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I originally saw this picture of an APB character on the box art of the game and i thought, "Wow, that really looks like a character in my book! Like just how i pictured her...".So i found a larger image of her from [link] and drew her to the best of my ability, changing what needed to be changed to fit my original idea. Overall i think i did a good job in copying the APB style with the enforcer colors. I also downloaded an extraordinary amount of brushes to do all the patterns and what not.
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Book? Are you writing a book? Are you uploading it? (ok, ok, I'll try to keep my curiosity under control). Who's Sarah Jennings? (ups, sorry!)
You have managed to blend the pencil shadows with the colouring very well! It gives the picture a nice texture. Also, the trousers' texture and the jacket's creases are natural and match with the seams.
You also have managed Sarah's pose very natural, the hands show that they are holding the gun (hands are difficult!), by the movement of the shirt and jacket, it seems that she has just taken the weapon and point it to the poor thing that is going to receive the bullet.
I would only ponit out that the eyes should be more close (the ideal is the distance between both eyes is one eye), but that's the canon! If you want to make them more separate, it's perfect 
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I'm guessing you read? Well i will once i feel it's the right time... But its a Modern-Fantasy novel (No, not like Twilight) set in another world, like the Tolkien universe. It focuses on a war between two countries, Bruiskia and Katan involving some details i can't give out without spoiling stuff. The main character is Jon Griffin, a mechanic turned thief turned pirate (It sound silly but i think it works) who gets caught up in it. Sarah Jennings is an important character... i can't go into to it without more spoilers.
I did a lot of research into clothes, alot of googling, but most of it came from the original picture, i just kind of did my own shading on account it was originally a painting. Yes, i did notice her eyes were slightly farther apart than normal, but i drew them so well i couldn't bring myself to erase them lol. And she is a bit stylized i half to admit, the skinniness what just a by product.
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Yes! I love reading since I was a child (and learned to read, of course), no problem with the genre, however I prefer Fantasy (Modern, Medieval, Epic). I must confess I've read the Twilight books, but when it comes to vampires (the "real" ones), I prefer The Anita Blake series. I will keep an eye on your profile, for when the right time comes! The argument looks good, but please, avoid spoilers, I hate them!
Google is perfect for research! You did a nice job with the clothes, sometimes while drawing modern clothes, I feel I am tattooing them on the body rather that dressing the character.
The eyes are very good, she has a hard and cold look. Sarah seems a hard and tought woman, a fact that is also marked by the use of cold colours? I did not mentioned before, but as a wrote the comment, I kept thinking on your piece and noticed that the badge is a dull copper, so no warm or brilliant colours.
Don't worry about my comment on the eyes, I sometimes think that sticking to the canon can lead to a lack of personality on the character, or to give the impression it is not well drawn. Which is not true.
So... Any work on John Griffin?
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Same here, it's hard to find a kid who likes football (American style) and reading! Adventure Fantasy has always been my favorite too, that's why Mass Effect and Dragon Age are my favorite games, because they allow me to live in books! As for vampires... well Twilight kinda of ruined how eveyone looks at them, if you've ever watched Daybreakers or 30 Days of Night... well those are the good vampires, but i haven't read the Anita Blake series, i might check it out or have my sister buy them.
Clothes have always been hard, i like making them the body first, then drawing the person into them, it also helps give you an idea of how it's going to look. That's why i don't normally draw really tight clothes, the concept just doesn't feel right in my head.
The colors were defiantly fun to do, and i made the blue of the left to be dark to fit a more serious 'cop like' atmosphere, where the light blue cyan on the left is her more 'lighter' side i guess you could say. One thing i didn't mention is she isn't entirely a cop (Not a spoiler) just is in the organization, she gets the badge though like a soldier gets dog tags. I didn't put any thought into the color of the badge, but now that i think of it, they are not normally tarnished like that, but silvery, i might work that into something. I messed up slightly on the eye, just a miscalculation, but somehow, it makes her different from the original picture for some reason, enough to give it her own persona.
Jon Griffin... (Jon not John, common mistake), god i've never drawn him right, ever... one day i will and it will be epic, but for now i'll have to wait. And just for you, i think i'll upload the Prologue soon, i just want to edit it.
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So kids like football and not reading? Nooo!!! We have to stop that! or I must assume that you don't like football? Here football (not the American one) is extreeemely popular.
I was introduced to DAO by a friend, who after introduced me to Mass Effect. I must admit that I had never played a shooter, I used to played WoW or NeverwinterNights, but ME has definetly stolen my heart and soul. And I completely agree with you: those games allow us to live in books
You start by drawing the clothes!? God! I cannot do that! I always start with the (hated) perspective lines, then a kind of dummy and after start the real character. And the clothes are the last thing... The other way around is too complicated for me... Thumbs up for you!
About the story, take your time! Even though lots of DA will be eager to read it (me among them), don't rush! For me writing is too challenging, if I write in English, I end up lacking vocabulary, and if I write on my native language, my syntax is all messed up so I need a beta reader. sigh.
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I love Football (Both kinds), but in America there's this horrible barrier between education and sports, most high schools in the area either focus on one on the another, luckily for me i get the one with education. Generally you don't expect to see the burly football player reading a book, drawing, or writing.
I've been a gamer ever since i've had a PS2 in 2000, but i have to say the ME and DAO are just so amazing they're my favorite games, Modern Warfare and Company of Heroes a close second. I think the only MMO i ever played was Star Wars Galaxies and i loved it, just hated the subscription fees.
Song of Ice and Fire is one of my favorite series! It was the book series that inspired me to write in the first place, i'm just waiting for number 5... sooo long.
I never really so the perspective lines, sometimes if i just find a picture online of someone in a particular pose, i'll just draw the general body shape while changing the clothes and face.
I'm guessing your native language is Spanish (Duh!), believe me, i can understand. I'm trying to learn Spanish right now and i can't write worth ****, but i'm trying lol. I've always loved English, maybe because i've already mastered it, but the way Spanish sounds is so much more pleasant.
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Then you're kind of the exception? I'm amazed that there's that barrier, I always hoped that all the sterotypes the American series show were just that: stereotypes. A pity...
I totally agree with you: DAO and ME are the best games up until now. I have been told that The Longest Journey is also great, but I haven't played... Maybe in a week time, during holidays I'll amend that.
Hey! Another Song and Ice and Fire fan!! Yuhu! HBO is filming the serie adaptation of Games of Thrones, and believe me, I'm scared to death: it can be awesome or a complete disaster. If you like the series, try to read the Dark Sword saga. It's similar, but not the same. I also love the Drizzt novels.
Ok, now you got me again! I draw without the perspective lines, but since I started classes again, my teachers insisted so much on it that now I start always with it.
Yes, my native language is Spanish (cookies for you!), third language English. Writting Spanish is kind of tricky, well, the verbs and grammar. I prefer English grammar, much more simple. The only difficulty I find in English is the spelling. But a part from that, I prefer English over Spanish. And I must disagree with you: I also prefer the sounds of English (even though the vowels drive me crazy) over Spanish...
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Can you send me your last message? I spontanoesly clicked send because i'm an idiot.
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Of course I can! No problem! And you're not an idiot, the send button sometimes works on his own.
The same here. There's always going to be someone that does something better that us, so the point is: if s/he can, so do I! And you can always learn something from the ones who tried before you did... That's why I love classes or looking up "how to"s.
Don't worry, it's not that something bad or traumatic happened. I think that I stopped drawing during the last years of University. I did not stopped completely, but enough to loose tones of practice, which lead to deseperation every time I tried to draw something and the piece was a complete and absolute disaster. I suppose that studies+work+keeping a home was too much! And the little time I got left, I was playing at WoW. Besides, I think that my muse went on holidays after noticing how much attention I paid her (him?). Last summer, two years after getting my degree, at summer, one of the hottest August I remember, I walked by an Art School which is like 15 minutes from my place. I applied on October for classes on Saturday morning. My first class was so so fustrating that I wanted to cry: a level test, I had to draw a human, a perspective (noooo, have mercy!) and a still-life. The first hour spent on a figure that was awfull, so I had to rush the other ones. But fortunately, I've got better.
Nooo! Spoilers nooo! But don't kill them either... Or well, I could accept main character's death at the end in an epic blaze of glory. In fact, I think that Martin is doing a good job, I mean, novels, films, etc. should cause a emotional reaction in us, the readers. If you like dragons, I bought years ago a book from the artist Ciruelo. I love how he draws dragons (and other stuff), one of my many favourites. The book is just called "Dragons". I'll look for the one of Jennifer Peffer.
Uff... Scenery is so difficult for me... I'm working in several drawings (I am so slow), and the background is driving more crazy that the actual characters. A matter of practice I suppose. I'll like to fight the system more often, believe me, but sometimes the system is so big, powerfull and scary... Mommyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Ok, I'll leave Australia (poisonous animals and extreme sports included in the pack) to you if you let me keep New Zeland. I am in love with the country since I watched "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. But the Scottish accent, that's tough! Have you ever heard Cockney? I watched like ten minutes of a very old English TV series and I got so fustrated! I did not understand a word!
Sometimes I think humanity is so much self centered and relaying on appearances. I also think it's ok for people to have a sense of national pride, but I don't think it's ok when violence takes part in it just because someone is different (skin, dress, ideals, you name it) or has been born in other country. It does not make sense to me. I mean, we are all immigrants in one point the our family. What makes my blood boil is this is just a matter of education, of teaching more open minded ideas. But no! Let's live in the Middle Ages and shout: "she's a witch!" just because her cakes are tastier than mines. Pity. Humanity should seek for a unity, but we like to be a part.
Yes! That's it! The head, the boots! I though KKK was over, that the organization? did not exist any more. Innocent me. I am with freedom of though and will, but does humanity need them? Uf, sorry, but I cannot stand them. Boots with metal should be illegal, but some people use them in their work places (warehouse staff, for instance), so anyone can buy them. Completely unfair. I tend to avoid fights, and I hope never be involved in one again. If I have to beat someone, let it be verbally, it is more stimulating and fun! I prefer them as a disorganized army than an organized one...
Yes! Turians first! But with our lesson learned: No more First Contact War! Though I think it will be better contact with asaris first. Or Vulcanians. No Kligons either!
