Looking back, it seems I've changed again (curse the inconstancy of humans! :P) from what I was maybe a year and a half ago. Back then, I considered all Christians as allies, and Catholics as good ones. And those who weren't Christian were almost enemies, in my eyes. Lines have shifted, now. Instead, I regard those with a functioning intellect as friends worthy of my respect, regardless of religious alignment.

I think this is mainly because I'm more concerned with the ideals behind religion, such as justice, morality, and of course, wisdom. After a while, I came to realize that just because someone was Christian it didn't mean they were moral people, or were concerned with purity, and especially didn't mean they were intelligent. Instead, people with intelligence seem to have more integrity, but they simply don't all worship God. Of course, I still think this is a pity, but they are more in the right than the wayward worshippers who are Christians in name only.

And besides that, intelligent people can write three whole sentences without making a typo. This is much easier on the mind :)

Hurrah, photobucket seems to be wreaking havoc on the world. Its images are starting to be deleted (for not viewing them in a year, I think), and all those stale banners and gifs that people clutter their houses with are breaking! :D

And, photobucket is being bad by using materials uploaded to them without notifying artists. I should have read through that contract, I now realize :P

*random crap*

WHAT DOES UR NAME MEAN?
A: You have trouble trusting people
B: You are always fun when it comes to meeting new people
C: you're wild and crazy
D: You are popular with all types of people
E: A Hottie
F: People totally adore you
G: You are very friendly and understanding
H: You have a very good personality and good looks
I: You Hate Liars
J: Everyone loves you
K: You like to try new things
L: You always make other people smile when you smile
M: Success comes easily to you
N: You're great in bed
O: You love foreplay
P: You are very friendly and understanding
Q: You are a hypocrite
R: You are beautiful, and sexy
S: People think you are so sexy
T: You are one of the best in bed
U: You are really chill
V: You are not judgemental
W: You are very broad minded
X: You never let people tell you what to do
Y: you make every experience great
Z: You're Super cool

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C: you're wild and crazy
A: You have trouble trusting people
L: You always make other people smile when you smile
E: A Hottie
B: You are always fun when it comes to meeting new people

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*Vetos whole thing as completely unreliable*

I saw Pirates of the Carribean 2. It was pathetic. Mere marketing scheme designed to appease the idiot-fanatics like my sister who 'love Johnny Depp' and are always saying silly catch phrases like, "but why is the rum gone?" They simply took all the things everyone liked about the first movie, and gave them to Robert Jordan to write about. Who else could have decided to both write horrible twists of plot and over-complications to the point of extremism, and end the movie with a low-point in morale and no plot resolution whatsoever?
Basically, the result was a three hour movie filled with nonstop action of the painfully silly sort that only obsessed people would appreciate because it's, you know, Pirates of the Caribbean! Ugh. I don't know if I will watch the third one, but if I do, it'd better be really good, not like the downhill slope that Matrix took :(

Guild Wars thieves my spare time! Gah!
Well, I promise I'll have a new Terragen pic up soon. Something creative would do me good. I've actually already created it, Terragen just needs to render it. But that could take a while :(
It's a good picture though, I promise :)

I watched Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe today. I wish I had gone to see it in theater. I always seem to enjoy things more when I'm alone. It's just kinda different if someone is sitting right next to me, too, enjoying the same thing I am. It's like, "HEY! I'm the one enjoying this, go do something else."

Anyways, the movie was decent. I'm not sure what I expected from it, but it could've been better. On the other hand, it could have been much worse. It certainly wasn't 'terrible' as my siblings claimed, and I would definitely recommend its viewing. I think what irked me was the way the siblings couldn't get along, and obviously were acting. No family, I think, would act like they did, openly hostile and looking for a fight. I could see that between friends, but families usually try to get along. The roles were too well accented, I guess. And we could have done with a little more large-scale breathtaking scenery, but that's just my opinion. Every movie could use more of that :D

Terragen 2 gallery is available for viewing (http://www.planetside.co.uk/), but no Terragen 2 yet. I can't wait for the final release. Hopefully the tech preview will be out soon. 'Sometime this year' is rolling around quicker than most would guess.

Bows update:
Looking for a perfect storm bow, but the present one suffices.
I am fine on the short bow.
I am fine on the Recurve Bow, but want a moddable one for my vampiric string.
I have a decent hornbow that needs a grip of defense or fortitude.

I need a grip for the recurve, should I get a new one, of defense.

Mods needed: two +5 armor grips. A string of 20/20 sundering.
Bows needed: A perfect storm bow, a perfect Recurve bow.

Teh mapgen on mainstreet seems to give me only very similar maps. Maybe I need to mess with the numbers more, but I think Terragen's mapper works much more nicely :)
Or WorldMachine, if you just want a map.

Huzzah, back to Mainstreet!

