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Nogrod · 09-22-2008, 02:02 PM

How long do we have time? A week?

Hookbill the Goomba · 09-22-2008, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Nogrod

How long do we have time? A week?

Yeah, something like that. Or, at least, after a week I will start sending threatening PMs to all who haven't delivered.

- TheGreatElvenWarrior
- Aganzir
- Nogrod
- Thinlómien
- A Little Green
- Oddwen
- phantom, the
- THE Ka
- Volo
- Legate
- Gwathagor

the phantom · 09-22-2008, 02:19 PM

Just fyi I doubt I'll be able to do mine until Thursday.

Thinlómien · 09-23-2008, 09:45 AM

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Just fyi I doubt I'll be able to do mine until Thursday.

Thursday? I don't know if I can manage it before Sunday or Monday...

Legate of Amon Lanc · 09-23-2008, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Thursday? I don't know if I can manage it before Sunday or Monday...)

Hey, but sure it doesn't have to be a super-masterpiece? (At least mine certainly isn't

) Even more, the picture is supposed to be relatively small, so you even cannot make it into that much detail (well, the artists who really wish to can do that, of course, and fit in even more than a common mortal can, however that's not so common and maybe even not the main purpose of this drawing... although...)

Thinlómien · 09-23-2008, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Hey, but sure it doesn't have to be a super-masterpiece? (At least mine certainly isn't

) Even more, the picture is supposed to be relatively small, so you even cannot make it into that much detail (well, the artists who really wish to can do that, of course, and fit in even more than a common mortal can, however that's not so common and maybe even not the main purpose of this drawing... although...)

Well, maybe the picture doesn't have to be a masterpiece, but my performance in the upcoming exams must be...

Well, more seriously, maybe you're right: I should have time for one little picture... We'll see.

Gwathagor · 09-23-2008, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Oh, um, could people please sign their E-mails with their screen name. Last time I had to rack my brains trying to work out who some of you were.

Were you able to figure out which mine was, sir? I didn't put my screen-name anywhere in the email, sorry.

Hookbill the Goomba · 09-24-2008, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Gwathagor

Were you able to figure out which mine was, sir? I didn't put my screen-name anywhere in the email, sorry.

I think so, Gwath. I went by a process of elimination based on what I recognized from past Paper Telephones.

Thinlómien · 09-24-2008, 03:15 AM

Done. But it is no masterpiece and I was drawing it in the school library so some people will probably look at me oddly from now on... (The expressions when people happened to glance at my computer screen were hilarious...

)

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 09-24-2008, 07:46 PM

I lost my sketchbook, and cannot find it... I will try to find it soon, but if I don't find it I guess I'll just have to draw it on printer paper or something...

I'll try to get it in by Friday.

Gwathagor · 09-24-2008, 08:46 PM

Microsoft Paint is where it's at.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 09-24-2008, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Gwathagor

Microsoft Paint is where it's at.

But Paint is so hard to use! Well not really...

But I don't like drawing with it. It reminds me of drawing on the computer with the right handed mouse!

Oddwen · 09-24-2008, 10:16 PM

Try a trackpad sometime...

Mine's finally in!

Nogrod · 09-25-2008, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

But Paint is so hard to use! Well not really...

But I don't like drawing with it. It reminds me of drawing on the computer with the right handed mouse!

Is there another way of using the Paint but the mouse?

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 09-25-2008, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Nogrod

Is there another way of using the Paint but the mouse?

I don't think so... I can use it, I just don't like to, especially because I use a lap top (Or table top I should say) and the mouse is not a mouse.

Volo · 09-25-2008, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Nogrod

Is there another way of using the Paint but the mouse?

Touch pad/screen or whatever they're called. My mother's laptop can be operated with a pen instead of a mouse. Since you gave the idea, I might try if it's of any use.

Gwathagor · 09-25-2008, 09:21 AM

Try a TrackPoint. Ha ha ha ha ha.

THE Ka · 09-25-2008, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

But Paint is so hard to use! Well not really...

But I don't like drawing with it. It reminds me of drawing on the computer with the right handed mouse!

Ugh, same here! I've never been able to find a left-handed mouse. Though, the touch pad is definately time saving and amazing, but it can take some time getting used to. (It can be a bit... touchy. Har har.

).

