..beginning to loose touch with reality..
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Printed Date: 10 September 2025 at 5:19pm
Topic: ..beginning to loose touch with reality..
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Subject: ..beginning to loose touch with reality..
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 9:18pm
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This is sooo wierd. Today I looked at the sky and went "thats some nice dithering" and whenever I see something cool now I go "that'd make a nice pixel piece" I think thats a sign that I've been pixelling too much   ------------- |
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Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 9:36pm
I think that's a sign that you ... yeah probably. Or maybe you are just really into pixel art. I wouldn't count that as a bad thing. In fact, now everything I look at I can see some project with potential as well. I'm sure we aren't the only once.  ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 11:42pm
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seeing as I do mostly isometrics, I am ALWAYS runnning into things that make me think I should pixel. Cool new architecture is abundant in this city of mine so I always find something interesting. Sometimes I dream in pixels. ------------- |
Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 12:03am
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Originally posted by pixelblink
Sometimes I dream in pixels. [as he read that phrase he almost spit his drink all over the screen by snorting at the phrase] PB! DOn't even do that again ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 12:38am
Glad I could be of service  ------------- |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 1:12am
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Originally posted by pixelblink Sometimes I dream in pixels. *laughs at the new site slogan* ------------- |
Posted By: 1ucas
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 1:15am
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Haha, I do that a lot too, but not as far as "ooh, that's a nice dithering in the sky" ------------- http://toxicdump.org/labs/frameviewer/viewer.php - Online Animated GIF Frame Viewer |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 3:10am
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Well okay I dont say THAT.. I say something more along the lines of "I wonder how many colors I could dither together into that object to make it look real" ------------- |
Posted By: Niss
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 7:05am
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Hey I guess that's perfectly normal when you're really into something.
When I tried to grasp those paralax sceneries I saw them everywhere.
I'd say it only shows how much you think about it. Actually it's quite
enjoyable Pixelblink: not bad I only had that in a fever dream... that horrible magenta pixel killing my beloved bloodred pixel...again and again...  |
Posted By: Core_12
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 7:52am
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lol that's funny. I don't dream "in pixels" but yeah I often see dreams of e.g. games. ------------- Reality is for people who lack imagination |
Posted By: So-lou
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 10:29pm
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Sometimes I'm reading a magazine and look in the corner to see the time and date. XD That's a sign I've been on the computer too long. ------------- -So-lou |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 12:29am
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I played so many video games that I used to tell myself to "save" in real life everytime I was about to do something potentially risky (like.. cross the road ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 12:54am
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Yeah, some kid in Japan stole a car thinking it would be ok because he could reload if he get's caught That's a sign of too many games. Some people start saying "lol" in real life out loud when somebody says something stupid. I haven't had that happen to me yet and hopping that never will. ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 2:06am
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The kids in our schoo do it to be cool "LOL.. OMFG.. WTF" Stuff you guys! it's getting bad. ------------- |
Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 9:51am
| As a 3D modeller, I sometimes look at a real-life object/scene and think "Hmm, wouldn't those polygons be interesting to model." Thinking like that is like a great mental practice. Also, since I make a lot of electronic music, whenever I hear various sounds, like a car engine or footsteps, I think of how those sounds could be implemented into music. No wonder your great at pixel art, ryan-gfx, it's always on your mind. |
Posted By: Core_12
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 2:19pm
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what's so bad about saying lol? I usually accompany my (usually
sarcastic) laugh with a lol. and I definitely say W-T-F if I'm totally
confused.
