Trouble Adjusting
General | Posted 2 years agoSo the move was officially done on Friday. Since then I've been unpacking and putting all my stuff away in a timely manner while juggling work and various cleaning jobs around the house trying to find places for everything to fit. Sadly, the house isn't quite as luxurious as the last and my room is now twice as small. Not too much of a problem though as the house before last was technically the smallest room I've ever lived in, just with a really high ceiling. But despite everything going well, for a number of whatever reasons...
I can't stop crying....
The tears were so bad yesterday that they continued all through my shift at work and lasted until the sun went down. It was as if my body was trying to force all of my bodily fluids through my eyeballs. I don't even know what to call this? Level 10 sadness? Super depression? I don't know. There's several variables that have just been piling on and adding to it. Here's a number of them in no particular order.
-Attempting to leave the nest. This will be my second attempt, and I'm proud that I've taken the leap. However, I'm having an extremely difficult time adjusting to my new surroundings. I've been visiting this house since I was a kid but I never imagined actually living in it. It was built back in the early 1940s, so it's pretty worn down in a lot of places that makes it look really dirty and I'm a neat freak. Doesn't help that my buddy and his wife are slobs that barely clean. I also know that they both have my back, but it still feels like that security net with my parents is now gone. Not that I burned any bridges and I'm sure I can always go back.... But because it took so damn long, it feels scary to me.
-For certain reasons I won't get into, I'm yet again constantly reminded of my crippling loneliness and fear of romantic engagements. I keep hoping that a girl will just out of the blue ask me out someday. But I'm 35 now and it's never happened. So I don't think it's going to happen any time soon.
-I feel like if things don't work out here that the friendship will forever be tarnished. Which is something I really don't want to happen as I really don't have many true friends I can depend on.
-Something I wasn't aware of before moving in is that my buddies cats pissed in the closet which went uncleaned for who knows how long. We bleached it three times, sprayed it down with enzyme cleaner, added febreeze, air fresheners, baking soda, perfumes, and even those smelly bead things you put in a bowl. The cat piss stench remains. Which means that my clothes and anything else I plan to keep inside of it will now potentially wreak of cat piss. This has been especially stressful as my only solution right now would be buying a massive dresser and just keeping all of my clothes in there.
-Hard wood floors. I forgot how shitty they feel and how badly they hurt my feet. Also the amount of dirt that now appears on the bottom of my socks is revolting. I feel gross walking bare foot.
-I have a lot more things, but some of which I really can't get into for personal reasons reasons so I'll leave it at that.
If any of these things sound trivial or not so bad at all. You're right. They are. So why the endless stream of tears then? Well, that's what I'm trying to figure out myself. I should be happy. I should be over the moon that I'm no longer ruled by my parents who will never see us as equals. But I'm not. It really just feels like I've gone from one place to another with the only real change being... well now I'll be paying more money for food and bills. For fuck sake... I'm 35 years old, but mentally I still feel like I'm fucking 16....
So I think it's about time I tried to see a therapist. I'm going to go tomorrow and see what my medical insurance can do for me. Here's hoping I can get my head on straight. I'm so fucking sick of being sad and feeling this way. I'll try to get back to drawing soon, but I have been in NO shape to draw lately. If this keeps on for much longer I think I'm just going to start giving refunds on commissions because I'm at a point to where I don't even want to draw anymore.
I can't stop crying....
The tears were so bad yesterday that they continued all through my shift at work and lasted until the sun went down. It was as if my body was trying to force all of my bodily fluids through my eyeballs. I don't even know what to call this? Level 10 sadness? Super depression? I don't know. There's several variables that have just been piling on and adding to it. Here's a number of them in no particular order.
-Attempting to leave the nest. This will be my second attempt, and I'm proud that I've taken the leap. However, I'm having an extremely difficult time adjusting to my new surroundings. I've been visiting this house since I was a kid but I never imagined actually living in it. It was built back in the early 1940s, so it's pretty worn down in a lot of places that makes it look really dirty and I'm a neat freak. Doesn't help that my buddy and his wife are slobs that barely clean. I also know that they both have my back, but it still feels like that security net with my parents is now gone. Not that I burned any bridges and I'm sure I can always go back.... But because it took so damn long, it feels scary to me.
