This is still going on?  Really?  We haven’t settled on this stupid thing yet?  Good grief, people!

I keep getting nagged to sign a petition, to let my voice be heard, and nobody is telling me why, and it rarely makes itself clear.  Once again, the gaming community is being reduced to a bunch of unread morons who just make demands and don’t say a thing otherwise to let you know why you should do what you’re told, and that’s led to me being pretty annoyed with this Govenator VS. EMA business, because my perception of the “big deal” has been completely off-base and wrong. Maybe I’m solo in this, but for anyone else who’s only connection to this is some screaming gamer friends and a URL, let me try and set the record straight a bit.

For those not in the know, back in 2006 Governor Schwarzenegger passed into state law that violent games could not be sold to children in California.  The definition of violence, while loose, basically summarized itself as “a game in which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being.”  (source)  This was four years ago, and the bill continues to be repealed and fought over to this day, now on its way to nothing shy of the Supreme Court itself.

The definition of violence is pretty poor, I’ll admit.  The “sexually assaulting” bit is something I don’t see come up much in this country, and sounds like grounds for an M-rating in and of itself, and I’ll get to why that’s important in a minute.  What worries me is the “killing” of human beings, as the rest of that list probably shouldn’t get into kids’ hands anyway.  What isn’t clarified as when that becomes inherently violent, as I seem to recall that back in the day plenty of games had me “killing” human beings that would proceed to vanish in a puff of smoke.

Thank you, Japan?

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Redux is now launched on the site, and you can totally hit it up by clicking right here right now.  I’ll be updating around the site to account for this (Guide, Archive, etc.), and then save maybe a guide entry or two plan to take the rest of the week off because I drew four pages and this side tower thing over the last week, designed the new “First” button divider page and associated images, and posted all 20 pages of this thing plus tags and commentary that will probably need some editing over the next couple of days anyway. Aside from that I’ve been given two months to find a real job or I get kicked out of my house, and when I do find one my rent doubles.  : D  So yeah, unless you guys magically start pooping a couple hundred bucks into the donation jar / merch profits every month, I’mma have to reorganize my schedule a tad.  I’m hoping this won’t interfere with update frequency, but that’s gonna depend on what kind of job I wind up with, largely.

But, hey, yeah, Redux.  It’s live.  Tell your friends, tell Twitter, tell Facebook, write it on bathroom stall doors, I don’t care.  This has been a long time coming, though, so please help spread the word. I’d love nothing more than for this to help reader retention and get a few people in here.

Aside from that, I need to start figuring out the print version’s goodies, which you can help me out with right here.  On the other hand, if you’re not comfortable posting on topic #666 (that just figures), feel free to leave your witty questions and genuine inquiries for the cast in the comments below.  As stated in the forum thread, I’ll be choosing my favorite ones for the rodents to answer in the printed version of Redux’s bonus materials.

That should about sum it up, kids.  Again, help spread the word!  This is a major project for me, and my inner attention whore wants every drop it can get! Peace out!

-Zar

How much do I like it when people buy my stuff?  Enough to whine for pictures and demand they be uploaded to a convinient location for my eventual stealing and pimping, that’s how much.

Resident musician Erik went out and nabbed himself a small print of this swan song from my Photoshop days.  Once it came, he got a little frame for it and now keeps it next to his bed or something likewise equal parts flattering and creepy.  Then again, if the years and my social circle have proven anything, it’s that you’re not in my crowd if you don’t weird me out a little, so good job to him.  Check this out, peoples!

So yeah, that’s pretty awesome.  Dunno about the frame, but that print ran him fifty cents for a 4×6, of which I got a glorious dime that I shall gloat about forever.  On the other hand, after shipping it was like $2.50, out of which I made ten cents, so allow me to give unto you some advice before a couple things happen.  Find my cheap crap if you want it, and go for it while the shipping sale is still on and before I realize how insane I am for not upping the price to a dollar so I can make a remote amount of something. I’m not saying I’ll settle on that price per sé, but Erik raised a valid point in lamenting how little of that coin actually went to me.  Starving artist for a reason, as they say. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m on my site, pimpin’ my stuff.

DevART has docked print prices and threw in extra control and such with a premium prints account to go with premium membership.  In simple terms, huzzah city, and they’ve topped it by reducing shipping costs for the next 90 days to something like a five dollar cap (I think ten for international orders).

In short, go look at my stuff, check out the prices, and take advantage of this wonderous means by which you can throw me money.  I’ve all sorts of fun things.  Page prints.  Art prints.  Fun stuffs.  Mousepad?  Epic Kartney?  I’ve got that.  Coffee mugs and puzzles too.  Nick-nacks, paddiwacks, and if you commission it you can have me draw you giving your dog a bone.  The bases?  Covered.

In conclusion, go check it out, and take advantage of the shipping deals while they last! 

There is a new RP post up! I apologize for the rather absurd delay but I’ve been busy and then prioritizing.  The unfortunate side effect of me prioritizing is that if i get stuck on something I tend to forget everything else exists because the thing I’m stuck on is more important.    Is one of many habits I’m trying to kick lately.  S’all a tad hard.

The post reveals one of the key players in the entire HP world, so if you want a little insight into these spirits that keep coming up in the comic’s mythos, you’ll learn a bit about who they are and what they do here.  Worth a peek, certainly! Read the rest of this entry »