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2007-06-18 14:44:39 Description: Clovis Stars' 2007 Show team Routine based on the Greek Myth.
Its about a girl named Pandora who is sent to earth by the Greek Gods. Whe Pandora was "made" many of the Greek God gave (More) Clovis Stars' 2007 Show team Routine based on the Greek Myth.
Its about a girl named Pandora who is sent to earth by the Greek Gods. Whe Pandora was "made" many of the Greek God gave her gift adn abilities. Zues gave her a small box which she may not open. For it contained all things evil. He also gave her the "gift" of Curiosity. So as her days passed on earth, she began wondering what was inside the box. She went crazy with temptation until finally she opened it.
Which is where the dance begins...
Girl in White dress: Pandora
Girls in white: The Virtues. There are seven main ones: Humility, Charity, Chastity, Love, Temperance, Kindness, and Diligence. They help keep peace in the world.
Black Box: Pandora's Box
Girls in black: The Sins of Evil including the Seven Deadly Sins: Vantiy, Greed, Lust, Envy, Glutony, Wrath, and Sloth (Mikayla is one the sins btw) They are here to bring all things evil into this earth
Girl in black/white: Hope. she comes out of the box believed to be a sin. But shes actually there to help Pandora fight the sins.
Freakishly tall peoples: The Monsters that help kill the sins
Will Pandora and Hope save the world from the contents of the forbiden box? you are about to find out! (Less)
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12, 04:29, 2008-04-22 11:33:23 Description: Ok I kind of have a little story line that goes along with this video but I don't know if it really goes along with the story. Ok so Snake and Darcy have been dating(secretly of course) since (More) Ok I kind of have a little story line that goes along with this video but I don't know if it really goes along with the story. Ok so Snake and Darcy have been dating(secretly of course) since Darcy told Snake she was raped. Things were going well until Darcy wanted to go public with their relationship and Snake was afraid of losing his job. Somehow Spike found out that Snake was seeing someone but she didn't know who so Spike and Snake started to fight and that is where the video begins. Snake tells Darcy that she has caused a lot of damage and that is when the fighting begins. Snake can't deal with the fighting at home and seeing Darcy so they fight a lot and soon Snake decides he's had enough and dumps Darcy. Darcy can't stand that she just lost Snake so she cries a lot and then tried to commit suicide by slitting her wrists. Manny finds her in the showers at the school. She is brought to the hospital where she begins to remember the good times she had with Snake and she realizes she has to go see him. Once she gets out of the hospital Darcy goes to see Snake and she apologizes for the trouble she has caused and he said he doesn't hate her. Could things be looking up for Snarcy? Who knows. Ok so I realize that in some of the scenes there are different people like Darcy hugging peter and sean and emma's hands. But just pretend it's Snake and Darcy. Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Degrassi or the songs. Any comments are appreciated. Enjoy! (Less)
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24, 10:02, 2008-02-18 18:28:25 Description: Note: Read small FAQ at bottom for where to find the game.
Next Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s56zhm-BDwQ
Now it's time for me to do a new game. This time it's something unique. (More) Note: Read small FAQ at bottom for where to find the game.
Next Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s56zhm-BDwQ
Now it's time for me to do a new game. This time it's something unique. It's "I wanna be the Guy." What is it? It's a platformer game set in the old school theme. It takes themes from classics and puts them together in one game. There's already a couple people who recorded their playthrough on Youtube, but they're either in 30+ parts for whatever reason or the sound quality is horrible. Perhaps the most well known feature of the game is its difficulty. This is not a beginners game. The game is extremely difficult. It's one of the most dififcult games I've ever played, and my death count my first time playing was literally 1700ish. EVERYTHING in this game has potential to kill you. Every jump, no matter how simple it looks, can wind up with you dying.
Anyway, there are actually difficulty modes to choose from. There's Medium, Hard, Very Hard, and Impossible. Medium is still hard, but only wussies play it. The character gets a bow on his head if you choose this mode, and extra save points marked with "wuss" show up. So yea, it makes you lose self respect. Hard is the mode everyone tends to play. It's the only reasonable mode after Medium that can be beaten. I don't know if anyones beaten Very Hard yet on the newer versions, I saw a video of an older version doing it, but it has extra save points so it's not the same "Very Hard", more like Medium Hard. I personally started up a game on Very Hard and so far killed 4 bosses, and got to the 5th boss. But I haven't tried to finish it yet, which implies it's most likely possible. And Impossible mode has no save points, which means one death and it's game over. So as its name suggested, it's impossibe. It's only good to see how far you can go before you die.
There's multiple paths you can take at the beginning (3 to be exact), and depending on which path you take depends on what bosses you fight. I won't spoil anything else, but you'll see what happens later. The game isn't neccessarily that long, but because of its difficulty it will take you hours and hours. This is probably my 4th or 5th time beating the game, so I got through it in less than 2 hours. It'll be in about 10 or 11 parts. Today is part 1 only. I'll try to upload 1 or 2 a day until it's done.
If curious, this was all done in one playthrough. Meaning you see every single death. Fortunately, since this isn't my first playthrough, there's not THAT many deaths. But if there's any part of the game I edit out (such as stuck on a boss fight), I'll state it.
So if you think you're a real gamer, I'd say give this a try. It's an ultimate challenge. Also, the titles of the videos don't really mean anything, I just didn't want it to be too bland. And I don't normally play any PC games, so don't go linking me to other games to play like this. This was an exception.
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Q: Where do you download the game?
A: http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg . The version I DLed in 1.0, the newest is at the top. The differences are things like new hidden items and boss rush feature, as well as bug fixes.
Q: Do I need an Emulator for this?
A: No, its actually its own game. In fact, you can't. So that means no cheap save states or any of that crap.
Q: I swear this game is impossible, I can't get past this one room, are you sure it's possible?
A: Every new room you enter will tend to feel impossible most of the time until you figure out how to do it. Some of it is trial and error, while the rest is skill and sometimes luck.
Q: If you die, is it really a game over?
A: Yes, but you revert to your last save point. At anytime in the game you can press the "R" button to rever to a save point. (Less)
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31, 07:27, 2008-02-23 15:12:38 Description: Note: Read small FAQ at bottom for where to find the game.
Previous Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzwiOGopOYw
Next Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc8gBujGd-Y
Finally, you get to (More) Note: Read small FAQ at bottom for where to find the game.
Previous Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzwiOGopOYw
Next Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc8gBujGd-Y
Finally, you get to see some of the final area. But first, what I like to call the Room of Patience. Why? This is the room you have to wait in the longest out of all the other rooms. It is VERY annoying if you are impatient like I am. Fortunately I got it in two tries. The left side of the room is the easy side, it's the right side and middle top of the room that's hard. But the waiting does get on your nerves and make you sort of jittery.
*Spoilers for rest of video below*
Anyway, after that you end up back at the end of game, with those annoying spikes. I did better this time around. After, you're back at the end with the ghosts of the bosses. If you beat all 6 bosses, you can jump in the center, and then the real hell begins. The cart ride is PURE EVIL. It is long, laggy, and hard to control. It's hard to tell from just watching a video, but the controls are horrible. There's also funky glitches where you get stuck in blocks sometimes and you're forced to die. You have to learn how to jump around things while on the cart. Not to mention if you fall behind, you die. I think I spent around 2 hours on the cart ride. But even though it's hell, once you figure it out, you can do it much easier. But the first time is one of the worst parts of the game, right up there with the entire Ghouls and Ghosts area.
What happens when you get to the end of the cart ride? You go straight into a boss fight! But wait, why another boss? Weren't there only 6 and the final boss? Nope, this guy, from what I can tell, is The Guy's guardian. You need to beat him to enter the castle. At least, that's what I'm gathering from it. I hope it's not just some random excuse of a fight to annoy you. Anyway, the fight is very easy. It's just that it's so laggy it's annoying. When you're running away from him, it can lag a little, and that hinders your jumping ability. If you don't already know, this game has a stupid glitch where if you try to jump at the very edge of a platform or block, you can't double jump. So that's why this game kind of requires perfection with jumping. I don't know if the creator intended it to be like that, or if it's a glitch, but it's very stupid and annoying nonetheless.
