Musings V2

Sketchblog Post #12 Sharon Rastur

2009-07-17T01:27:00.004+08:00

Sharon Rastur

It's been a while since I last gave her a proper drawing. Sharon is Durant's childhood friend and sparring partner. Her approach to swordsmanship, despite her aptitude towards pure strength byond her peers, is in sharp contrast to Durant's brute strength approach. She focuses more on developing special skills and techniques that allows her to incapacitate the enemy with more efficiency and grace. On top of that, she has a few low-level magic spells handy to aid her when the time comes. This has allowed her to become the best swordsman in Avalonia as well as a symbol of resistance against the mysterious invading army.

She also has a family with children.

Sketchblog Post #11 - Redesign Inspired

2009-07-03T16:08:00.004+08:00

Valerie (Inspired Redesign)

So the story of this is that I have been talking with Slowfag about furry stuff, like our favourite artists, sharing our collection of porn. At some point, he introduced me to the artwork of Tsampikos, and it really impressed me. Well, after a while, his illustration style began to bore into my mind and took over my muses and this is the eventual result.

So yeah, check out their works.

Sketchblog Post #10 - Ailís Esperança (Model Kincaid X-1)

2009-06-15T02:11:00.006+08:00

Ailís with the Kincaid X-1 CyFrame system

Another brainfart of mine sketched out not too long ago. Doing a better design of her startup upgrades. All of them can be controlled by her thoughts alone.

Head : Kincaid Cyclops HUD system Mk. 1. Heads-Up Display system worn over the left or right eye with a set of straps to firmly secure the device to one's face. Quickly identifies and displays info and condition of any spotted entity, friend or foe. Interfaces with cerebral implants and sensors implanted on various points inside the body to display one's own physical condition in real time as well as store and retrieve data on any entities sighted for quick target recognition.
Upper Back : Kincaid Scythe Wing System 1.0. A set of metal feathers used for fine control of aerial movements that can can also be deployed as a cutting implement for hostile targets at mid-range.
Central Back : Kincaid Thrusters B1. A pair of thrusters which includes a stabilizing fin that is mainly used to provide forward thrust for the user.
Lower back : Kincaid Thrusters C1. A pair of downwards-pointing thusters that is mainly used to provide short bursts of upward thrust for the user.
Left Arm : Kincaid Battle Gauntlet 1.0. A weapon attachment that functions as a twin laser cannon, a beam katar and an elbow-scythe. The two halves of a beam katar can be deployed directly into the user's hand and used as a beam dagger. Design is symmetrical to accomodate both left and right-handed users.
Right Arm : Kincaid Energy Shield 1.0. A defensive arm attachment that has a permanent energy field covering the device itself. A larger energy shield, and if need be, a spherical field covering the body from all angles, can be projected outward at will for short periods of time. Design is symmetrical to accomodate both left and right-handed users.
Legs : Kincaid Icarus 1.1. A pair of boots that can provide short burts of upwards or forwards thrust for faster running and higher jumping. The 1.1 update includes a suspension system that reduces the shock and strain of landing from high places, and reduces the fatigue associated with digitigrade bipedal locomotion.

Other design tweaks include a slightly modified body suit design that keeps the aesthetics of the previous bodysuit design while removing that extra piece of cloth draped on her chest. She is also now semi-digitigrade (Weight is placed mostly on the balls of the feet rather than the toes and the ankle elevation is lower than in traditional digitigrade design.) with three digits on each feet as opposed plantigrade with five.

Sketchblog Post #9 - Random Pinup

2009-06-04T15:11:00.004+08:00

Random Pinup

Just to let you know, I am still alive and kicking. I have been working on music for a friend's RPG Maker project as well as the complete character sheet set. Both are related to the wonderful community at TerraEarth, so good times are bound to happen soon. I'll show you my works for those projects when they are done, but for now, here's a random pinup doodle.

Today is a happy day for the gaming industry.

