Okay, decided to transform the useless journal into a usefull one

Here I'm going to post whenever I choose a new "webcam" profile picture!
Furthermore, I'm going to link you to all my old "webcam" pix.

I dunno, maybe I'm sometimes just gonna throw in two webcam pix shortly after each other, cause I'm suddenly motivated to do random profile pic stuff.


That way, you imideatelly know whenever I update my webcam, and don't miss any of them

...

Yay, cheap way to fish for comments on my profile pictures!

OLDEST WEBCAM PICTURES
"I wont be a Luigi anymore!" [link]
"battle of ultimate destiny" [link]
"youtube knows all" [link]
"LOST" [link]
"Zelda: Faces Of AAAAAAAAAARGHHHH!!" [link]
Emo Andross [link]
_{I mean, come on, that's the best way a villain could take on his enemies, ever.}

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"About using pen and paper..." [link]
Well, fun idea sporning from the fact that I started drawing on the Computer with a mouse, and now am slowly discovering to draw with pen and paper - which I suppose is the exact opposite direction that 99.942% of you have gone through.
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The Legend of Zelda in the 22nd century  [link]
I've always wondered what Zelda would look like if it was set in the distant future...
After all, inbetween the games storylines, severeal hundred years pass!
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I WANNA PRESS THE PIE BUTTON [link]
After all, several people wanted to know from me if they can press the pie button. Yeah, yeah, okay okay, you can.

This was done with an online-"make your own keyboard"-thingy (though it's only one button) [link]

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I WANT TO BELIEVE [link]
Well wow, I just noticed how I never put my first webcam I had in here.
So now I set this one up back to what it was once ago, in the beginning. Based on "Zelda vs Starfox"..... erm.
To understand this, watch this: [link] (or on youtube [link] if you prefer that)
For the backstory of this video, as well as a parody of it made by myself, go here: [link]

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THE TREASURE OF CAPTAIN PAPERCLIP  [link]  
okay that title is lame bleh, I rushed that  for turning it into a webcam as well as a respective desktop [link] right after the submission of [link] ...
I dunno, I guess I was thinking of doing a "combo"

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232 GIGA BYTE?!! [link]
I gots myslef an external harddrive!
Now I'll never run into storage issues again, EVER
_{(come back in 3 years and ask me again)}
I can backup my Laptop's entire harddrive on this thing not once, not twice, but THREE times
So more space for me then I'll ever need if I keep up my current behaviour of using the computer to make movies and flashanimation and other stuff like that instead of playing videogames on it

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THE LEGEND OF MATRIX
[link] Larger image: [link]
This is a first, this "webcam" was actually not made by me, but send to me by ...uh... a long time ago
So instead of responding to the email, I forgot to show how much I liked it. ^^##
I only recently remembered that, so to make up for it, since I didn't find it in his gallery/scraps to fav, I'm going to showcase it as a webcam
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WereSonic's Tea Party [link]
Oh, just a scene from Sega's "Night of the Werehog" movie www.nightofthewerehog.com that baffled me...
That movie is pretty cool
They should make more of those

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Sonic Unleashed: Do you like what you see? [link]
sorry, I couldn't resist. This animation is actually played when not having touched the controller for a while. 'tis supposed to mean "Sonic is bored".
Well, here it kinda looks like it has a ... different meaning

_{btw, the screenshot isn't HD-quality, but merely the quality of my recording device. The actual game obviously looks better then.
Though the 'graphics' were mostly just mentioned to add up to the joke.}
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"generic children anime" ...about explosives
[link]

Yeah. Uh, well, you know how it goes, the "power of the <insert product here> is with me!" "I will show you the true power of the <insert product here>", "He is a good <insert product here>-player, his heart must be strong", "Believe in yourself!", "I must become the greatest <insert product here>-player of all time"  

well, uh, it's not always that bad, but it's good for a laugh when the product advertised are... bombs.

Well, specifically, it's an anime about Bomberman which I'm not sure about if it was ever dubbed in english. XD



_{...just google 'bomberman jetters' + 'youtube'}

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All G-man wants is... [link]

Just some random face expression fun.
_{(Hm, one technically could go and remake those dA-plz-smilies with the face poser in Gmod... hmmmm)}

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So the psychic hedgehog has come from the future to ... participate in a fair sports competition?  [link]
Riiiiight.

From the recent trailer of "Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter games": [link]

Also, did you notice how Silver and Yoshi are doing a high-five?
Now, with Shadow being placed right next to Luigi in the first Olympic's game [link] - Does this mean that Silver is now officially the "Yoshi" of the Sonic universe?

