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Trick or Treat by °chanelqueen17 1 month 2 weeks ago

Trick or Treat by °chanelqueen17 1 month 2 weeks ago

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After months of work, chanelqueen17 has created a gorgeous scene of Alice and Oz from Pandora Hearts, using scans that didn't even feature both characters together. Even after spending so much time on matching the details of the characters to their new looks, chanelqueen17 didn't stop there and went all out on the background too! This wallpaper definitely needs to be seen!

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`akiranyo 1 minute ago
Auth if you wish I can do a Touhou vector for you to wall :P

~kittylove 4 minutes ago
So auth you still working at the same place?

$authemis 10 minutes ago
Hey lofty

~kittylove 16 minutes ago
@Lofty: yes but we have lots of leftovers now

$Loftydreamer 17 minutes ago
Wasn't that sort of thing supposed to be last night?

~kittylove 19 minutes ago
Man i cant wait til rolls and gravy tonight =D

`akiranyo 21 minutes ago
Not impossible to do - later. But for first something more simple is better suited. The gallery is full with unwalled PNG vectored characters which gives maximal quality.

$authemis 26 minutes ago
Which is why i seem to make it worse. l ack simple skills let along extreme skills. i guess i will have to find a new front char or abandon that attempt

~kittylove 27 minutes ago
Eh who knows

`akiranyo 28 minutes ago
Auth for your wall = dunno if the source is even official art. But for cleaning that extreme skills are needed, a combination of sketchy style vectoring and painting (or advanced gradienting with airbrush)

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ManwhaPaper

16 hours 44 minutes ago

"Great topic 4th!

Sorry, I don't have an answer for your question. The only manwha I've seen/read is aflame inferno (episodes 1 to 5). Actually, I discovered what manwha trough animepaper: Aflame inferno has it's section on the scans gallery, and when I searched for a fansub to see the series I discovered the truth and downloaded the translated manwha.

By the way, I have an itchy question: Here in AP are very fussy about what is and what is not anime. Animations very similar to animes are rejected because they are not made in Japan, like Avatar (the last airbender), and at the other extreme mickey mouse papers are accepted as anime because of Kingdom Hearts. Which role play Manwhas here? They are accepted? They have their own category?

Please enlighten me, and thanks in advance!"
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Don't you hate going to the Movie Theather sometimes, can you Deal with it or do something about it?

2 days 23 hours ago

"I haven't went to the movies in a very long time. I usually hate it, but when a good movie deserves it, I go in atypical times in order to avoid that kind of nasty nuisances. Children crying, laughing or commenting, cellphones, jerks playing with laser pointers, and the worst of all: GEEK FANS SPOILING EVERY SCENE."
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Do you deserve happines?

5 days 1 hour ago

"Who don't deserve to be happy? Maybe not everyone in this world are happy, but all of them deserve to, even those who have done things wrong (if they were happy surely they'd stop to do the wrong thing). Every sentient person deserves happiness, no matter what concept of happiness each person has. If somebody thinks he/she does not deserve it, she/he really needs help."
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One Country

6 days 42 minutes ago

"It would be a very nice utopia, in fact is a good idea, but I also think that it won't work. I'll add another reason: Humans need limits. Without that false sensation of order and control, our society would collapse.

Long time ago countries did not exist, but populations started to increase and resources (and persons) needed to be administered. Politics and economics appeared, and things were in order for a while. However, population kept growing, and they have started to find other groups of persons and competition for resources begun. Sometimes the answer were easy (trading), sometimes it was the worst (war). We still keep growing, limits and nations have increased our differences a lot (being culturally unique is a good thing, but at the same time isolation has caused great damage for some civilizations), and for some people that have become a problem: land is distributed too unevenly:


worldmapper.com
The total land area of these 200 territories is 13,056 million hectares. Divided up equally that would be 2.1 hectares for each person. A hectare is 100 metres by 100 metres. However, population is not evenly spread: Australia's land area is 21 times bigger than Japan's, but Japan's population is more than six times bigger than Australia's.

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The size of each territory shows the relative proportion of the world's population living there.



We actually need a frontier to keep our cultural identity? Not actually. We need frontiers to protect what we think is ours: local resources. Even in a society where we pay for everything, we need barriers to keep the order. Any proposal for unifying the nations, for all the reasons stated above (economical, political, cultural) and psychological, would be rejected.

