I don't have much to say about this page, there are some reference to Burger King, Jack In the Box and my favorite, In N' Out (there is one location close to the airport, some say it's the best place to watch the planes land.) I think the page came out pretty good, not too messy, not too defined, just perfect. And also, a bit standard. Oh well.
There's really nothing I want to say, I download Airport Tycoon 3. I was horribly disappointed. I also downloaded Brian Eno's Music for Airports, which was pretty good. Aside from that. Nothing, just nothing.
I also did clean out about 5 gigs of crap and useless files from my computer, all just to play either Microsoft Flight Simulator, or Grand Theft Auto 3. In the end, as we're here. Me looking for something to write about, I give this post to my webcam, which I'm still not using for sex.
I totally forgot to update with a comic today, I think this is to blame. Instead of leaving you three (or as the Alerter says, 18.) readers without a comic (and probably a shitty filler) I whipped this up. I think it looks pretty cool, and it also give you a break from my "eye-burning drawing style"
I pretty much have nothing to say, so I'll let the webcam take over.
the light shining on the morning day.
darkened hallways and florescent lights
stereo plastic, baby.
the desktop and the laptop talk about windows.
the march of those fallen (probably not healthy.)
mario can see you.
Sometimes, you gotta wonder. "Why the hell would you give me, Terminal, a webcam? What good can possibly come out of it?" Sure Normal people use a webcam for sex, but I use it to take pictures of stuff. I love my little webcam, the shots you can get with it are great.
Hey, let's be like some other blogs out there. Let's review games! This is the catch, I'm a gamer of other tastes, I give games that you'd think are bad a chance. I'll also review mostly old games that everyone else has reviewed a thousand times now. So let's begin, let's start with my game reviews.
This review was posted at D-Port too. Myxo's Game Review:Driver: Parallel Lines
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Reflections Interactive
Platform Reviewed On: Xbox
Genre: Action/Driving/Sandbox
Release Date: 03/14/06
Origin: U.K.
Driver goes back to it's roots in Parallel Lines. Remember how horrid Driv3r was? Yeah. Take that memory and throw it out the window. Reflections learned their lesson. From the start up, Driver: Parallel Lines is stylish, like a 70's car chase flick.
The game play is solid. The best part of this game is the driving (of course, it should be since 90% of game is spent driving.) Instead of Reflections trying to make the next Grand Theft Auto, they decided to do what they do best. Driving. Getting into car chases with cops is fun. Remember Bullet or Ronin? It's possible to relive all those chases. Hell, never has driving been so fun. Trust me, once you start a chase, the hours will waste away. There's nothing like nearly missing a bus and driving on the wrong side of the road, then driving into a alley, while four cops and a helicopter chase you. The physics are like nothing else, Driver: Parallel Lines is the Half-Life 2 of driving games (in terms of physics.)
There's just something about seeing the Twin Towers back standing in New York that gives you this weird feeling. It's even weirder when you go back to the same place in 2006.
The Wanted System is one of Driver's better features. Unlike GTA where in or out of the car, the stars that you have is your wanted level. Here in Driver, you have two wanted levels, one on-foot and one in car. If you have a wanted level while in a car and get out while cops see you, you have a wanted level on-foot. If you have a wanted level on a car and lose the cops then get out of the car, the level disappears. Works perfectly.
The missions in this game stand on the edge of either, "Whoa, that was cool" and "My God, this again?!?" are entertaining, like the beginning ones. Some are boring, and some are just plain crap. The better ones are the missions where you get chased and you have to use quick senses to escape using traffic and alleys. Missions consist of being, race here, steal this car, trash this. etc. The one thing that sucks about these missions? the long drive to get there. (Not to mention that if you fail, you start over at your safehouse and you have to drive all the way back to the location. There's no teleporting to missions, only to safehouses.)
on-foot is WAY better than driv3r, and that's saying something.
Getting out of the car has improved. While it's still not perfect, it's WAY better than Driv3r's and that's all that matters. With driving physics like these, you'll want to spend most of your time driving anyways. But if you do choose to get out of the car, shooting at people and causing mayhem is fun. The gameplay for on-foot is solid. Thing is there's not much to do aside shoot people and steal cars.
