Roost Air Lounge => General Discussion => Topic started by: spacer on November 24, 2006, 12:50:45 AM
Title: Sad, cute little animation
Post by: spacer on November 24, 2006, 12:50:45 AM
http://uniquepeek.com/viewpage.php?page_id=328
I can kinda relate, at times...
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Post by: tundra_flier on November 24, 2006, 02:49:06 AM
Awww :) That's so cute...
so does that count as a flight simulator? :P
Phil
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Post by: Mike on November 24, 2006, 02:51:25 AM
cute!
but like you said...kind of sad. I am glad they didn't show the ending.
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Post by: Baradium on November 24, 2006, 04:45:20 AM
That's depressing.
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Post by: Gulfstream Driver on November 28, 2006, 08:07:14 PM
Poor little kiwi.
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Post by: Frank N. O. on November 28, 2006, 08:47:51 PM
Reminds me of what I'm trying to do, save up money to stay a month in California just to be able to experience at least for a short while, a place I could be happy in, even if I then have to return to grey, lonely sad Denmark for the rest of my life. Cancer-death in my dad's family have killed most of the siblings and the few remaining members cut contact with us, as my mom's family did years ago. And friends, we have just two, in their 70s and the husband/minister long time parkinsons victim, but at least he still has his mind intact which is especially good in his case. But even now bad luck continues in our family. We got the grant for a handicap car, but now a promised re-location near our old friends have turned out to be totally impossible, so my mom's heart broke and she outright cried when I woke up yesterday, she just can't take it any more, and neither can I. At least our friends were home so we went and visited them and talked, where she cried again. I still try to hum the lyrics to Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It, but it's hard to continue when you keep comming up short when try to find solutions.
I know there are other such short 3D animations, also some a lot more light-hearted, I just can't remember where to find them, but 3D modeling and animation forums might be a place to look.
Frank
Title: Re: Sad, cute little animation
Post by: Zaffex on November 29, 2006, 01:34:10 AM
Kiwi should've taken flying lessons with a certain feathered, poultry friend of ours. ;D Then again, I don't know if he would want to take lessons with Chuck.
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Post by: fireflyr on November 29, 2006, 10:56:53 AM
Reminds me of what I'm trying to do, save up money to stay a month in California just to be able to experience at least for a short while, a place I could be happy in, even if I then have to return to grey, lonely sad Denmark for the rest of my life. Cancer-death in my dad's family have killed most of the siblings and the few remaining members cut contact with us, as my mom's family did years ago. And friends, we have just two, in their 70s and the husband/minister long time parkinsons victim, but at least he still has his mind intact which is especially good in his case. But even now bad luck continues in our family. We got the grant for a handicap car, but now a promised re-location near our old friends have turned out to be totally impossible, so my mom's heart broke and she outright cried when I woke up yesterday, she just can't take it any more, and neither can I. At least our friends were home so we went and visited them and talked, where she cried again. I still try to hum the lyrics to Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It, but it's hard to continue when you keep comming up short when try to find solutions.
I know there are other such short 3D animations, also some a lot more light-hearted, I just can't remember where to find them, but 3D modeling and animation forums might be a place to look.
Frank
Frank, there is happiness and beauty everywhere---you need to look for it sometimes, but in looking, you will find contentment. California is just a place, there are lots of unhappy people here too. The key to accepting life's trials is to have the "Attitude of Gratitude" If I find a large pile of horse manure in my life I immediatley get excited and start looking for the pony ;D Cheer up son, we all wind up dead, it's how much fun you have getting there that counts!!
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Post by: happylanding on November 29, 2006, 10:46:47 PM
Frank, Fireflyr is right, never forget to open your eyes and appreciate what is around you. even small, there is always something, and if you look at it, it will give you a spark of hope. My reason are completely different to yours, since I became the gloomiest person you could encounter on earth, after that I unexpectedly came out of a relationship that had given me the chance “to see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, to hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in one hour” (it’s not me, it’s Blake, even if I would be happy to say I wrote it!!). In no way I want to diminish the turns of bad luck you have had and you're having, by comparing my situation to yours, but once you’re 36 floors under – whatever the reason – and bad things line up, one after the other, making everything unbearable, you can just approach the problems, one after the other and do your best to solve them...In the middle of my fight, I read a sentence that states that you just get what you can be expected to be able to fight. that means that, even if it is difficult, and even if it's big trouble; if the problems are there, it's because you can find the power to fight them. I’m not a believer of any sort, my faith ends out of myself, but at that time I decided to believe in that, maybe just because it worked as a boost. And, gosh, it worked! And maybe it will work for you too. just make a plan a start from the smallest things. and if you have 10 problems, approach one after the other, starting from the one you can do something about. You’ll soon see that the packages of bad things in front of you start dropping. And one day you’ll see the small quantity left and start laughing and realize you’re on the battleground again and from one battle to another, you will just gain confidence. Remember that the city of Troy was taken after 10ish years of battles, after that the troops outside of it had been decimated by the wrath of a God, but they went home with the treasure of the king! Good Luck!
