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    SEGA has been a much more open minded company when it comes to fan works than Nintendo. I cannot help but respect that. If this was Paramount (Star Trek fans were the ones who laid the ground for just this before the Anaxanar incident) or Nintendo (whose a dictator about even Let’s Plays) they’d spite their fans with a C&D. Stuff like this is great, it’s free advertising and actually stimulates consumption of your product, especially in downtime periods.
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    Studio comes tomorrow. Ready to Set up a recording section and get back to it in a professional environment? Which randomizer has been the most difficult for you?
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    Oh - Sonic wise...I like the new movie design the best out of all Sonic designs (not that old one - gosh no). Sonic looks great with two eyes and fits way better with the rest of his fuzzy pals. I dare say it should be a new design for future games.
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    I think we need more of these for different topics. It’s healthy to have a place to express individual thoughts that go against the grain In order to actually have a conversation about things we take for granted. Here is one for me: Resident Evil series original voice acting is actually not that bad. The first one was hilariously bad, yes. But the direction was mostly to blame above all, especially for any problems with RE2 and RE3. Chris at the beginning of RE1 actually sounds fine until the “No don’t go” line. But then again, I think that was ultimately bad direction. The language gap for those who pieced it all together was mostly to blame. When you do not know how English should sound like, you are going to make everyone one sound either like they are robots, incoherent drunks, or have mild ASD...
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    I hope you all have a blessed and wonderful Easter!

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    And if that is the true case, its textbook NPD. What makes us excellent individuals is our capacity to improve the self through healthy interaction with others and for a higher goal than merely than pleasing the current iteration of our self. Such leads to stagnation, and ironically a decay of who we are. Even the most staunch objectivist knows what he does benefits others, and they too benefit from another. Creative writing and art, in particular, are defined by constant divergence of thought, and takes an external look beyond the self and its tight, narrow interests, unless it be a reactive derivation of already established works (which people could argue that his work seems to be that way). Ultimately, like all exploratory endeavors, creativity is nourished by thoughtful observation outside the self and thus demands growth of the self in its process. It's why art is usually used as vehicle by suffering people, a concept in psychology known as post-traumatic growth. Narcissism is the antithesis of creative thinking, it demands conformity to the self as an ideal, and thus censors anything that distances itself from that. It can be seen in the works of edgy adolescents who are trying to find their individual place in the world for example, fan-fictions of empowerment promoting avatars of their narrow interests and cliched echoes of their experiences. Typically, such work boils down to someone creating a form self-apotheosis, which merely proselytizes the readers and viewers to conform to their perceptions and feelings, rather than offering novel conceptual challenge. If he is truly this way, I deeply pity this man... We all start with our position as the base line in creativity, the self and its ideas are the default. We all have the potential to be like him creatively, stuck with our pet interests, making edgy hedgehogs or escapist mental junk-food. But if we talk at the wall, don't interact, don't heed constructive criticism, or respect out audience; if we do not challenge ourselves with different art styles, writing methods, and explore new ideas with and of others, then we will end up like him. I think this is an apt allusion.
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    Speaking from a background in mental health... Just by the way he talks about himself fixedly and does not interact with the interviewers, he sounds like a guy that could have NPD... But he’d never get that checked out by professional. Many obviously don’t.
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    One of our guys had a big spooky moment lately, @Nagol. Someone had contracted COVID-19 on his floor at the hospital while visiting with his sick mother. He’s negative and so is she, but they had him in quarantine for a while. He is self-isolating for 14 days, just in case. Guess more an excuse to be a nerd on the Internet. 😛 Seriously though - pray you all stay safe. It’s more a big deal to your elderly and health-sensitive family, but still...please don’t lick any door knobs, or decide to get a time-share in Wuhan, Communist China. 

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      MoKat

      Wow! Glad their tests came up negative!