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I really want to take a class that will help me with that, i once drew a tree with a dude next to it, but the tree was cooler than the dude and was a character onto itself, kind of counter productive... Fight the system *Throws fist in air*, it's entertainment onto itself, but then again i have been labeled as 'foolhardy' and was voted "Most likely to be killed by an extreme stunt" in my yearbook.
I play with Cockney, trying to learn in. Whenever i play Modern Warfare 2, there are these two scottish guys who i always try to copy their accents because of there sheer awesomeness. And if you love New Zealand, then you are sure to love this: [link]
Sometimes i think people just need to be united agaisnt something, like it's just natural tendency to fight. But when we finally get the tools for peace, we don't even have the instinct to use they, which is a pity.
As i've stated, nuts ideas and crazy adrenaline filled activities are my fortay. With the territory comes the fighting, thought most of the time i can talk my way out of it. The other times are when my martial arts classes actually come in handy. I do admit i'm a little proud of how good i am at fighting, but i don't condone it, it's just a male testosterone thing, like how cool you car is or how good are you at poker.
I like the pink jellys that talk in the third person, much more entertaining or the elcor because i want to ride one (Not as a animal, but as a friend because taking an elcor around the block is way cooler than driving a Camaro, because Camaros can't talk)
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It was very fustrating at that time. I always thought that I'll never stop drawing or painting. It felt like I missed something, but at that moment I didn't realize it. Anyway, period of muse on trip ended.
I know, it's also special for me, and usually, while drawing, my mind builds a background for what I'm drawing, like if it needed a justification to be. My little alternative world, where everything is possible, I guess. I don't think that your style would be odd in an Art School. The school I attend, we are al mixed there and you can have someone drawing a portrait next to another one colouring a comic page. By the way, have you ever tried to draw comic books? It so so hard!
I'll check Peffer, I 've got a pending delivery from Amazon and I still need to make the most of the transport costs. This is my idea of going shopping: girls go for clothes, I go for books and movies. This really drives my mother crazy. He he, evil me...
A tattoo? On the neck? A piece of advice: try to avoid places with sinew and bone. It's really painfull! I have two dragons tattoed: one on the leg and the other on the shoulder blade. This last one hurt a lot! And I had problems to sleep the first three days, but i do not regret it. I'm thinking of a third one, but I have to think of where and what. And draw it 
So background is our little nightmare? We'll have to give it some more practice, then. Even tough, humans, aliens and animals are much more fun to draw. I lack of imagination for backgrounds, I google them and then try to fit in the characters.
Wait, how do you vote on your yearbooks? You do polls? I'm afraid of asking why did you do to got all those votes (right know, my mind is filled with scenes of varios TV series and films of high schools, no offense intended!)
You're mean!! That video! Hahahaha, it's very funny! And the accent... huh... You play with Cockney? Who wins? Because sure, Cockney plays we me I will got so beaten, it will be a shame.
You're lucky then, at least you know how to defend yourself. I though long long ago to attend classes of self-defence, but I am really really lazy for sports. And I think I got late when motor coordination was handed out. I remember the only aerobics class I've ever attended. Complete disaster, I still don't know how I goy out in one piece.
Be proud of it! If you're good at something, it's ok you admit it. And cookies for your comment on the testosterone. I think you are one of the few guys I've ever heard admit that. Says tones about you
I would like a Hanar squad member in ME3. With no restriction of weapon number he can carry, it would be a little army at your side. And I would really watch that Shakespeare play by Elcors-But if I have to chose, I'm with the Turians. I don't know why, but they got something. And riding an Elcor... Never though of it... Hmmmm...
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I have, mostly in photoshop though, never had the money for all the ink pens and what not. I have been interested in comic book drawing many at time, just i find making a copy of the same character a daunting task, i usually seem to make them look like entirely different people.
My sister is exactly the same, my parents give her money for gas, she goes and buys books, i'm a little more frugal, though i didn't just give my last dollar to a hobo yesterday so at least she's doing something right.
I know it sounds stupid, but i'm not very responsive to pain. I'm not saying i tough just to be a 'man' or anything, it's just it doesn't effect me in the way it affects everyone else. It's strange, but i like to think it's my own little personal super power. I haven't designed the dragon yet, but i have this tribal i designed for my shoulder that i'm going to get soon.
No problem, most of the TV shows are highly dramatized, but they have some things right. Normally they'd do school wide polls and whoever gets the most votes in a certain category gets the title. I earned my with a variety or... activities.
Some days i get the accent right on, but others it is completely horrible... I can do a pretty awesome Aussie accent if the mood strikes me though.
I know the type and don't worry about it, that means you have more energy to invest in your brain, that's why i lack that part of my brain that tells me what i'm doing is a stupid idea.
I live with three sisters and my mom, believe me, i know how to testosterone off, that's why i can watch chick flicks without taking my suicide pill, hehe. There's something about monsters in dark corners that we sadistically enjoy, i know i do and that may be connect to my junkie-like attitude to every fast and explosive.
Turians will always be badass, that's why i always have Garrus in my squad, he's just a fricking savage. Blasto the Hanar Spectre! God i love that, so hilarious when i first heard it.
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Computers really make life easier for us artists. I used to ink my own drawings and started a comic book. I worked on the script with my boyfriend. Some months ago I found the notes and I started to write it, just prose and some pictures. The problem is that I have changed several things and he's kind of... pissed off... But he'll survive. My characters had different faces all over the pages. A shame. But now, Painter 7 and Photoshop are my new (virtual) best friends.
Uf, my brother is nothing like that. I don't know what does he do with the money my parents give him. Charity! Now I'm rather sure that you are the exception! Or you do it for the cookies
So your X-factor is resistance to pain? Well, know we have to design your clothes and look for a telephone box for you to change. It's not stupid, people react different to pain. I hate it, but I know I can stand a good amount of pain. But not for a long time. And headache are our of question. Maybe your resistance helps you with fights? Could be one of the reason of your profiency? Just guessing.
Those polls must be real fun. We did not have such things at highschool. Well, I suppose there were polls, but kind of private and better not knowing about what they were. We should import this idea. It could be fun. That and the dances.
Uff... four females! Poor thing 
I suppose is that... But krogans are just as badass. I also brought Garrus on every mission since I recruited him. And Blasto, he must be on ME3. If fans could manage Tali and Garrus as LIs, we must manage to include Blasto in the next game. This deserves a poll!
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I don't know what i'd do without Photoshop, it's like coolest thing i've ever learned to use. I don't even need to draw beforehand to make art, it just looks better if i do. I've never used painter 7 though, is it expensive?
The cookies are only the perk, it's the Paragon points that i cherish 
I think it defiantly has something to do with it, generally someone would give up before me anyway. Great... now i need to draw myself as a super hero... and the ego keeps growing.
Oh yeah, the exchange told me that all y'alls in Europe don't have Proms. They're not that big of a deal, at least to me they're not, but i'm a bad dancer and they mostly play all that bubbly, crappy music that's all about sound and no substance. The polls are really fun i think, especially when your the one who is chosen, it'd be really great to spread that around the world.
You get used to it, but unfortunately my psyche is permanently scared, hehe. I defiantly prefer the action flicks, especially the ones about epic adventures. I only enjoy horrors if they are monster movies, the ones where its like "A hitch hiker kill all the high school students" aren't my favorite. I remember those nights, were its just dark enough to see the shadows in your room and just light enough to make out basic shapes. Never leave the closet open! I used to do that then i couldn't bring myself to close it once i got under the covers. I just stared at it like a black portal to all those childhood monsters. Blankets are naturally, magically buffed against the undead.
I can't wait to see who's coming to the next game, Garrus and of course all the romance options, but i wonder what happened to Ashley! I have to make a game where i actually stay faithful this time...
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I must confess that I am still getting to know Photoshop, but it's becoming a really good friend very quikly. I use more Painter 7. I do not know its price, it's been with me for 7 years more or less, but I am sure there are newest editions right now, which for sure are better than Painter 7. Which makes me think I should investigate that and maybe update my friend. Normally, I draw on paper, then I scann it and after I paint it. However, I've some pictures that are drawn with the Wacom, no paper involve. But I prefer draw on paper. Just an opinion.
So a paragon... Should I say I am not surprised? 
Heh, just do go and do the things the guy at the KICK ASS movie does. Not healthy. But you can design you as a super-hero, why not? It would be fun! Ego! Ego!
I'm not a good dancer either. I have specific tastes with music. I've gone out with friend from my last job and I always ended leaving soon or out of the bar breathing fresh air. Once one of my friends confessed me she though I was brave for leaving. I don't think is a matter of bravery, but a matter of having your own criteria. Anyway, I understand the part of music about sound and no substance... Like the one that plays at the office.
Serial killers films are not really scary, what are really scary are those monsters that creep out of somewhere misterious and with no clear origin, beacause with no origin, how you destroy it? Or how you understand its motivations? However, I must confess that I like Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street). I should watch the new film, but my friends don't want to come. I never leave the closet doors open! Not even the room door... Now I am forced to leave it open due to the hot weather... One of the reasons I hate summer and love winter. Blankets are only buffed against undead? And the rest of the average monster? Demons? Aliens? I should return to the Enchantment Boy from DAO to ask for new enchantments for my blankets.
I would like Wrex returns to the squad the next game. Also Liara. Garrus of course and if Bioware gives us a DLC that cures Thane. And one that throws Jacob throught the airlock, thus Ashely can come back!
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I do too, in the end product, you get that handmade look that you can't achieve with digital art, but you can optimize it for awesomeness later on.
If you saw what i looked liked, then you would be surprised, hehe.
I've always loved coffee, sure, drinking it for so long probably has some severe side effects, but Starbucks put caramel on it, so it's all good (At least in my simple, in the moment mind). I've never been on good terms with tea, it's too mild of a taste, like drinking water that's been... next to something i guess.
Knowing me i'll probably forgo the flashy colors and get camouflage everywhere, not of man of the skin tight stuff.
Normally, i really enjoy all kinds of music, but once i start listening to the stuff that 'artists' make just to make moneys... it's make my brain want to leak out of my ears just so there is something blocking the sound waves. As long as it's dark, i think it's ok that i dance like Shepard though
Well Freddy Kruegar might as well be inhuman, not really a serial killer as much as he is to the classic monster film genre. I haven't watched it either, i'm waiting for it to come out so i can rent it, looks like a good time though. I love winter so much more also, in winter i have a choice between hot and cold (I can use a blanket), but in the summer it's always hot, all the time. And aliens already aduct people from their beds, so obviously they are not phased by the mighty blanket, but thankfully the majority of the critters that go bump in the night are normally undead.