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Post by: Mike on November 30, 2006, 04:43:05 AM
I'd like to agree here with Happy but especially my friend fireflyer, Frank!
Also, please make sure you don't get your hopes up too high about California. It's not all "Beverly Hills 90210" or "Baywatch", you know. There are a lot of unhappy and downright nasty people out here (not to ention traffic and stress). And although I like it here in Southern Cal. (especially the weather), I can think of lots of better places to go and live at in Europe (which by the way isn't too far out of reach for you). Southern Italy or Greece would be my choice personally. I have been to many many places all over the world and everywhere I've been there were things I loved and things I didn't care for so much.
Home is where you make it!!!
Title: Re: Sad, cute little animation
Post by: Frank N. O. on November 30, 2006, 08:10:25 PM
Well it's true that home is where you make it, but a short answer is that I don't think that USA itself is the promised land but it does have some things that I need that DK just can't offer, like a space where you can drive a trip without being tailgated but still within a couple of hours of a supermarket where I can get some groceries. A place where I can buy a car for money that's possible to borrow and where it won't start rusting within a few years and where I need to change between summer and winter tires several times a year (more than just two) (danish registration tax is 180% and standard sales tax on everything is 25% and fuel again is 2-3x more expensive than in USA, at least automotive fuel, not sure about avgas and jet1). Also, I know nice people in USA, I don't know anyone I can live near for more than a few years here (mom is 64 and our friends are in the 70s and my 42 year-old brother says he'll leave the country for his education but we were never that close anyway so emails and such is enough). Furthermore I'm fluent in american and have been since I was 8 and I know some part about some of the american culture but I know nothing about Italy and Greece or any other european country. I had considered Australia but I don't think I can get used to driving in the wrong side of the road and I don't want to risk an accident. Japan is wonderful but I have no idea how to fit in, nor do I think I can even in a lifetime, and besides is there anything but big cities in Japan, are there any relaxed suburbs at all?
I never ever want to live in something like Beverly Hills, Hollywood, LA, SF or some busy place like that, but there's a lot more to California than that right? And about good and bad people then there are those everywhere, in any country, family, religion, company, club etc. etc. but California and other US states has a lot more physical space to find a quiet and beautiful place to live than compact DK.
I wouldn't mind having a calm and serious talk about finding a nice place and way to live so if you guys/gals are interested I'll just make a happy life thread, I think the people here could easily have a nice and serious but relaxed talk about it unlike other places. I do think that happyness is not something you reach but something you live and things vary but can still be nice, and being satisfied is happyness for me. I don't ever want a Ferrari, a giant mansion and a LearJet, more like a Subaru or Ford sedan, a nice little but specially built place made to suit me and a Cardinal or Commander, ok that last part is really dreaming but my dreams are made and intended to be realised unlike most other people's dreams.
Frank
Title: Re: Sad, cute little animation
Post by: Baradium on November 30, 2006, 08:49:13 PM
Hey Frank, still think CA might not be really what you're looking for. Although it does sound better. Probobly the most expensive place to live in the US though. There are other places if you want warm, and even more if you don't mind some cold.
Stop by chat in the next few hours if you'd like to talk some, got canceled out again so have 5 hours before I need to worry about work again...
Title: Re: Sad, cute little animation
Post by: Mike on December 01, 2006, 12:33:10 AM
I just wanted to make sure you don't think I am trying to talk you out of coming to sunny California, Frank. I just didn't want you to get your hopes up too high and be dissappointed when you get here, that's all. (used to happen to me a lot where I got my hopes up and got let down....)
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Post by: tundra_flier on December 02, 2006, 07:00:08 PM
I'd have to say that California is at the bottom of my list of places to live in the US, Ok maybe it's above Detroit. It's easily one of the most heavily taxed, high regulated of the western states. If you can learn to enjoy the cold Alaska is one of the free'est state in the Union. Pretty much any way you want to live is Ok. I work with an Architect who lives in a tiny log cabin with a wood stove for heat and another whith a huge mansion, big boat and multiple nice cars. And these two guys have similar incomes! On top of it there are about 50 private airstrips within 50 miles of me. Come on up!
Phil
Title: Re: Sad, cute little animation
Post by: Frank N. O. on December 02, 2006, 08:36:49 PM
Well honestly I don't know much about any place except central and eastern Denmark and that's enough to know that it just doesn't suit me. But several things have happend to further unsettle my planning and concentration, my mom hitting her head for one so I'm trying to rest and figure something more out and in the meantime I'm laying low since the stress and confusion can (and sadly have) make me say things that gets misunderstood and just causes more problems instead of removing them.
Mike, Stef has my story about what I do since our stories are kind of similar, if he can't remember it then I'll write it again for you, but it's a sad story.
Frank
Title: Re: Sad, cute little animation
Post by: Mike on December 04, 2006, 04:38:24 AM
Mike, Stef has my story about what I do since our stories are kind of similar, if he can't remember it then I'll write it again for you, but it's a sad story.
Frank
Ok, I'll ask him. No need to tell the same thing all over again... Thanks Frank!
