Trunks/Vegeta/Liger/Zechs

Frieza

Ace

Sub

SolarSonic

Galactic Magi

Nemo

Magnus X Zero/GamefreakForeverX

 

[The One Year Bar]

 

 

3/3/2008 10:43:03 PM

Ahem.

So we have come to another chapter of our most prestigious establishment, home of many fine minds... Provided we can drop the beer for long enough.

Things shall be different now however. No longer will we be mired in the mud of slovenly behavior, drunken outbursts, and lewd remarks. Today, we shall...

To hell with it, we don't need change. Cheers!

 

Everyone gathers around the rubble left from Frieza blowing up the bar amidst a frenzy of emotional accomplishment and emotionless drinking.

Trunks: I think you went a little overboard.

Frieza: What? Nah. This isn't nearly as bad as when Para attacked the whole city.

Trunks: Yes, but wasn't that just repaired via dimensional shifting or...something?

Frieza: Not exactly, see what happened-

Trunks: The point is! We have to actually restore this ourselves.

Frieza: So I'll just do what I did last time.

Trunks: No you won't.

Frieza: Why?

Trunks: Well first of all, Ace already collected the insurance money for-

Frieza: Wait. Wait, wait....wait. We had the Bar insured?

Trunks: I wouldn't say that. We did have an insurance plan that covered the bar though.

...

Trunks: The uh...the previous owner took out insurance. We..."inherited" the plan when we took over.

Frieza: That seems awfully responsible for something we would do.

Trunks: *shrugs* I take solace in the fact that it was illegitimate.

Frieza: Okay so why does the fact that we have the insurance money mean we can't just bend physics to make a new bar.

Trunks: The IRS would be all over us for that. We collect the insurance money, and then the cost of building a new Bar is nothing?

Frieza: Since when has tax fraud stopped us in the past?

Trunks: Believe me, I know. But it's to the point where if we kill one insurance agent they just send two more our way. Imagine what'll happen with this!

Frieza: Again, why would this stop us? Sub's monsters in the basement usually take care of them.

Trunks: Well, you see, it's been an especially bad flu year. A lot of them are under the weather.

Frieza: What about the others?

Trunks: They're, you know, full.

Frieza: Full.

Trunks: It's like I said! We kill one and they just send two more.

Frieza: Good to know our tax money is being well spent. Okay, so you're telling me that those monsters we have in the basement...

Trunks: Yes.

Frieza: ...the ones that eat humans and drink acid...

Trunks: Yes.

Frieza: ...and who have no motivation to live other than to know there is a possibility that in their future they will be able to inflict more pain on the world...

Trunks: Yes.

Frieza: ...have been smitten by the flu?

Trunks: It's been a bad flu year.

Frieza: I see.

...

Frieza: So we have to actually buy a new bar. Okay, that's not a problem. We'll just get Vegeta to skim more of Bulma's money.

Trunks: That's not going to work either.

Frieza: What?

Trunks: They took a second honeymoon.

Frieza: So?

Trunks: They're not really able to be contacted.

Frieza: What! We can just fly there!

Trunks: Uh...

Frieza: ...

Trunks: No I mean they REALLY can't be contacted. They went to a pretty remote locale.

Frieza: Where?

Trunks: Well...that's not really the right question.

Frieza: They...what?

Trunks: They went seventy years in the future. To a moon colony. Even if we were to go forward in time and go there, they're not scheduled to come back for two weeks and there's nothing we could do to change that.

Frieza: And the time machine to come back will only go back seventy years...so they'll get back two weeks from now.

Trunks: Well, a week and a half now.

Frieza: And what happened to the insurance money?

Trunks: You didn't see the limos full of hookers driving by earlier?

Frieza: Oh...right...

...

Nemo: Oh rubble...you are my only friend! No one loves me like you do...

...

Frieza: Yeah...I think I may have gone overboard.

 

(Big the Cat500) This one won't make it to 500.

 

It absolutely will, even if I have to talk to myself to do it.

 

(Tabcef) DE CULTURE!

FRAK


DE CULTURE



i missed?!

 

^Best scene since Ace's concert finale.
---
Frieza: Ok, here's the plan. We telekinetically resynthesize this rubble into a new bar - with safety covers on the electric outlets, since Nemo's back - then we bend physics so much that it envelops the bar in a positronic time-distortion sphere, thereby constantly displacing it several seconds into the future and hiding it from all government eyes.

Trunks: Is abusing the fabric of reality your answer for everything? One of these days you're going to break something.

Frieza: Please. What we do here is nothing compared to the insanity that went on in this city back in its golden age. I mean, just the word JENGA-

(Rubble turns into penguins)

Frieza: ...moving along, I guess handling this with bribery has its up sides too. It's not like earning some money will be difficult for us.

(Everyone gasps)

Frieza: I'm sorry. I meant "obtaining" some money.

Trunks: How?

Frieza: We could go through our blackmail list.

Sub: Too late. I did that last month to restock our uranium supply.

Frieza: Ok, how about a kidnapping for ransom?

Trunks: Nobody ever gives in to our demands.

Frieza: Right. But speaking of that, perhaps Santa would be "willing" to give us an advance on our well deserved gifts this year.

GM: I think he's still incarcerated from that time you tricked him into murdering Frosty the Snowman.

Frieza: We could lease Sub's torture room to the military as an offshore interrogation facility.

Sub: They said they generally want their prisoners to survive. Wimps.

Frieza: Rig the lottery?

Trunks: We only have one time machine.

Frieza: Uh...we could sell Nemo to science again.

Nemo: (rolling on floor, being attacked by penguins) Oh, my rock! My rock! Why hath thou forsaken me!?

Trunks: I think they had their fill the first time.

Frieza: China might still be interested.

Trunks: With the Olympics coming up they've been trying to keep a low profile.

Frieza: Alright, fine! We'll rob liquor stores until we have enough money to pretend to erect a business! Happy now?!

Trunks: Wait...don't you own, like, entire galaxies?

Frieza: And? Don't you own a million dollar beach house?

Trunks: ...point taken.

Magnus: Hey guys, this abandoned building across the street is about the right size for a bar! And I think it comes furnished with its own basement monsters!

(Macabre screams echo from the broken windows)

Magnus: No, wait, those are demons. It comes with basement demons. I think there's a portal to Hell, too.

Sub: Demons make a damn good drink.

Frieza: And that portal sounds like an excellent solution to our tax problems. Now then, let's see if I can't trick physics into giving us back our beer reserves.

(The gang enters, followed by penguins carrying Nemo in a giant champaign glass)
--------

Thanks again to Tab. Not only did I get the 500, we finally finished without double posting!
Classy opening, Magnus. And it used to be impossible to make two topics with the same title. We used to alternate "and" with &, or spell saiya-jin differently. Is it a result of the merger with Gamespot?

 

Actually, I switched the "l" at the end of Grill to a capital i.

l

I

Can YOU see the difference?

 

I hadn't noticed the post count. Also, it was probably a poor financial decision to blow up the bar.

captnemo | Posted 3/3/2008 10:28:38 AM | message detail
GM...was there ever a time where you DIDN'T look way too skinny? I wish I could steal some of your metabolism.


Yes. You hadn't seen me the past few months. I seem to be done growing and I've gotten rid of an ENORMOUS amount of stress so my body was beginning to allow change. Same amount of work as before, it was just the external results finally showing. I still have a low body fat percentage (last I checked my scale said ~7.8%) so when I have muscle mass it looks great. My body fat percent hasn't changed even though my muscles have atrophied so I don't have any buffer to make me look bigger. I prefer it to having extra fat, but what you see is pretty much all my muscle mass at any given time. Ah well. I'll get it back.

 

How much do you exactly weigh?

 

*stares at Nemo being hauled around by hoard of penguins*

Sub: hmmmm.....my monsters are sick with the flu and I have to gain control over these demons downstairs........ Penguins may just be the answer......

*grabs penguin from back of crowd*

Sub: You will now be used for war.

*Runs outside. Spots limo full of hookers and throws the penguin directly through the sky roof*

Freiza: Why did you just do that?

Sub: Penguin sex leads to war.....right?.....y'know....I'm not quite sure anymore. I think I've become to soft.......

*All SPA members kinda look around at each other nervously for about 2 minutes*

Sub:*Sigh*

*Fiery limo crashes through the wall spewing out several burning corpses and one blood splattered penguin*

Sub:YES!


---
I'm one of the OCEANIC SIX!!!!!!

 

About 134 as of now. 5' 11.


Also, this bar is deceptive! We are in the BAR AND GRILI!!! Where is our grill?!

 

^^^Another use for the penguins? Or maybe an ACTUAL use for Nemo?

 

There is no actual use for Nemo. I can personally vouch for that. ; )

 

Come to think of it, said heathen is even unwilling to fetch others a drink when asked to do so and is sitting around doing nothing! Even when you have a pretty woman on your lap. Friggin' Nemo. What good are you?! o_o

 

Due to above financial issues, we've had to make some cuts in the "grill" part.

 

Thanks guys, I love you too!

Also, I'm glad the skit went over well. I was going to have it be the first post of a new bar...but one got created in the time it took me to write it. Oh well. Funny stuff by Frieza and Sub too.

 

The screams echo up from the basement as the SPA inspects the building. No one really pays it any mind, in fact Frieza is actually nodding his head as if to some good music. The screams reach a pitch and volume intense enough to shake the walls before the whole building is shook with a massive thump.

The stone beneath the building cracks and a nearly skeletal hand wreathed in leathery skin shoots up from between the fissures in the concrete. It grabs a handhold on the floor sand proceeds to pull the rest of its smoking carcass out of the black spaces between the floor and wherever those awful screams are coming from.

"K--koff'--Kra- HACK!!-- Kratos...don't... have... ****... on me!"

The broken down emaciated body stumbles to its feet and walks up the stairs toward the floor that the rest of the guys are inspecting their new digs. The disgusting creature looks back over its shoulder and yells an incoherent commands down the stairs. Shuffling sound come from below along with curses spat in demonic tongues. The brutish creatures rise from the depths holding a fleshy bundle of skin and raw flesh over their shoulders. They sit it down on the counter by their equally evil-looking master. One of the more stumpy beasts ambles up to him and hands the creature an obsidian mug that looked like it was crafted from blackened bone.

The half-dead monster barks something at the others and forces them back down the stairs with a bright green glowing glare. They slink back into the basement and the wailing screams continue.

The one creature left stabs a finger into the twitching bundle on the counter. He dips the mug beneath the hole just as a spray of some black liquid comes out of the thing. The creature looks at all of the SPA members staring at him and then raises his mug.

"Bottoms... up..."

He downs the liquid in one shot and slams the mug down on the counter.

"It took you long enough," Frieza remarks.

The skin on the creature begins to fill out from thick leathery hide into a dark red hue. Fur begins to erupt from his form as muscle definition returns. "I... koff' 'HACK!!' I woulda been back sooner," the creature says, looking at Frieza angrily. "But just as I was runnin' back toward the gate I punched into the fifth layer of Hell, someone(I won't name names) had to blow up the bar and destroy my way out. It took me two years to get back. But I got it, MAN!!!"

Ace picks up the demonic, living keg. "Demon Ale, son! If we pour some on a tree, it'll grow money and that sucker's root'll be gold!"

Frieza claps his hands twice and then wordlessly walks away. "'Snort!' Money...."

"Beats workin', don't it?"

 

(Tabcef) abe lincoln



uppercutting hitler

 

Ace! Now if only Trunks would show up this would be the most perfect reunion we've ever had.
---
Frieza: Magi, what rock have you been under all this time? We've been demolishing the bar on a regular basis from the beginning! It's a hell of a lot easier than cleaning it. This hooker blood, for instance, would require cleaning agents not of this world to get it out of the...Elizabethan coffee table...and with the frequency that vehicles and various explosive forces make new doors in the building's facade, the loss of structural integrity makes it financially unsound to maintain it. Why, after a few months of this the ceiling would start coming down, crushing our precious...porcelain tea set...Magnus, what the hell is this?

Magnus: I think this place used to be an antique shop. I guess some of the stuff wasn't looted.

Frieza: I supposed it'll have to do until Vegeta gets back with our money (or Ace grows some). But we can't operate without a grill. Being able to properly cook anyone and anything on a whim is a necessity.

(Blasts hole in floor to demonic basement. Endless column of fire shoots up)

Frieza: Hm. A bit too high.

(Covers hole with bodies. The hellfire becomes more manageable)

Frieza: There we are. We just have to keep a fresh supply of bodies on it to replace the ones that burn up (looks over at Sub forming penguin army). That should be no problem.

(Pours demon ale into 19th century Satsuma tea cup and sips elegantly)

 

I wonder if the FDA has any laws about using human bodies as a stove.

 

(Tabcef) dry

 

breezin'

 

I imagine they don't, but there's always the ethical considerations. Assuming any of us listen to that nagging little voice anymore. What a brat. I hate that guy.

captnemo | Posted 3/5/2008 10:32:49 AM | message detail
Thanks guys, I love you too!

Should of gotten me my drink, skippy. Ya made me get up. WHY?! You were just sitting there!

 

(Tabcef) quis custodiet ipsos custodes

 

un jour, plus qu'avant

je t'aimerais

 

(Casts translation spell)

Frieza: One day, more than front, I would love you? Are...are you coming on to me?

 

(Tabcef) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GePAG2aUhE&feature=related



i watched this as a kid



MAX STERLING.

 

las voces estan en espanol


cependant les sous-titres sont en francais



ABRA FUEGO

 

dragon kick you into the milky way!

MY ARM
MY ARM
MY ARM
MY ARM
MY ARM

 

hand to hand
or
fist to fist
kicking nuts to twist your wrist
gotta have power to keep my pimp hand strong

 

What are you on Tabby?

 

(Zari) Wow...a surprise to see this board still somewhat alive and people from when it originally was made AND this bar and grill topic =/

---
"watching the credits, i am just amazed more than 3 people worked on this show."-FlyinBrian on 12 oz. Mouse

 

"What can I say? I die hard."

 

Gasp! A mysterious person. I don't recognize your name.

 

She's a veteran, super old-school.

And I must say, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is quite fun, even if it is just more of the same.

 

I should recognize her then. Ah well.

 

I'm kind of disappointed about a lot of the subtleties that got changed in Brawl, especially in regards to edge guarding. It takes out a lot of the strategy and skill that was required to be really good at Melee.

Not that that's going to keep me from playing ridiculous amounts of Brawl. It's still amazing.

 

(Zari) ^^^^Ditttoooo....I wish online play "with anyone" had stock and I didn't have such HORRIBLE input delay though. But I'm in love with console gaming again (I got sucked into WoW...well...still on it but I make time for Brawl).

