Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Well, these are my Warner Bros desk calendars from year 2005 - 2011.

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

I worked on this one for the first time in months @Vortexeo. I tend to juggle music projects when I have a good flow.

back in my NL cam chats i used to throw some sausages in the oven and have baked potatoes at the ready after the vid chat.
i think its time again. there a lot of stuff i need to do again...

@Anti-Matter Your drew this????

@ogo79 Oh man do you ever.

@BloodNinja
and look at you over here...
are you the one responsible for all the stealthy action goin on up in here?

lol, i really do and @Anti-Matter probably drew everything

i forgot to add this crap i ordered

@ThanosReXXX obviously if it meant England winning the whole thing I would be happy for the winner of the other semi to beat Italy in the final!

Spain are technically excellent sure but there is no end product.Tikataka was effective 10 years ago but has been found out by changes in systems. The fact that they played without a recognised striker for 60 mins meant that they would literally have had to walk it in. Morata coming on improved them a lot, not because he is a fantastic striker (he is not, although he took his goal well), but because they changed to a more effective formation. The fact they only beat one team (the joint worst team in the competition) in normal time shows that they weren’t good enough this year.

And your point about Golden Goal is incorrect - they did not switch every 15 mins until someone scored. It was still just two halves of 15 mins and would then go to penalties if goalless after the full 30 mins of extra time. In fact they scrapped it because it was generally agreed to be less successful at resolving matches pre penalties than the normal system they reverted to - teams were essentially too cagey about attacking because of the risk of being knocked out by a counterattack goal against the run of play.

@Snatcher
Yeah, long time ago when I was 20's years old.
But there were some pre made Looney Tunes characters taken from internet back when I still learnt to design.
The Speedy Gonzales on calendar 2005 was taken from internet but the other Warner Bros characters were hand drawing then edited with Corel Photopaint.
Started from calendar 2006 I used Vector drawing by using Corel Draw X3 after I got some private course about making vector drawing. And yeah, I got the Final Fantasy font since year 2004 (Runic MT condensed) during making calendar 2005.
I used the background from wallpaper I got from Google Image as I still learnt to design, but after making calendar 2010 I tried to make my own original calendar design without using wallpaper or certain images from internet so I made my original calendar on year 2011 and at the same time it was the last Warner Bros calendar I made. I have some plan to make Warner Bros XII for year 2012 with non Looney Tunes characters but I scrapped that idea as I continued my original design project. I have ever considering to remake calendar 2001 - 2004 with new Warner Bros logo like FF 1 - 4, but again I scrapped the idea.
BTW, if I still continuing Warner Bros desk calendar, it will be called Warner Bros XXI and FF XXI is not even exist yet. But I'm already done with Roman number Final Fantasy started from FF 13 as the last Final Fantasy I played.

@Anti-Matter Damn there nice looking.

Remember how I was always talking about wanting a watermelon picnic table? Well, I finally made one:

@Ogo79 - Hope you’re doing okay dude. That Respectobot is super cool. I’m positive there was a Predator character floating around the toy bin back in the day who had that exact body mold.

Conspiracy theory the abundance of fake Switch Pro rumors from so-called reputable sources which convinced everyone that we were getting a 4K Switch with improved CPU and GPU chips, more storage, and a plethora or other new features and yet wouldn't cost significantly more.... ( I can't even say that sarcastically with a straight face, lol)

Anyway, my conspiracy theory is that it was all done to build up click bait articles like crazy, then be ready to make a whole bunch more articles talking about how disappointed people are when the above "leaks" turned out the be the load of rubbish I expected them to be.

Joking aside, I don't actually think there was some evil plan or anything. But judging for most reactions I'm seeing online, a huge number of people did, legitimately, believe those so-called leaks. This doesn't surprise me much, because I was always harshly shut down every time I voiced my skepticism.