Never been a fan of Liara, but if she came along on the ship, i wouldn't mind, i'd prefer to have the Asari bartender because she kicks major ass (And Conrad's). They can't get rid of Garrus, he's like a tick, a giant, cat-like, reptilian, extraterrestrial tick. I have a feeling that Bioware hates woman, finally they give you a chance at a serious relationship... then kill him. Lolz. But me need at least one black guy on the ship or the game is racist, or so i have been told.
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Yes! Digital Art helps a lot with the final results, and painting with layers makes life easier. And the effects you can apply with computer programmes are awesome. And also adding textures.
Really? Well, if you say so...
No serious side effects apart from increasing its tolerance. They put caramel on it? Mmmmmm... tasty! Well you can add milk to the tea, and there are lots of teas with different flavours: vanilla, strawberry, berry, mint, there's also an special Christmas tea! My favourite is Pu-Erh with strawberries and mandarin. I reserve it for Fridays and weekend. Just to make them even better! Because Friday is the third better invention, since showers and beds.
I understand. In my case is not the music, but some songs. Sometimes, a song creeps into my head and I cannot make it leave. I and don't know why, because it has nothing to do with my style... I got really annoyed when I discovered this:[link] and also felt rather cheated. And besides, why the most of singers are that good looking? Don't get me wrong, but there must be plenty of singers with good voice and not that good looking (like Susan Boyle). And don't tell anyone, but I also dance like Shepard. But ssshhhh...
Yes, I was not very accurate with Freddy, I was thinking of serial killers that targeted teenagers and he came to mind. And talking about protective blankets, I remembered a film called Ju-on: the Grudge (Japanese version, I have not watched the remake with Sara-Michelle Geller, I had enough scary time with the original): there's a scene that completely destroys it! (a pity, another sleepless night).
I think Bioware is preparing a DLC of Liara and the Shadow Broker, and that Bioware is going to link both Me2 and ME3 with DLCs. I rather liked her, even though half of the time I though she needed a cold water shower while in the first Normandy. I also felt very bad of killing Benezia in front of her... I agree about the Asari bartender. Heh, never though about Garrus as a tick! But I agree on the fact that Bioware hates us (why?!): in ME1, Kaidan or Liara (a kind of nice gay how is forbidden due to fraternization or become a kind of lesbian relation), ME2, one human (who has the personality of a crate) and two aliens. At least, if you are male, you have two humans that are really hot and Tali who is lovable. I should not complain, because I wanted Garrus since ME1, but I know that Bioware will take him... Just because they hate us! /cry...
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My sister is really into tea too, i guess i've never found one that i've really liked, but i'll chock that up to me having only tried Green tea. "And then god created Friday on Sunday, his day of rest, so he may have another day of rest" lol.
God... i hate it when that happens, your most hated song gets stuck in your head because i has a catchy toon, then you find yourself humming to it! I never understood that correlation, but a lot of it is makeup, though i guess a more attractive singer usually gets picked over the less attractive because it helps sales and publicity.
I saw the non-japanese version and it scared the living crap out of me, never will i watch that again unless i like sleepless nights with the lights on. Small, ghost children are always the scariest.
I wish i had a proper internet connection (I have satellite), i always hate it when developers make people buy DLC, because that means the only way they can have the full experience is to download them, but i have a feeling that the next time we see Liara it's going to be in ME3. She was a little off putting, even to the Male shep, as i said, Ash rules lol.
Bioware is fueled by the tears of woman, that is why they are so powerful.
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Hehe, that's fun, because my brother is the one who drinks coffee, or used to at least. Green tea is more "insipid" that Pu-Erh or Black tea, it lacks body and caffeine. However, I have a mixture with cherry leaves that is amazing.
Yes! I have noticed, after several years of self study that the first song I hear in the morning, use to stick in my brain during the whole day. That is why I have one of my favourite songs as alarm clock, even tough I almost thought I will end up hating it, it has not happened, yay! I guess you're right about the publicity issue, but come on! We (as society) suck in that department! If someone is talented, what if s/he is not that attractive? What should matter in a singer is their voice (as in an actor the skill to interpret, for example, Willem Dafoe). I know, sometimes I live in a too idealistic world...
If you got scared with the American version, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT watch The Ring! I've discovered that Japanese version scares me less that the American ones. And if you watch it at 12.00, in the cinema of a little town (I don't know if you have morning performances, we have them on Sundays, mainly for families with kids) with just a bunch of noisy teenagers on the front seats and a pair of guys three seats from your own... I hate with my heart people talking during films, but my God, I almost went like "do talk!! For God's sake!" I spend some time not opening any kind of video my friends sent my by e-mail just in case. It's the downside of an active imagination.
I totally agree with you: ghost children are so so scary. I end up imagining them at the foot of my bed, staring with those ghostly eyes... I hate them. Every time I see one in a film, I start moving uncomfortably on my seat and hoping s/he behaves. Even though, I watched a film once (Ghost ship, at least this title was not translated...) where you have a ghost girl who is rather nice.
Satellite connection? Uh... I don't know if that is available in Spain... As long as I know, the connection is the same as the telephone. At the beginning (no more than ten years ago), if you were using the Internet, you couldn't receive phone calls. This is solved right now. But it terms of speed/price, we have the lowest and most expensive Internet connection in Europe. Yeah, we excel in that. Proud to be in this country
I think you can download the DLC in the not-so-legal-way. I have a friend who did it, but don't ask me how. But as I'm (stupid) legal enough, I pay for them. I know I will regret that someday, but until that day arrives...
I though of Liara as an innocent and a bit "horny" during ME1, I almost chocked when I heard hear threatening to skinn someone when you meet her on ME2... Where had my sweet Liara gone? Guess that two years and the death of a dear friend/lover does that... One of my reasons of cheating Kaidan in my first run (sorry, I killed Ash in Virmire... But she's alive in my second run!) I suppose that is one of the reasons that games such as ME or DAO are so great! You believe the characters, their reasons: like a good book (I think we have discussed that before).
I won't share a tear during ME3 (Does this even sound convincing?)
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I'll take your word for it, though i have a feeling that there will be horrific consequences if i decide to make tea, i've never been a good with that direction following thing. I'm such a bad cook, i burn water.
I think you got me wrong, i totally agree with you! I wish are world could look past... well looks, but we don't, or at least the main population doesn't. I myself sometimes catch myself leaning one way or the other due to superficial reasons.
The Ring? Too late, that was one ruined weekend...
My sister and her friend turn into giggly, suicide machines during movies. They make me want to commit a double homicide sometimes, but i;m a functioning psychotic, so i ignore it, lol. I hate it when someone that has already watched the movie whispers in your ear "Watch this! It's so funny!". First of all: What do you think i'm doing in the movie theater for? I'M WATCHING THE MOVIE! Second: Thanks for ruining the surprise, (Insert Proper Insult Here)!
Thanks you, you just gave me a new topic to dream about...
I live in California, but hey, i could get down on some nice beaches where i don't have to worry about Great Whites, Seals, and maybe Jellyfish.
I know how to do it on the computer, but not on my Xbox. Maybe it's for the best... but until then, i guess i'll just read the wikipedia entries for the story.
I thought i was kind of awesome, i loved how well Bioware does character development in their writing, especially when you factor in the players choices! When you think about it, she seemed almost like a teenager when you first meet her...
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Haha!
Sorry! 
Ufff… I completely understand you, but don’t do it. Or if you do it, watch CSI or NCSI to pick up ideas on what not to do… Just joking. I also have murdering feelings when someone interrupts a movie or TV episode (my friends tend to do this just to pester me. Yeah, I love them too). I remember while watching The Phantom of the Opera (great deception, I though that at least the songs would not be dubbed into Spanish. Great mistake!), the woman beside me fell asleep. (No problem). She started snoring. (What?). She woke up more or less at the middle of the film, and asked her friend for a summary of the film (NO WAY). Breath in, breath out… And yes, the same here… Why people try to explain the film? Hello! I’m here also, and I can see and hear! Gosh! I understand why people end up with illegal ways of watching films… It isn’t for the expensive tickets; it’s for the dumbass people! (I know, I’m a kind of sociopath when films and noises are involved… But I’m as harmless as a kitty).
You’re welcome! XD But see, I have a terrible phobic problem with kids and beds: I was watching a terror film at my parent’s bed, and my brother (he was little, can remember the age, but he was still a baby) supposedly sleeping in his cradle, at the end of the bed. I remember the scene: a woman with a necklace in front of a mirror. She’s staring to her reflection when, slowly, a ghostly hand comes out the mirror and tries to catch her necklace. And then, I feel a hand grabbing my toes. I screamed and my parents came to their room at the speed of light, to find me staring at my little brother, smiling, with his little hand on my toes. Adorable, isn’t he?
Uh, sorry, you can come and enjoy, but we also have jellyfish… No seals and great sharks (thanks for giving me MORE reasons to hate beaches!), but sometimes a dolphin approaches. This is very rare however, jellyfish are more common. The only sharks we have are at the Aquarium, where they may be forever and ever and neeeeever get out, thanks you very much!
Well, yes, that’s an option. I was amazed when I discovered the DAO and ME wikis! I love them, and at least, the webs (or rather its creators) have the decency of warning of spoilers, so you can choose to keep on reading or not.
Yes! I agree. I was amazed how good the script of the games is. The responses of the characters are so “believable”… I missed that on the ME series, I found more in DAO, which (almost) every character giving their opinion to your romance option or their opinion on the last quest, or their view of the world, or the approval… I pictured my character in the camp: “Ok, boys and girls, we have salvaged that incredible beautiful pair of gloves, who wants them? And that golden mirror? Morrigain, this is definitely your style…” But what I love is that every action or decision you make have their consequences. It’s not like: well, you have killed Isolde to save her kid, no problem it had to be made, it doesn’t matter that you are a mage and I was trained to be Templar and this goes against everything I believe in… So, have we run out of cheese?”
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Don't worry, unless i decide to be a cook on 2012, i think i can stave off the coming Apocalypse. Bad experience i take it? Traumatic? Did you need therapy?
Don't say sorry, i'm sure if i tried spanish, i'd get many "WTF?"s. And it wasn't that bad of a mistake anyways. It's such a disappointment when you meet someone cool that believe is deep, and you find they are about as shallow as a petri dish.
