Okay, I'm thinking it's about time I learned to draw. I mean, properly draw, not just any old rubbish. Currently, I would say I'm kinda... okay... at drawing. Not dismal, but not anything to write home about either, and besides, my pictures never come out the way I imagine them to in my head. My style is far, far too cartoonish, which is great when Continue reading
Category Archives: Random Randomness
yAy! I Clocked Kid Icarus!
Hehe, didn't know that you could play Kid Icarus on the Wii 😉
Here we are on the last level. How will Pit make it with such low HP?
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My favourite and best scenes from Captain N - The Game Master
Episode 9 - Nightmare on Mother Brain's Street
This has some of the best scenes 
I don't know, maybe you have to actually watch them for real to find them funny.
[Edit 2021: I'm going through my old posts, choosing what to carry over, and holy carp, this show was awesome and bonkers. I really need to watch it again.]
Mother Brain: Metroid mirror on the wall
Am I the cutest of them all?
Mirror: Princess Lana's the cutest chick,
You're so ugly you make me sick!
Mother Brain: What do you know, twerp! I will be the most beautiful woman in Videoland! And you, Eggplant Wizard, are going to help me do it!
Water and Silence
You live your life,
You live like an island.
Surrounded by
Water and silence.
There you go,
You make it look easy.
I bet you laugh at yourself,
Are you laughing at me?
words © Natalie Imbruglia
My Favourite and My Best
Kid Icarus: Angel Land Story
This was a pretty good game. Never got all that far, I kept getting stuck on level 1-2. Kid Icarus is really called Pit.
I can't do it. I just can't do it :'( This game is too hard.
My Six Word Memoir
Kid Icarus! Kid Icarus! KID ICARUS!!!!
[Yup, guys, this is the start of the Kid Icarus Rabid Fangirl era. Prepare yourselves.]
Kid Icarus is easily my favourite character from Captain N — as you can probably tell from my home page banner, although I never got very far in Kid Icarus on the NES. And — Janey Mack! — he is back back BACK!!! I knew it was my lil Kid from the moment I saw him on the cover! *sigh*
Welcome back, Kid! Mega Man woulda been cool in this, I wonder why they didn't include him, too? And Ryu!! YEEEEEEEEES!!! Ryuuuuuuuu!
If Chun Li was in Brawl, everyone else might as well pack up and go home, because I kick everyone's butt as Chun Li. I was easily the SSF2 champ at my sixth form.
Ya!
Mind you, that's not saying much, as most of the kids in my class were rubbish and just button-bashers anyway. Oh man, jokes, during our computing lessons, we just used to play on the SNES instead of working. No wonder I failed module 4 (hardware yay!).
My Very Own Jasmine Moment (Part Two!)
Oh dear. I really am making a habit of this, aren't I?
London, 00.35
Zoo Tycoon 2
More EAxis of Evil — Spore Privacy Violation
Sheesh! What is wrong with EA?
As if SecuROM wasn't bad enough, there is also a MASSIVE SECURITY LEAK in Spore: If you EVER share ANY content with ANYONE, be warned that YOUR COMPUTER USERNAME is ENCRYPTED INTO THE CREATURE "IMAGE" FILE. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REMOVE THIS INFORMATION BY HEXING! This means that ANYONE who downloads it will know what your username is on your computer.
This represents a MASSIVE security breach because many people (foolishly) encode their real names into their Windoze username. Even if you don't, revealing this username to the world presents a point of vulnerability for attack by hackers. By sharing any Spore content ANYWHERE, you are leaving your computer open to attack and leaving yourself open to stalking and identity theft.
From: MATY.
Like I said already, EA aren't getting a penny more out of me. What the hell is Spore anyway?
TSR’s PG-13 Hypocrisy
About Aikea Guinea (Again)
I just came across this thread on PMBD and something has happened which I thought impossible: my opinion of Thoma$$ has got even lower. This is by Aikea Guinea, explaining why she left FA at TSR (and also solves the mystery of why she and Gelydh didn't get listed on the retired artists page, which I was wondering about before)
I wanted tell you 'my story' and explain why I left TSR. This is in by no means a cry for attention, I'm just tired of staying silent to 'protect' someone else. I'll skip a long and stupid intro and just jump right into the long and stupid story.
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Two Cheeks of the Same Backside
A little game of spot the difference.
| EA | T$R |
|---|---|
| Expects you to hand over your money for buggy content and useless/ugly meshes | Expects you to hand over your money for buggy content and useless/ugly/broken meshes |
| Puts profit above the opinions and feelings of its paying customers | Puts profit above the opinions and feelings of its paying customers |
| Likes to screw up your PC | Likes to screw up your game |
| Illegally installs malware on your computer | Illegally charges money for custom content |
| Censors and/or bans anyone who complains about the aforementioned | Censors and/or bans anyone who complains about the aforementioned |
| Well, at least if you're unhappy with the product you can sell it on second-hand | Errr.... |
Still Why No Mention of Aikea and Gelydh..?
Something strikes me as strange here. It’s been some time since Aikea Guinea and Gelydh retired from FA status, yet their names have not been added to T$R’s retired artists page (thesimsresource.com/artists/retired/). Two more recent departures (so recent that, at the time of writing, their content still hasn’t been free released) Confide and Tantra, are already listed on the retired artists page. So I wonder why Aikea and Gelydh aren’t? Weird. T$R’s choice, or Aikea and Gelydh’s?
Why You Don’t Own the Mesh File
By someone who actually knows what she is talking about... A message from Nouk in response to copyright claims by RoseSims2.net (spellings corrected by me, because I am such a pedant)
1. Whatever you import into Milkshape, has the skeleton information from the Sims 2, which give the mesh it's animation. Even if you delete the meshfile, the skeleton (bones) remain, otherwise the hair wouldn't work in the game.
Rose did not create the game animations nor the skeleton and bone information, EA/Maxis did.
2. After that, the mesh gets exported into the .gmdc format. Also, EA/Maxis made coding, not Rose.
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