Either way, I got it on the first try. In fact, the entire cart ride + boss I only died once, somehow. Got lucky on some stuff. When you beat the Dragon boss, you are put right into Castle of The Guy. It is the actual final area. That is where the video ends. Next video will be the castle itself. Is it hard? Is it long, or is it short? You'll have to find out next video. No, I didn't intend that to be an innunedo either, sickos.
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Q: Where do you download the game?
A: http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg . The version I DLed in 1.0, the newest is at the top. The differences are things like new hidden items and boss rush feature, as well as bug fixes.
Q: Do I need an Emulator for this?
A: No, its actually its own game. In fact, you can't. So that means no cheap save states or any of that crap.
Q: I swear this game is impossible, I can't get past this one room, are you sure it's possible?
A: Every new room you enter will tend to feel impossible most of the time until you figure out how to do it. Some of it is trial and error, while the rest is skill and sometimes luck.
Q: If you die, is it really a game over?
A: Yes, but you revert to your last save point. At anytime in the game you can press the "R" button to revert to a save point. (Less)
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21, 00:43, 2008-02-12 10:42:24 Description: Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading interactive entertainment software publisher and developer, today announced This is Vegas™, an open world, lifestyle action experience, where players (More) Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading interactive entertainment software publisher and developer, today announced This is Vegas™, an open world, lifestyle action experience, where players will live out their Vegas fantasies by fighting, gambling, driving and partying their way through the most decadent, fast-paced and wildest city in the world. Developed by Midway's acclaimed Seattle-based internal studio, Surreal, This is Vegas is expected to ship for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows-based PC in Winter 2008.
The first screenshots, video and game information for This is Vegas are being unveiled throughout the week at IGN (http://www.ign.com). Europe will also have a selection of magazine Cover features hitting throughout the month of February.
"We are thrilled to be unveiling the first-ever videogame experience which allows players to live out their wildest Vegas fantasies," said Alan Patmore, studio head, Surreal. "Whether it's partying in the hottest night clubs, racing in underground circuits, testing your luck at the tables or getting into a barroom brawl, This is Vegas has it all."
For the latest game information, trailers and more, please go to http://vegas.midway.com.
About This is Vegas
When a powerful businessman begins turning Vegas into a family-friendly tourist trap, you must start your own powerful empire and resurrect the famous adult playground. Party hard at the hottest clubs to make VIP connections. Grow your bankroll by hitting high stakes tables. Race the fastest cars on the underground circuit to raise your reputation. Fight off enemies with fists and firearms to prove your strength. Where you go and what you do is your call whether counting cards, seducing dangerous women, cruising the strip or starting bar brawls, you must put the sin back in sin city. (Less)
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0, 00:45, 2008-02-05 08:48:13 Description: About: This Is Vegas
When a powerful businessman begins turning Vegas into a family-friendly tourist trap, you must start your own powerful empire and resurrect the famous adult playground. Party (More) About: This Is Vegas
When a powerful businessman begins turning Vegas into a family-friendly tourist trap, you must start your own powerful empire and resurrect the famous adult playground. Party hard at the hottest clubs to make VIP connections. Grow your bankroll by hitting high stakes tables. Race the fastest cars on the underground circuit to raise your reputation. Fight off enemies with fists and firearms to prove your strength. Where you go and what you do is your call whether counting cards, seducing dangerous women, cruising the strip or starting bar brawls, you must put the sin back in sin city. (Less)
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7, 05:31, 2008-05-19 19:43:45 Description: Dedicated to ~
goldenkuriboh & TeaGardner007 & vidqueen567 & BlueEyedGirl91 & loveboat132 & justkidding19 & animechick999 & daphne4 & mysteriousmew & (More) Dedicated to ~
goldenkuriboh & TeaGardner007 & vidqueen567 & BlueEyedGirl91 & loveboat132 & justkidding19 & animechick999 & daphne4 & mysteriousmew & Jessesgirl1549 & za3az584 & nyxix & NadyaYamiAnzu & Lysergangel & shashashanake1993 & 0123402992 & matsakas & serenitywheeler & watloveis42 & ShinobiXxXGaara & Noora183 & arien14 & Mikitane
*I was not able to make individual AMVs for each of you but I sincerely hope that that birthday was special and you continue having many, happy birthdays in the future! Love you all!*
Anime: Munto, Munto 2: Beyond the Walls of Time
Music: Shadow of the Day from Linkin Park/Sau Dard from Jaan-e-mann
::Video Details::
This is my first full AMV completed in Vegas! So not only is it an extremely special vid for me, but also one I put much of my thought and heart into. I started the actual project in late November after my sister suggested I use Munto with this song. The idea has evolved into one really different from the first but the central theme stayed the same- dealing with death, mainly suicide, which is what I interpret the song to mean. It also really strikes me as a sort of love song, which makes that it's from LP even more special, and I wanted to do my sources justice.
My absolutely amazing perpetual-beta-testers (R/P/A) did acknowledge that it would be hard to understand my idea after seeing the vid without reading about the plot.
The plot is quite simple- Yumemi is diagnosed with cancer and knows that her life is short; because of this, she is moody, depressed, and goes to the point of being suicidal. However, her plan is unexpectedly executed by accident, which in return leads to her rescue by Munto. Munto is a young king who has lost his family and his country's peace by war and despite his efforts to fight, falls to earth, wounded. Though he saves her, he remains on earth, and Yumemi begins to sense his approaching death. When she finally understands it was a certain someone who saved her, she desperately searches for him and finally is able to meet him.
This is where the meaning of the title comes in as well. "Autumn of flowers" made no sense for the friends waiting for the vid and the beta-testers but I think you could only understand how it relates to the AMV after watching. Autumn is the season when the life of summer slowly fades into the cold, unloving spirit of winter. Therefore, autumn here is presented as a sort of limbo, with flowers symbolic of Yumemi and Munto as they fight ultimately to gain the strength to live through the winter.
As to whether Yumemi lives or dies, that is up to your interpretation, though I think of the ending a certain way. The main purpose of this vid was to take an anime which has gorgeous art and great potential and create a new story from it, which I hope I succeeded in doing. There are only two AMVs which really present Munto the way I see commendable, and those are Sierra Lorna's 'Sunlight' (which got me to see Munto) and the 'Reflections of Style 3' MEP's first track.
The vid actually has a special aspect to it- I used scenes relating to the plot later on early in the vid which gives it sort of a split frame design, but it doesn't really break away from the linear form of it all. The AMV is really quite simple and I used effects only to enhance the scenes. The color scheme was a big part of it for me so I really concentrated on bringing out the color with the FX.
I've run into several troubles making the final product but I have learned a great deal more about all my programs and especially Vegas. I also would certainly not have done anything had it not been for vidqueen567, Henke6414, greenflare14, and of course R/P/A- thank you guys so much again.
Enjoy!
