Topicless thread

[NewYinzer]

Sorry, haven't seen Negima yet, but does sound like a veritable Love Hina clone. Or vice versa? ^^;

Love Hina did come before Negima. But they're very much the same thing. Here's a equation of how Akamatsu pulled it off:

Negima = (Girls in Love Hina) X 4 + Harry Potter + Basic Plot of Love Hina

We no longer see well-developed characters like Kaolla, but one-shot characters like...uh...that one girl with the camera or that other one...the one with the aerials.

[Silentbob]

Well,... I guess that's sort of a relief to here since,...

*shakes butt*

...all that's left in this old piggy bank are old Turkish Liras.  ^^;
If you want to be an instant "millionaire", just let me know....  ^v^;

*shake shake*

No worries, I have cash.  ^^;

I really should get the A4000 up and going as well, since it would be a bit easier.  But I like my 1200 better, since operates a bit snappier and it's been with me the longest. =)

[Ultimaninja]

Wow, still need to read posts from page like...93 or something...

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/5439/randomstuff1hg6.jpg
(Random drawing from my sophmore year...aka last year)

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/2416/randomstuff2qq2.jpg
(Random drawing from my sophmore year...aka last year)

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7973/sdragonic0.jpg
(bj0rN's carefully constructed dragon of not-evil awsomeness)

if you look at bj0rN's you can see why I need a break from drawing...it sucked up all my talent for the time being...

[Pitkin]

Whoa, the dragon in the last picture is really great. And not only the dragon, but the whole scene; the sun and water make it really pretty. ^__^

Just thought I'd say that... :|

[C-Chan]

I second that...

The 3rd, Eastern-style dragon blew my mind away!  O.O

So don't mind me if I spend the next couple of hours vacuuming up my brain matter.  ^^;

*shakes old Turkish Lira coins around*
Anyone else wanna be a "millionaire"?
Or maybe even a "billionaire"?  
It's fun, really.  ^^

*shake shake*

[MisterCat]

Ultimaninja, you seem to be the go-to guy around here when it comes to dragons.  So, I've a multiple-question question:  Do all dragons breathe fire and fly, or do some dragons breathe fire but not fly, or do some dragons not breathe fire at?  *wonders*

;138

=^..^=

[rdhdtwns]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow US-peoples today ^o^

I am thankful for!
- my sewing machine
- XP-tan
- the OS boards
- that C-chan hasn't become someone's breakfast yet <3

As for me, I've been in and out and really MIA for a reason ^^; but I still <3 you guys of course! Have a super day ^o^

and Capt instead of cake, today it is pie. All about pie.

[Ultimaninja]

Ultimaninja, you seem to be the go-to guy around here when it comes to dragons.  So, I've a multiple-question question:  Do all dragons breathe fire and fly, or do some dragons breathe fire but not fly, or do some dragons not breathe fire at?  *wonders*

;138

=^..^=

Depends on where you get your dragon information. I use old D&D rules (Yeah, I play that table-top game) for dragons.
If you use just the basic list of dragons, we have:
Evil kind:
Black dragon (Spews a line of acid)
White Dragon (Cone of cold)
Blue Dragon (Line of Lightning)
Green (Cone of corrosive acid)
And last but certainly not least:
The Red Dragon (A cone of fire)
The good dragons:
Copper(line of acid/ cone of slow-spell magic)
Silver(cone of cold/ cone of paralyzing gas)
Bronze(Line of Lightning/ cone of repulsion gas[ forces the enemy to flee])
Brass(Line of fire / Cone of magical sleep magic)
Gold(cone of fire)

As you can see, the metallic dragons are "good" and the base color dragons are "evil"

I'll post a more detailed information later. and note:

My extensive knowledge on stuff doesn't revolve on just dragons. I also know alot on ancient mythology...just kinda hard to draw Thor and everyone, compared to dragons...

[NewYinzer]

I am thankful for:
- My Computers
- 95-tan
- The OS boards
- That I don't have to connect through Miami and New York Kennedy
- Aircraft (and lots of em')
- My health
- My family
- And my stash of manga!