We're are all murdering, serial killing people the inside 
Now he is going to be the best super villain ever. He's both devious and sneaky. My friends learned long ago not to sneak up on me while i'm watching horror movies. I bring upon them swift, learned revenge
I've always wanted to go shark fishing and shark diving and shark watching and other shark things. They're so badass, like underwater stealth tanks made of pure awesome. Dolphins too, they are very common around San Diego, i've never swam with one, but i see them all the time.
You're talking to the kid who read the entire Star Wars wiki when he was seven 
My only problem was Sten, never did find that sword... But yes, i feel like DAO2 is just going to make it even better and more in depth, Bioware never disappoints when it does sequels. I love how none of your party members are similar like some games out there, i mean the complete foils that Morigain and Leliana is awesome, almost like Jack and Miranda. (Joker and Alastair want pictures 
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Weeeell, not really traumatic and no real damage done (the only injured was my pride): ok, my favourite dish is something called Spanish omelette (yeah, country of original names!) which is made of eggs, potatoes (onion and pepper are optional). So I tried to cook one with no previous training, not even a tutorial! Damn it! But I’m stubborn and I wanted my omelette, so I peeled and fried the potatoes, retired them and added the egg, and returned the mixture to the pan. So you have a half cooked omelette and you have to turn it to cook the other side. I knew that the process involved a plate and the pan. No data on the process available. Great. So what I did? Turned the pan directly on the plate (all in my hands): the weight of the omelette made the plate fall on the stove (later I thought, why I didn’t do it over the sink?) and the gas (no electric one at my parents’ home) and the mixture put out the fire. I managed to salvage some “eatable” parts. Sigh. Poor omelette.
Yes. You’re right. It’s a pity when someone cool turns to be a complete idiot. And it’s a pity when this happens with friends… Why people always surprises us? I prefer to answer this by saying life will be boring if that didn’t happen.
I had a similar theory, that we all have a little psycho inside us that may come out at extreme situations. I can understand that you may go to watch a movie with a friend, you’re tired and you may fall asleep. It was her money after all. But pleeeeease, shut your mouth! And if you have to say something to your friend, at least whisper! I once watched a movie and some guy sat at my back decided it was a good time to light a spliff (not sure about this one: a cigarette with cannabis). Anyway, I know there will be a day that I will end up at the police station accused of having punched someone who could not keep the mouth shut in the theatre.
Hehe, don’t tell him that! His ego won’t be able to go though the doors! I think I’ve never watched a terror film with my friends… Oh, no, yes, I’ve watched several… But they behaved. Good boys, take a cookie!
Don’t get me wrong. I like sharks. I like every animal that has a maximum of four extremities and falls into the category of vertebrae (with the exception of ants, ladybirds and butterflies. And grasshoppers.). But shark in the water, me at the other side of the glass or in a fortified cage. An animal that has not evolved since the Prehistoric times? An animal that can move so swiftly in the water and can feel you though that electric cells on their skin? It wins! But yeah, I would like to dive thought reefs, all that colourful life!
Wow! A Star Wars fan! Have you watched Bioware videos for the on-line game they are working on? They’re simply amazing!
On my first run I did not find Sten sword, the second one I have cheated a bite and looked where to find in it in the DAO wiki. I’ve heard that Bioware wants to use the ME conversation system to DAO2, which is something I thought the game lacked at the moment, ME conversations are more dynamic and the system gives you the feeling you’re watching a film. DAO was more impersonal in that Department, but the level of detail in the creation process of the character! Gosh! I think I spent like one hour to create my first character.
And yes, the differences between characters makes you feel: Hey, they’re staying because of me! I’m so cool! (well, I’m the main character!). I had goose pimples during the speeches of Shepard in ME2 (after going though the Omega 4 Relay) and the one that Alistair gives in front of the troops before entering Denerim. Pictures of the catfight between Miranda and Jack! One of the best dialogues of Joker! I love the character… And the pair with EDI, every time I hear her voice, in my mind pups up that she’s a Cylon!
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That sounds absolutely delicious! I must have one of these 'spanish' omelttes! And using your mistakes, i will accomplish such a mighty task using the power of GOOGLE! That must have been painful to see happen right in front of your eyes, of the five times i've cried in my adultish years, four times have been caused by food 
That's true, if everyone was created to my specifications, we'd have a lot less variety, but there'd be an absurd amount of jerky and explosives going off 
That's were Bioware got the idea for the Renegade trigger button! That's what happens when people are randomly punched and thrown out of windows. Are psychotic fantasies exist in the right side of our brain... 5+ Renegade Points!
The Old Republic! YES! LOOKS EPIC(As always)! Did you play the original ones? They were pretty fun, kind of the fore runners for alot of RPGs(Mostly Bioware because they got that market cornered like a wolf on a rabbit).
Now Bioware knows how to make you feel like your acually a badass doing equally badass things in equally badass situations. Somehow, RPGs have that immersion that an FPS or RTS can't have, they allow you to make the choices, give the orders, and be who you want to be. That's why i think most games should at least give you the chance to customize your character to some extent. That's what they're doing with the new Call of Duty and i think that's why it's going to do even better than the last. Then there's the voice acting, Bioware has like this sixth sense in picking the perfect people for the job, like Alistair and Morrigan, no one could do their voices like the people who were chosen.
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Spanish omelettes are awesome! If you google it you sure will find a good video explaining how it’s done. If you feel adventurous, you can add some milk to the beaten eggs. Ehem, let me say that I have improved since my first experiment. It was a pity. But I didn’t cry! I use to cry with highly emotive films (and no so emotive such as The Crow). May I ask why wolverines made to cry? (Gosh… I tried to google it and I only got pictures of Hugh Jackman… nice… Oh! They’re from the same family as my ferrets!).
I’ve thought a lot about how would be my perfect world with my perfect kind of people (I have not started to plan how to be the Master of the World… yet…), and I think that it would be boring. I just would like that people would be more educated and polite. I mean, if you have to turn off your phone in the theatre (at least here), what makes you think that you are allowed to express your opinion or annoy the one at your side? I tryly believe it’s all a matter of educate the population like: killing is bad, talking and being noise at the movies, it is also (not at the same degree, of course!).
Oh my! That Renegade trigger bottom! Bioware is so awesome that sometimes it I’m scared of them. I used to watch the Ally McBeal series and I absolutely became a fan of her mind world (with dancing babies and throwing people to the rubbish). I remember just after finishing my first run, one guy at work came to my desk just to show off and I wished the red button appeared. But to my disappointment, it didn’t and the guy went on and on and on… So our right side, eh? Yeah!
No! I didn’t play them. I’m planning on getting my hands on the KOTOR. Probably this week. No, definitely this week! Some friends and I are planning to play the on-line game. The on-line games that are under study are Guild Wars 2 and Star Wars. You mentioned you played Star Wars on-line, didn’t you? My hope is that if Bioware is involved, at least the game will have a story that would be worth playing. I was fed up of killing 10 gray wolves as the first mission of each level of WoW.
The customization of your character in a game is a great great thing! That’s one of the aspects of NWN that made the game attractive to me. It helps us players to even feel more identified with the character, or give him/her a determined personality and perspective, that you have a part in the creation of the character and that it is definitely yours. I mean, while playing at DAO I spend minutes before giving a character a determined answer just because I feared the answer I (my character) could receive…! (well, if you haven’t realized I’m a bite crazy up until now…).
The part of the voices is really tricky for us, I mean, all the series and movies are bubbled. Of course, there are theatres with original versions (with subtitles) and some TV channels have the option of changing language, but believe me, people usually say: “Subtitles? Do you really expect me to read a movie?” No sweetheart, if can’t make you even shut your mouth at the theatre, how do I expect that you read? And it’s a pity… I know of the voices because I tend to watch movies and series in English (and some friends of mine do too), but we are aware that we fail to recognize the 80% of the voices (Morrigan was the dark haired woman of Farscape and I think Alistair played at Crossing Jordan…. Joker at the Buffy and Austing Power, and Aria IS Trinity!). Which made me think: how much money does Bioware make from the games to have those actors to give their voices to the characters?
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The wolverine story is fraught with terror, suffice it to say, my ATV broke down when i was trail riding up in the mountains. So i decided to go walking back to town when i stumble upon, you guessed, a wolverine. They are not nice like bunnies, i found out tragically.
I don't know, i guess it all comes down to what kind of person someone is and if they enjoy pushing themselves to learn and not be ignorant, but i can see, with all the awesome toys and parties in this world, they choose not to.
Personally, i would have laced that guys coffee with sleeping medication during my lunch break, but hey! That's my right side talking, don't listen to him, he intentionally killed Jacob in the Suicide Mission.
I originally played the first Star Wars MMO, Galaxies, a while back, fricking loved it. Never fancied WoW, the art style got on my nerves a little bit, i'm into the more realistic graphics, but i totally understand how addicting it is. I'm really siked for Guild Wars 2, mainly because it will be free-to-play and i won't have to pile on the cash every month, i already have gamefly for that.
I never played NWN, but i heard it was epicly epic in many epic ways, just never got around to playing it. Believe me, i know enough crazy to understand the method, mostly because, i too, am a bit crazy. I have a theory that Bioware was originally the Templars, who invented the banking system, but after that whole crusades fiasco, they decided to make boardgames, then when computers were invented, they make videogames. This could be the crazy, right side brain we've been talking about...
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Oh! I’m so sorry! Did it attack you??!! My God! Where do you live? I mean, my grandparents have a house near the mountains and the most dangerous animal I’ve ever seen there was a snake (and poor thing was hunted untill my uncle cut off its head in a very painful way… after they burn it). There are also big spiders and some praying mantis… all rather easy to stamp. If I confronted some big animal such as a wolverine or a wolf…
In my experience, there are few who like to push themselves to learn and to go beyond a physical appearance or previous judgements. I remember a girl at my last job, she attended university in the morning and worked in the afternoon, from which you may deduce she is “clever” and “hard-working” (I’m using inverted commas because deductions like that are so so tricky); she came to me one day, after a year or so working together and told me that she was glad to know that not all heavy metal fans (that was me, even though I do not dress in a heavy metal fashion) were bad people. Other asked me if I was Goth (which I am not) and if I killed chickens at dark altars. Cute. Forget about the wolverines, I have my own fights against ignorance.
