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Well that will be good to know when the network guy gets around to ordering our new development workstations from Dell. No Vista for us until oh about 5 years down the road and it's a bit more stable. For now we're still on 2000 here for the most part.

Therion - Voyage of the Gurdjieff (The Fourth Way)

Nightwish - Bare Grace Misery

Helix - Deep Cuts the Knife

That news box sooo cracked me up.

Maybe Millie's pockets are like Ozy's couch, as in there's a portal in there or something.

Helix - Without You

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Don't Download This Song

Seriously...don't. Purchase you fooking pirates.

Or... of course you can download it from his website if you're into that sort of thing.

Blind Guardian - Fly

Iggy Pop - High On You

Nightwish - End of all Hope

Heh, that's fair too, but his comic is still awesome. :3 Not really. If this is the same comic I'm thinking of, then the incest really jarring. Not to mention the political agenda. EDIT: Oh man, how could I forget the worst part of the comic? Drama drama drama drama drama. That just kills it. Actua...

Jay Naylor's artwork is pretty damned good....I just get annoyed by the conservative undertones in most of his stuff. I don't really get any conservative undertones at his work, well maybe his views on the military to some extent but not really. Actually his story lines show a fairly liberal attitu...

Buddhists are definitely not a civilization any more than Christians are. Yes I'm sure some societies have persecuted in their name, all faiths have their extremists and as Jack mentions it's just human nature. Civilizations rise and fall on the strength and wisdom of their leaders, it can take only...

True, or at least a solid following and stuff you can sell. Jay Naylor - http://www.jaynaylor.com/ also earns a living from his work but then again he does have a for profit business side to his free work. I really don't have a problem with artists wanting to get paid for their work, I don't like th...

As a newer member, I'd just like to say that I haven't had any issues with load times or moderation (though that may be the newness ;) I probably would have joined sooner had I noticed the forum existed since I've been reading O&M for a few years now. Oftentimes I do tend to lurk, mostly I'm logging...

Depends on the focus of the piece, if it's trying tp portray an abstract emotion/feeling, some other form of intangible device, etc. As much as you want to paint "Anger and Self Doubt", imagery of a two men screaming at each other in a wholly realistic setting shows mainly two men screaming at each...