~ Ka

Nogrod · 09-26-2008, 12:31 AM

Okay, I seem not to understand a few things in here but even with the risk of looking like an idiot I'm going to ask this as drawing things with a mouse is just so annoying and any better idea into using the Paint would be welcome.

So what is this talk about left-handed mouses? A joke I don't get or something I know nothing about? I'm a left hander too but have no idea how "a left handed mouse" would change anything. I can move the mouse to left side of the keyboard to use my left hand in drawing and clicking the left-button is no harder than clicking the right one. As the question can't be of that, then what is it?

Gwathagor · 09-26-2008, 12:27 PM

Anyway, if you go to your computer's control panel, you can switch the button functions so that it is effectively a left-handed mouse.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 09-26-2008, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Gwathagor

Anyway, if you go to your computer's control panel, you can switch the button functions so that it is effectively a left-handed mouse.

Exactly! I changed the touch pad on my computer to left handedness and it is hilarious when other people try to use it!

But I will have my picture sent to Hookbill soon!

Nogrod · 09-26-2008, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Exactly! I changed the touch pad on my computer to left handedness and it is hilarious when other people try to use it!

Looking at the joy I clearly have to be missing something...

Anyone of you wishing to tell an old-timer what is it you're talking about?

THE Ka · 09-26-2008, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Gwathagor

Anyway, if you go to your computer's control panel, you can switch the button functions so that it is effectively a left-handed mouse.

*smacks forehead* Thanks for that bit of computer wisdom!

~ Ka

Gwathagor · 09-27-2008, 09:05 AM

Yes, it's an old Indian trick. My grandfather taught it to me. I can also show you how to build a fire in the snow and stalk a deer.

Thinlómien · 09-27-2008, 01:56 PM

Please don't teach it to Nogrod. Otherwise I'll never be able to use his computer again...

Volo · 09-27-2008, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Please don't teach it to Nogrod. Otherwise I'll never be able to use his computer again...

I think he'd change the mouse settings back to normal soon enough. I tried using the mouse with inverted settings for an hour or so and it felt so uncustomary that I decided that even a lefty couldn't switch to it after using the normal settings all his life. Anyway, Nog, try it if you wish: control panel -> mouse (pretty much that's it).

What I myself mentioned earlier was more on the lines of this.

THE Ka · 09-27-2008, 03:31 PM

It's hard at first to become used to, but it definately is a great improvement for my wrist though. Kajunamik, Gwath!

Just wish that my mouse would curve with my left hand, but oh well.

~ Ka

Gwathagor · 09-27-2008, 10:09 PM

Gwathagor · 09-27-2008, 10:10 PM

.............what does that word mean?

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 09-27-2008, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by THE Ka

Just wish that my mouse would curve with my left hand, but oh well.

~ Ka

You'll get used to it after a while! I certainly did! It's nice though with a touch pad, because there is no problem with the mouse forming to your hand!

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 09-28-2008, 12:45 AM

Oh yeah, I sent Hookbill my picture, I hope he does not puke!

THE Ka · 10-02-2008, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Gwathagor

.............what does that word mean?

Oops sorry. It means thank you.

I was spending too much time studying inuit and Duncan Pryde that day.

Oh, also, I've finally sent in my contribution. It didn't go exactly as I expected, so if there's a need to see the original just let me know.

~ Ach! Ka

Hookbill the Goomba · 10-02-2008, 04:10 PM

Well... Here we go... This makes very little sense. But I think it's funny. And if you do to, then that's what counts!

I always thought that part of the challenge was to have everyone drawing seemingly random panels and the mod has to try and attach some meaning to it. But the results, as we have seen, can be very baffling. Would you prefer a definite story? Or maybe have it split into teams; three to do the start of the story, three to do the middle and three to do the end? All collaborating with each other, but the teams being sort of independent thus retaining something of the challenge? Or maybe just teams writing any part they want and therefore the challenge is arranging each teams' work?

Thoughts?

Gwathagor · 10-02-2008, 06:27 PM

As you say: baffling. There does not seem to be any discernible progression between the panels, except perhaps in location.

Gwathagor · 10-02-2008, 06:30 PM

Now we have to guess the artists.

Thinlómien · 10-03-2008, 06:36 AM

This is rather mad.

Could you, Hookbill, though, tell us what the texts in THE Ka's picture (here starts the guessing, Gwath

) say? I can't read them...

Hookbill the Goomba · 10-03-2008, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Thinlómien

This is rather mad.

