A friend of mine is looking for someone that is really "in the know" regarding video game news and is a capable writer. This is for a website posting position and is payed by the hour. You'd basically be responsible for posting video game news and providing some editorial on upcoming video games. Screenshots too if you can find some.

Send me a note with your email and why you think you'd be a good candidate. I'll forward them after making a preliminary assessment.

It's a good way to make some easy cash on a regular basis.

The Universal One
by Walter Russell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Russell

His periodic table (note it was written before the current elemental and isotope names were coined):
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanave.....89/russtbl.gif

Reading a page of this book is like pulling the curtain hiding a secret of reality. It's probably the most complex thing I've ever read or am likely to ever read and I'm really taking my time digesting the information and theories it presents.

If you've ever taken advanced chemistry or physics courses you can really appreciate this as it reveals why there are so many exceptions to the rules that govern these sciences; and why they are unnecessary. I as of yet have not found fault with anything he has presented, and since the book was written before the 1930's it's even more impressive given the incredible predictions regarding quantum physics that have only now been discovered.

If you can find a copy I highly recommend it, but be forewarned, this is not light reading and is written in a somewhat old fashioned dialect.

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ven.....t07_index.html

Pretty impressive, and significant.

Thank you all you wonderful people. Your interest in my art is a great motivator and it drives me to push and develop my artistic ability.

Woot!

I seem to be more popular than I thought. :P

I'm sure we're all aware of the official story behind 9/11, but what evidence do we have to support it? Most people focus on the problems with the story and the things it cannot explain, so what evidence is there to support it, can it be confirmed and is it reliable?

Pretty freaky stuff. Here's an article and the official website of the two protestors.

http://infowars.com/articles/ps/pla.....e_going_in.htm

http://www.makethestand.com/

I feel compelled to get back to drawing, someone oc with me!

Finally my contract is over. No more 9-5, now i can work on my own terms again.

Now what does this mean for you guys? It means I can OC again and draw again too :D I may even finally get to doing that new animation i've been thinking about.

Anyone else notice that cats in Japan seem to have brighter eyes than their western counterparts?

Just finished watching the full series of "Ring of Power" videos. This is the first time I've ever seen a full plan of action presented in something like this. Whether you believe it or not I STRONGLY urge you to watch the series. If nothing else it will at least help you make sense of the insane world in which we are living today.

I posted the torrent files here:
http://forums.macrophile.com/viewtopic.php?t=10849

It's a 4 part underground documentary detailing world history as it actually happened.

If you've ever thought that world leaders seem to be doing insane or completely stupid things this will explain the reality of it.

Much of what it presents i've already learned prior but this documentary really puts the pieces together.

I have the first two torrents if anyone wants to distribute them. I can't find copies on any of the major torrent websites.

note me your email and i'll send em, this is not to be missed :P

I've got lotsa free time this weekend and I'm up for some major OCing. I'm in the Eastern timezone so plan accordingly :D

you can catch me on msn or AIM most of the day.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d.....cism&hl=en

I urge everyone to watch this documentary. Unlike Michael Moore's films this is completely factual and downright terrifying. It may seem like this just affects the US but almost every country in the world is living under the same situation.

I was chatting with my brother and, as we've both become comfortable with outsourcing, we came up with an idea. I'm well known for being an avid video gamer and video game designer and as such I endeavour to enter the video game industry. My goal has been to get in through my animation talents and get exposure for my design skills. However I believe there may be a way to both speed the process and skip a few steps too.

Anyhoo I'm considering starting my own game studio. The focus would be on flash based games for the Nintendo Wii. I've already got one game approaching the end of its development cycle and it would be perfect on that platform. I managed to find a programmer overseas to do all the code whereas I designed the game itself as well as the graphics.

So if you're a skilled flash programmer or web designer keep an eye out on my journals. After my next contract and current game are finished I plan on a quick site launch and immediate commencement of future game development. I already have 1 additional expert programmer and about 3 intermediate programmers lined up for future games.

Although I've been keeping the nature of my game a secret I will announce it once I release it on newgrounds. The game has been on hiatus since last fall since i was spending all my time looking for work, and then working. :P


Sorry no furry games at this point :P

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php

Saw a video recently explaining the concept of dimensions. Essentially it describes what a dimension is and how to think about them. For instance the first dimension is a position, the second is a length and width, the third is depth. Each adds to the prior dimension and more importantly allows for movement in the previous dimension. The easiest example is between the 3rd and 4th dimension: space and time. In order for energy to act upon something within the 3rd dimension time is needed.

This got me thinking about the nature of energy, since it requires the presence of time it can therefore be assumed that energy is the resultant interaction between the 4th and 3rd dimension. Now this is where things get ineteresting because we can move up in dimensions to number 5: probability. If the 4th is linear time then we simply add a dimension and it becomes all possible linear times. So in order to move through time we need to engage the 5th dimension. This I believe is what free will is. We are capable of changing the destination of our linear life via altering probability.