Personally, you don’t want to know the million of ways of killing/maiming/inflicting pain to him that crossed my mind while I mentally saw the red button. But that thing on the coffee… No-no, I’ll listen to that right side of yours, intentionally killing an “interesting-as-an-empty-bottle” character as Jacob sounds good to me. I’m still wondering how did Bioware end up with such a boring a dull character as him! I tried to like him, with all my strength, but seeing my Shepard leaning seductively every time she talked with him (no interest in him as a romance) and watching the romance scene on youtube (with a basket near just in case I threw up) killed completely my good intentions.
WoW art style is rather childish, and some people that play it are also. When I started playing some 3 or 4 years ago, the game was nice, but it has changed very much and playing is like: I don’t want you in my party if you cannot reach the XXX dps points. Well, I don’t want to play if I have to be evaluated as if I was at work. At least I got paid at the office. And yes, I understand you completely preferring Guild Wars over WoW. Let’s see what they do… By the way, I discovered this yesterday: [link] ! Awesome… I want one for Christmas…
For me, NWN was THE GAME. Nothing, a part from a good book, had kept me up until four o’clock in the morning while having to attend classes the next day. I went! I’m kind of responsible in that aspect. It was the time I started playing RPG with friends. And that is good stuff! I really miss that. But, what can I do? Ah, yes, becoming a fan of Bioware
Mmm… Never thought about that! Definitely, your right side brain is working hard. But it could make sense… Maybe a part form the Templars, the Freemasons are involved? Personally, I think that governments pay to the companies to keep us entertained and mind numb so we can be more easily manipulated. But this a theory of mine, based on how people react here to football matches (last time the celebration involved rather violent behaviour) and how the winners are received once they arrive home. Caesar would be ashamed of the similarities of the Triumph marches when he returned to Rome after a glorious battle. Romans had the Circus, we have reality shows. Sigh.
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I live in the middle of California, but i used to live more north around Mt. Shasta. Wolves aren't as common, but, then again, neither are wolverines. And yes, i was attacked, it was awesome and terrifying at the same time. And snake is delicious! (And no, not all Americans eat snake, just the cool ones).
I don't know... wolverines are rather fast and hurt... a lot. Do you have black hair? If anyone has black hair, most people tend to go with the stereotype, happens all the time in my school. But then again, isn't black hair more common in Spain? (I'm just spit-balling, i don't have a clue).
That's one thing i'd like Bioware to work on, the romance plots, for some reason they feel a little tacked on and not really part of the game. If they could make the relationships more impacting, that'd be a dream come true, but even so they are still pretty good when compared to other games.
I want two... of those swords! That was fricking badass, i watched it before, but it was better a second time (Or just as good). I can't wait to see what the ingame graphics look like, i heard they got a nice reboot to the game.
Frankly, if Bioware keeps pumping about games like they do, i wouldn't care if i was trapped in some governmental conspiracy, the stupidity would be worth DA02 and ME3. But sometimes i wish people would chill on the reality thing... if wanted to watch 'reality', i'd go outside, outside has actual ice cream, not just digital ice cream.
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That’s an experience to talk about. I love wild life, but I prefer to watch it through a barrier at the zoo or watch a TV documentary. I suppose that’s one of the things you never think will actually happen to you and bump! It does. I’m glad the attack hadn’t left any permanent damage (I think). You’ve eaten snake? I’ve never eaten, but I wouldn’t mind. I could have asked for a bite when they burned the poor thing that summer. I felt really sorry for the animal. I mean, I am sure it was there before us, humans, invaded its territory.
Actually, my hair is dark brown, but I started dying it long long long time ago (I remember some pterodactyls flying around): red, purple, and finally black, which is my current hair colour. But in my defence, I must say that black/dark hair is very common in Spain (and in Latin countries such as France, Italia, Romania), and you have guessed right, so you win a 
Wops! That’s something I thought I’ve never heard/read from a guy (no offence intended!). I suppose, probably in my ignorance, that most guys don’t pay attention to the romance plot, so if it’s not accurate, it’ll go unnoticed. But I completely agree with you, I felt very little interaction or consequences of your romance. I mean, in ME1, if you romanced either Kaidan or Ashley, maybe Anderson could comment on the fact of that going against the fraternization rules, even though you’re a Specter and can do almost what you want. And in ME2, if you romance Thane, Tali or Garrus, some comment from the Cerberus crew, who should be rather racist. Or any initial comment on the alien crew members, and by the end of the game, some rectification. Maybe more of Garrus and Tali, due to the repercussions of the First Contact War or the fact that Quarians are considered almost like gypsies. Which make me wonder how on Earth can some resent from a war that took place 30 years ago… But then I remember how some people react here when the Civil War + dictatorship are mentioned. Pity. But I hope that they implement that for ME3… Even Eamon (DAO) makes a comment on your relationship with Alistair, come on Bioware, you can also make this. Anyway, my personal theory is that BW didn’t want to go into in depth alien/human images. Or that ME2 is where to really build THE relationship (either stay faithful or see the light and start a relationship with the love of your life). It’s just an opinion.
The sword and the spell he uses! That’s something I do not fully understand, if you are a warrior, seems that magic is kind of forbidden, but there’s no harm in learning some spells! Ok, mages will be disappointed, but maybe their spells could be more quick or have more power that the ones of the warriors. Or a longer range of effect. I suppose it can be balanced in some way.
I’ve also hear that they’re going to change the ingame graphics. The waiting will end on March 8th. This is one of the things you really want them to arrive but at the same time you don’t want to because when you finish them… That’s it! I don’t know if that makes sense…
Hahaha, I totally agree…! The point is, even you play along them, you still know it’s a conspiracy. And I’d like to think that the games give us something to talk about after (the conversations I’ve had about the credibility of Shepard falling into Alchera without his/her body is destroyed and the theories about Morrigan’s baby). Reality is fine with me thanks, even though there are many aspects I dislike. I¡m not saying that I prefer fantasy worlds… well, I do more or less, but I suppose that it’s due to my need to break with the sometimes dull reality. Is cheesecake ice cream with strawberry syrop? Gimme the real one! The digital one can be left for Cypher, as a dessert for his steak.
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Me too, but i'm the kind of guy you're going to see on the news because he wanted to pet the tiger. Up close and personal is so much better than from behind a wall, but that's just me, plus you get some pretty wicked scars. And snake is absolutely delicious, but i only hunt the poisonous kind, i don't see the point in killing an animals that doesn't pose any damage to me or my pets.
Leave them in suspense, i like that. I have very, very dark brown hair, so dark that it sometimes almost looks black, also i am not very white, mostly because my mom's grandma was Ecudorian. This tends to lead to most people believe i am Hispanic, and in turn, Mexican. I have had many conversations that i do not remember because, mostly, they were in spanish. I'm with you on the clothing, i got a pair of black combat boots (Fricking awesome, still look new they're so tough), mostly regular jeans, and the t-shirt, most of which have words on them (Classy huh?).
Believe me, i know how gay i sound sometimes, it's the by product of growning up in a household with three sisters, a mom, and a dad who's at work all day. I was the little brother unfortuantly. That does make sense for Bioware to save the most impacting romance for last, they just better not have me choosing to save Ashley again, because i can only kill so many people in the name of love before it gets old, except for Jacob. I did notice that they added a lot more in-party interactions in DAO, one of the things i liked about it, i loved the one where Alistair interrogates you about all the others.
It's probably a revamp of the Arcane Mage class or something, or like a new Warrior class that allows you to attain simple attack spells to add to your repitore. I really hope they fix the archery, i originally created a Rogue for a ranger type class, but then realized the bows were completely useless. Knowing Bioware, they would push the release date back to keep the game in the same quality, they always push themselves on sequels.
Man, i wish there were more chicks at my school would enjoy talking about the complexities of a games plot. Right now i stuck with "Do these jeans look good on me?" and "OMG! I don't have texting anymore, i'm going to die!". I would acually prefer to live in the universe of ME than this world, i mean sure, we are faced by the imminent threat of the reapers, but hey! We got space ships, aliens, and ADVENTURE!
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But tigers are so cute! Well, any cat big or small is cute… One of my dreams (I have tones of them) is having a black cub panther, because I strongly believe that if you teach them from the beginning how to behave, the animal may not be so aggressive and would be fine not killing me if anything upsets it. I’m so fed up about news of aggressive dogs attacking their owners! What have they done to the animal? Is the question I always ask myself, it isn’t always the animals fault! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not from PETA or Greenpeace, but I’m against animal mistreatment. For example, in Spain we have the tradition of bullfight, which involves the killing of the bull after some rude behaviour (the animal gets stuck with colourful sticks and lances), and depending on the performance of the bullfighter, the ears and tail of the animal are cut off and given to him. There’s a strong controversy with it, many stand that is a tradition and it’s beautiful and many say that it should be forbidden.
Ok, I’ll taste it if I have a chance… I think that the most “exotic” meat I’ve ever eaten is kangaroo and ostrich. Both really tasty…! So you hunt them? I agree with you: there’s no point in killing an animal that is no threat. I’ve never hunted, my grandpa did (rabbits, hares, partridges, quails… the common small game in the region he lived), not for fun, but to eat them (five kids to fed during post war times). I remember he told me one that while hunting, he only hurt a partridge in stead of killing her. He picked her up, cured her and kept her as a pet. Touching. Do you have pets?
Yep, I prefer to surprise them. It’s so much fun. When I was a kid I was really tanned, but I spend tones of time at the sea and at the swimming pool at summer. As I grew, I stopped spending so much time there and my skin is rather pale now. Last time I went to the beach, I got my skin burned, I looked like a shrimp! Not pleasant. And now, with the tattoos I have to use special creams which prevent the skin to get much tanned. It has to be annoying to have a conversation in a language you don’t understand just due to your appearance 
No! Not gay at all! Just different, it’s not the comment I usually expect from a guy. And you’re lucky to be the little one, believe me. To be the oldest is no fun at all. No-no-no. I’m sorry, but I believe that the final choice of ME3 is going to be: the Reapers are going to blow up Earth and liquefy your LI, and you don’t have time to save both, so pick up one. And as long as I had to watch how Alistair killed the pesky Archdemon to save me, I’ll try to have a happy ending for my Shepard with Garrus. Well, this is at least my guess. I have so many expectations in the game. Yes! I totally loved that gossip dialogue! The interaction between the characters is so awesome! I discovered that the characters always spoke when the party crossed one bridge at Ogrimmar… I spend a good amount of time crossing that bridge just to make them have interesting conversations…
I hope you’re right. I do believe that magic and physical combat shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. We will see next year. I used Leliana as an archer and she did a good amount of damage. Or at least that’s what I remember. Maybe I should make another run to refresh my mind? I don’t mind waiting if I’m going to get a good product and a good story.
