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[center][img]http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/1475/logo3copysl7.jpg[/img][/center] [SIZE=5]Welcome to the Drawing Board.[/SIZE] This is where all out of character discussion will be held. You can ask questions, answer questions, discuss plans, etc. There isn't a whole lot more to say besides I'll be posting in-depth information about my posts here to clear things up.

[quote name='Ikillion][COLOR=#99121c][SIZE=1][FONT=Comic Sans MS]I don't know if its just my teachers or anything but I have used Wikipedia for sources in many of my projects and none of my teachers have said anything about not using it before. It could be that since I also get things from other sources that helps cover that though.[/FONT].[/SIZE'][/COLOR][/quote] [color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]Maybe it's a grade thing, but whenever doing major projects my teachers ([i]especially[/i] my history teacher) can never stress enough on how much they look down on it. They say they can always tell when someone has used Wiki, and I'd rather be safe than sorry. Other than that I tend to believe everything Wikipedia has to say. Why? Because I haven't really heard otherwise. I would believe a person over Wikipedia, of course. But if nobody says anything than I might aswell stick with the Wiki truth. It's an interesting site that is very useful for learning rumors about games. I'll tell you that.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma][b]China Theme Song Thing[/b] A A A A G z G z e z e z G - z z [b]Ironman[/b] a - - c - - c - d - d - - z z z [b]Indiana Jones[/b] e - f G c - - d - e F - z z z z The last two are cut short due to no room, but they sound decent anyways. Also, I just paid of my second mortgage and I'm getting Nookway. :)[/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]Forget it. How about I just claim Boo's picture. :3 [b]EDIT:[/b] Done! Click [url=http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2637/derkz6.jpg]here[/url]. My character can be found [url=http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1981/ralphienq7.jpg]here[/url]. His name is Ralphie the Demented Bird-Guy. Basically he's an adult retard whom thinks he is a bird. Basically you can change a everything, just make sure to make him look like an idiot, he has to have strapon beaks/wings and the one thick thing of hair on his head.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Gavin][SIZE=1']Currently I'm using Star Wars' Imperial March theme, which Bill kindly sent me via AIM.[/SIZE][/quote] [color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]The one I fixed for him. :rolleyes: The town tunes I've used so far are Super Mario, LoZ:OoT opening, Zelda's Lullaby, Saria's Song, Kokiri Forest (what can I say? Zelda has great music), Transformers (one I made for Will), Pirates of the Carribean, Ironman, Kirby Theme, and the Oompa Loompa song from Willy Wonka (my current one). I love making town tunes, so if you want any of the ones I mentioned or you want me to make you one just ask. I think I've got a nack for making 'em. ;) And now to talk about my Golden Shovel. Or what would have been my Golden Shovel, really. You see, two nights ago I bought a second shovel and buried it in a safe spot (somewhere I could remember easily). Today I went back to get my Golden Shovel and low and behold a house had appeared! That's right, someone had moved into my town and parked their behinds [I]right[/I] ontop of the place I buried my shovel. [spoiler]Feck[/spoiler]ing squirrel. [b]EDIT:[/b] Damn, this game is smart. I just looked in the lost and found and there's a Golden Shovel there! I guess it actually [i]is[/i] a lost and found, heh.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]I haven't tried it but I do want to at some point. It doesn't exactly look that promising. It's got [i]Princess Peach[/i] as the main character. I always hate it when I'm forced to play as her (one thing I'll hate about Super Paper Mario). But if you say it's decent, then I may rent it. The only thing stopping me from going to the local video store is that I'm afriad of looking like a [strike]total loser[/strike] total loser. [quote name='Bombu']My sister bought this game about a week ago[/quote]A likely story. ;)[/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]Right now there are only a few celebrities that I really find attractive. [center][b]Jessica Alba[/b] [img]http://www.reflections.it/interviste/2005/jessica_alba/01.jpg[/img] Crap is she ever hot. She's got an adorable face and beautiful