Nedan on 1/7/2012 at 07:12
Quote Posted by Muzman
Dude! What is this? That's got to be nearly everybody by now. Even Cybernide swung by (although no Shades now I think about it)
Yeah, as CHILL's said... this place is like home. Even with DNS issues, I had to at least find some way here (thank you nbohr1more from the darkmod forums for the tip).
demagogue on 1/7/2012 at 13:58
Quote Posted by Nedan
Yeah, as CHILL's said... this place is like home. Even with DNS issues, I had to at least find some way here (thank you nbohr1more from the darkmod forums for the tip).
I'd point out that nbohr got the tip from me (edit: unless we posted it independently at about the same time), but you should really thank Al_B from the FB page. :cool:
glslvrfan on 1/9/2012 at 22:17
Quote Posted by LarryG
@glslvrfan: No thanks? After more than two weeks? This will be the last time I help you out, and I doubt anyone else will either.
Larry This is so awesome. I cant believe it took this long for me to catch it. I am so so sorry. I completely forgot about this. Thank you so much. I really am sorry that it has taken so long.
I come by and browse through once a day, or every other day at the most. I cleared history and everything yesterday for the 1st time in seemingly months. Notification came in on Larry's private message. Sorry again it took so long to acknowledge. You did a fantastic job.
faetal on 25/9/2012 at 10:58
[video=youtube;fvgPPWIRDP4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvgPPWIRDP4[/video]
This is a music video by my housemate's band. I helped to record and produce the track.
Watch it, and if you like it, please share. They do this semi-professionally, but as for all non-major label bands, it's hard to keep the profile up among so many other bands out there.
Muzman on 29/11/2012 at 22:12
I thought I watched this, but I guess not. Interesting. There's a lot of music these days doing a "sound" from the past, I guess you could say, (probably pissing off the bands saying this). There's a lot of 80s synth pop, sort of Tears for Fears and Hall & Oats stuff. Can't say I've heard a Depeche Mode until now though. Cool
Anyway, enough music sociology.
So this happened I guess
[video=youtube;kxQVT72Fn2Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxQVT72Fn2Y[/video]
It was fun, but I'm kind of ambivalent on the results myself. It looks like it was done the way it was done; cheap and fast. The "clients' are very happy though, which is nice.
demagogue on 30/11/2012 at 06:36
I invented a language. That's sort of creative.
It's called Wasmaxna. It's sort of a homage to three languages I learned or part of family history.
The core grammar is like Chickasaw (VSO), with a conjugated verb up front doing all the work, and the rest of the sentence filling in its arguments. The verbs are on a root system like Hebrew. And a lot of the structure (things like relative clauses and case tags) are like Japanese. I'm working out glyphs that are like Japanese kanji but with a Hebrew calligraphy style.
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https://docs.google.com/a/trioptimum.com/document/d/1d9kp5TcbN2yq4AjMP_j_2hF4Oz_UN9DU5QyjcJfdkVo/edit) Here is a copy of the grammar if anyone is curious (WIP; a lot of things are still in flux & changing fast).
And (
https://docs.google.com/a/trioptimum.com/document/d/1kHjZWkfKPD4lGn1_op0j7h9preCsCn3uDlGNk7I-leY/edit) here I'm working on a translation of Emerson's Self Reliance so I can figure out how my own language works & know how to develop it.
If you want to see how it looks, the first three sentences of that essay are transliterated like the following. (NB, "c" sounds like English "ch", "x" like English "sh", and "r" like a French "r" with a bit of Hebrew "ch" in it. It reads in consonant-vowel pairs, or a vowel by itself, occasionally CCVs. You don't combine vowels, and pronounce it pretty much as it is, like Japanese.):
Yakix-Wutfen sobu pewo-e, yikul-custeh paposano yaforofe-ma, henine xan xunu iciname tate-cap. Kiti-hohcit rofowe macawe-mae holasobu-ca hixu benopi-kop pohu, xu koti-fanfah-halos mayeha-ca. Kiti-hokxir yixkul-monpim yapmabiso-mae solici-ce-ca kixkul-pahbaf-nofo xayi waruse-ca ra.
Beleg Cúthalion on 30/11/2012 at 07:05
Usually people tell
me that I have too much free-time. :weird: Anyway, sounds great as a concept and reminds me of Turkish with its agglutinating features (and of course Arabic with the root system). And I never thought the old Age of Empires priests were saying "preface, preface" in Wasmaxna when proselytizing.
Speaking of creativity, I've done some handicraft now and then but apparently all more recent photos suffered from the last hard disk formatting. So this is some of the oldest stuff when I had almost no idea about what I was doing (quiver and bowcase, neither weapons nor the vambraces):
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http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/3090/bnrbncjl_jpg.htm)
Inline Image:
http://s1.directupload.net/images/121130/temp/bnrbncjl.jpgThe quiver is roughly Thief-1-inspired (but you don't get any reasonable design from the concept drawings etc.) and the bowcase based on historical evidence. Speaking of it, the construction is anything but historical. However, I used to get to museums and real primary sources only later and nowadays I'd hardly build anything without getting as much data as possible. Illustrations for instance only rarely reveal construction methods. Maybe I take a photo of my latest Ottoman-style quiver, that's more like it.
demagogue on 30/11/2012 at 13:05
Never really studied Turkish, but when doing something like this it almost needs to be agglutinating to keep track of what's going on when developing it. Even inventing it, I still have to learn it myself like any foreign language to even know how it works. Another thing it apparently shares with Turkish (I've read, I actually took it from Japanese) is being relentlessly head-final. If I translated "The black train that I saw yesterday" it'd be like "the seen-by-me-yesterday black train".
