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Yay, instead of this policy blocking out a few spam messages. Now tons of users are having to add spam to their own legit posts. Sorry had to point out some of the drawbacks to having the character limit set that high. That's not even pointing out all the poignant posts that people will just not bother to post due to not wanting to add spam to their posts. Brought to you by the council to drop character limit to 60.

I do like the idea of the post count length in the boards that you gave 200 word limits to but I must say I don't think every board needs that 100 character limit to it. It can really stifle conversation having to give a longer sentence just to be able to post. No longer will legitimate points such as, The hair looks off you should try moving that strand to the side. While I do enjoy that style of music, the bass can get in the way of the finer melodies, be acceptable to post on their own. It also gets rid of some of the opportunities of the short funnier replies or supportive type posts that are needed in a forum. I can see why you want a minimum post count but I think a 100 post limit in every board is taking it a bit too far. Now in the graph that was posted you were tired of the 0-5 word posts. Well with the avg 5.1 characters in words that means you were tired of the <26 character posts. Even doubling that to above 50 is still shy of the 100 character limit. Lots of discussions have been carried on with posts hovering around the 60 character count range as it is still a reasonable length to have a good point made in as shown in my examples above. I guess what I am getting at is that 100 is a little overkill for some boards and a reasonable sentence length such as 60-70 would work better and not cause all the fluff to be put in posts that add nothing but just to increase character limit. It kind of forces people to add spam to their post even when they have a fine enough point already made with a shorter amount of characters.

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That is a good ways away in age from my fictional(for now) 30 yr old self. The 20 yr old would be fun and hopefully be able to breath life into my 30 yr old self routine but she would be like a kid. Even for a mature 20 yr old they just haven't lived on their own that long if at all and would be so naive in some aspects. I would be pragmatic in my philosophy while she would have that hint of wishful ideology in hers. The 40 yr old would be able to hold her own in the debates and discussions we'd have. She would be more able to support herself so I wouldn't have to worry as much about her. She would know more about the world and would be able to share it with me. But what I might share with her might seem inadequate compared to hers. She might be set in her ways and settled down in where she is making it harder to go on random trips and adventures. Oh gosh. Well I would probably pick younger. There is that newness feeling that really makes for some good romance and it is likely to stay longer since the random trips I like to go on would probably still cause new experiences for her and by the time that would wear off she would be old enough that we could have the deep discussions. Though I'd probably feel perverty picking up on the young girl but eh I'd feel weird going out with a much older person too.

Bohtty may be a bit harsh but is right in that this does not sound like a typical game that gets done. I have seen many projects like this try to get started and ultimately die out. First what type of game are you making? Why are you so hesitant to give out any details. Right now it just seems like you have a tiny idea that hasn't been fleshed out since you haven't told us anything about it yet. You need to have a solid plan and understanding of everything that you are going to need to do for this game. Write out a design document. What are the tricky coding spots going to be? Figure out all the features you are going to have because it's hard to add something halfway in to the project. What are the bare minimum assets you will need. Then think about how you will beef that up. What programming language is best for the game you are trying to make? Are you going to support multiple platforms? How are the controls going to work. How will things interact? You should have these questions pretty well answered. Anyway at least tell us what you want your game to be and I hope you are able to get it done, whatever you are trying to do.

He's gone blind from the cuteness. Doctor is there anything we can do? I'm sorry but the only thing now is to try and avoid going blind ourselves from that adorable picture. *looks up* Hnngh. Too much adorableness. Vision getting fuzzy. Why OP, why.

This is hard because they are both good looking but I say the intermediate shading in general looks better. Especially the face and chest area. I would say in the plot area and part of the legs you have the shadows take too long to transition. Areas where direct light is hitting them usually have less of a transition area. I just fiddled with it a bit to try and get it looking better. Either way she is a gorgeous picture and props to you.

Only One!! How horrible. Why can't we just hug them all?

If you are looking for a desktop pony type version then I can help. Somepony named Jack sprited him up. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35213087/OC%20Desktop%201.01.zip has him along with the other gender bent main cast and a few other oc creations. Hope that helps and welcome to the forums.

Thanks for joining us! I do wish thou finds it a spiffy spot to chat. Glad you still maintain your basic communication skills as a sprinkling no doubt lost joining this hangout of ours, spitting out nonwords such as "lik" or "bamfd" or "typ" and babbling jargon which is illogical.

So I won't actually carry a point? I will just look as if I do. That's no fun if a cardboard box will outdo my ability to cut it.

Not bad. Ok some suggestions. A big reason it looks jittery is because her positioning is changing. I would suggest marking a vertical line right in front of her nose then making sure her nose in every frame matches up to that line because she's going back and forth when her head and body should just be going up and down. Next after I lined her head up right it seemed like her neck really elongated way too much during the trot cycle. I would suggest lowering every head from frames 1-5 by a few pixels. Next her front legs on a few frames get very wide. Frame 7 is really noticeable. I would also try to make her foot less wide in frame 9 and maybe 15 as well. Next her back left leg for frames 13-16 have come forward a bit more so its a smoother transition to putting her hoof down. Last thing is you might want to have her tail cover up her back right leg since the tail is usually supposed to be in the center of the two legs so would naturally cover that leg up when viewing from the side angle. That's all I have for you. Its a great start.

I must say there is a lot more to food for me than just the taste. If I ate that burger I would feel kind of crappy the rest of the day. That greasy feeling coming through your pours. eww. Even if I did like the taste of burgers better than the healthy option, I would probably still pick the healthier option just because of the after effects of the food. That could be one of the reasons you're friend would also pick the same.

Thanks for doing this Vicke. I really want to see how they changed the gameplay for this one. Good luck to everyone else entering. though I hope I win.

I have been wondering about this myself and I think there are distinctions to be made. I would not really praise someone if they were being paid to do a job where they are expected to have the expertise to do a decent job of it and it turned out mediocre. Now someone who was known to not have any real knowledge or skill in whatever they were doing going and putting forth the effort to create something that turned out to be mediocre would get a little bit of praise for it. Next I think most constructive criticism has praise embedded in it. I know I have critiqued some people before and even though I may not like there piece overall I would get back replies of glad you liked it. So how much praise should be put into constructive criticism? I agree that if you just put out negatives, that it will kill the drive of some. Yet just praise does lead to apathy and feelings that improvement is not needed. How do you balance the two out? I have my method but would like to hear what your techniques on that matter are.

Ok here she is. That was alot harder than I thought. I actually took about 6 because I didnt fill in the colors before time ran out besides the hat but hopefully you dont mind. If so just imagine it with only outlines.

Cool. Sounds like good practice. Someone want to give me something to try to do in 5 minutes (single character, no OC please).

How is ivory body? I am doing quits wall. Hmmm So you rock climb? Cool. I want to do that. Quits wall sounds thoroughly hard. I wish you a good trip to ivory body.