Preserved Topic: Pong Me... (Page 3 of 11)

I wouldn't say talk alot... post yes!!!

*sits and resumes gnawing of arm... again*

Whoa page three

(Edited by templar654 on 09-07-2004 03:50)

Yeah, lets get on our way to page 4!
*backs a Cheez-Its truck and dumps it in Templar's cell burying him in Cheez-Its*
Oops! Oh well...

I got up to a lot of smoking. I wasn't greatly impressed with Amsterdam. I enjoyed it, but it was like spending a whole weekend in Camden, London - with more expensive tea/coffee, beer, food, and magic mushrooms.

And customer service sucks, really bad.

Off to work now, but shall try to post my serve tonight.

Huston we have a problem!!

Page 4 Man we are fast I didn't even see that coming!!!!!

*swims around in Cheez-Its... ahhh the good life*

(Edited by templar654 on 09-07-2004 14:00)

i only know one thing about Amsterdam .. except now i also know that the customer service there sucks

oh, and smoking is a filthy nasty dirty habit! sometimes i'm almost tempted to quit, even ...


sun
//doing my bit towards page 4//

Four pages? I had no idea - I have it all on one page at home. Now I'm logged-in at work, I see three pages.

I have to agree that perhaps there is more talking than Pong-ing here.

...and yup - smoking is a filthy, nasty, dirty habit, but it is my habit, and I wouldn't swap it for heavy drinking, sex-addiction, or an eating disorder. Mother always said that you can never get enough greens.

Smoking ewwwww disgusting!! The enhaling the breathing uke:

Anyways Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Before the Cheez-Its are over!!!!!!!!

Hmmm - exhaling that writhing curl of blue-grey smoke to see it rise lazily, carrying with it that musty scent of herb and flame. Taking the next pull - feeling that resistance as the embers flare - inhaling the captured smoke and vapour, slowly, so as to cherish it's fulfilling expansion into your lungs... then exhale again, without hurry, allowing the smoke to escape from your nostrils too, and to wrap itself about your lip before making its way heaven-ward...


You know, they used to advertise cigarettes as benefitting your health - as though anybody should need an excuse to smoke! It's fun for all the family!

LMAO :P


At work, so I can't post. Only have Paint Shop Pro 7 here, and can't get away with painting crap at work anyway, so it'll have to wait till later...

I'm sorry. I can't do this tonight. I will post my serve tomorrow - I just can't think of anything right now. I've spent a couple of hours just prodding your last picture around, and I actually came up with a couple of ideas I liked, but I remembered that the theme was technology, not gore/horror.

To make up for it, I've posted a reply to your thread (Asylum Game) and turned it into a poll on your forum (hope you don't mind).

whoa... someone actually posted on my forum...

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...exhaling that writhing curl of blue-grey smoke to see it rise lazily, carrying with it that musty scent of herb and flame.

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how absolutely poetic. it would just be criminal of me to quit smoking now ..



sun
//sseeerrrvvvvviiiiiccceeee!!!//

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Whitehawk:
One quick question, Templar654. Do you keep a record of all your Pong games on your site? Not that I'd have a problem with that, of course (); I'm just curious.

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keep your images where you have them so the game can be archived.. per Doc's request:
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/14764
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/14770

(Edited by velvetrose on 09-08-2004 15:06)

That's nice... but I keep a copy on my site just for reference. And where's that freakin' serve WH I'm losing my hair with impatience here!!!

*grabs piece of torn off hair and tries to join them back on head*

Whoa... 300 already... man it's like I was just 200 a few posts back!! >>

(Edited by templar654 on 09-08-2004 16:14)

Thanks LaSun - one of my great passions is writing, and if just one two-minute scrawl can make you want to keep smoking, then I've achieved a new level of evilness... lol

Velvetrose - I don't get what you're on about (nothing to do with what I asked Templar) but thanks anyway.

Templar, it is currently 16:20 in the UK. I am getting ready to jump on the tube up to Marble Arch to pick up a projector, then I have to head over to The Excel centre at the docklands to help my colleagues de-rig half-a-ton of equipment. I should be home by about 20:00 hours. Upon my return home, I shall make myself a hot cuppa', light a cigarette, load-up Photoshop, and create an astounding and stunning masterpiece of crapitude for your thorough enjoyment. I should post the serve by approx. 00:00.
I may then stay online until about 02:30 (being an insomniac) in the hope of reading a comment or two upon your return to the game.

Again, I apologise for keeping you waiting, but I have barely had time to breathe in the last 48 hours. I don't want to quit this game yet (as we are less than half done) so don't give up me!

C U L8R!

(Edited by White Hawk on 09-08-2004 17:30)

OMG! 22:30!! What a ridiculous time to get home from work!!! It's not even as if I get like, paid or anything!

Right - now for that cuppa'. I'm gasping...

*disappears briefly to return with a steaming cup and a sandwich*

Okey-dokey then - time to start pumping some pixels!

