Sara

[QUOTE=han ki-tae]i claim it then, emily-chan, utill u figure it out. any help PM me. hello, everybody. here goes my entry, even though i dont know if i was creative enough and the school girl is my character[/QUOTE][color=#b0000b][size=1]That's awesome, han ki-tae. I love the caricature look you did. (By "be creative" I just meant that I didn't really give anyone a lot to work with, just an extreme closeup of a face.)[/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]To recap: [b]OP[/b]: What is your opinion on astral projection? [b]Aaryanna[/b]: Opinion: I don't think it's real. [b]Retribution[/b]: Yeah, well you can't [i]prove[/i] that it's not real. You have no proof to back up your opinion. (P.S. I don't think it's real, either.) [b]Dead[/b]: Um, opinions don't need proof. That's why they're opinions. [b]Retribution[/b]: Yeah, well how is astral projection less valid that religion? Religion doesn't have proof. [b]Dead[/b]: That's the point. Opinions do not require proof. That's why they're opinions. [b]Retribution[/b]: You don't have proof that it's not real! Plus, like, you have no proof that God [i]is[/i] real. Why are you being mean to me???[/size][/color]

[quote name='Retribution][size=1']You support the death penalty because the current laws are not strict enough for you. You have said you would stop supporting the death penalty once there is a better alternative, and considering your only argument it at this point is "The current laws don't cut it," you should fight for stricter laws. If you do this, there is no longer reason for capital punishment to exist.[/size][/quote][color=#b0000b][size=1]At what point in this thread did the conversation move from discussing the death penalty to attacking Aaryanna_Mom for her perceived lack of political involvement?[/size][/color]

[QUOTE=Sandy]Please tell, do they differ from each other in any way? Like one has more vowels than the others, so it rocked so much you just [I]had[/I] to get it? (Those vowels are treasures, honestly!)[/QUOTE][color=#b0000b][size=1]Well, three are normal (albeit second-hand) games. One is "Scrabble Up!" and another is "Turntiles," which is like Scrabble, but different. I also have a brand-spanking-new Scrabble game that I won in a tournament a few weeks ago.[/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]My geekiest purchase would probably be Scrabble game number five. Because [i]four just weren't enough[/i].[/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]I'm taking Old Norse, Old English, and Old High German. ... I'm also taking a horticulture class, in which I sow seeds and grow wonderful green things. I love it so.[/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]So yeah, maybe I'll have to marry John instead, here. :p[/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]And the truth comes out. This whole thing was just an elaborate ploy for White to get some Naruto fanart. Poor form![/size][/color]

