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Post by Pacmanite on Dec 4, 2008 18:08:30 GMT -5
Yay! I was getting worried that my joke might be too offensive!
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Post by Pacmanite on Dec 4, 2008 18:07:01 GMT -5
I dream about all my passions  If I've been working away at a piano all day, then there's a good chance this really annoying piano is going to play in the background of my dreams. If I fall asleep doing Latin homework, Aeneas and Queen Dido barge in with their Trojan companions. I've had Pokemon, Neopets, and Harry Potter in my dreams (though not all at the same time... *shudder*). I've had a dream where I painted something cool and showed it to the class (it was a surrealist landscape with a beach hotel being ripped apart in a storm). I've dreamed about getting a new pet like a pigeon or a kitten. I've dreamed about pretty much everything. Except doing Maths homework lol! But the thing I've noticed about dreaming videogames, is that even though I know full well when I'm awake that the game's graphics are pixellated, the viewpoint is set permanently to a bird's eye view, the character can only move north, south, east and west in straight lines and onto predefined tiles, when I dream about a videogame, the viewpoint changes as readily and naturally as the camera angles in a movie and as the dream progresses, I stop being the one playing the game, and become the character in the game. I just had one last night. With an annoying piano banging away in the background, I turned on my cousin's Pokemon Silver game and realised that she hadn't completed a certain part of the game (meeting her rival at such-and-such a place, and battling with him). So I flew there and walked up to the cave. At this point I'm still in the cheesily-cute pixellated graphics that the early pokemon games are known for. Like with this kind of detail in the graphics:  (image from here: maxpages.com/pokemononline/Gold_and_Silver_Screenshots)Then suddenly I turned a corner and it was like watching a movie. The bird's eye view that had always been offset was now a true birds eye view, so I could only see the top of my character's head. More notably, though, there was no more pixellation, it wasn't even rendered in 3D like modern videogames, it was just like a movie, with all the colour depth and shading that you see in a high budget production, and the character had the same mobility as a character in a movie. I entered the cave - now a building, 'cause my brain can't make up its mind - and the view changed abruptly to a side view, and I wasn't looking at my character any more, I'd replaced him. Maybe it says something about how immersive a game can be even without top of the line graphics, but I still find it quite wierd that a whole world can suddenly spring out of a lot of pixelly rectangles  Tell me I'm not going crazy. Maybe it's like reading a book, you don't "see" the words printed on the page, and you very rarely see them in your dreams either, but you create the scene in your head, and then that's the world you visit in your dreams too. But it seems that people who have watched monochrome ("lower graphics quality") films and TV as children have a far greater chance of dreaming in black and white than people who have watched TV in colour all their lives, according to this study - www.newscientist.com/article/dn14959-its-black-and-white-tv-influences-your-dreams.html so I don't know why people would dream videogames in superior graphics quality? Or is it just me? |
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Post by Pacmanite on Dec 2, 2008 6:28:10 GMT -5
Thanks for the letter, Kat, I've put it up now ^^ Ok, did a couple more things on the page today. www.neopets.com/~NTReaders - Finished all the retyping of the old text except for the Highlights section - Added credit to everyone who posted in this thread under the contributors section (sorry if I didn't get your neopets username) - The page now has a counter at the bottom! Yay! - I put the buttons section in a scrolling div. Tragic, yeah, but I have a bit of an instinctive aversion to large long tall sections that people have to scroll down past in order to get to real content. - Since I realised that fanart might contain spoilers, I made an image to put in place of the spoilerish images in the fanart section to force the reader to consciously paste in the url for the full size image, but only if the image does contain spoilers, so non-spoiler images can be seen directly on this page. [/long roundabout explanation] Still need to: - Get fanart xD - List button-makers - Maybe re-order the page? Plenty of stuff for you to do, Tiger  You just being active on this thread has been wonderful. If you want you could also write something, even if it's just a paragraph, as a letter of encouragement. Or maybe recommend something for the highlights section? I don't know. Actually I'm a little bit annoyed with the highlights section at the moment. I'm not going to be online much next year (I'll be in year 12, my final year of high school) so I doubt I'll be able to update it much, and I don't think I can (or should) depend purely on other people sending new links for that section to keep it reasonably updated. It's always looked kind of small, too. I think it's a good idea in theory, but I'm not sure if the effort of updating it would be worth it. I don't want it to remain small and un-updated for long periods of time. That's why I don't know if I should axe it or not. I mean, if it can be kept updated, so much the better, it would be a useful section, but as for now, I think if it stays small and old maybe it sends the message that only that small selection of stuff from the NT is worth reading? I don't know. What do you guys think? |
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 27, 2008 22:40:49 GMT -5
*plays through action games*
All right, for this month, I can play crisis courier, faerie cloud racers, grand theft ummagine, kass basher, magax destroyer II, nimmo's pond, and spacerocked and get 3K a day from each. Though a lot of them are quite tedious games xD
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 27, 2008 9:08:42 GMT -5
I counted the sections that Ticktock had titled "Dear readers" and "Dear Artists and Writers" to be letters of encouragement, as they seemed to fit the format and style, but it sure would be great to have more, if you find time ^^ Only if you have free time. All righty, I've received NTReaders from weaponstar and she's now residing on my sideaccount Perdix, and I can upload the petpage =D Check it out. www.neopets.com/~NTReaders . I've also rewritten a few of the sections, I've got a couple more left to do, and I might do a little reordering of the sections so the stacking order makes sense. A couple days ago I tried making divs for displaying the fanart in the fanart section; I think it's working well now, though internet explorer is being finicky with me trying to align content in the centre. |
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 27, 2008 8:58:34 GMT -5
Aww, that's funny xD And surprisingly well coordinated. I remember when my school had a staff dance-off for charity, that was funny. Quite frightening how well the Head of Language Department could dance though *shudder*
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 27, 2008 8:36:52 GMT -5
Yay, I won!