2009-05-07T18:57:00.003+08:00

According to shacknews, 3D Realms is shutting down. The fate of the Duke? The publishing rights to DNF is retained by Take-Two, who will not be funding the project. Gee, I guess George Broussard will have to face reality now that he can no longer get high snorting pizzas off a hooker's ass and living the fantasy of being worshipped as the next John Carmack with his ridiculously overcompensatory self-insert.

The company has been a pox on the gaming industry ever since its inception, and in it's later years it grew bloated and useless, living off publishing deals from other small-time developers. In fact, the company has developed fuck-all since 1996. I am amazed at how many people are acting towards this news as if someone had killed their god. Seriously, George Broussard could not be any further from being a saint if he tried.

So Georgie Gnarr, good riddance, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. (IF it could fit through the door!)

Sketchblog Post #8 - Inspired

2009-03-01T06:37:00.002+08:00

Inspired

A pretty rough and quick study on anatomy and poses. Quite a few errors made, but I am satisfied with how it turned out.

FurAffinity : Incompetence Redefined

2009-02-26T19:35:00.004+08:00

Long story short, someone compromised the accounts of 3 members of FA, there was a serious fuckup made by an Admin and the entire site was shut down temporarily. Dragoneer, the head honcho, in his infinite wisdom, decided not to name or take action against the admin who fucked up because it was "an honest mistake" and he doesn't want to "point fingers". Here's what Dragoneer himself had to say on the matter :

"Hey, kids! My name's Dragoneer, and I have to be the unfortunate person who gets to relay what really happened. Tincrash's account was legitimately compromised by this user, but what happened after that point was our fault. Only three users were affected (Tincrash included), but that's three more than I find acceptable. Due to an unfortunate accident on our part, rather than being banned, the compromised account was mistakenly set to "admin" for roughly two minutes time. It was rectified fixed ASAP, however, during that time, some damage was done (see thread).

This was a complete mistake on our part. I'd rather be open and tell you up front that we fucked up rather than this ~~asshole~~gentlemen goad and get credit for what was ultimately our flub. Again, it was a human error on our part, and we're ensuring that it does not happen again. Don't give this "hacker" idiot credit. Blame me. I won't tell you which admin made the mistake, because I'm not going to point fingers. I'd rather the entire community hate me than hate a dude who made an honest mistake trying to do what was right for the community.

If you want somebody to blame for this blame me.

I can't apologize enough for this inconvenience. I really can't. However, I'm not going to hide that we made a mistake. Rather, FA will remain offline until we can ensure that mistake is corrected and is preventable from happening again. I do not know the ETA at this time, but keep in mind it is of the highest priorities. We are also taking the opportunity to ensure that compromised accounts can be easily reverted.

I dislike outages as much as anybody else, because whenever FA goes down me and a bottle of Advil becomes closer lovers than I'd like to admit.

- Dragoneer"

Gee, any site worth their salt would fire the admin responsible for the massive fuckup, and that would be at its most lenient. Honest mistake or not, a mistake of this magnitude is proof that the person is incapable of the position, but noooo, Dragoneer is too cool for common sense so he decided to let the admin off scott free. Yeah...

This is 15999 USD of your donation money in action. You've been funneling money to this person whose head might as well be used as a garden ornament. I hope you are all proud of yourselves.

So if any of you wonder why I refuse to be a part of that site. Here is your answer.

Sketchblog Post #7 - Packing Heat

2009-02-20T00:56:00.003+08:00

Packing Heat

This was actually from an OC session three days ago on the 17th and was meant to be another collab with Foehammer, but time constraints kind of shut that prospect down. About the picture, it's just a random fox hermaphrodite on a snowboard.