Unlock some cheats and the fun begins.
Now there's much stuff to do in and around New York. Normal, regular things that, well, aren't interesting. Aside from the races and modding your cars that is. This is where Driver fails, it does nothing new.
The presentation, this is where Driver shines, from the music to the cutscenes. Everything is polished and so stylish. Sometimes you feel as if you're watching a movie. Unlike the Driv3r, Driver: PL tells it story straight and does it like a good scripted Hollywood movie. The camara angels and choice of direction are some of the best I've seen since Metal Gear Solid 3.
If cutscenes were gameplay, GTA would be Driv3r.
The major feature is New York in the 70's and 00's. The decades of both the 70's and 00's are different in there own ways. 70's have a summer-ish feel, where you have no care in the world, the 00's are serious business, cold and mechanical blue. Now to me, the 70's are better than the 00's, everything from the music to the way everything looks. In the car section, it's a toss up.
Also, what the hell Reflections? Why take out the Film Director mode?
So what do I say? Driver: Parallel Lines is a good solid game. It's a week/end game. One where you can rent it and won't be disappointed. If you want to buy it, wait a few months, the price will go down. Then buy it. My main grip is also the best point, while the game tries nothing new, it sticks to what it does best and gets the job done. Driver: Parallel Lines costs 20 dollars now, totally a good buy.
Yesterday, I totally ate a Whopper and bought all three Burger King games. I have yet to play them, but will eventually. They look so damn interesting, especially Sneak King. There's nothing better than the King sneaking up on people and giving them Burger King.
Man, yesterday was the boring-est Thanksgiving ever, the only redeeming part of the whole day was the games I've played with BigFish on Yahoo Games. Actually, that took place in more of today than yesterday, so that would mean that yesterday, Thanksgiving, did indeed sucked.
Miss. Fish made me feel this human emotion called "guiltism" or something like that. She asked me if I had the update for "today" ready. I said no. Hooray for being lazy? No, not even that Hooray Beer dude would say "hooray" to that. So, around 1:50pm I started to draw the comic. Then around 4:35 pm I posted it. Thank BigFish for the update, otherwise there'd be nothing at the site, and by nothing I mean this:
...yeah.
One thing that is different is the return of the shoutbox, who I've neglected for so much time. It's finally back now. Now you can countine to not use it, to cuss me out, to spam, or to maybe, just maybe, tell me I'm great. The cool thing is it replaces that stupid little list that used to be there. Go ahead, leave a comment, you'll totally make my day.
I have fixed up the menu, alot. There is also one new link I've added, the intro link. That intro link goes directly toward the flash intro BigFish gave me. Although the menu my still have problems, I did manage to sort the lot of them out. Hooray for that, I hate menus.
You know the page where the flash intro used to be? The extra page? Since I've moved the intro to it's very own page, I remade this into an extra page. You know the drill, things about LAX that are extra. Small thing collected over time that may or may not interest you, and some fan art. If you get a chance, check it out. I took time in making this page.
Last thing I've changed or added is the soundtrack page. I made the cover art at the bottom much smaller (100x100, avatar size) thus making this page look much more organized. I've also added a "Search for Torrents" search bar on this very page. (Nothing to do with the music, ;))
That's it for me? Yes.
Wait up, there's one finally thing. Ever wanted to see the process in which LAX is made? Well, guess what. I accidentally left the webcam on while I drew the page, so it actually recorded what I did. Take a look at these select screenshots taken during the time of me drawing the comic.
Hey, people actually read this blog! (Okay, only two people.) Still that's enough to make me update more, even if I have nothing to say. Knowing me I'll just fill up this post with nonsensical ramblings and the self-masturbation of words. Yay.
..So, I watched Miami Vice. Pretty damn good movie. The bad part was where I was sitting, I was so wrapped up in the movie, that I forgot I was watching it on my compy. In the end, by the end of the movie, my ass kinda hurt. Still, it's a damn great movie. I'm just about to watch the special features. Something you can't do until December 6th! (Hey look, there's the self-masturbation.)
