I have once again completely neglected my site. Not too surprised, although it is quite different from my original intent when I started this site back in 2002. It was supposed to be a daily thing. I'm not sure why I thought I could do that; my website prior to this one has the same goal with the same outcome. It's a vicious cycle. I come up with a new website idea, I stick with my mission statement for a week, and then it all dissolves into a "when I get to it" sort of establishment.
It's about to happen again, I just know it. Eric and I (and I guess Oscar and Brad, I really don't know the details) are planning a web comic, such as VG Cats or Penny-Arcade. We want to have multiple comics per week, fully colored, the whole nine yards. There's a couple of things that stand in our way though. First, we're both incredibly lazy. Even if we like it this way, it provides quite the obstacle in getting anything done. For projects that have a due date for a grade, we usually wait until the day before or day of to complete what needs to be turned in. This works fine until we have a project that has has a due date with no repercussion for being late. The due date comes and goes, and we sit there saying "We'll do it tomorrow". We have no reason not to do it tomorrow; we're not doing anything, but it still won't get done.
Second, we beta-tested the whole web comic thing back in February/March. It didn't fare too well. Eric would get a comic done on lined paper, it would get scanned by someone else in a building a mile away from him, colored by the same person who had the scanner who also had no experience in coloring comics, sent back to Eric over AIM, who then added the text and did some cleaning up. Never was it that easy though. Comics would come back to Eric with horrible colors. Nobody was surprised, the colorist had nothing art related in his background. Comics had to be recolored, which took about another day or two. Finally, the comics were posted.
In the end, Eric only produced two or so. Our web server was cut off from the Internet after our college discovered how much bandwidth we were using (the bandwidth was going to hosting anime, fansub style), but more specifically, it was cut off after they discovered a comic on the site that I had made.
With Eric's comics taking a long time to produce, I started making my own comics. Being that I couldn't draw, I decided to make them MS Paint style, in reference to Dom's stand-in comics at MegaTokyo. After the second comic, I changed my drawing program to Aura Video Paint 2.5, because it gave me more options, it supported layers, I could control my pictures better, etc, but I digress. One of my comics depicted myself in my car saying "Happy-fucking-halloween faggots!". This was said not because I have a fear or dislike of homosexuals, it was said in reference to Eric, who said the word "faggot" about 30 times a day despite having two gay brothers.
Chico State didn't like the idea of someone potentially seeing my "hateful" comic hosted on a server using a Chico State connection and shut us down.
Even though we probably know how this new website will turn out, we are being more ambitious about this new site. In addition to comics, we want video game reviews, movie reviews, a real layout, and I personally hope we can take it farther than that. I want to create the next IGN. The chances of that happening are beyond slim to nil, but still I hope.
Well, that's it for now. Maybe another post tomorrow. I'll at least fix the links tomorrow. I promise.
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