I added a Paypal button to the About page in follow-up to that post before last.

So, let’s talk, shall we?

I’ve officially begun my vacation on a productive note (though not catching up on my backlog of comics yet, a-heh,) with some cooking, fine tuning of my resume and portfolio, as well as working on getting a new banner up here and finally remembering to re-add the paypal button to my sidebar. I also sold off some old stuff, to free up space (though honestly not that much aside from the outgrown clothes.)

Normally I wouldn’t just outright go EY SEND ME MONEY, and I don’t want to go dangling ‘premium content’ over people’s heads or anything like that, but I’ve been kind of thinking since the last auto-renewal of my hosting plan came at kind of a dicey time for me financially last year, maybe I should attempt to at least get it to pay for itself. That has a little less personal stigma for me than having a donation drive every time one of my consoles or computers breaks down, so if I could bring the cost down a bit, that’d be swell, and if I ended up with some absurd surplus of donations that gets me a new wacom or something, hey, that’d be awesome. All I’m asking (not demanding or anything like that) is if you like my drawing, writing, or any of that stuff, feel free to tip a buck or two. I’m also pretty open for drawing  comissions again (I have a photo-restoration and a couple logos in queue other than my personal stuff, which isn’t much,) if anyone wants something more ‘tangible’ for their money.

In other news, I’ve been invited to the Anime Punch! con as a guest Game Master, to sort of demo the Dream Pod 9 Silhouette RPG system and probably pimp some of my own work in one fell swoop. The scenario I’m kicking around right now: post-apocolyptic bikers vs. a berserk traffic-control system. Details as they come.

Well, that was kind of dry, wasn’t it? I’ll make my next update soon. And more interesting.

I feel kind of like I should give Street Fighter 2010 another go or something to kick off the year, but instead I spent the actual first day of the year penciling comics while practically sitting on my floor heater.

It seems like every year since the millenium, we’ve survived many famous fictional apocolypses. Even though we’re edging nearer and nearer to the infamous year 2012, I’m still kind of let down that the start of last decade didn’t bring The Day of Lavos interrupted by the crash of the mysterious Superdimensional Fortress One, and followed shortly by the Second Impact.

We’re living on borrowed time here, people.

Watch out for the furries, just to be sure.

Or the year, anyway.

Seriously, right now I’m beating back a monologue I’ve been brewing for months ever since I really sat down and go thinking about where the line between the new and old schools of gaming is, and shades of that broiling rant showed themselves in that… uh… disappointing “What If Bubble Bobble Got Remade” thing a while back.

I think I have an idea of why recent games aren’t as funny to go back and read about after I post:

1) I’m spending money on most of this crap and usually end up subconsciously justifying it, even if I end up loathing the game and sell it off

2) Again; since it’s harder to emulate newer games and get screencaps and stuff, there’s less room for captioning or getting specific shots of stuff I want to show off. I suppose if I wasn’t a cheapskate I could get some AV doohickeys going, but… I am.

3) It seems like even crappy games lately are more… I don’t know, forgiving or something, so you can’t even get that pissed at them. Transformers: The Game was probably the worst thing I’ve played in a while, then again about everything else has either been ‘retro’ or something I’d be more likely to forgive.

Or just plain not as horribly fucking bugged.

I know now what I must do.

I must cast myself into the pit of 8 bits and fight my way back to the current generation. Earn my gaming might through blood, tears, and mental scarring. I will return to from whence I came and where I started reviewing games…

(also I got my dad an Atari for Christmas. I feel like I’ve completed some form of time loop.)

Sometimes it feels like I spend more time upgrading WordPress than typing in it.

(cue some kind of cliche anime sound effect, like that wood-bucket-in-the-bath sound)