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Peter Jackson Go Home, You're Drunk! (Art by Damie_M)
This wonderful and magnificent piece of art tickles my fantasy tabletop role playing bone something fierce, and also doubles as the most epic piece of buddy art in my gallery, displaying my character alongside of my best friend's characters in high-fantasy action!
I was originally going to write a short story to accompany this piece, but it never happened due to personal circumstances, so I'll just blather about how awesome a person Eldrikke is and how he has the Lifetime Achievment Award for best Noodles on FA (Shloscar is in the mail)!! We originally met when I randomly chanced up his page (more than once) and tried to answer an ad journal for a Pathfinder game he was participating in. Well, the rest is blissful nerdy history~ <3
*cough* Anyway, who better to deliver this kind of art than Damie_M, who is already known for doing this kind of art for a living? If this were any more epic, I would need to open another page just to contain it. Anyway, here's the synopsis stolen (just like the keywords) from my best friend's submission:
"he Emerald Expanse is a massive and mysterious forest, with legends saying it contains long lost ruins of a past civilization, hidden knowledge, and unimaginable gold riches. But on the other side of the coin, this wild region is far from civilization's light, and many dangers lurk here.
Our intrepid adventurers ( Varanis Blackclaw, Nyst Baiwen, and the so-far-aptly-named Bob the Wizard) find themselves waylaid by merciless assassins. Thankfully, our friends have brought a little magic with them, but will they be able to outlast these attacks?"
Varanis ©
Nyst ©
Art by
I was originally going to write a short story to accompany this piece, but it never happened due to personal circumstances, so I'll just blather about how awesome a person Eldrikke is and how he has the Lifetime Achievment Award for best Noodles on FA (Shloscar is in the mail)!! We originally met when I randomly chanced up his page (more than once) and tried to answer an ad journal for a Pathfinder game he was participating in. Well, the rest is blissful nerdy history~ <3
*cough* Anyway, who better to deliver this kind of art than Damie_M, who is already known for doing this kind of art for a living? If this were any more epic, I would need to open another page just to contain it. Anyway, here's the synopsis stolen (just like the keywords) from my best friend's submission:
"he Emerald Expanse is a massive and mysterious forest, with legends saying it contains long lost ruins of a past civilization, hidden knowledge, and unimaginable gold riches. But on the other side of the coin, this wild region is far from civilization's light, and many dangers lurk here.
Our intrepid adventurers ( Varanis Blackclaw, Nyst Baiwen, and the so-far-aptly-named Bob the Wizard) find themselves waylaid by merciless assassins. Thankfully, our friends have brought a little magic with them, but will they be able to outlast these attacks?"
Varanis ©
Nyst ©
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Lose? Don't be silly Mr Watermelon. This isn't a race to see who can be the biggest nerd. Besides, if it weren't for Eldrikke, I wouldn't even be in this picture. I just count myself fortunate enough to have so many kind friends (you included). When my means improve, I only hope to be able to return such kindness myself. ^.=.^
Oh Myyy~
I'd join your party any day ~
Damie_M is amazing, part of me would love to get something from him, but sadly I don't see it happening anytime soon.
I really like this pic though, his rendition of you and Nyst is awesome, the scenery is really detailed, and that magic barrier is really well done.
Now where has my Scholar gone off to...
I'd join your party any day ~
Damie_M is amazing, part of me would love to get something from him, but sadly I don't see it happening anytime soon.
I really like this pic though, his rendition of you and Nyst is awesome, the scenery is really detailed, and that magic barrier is really well done.
Now where has my Scholar gone off to...
A race in Final Fanatsy XI and XIV, in XI they were called TaruTaru, in XIV they're called Lalafells.
I found him! http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/.....217efad301.png
I found him! http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/.....217efad301.png
Since someone else already tried to write the epic text and understands the characters/backstory better, I'd best not offer to even try.
Even so, it's like the Stairway to Heaven of dragon pics, dude...! I mean it's got such a really far-away, sending-you-there quality to the fantasy art. You want to believe in the reality of the image, of the characters, of the scene; that that can be possible with magic-wielding dragons and wizards, and maybe, just maybe does happen in the deepest, darkest woods that none of us have ever managed to get into just yet.
Or maybe just some extra pages that some JRR somebody forgot to paste into his scrapbook before he began typing out his manuscript...
Even so, it's like the Stairway to Heaven of dragon pics, dude...! I mean it's got such a really far-away, sending-you-there quality to the fantasy art. You want to believe in the reality of the image, of the characters, of the scene; that that can be possible with magic-wielding dragons and wizards, and maybe, just maybe does happen in the deepest, darkest woods that none of us have ever managed to get into just yet.