------------- Reality is for people who lack imagination |
Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 3:43pm
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Well Core_12. As everyone should know lol stands for laughing out loud and should be used over the internet to let the person know that you are laughing in real life. But in reality you don't need to say such an acronym since you can show your emotion by actually laughing. ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: Vidd
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 5:00pm
| I can't say I've done anything that bad but I remember clicking on an image on deviantart (different username) and expecting it to expand. XP |
Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 5:04pm
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Originally posted by Vidd
I can't say I've done anything that bad but I remember clicking on an image on deviantart (different username) and expecting it to expand. XP That's just a matter of getting used to things or "habits". But I guess it still counts ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 5:27pm
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I was on an air plane going over to maryland with my girlfriend and my family for my older brother's wedding... and my girlfriend and I were watching the clouds and the sun set and everything.. and I remember saying something like: (out loud)
... and she said, "Yeah, one day, probably." :) |
Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 2:42am
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I always try to press Ctrl-Z when I'm doodling in my notebook. I didn't
even notice untill my classmate asked what I was tapping on the table
for. Group therapy roxorz. ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com"> 
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Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 3:43am
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Originally posted by Brian the Great I always try to press Ctrl-Z when I'm doodling in my notebook. I didn't even notice untill my classmate asked what I was tapping on the table for. That reminds me, I do that a lot too... I also try to press CTRL+S a lot. ------------- |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 4:34am
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One time I believe, when my alarm clock went off, instead of thinking
of hitting it to turn it off I thought of using the square selection
box, selecting the area it was in, and hitting CTRL-X. aand, sometimes I say the actual letters "LOL" and "WTF" out loud. :P I always try to press Ctrl-Z when I'm doodling in my notebook. I didn't
even notice untill my classmate asked what I was tapping on the table
for. I think of doing that too, except with situations in life. Like I'll think, "God.. I wish I could CTRL-Z that situation" :P ------------- |
Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 8:19am
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Originally posted by Brian the Great
I always try to press Ctrl-Z when I'm doodling in my notebook. I didn't even notice untill my classmate asked what I was tapping on the table for. Group therapy roxorz.
------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 8:24am
Heh, no problem. I'm always willing to make other people happy with my own freakishness.  Which reminds me of when I used to play GTA:VC a lot, I always tried to press the middle mouse button to look behind me. Games do have influence on the real lives of children! Beware! ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com">
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 11:27am
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I'm a little different. I love pixeling, but one of my other passions that I am alot better at is music. I love rock music and christian rock music and stuff like that. If I see something I like or if I hear someone say something cool, I will just start singing a song about it. The other weird thing I do is, if I see something cool, I think about how I could make it mobile or mechanical. I want to be a mechanical engineer, maybe thats why.
------------- For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it. |
Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 11:32am
Well I do the singing thing as well, but that's because I love music just like you. And I don't think it's a good idea to compare your music skills with pixel art skills because... well it just isn't comparable - two totally different things.  ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 11:52am
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True, haha. Ya, music is a huge part in my life. With out my guitar, drums, and my voice, I don't know what I would do.
------------- For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it. |
Posted By: OMGFossil
Date Posted: 16 August 2005 at 2:49am
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Originally posted by ryan-gfx This is sooo wierd. Today I looked at the sky and went "thats some nice dithering" and whenever I see something cool now I go "that'd make a nice pixel piece" I think thats a sign that I've been pixelling too much That's nothing. This one time when I woke up, I just instantly said without thought "HP and MP fully restored" |
Posted By: iSTVAN
Date Posted: 16 August 2005 at 4:52am
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Whenever I see my girlfriend we have txt sex in front of eachother instead of real sex. What's odd about that?