[MisterCat]

Thank you, Ultimaninja, for that information regarding dragons.  One aspect of dragons ââ,¬â€ the living in caves with treasure ââ,¬â€ was set right for me some years ago when I learned Oriental lore holds that such dragons were guarding the treasure against robbery or theft by evil forces, whilst Occidental lore asserted the dragons were hoarding treasure for their own selfish ends.

I suppose that latter concept was developed in order to give human heroic types from Europe and environs a license to kill dragons.  Three cheers (not) for the Occidental humans and their relatively-uncivilized approach to fellow Earthlings!



By the way, speaking of ancient lore, I've got the compact-disk album Edda - Myths from medieval Iceland (Deutche Harmonia Mundi 515976X, 1999) performed by the ensemble for medieval music Sequentia.  Here are the tracks:

01 - Leikr elds ok ísa (The Song of Fire and Ice)
02 - Veit ek at ek hekk (Hangakvæði Hávamála Óðinn's Rune-verses, excerpt from 'Háva
03 - Hlióðs bið ek allar ('Voluspá I', The Prophecy of the Seeress)
04 - Vreiðr var þá Ving-Þórr ('Þrymskviða', The Tale of Þrymr)
05 - Nú erum komnar til konungs húsa ('Grottasongr', The Song of the Mill)
06 - Baldrs minni (In Memory of Baldr)
07 - Senn vóru æsir allir á þingi ('Baldrs draumar', Baldr's Dreams)
08 - Þat man hón fólkvíg ('Voluspá II', The Prophecy of the Seeress)
09 - Ragnarok (The End of the Gods)
10 - Á fellr austan um eitrdala ('Voluspá III', The Prophecy of the Seeress)

If you're interested in having that album, maybe we can work something out via a simultaneously-online file transfer (if you know what I mean).  Let me know.

Synopsis

A seeress tells of the beginning of the world. She describes the ordering of the cosmos, the creation of the earth and sea, of time, tools, men and women and fate. This begins the history of gods and men.

One day, three gods kill an otter they find by a waterfall. They show the otter's skin to King Hreidmar, their host for the night, only to discover that the otter was the king's son, transformed to catch fish. Hreidmar vows to kill the gods unless they cover the otter's skin, inside and out, with gold. The god Loki goes back to the waterfall and catches the enchanted pike that lives there, guarding a hoard of gold. The pike, a transformed dwarf, gives Loki all of his gold, except for one dazzling ring. When Loki takes the ring, the pike warns him that it is cursed and will bring misery to whoever holds it. Loki covers the otter skin with the gold, inside and out. A single whisker pokes out, and Hreidmar demands that Loki cover it with the dazzling ring. Loki tells the king of the curse, but Hreidmar claims all the gold and drives the gods away.

King Hreidmar refuses to share the gold with his two remaining sons, Fafnir and Regin. Fafnir kills his father but refuses to share the gold with Regin. Fafnir transforms into a dragon, nesting on his brood of gold. Regin bides his time while he grooms the young warrior Sigurd to win back the gold for him.

Regin makes Sigurd a sword called Gram, sharp enough to slice the anvil that forged it. At Regin's urging, Sigurd slays Fafnir and roasts the dragon's heart. When a drop of the dragon's blood touches Sigurd's tongue, he suddenly understands the language of birds. The birds tell him to kill Regin before Regin kills him, and take the gold for his own. So Sigurd hacks off Regin's head while he sleeps. Following the bird's advice, Sigurd takes the gold and goes to seek a wife.

Sigurd rides his horse, Grani to the mountain where a valkyrie sleeps and through an enchanted ring of fire that surrounds her. He finds Brynhild, a supernatural warrior woman who is fated to marry whomever can ride through the ring of fire the god Odin has placed around her. Sigurd and Brynhild fall in love, but before they can marry, Sigurd must follow his fate to the court of King Gjuki and Queen Grimhild.