Music Post #1 - Wayfarer of Light

2009-02-09T00:45:00.003+08:00

I finally found some audio hosting service that allows for widgets to be used in blogs. So without further ado :

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The Big Dud - Refuted

2009-01-30T21:58:00.003+08:00

I came across this piece of creationist dribble which brings into question the person's knowledge of the scientific methods and principles used today. Now, I normally skip over this ignorant crap, but I am feeling inspired right now. For reasons involving my banishment from Deviantart and the fact that creationists likes to censor any and all dissent, I am playing it safe and writing this here out of the reach of creationist charlatans who are so fond of abusing power.

So let's start with the opening paragraph.

"What if I told you that everyone alive today, everything in the world, and even the universe as we know it, is the result of a giant explosion in space millions(or billions) of years ago? If you said "that sounds a lot like the Big Bang theory"-you would be correct. This is the stuff that fairy tales are made of;but sadly this tall tale is presented as unquestionable concrete fact. Many many people actually believe that they are only here because at some point in time..an unknown amount of material decided to explode."

Oh dear, not a very good start here. See, the most common misconception about the Big Bang theory is that it was an explosion. It was not an explosion, since there were no constraints of the fabric of space and time in which anything could have exploded. Rather, the Big Bang (A term coined by a Steady-State Universe advocate.) was most likely a rapid expansion of the space and time fabric from a singularity, and all the matter in the universe expanded with it, like the dots on an inflating balloon.

Another set of misconceptions presented here are that theories are presented as concrete fact and that theories are stuff made out fairy tales. This stems from the gross ignorance of what the term "theory" really means in a scientific context. Theories are a model of explanations, backed by reproducable, empirical and falsifiable evidence, that explain a natural phenomena. Although theories are not 100% accurate, (Gravity wasn't properly understood until Einstein came along, but even before then, Newton's theories were accepted. It is very likely that more data could reveal more about gravity in the future that supercedes, in terms of detail and accuracy, Einstein's theory of gravity.) they are the most powerful form of proof in science. In this case, the Big Bang theory is more than the stuff of fairytales ; It does not explain the origin of the universe. What it does is that it describes and explain what was most likely to have happened in the instant since the event itself. (T = 1 planck second and onwards.) It is backed by mountains of evidence, like the cosmic background radiation, the Hubble-type expansions seen in the redshifts of distant objects, or the prediction of homogeny and isotropy, which are made from the theory, being confirmed by stringent tests.

To dismiss such a theory without any significant or valid basis is inexcuseably ignorant.

"And then we have the ones who attempt to add God to the equation. They say the all-mighty Creator of the universe used the Big Bang to sort of get things started-and then naturally evolution took over from there. Right? Uh, no. If God did use a giant explosion to kick start His creation...then why doesn't the Bible just say so? The account of creation is written very straight forward in a step-by-step process. God speaks/something happens. It's impossible to mistake a single day in the Bible for millions of years, unless you intentionally want it to be so."

Unfortunately for you, mixing religious beliefs into scientific theory is breaking the fundamental philosophy of science ; That science cannot and will not make any comment on the supernatural. It also should be mentioned that the universe is extremely hostile to life as we know it. If we were to combine the weight of every living being on this planet, it would just barely be a tiny fraction of the Earth's entire mass, divide that fraction further by a thousand and you get the fraction of mass in our solar system that is living. If we drop a naked man onto any randomly picked place on earth, 90% of the time, he will be dead within minutes due to extreme temperatures, drowning, predation et cetera.

If you really want to argue, as fact, for the literal interpretation of the bible's creation story. You will have to find evidence that the world as we know it, is no more than 4400 years old, as well as find valid refutation for the mountains of evidence that currently show that our planet and the universe is 4.6 and 13.73 ± 0.12 billion years old respectively. Otherwise, your story of creation can be dismissed as fantasy without needing any evidence.

"Both the Big Bang and evolution(as in molecules-to-man) cannot actually be repeated, tested, or observed in action."

You really should acquaint yourself with the observed instances of speciation before you make a bold and ignorant claim like that. Evolution has been observed many times with fruit flies, and even initiated by us humans via farming and domestication. It is well documented, tested, observed and reproduced.

