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Guest Comic: Pixellated – A Space Travesty

February 23rd, 2008 | by Virus

Whoops, I was enjoying my week off so much I nearly forgot to upload the guest comic.

[22/02/2008 21:47:46] Eastwood says: How’s life treating you?
[22/02/2008 21:48:53] Virus says: Watching Spaced with my lovely girlfriend, so pretty bloody good.
[22/02/2008 21:49:28] Eastwood says: Sounds it, you firey bastard.

Yes indeedy. Anyway, this week I leave you in the more than capable hands of Hal, Jeff, and Pix, the usual suspects from the Forum. We’d pulled up an old guest comic Pixellated had sent some time ago, but he asked us not to use it and instead produced the above. Good work gents.

Here, check out Pix’s rather excellent portfolio website.

#233 – Keep A Safe Distance

February 16th, 2008 | by Virus

Late again! :O But it’s over. Morth arc: DUN. These last few have been an uphill struggle. Art block setting in, hence lateness (well, that and my girlfriend ‘keeping me up all night’ if you know what I mean… I mean talking on Skype and watching shows and movies, which often runs late into the night because she’s in a timezone 7 hours behind, what else would I mean?).

Anywhom, I need a little break, try to shake this block. Got a guest comic lined up for next week (guaranteed on-time update, hoolay), and I dunno, we’ll figure something out the week after. I’ve also got some more ‘Making of’ stuff I need to gather together and post, if you are inclined to enjoy such material.

Hope you’ve enjoyed our overindulgence in continuity here. For the record, this storyline ran from 12 Nov 2006 to 17 Feb 2008. Holy shit, can you even remember what happened at the start? Rest assured we’ll be doing some one-shots and some short arcs for while.

#232 – Fire Retardant

February 9th, 2008 | by Lothar

You know, one of these days I’m going to follow through on my threat to beat the shit out of Virus unless he updates on time. Unfortunately today isn’t that day but it’s getting close.

Recently, our friends Qeeko and Frogman relaunched their Ultimate Java website and story. When I say recently, I mean a few months ago, and I just got around to posting a link now because I am silly.

Late comic is late.

February 2nd, 2008 | by Virus

But look, there are special features on Disc 2. A couple people on the forum had expressed an interest in seeing concept art, design progression type stuff, so I made it so. Here is the design discussion thread for Agent Elusive Camel. First of… some. Maybe.

#231 – Right In The Kisser

February 2nd, 2008 | by Lothar

Can somebody explain to me what it is about the Burnout games that makes me play and enjoy them despite the fact that half the time I do, I’m swearing at them at the top of my lungs proclaiming that they’re unfair and because of this put me in a really angry mood for several minutes after turning the console off in frustration before going back to them a mere half hour later? Seriously, In Burnout Paradise I swear to God the A.I. controlled cars cheat somehow, yet I know logically they don’t. The cars are simply trying to slam you off the road and down the wrong turning because that’s what they’re SUPPOSED to do, especially in the excellent swear-inducing fest that is Marked Man. Yes there is some rubber-banding present but Burnout needs that to keep that little bit of pressure on, and it’s still far better than Mario Kart for it. Road Rage is as fun as it always was (and a bit easier too if you ask me, probably because there’s more cars in the event).

The Burning Routes can fuck right off though.

#230 – You Wanted A Happy Ending?

January 26th, 2008 | by Virus

Here is another comic. Man the newposts suck these days.

Oh, I know. Lemme tell you something interesting about DVD formats (your mileage may vary on ‘interesting’). PAL formatted movie DVD’s run 4% faster than the intended speed. Because of the way the transfer from film to DVD works, a combination of frames-per-second, refresh rates, and digimal resomolutions… hell, I don’t understand the figures, but some numbers get rounded up and the end result is, if you’re watching a movie in PAL region, it’s playing ever so slightly faster than it should. Check the run time on the back of the box: compare it to the actual runtime from IMDB or Wikipedia or whatever, and it’s about 4% shorter.

It’s ordinarily imperceptible. Maybe if you’ve a good ear for music, you’ll hear the soundtrack has been pitched up a tad. But most people would never notice. But when you have a girlfriend in Canada, and are trying to watch a movie together synched across Skype, it quickly becomes an issue. A solution is at hand however! InterVideo WinDVD has a feature called PAL TruSpeed, which speeds up your playback by the appropriate factor. We haven’t tested it yet, but it seems promising. So there ya go, for all none of you who have this problem… Hey, maybe you just wanna watch your movies at the speed the author intended. WinDVD can do that.

#229 – Every Man For Themselves

January 19th, 2008 | by Virus

Here is a comic. Yup.

#228 – Yellow Is The Colour Of Fear

January 12th, 2008 | by Virus

It’s very late, and I’m very tired. But whad’re ya gonna do? I know what I’m gonna do. Fuckin sleep. See ya.

Happy New Year all.

January 5th, 2008 | by Virus

So hey, New Years resomolutions, eh? Here is my checklist:

1. Tidy my room and maintain a state of relative tidyness [ ]
2. Read more books, as my consumption of literature has taken a major dip [ ]
3. GET A GIRLFRIEND [x]

Hey, one down, that was quick.

2008′s off to a preeetty good start I’d say. *GLEE*

#227 – Who You Gonna Call?

January 5th, 2008 | by Lothar

And thus we enter the final few issues of the story arc. Don’t think I’ll bother writing something this long for a while, if at all. I must admit I liked the length and it was nice to do something that hung round a bit longer, but I doubt anyone wants to read a story that would be quite long even if we updated more than once a week.