 

I longed for this game from 8th grade all through high school, from the days I played the first two Smash Bros with my brother ritually after school to the days when my free time was just starting to fade. The epoch of online console gaming missed me by a few years. I can't really complain because I could surely make enough time to get back into it regularly, but I've chosen more important things. I don't feel jealous, just a bit left out. I'll have to get my hands on a Wii sometime soon. We'll get a game going.

 

smart decision Frieza. I've cut video games out of my life as well. The only game I really want to make time to play is Final Fantasy Dissidia. Even Brawl I'm not making the time for, though I might try eventually. Used to really want Spore, now I'm probably not going to touch it. Developing skills is more important.

 

(Tabcef) right?


WRONG

 

I'm probably not even going to be playing "with anyone" once I get a wireless router into my dorm room. That will have to wait at least a week though as next week is spring break and I'll be home!

 

I have two phases on that front.

Phase 1: Get an internet connection for myself

Phase 2: Get X-box Live

The next phase of the plan involves fragging and much sneak-killing. The phase after that is getting a Wii. And then comes '?'. And then PROFIT, MAN!!!

 

(Zari) Oh yeah and I didn't know that was you Gamefreak =D I need to get on AIM more often =X Hope college life is treatin you well!

 

Apparently I can just get an ethernet adapter for my Wii and plug it right into the wall in my dorm room. I'm all for that as it is not only cheaper, but actually allowed. For some reason we can't have personal wireless routers in the dorm.

 

I dream of it sometimes. An endless expanse, void save for a shining door, through which time ceases to exist. And her. The one I love, the one I've lost.

I dream of it sometimes. This place, the final destination of my endless wandering. She's waiting for me there. And I will find her.

She who waits at the End of Time.

 

(Tabcef) reagaNOMICS

 

(Walks in painted green)

Frieza: 'tis St. Pattie's day me laddies! Und you know what that means, don't ya?

GM: Green beer?

Sub: Fried leprechaun?

Nemo: Kilts?

Frieza: Aye, but that's been sort of a daily thing lately.

(Points to leprechaun army adorned in Braveheart battlements waging war against basement demons, each trying to lay claim to a glowing green barrel labeled "Seizure ****")

Frieza: Thar be only one way to rightly celebrate this saintly holiday. Dance contest!

(Stage emerges from the back wall)

Frieza: Whosoever dances the fanciest jig shall be the ruler of all the northern isles!

(Puts on 18th century Irish clogs and river dances with green penguins from Nemo's dreamworld)

 

You know I really forgot that it was St. Paddy's Day today.

 

(Tabcef) ireland circa 1988

 

WATCH JOHN RAMBO NOW


IT is seriously THE BEST

BEST

BEST
BEST


action movie of the new millenium


i mean seriously, JESUS CHRIST IT IS AMAZING



it blows every single action movie i have seen in theaters out of the water


but make sure you watch it in a theater, else you honestly will not get the full/same experience


watching it at home and at the theaters is such a huge difference



WATCH JOHN RAMBO

 

Aren't you a little late on that Tabby?

 

(ImNotNEG) Watch Fantasia

Your only 70 years late if you have not.

 

I remember going to a Disney music workshop with my orchestra in the summer, and we had a recording session timed to Fantasia. One of the hardest things I ever did. Everyone in the orchestra got a laugh when we got the tape of our session.

 

(ImNotNEG) Nice, any idea which piece you did? (or should I say segment? eh)

 

The Sorcerer's Apprentice, I think there might have been another segment as well. We did Ursula's segment from The Little Mermaid too.

 

(ImNotNEG) Ah

 

(Xiaon) faht

 

(ImNotNEG) You clearly don't understand our hosed up culture. Either that or the UK is piss poor and we are blinging.

 

wait wat

 

(ImNotNEG) Excuse me Tab? Why are you insulting the UK now?

 

(Tabcef) PRINCE OF WIZARDS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K4mhWA30kk&feature=user

 

(ImNotNEG) I asked you a question Tab. You have no right to insult either me or my nation. Now answer me, you bloody wuss of a man.

 

(Tabcef) who sent you


who sent you!!

 

I personally suspect Neg as just being a puppet being controlled by Tron....I mean Tabuu....

 

(Tabcef) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3jM4CGwn4g


:

pimp


(one helluva ice burn)

 

(ImNotNEG) Immature idiots with no common sense. What you do isn't anything new Tab.

Congratulations for pissing me off for having **** for brains from you're part.

It's like talking to a bloody 1960's drugged up hippy, ffs. Noone here cares to annoy with actual wit anymore. No sense of...actually being clever when you insult someone. Well bloody done.

 

(Tabcef) damn hippies ruininng everything




pip pip cheerio british language




on the other hand, if you're gettin' mad about this kinda thing


well, i'd say you have an anger problem




on an even better note that quote was taken in completely wrong context

a fellow from the uk was askin' about the standard price of living/wages in comparison to the US

and this was one of the responses 'cause the guy basically said something waaaay wrong bout the US's price of livin'/wages.



do you seriously think you're witty

i mean, honestly seriously






really




no, really





you have got to be kidding me












irrational nationalism is the best.

 

(ImNotNEG) Learn to write.

 

(Tabcef) i sphith on you

prince of all wizards

twah

 

(ImNotNEG) Learn to speak.

 

(Tabcef) just learn

 

(ImNotNEG) Nice to see you ran out of things to insult me (or the UK) about when I hadn't said anything on my end.

Learn from that mistake, cheers thanks bye.

 

(Tabcef) It's like talking to a bloody 1960's drugged up hippy, ffs. Noone here cares to annoy with actual wit anymore. No sense of...actually being clever when you insult someone. Well bloody done.

 

HIPPIESSSSSS


BOARDS


raaaaargh

 

(ImNotNEG) Yes, I can see how those concepts can be a tad complicated for you.

 

(Tabcef) 'scuse me bob i'd hate to do this again but


RAAARGHHH

HIPPIESSS


RAAAGHHH

pushups

 

berkley


iraq


berkley

iraq


not sure


berkley

 

(ImNotNEG) In english please.

 

Just let it go, NEG. You're only going to make yourself crazy.

 

In AD 2008, war was beginning.

 

(Tabcef) tony blair did 7/7


never forget

 

(ImNotNEG) What do you mean Frieza?

 

(Tabcef) Yes, I can see how those concepts can be a tad complicated for you.

 

(ImNotNEG) Try not stealing insults you yourself can't think up, Tab.

 

I believe that is what people call sarcasm and wit.

 

(ImNotNEG) He shouldn't steal those, either.

 

OBJECTION!

Sarcasm and wit belongs to everybody. It cannot be stolen.

 

(Tabcef) like king midas

everything i touch turns to gold







which kinda sucks in retrospect


(justl ike king midas)

 

(ImNotNEG) In english please.

 

Come now, that was plain English.

 

(ImNotNEG) >:^(

I'll PLAIN english YOU.

 

Wow, everyone's comments seem so civil (seriously). It's interesting to see excerpts from an argument with NEG from just the side without him.

 

(ImNotNEG) Eh?

 

April is turning out to be quite lovely here. Loving the spring weather and longer days.

 

(Tabcef) familiar faces...

familiar places...

but why...?

 

i swim through a sea of stars
without looking back to the shore
faster than light, bending time.


forever.
wherever.

 

(ImNotNEG) In english please.

 

In Soviet Russia, English please you

 

English doesn't sound pretty enough to please someone just on it's voice.

 

(Tabcef) poetry is kinda lame


...a man made nightmare.


~from recovered voice recorder~

 

(ImNotNEG) I doubt you could write poetry Tab, when you can't write proper sentences.

 

broken broken broken record

 

(Tabcef) basking in the summer sun

i greeted the sunbirds.

but then

i entered the demon's den.

 

a massive shadow

threatens the city

this used to be our only sanctuary...

 

once he was

a fearless hero,

now

a forest watchdog.

what evil
keeps him
leashed here
?

 

~from recovered voice recorder~

 

Perchance you've never thought about it NEG, but what Radiohead and Tab do IS a form a poetry.

 

It would be interesting to see a bard in an RPG that was awesome. Every time I think of some person reading poetry I get this picture of a colorful dandy in my mind. Well, at least if it's a guy. If it's a girl I get the coffee-house, bongo drum, dark clothing chick. Why is beyond me.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard%27s_Tale_%282004%29

?

 

(Tabcef) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHDdAV0q2Zc&feature=related

127-140


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

What is this remastered DBZ devilry? I know they remastered the Cowboy Bebop movie on Blu-ray recently.

 

(Tabcef) OH ****


ALIEN INVASION!

run!

 

We believe focusing on the metacognitive deficits of the unskilled may help explain this overall tendency toward inflated self-appraisals. Because people usually choose what they think is the most reasonable and optimal option ( Metcalfe, 1998 ), the failure to recognize that one has performed poorly will instead leave one to assume that one has performed well. As a result, the incompetent will tend to grossly overestimate their skills and abilities.

 

Tonight The Office returns.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5066/dukexl2.gif

 

(Tabcef) vs. the infinite sadness

 

Infinite Sadness Defeated.

Winner is: HAPPY DAY!

 

God bless orange chicken.

 

(Tabcef) he's singing

IN KOREAN

 

Salt Peanuts

 

Or preferably, garlic toast.

 

(Tabcef) moby dick:

dedicated to one of the worst writers to ever come out of the puritan education system


NEVERENDING SENTENCES YEAHHHH


the only good thing about moby dick is queequeg, because an indian with a harpoon eatin' rare steaks is the best kind of indian

on the other hand the sea the sea the sea philosophihcal dribble the sea the sea the sea by the way i am poor and kind of a dick CHARACTERIZATION

 

I dunno, Moby Dick had its moments.

The Scarlet Letter, on the other hand...

 

(ImNotNEG) I hate you so much, Tab.

 

I can sense the hate levels rising once again!

 

So do any of you guys know much about the upcoming DBZ movie?

 

Just that it's the King Piccolo Saga and they've chosen some of the actors. And Toriyama isn't really involved anymore.

 

And based on pictures of Goku (Justin Chatwin), it looks like epic failure.

At least Emmy Rossum is pretty.

 

(Tabcef) krillin's a pimp

(let me whisper in yo ear)

 

gimme some links

 

(Tabcef) well here comes revelation

 

I don't know, it COULD be alright if they're REALLY loose with the adaptation. And from what I know they are. But I don't know the plot aspect and how different that is.

I can't imagine it being above decent though.

 

hahaha

b-hop lost

haha

 

(Tabcef) there is a new spider man cartoon


it is amazing.







listen to tony!

he's grreat!

 

Why is Batman fighting Sub-Zero?

 

(Tabcef) breaktionary



beat boxing


scratching


combined are amazing, holy god

 

dave grohl:

extreme mustache close-ups

 

Well intramural track didn't go quite as expected, but I still managed to perform pretty well. At any rate, I had fun.

 

Legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs

 

(Tabcef) man's fear has withered-
and even time tries to wither the desire to know the truth

is it a crime to try and learn the truth?

is it a sin to try and search for those things you fear?



fear- it is something vital to us puny creatures

the instant man stops fearing is the instant the species will reach a dead end, only to sink to pitiable lows, only to sit and wait apathetically for extinction


wake up!

don't be afraid of knowledge!

humans who lose the capacity to think become creatures whose existance has no value!

think, you humans who are split into two words!

unless you want the gulf between humans to expand into oblivion, you must think!

 

(Floats adrift in a timeless void)

(The telephone rings)

(It's for you)

 

So...

I guess we're a drug cartel now?

 

(Tabcef) The new Jet Li/Jackie Chan movie is really conflicting.

The plot is headache-causing bad, like mega-crazy bad stupid bad aghhhh


but the action and comedy are really good.

 

The plot wasn't that bad. It's not like a lot of old Hong Kong films had amazing plots.

Either way, I enjoyed the movie a lot.

 

(Tabcef) good god, the girl had RANDOM EXPOSITION OUT OF NOWHERE



and she talked in third person


bad engrish third person


and everyone spoke really badly accented english, and when they want non-chinese people to understand simple things like 'ganbei', they say it really stupidily accented rather than correctly


not to mention the subtitles were off and the overall chinese acting is like 500x better in the movie when it's RIGHT NEXT TO THE ENGLISH

 

I'm still not really seeing the problem.

 

(Tabcef) the acting and plot when it's in english are really bad


but


you know it could be so much better if there wasn't a white kid there

because the scenes with chinese are severely better


except the girl with white hair she can't act at all good god

actually both of them can't act but still

 

I dunno, it wasn't that bad to me, maybe mediocre at best but nothing that really bothered me. I didn't go in with high expectations anyway, and I was satisfied with what I got; a fun, if not flawed, movie.

 

(Tabcef) yes well i came from the movies flashpoint, new police story, and fearless



mostly flashpoint, good god what a perfect balance of shooting and punching

 

Police Story > New Police Story

 

(Tabcef) yeah well rob b hood wasn't as good as new police story

i'm referring to more recent movies anyways

that's like saying a better tomorrow is better than pirates of the caribbean 3 or something


i mean, really

 

judging the quality of someone's character based on their ability to insult someone is probably a bad idea


but so far it's worked for me

 

I'm just saying, if you're gonna list movies as the pedigree for others to be compared against, you might as well use the best.

 

(ImNotNEG) Karma post.

 

(Tabcef) i'm a tomatoooooo



ROOOOGERR SMIIITH

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aesZe4NFQE0

 

So does Flashpoint actually have any relation to Sha Po Lang? I'm just curious, especially since SPL was badass.

 

(Tabcef) nah, it doesn't

it's still really badass though

 

Interpetation of art and literature seems to be the worst subject to ever come out of modern society. With all sorts of muddled BS about what art or literature is, it seems that the entire purpose of the concept of 'interpetation' in the art world is to pat people on the back for more or less, being complete and utter failures at the thing that they believe that they are good at. The only advantage that comes to this is the almost otherworldly amounts of 'beautiful works of art' that appear on this horrible, horrible compilation of humanity's failures and faults. Ever heard the thing about how a teacher who pushes their students hard does so because they care? It's something similar to that, I think. Without critique, no improvement comes to anyone- not to the teacher's salary, not to the student's ability, and definitely not to the system as a whole. Why is it that there is a system that promotes the fellating of retards in an environment where they should be weeded out? Passive agressivism is not an option when it comes to fields that are subjective- there is a reason why someone can tell the difference between a stick figure and Carvaggio- because they haven't been introduced to this culture of sychophants, stuck in this mysterious pond void of talent or reason , where even a small dip can cause severe mental retardation.