hair. One thing I find attractive (besides her stunning looks) is that she doesn't really care for being the token hot chick. She'd rather play a smart role and I think that's cool. [b]Jojo[/b] [img]http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/4091/685ne2.jpg[/img] She's really cute in RV (which I just watched for the first time yesterday, kind of sucked). But she seems like a sweetheart. She's a growing addiction. XD[/center] And that's all right now. They change a lot, but Jessica Alba is basically always there. ;P[/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]Psht. Even if the PSP is going white, it's design still sucks in my opinion. I think the best thing about the DS Lite (besides the brightness) is the sleek design. I love the way the entire system flows when it's closed. The DS logo instead of the Nintendo logo makes it all more simplistic and the shiny, iPod-like cover is a nice touch (granted it causes for more smudges). The only downfall is the GBA port. I love the little plastic thing they give you to put in there when there isn't a game, but when there actually is a game, it sticks out quite a bit. And that takes away from the completeness of the design. Regardless, I'd have to say that a black DS Lite is much uglier. Like stated before the smudges are much more visible and that's plenty reason not to get one. I would like to see a[/color] [color=yellowgreen]green[/color] [color=#555555]or[/color] [color=orange]orange[/color] [color=#555555]DS Lite, though. ;)[/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]Piccolo sat on the dirty floor, pondering about what had happened to with everyone's lives that he had been with. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth and opened his eyes. He quickly stood to his feet and looked out at the horizon. Something big was coming. Something.. powerful. He anxiously glanced at his surroundings, waiting for whatever it was that was so powerful to show. Finally, it came. Or [i]he[/i] came. He landed right in front of Piccolo. "Oh, I'm sorry," the man said. "I thought you were someone more powerful." Piccolo stepped back and gave the man a good up and down. He had extremely long black hair and was dressed in armor that mostly covered his chest and shoulders. He also wore some sort of radar on his eye. "I think you should get glasses for both of your eyes." Piccolo snorted in reply. The man laughed and raised his hand. "For someone who is about to die you sure have a lot of jokes to whip out." the black haired man said slyly. "I've got no interest in starting a fight." replied Piccolo, who was getting a little bit angry with the intruder. "I do." said the man. Just as he was ready to clench his hand into a fist, Piccolo dug his feet into the ground and blasted his most powerful instant attack at the enemy. A blast of smoke errupted and all vision was momentarily blurred. When the smoke cleared, the man was still. He floated silently, smiling at Piccolo. Not a scratch was found on him. "Oh my," he joked. "I think you may have shaved a few leg hairs." Suddenly the new enemy got distracted and turned his head to the sky. He looked back at Piccolo. "I really would love to finish this, but it seems that I've found who I was looking for." And with that, he bursted off in an incredible speed away from the fight, leaving a sweating Piccolo behind.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma][quote name='musical_kitten']Wait a second.... I think I've figured it out, though I bet someone else already has.[/quote] No, you haven't. [quote name='musical_kitten']If you lose you win.[/quote] First error. If you lose, you lose. To win you just have to not be thinking about the game. [quote name='musical_kitten']Sooo... If the point of this thread is not to lose, yet there is no way to win, then when you lose you must be winning because that is the whole point, to lose. Right?[/quote] Wrong. The whole point is still to win. [quote=muscal_kitten]Anyways, we were going home Wednesday after our activity, and some random thought made me think of game, so I finally lost while not on OB. Yay! So: I lost x2. Yay and Yay![/QUOTE] Welcome to my world. [/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]HOMG WTF I T0tasLLY Cl4imM THIS n3xTT spoot!!1!!121eleven [b]EDIT:[/b] Eh, scratch that. I don't have time. >_