I'm not quite sure what that means, but it's a somewhat funny thought.

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Silver is the Yoshi of the Sonic-universe [link]
'nuff said.

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"What happens to the hedgehog?!" - "I'll drive him!" [link]
(As seen in [link] )


Also, trying out the limited offer free use of journal skins; got this one from here: [link]

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*Gasp!* A RECOLOR! [link]

Actually, the image is from [link] on an article about a blue stork that had people wondering for a while, untill it turned out he simply had fallen into a bucket filled with blue color.
The blue fox' more likely just a photoshop effect.
Speaking of foxes, we have one roaming around our neighborhood! ^^
Seems he/she lives in the small "takes 20-minutes to cross" forrest we have nearby.
Had a surprise run-in with the fox today, seems this fella ain't no scared of humans! I came out of an alley of sorts, and only noticed the fox as I was passing about a meter away! Not scared at all, just kept standing there.

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THAT'S PROGRESS. [link]

Includes a shot of the Smart Phone I was using for my Diploma Thesis. Sadly, I had to return it.
Ah well, 400 - 500 € was too much of a price tag anyway for a phone that you can't use as an actual phone
But on the other hand, you get all the other neat features, and don't have to pay any monthly fees.

(In short: It's a development phone. You can install your own self-made applications on this thing. It comes with no contract, that's why it's so expensive.)

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Nintendo on e3, 2011 - [link]

Based on the famous "Old Spice" commercial [link] , the announcement of Nintendo's new console "Wii U" [link] and the "Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games" Trailer [link]

_{*wasn't sure if I had marked the journal as "updated" when I added the latest webcam picture. sorry if I let this pop up in your inbox twice.}

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Max has met his match - [link]

This is actually a still from a clip of the game "Poker Night at the Inventory", where four characters from different franchises sit together to play a game of poker. Including Max from "Sam & Max".
^{I don't have the game myself, I just saw the clip of "Penny Arcade"-Tycho freaking the hell out of Max
on Youtube [link]
Mild warning: Disturbing mental image ahead.}

Since I've recently completed Sam & Max: Season 2 and just bought Season 1 as well, seeing this character with an expression like that is ... completelly unexpected and priceless.



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My little pony - [link]

...yupp, I'm watching the show now.
Well! Had to see what all the fuzz was about!

And turns out that, even though the show rather frequently dives off into cliché "girly stuff"/"children's TV show", it's actually pretty enjoyable nevertheless!
This show does have a rather rich universe in the sense that it allows for a ton of of jokes referencing the material shown in the show. I can easily see why there's so many memes with this show! [link]
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[MLP] They told me I could become anything  wanted...  [link]
...then why restrain yourself?
Another "My little Pony"-related webcam.

Just to shed some light on things if you don't watch "My little Pony";
Discord is basically Q from Star Trek, except in a cartoon world. He's actually played by the same voice actor, and has his good share of fun toying around with the entire world for the first 2 episodes of season 2, turning everything upside-down, and backwards-up.   [link]


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[MLP] The first Matrix [link]

... it's kinda sad if you think about it.
But hey! If men and machines start working together after the events of "Matrix: Revolutions", perhaps they can rebuild that "first matrix".



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[MLP] Off by one leg's length [link]

...based on an episode in season 1, and a more recent one staring "the incredible Pinkie Pie, defier of all physics-shmysics and logic-smoshic"


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[MLP] 800 wingpower required [link]

When you think about it, her reaction didn't make sense.
After all, the result was expected to happen.


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[MLP] How ponies deal with... [link]

This just proves once again how awesome ponies are... and what's really the most dangerous thing their world has to offer.

Warning, contains spoiler for season 2 finale (well, if you've managed to avoid seeing all that many screencaps of the finale up till now, anyway)


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[MLP] Inception of the Fourth Wall [link]

Just something I noticed when I reflected about the "My little Pony"-fanfiction I was writing.
The idea for the fic itself sporned from this image: [link]

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[MLP] It's magic... [link]

Explanation for non-bronies:  
In Equestria, magic is a science in and of itself - with its own set of laws and rules. Telling somepony who's studied the magical sciences her whole life that something works simply because "it's magic" is like saying "my car can exceed lightspeed because of computers".

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[MLP] For Bloomberg's sake

...seriously. Look - These two scenes are just 30 seconds apart from each other: [link] [link] Why is there a complete lack of reaction to that scene?