If you are actually talking about the origin of life, you should read up on abiogenesis before you go on. Abiogenesis is a chemical phenomena, not a biological one, and it explains how life might have arisen from non-living organic molecules.

"The Bible says the world was originally created perfect and that violence, disease, and bloodshed came later after the fall of man. The Big Bang puts death, disease, and bloodshed, untold eons before humans ever appeared on this planet."

I have trouble trying to appraise the point you are trying to make with this one. Where exactly are you going with this?

"But both the Big Bang and evolution are fully supported by a lot of Christians.

The fact is, the Big Bang takes away God's power by severely reducing His involvement in creation to nothing more then flipping a switch. Afterwards time and chance take over from there."

That is because science and religion are not mutually exclusive ideas, you can be a christian and a scientist as long as you don't try to mix the two. Again, science says nothing about the existence or nature of a supernatural being such as a god.

"Assuming that God actually did use the Big Bang to create the universe and all life, then instead of And God said... and it was there fully formed and working-we now have to wait around for millions of years while everything somehow "evolves" into being."

No, "we" don't. We are all already here.

"Which brings up the obvious questions like:"

Ahh, the petitio principii fallacy. It is a fallacy because it assumes a set of arguments based on a premise, but I will answer them.

"What happened before the Big Bang?"

Nobody knows for sure, however the current leading theory that might give insight into the origins of our universe is M-Theory.

"Where did all that "stuff" which exploded come from anyway?"

The origin of matter is a very hot topic amongst particle physics, mostly because the Higgs Mechanism, which explains why some particles have mass is currently missing the Higgs Boson ; It simply hasn't been discovered yet. That is why the Large Hadron Collider has been built in the first place. If you are talking about how matter formed, matter is formed when the universe cooled down enough so that the energy in our universe could condense into matter. (This takes place after the rapid inflation that occured at T = 10e−37 seconds.) To further back and discover the origin of energy, nobody knows.

"How exactly did this "stuff" floating around in space find other "stuff" that would work in just the right way?"

It's called the fundamental forces. The strong and gravitational forces work together through stellar nucleosynthesis to produce the heavier elements, the stars & planets, while the weak and electromagnetic forces help to create & mutate the elements, molecules and compounds we see today via radioactivity and chemical reactions.

"When does something blowing up create order and intelligence?"

This is a strawman fallacy at its finest as well as a gross oversimplification. Nobody is saying that blowing things up creates order and intelligence. There are thousands of natural procceses that are in place that have progressively worked towards bringing the universe to this point of self-aware order and complexity. You cannot afford to just ignore the intermediary proccesses. That's just sickeningly ignorant and intellectually dishonest.

"If God is all-powerful, then why does He require billions of years of random chance and accidents to create life?"

Those are your own words, nobody else's. Nobody but you are asserting this claim.

"Sorry, but the idea that we're all here as the result of a few trillion accidents all working together perfectly the first time is so ridiculous, that I don't even need a Bible to know it could never happen."

This is an appeal to ridicule fallacy, and the following video explains why this kind of argument is stupid and fallacious.

In conclusion, I would like to say that you are a sickeningly ignorant and intellectually dishonest imbécile who would much rather use your questions to further your questionable agenda to misinform the masses just so they could turn to the same doctrine you follow. You make no efforts to do your own research and answer your questions, even if it may seem to contradict what you were brought up to believe in and you would much rather wallow in your own ignorance. You are the lowest of the low, the weakest link, and your argument is eviscerated. Have a good day.

Why I don't play the newer games.

2009-01-26T22:52:00.002+08:00

Nearly a month ago, at New Years day, I was shopping for a good wireless USB laser mouse. I came across a computer supply store next to a video game store whose owner was kind enough to fix up my PSX a while back. He was quite amazed by how uninterested in the newer games I am compared to the ones released in the last decade. He asked this question which followed me around for days.

"Don't you ever get bored of the old games? Why don't you play the newer games?"

While I did initially gave him the answer involving the rise of DRM that screw over legitimate customers. There is a lot more to it than that, which I will get into.

The biggest aspect I saw in games released nowadays is that they tend to be uncreative and homologous in design. Often when I see a new upcoming game release, I think that it is just a game from another franchise, just with this franchise's grille slapped all over it and with a graphics makeover. The biggest offenders I saw of this example is Fallout 3/Oblivion and Dead Space/System Shock 2. While I have no problems with a game franchise taking a successful formula from another and assimilating it into its own, it is very often done with very little consideration as to how the franchise's signature feature would translate into the new formulae. Sometimes, this would result in intrinsic gameplay elements turning into a clunky unnecessary gimmick.

There's even some franchises that are just plain generic, like Halo, that simply does a good job of repeating the same features other games of the same genre has while adding a couple of gimmicky new features that are done not out of genuine creativity, but because of creative laziness. You see the regenerating shield power in the Halo games? Well that is because the map designers are so inept, they couldn't even properly decide where the health pickups should be, if the bland level design in the campaign mode isn't telling enough.

Even within its own franchise, it seems that the people in charge of it aren't even trying any more to keep it fresh and interesting in each release. It could be due to a change of hands, like in the case of the System Shock and Painkiller series. (Bioshock is merely a graphical and mood upgrade to SS2 and Painkiller : Overdose is simply an expansion pack of the original, but with a half-demon and a lame collection of one-liners.) More often than not though, the companies who own the franchises just got lazy. Nintendo and EA Sports are the biggest offenders of them all, every single one of their franchises' current instalment is simply the previous instalment but with updated graphics, not-so-original new content and lame gimmicks slapped on top of it that add nothing to the overall gameplay experience. Some franchises, like the Sonic series, eventually and ultimately cocked itself up due to this. It's all a big sellout.

Speaking of which, why haven't the fad of movie-to-game adaptations gone extinct yet? So far, only two games, in a sea of sad pathetic attempts, has ever been successful in adapting a movie into a game, and that is Batman Returns for the SNES and that Final Fight game based on the horrible movie for the Neo Geo. Yet, we keep seeing game companies today attempting to translate movies to video games and failing because too much effort is spent perfecting that one gimmick that appeared in the movie without any consideration to the plot of the movie, the logic of the movie, or even making the game fun to play. The Matrix games are the prime example of poor movie to game translations. The reasons why Batman Returns is successful and the Matrix games failed are quite numerous, but to cite the biggest ones, Batman Returns did a really good balance between faithfulness to the movie plot and a solid gameplay mechanic while the Matrix games did not, Batman Returns made the franchise signature features a useful part of the gameplay (Batarang, knocking thugs' heads together etc.) while the Matrix games just slapped them on as a useless gimmick and while they both borrowed formulas from well-established gameplay archetypes, Batman Returns executed them very well while the Matrix games just cocked them up.

So, where am I going with this? You may ask. Well see, I noticed these problems popping up and becoming more prominent as the game industry matured and aged on. Even the FPS genre, which came a bit later than other genres of games to blossom into a beautiful rose of blood and guts, have already shown signs of creative decay. I remember the 8 & 16-bit era, and even the Playstation/Saturn/N64 era, how every other game is an A+ experience while most of the rest are pretty enjoyable even if they weren't the cream of the crop. You may think that I am putting on nostalgia glasses, but you know what? Fuck you, you're wrong. I am perfectly capable of telling whether or not a game has aged well. I have no problem in admitting that there are a lot of crappy games in that era, as long as it is recognized that they are greatly outnumbered by good games that have withstood the test of time.