 

His thesis statement is a bit broader than what he's really talking about. Strictly speaking, every form of communication has to be interpereted. Even if someone were to walk up to you and bluntly declare "I'm going to kill you," you still have to interpret it, first the idea expressed in the audible syllables as dictated by the language, then factoring in the context, body language, etc. With art the general idea is to communicate something (or nothing) in a creative way, so interpretation is naturally a critical part of it. What he seems to be railing against is the idea that you can't call something bad art because it's all subjective, and I'm inclined to agree. Art isn't really as subjective as people think, but from the perspective of an individual that's irrelevant if they really get something out of it. And if a lot of people get something out of what people of higher minds would call worthless, that gives it some kind of worth. No value as art, but certainly value to its fans and maybe even a sociological value depending on how many people are praising it.

 

Totally irrelevant to the intriguing debate above, but it is a gorgeous day where I'm at today. It's one of those days that just cheer you up for no real reason.

Despite the fact that its the end of semester with all the associated exams and such, its days like these which really make me feel great.

 

(Tabcef) what do you say to someone who is

a. smarter than you
b. younger than you
c. insulting you



answer:
'where are you going'

 

mor lik "SHOW ME YOUR MOVES"

 

Such days are the stuff of life.

 

(Tabcef) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PKa7KDq1aU


SMOKEY B

 

http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/sdbf/black

 

What we'll see will defy...?

 

*cough*

 

(Hands Nemo liqueur cough drops)

 

*Appreciates*

Ugh. My two stupid best friends are done with finals as of last week and mine didn't start until this week. And I have not one, but two on the last day, this Friday.

And they're the two I need to study the most for.

And one is at 8am.

Thank god I still have plenty of things to keep me distracted from doing said studying.

 

(Tabcef) dumb racist white people hate barrack obama

(hussein)


>50000 a year

white

west virginia

non-college educated


whoops!

 

I thought it was <50000 a year? It would not surprise me if I was wrong though.

 

(Tabcef) yeah, it's that one, my mistake

 

Freaking Marvin Hagler, beast in Fight Night.

 

Yesss, finally took down Hagler.

 

(Tabcef) to reeeeeeeeaaaachhhh

the unreachable staaaaaaar



alonso quixano: first astronaut?

 

(POLLY_01) *graduates tomorrow*

 

Congrats. Let's see, that makes you one year younger than the general board population and 3 or 4 years younger than the old folks.

 

(Tabcef) geez ya'll are geezers

 

why is it that when french and world war 2 are brought up no one actually knows anything about what the french did

all i hear about is 'the french surrendered hurr hurr' from folks

it's really weird, 'cause i read somewhere that their leaders had their heads up their asses and surrendered because they were getting destroyed by blitzkreig and didn't know how to do anything right

and then a bunch of french batallions went and joined up with the allied forces

i really don't understand this idea of 'french are surrendering cowards' when supposedly the french's tank force utterly mauled the german mechanized units


is it just anti-intellectualism at work?

 

Churchill flew to Paris on May 16. He immediately recognized the gravity of the situation when he observed that the French government was already burning its archives and preparing for an evacuation of the capital. In a somber meeting with the French commanders, Churchill asked General Gamelin, "Where is the strategic reserve?" which had saved Paris in the First World War. "There is none," Gamelin replied. Later, Churchill described hearing this as the single most shocking moment in his life. Churchill asked Gamelin when and where the general proposed to launch a counterattack against the flanks of the German bulge. Gamelin simply replied "inferiority of numbers, inferiority of equipment, inferiority of methods".

 

oh that is hilarious, 'you would've been speaking german if it wasn't for US THE US YEAHHH AMERICAA'


except:

The liberation was an uprising by the French Resistance against the German Paris garrison. On 24 and 25 August, the FFI resistants received backup from the Free French Army of Liberation and the uprising evolved to urban warfare with the use of barricades, submachine guns, and tanks firing against Nazi and Milice snipers until the German surrender on 25 August.

so basically...

america barely helped the french liberate paris and that famous march stuff was days, if not weeks after the french liberate paris


what's up with all this misinformation?



actually the same question comes out on the topic of reagan too, apparently he was just as bad as nixon based upon hearsay from educated individuals, but all i really have is a chart that says people got really, really, REALLY poor when he was around

 

man left 4 dead is coming out in november


that sucks

 

It's gonna be a long wait.

 

(Tabcef) someone showed me the new macross show

it is terrible

they removed everything that made robotech cool and added in generic boring crap

i mean robotech was awesome when i watched it as a kid

it had jazzy rock solos when space planes shot at each other

 

the GAME OVER YEAHHHHHH/ROOOOOLLLLINNGGG STAAAAAAAART/DAAAYTONNAAAAA guy sounds the exact same 14 years later

 

Coldplay's new album is really nice, nice cover too.

 

so broke

 

(Tosses Magnus a sack of money)

Frieza: It came from dead people, in case that matters to you.

 

I wish I could use that money...

In other news, who's got Firefox 3?

 

I heard about the record at the last minute and grabbed it. I don't like the new standard theme as much. Nothing else that I really use has changed.

(Tap dances on a land mine)

 

The only issue I have is that it messes with my WindowBlinds skins, screwing with all the menus. Otherwise, it's nice.

 

(Tabcef) george carlin:

dead


(not passed away)

 

(Speaks easy on the grape vine)

 

(Gets crazy on the moonshine)

 

(Tabcef) http://www.4thletter.net/ruined/capvcap.jpg

 

what is this i don't even

 

Wow. This thing can actually handle being online for a while. I'm grossly surprised.

I didn't do my homework before buying and now I've got a lemon of a computer that overheats likes nuts. (Dell Inspiron 5100... Avoid it like the plague, MAN!!!) Thankfully I only use it in AC environs, like the library I'm jacking wireless internet from. I guess I'll do this once every two weeks when I can.

Is everyone well this summer?

 

Since I can't afford to buy manga and anime in the incredible amounts I used to right now, I've come to the conclusion that the King of Procrastination has to MAKE IT instead. So, most of my spare time will be spent doing preparation work for school(finally) and buttloads more art than I did before. Hopefully everyone else isn't as burned out as I am on games. I should've bought a mess of PSP and PS2 games instead of getting Ninja Gaiden 2. That game is so annoying that I couldn't play it for more than a month. That was 54 bucks well wasted.

Aw, well. I guess thare's hope for the future.

Sonic Unleashed. Soul Caliber 4. Games I can dowload from X-box Live.

But then again. Hope proves itself the child of Disappointment.

 

My brother has the same problem with his laptop (parts have died from the heat at least 3 times, including the harddrive), but he had that customized so he has no one to blame.

Other than my group montage (which you've gotta see; it's on the site), all of my efforts since January (6 hours a week tops) have been focused on an RPGMaker scenario. I've yet to actually install RPGMaker, but I've been writing the intro and ending text, since that's the hard part and the real reason I'm making the game. After 35 pages, I think I've finally shaken off 5 years of rust and hit my stride.

The last game I finished was Twilight Princess, and it's probably going to stay that way for a while. There's a handful of Wii titles I'm interested in, but I'm well occupied with work and writing. I'll hold out for a price drop.

I'm more interested in Sonic Chronicles than Unleashed. A story by Bioware has to be good, or at least more interesting than anything we've seen so far.

 

(Tabcef) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=145_1215010761




the guy inside also had a gun.

 

Nobody likes rubberband AI.

 

(Tabcef) you know what's messed up

i have never heard of the iraq-iran war until now

why does nothing in school teach about it? it's one of the bloodiest wars within the past 30 years
the only other one that really comes to mind is the war in the 1990s with serbia/bosnia/croatia, and the yugoslavia/kosovo thing with NATO involvement

actually come to think of it, pretty sure i didn't learn about that at all in school either


hooray school: purposely avoiding world/US history from the 1960s and on

 

God bless America.

 

zomg avatar finale

 

It was so freakin beautiful, MAN!!! Azula and the Fire Lord got that *** whipped!!

 

(Tabcef) never seen avatar

looks kinda lame, yo


BER-SER-KER

BEEER-SEEEEER-KEEERR

tell me why

tell me why

 

Frieza: It occurred to me that, despite all the brain melting concoctions this bar has spawned, we've never actually brewed our own beer. Naturally, I immediately corrected this travesty. Hops and barley picked fresh from the alley out back, yeast grown under our own counter, and all left to ferment in one of our toilets. I call it...well I'd call it swill, but I was in a hurry. I'm considering using it as a form of cheap lighter fluid.

 

(Tabcef) and i won't feel



a thing.

 

Ha! Finito!!

http://acecs.deviantart.com/art/Frieza-vs-Ace-Move-2-93052579

Now that I've located a few places with free wifi, I can upload pics with impunity.

 

Ha ha! My two year wait is finally over!

I think the scan came out small; the words are hard to read. Ace's gloves look cool, and the way Frieza grabs the disk and the sword itself look almost exactly the way I pictured (blade was a touch wider in my mind). I don't think anyone would be able to tell it was a cutting disk, though. In the next scene, try to show that it still has that whirling buzzsaw effect around the edges.

 

Use the little download link to get the full-sized version. For some reason Deviant does that with big pics, shrinkin' them down too small.

 

(Tabcef) three glasses of water

you put food coloring in them

it's still water

 

Back from Colorado, just in time for the Olympics.

 

Redeem Team is doing well for themselves.

 

http://acecs.deviantart.com/art/FvA-Move-003-95046087

Next one is up and waitin'. Gimme about another ten or twenty minutes...

 

Acecs.deviantart.com

The next two have been put up and await reading. I'm extra proud of FVA Move 005. There's finally some action.

 

(Tabcef) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1402Bht5Ljk

GO BIG MAN

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxpFuQ8zv-A&feature=related

woooooooooooooo

 

The complements
-The shading tricks in move 3 are perfect and do a great job of filling it all in.
-I like the facial expression in 5, especially the closeup of Frieza! The pupils really intensify the look, perfectly expressing the cold, calculating approach to fighting he hides beneath his usually playful exterior. Perfect complement for the internal monologue, which was a creative way of adapting the move.
-The tail approaching is impressive. The whole bottom half of move 5 is great, except Ace after he's been hit. He needs some cleaning up.

The complaints
-The rubble that flies around in 3 looks really bad. They're on dirt; it shouldn't clot that much. Even if it was rock, there's got to be a better way to draw that. The ones in 5 look fine, though.
-The bottom left panel of move 4 is pretty deformed. Something about Frieza's torso isn't right, his head is too wide, and that hand...you need to work on fingers, man. Bottom of the palm came out good, though.
-After the third panel in move 5, I continued reading left to right. I think you intended it to be read counter-clockwise. The top two panels of the circle line up too well, guides the eye right along.
-I have no idea how Ace got cut. It feels like there should've been something between the first two panels, or Frieza should've been slashing in the first instead of pulling back.
-I also didn't realize that it switched to Frieza talking at the end. The slightly different font helped, but it wasn't distinct enough to do the job.

The random
-You have a style sheet? Why not throw it in your scraps for us to see?
-If you still want to keep the move count in line with the original text, you could just relabel these Move2 parts 1-4.
-On a continuity note, I find it strange that Ace is surprised at Frieza's speed. I know he's only been in Metro for a few weeks, but he knows Spades and he must have summoned Shard a few times by now. And Frieza isn't even trying yet! Is this discontinuous with the other Ace/Spades adventures you've written/imagined?
-I love the Hazard poster. It might be the best looking thing in your gallery. I've been wanting to reread that, too.

Overall, hell yeah.

I'm really excited to see this moving again. I love this battle too; you have no idea how often I turn to it for inspiration. The final attack is probably the second best thing I've ever written, rivaled only by the first 4 chapters of Sonic Finale. If you put the time into this, you're going to take your skills to the next level and end up with an awesome memento in the process.

 

I really dig the "rough" penciling in 5, you should continue with that style. I think the paneling could be improved, although I'm not sure exactly how.

On a completely different note, did anybody else catch Usain Bolt's races at the Olympics? Maybe it's just because I ran track, but my mind was blown at how fast the man was running. It's that kind of speed that track and field needs to be rejuvenated, IMO.

 

Thanks, guys.

The compilations of the frames could be a bit better. I need to do my outlining better than before. I didn't plan to put dialogue in the comic until I started the post-production and felt that it was really lacking something. Iwould have colored the text or gotten a better font if I had it during the time that I had been editing and compiling the comic. I would have colored the text, except that I am trying to go completely Black and White on some of these and stay away from color unless I want to commit to it entirely.

Trust me, I've been experitmenting with better ways to draw hands and I'll be implementing them soon. I've got a lot of practice to catch up on.

As far as the rubble and background looks, I just traced roughly what I had drawn instead of using digital effects like I prolly thought I should have. I thought it would be like leaning on a crutch instead of doing what I was supposed to. But I guess the same could be said of the scuff marks in the dirt Ace leaves on the next page. So I guess I nitpicked my way into a shabbier-looking piece.

Trust me. I'm aware of the way the panels read in five. I screwed up a bit and wanted to trash the whole page, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. It came out looking too good to me. I should probably start putting different dramatic panels on different sheets of paper so that I can draw them in more detail and then scan them all into the same pic. I've seen how the guy who draws Gold Digger(Fred Perry) sometimes does that and his layouts a friggin' awesome. So maybe I could adapt that technique myself.

Friez, you've got a point with the move count thing. I'll give it some thought. It might work in the long run. Heck, it would give me a whole lot more wiggle room in coming up with titles for each one of the comics.

Continuity-wise, ace wasn't expecting to be cut that damn fast. I should have indeed put the sword swiping almost out of frame to express that he didn't feel it( and the blood didn't spurt) until after Friez had seemed to finish with his initial cut. There were quite a few frames of fighting that got cut out to make it fit on one page. Maybe the move count thing is a better idea if I decide to not round up everything on one page at atime and break it up. The flow would be a lot better.

As far as the style guide goes, I'll have it up after my next scanning session. It'll be in parts. Each character has their own page full of fighting astances, aura skecthes, expressions, injuries, and a couple of things I can't unveil until later on.

There'll be a whole flood of new stuff at the beginning of September, including more comics. FA 5 is almost complete in first draft(written in four composition books) and the typing stage will be mostly ready when I extract the first act from my old computer's hard drive. (That's what I get for not writing a hard copy version first and relying on digital media too much) Typing it all up will only take about two months, so FA 6 will be about 2/3 of the way done when I finish typing five, assuming that school work and working doesn't get in the way too much.

Adding games and anime as well as life in general to the mix, I've got a busy fourth quarter ahead.

 

Here's an idea: draw each move in parts, but put all of the parts into one file and put some kind of page breaks between them. Then the whole move will be together, and when you go to print it you can easily separate the parts into different pages. It might read better broken up though, especially for the longer moves.

For the continuity question, I was talking more about the part where Ace goes to punch Frieza, but he disappears and Ace wonders how he can move so fast. Ace should've seen DBZ level speed by now according to what you told me, at least from Spades or Shard.