Could you, Hookbill, though, tell us what the texts in THE Ka's picture (here starts the guessing, Gwath

) say? I can't read them...

Urm, I can't read them either. That's the size she sent it to me. I just like the look of it as a mad party, being the 'something else' Gandalf had to offer.

Anyway, I think these are the artists;

Aganzir, Volo, Gwathagor,
the phantom, A Little Green, TheGreatElvenWarrior (With some help, no doubt, from TheQuiteGoodElvenWarrior)
Nogrod, Oddwen, Thinlomine
Legate, THE Ka, THE End.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 10-03-2008, 07:15 AM

As for me, I had one idea what could be done to make the game work better, when I was drawing my picture, and it seemed good to me. Unfortunately, I forgot it.

I think it was something like that everybody could draw two pictures to maintain some continuity (the pictures will be then distributed randomly, could be following each other, but normally they should not), or be given a random picture to see for inspiration or something. I don't know. If I remember the exact idea of what I had in mind, I will post it here.

Nerwen · 10-03-2008, 08:10 AM

Three comments:

1. That comic makes no sense whatever... but I guess that was the idea?

2. I have no idea what the point of the "left-handed mouse" thing is. It's just as easy to use a normal, non-switched mouse with your left hand (as I do, and I work in computer graphics).

3. Drawing with the mouse takes practice, though. If you're frustrated, and feel like spending money, try a graphics tablet. A lot of artists use them (but not me, so I can't recommend a brand).

THE Ka · 10-03-2008, 06:02 PM

I really like Gandalf's stockings, Oddwen. Then again, they're pink, so it must therefore be Saruman. Only someone that twisted could pull off that colour.

A Little Green's 'Boo!' man reminds me of the comic toothpaste for dinner.

I was really worried once I had it scanned and modified, since it looked pretty snarky on paper and then makes no sense at 200 pix. Then again, the mad party bit does make sense, and I like the mystery of it.

Here's the original, I really need to work on keeping things simple:

I don't feel up to explaining who is who. It's already straight-forward enough.

Yay! When is the next one?

~ Ka

09-22-2008, 02:02 PM	#41
Nogrod Flame of the Ainulindalë Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wearing rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves Posts: 9,308	How long do we have time? A week? __________________ Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet...

09-22-2008, 02:19 PM	#43
the phantom Beloved Shadow Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The Stadium Posts: 5,971	Just fyi I doubt I'll be able to do mine until Thursday. __________________ the phantom has posted. This thread is now important.

09-24-2008, 03:15 AM	#49
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Done. But it is no masterpiece and I was drawing it in the school library so some people will probably look at me oddly from now on... (The expressions when people happened to glance at my computer screen were hilarious... ) __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

09-24-2008, 07:46 PM	#50
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	To Delay The Threatening PMs... I lost my sketchbook, and cannot find it... I will try to find it soon, but if I don't find it I guess I'll just have to draw it on printer paper or something... I'll try to get it in by Friday. __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.

09-24-2008, 08:46 PM	#51
Gwathagor Shade with a Blade Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: A Rainy Night In Soho Posts: 2,512	Microsoft Paint is where it's at. __________________ Stories and songs.

09-24-2008, 10:16 PM	#53
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	Try a trackpad sometime... Mine's finally in! __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

09-25-2008, 09:21 AM	#57
Gwathagor Shade with a Blade Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: A Rainy Night In Soho Posts: 2,512	Try a TrackPoint. Ha ha ha ha ha. __________________ Stories and songs.

09-26-2008, 12:31 AM	#59
Nogrod Flame of the Ainulindalë Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wearing rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves Posts: 9,308	Okay, I seem not to understand a few things in here but even with the risk of looking like an idiot I'm going to ask this as drawing things with a mouse is just so annoying and any better idea into using the Paint would be welcome. So what is this talk about left-handed mouses? A joke I don't get or something I know nothing about? I'm a left hander too but have no idea how "a left handed mouse" would change anything. I can move the mouse to left side of the keyboard to use my left hand in drawing and clicking the left-button is no harder than clicking the right one. As the question can't be of that, then what is it? __________________ Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet...

09-26-2008, 12:27 PM	#60
Gwathagor Shade with a Blade Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: A Rainy Night In Soho Posts: 2,512	Anyway, if you go to your computer's control panel, you can switch the button functions so that it is effectively a left-handed mouse. __________________ Stories and songs.