So with the game industry slowly resigning its fate to creative bankruptcy and releasing games of mediocre quality and lazy design, one has to wonder how it became that way. However, with a brief primer on the history of video games, a picture starts to form in one's head that could tell them what had happened to cause it to degenerate so much. It's pretty simple, when Nintendo rebooted the industry with the NES or Famicom, everyone wanted in on it because it is like the promised land for aspiring programmers, but they kept in mind the importance of releasing a quality product. So they did for a while, some failed and died off, some took the world by storm and some even got lost in the zen of their own projects. That is all good, for us gamers at least. Ever wondered why the rivalry between Genesis/MD and SNES/Super Famicom owners was so intense? It is because both systems had so much awesome games, it was a neck-to-neck race of how many quality titles for each system we could add to our collection. Then some company made a game, it was a pretty mediocre one compared to previous instalments in terms of gameplay, but it was the first in the franchise to have unprecedented graphical features. The game took the world by storm, and the reaction was so positive that it forced the whole video gaming industry into the spotlight of mainstream entertainment. This can not be good, not only because it gave developers the false impression that they can make bad games and still turn a profit as long as it has a famous franchise label, but because it also left the door wide open to companies from other areas of the mainstream entertainment industry, companies who had no experience making, marketing and selling games and only cared about making a quick buck, to infest. (This is probably why movie to game adaptations still exist. You've seen what that did to the Atari-era video game industry.) This philosophy of turning a quick penny without consideration for customer satisfaction slowly took hold of the video game industry, slowly eating away at its integrity ; games began to suffer greatly from it. Then, it got to the point where companies feel justified in treating their customers like criminals, as seen by the ever-increasingly draconian DRM measures being employed in games and here we are today.

Of course, there are exceptions ; All throughout this post, I have been tarring the entire industry with a very large brush using very wide strokes and up until now, I have failed to mention Valve. Valve has my respect for being pretty much the only video game development company to continuously try new things with their franchises and doing so successfully, while being opposed to the ridiculously draconian DRM measures, like SecuROM, employed in newer games as well as being actively in support of modding projects involving their games. On numerous occasions, I have had fellow gamers ask me if Valve is the only developer to try new things with their games, and I am very much inclined to say yes as I could not think of any other company acting alike.

So here is what I think of the video game industry today. Hopefully my voice will reach someone in the industry who can, would and will make a difference for the better.

What are your thoughts?

Sketchblog Post #6 - Collab

2009-01-21T15:23:00.003+08:00

Skye Pondering

This is the result of an impromptu collab session with me and a friend of mine from the TwoKinds IRC chat who goes by Foehammer. I did the linework and he added colour to it.

[SamTV] [Humour] Persistence

2009-01-06T20:29:00.001+08:00

Just something hilarious that just happened in g0dFather's Serious SGA 1.07 dedicated server today. I honestly have no idea for how long they kept at it after I left to record this.

Sketchblog Post #5

2008-12-29T10:20:00.003+08:00

Vigilante Crimefighter Valerie

A design for a comic a friend of mine is gonna do. Inspired by superheroes in a modern, but with slight sci-fi elements, this incarnation of my persona is devoted to fighting crime without the need for the law to intervene. She is gentle in temperament, has an unwavering focus on her missions and fairly open-minded, yet she can be overconfident, (Cost her an arm and a wing, which got replaced by prosthetics powered by a gem embedded on her sternum.) arrogant and scatterbrained at times. She can be really sociable, friendly and affectionate, but sometimes just wants some alone time. She also has a very deep respect for life and will do anything she can to make sure that no deaths result from her actions.

Being outside of the law, she is herself also constantly on the run from it. As a result, she really has no home to rest in and almost nothing else to her name other than what she carries on her person. Her caretaker, who have been taking care of her for most of her early life and have given her all her equipment is no longer legally able to take care of her. She still visits him from time to time, though.

She is not quite as strong and not as durable as a typical superhero, but she is agile and can ride through the storm pretty well. She has limited psionic abilities that can help detect people through opaque barriers around her with limited range, give her a brief fleeting glimpse of a person's thoughts and help to speed up recovery from wounds. She also can use her wings to glide and gain a small mid-air boost.

