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Indeed it is.

What you guys don't know, is that Protricity and I were about to team up on track 11, but our ideas were just way to different. So he went with a different track that he'd been eyeballing before we started talking.

... and for a system that few would have probably expected... These images were up for only the briefest of time on Technosoft's site, but I managed to grab them before they vanished. The copyright suggests that it'll be hitting some time this year, and that it'll include a music CD. Maybe it'll use the same soundtrack that was released a few years ago on the Broken Thunder: Project Thunder Force IV CD.

We discussed doing Final Fantasy III, or Final Fantasy IIIά, which was an unreleased so-called International version. It had a few new bosses, a new town, some new jobs and classes, and was going to be part of a dual pack for the NES. It would have brought the second and third games to our shores together, but Square axed the idea. Something about giving up on the US market at the time. Anyway, since it wasn't released, we voted to skip the "ά" version and go with the regular one. I'll be handling track 11 for those interested.

The lack of Thunder Force VI, Phantasy Star V, and Einhänder II is what's screwing gaming.

It's a scene from The Vagina Monologues. A rather disturbing one too.

Sneaky sneaky.

One of two things... - Porn spambot that got in and PMed registered posters (I got a notification with the message in it, and the title certainly suggested porn) that was deleted by mods after it was caught. - A real user that basically did the same thing, and had the some thing happen to their message (with a ban to boot?).

Now where'd I put my 3D glasses...

As before, lining up the eyes and the bottom of the nose, shows that Luis' chin is still below the NWG's (even with his smile not showing teeth), the bottom of Luis' nose is pointed upwards a bit more than the NWG's, and the most obvious thing, is that his head is too small when placed on the NWG's body after having things aligned. However, now we can also say that Luis' skin color does not look right (makeup or no), and his head as a whole is more oval shaped, while the NWG's head is rounder (even with a bigger smile). Sorry boys and girls, but my original verdict stands. This is not the NWG in my opinion.

Didn't we go through all this in another thread recently? After facial comparisons, I don't believe that guy is not the NWG. Plus, it's a pretty accepted concept that NWG is from somewhere in the Middle East, not Mexico or Spain.

Well, partially imported. The original image itself is from SA, but "Nice Work" wasn't put on image until Midee added it for posting here. Before that happened, he was just some unknown guy whose picture was floating around SA. Now he's some unknown guy who has a tag line

http://www.geocities.com/arforfaborb/OCRQuirks/NWG.html

Picture it... 1280x720 at a 16:9 ratio, animation that's roughly two->three times the frames of Sonic 3 on every enemy and character, backgrounds filled with lush and smooth animation for the grass/trees/water/etc, tunes that share common audio links while still reflecting the area types they play in, all at a rock steady 60fps no matter how many enemies and effects are on the screen. And not a polygon in sight. Ah, if only Sega could see past the 3D realm they've been so infatuated with since Sonic Adventure.

E-mail djp some cash through PayPal. The link is on his home page, and it's $10 per minute of music.

Would it really be too much to ask for a hi-res 2D Sonic game, with silky smooth animation, and the upbeat style of the tunes from yesteryear?

Eat it! (Eat it!) Eat it! (Eat it!) Take this dead horse and beat it! Weee all know Jack is preeeetty out there. Weeee've heard all this so much we don't care. So eat it. But in all seriousness, this guy's pretty much a dead issue. He's shot himself in the foot so many times, that no one will ever take him seriously on this. His act has more or less gotten to the same level as Howard Stern... same shit, different day. It's gone stale, and the punchline has faded through overuse. His job is basically dead, his cause is mostly in tatters, and he's simply lost that bull's eye that made him an easy target to make fun of. Thanks for the laughs Jack. GGNM.

"Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked... just... like... THIIIIIS!"