Oh, thinking of the style sheet, you might find this interesting. For Frieza's spirit guitar, I have no idea what "lambdoma harmonic configuration" means, but this is where I got it from:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x5WMlrSwXfU/SCbHY9dhlbI/AAAAAAAACtQ/dXZjWK0Ez0w/s1600/yes-magnification-trasera_2.jpg

I just pictured it as a bunch of plates, convex to varying degrees, floating in a sort of dish shaped arrangement (with a vacuum formed inside it) at the end of a crystal rod/neck. It'll be interesting to see what you come up with.

And you need to start backing things up. Send it to yourself in an email and make a new folder called Backup. I have almost a gigabyte of files stored in my Yahoo mailbox.


Running would be a lot more fun if it didn't consume energy.

 

(Tabcef) the dark knight was okay

wasn't this super amazing movie that everyone's claiming

i kinda guessed just about everything 'cos everything follows a rational path

also cartoon two face is freakier looking than 'thank you for smoking' two face

i don't really find why people saw gay cowboy as super freaky/crazy

also the main thing i was thinking through the whole movie:

'man, i really wish harvey bullock was in the movie'

dude woulda shot joker the instant he was caught

then again i like him better than batman

 

oh yeah

batman does robot kung fu

soo stiff

 

*shrugs* Ya gotta have one man who doesn't like it, or it's just a tidal wave of bleating cattle that like a movie or a game just for being another drop in the series.

I can't really complain too much about the Dark Knight. I look at a couple other movies I've wasted my life watching(yes, I want those collective days of life back to pick my nose with or sleep). and think that things could have been much much worse.

 

Wait, here's where I actually got it from. It's called an Interdimensional Reality Machine. It was some exceptionally random album art.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y160/Frieza2000/IDR.png

I haven't seen a movie since Star Wars III.

 

(Blinks)

You mean that you haven't gone out to see a movie at the theater since then?

(Shrugs)

Wow, Friez. I'm not much better. I might only go to the movies once or twice a year if the movies aren't good enough for me to warrant a trip. Iron Man and Hulk along with Dark Knight made me go to the movies. Nothing else moved me enough to crack my wallet for it.

 

(Tabcef) http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/index_en

read

reaaaaadddd



rrreeeaaaaadddd

 

you think you can stop us.
we have the antrhax now.
you die now.
are you afraid?
death to israel.
death to america.
allah is great.


love,
us defense department

 

(stinkie) *walks in*
can i get a magic kool ade please for old times sake

 

Frieza: My friend, you can have anything you want.

(Tosses Stinkie a cherry MKA and the keys to the back fridge)

Hey, what happened to your account? Get lost in the conversion?

 

(stinkie) eh i'm not sure, stopped coming for awhile got addicted to MMOs and the like and before i knew it years had past.

 

Oh my God, it's stinkie.

 

(Tabcef) "Government is not a philanthropic organization."

-republican national convention 2008, random chick speaker

 

ahahaha
ahahahahahahaha

they are claiming teddy roosevelt and abe lincoln as people who would've supported them because they were republicans


seriously

teddy roosevelt

teddy 'let's bust the hell out of trusts' roosevelt

teddy 'yo we need some universal health care' roosevelt

what did teddy roosevelt do ever that was conservative

ever

he's like one of the best progressive presidents, if not the best, ever

 

oh sorry wrong thread

on that note, they are playing the sound of a flag waving/flapping in the wind whenever music isn't speaking

is this convention some kind of elaborate joke

 

i know i said i wanted to keep political stuff in the other thread, but this is pretty harrowing to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxlb0_G72uM
http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/695/

pretty much all the videos on the second site.

this dude:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2207/2467912429_453fdf815d.jpg

came out with felony charges for 'conspiracy to riot' , after being hospitalized, and beat so badly that they had to throw away his shirt because it was so bloody, while his pants were torn very badly from being dragged across the ground

http://wuntvor.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/d7/d73a8c5fd4814c5ca56f574b6c868704143acf9c.jpg

http://kalleboo.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/4b/4bc55cb822b3a634d421a34c12a4f01dc66070f3.jpg

several journalists had their equipment and notes taken away, and were jailed, and charged with conspiracy to riot, obstruction of justice, and trespassing.

none of the main media circuits are reporting about this. no one is going to hear about this.
it's terrible, but the message has to be spread one way or another.

 

(stinkie) yea its me couldn't get rid of me forever.
:P

 

I know i stopped by like 3 years ago and it seemed everyone was gone. Who's still here i see GFF and freeza and amy,what about the others is para still around?

 

Subrosian pops in here and there. Chasupi might be lurking too. I see Para on AIM; he might still check. Lots of other people pop in once in a while. The ones you see now are the only regulars, though.

Oh, and get your dose of nostalgia:
http://www.geocities.com/sonic_finale/SASB_Montage.zip
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1543710604191050328 (lower quality)

 

(stinkie) Dude i remember all that, that was back in 2001 seven years ago just wow.

 

I always wondered, did you ever have sprites?

My no movie streak ended over the weekend when my parents took me to see Babylon AD since we were visiting my brother and had nothing better to do. There was never any attempt to make sense out of the plot. It was just cryptic nonsense to keep everyone's attention until the cop-out ending.

 

(Tabcef) http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/09/06/as-another-bank-folds-the-fdic-gets-lower-on-money/


combined with the three gigantic corporations being bought up by the government


i'm really getting some mad great depression vibes



here's to more 30 more years of stagflation

 

man, i really gotta read some philosophy

i realized i don't know anything about philosophy at all

freaking homer, kant, all those jerks

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiQCJXpbKg

well, i guess that's a happier note

or something

 

for drawing stuff from ace:
http://kalleboo.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/e7/e7af962dd7e7f45a143c075f2600e308c1d1eacc.jpg

pretty much the entire series is great, but that is a real big basic right there

 

i meant the series of tom and jerry pictures

 

(Tabcef) I think i made a few never had as much anyone else, but they are all gone. :(

 

(Tabcef) oh man, there's gonna be a demo for left 4 dead

hell yeah

 

Now that is good news.

 

And my laptop DVD drive just died. Great.

 

(Tabcef) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhneP2nCLtY&feature=related

 

9/19/2008 11:21:47 AM

Today is my birthday, hooray!

 

Drowning in a sea of books.

 

(Tabcef) You know, it is strange indeed aware that the reduction after you.

 

http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=getlikebidenmp1.png

 

Where am I?

 

(stinkie) good question, where are we?

 

(ImNotNEG) This is my world. MY WORLD!!!

 

I only meant to stay a while

 

Well, my laptop died. No surprise there. I'm gonna get a new one at the end of the month. This time, it won't be second-hand. So long as I keep my eye on the Best Buy sales and all, I should be okay to get one at the beginning of November if not sooner... sometimes sacrifices must be made. I'll have to sacrifice a few of my anime DVDs at the altar of some store's trade-in counter to get some additional capital. Oh, well. Better get back to work and make sure I get those necessary hours/cash.

 

Ace, it's time to face facts. You clearly dwell in close proximity with a hoard of electronic demons, as nothing short of supernatural activity could account for your luck with computers. I recommend holy water.

 

(Tabcef) left 4 dead now available for pre order

at 10% discount

44 dollars i guess

 

Are you getting it Tabby?

 

(Tabcef) already got it

 

Niiiiiiiiice.

 

Finally fixed my DVD burner.

 

(Tabcef) http://left4dead411.com/

tv spot 1 is pretty neato

 

Left 4 Dead is probably going to be the last game I buy for the year, unless I get some amazing windfall soon.

 

(Tabcef) 11/3/2008 7:20:32 PM

i'm skipping school nov 5 to drink myself stupid

i don't care who wins

it's either a party with myself or a glimpse into the future

 

It seems most predictions point to an Obama landslide... You honestly don't care who wins?

 

(Tabcef) i care

i just don't care on the occassion of staying home

 

I'm with Tab; very glad that it's over. I'm still going to work, though. Once Obama wins, drinks are on the house for the rest of the week. For most bars it would be the rest of the night, but Magnus and Tab are the only ones here who don't drink for free anyway.


(Nemo walks in)

Nemo: Hey guys, in case anyone here actually uses the bathroom, I accidentally flushed the time machine down the toilet and now everything you flush ends up in Mexico a week ago.

Frieza: ...now, I'm not going to ask how you got the time machine into the plumbing because I know better than that, but I am a little concerned with how you know that it's still functioning and where it leads.

Nemo: Oh, I'm about to accidentally flush myself.

(Flushing sound comes from the bathroom)

Nemo: Yep, there I go...Mexico was pretty nice this time of year. I think I'll go again.

(Nemo runs to the bathroom, flushing sound follows)

 

Week-young margaritas are nice.

 

(Tabcef) left 4 dead demo for pre-orders is out

it is amazing, oh my god

hit me up with them friend names

 

What's your friend name?

 

(Tabcef) should be pretty obvious

tabcef

 

I never would have imagined.

 

(Tabcef) l4d demo out for everyone

come on let's g-

play

 

I'm going to have to agree, Left 4 Dead is awesome.

 

(Tabcef) come ONN

let's GO

..

oh man, francis

i will miss that man

and his gun

for christ's sake, bill!

will you CUT THAT OUT?

do i look like one of them?!

 

I hate zombies. But the only ones I've gotten to kill in games have been scores of Hollow Men in Fable and many other RPGs. Zombie movies and other media around them always made me sick. Too many of them and not enough bullets or grenades. That, and all of the characters act as though they have severe mental defficiency when the crisis hits. As though they've never even heard of zombies or some crap.

What? Do they not make zombie movies in those universes?

I hate them more than anything else. The very thought of them makes me physically ill. I HATE ZOMBIES...

But left 4 dead does seem interesting. The different types of undead make things interesting.

 

(Tabcef) i hate all these freaking vampires!

they're zombies, francis.

 

Only a couple more days.

 

(SuperSonic2002) *makes his about-yearly visit*

I might get L4D, but I'll wait to see what others say about it today.

...also, I don't have any of the current-gen systems yet.

 

PC is the way to go man at least for FPS.

 

(Tabcef) i hate vans.

i hate small houses.

left 4 dead is awesome!

and francis hates everything

also the actual game is way harder than the demo, it's crazy

 

I got stuck at No Mercy - Sewer this morning. I only made it to the actual sewer once.

 

(Tabcef) got to the actual terminal on dead air on expert

we never made it past the luggage area

whatever you do don't go through the metal detector

my god, my team learned that the hard way

everything was going great, and then someone walked through one

how is it still working?!

 

Blood Harvest is a pain man, a real pain.

 

(Tabcef) i think things are gonna be okay! –louis

 

Things ARE okay, MAN!!!

I have my brand-spanking new laptop.

I have a home internet connection(after trading in Gears 2 and Fable II) for the comp and the 360.

On the first Friday of December, I'm gonna start ramping up my production of art and writing related stuff.

So I'll prolly be here a lot more in my downtime while I'm surfing or uploading.

Ace is back, MAN!!!


...at least until I start classes again.

 

11/26/2008 7:32:55 PM

Frieza: Let's see, what shall I prepare this year? Perhaps if I try to be symbolic it'll come to me...

Frieza: This year we are thankful for the brief return of Nemo and GM.

(Drops canned corn and garlic toast into blender)

Frieza: Ace's return from Hell.

(Adds demon ale)

Frieza: Sub's general presence.

(Adds hooker blood)

Frieza: The imminent departure of Bush.

(Adds petroleum)

Frieza: Finally finishing a bar without double posting.

(Drops decayed penguin that was formerly rubble from the previous bar onto the grill)

Frieza: And something in memory of our long absent founder.

(Adds can of Duff)

(Blends concoction, marinades charring penguin with it, serves on the back of an overturned bookshelf)

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

(Picks up one of the drumsticks of the penguin and takes a huge chomp out of it)
Ace: Outstanding.

(The penguin meat transmogrifies back into rubble on it's way down Ace's throat)

Ace:(Caughs blood and punches his chest) Mmph! Filled with fiber. I'm gonna go wizz blood now. Be right back.

 

Crunch time fellas.

 

Ace begins to roll in crates with big red symbols on them.

He then drags in a Christmas tree.

He begins to hang red orbs gingerly on his tree with wire in between each one.

 

Ace starts to stick more and more suspect items on the tree. Long mace-like items with chains hang from curiously strong branches. A strange smell assails everyone in the bar. It's heady and wrong, since it completely replaces the fresh smell of pine that one associates with a Christmas tree.

 

Ace begins to lay down wires and starts to throw white powder onto the tree like it was faux snow.

Curiously, he hasn't plugged in any of his lights. chibi-Trunks and Nemo have been chained to the wall so that they cannot interfere with the trimming of this curious tree.

Vegeta and Freiza notice the smell from halfway across the bar and look over at Ace. Then their gaze goes toward the crates...

Both of them silently leave, dragging the other sane members of the SPA with them.

Meanwhile, the look of insanity spreads across Ace's face. Spiral eyes and a wide toothy smile on the face of the normally sarcastic echidna are not a good thing.

He spreads all manner of little figures carved out of an odd clay out on the floor and strings them up on the tree with yet more black wire connected to each one.

One figure for each member of the SPA is placed on the tree along with little blue spheres.

Finally, Ace goes into the last crate, breaking open the lead seal within. He lifts out a green star and a shiny little figure of himself that has been laquered with an odd smelling resin.

He sets the figure in the center of the strange pattern he's made with the others and then levitates up to the top of the tree. The spiraling insanity in his eyes deepens as he places the star on top of the tree.

Ace backs away and takes a long swig of Ace Drink from the canteen tied behind his dreads. He then looks upon his unlit masterpiece and smiles a toothy grin that is way too wide for his face.

'Mental checklist:

Detonator = check
plastique figures = check
C4 composite figure of self = check
Spiker grenades = check
plasma grenades = check(Blue balls)
Spacial compression/explosion charges = check (red balls)
Special tree with Nitro Glycerine in place of sap = check
lots of wire = check
Weapons grade plutonium = check
special star shaped miniature atomic bomb casing = check

Satisfaction on being the one to kick off Christmas with the destruction of the bar = ...'

 

"Check, MAN!!!" Ace yells as he stabs the detonator.

The tree goes up in a thermonuclear cascade of fiery destruction. Ace is lost in a swarm of flaming waves of plasma and spikes of solid iron being atomized.

Black balls of explosive force cascade upward and force the nuclear explosion's shockwaves and fury skyward in a huge collumn of glowing light.

Ace spirals upward through the maelstrom, laughing his sick ass off.

He has gone to Happydale Heights and won't be coming back anytime soon.

The fire and dark colors of the explosion die down. The singular roar of the bar's destruction dies down. High above, the beer and stores of priceless alcohol begin to fall down out of the sky with a tinkling sound.

It begins to snow with a glittering rainbow of colors.

