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December 26th, 2009
02:15 am [Link]	Omniverse card game rules overhaul If anyone's interested, I've posted a draft of my thoroughly rewritten and clarified rules for the Omniverse card game. You can read it here. If anyone finds any parts they don't understand, or wish were written more clearly, or have any other comments, I'd appreciate hearing about them... Tags: card games, creative stuff, omniverse (Leave a comment)
02:08 am [Link]	Christmas 2009 Christmas Eve was pretty pleasant - I went out shopping and eating with my parents and brother. Crowds were crazy, but the experience was pretty neat. Then Mom and my brother and I watched the movies ''The Gamers: Dorkness Rising'' (better than I expected) and ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' (more tedious than I expected) before retiring for the night. My final Christmas haul: - Doctor Who "Welcome Aboard" model kit (includes the TARDIS, the Tenth Doctor and Martha) - When They Cry (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) DVD boxed set - The Order of the Stick Books 1 and 2 - One Piece Monkey D. Luffy wanted poster pin - X-Men Season 1 DVD boxed set - Two lottery tickets (won $3.00) - Green Lantern: First Flight DVD - Mutants and Masterminds Deluxe GM Screen (with 2nd Edition Time of Crisis adventure) - Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space RPG boxed set - Transformers: The Complete Series 25th anniversary DVD boxed set - Two cans of Dinty Moore stew - Doctor Who: Series 4 CD soundtrack - Pathfinder Bestiary RPG sourcebook Tags: christmas (Leave a comment)
November 30th, 2009
11:22 pm [Link]	As requested... ( Spectacular Spider-Man character alignments ) Tags: animation, creative stuff, role-playing games (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
November 28th, 2009
10:41 pm [Link]	Speculation on various people's alignments ( Because, after all, this is the ultimate geeky extension of any alignment discussion... ) Tags: comics, creative stuff, gargoyles, role-playing games, transformers (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
November 27th, 2009
08:51 pm [Link]	Other alignment scales for your percentages ( Just for the heck of it... ) Tags: creative stuff, role-playing games (Leave a comment)
November 26th, 2009
11:31 pm [Link]	Conan the Adventurer on DVD? So, I was browsing my recommendations, and these came up... http://www.amazon.com/Conan-Adventurer-Animated-DVD-Box/dp/B002BYNGFE/ http://www.amazon.com/Conan-Adventurer-Animated-DVD-Box/dp/B002BYNLZ4/ This looks like an actual Region 1 release of the series (it's been available in other regions for a little while, apparently), but some things just don't seem right... 1) This appears to be new, but no copies are available from Amazon itself - just from third-party sellers. 2) The listings are light on product details (for example, no studio). 3) It's nine episodes per disc, which seems slightly dense for a commercial release. (One of the discs in the second set apparently includes ten episodes.) I'd really like to get an actual release of Conan the Adventurer on DVD, but I'm wary of buying what looks like someone's pumped-up bootleg... Tags: animation, dvd (3 comments \| Leave a comment)
03:05 am [Link]	Nuancing alignment (because I think too much about these things) Edit on Thanksgiving: Clarified the Neutral tendency alignments. So, I've recently gotten into the awesome webcomic Order of the Stick, and that in turn has rekindled some of my interest in Dungeons and Dragons. (But not the current Fourth Edition from Wizards of the Coast. I'll stick with 3.5, thanks much.) One of the things I find neat about D&D is its alignment system... ( Read more... ) Tags: creative stuff, role-playing games (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
November 25th, 2009
10:12 pm [Link]	Alignment Your result for The Alignment Test... Lawful-Good 80% Good, 44% Chaotic ( Read more... ) Tags: memes (Leave a comment)
November 22nd, 2009
07:46 pm [Link]	Five Questions Meme, from dragonsong12 Leave me a comment saying "Bah wheep graagnah wheep ni ni bong." I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity. Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. 1. If you could meet any one person (real or fictional) who would you like it to be? The Doctor, from Doctor Who. He's undoubtedly the fictional character who's had the most influence on me. (I even played the Doctor for years in what amounted to LARPing in elementary school.) I kinda feel like he wouldn't really have the time of day for me, mind (or so a dream I once had suggested), but I'd still love to be able to meet him. 2. What talent do you wish you had? I wish I had real artistic talent. I used to draw a lot through elementary school (and I still have many notebooks filled with characters and such). I had aspirations of becoming a comic book artist, but my capabilities peaked around middle school - my style never really evolved much past "cartoony". If I could draw well, I would totally have made a webcomic or such by now... 3. Pirates vs. ninjas and why? (oldie but a goodie!) Pirates, no question. Pirates are just much more entertaining characters in my view, as they tend to have very distinct styles and personalities. (This is true even when you limit your view to historical pirates.) Ninjas' chief coolness is in their stealthy martial arts badassery - and while that is cool and all, martial arts skills have become so commonplace in modern media that it doesn't stand out as well. (Incidentally, I don't consider the more diverse cast of Naruto to really be ninjas in the traditional sense - more like spell-casters with martial arts skills.) In short, I prefer pirates because I prioritize "entertaining" over "kick-ass." 4. Would you want to live in the DBZ-verse? Or are you content to watch from afar? I much prefer being a spectator to the DBZ universe. Living there looks deadlier than living in the Marvel or DC Universes! (At least when Superman is fighting someone you don't have to worry about the accidental damage endangering the entire planet Earth...) 5. If you could see one work adapted into a movie, what would it be and who would play the lead? Wow, big question. I honestly don't know which work I'd pick... I will note, though, that I'm usually not picky about specific actors, so long as they pick a good actor. Tags: memes (8 comments \| Leave a comment)
