Elfen Lied

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I had heard alot of praise for Elfen Lied and I think it caused me to imagine all sorts of things about it without ever having actually seen it. Like imagining it was good, for example. I was on a forum one night and someone was complaining about a particular scene in the show with a link to Youtube. I was more taken aback by the juxtaposition of a cutesy, colorful, boringly mainstreamed, low-budget moe animation style with something that looked like it was supposed to be serious, dramatic and bloody than I was by the scene itself. To me it looked like it was pandering to guro fans, and the series didn’t serve to erase this opinion as I watched it out of sheer curiosity. I’ve seen about 10 of the 13 episodes and skipped around the last three for this article but I don’t think I intend to finish watching it. Warning: there will be spoilers because the plot is just too ridiculous for me not to rant about. Read the rest of this entry »

Xbox Live Bans Teh Ghey

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It just makes me want to set up a new Live account called ImHereImQueer. I don’t exactly know how to feel about this, Microsoft has apparently taken to banning gamertags on Xbox Live with the word "gay" in them, including a dude who supposedly used his last name "Gaywood" in his. Yes that’s right, the service known for being stuffed to the gills with 13 year olds calling each other "faggot" fifteen times in any given match of teh Haloz finds a little gay in your gamertag offensive. Or rather, the "greater Xbox community" finds it offensive according to one supervisor.

Which leads me to question: are they trying to protect gay people from being made fun of by homophobic Xbox Live gamers, or are they trying to protect homophobic Xbox Live gamers from having to knowingly interact with someone who identifies themselves as gay? This insofar is pretty unclear, but many gay gaming sites (yes they do exist) are a tad concerned about this.

Where it may come as a surprise to some people out there that gay people are gamers… and tax payers, and home owners, and generally walk the streets among the general populous, you can rest assured there are gays on Live. Read the rest of this entry »

100 Draw, Second Three

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Three more drawings for the 100 Drawing Challenge. I’m pretty much just going to keep revealing them in 3’s til I have all 100. Haha… what have I gotten myself into. You can see the rest at the gallery set aside for them.

Site Facelift

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But just a small one. Just some work around the eyes and such. What? Anyway, yes! As promised the header is now much smaller, the main menu is just a tad easier to find, I’ve taken the big adsense tower out of the sidebar and exploded the contents everywhere else. The adsense is pretty attuned to the site content, so I’d be surprised if you see anything besides video game and anime ads. If something interests you go on and click. Please? It gets me like, a dime. And Project Wonderful people, the header placement now promises you will be on every page on the site. Rejoice! I also fixed the AMVs page, it’s now the same color as the rest of the site, always a good thing. The Art For Sale page has also been updated, now with no additional shipping costs. The price you see is what you pay.

And with that done I can now focus on some art updates.

100 Draw, First Three

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I decided to do the 100 Drawing Challenge, each one as a 500 X 500 tablet doodle, sort of in the manner of thumbnail studies. Just to do something fresh and different. I’ll try to keep it up! I’ve also created a new sub gallery under Sketchbook just for this project.