Personally I think the OLED Switch looks intriguing. I really want to see it for myself so I can judge the screen and improved audio before I buy it - because those are things that are hard to judge over another screen or set of speakers. But we'll see. The added benefit being that I was considering buying another dock anyway for the living room. So if I upgraded I could set up my OG Switch as a family unit and use the OLED as my primary device.

I do also think a Switch 2 is inevitable. But not for a few more years. Nintendo is famously tight lipped about future hardware (which is a smart choice that most companies do to avoid ruining sales of their current products) But they usually don't lie. They've said the Switch was in the middle of its intended lifespan. I personally suspect we are past the actual midpoint. But not by much.

@bimmy-lee OMG I freaking love this! That's such an adorable table! Perfect for summer! You did that yourself? It looks professionally manufactured! I bet you could take commissions for these things!

@Heavyarms55
I have one complain about Nintendo Switch as collector.
Not because of drifting issue.
Nintendo Switch game box design looks the worst from all Nintendo game box i have. It looks very boring when being displayed and you see all red spines with generic fonts. 3DS is the most beautiful game box design in my opinion and as collector, i really like to display 3DS game boxes.

Dude this one also sounds amazing! I didn't know you were so into music! What is your favorite video game OST?

@Anti-Matter That's a fair thing to not be a fan of. I just have to look to my right to see my big row of red on my shelf too. But I'd point out that video games aren't really sold to be collected. That's just something a lot of fans enjoy doing. So I doubt they think much about collecting when designing them.

@Heavyarms55 - Wow, thank you, I’m glad you like it, it certainly is bright and juicy. I put so much clear coat on it that it’s hard to take a picture of it, but it’s just now dried from the weekend and ready to be used. I bought the aluminum frame, then my carpenter neighbor cut and routed the boards and assembled it, then I painted it from bare wood. It’s actually a combined mother’s day/birthday gift for my wife. Been at it a little while, mainly on the weekends. I love doing stuff like this, but it’s hard to make money at it because it takes so long to do a multi coat paint job.

@Heavyarms55
Also, from the ratio size of front cover, i prefer PS4 / PS5 cover version than Switch version as PS4 / PS5 version have more appealing rectangle ratio size than Switch that looks like PSP cover (too long rectangle size). Here is the comparison.

@ogo79 That's a 100% factual representation of me in the 80's. I did the motion capture for Ninja Gaiden on the NES. Totally legit.

Apologies for the late response, hot summer days has me doing chores early, and when I went to my room, ended up playing Wing Commander Privateer.

Definitely, it will be interesting to see how DDLC works on console. Maybe it will, it definitely opened me up to visual novels. If you like psychological horror, I do recommend Higurashi. While it's only on PC AFAIK, it still has a really good story that's a unsettling at times, and even mysterious. I remember the story really sucked me in.

Alrighty, I think I saw that one around Easter, mom and I were looking for an Easter themed movie on Netflix. Kind of funny he ends up with CGI animals in two different movies from two different studios.

@Vortexeo Thanks! I’ve been doing this for around two years now, but they’ve gotten much better in the last nine months or so. If you like the stuff you’ve heard there’s a Google Drive folder in my forum signature with… upwards of fifty songs! I started out doing just Zelda covers but expanded to Final Fantasy, and Persona, so basically a JRPG lord.

I tend to cover my favourite songs, so the ones I’ve made are my favourite songs. There are some that are simply too good to even disrespect by saying you can cover it, like APOCALYPSIS NOCTIS. That song is so majestic and epic that it blows my socks away every time.

@Sunsy No stress at all, sorry to hear the heat’s getting you down! It’s not that much better here, believe me. Over 40 degrees Celsius (over 105 degrees Fahrenheit) since May!

I’m not a big fan of psychological horror due to graphic violence but there’s some exceptions I can make for sure; A Quiet Place, Doki Doki in future, the first half of “The Silence of the Lambs” (bloody hell that film disturbed me for days)… I’d love to explore visual novels though, so I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks!

They’d better not cast Marsden for the Mario movie, we already have enough skepticism as is!