wickedorin

In the quest to use only things I already have, I am... not sucking too much. Well, I wasn't. Now I need wire, though.

I'm so pissed off about G.I. Joe: Retaliation being pushed to next year. Just putting that out there. *cough*

And I'm kind of really disturbingly annoyed by Dan Harmon getting fired and really having no right to Community at all anymore. But I loved the last few episodes so if I must indeed think of that as a series finale, I'm alright with it. We'll see what the new blood brings. Bad, Sony. Sony, bad. Stop it.

But I committed this sin, so I'm feeling okay. We'll be waiting for you, T-elos. Now come on, H-01, show me what you've got. BUILD MY ROBOT (NINJA) ARMY. ............Or... something.

By the way, does anyone want a small, used but diligently cared for Ottlite lamp? If not I guess I'll try Ebay, but if anyone I know would like it... It's just that I have light in this room now so I haven't had to worry about eyestrain since I moved back down here.

I'm sure I have a long list of links and replies to make, but obviously I keep getting distracted. Soon, soon, not to worry.

'Cause I can. ...And I forgot to earlier. Worksafe, not necessarily brainsafe. You know the drill by now, right?

( Sometimes you can spell ``mother`` with ```C-R-A-Z-Y`... )

At least my mother liked it.

I make shinies while I wait for things. It is what I do. TRON: Uprising, Beck's Beginning will supposedly be on YouTube tomorrow, so... that'd be nice after cleaning.

Yesterday I had quite a morning trying to figure out why AVG and Windows Update were fighting and trying to kill me in the process. They either made up or finally shut the hell up, and I don't really care which so long as they fucking stop it. I needed some freaking comfort food. Good thing I had plenty of it on hand. For some reason I was feeling stupidly industrious and made my own tortilla chips by scoring a tortilla into triangles, brushing it with olive oil and popping it in the oven. Magic! I also had pico de gallo (which I made), guacamole (made that, too--for the first time in over a freaking decade), a mix of lettuces (well, Nature made that), Spanish rice with Sriracha drizzled on it (I made the rice, but the Sriracha is clearly divine), and beans (I made ever so long ago which still aren't gone) with a little cheese (nope, didn't make that), 'cause why not. Then I had some of this for dessert. I ate it all and I'm not sorry. Well, Cassie helped.

And now that technology is pissing me off less, link time. Since it's about Mother's Day and all, I wanted to link to I Buy My Mom Video Games Every Mother’s Day. It Helped Heal Her. It's another one of those stories presenting games as "more than games". Frankly I'd love to gift my DS to my mother, but... I only have two games for it. One of these days.

And along the lines of games being "more than 'just games'", this Papo & Yo dev diary is worth sharing. The idea of being able to share your pain in a creative way being what actually frees you and might be helpful to others... yes. It is very, very yes.

Using Flower as part of a religious service. Unexpected and yet... not really.

Translated KH3D Nomura interview time! It really should be obvious that there are spoilers everywhere. Spoilers and question evading. I mean, it's a Nomura interview. Bits of the "scenario mysteries" are head explode-y, though. Gotta love that.

It must be said that if rumors about the PS4 regarding the inability to play used games or a subscription service are true, I do not care if the impossible miracle of KH3, The Last Guardian and Versus come out for it all on one value pack; I am not fucking buying it. Some people like to pay to be treated like shit. I am not one of them. Sony. No.

And finally, a little Maurice Sendak wisdom. I really do need to read more of his stuff, methinks.

T'was a good day for toy arrivals.

It's been one of those weeks already. Seasonal allergies, achy, dizziness and vertigo, and the damn foot feeling better for a while then back to annoying for no reason. Being forced to rest my hands today did not make for the best mood. So it was a happy-making thing to have the boys arrive today and give my hands something terrible to do.

( And there are a couple of pictures expressing as much beneath the cut. )

If all goes well, tomorrow morning will find me making guacamole and pico de gallo. This is good. Like extended Cinco de Mayo produce sales are good. All will be good, because I have jalapenos. Nothing argues with jalapenos. Maybe I should rub one on my foot...