November 15th, 2009
07:09 am [Link]	The tarot and the Justice League More ramblings inspired by Trinity... ( much text behind the cut ) Tags: comics, creative stuff (Leave a comment)
September 24th, 2009
08:04 pm [Link]	Brilliant marketing http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1004585.html So, someone links to a clip of an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold on YouTube. Cue post after post of praise, and at least one person outright saying this sold them on buying the DVD... Three hours later: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner Bros. entertainment." (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 14th, 2009
07:06 pm [Link]	One Piece tarot Inspired by the DC miniseries Trinity, I did a bit of Wikipedia research on the Tarot and its symbolism... ( much text ahead ) Tags: animation, creative stuff (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
August 31st, 2009
10:34 pm [Link]	Selling some stuff http://www.amazon.com/shops/jeb215alphazed (Leave a comment)
August 23rd, 2009
07:34 pm [Link]	Interesting essay on retcons http://www.websnark.com/archives/2008/01/retconning_just_1.html The comments are rather interesting, too. Tags: comics, web sites (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 22nd, 2009
08:23 pm [Link]	I missed this??? http://www.lalalandrecords.com/BatmanAS.html I've been waiting for a Batman: The Animated Series soundtrack for years, and this apparently came out last December... and it's now completely sold out! (There were 3000 copies produced, and 2500 sold out in the first month.) The upside is, it got great reviews, and it sold so well that La-La Land Records thinks it should help their efforts to convince Warner Bros. to authorize further releases. So maybe they'll do a re-release... and maybe this could lead to further DCAU soundtracks. Tags: animation, music (Leave a comment)
02:29 am [Link]	WANT http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/08/19/fill-your-fingers-the-free-lantern-ring-collection-set-to-boost-dcs-sales/ The Black Lantern ring giveaway to kick off the Blackest Night event was an immense hit, with demand booming for these chunky stylish collectable black plastic fingerwear, and a call for similar rings to match the different Lantern colours seen in the series went out. And DC listened. So for every 25 copies of Doom Patrol #4, Booster Gold #26, R.E.B.E.L.S. #10, Outsiders ‘24 and your retailer orders, they can order a bag of fifty Sinestro rings, Agent Orange rings, Indigo Tribe rings and Star Sapphire rings respectively. And for every 50 copies of Justice League of America #39, Blackest Night #5 and Adventure Comics #4 sees you with a bag of fifty Red Lantern rings, Green Lantern rings and Blue Lantern rings, also respectively. Each ring will ship every two weeks, Yellow on November 4th, Orange on November 18th, Red on December 2nd, Green on December 16th, Blue on December 30th (well, December 23rd now, I guess, thanks to Comic Book-Free Day), Indigo on January 13th and Violet on January 27th. Tags: comics (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
August 7th, 2009
06:43 pm [Link]	Politicophilosophical thought Liberals are optimistic about institutions but pessimistic about people. That's why they favor building their ideal society from the top levels. Conservatives are optimistic about people but pessimistic about institutions. That's why they favor building their ideal society from the bottom levels. Tags: philosophizing, politics (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 4th, 2009
12:22 am [Link]	Omniverse Online The last Omniverse update is posted... now we've posted how you can play it online! If anyone's interested in help or a game, just comment! Tags: creative stuff, omniverse (Leave a comment)
July 29th, 2009
12:06 am [Link]	New expansions all posted! Been doing it bit by bit for about a month, but the 250-card Arsenal Expansion Set has finally been posted. This expansion is heavy on the generic, but on purpose - I wanted to have a little something for every kind of deck, and fill in lots of gaps in the game. I also put in several cards suggested by other people... Updated stats for the game as a whole: 0. Original Set: 700 1. The King of Street Fighters: 30 2. Super Mario RPG: 36 3. Team Fortress 2: 37 4. One Piece: East Blue: 88 5. Fiction Fu: 32 6. Harem: 30 7. Advance Wars: 42 8. Soldiers: 75 9. Marvel: X-Men: 84 10. Robots: 153 10a. Robots Plus: 5 11. Arsenal: 250 Not counting variant cards, Omniverse now contains 1562 cards spanning 181 fictional worlds. Now, just one thing remains to be posted... hopefully a lot sooner than the new cards. Tags: creative stuff, omniverse (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
July 26th, 2009
05:32 am [Link]	Otakon 2009 Pictures - Saturday Saturday And I'm done with Otakon 2009. (I didn't take any pictures on Sunday.) Tags: conventions, otakon (Leave a comment)

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