Requests aren't done, they will be popping up as we go, but honestly I do not need annnyymooreee! I was looking at the Wonder Women that I drew last year and started drawing her again, because she's pretty fun to draw, and surly Wonder Woman here came out. Don't settle for being a tits and tits heroine ladies, be yourself! Poor Nibbles.
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.
"We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News…
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…apparently, there’s a bunch of folks paying close attention to how Shivering Sands does so they can figure out if POD is “worth their time.”
And I have absolutely no fucking clue what that means, so I’ve just got to talk about it…
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THE SPOILS by Zola Jesus is one of my favourite albums of this year. But it’s kind of hard to find on CD. (The mp3 download is easy to find, I’ve even seen it on Amazon, and got mine at eMusic.) But now there’s a store open at zolajesus.com, where you can buy it, her other records, and a t-shirt that I’m going to pick up for Lili.
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Nick Barrucci from Dynamite Comics asked me to do him the favour of posting this. This seems like an entirely worthy charity, well deserving of your investigation:
Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization, Inc. announced today that world renowned painter Alex Ross has donated an original piece of classic Catwoman art to Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization, Inc. (S.W.R.O.). The piece was created exclusively for Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization to raise money to help rescue animals. The piece will be auctioned through Ebay at the following URL: eBayISAPI.dll-ViewItem&item=250524615645 . The piece is signed by Alex Ross and measures 10.75 inches wide by 23 inches tall and has never been seen anywhere…
Full press release at the link.
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Right, as nyaza pointed out, writing the cards actually take time. So.
Poll #1482940Holiday cards!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 22
Would you like a card?
Yes! 22 (100.0%)
Would you like it Christmas themed?
Yes 16 (84.2%)
No 3 (15.8%)
Tell me your name and address!
Would you like a ficlet?
Yes! 16 (80.0%)
And I will give you a prompt(s) in the comments! 13 (65.0%)
...Tick tick? 11 (55.0%)
As for prompts--go crazy, I guess? I'll try to fulfil them, though I reserve the right to write you something completely different if you give me something like Merlin/Dragon/Arthur, mpreg, JSYK.
eta. Fandoms I'm most like to write in: Merlin, Merlin RPF, Loveless, GK/Merlin (haha :P), Original
I'll try anything else, but I don't promise it'll be good! :P
Swedes like to pretend the ghost train lives in Kymlinge, but you can see it anywhere: at Eureka, at Haxo, rushing past Bull and Bush and its moldering stacks of secrets. Its name is Silverpilen, and it’s both easy and impossible to catch. You just can’t board if you know what it is.
Aldous, unromantically, had her face in a paper when she embarked. She’s not sure how long she’s been riding it now; her watch dial spins, and she never hungers. She’d ask the conductor, but if it’s his voice on the intercom, she doesn’t want to see his mouth.
TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I’ve said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.
Through this website and this Cafe Press store, we’re going to release one t-shirt a week. It’ll go live on Monday… and it’ll die Sunday night — midnight UK time, more often than not. Each one lives for a week, and then it’s replaced by the next week’s shirt. Until I either run out of dumb ideas or Ariana’s brain explodes.
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Dragon Age: Origins is a game I've been excited about for more than a year. I loved Baldur's Gate II, and its expansion, and I lost more time to Neverwinter Nights than I ought to admit. So a new single player fantasy RPG by this company, billed as the "spiritual heir to baldur's gate" (spiritual because this new one is their own IP, and not a D&D game - though the mechanics are very similar) got me all giddy with anticipation!
And it's great. I've been having a really good time playing it. It isn't without it's flaws, but the overall experience is good enough that I've been all too happy to overlook the frustrating bugs. The onion AV Club gave it an A though, which I'm not sure I agree with entirely. I wrote a big comment on that AV Club review. And here it is!
The bugs in this game are frustrating.
The two big ones are:
- Quests that don't register their completion can leave you running around an area in frustration after fighting, say, the hordes of bad guys in the Redcliffe castle mission, wondering what small thing you haven't yet done. Only looking on the internet led me to the conclusion that something had gone wrong on their end. Reloaded a save game, fought the battle again, and CLICK - cut scene. Also, it didn't help that while I was trying to figure out what was going on, the aggravating fight scene music kept playing! It's great and cinematic when actually fighting, but while running around in empty areas trying to figure out what to do, it sure adds to the frustration!
- cut scenes sometimes screw up, and you'll go through a cut scene, make one of the games (actually pretty interesting) moral choices, and then suddenly be watching the cut scene again. I chose a different choice the second time, and was then moved forward in the game as though I'd only chosen the first. Later, other characters alternated between acting as though I'd chosen A or B. It sort of took the wind out of that choice. This happened to me in the Redcliffe section, as well.
That said, The game has some very good things in its favour, too:
- the moral choices themselves feel more satisfying. I really like the game's system of having the choices affect the world itself, rather than some arbitrary slider of how good or evil you are. You make a choice, and your companions approve or disapprove, sure, but also you'll find that your future options in the game world have changed, too. It really adds to a sense of immersion.
