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Dec 13, 2018 15:03:05 GMT -5
Post by thekeeper on Dec 13, 2018 15:03:05 GMT -5
Finally back here on the forum. Went on a trip to Europe for a couple weeks and my school term just ended so I've been really occupied for the past month, not to mention I just started shaolin training which will also take a decent amount of my free time. Shaolin kung fu is quite intensive so far. I'm training in ba gua and tai chi chuan initially for proper grounding, balance, and form and will over time move into mantis style. Not sure which weapon I'll train; I have a feeling I'll go for the staff, but this is years away. I've never been this aware of my body movements and posture. Anyone else here practice martial arts? Fascinating! Where do you study shaolin? Portland Shaolin Center. Traditionally focused and fairly serious yet there's a light and friendly atmosphere. There's been some tensions in the past couple months about some instructors catering too much towards the 'workout' approach instead of the development of martial style and skill, so the founder is leaving. I'm learning Liang style Ba Gua under him so I'm following him to a smaller practice next month. Bittersweet, but he's a fantastic teacher.
While I started the two styles with the intention of them laying an internal foundation to later move to external kung fu, I'm not sure if I want to do that now. Northern Mantis style still really interests me, but I really get a lot out of Ba Gua in particular. It's probably ideal to have practice/training in both internal and external arts, so I'll eventually pick up an external style, but the more you get into intensive internal styles (Ba Gua, Xing Yi), the more you (or I, at least) see some really beneficial components in the internal that the external doesn't really focus on. I also studied with a Chinese martial arts master, George Xu, some months ago which totally changed my perspective on movement and intention. He's fairly adept and actually 'master level' in a lot of styles, but he mainly practices and teaches a kind of style that he's made up that's currently nameless. His thing utilizes 'space energy' (I don't know how to spell the romanized Chinese word, something like 'su'). It's fairly hard to explain, but kind of imagine like a phantom fist coming from your spine and hitting something before your body reacts and follows the same intention. Weird energetic redirection stuff, making your body 'feel invisible' to others (very disorienting, you have to experience it). He studied the movement of tigers for a long time. He punched me in the face on the first day.
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Dec 23, 2018 11:05:39 GMT -5
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Post by druadDS on Dec 23, 2018 11:05:39 GMT -5
Besides my solo projects(Druad, Lug) I'm a drummer in two bands. Other than music I write poetry, stories and I'm really good at drawing, especially pencil style drawing. I draw inspiration from a variety of things, including fantasy, movies, books, emotions, dreams and as of lately - sleep paralysis, since I've figured a technique to trigger it in 6/10 cases. Here is the link to my Deviantart profile: lp-98.deviantart.com/I suffer from sleep paralysis on rare occasion. I've inherited it paternally. I hate it, but I could see how one might desire it. Only a few nights ago I "awoke" to scratching and scurrying from behind (I was sleeping on my side), and when I decided to turn around and investigate or otherwise confront whatever it was (my mind was racing, jumping to all possible ends), I was frozen! It's an awful feeling really, because the "presence" of whatever was in the room with me seemed to grow. There was nothing I desired more than to just move a hand or to turn onto my other side, but I couldn't do a thing. Finally, after struggling for what felt like a minute (but was probably shorter) I was able to move once again and the feeling of their being a "presence" was entirely gone. It's so infrequent (once a year?) that when it happens it seems like an unequivocally deadly and terrifying thing each time. Well, first of all, I'm not 100% sure if my experiences are sleep paralysis, but they do consist of paralysis, half dreams, weird(er) dreams and awareness of the fact that I'm 'dreaming'. For example, couple of days ago, my eyes were literally opened/half-opened, but my mindset was still in 'dreaming mode'...so I stared into something I thought was a figure trying to get out of its shirt (??!!), just to realize that it was my closet upon waking up...similar situations happened as well.
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Jan 3, 2019 15:37:16 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2019 15:37:16 GMT -5
One of my most obsessive hobbies is coding textual adventure games. I've released my first one in English :
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Jan 6, 2019 13:51:31 GMT -5
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Post by olofdigre on Jan 6, 2019 13:51:31 GMT -5
One of my most obsessive hobbies is coding textual adventure games. I've released my first one in English :
I did this in my early teens. I have been thinking of giving it another go.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 6:41:44 GMT -5
Do you know Inform 7 ? It's really an incredible engine for doing interactive fiction.