The collumn of white light changes colors rapidly into each spectrum of a prism's light. It spreads out into a large spiky pattern like the sillouhette of a pine tree. and just before it all dissipates, the orbs of compressed energy and gravity fall into place all over its form.

It looks like a thousand story Christmas tree floating in the sky for the breifest of moments...

and then explodes with deafening sound and madness inducing fury.

A lone smoking meteor falls to earth just outside the remains of the bar.

He thumps down to earth had, making a minor crater.

Ace crawls up out of the ground, his sanity seemingly restored, only to find a gun barrel pointed at his face.

"You messed with the booze," Trunks says with a look of untold pain on his face.

"I don't think that was a very good idea," Frieza idly chimes in, charging his hands with purplish ki.

The other members of the SPA close in and Ace's yells of pian echo across the desolate plains of Metro city.

 

(Frieza casually eyes the devastation as he holds Ace in an energy bind while Trunks goes to town unloading his astonishingly-high-capacity shotgun into the echidna's chest at point blank)

Frieza: You really did it this time, you maniacal monotreme. Now we have to find a new bar AND stock it. And I'm sure as hell not going to be the one to clean up that nuclear fallout.

Ace: I'll -BAM- fix -BAM- it -BAM- MAN!!!

Trunks: And this one's for Sam Adams -BAM- and Jack Daniels -BAM- and Jose Cuervo -BAM- and Captain Morgan -BAM- and I'm too drunk to think of another liquor named after a person -BAM- but this thing still has ammo! -BAM-

Frieza: That's enough, Trunks. Physical pain will only get us so far with him. We need something to make sure he thinks twice the next time he feels like going insane. Something traumatic.

Magnus: Wouldn't that make him more insane?

Frieza: Probably. I think I'm just looking for an excuse to entertain myself at this point. Now what shall it be...ah, of course.

(Frieza turns to the wasteland and raises his arms to the atom-blasted heavens, dark energy crackling over them)

Frieza: Anstieg von Ihrem Grab und machen Sie mir eine Kneipe.

(The ground trembles as a vast army of undead creatures of all species crawl out of the rubble surrounding them)

Frieza: Wow. I didn't expect so many. How many people have died in this city?

Magnus: Was that German?

Frieza: Yes, all zombies speak German. It's one of those strange facts of nature, I suppose.

Magnus: I don't think the unholy dead are considered a part of nature.

Frieza: Whatever. Help me restrain Ace.

(The legion of undead horrors close slowly around the increasingly wild drunkard, the rest of the crew struggling to hold him down from a short distance away with their power. Then, just as the zombies are close enough to overwhelm him with their nauseating stench, they stop approaching, fall to their knees, and lock arms. The ones behind them climb on their backs and do likewise. This act of bodily masonry continues until Ace is enclosed by a dome of rotting flesh and bone)

Frieza: There. This is our new bar. Enjoy.

(Frieza closes the "door", the corpse of an Eggman clone, sealing Ace alone in the dark. Then the ground trembles once more and a column of fire and brimstone erupts from the roof)

Frieza: And look, the portal to Hell survived. Now it really is a bar and a grill.

Trunks: Is making things out of bodies your hobby or something?

Frieza: After you've killed a certain number of people, finding creative ways to deal with their remains starts to come naturally.

 

(Tabcef) bear-sona!

 

On payday....

It shall be mine, MAN!!!

I have 3, and 4 shall be mine!!! First new PS2 game in almost a year.

 

This is why the Zerg weird me out on a constant basis:

http://udoncrew.deviantart.com/art/Starcraft-Frontline-2-106357163

You're not supposed to let 'em get that close. Imminent hurt is upon those poor suckers.

 

(Tabcef) i like the regular battle theme better than the old one

although i think fes's remix is the best

still, the fourth's battle theme is really awesome- especially the first battle remix combination of boss fight+battle theme

yeah! we're living two lives! all of you live real lives! here where nobody's lives- it's all spirit lives!

the engrish in the song is way more prominent though, it's barely comprehendable
i still can't comprehend it depsite hearing it like a million times

it's better than BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY (which is good too) for sure

 

On thursday night, i'll know what the heck you're talking about in greater detail.

 

I was supposed to sleep. But then I watched this and couldn't. I'll be very acquainted with Red Bull and coffee today because of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IY6PSlzOj0

If you haven't watched this whole series yet, then track down the rest of it. It's solid gold. It made me laugh, cringe, and shout like only days back in the bar's heyday ever did.

 

(Tabcef) really wish tatsunoko vs cap came out for ps2

SHO RYU KEN

 

Did it have to be a TV?

 

WOW. Many thanks, Ace. I would never have expected something called Super Mario Bros. Z to be so incredible. I love the Mario RPG skits, and the battle choreography is actually better than some of DBZ's stuff. The only flaw I see is Sonic and Shadow's dialogue, which is kind of out of character and there are some annoying grammar mistakes, but there's improvement in episode 7.

...but now I have another story I need to keep track of. And Super Console Wars still hasn't been continued.

 

Okay, I tried to do a Halo field trip for my younger cousin since he got an Xbox 360 with no games(typical parent thinking"You have to buy more?!" "No backward compatability out of the box?!"). The field trip was Ms. Frizzle style, since I took him on a few missions as backup in Co-op, then online.

That was a stinkin' nightmare.

Do I attract trolls now?

I got nothing but squatting morons, talkers on their stinkin' headsets, and a whole random team of snipers. The rest of the team abandoned me and my youngboy to these hiding bastards. So instead of holing up inside Last Resort with the shutters closed and no access to better weapons, I decided to leave. We fared better on "Free-for-All/every man for himself" Rumble Pit where everyone seems to fight like a damn gladiator instead of a wuss from halfway across the level. But the damage was done. I had to smooth over the usual troll frustration we all go through, and then curse the ****** ******* ****s.

It's supposed to be Christmas, where are all of the normal pedestrian gamers? Did you all take the friggin' day off and let the ****tards in?


...

Sorry. I had to vent some. My first experience with other humans in Halo was worse than this and I wanted my cousin to have a better one.

Oh well. Hope is the child of Disappointment.

 

(Tabcef) that's because you're playing halo

play some soul calibur 4

LET'S DO THIS

MY UNFORGIVEABLE PAST

YOU CAN'T





STOP ME

 

12/25/2008 7:36:44 PM

(Pulls an emergency bottle of wine out of pseudo-space and pours a glass)

Frieza: Merry Christmas, friends.

 

(Tabcef) The Spirit is a fun movie

it is not a serious movie, it is not sin city in any manner except the visual style

but oh my god, it is a fun movie

do not go in expecting any kind of seriousness at all
the thing is basically 'let's just go with it' to the max level of crazy

seriously the thing is the very definition of a 'fun' movie
bare plot, max levels of hilarity and crazy

'I'M THE OCTOPUS
I HAVE EIGHT OF EVERYTHING!'

 

(ImNotNEG) Happy Holidays

 

To you as well NEG.

I hope the New Year finds everyone well.

I'll see all of you when my work is done.

 

12/31/2008 10:38:42 PM

Frieza: New years already? My how the time flies. Well, I guess it's an appropriate time to get a new bar then. The zombie one has almost completely burned down.

(Pulls out remote and presses button. New, fully stocked bar falls from space)

Frieza: There. And what's more, it's designed to use the portal to Hell to provide for its heat, energy, and waste disposal since Ace destroyed all the municipal utilities for miles around.

Magnus: What about water?

Frieza: We'll just have to draw from one of Hell's endless oceans of blood. It isn't very good at cleaning but, well, when was the last time we cleaned anything?

Magnus: That's almost as disturbing as the zombie bar.

Frieza: You're welcome. And happy new year.

 

Happy New Year everyone.

 

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: 2009 has already begun....So G. and I are coming back for awhile... Lets celebrate by setting a hobo on fi-...

Samus: Ahem... >_>

SonGoku: DAMMIT! Not here too! >_<

 

Do a little dance, make a little love, get down--hmf! UMPH!!

(Someone grabs Ace, pulls him around the corner, where unspeakably horrible screams come from. Ace crawls back out covered in green ichor)

Okay... I get it. I'm never going to sing that song again. I think somebody somewhere just got violated when I did.

 

(Tabcef) I mistook you for a fox, but now I see you are nothing more than a noisy dog!

Yeah? Let's see you say that with my blade stuck in your throat!

 

(PoisonJamX) *walks in*

I guarantee no-one will remember me. >_<

 

I remember your name clearly, but you don't seem to have been in comics. You're not in the montage:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1543710604191050328&hl=en

Anyway, welcome back! Have an MKA on the house. We just replenished our stock from cryogenic storage in space.

 

(PoisonJamX) Cheers!

Yeah I never was into the comics making stuff at all, I was more content with hanging around in the background really. Been ages since I posted here.

 

Whoa. It's been a while since I've seen you around. There were plenty of lurkers who didn't jump into the center with everyone else.

Doesn't make you any less welcome though.

 

I think I have to leave the house to get anything done creativity-wise. Otherwise, I can't really do it without interruptions.

 

(Tapes a broken bottle to a pool queue and listlessly prods Ace with it)

Frieza: Whazat? Something about distractions?

 

Too many things crop up at home. Too many folks buggin' me at innapropriate times. I can't get into a pic or write without interruptions.

It gets kinda annoying.

A lot of the stuff I've done for the past month was done at work or at someone else's house.

 

Yeah, I can sort of relate. I won't start writing unless I know I've got at least 2 or 3 hours to work on it. Nobody ever bugs me while I'm on the computer, though.

 

Back to the grind.

 

Vista is needlessly complcated when it comes to older equipment. And not even that old, simply a year or more is enough to make it turn up its nose in snobbishness.

 

(Tabcef) ken is horrendously easy to play

my god, it's a joke on how much of a difference there is between him and sean

sean is still cooler though

(ggpo is awesome)

 

you got that right sister thunder thighs.

 

1/20/2009 11:05:27 AM

Right now, the world is made of win and awesomeness, man.

Political stuff doesn't usually get to me, but today I'm feelin' good. Out with the old and in with the new. And it doesn't hurt that the new guy is makin' history either.

But, as I've said in my writings, it takes a while for you to get back to one hundred percent after hurting yourself in one bad instant.

It's gonna take a while for things to change, but I have faith in the new guy.

 

(Tabcef) what's more historic is that they pimped out the headlights on the presidential limousine

 

Hmm. Someone challenged me for the first time in a long time to a battle.

This was my response:

"My friends, it has often been said that I like war..."

"My friends... I like war..."

Telekinetically grabs ginyou and holds him in the air paralyzed.

"No... Friends... I LOVE war!"

Snaps ginyou's arm backward with bone hanging out of a jagged bleeding wound.

"I love massacres, holocausts... I love blitzkriegs, charges, mop-up operations and retreats..."

Rips off the same arms from the body in a slow painful fashion with irresistable force. It tears centimeter by ragged centimeter of stretching tearing skin and muscle until it finally pulls free in a splatter of blood and blinding pain.

"I love wars in trenches, in grasslands, in the street, in frozen tundras, through deserts, on the sea, or in the air..."

Craterous impact wounds begin to appear with the sound of small explosions all over ginyou's body. Blood and pulverized pulp begin to seep out from beneath the flesh.

"I love every act of war that can occur upon this earth!"

Ginyou is slammed painfully through the soil and then tossed into the air.

"I love the sound of artillery fire blasting across the field of battle!"

I start shooting a mortar off in the air, making his injured body juggle. It floats up, propelled by stronger and stronger explosions.

"My heart leaps with joy, whenever someone is tossed high into the air..."

I kick over the mortar, take a steady stance and begin to shoot with a high caliber rifle, shooting off each of his remaining limbs one by one.

"And cut to pieces with well-placed sniper rounds!"

I walk over to his quivering form and pull out a Brute Shot from behind my back.

"It moves me deep within my heart to watch a fresh faced recruit stabbing over..."

I begin to stab and gouge Ginyou's chest with the Brute Shot's blade continously.

 

"...and over....and over...and over...and over....AGAIN into the bloated chest of a long-dead enemy."

I kick his body into the air again and pull out an anti-tank rifle. Setting it so that it will stand on its own twelve feet into the air, I somersault over it just as Ginyou falls back down, touching him slightly.

"The sight of deserter's being strung up from a streetlamp..."

I pull vicously on the metal wire around Ginyou's neck as he hangs from the weapon's shaft, three feet off the ground. I jerk it numerous times to hear him gurgle and gasp for air that it cut off from him. Blood begins to leak out from his eyes and trickle from his ears.

"...is an irresistable pleasure."

I let the gasping bag of limbless meat that is my victim fall to the ground after violently yanking away the wire, as well as the skin it had embedded itself in.

"All I ask for is war."

My eyes gleam with a special brand of madness as the pupils start to swirl in a glowing red helix.

"War so grand as to make hell itself tremble..."

I kneel down until my face is level with Ginyou's. The smile on my face almost looks too wide with too many teeth. I pull out a Spiker and cut off his right ear, catching the blade on the bit of skull behind his head to lift it up so that my mouth is right next to the bleeding hole.

I whisper," What is it that you truly want? Do you wish for further war as I do?"

I slam his head into the ground and then fire the spiker into his chest until its empty.

"Do you wish for a merciless bloody war?"

The space beside my warps and shines as the metal seems to fade in from nothingness. A length of solid steel flowing from an ornate hilt seemingly just warps into being in my right hand. There is a rather large barrel on the end of the blade though, and a trigger on the backside of the hilt.

"A war which fury is built of lightning and iron and fire?"

The blade begins to heat from within. Becoming red hot. I lift the blade, which is about as big as a grown man's body, and hold it over Ginyou. The heat withers his hair to cinders and blackens his skin. My own hair stand on end and my clothes flow in an unfelt wind.

"DO YOU WISH FOR WAR TO SWEEP IN LIKE A TEMPEST, LEAVING NOT EVEN RAVENS TO SCAVENGE FROM THIS EARTH?!!!?"

I pull the trigger and a force of incredible magnitude is unleashed. A pinprick of light can be seen on the horizon and a roar of thunder peals through the sky. The earth trembles and then shatters for a mile in a straight line, tearing up solid rock and everything else for a mile beneath and above. The only trace of Ginyou left is particles of ash left on the wind and a smear of blood at my feet.

"I am a clenched fist, ready to strike down all who oppose me with my might..."

 

Wow.

I'm feelin' great now.

I guess reducing someone to atoms is as fun as it ever was.

 

Solid. Where do you fight, GoGaia?

 

(Tabcef) Remember the latest Bank of America (BAC) bailout, the one we were all so steamed about last week? (The $20 billion of cash and $100+ billion of trash-asset guarantees that absolutely had to be given or else Bank of America shareholders might have lost everything?)

Yes, well, you probably thought that that cash would be used to bolster the bank's capital or something. (We know you weren't dumb enough to think it might have been used to make loans).

