The Postman

I actually meant to change the texture size at the beginning of this month's contest. I forgot to change that when I copy/pasted the rules from last month.

Done! edit: another view

That is AWESOME, MDS. I simply love the design and texture. Wow, this contest is shaping up with some great entries.

Little things, too! It's incredibly well thought-out.

Yeah, rez and file size caps are toast.

GO TEAM VENTURE! Seriously one of the funniest cartoons on Cartoon Network right now. Entering its second season (you can pick up the first season on DVD right now) and just as funny as ever. This has been the first cartoon I've really thoroughly enjoyed and laughed at since perhaps The Critic or The Tick. It's simply awesome.

Ignoring the laws of nations doesn't mean they don't exist or are not valid in a world setting, RD. If you want to start a thread about notions of freedom we can do that but in the context of this argument you're really branching out.

Alpha is, normals you can do, but please do a non-normal-mapped skin for the contest proper. GREAT model/skin Fictious!

I said Europe fucked up the handling of the cartoon after it had been printed. Your reading comprehension needs some work. Both sides were being humungus dicks over one little cartoon. The ME was yelling jihad and rattling their sabres and the EU was going "lol freedom of speech am i rite?" and printing off the picture repeatedly in an antagonistic fashion for no other reason than to piss off the ME and Muslims in general more. They have the right to do what they did, but it doesn't make it any less irresponsible.

And I'm against the government burning the Koran. I've stated this repeatedly. Honestly RD are you just trolling now or are you actually this stupid?

where's the mp5? That fucking gun is in everything.

New one by me. 228polys!

It's supposed to be a place to contain some of the more retarded postings that went on in the mapcore of old. Every once in a while someone does something really dumb in there and we ban them for it.

Fear is always a motivator used in democracy. Fear that you'll lose your job, fear that you'll become sick and unable to care for yourself or others, fear that people coming into your country are going to destroy it, fear that other nations will attack you. It's the same as anything, really. There's not as much difference as you might think. Politicians make promises and break them in the same speech, it's not so much a favor to the people as it is securing power for themselves. I site America's incumbancy rates for the House and Senate. It's something like 95% and has been for a long while now. Now this I find an interesting angle. It is quite like a perversion of our own elections as a facade for a cheap form of despotism. I can see that.

they were elected. The world was shocked that they were, but they were elected. As for politicians doing anything to win the favor of the people though? Oldest trick in the book. The best scenario in my book would be for Israel to go back to its 1967 borders, the Palestinians to be given an official state and for diplomacy to be started anew. As things progress currently I don't think Hamas will be elected again. We've pretty much ensured that by pulling out support of a Hamas-led government and letting the people taste starvation ( no pun intended).

You gotta understand I think both sides are stupid. I think both sides are just as bloodied and should work towards peace, however there are factions within each that make that an impossibility. Hamas, in this case, was at least trying to legitimize itself by becoming a political party. With that there would've been a tempering of their vehemence. However, right after they were democratically elected (on the basis of their civic duties* not their anti-israeli stance) the West immediately pulled funding. Now what are a bunch of poor, starved, angry people going to do? Riot and be assholes. So the cycle continues. *they built hospitals, schools, houses for the poor, etc etc.

No, you're attempting to troll the forums. What you did was trolling. Plain and simple. We've tried. You either don't comprehend it or simply have a completely warped idea of it and refuse to listen to reason.

Re-read. I said it fucked up. Not that it's fucked up. The handling of that cartoon on both sides was just an irresponsible shitstorm. So, you were trolling. How are you a mod here, again? i can respect his art, but he's wrong here. idiot idiot idiot fucking idiot Yeah, I forgot that having a majority opinion means that you've got the right opinion. Cheers! You forget that I'm pro-freedom of speech, but anti-stupidity and also pro-responsibility. There are lines of distinction there that you clearly don't understand.

They were democratically elected though, RD. Wouldn't that make their actions war-like and not terrorist? It does not absolve their actions, but Israel is known for accepting civilian losses in their attacks so long as their intended target is destroyed.

Never absolved anyone of their actions. I never said either was right or correct. Re-read. Either way this has gone way beyond whether or not flag burning should be legal and has gone into the realm of RD bitching about Islamic cartoons again. So unless you've got any new points or opinions on the subject of the proposed (and failed) US flag burning ban, then I consider the matter closed and myself the victor.

Now you're just being contrary for the sake of being contrary. Did I ever say it was legal or right? Re-read. Oh, and emoticons are not punctuation. I took the liberty of removing around a half dozen.

Sure, I suppose it's open to any and all. If anyone knows a programmer skilled in the old ways or hell, just skilled in general, could they forward them to me? I'm sick of dealing with Tom flaking out on me every night (he did so again, tonight).

Coding it, yeah. The biggest hurdle thus far was switching to md3 model support (animations, etc) and now that that infrastructure is there it's smooth sailling.

Actually because of the 4th of July weekend it was put on hold until today. Tom and I are working on it tonight in fact. Sorry for the delays

nice stuff there, JAL!