[QUOTE=allon;43513632]It really blows my mind[/QUOTE]
It needs to be in the dictionary.
[QUOTE=Binladen34;43513364]I wish I had a cute personification on an aircraft :c
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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Z0MxD19.jpg[/IMG]
Same show
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Also the girl and her personification are really goddamn cute
[t]http://i.imgur.com/3RPDTMm.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I always wanted a sarcastic green text story on something like this.
Wartime comes around again, and the narrator's group/platoon/whateveryoucallit gets gunned down by these helicopters. He's severely injured and barely alive while the illustrations on the helicopter peer into his soul before he dies.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43513064][img]http://i.imgur.com/v8tlJpk.jpg[/img]
so apparently over in Nippon land, during airshows and parades and shit. They'll draw the pilots on their aircraft anime/manga style.[/QUOTE]
Oh it's the pilot they draw on it? Wow I feel bad now, that's actually neat.
Although I'm pretty sure I [I]have[/I] seen legit anime characters draw onto tanks or aircraft in Korea.
[QUOTE=allon;43513632][img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md6lf0R3wy1qj73e2o1_500.gif[/img]
It really blows my mind[/QUOTE]
AKA the idle thought that I've had since I was about six watching traffic through a car window.
If I ever make a proper, fleshed out story at some point, I really want to write it so that it's clear that pretty much everybody has their own story going on that you just don't get to see. In a game when somebody mentions a character has gone off to do something, it's fun to just think that they're off having their own adventures that are way more interesting than yours.
[QUOTE=allon;43513632][img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md6lf0R3wy1qj73e2o1_500.gif[/img]
It really blows my mind[/QUOTE]
i think about this pretty much every day of my life.
i like that there is a word for it.
[QUOTE=Reds;43517695]AKA the idle thought that I've had since I was about six watching traffic through a car window.
If I ever make a proper, fleshed out story at some point, I really want to write it so that it's clear that pretty much everybody has their own story going on that you just don't get to see. In a game when somebody mentions a character has gone off to do something, it's fun to just think that they're off having their own adventures that are way more interesting than yours.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of Crysis and Crysis warhead.
In Crysis, your squadmate suddenly says that he's going off to do his own thing for a bit. He then disappears until the endgame while most players don't bat an eye.
Cue warhead a year later about how said squadmate wages an entirely separate campaign on the opposite end of the island.
POW during the Vietnam war blinking in morse code during a forced interview
[img]http://i.imgur.com/xfVcOm5.gif[/img]
T-O-R-T-U-R-E
[img]http://i.imgur.com/LTQGuq0.jpg[/img]
Suicide on wallstreet during the big wallstreet collapse in 1929
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43517775]POW during the Vietnam war blinking in morse code during a forced interview
[img]http://i.imgur.com/xfVcOm5.gif[/img]
T-O-R-T-U-R-E[/QUOTE]
That's fucking smart
[QUOTE=Reds;43517695]AKA the idle thought that I've had since I was about six watching traffic through a car window.
If I ever make a proper, fleshed out story at some point, I really want to write it so that it's clear that pretty much everybody has their own story going on that you just don't get to see. In a game when somebody mentions a character has gone off to do something, it's fun to just think that they're off having their own adventures that are way more interesting than yours.[/QUOTE]
I thought once about making a game where basically everyone except you is having an adventure. That wasn't even the original intent, it just works best that way. The original goal was to make a game that makes you feel "content". Not happy, or victorious, or scared, or sad. Content.
The game would be a fantasy-type setting. Game starts with you (customizable character, but always old) as the headmaster of a major arcane university. It's your last day before retirement, which you spend visiting former students or friends to say goodbye, packing your stuff, etc.
While this would normally lead to a big "and then evil guy attacks!" """twist""", it doesn't. You retire to a cozy little mountain village and start building (with magic) yourself a nice little wizard's tower as a home. From then on out, most of the "gameplay" is relaxing stuff - fishing, gardening, maybe hunting (haven't decided for sure). Or just enjoy the characters - talk to the people of the village, exchange letters with old friends, maybe scry on global events, to see and hear about all the stories you're not even a part of. Sort of like a less cute, less trade-focused Animal Crossing, really, mixed with that one Elder Scrolls gameblog where he tried to be an NPC.