[QUOTE=lea]... You know, salt works just as well, if not better, than poison. Just seems better for the envioronment, and your garden in general. o.o;; Salt for the win.[/QUOTE][color=#b0000b][size=1][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth]On that note...[/url][/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]I'd talk with your sister and parents for advice. "Stealing" it back is kosher, although it might end up creating a rift between you and your friend. You know it's yours, and you know she knows that. The fact that she won't give it back is a problem. The whale was a gift, and it is special to you. If your friend cannot recognise that and have the good grace to give it back, she isn't a friend that you should mind losing. And [i]do not[/i] bring up kleptomania while she still has the whale. No matter how subtly or kindly you bring it up, she's going to get defensive and upset. Wait until the current issue has been resolved before bringing that up to her. What I would do: Decide whether or not I am willing to potentially break off this friendship. If yes: Mention this to my parents (or sister), and make sure they are aware that I am going to get the whale back. Just make sure that you have an ally somewhere in your household in case your friend retaliates by publically accusing [i]you[/i] of stealing. If you are sure that the friend's mother/father is 1.) aware of her daughter's stealing problem, and 2.) disapproves of it (some parents are weird about their kids, you never know), consider approaching him or her. "Mr/Mrs. xxxxx? Can I talk to you? Such and such an amount of time ago, I left something here when I was sleeping over. It's still in your daughter's room, but she says that she found it, and she won't let me have it back. It's really important to me. Do you think you could talk to her about it?" Make sure you don't accuse the daughter of [i]stealing[/i] it, because that will set off a defensive reaction in the parent, and they might just kick you out of the house. If you decide not to talk to one of her parents, or if the parent is unhelpful, just take it back. You want to do this before she decides to hide it from you, or it gets broken. Once you have it, keep it in a safe place (don't carry it around with you), and try not to let her see it (don't keep it on display in your room.)[/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]Not to get too far off of the world-bettering tangent that everyone seems to be on, but I'm a big fan of the [b]eletric kettle.[/b] While I would ideally have a proper kettle on a stovetop, we can't have open heat sources in the dorms, and even a plastic water-boiler beats the pulp out of having to microwave my tea. [quote name='some site']The first electric kettle was developed in Chicago in 1891, by the Carpenter Electric Company of the United States. It took twelve minutes to heat the water because the element was in a separate compartment, and not immersed in the water as it is in modern kettles. It was shown at the Chicago World fair in 1893. It used the electrical heat radiator concept designed earlier by R.E.B. Crompton. This was welded to the kettle's bottom and led to a large loss of heat.[/quote] However, according to the [url=http://www.industryplayer.com/licenceinfo.php?licid=012021]same site[/url], the incarnation closest to my electric plastic pot was first seen in the 1950s, and invented by [url=http://www.russell-hobbs.com/]Russel Hobbs[/url]. Thanks, Russ![/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]I an easily annoyed, but it takes a very inconsiderate person to make me angry. Even then, I tend to brood rather than shout. This isn't because of any particular penchant for brooding, but because I generally end up trying to reason with someone unreasonable...and shouting at an unreasonable person isn't going to help things, anyway. Also, I try to avoid swearing, so my impact-leaving vocabulary is rather slim. As therapeutic as calling someone a festering slimewad can be, no one seems to care when it's addressed to them. What a callous society. =[[/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]I have no car. My "purse" (it's basically an orange leather wallet, on a string, and I keep in in my pocket), contains some cash, my bus pass, my school ID, my library card, my driver's license, a couple punch cards for restaurants I like, an uncashes $3.00 check that was back-dated to several years ago (I don't know what to do with it, so I just keep it around), a ticket stub for Snakes on a Plane, an expired bus ticket with the cryptic inscription [i]Chawl #* Meen over Right[/i], and some Dairy Queen coupons. Oh! And my Geico Quick Quotes Card. They sent it to me in the mail, and it has my name on it and everything. I always wanted a fake credit card (like the credit card companies send my friends in solicitations), but I've never gotten one in the mail. I occasionally get a mini-credit-card sticker from Discover, but that's not the same thing. Anyway, the Geico card isn't actually a fake credit card, but it's close enough. So I keep it with me wherever I go, in the hopes that someday I will be able to use it as a form of ID.[/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]In my vernacular, and in the common use of people around me, "superficial" (in this context) means "caring [i]primarily or only[/i] about that which is on the surface." So it's not even [i]possible[/i] to be "a little bit superficial," and I think that while the idea behind the question is legit for discussion, the phrasing is not well put. I also think that a different wording of the original question would have resulted in clearer replies from several people in this thread. [quote name='Aaryanna][COLOR=SeaGreen]So I have no problem admitting that [b]on some level I?m superficial[/b'].[/COLOR][/quote]Aaryaanna, I love you, but you have no idea how much that made me giggle. =] [QUOTE=The13thMan][COLOR=DarkOrange][FONT=Century Gothic]My question had nothing to do with comfort. I really hate it when people add new dimensions to my question...doing so avoids the question completely. All i know now from that response is that you don't like being uncomfortable. [/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]What you should have learned from his response is that he cares about other things more than he does about his appearance (olfactory or otherwise) to others. Having read your further responses on the topic, I am still unsure as to how that does not answer your question. You also left the nature of the "bad smell" open to interpretation. If that was not your intent, perhaps you should have clarified [i]exactly[/i] what you meant at the beginning of the thread, rather than scolding those who interpreted it differently than you had originally (and privately) intended.[/size][/color]

[QUOTE=Phaedrus]You're pretty. :) [IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d153/mitchellgrantsmith/scan00028bu.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE][color=#b0000b][size=1]Cute, in an angstbucket kind of way.[/size][/color]

[quote name='Shinje][color=crimson']Ever hear about the time OB was down for 6 weeks? I can see your anneurysm now...[/color][/quote][color=#b0000b][size=1]I almost [i]died[/i].[/color][/size]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]A better way to advertise might be to put a link (and a promise of cheesecake) in your signature. Not everyone will see this thread, but everyone who sees one of your posts will see your sig. As for your site...black and red, huh? I'm not so much a fan of that combination. It's a strain on the eyes to read red against a black background. If you were going to pimp this out some more, I'd maybe add tables for your posts. That way you can keep the bulk of your background black, but have, say, a red background for your posts. With white text. That would look cool, right? Anyway, good luck. =][/color][/size]