Moving forward we get to the 6th dimension where not only is it the probability of our own timeline changing but the very origin itself. In other words it's like the 5th dimension for every possible version of ourselves.

We like to think of ourselves as 4 dimensional entities but in fact we operate in 5. If we were to operate in the 6th dimension we would be capable of not only choosing our destiny as we have now but also changing our past. Now consider this, we are all connected and operate within the same dimension (kind of) we are all subject to eachother as we are all products of probability for any observer. The implication of this is that your own probability includes the entire universe as a whole. When we add the 6th dimension to this not only does fate change so too does the past of the entire universe. I believe that this is in fact what psychic ability is. A truly clairvoiyant person is not actually seeing something that happened or will happened, but are interacting with the 6th dimension and changing the origin of the entire universe to lead to what they see.

It's not a large leap to consider the possibility given that we already operate in the 5th dimension, perhaps it is also possible that we could operate in the 6th or 7th. If we were capable of operating above the 7th dimension we would have the capacity to not only alter our universe but to actually be able to select an entirely different universe with different physical laws to observe.

I got all my data transferred and windows is set up, everything is running smoothly except for one niggling problem. All my hard drives appear as removable storage. As a result I don't have access to disk management and can't change drive letters. Add to that the fact that my HDs now appear permanently in my remove hardware tray icon. This could lead to some problems when I remove my portable drive as I may accidentally remove one of my permanent ones, and this could be a major problem with the RAID array.

If anyone knows a fix for this I'm open to suggestions.

...and with it new computer problems. I just got a monster computer that just blows my old pc out of the water. The problem lies in the fact that I need to transfer my harddrives. To do this I need to move all the data onto a new 320gb storage drive. However the new drive doesn't get detected by my old computer. The next issue has to do with my existing drives, I can't put them into the new computer because 2 are a raid array and rebuilding the array would destroy all the data and the other drive is my raptor.

So what I'm going to end up doing is installing a copy of windows on the 320, leaving my old drives in my old comp and moving 300+ gigs of data using my tiny 27gb porable drive.

I'm gonna be busy :(

I've never gotten a new piece of hardware that ever worked right away, ever.

Truth or dare this time?

Ask 3 questions and receive answers. Though some questions are off limits, like my identity and specifics about the show/studio i work at; what with NDA agreements and all that :P

Edit:
Oh and as my dare you must perpetuate the meme! Or spin in a swivel chair until you get dizzy.

Cuz you're all interested :D

Right now I'm working at my new job, with a nice increase in salary compared to my own job. I've spent the last week commuting from my parents' house to work downtown, as a result I get about 3 hours of idle time between work and bed. This is going to change this weekend as I'm about to cut my commute down from 3-4 hours to 15 minutes. I'll be moving into my own apartment this weekend and once again I shall have free time.

With this free time and actual privacy I will be engaging in some freelance work, first for a potential corporate interest and later I'm considering a trial run on comissions. I intend to use comission money as my disposable income so the more I indulge the more I'll be offering. However, I'm going to get all my art trades and gift pics done first, so if we have a trade please send me a note to remind me as I had been using the FA note box to keep track of them and we all know what happened there :P

As I write this I'm also a bit under the weather with a fever, runny nose and scratchy throat. Still managed to pump out some awesome animation at work though, character acting is fun :D

So anyhoo for those that have been wondering where I've been my answer is: at work. Oh and don't try to coax any early comission slots from me, cuz I've got lots to do first :P

...because you really can't make a decision without it :P

There's a lot of drama about this whole "mature cub art" fiasco. The real issue it seems is the fact that both sides have polarized themselves so completely that neither is capable of a functional debate.

One side says all of it is pedophila and the other insists its harmless. Well the compromise most people will naturally think is that both parties are right, however in a situation like this it's more likely that both are wrong.

Let's look at the facts:
-Cub art is not real.
-Cub porn is drawn for sexual reasons.
-Art does not hurt people.
-What an artist chooses to draw is dependant on their preferences and/or morals.
-Pedophilia does hurt people.
-Everyone wants to protect children by instinct.
-Not all mature themes are sexual.

Ok now that we've got these established facts, which i'm sure we can all agree on we can look at the issue itself.

It's already been established by psychiatric studies that pedophiles and other people similar tendencies will tend to start with simple fantasy. However they are more likely to require an escalation in both fantasy and reality in order to get off on it. What does this have to do with cub art? Cub art is seen by the majority as a symptom of people with those tendencies. This does not necessarily make a person a pedophile but it does imply the potential no matter how small.

The poll itself was in regards to allowing or banning "mature" cub art, and as stated earlier there are mature themes that are not sexual. You merely have to look at most japanese anime series and rpg video games. The heroes are usually under age but deal with mature situations. In this sense banning of mature cub art would limit any meaningful storytelling to exclude all depictions of minors. This would prevent artistic expression and I'm sure nobody wants that.