Every so often, you would be involved in a story, but never as a protagonist. You'd be the wizardly mentor to a young hero, or even some less important NPC (the helpful old wizard who translates the runes on the map to the Macguffin that the BBEG of the day is vulnerable to). Everyone has their story but you, because you're done with it all. You don't want to save the universe from apocalyptic evil, you don't want to slay the dragon or the evil overlord, you just want to chill out and do nothing of any importance.
Working idea for the title is "Pax Alchemica". I'm not currently working on it, but I really do plan to one day. I even have a plan - first make one of the typical fantasy ultimate-battle-against-evil games, and using the assets from that, make Pax as a cheap, fast game. That way it doesn't have to make much money, because it probably won't, because how the hell do you advertise a game where you do nothing?
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43517775]
*suicide*
Suicide on wallstreet during the big wallstreet collapse in 1929[/QUOTE]
Please link stuff like that
[QUOTE=kirby2112;43518194]Please link stuff like that[/QUOTE]
It's just a lifeless dude, I'd understand you if his skull was cracked open but jeez.
[QUOTE=paul simon;43518362]It's just a lifeless dude, I'd understand you if his skull was cracked open but jeez.[/QUOTE]
no problems with dead people, it's the suicide part
[QUOTE=kirby2112;43518375]no problems with dead people, it's the suicide part[/QUOTE]
So if I edited my post and I said "Jealous ex-wife pushed husband out of window-1929", you'd be cool with that?
[QUOTE=gman003-main;43517888]
Working idea for the title is "Pax Alchemica". I'm not currently working on it, but I really do plan to one day. I even have a plan - first make one of the typical fantasy ultimate-battle-against-evil games, and using the assets from that, make Pax as a cheap, fast game. That way it doesn't have to make much money, because it probably won't, because how the hell do you advertise a game where you do nothing?[/QUOTE]
Advertise it as a little simulation game, or just as an experience. Maybe make it so that your choices affect the outcome of things, i.e. your mentoring decisions decide how the other guy's quest goes. Keep the price low.
American B-17 takes direct hit from German anti-aircraft fire
[img]http://www.dvrbs.com/camden-heroes/Camden-Heroes/Gramenzi/G-001b.jpg[/img]
Everyone in the nose, hold for the pilot and copilot who somehow were uninjured, were killed.
[img]http://www.dvrbs.com/camden-heroes/Camden-Heroes/Gramenzi/G-002b.jpg[/img]
It then begins to fall out of formation
[img]http://www.dvrbs.com/camden-heroes/Camden-Heroes/Gramenzi/G-004a.jpg[/img]
In the last photo, you can see the gunner still manning his station as the aircraft plummets to it's
death.
please don't start arguing about posting dead people again.
i'm pretty sure we agreed that you linked things that involve dead people, because not everyone is comfortable with pictures of dead dudes in history.
Flamenwerfer troop from the Panzer Grenadiers clearing tunnels
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J08355%2C_%C3%9Cbung_mit_Flammenwerfer.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43518504]
Everyone in the nose, hold for the pilot and copilot who somehow were uninjured, were killed.
[/QUOTE]
Anymore context to this? Like how are they so sure the pilot survived if the plane went down? Did they survive the crash or did they have parachutes?
[QUOTE=1chains1;43518741]Anymore context to this? Like how are they so sure the pilot survived if the plane went down? Did they survive the crash or did they have parachutes?[/QUOTE]
Aside from the ball-gunners, B-17 crewman carried parachutes.
[quote]FRANK V. GRAMENZI was born in New Jersey on June 23, 1918. He grew up in Camden, at 322 Line Street, where his father Vincenzo Gramenzi operated his plumbing business, V. Gramenzi & Sons. He attended high school for three years before joining his father in the family business. On July 10, 1942 he was drafted into the United States Army.
Qualifying for flight duty, Frank Gramenzi trained in aerial gunnery and as a flight engineer. He was promoted to Technical Sergeant and made part of a B-17 bomber crew at Salt Lake City, Utah in 1943. The crew trained with the 398th Bombardment Group from November 29, 1943 until the end of the year at Rapid City, South Dakota. On January 1, 1944 this crew was transferred to the 483rd Bombardment Group and sent to MacDill Field in Tampa, Florida for further training prior to going overseas.
