Trying to figure things out

It's hard to figure out what people want to see on a blog when we have zero input.

right now, me Zach and Jimmy usually just post that that seems interesting to us. But personally i often wonder what is it that people would like to see me post.

I mean, maybe you guys drop by to see if we posted a link to something funny? if we rant about a movie? maybe you drop by looking for doodles?

Tried doodling today, and Zach was watching me do it over Skype, felt so uncomfortable...

Truth is, to us it's hard to tell because the feedback is null on everything, and yet we still have people visiting. Zach rarely posts any doodles here because he believes nobody wants to see those here. I think he's wrong but i really have no proof of the contrary.

I'm not telling u guys "Hey bitches, post right now and tell us what u like!", just saying that giving hints every once in a while would help us.

on another note:



As i thought, the Oekaki is mostly abandoned again. What's the deal? I make a poll (completely expecting it to fail), you guys actually voted on it and even more surprising, towards keeping the Oekaki.

So I'm like "Well, i really didn't expect that... guess I'll keep the thing up then.", and i do, giving it a over 95% up time for months, and then ya' all forget bout it.

I am disapoint. Well... not really, i mean, i kept it up cause your people asked me, so it wasn't for my sake anyway.

Well anyway, lastly:



I saw this video, found a server hosting that map, and damn, that's quite an experience. it felt so damn awesome.

If you do look up this map and activate the cat, at the end of his "performance" everything is white and u can't see anything UNLESS you're set on fire

There's a couple of flames that open us near where u spawn so try to remember where they are after kitty kills everyone.

Seung Mina that's why we love you.

Probably not work safe.


Seung Minas Treasure Hunt! - Episode 5

As Chris from King of Fighter would say, "You make me laugh, chump. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh."

Modern Midna

So, I finally got around to drawing Midna in her true form...sorta. Due to...lack of a decent reference, I guess, I threw this together. Sorta threw in a few elements from the imp form too, but that's how most people know her. Shame she effectively roped herself out of the series...barring some stupid retcon or loophole they neglected to mention earlier or whatever. Anyways, I wouldn't be surprised if she "comes back" as an "extremely familiar, but not the same" character.

...She was basically Tetra anyway.

"New Fist of the North Star"

So yesterday i finally found out what the Hokuto no ken movies i hadn't seen were called. they're from 2004 and were called "new fist of the north star". 3 OVA movies 1 hour long each.

Events takes place after the 2nd series, and maybe because of that there really isn't anything that feels important about it. Kenshiro's pretty much just wandering around doin what he does, and that's it.

Kenshiro saves a guy, ends up being involved etc etc...

Art is nice, kills are excessively detailed and graphic, everything looks good, but personally i kept having the feeling it was just another Monday for Kenshiro, he barely seemed to care about the events himself.

Only thing a fan would enjoy is the brief fights Kenshiro is involved in, and how they have 2 variants of hokuto shinken in it and explain it by saying that they could had been created by candidates to b the heir of hokuto shinken who weren't chosen, had their "fists sealed", but still retained enough knowledge to teach part of the art to others. A variant is used for medicine, and the other for fighting.

I think that's the first time that it's addressed what happens to people who don't become the heir, but seems that as soon as they address it they find that it's been done twice. In the same week finding 2 variants of hokuto shinken seems pushing it.

If you're a fan, I recommend watching it once, it's not bad, just, all things considered it's meaningless.



Note to my friends, my character Brooke's anniversary is on the 30th.

Oni Gary's Midnight Flower

With CPS, I wanted to try doing one of those nifty ancient Japan alternate universe stories they do in lots of manga I've read. Then I got a better idea to base it on Gary's point of view. So it's a bit more serious and realistic looking(want a nice example of what I'm talking about? Check out the new Zelda trailer for Wii. This is to CPS as that is to Wind Waker), and more stylized.

Razz is, being the apple, or raspberry rather, of Gary's eye, is a badass, dead-serious sex bomb of a woman...in her alternate persona, the Midnight Flower. In most circumstances, she is an awkward, lovable dope. She's kinda like Kenshin Himura. The outfit is unashamedly "based" on Momohime-Jinkuro from the game Muramasa. Originally, I drew the kimono longer, with less cleavage and no armor attatched to it. I mostly figured the shorter version would mirror Razz's style of dress better. It's a lot easier to tell she's 20 like this, eh?

So that's basically it. Everything is based loosely on how Gary perceives things, yet still mirroring how it normally is. Maybe I'll throw some more of these useless ideas up her later. Not like anyone cares, right? I really should do something with the actual idea before I start thinking about alternate universes, right?

PS2 emulation

On a whim, a couple of days ago, i decided to see the state of emulation for the PS2. It's something I've been meaning to do for ages but kept putting it off because some emulators are just a pain to configure and i assumed this would b one of those times.

I believe there's more than one PS2 emulator, but i tried this one:

You an download it as a zip or as an installer, i tried the installer.

And i really didn't have to configure much at all. You do have to get a PS2 Bios wich is simple to find with a google search and point the emulator to it. after that configure your controls and if u want to mess with the other options that's optional but the default settings work well.

Tested it with Disgaea 2, and it runs at a smooth 60FPS with really rare hiccups. The only downside i see in it is that it emulates the video too accurately, and these games are intended for TVs who deal with the scanlines.

Long story short, once you load a game, press F5 until the screen stops shaking. I wish i could get a pixel clear picture, but i'm just playing and not ripping sprites so that's ok.

As for Disgaea 2, so far i like it. Only played the first game on my PSP before, which i started to replay recently but the PSP was killing my hands and eyes, not to mention there's no comfortable way to hold something in front of you for hours without switching position all the time.

I hate playing games on consoles but really like playing on my PC, so this suits me just fine.

LordKat's Livestream is neat

Not sure since when, but LordKat (he's the "Until we win" guy on "that guy with the glasses") set up a Usteam along with his chat where we can see what he does all day.

He has guests show up which are usually people from "that guy with the glasses" and you can listen in and they chat over Skype and such.

They do D&D sessions midweek and weekends which i admit i find interesting. I don't think D&D is played at all around here, but it seems like something I'd be into.

I like that it's possible to play it online, but i hate i don't have people to try it with.

Lordkat recently started playing TF2, and i had to go show my "appreciation" for him.

I gotta say it's really cool to play TF2, kill someone, and 5 secs later see yourself through your victim's eyes doing it!

TF2: Mac update

Well, It's not what i hoped for, but it's something.

Anyway, here's the deal:

• Free Weekend - get your friends to play for free til the end of the 13th.
• Free earbuds item if you log on TF2 using a Mac til the 14th.
• And in the video, you can see the engy with a new shotgun.

I want the earbuds, but i don't even know anyone who owns a Mac, so meh.