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Long story short, before Lukie’s Skywire VIP Walkthrough, our main source of traffic was that old textures post. Since I’m not awesome enough to make a huge cheatsheet/walkthrough, here’s a load of epic grunge textures. So get ready to texture stuff until your computer tries to murder you. Hey, it happens.

In general, I’m borrowing textures from LOST AND TAKEN, textur.es ( if it’s back up yet… ), and cgtextures (which you need a free account for). There are some from other sites, but these are my main ones. Please note: some textures link to single images, but a lot of them link to posts full of similar texture.

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Yeah, that’s right: VIACOM. You know- Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, Neopets, the works. They’re massive. And evil. And here are some reasons exactly why.

1. Neopets

A year or two after I stopped playing Neopets, I had a sudden urge to go back and look at my profile, maybe check to see if TNT (The Neopets Team) had done anything about my inability to log in. What I saw was shocking- the site was completely different, nothing was where it should’ve been, and the whole thing looked so…commercial. After a few minutes of investigating, I discovered that Neopets had apparently been bought out by none other than the notorious Viacom. From there, they have ruined the site, introducing all these things you have to pay for, changing the cute little pet pictures, and, as far as I can see, made all the fun things impossible to find. Recently, it got worse- now even ignorant 4 year olds know that the “nickelodeon people” own Neopets, due to an annoying toolbar on the top of every page.

I mean… Neopets is how a whole generation of ten year olds got into web design. I’m not kidding you. This site is only here today because the original Neopets team (some awesome, British, 20 year olds) decided to see if kids could learn HTML. It obviously worked.

Will someone please, please spam TVT?

2. MTV

The original purpose of MTV: play music videos.

The current purpose of MTV: play a few decent music videos and brainwash children and teenagers with really, really bad reality shows.

3. The internet

Besides failing with Neopets, Viacom is taking two of Comedy Central’s most popular shows (The Daily Show and Colbert Report) off of Hulu. As you should know, Hulu is a really popular internet-TV site. You know…the one with Alec Baldwin, and gooey aliens. It’s the only place that has full Simpsons episodes.

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noomik: I am not here right now. Leave a message at the beep

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me: HEEEYYY NOOMIK I LIKE SHEEP

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With today’s simple but fast cameras, you don’t always get the perfect color, white balance, or exposure for your shot. Luckily, this can all be fixed in Photoshop, and the easy way is with actions. You can also use actions in GIMP. Maybe.

So, with that said, I’m gonna serve you guys some actions created specifically for adjusting color and giving your photos awesome cross-processing effects (I’m a huge fan of cross processing myself).

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Skywire VIP is the newest addition to Nitrome.com’s collection of games. A new twist on the popular Skywire and Skywire 2, the new addition is a different gameplay entirely.
Using the keyboard, you type the name of the character that comes out of the cablecar. In some cases, it’s Batman, others, Admiral Nelson. The caricatures are always cute, small and pixelated, making it harder to guess who they are.
Not only do you need to be savvy with music, general history, Nitrome’s other games and movies, you have to be savvy with your parent’s music and the TV shows they grew up with.
Of course, the folks at Nitrome chose bands and shows that are still popular today-Queen, the Beatles, Wallace and Gromit, the Wizard of Oz, Star Trek, the Spice Girls, the Simpsons…
The 100-level game takes time, especially since it doesn’t save your progress. All the same, my brother and I managed to beat it a good three times.
My brother and I have taken the time to type out all the answers for you, just in case you get stuck. So here you go…

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