Grimhild decides to win the hero and his gold for her daughter, Gudrun. She gives Sigurd a potion of forgetfulness. He forgets his vows to Brynhild. He marries Gudrun and swears an oath of brotherhood with her brothers, Gunnar and Hogni. Then Grimhild decides that Gunnar should marry Brynhild. Sigurd rides with Gunnar to the valkyrie's mountain, but Gunnar cannot pass through the ring of fire. So Sigurd shape-shifts with Gunnar and rides through the fire to Brynhild in Gunnar's form. Brynhild must marry the warrior who rides through the fire, and so she marries Gunnar, though she still loves Sigurd. When Brynhild realizes that she was tricked into marrying Gunnar, her sorrow turns to rage. She presses Gunnar to kill Sigurd and he sorrowfully agrees. He and Hogni have sworn brotherhood with Sigurd, so they convince their brother Guthorm to do the deed. Guthorm kills the hero, but as he dies, Sigurd slices Guthorm in half. The cursed gold passes on to Gunnar and his kin.

Her revenge accomplished, Brynhild plunges a knife into her own breast, and asks to be burned on a funeral pyre with her beloved Sigurd. Gudrun is devastated by her loss of her love. She wanders the wilderness like a mad woman. Her mother presses her to marry King Atli, Brynhild's wealthy and powerful brother. Gudrun protests, but to no avail. And as she predicts, Atli soon plots to acquire the gold Sigurd left when he died.

Atli invites Gunnar and Hogni to visit, but when they arrive, they are captured. Atli offers to trade Hogni's life for Sigurd's gold. Gunnar demands his brother's heart instead, and Hogni laughs as his heart is cut out. Gunnar too chooses to die rather than tell Atli where the gold is hidden. The secret of the gold dies with him in a pit of vipers.

Gudrun gives Atli food and drink, which turn out to be the flesh and blood of their two young sons. Mourning fills the hall, but Atli has drunk himself to sleep. Gudrun stabs her husband and then tosses flames across the doors, barring exit. Fire consumes all within.

The seeress returns. She recalls the first war in the world, the first oath to be broken, misery, death and destruction for gods and men. Then she sees life return and all is well. But a dark dragon too has returned. And over the land it casts a dark shadow.

:smoke:

=^..^=

Added after 7 hours 1 minutes:



;hi

=^..^=

[Ultimaninja]

Things I am thankful for:
1. Safely waking up every morning
2. Food
3. Knowledge of the fact that my parents are not like abusive parents you'd see on tv
4. Pets with real personalities
5. The fact that people here don't hate me...(I think)

btw that story is an old Norse legend...
an awsome one at that to!

[Silentbob]

Yeah, that it is.  

Things I'm grateful for:
1...Finding the money I thought I lost, it was under the carpet next to the entrance door when I came home today.   Been brooding over that all day, and then I didn't have to.  ;013

[CaptBrenden]

mmmm delicios pie.   pumpkin... XD


I hate thanksgiving -_-  My family used to have grand home cooked home grown thanks giving dinner..  I mean we raised the turkey, grew the potatos, everything.  If we didnt make it or grow it, one of our neighbors did.  Cept the cranberry jelly,  that we got out of a can (tho, its still a favorite of mine none the less)  But in 2000 my dad died on the 19th of november, thus permemently destroying those happy times.    I think that year we at at a sleezy resturaunt.. they didnt have turkey (or were out of it, i forget) or delicios pie!   Since then, every thanks giving has been either spent at dennys (open even on holidays!) or on ship/deployed.  

so basicly... Blah.


My 1st sergeant got word of me spending them at dennys tho.. I got volentold for a thanksgiving dinner program, gave me a turkey and a delicios pie, some stuffing and cranberry sauce.  

in other news my chain of command is exploiting my artistic abilitys again... -_- now they are making unit t shirts and I have to make the design, but ill probobly be out before they are ready and wont get one (come to think of it im still pretty angery i didnt even get a letter of appriciation for the last artworks i did for them -_-)

anyhow.. Ill be on all day, leaching the internets if anyone needs me

[Ultimaninja]

MUST REMEMBER TO POST CaptBrenden's DRAGON-ZOMBIE-THING!!!
It's awsomeness, helped lead me to shading dragons and such...

[Alex Stankevitch]

IM BACK!

And time to post something random: