I started Dragon Age: Origins (played a lady/warrior/dwarf commoner) a few months ago, then picked it up again and blitzed through it in the last couple of weeks.

I tell you what, marathoning it like that makes you really tired of the robotic NPC body language, really fast.

Once I finish the Awakening DLC I guess I'll get to Dragon Age 2, though I'm not looking forward to it -- for some bizarre reason DA2's faces aren't as good as DA:O's, particularly in the eyebrows. On the other hand, DA:O had Leliana's awful, awful mouth animations.

I have really high hopes for Starbound - a lot of people are annoyed at the stretch goals (pets...) but it makes sense not to promise anything crazy-fancy that could push back the release date any more.

edit: also the soundtrack is so goddamn awesome

thank u

Also for the heck of it I took my old sprite and made it less dumb, and by that I mean "redid it from scratch"



Could use more tweaking but still. feels good bro

edit: screw you transparency

Been getting into the Kamen Rider franchise lately (so, the last four months...). So far I've only seen Decade, Double, OOO, Fourze, about a third of Kuuga, and a handful of episodes of Amazon and V3.

(There are twenty-three different serieses in the franchise, plus tie-in films. I'm never going to watch all of them.)

It's surprisingly fun to watch people in rubber suits to beat up other people in rubber suits.

And then you realize it's all an awful trick to make you get emotionally invested in goofy-ass characters, and then you find yourself sprawled on the floor at three in the morning, crying over rubber-suit monsters.

It's probably worth pointing out that this wouldn't have been anywhere near X's final appearance. Tech demo, yo. That said, I wouldn't particularly care for an FPS.

I'd have been pretty interested in the plot as the article presents it, though.

I'm playing OFF at the moment -- odd, odd little french RPG (english translation in the link) made by someone called Mortis Ghost.

It's gotten a lot of praise for its atmosphere and story. Right now (I've just started Zone 2) I can definitely say that the atmosphere part is right, and the music is fantastic. In terms of the story I've... given up trying to decipher what's going on and focus on the puzzles.

The puzzles are pretty OK, actually, for an RPG (usually for these little horror games made in RPGmaker, the puzzles are along the lines of "find object and use it on a thing"). You actually have to pay attention and write your own notes and so on, instead of relying on trial and error and pressing buttons at random.


EDIT:

I finished the game.

I can still hear the purified zone music.

I'll never sleep again.

You're still not a real doctor.

They look edible.

So deliciously edible.

Cold porcelain isn't poisonous, right?

FOUR YEARS LATER...



I mostly post stuff on tumblr nowadays so

yeah

doo doo doo

no school like the old school

MMM Y U NO COMIC JAM?

if I am coherent and halfway sane tomorrow, I will add another panel

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[spoiler]If the text is too small:


Dialogue: "Is that bird carrying something?"


Label on parcel: FOR THE SMARTEST[/spoiler]

I periodically wander on Mabinogi. My problem with MMOs is that there's always an OPTIMAL PATH and if you don't do it you might as well reroll your character because RUINED FOREVER, which eh. Mabi mostly lacks that, but there's a couple of things I "have" to do (like rank up certain skills that are impossible to complete if you get too strong too fast) that are unreasonably grindy, even for an MMO, so I haven't progressed much at all.

Right now, playing Animal Crossing: Wild World, which, while fun, gets a bit out of hand, primarily since I'm getting the feeling I'm caught in a turf war between three gangs, one run by Nook's raccoon mafia, the second a racket between Lyle and Redd, and a mysterious third one headed by Lily the frog who lives in my village and keeps sending me off with enigmatic packages and errands and earlier today she handed me a gift and told me not to think too hard about where it came from. Then I accidentally bullied someone else into giving me their carpet for free.

I'm a bit scared.

I mostly got the Bundle because VVVVVV's music is so good. SO GOOD.

...Overall, though, I prefer the games in the second Bundle to this one. Osmos is weirdly satisfying, as is Revenge of the Titans, although I have to be careful when playing tower defense games since they're the worst offender when it comes to me going, "Oh, I'm just going to load this up for fifteen minutes, I don't think I'm going to enjoy this that much WAIT, WHERE DID THE SUN GO? WHY IS MY ROOM DARK? WHY AM I SO HUNGRY?"

Dibs on the next page.
EDIT: Ha!

Huh, it's been a while.

Heyo.

I'm messing around on this server right now -- to be honest it's not great and the mods are kind of flaky, but it's a stable server. You'll also have to post to get on the whitelist. If anyone knows any better places, I'm game for it.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1025&t=178618

Minecraft drags me out of my self-imposed semi-exile.

Unfortunately I can't really help set a server up since I pretty much started it today and I have no idea how any of it really works (ended up in a lightless hole on the first night, wandered out at dawn to collect wood, and then when I went back home there was a creeper in my cave, probably trying to steal my bacon) but I'd be more than happy to play in it when it's up.

Wide chests swap their sprites completely, don't they? So why not make a normal chest look like Eddie and a wide one like Auto's head or something?

Speaking of texture packs, I'm using this at the moment -- good stuff, although it does make iron ore look like it's filled with blood and guts.

edit: dur I can make links dur.

DRIVE BY ARTINGS

Drawing WS from memory. I don't actually know what your coat is supposed to look like, dude.

and off I go again

I briefly blip back into existence to say

HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY ASR

> Call Col. Roy Campbell for advice.

what what am I doing here where am I why am I doing this



RP character I semi-abandoned.



More roleplay characters in a different style -- Autem, Lueali, and Flan (the latter two belonging to other folks). I can't really get Flan's hair to look right, in that it's grounded in impossibility. It's like Zack from Crisis Core's hair if you made it out of pudding and plasticine.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lerou/3385213989/


The other PosterGASM images are great, but this is the best.

Autem chibi:
http://www.unowen.net/tegaki/dblog.php?u=18912&e=397992

Of course, now I have to draw everyone else in DrowLove as a chibi too. Hmm.

Also, drew this panel for this thread:


With luck this is the last damn ocean horizon I'm going to have to do.

(Next step: COMPLICATED ROCK FORMATIONS. Bugger. Thank god the underdark is, you know, dark.

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Lueali!



lumi colada: he still looks like he's trying to cosplay a dandelion to me
Star Spiritgate: at least he doesn't have the sleeve things
konrii: XD
lumi colada: oh god XD
lumi colada: his outfit makes like, no sense XD
Star Spiritgate: he's a goth flower!
lumi colada: weird custom made crap. He must have walked into the most eccentric tailor in the world and gone "please make me some distinctive robes, I look nice in green."

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What've I been up to...

I wrote a lot of froofy poems. They are froofy.

http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Growing-Up-117745032
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Flying-Lessons-117744736
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Calling-117744293
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Paying-Calls-117744074

I drew Good Omens fanart.

http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Crowley-sulks-117652360

I drew a firemage with a scepter hefty enough to beat someone's face in.

http://www.unowen.net/tegaki/dblog.php?u=18912&e=452725

I sketched some of the personnel from the SCP Foundation:

http://starspiritgate.livejournal.com/313447.html

And a couple of doodles:

http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Bet-117537697
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Follow-my-footsteps-117765684

Currently rereading Havemercy, which is pure self-indulgent reading: Metal dragons, epic gay magician romance, explosions, and sensitivity training. Aaah.

Read Alan Moore's run of Swamp Thing some weeks ago. It sort of hits me how much Sandman was obviously influenced by it, even beyond Preludes and Nocturnes.

Books I'm planning on getting:
Sir Apropos of Nothing
Bilgewater - An old favorite of mine, but my copy is falling to pieces. Sort of the antithesis to Rebecca.

Other stuff on the reading list:
Perdido Street Station - I started it last year, but drifted off after the first couple of pages. Going to give it another go since, by all accounts, it's worth it.
From Hell
Mister B Gone - Picked it up, read a dozen pages, put it down for reason of encroaching paranoid terror. Damn it, Clive Barker.

I love Constantine. I don't see how it's a "bad" movie but OK. If it's 'cause it's not like the source material that's fine, I never read Hellblazer and probably never will.

I'm pretty sure they don't mispronounce his name though, because readers of Hellblazer say it the same way and it's usually the readers who are more anal about that stuff.

I think Constantine is pronounced to rhyme with tine (as in, fork tines) rather than teen. Don't quote me on it though.

Twilight exercise: Go to a bookstore, find a copy, and flip to a random page. I guarantee you will come across something laughably bad within a minute.

Movies with Alan Moore's stuff just haven't had much luck :/ V for Vendetta had a lot of shiny visuals, but it changed/cut out what I thought were some of the best scenes. League was a bit of a mess. I haven't seen the film for From Hell, but apparently that sucked as well.

I have a guilty enjoyment for Constantine. It's terrible and has nothing to do with John Constantine at all (and if I'm not wrong they mispronounce his name), but... Tilda Swinton.

This will only be funny to people who have read Watchmen.

LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MARSHMALLOW, AND DESPAIR.

Became Canadian citizen today.

Huzzah.

My average seems to be 73 or 74 wpm so far.

Here's something interesting, if depressing and distressing.

The below are resin models, reproductions of "Venus With Apple" and "Birth of Venus." The originals are on the right.

I've put them under spoiler tags because they're nude, but it's fine art, so you know.

[spoiler]
[/spoiler]

I guess even the goddess of love and beauty can't cut it with today's standards.

The March of the Sinister Ducks.


Reading pornography, smoking cigars!

I know the smart thing is not to get my hopes up for this film, but but but but

"This excerpt from a 1970 edition of NBS Nightly News (anchored by NBS stalwart Ted Philips) features a special report from co-anchor Jim Sizemore looking back at ten years of Dr Manhattan."

There's a sea kitten doll maker.

...

I can give it lipstick and a mustache, but I can't make it wear a princess skirt and a rocker jacket? LAME.

GODDAMN STUPID HIDDEN *clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick*

EDIT: Stupid frog.

Any of you wonder how long this sort of thing would take you in the real world? If you had to escape a room this way?

EDIT: WOAH

Okay, I could get sick of this sound effect. *clickclickclick*

EDIT: WOAH again.

EDIT: Okay, that was pretty neat.

So a bunch of folks I know are going on a Grand Adventure later this month, driving across the US in about two days nonstop. I was going to suggest they slay some dragons and bring back hot Martian babes, but then it turned out that, along the way, they pass by Centralia, Pennsylvania. You know, the place the film of Silent Hill was based on?



 A half-abandoned city with overgrown roads and four cemeteries. Close to a disastrous plane crash in 1948, and home to a mine fire that has been burning since the sixties. A massive vein of coal fuels the underground fire, and it will probably keep going for two hundred and fifty years. Poisonous smoke like hellish breath gouts out from cracks in the unstable ground.

The fire's a bit more visible in some parts, too.



Did I mention that they're probably going to be passing by it around dusk in winter, where the smoke will be at its most haunting and visible? And that two of them are sensitives (if you believe in that sort of thing)?

I have informed them to take several pictures, and if they encounter strange little girls with rats on sticks, they are to run the hell away.

In other news, lo! And behold! The Iron Hand of Götz Von Berlichingen!



At the age of twenty-four, Götz's arm was destroyed in a cannon blast. Sensibly enough, he went and got a new one. One with levers and buttons and spring action and articulated fingers. A masterpiece of engineering hailing from the sixteenth century.

No word on whether it had wolverine claws or shot lasers.

I've had a pretty ungood year. Catastrophic personal decisions and all that junk.

Eh, well. I'm still not dead, so that's always a plus.

Finally changed my desktop to this:



(Think that's cluttered? Guess why there's a folder called "move this stuff.")

It is drawn by Lumi, who is made of awesome. I dunno if I'll update it when he's done colouring, I kinda like the grey.

I should at least reorganize the folders so Flan's face isn't obscured...

As always, nothing.

I did order myself the Girly books, but those are probably not going to get here tomorrow.

Julia Ecklar - The Hand of God


Damn it, this is exactly the kind of singing voice I'd strangle puppies to have.

M: Stop dropping acid.

I just didn't like the names of those kids, and the whole epilogue was beyond trite. It wasn't even remotely interesting, just obvious.

I think that was one of my problems with it. After billions of pages of story, nothing really changed in the wizarding world, for the status quo is god.

Tablet. The text takes forbloodyever and makes me crosseyed.

I drew the koopa design (think myopic, shark-toothed, notch-eared, spiky-scaly elves that are eight fricking feet tall and will go bat##### berserk if you poke them), and then found I liked the look of them so much that I applied as one.

This is exactly characteristic of koopas. CHECK IT OUT GUYS I'M HOLDING THE PIPE RIGHT AT THE RED HOT END, I'M A DAMN BADASS

Then to cleanse the palate, I drew this. I think I'm physically incapable of drawing straight cute.

o hello i named all my kidz after dead pple i am v. cr8tive

The best I can put it is that Harry Potter is not particularly good writing, but it's fun to read.

Reading Twilight is not fun, unless I found projectile vomiting from purple prose overload "fun."

DrowCatFlan (12:42:34 PM): I'm totally all for rocks going to heaven X3
Star Spiritgate (12:42:38 PM): totally
Star Spiritgate (12:42:49 PM): what will the lizard souls sunbathe on without rocks?
DrowCatFlan (12:42:55 PM): :<!
DrowCatFlan (12:43:00 PM): turtle souls
Star Spiritgate (12:43:04 PM): :>!
Star Spiritgate (12:43:24 PM): that is an unbearably cute image
DrowCatFlan (12:43:40 PM): my turtles totally forget that the other turtles are not rocks
DrowCatFlan (12:43:50 PM): so they just kinda keep piling on top of each other
DrowCatFlan (12:43:55 PM): until the bottom one moves
Star Spiritgate (12:43:58 PM): AWESOME
Star Spiritgate (12:44:06 PM): living jenga tower

I'll try it, and it seems to have elements of things that I want to see in books, but I can't swear that the weird typographical experiments won't turn me off. Mrf. But I will give it a go.