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    I say get out of your comfort zone in a comfortable way. Bit by bit, through a process you can play with. Given my background, I think I can give you some good art/psychological advice, to help. Let's do this: 1) Get three pictures of landscapes you love, I mean really, really like. They can all be different - don't worry. Really good if they are slightly different, but have some main abstract theme, like their color scheme is shared but all are different outdoor scenes. 2) Sketch each, getting a detail for all three. Do each 10 seconds, then each one minute, then each ten. You will loosen up and this tricks your brain in to focusing on the big picture of the images compositionally, then refines it down to framing details into that image. This also gives you permission to not be a perfectionist and get less self-conscious of the process. Just do, there is no try - there is only doing and learning to do better. Art world calls these "gesture drawings" and the best of the best did them. 3) After doing that make a thirty minute sketch that merges parts of them in some way. This lets you synthesize data in a new way, which basically is the core mechanical hallmark of creativity. If you don't like the image - that is okay. Its a learning process. After that, scan it or take a flat-level, clear photo with no shadows. Just needs to be clear and focused. 4) Take your old sketches and use a software of your choice like GIMP or Photoshop. Anything that can layer and transform images. Play around with your sketches of characters by cutting and pasting them! Warp them, liquefy them, and resize them into the context of the landscape. Place them in the scene and try to make visualized story out of this. Print off versions of it you really like. 5) Take these images you really had fun with, and start drawing from scratch. Build off them. You can do a whole scene now, after all drew all this stuff before.
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    See a lot of improvement here. Good foreshortening. Got anything new for us?
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    We all know Sonic is not really concerned about beer and loose busty women. He’s into Processed food and brainy squirrel girls with big hips. XD Anyways - I wonder what would happen if Shadow The Hedgehog was more viable and thus became more successful, rather than light hearted Sonic Hero's. How would this influence the Sonic franchise?
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    —- @Sorzo
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    Like to tackle Shortfuse. Let’s address Shortfuse’s major issues in STC. What really holds him back? There is one obvious thing.
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    Was there any imagery or audio files recovered pertaining to the PC ports?
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    Updates on this?
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    Just got off from finals and my final art classes. Just have to finish the psychology element to my degree.  Straight A's!

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    Happy Thanksgiving. God bless you and yours! I am thankful for all my staff here and friends. :)

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    Happy Birthday Mike! Thanks for all you do here. 

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    Something spooky I have been working on for something Sonic Related. It’s still a demo for a leitmotif, so bare with me. Thought was an apt time to show it and jump start more music material on the forum. A Cackle in The Black - 10:31:19, 10.10 PM.wav
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    If you get banned in Communist China, you are probably more insidiously moral than meets the eye. XP
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    HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

    https://youtu.be/dPz2J5cu2Tk

     

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    I hope to see an update on your progress soon. Just my two cents; The idea of a Sonic story with an Acorn Kingdom first still intact would be interesting and original. Have the politics of the Archie comics be backloaded chronologically. The fecklessness of the council and a far to radical Constitutionalist revolution leads to Naugus gaining more power as court wizard. You could make it similar to how Rasputin took captive the Russian aristocracy. Eventually, Robotnik would rise to take advantage of a divided empire, like Lenin did to the behind-the-times Czarist Russia during WW1, which lead to industrialist hell-scape of Stalinist’s One-State-Communism, which destroyed a lot of beautiful land as well as people.
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    Sorry guys for the recent absence. A leader on this forum should not be spotty with his presence and duties on the site. Sadly, I have been handling some big issues for the good of my neighborhood and county, and they have reaped a lot of results. Long story short, I have been trying to clean up my old childhood neighborhood, which turned into a slum during the economic depression in 2008 and got worse throughout the Obama Administration. With the economy booming again, I bought my old childhood home that once belonged to my grandparents and had started renovating it. I will actually be posting a thread about how I flipped the house through the past three years. I have nearly finalized a deal for two more lots in the area. Since my house was rebuilt around me, I have had no mortgage and own the home outright. The equity is great, and it looks like I can use it as loan-leverage to buy up and improve more property to rent out to people in need. My plan has been to get my elderly grandparents a better home next to me, and get them on a waiver program . Despite having to deal with a lot of criminal activity (even an attempted murder via vehicular sabotage - yeah I am not kidding) I have brought enough attention to this neighborhood and the bad-eggs are all but gone, in legal trouble, and soon to loose their property - and I plan to buy it for a song. I am already closing the deal one property and hope to move my elderly grandparents on it, who really need my help. I also am trying to help three special needs individuals that are good friends of mine get a home in their area, and get out of wretched government housing. Beyond this, I have also been doing summer school. Got an A in advanced printmaking, and A in Drawing Media. Also tested out of Introduction to psychology, and hope to test out of Developmental Psychology; this has saved me quite a bit on student loan funds, especially for my dual major. Despite all this, once everything is settled with this property and school, I plan to dump a lot of content I have been working on.
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    https://youtu.be/4M9iCeB1vtA Truly, the most insidious SCP.
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