The Slayers Revolution

The swords and sorcery comedic fantasy epic returns once more after an 11 year hiatus! The Slayers was one of the most popular animes in the late 90’s and none of you weeaboo young’ns know not nothin’ about it! Being a gigantic fantasy nerd and all it’s one of my favorite anime series of all time. Originally it spanned three seasons, The Slayers, The Slayers Next and The Slayers Try. There’s also a series of light novels, manga, and films but they’re all generally only loosely related to each other (except one short movie made in 2001 which was an extension of the TV series.)

The Slayers is a mixture of fantasy action, slapstick comedy, witty dialog and just general fun (mostly episodic) adventure storytelling that usually ends with a bang in a starkly dramatic climax generally revolving around saving the world from one thing or another. Where the stories may never really be the apex of literary genius the lovable characters are really what carries the franchise. It stars Lina Inverse, a comically boastful and powerful sorceress with a foul temper, a destructive and violent personality and a heroic streak despite all that, Gourry Gabriev her hapless and idiotic swordsman sidekick/love interest, Zelgadis Greywords the stoic straight man who specializes in Shamanistic magic and was turned into a chimera in his youth (and thus has stony skin and wirey hair), and the spazmodic and justice-loving Amelia Wil Telsa Seyruun the princess of the holy kingdom Seyruun.

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Critical Crap

There still appears to be something within the site that keeps alerting my own virus protection software. I’m doing the best I can to figure out this mystery short of scrapping and rebuilding the entire site. My uh, my attempts against it have somehow destroyed my Google ads. Stay tuned!

Alone in the Dark

Call me crazy but I was mildly excited about this game as I figured it would be a decent romp to tide me over until the release of Fable 2. I also I got ten bucks off of it for reserving it which in retrospect should have probably been my first warning sign. Another problem I have was apparently being the only person among my friends, coworkers and associates who remembers the original Alone in the Dark from 1992, where you were just a dude in a haunted mansion, and I was somehow unaware they made like 5 or 6 more games which involved more guns and less housing. So needless to say I thought I was in for a badass next-gen haunted house survival game. Even when I found out that was untrue, I figured it would still be fun. This is what I get for being optimistic.

What’s so hard to understand is how Alone in the Dark got so much right and yet it manages to all go so horribly wrong. All of its various infuriating game mechanics would actually sound good on paper, however the design team should have realized they weren’t working out when put into application and, I dunno, maybe tried something else?

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100 Draw, Fifth Three

Finally built up another three for the 100 Drawing Challenge. I think I’m getting pretty comfortable with the tablet now! As always you can see the rest here under the Sketchbook gallery.

Alot of oranges and browns this time around, somehow I always end up drawing fall-like stuff in the summer.

Malicious Redirect

Visitors to the site may have noticed some… weirdness over the last month. Like it redirecting to some search engine looking thing in Russian or something. Yeah, whatever that was, it came in on a comment. I didn’t even click the link and it managed to hijack the site somehow, not every time it loaded, but often enough. I deleted the comment and blocked everything associated with it, changed a few things in my code and I think I may have fixed the issue, but I’m still going to be checking through my directories and my database to make sure it’s gone for good.

Anyone who visited the site and got the strange redirect really should clear out their browser cache and run a spyware check with your virus protection program of choice, just to be on the safe side. Sorry for the trouble.