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NOTE: I ripped DVDs for footage; don't settle for any other way when you have free programs to get you the best quality clips! (Less)
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82, 03:17, 2008-04-22 09:10:57 Description: Every one please show ur mates and leave comments, i want some advice, critisism, jst tell me wut u thot this is an amazing video fo me drawing a fight club poster on ms paint, took around forty (More) Every one please show ur mates and leave comments, i want some advice, critisism, jst tell me wut u thot this is an amazing video fo me drawing a fight club poster on ms paint, took around forty minutes all together, the video skips a bit, for examply whn i draw brad pitt's eye, but it does not affect the whole thing at all, took a while to learn how to do this well, but i think it turned out quite well, clockwork orange, reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, brad pitt, edward norton, electric aylum art, Fight Club[1] (1996) is the first published novel by American author Chuck Palahniuk. The plot is based around an unnamed protagonist who struggles with his growing discomfort with consumerism and changes in the state of masculinity in American culture. In an attempt to overcome this, he creates an underground fighting club as a radical form of psychotherapy. It was made into a movie of the same name in 1999 by director David Fincher. The movie became a pop culture phenomenon. In the wake of the film's popularity, the novel has become a target of criticism, mainly for its explicit depictions of violence. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Plot summary 3 Characters in Fight Club 4 Motifs 5 Subtext 6 Literary significance and criticism 7 Fight Club in pop culture 8 Awards 9 U.S. editions 10 See also 11 Notes 12 References 13 External links [edit] History When Palahniuk made his first attempt at publishing a novel (Invisible Monsters) publishers rejected it for being too disturbing. This led him to work on Fight Club, which he wrote as an attempt to disturb the publisher even more for rejecting him. Palahniuk wrote this story while working as a diesel mechanic for Freightliner. After initially publishing it as a short story (which became chapter 6 of the novel) in the compilation Pursuit of Happiness, Palahniuk expanded it into a full novel, which, contrary to what he expected, the publisher was willing to publish.[2] While the original, hardcover edition of the book received positive reviews and some awards, it had a short shelf life. Nevertheless, the book had made its way to Hollywood, where interest in adapting it to film was growing. It was eventually adapted in 1999 by screenwriter Jim Uhls and director David Fincher. The film was a box office disappointment (although it was #1 at the U.S. box office in its first weekend) and critical reaction was mostly favorable, but a cult following soon emerged as the DVD of the film was popular upon release. As a result of the film, the original hardcover edition became a collector's item.[3] This film is now widely considered to be a defining work and an uncompromising critique of humanity's loss of identity through mass consumerism. Two paperback rereleases of the novel, one in 1999 and the other in 2004 (the latter of which begins with an introduction by the author about the conception and popularity of both the novel and the movie), were later made. This success helped launch Palahniuk's career as a popular novelist, as well as establish a writing style that would appear in many of his future novels. Despite popular belief, Palahniuk was not inspired to write the novel by any actual fight club. The club itself was based on a series of fights that Palahniuk got into over previous years (most notably one that he got into during a camping trip).[4] Even though he has mentioned this in many interviews, Palahniuk is still often approached by fans wanting to know where their local fight club takes place. Palahniuk insists that there is no real, singular organization like the one in his book. He does admit however that some fans have mentioned to him that some fight clubs (albeit much smaller than the one in the novel) exist or previously existed (some having existed long before the novel was written). Also, in the introduction to the current edition of the novel, Palahniuk refers to a few of the many actual instances of mischief being carried out in the style of fight club, most notably, a "Waiter from one of London's two finest restaurants" alleging that he ejaculated into Margaret Thatcher's food on multiple occasions. Many other events in the novel were also based on events that Palahniuk himself had experienced. The support groups that the narrator attends are based on support groups to which the author brought terminally ill people as part of a volunteer job he did for a local hospital. Project Mayhem is loosely based on the Cacophony Society, of which Palahniuk is a member. Various events and characters are based on friends of the author. Other events came as a result of stories told to him by various people he had talked to.[5] This method of combining various stories from various people into novels has become a common way of writing novels for Palahniuk ever since. Outside of Palahniuk's professional and personal life, the novel's impact has been felt elsewhere. Several individuals in various locations of the United States (and possibly in other countries), ranging from teenagers to people in technical careers, have set up their own fight clubs based on the one mentioned in the novel.[6] Some of Tyler's on-the-job pranks (such as food tampering) have been repeated by fans of the book (although these same pranks existed well before the novel was published). Palahniuk eventually documented this phenomenon in his essay "Monkey Think, Monkey Do",[7] which was published in his book Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories, as well as in the introduction to the 2004 paperback edition of Fight Club. Other fans of the book have been inspired to non-anti-social activity as well; Palahniuk has claimed that fans tell him that they have been inspired to go back to college after reading the book.[2] Other than the film, a few other adaptations have been attempted. In 2004 Fight Club was in development as a musical, developed by Palahniuk, Fincher, and Trent Reznor.[8] Brad Pitt, who played the role of Tyler Durden in the film, expressed interest in being involved. A video game loosely based on the film was published by Vivendi Universal Games in 2004, receiving poor reviews from gaming critics (see Fight Club (video game)). [edit] Plot summary The book centers on a nameless narrator who hates his job and his life. The narrator works for a car company, also unnamed, organizing product recalls on defective models if, and only if, the cost of the recall is less than the cost of out-of-court settlements paid to relatives of the deceased (which parallels the 1970s story of the Ford Pinto's safety problems and recall). At the same time, he is becoming disenchanted with the "nesting instinct"[9] of consumerism that has absorbed his life, forcing him to define himself by the furniture, clothes, and other material things that he owns. This dissatisfaction, combined with his frequent business trips across multiple time zones, disturb him to the point that he suffers from chronic insomnia. At the recommendation of his physician (who does not consider his insomnia to be a serious ailment), the narrator goes to a support group for men with testicular cancer to "see what real suffering is like". After finding that crying at these support groups and listening to emotional outpourings from the suffering allows him to sleep at night, he becomes dependent on them. At the same time, he befriends a cancer victim named Bob. Although he does not really suffer from any of the ailments that the other attendants have, he is never caught being a "tourist" until he meets Marla Singer, a woman who also attends support groups for alternative reasons. Her presence reflects the narrator's "tourism", and only reminds him that he doesn't belong at the support groups. He begins to hate Marla for keeping him from crying, and therefore from sleeping. After a short confrontation, they begin going to separate support groups in order to avoid meeting again. Shortly before this incident, his life changes radically upon meeting Tyler Durden, a beach artist who works low-paying jobs at night in order to perform deviant behavior on the job. After his confrontation with Marla, the narrator's condo is destroyed by an explosion and he asks Tyler if he can stay at his house. Tyler agrees, but asks for something in return, in a now-famous line: "I want you to hit me as hard as you can."[10] The resulting fight in a bar's parking lot attracts more disenchanted males, and a new form of support group, the first "Fight Club," is born. The fight club becomes a new type of therapy through bare-knuckle fighting, controlled by a set of rules: You don't talk about fight club. You don't talk about fight club.[11] When someone says stop, or goes limp, even if he's just faking it, the fight is over.[12] Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight. -- Fight Club, pages 48-50[13] Later in the book the mechanic tells the narrator two new rules to fight club. The first new rule is that nobody is the center of fight club except for the two men fighting. The second new rule is that fight club will always be free. Meanwhile, Tyler rescues Marla from a suicide attempt and the two initiate an affair that confounds the narrator. Throughout this affair, Marla is mostly unaware of the existence of fight club, and completely unaware of Tyler and the narrator's interaction with one another.