Place your bets. Get rich quick!!!

[ztev0]

I want to place a $1 trillion dollar bet the world will not end Dec 2012. I can't lose. if the world doesn't end i'm rich. if the world does end i won't have to pay the money back.

[The Happy Friar]

Unless, of course, you're transported somewhere else before the world (Earth) ends, then the Earth is destroyed, then you owe $1 trillion.

[Jesus Christ]

After looking at the life expectancy logs for all people under Heaven... Are you sure you'll still be alive to be making bets when December 2012 rolls around?

[Zeppelin]

After looking at the life expectancy logs for all people under Heaven... Are you sure you'll still be alive to be making bets when December 2012 rolls around?

 

is in the logs!!

[X'tyfe]

According to some old man, the end of the world was yesterday. Guess I missed it?

[Sgt. Dick]

You might Logout before December 2012 

[The Dreaming Dragon]

I suppose that is based on what is considered "the World"

The Mayans predicted Something will happen in 2012 around that time of year. I'm not really sure of whether its "good" or "bad" and don't feel like looking up specsifics,but I can imagine a paradiem shift of some sort,and the likelyhood a "good" outcome . Stuff is happening,like it happened countless times before,paradiem shiftsfrom stone age to the Aztecs and Egyptiains,but now we arer watching it videostreamed live and all over the place. People are getting tired of having the wealth gained by labour be only for the Masters. Need some Bread to go along with the Circuses I see in the news. I see how American Perception is Fed. Pundits with slanty agendas hypnotize Middle America their possession of Truth. News is now avaiable everywhere Online...and I cannot care about what's Fox's news opinions are being sold to us,but only viewing other web only access sites for a glimpse of what's "really going on" instead of Ministry of Truth's State Corporate Party Line may be that day.

People are waking up...and I can imagine dire happening if this farce of an election will happen. Every week at work I walk to tyhe timeclock and atch who the Republican's Like This Week paraded on the Cover of Time and Newsweek. They should Build their candidate from a KIT! I love-LOVE-LOVE to watch them scramble...Look! We got a Black Guy Too! Gun crazed housewives didn't work. Fucking Annie Oakley will save the day with her Remington and her skinning knife....

And remember that he put into LAW "mandatory Life Insurance or something. Something illegal and it begins to fall in court and I am hopeful for that,but think about it. Give these guys money every month...or else? Not something to Sell us,like a huge discount on benefits through the Government's Plan as an Option,instead of the ambiguous and ominous Else.And as someone who may not have a job by the end of the year I may be forced to buy something to sty out of jail "fgor my health" when I plan on sitting on my ass for a year cranking out and promoting a WebComic. My little attempt at Social Enginering . I have few expenses and I could save money from the unemployment to last 3 years if I work at it and meet my expenses. I don't need much in the way of entertainment,and I doubt I'd leave my apartment for weeks at a time,then only to go out shopping for food or out on a date. So unless I run across a pack of ninjas who are particularly lucky that night,then I imagine I'll survive 99.9% times out of doors,and I plan on drawing and little else except for some gaming. I play under another name and model,never speak,and I can empty a ser ver ina manner of minutes when I start getting lucky. I throw boxes around and I have claw hands,so my FPS style is a sloppy style indeed...but I do manuver and I do pop a rail at folks,and I like to break up fights with rocket launcers so I suppose people rage quit if I start winning...or something.I'm just happy to hit anything and I play just for the marvel of the game mechanics and the cartoon kind of shooting  we do in Quake 2. I have a question:


Since I did some folder naming and instead of the other model I am using now I switched both skin and model so when I play you see the other model and I see "me" and my old model andf unique skin. I notice I move like the model I did the skin for,because it moves well compared to some of the cooler models like the dragon with the rider and whatnot.Would that affect the way I move in the game since peopler are seeing the other model because they have the correct model in their folder instead of my old model and skin,or do we all move the same ingame regardless of triangles being moved around in this 3d space. Models DO feel different to me,and I like my skin I made...a Target for a face,realy. Big goddamn eyeball shoots you again and suddenly I'm 1st in a crowd of 4 when 4 minutes ago I was 3rd in a clusterfuck of 14.My aim sucks,and its almost a Drunken Style of shooting and  for some reason people leave. Maybe I'm paranoid and everyone went back to work after thier 11 oclock Quake Break and I'm a Fool...well,I'm a fool! But I could be anybody. But,as Mr Tixic discovered the Chaingun is my weapon opf chopice,but I need every one of those 200 bullets to do it...I love it with infinite ammo...you point at things and they gradually fly apart... I hit one in 3 rail shots,gennerally...unless I get the drop on you as some spec a long way away. Art training I suppose...I do a lot of detailed work,basically drawing components seperately and welding them into comic panel frames...and I'd LOVE to share it with you all...and I'm afraid of hackers and what not. And exposure:I have enough content at these 2 sites to launch a cohernent world...I have 2 chapters of the Graphic Novel and one whole story at the other along with an assortment of other very old work.Some from High School,30 years ago FerChrissake! http://www.thedreamingdragon.com/stcon/groucho.jpg Already too much for some. If someone Wise and All powerful here can tell me my "rights in my own characters" I have for having both the source material and the dated PSD docs and jpegs on the web for nearly a decade? I even own two domain names for over 5 years and I renew in 2014...What does that prove in the Eye of the Law..but is supposed to be Blind?  MY evidence is simple....but Lawyers are devious. I take your TradeMark and Run with it to Bangkok and have the enslaved peasntry to crank out Happy Meal Toys that Squee! and WHOOO! and KA-BOOM!.

This is Not inherently a bad thing. I would love to see a line of action figures. But ones with Craft,Dignity and Care. Not what they did with Ninja T%urtles,a Comic as Gritty as Bat Man used to be.I am a craftsman of sorts...a 2d sculpturist.through Photoshop I can isolate a drawing I've done on a scanned picture,sharpen the lines,darken it and manipulate it and correct the mistakes,or even build a background from recycled chunksof other backgrounds,because you are viewing the same scene with the same backdrop.I get a compositing of it all and make it all work. Here's a panel that had over 70 layers,not including the prebuilt stuff like the cabinets and the lamp,but I drew and had a gameplan for the end.

http://www.thedreamingdragon.com/preamble5/pg5_pnl1.jpg

THat was work...but the way I draw Now is a Paradiem shift in itself...I am struggling with the New Realism : It is an adventure...trying to translate what I want to see with what I can do with the ink. In this case,I started with the eye,usually its always an eye,but not with full figure action shots as I plot out the shape of the spaces and draw in the negatives,or to add texture of some sort to an area. I really NEVER know what I draw when I start...its a random chance that leads to some new place. My artistic Drug of Choice was Second Life a notorious Wild West of the internet where people interact in a 3d enviorment with an engine being to support and maintain their creations within the world,and they maintain a real money economy with the creators getting a cut coming and going. Why not? If it means they want to expand with more service supporting more help fine...entice those premium subscribers. It was Fun...I paid 295 bucks a month since December renting this complete personal Sim. I shared it with someone very dear with me and I met in Real Life in Florida , and we get along great and have each other to complain to and praise,which is what one really needs at heart,no? I am a merchent there too: I sell animated prim framed pictures of GIFs I find on the web.Its Thieving in a sense,no money I make is going to the GIFmaker,but I never make a profit and sell real cheap,because I want people to have these wacky things of mine in their place,and its always interesting to see what sort of picture caught their eye to toss me 35 cents. It all goes to the casino in 10 Linden squirts

