Sorting dialogs automatically
Thought I would share.
Also - read this…
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I was going to write my own… but they did such a good job… why fix it if it ain’t broke?
So I’ve gotten into the Wizard of Oz a bit lately. Given that it’s the 70th anniversary of the famous Victor Fleming film, there has been a lot of coverage recently, and I started digging online like I usually do. I did happen to be lucky enough to stumble upon this little gem from Shanowar and Young - and it really got me inspired. So I started some master study sketches of some of Young’s work and this is how they turned out.
Here’s the first image that I did - starting with light marker and working into darker and some inks. The spiraly nature of all the clouds and foliage doesn’t show through in the smaller res images linked here - I’m holding those back a while till I’ve had a chance to refine them some. See some more after the break.
Another round of link juice after watching Jimmy Fallon tonight. After hearing about The Roots a bit, I wanted to learn more so I searched The Roots.
The Roots lead me to …
research Def Jam records…
which has a portion owned by Seagrams, the liqour company…
which is owned by the infamous Pepsico who pulls in an astonishing 43 billion per year…
Pepsico is chaired by Indra Nooyi who was listed…
on the Forbes Magazines top 100 most powerful women which is lead by…
Angela Merkel the Chancellor of Germany…who hapens ot be a fan of…
the Energie Cottbus…Who knew?
The magic of our modern day. I was 6 when I first heard about the NES. Though I wasn’t very sure was it was or did, I was sure that I wanted one. I got my first chance to see Super Mario Bros. played when I visited a friend in the hospital. I can’t remember what he was in for, but I know that his mom bought him a NES as a means to make him feel better. So when I went to visit him in the hospital, he was as eager to brag about the new NES as I was to play it.
A gleaming golden cartridge…reminiscent of the golden triforce bound within its plastic walls and now primitive circuitry…a triforce hidden behind hours of adventure and challenges.
This cartridge, when powered by the NES console will produce true magic. It springs to life with the most beautiful opening melody and a [though now iconic] completely random opening screen of a waterfall. I think this is the accidental genius that emerges over time. Emerges, in that it is never genius in and of itself, but because of a connection to the game that lies behind it, the random title design now becomes iconic by association.
This was one of the most misunderstood titles in the early NES days by my experience. When it was first covered in Nintendo Power, I was really turned off by the game - I did not have a good reason why. I suppose that the biggest thing that bothered me was that this game was displacing my favorite games on the Nintendo Power top 30. I remember being furious when I was sent the Strategy Guide instead of a regular issue of Nintendo Power that I’d been expecting. Granted, I was like 8 at the time, so these were sufficient reasons to hate a game i’d never even played.
Little did I know, that once I HAD played it, I would be completely sucked into the world of this final fantasy.
Over two decades ago… July 4th, Nineteen Eighty…Seven, I believe… just months after an expensive Christmas holiday blessed me and my cousin with NES systems… I found myself visiting family for the holiday. That very same cousin was along for the ride and had brought his NES along giving “us kids would have something to do” while the adults did their thing. Down in the basement, hooked up to a 13″ color Zenith TV [using the old school prong adapters, prior to coaxial was on TVs], was this blessed gem of a game.
So I got a bit distracted tonight…. I loaded google to make a simple search, I don’t even remember what for anymore, but the event that was significant was that I’d installed iGoogle days earlier. So when I loaded google, it tired to distract me with some pretty iGoogle themes made by celebrities. I clicked it. Then starting looking through the results. One of the celebs offering a theme [and suggested iGoogle apps] was Tim Ferriss. Tim is the author of the 4 hour work week. This title intruiged me since I work 90+ hours a week and am always trying to find ways to be more efficient. So I will quit jabbing now… and link you to the multiple interesting things that I found, just following that 1 link from iGoogle…
Tim Ferriss Blog lead me to…
wiki search Twitter … which lead me to click
Jack Dorsey the founder of twitter who was born in St. Louis… like me.
Tim Ferriss Blog also lead me to…
research Angel Investors which is really intruiging.
and find iminlikewithyou which I can’t wait to play when I have a tablet hooked up…
and since their opening video talks about names… I searched a few that I like …
At one point I was even further distracted by the Late Show with Conan and I overheard them talking about the shamwow guy… which was a less educational link trek… but that is a story for another night…
Long ago in a galaxy far far away…I made a choice. I was about 10 years old and was saving my allowance for quite some time to buy a game for my NES. I’d narrowed it down to just two titles: Mega Man and Blaster Master. Once I got to the store I saw them both sitting behind the glass, staring at me, commanding me to make a decision.
After was seemed like an eternity, I finally picked a game an brought it to the counter. I traded all the cash I had for the winning title. Still to this day I have absolutely no clue why on earth I skipped over both titles and picked Bugs Bunny’s Crazy Castle by Kemco. No Joke.
Perhaps one of the lesser known titles that will appear on my list, Duck Tales still boasts some classic gameplay and style that is worthy of recognition. Developed by Capcom, it shared some of the staff that was responsible for the Mega Man titles of the time. Both the producer and the composer of Duck Tales hold similar credits on Mega Man titles.
This probably leads to some of the striking similarities in gameplay between the two titles. Non-linear level selection, Segmented Boss stages, and even a scoring mechanic that matches the scoring in Mega Man 1. All this aside, the game certainly has its unique elements. The pogo cane for example is one of the best weapons/movement controls in a NES game.