I believe these statements are reasonable to both sides of the debate. Now we can consider the feelings of the arguing parties. One side is trying to defend what they see as the innocence of children while the other is attempting to either defend artistic expression and free speech. There is of course the 3rd party which will hide behind the second, those are the people that just want to see underage porn. This situation easily turns into a Fascists v. Child Molestors battle given that both sides view the other at those extremes.

If the debate had attempted to search for a real compromise it wouldnt have gotten nearly as bad as it has. A third option in the poll would have allowed for that, for which i feel the admins are unwittingly responsible.

There is a middle-ground stance on this subject that would appease all parties. It's not filters. Instead FA should uphold its ban on ADULT cub artwork and expand to mature art with sexual themes ONLY. This would allow even nudity to be shown so as not to drive all the cub artists away and unless the other side is going to take the stance that the human body is wicked and sinful they would have little to object to. If this stance was paired with a filter it would be even more effective as it would placate even those that do find nudity offensive.


I don't believe I'm being overly controversial in my opinion and I believe everyone can agree that this would be a fair compromise.

My personal stance is this:
Cubs = Cute
Cub Porn = Bad
Cub Love = Adorable

Non age specific characters however are an even grayer area, but to me as long as their sexual organs are fully developed they aren't considered cubs.

Stolen from DCRabbit

1. I ___ Mif_Maf.

2. I want to _____ Mif_Maf!

3. Mif_Maf is ______.

4. Mif_Maf and I are _____.

5. If I was alone in a room with Mif_Maf we would probably _____.

6. I wish Mif_Maf could _____.

7. Mif_Maf should ______.

8. Mif_Maf reminds me of _____.

9. If Mif_Maf was an animal, he would be a ________.

10. One day, Mif_Maf and I will __________.

11.If Mif_Maf leaves I will ___________.

12.If Mif_Maf stays I will ___________.

13.If Mif_Maf was a noob I would ___________.

14.If Mif_Maf dies I would __________.

15.If Mif_Maf asked you out you would ___________.


I'm original :D

I just came back from an interview for a very large animation studio. I thought the interview went well and apparently I was right. I just got a call a mere 3 hours after the interview saying I can start nov 13 :D

I'll be earning almost 25% more than at my last job and I'll be working as a full animator.

Hooray for jobitude!

http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/article/480

What I find most interesting is that some birds will lay their eggs in the nests of homosexual pairs. Seems even nature supports gays adopting.

Just for those who may be wondering what I'm up to. I'm currently recovering from further surgery on my face. Last year I had a rather major operation on to correct and underbite. They had to shift both the upper palette and the lower jaw since the gap between them was substantial. As a result I had metal plates and screws fastened all over my face.

A few months ago I noticed a growth next to my nose. Turns out the screws on one side had come loose and my body was calcifying them. It got infected a few weeks ago, hence why I was detoxing.

I had the surgery to remove the upper plates and screws two days ago and I'm going to be pretty out of it for a little while as I recover and slowly reattach the flesh to my face again.

People that know me know that I'm a bit of a health nut. In fact right now I'm on a cleansing diet to clean out my system; two more weeks ugh. The most common things I rail against are MSG, refined sugars, asparame, and preservatives. My sister became interested in studying MSG and its effects on the human body for a school paper. Much of the stuff I already knew; for instance MSG is a highly addictive chemical, it causes brain damage, apathy, lethargy, depression and obesity. Since my sister has done some digging she's also found that it causes nearly every single common disease or ailment in north america. Heart disease, asthma, allergies, alzheimers, sudden infant death syndrome, thyroid damage, ADD, ADHD,liver damage and impotence.

This substance is one of the most common "flavoring ingredients" in north america and is used as the primary ingredient in all fast foods and nearly all packaged foods. It also has numerous different names in order to hide it and given that it has been declared "GRAS" (generally regarded as safe) by the FDA it doesn't even need to be on the label. This was the result of lobbying after it was banned in the 60's for the previously mentioned issues but was lobbied to have it un-banned in the United States again. There was a massive outcry when it was originally put in baby food given the damage it does to child's brain. It has since then been reintroduced to baby food as well.

If you want to know what MSG smells like go into a Mcdonalds and take a whiff of the air. That is PURE MSG, my brother bought some pure msg from a manufacturer and he said it smelled exactly like Mcdonalds.

I urge everyone to boycott any foods or establishments that use MSG, if not as a statement then for your own health. You'll feel better for it. It takes about 2 weeks to get MSG out of your system but you can accelerate its removal by ingesting Taurine, which the body uses naturally to offset the effects of MSG.

Eventually the flavour of food will return and you can taste MSG and will want to avoid it instinctively.

I've been MSG free for 2 years now.