[14] As the fight club's membership grows (and, unbeknownst to the narrator, spreads to other cities across the country), Tyler begins to use it to spread anti-consumerist ideas and recruits its members to participate in increasingly elaborate attacks on corporate America. This was originally the narrator's idea, but Tyler takes control from him. Tyler eventually gathers the most devoted fight club members (referred to as "space monkeys") and forms "Project Mayhem", a cult-like organization that trains itself as an army to bring down modern civilization. This organization, like the fight club, is controlled by a set of rules: You don't ask questions. You don't ask questions. No excuses. No lies. You have to trust Tyler. -- Fight Club, pages 119, 122, 125[15] The narrator starts off as a loyal participant in Project Mayhem, seeing it as the next step for fight club. However, he becomes uncomfortable with the increasing destructiveness of their activities after it results in the death of Bob. As the narrator endeavors to stop Tyler and his followers, he learns that he is Tyler;[16] Tyler is not a separate person, but a separate personality. As the narrator struggled with his hatred for his job and his consumerist lifestyle, his mind began to form a new personality that was able to escape from the problems of his normal life. The final straw came when he met Marla; Tyler was truly born as a distinct personality when the narrator's unconscious desire for Marla clashed with his conscious hatred for her. Having come to the surface, Tyler's personality has been slowly taking over the narrator's mind, which he planned to take over completely by making the narrator's real personality more like his. The narrator's bouts of insomnia had actually been Tyler's personality surfacing; Tyler would be active whenever the narrator was "sleeping". This allowed Tyler to manipulate the narrator into helping him create fight club; Tyler learned recipes for creating explosives when he was in control, and used this knowledge to blow up his own condo. The narrator also learns that Tyler plans to blow up the Parker-Morris building (the fictional "tallest building in the world") in the downtown area of the city using homemade bombs created by Project Mayhem. The actual reason for the explosion is to destroy the nearby national museum. During the explosion, Tyler plans to die as a martyr for Project Mayhem, taking the narrator's life as well. Realizing this, the narrator sets out to stop Tyler, although Tyler is always thinking ahead of him. In his attempts to stop Tyler, he makes peace with Marla (who always knew the narrator as Tyler) and explains to her that he is not Tyler Durden. The narrator is eventually forced to confront Tyler on the roof of the building. The narrator is held captive at gunpoint by Tyler, forced to watch the destruction wrought on the museum by Project Mayhem. Marla comes to the roof with one of the support groups. Tyler vanishes, because "Tyler was his hallucination, not hers." [17] With Tyler gone, the narrator waits for the bomb to explode and kill him. However, the bomb malfunctions because Tyler mixed paraffin into the explosives, which "never, ever works." Still alive and holding the gun that Tyler used to carry on him, the narrator decides to make the first decision that is truly his own: he puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself. Some time later, he awakens in a mental institution, believing that he is dead and has gone to heaven. The book ends with members of Project Mayhem who work at the institution telling the narrator that their plans still continue, and that they are expecting Tyler to come back. [edit] Characters in Fight Club Narrator Some fans of the film refer to the narrator as "Jack", which is in reference to a scene in which he reads stories written from the perspective of a man's organs (e.g. "Jack's medulla oblongata"); the protagonists' lines in the official movie script also use the name "Jack" to denote them. Furthermore, a number of props from the film (such as a paycheck for the narrator) have the name "Jack Moore" on them, indicating that members of the film's crew also thought the narrator's name was Jack. The name "Jack" was "Joe" in the novel, which was changed in the film to avoid conflicts with Reader's Digest over the use of the name (the articles read by the narrator were featured in the magazine). The narrator of Fight Club set a precedent for the protagonists of later novels by Palahniuk, especially in the case of male protagonists, as they often shared his anti-heroic and transgressive behavior. Tyler Durden A neo-luddite, nihilist with a strong hatred for consumer culture. "Because of his nature"[18], Tyler works night jobs where he causes problems for the companies; he also makes soap to supplement his income and create the ingredients for his bomb making which will be put to work later with his fight club. He is the co-founder of fight club (it was his idea to have the fight that led to it). He later launches Project Mayhem, from which he and the members make various attacks on consumerism. Tyler is blond, as by the narrator's comment "in his everything-blond way." The unhinged but magnetic Tyler could also be considered an antihero (especially since he and the narrator are technically the same person), although he becomes the antagonist of the novel later in the story. Few characters like Tyler have appeared in later novels by Palahniuk, though the character of Oyster from Lullaby shares many similarities. Marla Singer A woman that the narrator meets during a support group. The narrator no longer receives the same release from the groups when he realizes Marla is faking her problems just like he is. After he leaves the groups, he meets her again when she meets Tyler and becomes his lover. She is a nymphomaniac, and she shares many of Tyler's thoughts on consumer culture. In later novels by Palahniuk in which the protagonist is male, a female character similar to Marla has also appeared. Marla and these other female characters have helped Palahniuk to add romantic themes into his novels. Robert "Bob" Paulson A man that the narrator meets at a support group for testicular cancer. A former bodybuilder, Bob lost his testicles to cancer caused by the steroids he used to bulk up his muscles, and had to undergo testosterone injections; this resulted in his body increasing its estrogen, causing him to grow large breasts (Gynecomastia) ("Bitch-tits") and develop a softer voice. The narrator befriends Bob and, after leaving the groups, meets him again in fight club. Bob's death later in the story while carrying out an assignment for Project Mayhem causes the narrator to turn against Tyler, because the members of Project Mayhem treat it as a trivial matter instead of a tragedy. When the narrator explains that the dead man had a name and was a real person, a member of Project Mayhem points out that only in death do members of Project Mayhem have a name. The unnamed member begins chanting, "his name was Robert Paulson", and this phrase becomes a meme and mantra that the narrator encounters later on in the story multiple times. This differs from the book which only states that people in other fight clubs were chanting "Robert Paulson" for the same reason as mentioned above. When the narrator goes to a fight club to shut it down for this reason, Tyler orders them to make him a "homework assignment". [edit] Motifs At two points in the novel, the narrator claims he wants to "wipe [his] ass with the Mona Lisa"; a mechanic who joins fight club also repeats this to him in one scene.[19] This motif shows his desire for chaos, later explicitly expressed in his urge to "destroy something beautiful". Additionally, he mentions at one point that "Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart."[20] University of Calgary literary scholar Paul Kennett claims that this want for chaos is a result of an Oedipus complex, as the narrator, Tyler, and the mechanic all show disdain for their fathers.[21] This is most explicitly stated in the scene that the mechanic appears in: The mechanic says, "If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? ... How Tyler saw it was that getting God's attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe because God's hate is better than His indifference. If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention. Unless we get God's attention, we have no hope of damnation or redemption. Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved. "Burn the Louvre," the mechanic says, "and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names." -- Fight Club, page 141[22] Kennett further argues that Tyler wants to use this chaos to change history so that "God's middle children" will have some historical significance, whether or not this significance is "damnation or redemption".[23] This will figuratively return their absent fathers, as judgement by future generations will replace judgement by their fathers. After reading stories written from the perspective of the organs of a man named Joe, the narrator begins using similar quotations to describe his feelings, often replacing organs with feelings and things involved in his life. The narrator often repeats the line "I know this because Tyler knows this." This is used to foreshadow the novel's major plot twist in which Tyler is revealed to be the same person as the narrator. The color cornflower blue first appears as the color of an icon on the narrator's boss's computer.[20] Later, it is mentioned that his boss has eyes of the same color.[24] These mentions of the color are the first of many uses of cornflower blue in Palahniuk's books, which all feature the color at some point in the text. The theme of masculinity is also a motif throughout the book. Different symbols lead to this reoccurring theme, such as violence, and testes. Fighting is perceived as a masculine characteristic. [edit] Subtext Throughout the novel, Palahniuk uses the narrator and Tyler to comment on how people in modern society try to find meaning in their lives through commercial culture. Several lines in the novel make b Paint (formerly Paintbrush for Windows) is a simple graphics painting program that has been included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows since its first release. It is often referred to as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint. The program opens and saves files as Windows bitmap (24-bit, 256 color, 16 color, and monochrome, all with the .bmp extension), JPEG, GIF (without animation or transparency, although the Windows 98 version and a Windows 95 upgrade did support the latter), PNG (without alpha channel), and TIFF. The program can be in color mode or two-color black-and-white, but there is no grayscale mode. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Features 3 Support for indexed palettes 4 Versions 5 See also 6 Notes and references 7 External links [edit] History The first version of Paint was introduced with the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0. This version only supported the MSP file format. This format is no longer supported by newer versions of Paint, along with PCX and RLE. Older versions cannot open or edit PNG files, and can only open GIF, JPEG, and TIFF files with a graphics filter for the specific file type. In Windows 95, a new version of Paint was introduced. The same icons and color palette continued to be used through Windows XP. An early version of the program, as bundled with Windows 3.1. (It was still known as Paintbrush at this stage.)In the Windows 98, Windows 2000 or Windows Me versions of Paint, images could be saved in JPEG and GIF formats if the necessary Microsoft graphics filters were installed, usually by another Microsoft application such as Microsoft Office or Microsoft PhotoDraw. Also, the canvas size was expanded automatically when larger images were opened or pasted. In Windows XP and later versions, Paint is based on GDI+ [1] and therefore, images can be natively saved as JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG without requiring additional graphics filters. However, alpha channel transparency is still not supported because the GDI+ version of Paint can only handle up to 24-bit depth images. Also, since another accessory, Imaging, was discontinued in Windows XP, support for acquiring images from a scanner or a digital camera was also added to Paint. However, the tertiary color function, used for creating GIF files with a transparent background, was removed. Also, the ability to save and load palette colors to and from .pal files was removed. In Windows Vista, the toolbar icons and default color palette have been updated. Also, an increased number of undo levels, a zoom slider, and a crop function have been added. [edit] Features Recent versions of Paint allow the user to pick up to three colors at a time: the primary color (left mouse click), secondary color (right mouse click), and tertiary color (control key + any mouse click). MS Paint ToolboxThe program comes with the following options in its Tool Box (from left to right in image): Free-Form Select Select Eraser/Color Eraser Fill With Color Pick Color Magnifier Pencil Brush Airbrush Text Line Curve Rectangle Polygon Ellipse Rounded Rectangle Paint does not have the ability to automatically create color gradients. The Image menu offers the following options: Flip/Rotate, Stretch/Skew, Invert Colors, Image Attributes, Clear Image, and Draw Opaque. The "Colors" menu allows the user to Edit Colors (only menu option under Colors). The Edit Colors dialog box shows a 48-color palette and 12 custom color slots that can be edited. Clicking "Define Custom Colors" displays a square version of the color wheel that can select a custom color either with a crosshair cursor (like a "+"), by Hue/Saturation/Luminance, or by Red/Green/Blue values. The default colors in the Color Box are the following: Black, White, Gray, Silver, Maroon, Red, Olive, Yellow, Dark Green, Green, Teal, Cyan, Navy blue, Blue, Purple, Magenta, Old Gold, Lemon Yellow, Slate grey, Kelly green, Dark Carolina blue, Aquamarine, Midnight blue, Periwinkle, Violet-blue, Coral, Brown, and Pumpkin orange. A color palette is also available. Paint also has a few hidden functions (or Easter eggs) not mentioned in the help file: a stamp mode, trail mode and 10x zoom. For the stamp mode, the user can select part of the image, hold the control key, and move it to another part of the canvas. This, instead of cutting the piece out, creates a copy of it. The process can be repeated as many times as desired, as long as the control key is held down. The trail mode works exactly the same, but it uses the shift key instead of the control key. 10x zoom can be accessed by clicking on a horizontal line of about 2 pixels right below the 8x zoom button. The user may also draw straight horizontal, vertical, or diagonal lines with the pencil tool, without the need of the straight line tool, by holding the shift key and dragging the tool. Moreover, it is also possible to thicken (control key + +) or thin (control key + −) a line simultaneously while it is being drawn. To crop whitespace or eliminate parts of a graphic, the blue handle in the lower right corner can be clicked and dragged to increase canvas size or crop a graphic. The colors in the image can be inverted by pressing Ctrl+ I Older versions of Paint, such as the one bundled with Windows 3.1, allowed controlling the drawing cursor with the use of arrow keys as well as a color-replace brush, which replaced a single color underneath (Less)
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2, 10:02, 2008-04-22 10:17:36 Description: Note: Read small FAQ at bottom for where to find the game. Next Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s56zhm-BDwQ Now it's time for me to do a new game. This time it's something unique. (More) Note: Read small FAQ at bottom for where to find the game. Next Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s56zhm-BDwQ Now it's time for me to do a new game. This time it's something unique. It's "I wanna be the Guy." What is it? It's a platformer game set in the old school theme. It takes themes from classics and puts them together in one game. There's already a couple people who recorded their playthrough on Youtube, but they're either in 30+ parts for whatever reason or the sound quality is horrible. Perhaps the most well known feature of the game is its difficulty. This is not a beginners game. The game is extremely difficult. It's one of the most dififcult games I've ever played, and my death count my first time playing was literally 1700ish. EVERYTHING in this game has potential to kill you. Every jump, no matter how simple it looks, can wind up with you dying. Anyway, there are actually difficulty modes to choose from. There's Medium, Hard, Very Hard, and Impossible. Medium is still hard, but only wussies play it. The character gets a bow on his head if you choose this mode, and extra save points marked with "wuss" show up. So yea, it makes you lose self respect. Hard is the mode everyone tends to play. It's the only reasonable mode after Medium that can be beaten. I don't know if anyones beaten Very Hard yet on the newer versions, I saw a video of an older version doing it, but it has extra save points so it's not the same "Very Hard", more like Medium Hard. I personally started up a game on Very Hard and so far killed 4 bosses, and got to the 5th boss. But I haven't tried to finish it yet, which implies it's most likely possible. And Impossible mode has no save points, which means one death and it's game over. So as its name suggested, it's impossibe. It's only good to see how far you can go before you die. There's multiple paths you can take at the beginning (3 to be exact), and depending on which path you take depends on what bosses you fight. I won't spoil anything else, but you'll see what happens later. The game isn't neccessarily that long, but because of its difficulty it will take you hours and hours. This is probably my 4th or 5th time beating the game, so I got through it in less than 2 hours. It'll be in about 10 or 11 parts. Today is part 1 only. I'll try to upload 1 or 2 a day until it's done. If curious, this was all done in one playthrough. Meaning you see every single death. Fortunately, since this isn't my first playthrough, there's not THAT many deaths. But if there's any part of the game I edit out (such as stuck on a boss fight), I'll state it. So if you think you're a real gamer, I'd say give this a try. It's an ultimate challenge. Also, the titles of the videos don't really mean anything, I just didn't want it to be too bland. And I don't normally play any PC games, so don't go linking me to other games to play like this. This was an exception. -- Q: Where do you download the game? A: http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg . The version I DLed in 1.0, the newest is at the top. The differences are things like new hidden items and boss rush feature, as well as bug fixes. Q: Do I need an Emulator for this? A: No, its actually its own game. In fact, you can't. So that means no cheap save states or any of that crap. Q: I swear this game is impossible, I can't get past this one room, are you sure it's possible? A: Every new room you enter will tend to feel impossible most of the time until you figure out how to do it. Some of it is trial and error, while the rest is skill and sometimes luck. Q: If you die, is it really a game over? A: Yes, but you revert to your last save point. At anytime in the game you can press the "R" button to rever to a save point. (Less)