09-27-2008, 09:05 AM	#64
Gwathagor Shade with a Blade Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: A Rainy Night In Soho Posts: 2,512	Yes, it's an old Indian trick. My grandfather taught it to me. I can also show you how to build a fire in the snow and stalk a deer. __________________ Stories and songs.

09-27-2008, 01:56 PM	#65
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Please don't teach it to Nogrod. Otherwise I'll never be able to use his computer again... __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

09-27-2008, 03:31 PM	#67
THE Ka Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: As with the flygja Posts: 1,403	It's hard at first to become used to, but it definately is a great improvement for my wrist though. Kajunamik, Gwath! Just wish that my mouse would curve with my left hand, but oh well. ~ Ka __________________ Vinur, vinur skilur tú meg? Veitst tú ongan loyniveg? Hevur tú reikað líka sum eg, í endaleysu tokuni?

09-27-2008, 10:09 PM	#68
Gwathagor Shade with a Blade Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: A Rainy Night In Soho Posts: 2,512	__________________ Stories and songs.

09-27-2008, 10:10 PM	#69
Gwathagor Shade with a Blade Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: A Rainy Night In Soho Posts: 2,512	.............what does that word mean? __________________ Stories and songs.

09-28-2008, 12:45 AM	#71
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	Oh yeah, I sent Hookbill my picture, I hope he does not puke! __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.

10-02-2008, 04:10 PM	#73
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Well... Here we go... This makes very little sense. But I think it's funny. And if you do to, then that's what counts! I always thought that part of the challenge was to have everyone drawing seemingly random panels and the mod has to try and attach some meaning to it. But the results, as we have seen, can be very baffling. Would you prefer a definite story? Or maybe have it split into teams; three to do the start of the story, three to do the middle and three to do the end? All collaborating with each other, but the teams being sort of independent thus retaining something of the challenge? Or maybe just teams writing any part they want and therefore the challenge is arranging each teams' work? Thoughts? __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

10-02-2008, 06:27 PM	#74
Gwathagor Shade with a Blade Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: A Rainy Night In Soho Posts: 2,512	As you say: baffling. There does not seem to be any discernible progression between the panels, except perhaps in location. __________________ Stories and songs.

10-02-2008, 06:30 PM	#75
Gwathagor Shade with a Blade Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: A Rainy Night In Soho Posts: 2,512	Now we have to guess the artists. __________________ Stories and songs.

10-03-2008, 06:36 AM	#76
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	This is rather mad. Could you, Hookbill, though, tell us what the texts in THE Ka's picture (here starts the guessing, Gwath ) say? I can't read them... __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

10-03-2008, 07:15 AM	#78
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	As for me, I had one idea what could be done to make the game work better, when I was drawing my picture, and it seemed good to me. Unfortunately, I forgot it. I think it was something like that everybody could draw two pictures to maintain some continuity (the pictures will be then distributed randomly, could be following each other, but normally they should not), or be given a random picture to see for inspiration or something. I don't know. If I remember the exact idea of what I had in mind, I will post it here. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

10-03-2008, 08:10 AM	#79
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	Three comments: 1. That comic makes no sense whatever... but I guess that was the idea? 2. I have no idea what the point of the "left-handed mouse" thing is. It's just as easy to use a normal, non-switched mouse with your left hand (as I do, and I work in computer graphics). 3. Drawing with the mouse takes practice, though. If you're frustrated, and feel like spending money, try a graphics tablet. A lot of artists use them (but not me, so I can't recommend a brand). __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.

10-03-2008, 06:02 PM	#80
THE Ka Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: As with the flygja Posts: 1,403	I really like Gandalf's stockings, Oddwen. Then again, they're pink, so it must therefore be Saruman. Only someone that twisted could pull off that colour. A Little Green's 'Boo!' man reminds me of the comic toothpaste for dinner. I was really worried once I had it scanned and modified, since it looked pretty snarky on paper and then makes no sense at 200 pix. Then again, the mad party bit does make sense, and I like the mystery of it. Here's the original, I really need to work on keeping things simple: I don't feel up to explaining who is who. It's already straight-forward enough. Yay! When is the next one? ~ Ka __________________ Vinur, vinur skilur tú meg? Veitst tú ongan loyniveg? Hevur tú reikað líka sum eg, í endaleysu tokuni? Last edited by THE Ka; 10-03-2008 at 06:06 PM.