Several Things
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orikesI discovered Freak Angels last night. I believe I'd heard it mentioned in passing, but hadn't looked it up. Last night I came across a link to it, and in just a couple of hours, read through all 17 episodes. It's good stuff. (Some swearing and occasional nudity for those concerned.)
Warren Ellis is a big name in comics, but I'm actually not that familiar with his work. My bad. This is an interesting set-up and I'm definitely hooked enough to want to find out what the heck is going on storywise. They're some interesting characters with an intriguing background. I've always been a sucker for post-apocalyptic stories, and seeing London half under water is a cool visual. I'm really liking the artwork too. It's almost pretty, but not so pretty to hide the ugliness of some of the characters.
Anyway, it's worth checking out.
Today is Father's Day and I might actually get to spend some time with my dad. He's driving in from Connecticut to spend the week. He should be getting into town at a good time for us to have dinner. I'll have to take a long dinner break, but considering the three hour dinner breaks my supervisor sometimes takes, I don't think I'll get too much flak for it.
In simming news, I've been working on the next Pseudo update. I'm almost halfway done writing it, so I'm hoping to have it out sometime this week. It'll be a huge relief to get this one out. The writing is going easily (knock on wood), which is a good thing. I'm hoping to really push out the updates this summer so I can gain some ground. I was looking through old updates to reference a couple of things, and I realized that I've taken almost a year to play Gen Four to this point.
I'm torn. On one hand, I feel like I'm playing at glacially slow speeds compared to other players, but at the same time, I like the story I'm telling and I think that other people are liking it too. I need to find some sort of compromise between the two so I can advance things a bit. I know I have to start leaving out bits about the extended branches of the family tree. I've got one more storyline I want to tell about the Thompson branch in the main update, but after that, I think they're going to end up relegated to live journal updates and cameos.
In other simming news, I've also played through to Day Three of the Bachelor Challenge. Something very unexpected happened and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I came up with a way to handle it storywise, but it still threw me for a loop. Up until that point, everything had pretty much gone how I'd expected it to. Now things are different. I'll probably take a break from playing the bc house until I get at least one more bc update out. That way, I'll have come to terms with what happened and be able to move forward. It definitely changed the dynamic in the house.
No pictures today. :)
Warren Ellis is a big name in comics, but I'm actually not that familiar with his work. My bad. This is an interesting set-up and I'm definitely hooked enough to want to find out what the heck is going on storywise. They're some interesting characters with an intriguing background. I've always been a sucker for post-apocalyptic stories, and seeing London half under water is a cool visual. I'm really liking the artwork too. It's almost pretty, but not so pretty to hide the ugliness of some of the characters.
Anyway, it's worth checking out.
Today is Father's Day and I might actually get to spend some time with my dad. He's driving in from Connecticut to spend the week. He should be getting into town at a good time for us to have dinner. I'll have to take a long dinner break, but considering the three hour dinner breaks my supervisor sometimes takes, I don't think I'll get too much flak for it.
In simming news, I've been working on the next Pseudo update. I'm almost halfway done writing it, so I'm hoping to have it out sometime this week. It'll be a huge relief to get this one out. The writing is going easily (knock on wood), which is a good thing. I'm hoping to really push out the updates this summer so I can gain some ground. I was looking through old updates to reference a couple of things, and I realized that I've taken almost a year to play Gen Four to this point.
I'm torn. On one hand, I feel like I'm playing at glacially slow speeds compared to other players, but at the same time, I like the story I'm telling and I think that other people are liking it too. I need to find some sort of compromise between the two so I can advance things a bit. I know I have to start leaving out bits about the extended branches of the family tree. I've got one more storyline I want to tell about the Thompson branch in the main update, but after that, I think they're going to end up relegated to live journal updates and cameos.
In other simming news, I've also played through to Day Three of the Bachelor Challenge. Something very unexpected happened and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I came up with a way to handle it storywise, but it still threw me for a loop. Up until that point, everything had pretty much gone how I'd expected it to. Now things are different. I'll probably take a break from playing the bc house until I get at least one more bc update out. That way, I'll have come to terms with what happened and be able to move forward. It definitely changed the dynamic in the house.
No pictures today. :)
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Date: 2008-06-16 07:34 am (UTC)And thanks on the vote of confidence. :) I do want to play/write faster, but I suppose I can only speed up so much without losing something.
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Date: 2008-06-16 07:06 pm (UTC)If you like Freakangels, you'll like Transmet. I see a lot of Spider Jerusalem in those characters, plus the "dystopic future" aspect of it.