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welcome to the new age, to the new age
welcome to the new age, to the new age

 

Guess who recently got their commission done?

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Don't think this is really appropriate for the art thread, knowing that i didn't draw it. But i'm still super happy about it!

 

Those are really cute takes on your characters. Congrats! ^_^

And today, on "Silly Chicago Weather" : it's been a very lovely day. Warm, sunny, breezy. Except at one point in a very specific area, where the clouds slowly got darker early in the day. I thought it would just rain, but no. It got down to a not warm, but not cold temperature above freezing, and just started hailing. Seriously. Decent sized, furious hail, in the middle of April, on a warm day, in just one area. And it only lasted like 10-15 minutes. Afterwards it lightened up again and got even sunnier.

Oh, nature, how do you work? =o

 

I'ts been super warm for this time of the year, again. Only had one night of heavy rain, but that's all. Looks like this is the first snowless winter since in a while now...

Spend yesterday the entire day assembling furniture for my new apartment, took me way too long to assemble this big dresser. The parts where i had to slide the drawers onto were labeled incorrectly, so i got confused for the first half hour where and how i had to put them and then i had to take them out anyway once the thing was allmost done. But at least it's done now!
Just need internet over there (and a cat) and i'm all set.

Any of you guys have fun memories of moving out for your first time?

 

my experiences of moving out have been shuffling my few boxes of junk and electronics between rooms-for-rent before school or work dictates I need to be somewhere else again

My very first time living on my own hardly counts as on my own, since I lived on the university dorm with tons of other people. It also hardly counts as living with other people, since I never interacted with them. I just kind of was.

 

That sounds a little sad, but also kind of nice. I'd honestly do the same.

Anyway, unrelated questions ahoy. What do you guys think of malls? How often do you go? I generally dislike shopping, but I'm brought along every few months. There's a few shops with interesting things in them I like to look at if I have the chance, and once in a while I trade my green paper for something. Malls are nice, but I don't go often...and when I do, it's not for my own pleasure.

 

I work in a mall and I rarely shop there. I don't give a shit about 90% of the stores there, and I don't find shopping fun, so I mainly buy food (sometimes I don't bring lunch) or gifts from the mall.
There's one hobby store that I check out from time to time. They sell tabletop games, Warhammers, comics, and other nerdy shit. That's basically the only place I shop for pleasure at within the mall. Sometimes I buy hot new Pokemons and shit from EB Games.

 

Last time I went to the mall the thought "This is something I definitely want to do" crossed my mind approximately zero times. I think during the last time I took a good look at the mall I went to GameStop and was kind of disappointed. Is this something new or do they just have absolutely no games from like 2 generations ago?

 

Last time I went to the mall the thought "This is something I definitely want to do" crossed my mind approximately zero times. I think during the last time I took a good look at the mall I went to GameStop and was kind of disappointed. Is this something new or do they just have absolutely no games from like 2 generations ago?

This post sums up my thoughts perfectly.





Anyone excited about Summer?

 

I am, but its going to be spent in Canada cause i'm going to see my uncle Bryce at his wedding.

 

I used to like going to the mall, but now it's old stuff. I've seen about every shop there and most of the interesting ones either moved or dissapeared over the years, so i only go there if i really need something specific.

I'm actually not really looking forward to summer at all. The recent months have been very dry with heavy winds and (allmost) constant sunlight. This might sound like great weather and all, but this hot weather recently caused a national park to catch fire and took 200-300 ha of forest with it, the fire actually coming close to a famous museum to the point of having it evacuated. I used to go to that park all the time when i was young so it kinda hit close to home ;_;
With a warm winter behind i have a bad feeling this summer is going to be burningly hot and dry.

 

I remember hearing about that on the news, must't been a scary time when it happened.

 

This evening i've had an experience that seriously spooked me out

I was biking trough the woods as usual, i don't usually hang out there during the later hours but i was busy all day and i wanted to go out for a while. All went fine untill i was just on my way back, when there were these shady group of people on the center of the road. I was kinda annoyed at them at first, but i just biked around them and went my way. Suddenly, i hear one of them chasing me, hollering me to stop. Me being super dumb, i stopped. I can't remember the conversation exactly but i'll do my best:
"Hey, young boy! Yeah, you can call me a man because that's what i am!"
"...?"
"Hey, have you've been lighting fireworks lately?"
"...no?"
"Let me tell you, when i catch those kids responsible i'll grab a knife, grab them and cut their fuckin' heads off, gut out their entrails out of their bodies and tie up the bodies with said entrails high up on the trees!"
"..." [Externally: does best poker face i've ever managed. Internally: O_O]
While i looked at his bike, he has one of those pet carrying things tied to the back of it with an actual cat locked in it. It stared at me with an absolutely terrified expression, as if to say "Hey dude, just fyi you should prob run right now"
"Well, i can actually tell you aren't responsible. You aren't scared by my threats because you don't feel spoken to. I talked earlier to this group of kids before and they all backed away. Yeah, of course they'd all say that they never did it, but they are obviously lying!"
"...oh?"
"Yeah, i didn't have a knife at the ready. But lemme tell ya... If i did, i'd jam it right in!"
"...okay." [eep]
Somehow he then went on a spiel about hearing people light up fireworks in the forest and calls them nuts, out of all things. The sheer hyprocrisy would break me into laughingfits but honestly i was so scared at this point i was more pre-occupied with either choosing between keeping my guard up or haul my ass away asap. I still did the dumb thing and kept my cool with him. The cat in the meantime, crawled all the way in the back of it's tiny prison.
My mind's a bit blurry on what happened next, but he did went on about my hometown's peaceful compared to his, what i'd do if you have a thief in the room at night(that's reassuring), more about stabbing dem kids, that he was taking his cat along for his biking trip, and about king's day(Dutch-specific holiday) that was ongoing today. After he was done ranting, he just left.
That was absolutely creepy as fuck and i'm prob going to leave my forest alone for a while. Geez.

 

Lesson learned; don't go anywhere without "someone" else for protection, especially when your near the forest.

 

Good god. I'm at least glad you reacted the way you did, or else this may have ended differently. Also when I heard that he had a cat in a cage I was thinking this story was going in another direction. Really relieved it didn't o_o

 

That's why we have story writers WildD.

 

Uhh.

Ok.

 

Lesson learned; don't go anywhere without "someone" else for protection, especially when your near the forest.

Not really. I just like going in the woods on my own, mostly because i like to be alone once in a while and just relax. I've never found any psycho in the woods untill then- which was what made this more terrifying as i've been visiting these woods since my childhood. This wasn't off-roads or anything, i found this guy right near the entrance of the forest ready to ambush someone. Doesn't help that park rangers are a very rare sight here.

I'm kinda worried about what will happen to those kids a few days from now... And that cat. I really hope i'll never have to see him again.

 

There are times that I don't believe story's, but I sure as hell do believe this one.

 

Look who resurrected from the grave.