Alas, it wasn't used for that. It was used to pay Merrill Lynch executives the huge bonuses they deserved for unloading their balance sheet on for-some-reason-not-yet-fired Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis.

Has change really come to America? We'll believe it when we see it.

BOFA will say that the cash used to pay the bonuses was not the actual cash received from taxpayers. Please. Cash is cash. What BOFA and Merrill are already saying in their defense is that the bonuses were accrued (and mostly paid) all year and that Merrill just shelled out the last $4 billion in December...a month before the latest bailout funds arrived.

But that's ridiculous.

By the time it paid its bonuses, Merrill knew about the $21 billion of operating losses for the quarter and Ken Lewis and BOFA knew they would need more capital. Bonuses are supposed to be based on the full year's performance, so the Q4 losses should have reset the bonus pool for the whole year. If most of the bonuses really were paid prior to December (which would be highly unusual--it's almost always a one-time lump sum), then at the very least, the last payment should have been stopped.

Meanwhile, if Merrill hadn't paid out $15 billion in bonuses, Bank of America presumably would only have needed $5 billion from taxpayers, not $20 billion.

And in case you're beginning to have sympathy for BOFA's argument that "bonuses weren't paid with actual taxpayer cash," recall that BOFA has ALREADY RECEIVED $25 billion in taxpayer funds, $10 billion of which were for Merrill. So Merrill used all of the original $10 billion PLUS $5 billion of the latest $20 billion to pay bonuses. Now are you mad?

 

NO ZOMBIE IS SAFE FROM CHICAGO TED

(pills here)

 

aerislives battle board.

There's nasty stuff associated with the site, so look at your own peril. Some of it ain't worksafe.

 

I'm being dragged to the Conflux pre-release on Saturday. (More like walking in the same direction and my legs can't move fast enough for the rest of the group) Hopefully I'll actually win some games and the extra card boosters that come with those wins. My wallet can't handle buying a Magic Fatpack what with going back to school and all.

 

(Tabcef) afro samurai resurrection was pretty awesome

i really wish that there was a ninja ninja fight scene though

also wondering how the movie ties into the very end of the original afro samurai

'cause if that kid has the number 2, does that mean jino just murderizes him to get it

 

Twas good. But I don't know if Chino was beaten before Afro had his epiphany about violence or after Sio was killed.

I was still good though. I might buy it when I get some cashflow.

 

Wow. I learned two things today.

1. That there are some nasty viruses out there that can keep you from going to Antivirus sites and/or updating the ones you have to defend against it. (Effectively culling your immunity to other nastier bugs that gang up to cripple your computer). Thankfully, I've busted the nasty sucker.

2. That my chosen profession in life(contracts and copyright law) is a bit more of a hotbed than I ever thought it was and closer to me than I ever believed. I tried to upload a nice AMV to Youtube that I couldn't find anymore. Apparantly, UMG had upped its initiative to keeps its materials, shows, and music from being abused. So they've kept the music on my video from being played. I was going to simply get written persmission to be able to post the video with the music on it, but I stopped when I thought about it. I didn't make the video, I just wanna share it. I can do that with my website(my Tripod one) or just find other hosts who still have the video and link it anonymously. It just bugs me that now anything that I put onto Youtube has to be checked to make sure that its not violating anything and that certain entities won't mess with it just for having somebody's song on it. Hell, some of the animation projects I have slated for summer and fall henge on licensed music(You know which ones). And I want my quote to stay the same, that people "STILL can't sue me".

So with Youtube, it's either go public domain, write and perform my own music, or use classical music. Total BS, MAN!!!

 

Actually, strictly speaking, all fan works are illegal even if you give credit.

http://www.chillingeffects.org/fanfic/faq.cgi#QID222

They've always been able to sue you, Ace. We've just never had the heart to tell you.

 

Mein got.

 

Wait...animation? Animation?! Like, real reasonable length stuff?! Awesome!

 

You'll be surprised what a week off from work and school can produce with the right amount of drive, Friez. Once I've gotten done with FvA in the summer and FA6 gets written down, I'll begin doing some experiments with the movie creator and animation programs I have lying around. One of my co-workers once said my style was suited for animating, so I'll give it a go once I've gotten confident enough in my abilities.

As far as being sued goes, I'm not counting on being one of the people they decide to make an example of.

With some execptions, most of my fan-work has been in the based-on category rather than reworking things. Hell, I try to keep my stuff as canon as possible(Sonic's Archieverse, the Pokemon manga, various sources of digimon lore, PSO's official story weaved by playthrough and research) and not be lazy. Lazy fan-works amount to characters being way out of their established norm.(Sex-crazed character spawned from a quiet introverted one or a homosexual relationship from two characters that are established as straight) wait lemme stop--

...there I go on a tangent about the lack of quality or heart in fanfics and dojin.

I think I'm okay as far as not being sued.

At least I hope I am. I'm not fan-subbing anything, personally pirating media, or plaigerizing, so I guess I'm okay.

 

Nah, nobody ever gets a cease-and-desist unless their work becomes insanely popular or makes money (and even then sometimes not). The only case I can personally remember is Bid for Power, a DBZ fangame, which ended up changing the character names and models to thinly veiled parodies of the real ones. The music guys are the only ones you have to watch out for, but supposedly they've stopped suing random people.

And in the last 3 years you've only gotten through half a page of our battle, but now you're going to finish it this summer? Is...is the king abdicating his throne?

 

(Tabcef) http://www.iplaywinner.com/street-fighter-4-character-log/2008/9/14/blanka.html

http://www.iplaywinner.com/street-fighter-4-character-log/chun-li

one low short into ex legs

 

If I want to get through my classes without ******* up then I'll have to give up my throne. I'll have to start regularly doing work. That means doing SOMETHING every damn day. If I do every move in pencil with the super important ones done in pen at the rate of two or more a week, then I will be done by August. That's not even cutting out time for schoolwork and everything else life throws at me.

 

I finally have my own violin. Yay for me!

 

Ownership is 9/10 of the law. And it's also 3/5 of the games I've played at the pre-release for Conflux.

God. I got my behind handed to me.

 

Ha! I did it, MAN!!!

At work tonight I finally finished FA 5!!!

HAH!!!

Now to type/edit/revise it/post it.

 

(Tabcef) http://img.ragea.net/uploads/1234010029.jpg

don't worry, i'm from the government and i'm here to help

 

(ImNotNEG) Though I'm fairly sure already, just to confirm, this has been the longest Bar topic yet, right?

 

I thought Frieza checked here everyday -_-

 

Things have been pretty slow lately. Well, more than usual anyway.

 

Things get slow here as life gets hectic outside. At least that's my measure of the situation.

 

I don't usually check on weekends anymore because I do my writing on a PC that isn't connected to the Internet.

But yes, I think it is is a record. I know we've never passed one year before, and we're getting close.

 

I suppose we just don't have a lot to say or post most of the time. I just check in twice a week or whenver I get frustrated looking up topics for class.

 

(Tabcef) does anyone have a 360, we totally gotta play resident evil 5


CHRIS CHRIS CHRIS CHRIS CHRIS

WHAT

GO

 

I do, but my attention can't be focused on anything too long or too intensive. No RPGs, no long games. I'd get RE5, but my money is goin' toward other stuff. Hell, it's already set aside for Street Fighter 4.

 

Next comic is done and posted.

http://acecs.deviantart.com/art/FVA-Move-006-112626066

Next one should be up by Saturday and there should be at least two or three a week from here on out from now on. Other projects and LIFE-willing.

 

Sweetness. Definitely a big improvement in the inking department, and your random debris shapes are looking much better than last year.

I always figured you reconned the glass into crystals at the end, but now I notice you wrote glass and crystals the second time we came to the dream field. I have a feeling I'm going to learn a lot about this battle as we go. And do ask me if you have any questions about what I was thinking; I'd love to be involved.

Your new pic of Hazard says it's from Cross 2, but you've always said Hazard is Cross 3.

Sideshow Bob and Miss Frizzle are awesome choices.

 

(Tabcef) street fighter 4's music kinda sucks- it's not that the music sounds bad, just forgettable.
all the music is just remixed old themes for old characters. and most of them sound worse than the originals, except zangief's. which uses a saxaphone synth for it's main tune.

and all the new character's themes suck except c viper's,which is like the best song in the game
akuma's theme is basically gouken's theme.. so that sucks.
they shoulda went with a remix of killing moon instead



i really like third strike's better, like at least 70% of the songs were memorable

you blow me away(dudley), jazzy nyc(alex, ken), killing moon(akuma), the beep (remy), crazy chili dog(urien), theme of Q (this is literally the name of his song), the circuit (hugo), spunky (makoto)

man just all of them except ryu, sean/oro, elena (BEATS BEATS BEATS BEATS IN MY HEAD), chun li (the main tune is headache inducing thanks to the synth they used for it), and twelve/necro (actually i just hate the characters a lot)

the first one is incredibly boring, and only adds to the 'boring' factor of ryu, and the second one is basically just too calm (it's super chill)

actually that's pretty much it. all the character themes don't sound unique anymore. they don't define the character/help define the character when you go against them. c viper's theme doesn't tell you anything about her character/focus on a defining aspect of her character.

when you hear akuma's theme in third strike, you know he's got crazy intense focus, against say, urien's theme, which has a vibe of wild power, or dudley's theme, which is all about class/smooth style


c viper's theme- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-yrGw1UwVk

jazzy nyc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSzPbO9DFcg

actually jazzy nyc is one exception to the 'tells you something about the character' rule because it's switched characters as a theme for every new iteration of street fighter 3

it was originally sean's, then alex's, then ken's

el fuerte's theme- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopNzhu9E68

killing moon (akuma) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdMCVDGOdUc

 

Oops... I'll take care of that. Total screw-up.

I'll actually need yur help with the next part after I'm done with Dagger Wind. Frieza's counter is a very nice move art-wise, but I'll need some dialoague/monologue to go with it.

And Bob and Frizzle are awesome to begin with. And if I was gonna do a crossover, I had to use everyone, not just popular characters(I used Carrie White for the love of God, as well as Senna Wales) I wanted involved. If it fit with the story, Gumby could have been there. But that would have been taking it a bit too far. Hahahahaha!!!

 

Cool, send me a script or a storyboard when you're ready and I'll help fill it in.

While you're fixing Hazard, maybe you could renumber this as move 3 and the last one move 2 parts 1-4...I know, it shouldn't bother me, but I'm a continuity buff. If it's a pain then don't worry about it. I'd rather the comics actually get done than perfectly match the turn order.

Incidentally, Gumby is one of the main boss battles in my game.

 

Now for the mushy stuff.

http://acecs.deviantart.com/art/Valentines-09-Leo-and-Bonnie-112883412

I really like this picture. It came out so awesome.

--

And I'll keep the numbering as MoveXX and then name them such as "Move 006 Dagger Wind Part 1"

Since each of our moves had a name or specific action, each of them will get a title and each of those titles will be done in parts. I can read the original text to see whose move was whose and go from there. I originally was just gonna do differently colored text, but I find this a lot more simplistic and easy to understand.

A 03: Dagger Wind
F 04 Compress/Counterstrike
A 05: Chaos Wound
F 06: Abolish/Blizzard
A 07: Sun Shield

Most of them have four or more parts to them. That makes it up to about 36 that I've planned and storyboarded so far. I'll scan some tonight and send them to you. If you'd like to, go over a few of the future moves and make a list of titles that sound good. I'm only so good at naming them myself.

007 is being inked on the tablet tonight.

 

I find that romantic drama is hard for a lot of writers. I've only ever seen a relationship develop in a believable way on TV. Having it all happen off camera is a good way to get around it, but it can feel as if the writer is just skipping out on the character development. That was a good scene, though. If that's really the first hint we get that something's going on then you've picked a pretty awesome approach.

 

(Tabcef) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c4_1176720508

 

DAMN YOU SETH!!!!

 

(ImNotNEG) I cannot believe Sega were stupid enough not to include the Sonic lock-on games in the latest console compliations (Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection/Sega Mega Drive Collection). It has 49 games, which is pretty huge, but no lock-on, despite Sonic 3, and sonic and knuckles, being there.

Still tempted to get it...but I reckon I shouldn't, as a sign of protest. That major a thing couldn't have been some mere oversight.

Ergh.

 

I agree Tabcef, they managed to do it so well in the Sonic Collections, but neglected it for some strange reason in the newest one. Doesn't make any sense. Maybe they're trying to sabotage Sonic past, present, and future so that they can sell him off the same way I believe they sold off the rights to Crash.

...

I have killed Seth... in extra easy mode. But I don't need to fight Seth to beat humans on X-box Live.

If you'd like a piece, my tag is AceCS, 2AM-3AM on nights I don't have class.

 

(ImNotNEG) You called me Tab for some reason -_-

I ordered the collection nontheless. According to internet calculations, at 30bucks and 49games, it comes to 75cents a game, and thats good value no matter the way you look at it (compared to something like Virtual Console/Live Arcade where a single Sonic game comes at 5 bucks).

Whole streets of rage series/comix zone/shining force 1 & 2 (finally 2),ecco 1& 2/all sonic games (besides lock-on) all on one disc? And even the whole menu system is shaped like a mega drive and cartridges flying all over the place?

We might not be granted such a generous compilation again, regardless of the few mistakes. Heck Sega is so boned at the moment who knows if they'll be fit enough to be around for the next generation. They definately could have gone the way of nintendo and drip-fed consumers on a 1 game per buy basis. You have to give them some merit for that. (Even if it does in all likelihood make their vast content look like uncared for shovelware).

Few key titles missing:Gunstar Heroes/Toejam & Earl 1 & 2/Revenge Of Shinobi

Of course I could list the endless amount of third party games they should, they REALLY should license, for the sake of keeping the history alive, and well, because the third party stuff made the system what it was, too. (Wiz n Liz, Rocket Knight Adventures, several Disney titles like Mickey Mania/Castle Of Illusion).

Personally have an itch to play Sonic 3D again.

 

Oh, and Street Fighter 4 is also on its way. i'll be kicking major ass (with Chun-Li of course). Challenge me if you dare, blah blah, hadoken, etc.

Gamertag:The NEG

 

I noticed that after I posted. Sorry NEG. Complete foul-up on my part.

 

What Sega needs to do is find a way to port their most promising and popular Saturn Games to other systems. Hell, even a dowload of these games would be awesome. Especially since you can't find a working Saturn in the stores or the games or a universal Saturn Emulator.

 

(Tabcef) man i wish i had xbox live and sf4

but mostly i wish i had resident evil 5.


and xbox live.

 

It's not all it's cracked up to be. Fun game, SF4. But Seth will grate your nerves to dust no matter ho much fun you were having before meeting him.