So I've been watching the Celebrity Jeopardy skits from Saturday Night Live, I can't stop watching them. I just love it, I love Sean Connery interacting with Alex Trebek (Will Farrell). The memorable dialog exchanged between the two (Suck it, Trebek), pure SNL gold. I just finished watching the "Rock and Roll Edition" with Bjork, Dave Matthews, and Sean Connery, which I think is the last one. I must say it's the funniest.
I love you guys, thanks for voting for me on the Webcomic Talk Topsite. In the two days I've been there. LAX has managed to move up from 14th spot to 10th. Yay. Granted there are only a few comics there, but people actually stopping to vote, that's pretty awesome for me. If that's not for you, than screw you. I bet you Windows boots up in a day an a half. (Weird Al reference, shameless.)
So, Happy Thanksgiving dudes. I personally hate Turkey, so I'm not much of a Thanksgiving person. Tomorrow's the day I stay alone by the wall, darken room, crying sadly. Wish you dudes luck, cheers.
(I'm kidding by the way, hopefully I'll have the light on.)
This page of LAX is one I loved, everything came out well. I decided to do this page with just a pen, I used a bunch of reference photos of the Tom Bradley International Terminal. Because if you've ever been there, you'd know how much of a bitch it is to draw that place. I usually don't show this particular terminal for this very reason. See anything new in this update? No?
I'll tell you.
The text is a different, it's something new I'm trying, if people like it. I'll keep it, if people hate it, I'll change it back, no matter, no worries. I'd just like to here what people think. I kinda like it this way, it's much easier to do a page. (Though I do like the speech balloons.)
This is the first day of the new update schedule. Enjoy it.
You know what I have in my hands? An advance copy of the Miami Vice DVD. It has two covers, one box jacket and the DVD box itself. I have yet to open the thing, I've been meaning to do so all day today. The thing that sucks is that standard Universal Studios sticker, which talks about how this DVD is owned by Universal Studios, and it's use is limited to select press and other stuff. I got a bunch more stuff, like the CD press kit for The Terminal and The Incredibles. (I love getting free movie stuff!)
..and yes, that is Accepted back there. I just got it.
So, that's it, everything I have to say. Come back Friday for an update. Oh yeah, before I forget. Did you guys here what Jane said? She said she's done with Sergio and she also said she's gonna kick tomorrow. Now excuse me, I'm off to the store up on St. Andrews.
Hey people, or er, the two people reading this. What's up? Anything happen to you guys? No. Oh well. Let's talk shall we? Alright then; First things first, LAX gets the first "real" criticism,
I'm sorry but I get the feeling you call it "experimental" to cover up the fact that you lack the skills to make a decent comic. I'm all for trying new things, but when you get to a point where people just don't get it and it hurts to look at, it's isn't experimental. It's just bad. If you want to do your comic in an ungeneric, more abstract style, that's great. Really. But this comic simply looks like sketchy, unfinished manga. Uglyness is a flaw, not a style choice.
So I suggest you keep experimenting, and try to find a style that's new and interesting, but doesn't torture the eyes of your audience. Good luck.
Ouch? No. I think it's true. (That or this lack of sleep is killing me.)
Second? I've made two films for your viewment pleasure, one is LAX @ SketchUp, which finally shows the v.2 model of LAX (which I stopped working on). It looks great, though you can clearly see why I stopped working on it, the limitations of my computer.
LAX @ SketchUp
The second short film I made is something short of a "What the hell...?" called a "A Little "wtf?" for Trucks (Probably Maybe)" which can be found here. If you have to ask, you best not know. By the way, that truck seen was a childhood toy. Both these short films were shot with my Logitech QuickShot Camara, which does not seem to work in mild darkness. Bah.
Third? I recently bought Gangs of London which I enjoyed. I went to the park a few days and totally lost the damn game, which means I pissed away thirty dollars. Bad? Maybe. This little event has driven me to downgrade my PSP from firmware verison 2.71 to 2.50.
Can't say I'm not having fun with all the homebrew that is out there, right now I got Doom, SmashGP, Super Mario Portable (Demo), Monkey 64, and some GBA emulator installed on the thing. I'm also downloading an ISO of Gangs of London as we speak.
Foruth? I don't believe in fourth.