I really have no idea what I'm doing next, but I'd like to think that maybe it'll be a little simpler. I'd like to think a lot of things, though.

I made peanut butter pie with a rich chocolate cookie crust. Because I'm a very bad person. Unfortunately I kind of forgot today that rich, dense desserts coming right out of the refrigerator take an enormous effort to saw through, but I'll just consider that burning a few additional calories. Gonna need that with this dessert. ("What have I done?" was uttered no less than three times as I was eating that first piece.)

Foot's still a bastard. It's gotten better, there's no doubt about that... but it's still not all the way better yet. Stupid foot, why won't you be better?

Since my life's so (not) full of thrills, how 'bout some links? I'm a little worried that I'm the only person I know who can enjoy the Perfect Strangers flash game. There've been three people now telling me that it doesn't load for them, but it loads up and plays in seconds for me. Well, if you can play it, and you know why it's funny, that's awesome.

Once upon a time there was a little revolutionary game called The 7th Guest which a lot of people ridicule now because it's very cool to hate things that large groups of people found fascinating some years ago. This game really introduced me to The Fat Man and one of my very favorite songs still, "The Game". Beyond that, it was just a neat, freaky, campy bit of fun with a whole bunch of elements that never were explained. I only recently managed to watch The Making Of The 7th Guest (Part 1) and The Making Of The 7th Guest (Part 2), so I am sharing.

I'm happy to hear about The Unfinished Swan again! And that Sony will be publishing it. Long, long ago when the trailer came out, I was incredibly interested. Now it looks like the world may actually get to play it. And so will I, if I can stop buying action figures. ...Good luck to me.

Straight, Gay, or Binary?: HAL Comes Out of the Cybernetic Closet is............ "interesting".

On a similar but very different subject, I feel I have to link to this: Grant Morrison says Batman is gay, internet basically shrugs. Yup.

The human race really cannot be trusted with nuclear technology.

Muppets illustrations reenact classic tales and legends. 'Cause it's awesome.

Speaking of awesome, how about a custom Old Spice Guy action figure? He-Man fans will want to hold the box forever and ever.

And finally, J-RYU wows me once again with this absolutely stunning customized G3 pony, "Goodnight, Sweet Dreams XO". Just... so much wow. I fear I may be inspired.

By request, finally.

A little something to keep in mind: a lot of things make me happy. Everything I surround myself with, in fact. That's 31 years of things. I couldn't photograph every damn thing I owned, but I may have come close. *grin* I guess I should make it clear that questions/requests for more info are welcome.

( Onto many large photos! Well, some large, some medium-ish, one small. PIC-A-TURES. )

Because I felt like it. And since I seem to have the habit of only updating with finished projects and links, maybe friends would actually like some rambling. *grin* ( I aim to please. Just not very often. )

I'm sure I'll be back with links and a project... eventually-soon. Or pictures at least.

You see what happens when I don't plan? ...Oh, right.

Two days ago we seemed to have skipped spring, darted into summer, and it was in the 90's. Plants exploded, I felt like I got hit by a truck and it was a horrible day to suddenly be allergic to fucking everything. Yesterday, the 80's, felt much better. Today, never got past the mid-50's. Spent most of the day trying to stay warm. What the hell, Nature.

So since my life is so exciting (and now that I have eaten, gotten tea and can think again), how 'bout some links? What I deem the most important of them is right here: John Cleese on Creativity. Really, really good for anyone of an artistic nature, I promise. And it's John Cleese so it's insightful, funny and mildly offensive!

...I don't think DARPA ought to be making Metal Gears...

New TRON: UPRISING trailer. Aaaaaaand I've been hooked again.

Please please please let this mean a Figma T-elos may some day be possible. KOS-MOS needs a vicious lesbian playmate.

An upcoming documentary about English voice actors looks potentially interesting. I do hope to see my favorites.

When I was first introduced to Trapped in the Closet, to say that I laughed so hard I cried would be an understatement. Now it's a game!