The crew, commanded by Lieutenant Ewald Swanson, took the B-17 #42-32019, nicknamed MIZPAH, to Italy in March of 1944.
On July 14, 1944 the MIZPAH was shot down during a mission
to bomb the Shell Oil Refinery at Budapest, Hungary. The nose of the Mizpah took a direct hit from an 88mm antiaircraft shell, killing the bombardier and navigator. The rest of the crew, including Frank Gramenzi, who was manning the top turret gun, managed to bail out, and were taken prisoner by the Germans. Frank Gramenzi spent 11 months in German POW camps. He was held initially at Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia. This area in now part of Poland. As the Russians advanced toward Berlin in early 1945, the Germans moved their prisoners westward on what for all intents and purposes was an unending forced march. Technical Sergeant Gramenzi and the other POWs at Stalag Luft 4 were moved first through the town of Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust, and then through Usedom Bei Savenmunde.
On April 6, 1945 Frank Gramenzi escaped from his German captors. He eluded capture for eleven days, moving westward and surviving on next to nothing to eat until he was found by British infantry. It was not until May 29, 1945- four weeks after the German surrender, that Frank Gramenzi returned to American lines.
Returning to Camden and to Line Street after the war, Frank Gramenzi rejoined the family business. He married and with wife Angelina lived at 319 Line Street until 1962 when the family moved to Woodbury Heights, New Jersey. He remained in Woodbury Heights until his passing on June 2, 1993.[/quote]
[QUOTE=genkaz92;43464701]I find these to be unbelievably fascinating, it would be great to know the traditions that they relate to.[/QUOTE]
Well, you can take a look at some Bulgarian "kukeri"(кукери) - historically (and I'm guessing this holds true for most of Europe), they dressed in scary clothing and costumes with a lot of bells and clackers to scare away evil spirits. So once every year, the kukeri would come to your home and do a ritual dance to do just that!
Here's a short showcase video:
[video=youtube;cQKFnFAUdHE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQKFnFAUdHE[/video]
Have something sad:
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Golden_Gate_Bridge_jumpers_by_lamp_post.svg/1042px-Golden_Gate_Bridge_jumpers_by_lamp_post.svg.png[/IMG]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/DmHurk8.png[/img]
A Frenchman cries as German soldiers march into Paris on June 14, 1940, after Allied forces had been driven back across France.
A British soldier takes cover from the rain.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/oj1T4sP.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;43528962]A British soldier takes cover from the rain.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/oj1T4sP.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
"Lift with your knees not with your back"
Disposable camera that someone bought already had a picture taken on it
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QPzckCQ.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43530634]Disposable camera that someone bought already had a picture taken on it
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QPzckCQ.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Makes you wonder if it was intentional...
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43530634]Disposable camera that someone bought already had a picture taken on it
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QPzckCQ.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Photos like this make me wonder what sort of things the people who develop photos have seen.
It's practically a dead art-form now with the use of digital, but the people who developed film photos saw majors points in random people's life's on a daily basis, they probably also saw some shocking horrors, assuming that someone was foolish enough to have such things developed. This is going back the whole "Sonder" thing where everyone else around you has their own life that you're in the background of. To yourself and your family and friends, you are important. To everyone else, your the man that develops everyone's photos.
[QUOTE=Whomobile;43530829]Photos like this make me wonder what sort of things the people who develop photos have seen.
It's practically a dead art-form now with the use of digital, but the people who developed film photos saw majors points in random people's life's on a daily basis, they probably also saw some shocking horrors, assuming that someone was foolish enough to have such things developed. This is going back the whole "Sonder" thing where everyone else around you has their own life that you're in the background of. To yourself and your family and friends, you are important. To everyone else, your the man that develops everyone's photos.[/QUOTE]
Most likely a ton of porn. Murderers would develop themselves, but fetish porn was often developed at the shop with some sunglasses and a coat :V
Same thing goes for pizza delivery guys imo. Considering tere are like 5 prank shows where they do the whole pizza guy porn thing for youtube, probably a lot of stuff happens IRL as well.
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