*watches unpatently*
Templar, can you tie me to this chair?

Normally I'd love to zav but I kind of already tied myself here

*struggle to get loose... falls*

*moves towards a bag of Cheez-Its... bites open and starts to eat*

*arrives, timidly brandishing a party-size funbag of cheez-its, but oddly, no canvas roll*

Um... hi.

Okay - I know you are going to think I'm taking the mickey now, but I absolutely promise that I shall post this serve within the next 24 hours.
I apologise unreservedly to you, Templar - come hell or high water, even if my serve sucks (and it isn't great, I must say) I will have it posted here before 24 hours are up. I really haven't had my mind on the serve, and things have been a little on top of me the last week.

If I break this promise, may I be struck down with terminal flatulence and suffocate on my own malodorous vapour. (URGH!)


Of course, you know if I don't post, it is probably because I was struck down horribly... shudder
Does terminal flatulence exist? Oo-er...
*knock on wood*

It is now 04:11 and Photoshop is looking decidedly fuzzy. I hope it is my fatigued ocular muscles getting slack and not significant of my monitor nearing it's inevitable demise!
___


As a side note, because i need to share it - my mobile phone never did turn up in lost property (as if I expected it to). It was, in fact, taken and used within hours of my losing it. I had loads of free time remaining, so I have not been cost anything, and the phone/sim-chip is now locked and barred (though even I could find someone to unlock it again).
This means that I have lost all fifty-odd snaps I took while wandering the streets of Amsterdam at various times of day; a city that made me think of Terry Pratchett's Ankh Morporkl with every corner I turned. I cannot now share these pictures (some of which were actually pretty damn good, despite the T610's poor camera), nor do I have a photographic record of my first trip to Amsterdam.
Losing the phone doesn't matter - I really couldn't care less about such material possessions - and a replacement is already on its way. However, the loss of my photographs has hit me pretty badly.

My father (who's health has been deteriorating rapidly of late) made it over with me, and my younger brother met us there (he currently lives in Ireland where he is a chef). I have seen little of my ailing father recently - to my shame - and almost nothing of my brother for months. Neither of them had been to amsterdam before either.

With the stupid misplacement (and subsequent theft) of that phone, I have lost a great deal more than just a collection of blurry vacation snaps - I have lost possibly my last real chance to capture all three of us together and having fun. I don't know when I'll see my brother again, and I doubt I'll get a chance to organise another vacation for all three of us for several months at the very least - and all the time, my father's health is getting worse.

I could cry.


If I ever found another's lost property, I would hand it in without a second thought. This is not because I have now lost mine, but because that is the way I am (though I must admit that I possess an inexpensive umbrella I once found 'lost' on a London night bus).


I remember a story I was told about a man who found a fairly nondescript purse containing £300. He was tempted to keep it but found the address inside and realised it was only around the corner from where he was standing.
The woman who answered the door had been crying for hours by the looks of her. It panned-out that she had only just taken all of her money out to spend on an imminent vacation with her two young children. When she discovered she'd lost it, she realised that she could not afford to go ahead with it - a holiday planned already on such a meagre amount had now to be cancelled.
She was devestated and had run around everywhere that she could think of in her search, only to return home inconsolable. She picked up her children at the end of their school day and had already started to tell them the bad news when he'd rung the doorbell.

I don't know how true the story is, but I've always found it inspiring.

...though it could so easily have turned out to be the afternoon's takings of the local scag-dealer, I suppose.

___

Catch you in about 20 hours. Sorry about the waffle - completely off-topic.


Edit: TPrime 'sim chip is not locked' -> 'sim chip is now locked' on request from WhiteHawk.

(Edited by Tyberius Prime on 09-13-2004 08:14)

*starts to cry*
*sniffle*
*sniffle*
...

*sniff* reminds me of something Dicken's would write *sniff*

Take your time dude, I know my serve was a bit weird totally not my style, grunge is where I'm happy.

I just wish I could feel for my Father like that *sniff*

Oh and I finally thought up of an Asylum Game posted it:

http://www.ozoneasylum.com/23212

Right - I didn't get it finished yet, and guess what? I was ill all day with a bad stomach. Talk about tempting fate! It is, in fact, the very reason I find myself awake right now.

Anyway - so as not to entirely break my promise, here's a preview of the unfinished product. I've deliberately left a few bits out so as not to give it away entirely. I also threw in the quickly roughed-up poster cos I realised it was looking very bland without the rest (don't want you thinking I haven't been working now).

Obviously, there is much to be done - but I am building momentum.




[edit]I got post 100! I got post 100![/edit]

(Edited by White Hawk on 09-10-2004 04:39)

ummm WH I think we've strayed of topic here the theme was Techonology...

... then again on second thought... the background is a void and space is a void... and space is sci fi and i guess sci fi's tech... so ok it's alright...