[center][img]http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/373/logo2dd5.jpg[/img][/center] [size=5]Prologue[/size] [b]London, England. 1733.[/b] Cane McKenon shut his bedroom door and locked it. He sat down at his desk and took a match, lighting the candle beside him. Knowing that his parents were long asleep, he took out a golden-coloured quill he had been lucky to come across on the streets the other night and grabbed the paper and ink he had taken from his father's dresser. Excited to bits, the thirteen year old boy began writing a ghost story. This one would be sure to scare the pants off of his friends, as he intended it to. He related each character to one of his friends, to spook them even more. When it came time to describe the hauntingly lady of the story, he went into gruesome details. Her scraggly gray hair that sat upon her wrinkled scalp. He empty eye sockets and unhinged jaw. Her pale blue skin and a flowing white dress. Yes, the Banshee of the East was a scary individual to imagine in one's head. It was just as Cane put the finishing touches on the short story that he felt a faint cool breeze on the back of his neck. The hair on his arms stood up and he turned around, as if expecting someone to be there. To his terror, floating in mid air, was an exact real life version of his newly written Banshee of the East. She let out a terrifying screech and Cane was never seen again. The next day, Cane's father locked up the ink bottle, the golden quill and the parchments of paper inside a small wooden chest. He buried the chest deep underground in his backyard. Hoping to bury the Banshee of the East with it. And he almost succeeded, were it not for a handful of pesky college students in 2003. [size=5]The Story[/size] [B]London, England. 2003.[/B] A class of University students from the United States studying paleontoligy are visiting London on an class trip. During the trip, a handful of the students wander away from the group and find a dig site in the backyard of an hold house. The group decides to come back at night to see what they're digging for. When they do come back, the digsite is gone. The crew had given up hope. This leaves the students free to dig up the backyard themselves. One of them finds a treasure chest. Inside of it is a yellow feather, some black ink, and a story. They bring everything back to their hotel and read the story in the morning. Deciding to have a little fun with the newfound artifacts, the students take turns writing their own spooky stories. The throw a contest to see who can come up with the scariest story before the end of the week. The rules are as followed; [list=1] [*]You may not show your work to anyone before it is done. [*]The story must be written with the Golden Quill and the Nether Ink. [*]You have one day with the Quill and Ink before you must pass it on to the next person in line. [*]Your story may only contain [b]one[/b] creature. Whether that creature is supernatural or an experiment gone wrong is entirely up to you. [*]All characters must, in the end, die. And each character must be based off of one of the writers (this includes yourself!).[/list] And so the contest began. Little did the students know that their stories would soon come to life. As soon as the words The End were written at the end of the final page, their creations would no longer be fiction. They were writing their own deaths. [size=5]Additional Information[/size] This is a neat little RP that I've been working on in secret for quite some time. It's an RP based around escaping death and defeating your worst fear. You will play the role of one of the characters writing their scary story. The RP will run simliar to a tournament. I'll use the chapter system to an extent, but the way it'll run is very new to OtakuBoards (as in it hasn't been done before). Depending on the way the story is flowing through my preset pattern, I may cut particular strings (or threads, if you will), killing off a character here and there. That's right, your character can die. When the RP finishes, there may not be anyone left alive. At the same time, there may be five people alive in the end. It all depends on how you react to different situations. [size=5]Signing-Up[/size] To sign-up, all you need to do is fill out the following form. [b]Name:[/b] The name of the character you'll be playing. [b]Gender:[/b] Male or Female. [b]Age:[/b] 18-24. [b]Appearance:[/b] Stay away from anime pictures, please. [b]Story-Snippet:[/b] This is what I'll be judging your sign-up on. Basically, you need to write a small snippet (3-6 paragraphs) from your character's story they wrote with the quill. Either a part where someone dies, or a part where the monster of the story is described in detail. The monster of your story can be anything. Axe-murderers, phantoms, haywire robots, swamp beasts... it's all good. Be creative.

