Samurai [CHAT]ploo

McGibs

oh. I guess it is (looking at mine, it has a big WACOM along the bottom).

I work at a place called HitGrab. We make facebook games.
They gave me a free 12in cintiq and a new macbook. And lots of money.
(as I type this, our entire office is having a full blown Nerf war)

@ruka: I use mine in my lap the same way I use a tablet. Its not that big.

Godfather

McGibs

I fear we are entering an Arms race. It started off with these little tiny pistols, then I brought a bigger one, then one of the devs went out and bought this shotgun monstronsity.

I'm waiting for this bitch to come out. (more ammo, no batteries)

Loomdun

why does that man have goat legs

Godfather

The Vulcan EBF-25 is actually a piece of shit.

I know this because I picked one up last christmas for a firefight in the yard and the bastard kept locking up on me, took forever to reload, and was generally expensive.

Always go with the small to medium guns.

McGibs

Yeah, I've found that the more simplistic they are, the more reliable they are. They are after all, plastic and foam... not exactly great weapon materials. I use a single-shot nightfinder. I had a maverick, but i busted it in a horrible modding accident. That bugger jams alot as well.

earthwormadam

I'm still satisfied with my two classy Mavericks.

Also Ghost Dog is a great movie, for people with great taste.

And I just shaved my head and beard. I feel weeeeiird.

Godfather

I picked up two Mavericks and this other nerf gun for my dad, cousin and uncle. Hell of a time had, but that fucker pegged me in both of my eyes while I was fumbling with the clips.

I was completely blind for a good minute or two.

bombardier

McGibs wrote: »

Yeah, I've found that the more simplistic they are, the more reliable they are. They are after all, plastic and foam... not exactly great weapon materials. I use a single-shot nightfinder. I had a maverick, but i busted it in a horrible modding accident. That bugger jams alot as well.

Gibs if you go to St. Catharines you can pick up my huge sniper rifle one. I forget what it's called. Apparently you can mod it for crazy power.

Tam

When I was 8, I was super excited to get that nerf gun where you could fire from the barrel and then fire from the butt of the gun

McGibs

What, just show up to your house and ask for it? And when I'm there ask your dad to drive me around in his wartrukks?

Tam wrote: »

When I was 8, I was super excited to get that nerf gun where you could fire from the barrel and then fire from the butt of the gun

I remember that! It was called the secret shot or something.

bombardier

If you tell me when you're going I can notify my parents or whoever is home to leave it out for you.

Also yeah you could probably go ride around on the halftrack and play with the gun. The .50 cal is finally on it with the rail skate thing.

Tam

haha, it's too bad you can't actually aim the butt of the gun

I missed every time with the secret shot

Godfather

It's not so secret if that's the selling point gimmick!

McGibs

I think in the commercial they had a kid act like he was surrendering to another kid, and put his hands in the air, then when the other kid got closer, he shot him with the hidden dart.

Nerf: Teaching future soldiers to never take prisoners.

D-Robe

Nerf certainly beats nothing. I remember them giving me that choice.

Iruka

The AC feels hostile today.

NibCrom

Huuuuuuuuuuuuugggsss for everyone!

F87

Iruka wrote: »

The AC feels hostile today.

Why?

Metalbourne

"If you keep wishing then all of your dreams will come true!"
"Even the bad ones?"
*demonic voice* "Yes!"

F87

hahahaha

Tam

Iruka wrote: »

The AC feels hostile today.

the doodle thread

fortunately no one's been such egregious an asshole that it won't blow over soon

F87

Truth. Listen, Tam. I said some things back there that I didn't mean. You know you mean the world to me, baby. I could never hurt you..

Tam

Man, homes, ain't nothin' serious in the AC

uh

except for the real serious arguments

I guess

F87

I guess. In other news, I bet this post is the totp.

edit: damn.

Tam

that'd be 2476 frank

F87

Ah, I see. Again, Tam, you have one-up'd me.

Did you feel good when you won the AC challenge?

Scosglen

Nerf Nerf.

One of my friends took his farshot sniper rifle and replaced the default spring with an industrial one, sealed up the barrel to make it more airtight and reinforced the bar that you use to cock it so it wouldn't rip itself apart. Then he took his ammunition and removed the suction tips and glued copper BB's inside the foam tube near the tip and capped it off with a round plastic nose for each one. Basically it was goddamn terrifying. I saw the thing break a window once. We banned him from even having the thing loaded in the same room as us.



Anywho, to bring up everyone's favorite subject-- today I registered for classes and I am sort of mortified. I am excited to see what "art school" is like and finally maybe have some artist friends in real life. I am way more afraid that I'm going to be surrounded by peers who suck balls and will cry when I give them critique, get stuck with inept teachers, and basically realize every horror story I've ever heard about art schools though.

At least they gave me a lot of money, so I'm not at any real financial danger if I decide to pull out after the first year. I'm firmly thinking of it as kind of a "trial" for the moment.

I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna do if this isn't my cup of tea though D:

McGibs

what course is it? and what piece of paper will you get?

Scosglen

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Veritas

srsizzy wrote: »

Angel_of_Bacon wrote: »

srsizzy wrote: »

I have a serious problem with perfectionism getting in the way of me getting any better at art.

(Thomas Edison)

Can't draw/failure lesson stuff

One thing that your probably doing, is that you still draw utilizing symbols, much like you and everyone else did as a kid. Albiet more complex and well placed symbols. The difference being that you've replaced the football eyes and round head for more realistic features but they are still laid down without fundamentally understanding them.

The reason you can't place the 3d structure of an object is because you never learned to construct the object in 3d. You repeat what has worked well for you in the past because you adopt the imagery symbols that work and discard the ones that don't but you're not actively building your understanding of what you draw.

I've gone through the same thing, because I drew a lot when I was younger, I had classes, drew from life etc etc. Then I went for so long just drawing from memory and imitating forms that I realized I essentially need to completely relearn how to draw, to draw what I see and to stop placing things where I think they look right because I've done it before and actually learn how to construct the forms.

Also do what Bacon suggested and just do it, because you can't just assimilate this knowledge by desiring it to happen or waiting for the perfect moment. I am a terrible example because I've been lamenting my lack of drawing for years but I've never bothered trying to fix it until just recently.

Tam

F87 wrote: »

Ah, I see. Again, Tam, you have one-up'd me.

Did you feel good when you won the AC challenge?

yep

haven't won anything in a long long time

Mustang

Well I'm going to win the new chat thread, you just watch.

Veritas

Well I don't want to win it, so someone just post and get it over with already. DO IT!

Mustang

Yes?

EDIT: YES!!!

Now I just have to think of a title.

Veritas

Mustang is easily [chat]isfied.