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12+ seriously awesome grunge textures you can’t refuse

Alice — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:28:02 +0000

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.

More texture sources (besides the ones mentioned at the top):

a couple reasons why viacom is evil

Alice — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:08:04 +0000

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.

my conversation with a voicemail box

Alice — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:52:18 +0000

me: why hello

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

beep

me: HEEEYYY NOOMIK I LIKE SHEEP

beeep

beeeeeeep

boop

bop bop boop

noomik: There is no more room in the voicemail.

me: “are you still here?”

“please try again later”

noomik: Press one to continue your message on another box.

me: 1

NOOMIK! I STILL LIKE SHEEP

WOULD YOU LIKE A BULLFROG?

PLEASE CALL ME BACK THREE DAYS FROM NOW

AT 9 O CLOCK AM

BYEEE

*beep*

noomik: In case you wanted to know what kind of frog Noomik likes, it is a tree frog or poison dart frog.

me: hm. thank you, voicemail box. i think i have some purple tree frogs around here somewhere…

noomik: Your welcome, caller.

me: You mean you’re?

bad word choice, mr. voicemail.

noomik: Voicemail is not perfect. Do not call me mr.! I will not give the message to Noomik if you do!

me: NOES. FINE, VOICEMAILBOXTHING

bye now

oh.

what is 350-245?

noomik: BEEP! Your messages have been deleted.

me: NOOOOOOOOOOO

noomik: How should I know?

me: you’re a computer, you can do mathy things. i think…

you are a computer, right?

noomik: Yes, sir.

me: SIR?

noomik: Yes, sir.

me: i believe you mean “madame”

noomik: No, sir. I do not.

me: >___>

ufwuzsdbhdhfccccc

noomik: System does not comply.

me: UJFSDIUVSDABCDIKUFVBF I SHALL BREAK YOU, SYSTEM

noomik: No, sirt

*sir

[5 MINUTES GO BY]

System has not registered any text in a while.

me: I HUNG UP ON YOU DAMMIT

noomik: System apologizes for its behavior.

me: o________o

noomik:

me: aww. fine. have a doggie treat.

noomik: Voicemail box thanks you!

me: Good boy

noomik:

17 epic photoshop actions for cross processing and color

Alice — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:56:02 +0000

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).

CROSS-PROCESSING

Cross-Processing ATN (my favorite)

Kalifbanane – Cross Coloring

H.D.A. – Soft Elegance

Lomo Cross Processing

COLOR

Pack Actions 01

300 Action

Bright Eyes

50 Photoshop Postwork Actions

Portrait Actions II

Caitlyns Actions

Color Actions

Black and White Photoshop Actions

Muted Fashion

More Sources:

Photoshop Actions on deviantART

photoshopsupport.com – Actions

Adobe Exchange – Photoshop Actions

Skywire VIP Walkthrough (warning, long post)

Lukie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:28:12 +0000

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…

Level 1. Batman
2. Little Red Riding Hood
3. Count Dracula
4. Robin Hood
5. Off The Rails
6. Harry Potter
7. Super Mario Bros
8. Dirk Valentine
9. Santa Claus
10. Ghostbusters
11. Star Wars
12. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
13. Headcase
14. Sesame Street
15. The Statue Of Liberty
16. The Addams Family
17. Humpty Dumpty
18. Spiderman
19. The Simpsons
20. Pirates of the Caribbean
21. The Beatles
22. Spongebob Squarepants
23. Superman
24. Elvis Presley
25. Mickey Mouse
26. The Wizard of Oz
27. Scooby Doo
28. The Blues Brothers
29. Shrek
30. Mary Poppins
31. Frankenstein’s Monster
32. Yin Yang
33. Adam and Eve
34. Star Trek
35. The Spice Girls
36. Queen Elizabeth
37. James Bond
38. Abraham Lincoln
39. Toy Story
40. Final Ninja
41. Sonic the Hedgehog
42. Bigfoot
43. Kiss
44. Albert Einstein
45. The A Team
46. South Park
47. Thriller
48. Square Meal
49. Tutankhamun
50. King Arthur
51. The Osbournes
52. The Invisible Man
53. Lara Croft
54. Skywire
55. Ronald McDonald
56. Laurel and Hardy
57. Neil Armstrong
58. Will Smith
59. Queen
60. Wayne’s World
61. Medusa
62. Transformers
63. Bruce Lee
64. Austin Powers
65. Tasmanian Devil
66. The Muppet Show
67. Abba
68. Wallace and Gromit
69. Metal Gear Solid
70. Marilyn Manson
71. Legend of Zelda
72. Crocodile Dundee
73. Marilyn Monroe
74. Amy Winehouse
75. The Matrix
76. Henry VIII
77. Toxic
78. Admiral Nelson
79. Lemmings
80. Indiana Jones
81. Garfield
82. Napoleon Dynamite
83. Julius Caesar
84. Beetlejuice
85. The X Files
86. Uncle Sam
87. Halo
88. LEGO
89. The Terminator
90. Futurama
91. Street Fighter II
92. Resident Evil
93. The Mummy
94. Scrubs
95. Back To The Future
96. Alien
97. Lost
98. He-Man
99. Family Guy
100. Frost Bite

onion ring beats justin beiber

Alice — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:34:19 +0000

A few days ago, a group entitled “Can this onion ring get more fans than Justin Bieber?” emerged from the depths of Facebook. Long story short, it did, accumulating over 1,622,000 fans in 5 days. Which kicked Justin Beibeibeibeiber’s 15 year old little butt. Pwned.

100 cheesiest movie quotes of all time

Alice — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:11:15 +0000

do not watch if you can’t handle profanity. otherwise, laugh your…butt off.