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]You [i]hate[/i] this image? O_o This one and the ace of spades are the two easiest images to work with. You have looked at the other images, right? You guys got off easy. ;) But yeah, you can erase all of the white.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]I replied to you already, via PM, but I guess I should reply again here for everyone to see. Changing the opacity of the picture is not allowed, so no, you can't blend. Feel free to blend anything you add in, though.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='jigglyness']Ok, for round two, when you said no cropping, did you mean like no cropping the picture from the white bg?[/quote] [color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]No cropping as in you can't select a certain area of the image and crop the rest out. Erasing the background is fine.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]The echo of elevator music repeated itself in Stephen's head, almost driving him insane. He plugged his ears as he walked around the bottom floor with Quincy, Tristan and their partners. Finally the tune got to him and he erupted. "Don't they have any other music?!" he yelled. "God!" just then, the music changed. It wasn't anything special, but at least it was different. "Better." he said calmly. Swimmon, who was floating beside him, looked at his partner. "Do you explode like that often?" he asked Stephen. The blonde boy laughed and scratched the back of his head. "Nah, I just wish it didn't sound like.." "Like a grocery store?" Quincy finished, pointing out the stupidity in what Stephen was saying. It [i]was[/i] a grocery store. "Yeah.." he muttered quietly. Flamon and Tristan both laughed. Then the group stopped. Quincy had haulted them with her arms in front of everyone. "Guys, check around this isle." she said. "This is all food and we didn't even notice." And so, under Quincy's command, everyone split up throughout the isle, gathering as much food as they could and bringing it back to the shopping cart they had found. Most of the food was stuff you used to make food taste better, not eat alone. This included Jam, Peanut Butter, chocolate milk mix, salsa and even a can of pickles. "Not exactly decedant." said Stephen. Quincy plugged her nose and agreed. Tristan picked up the pickles, looking on the bottom. "These," he said slowly. "are expired." [/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]You said that they had PSP, not that you couldn't post at all. Anyway, since all four competitors returned, the tournament can continue as it was originally intended. Here are the voting rules for this round. [b]Interested in Voting? Read the following.[/b] The voting will work just like it does in most art tournaments here in the Art Studio. You'll provide at least 2 paragraphs containing what you liked and disliked about the different pieces, in the end giving your vote to one person. Please do not take into account that your vote gives half a point to someone whos art you may not have liked, that is not the point of the particular round. I ask that if you decide to vote, you wait until all competitors have posted their pieces and I post in the thread saying voting has started. If you are a competitor in OBWT and wish to vote in someone else's battle thread, you are allowed.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][center][img]http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2388/round2copygg2.jpg[/img] [/center] [b][size=3][COLOR=Black]The Rules[/COLOR][/size][/b] The following round is a 2 versus 2 match. I'm going to give a picture that all four of you will work independantly on. All you have to do is take the picture and, following the guidelines, make some prettyful artwork. :) The winning team will be decided by the members of OtakuBoards (though last round isn't the last you'll see of the judges). How it will work is every vote someone gets will be worth 1 point. However if a member of the two person team gets a vote, that automatically gives their teammate half a point. So let's say The Boss and I are on a team against Dragon Warrior. Someone votes for DW, he gets 1 point. Someone votes for The Boss, he gets 1 point [i]and[/i] I get half a point. The losing team is eliminated. If you're interested in voting, see my newest post in the underground. So! Onto the graphic that you need to use. Click [url=http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/7620/round25copyev0.jpg]here[/url]. [b][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black]Picture Guidelines[/COLOR][/SIZE][/b] What you can and cannot do to the picture. The picture is 400 by 600 pixels. [list][*]The picture must [b]not[/b] be the top layer. [*]You cannot change the opacity of the picture. [*]You [b]can[/b] move the picture, edit it's blending options etc. [*]You cannot crop the picture.