 

(Tabcef) he can't be that bad
everyone complained about gill but i schooled that sucka with my man sean and supposedly seth is really easy to punish on block

 

then again, the game doesn't really have any equivilant of sean at all

maybe abel, but he seems more like an alex/sean mix, which is actually pretty cool.
though he is far less interesting as a character and music theme-wise than either of them

 

man, sf4 totally killed ggpo

there's like no one in the third strike lobby now. what a bummer.

 

Abel is a pretty good character.

 

You could block Gill and make the fight last for a full three minutes if you were good enough. You could destroy Gill if you were good enough.

But Seth can grab your from five steps away. Seth ports three times in a row and immediately parries 90% of your attacks. And after he parries, he grabs you and then tornado suplexes your ass a la Zangief. He is a buttmunch broken character that needs to have his program patched so that he fights rather than RAPES his opponents.

And by the way, Sean cannot save us. Rolling cannot save you. Teleporting with Dhalsim, Akuma, or Bison cannot save you. You have to get LUCKY to beat him. "Bag a supermodel with Darkman's face" lucky.

 

(Tabcef) okay looking at videos he doesn't seem bad at all
gill's issue was that his attacks all had huge priority, talking like shoryuken-levels for his fierce

seth just spams specials like an idiot, looks like you just wait til he whiffs (seems to be very often if you don't jump in) and jack him up

the main issue really does seem to be jump ins, since it looks like he instantly reacts to the input of jump for his ex shoryuken, which means that you jump in during his vaccuum attack only since sonic boom has always had little to no recovery time for the air punish

that crouching fierce punch jacked from dahlsim has trading priority with just about everything, too


really he doesn't seem too bad in comparison to say

akuma from street fighter 2 turbo

gotta say though that ultra is really annoying, takes so long for the cinematic and he opens it up on you the instant you leave yourself open.

i might rent sf4 and get a month of live, and whoop on ya'll
magnus can testify for my street fightin' skillsssss or lack thereof

even if there isn't sean to tackle/flip kick with- rolling is pretty much only good for close range gambles on throws

 

oh yeah that teleport is crappy for reals, takes so long to do

and block low when you're far away, he doesn't have any mixups at all for high/low


unlike sean.

SHORYU CANNON

 

also he has urien's crouching fierce punch and crouching fierce kick, without the priority, juggle ability or the terrifying followup ex knee/shoulder rush

man that just makes me annoyed that they referenced a sf3 dude without actually putting any of 'em in

 

Seth isn't that bad if you don't fight aggressively. But he's still a pain in the ass, although maybe not more so than some of the other SF bosses.

He's so generic though. Ugh.

 

(Tabcef) ahahaha 'i only play ken', picks white ken all the time, does the same thing over and over again

too bad i suck against crossups, can't tell which way to input else i'd be shoryu cannoning his dumb ass every time he tries it

best part was choosing ryu just so it could be ryu v ken and owning his ass with completely crappy play (nonstop specials basically)

 

2/20/2009 11:28:11 AM

So, I played SF4 last night.

At an arcade.

Well, not on an arcade machine, but I did use an arcade pad.

There's an antique game store close to where I work. Aside from piles of ancient consoles and games, they have some arcade cabinets and some plasma TVs you can play console games on. My friend at work took me there for my birthday (today) and they had SF4 going with a bunch of guys who'd been playing for hours. I'd never played an actual Street Fighter game before, so I figured I'd get killed, but decided to give it a try anyway. After being slaughtered in the first two battles, my mind finally translated the muscle memory I had from Marvel vs Capcom 2 (where Ryu is my best character) from the DC pad into commands for the arcade stick, restoring to me the Hadoken and Tornado Kick. I then proceeded to beat the next 5 or 6 fights in a row: Ken, Vega, El Fuerte, then someone finally took me down with Rose. Then after a few more games I got owned by these two guys playing Ryu and Ken for the rest of the night. My attempts to do the ultra Hadoken kept yielding a super Shoryu-ken. If I'd had a regular controller I probably would've done better, but man, I had fun.

"Someone tell me how to use the ultra!"
"Forward circle, forward circle, all three punch buttons."
"...there are three punch buttons?"

I must've looked like such a noob, but I fought pretty well. Never did figure out how to do that knockdown punch. Had fun dodging it though!

 

(ImNotNEG) Whats awesome is, besides your usual quick learning, is that you got to experence it at an actual semi-arcade. With other people to play against. On arcade controls. Awesome.

Millions like me have only played SF with console controls, let alone see a arcade cabinet in years.

You've just had a true arcade experence! :)

 

And Happy Birthday!

 

(Tabcef) well, rented sf4

playing on the xbox controller is a huge pain in the ass, i wish i could attach a keyboard to the xbox to play with

gamertag: tabcef

 

Happy birthday Frieza!

 

(Tabcef) okay sakura is awesome but still has low priority attacks (lame)
abel is basically a mishmash of sf3 character moves, with urien's crouching fierce punch, crappy versions of sean's flip kick and a combination of ibuki's kick combo with punches followed by throws stolen from alex and sean tackle

overall, pretty cool

c viper is.. weird to fight against? i dunno, i can't stand her design so i didn't play her

rufus and el fuerte's playstyles are incomprehensible to me

also sagat is a BEAST, but everyone uses him so i'd rather not.

 

oh yeah akuma's ultra/super are crazy, you can't escape if he does it right next to you when you're knocked down

 

oh yeah x2

seth is a pushover, i was right about the crouching thing

the only way he gets in is a long jump or a teleport, both which are hilariously easy to counter

that spd from him is horrendously annoying though, i gotta admit

 

to prove my point about the music:

this is sagat's sf4 theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DGBAWXjYdY

this is his street fighter 2 theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjxW5wnwJas&fmt=18

and just for completion's sake, his alpha theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpvxwIqi0hY


also i'll probably be on all night so challenge me if you dare

 

i figured out how to play el fuerte and oh my god he is my new favorite character

his entire game is based on screwing with the other player with his run technique, and then landing nonstop command throws on them since his run leads into them and has like three seperate ones all with simple motions

also he is very fast and takes damage worse than akuma

 

man i got stomped by ace

4-9

although i did learn that abel's super and ultra can be hit out of, which is really weird considering i've seen them go them go through shoryukens before

i also learned that i really wish i could use a keyboard for the game because i can't stop pressing the wrong directions on the controller when trying to do moves (ex air grab =/= ultra)

 

Happy Birthday, Friez!

--

Sorry about not answering the call to battle a little earlier. I was renewing a rivalry in Street Fighter that has been going on now for about 8 years between me and my best friend.

I won this time, but our record is like Ken and Ryu's, man. It may go my way this time, but not the next.

Tab, you did well compared to my Ranked opponents and you use multiple characters. That's an automatic plus in my book. You made me use Sagat, which is essentially turning on Super Ace.

Your Abel is to be feared, man. Sagat's the only character that I know well enough to stop grapplers like him, Zangief, and El Fuerte without running into a dead end damage-wise. Don't worry about me stopping your Ultra combo with him, though. I specialize in stopping super combos that aren't projectiles. Especially Akuma's Raging Demon. 85% of the time, I can stop stuff like that with a jab or an anti-air. It's just the way I am. Your grabs stung like a ***** though.

I name thee a B-ranked fighter. No sloppiness or cheap buggery. You fight with honor and skill.


Friez, if you can use an arcade stick proficiently, then you already have half of the battle won. It's just natural for some folks.

 

(Cue the record scratch)

Wait. I just read that post in greater detail. Friez, you've never played Street Fighter in the arcade before? Your only Capcom experience comes from MvC2? Holy crap!

And you owned folks wh had been playing all night! It's a new day, ladies and gents. The true arcade experience! A string of wins cut short by shoto players. Awesome.

 

(Tabcef) i was trying to learn sakura since she's like the closest 'non-shoto shoto' but abel fits sean's playstyle better i guess

seriously though, i really hate controllers/sticks, i end up doing whack movements like dragon punch when trying to do hcb grabs (which was happening at the end, if you were wondering why i was suddenly air grabbing on wakeup) or not blocking when i'm holding back (good god is that fustrating)

i must've eaten countless tiger uppercuts on wakeups/jump ins due to somehow not blocking while holding back (not a mixup)

also ate those tiger knees after rolling escape of your tiger shot trap thanks to that too

i've really got a huge issue landing supers/ultras in general, they're not like supers from SF3 - low priority and long startup

else i would've landed the 2h fierce punch into super/ultra combo that i did like maybe once (kept on trying though, ended up air grabbing whoo)

sagat's ridiculously powerful compared to everyone else in the game for sure though, the dude hits and takes hits like a tank and has devastating speed/power/priority

tiger knee is insane

 

oh yeah and everyone who plays on ranked use ryu/ken, and they're terrible
not laughably terrible, but the annoying kind of terrible

the kind of terrible that involves disconnecting when getting below 50% health in a fight
the kind of terrible that always uses fierce versions of the specials
the kind of terrible that plays keep away with ryu/akuma and quits when you command throw them once


i really wish parrying was back in, i hate how they're so predictable but i don't know my own character's moves so i'm stuck with the guessing game of what attack to use

at least with parrying you could just press fierce punch and hurt them after parrying the predictable stuff

also i really wish abel's axe kick was like sean's- higher, so it could be used as anti air

 

oh yeah and those who set matches to one round in ranked
usually 'quitting under 50% health' and that coincide

 

sorry, one more stray thought:

the matchmaking system is complete garbage, oh my god

soul calibur 4 had it down perfectly.

 

It makes me sad that there's no cross-platform networking since it seems like I'm the only one who has this for the PS3. :(

 

At this point I would love to play you PS3 people. I haven't had to deal with any chumps who quit in the middle of the game when they're losing so far, but they sound like straight suckas to me. Take the "L" and train like the rest of us, buttmunches. Jeez!

To many folks obsessed with winning and not enough folk obsessed with playing.

 

(Tabcef) hahahaha, i ran into an akuma who literally did nothing but air fireballs


el fuerte's ex anti air is awesome for that

you can jump off the wall, and then ex them


ranked is still filled with ryus, with the occasional akuma now

and blanka is one amazing character, oh my god
you don't even need to know how to use him, his defensive nature and awesome specials/normals make him a beast (pun intended)

 

also it seems like akuma's third strike style combos were taken out
or maybe the single competent akuma i fought against didn't know how to do them

actually that's probably it, the guy never used dive kicks, which are a giant part of what makes akuma awesome

'cause it'd be pretty lame if they were out
i'm gonna miss tornado into shoryuken,
or dive kick into light tornado into lp shoryuken into light punch into fierce shoryuken

 

"There are three punch buttons?"

Haha!!

MVC 2 did that to you, man.

 

(Tabcef) el fuerte is an amazing character, oh my god
i cannot wait to play against someone who actually knows how to use him

the guy has so many tricks up his sleeve

 

i hate how people who use other characters STILL default back to ryu/ken/akuma the instant they lose

c. viper? lose? KEN KEN KEN KEN AKUMA

it's not amusing anymore, it's just annoying

i've ended up just using sagat every time someone uses one of those three because no one knows how to deal with someone who can shoot fireballs faster/control all ranges of combat (tiger knee is still insane)

 

fireball wars are fun as hell though with sagat though

even dumbass 'air fireball nonstop' akumas will suddenly stop doing that and engage you in a fireball war once you tag them when they're landing a few times

i did learn that ex tiger shot doesn't stop akuma's hcb fireball though, which blows ass

 

I do that with Bison and Sagat. They were my go-to guys when playing street fighter 2 against my cousin when he learned how to effectively play Balrog as an up-close beater.

I warned him not to spam that gut-puncher throw so much and now he knows why to this day. I bust his ass with a couple of tiger uppercuts or head stomps and he stops being corny.

The shoto abuse is being felt, huh? No one is establishing their own identity. They get beat and can't help but run to their comfort zone, where they're in control. Except that control is easily taken from them and then stomped into a crevice when they can't control the fight against someone with skill. It's sad.

 

It really was an arcade experience, wasn't it? I even had a crowd of spectators (mostly cheering for my opponents). I wouldn't say I owned anybody though. It was a struggle to survive, and since I'd never even seen some of these characters in action I had to think on my feet, which is part of why it took until the third or fourth fight for me to realize that the third row of buttons were functional (and yeah, MvC2 is the other reason). The intensity made it even more awesome though, like I had really walked into some arena to duke it out with total strangers.

And I'll be dusting off your throne later tonight, Ace. SF4 may be a legitimate excuse, but I think this still makes 2 weeks late on your promise for a new comic.

 

(Tabcef) look like people are switching from ken to sagat now
ran into sagats nearly nonstop tonight
good thing they all sucked and either played exactly like ken with sagat (no tiger knee), or tried to reversal nonstop


tiger knee does more damage than tiger uppercut, it is still insane

 

i unlocked seth.

he is my new 'getting tired of ken' character.

he takes huge amounts of damage, but oh my god he can dish it out just as equally

 

SF4 and school , Friez.

And I shall stand before the throne. Sitting is for the weak and feeble.

 

(Tabcef) I GOT PAID

23-7

 

Better a friend than a stranger.

You have come to counter my Muy Tai. Interesting... this will need further study into new styles... I love it when people make me change. (I sound like a shapeshifter, damn.)

Congrats.

...and prepare for the next time. I know I won't!

Persona 4 needs to get ended. Halo needs its new game types played. Those comics and pics aren't gonna get a visit from the magical inking fairie. Those equations won't solve themselves. And that paper ain't gonna write itself.

No listless surfing for a week! Starting... now!!

 

http://acecs.deviantart.com/art/FVA-Move-007-114164291

Part 7. It gets more action packed next time. I'll upload the next two comics together at the same time to make the action a lot more fluid. That'll be Wednesday or sooner. If life don't get in the way.

 

(Tabcef) i really gotta learn el fuerte's semi-infinite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsFGCjdPTzs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orms2_dzqlY

 

You know I'm just messin' with you. I'm still just thrilled that something I helped write is taking visual form. And hey, as long as you're doing something productive you're not procrastinating, right?

That last panel could've used more definition. It's hard to tell what's ground, what's glass, and what exactly the glass is doing. And did you change your mind about wanting my help for the next one?



Frieza: So, Alej?

Alej: Alejandra.

Frieza: Very well, Alejandra. Of the house of Hara-da?

Alej: Yes.

Frieza: And you say you trained under Spectre as well?

Alej: Yes.

Frieza: And your mercenary work, it's never taken you through a zone where reality itself seemed altered?

Alej: No.

Frieza: I see. I suppose that explains some of it. Well then, I guess there's just one more thing I've been try to wrap my head around, and maybe you could help me with some insight. I know we're dealing with cosmic abnormalities and variety on a multiversal scale, but even so, are you serious, seriously telling me that you don't drink?

