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Found this while I was Googling "Lineage 2 dark elf priestess" to show someone.
Paper dolls sure have advanced since I was a wee(er) nugget.
Okay, okay. Most of my friends would probably say that everything sounds like food, sex, or both to me, but just reaaaaaaaaaaaaad it. XD
I think of play as being characterized by what I call the "Five S's of Play": its Spirit, Symmetry, Synchrony, Sacredness and Soulfulness. The Spirit of play is laid bare for all to see as animals wildly run about, wrestle, and knock one another over. The Symmetry and Synchrony of play is reflected in the harmony of the mutual agreements to trust one another - individuals share intentions to cooperate with one another to prevent play from spilling over into fighting. This trust is Sacred. Finally, there's deepness to play, for animals to become so completely immersed in it that I like to say they are the play. Play is thus a Soulful activity, an expression of the essence of an individual's being.
There's also incredible freedom and creativity in the flow of play. This is easy to see and amazing to watch. I refer to this as the "Six F's of Play": its Flexibility, Freedom, Friendship, Frolic, Fun, and Flow. As they run about, jump on one another, somersault, and bite one another, animals re-create a mind-boggling array of scenarios and social behaviours. It's difficult to believe that when animals are deep into play they can actually keep track of what they are doing, but they can. It's possible that animals are "practicing" and "rehearsing" important behaviours that will help them to survive. As animals play, it's not unusual to see known mating behaviours intermixed in highly variable kaleidoscopic sequences along with actions that are used during fighting, looking for prey, and avoiding becoming someone else's dinner.
I don't think it's just me. LIES! ALL LIES!
When players don’t need each other it breeds anti-social behavior and it results in the devaluation of other players. Players become nothing more than advanced NPCs.
MMOs were originally designed to be shared social experiences
Wolfshead Online
Not true at all. Guild Wars has an amazing community, despite the fact that if you have the third campaign (Nightfall) or the xpac (Eye of the North), you effectively don’t need people at all, except in PvP.
There are player organised events, supported by ArenaNet. Most recently, Pink Day in LA:http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Pink_Day_in_LAThey set out with a goal to raise US$1337 for the Canadian Cancer society. They ended up with US$11,000. A totally player-organised event, for something outside of the game, which ArenaNet supported by introducing a totally new dye colour.Official site here:
http://pinkday.grimforge.com/And here is my take on Pink Day in LA 2010:
http://nugget.posterous.com/pink-day-in-lions-arch-2010(Please note, I’m not affiliated with these guys in any way. I was just lucky enough to catch the event by chance, and I thought the whole thing just rocked.)There are a wealth of other player-organised events, and during ArenaNet’s festive events, especially Canthan New Year, guilds and/or alliances team up to ‘sponsor’ districts, so that everyone has a very good chance of getting prizes. Sponsorship can involve playing minigames, or collecting scavenger hunt items and handing them to NPCs, etc. Sponsorship is totally free. People do it because they want to. Because they enjoy it. I took part in helping my guild/alliance with sponsorship this Canthan New Year, and I really liked it.It’s not a unique thing. It’s not something done because people NEED each other. It’s done because people simply want other people to be happy in a game they enjoy.For a game where you can play 95% of the PvE content without ever grouping with another human, Guild Wars has a damn good community.You could, however, argue that GW is an outlier. That its gaming structure so unique within the MMOverse, very much like EVE and ATitD, so much so that the normal rules don’t apply. I’m not sure if that’s so, but I do allow that it’s possible.Cynical nugget writes stuff praising human nature, whoda thunk! =)
[Originally a spammy rebuttal comment, see the full original post over at Wolfshead Online. It's possible you'll think a nugget is being too optimistic!]
Some concept mockups I did for tender proposal for the STB at my last company.
Sketch sorta turned into Dream from Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
And thanks to Brushes nifty replay feature... we can has movie! Done with my nifty new DIY stylus!
It must be said that the replay thingie makes me look leeter than I am, since it doesn't record undos, and I did a couple of those when doing the star in his eye. However, the medium is so responsive that I'm not undoing much at all, just overlaying more paint, etc.
Wooties!
Testing my DIY stylus with Brushes. Took about 30 min, then my latest mad scientist bread finished baking, and ze nugget hopped in ze freezer for ze night.
Will finish/update later, but so far, I like Brushes more than Sketchbook Pro - the interface just seems easier to use.
Sorry about the flip-flop-flipping - seems I accidentally duplicated layers without meaning to, and so had to get rid of them. Lettuce pretend it's a special effect.
Speshul. Like the bus.
While we're at it, lettuce pretend this is the poor abandoned Weekly Nuggetsketch, shall we?
But hey, considering all it takes to replace the tip when it wears out is some Scotch Brite, superglue and a Q-tip...
It also works really well. Nice and responsive. Has personality, this thing, but it's not going to win any beauty contests. XD
Can't take the credit for the idea though - I went out and made a couple for myself and some colleagues after watching this great video by Crabfu.