[/list] [center]You have 4 days to submit the [b]completed[/b] entry.[/center] [center][b][size=4][COLOR=Black]Start![/COLOR][/size][/b][/center][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][center][img]http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2388/round2copygg2.jpg[/img] [/center] [b][size=3][COLOR=Black]The Rules[/COLOR][/size][/b] The following round is a 2 versus 1 match. I'm going to give a picture that all three of you will work independantly on. All you have to do is take the picture and, following the guidelines, make some prettyful artwork. :) The winning team will be decided by the members of OtakuBoards (though this isn't the last you'll see of the judges). How it will work is every vote someone gets will be worth 1 point. However if a member of the two person team gets a vote, that automatically gives their teammate half a point. So let's say The Boss and I are on a team against Dragon Warrior. Someone votes for DW, he gets 1 point. Someone votes for The Boss, he gets 1 point [i]and[/i] I get half a point. If the singular person wins, the other two competitors are eliminated. If one of the team members wins, only the singled out person is eliminated. If you're interested in voting, see my newest post in the underground. So! Onto the graphic that you need to use. Click [url=http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/671/round24copyaw2.jpg]here[/url]. [b][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black]Picture Guidelines[/COLOR][/SIZE][/b] What you can and cannot do to the picture. The picture is 400 by 600 pixels. [list][*]The picture must [b]not[/b] be the top layer. [*]You cannot change the opacity of the picture. [*]You [b]can[/b] move the picture, edit it's blending options etc. [*]You cannot crop the picture.[/list] [center]You have 4 days to submit the [b]completed[/b] entry.[/center] [center][b][size=4][COLOR=Black]Start![/COLOR][/size][/b][/center][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][center][img]http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2388/round2copygg2.jpg[/img] [/center] [b][size=3][COLOR=Black]The Rules[/COLOR][/size][/b] The following round is a 2 versus 1 match. I'm going to give a picture that all three of you will work independantly on. All you have to do is take the picture and, following the guidelines, make some prettyful artwork. :) The winning team will be decided by the members of OtakuBoards (though this isn't the last you'll see of the judges). How it will work is every vote someone gets will be worth 1 point. However if a member of the two person team gets a vote, that automatically gives their teammate half a point. So let's say The Boss and I are on a team against Dragon Warrior. Someone votes for DW, he gets 1 point. Someone votes for The Boss, he gets 1 point [i]and[/i] I get half a point. If the singular person wins, the other two competitors are eliminated. If one of the team members wins, only the singled out person is eliminated. If you're interested in voting, see my newest post in the underground. So! Onto the graphic that you need to use. Click [url=http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/8241/round23copykg1.jpg]here[/url]. [b][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black]Picture Guidelines[/COLOR][/SIZE][/b] What you can and cannot do to the picture. The picture is 400 by 600 pixels. [list][*]The picture must [b]not[/b] be the top layer. [*]You cannot change the opacity of the picture. [*]You [b]can[/b] move the picture, edit it's blending options etc. [*]You cannot crop the picture.[/list] [center]You have 4 days to submit the [b]completed[/b] entry.[/center] [center][b][size=4][COLOR=Black]Start![/COLOR][/size][/b][/center][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][center][img]http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2388/round2copygg2.jpg[/img] [/center] [b][size=3][COLOR=Black]The Rules[/COLOR][/size][/b] The following round is a 2 versus 1 match. I'm going to give a picture that all three of you will work independantly on. All you have to do is take the picture and, following the guidelines, make some prettyful artwork. :) The winning team will be decided by the members of OtakuBoards (though this isn't the last you'll see of the judges). How it will work is every vote someone gets will be worth 1 point. However if a member of the two person team gets a vote, that automatically gives their teammate half a point. So let's say The Boss and I are on a team against Dragon Warrior. Someone votes for DW, he gets 1 point. Someone votes for The Boss, he gets 1 point [i]and[/i] I get half a point. If the singular person wins, the other two competitors are eliminated. If one of the team members wins, only the singled out person is eliminated. If you're interested in voting, see my newest post in the underground. So! Onto the graphic that you need to use. Click [url=http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/2479/round22copyhy0.jpg]here[/url]. [b][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black]Picture Guidelines[/COLOR][/SIZE][/b] What you can and cannot do to the picture. The picture is 400 by 600 pixels. [list][*]The picture must [b]not[/b] be the top layer. [*]You cannot change the opacity of the picture. [*]You [b]can[/b] move the picture, edit it's blending options etc. [*]You cannot crop the picture.