Whats your hobbie/passion?

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by iHellFire, Oct 31, 2012.

Whats your hobbie/passion?

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by iHellFire, Oct 31, 2012.

  1. LampShade

    LampShade Donating Member

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    Dammn Nice pictures HellFire! You've got some fishing skills!

    Do you do outdoors photography? What kind of camera do you have? My father goes hunting in Wyoming every year and he has a Nikon D40 with a 300mm lense. It takes amazing photos.
     
  2. LampShade

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    I'm an old time airsoft player. Airsoft is like paintball (only better :-P) except the guns use BBs instead of paintballs. I don't have much time for it anymore, but here's a photo of my baby. The barrel extends all the way through the suppressor. The suppressor acts as a barrel hider, not noise reduction. Longer barrel = better accuracy. I have an M203 Nad launcher for the RAIL system as well (not pictured here).



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    Played hockey for several years in high school and college.


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    I'm a poker player. I play mostly cash games. Here's a shot of me raking in nearly 2 grand at a $1/$3 table.
     
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  3. LampShade

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    Nice digital art work!
     
  4. John_Holliday

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    CrazyKillerCat: Nice digital art. I'm trying to get into it myself (with what little free time I have) but with little success. Just a quick qustion: I noticed that on a few of the images there is a predominance of triangles. Symbolism for anything or simply a love for our three cornered friends?

    Lampshade: nice pile of chips there. A close friend of mine is huge into poker. Has gone to Vegas for the BIG tournament twice now. Last year he made it past the first tables, this year he got eliminated the day before the big event. I don't have the poker face to win, but I love the game.

    Also, I should actually be somewhat serious since my last post WAS a fabrication (I don't own miniature llamas).

    I have several hobbies: I love photography though I'm terrible at it and don't have proper equipment (wife and four kids mean little money and less time); I'm a 2nd degree black belt with experience in Tae Kwon Do (my first martial art), a little Jujitsu, and lots of training in Filipino Escrima (basically it's a street fighting martial art meant for self-defense. There are several different sections: bare hand, bare hand with single stick, bare hand with single knife, double knife, double stick, variations of those, and long blade. You dispatch your enemies as quickly as possible with attacks to joints and vitals.) I taught for years before I went back to school and now work full time. I have now been in the martial arts for 17 years and have appreciated every one of them. I do work out a couple of times a week, but not enough to call it a hobby. Other than that I enjoy amusing myself with stupid comments. My apologies: If my posts ever seem nonsensical it's because they are. I know I'm not funny to OTHER people. I'm just funny to myself. Groans, complaints, death threats...these are all par for the course.
     
  5. CrazyKillerCat

    CrazyKillerCat Admin & Graphics Designer

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    Thanks man!:D

    Thanks! Just something that popped into my head that day./coffee

    Updated my old deviantart account, some of it dates back to 2009.

    http://redlight91.deviantart.com/gallery/
     
  6. John_Holliday

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    Nice work! I thought the Assassin's Creed artwork was particularly epic. Also like the "Awesome Face" one as well. What I want to get into is taking pictures and making them more like impressionist artwork. I don't have the mechanical skills of GIMP down yet (I'm too cheap to buy Photoshop, but love GIMP) to make my vision take shape yet. Still getting layer work down.
     
  7. LampShade

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    Nice! Poker in vegas is a funny thing. I'm headed there for the first time in January. Pretty excited to play with the crazies.

    Love tournaments and love the mental endurance that comes along with them. I just don't have the time for them anymore since I have a wife/kids/dogs at home.
     
  8. Kowlefe

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    I like cheese
     
  9. Mortos

    Mortos Basement dweller extraordinare!!!

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    Great question! Aside from playing video games, I'm currently making a mobile game with my friend. He's doing the art and i'm doing the programming. It's aimed for casual gamers (think Angry birds) and were about 70% done with it. After its finished were going to finish up our website but you can view our splash page at http://attaksoftware.com/.

    We have a concept video of our game and music at

    The game right now is called "That Frog Game" but we might change it, were open to suggestions.

    The concept is the player is a frog that has his/her health depleting, if you eat the flies on the screen, you gain health/points, if you eat any bee you lose health/points. The goal is to eat all the regular flies on the screen before you die. If you eat a dragonfly you also gain a special power up such as Slow Bugs, Fireball power, and Health Regen. These powers can stack so you can have all 3 at once. If you eat certain Bees you can also stack power downs such as Slow Tongue, Double Vision, a mine type power for the flies, and poison.

    It's important to note the frog's tongue control's more like Yoshi's tongue or a hook shot from ZELDA, so it's not instantaneous and you have to aim. If you don't miss your score multiplies.

    In it's current state. we have 6 worlds and 3 boss type characters. Let me know if you would like more. As for the art direction, personally it's a little to kiddy for me but the artist i'm working with LOVES nintendo, and i'm not going to complain because he's basically doing the work for free :). Let me know if you would like to see more, or if you have any other questions.


    Other hobbies i have are:

    - Reading
    - Sports (Soccer, Football, Baseball)
     
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