My First Flash Animation
I made a bouncing ball, like they taught us back in 2-D animation class… Only I made it in Flash, and figured out how to animate it only with the help of the internet! I feel fairly proud. BouncingBall
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I’ve started knitting a Doctor Who scarf.
Pray for me, everyone. This is going to take 50,500 stitches. Now if I could only find the sonic screwdriver setting for wool… Also, I’ve updated my Professional Work page with links to my work on Saw II: Flesh and Blood! Head on over and check it out.
“Can I throw a rock at the kobold?”
Yesterday I got to play Dungeons and Dragons with actual other people around an actual table with actual dice for the first time in… Eight? Nine years? (Wow, was it really that long ago? I guess so. Damn.) It was fun. It was as much fun as I remember, if not more. I didn’t have [...]
Three Conversations.
Conversation One, overheard on the bus: Girl One: So the second step is to pick some heroes for yourself, and they’re not supposed to be realistic heroes. They can be anyone you choose. Girl Two: Oh? Girl One: So I picked Frederick Douglass, because I really admire him, and the Powerpuff Girls, because they’re awesome. [...]
Bioshock: The Aftermath
WARNING: THIS BLOG POST WILL CONTAIN GIANT GIANT SPOILERS ABOUT PLOT POINTS IN THE FIRST BIOSHOCK GAME. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK. I realize that at this point I am probably one of the few people in the world who still cares/cared about avoiding spoilers for Bioshock, but I feel the need to put that [...]
Growing Up Gamer: In The Beginning
It’s Christmas. I can’t even remember how old I am,* or what I got for Christmas this year, but my brothers have unwrapped something that they’re extremely excited about. I can’t remember–I didn’t recognize what they’d unwrapped, but they were so excited I knew it had to be something amazing, so I was excited too. [...]
Okamiden!
Holy crap! Okamiden! I am so freaking excited it is hard to type this! Since it’s practically impossible to chronicle my excitement in words, here is a comic I made to illustrate it! SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!
W00tstock!
Last Friday, May 7th, Chris and I got to participate in the Beta Test of something awesome. That something was W00tstock. W00tstock v2.0, if you want to be specific. As the show opened, Wil Wheaton informed us that the show was still in Beta, and that if we found any bugs we should log them [...]
Knitting and Gaming: Kindred Spirts!
As both a knitter and a gamer, I spend quite a bit of time doing both things and thinking about both things. They’re much more similar than they seem at first glance. Let me break it down: 1. Normal people think you’re crazy for doing either. With video games, people think you’re crazy for wasting [...]
HOLY SHIT HOUDINI SPLICER AAAAAGH!
Ice Plasmid! Electrobolt! Machine gun! Anything! ANYTHING! KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! … Ahem. I’m playing Bioshock right now. The first one. Yes, I know the second one came out already. Yes, I know I mentioned that I got it for Christmas and now it’s May. Yes, I know I’m chronically behind [...]