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Jan 7, 2019 14:21:15 GMT -5
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Post by olofdigre on Jan 7, 2019 14:21:15 GMT -5
Do you know Inform 7 ? It's really an incredible engine for doing interactive fiction. no. I have just recently learnt about textadventures.co.uk
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Jan 7, 2019 14:47:30 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 14:47:30 GMT -5
It's a soft that allows you code in natural language. Example : "Hello Deductible" by "I.F. Author" The story headline is "An Interactive Example". The Living Room is a room. "A comfortably furnished living room." The Kitchen is north of the Living Room. The Front Door is south of the Living Room. The Front Door is a door. The Front Door is closed and locked. The insurance salesman is a man in the Living Room. The description is "An insurance salesman in a tacky polyester suit. He seems eager to speak to you." Understand "man" as the insurance salesman. A briefcase is carried by the insurance salesman. The description is "A slightly worn, black briefcase." Understand "case" as the briefcase. The insurance paperwork is in the briefcase. The description is "Page after page of small legalese." Understand "papers" or "documents" or "forms" as the paperwork. Instead of listening to the insurance salesman: say "The salesman bores you with a discussion of life insurance policies. From his briefcase he pulls some paperwork which he hands to you."; move the insurance paperwork to the player. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform
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Feb 4, 2019 11:32:33 GMT -5
Post by thekeeper on Feb 4, 2019 11:32:33 GMT -5
One of my most obsessive hobbies is coding textual adventure games. I've released my first one in English :
This looks great. Hope to have time to play soon. Are you familiar with the Twine program/engine? More 'choose your own adventure' than text-input, but very easy to navigate and build on.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 7:16:11 GMT -5
One of my most obsessive hobbies is coding textual adventure games. I've released my first one in English :
This looks great. Hope to have time to play soon. Are you familiar with the Twine program/engine? More 'choose your own adventure' than text-input, but very easy to navigate and build on.
Yes, I also work with Twine. It's a very easy tool for beginners but you can also add tons of code and do complex and rich games. I know a guy who did a Cyberpunk game with Twine, with skills, inventory, combat and so on. There's no technical limit.
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Feb 10, 2019 4:14:51 GMT -5
Post by sternenfeuer on Feb 10, 2019 4:14:51 GMT -5
Besides music in general (listening, not creating, though) and reading a lot, I am quite into bodyweight exercises on gymnastic rings. No, despite the rings not in a prof. gymnast way - I use them more as a tool to make the classic bodyweight exercises harder. So I train mostly strength and not skill focused on them. In addition to "just" being a hobby, this also helped me some years ago to get rid of back pain (office job based back pain ). Apart from that I also love to create logo stuff. Most of them are just for fun under my personal "Bulletride / Bulletrider" moniker (an alias I got myself nearly 20 years ago ). These logos are drenched in 80s fluff like chrome and laser, so to say breathing all my childhood memories. Every now and then a metal band or synthwave project contacts me as this era appeals to them so much, too, and they love to see their music under such a visiual banner. Lately I also played around with b/w graphics and plan to do more in that way. Here are some examples of my works and if you're interested you can see more on my deviantartpage...
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Feb 10, 2019 4:39:31 GMT -5
Post by crystallogic13 on Feb 10, 2019 4:39:31 GMT -5
Nice artwork man, the two first are great looking!! The second one also emits great vibes from Omen's Warning of Danger , nice!!
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Feb 18, 2019 16:14:47 GMT -5
Post by Pilgrim's Shadow on Feb 18, 2019 16:14:47 GMT -5
Loved these two! Getting the vibes of some old-school NWOBHM, in a retro way.
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Feb 19, 2019 3:38:47 GMT -5
Post by toodarkpark on Feb 19, 2019 3:38:47 GMT -5
Listening to and collecting music is my major passion, but lately I've been getting into collecting militaria, my main focus there is DDR NVA gear.
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Feb 25, 2019 9:26:23 GMT -5
Post by sternenfeuer on Feb 25, 2019 9:26:23 GMT -5
Loved these two! Getting the vibes of some old-school NWOBHM, in a retro way. Thanks Yeah, I grew up on this kind of chrome logos and still love them. They had some kind of revival in the last years...
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Mar 10, 2019 11:50:17 GMT -5
Post by sternenfeuer on Mar 10, 2019 11:50:17 GMT -5
...finished one of my personal "just for fun" projects today: a logo for maybe a TV show, cartoon series or video game that never was (but should have been!). Drenched in everything 80s to achieve an "über-nostalgic" look...
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