Alej: Return me to my world immediately.

(Camera pans to behind Frieza, revealing Magnus)

Magnus: ...I don't even want to know.

 

And it is true... She's a buzz kill. And a lightweight. An Ace Drink is beyond Alej as Godzilla is beyond a single-celled creature.

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And I know you were messin' around, Friez. I just wanted to empty that inking folder and finish my work from school. The stuff sits around for so long that I sometimes never pick up the vibe to finish it.

I'll be sending you the outlines to the next comic as soon as saturday comes around. I already had the one I put up scripted.

 

(Tabcef) i gotta learn how to deal with folks who play keep away

somehow i can't catch up to them with balrog, it's annoying

 

Turn Punch into Dashing Straight? I dunno, just stick with Dudley.

...

:(

 

(Tabcef) there goes street fighter 4

good games and all that


oh well, RE5 is coming up soon and i can't wait to uppercut zombies

 

(ImNotNEG) SF4 Impressions:

****ING SETH!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Damn. That's right, you rented it!

CRUD, MAN!!!

There goes another good opponent.

 

Alright. That settles it.

I'm getting HAWX.

The voice command and the non-corny camera angle and controls sold me. Next payday, I'm flying the unfriendly skies again, man.

 

(Tabcef) i tried really hard to like ace combat 6 but i really hated it for some reason

maybe i need a joystick for it or something

 

I downloaded the demo and love it to death.

It's exactly how I pictured it, voice commands and all. And it's FUN!!! Once I get used to flying in a jet Ace Combat/GTA style, I'll be extraordinarily happy with it.

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In Halo 3 tonight, I came across a group of people. And we became a team. Not just a gaggle of nuts with guns who share a kill total, but a communicating unit. It was an incredible experience, when I normally run into self-centered anti-social idiots and trolls on X-Box Live. The most talkative ones were the three original guys I hooked up with: a Texan guy, a quiet one, and a maniac with as bad a mouth as mine.

For the first time in forever, I had fun playing Halo. Not just because we won, but just plain fun. The same kind of fun I had playing Tab or any of my closer friends.

I'm just a bit blown away by that.

 

Teamwork is a beautiful thing.

 

(ImNotNEG) http://www.wow-europe.com/wrath/ulduar.xml

Little teaser for the upcoming raid instance in WoW named Ulduar.


Go on, fellows. Try it. Let it suck your life awwwaaaaay!

 

(Tabcef) also the f-15 s/mtd is awesome in HAWX
same with the f-22

things go so fast and have crazy responsiveness in assistance off mode

 

seriously the thing is a NASA experimental/test type plane that isn't even supposed to have guns on it!

i hope you can use it in regular missions because i kinda hate all the other planes (f-16 is boring now, harrier is too slow, superwhatever is also boring)

 

3/3/2009 4:37:09 PM

Happy birthday Bar #15!

 

*lights fireworks*

 

Still working on some stuff. The comic got put on the backburner for a minute.

Halo was part of the reason, along with a watchathon of other animation and movies(kung-fu, avatar, and other stuff). Math work and a paper also reared their ugly heads to loom over me. I think I got something out of all of it. I think I've found a better way to represent motion in a still frame without the cop-out of using speed lines like every other sucker on the planet.

The comic and some other stuff should be done by the time I leave for work tomorrow.

 

(ImNotNEG) Speaking of birthdays....

http://kotaku.com/5164334/the-playstation-2-enters-its-tenth-year-today

Happy Birthday, Dreamcast murderer >:(

 

Why is Killzone 2 so short?

 

DLC and Multiplayer I'm guessing.

 

It takes so long to ink blue pencils it's not even funny.

 

Killzone 2's multiplayer is really addicting. I'm kind of surprised actually... Thank God it's spring break, otherwise I'd be screwed between this and SF4.

 

Told you. I'm still catching up from my SF4 problem.

 

(Imaginary leprechauns storm the bar, slaughtering imaginary customers and parading around the tables with their heads on imaginary pikes. Imaginary gremlins emerge from the basement and preform a short ballet with the imaginary leprechauns before killing and devouring them. Imaginary Animal Control enters brandishing three imaginary flaming United States constitutions and sets fire to the establishment as the ocher flames give birth to imaginary shamrocks that plant themselves in the imaginary gremlins, which promptly explode)

(Green beer dribbles from the mouth of real Ace as he lays passed out over the bar)

Magnus: Looks like Ace had a little too much of our special St. Patrick's day brew.

Frieza: No, I didn't make any green beer this year. That's just really rancid. I think he's dying.

Magnus: Oh...should we do something?

Frieza: I suppose.

(Slides ashtray under Ace's drooling maw)

Frieza: There. Too many stains on that counter already.

 

(Tabcef) resident evil 5 is AMAZING

oh my god!!


CHRISSSS!!

SHEVA!


it's missing the over the top-ness/insanely amazing b movie dialogue of 4, but that might be because of the character being more serious (chris has atomic biceps because he's expecting to fight wesker)

 

ROAR!

EXCITEMENT!

ZEAL!

Explanation.

 

(ImNotNEG) CCHHHHHRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIISSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

(you know the one I'm talking about, best "CHRIS" shout ever)

 

(Tabcef) matt taibbi will probably forever be my favorite journalist
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover


also the unlockable weapons in RE5 are hilarious
infinite ammo minigun that has such a large ammo backpack it obscures your vision?
triple barreled sawed off shotgun?

i wish they put in different characters in mercenaries rather than just getting lazy though
i miss HUNK. actually i just miss awesome melee moves period- wesker's are super dissapointing in terms of power

 

http://kalleboo.mirror.waffleimages.com/files86/8618f7d2b8779de6bcdf743c666339a7a5aff041.jpg


YES


YESSS



YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

 

In case you haven't seen it. This is greatness to aspire to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryH1TB4gEUY

It just kicks ass.

 

(Tabcef) the only good part of those is the dance sequence at the end of haloid

the guy straight up says he panders purposely but there's a limit for me

 

One of my favorite episodes of This American Life had a story like this. A family moves into some huge mansion in the middle of the woods in upstate New York. Apparently the family leaving had expierenced hauntings and ghostly visions and moved out. The new family was fine for about a month until the same thing started happening. They would wake up suddenly and feel like invisible hands were holding them down in bed, there were voices chattering constantly, walls would shake, they would have visions of people walking around the house and suddenly dissapearing into smoke, curtains turning into snakes, etc. etc. They got a psychic, a medium and an exorcist who all told them the house was haunted or was a portal to hell. They were about to lose their sanity and move until a man for the gas company showed up for routine maintenence. Apparently he found a massive gas leak in their basement and they all had been tripping balls. As soon as they fixed it everything they had expierenced overnight immediately stopped.

 

Who cares if he's pandering? A little candy is nice every now and then. And that was the sweetest I've had in a long time. I'd forgot all about Haloid. Nice to see the guy is still around and still improving. It would probably be even more awesome if I knew who any of those people were besides Tifa.

My only problem with fight scenes like this is that they're too dense. I can't concentrate that hard for that long. I need to zone out after a while, and I end up missing something awesome or important. I had to stop and rewind a few times (which I sometimes wish I could do with movies and TV shows for the same reason).

 

(Tabcef) well my other complaint is that there's no momentum or force
i'd say it feels floaty, like martial art demonstrations done by terrible schools- no force



http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/471536

has amazing momentum to the battle purely because it's 'floaty'- it allows for speed like crazy

 

Now that's more comfortable fight: good choreography and a pace that's humanly possible to react to. Having only 2 fighters probably helped. I'm not sure what you mean by floaty, though, other than that they can all practically defy gravity.

Also, so I don't lose it again, Max's obit:
http://www.djournal.com/pages/archive.asp?ID=68915

 

I see what you mean by impact. Aside from Haloid, I don't really think that ol' Monty was going for the "real" vibe we got in the Exiles fight. You didn't feel the impact because the reaction to each of the characters' attacks wasn't necessarily given much pause in Dead Fantasy. Sonya and Cammy got hit and you felt that in the way they flew or reacted. Whereas in Dead fantasy, everyone god-moded the fight with only one or two occaisonally acknowledging pain or injury. I guess that everyone has their own way of doing a fight.

I'll keep that in mind for all of my own endeavors. One of the artists I'm trying to learn from says the same thing, that the reaction of something is more important than the force behind what caused it.

Throwing a bead and making a perfectly sound building collapse when it hits will look amazing compared to throwing a car at said building.

 

Sesame Street is a lot funnier than I remembered it to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbgRyColvE

 

Man, classic Sesame Street was light years ahead of all the drivel that succeeded it. What are kids growing up with these days? You won't find Dora using emotional blackmail to get her daily sugar high, I can guarantee that.

 

(Tabcef) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1PoZUTaDGs&feature=related



and that is why aquaman rules, you plebes

 

The idea of Saturday morning cartoons is going down the drain. My old guilty pleasure has been tainted so badly that I don't get up on Saturdays if I don't really need to.

 

Saw the new Fullmetal Alchemist anime series' first episode. I am thoroughly impressed and awaiting it coming to our shores. Maybe by then, Adult Swim will be watchable again.

 

(ImNotNEG) Went to a Nintendo Pokemon event in London today to grab the little cutie named Shaymin, it felt like it was 1998 all over again, seeing the large crowds of people battling, discussing particuler pokes, and trading.

Shaymin is one I really did want, as it's a hedgehog! \o/

More info on him here:

http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-dp/492.shtml

450/493 caught now

Gotta catch em all!

 

Whoa, they're actually making FMA a second time to follow the manga? I don't think that's ever been done before! I was quite disappointed with everything after the point where the first anime started making up its own story. This goes high up on my list of things I wish I had time for.

 

Whoa... I think I might get Platinum now.

That creature so Cute.... man.

Even the entry makes it sound so benign. Leave it to Nintendo to make a little hedgehog pokemon seem so adorable from all sides. Even the sky form is cute looking.

--

And yes, I'm not 100% immune to cute things. I have a minor Sakaki complex.

 

I suppose that this woul be more ya'll speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsUa1muAccw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N684FFtD5Hk

Lots more impact at a smaller scale until the end. Not too much "floatiness"

 

(Tabcef) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKUSSFzRZGY


CONVER-SATION?

 

agent g.

 

Wow. With today's Best Game Ever poll, I'm reminded of a line from thge Simpsons' Halloween special from years ago.

"Go ahead. Throw your vote away! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

Was it a crime to vote for Sonic 3? No.

Was it stupid to believe that the Square-suckers and the Nintendo-fanboys would ever let the blue blur into the competition? Yes. Yes it was.

D'oh, MAN!!!

 

The good: I won an award that came with a $200 scholarship. Yes!
The bad: The girl I had an eye on has a boyfriend. Doh.
The ugly: Nothing mwahahaha!

 

(Pumps his fists in the air)

I did it!!!

I passed my classes! Ha!!!

Now I've got some free time to write and draw and actually play some damned games. Woo-hoo!!!

 

I saw Tyson Gay, the 2007 Track and Field World Champion today. Pretty sweet.

 

I think I'm about to do something dumb. But I look at it as practice.

 

Oops. We let Radiohead's topic die...

 

(Old NoiseTank) let's keep all the topics with my name it active. i think that'd rule!

 

(Tabcef) i've got balls of steel.

 

balls balls balls balls balls balls balls

 

(Tabcef) A couple of inner city rappers stumble upon a seemingly innocent ventriloquist dummy while searching for marijuana in their grandmother's attic. After accidentally performing a Satanic rap song able to transform nearby ventriloquist dummies into bloodthirsty killers, the two rappers realize they must battle this evil by using the powers of rap and friendship and also handguns.

 

Hahahahahahaha!

I'll think of a sarcastic name for it after I've put pen to paper on a few of their raptastic adventures killing the wooden horrors.

 

Slappy.

Mr. Scarface.

Chucky.

Gabbo.

Plenty of villains to round it out too.

 

(Tabcef) your blood is on my fists.

 

gutter trash

 

30% done. Woo hoo.

Now onto homework.

 

Homwork done. Now onto drunken call time.

 

Terminator Salvation was boring. Disappointing.

 

I figured as much. I'm glad that the only "hot" movie I spent money to see ended up being the best. Star Trek, son. Saw it on opening day.

The Hype: Believe it...

I ignored Wolverine with good reason.

I ignored Terminator.

Hopefully, Harry Potter won't suck this time.

 

(Tabdef) it is missing like every scene i saw in trailers what on earth

i saw arnie with a minigun in one, after he rips the t600 in half

and more fighting scenes against t-1s

and more john connor shooting terminators

actually, why did they make it pg-13 anyways?

the movie would've been way more awesome rated r.

i actually hope it continues because i eventually want to see kyle reese in his full format, with dark blue junk heaps and paper shredder sounding laser miniguns

 

seriously i want this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cta8KBPAjE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rovU-CTFiSk&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I49A09-o9ls&feature=related



still, like only maybe one dude actually died from a terminator straight up in the movie.
probably because of the pg-13 movie, pretty lame.

 

oh yeah the truck man must blow up in the next movie too

it seems like the minigun + truck combo is forever doomed to die in the terminator series

 

It's all about money, Tab. Everyone's afraid to make movies with some serious stuff in them because they are afraid of it not doing well. Bunch of punks, I say.

If the movie execs and creators weren't so bent on releasing comfortable trash every week, then we wouldn't get watered down crap like Dragon Ball or Terminator. Only watered down to lowest common denominator because someone wanted a little extra scratch from the kids and teens.

I've heard of people taking their kids to see Watchemen and facepalmed. There's a rape scene and a nude blue guy in the movie. That's why it was rated R, suckas. People get spontaneously combusted in graphic fashion and it is awesome.

Established ideas get put on film and they bomb. New ideas go under the radar. And hype is almost criminal in its use of false advertisement. And all of this is because someone wants the money they shilled out to go back into their pockets plus a little more.

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Also, I found these

http://img141.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=69741_08d80d5bfe1d3d6e8b9fc72a368e1d5a22166d51_122_889lo.jpg
http://img111.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=69753_42bc1d85f79261f6b981eb1615ae7cb4642d6e04_122_933lo.jpg
http://img17.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=69759_Akuma_122_844lo.jpg

and nearly crapped myself. There are some interesting artists out there.

 

My problem with movie action scenes lately hasn't been lack of violence, but lack of choreography. All too often I see a bunch of quick clips of people running and shooting flashing by really fast to try to convince me that there's a coherent battle going on that I'm just not following, but it's really all camera tricks. It's like when the fighters in DBZ start moving too fast for us to see. It was awesome the first couple of times. Then it was an excuse.

Tab gets the next bar, then everyone on the queue has finally gotten theirs.

 

Very true.

...damn. I think I'm starting to fall into that laziness.

 

Too much TV, not enough work.

 

(Tabcef) sign