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11, 07:27, 2008-04-22 10:17:36 Description: Note: Read small FAQ at bottom for where to find the game. Previous Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzwiOGopOYw Next Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc8gBujGd-Y Finally, you get to see (More) Note: Read small FAQ at bottom for where to find the game. Previous Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzwiOGopOYw Next Part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc8gBujGd-Y Finally, you get to see some of the final area. But first, what I like to call the Room of Patience. Why? This is the room you have to wait in the longest out of all the other rooms. It is VERY annoying if you are impatient like I am. Fortunately I got it in two tries. The left side of the room is the easy side, it's the right side and middle top of the room that's hard. But the waiting does get on your nerves and make you sort of jittery. *Spoilers for rest of video below* Anyway, after that you end up back at the end of game, with those annoying spikes. I did better this time around. After, you're back at the end with the ghosts of the bosses. If you beat all 6 bosses, you can jump in the center, and then the real hell begins. The cart ride is PURE EVIL. It is long, laggy, and hard to control. It's hard to tell from just watching a video, but the controls are horrible. There's also funky glitches where you get stuck in blocks sometimes and you're forced to die. You have to learn how to jump around things while on the cart. Not to mention if you fall behind, you die. I think I spent around 2 hours on the cart ride. But even though it's hell, once you figure it out, you can do it much easier. But the first time is one of the worst parts of the game, right up there with the entire Ghouls and Ghosts area. What happens when you get to the end of the cart ride? You go straight into a boss fight! But wait, why another boss? Weren't there only 6 and the final boss? Nope, this guy, from what I can tell, is The Guy's guardian. You need to beat him to enter the castle. At least, that's what I'm gathering from it. I hope it's not just some random excuse of a fight to annoy you. Anyway, the fight is very easy. It's just that it's so laggy it's annoying. When you're running away from him, it can lag a little, and that hinders your jumping ability. If you don't already know, this game has a stupid glitch where if you try to jump at the very edge of a platform or block, you can't double jump. So that's why this game kind of requires perfection with jumping. I don't know if the creator intended it to be like that, or if it's a glitch, but it's very stupid and annoying nonetheless. Either way, I got it on the first try. In fact, the entire cart ride + boss I only died once, somehow. Got lucky on some stuff. When you beat the Dragon boss, you are put right into Castle of The Guy. It is the actual final area. That is where the video ends. Next video will be the castle itself. Is it hard? Is it long, or is it short? You'll have to find out next video. No, I didn't intend that to be an innunedo either, sickos. -- Q: Where do you download the game? A: http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg . The version I DLed in 1.0, the newest is at the top. The differences are things like new hidden items and boss rush feature, as well as bug fixes. Q: Do I need an Emulator for this? A: No, its actually its own game. In fact, you can't. So that means no cheap save states or any of that crap. Q: I swear this game is impossible, I can't get past this one room, are you sure it's possible? A: Every new room you enter will tend to feel impossible most of the time until you figure out how to do it. Some of it is trial and error, while the rest is skill and sometimes luck. Q: If you die, is it really a game over? A: Yes, but you revert to your last save point. At anytime in the game you can press the "R" button to revert to a save point. (Less)
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0, 00:45, 2008-04-22 11:38:05 Description: About: This Is Vegas When a powerful businessman begins turning Vegas into a family-friendly tourist trap, you must start your own powerful empire and resurrect the famous adult playground. Party (More) About: This Is Vegas When a powerful businessman begins turning Vegas into a family-friendly tourist trap, you must start your own powerful empire and resurrect the famous adult playground. Party hard at the hottest clubs to make VIP connections. Grow your bankroll by hitting high stakes tables. Race the fastest cars on the underground circuit to raise your reputation. Fight off enemies with fists and firearms to prove your strength. Where you go and what you do is your call whether counting cards, seducing dangerous women, cruising the strip or starting bar brawls, you must put the sin back in sin city. (Less)
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5, 04:56, 2008-03-19 15:31:50 Description: Love it or hate it, here's the English version of my Sonic Next-Gen Movie! See it all from beginning to end in the best order in which the scenes happen in real time (such as it is). In this act, (More) Love it or hate it, here's the English version of my Sonic Next-Gen Movie! See it all from beginning to end in the best order in which the scenes happen in real time (such as it is). In this act, all three hedgehogs venture to the train terminal on their own respective quests, leading to the battle between Shadow and Silver while Sonic escapes Eggman's forces with Elise! Hope you enjoy!
Personal comments: Nifty little edit I did for the fight, huh? Really wish I thought of that sooner for Sonic vs Silver. :\ Also, I allowed myself to get hit at most times to drag the fight out and give it a truer sense of struggle. Also, unlike what I did for the Japanese version, I modified the fight to switch back and forth between the two hedgehog's point of view. It just looked weird to do a hedgehog's full fight and then have it restart at where the fight begins once I start another's.
Oh well, this would have to be another favorite scene in this otherwise underwhelming game, but it's scenes like these that show how Sonic barely has any say to what's really going on behind the scenes. The game is called "SONIC THE HEDGEHOG," but the ones really carrying the meat of the story are Shadow and Silver! Sonic's just busy mimicking Mario platforming games only with dialogue throughout the whole thing. All the while, he knows NOTHING about the game's true villains, Mephiles and Iblis, and it just doesn't sit right with me. (Less)
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99, 03:17, 2007-06-10 04:45:57 Description: Every one please show ur mates and leave comments, i want some advice, critisism, jst tell me wut u thot
this is an amazing video fo me drawing a fight club poster on ms paint, took around forty (More) Every one please show ur mates and leave comments, i want some advice, critisism, jst tell me wut u thot
this is an amazing video fo me drawing a fight club poster on ms paint, took around forty minutes all together, the video skips a bit, for examply whn i draw brad pitt's eye, but it does not affect the whole thing at all, took a while to learn how to do this well, but i think it turned out quite well, clockwork orange, reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, brad pitt, edward norton, electric aylum art,
Fight Club[1] (1996) is the first published novel by American author Chuck Palahniuk. The plot is based around an unnamed protagonist who struggles with his growing discomfort with consumerism and changes in the state of masculinity in American culture. In an attempt to overcome this, he creates an underground fighting club as a radical form of psychotherapy. It was made into a movie of the same name in 1999 by director David Fincher. The movie became a pop culture phenomenon. In the wake of the film's popularity, the novel has become a target of criticism, mainly for its explicit depictions of violence.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Plot summary
3 Characters in Fight Club
4 Motifs
5 Subtext
6 Literary significance and criticism
7 Fight Club in pop culture
8 Awards
9 U.S. editions
10 See also
11 Notes
12 References
13 External links
[edit] History
When Palahniuk made his first attempt at publishing a novel (Invisible Monsters) publishers rejected it for being too disturbing. This led him to work on Fight Club, which he wrote as an attempt to disturb the publisher even more for rejecting him. Palahniuk wrote this story while working as a diesel mechanic for Freightliner. After initially publishing it as a short story (which became chapter 6 of the novel) in the compilation Pursuit of Happiness, Palahniuk expanded it into a full novel, which, contrary to what he expected, the publisher was willing to publish.[2] While the original, hardcover edition of the book received positive reviews and some awards, it had a short shelf life. Nevertheless, the book had made its way to Hollywood, where interest in adapting it to film was growing. It was eventually adapted in 1999 by screenwriter Jim Uhls and director David Fincher. The film was a box office disappointment (although it was #1 at the U.S. box office in its first weekend) and critical reaction was mostly favorable, but a cult following soon emerged as the DVD of the film was popular upon release. As a result of the film, the original hardcover edition became a collector's item.[3] This film is now widely considered to be a defining work and an uncompromising critique of humanity's loss of identity through mass consumerism. Two paperback rereleases of the novel, one in 1999 and the other in 2004 (the latter of which begins with an introduction by the author about the conception and popularity of both the novel and the movie), were later made. This success helped launch Palahniuk's career as a popular novelist, as well as establish a writing style that would appear in many of his future novels.
Despite popular belief, Palahniuk was not inspired to write the novel by any actual fight club. The club itself was based on a series of fights that Palahniuk got into over previous years (most notably one that he got into during a camping trip).[4] Even though he has mentioned this in many interviews, Palahniuk is still often approached by fans wanting to know where their local fight club takes place. Palahniuk insists that there is no real, singular organization like the one in his book. He does admit however that some fans have mentioned to him that some fight clubs (albeit much smaller than the one in the novel) exist or previously existed (some having existed long before the novel was written). Also, in the introduction to the current edition of the novel, Palahniuk refers to a few of the many actual instances of mischief being carried out in the style of fight club, most notably, a "Waiter from one of London's two finest restaurants" alleging that he ejaculated into Margaret Thatcher's food on multiple occasions.