Her arsenal includes :

A pulse rifle that fire stunner bolts. It has a scope that can extend the reliable range of the rifle to 1536 metres. It holds 400 charge units which it can fire in rapid succession at 600 rounds per minute or in clusters of 12 units with a recovery time of 1.2 seconds for sniping.
A riot control shotgun (not shown) that fires 12-gauge riot-control pellets at 60 rounds per minute in a narrow spread pattern. It is shorter, and more maneuverable but its range is very short and requires constant reloading from a limited supply.
A pair of modified MP7-K assault SMGs as sidearms. It fires special hollow rounds that breaks apart on impact, causing superficial wounds which the sedative serum contained is splashed all over. Each MP7-K can fire at 900 rounds per minute in a large bullet spread pattern. It has a magazine capacity of 25 rounds each, which is constantly being replenished by a special ammo replenisher device.
A pair of katars that has their blades dulled and electrified. It functions like fancy cattleprods.
A length of heavy-duty bondage rope (not shown) used to tie up suspects after they are taken out.
A full-body figure-hugging suit that acts as protection from fatal injury from live firearms. They don't stop the bullets from hurting like hell though.

[SamTV] [Music Vid] Jerusalem Co-op

2008-12-22T23:18:00.001+08:00

Linking my blog to my Youtube account is a pretty cool feature.

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, I have just been afflicted with laziness recently. This is all that I have been doing these days ; playing Serious Sam.

Another sketchblog post.

2008-12-17T05:09:00.005+08:00

Another Femme Tribal Squirrel

Not much to say here, these things always find their way into my sketch pad when my mind goes on autopilot. Like the last time this happened :

Sketchblog Post #3

2008-11-14T13:55:00.004+08:00

Brave knight Durant

A childhood friend and a sparring partner of Sharon, Durant is a bright fellow with an unusual amount of gusto and bravado. When training to become a knight in the town of Cantiaci, Durant adopted a "strength is everything" philosophy that had driven him to excell in his swordsmanship. This allowed him to rise up the ranks and become the commander of the Cantiaci knights fairly quickly.

Unfortunately, his philosophy of pure strength hasn't allowed him to progress much in swordsmanship skill and he will always be one step behind Sharon because of that. He also tends to push himself more than he should, and often ends up pretty roughed up after a hard day's battle. Not that it ever stops him from thinking he could keep going...which usually ends up with Sharon having to save his ass, much to his embarassment.

Keith Olbermann on Proposition 8

2008-11-12T03:25:00.002+08:00

I would say something, but it would be redundant in light of this video. If you voted for proposition 8, you should be ashamed of yourself. There is no excuse.

Sketchblog Post #2

2008-11-09T07:29:00.005+08:00

Jessica : Keeper of the mana pendant

Jessica, while having a passion for adventure, is also an accomplished martial artist of the traditional featherboxer and berserker style. The mana pendant is the valedictory gift from her martial arts mentor, who disappeared without a trace after their final training session together. It wasn't too long before her sense of curiousity fed into her adventurous spirit and became a near-insatiable desire to travel across the globe to discover its origin and the secrets it holds.

This, through a not-so-common set of circumstances, has made her the target of many adversaries who desire the pendant for what it keeps locked away. Jessica can only look in amazement at the pendant as she realized how much of her raison d'être it had become.

A new terror has been unleashed in the entertainment world.

2008-11-08T02:30:00.002+08:00

What...the...FUCK!?

Obama wins, then the internet shat their pants.

2008-11-08T00:35:00.005+08:00

First off, I would like to congratulate all of you Americans for your new president-elect and soon to be president of the United States, Barack Obama. Now, I am not as enthousiastic as some about Obama, but I am quite happy that he got in. His victory is a sign that the voices that speaks for equal opportunity and unity is bigger than the voices of those who cling on to their stone-age xenophobia. Now, I am not saying that he is the next coming of Jesus, Ahura Mazda or any other deity of your choosing, nor do I expect him to to be 100% successful, but at least he is a step forward the nation needs right now to pull itself out of its rut.