Well, sure there are chicks that would like to discuss them, maybe they’re hiding or something. But I understand you. When I was at school, girls went for the jeans and the amount of alcohol they could stand. Niiiiice. I’ve always been kind of odd. I remember once, my mother was very worried because I read Stephen King and played role games: I imagine her thinking: she reads comics and manga, she draws, she reads Stephen King, Anne Rice and lots of vampire books, she watches horror movies and she hangs out witch role players: she’s a psycho! Yes, mom, sure I’m going to stab you at night. Sigh. Stereotypes. I feel like fainting anytime I see a needle in my arm, sure I’m going to stab you and dad.
I don’t know if I would like that. I mean, yes, my life is sometimes boring and I don’t know if I prefer them because they’re different. It depends on my mood I guess… If the devil came and told be that I could be transported to the fantasy world (medieval, sci-fi, you name it) of my choice after a hard day at work (or after playing a game), the probabilities of saying “yes” are high. But, after a good day… I don’t know… Maybe… Maybe not. I think that the best would be a kind of The Matrix solution: connect some USB to the brain and have fun. Or maybe something like the film “Inception” (extremely good, I liked it very much but I’m saying nothing as I don’t know whether you’re watched it or not).
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God that's horrible! That kind of thing makes we so angry! But it's not like i can do anything about it... We have illegal dogs fights in southern California a lot as a form of gambling and sometimes i have dreams (I have lots two) of just busting the shit out of the dogs' owners (Busting as in catching them in the act and beating senseless). I know it doesn't really make sense that i guy who hunts and kills animals himself can be actively against animal cruelty, but i'm full of hypocrisy. Another thing i hate is trophy hunters, who just kill an animal to just kill an animal. I mean most of the time they just leave the damn thing on the ground and takes its ivories (Antlers, horns, ect.)! If your going to take somethings life away, you should have the decency to not waste anything, especially the meat. I have 2 horses, 4 dogs, 1 cat, 1 gold fish, and i used to have a lizard, but he escape into the wild blue yonder. On a side note, i went hunting today and saw FIVE full grown male deer, plus a black bear, a coyote, and four Does with a couple fawns. I didn't have a shot on the deer, so i had to let them go, but the lead male was magnificent! He was enormous and you could just see all his muscles in his chest, which you normally can't see to that extent.
I love the sea too, i do a lot of free-diving of the coast of San Diego and rock fishing more north. I never get sunburned, my skin just seems to have like anti-sun repellent or something. I'll check that comic out right now...
I don't know about lucky... but i see your point. Why do the stakes have to be so high, can i please just have love and be awesome at the same time! *Despair*. I suspect we will be forced to have a half-reaper(Archdemon) baby with our LI(Morrigan) to save Earth(Ferelden). Hehe. Orzammar huh? Well, i think its time i fired up my Xbox again, let the talking commence!
You just described my dad! Holy Shit! He's exactly the same way, i read, i write, i draw, i play videogames. He just wants me to be exactly like him when he was a kid, star football player, star basketball player, star baseball player, he's not one to care for academics. But then again, i am a bit psychotic so... Depends on the fantasy universe were talking about, but who knows, it all boils down to how we actually feel at the moment. No, i haven't seen it, looks brilliant though.
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Yes, it is. I mean, I understand it’s a tradition, but the Roman Circus was also a tradition, and male actors playing female roles at theatre plays was tradition. I would not mind if the bull was just dodged by the bullfighter and left at the mountain again after the fight. The problem is also money: bullfights move large amounts of money. Some months ago, bullfights were forbidden in the region I live and it was a complete mess. We have another nasty tradition with bulls that make my blood boil: some villages put balls made of flammable material on their horns and light them. Then people run in front of the bull and dodge it. I only hope the bull picks them for good and send them to hospital for a long period and puts some sense in them. I simply don’t understand why to be cruel for the fun of it. Well, for me it makes sense: you don’t hunt for the fun of it, and hunting doesn’t mean a cruel treatment of the animal. If you have to kill an animal, better do it fast and painless than torture the poor thing. I’m against cruelty against animals, but not against killing them for food or protection. I used to say that I will die before eating a horse, but god, their meat is so tasty!
That trophy thing… Isn’t it creepy? I mean, stuffed animals or animal parts are… well, they scare the crap out of me. I went to the city’s Zoo Museum (not the zoo with living animals, the one with stuffed ones) and believe me, it was worse that entering into The House of the Haunting Hill. I hard the feeling of “I need to get out now”.
Wow! That’s amazing! That would be an incredible picture! I’d love to see that, but unfortunately, preparing a trip to the mountain is out of my plans until… maybe December, with extra Christmas salary. But I can imagine them, pacing on the forest, the shadows of the leaves on their brownish furs, the smooth sound of their hooves on the undergrowth.
My God! So many pets! I have four ferrets and a fish and I sometimes feel overwhelmed by them… I love dogs and cats. And horses are another of my dreams. But they’re too expensive to buy and keep.
I loved the sea. I like the smell, but I hate the sand. You go to the beach once and spend the rest of the week cleaning sand from the entire place. I never god sunburned when I was little, but now my skin is so used to indoors activities that I became a shrimp with few ours out in the sun. If you read it, you’ll meet one of my favourite characters: Richard. He’s so so badass.
The stakes are so high to make it be epic-epic. I picture the end with Shepard and his/hers LI inside a Reaper, immune to the indoctrination due to some device created by Mordin, hand in hand before activating the Weapon of Destruction that would wipe out the entire Reaper Fleet, with the final line: “well, I always knew I would go in a blaze of glory” “Yeah, but this time Shepard, you’re not dying alone” And the light of the explosion engulfs them. Sigh. I have that romantic and touchy part that makes me cry every time I watch Theoden, defeated by the Witch-King, saying to Eowyn “I know your face”. Ha-ha! I think that would be the final answer, a little baby Reaper! Yes, Orzammar! Ogrimmar is from another world
Really? That similar, uh? My mother wanted that I studied hard, cleaned the house and garden, cooked and had the time to met Prince Charming, from a wealthy family and in my free time, discover the cure for AIDS. I should have told her that Dracula came from a wealthy family and he was a prince in his time. I know, I’m kind of psychotic too, but I’ve learned to live with it. I guess is more or less the same as your dad, but applying the typical female role I remember once she asked me why I draw or wrote, and she was astonished when I told her for fun. She didn’t understand that I didn’t expect to take some profit from it. Do we have to take profit of everything we do? Did she mean money? Can the profit just be having a good time? Parents…
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I don't pretend that i don't enjoy hunting, but if i do something, i might as well, it isn't as if i have this insane blood rage that needs to be sated or anything. As for trophies, i like to keep them to remember that i had to take a life for food and i should never take any kill for granted in my life, but i only keep smallish things like the antlers or bones, i'm not a fan of having something stuffed, to me that just seems like i'm humiliating it even after death. I hold a policy to never wound an animal and always place my shots with pinpoint accuracy, so far i haven't had a single non-clean kill.
Personally, i feel horses are a bit overrated, plus they are expensive, animals like dogs just have that all around awesome and cheapness that make them better pets. I've always wanted to have a ferret named McAwesome (I'm so original), but i've never gotten the chance.
Sand=Sand Castles, and no matter how old i will get, i will always love sand castles. And don't mean like those four walled castle, i'm taking about the elaborate ones that have the stable, the village, and the moat!
I always want my characters to live through the game, but have them still be as epic as ever. I imagine what you imagined, just right before the boom goes... well boom, Jacob "accidentaly" falls into the reactor like Emperor Palpatine, sating the Reapers need for flesh, giving Shep and his/her LI enough time to escape until the Reaper enters self-destruct mode from a lack of resources (Why do i hate him so much!?).
Sometimes i wish people would understand that you can be HAPPY and have MONEY! My dad just thinks that this is a 'phase' and i'll 'grow out of it', well... that was like five years ago, this phase is talking FOREVER! Anyway, i think i have a pretty good setup for my life, he just doesn't want to acknowledge it. Can you believe he actually thought i was gay after i got into a fight with him about ethic and equal rights? (Actually, you'd probably believe that)
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Ups, I think I expressed myself wrong again. I didn’t mean I think hunting or hunters are bad. Or that it isn’t funny (that I don’t know, because I’ve never hunted, I’ve gone fishing with a net, but it’s not the same) and I don’t think it’s a matter of blood rage! (Who hasn’t feel blood rage sometimes? I do every time I watch the news and an injustice pops in them.) If someone hunts because this someone enjoys it and makes the most of the meat or the fur, in my humble opinion, it’s ok. Want to keep something to remember it? Go on. But, please hunters of the world, don’t stuff the animal or just kill it to take the fangs, or the antlers, or… whatever or leave the corpse to rot. Even if that someone doesn’t eat all the meat, that’s one of the reasons of the invention of freezers. I also think that hunting is a part of human nature, we were hunters before harvesting the land and keep animals as cattle. Just my opinion.
The moment I own a horse (or mare) I will comment if they’re overrated, but I agree with dogs. I would like to have one; I’ll even go to a dog’s home and adopt one, but I’m afraid it starts barking and annoying the neighbours (I live in a small flat and the neighbours are old… can you believe one complained because the front door creaks a little bite and he lives on the other side of the landing!). Ferrets are so awesome! They’re clean, not a noise and very playful. And not aggressive, the young ones have never bitten anybody since they arrived at home. The female is the cleverest of them, she even feeds the rest…
Gosh! Sand castles! I can’t remember the last time I made one… But I used to make them with columns, Goth Architecture with Drow style, and that before knowing what a Drow was. But wet sand isn’t the one I find even under the bed when I return from the beach. You really work on your projects! I never even thought ‘building’ anything except of the moat…
Don’t get me wrong, the actual end I would like for my character would be something like both Shepard plus LI climbing a pile of dead Reapers and the dawn at the background, some scratches and bruises, maybe a broken arm/leg. Yes, something like the end of ME1. But I know Bioware hates both me and my choices and as Alistair died in my first run of DAO, I know they’re not letting me keep Garrus. I’m making my mind for the tones of tissues I’ll be using while playing… Palpatine falling, one of the best scenes of the trilogy. That and the one of Darth Vader saying: “Luke, I’m your father”. Awesome. Bioware should include some spaceship battle: every possible fleet on the Galaxy against the Reapers and the Normandy at the head; they could do something like Denerim’s battle: ask for help!
