[Debido-San]

lol yeah, I do that all the time. Considering you're using photoshop…

-Make text white
-hold ctrl and click on the text layer's thumbnail (this selects the area around the text)
-go to select-modify-increase, and then increase the selection by maybe two pixels?
-make a layer underneath the text layer, and fill the selection with black.

That gives each individual letter it's own black shadow/background. It looks something like the text on this image.

http://debido-san.deviantart.com/art/Kiraxa-s-Profile-98380828

[Debido-San]

Hey BuddyB, nice to see you working on something again!

I'd like to offer critique if you don't mind. The only problem I have with it is that she looks a little disproportionate – she needs more hips! I feel that her abdomen as a whole is too narrow. Otherwise, she gives too abrupt of an 'X' shape.

Hope that helps! Looking forward to how it turns out.

[Debido-San]

XD I completely missed the point! Sorry about that!

For forums, you're going to have to figure out what genre of games you like, then go from there. Generic "all games websites" attract people of all sorts, including immature younger teens that feel their opinion is right, and immediately slam others.

Genre or even game specific, however, will make it much easier. For instance, shoryuken.com is a fairly good fighting game news site, and it has forums that are specifically tailored to 2D fighting games. I haven't been there in forever, but I'd wager that the only people going there are those interested in perfecting the ins and outs of Street Fighter and such, not so much in "OMG this game sux!" or "Which game should I buy!?"

On the other hand, if you like rpgs, you can give rpgfan.com a try. I haven't been to their forums, but again, these are probably people that play multiple (usually Japanese) RPGs, which should lead to good discussion if you're into that.

Hope I'm not so far away from the mark this time.

[Debido-San]

Aren't they all just flacks for the game manufacturers?

lol oh Lingster, you haven't changed a bit!

That's the suspicion for pretty much any video game website these days. The best thing to do in every case is read the review, and not look at the number/letter based score. A lot of reviews will list fault after fault, (The camera sucks, the story is dissappointing, the gameplay is choppy) but just because the graphics are pretty, the game may get an A or 9.0 kinda score. From what I've noticed, rarely do reviews outright lie in the text part, but will give the score a nice little boost.

lol and TC2, I forgot to mention that IGN is biased as well, that was what I lumped IGN and Gamespot together for, it just kinda slipped my mind.  😀

[Debido-San]

Gamefaqs.com is pretty much the most obvious and well known site for video gaming discussion and walkthroughs (discussion on game-specific forums, but not so much as a news site)

IGN and Gamespot are both fairly old gaming news sites, but I don't visit them very often. I often hear about how Gamespot's reviews are biased based on who's currently sponsoring them.

For gaming news, I have 1up.com bookmarked and ready to go. The editors are pretty much the same editors as Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) Magazine, which I've been reading for years, and they have video podcasts that make it entertaining to catch some of the latest news on a few games every week (Last week's 1UP Show was about Fallout 3, Resistance 2, and LittleBigPlanet) http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3145462

Finally, if you just like to -watch- things, with minimal reading, there's Gametrailers.com. They have a few shows to watch as well, and fairly unbiased reviews. Of course, their main thing is *ta da!* game trailers! Better quality than YouTube, and downloadable at that.

Hope this helps!

[Debido-San]

XD okay okay, you win cpbell!

XD I haven't commented for months since I've been trying to reserve my 500th post for something special. But Heidi deserves at least my 499th lol

She's beautiful, amazing, downright stylish! Tigersan, thanks a lot! I promptly saved every picture of her on that blog!

Seriously, she's wonderful! Usually tattoos and nose-piercings turn me off a bit, but not at all with Heidi. They really add to her own special "aura" that she gives off.

[Debido-San]

My personal reasons for starting to write are uh…not quite as profound as everyone elses.

I wanted the "contributor membership" to Diana The Valkyrie, and I couldn't draw. So I thought of my favorite shows to do FMG of (I had just finished watching Neon Genesis Evangelion at the time) and went for it with the most passion for writing I had ever had, and what do you know, after I got that membership, I pretty much stopped writing! 😀

So in short, I wrote to obtain "porn". ;D

Though I guess looking at the few stories I've written, it was nice to get the "anime/manga FMG story" genre more out into the open.

[Debido-San]

STAY TILL AFTER THE CREDITS!!!!

I am in concurrence with The Mighty One, It rawked. I want Shulkie and Tony to have a baby girl and create "Iron Maiden".

She will have purple and green armor with a green core. Yes.

[Debido-San]

I work at a Gamestop, and Mario Kart Wii is in our Wii display.

I'm somehow aroused that Rosalina is somehow classified as a heavy character along with Bowser and Donkey Kong.

[Debido-San]

XD yeah, I guess I should personally add that uhh…

Myself
Higalack
Refaal
Mikazuki
Youta

Are not dead yet! You guys see Black around often enough to know he's not lol

Thanks St. Mercy for the spreading of the word, and I hope the rest of you enjoy!

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