Well, if I can go Obama for a moment, I'd like to give a story... A back in my first semester of college, in my Illustration class, the instructor we had was using a form for people to fill out. This came about because over the years of her teaching, she'd grown weary of critiques that went about as far as "I like it" and "I don't like it" from fresh-out-of-High-School college students. When asked why people liked or hated it, they just replied "I just do" half the time, according to her. So, she whipped up a form that covered a lot of bases for what was wrong with a given illustration... stuff like color usage, dead space, composition, negative space, and all sorts of traits. She left a portion of the page's bottom for people to elaborate on their choices, and after each form was filled out, she'd ask people why they felt as they did to each specific area. Sure, it seemed a bit like third grader stuff to me (giving crits was rarely a problem for me), but it got people talking, and got them to delve more deeply into why they felt something was wrong or bad. Up to our class, hardly anyone expanded on why their choices had been made. In fact, she had commented early on that about 75% of the time, that area was either empty, or littered with doodles from people who got done early. I asked her about three or four critiques into the semester, why there weren't any positive choices. She didn't know what I meant. I asked her again why on the list we got, there weren't any positive choices for us to mark off. She said that we could fill all those in at the bottom. I then asked her why, if all her other classes had been deemed too lazy to give oral critiques (resulting in the list in the first place), she felt people would take the time and write in the good points themselves. She thought about it for a few moments, and carried on with the critique. The next crit we had featured a list, with small bubbles to fill in, that rated each area from 1-5 (very good to very poor). After these were filled out, she then went around the room and had everyone explain their choices. The amount of positive feedback people got, coupled with the negative, was great. I could hear what people saw as bad and good in my works. It helped me a lot more than just finding out what was broken, while leaving the rest to mystery, or leaving me wondering if it was something people forgot to mention (as it had been for the first few crits in that class). It allowed me to further develop my strengths in the following assignments, and work on my failures and weak areas as well. I guess in a way, seeing that form on page one reminded me of all that (and the frustration that came of it), and brought me to make the comments that I have. I know this changes nothing in people's opinion with my stance, and I don't expect it to. But hopefully it explains reasonably well why I feel as I do about the form as it stands right now. I'd hate to see remixers who are just getting started, being left in the dark about what's good in their work because no one filled in the bottom of the page as it were. I think it's a great idea at heart, so don't take my critiques as bashing the thing in its entirety. I'm not. That odd form setup got people to improve their feedback levels for that class, and I think this could do the same here. I just feel what it makes easier, could use some expanding. Anyway, I've bothered you guys enough over this. My apologies if I pushed my opinion a bit too hard, or pulled a . Good luck with this, and I hope it results in people getting better help here

Pointless? That's rather disheartening to hear a fellow artist say. Unless the word "critique" has somehow changed in definition in the last six hours, I doubt I've fallen out of any loops. In any good, constructive critique, you will learn what works, what doesn't work, what's cliché, what's interesting, what's dull, what's overdone, and at least a dozen other traits that will bring up the pros and cons of what you're presenting. Some points will be purely opinion, some will be factual, and others will be guided by a set of rules that are generally adhered to in that particular art form. This is true for the visual, aural and written arts. And frankly, my lack of submissions here has nothing to do with knowing what a good critique is. Focusing on nothing but the negative aspects, without bringing up what you feel are the positives (if there are any), can be destructive. Talking about nothing but the positive aspects, without stating what you feel are the negatives (if there are any), can be destructive. In both of those scenarios, something stands a good chance of being overlooked, passed over, or possibly lost, because it wasn't given a voice for whatever reason. If you want to get people to critique the WIPs of this place... to really critique them... then you can't leave out one side or the other. Both must be covered to truly benefit the person who's work is being looked at. That doesn't mean pussy-footing around the facts to soften the blow, or being a complete dick in how you put forth your opinion. It means you give truthful, matter-of-fact points as you see them, and let them know what you feel is good and bad. To do otherwise, is doing the artist a disservice in my opinion. I know you're trying to streamline things zircon, and I understand the motives behind it. Getting useful info into the hands and heads of remixers is something this site has been fighting with since the day it started receiving WIPs from people other than djp. Unfortunately, the way you're setting this up, to me, is downplaying half the useful info that can benefit the remixers... and that's bad (m'kay?). Edit: Keep in mind, this isn't a personal attack or anything, zircon. I'm not insinuating any lack of knowledge on your part, as I'm only discussing this thread's topic of the form.