I too have felt the effects of too much computer though. The other day whenever I closed my eyes I saw big cross-hatching (dithered) pixels on my eyelids. And I get really pissed off when I'm drawing or painting or working in another medium and I dont have the luxury of the save function, as others have mentioned. |
Posted By: anonymousL
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 10:36am
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hah, I know the feeling too well. When I looked in the mirror this
morning my hair looked like it was made of pixels for a second, and the
little strands sticking out were only 2 over 1 up pixle lines like in a
cube. Maybe it's because I made a wee of myself last night, but I
dunno. And yes, I have had pixel dreams. One was as if I was walking
around in my room, only my room looked like an Iso apartment. I aslo
remember back when I was working a lot in Macromedia flash, and my
thoughts had keyframes. >.< |
Posted By: inkspot
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 10:44am
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Originally posted by ryan-gfx This is sooo wierd. Today I looked at the sky and went "thats some nice dithering" and whenever I see something cool now I go "that'd make a nice pixel piece" I think thats a sign that I've been pixelling too much Oh I just wish I were you :) I feel I pixel too few. Usually I spend all my day doing nothing... But well, at school, or at home when I am drawing in real, and when something goes not-so-well, then I start looking that "undo" button, and I want to save everything also. Same with writings. |
Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 10:46am
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I was just walking around today and I was thinking "x := x+10" Man, I need a break from programming. ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com">
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Posted By: Squirrelsquid
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 3:23am
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heh, yea I know that feeling :) I had some quite weird moments as well! -the mentioned "impulse" to search for "cntrl + z", or look for the layer tab, when drawing on a normal piece of paper, happend quite often. -Trying to use the "Erase Mode" with a Pen that felt like myWacom Pen... -looking out of an Air-plain down on the ground, thinking how many tiles would be needed to create the current view for 320x240... and where I could reuse tiles. -looking at objects "in pixels/polygons" -dreaming of the "evil booleans"... ( being told by many 3D artists that the Boolean tools in most programs is crap and therefor evil) I guess it just happens, when you work with digital media often. As long as you don't run a round with a Katana, slashing people in half, shouting "Obey the great Sephiroth!", everything is all right. ;) |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 4:50am
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hmm.. now that you mention it.. i still got a unused katana here, thanx for the idea! but its true that when you are into something, you will see it in lots of places, like umm.. i like to parkour occasionally, and when i walked past school the other day i was thinking "how could i get to the roof the fastest/easiest/best"
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Posted By: Aiko
Date Posted: 31 August 2005 at 4:05pm
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oh god. i remember that at one point in my life i was chatting with
people in all my spare time. so, eventually, i started the "lol" and
"wtf" thing. i still use the WTF. it's just easier, i guess. that's about it though. i do vaguely remember something to what so-lou mentioned, (the magazine) but i'm not sure what. |
Posted By: Centrefuge
Date Posted: 02 September 2005 at 8:32am
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The other day I was making art to put over top of a film sequence for my boyfriend's movie. I was drawing a comet over top of it and his sister was in the shot. When I went to his house later she was sitting there and they were watching the clip without the overlay. I freaked out because a. she was sitting there and wasn't "in" the computer, and b. they were watching the clip and I thought I sent it to them without saving and just about cried. Also, I was making a sprite version of my boyfriend and in one of the rooms of a game I'm making for him I gave him a changing room to put on real clothes instead of armor. Right after I finished one of his shirts he came home wearing that shirt and I was staring at it and wanting to edit it as if it were the pixeled shirt. I got really dizzy from there... I guess this makes an odd second post... |
Posted By: me7356
Date Posted: 03 September 2005 at 4:15pm
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I have already lost my mind. I think I say "lol" out loud without realizing it now. Everytime I look at something, I am just amazed in it's complexity, eventually I might remember it's not pixel art. I used to actually sometimes comment on it. "Wow, that chair is amazing!" People looked at me funny. o_0 ------------- The reader of this has no life. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 04 September 2005 at 8:40pm
| Well i've been obsessed with fractals lately, so i ytry to figure what causes trees and ferns to have irregularities in their growth, look up fractal canopies to see what i mean... And i wonder a lot how many polygons it would take to make shapes in real life... |
Posted By: me7356
Date Posted: 05 September 2005 at 4:56pm
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I always seem to look for an undo button when I mess up, sometimes I spill something, and think "I'll just undo...Oh, crap."
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Posted By: Wannahlakujuu
Date Posted: 05 September 2005 at 5:07pm
| I did that once, but it was with a drawing. I said "if it doesn't look right, I'll just undo it" god I ruined a good drawing. |
Posted By: Sensei
Date Posted: 09 September 2005 at 8:46am
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At teh beginnning of school we had to write somn down and i started looking for my keyboard Today I pixeled a face in my maths notebook. ------------- 
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Posted By: inkspot
Date Posted: 09 September 2005 at 1:59pm
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I do pixel in my math lesson all the time. Guess thats the reason why I have it 3, instead of 5 (A, we have the 5 mark system).
But I guess something is really wrong if your whole evening is ruined by continous slow computer. IT JUST SUCKS STUPID ******** *** PIECE OF ****! I just don't understand why i am so nervous because of that, I would really like to smash this computer totally, but instead of doing that, I ripped some clothes apart, really strong ones... And I am not so strong person. f**k it.
I was outside whole day, and what is the thank of it, slow computer? I know its about the user but its dam computer what makes the user! |