Many other events in the novel were also based on events that Palahniuk himself had experienced. The support groups that the narrator attends are based on support groups to which the author brought terminally ill people as part of a volunteer job he did for a local hospital. Project Mayhem is loosely based on the Cacophony Society, of which Palahniuk is a member. Various events and characters are based on friends of the author. Other events came as a result of stories told to him by various people he had talked to.[5] This method of combining various stories from various people into novels has become a common way of writing novels for Palahniuk ever since.
Outside of Palahniuk's professional and personal life, the novel's impact has been felt elsewhere. Several individuals in various locations of the United States (and possibly in other countries), ranging from teenagers to people in technical careers, have set up their own fight clubs based on the one mentioned in the novel.[6] Some of Tyler's on-the-job pranks (such as food tampering) have been repeated by fans of the book (although these same pranks existed well before the novel was published). Palahniuk eventually documented this phenomenon in his essay "Monkey Think, Monkey Do",[7] which was published in his book Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories, as well as in the introduction to the 2004 paperback edition of Fight Club. Other fans of the book have been inspired to non-anti-social activity as well; Palahniuk has claimed that fans tell him that they have been inspired to go back to college after reading the book.[2]
Other than the film, a few other adaptations have been attempted. In 2004 Fight Club was in development as a musical, developed by Palahniuk, Fincher, and Trent Reznor.[8] Brad Pitt, who played the role of Tyler Durden in the film, expressed interest in being involved. A video game loosely based on the film was published by Vivendi Universal Games in 2004, receiving poor reviews from gaming critics (see Fight Club (video game)).
[edit] Plot summary
The book centers on a nameless narrator who hates his job and his life. The narrator works for a car company, also unnamed, organizing product recalls on defective models if, and only if, the cost of the recall is less than the cost of out-of-court settlements paid to relatives of the deceased (which parallels the 1970s story of the Ford Pinto's safety problems and recall). At the same time, he is becoming disenchanted with the "nesting instinct"[9] of consumerism that has absorbed his life, forcing him to define himself by the furniture, clothes, and other material things that he owns. This dissatisfaction, combined with his frequent business trips across multiple time zones, disturb him to the point that he suffers from chronic insomnia.
At the recommendation of his physician (who does not consider his insomnia to be a serious ailment), the narrator goes to a support group for men with testicular cancer to "see what real suffering is like". After finding that crying at these support groups and listening to emotional outpourings from the suffering allows him to sleep at night, he becomes dependent on them. At the same time, he befriends a cancer victim named Bob. Although he does not really suffer from any of the ailments that the other attendants have, he is never caught being a "tourist" until he meets Marla Singer, a woman who also attends support groups for alternative reasons. Her presence reflects the narrator's "tourism", and only reminds him that he doesn't belong at the support groups. He begins to hate Marla for keeping him from crying, and therefore from sleeping. After a short confrontation, they begin going to separate support groups in order to avoid meeting again.
Shortly before this incident, his life changes radically upon meeting Tyler Durden, a beach artist who works low-paying jobs at night in order to perform deviant behavior on the job. After his confrontation with Marla, the narrator's condo is destroyed by an explosion and he asks Tyler if he can stay at his house. Tyler agrees, but asks for something in return, in a now-famous line: "I want you to hit me as hard as you can."[10] The resulting fight in a bar's parking lot attracts more disenchanted males, and a new form of support group, the first "Fight Club," is born. The fight club becomes a new type of therapy through bare-knuckle fighting, controlled by a set of rules:
You don't talk about fight club.
You don't talk about fight club.[11]
When someone says stop, or goes limp, even if he's just faking it, the fight is over.[12]
Only two guys to a fight.
One fight at a time.
They fight without shirts or shoes.
The fights go on as long as they have to.
If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
-- Fight Club, pages 48-50[13]
Later in the book the mechanic tells the narrator two new rules to fight club. The first new rule is that nobody is the center of fight club except for the two men fighting. The second new rule is that fight club will always be free.
Meanwhile, Tyler rescues Marla from a suicide attempt and the two initiate an affair that confounds the narrator. Throughout this affair, Marla is mostly unaware of the existence of fight club, and completely unaware of Tyler and the narrator's interaction with one another.[14]
As the fight club's membership grows (and, unbeknownst to the narrator, spreads to other cities across the country), Tyler begins to use it to spread anti-consumerist ideas and recruits its members to participate in increasingly elaborate attacks on corporate America. This was originally the narrator's idea, but Tyler takes control from him. Tyler eventually gathers the most devoted fight club members (referred to as "space monkeys") and forms "Project Mayhem", a cult-like organization that trains itself as an army to bring down modern civilization. This organization, like the fight club, is controlled by a set of rules:
You don't ask questions.
You don't ask questions.
No excuses.
No lies.
You have to trust Tyler.
-- Fight Club, pages 119, 122, 125[15]
The narrator starts off as a loyal participant in Project Mayhem, seeing it as the next step for fight club. However, he becomes uncomfortable with the increasing destructiveness of their activities after it results in the death of Bob.
As the narrator endeavors to stop Tyler and his followers, he learns that he is Tyler;[16] Tyler is not a separate person, but a separate personality. As the narrator struggled with his hatred for his job and his consumerist lifestyle, his mind began to form a new personality that was able to escape from the problems of his normal life. The final straw came when he met Marla; Tyler was truly born as a distinct personality when the narrator's unconscious desire for Marla clashed with his conscious hatred for her. Having come to the surface, Tyler's personality has been slowly taking over the narrator's mind, which he planned to take over completely by making the narrator's real personality more like his. The narrator's bouts of insomnia had actually been Tyler's personality surfacing; Tyler would be active whenever the narrator was "sleeping". This allowed Tyler to manipulate the narrator into helping him create fight club; Tyler learned recipes for creating explosives when he was in control, and used this knowledge to blow up his own condo.
The narrator also learns that Tyler plans to blow up the Parker-Morris building (the fictional "tallest building in the world") in the downtown area of the city using homemade bombs created by Project Mayhem. The actual reason for the explosion is to destroy the nearby national museum. During the explosion, Tyler plans to die as a martyr for Project Mayhem, taking the narrator's life as well. Realizing this, the narrator sets out to stop Tyler, although Tyler is always thinking ahead of him. In his attempts to stop Tyler, he makes peace with Marla (who always knew the narrator as Tyler) and explains to her that he is not Tyler Durden. The narrator is eventually forced to confront Tyler on the roof of the building. The narrator is held captive at gunpoint by Tyler, forced to watch the destruction wrought on the museum by Project Mayhem. Marla comes to the roof with one of the support groups. Tyler vanishes, because "Tyler was his hallucination, not hers." [17]
With Tyler gone, the narrator waits for the bomb to explode and kill him. However, the bomb malfunctions because Tyler mixed paraffin into the explosives, which "never, ever works." Still alive and holding the gun that Tyler used to carry on him, the narrator decides to make the first decision that is truly his own: he puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself. Some time later, he awakens in a mental institution, believing that he is dead and has gone to heaven. The book ends with members of Project Mayhem who work at the institution telling the narrator that their plans still continue, and that they are expecting Tyler to come back.
[edit] Characters in Fight Club
Narrator
Some fans of the film refer to the narrator as "Jack", which is in reference to a scene in which he reads stories written from the perspective of a man's organs (e.g. "Jack's medulla oblongata"); the protagonists' lines in the official movie script also use the name "Jack" to denote them. Furthermore, a number of props from the film (such as a paycheck for the narrator) have the name "Jack Moore" on them, indicating that members of the film's crew also thought the narrator's name was Jack. The name "Jack" was "Joe" in the novel, which was changed in the film to avoid conflicts with Reader's Digest over the use of the name (the articles read by the narrator were featured in the magazine). The narrator of Fight Club set a precedent for the protagonists of later novels by Palahniuk, especially in the case of male protagonists, as they often shared his anti-heroic and transgressive behavior.