I think there’s some ‘I-hate-Jacob’ club somewhere. If there is not, there should be one. I don’t hate exactly him… I simply detest him and FemShep’s demeanour when she talks to him: she seems a slut! Commander, behave! I keep saying Bioware should make a DLC to throw him through the airlock. Or scarify him in the final battle against the Reapers.
I also hope that. And the ‘phase’ thing, yes, that’s another of my mother sayings. I remember her words on my 26th birthday: she gave me some black velvet high healed boots and said, “honey, it’s time you dress like a woman”. I love you too, mum. It is not a phase. And yes, it will take forever… Isn’t it great? Is it so hard to understand? I suppose it has to be hard our parents when we don’t follow their expected steps, but we are different from them. And it is not if we were on drugs, alcohol and they had to take us from jail or pay a bail every now and then… What it’s important and should be accepted is that we are happy as we are, and if we don’t harm anyone in the process, what’s the problem? And if you have a good set up, hey, it’s your life, who’s going to live it? You are! Wait, he said what? But, what is the relation of being gay and ethic and equal rights? Is there any? God! You’re right, I do believe that, and it makes me sad. My mother once forbade me to express my opinion at home after I commented that I thought that the members of the political party she votes are all clowns. I don’t know if this would help, but her point of view about me changed a bit once I left home. And she was really pissed off when I did it.
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I totally agree with everything you just said, it feels good that they're people out there who actually consider it from other peoples point of views while still keeping their own values. The only thing that most hunters waste are the organs that you need to field dress (Clean out), but within five minutes buzzards and scavengers start moving on those, so they get a free meal.
I've always wanted a German Shepard, they just seem like the right kind of dog for me, or a Collie of some kind. Sometimes people are just too damned sensitive, that's overreacting in my opinion, i'd get the dog just to spite them actually. I think i might get a ferret, they seem like really fun pets and very functional, i'll have to train one to sneak up on my sister and attack.
Yeah, i go a little over the top when i create things. I'm not a perfectionist, but i'm pretty darn close, gladly i'm not like an OCD zealot. Make things that people enjoy is just something i love to do.
Space battle! Hell yeah, i want you to be able to control the Normandy for these! Like you can have encounters in space above hostile planets and in deep space, and if you disable the other ship you can board it and get the batarians up close and personal and then take there stuff. But may be i'm getting ahead of myself, but that system would be way better than scanning. I also want to evacuate the citadel, then psychically hit the reaper fleet! "Fire torpedo one! Fire torpedo two!" -Shep
"Is that...?" -Joker
"Yep... that's Jacob tyed to a torpedo."-Shep
I guess we don't get to choose are parents do we? But i guess they think they get to choose us, but look how that worked out? I'm so sorry, and with all do respect, you're mom is a bit a... well i think you get the point, but i don't know her so i reserve judgement fully. Yeah, he really said that, his brain is like stuck in the sixties, back then, if you thought people deserved an opinion other than the American opinion, you were gay, or communist... and since i'm not communist...
PS: Do you realize how much we've actually talked to each other? and that this is all in a comment thread on my SJ piece?
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Yes! Here we are, we do exist! But I don’t know why we tend to hide ourselves among the crowd. Maybe being an endangered species forces us to hide to survive…? Don’t you feel sometimes you are from another planet? Or born in a time that is not yours? I do sometimes, especially at the office, with my work mates talking about last night show (which believe me, you don’t even want to know what the show’s about). Sorry, I have to return on Monday after three weeks off and it’s hard
I’ve never thought about which dog I’d like to own. A big one, maybe a greyhound? I like their long legs. You can train a ferret to hunt rabbits, so I suppose you can also train it to your… plans… against your sister (my brother sometimes is a pain in the ass, so I won’t comment on that one
Well, through practice we reach perfection. I’m rather perfectionist too, which is also a pain in the ass because the 90% of the time I think what I’ve done could be better or improved in some way. That’s until I loose my patience and leave it for another day. Or when I do something and then I say, “That’s good, I like it”, you can start counting the minutes that will pass before I start finding mistakes. I also like doing creative things for other people’s enjoyment, but I have to be in the mood if it’s a commission (that’s also a little pain in the ass).
Yes! Something like that! But I’d like that on ME3 Bioware returns us the Mako for planet exploration. I miss it. The members of the squad don’t, I’m positive about that; during the ME1 all the seats were provided with that brown paper bags just in case they… you know.
Ha, ha, ha… You really hate him? More or less like this? [link] (a film which I strongly recommend you if you haven’t seen it). I’ll evacuate the Citadel, but I want to leave that annoying reporter (clicking the red button then was one of the best moments ever!). I hate how sometimes journalists introduce their opinions on the news… It’s like: “Hello? Does the word ‘objectivity’ mean something to you?” I guess they skipped that class at University.
Nope, we don’t. And they don’t either. But hey, at least we choose our friends! And come one, we’re not that bad, aren’t we? Don’t be sorry, I’ve learned to live with it… Though sometimes I’d like to say her several things that… well, that hypothetical conversation won’t end in a pleasant way (that red button will always be clicked, I know it), and yes, I get the point . Believe me, the names I’ve given her are worst that anything you’ve thought of. Oh, and if you ever met her, you would like her, she’s good with strangers… until bum! Her real self appears. I’m sorry to hear that about your dad… Really… It’s a pity that some people keep their mind stuck on the ‘good old days’ (a way of speaking, I doubt those days were better that the current ones), so gay or communist? God! Well, use my technique: breath in, breath out, sometimes it actually works. Or just pick up a pencil or your keyboard and do what you do best
Ps. Mmm… No… I just kept answering your posts… ups… Should I say: hi, DAs who have been reading our conversation? I briefly thought of giving you my e-mail/facebook… If you don’t mind everyone posting in Spanish or Catalan…
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Believe me, i totally understand, i live like thirty minutes out of the nearest town so i tend to get left out of the majority of social "Events". I'm a little confused when i go to school and "insert generic high schooler here" say "Hey! Did you here about ____ and ____ doing ____ at ____!?"
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America can be really stupid at times, but then you meet someone here that tries so hard to shun those stereotype, i guess it's all about the individual, but i'v noticed that a lot of American teenagers are either assholes or morons, only a few really help show the world that there's more to us than meets the eye. Sadly, they don't show up on the news.
Really? They're making an adaption? That sounds awesome, but the books seem so in depth and expansive, i don't think they'll be able to capture that. I can only hope...
I never really understood the use of perspective lines, it's kind of like algebra, if you have two parts of the equation, you can get the third and complete it, but when i do it, it seems like i only have the answer but not the means to get it (If that makes any sense). My Art teachers have always been very lax in teaching us, they just point at a piece of paper and tell us to draw, if we do that we get an A, but there's not much self improvement unless you push yourself. Another problem with America, is that we don't put that much emphasis on Art during school, only academic education, which i find incredibly annoying.
Always with the cookies! Yay! Anyway, i'm always surprised about how many languages people in Europe learn, we once had a German exchange student who learned English, French, Spanish, and Italian! (Plus German, but i think that's implied). I have noticed that english is much simpler, like we don't have feminine and masculine words. I think it may be the vowels that make me prefer the sound of Spanish, they sound so fluid most of the time. But again, i prefer to use the language that know most about, it's not a very good impression to write in broken Spanish for a novel.
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You're right again: it is all in the individual, but the masses... It's a real pity, here in Spain is more or less the same: teenagers are... well... a little bite of everything I suppose, but the morons are the ones you notice. And the ones that appear at the media. A real pity.
Yes! HBO is filming the adaptation, and actually, I prefer thay HBO adapts the books into series than someone adapts it into a film. Book adaptations scares me, because while you read, you form an image in your head, and that image can be different from the one the director or the writer of the script has. However, I cannot wait to see the Stark children with their wolves, or Jaime and Cersei together ("The things I do for love" is one of his best quotes). If the series makes me catch my breath as Martin's prose does, it will be worth it!
I use the perspective lines for the background and to help me draw the charaters. But I guess it's a matter of practice... I lost a lot of it when I stopped drawing and now it helps a lot to draw. I hope in time they would not be so necessary for me... I do have a battle with perspective each time I start a new piece.
Well, here in Spain, at least in my high school, Art classes were theory classes! I don't mind the theory, if there's practice to apply it... but we has so little practice, and only Art classes during one year. I was so dissapointed!
I am not very aware of the level of languages teaching in other countries, but here in Spain, I think that only English and French are taught at schools (a part from Spanish). And French not in all of them and as an optional subject. Education is rather low at the moment (in my opinion) and after an educational reform which was awfull and nonsense.
Wow for your German exchange student! I sometimes find myself talking half in English and half in Spanish, and during my French classes, English slips in... I don't know what I would do with another language, even thought I would like to learn at least another one.
Spanish has less vowels than English, for me vowels are the worst part of a language. Grammar the second wost thing. And idioms the third!
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Oh well, there's not a lot we can do about it unless we go into politics, but i prefer drawing, lot less responsibility.
I know! Series have a lot more time to get every scrap of the book in the show, while movies only have like two hours max to fit an entire novel. And if it's good it will get more funding for the next season and it will continue to get better. It's been a while since i read the first book, but the quote just popped straight in my head, it was hilarious and extremely sad at the same time. It is a serious contender for my favorite book series.
My high school is like 200 students max (Actually, that's the high school and the middle school) and we only have one art teacher who has to teach like 4 to 5 different classes each day. She great because she introduces us to theory of art then gives us a project, letting us decide the themes and what not. I think i've had an art class for every year i've attended school.
I live in California so the only foreign language they teach is Spanish, but i'd rather learn French, mostly because i plan on spending some time in Canada, and a little bit because American ladies love it, lol. Education for the most in America is pretty solid, but it really depends on the school you go to and how much you want to apply yourself. I love it because they don't shove information down your throats, but if you want it they readily give it to you.
Spanglish, a lot of the Mexicans who move into California (Not just illegally, a lot of the media tries to play that all Mexicans are aliens) speak like that, messes with my head sometimes.