Now, the reason I am writing this is because I want to write an open letter to everyone, especially Americans, about the reactions of the people in response to Obama's victory. See, it's totally fine to jump for joy and celebrate when your candidate of choice got elected into the White House and it is totally fine to be upset when your candidate of choice lost out. However, in the hours following the final results of the election, people who supported Obama are talking about vindictively rubbing the victory in the faces of their fellows who supported McCain and the people who supported McCain are posting myopic, venomous and hate-filled blogs, rants and videos online aimed at their fellows who supported Obama with promises of fillibustering every single perceived slip-up. This is a very abhorrent act on both sides and I, for one, am disappointed and ashamed to see people partake in such small-minded and childish behaviour.

People, whatever happened to the message of unity Obama's victory and McCain's concession speech brings? Whatever happened to putting aside your difference and working together to make the US a better place? Why are you devoting your time to furthering the rift between left and right leaning citizens and sowing hatred amongst yourselves? Where is the love for your fellows?

So please, let's not degenerate ourselves to such acts, okay? You want to be proud of the country again? Let us instead work together in unity and love to bring about a better nation.

I crusade against bullshit DRM and I am not backing down.

2008-11-01T00:20:00.006+08:00

I am going to be very direct about this : I am boycotting Fallout 3 and and every Bethsedasoft product in the past, present and future indefinitely. This is a real pity because the game itself looks very well-produced with solid gameplay elements. Obviously, the quality of the game is not the reason for the boycott.

It is when a company stoops to such a low level of dishonesty such as promising to exclude bullshit DRM from their game, then turning around, shipping their game with the latest version of Securom , and then insulting customers with the insinuation that they are software pirates before finally offering a fix for SecuROM causing install issues for their game, that I rise up to the occasion and protest with a big fat boycott.

Why not just the game, but the entire company? The answer is simple, the game is the symptom of the problem, the companies pushing their bullshit DRM is what is causing the problem. Boycotting an entire company also sends a stronger message.

I can only wish that more people followed suit so that companies, in this case Bethseda, can no longer get away with thinking they can treat their customers as criminals. There really needs to be a concerted effort to protest against bullshit DRM such as SecuROM and Starforce and the companies using such low and slimy tactics to push said bullshit DRM.

The gamers bending over, happily taking the big fat DRM dick up their ass, isn't helping the issue either; If you are able to ignore the fact that DRM is being sneaked into your games, if you are willing to ignore that game companies are getting more and more audacious and slimy with pushing intrusive DRM into their games and enjoy the game itself, then more power to you, but you are still not helping the issue, not one bit.

Sketchblog Post #1

2008-10-30T02:20:00.006+08:00

Female Featherboxer

Featherboxers are a class of kickboxers who specializes in quick aerial moves stringed together in quick succession. They would prefer speed, grace and accuracy of strikes over power. As feather adornments are a sign of proficiency in the art, their bare wardrobe serves not only a practical purpose of unrestricted movement, but also to draw attention to the symbols of their status as accomplished masters of the art.

Hello there.

2008-10-29T23:58:00.003+08:00

Okay so I took the plunge and moved to blogger. If you are linked here from my LJ post, chances are, your LJ account is added to my Google Reader. Post here with your account name if you want confirmation or affirmation. To add my blog here, you can either follow this blog with your Open ID, or you can add the url of this blog to your Google reader subscriptions.

In case you're new here, I am an amateur MIDI music composer, illustrator and an aspiring game designer. I also am what you would call a furry and thus most of my creative output would most likely be be anthropomorphic-themed. I also game a lot, my taste in games include 90's 16-bit games of the SNES and Genesis era and action-oriented FPS games, especially Valve-released games and Serious Sam. So don't hesitate to talk to me if you're looking for someone to play games like Serious Sam and Counter Strike with.

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