However, it really would be nice if we were capable to smooth our frontiers: reducing the reasons to prohibit someone's entry or permanency into a country to realistic security and sanitary reasons. If nations were more relaxed receiving people, their cultures and economies would enrich a lot with the contribution of a very heterogeneous group of visitors. As a song sings: "in the pure there's no future, purity is on the mix"

96% of all new people in this world born in developing countries, some of them too overpopulated to have a decent life, making poverty worse. Most of developed nations have very low population growth rates (in fact some of them are negative) and they now need young people to work, study and have a family. The solution would be as simple as a "welcome my friend" if we were less small-minded. Please think about it. Quoting another song: "are we human or are we denser?""
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Do you write poems or stories?

1 week 17 hours ago

"I write! The problem is that I write in my native language, Spanish. I have two or three small poems in English, but not that good.

Poetry society is an AP group?"
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What do guys really look for in a girl?

1 week 17 hours ago

"This is not quite the same that the "looks or personality" thread?"
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where i can start?

1 week 3 days ago

"Hatesyou, you left this thread open for discussion"
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Narcissism. Is it inevitable nowadays?

1 week 3 days ago

"Is not inevitable, it is not even a growing phenomena.

Concern for self image is as old as history, what has changed is the looks, fashion and the concept of beauty. Long ago women used very uncomfortable corsets and many other torturing devices in order to look pretty, now they starve to die. The real difference lies in media, characteristic of modern times, that have spread a single beauty concept (distorted occidental one) worldwide. Recently a new male concept of beauty has arisen, but is not globally adopted.

Beauty is subjective, and specially, is personal. As 4th said, if you love yourself and feel comfortable with how you look, you don't need to start the crazy race to narcissism and beauty standardization."
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What is the reason for which you live?

1 week 3 days ago

"I live for myself, that's the basic principle. In addition, keeping myself alive is the only thing I need to start helping others, from my family and beloved ones to everyone else, in order to make this world a better place. That's my dream."
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Relationships

1 week 3 days ago

"This kind of counseling threads are not prohibited?"
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Internet Addictions

1 week 4 days ago

"Wow 4th, the case you posted is extreme, but that level of internet addiction is not only realistic, but a growing disease of modern youth.

I don't sympathize with that kind of people, they face a really serious problem. In some countries rehabilitation procedures are offered to internet addicts, because internet can be as addictive as a drug. If we revise DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for substance dependence we learn that


DSM-IV
Addiction (termed substance dependence by the American Psychiatric Association) is defined as a maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three (or more) of
the following, occurring any time in the same 12-month period:
1. Tolerance, as defined by either of the following:
(a) A need for markedly increased amounts of the substance to achieve intoxication or the desired effect
or
(b) Markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of the substance.
2. Withdrawal, as manifested by either of the following:
(a) The characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the substance
or
(b) The same (or closely related) substance is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms.
3. The substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended.
4. There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use.
5. A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance, use the substance, or recover
from its effects.
6. Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of substance use.
7. The substance use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by the substance (for example, current cocaine use despite recognition of cocaine-induced depression or continued drinking despite recognition that an ulcer was made worse by alcohol consumption).
DSM-IV criteria for substance dependence include several specifiers, one of which outlines whether substance dependence is with physiologic dependence (evidence of tolerance or withdrawal) or without physiologic dependence (no evidence of tolerance or withdrawal).


And those criteria are perfectly applicable to internet: we have tolerance (more time on the net to achieve desired pleasure), and withdrawal (one week without checking e-mail, social networks or chatting causes a lot of anxiety and posterior depression in a web-addict; and one of the conditions matches perfectly: "Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of substance use").

Internet is a tool for working, a way of communication and information, and also a source of entertainment and socializing. However, is not healthy to replace the real life with a virtual one. Virtual friends won't visit you if you are sick (maybe they want, but they can't), won't help you with a flat tire, won't lend you a casserole, won't offer you a shoulder to cry. An emoticon is not a replacement for a true smile, a kiss, a caress. A screen radiation is far different from sunlight and fresh air. A good balance must be done, otherwise a problem must be admitted and help requested.

I am on my way to internet addiction, because without the web I feel some anxiety (mainly generated by total uncertainty about work and university activities). It is my principal way of communication (cellphone calls are too expensive in my country), so without internet isolation is very creepy. However, I have friends and social activities different from the net, I talk more and chat less, I prefer to go out with my friends that than join them in a MMORPG, I still have a life.

We need to organize our time better in order to avoid being absorbed by this very useful piece of technology."
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