Well, we know for sure now the job on the front portion of the house wasn't done right. It was raining today, and the front part of the house was once again leaky, but not as severly as it had been, so that kind of indicates the roofers were on that section, but they must have missed something when they were there (they seem to be good at not seeing what's right in front of them). I'm still livid about the rose bush though, there's no excuse for that.
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scorchbird12
Living here, it's easy to see why they'd want to use West Virginia as the setting for a Silent Hill movie (though it was filmed in Canada), there are a lot of creepy little towns here. I know there's no such place, I'd actually laugh my head off if I found a "Silent Hill" in any state, regardless of hauntings there or not, it would be ironic to find one, especially in West Virginia. I am aware of a coal mine fire still burning under a town in PA, the USPS dropped the zip code I think it was only in the past few years, maybe that was in 2003. The pictures I saw of that town were just tragic, everything was so empty, the streets, the buildings, there was smoke everywhere, but they were oddly serene at the same time. A lot of reality can inspire great fiction sometimes.
For the UFO ending, you have to play through the game and get a "Good+" ending (you have to do it twice if you start on the easy game mode I think). After that and you start over again from the "Next Fear" save point listed, and you get the channelling stone (it's in the convenience store), once you have the stone you have to use it in certain spots throughout the game, the last being at the lighthouse. If you do it right at every point you're supposed to use it, you see UFOs in the distance, except for the lighthouse where, well, I don't want to spoil it. You have to get the UFO ending to get the hyper blaster gun, the deathray thing that plows right through the grunts at the start of the game (my sister has a lot of fun with that). My sister and I are still also trying to get the katana for the coolness factor of having a sword, but that one is a little harder to get.
I count going through them each way separately. Strangely, there was a train wreck outside of Tunnel #13 in the 50's, but those "bad" numbers haven't really been bad to me, so I think nothing of them. I'm not very supersticious.
I'm still working the cover now, and I've got the basic story outlined for the first short. These are going to be the stupid things that pop into my head at all hours of the day and night and cry for an outlet. I hope to get the ground work done soon so I can get things submitted.
sango87
I'll certainly try my best to get things up soon.
Juz Cuz:
You stop by when you can, that's enough for me. The plan is for me to try showing it off here, yes.
sikaurai
I can't promise that it will be "serious" manga-style art, probably more like the artists pages at the end of the Wolf's Rain graphic novels, silly, not really trying to do it well nonsense. I'm going to try to post things as I go along with this project, just to see if I can handle self-imposed deadlines. It's another part of my aggressive art training.
Yensid:
Given that TheO, and MyO both provide the appropriate means to report questionable content, users who spam comment threads with those accusatory comments should be banned from commenting for a week or more, no question. I don't care if they are "in the right" to make such a comment. The people who deliberately call public attention to such comments only do it to get pleasure out of humiliating someone else, and to me, that is the worst kind of harrassment anywhere. The art of "playing mod"(borrowed from the OtakuBoards rules) like that is also discouraged just about everywhere else I go, it should be strongly discouraged here. The report content links are put at the bottom of the pages for a reason. Maybe Adam should give them an intense epilepsy inducing neon pink flicker so the ignorants who spam comments with plagiarism accusations can see them to report things correctly. Now that I have spouted off about that, yeah Fan Manga is new here, but given the way the articles and reviews went, I wouldn't count on anything to do with written content being added here. I believe that so strongly that I'll draw myself eating a hat if fan fiction ever becomes a section of TheO, and I'll even let you choose the hat style for me to eat.
You talk to anyone who saw him, and they'll tell you it's a real creature. To this day some of them won't even look at their windows at night it terrified them that much. That's no figment of imagination, it isn't psychic, and though it may have been created by whatever the Government was really doing in the TNT area down there (some people speculate uranium enrichment for the Manhattan Project, but that's only speculation). The Sci-Fi show didn't focus on the Mothman himself, it tried to pull everything that was going on down there together and make them all part of the same whole. I keep bringing up the book The Mothman Prophesies for a reason. Read the book and you'll see more of the separation between the Mothman, the lights in the night sky, the Men in Black, and the other stuff that was going on at the time too, like the telephone anomalies, and the Indrid Cold thing going on up near Mineral Wells. A one hour show where you have a bunch of amateurs (even the so-called "paranormal investigator" seems questionable) handed a camera and told "film yourself doing this" isn't going to cover things correctly. Now, there have been shows featuring the Mothman on Discovery Channel and the History channel I believe (maybe even National Geographic), those were reasonably well done because they were objective and thorough. You know, I never thought of doing a Mothman theme, Hmm. . .
I have to admit you got my attention with that thought. I hate to say it but the little guy seems to have gotten too big for his britches (well if he actually wore any) lately. The commercials are cute and all, but they carry an air of arrogance to them now. For the longest time Geico wasn't even available in WV even though the commercials were on TV. They are here now, but they aren't as money-saving as they claim in all cases (from what I'm told it would have cost more to go with them when my family switched providers). Now I have an image of that little gecko in a pair of faded blue-jeans in my head too, with a little tattoo of a tire iron and car jack on his shoulder (don't ask).
KyuubiKhaos
I do need the luck, and I'll try to get enough done that I can have something up here later next week if possible. I do want to have the first short done before I submit anything.
mysterious rei
I hate when I do that, I have a whole drawer full of short stories that I wrote which are missing parts because I didn't keep them together that well. Good luck finding it, or if you have to recreate it, go for it.
kout3uka
In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have used the term "manga-style" because it probably won't be a traditional manga style, it may not even look like the funny pages on Sunday morning, but it is a fan comic of sorts, and there will be anime character cameos. These short comics will be pictoral representations of my thoughts, and anime characters like to torment me about the weirdest things, that's why they'll be there. They'll probably just be insanely stupid fan comics, but they'll be my insanely stupid fan comics.
As much as I say West Virginia is evil, that only applies to a majority of the people that I've had the displeasure of meeting or communicating with. There are a lot beautiful places to look at, the town I live in happens to be one of them, where you look at it from afar. I'm in the process of finding out whom I would contact to gain access to the park after dark (it closes at 5:30PM) so I can get a couple night shots of the town, those would be spectacular if I could get them. I'm glad you liked it.