I think i hate the cognates and masculine and feminine rules in Spanish the most, makes me force myself not to think in English.
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No, please, no politics! I always try to avoid two topics: politics and religion. I also prefer drawing, much more relaxing.
Yes! And if the film had to be done in three parts (or more, like The Lord of the Rings) I'm not sure that the public will stand it. Fans will, but the average public... It's also been a while since I read the books, but that quote from Jaime marked me. And also the ever present "Winter is coming". And the execution of Eddar! I remember I read the paragraph three times thinking "Ok, it's written in English and obviously you have misread something", but when I realized I had not, I kept on reading thinking maybe it was a dream. But after reality slaped me, I closed the book very angry. As I did with the second and third one. Martin is an evil evil author. I must confess that the fourth was hard to read, as it deals with my least favourite characters, and the fact that I had read the four of them in a row, left me a little exahusted.
If you master Spanish, you will notice that French is similar to both of Spanish and (even though you don't believe it) English. At least, I've found several word that are written similiar but pronounced different. So, ladies American ladies love it?
Spain has three "counties" with an official language a part from Spanish, which is taught at school together with Spanish and English/French. I live in Catalonia, so our official language is Catalan. The foreign languages depends on the state you live on?
The media likes to mess with everything1 We do also have lots of South American immigrants (Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, etc.) and even though many of them are illegal, not all of them are. There's also Chinese, Eastern European and North African immigrants. Some years ago we had local and rather radical and violent groups that went against immigrants, they've kind of disappeared. They were rather scary at that time, I'm glad they are hidding somewhere. Why people don't realize that History is full of immigration? It's not that bad! Blending or adapting cultures enrich people, helps evolution. But no! Let's keep ourselves stuck on wherever we are... sigh!
I had an English teacher at school that always said that to write in English, you have to think in English, which was hard at the time. But fruitful! (I hope!)
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How many friends i have lost to religious fights... sometimes it sucks to be a Christian lol. It's nice to know that someone out there is a little more free minded.
I had the same experience! Whenever a character that i loved and never would have thought would die died, i had to reread the page like ten times! The author is an evil mastermind, and as a writer myself i normally see things coming, that series always had me with the plot twists!
I'd go with Japanese, much more lucrative in my opinion, it would give you a wider range to the world than just European languages. If my school was bigger, we'd probably have more options to classes, but as it is, i'm stuck with Spanish for a while.
You mean like states almost? or regions? Wouldn't that be a little counter productive to have so many languages in such a small area? For languages here, it's mostly just Spanish and English, though English accents in America can get pretty strange, try comparing a New Yorker to a Californian to a Texan and you'll have a fun time trying to get their words right.
It's weird, i'm actually Ecuadorian, but only by blood, i've never actually been there, but i've always wanted to. You have groups like the KKK then too? Is it to that extreme or less? Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it... oh well.
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Nooo! Don't fight over religion! I'm also Christian, but I lost my faith long ago. Shame. I admire people who has faith. I usually admire people who have abilities I lack... There a lots of people who are free minded, but anyone pays us attention... sigh!
Martin is evil. I almost cried during the masacre at the supper when Catherine Stark dies. I almost jumped in delight when I read the Red Priest had resurrected her. Pity I was reading in a bus and I rather not atract so much attention
Japanese is rather tempting. I should learn Chinese, but I find it extremely difficult, not only for the writing, but of the different dialects and pronunciation. I think that my high school was bigger that yours, but the building had school+highschool+kindergarden. Several Art teachers I think, but I only studied with one of them. I attended Art classes outside school until I started high school, and I'm really sorry about that: I put first the theory of all the other subjects and second the drawing. Never again!
It's not like states, the direct translation is "Autonomic Comunities" because each has a government that depends on the central goverment in the capital. Only three of them have another language a part from Spanish. And yes, I think it's rather messy, because politics use the difference in language as a political weapon to claim independence from the Spanish country. I've always wondered why is the reason to make things difficult when they could be so easy? I mean, the problem is not having different languages, is the political situation that derives from that fact. And besides all of this, we have different accents! Try to listen someone from Sevilla or Granada (South of Spain). If you ever hear Paz Vega or Antonio Banderas speaking in Spanish, that's a Souther accent, but very very light. I've heard Texans speaking, quite fun. But not that fun as Australian. Usually, I don't have many problems with Americans nor British. Usually.
Not exactly as the KKK (do they still exist??). They are a neo-nazi group(nazi like the German ones of the WWII): they are groups of young people that wear extremey short hair (they were known as "skin-heads") and liked to beat up immigrants because they were immigrants and not Spanish. After, they attacked also gays, or whoever they liked because just was different from them, because they were more and they could. They usually came from working classes and saw the immigration as the reason there were fewer work places. Which is the biggest nonsense I've ever heard about. However, when Romanian and Russian immigrants arrived several years ago (with rather violent gangs), they disappeared from view. Shows the strenght of their convictions. I still think that all the countries have had immigration along humanity's history. I completely aggree with you: we should learn from our failures in history, but we humans like to run into a brick wall a thousand times. I hope someday, we will finally learn. Probably when we contact Vulcanians or Asaris
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I know, i get jealous when people do better art than me, but that always pushes me to be better in my own regard... but i have to ask, how'd you lose it? If that's not too personal.
Nah, i'll try not to kill the good characters as insignificantly as Martin, if someone is going to die, it will be either worth it or epic (Just not to give any spoilers away... hehe). I originally got in drawing with dragons, i bought NeonDragon's (Jennifer Peffer) "How to draw dragons" and copied every critter i can find. As for the Daenarrys (Which i obviously spelled wrong)... i can't wait to see if she'll be a good character or a bad one in the end.
That's right! Fight the system! I kinda fought with the theory a bit, it felt so stale putting all this thought and calculations into something that is supposed to be expressive, but i can see how it's hard to due scenery in my drawings in relation to my characters.
My personal favorite accent has got to be Australian, with Scottish coming up second. I don't know what it is about it, but Australia just seems like such an extremly fun place it live. Lots of poisonous animals, extreme sports, crazy hunting... i could go nuts there. Sometimes i wish people would just look past national pride and seek a common goal. I mean it's okay for people to be proud about their country, but when that make you want to despise someone for no other reason than they were born somewhere else... it makes me a little hot under the collar.
That sounds like the KKK to mean, they are skin heads too and are particularly fond of wearing steel toe boots, which makes me pissed because even if they got into a legit fight, it wouldn't be fair. They mostly target African-Americans in South-Eastern states, while they target Mexicans and Hispanics everywhere else. I actually think the KKK have headquarters in South Africa and Britain, they kind of work like a very, very disorganized army. Hopefully we don't run into the Turians first, that didn't go well the first time.
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The same here. There's always going to be someone that does something better that us, so the point is: if s/he can, so do I! And you can always learn something from the ones who tried before you did... That's why I love classes or looking up "how to"s.
Don't worry, it's not that something bad or traumatic happened. I think that I stopped drawing during the last years of University. I did not stopped completely, but enough to loose tones of practice, which lead to deseperation every time I tried to draw something and the piece was a complete and absolute disaster. I suppose that studies+work+keeping a home was too much! And the little time I got left, I was playing at WoW. Besides, I think that my muse went on holidays after noticing how much attention I paid her (him?). Last summer, two years after getting my degree, at summer, one of the hottest August I remember, I walked by an Art School which is like 15 minutes from my place. I applied on October for classes on Saturday morning. My first class was so so fustrating that I wanted to cry: a level test, I had to draw a human, a perspective (noooo, have mercy!) and a still-life. The first hour spent on a figure that was awfull, so I had to rush the other ones. But fortunately, I've got better.
Nooo! Spoilers nooo! But don't kill them either... Or well, I could accept main character's death at the end in an epic blaze of glory. In fact, I think that Martin is doing a good job, I mean, novels, films, etc. should cause a emotional reaction in us, the readers. If you like dragons, I bought years ago a book from the artist Ciruelo. I love how he draws dragons (and other stuff), one of my many favourites. The book is just called "Dragons". I'll look for the one of Jennifer Peffer.
Uff... Scenery is so difficult for me... I'm working in several drawings (I am so slow), and the background is driving more crazy that the actual characters. A matter of practice I suppose. I'll like to fight the system more often, believe me, but sometimes the system is so big, powerfull and scary... Mommyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Ok, I'll leave Australia (poisonous animals and extreme sports included in the pack) to you if you let me keep New Zeland. I am in love with the country since I watched "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. But the Scottish accent, that's tough! Have you ever heard Cockney? I watched like ten minutes of a very old English TV series and I got so fustrated! I did not understand a word!
Sometimes I think humanity is so much self centered and relaying on appearances. I also think it's ok for people to have a sense of national pride, but I don't think it's ok when violence takes part in it just because someone is different (skin, dress, ideals, you name it) or has been born in other country. It does not make sense to me. I mean, we are all immigrants in one point the our family. What makes my blood boil is this is just a matter of education, of teaching more open minded ideas. But no! Let's live in the Middle Ages and shout: "she's a witch!" just because her cakes are tastier than mines. Pity. Humanity should seek for a unity, but we like to be a part.
Yes! That's it! The head, the boots! I though KKK was over, that the organization? did not exist any more. Innocent me. I am with freedom of though and will, but does humanity need them? Uf, sorry, but I cannot stand them. Boots with metal should be illegal, but some people use them in their work places (warehouse staff, for instance), so anyone can buy them. Completely unfair. I tend to avoid fights, and I hope never be involved in one again. If I have to beat someone, let it be verbally, it is more stimulating and fun! I prefer them as a disorganized army than an organized one...
Yes! Turians first! But with our lesson learned: No more First Contact War! Though I think it will be better contact with asaris first. Or Vulcanians. No Kligons either!
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If you look at my search history, you'll find "How to skydive", "How to draw ____", and "How to fly a helicopter". I love to "How To". Tutorials are awesome.
That would drive me insane, i always give up when i feel a piece has just been failed. I don't think i could give up art all together though, it's like my special me time where i can just zone out and not care about the world. Sometimes i worry my non-traditionalist style will kick my own ass when i go to an art school.
Peffer's style i a lot like your own, kinda of anime but also realistic, i think you will enjoy it. I think i may have read that already, but i double check anyway. I was going to get a dragon tatooed on my neck.
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