probably been posted all over the site already, but i wanted to share this and i'm too lazy to check where else it is

experience wii

hyurk

I was gonna make a flash this year, but then that didn't happen. There are a lot of really great ones this year, though.

i'm still workin on stuff, been focusing on this game I'm doin art for all of a sudden. Gotta get back into Get, though. If I leave it too long I'll never start again, and I've already put enough work into it that I don't want that to happen. Don't touch that dial, folks, I'll finish something eventually

Lately I have been playing a lot of old NES roms. I find it strange that I can enjoy these ancient relics just as much as my 360. Punch out is still great. Sometime, if I can work up the energy, I'd like to do a flash version of it with nice graphics, just for kicks. It'd be damn easy, too. Unless such a thing already exists somewhere, in which case I'd just be an unoriginal assbutt. Back during the high-def sprite contest, a bunch of people did really nice punch out ones, and a while ago nathanielmilburn did some little sprites and things for one but never finished... is this a good idea? Y/N

VOTE 5 VOTE 5 VOTE 5 VOTE 5 VOTE 5

so yesterday, through the power of CRAIGSLIST, i procured an xbox 360 for myself in the space of 6/7 hours, for an incredible price. MERE MINUTES LATER I was eagerly connecting to the interweb to download CASTLE CRASHERS, the game which i have lusted after for close to a month now. And iwas worth it. Seriously, this is basically the most fun game I have played in a good long while. Swords and magic and exploding things... The only gripe I have is the irritating system of leveling up. Each individual account has its own set of stats-- including weapons, characters, and game progression. Something of a bother when you are playing with others and you are many levels above them. Regrettably, I have no internet connection down in the basement depths, so I cannot crash castles with any of you guys. maybe someday. I quaffed many a cactus.
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I'm keepin busy working on things... this new 360 will prove a mighty distraction, but I'll keep tryin to work at least a short while every day. Sorry that I have no updates or anything.

oh there is one thing. Threadless is runnin one of their Loves contests, and the prize is a Wacom Cintiq tablet pc. I've submitted one design already. It's still "pending approval," but keep your eyes peeled wide open and when it's approved, mash that mouse button like you've never done before and give me all the fives you can muster. I want to win quite badly.
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My computer, the internet, and my mouse have an odd relationship. Something about this mouse, on occasions when I open my laptop and wake it from its deep slumber, disrupts some kind of crucial link between the laptop and the internet cable. I receive this horrible little message:

Currently connected to
Network
Access: Local Only

"Local Only," I say to myself. "Shiiiiiiiiit." So begins a half-hour of restarting, unplugging, re plugging, frustration, cursing, anger, and disappointment. Sometimes all it takes is to unplug that evil, evil mouse and restart. On other occasions, I must go through a complex ritual of shutting down the internet, restarting THAT, then restarting the computer, then plugging the cable in again. Sometimes having the cable plugged in when i restart makes all the difference. Sometimes I must shut down the computer and turn it on again, as opposed to simply restarting it, to dislodge whatever little shit of data is clogging the internet pipe.

But the strangest part of this is that it happens most frequently when I have a bowl of ice cream. I glide into my seat, carrying my icy treasure, flip open my computer ready to rock, and am greeted with pure sadness. My ice cream melts as I spend a good 20 minutes making it all work. Some kind of field creating by the proximity of internet, computer, mouse, and ice cream is causing this and that's all I can say for sure. I'll keep you guys updated when I find a satisfactory reason.
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here's that tshirt design thing, i suggest clicking the link though

so im off to the north to canoe about in the icy wastes for 10 days

gotta look out for bears

in about 20 minutes i head off to begin another year of fun and learning

ffff f /... enjoy this rabbit

I have 4000 BBS posts as of today. I didn't even notice until now. I don't know what to say about that

wait what

it's 3999 now. WHICH OF YOU OPPRESSIVE FASCIST MODS DELETED ONE OF MY POSTS? that's just mean. Here I was, thinking I was finally cool on the internet, and some shit has to go and screw it up. And the thing is... it's one post. Almost as if someone DELIBERATELY ATTEMPTED TO RUIN MY LITTLE PARTY HERE AND DISRUPT MY RISE TO BBS STARDOM

yeah i don't care too much