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Unwashed Village / Re: So how much younger is too... too... too much younger? That can't be right.

« on: September 04, 2009, 06:45:17 AM »

It really depends on whether or not she's mature (or you're immature, I suppose) enough for you. Going into a relationship with a 19 year old, I wouldn't expect much more than good company without getting too serious, but then again, girls tend to mature way faster than guys.

Bottom line: Know what you're getting into, and if it still feels good, it's probably ok.

Having both on both sides of the situation (dating an older woman and a younger woman) at about the same age difference, I'd say that everyone harping maturity is exactly right.  If she's mature, you'll be fine.  If not, you'll regret it.

That said, be sure YOU can handle that difference.  What was your era was not hers, and that will throw you off, make no mistake.

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Unwashed Village / Re: I'm back, and I bring the first signs of that Fallout 3 Machinima I promised...

« on: September 04, 2009, 06:40:34 AM »

I was almost depressed for a bit.  I came back earlier in the week, and saw that it wasn't in the link section, and went away sad thinking it had been deleted as spam or something....

Then of course, I decide to come back, and realize it got moved to where it would get more attention...

I really am special some days...

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Unwashed Village / I'm back, and I bring the first signs of that Fallout 3 Machinima I promised...

« on: August 29, 2009, 06:59:14 PM »

It turns out it was a little harder to do what we wanted, as six months into our production, and now we finally feel comfortable revealing the first short of Judgemental.

Feel free to take a look. New episodes will be released twice a month, with the next episode on September 12th.

Please note that these are the shorts, each lasting between 2 to 4 minutes. The longer series, Tales of the Grey, which clocks in at 15 to 20 minutes an episode but is not yet at the backlog we desire to begin release.

Note that both of these series will have a few Inside Jokes on the Unwashed Villagers, particularly when we get to some of the gunfight scenes.  And if you look carefully in the background ground, you may recognize some of the characters. 

And yes, I'm back from another multi-year absence....

Hoopy Frood Edit:  Fixed URLs

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Unwashed Village / Re: The World's Hardest Game

« on: April 18, 2008, 09:09:20 PM »

Beat it.  Ha!

But yeah, it gets wacky after the first 10.

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Unwashed Village / Re: Cloverfield

« on: January 22, 2008, 02:04:14 AM »

I went in with my cast to see the movie, and was for the most part I was very happy with doing so.  It is exactly what it was advertised as, an american godzilla movie, with only two major ticks against it.  And since those aren't spoilers, I'll say them right here.

#1: The party scene went on about three minutes too long.

#2: The writer for Hud (the cameraman) should be shot.  He's too much of a meathead to be believable, and it affected several key scenes in the movie.

Otherwise, it's worth seeing in the theater.

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Unwashed Village / Re: I'm back.... And this time with a message for all the UV.

« on: January 11, 2008, 09:26:08 AM »

Great news! You deserve it!

Unless those rumors of you in Rio are true... in which case... this is still good news because people will remember you for this... instead of that.

Hugs!

I'll have you know I was never in Rio with any sum of money or with any ladies of questionable intent. Especially not this time of the year.

Now, that rumor about Monte Carlo incident may have some truth to them, on the other hand.

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Unwashed Village / I'm back.... And this time with a message for all the UV.

« on: January 10, 2008, 07:39:59 AM »

First off, I'm not dead.  I've merely become buried with what has become my full time job that I do for nothing on top of my part time job.

Secondly, Spriggs is going strong and we should be cleared by Microsoft soon to start making some money off that project. 

Thirdly, Since Spriggs has proven this successful we've decided we are going to go through with our original idea and we are planning to make the pitch to Bethesda around March, so I'm beginning work on the script and gathering materials and so forth. 

This is the part that's important to you guys, because since we intend to do a FO3 machinima (and we're hoping to do it BEFORE it gets officially released) we'd like to include something that is traditional to Fallout when we do in the form of the unwashed village.  Not nessecarily as the main focus of the story mind you, and I'd include no one who wouldn't want to be, but I would like to include the Village non-the-less.

Sincerely,
The Stainless Steel Rat,
Former Sheriff,
Current head of Running Gun Productions,
www.spriggshalo3.com

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Unwashed Village / Re: Happy Happy Joy Joy! MW!!!!

« on: December 09, 2007, 09:37:05 PM »

I wasn't a big fan of the MW games as they were sort of like playing a FPS on Valium. However I'd love to see them do something better with Shadowrun than the game that just came out.

The reason they aren't announcing anything is actually the current gossip of fans and distributors of Catalyst labs, formerly part of Wizkids, both of which are the playthings of the original creator of both Shadowrun and Mechwarrior:

Catalyst labs is working on a contract to bring Shadowrun and Mechwarrior on the same page as the pen and paper, creating for both a solid and singular doctrine to work on.  Not a ownership thing, but rather a unification of purpose so that the fan base can benefit.