[/list] [center]You have 4 days to submit the [b]completed[/b] entry.[/center] [center][b][size=4][COLOR=Black]Start![/COLOR][/size][/b][/center][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][center][img]http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2388/round2copygg2.jpg[/img] [/center] [b][size=3][COLOR=Black]The Rules[/COLOR][/size][/b] The following round is a 2 versus 1 match. I'm going to give a picture that all three of you will work independantly on. All you have to do is take the picture and, following the guidelines, make some prettyful artwork. :) The winning team will be decided by the members of OtakuBoards (though this isn't the last you'll see of the judges). How it will work is every vote someone gets will be worth 1 point. However if a member of the two person team gets a vote, that automatically gives their teammate half a point. So let's say The Boss and I are on a team against Dragon Warrior. Someone votes for DW, he gets 1 point. Someone votes for The Boss, he gets 1 point [i]and[/i] I get half a point. If the singular person wins, the other two competitors are eliminated. If one of the team members wins, only the singled out person is eliminated. If you're interested in voting, see my newest post in the underground. So! Onto the graphic that you need to use. Click [url=http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/4996/round21copyub1.jpg]here[/url]. [b][SIZE=3][COLOR=Black]Picture Guidelines[/COLOR][/SIZE][/b] What you can and cannot do to the picture. The picture is 400 by 600 pixels. [list][*]The picture must [b]not[/b] be the top layer. [*]You cannot change the opacity of the picture. [*]You [b]can[/b] move the picture, edit it's blending options etc. [*]You cannot crop the picture.[/list] [center]You have 4 days to submit the [b]completed[/b] entry.[/center] [center][b][size=4][COLOR=Black]Start![/COLOR][/size][/b][/center][/COLOR]

[color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]I really like the idea for this manga, and I really can't wait to see what you do with it. Now I'm just throwing names around here, but why don't you just name the forum "Picture This." Heh. ;) [/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Gavin][SIZE=1']Hopefully I won't meow like a cat throughout the entire thing, but rather speak with a forced, not pun intended, Vader drawl.[/SIZE][/quote] [color=#555555][FONT=Tahoma]Something like that. ;D Like I already told you over AIM, the drawings themselves are just hysterical (and some of the names, too!). I'm a big fan of Pearlmaru and Patribution. [spoiler]But of course I have to like Smurfsward, Whankton, Mrs. Panduff and Gavy since I came up with the names.[/spoiler] ;) Anyway, judging by the theme song you wrote and the pictures you drew, I just know this will be hillarious. [quote name='Tical Blue']but I can definitely say I'm a D_W fan[/quote] Any true DW fan would know that there is no underscore in his name, T_B.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[QUOTE=Desbreko][color=#4B0082]Well, [url=http://wii.ign.com/articles/726/726748p1.html][u]this is interesting[/u][/url]. Apparently Nintendo is overhauling the control scheme for the Wii version of Twilight Princess, and now you'll swing the remote to swing Link's sword rather than pushing the B button. First, I'm worried that swinging the controller that much will get old really fast. Miyamoto also thought it would get tiring after a while, according to interviews from E3, but now he's saying, ""Upon actually playing it, it's more interesting this way." I guess I trust Miyamoto's decision, but I still have some lingering doubts. One thing that could make this really cool, though, is if they let you control which sword swing you do (vertical slash, horizontal slash, stab, etc) just by how you move the remote. I think that would make it a lot more fun, and probably also less prone to become old and simply tiring. Also, since this change frees up the B button (which was previously being used toswing the sword), you can now use a secondary item with it. The example given was with the bow and arrows, and how Miyamoto thought using down on the control cross was too difficult. I think that's great, since using the B trigger will feel a lot better for aiming and shooting with the remote.[/color][/QUOTE] [center][img]http://img345.imageshack.us/img345/2921/colberths6.jpg[/img][/center]