What's the last thing I got to say? I admitted to one of my best friends that I like both John Mayer and the Dave Matthews Band, he laughed, like I expected him to. Oh well, it's his fault he'll never hear songs like Crush, Crash into Me, and Something's Missing.
More? Looking over my dad's death certificate, I found one bit of shocking news to me that has opened my eyes. My dad was half white. Seeing that sent me into a little shock as I learned something about him that I never knew. How come he never told me? I will never know.
Why? Well. I decided that the new update day for LAX is now Tuesday. So check back Tuesday. There maybe be something posted up. What exactly will be posted up? "Beautifully Strange" Part 2. As you can see above, there is a new stat bar... As of right now, it says that Beautifully Strange is only 10% done. Hahahahaha. Shit.
I added a cast section. With the help of Sam's system the cast page came easily. Check it out, read up on the characters (and locations). Read it so you don't have to go in the archives. Or read it if you have no idea who the characters are (that happens a lot.) I'm quite proud, so I'll say again. Go check it out. It's nothing to detailed, just one paragraph on each character seen at LAX.
Do I have more news? No, not really (The Stardust closed, which makes me very, very sad.) Oh wait. Yeah. If you noticed this week the blog system was down. I had to replace it with this for the time being. Hopefully I can get the problems resolved. Until then, next time. Dude.
One fine Wednesday afternoon, I stood there watching TV, feeling ill. I forgotten where I'd put my remote control, and for some reason, I was watching Univision. There was this show, like nothing I'd ever seen on that channel. It was beyond those Spanish soapy dramas they have, it was actually modern and somewhat hip (as Wikipedia tells me.) The show was called Rebelde. Something about some guys and girls at some school that make a band.
I didn't watch it all. I totally feel asleep. But in all that I blurry-ingly saw, I must say. There is a lot of fan service. Let's see, it's a show that takes place at some school (I think high, I have no idea) so obviously, the schoolgirls will have short skirts and short shirts, the guys will obviously be hawt and mysterious. And, there is a lot of product placement.
Maybe you're asking, Hey. What ever did happen to that LAX model Terminal has been working on? You should be actually. This model is the only reason I started this blog (or er, restarted.) Enough of my egotistical bull, this is the real thing.
The LAX model has seen better days, this whole week (and the week before) I haven't even touched, so much as seen this model. I stopped working on it, grew into a rut, and fell. I do some work, small by small. Not doing as much, or enough. The reason? Well two. One is because I am lazy, and when I'm lazy I don't do shit. That and (hey, this is still reason one.) I like everything I make to be accurate, being lazy and being somewhat of a perfectionist is kinda contradicting. The second reason is that the LAX model slows my computer down, (like playing on dial-up slow.) The computer can't keep up with SketchUp's demands, thus pissing me off with it's long load times. You see that video I posted a while back? The wireframe seen was because my computer could not render what SketchUp wants.
LAX updates with a small "a concerto for a rainy day" called "Lufthansa lands at LAX" (Here's a little trivia about about the concerto for a rainy day name. Concerto for a Rainy Day was the third side in my favorite Electric Light Orchestra album, Out of the Blue.)
So yeah, to all you game fanatics, that is a song from Shenmue in there. The song is called (bare with me.) "Christmas on Dobuita Street" by Ryuji Iuchi. It is found on the Shenmue OST, now if you could find yourself this album, you are in for a treat. The album is a masterpiece.
So is that it for today? Yes.
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Oh wait, I totally changed this blog's layout, making it look, better.
New site update for the LAX site, hooray. What's new in this change of the site? Well a lot actually. Most things have been changed. Let's take a look, shall we?
First and foremost is the new blog system, which now add comments for all past pages of LAX. Thus opening up some cool commentary type blog posts about old comics and shit you never wanted to know about. Go back, read the archives once again. I promise my commentary is worth something. I do, really.
Second is the rearranged site navigation. Now it tells you the current session, some very important links (man.) and everything else. Which has links to the new and improved radio.blog, KAMP radio, which features the Light Motion Dreams radio show, hosted by non other than Gregory from Such A Simple Life.
More? Yes. There is more.