If this is the final I'll have mine up soon... perhaps, really stumped me here! If it's not the final just let me know and I'll stop work on it...

Man, your having a rough time, White Hawk! In my opinion, I think you should take a break, get outside, take a nice walk, and try to enjoy your life at this point.

The picture is looking good!

Templar - I hasten to disagree. The clue?

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I've deliberately left a few bits out...

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I love creating pictures like this in Photoshop - splash a few bands of colour down and give them shape with the smudge tool. I like pastels, but doing this in Photoshop allows me to create what I'm imagining more easily.

There are more layers that I ommitted for the sake of modesty.

... umm ok... is that final then?

lol at templar nearly bursting out of the straight jacket just itching to go already. WH is not finished yet!

hurry up WH!


//and great job so far!//

*grumble gumble grumble*

Sorry Templar.

Good news and bad news. Well, bad news and worse, probably.
The bad news is that I just won't be able to finish this game any time soon. I'm sorry about that - my fortnight's holiday has come to an end and the busiest two months of the year have begun at work.

The worse, For me anyway...
Got some unpleasant news from the quack regarding a common but unpleasant condition of the digestive system. What fun!
I could blame stress, fatigue, or genetic propensity, but I think it simply comes down to poor diet. It's time to switch from dairy to soya for me.

Anyway, I think it might be best if you call this one quits. I will post my last serve here one day (maybe in about six weeks, the way my work diary looks right now). In the meantime, perhaps you might post your final serve to top-off the game?

I really enjoyed playing, but I've run out of steam.

Cheers for playing me, and I really enjoyed your serves.

Regretfully,

WH.

Sorry to hear you are not feeling well White Hawk and I hope you recover fully and quickly. Are you serious about having to switch to soya from dairy? If you are and would like further information about soya products from a user, please feel free to contact me. I have been using Soya products for years now and it's surprising how easy the switch actually was. I prefer Soya to dairy products now.
I think you can find my email in my profile
Tao

*sniff* It was good while it lasted soldier... but we all have to fall sooner or later... I guess the allies were destined to win anyways. Time for out final chant... HAIL HITLER!!!!




Oops umm forget that last bit .

I'll have the last one up soon. Perhaps I might do a... oh wait... what is this? I hear a faint cry... it's... yes! It's Zavaboy. No worries this battle will end in a fight!! Come Hell Come Heck! In Sickness and In... Wet! This one's for you WH!!

Zavaboy... ... ... ... serve *evil grin on face*

Oh and uhhh get well soon

(Edited by templar654 on 09-11-2004 15:37)

Thanks for allowing me take his place, Templar.
I'll see what I can serve out... *returns the evil grin*

WH, if you have any objections, speak up or forever hold your peace. But I'm sure you're all right with it.

Yeah, that's cool Zavaboy. Fight the good fight.

As for

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HAIL HITLER!!!!

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What's that about, Temps???

Tao, thanks - I am quite serious about making the switch from dairy. It would appear I have little choice as I have been told that a full recovery is not an option - just good living and reducing/avoiding the symptoms.
My greatest problem is that I love fatty cheeses and full-fat milk. I can stomach a change to soft, low-fat cheeses, but I'm going to have difficulty switching from milk - I drink the stuff like water sometimes.
Still, a life-style change for the best can't be considered a bad thing, even if forced by something as unpleasant as IBS.
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Game on! I'll look forward to the rest of the game. Go Zavaboy and Temps!

(Edited by White Hawk on 09-11-2004 17:32)

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HAIL HITLER!!!!

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That is what happens when you watch too many WWII Documentaries and stay up late till night playing MOHAA!!!

lol - I hear ya' buddy. I know exactly what you mean.

I just wanted to make sure it was nothing to do with my name, as I have had that before. Just so's you know, White Hawk is the meaning of the name from which my real name was derived. It has Gaelic origins, but oddly enough, the current form of my real name has Germanic influences.

Anyway...

I'm trying to get some ideas....... I currently have 36 tabs open on FF.
I might give my return serve tomorrow.

*sits in corner and patiently waits..

*sits up suddenly, rousing from sonorous slumber*

What, what? Eh? Wochoo' say?

Oh.

*grumble*

*turns over and goes back to snoring loudly*

Huh? Huh? No mother (zzzzZZZzzz) I don't want to kill them... ZzzzzZZZZzzzzzZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

(Edited by White Hawk on 09-12-2004 13:10)

*ROFL* Wake up! Whate Hawk? Wake up dude!

Now, I present to you *drum roll in background* serve 10!

[ 538x538 :: 101k ]

I kinda had the the Terminator skull part in my head before I started. Then the rest fell together. It's not much but it was hard at some points. I even learned a few of Photoshop's great features!

ooooohhhhhh ... go zavaboy!!! hey did u do the fire-y smoke urself or is it a re-touched photo?

cynical, but cool ....

It's a retouched photo.
And those who know me well, know exatly that it's a nuke.