[quote name='Delta][COLOR=#D55555]That being said, I actually felt offended when I was evaluated to be partial to functionality. I must make it clear that [b]I do not buy things with functionality in mind[/b']. Number one in my shopping rulebook is "Get nothing but the cutest model. Pocket knives and compasses are no exception." [/COLOR][/quote][color=#b0000b][size=1]*giggles* I feel like I was kind of all over the place on the "fashion vs. function" questions. I definitely consider "how things look" to be [i]one[/i] of their features, and it certainly factors into what I buy and use, but I make a point not to buy beautiful useless things. Also! [quote name='indifference][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue']The empathy score cracks me up the most. Guess I?m not as nice as I thought I was. ;) Oh well, as Sara said, these type of quiz results that tell you how great you are can be quite amusing. I wonder if there is a bad result for this quiz.[/COLOR][/quote]You are a horrible, cruel person! As a [i]Considerate[/i] Creator with an empathy score of [b]100[/b], I can no longer associate with you.[/color][/size]

[color=#b0000b][size=1][url=http://www.personaldna.com/report.php?k=ntRybVRxsJMFgOa-HG-AEDCA-40d7&u=caca49cec5ba]Considerate Creator[/url] I'm fresh out of time at the moment, but I will say this: the titles of these results [i]crack me up[/i]. [b]Very High[/b]: Empathy (100!), Openness, Feminity (98!), Imaginative...ness, and Spontaneity. [b]Slightly High/Average[/b]: Confidence, Trust, Agency [b]Low[/b]: Authoritarianism, Attention to Style, Extroversion, Masculinity, Aesthetic. I really like reading quiz results that rave on and on about how amazing I am. They are perhaps not extremely accurate, but they can be fun. =][/size][/color]

[QUOTE=Mr. Maul][size=1][color=DimGray]I absolutely cannot believe that no one has even mentioned [b]Milla Jovovich[/b]. Ever since I saw[b] The Fifth Element[/b], I've been in "love" with her. Doesn't she look incredibly sexy with orange hair? To quote a friend of mine (a girl), "I'm straight and I'd still **** her!" [/color][/size][/QUOTE][color=#b0000b][size=1][center]Leeloo is utterly molestable. I think it helps that when she appears, she isn't wearing anything that would technically qualify as "clothing." [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=25818&stc=1[/img] I'm also a fan of [b]Jena Malone[/b]. She's adorable. I love her in [i]Donnie Darko[/i] and [i]Saved[/i]. I mean, look at her. She's just... so... [i]cute[/i]. Unbelieveable. [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=25816&stc=1[/img] [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=25817&stc=1[/img] On that note, yes, Jake Gyllenhaal is ridiculously attractive.[/color][/size][/center]

[quote name='jigglyness']You are not allowed to 'call dibs' just to let you know.[/quote][color=#b0000b][size=1]Why not? It's not like you can stop anyone else from making something, and the person whom the avatars are for will just pick the ones they want, anyway. "Calling" doesn't [i]do[/i] anything important, so there's no reason to disallow it.[/size][/color]

[quote name='Raiyuu][FONT=Trebuchet MS']- Natalie Portman. This is where I get the speech about pots and kettles, because I think she's beautiful, and various of my friends think she looks like a horse.[/font][/quote][color=#b0000b][size=1]Your friends are on some horrible perception-altering crackwhore drugs, because Natalie Portman is simply gorgeous. I would kill small animals* to look as great as she does. For crying out loud, she even looks good bald: [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=25810&stc=1[/img] [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=25811&stc=1[/img] I mean, granted, perhaps not as stunning as some of her other incarnations, but seriously. (Actually "stunning" is the wrong word there, because she's every bit as stunning here, if not [i]moreso[/i]. But you know what I mean.) *Actually, I probably wouldn't. But I would have to think [i]long[/i] and [i]hard[/i] about it before coming to that conclusion.[/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1]I'm starting to get the feeling that I ramble on [i]way[/i] too much...[/size][/color]