And I must say I have my artistic view of the world in things I construct,and I appreciate some real artistry displayed in the places I've seen.My club was SO artistic,and I forgot thast the default draw distance was 64 meters and most never bothered to increase it or can't. My computer is still viable with a 1.5 gig videocard and can hold out for a while in the X Box 360 paradiem,but I will play old games and be happy. Second life is run by very low end systems and therefor the problem with my place would be getting people to walk a long way and up a spiral staircase(teleport short cuts available) to the dancefloor or down into the gardens where I made strange plantlife from fractal pictures I've found online...remember me posting about them? I was doing these: This is the AD I made for the "new Place",basically an old place I tore down and rebuilt using the best bits of the Sim place,which was more of the Legion of Doom's headquarters,but it had a magestic view when walking into the maw of the place,but few more than I can see. It was a flawed design,but nice to look at,and nice to dance in...a commercial free new age ardio and a suite of couple dance animations to romance that polygon cutie on your arm,even though its some guy from Peroia fuffilling his fantsies. Or something,I keep my social life minimal but my observations astute. The gardens were a site too,but I imagine some hacker has stolen my work and distributed it for free in their underground way. Its happened before...wanderingaround and seeing your texture animated on someone elses prim through a script you can hand to anyone,using my texture down to the mistakes I've made. It was a tough one too: I had to carve a figure out of a black and white scene and isolatd it so I could make an alpha channel and make it a stand alone figure with a clear surrounding.IT had so many frames and some of them were blurred so I made some tough craftsman calls,trimming grey on slightly greyer after stuffing the soda aisle and feeling my arm grew an inch from the night's boxcarrying.The thing is...since real money is involved people take it seriously.I must figure all my hard work is ripe for the plucking...I may have displayed it at some club I opened a store front in(They have clubs attached to Malls) and was randomly tagged...I'd promote something new like this and it was a lot of work too...it had 16 frames  and I had to zoom in and out to make sure the molecule of pixel I am extracting won't somehow conflict with the big picture so it was time consuming as well. It was about 50 cents and quite entertaining,I like selling silly animated stand ups to enliven any surroundings,and I can have them move on their own or follow you too I have the halloween line out now,and someday I'll sit down with that Groovie Ghoulies DVD and extract both frame picture screen captures and ones I can chop away the backgrounds for and sell them as stand ups...the only ones in the world.Someday...I have stories to spin.

And as I need to start dinner,and completely lost my train of thought and feel no need to look for it,I'll just stop right now.

Something about My Rights and The World Ending? The Pardiem and the Beginning of the End ? Or a garden of magic?

It was Something like that. That or Something Else. Its Always Something Else.




And this is one last Something Else: My Animated Store sign,without the logo which would be on another block so the Animation could be extra detailed. The Craft is fitting as much detail as possible into an animation and still have some clarity and detail to the image. Also finding ones with enough frames to be interesting and doable. "Doable" means the ease of making a grid like structure as square as possible because the teture limit is 1024 by 1024 pixels and all bigger things are shrunk to that.you can upload from the game high resolution screenshots. I was even considering using it to generate a 3d enviorment that all I need do is draw the characters and interacting stuff...I'd build the rooms and the lab with it,and use black n white screenshots with the place. I still might....make it a part of the story ... well...its a fun place and money is to be made for the clever and the lucky. The latest rage is breedable horses...some go for thousands of US dollars and for the life of me I cannot as yet explain why,although I ask people about it.A clever idea well executed can turn your hobby into a career...and it has its red light districts and grifters as well...a real Wild West.And here I am gabbing again when I have shit to do.Sometimes you don't get a choice.

[|iR|Focalor]

Um. What?

[Sgt. Dick]

Sorry TMF, that way to much to read for me on this topic.

[naymlis]

don't you need a trillion dollars before you can bet a trillion dollars?

[adz1La]

don't you need a trillion dollars before you can bet a trillion dollars?

[|iR|Focalor]

don't you need a trillion dollars before you can bet a trillion dollars?

Depends on the bookie. Some don't require the wager up front. But believe me, if you lose, you'll want to pay up, it's a lot "healthier" for you. 

[|iR|Focalor]

PS: looks like a pile of some nazi crystal meth sitting on that first picture.

[wallppen]

Speaking of crystal meth....is it me or is breaking bad the most fucking bad ass show ever.

[|iR|Focalor]

Never seen it. Heard something about it being about some meth chemist/dealer or some shit like that. Heh, yeah, whatever. Like I said, never seen the show, but a meth chemist/dealers life in REAL LIFE is nothing to base a show on.

If the show was realistic, every week some soulless toothless dickhead with no self respect and covered in scabs would knock on his door asking if he'd take his mothers wheelchair as payment for a gram. He'd have to put a shotgun in his face to get him off his front porch, and then after running over to the Burger King down the street to rob it at stick-point (yeah, he'd probably threaten to bash them in the head with a tree branch if they didn't open the register), he'd come back with 70 in cash and get the gram.