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 27, 2008 8:10:10 GMT -5
Something Has Happened!
You are now eligible to use 'Ace Zafara' as an avatar on the NeoBoards!
Cool, I was just going through the list of qualifying games in alphabetical order, and I managed to get the avvie score ^^
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 27, 2008 1:27:09 GMT -5
[dice=1337][rand=98061442359500028369393108280282989986484514399418413048154649403]
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 27, 2008 1:26:31 GMT -5
If you want a pet to be as old as the comics were but still have dot in her name, you could try combing the pound for any aged pets with Dot in their name then morph them into a Gelert ^^
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 26, 2008 20:41:49 GMT -5
Hang on, would that mean that the layers upon layers of owners, pets, petpets and petpetpets are trapped in a continual loop? The owner of a pet starts as the sentient one, then the pet takes on the role of a needy animal. Then it becomes tempting to anthropomorphise the animal and romanticise its struggles through life, thanks to the tradition of anthropomorphising animals in the real world (which goes back even further than fairy tales, back to ancient legends about wolves and serpents and eagles). The pet then attains a new level of dignity and the animal responsibilities go to the pet's pet, which in turn becomes anthropomorphic and so on and so forth.
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 26, 2008 20:05:21 GMT -5
Aw, that's bad, it's forcing me to try new games xD Bouncy supreme and Shenkuu Warrior have also had major cuts in NP ratio. Now I'm just left with Kass Basher for 3K.
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 26, 2008 19:56:48 GMT -5
Maybe I've been secretly composing in my sleep, then xD (instead of playing videogames and meeting Harry Potter like I normally do) I use anvil studio for composing, since it's totally free to download =D www.anvilstudio.com/Edit: It finally came to me. The first seven notes - with the same rhythm - all come from a singing exercise that the singing teacher at my school likes to use to warm up her choir's voices xD Everyone would sing it, then repeat it one semitone higher, and again a semitone higher, until we'd reach the top of our range. It's repetitive and mindless - exactly the sort of thing that would get stuck at the back of your head for months and never resurface except in a random dream. I think those first seven notes are a pretty generic pattern of notes, just an octave plus a descending major scale, so I do doubt it's copyrighted. |
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 26, 2008 19:13:41 GMT -5
[dice=1337][rand=363201967457669862475104361811968485258428576541884986629021697514]
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Post by Pacmanite on Nov 26, 2008 19:10:54 GMT -5
You manage to divide by zero on your calculator, but the figure had so many digits that they exploded off the edge of your calculator screen and destroyed the known universe
I wish I could write more comics.
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If I've been working away at a piano all day, then there's a good chance this really annoying piano is going to play in the background of my dreams. If I fall asleep doing Latin homework, Aeneas and Queen Dido barge in with their Trojan companions. I've had Pokemon, Neopets, and Harry Potter in my dreams (though not all at the same time... *shudder*). I've had a dream where I painted something cool and showed it to the class (it was a surrealist landscape with a beach hotel being ripped apart in a storm). I've dreamed about getting a new pet like a pigeon or a kitten. I've dreamed about pretty much everything. Except doing Maths homework lol!
Tell me I'm not going crazy. Maybe it's like reading a book, you don't "see" the words printed on the page, and you very rarely see them in your dreams either, but you create the scene in your head, and then that's the world you visit in your dreams too. 
You just being active on this thread has been wonderful. If you want you could also write something, even if it's just a paragraph, as a letter of encouragement. Or maybe recommend something for the highlights section? I don't know.