Tyler Durden
A neo-luddite, nihilist with a strong hatred for consumer culture. "Because of his nature"[18], Tyler works night jobs where he causes problems for the companies; he also makes soap to supplement his income and create the ingredients for his bomb making which will be put to work later with his fight club. He is the co-founder of fight club (it was his idea to have the fight that led to it). He later launches Project Mayhem, from which he and the members make various attacks on consumerism. Tyler is blond, as by the narrator's comment "in his everything-blond way." The unhinged but magnetic Tyler could also be considered an antihero (especially since he and the narrator are technically the same person), although he becomes the antagonist of the novel later in the story. Few characters like Tyler have appeared in later novels by Palahniuk, though the character of Oyster from Lullaby shares many similarities.
Marla Singer
A woman that the narrator meets during a support group. The narrator no longer receives the same release from the groups when he realizes Marla is faking her problems just like he is. After he leaves the groups, he meets her again when she meets Tyler and becomes his lover. She is a nymphomaniac, and she shares many of Tyler's thoughts on consumer culture. In later novels by Palahniuk in which the protagonist is male, a female character similar to Marla has also appeared. Marla and these other female characters have helped Palahniuk to add romantic themes into his novels.
Robert "Bob" Paulson
A man that the narrator meets at a support group for testicular cancer. A former bodybuilder, Bob lost his testicles to cancer caused by the steroids he used to bulk up his muscles, and had to undergo testosterone injections; this resulted in his body increasing its estrogen, causing him to grow large breasts (Gynecomastia) ("Bitch-tits") and develop a softer voice. The narrator befriends Bob and, after leaving the groups, meets him again in fight club. Bob's death later in the story while carrying out an assignment for Project Mayhem causes the narrator to turn against Tyler, because the members of Project Mayhem treat it as a trivial matter instead of a tragedy. When the narrator explains that the dead man had a name and was a real person, a member of Project Mayhem points out that only in death do members of Project Mayhem have a name. The unnamed member begins chanting, "his name was Robert Paulson", and this phrase becomes a meme and mantra that the narrator encounters later on in the story multiple times. This differs from the book which only states that people in other fight clubs were chanting "Robert Paulson" for the same reason as mentioned above. When the narrator goes to a fight club to shut it down for this reason, Tyler orders them to make him a "homework assignment".
[edit] Motifs
At two points in the novel, the narrator claims he wants to "wipe [his] ass with the Mona Lisa"; a mechanic who joins fight club also repeats this to him in one scene.[19] This motif shows his desire for chaos, later explicitly expressed in his urge to "destroy something beautiful". Additionally, he mentions at one point that "Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart."[20] University of Calgary literary scholar Paul Kennett claims that this want for chaos is a result of an Oedipus complex, as the narrator, Tyler, and the mechanic all show disdain for their fathers.[21] This is most explicitly stated in the scene that the mechanic appears in:
The mechanic says, "If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?
...
How Tyler saw it was that getting God's attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe because God's hate is better than His indifference.
If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.
Unless we get God's attention, we have no hope of damnation or redemption.
Which is worse, hell or nothing?
Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.
"Burn the Louvre," the mechanic says, "and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names."
-- Fight Club, page 141[22]
Kennett further argues that Tyler wants to use this chaos to change history so that "God's middle children" will have some historical significance, whether or not this significance is "damnation or redemption".[23] This will figuratively return their absent fathers, as judgement by future generations will replace judgement by their fathers.
After reading stories written from the perspective of the organs of a man named Joe, the narrator begins using similar quotations to describe his feelings, often replacing organs with feelings and things involved in his life.
The narrator often repeats the line "I know this because Tyler knows this." This is used to foreshadow the novel's major plot twist in which Tyler is revealed to be the same person as the narrator.
The color cornflower blue first appears as the color of an icon on the narrator's boss's computer.[20] Later, it is mentioned that his boss has eyes of the same color.[24] These mentions of the color are the first of many uses of cornflower blue in Palahniuk's books, which all feature the color at some point in the text.
The theme of masculinity is also a motif throughout the book. Different symbols lead to this reoccurring theme, such as violence, and testes. Fighting is perceived as a masculine characteristic.
[edit] Subtext
Throughout the novel, Palahniuk uses the narrator and Tyler to comment on how people in modern society try to find meaning in their lives through commercial culture. Several lines in the novel make
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1 History
2 Features
3 Support for indexed palettes
4 Versions
5 See also
6 Notes and references
7 External links
[edit] History
The first version of Paint was introduced with the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0. This version only supported the MSP file format. This format is no longer supported by newer versions of Paint, along with PCX and RLE. Older versions cannot open or edit PNG files, and can only open GIF, JPEG, and TIFF files with a graphics filter for the specific file type.
In Windows 95, a new version of Paint was introduced. The same icons and color palette continued to be used through Windows XP.
An early version of the program, as bundled with Windows 3.1. (It was still known as Paintbrush at this stage.)In the Windows 98, Windows 2000 or Windows Me versions of Paint, images could be saved in JPEG and GIF formats if the necessary Microsoft graphics filters were installed, usually by another Microsoft application such as Microsoft Office or Microsoft PhotoDraw. Also, the canvas size was expanded automatically when larger images were opened or pasted.
In Windows XP and later versions, Paint is based on GDI+ [1] and therefore, images can be natively saved as JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG without requiring additional graphics filters. However, alpha channel transparency is still not supported because the GDI+ version of Paint can only handle up to 24-bit depth images. Also, since another accessory, Imaging, was discontinued in Windows XP, support for acquiring images from a scanner or a digital camera was also added to Paint. However, the tertiary color function, used for creating GIF files with a transparent background, was removed. Also, the ability to save and load palette colors to and from .pal files was removed.
In Windows Vista, the toolbar icons and default color palette have been updated. Also, an increased number of undo levels, a zoom slider, and a crop function have been added.
[edit] Features
Recent versions of Paint allow the user to pick up to three colors at a time: the primary color (left mouse click), secondary color (right mouse click), and tertiary color (control key + any mouse click).
MS Paint ToolboxThe program comes with the following options in its Tool Box (from left to right in image):
Free-Form Select
Select
Eraser/Color Eraser
Fill With Color
Pick Color
Magnifier
Pencil
Brush
Airbrush
Text
Line
Curve
Rectangle
Polygon
Ellipse
Rounded Rectangle
Paint does not have the ability to automatically create color gradients.
The Image menu offers the following options: Flip/Rotate, Stretch/Skew, Invert Colors, Image Attributes, Clear Image, and Draw Opaque. The "Colors" menu allows the user to Edit Colors (only menu option under Colors). The Edit Colors dialog box shows a 48-color palette and 12 custom color slots that can be edited. Clicking "Define Custom Colors" displays a square version of the color wheel that can select a custom color either with a crosshair cursor (like a "+"), by Hue/Saturation/Luminance, or by Red/Green/Blue values.
The default colors in the Color Box are the following: Black, White, Gray, Silver, Maroon, Red, Olive, Yellow, Dark Green, Green, Teal, Cyan, Navy blue, Blue, Purple, Magenta, Old Gold, Lemon Yellow, Slate grey, Kelly green, Dark Carolina blue, Aquamarine, Midnight blue, Periwinkle, Violet-blue, Coral, Brown, and Pumpkin orange. A color palette is also available.
Paint also has a few hidden functions (or Easter eggs) not mentioned in the help file: a stamp mode, trail mode and 10x zoom. For the stamp mode, the user can select part of the image, hold the control key, and move it to another part of the canvas. This, instead of cutting the piece out, creates a copy of it. The process can be repeated as many times as desired, as long as the control key is held down. The trail mode works exactly the same, but it uses the shift key instead of the control key. 10x zoom can be accessed by clicking on a horizontal line of about 2 pixels right below the 8x zoom button.
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