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MLP - game notifications

So I was playing "My little Pony" for my brand new Android HTC Desire X the other day and ...
What.
What, stop laughing!
That phone cost me over 200 bucks, and I'm satisfied with it, now stop laughing!
Btw, anypony care to add me to their gift... err, I mean, "friend"-list so I... err, we can gain more "hearts"?
My account is "UltraHedgetoaster"

...I dunno, something about that error just struck me as absolutely hilarious for no apparent reason. Maybe it's because of this.

Pinkie Pie vector (c) [link]
_{('cause I was too lazy to draw something myself and apparently these are free to use if given credit )}




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^{sigh... every time I update this I never can figure out if the update actually shows up in people's inboxes.
Would someone be so kind as to post a comment in response to whenever I update this thing so I know it's actually getting through to my audience?}

KONGRATULAZION. YOU ARE WINNER!

Some of you may have already noticed the tiny "*" to the left of my username now.
How did it get there? I won it in 's recent contest [link] !!
Now I have one entire year to figure out the benefits of a subscription!

A verily happy thanks to everyone who voted for me and a thumbs up to all other participants




Progress: Sonic hacking-movie

Well, I've reached the point where it's more work than fun to work on the project, and thus, things had slowed down a bit recently.
Lately have been working on the "credits"-section of the movie (takes way more time than you'd think!!), but I'm about to finish it.

After that, there's a few hickups to fix, to arrange the already finished scenes properly, and so on. Can't say how long that'll take.
I might have to cut some scenes out to prevent repetition, but if so, I'll put up a "deleted scenes" video.

Even so, the movie is definitelly gonna be too lenghty to be squeezed into a 30 MB filesizelimit unless you want a 50 x 50 pixel movie
So I'll put it on youtube and probably upload a short video-clip with links to the movie on dA.

When it's done, I'll upload a speed-up version of the entire RAW video material used. Then you can see what insane amount of work it was to get all that cut down.




Poké-News!

This might be interesting to hear for Pokémon fans ... I bought a Pokémon game for the first time in ~8 years!
_{(pokémon snap on virtual console for nostalgia purpose doesnt count)}

After seeing countless Pokémon fanart and comics around here on dA almost since the day I joined, and, more recently, after going through a huge chunk of articles on the topic of Glitch Pokémon in the various games, I got all nostalgia-y and decided to buy ... Pokémon Emerald (Smaragd) for Game Boy Advance!
Why Game Boy Advance? Because I have an "Advance Game Port" for GCN, basically an inofficial Game Boy Player, that lets me play GBA games on the TV instead of the tiny GBA- or DS-screen. AND, most important, it allows me to hack the game. And hacking old games is just as much nostalgia for me as it is playing them... it's truely been a while since I last hacked anything myself.

Oh boy, playing this game takes me back ...
...but sadly, there's also some setback to this. :dohtwo:

Got the game cheap (20€) of eBay, from an account who - having sold 10.000+ products with only but a handfull of "neutral" ratings over the timespan of 10+ years, and with "real"-looking customer accounts - seems pretty reliable.
Also, before buying, I specifically checked the people's comments for anything suspicious about the other Pokémon GBA games they sold, though everyone seemed happy and many stated that their game works perfectly.

Mine sadly does not -
To use a Pokémon-metaphor, this game-cartridge is like a bulimic Porygon - it can't keep it's save-data for very long.

In other words, the save file gets deleted frequently and erratic, sometimes staying overnight, sometimes getting "corrupted" within minutes.
Gladly, the "Advance Game Port" can take savestates of a GBA game and store those on a GCN memory card. I never intended to play the game on DS or GBA itself anyway, meh

To make sure this wasn't a fault of the "Advance Game Port" itself, I did a few tests running the game on my DS - aaand that save was a gonner in 2 minutes.
My best guess would be that the battery isn't working right (got a "save failed, battery may have run dry"-message a few times, though that was while playing on the "Advance Game Port") - though it puzzles me that the previous' owners save state was still on the cartridge when I first turned it on.
Right now I'm testing if leaving the game in an active DS for a while might recharge the battery ... somehow.


I don't have to rely on the cartridge's save-function very much, still, I'd like to know what's going on here ...
Keep in mind the stats of the eBay-account I got this from ... but after some research I think this "top seller" sold me a fake. -____-

Here's a few photos*  [link] [link] [link] [link]
_{*the game is the US version; all GBA games are region-free}