- The combat's good. Not too simple, but not ridiculously complex either, and the tactics reward the learning curve that comes with understanding how they're interpreted by the game. After playing with the tactic programming for a while, I found my party members acting just how I needed, which was useful for adapting to harder fights and made the combat feel genuinely tactical rather than like a mashfest.
- Some of the characterization is great - Morrigan and Shale are both fun and interesting, and I like the way they fit into the game world, and the major events of the game, rather than just having discreet stories of their own. Some of the characterization is sort of lame, too though. (The voice acting also runs from very very good to characters who seem to change voice actors mid-dialogue, again, in the Redcliffe quest, which led me to have most of my doubts about the game. Maybe the people in charge of the Redcliffe quest
- The skill trees feel well balanced, and it's fun to play as a warrior or mage or rogue (except for some rogue dex issues that they've acknowledged and which are being fixed in an upcoming patch) and for the most part the specializations really give a different feel to your class when you get to that stage. And a couple of the specializations are tied to the game world in a fun way. In a lot of these games, specializations just add a couple generic skills. Extra damage, and such. In this, they add skills that tie into the story sometimes. "Blood magic" being a big one, and that sort of detail really adds to the feel that you're a part of the game.
- The game gets its title from a system where you can choose your "origin" - each of which is a different way to start the game. The origins are a couple hours, before merging with the main storyline, but which will affect the game further down the line, too. Every character has to go to the dawrven city to seek aid, for instance, but that visit has a very different tone if you are a dwarf noble who was falsely accused of killing her brother the heir to the throne and then exiled.
I would give it a B, or a B- (with it moving to an A after a bug patch or two for sure.) A lot of care and love went into the game, and despite the couple frustrating bugs above, I've put in a couple dozen hours since it's release and haven't lost interest yet!
Friends, At St Gregory's yesterday I was given a Georgian cap (skoufia ) made in Montreal , Frs Alex and Michael already had them so we took a photo after liturgy which reminds me of the movie Three Amigos.
. M.Plekon S.Sigrist A.Vinogradov "Wherever there is injustice, You will find us! ... We'll be there! Wherever liberty is threatened, You will find.....The Three Amigos!"
Trailer at the end reminds pleasantly of that Steve Martin film --or introduces if you haven't seen it. Besides this I look up to look at again a painting I saw at the Kandinsky exhibit. It has a particular interest, not as one of his masterworks ,but because it --made when he was briefly back in Russia in 1920 --is a step back from pure abstraction and is an image of the city of Moscow. for this please click to the right here( Read more... ) Today these, lighter than yesterday but you may say something serious as well as light if you wish, all welcome, yours +Seraphim
I was bored, ahead with nano word count and pissed off at my failure to trigger Parallel 6, so I wrote some Dark Savior fanfic. I have to warn you that it is inspired by PURE UNADULTERATED PARALLEL-6-DEFICIENCY-INSPIRED RAGE.
My house appears to have been invaded by a Ba'Hai faith group who have been invited by one of my housemates to live here for a month. I don't know what to think of that. They seem nice people, and have cleaned the house.
Well, I'm back from my long-weekend trip to London.
Friday, after arriving in London (half an hour early, again...) met up with multiclassgeek and swung on over to the 'Beer and Blake's 7' venue. Turned out that the venue had screwed with the booking, so we didn't actually have a space. Despite the duty manager being arsey about it, we managed to secure a little space to perch in. Saw mingmerciless, luckykaa and some new people I hadn't met before. Had a good old chat until reasonably late, then me and Misha headed back to his, talking about ReBoot and Kingdom Chaos' any various other bits of geeky nonsense. Then it was bedtime.
Saturday was the meeting of the Moonbase 2 forum. This was fab. Great people, great day out. Some wonderful discussions, general silliness and madness - and drinks. Can't forget the drinks. We went to Forbidden Planet, Orbital Comics, Hamleys (which was a bit rubbish, actually) and Mega City Comics. Also saw a gig performed by one of the forum members over in Camden that was quite fun. Makes me wish AA2010 was much sooner, really. Was lovely to see people like Timey, Phantasm and KalelPrime again, and really nice to meet new peeps like KingGrimlock and Justicity, who were all quite lovely, friendly and welcoming. But, yes, I bought some stuff while I was there (shock!). So this is my haul:
- Jason and the Argonauts comics 3-5 (as written by the marvellous lonemagpie)
- A Catbus plushie (from 'My Neighbour Tortoro' - Xmas pressie for wifey flickums)
- A Crown Pendant (from the 'Kingdom Hearts' game series. So I suspect THIS might be my next costume project)
- A 'Sonic and the Black Knight' action figure
- A 'suitable' Xmas gift for greyfore - but that will remain a secret for now.
so, all in all, made of Solid Gold Awesome.
But now i'm back home, knackered and freezing (since the heating has been off while I was away) so I think I will snuggle up under a blanket and watch the tellybox for a bit. :)
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