Well, too bad. I started Star Ocean :P My brother was stuck, so I started playing. He watched me, and got unstuck >.>
Currently I am farther than him in the storyline, but that should change sometime today. He watched me again :P

Anyways, the main point of this entry is to remind myself to report [Elftron] to the guards next time Elftown crashes :D

And as an afterthought (*edited*) I vote that all members displaying pictures of themselves with their middle finger abusing the world be banned in repurcusion of breaking Elftown's rule.

Finished Xenosaga I. I could play II, but don't feel like it. I don't really like the gameplay style or anything, and it's really long, and not that great. A big waste of time. Then again, so are most videogames. Though I did enjoy the character KOS-MOS of Xenosaga. An android created solely for wiping out the Gnosis and whatever else Vector Enterprises wants her to do. She could do pretty much anything, and as she put it, "I am glad to be of service." Not that she didn't have a personality, like most androids typically don't, but that was how she was. Helpful, and capable. Probably enjoyed life immensely, considering she only wanted one thing, and was quite capable it.

My brother started Star Ocean. It looks like a pretty good game. Decent graphics (especially compared to old school FF VI, or even VII), voices & subs, nice gameplay & battle style. Tastefully done. But I can't start it now, since my brother's playing it :P I guess I'm just playing Guild Wars. Oh, miserable me ^^'

I personally could handle dividing those numbers and using the info they create in a game system, but I would never want to ask anyone else to do so.

</quoth xido>

Yes, the stress of someone dividing a number under 100 by another number. I can't imagine dividing 83 by 4. Oh wait, 20.75? Yeah, that took about two seconds. I'm reminded yet again why I didn't really ever get along with Xido. I would never want people that couldn't do such division playing the same game as me, if I had a choice. Honestly, who needs calculator, unless you want to divide something by 32 or something strange I mean, the rolls don't go past 100, and even if they did, such division is easy. Certainly not something that needs a multi-paragraphed post to argue against >.<

^^ I used GIMP!

http://www.deviantart.com/view/34120656/

Done with the aid of a tutorial that didn't like GIMP. I'll probably be making more of these, since they're not too artistically challenging :P

>.< I never realized that on a different monitor it shows up horribly. On mine (which is darker and more blendy) it looks good :P

*grabbed GIMP off the internet*
Now I need to figure out what kind of things this program can do :P

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XD
I saw a house with an anarchy banner, which stated that "Anarchy is raising."

Well, I suppose with no government funding, public education would decline, and we'd get people like that :P

Because it's so much fun, I did it again! :P

With summer break here, one would think I'd have more free time. Apparently I do have more time, because my art output has increased dramatically. On the other hand, I feel like I've doubled my sleeping time, and it feels unhealthy. But I have at last gained some insight on the process of falling asleep and dreaming o.O  I've always been curious as to what it felt like to fall asleep, because I could never remember when I woke up! But this morning, I kinda slept in a while (my whole family was up until 1 AM watching Bicentennial Man).

It wasn't the sort of thing where I just didn't wake up until twelve, though. I woke around eightish, but stayed in bed, because I wasn't really awake yet. I can recall turning over in my bed to get more comfortable, so I was definitely concious at the time. Then I fell asleep again, for maybe ten minutes, then woke up. Repeat process for about half an hour. The dream was continuous, despite the interspersed waking ups. At one point, I remember thinking, "Darn, the dream was good!" and kinda willed myself to fall back asleep simply by recalling the dream. So now I know. :P

I do so enjoy some types of dreams, too. The ones that are really vivid, and usually first person. If they stick with me after I wake up, even only vaguely, it's really neat. I wish I had a dream-recorder. I'd make the coolest psychological analyses of myself :D
</random rambling>

Because teh iippo did it (whenever she posts these, I inevitably do them!):

>.<
Being 'realistic' tends to make one cynical, over time. I think that there's more to life than being realistic, and arguementative, and disagreeable. You don't always have to be right, or realistic, or better than everyone else. It'd be nice once in a while to forget about being correct, and instead be quixotic, imaginitive, and happy. Fancy that, being happy? What's more, happy without insulting, putting down, or standing on someone else. Elftown's made me sort of arrogant, I think, far more than necessary. Why can't I just let idiots and fools be themselves, if that makes them happy, rather than discussing how idiotic they are, making me a worse person too? :\

http://www.deviantart.com/view/33801796/
I actually made an animation in Terragen. It took about two hours to render, I think. 1300 frames, 24 frames per second, small frame size. People with slow connections might not have fun waiting for it to load :\

School is out.

And as of Monday, I have acquired more rendering freeware, this time quite seperate from Terragen. It's Apophysis, and rather interesting. I think I told Silvie that it's cool, useless, and interesting. It supposedly renders flames, but it does all sorts of cool stuff that generally resembles multicolored energy floating around. Kinda like the Aurora Borealis, I think. Aaaanyways, I did a 'dragon' with it, but it's not supposed to render shapes like that. I'll thumbnail two things I've done with it.

<random house I found>

Anyone doesn't want children to die in Iraq and Palestine..

NO WAR!


*totally sees how not stopping Hussein from killing entire ethnic groups would prevent the death of children in Iraq*