Or maybe just some extra pages that some JRR somebody forgot to paste into his scrapbook before he began typing out his manuscript...
I am reminded of that scene in the original TRON film where they take a drink of power (it's much like water) and the younger program says to him, "Tron my friend, we have scored!" He says that with such... gusto, enthusiasm, relief, refreshment, pleasure, joy... it's really quite a moment there. My mind flashes back and wants to be able to say that and communicate that same sort of feeling when I say to people, "Well there you have scored something really great," but the words lose their impact if the person doesn't grok that I mean score in Tron lingua.
"Varanis Dragon, you have scored! I feel so much better after seeing this image of you... its syntax is so ... Algol, man!"
(Heh, Algol was the 3rd or 4th programming language I learned, but the first official collegiate-learned language. I failed totally to ace the class. Incomplete at the end of the 1st semester. Then I dropped out to be in computers full-time.)
(Heh, Algol was the 3rd or 4th programming language I learned, but the first official collegiate-learned language. I failed totally to ace the class. Incomplete at the end of the 1st semester. Then I dropped out to be in computers full-time.)
It's practically a dead computer language in its own right. I have no idea what code is being developed using it anymore. It's like a verbose C. I think someone who liked punch cards and COBOL was maybe at a conference where some structured language concepts of Kernigan & Plaugher were being bandied about (the C language pioneers/developers, along with Dennis Ritchie), and he took a lot of what probably was published in some "White Papers" to heart, and created Algol. So a lot of how you syntactically do stuff in COBOL (I believe) drifted into Algol, yet the scientific and structured approach to programming (vs. the more "Poker Hand" or "luck of the draw" shuffle random, or what could also be called spaghetti code approach) to COBOL programming was created in that language.IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HELLO-WORLD.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY 'Hello, world'.
STOP RUN.That is Wikipedia's example of COBOL. Banks still run code like that for handling payroll, printing checks, financial transactions, even communicating with ATM machines and so forth. It's an ANCIENT programming language, goes back to 1959, but since it got stuck in the crustiest of bank computers and some of them just copied their code to newer and newer systems and the chintzy banks never paid anyone to re-write their working software... it stayed put!
Algol, hmm been too long. I wikipedia'd it for the example I remember. It goes back to 1958, when I was born, but I seem to remember an Elliott 803 version:FLOATING POINT ALGOL TEST'
BEGIN REAL A,B,C,D'
READ D'
FOR A:= 0.0 STEP D UNTIL 6.3 DO
BEGIN
PRINT PUNCH(3),££L??'
B := SIN(A)'
C := COS(A)'
PRINT PUNCH(3),SAMELINE,ALIGNED(1,6),A,B,C'
END'
END'They didn't seem to upgrade to the 1968 version for when I was taking classes at SDSU where you could use { instead of BEGIN and } instead of END. (I believe the ' marks are comment markers, but not 100% on this.) Algol is also the name of a star, iirc.
PROGRAM-ID. HELLO-WORLD.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY 'Hello, world'.
STOP RUN.That is Wikipedia's example of COBOL. Banks still run code like that for handling payroll, printing checks, financial transactions, even communicating with ATM machines and so forth. It's an ANCIENT programming language, goes back to 1959, but since it got stuck in the crustiest of bank computers and some of them just copied their code to newer and newer systems and the chintzy banks never paid anyone to re-write their working software... it stayed put!
Algol, hmm been too long. I wikipedia'd it for the example I remember. It goes back to 1958, when I was born, but I seem to remember an Elliott 803 version:FLOATING POINT ALGOL TEST'
BEGIN REAL A,B,C,D'
READ D'
FOR A:= 0.0 STEP D UNTIL 6.3 DO
BEGIN
PRINT PUNCH(3),££L??'
B := SIN(A)'
C := COS(A)'
PRINT PUNCH(3),SAMELINE,ALIGNED(1,6),A,B,C'
END'
END'They didn't seem to upgrade to the 1968 version for when I was taking classes at SDSU where you could use { instead of BEGIN and } instead of END. (I believe the ' marks are comment markers, but not 100% on this.) Algol is also the name of a star, iirc.
Oh, he doesn't have knowledge, it's not arcane magic. It's sorcery, or "wild magic" conjured from a feeling or desire. He cannot shape it or guide it, and it's effects aren't always known, outside of his influences on the willpower of others or his own body changing. It's a lot more limited than you think.
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