I wish it luck, I just wish it hadn't cut into my Armament schedule.  I can't wait for that book....

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Unwashed Village / Re: Hello out there in internet land!

« on: December 09, 2007, 04:59:10 PM »

So, they got your name too, eh?



Nice to see a familar face, the welcome back buffet is in the back.  Just be warned, the caters have tangerines

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Unwashed Village / Re: I'm popularz on the internetz.... just not under my name..... (HELP!)

« on: December 05, 2007, 01:52:40 AM »

Mayhaps I should clarify: 

The mistake was that they put the wrong advert in the wrong place.  It was an automated process, and my video got put in the 'staff' section.  So instead of it saying 'Machinima Presents' after MY titlecards, it says 'Machinima.com Original' before hand.  They know that if I really wanted to , I have them by the balls.  Clear cut.  But it was an accident.

The problem then becomes what can I do to clear up the confusion.  Any ideas?

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Unwashed Village / I'm popularz on the internetz.... just not under my name..... (HELP!)

« on: December 03, 2007, 08:21:51 PM »

So, here is my problem:  I went and created a Halo 3 Machinima that's proved to be very popular, getting 150,000 hits in a little over a week and a half since it was posted... by another site. 

Now, I made an agreement with them to host it on their site to get my voice out there, however due to a snaffu by the processing staff, they slapped their logo in front of mine before presenting it on their you tube.  This led to most people assuming, apparently, that it was theirs, despite a recent correction they made linking to our youtube account.

So this leads me to an interesting dilemma.  If we can point enough people away from Machinima.com (The site that hosted my video) to my account of website (www.spriggshalo3.com) we honestly have enough followers that we could grow this into something professional, given time.  But the catch is a big one.  How do you undo a mistake at that level?  For the record:

Our Youtube Account
The Machinima.com version of my video
Our Website

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Unwashed Village / Re: Stupidity manifest: Or how one gets fired for doing the right thing.

« on: December 03, 2007, 01:46:25 AM »

Update:

My friend now has his job back, save in a different county (Howard county, if any of you are marylandites.)  He's not happy with the change in venues but everyone decided it was for the best.  He may be getting out of security following this, but he's not sure of what he'd do otherwise.

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Unwashed Village / Re: Ok, I need the help of you photoshop type people *eyes Doomsie, turj*

« on: December 02, 2007, 06:58:20 PM »

I'll take a look at it. =) Sorry just REALLY busy right now. I haven't even gotten around to Na_Day's project. =/

Working on a Saturday...

It's cool.  Been a busy couple of weeks for me too.

As for the flag, I might be able to provide, but I'm not good at coloring so it might just be a lined drawing.

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Unwashed Village / Re: I gots a new job

« on: December 02, 2007, 06:56:40 PM »

http://www.symposium-journal.com/Board-include.asp

Take a look at that Assistant Editor position!  I bet you wish you worked for a philosophy journal.

Eh, I ran and might be running a school literary journal.  Of course, it seems like you'll get a lot more leeway and better quality of submissions than I will.

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Unwashed Village / Re: Does anybody here LARP?

« on: November 21, 2007, 03:56:56 PM »

Mostly I play Camarilla Larp (White-wolf RPG products, like Werewolf, Mage, etc), which is based on a simple card draw +stat system.

An example of Larping in motion.

At a convention once, I was walking around as my Malkavian in order to help a pair of friends who were Storytelling, essentially being a NPC.

So as I'm walking, I see this blowhard of a Bruhah yapping away and being ignored by everyone who can afford to. He's big, bad, and has an ego about his character, and I consider doing something about it until all of a sudden I see one guy starting to do the macarana. I'm wondering what's up, until a friend of mine taps me on the shoulder and says "Hey, you know the Story teller?  Can you keep time?"

I realize immediately what's going on, draw a card (quickly) for an occult lore roll, ace it, and tell the GM that I am as far away and behind as many walls as my malkavian legs can take me.  Others hear this, and quickly assume something must be wrong if the malkavian took off in a panic and did so in a fashion that he had to tell the GM about it.  Another player's eyes go wide, as he realizes what is going on, and reaches record speed with celerity, the same as I did.  A mass exodus ensued.  Of course, no one warned the Brujah.

The Brujah is still going to town, now yelling at the dancer, as I wonder if he'll figure it out in the next minute that either (a) most of us were gone and (b) that wasn't a vampire he was talking to.  The dancer by this point is twirling around.  At last, the brujah says, "if you don't stop right now, I was kill you where you stand."

His response? He catches one last glimpse at his stop watch, and the Corax drops to his knees, finishing the ancient ritual by calling out "Helios, him me with some loving!", beaming the essense of the sun from his very core while the Werewolf I came with laughs hysterically.

Since it was deemed that the rest of us had ran so far away as to be out of play for the next hour (as per the bird's plan), we celebrated it all in the hotel's pub.

Ah... Good times, good times.