any Cartoonists here?

[Gandalf Parker]

If some user ever DOES write a Prima Strategy Guide, or Dominions for Dummies, we will need cartoons. Some of the stories here would make great short jokes or cartoons.

Like the image of a player yelling at his monitor "You STUPID MAGE! That wasnt what I told you to do! I AM YOUR GOD. LISTEN TO ME"

Or maybe a 3 square cartoon with
HE: "Honey? What does Nagot Gick Fel mean?"
SHE: "I think its Swedish"
SHE: "I bet it means some thing like you have been playing this game too long go check on your family"

-- It's hard on the ego of a god-gamer when the virtual inhabitants turn out to be atheists.
- rodger.mckay

[ January 10, 2004, 17:58: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[alexti]

Right, so what "Nagot Gick Fel" means? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif With my very limited knowledge of Swedish I could only decipher it like "something went wrong", but it'd be interesting to know the correct translation.

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by alexti:
Right, so what "Nagot Gick Fel" means? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif With my very limited knowledge of Swedish I could only decipher it like "something went wrong", but it'd be interesting to know the correct translation. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You are correct

[Kristoffer O]

Något = Something
Gick = Went
Fel = Wrong

Pretty straight forward. Nothing to fuzz about http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Gandalf Parker]

Im sorry, I knew that and should have included it for the curious. Its just that I always use it the other way. As the Hand of Fate stepping in to remind me to look up from the computer occassionally. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Thilock_Dominus]

I do drawing in my sparetime, I could give it a try...

[Thilock_Dominus]

I'm not the greatest to do drawing, but here are some samples:

Jungle Danger (http://www.deviantart.com/view/2168516/)

Vampire (http://www.deviantart.com/view/2161668/)

Twilight Childhood dream (http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/fantasy/Twilight_Childhood_Dream.jpg)

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
Något = Something
Gick = Went
Fel = Wrong

Pretty straight forward. Nothing to fuzz about http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, sometimes this kind of trick to translation doesn't work too well.

There's this play in French where there's a pretentious character who tries to impress with his lore, and he says something like:

Omnis a Deo scientia. Omnis: All. A Deo: Science. Scientia: Comes from God. All science comes from God.

(bonus points to any non-Frenchman who identifies the play)

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by PhilD:
Omnis a Deo scientia. (bonus points to any non-Frenchman who identifies the play) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">FAUX PAS DES CONNUS, Un toast au people polonais, acte 5
or
FALSE STEPS OF KNOWN, a toast with the Polish people, act 5

Wish I could say I knew this but one of the things I am really good at is Internet research.
http://www.sdmud.org/~gandalf/smile/puppydoggrin.gif

[ January 10, 2004, 19:59: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by PhilD:
Omnis a Deo scientia. (bonus points to any non-Frenchman who identifies the play) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">FAUX PAS DES CONNUS, Un toast au people polonais, acte 5
or
FALSE STEPS OF KNOWN, a toast with the Polish people, act 5

Wish I could say I knew this but one of the things I am really good at is Internet research.
http://www.sdmud.org/~gandalf/smile/puppydoggrin.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's not the name of the play as I knew it, but it does take place in (a very fictitious) Poland.

[Strages Sanctus]

I mostly do low poly 3d modelling but pick up a pencil occassionaly...

http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzstrp1.jpg http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzstrp2.gif
http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzstrp3.gif http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzstrp4.gif
http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzstrp5.gif http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzstrp6.gif
http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzstrp7.gif http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzstrp8.gif

[ January 11, 2004, 03:03: Message edited by: Strages Sanctus ]

[Strages Sanctus]

Please let me know if the mods prefer html links instead of embedded images and I will change the Posts...


http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zsx011.jpg http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zsx010.jpg
http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzskt0012.jpg http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzskt0014.jpg
http://www.globalinterconnect.net/~poly/portfolio/port2/zzskta6.jpg

[Thilock_Dominus]

Great drawings, Strage Sanctus! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Teleolurian]

Since that Nagot Gick Fel thing got cleared up, can anybody tell me what all that Cthulu fhtagn, Ia Ia! stuff is supposed to mean?

Just curious...

[Thilock_Dominus]

Originally posted by Teleolurian:
Since that Nagot Gick Fel thing got cleared up, can anybody tell me what all that Cthulu fhtagn, Ia Ia! stuff is supposed to mean?

Just curious... <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think it's from the book by

H. P. Lovecraft, 1926, "The Call of Cthulhu"

If I'm not mistaken.

Her is a page about it: Cthulhu (http://www.nyx.net/~lmulcahy/cthulhu.html)

What excact it means I have no Idea...