League of Legends and Fez.
I can’t even properly explain how I imagine this to be. Impossible to balance, to begin with.
I don’t normally do these, but I couldn’t resist this one. Probably because the last two games I played were Xenoblade Chronicles and Angry Birds.
Xenoblade Birds takes you on an epic quest as a young avian researcher working to discover the secret of a very powerful weapon, the Monado, which is, of course, a highly aggressive and unstable form of bird. The world you explore is on the bodies of two ancient slingshots, killed while locked in combat with one another eons in the past. Your enemy are the dreaded Pigs, a foul and soulless tribe of monsters that reside on one of the slingshots. Can you successfully unlock the hidden abilities of the Monado Bird? Can you retrieve the sacred Xenoeggs? Can you do it all before the Pigs invade in full force and wipe out all civilization on your slingshot?
Maybe? I guess? Who knows. This is a pretty strange amalgam we got going on here.
(Source: angelofthetriad)
I gots it! Can’t wait to start playing it.
Sometime next Tuesday.
Or thereabouts.
Which for most people will result in something resembling the following:
But, unfortunately, for ME at least, the process will actually look something more like this:
Mind you, I’m not complaining about any of the things I’ve got going on this weekend — especially date night with the wife, which is always a wonderful time. Just a bit of poor planning on my part which results in a fantastic, highly-anticipated new RPG game sitting quietly on a shelf awaiting its moment to shine. Hopefully, it won’t be waiting long. Unfortunately, unlike Skyward Sword, I likely won’t be able to play Xenoblade around the kids. Which means it’s automatically relegated to the post-bedtime hours. So, there’s that.
And yes, I’ve tagged this first world problems, because, yeah.
Help me name my new car!
So, earlier this week, I went and bought me a car. It’s a shiny red 2010 Chevy Aveo, and it’s a pretty little thing. Exactly what I was looking for: reliable, fuel-efficient, small, and affordable. The perfect little commuter car for the 400+ minutes I spend on the highway every week.
The only drawback: she didn’t come with a name.
I can’t very well go driving around all day in a car with no name. That’s just shameful. But I’m having a hard time thinking of a quality name that suits the car, myself, and our combined personalities. So that’s where I turn to you, FACELESS INTERNETS, in an effort to crowdsource a better nom de plume (nom de guerre?)
The car’s personality is malleable, because, well, it’s a CAR. An inanimate object by design. I’m free to project whatever personality I see fit onto the machine, in accordance with my relevant interests. As far as tying the car to my personality, well, that’s a different matter altogether. I’m essentially your standard archetypal nerd. To be more specific, here’s a list of some of my interests:
Armed with that knowledge, I can only assume someone (not me, obviously) should be able to come up with a fitting name for my car. I’ll leave this open for a few days, and come back to select a winning name.
Wait, “winning name”? Yes, did I forget to mention that there’s prizes involved (such as they are)?! I’ll go through all of the suggestions and select the one that I feel is the MOST AWESOME. That suggestion will, of course, become the name of my car. But in addition, I will also create a custom drawing for the suggestioner, of their own choosing, and ship it out to them. Various other entries that I feel are pretty awesome in their own right, but not necessarily awesome enough to be the actual name of the car, will receive some smaller drawings of my own design, as a little thank you for being NEARLY but not quite ALL-ENCOMPASSING AWESOME.
Suggestions can be submitted in a multitude of ways. Through a Tumblr reblog of this post, a Disqus comment, my ask box, my message box, an email, a comment on Facebook, or @/DM me on Twitter. I’m not picky.
Also, feel free to reblog, tweet, like, or otherwise link this post out into the wider internet. I’m not necessarily looking for traffic or anything (it’s just a personal blog, you know, it’s not like I’m doing business here or anything). But the more people who see it, then (potentially) the better suggestions I’ll receive.
I’ll give you all a week or so? I guess? I don’t know. I’ve never done something like this before. Let me give it a few days, and see how things go.
Okay, I think that’s it. Ready? SUBMIT!
When Mabel’s mother asked her what she wanted to be for Halloween, she said, “Batman Princess.” And that’s the costume she got.
B A T M A N P R I N C E S S
And suddenly all the Robins were jealous.
Sweet! I’m going to see if my daughter wants to be a Batman Princess for Halloween!
(Source: donkeysalright, via deantrippe)
I cannot WAIT to play Xenoblade Chronicles -
I was already seriously excited for this game, and then I read this Siliconera review, and my excitement was compounded by at least double, if not more. I haven’t looked forward to a game this much since…I can’t recall when.
Friday cannot come soon enough.
“I tell aspiring writers that they should write. It’s the only real advice I have. If you think you have talent, then write. You’ll find out if you’re any good. And you’ll also find out that it takes a lot more than just talent to be a writer. You have to be willing to write on the days you don’t feel like writing, for a start. And you have to learn to finish things, and to start the next thing.” — Neil Gaiman makes a living saying excellent things in excellent ways. This is just the latest example of his advice that I will attempt to take to heart in an effort to finally become a published author.
(Source: neil-gaiman)
Are you ready? Here we go.
I’ve got three new drawings I’ve worked on over the past week.
I did a drawing of my boys playing video games. This was one where I spent a significant amount of time working on getting a style to play out organically. I love how lanky Caleb (on the left) looks. He doesn’t really look like that while playing, but the characterization of him looks fun and appropriately “cartoony”. I like how it turned out. But I was really blown away by how I portrayed Alex (on the right). With his arm hanging limp and his head resting on the table, and his feet moving around at weird angles. That’s actually fairly accurate. I love how he turned out. This was a fun drawing to make, and really shows the direction I want to take my style of art.
This drawing fulfills my missing week seven.
Diverging greatly from the last drawing, the next ones were minimalist Nintendo heroes drawn in some sort of strange non-standard stick figure style. This was just something to play around with. Not a style I’ll be sticking with, but it was fun to try out for a couple of drawings. Using these together as my week eleven (last week).
Next, I’m still working on PHP mobile web apps. I’m able to bang out out in just a few hours now, with some extra time included to tweak usability and CSS. So in the past couple of weeks I’ve added four more apps to my list. Bookmarkable, a bookmark app (with an accompanying javascript bookmarklet for quickly saving sites to my app); TV Time, which is where I can save YouTube videos for watching later (also with a handy bookmarklet); Notably, which is a note-taking app (not linked because it isn’t publicly available); and most recently, Phototally, a photo-storing/sharing app (still in progress, hasn’t been uploaded to my live server yet).
Let’s just go ahead and split the four of these into two packs of two and log them as my week twelve and week thirteen projects, shall we?
And as of now, I’m all caught up! Now to relax for a couple of days and start dreaming up the week fourteen project (read: procrastinate for another six to seven days then throw something up here at the last minute).
Just shut off auto-renew on two more domains of mine that are coming up for renewal within the next couple of months: nerdflood.com and nerdshelf.com.
The slash-and-burn clearing of my internet house continues.
And the dude abides.
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