[color=#b0000b][size=1][b]Xra[/b]: I think you have an interesting thing going on here with the different layers. The overall effect reminds me of some sort of inspirational poster that you might find in a history or physics classroom. Unfortunately, with equal balance given to each part of the image, it gets confusing and the simple elegance of the original image is lost. I think your image would work much better if there was some attention given to creating contrast between the focus of the design and the background elements. Whatever you choose the focus to be?Einstein, the quote, the chalkboard (okay, probably not), or the lightbulb?it's important that people looking at the image know what they are [i]supposed[/i] to be looking at. I'm not sure if you even had something in mind, or just put a lot of loosely-related ideas together on the page (which is okay, and a [i]great[/i] starting place, but not so great an ending place.) If the focus is the lightbulb, darken the background a bit more (or better yet, get Einstein's face out of there. An Einstein looking sage in the corner, or even no Einstein at all, works better than having Einstein fighting with the lightbulb for attention.) With all of the blackboard writing (and the mad scientist hair), your text is really hard to read. I also have to give you a scolding for using Comic Sans (or possibly Chalkboard, but either way...). It's an extremely overused font, and everything it touches looks amateurish. Steer clear of it in the future, and you will do great things. =] I also have [i]no idea[/i] what to make of the yellow "Einstein" sitting there in the middle of the image. It does give things sort of an interesting color balance, but there's no other reason for it to be there (it's in the wrong place to be the source of the quote). If I had started this image, I would probably have kept Einstein where he is, but resized and moved the bulb up so it'd smaller and more at his forehead?one of those "bright idea" things, and so it doesn't look like it's growing out of his nose. I'd find a different font for the text?maybe something cleaner, or maybe something more bookish?and put it in a box right above Einstein's mouth. (Because it's, uh, symbolic or something?) And then, I guess, I'd start fooling around from there. [b]Kitty[/b], you don't give yourself enough credit. Your image is the crispest and cleanest of the three, and the one that I think makes the best use of the source image. I wish you hadn't put "SO I'm out of ideas" on your actual piece, because without it, your piece really [i]does[/i] look like a poster, which is pretty cool. Great job with the background; it really fits the theme you chose. The fact that the text starts with "ergy" is kind of weird. I know that you want the word "energy" to be centered there against the bulb, but maybe there's a way for that still work and not have a bright white ERGY starting off the line. Maybe if the letters faded in a little bit? I don't know. Also on the subject of text, did you try putting a white stroke around the black "energy" in the middle? Right now it really sinks in, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. If I had done this piece, I would have changed the shape of the second line of text. It seems strangely tall (perhaps because the line above it doesn't have any ascenders), so I would squish it down a little bit. Make it look more, uh, streamlined or something. I'd also probably put some little ghosted-white energy factoids in the background, just to go along with the science poster theme. You know, stuff like "Fact: if twenty thousand people combed their hair at the same time, the static electricity generated would be enough to cook a pizza." Or something. [b]Eclipse[/b]: I like the way you did the flames at the bottom of your piece. They look really cool. The lightbulb seems out of place when next to them, though. The way you darkened and reddened the lightbulb itself helped a lot, but I still have trouble associating a glowing bulb with raging flames. I mean, I know there are electrical fires and stuff, and they both give light...but in the end, it's still hard for me to get past. Maybe if instead of red, you had gone with blue (to play more with the 'electrical fire' bit. For some reason I always think of electricity being blue. That might just be me though, in which case you should probably not take my advice) or something less forest fire-y. Interesting choice of copy?it's neat how each of you came up with very different takes on the lightbulb, while 75% of the butterfly submissions originally had to do with freedom. Anyway, the text goes with the fire more than it does with the lightbulb. I have to admit that I really hate the font you used, though. The text is small, it's dark, it's hard to read, and the font itself doesn't say anything to me about fire [i]or[/i] flirtation. This font is to sexy pick-up lines as reclusive old math professors are to the MTV Sexy Person Awards. If the second is being presented by the first, you're going to seriously doubt its validity. So, the flames look great, and the text is a neat choice. I would have played with fonts a lot more, hopefully finding something that supported the text instead of taking away from it. Between those two elements, you have the potential for a pretty cool piece here. But the original lightbulb image just doesn't seem to [i]fit[/i]. I think your piece would actually be stronger without it. [b]My vote goes to Kitty[/b].[/color][/size]

[color=#b0000b][size=1][b]Aaryanna[/b]: Spooky! When I first saw your image, I was stunned by how colorful you made it. The blues and reds on the moon, and the bright blue stars...wow. It does seem like you were going two different directions with this, though. The stars and the colored moon seem like they belong more in a National Geographic issue about some kind of nebula or something. On the other hand, the house, witch, and text would probably have been just as (if not more) effective with the original moon colors. Really nice find on the house image. It fits your text and theme perfectly. With such an eerie, three-dimensional house, though, it's a little strange the the witch is just a silhouette. If I were doing this image, I would have kept the moon the original color, but moved it a little higher on the page so that less of it was behind the house. The house and tree branch (which is my favorite part of the image!) would stay where they are (I might try to find more branches to put around the image, too, actually. I really like the effect of looking through the trees at this haunted house), and the witch would be shrunk a bit and then moved up so that she's fully againt the moon. I think being completely set against the brightest part of the picture would take care of the weird "3d house, 2D witch" problem. I would also have chosen a different font for the text?what you have right now just seems so...[i]cheerful[/i]. =] [b]Retri[/b]: Simple. Bright. Interesting. Love the satellite imagery achieved with the text. I'm glad the secondary text isn't full justified; that would have made things too simple and symmetrical. Not so much a fan of the font you used for the main text, but it certainly works here. Don't know what else to say, ha ha. [/color][/size]