The forums are now built into the site using the <> tags. This enables easy access, you can now go to the forums, and not leave the comic page itself. Cool? Yes. Practical? No. Maybe this will come into use later, maybe it'll be long left forgotten, time will tell. Eventually.
Last but not least in the latest site update is the revamp of the links section. I totally stole the idea from bigfish. The links appear much better and organized than last time. Instead of justing banners, each comic linked has some sort of current screenshot. I will add screenshots to all the links eventually, but until that time comes, and I get off my lazy ass. Then that day will be here.
Let me go out with a final note, unforunteatly, I had none prepared.
Hmm, I also seem to have drawn a piece of LAX art, done in my new style (Yes, Emliy's pregnant. Oh there's a fucking surprise.)
My new style? Let me explain. It's a new style brought on by changes in my image editing programs. And yes, it kicks ass. But here's is the reason why...
I love my scanner, it's a Canon CanoScan LiDE 25. I bought it for only 50 dollars about three years ago and it still does it's job well. My scanner is lightweight, thinner than one of those old high school Math books, and heavier than two coke cans. I remember I bought it because I needed a scanner, I remember the fact that I didn't care which one I bought. Now, three years later I'm looking back at that purchase I made on that gray morning at the Fry's near the Burbank Airport.
Sure, sure. At first I didn't have PhotoShop. I had something better. I had the standard Image editing program that came with the scanner, it was called Arcsoft PhotoStudio. I hated the software, I hated it oh so much, that is until I learned to use it. I learned and I learned. In the time I got pro at it, I was doing amazing things. The comic was high, my spirits where high. Now I'm here. (The bad thing about PhotoStudio was the lack of .gif support.)
When my computer died, I lost the program. I had to get new ones to replace PhotoStudio. Get this, a total four programs have replaced what I could do in PhotoStudio: Those programs are Macromedia Fireworks, Paint.NET, and PhotoShop. While PhotoShop can do alot more than PhotoStudio, I still loved PhotoStudio for giving me all the tools I needed.
Maybe one day PhotoStudio, maybe we'll meet again.
I really wish it would rain, when it rains in Los Angeles. Something magical happens. Everything turns gray, everything turns wet and reflective. Everyone is nicer, and life slows down.
I love it when it rains. I love the gray overcast, I love the way the streets look, I love the cold breeze, the way my shoes slip on the pavement. I love how the weather forecasters over react, as if it was a hurricane. (Give them a break, they only see rain once in a few months.) You know what I love best? Knowing that Christmas is close. The best feeling, ever.
Every morning, the sky tease me. With it's "early morning gray overcast" only to fade away by noon. Maybe tomorrow it will rain?
I sure hope so.
LAX Comic Progress: Title: "Beautifully Strange" Part 2 Run Time: (est) 45:00 seconds Percent Done: 0%
I have made nothing for the next installment of Beautifully Strange, I have yet to plan it out, I have yet to draw anything. Hopefully I get more ideas latter this week.
Hmm, I've been losing track of time lately. Fuck, I was actually reminded by a South Park episode that the Wii was coming out soon. I was also shaken up when I saw the Playstation 3 commercial. Nevertheless, I'm getting neither. I need a Xbox 360.
I've been losing track of time lately. It's like I don't know what's going on. To the extent of things, it's my fault. Totally my fault. I haven't been watching or reading any kind of news lately. Did it come a surprise to when when someone told me that the Griffith Park Observatory was opening up after a 5 year absence? Yes.
Speaking of time passing one by. I've been feeling great lately (and also lazy.) You want to know why? Because I've been having the best week ever. Too bad I can't pass this on to my comic, LAX. I've been feeling rather lazy in updating it. Maybe I'll draw or write or do something later on for it, as of right now. I don't let it take me down. Here's a bit of refreshing LAX news, I checked the DrunkDuck Alert, only to find the pleasant surprise of 11 favorites. Four more people actually liked LAX enough to fav. And that makes me happier than balls on a...? Forget that analogy. It went straight into the gutter.
..So what's the case and point of this blog post? Well, when someone says they are the Juggernut. You best know that you're a bitch.
It was something I pulled together in a couple of hours, no big deal. It looks awesome, though. The area modeled here is somewhere in Century City or Culver City. I forgot.