Quick little reminder: there's just a little over 24 hours left for the 20% off sale at my Etsy shop. I personally don't plan to have another until November, so... if you see something you fancy, pounce with all of the pouncing pounciness that you can pounce. Pouncer.

Once again the sky is just so, and walking up the stairs at night is always a little breath-taking since the moonlight shines directly through the glass in and around the front door, spilling silver-blue light everywhere. Strawberries are on sale for the second week in a row and I made shortcakes. I'm working on a critter and hoping for a commission, and another of my creatures has a good home. I picked up Birth By Sleep again today and actually advanced a little, so miracles can happen. Maybe. (Oh, I'll finish it eventually.) I will have things coming from Japan in May. I watched Monster Maker again (YouTube link to part 1) and realize so many things now that I hadn't the last time I'd seen it. (I can admit that at the back of my mind, I'd always wanted to work for Henson. The past decade or so crushed that desire into a fine paste of heartache, but luckily heartache paste makes excellent glue for building awesome things.) My semi-worthless body cannot dull my happiness over the beautifully simple things. A high pain tolerance also helps, I find. Like how I finally subjected the wasband to the Street Fighter movie over pizza and a shared appreciation of Raul Julia. It's scary to look back and say that movie pulled more directly from the video games than most. Really, really scary.

I guess I should just get to the massive list of links since my life lacks entertainment value, yes? The Joy of Making Time is part of what convinced me to make today a fuck-off day. These days are needed every so often.

I'm just going to come right out and say that I'm really goddamn sick and tired of hearing a mass of spoiled internet brats demanding Mass Effect 3 change the ending. And here's why, stated better than I could manage: "You have no right to petition artists to change their art. You can not like it, you can not buy it, you can not enjoy it, that's fine. Bitch all you want, [but] you can not petition them." I'm glad to see that BioWare has grown a pair and said they're not changing the ending... though I wonder what good an expansion will do. We'll see, I suppose.

So let's shift subjects to what made me laugh much, much harder than it should have: these couple of videos of Skate 3 glitches and overall magnificent demonstration of rag doll physics.

I'll admit, the latest Nomura interview made me laugh in several places. He seems a lot more tired of the interviewers than he does of Kingdom Hearts.

Nintendo states: "We understand that people like to dissect graphics and processing power, but the experience of playing will always be more important than raw numbers." I want to believe you. So much.

A little piece on Jenova Chen, of Journey, Flower, flOw and Cloud. Just 'cause I enjoyed it.

Teachers Blame Violent Games For, Um, Everything. "By dumping everything on gaming, the real reasons a child may be lonely, excluded, or unwell goes unrecognised, and that child goes unhelped, and that's why we get so utterly furious at this sort of empty, scaremongering rhetoric."

Fan films just keep getting better and better. So I had to share this Pac-Man one. No, not just because it looks Tron-esque. ...........But that's part of it.

And in case anyone missed Modern War Gear Solid, the whole thing is available in HD on YouTube now.

But back to Tron. You bitches are teasing us again.

Mother's Legacy: Engendering AI in Videogames is of extreme interest to me... but then I am me.

Why Geek Matters. It was worth linking to.

And so they are calling dark energy "confirmed". The idea of the universe being formed by sound waves makes me smile, and makes every musician say "I told you so."

Have you ever wondered what "Come Together" would sound like as performed by robots? Wonder no more!

I know I linked to this a while back, but seriously, if you've never seen the Muppet Show pitch, you need to. I have no idea how anyone could resist.

(No this is not an April Fool's post. This is a day late post. Because I am full of not-so-braining.)

My partner in crafting and fandom insanity, animekittysama, and I are opening up a new LJ community, craftedbyshiny. And to celebrate, we are having a give-away! (See here for rules and things.)






What I'm saying is, you could get awesome free stuff with comments or reblogs, so go for it.

In further celebration of this event, both of our Etsy stores are having a 20% off sale until 4/8! So please do be sure to check out Shiny Things (by Orin Drake) and Crafted With Zeal.

I was just able to buy new socks and underwear! Will I be able to buy new slippers before the old ones wear all the way through? I leave it up to the internet to decide! (That was more funny than sad in my head, I swear.)