-For certain reasons I won't get into, I'm yet again constantly reminded of my crippling loneliness and fear of romantic engagements. I keep hoping that a girl will just out of the blue ask me out someday. But I'm 35 now and it's never happened. So I don't think it's going to happen any time soon.
-I feel like if things don't work out here that the friendship will forever be tarnished. Which is something I really don't want to happen as I really don't have many true friends I can depend on.
-Something I wasn't aware of before moving in is that my buddies cats pissed in the closet which went uncleaned for who knows how long. We bleached it three times, sprayed it down with enzyme cleaner, added febreeze, air fresheners, baking soda, perfumes, and even those smelly bead things you put in a bowl. The cat piss stench remains. Which means that my clothes and anything else I plan to keep inside of it will now potentially wreak of cat piss. This has been especially stressful as my only solution right now would be buying a massive dresser and just keeping all of my clothes in there.
-Hard wood floors. I forgot how shitty they feel and how badly they hurt my feet. Also the amount of dirt that now appears on the bottom of my socks is revolting. I feel gross walking bare foot.
-I have a lot more things, but some of which I really can't get into for personal reasons reasons so I'll leave it at that.
If any of these things sound trivial or not so bad at all. You're right. They are. So why the endless stream of tears then? Well, that's what I'm trying to figure out myself. I should be happy. I should be over the moon that I'm no longer ruled by my parents who will never see us as equals. But I'm not. It really just feels like I've gone from one place to another with the only real change being... well now I'll be paying more money for food and bills. For fuck sake... I'm 35 years old, but mentally I still feel like I'm fucking 16....
So I think it's about time I tried to see a therapist. I'm going to go tomorrow and see what my medical insurance can do for me. Here's hoping I can get my head on straight. I'm so fucking sick of being sad and feeling this way. I'll try to get back to drawing soon, but I have been in NO shape to draw lately. If this keeps on for much longer I think I'm just going to start giving refunds on commissions because I'm at a point to where I don't even want to draw anymore.
Final Stretch + What Characters Should I Draw Porn of?
General | Posted 2 years agoSo this is it. This is my final week living with my family, hopefully onto greener pastures. Or at the very least the same kind of pasture without more problems. But only time will tell. As such commissions are still on pause. Sorry again to everyone waiting. I did not anticipate getting the flu, an abscess, AND bronchitis all in the same month.... I'll post a follow up journal when I'm all moved in.
In the mean time I'd like any and all to send me ideas on what characters to draw porn of, most likely with Wolf's penis inside of them. This could be a character of your own, or even just a suggested character from a cartoon, anime, video game, etc. Who do you want to see me draw in my... "STYLE" or whatever you'd call it. I'll want to do some test pics after I get my desk set back up at the new place just to see how comfy it is. No guarantees, but every suggestion will be added to my bottomless "Ideas" folder for sure. Unless I just don't like the character, of course.
See ya'll in a couple days! I'll still check in on my phone.
In the mean time I'd like any and all to send me ideas on what characters to draw porn of, most likely with Wolf's penis inside of them. This could be a character of your own, or even just a suggested character from a cartoon, anime, video game, etc. Who do you want to see me draw in my... "STYLE" or whatever you'd call it. I'll want to do some test pics after I get my desk set back up at the new place just to see how comfy it is. No guarantees, but every suggestion will be added to my bottomless "Ideas" folder for sure. Unless I just don't like the character, of course.
See ya'll in a couple days! I'll still check in on my phone.
Wellness Update Again (Not Well at All)
General | Posted 2 years agoWent to urgent care yesterday and as it turns out, I have bronchitis. So yes... the infection in my gooch literally just put on a fake mustache and sneaked it's way into my lungs. This is somehow even more painful then the puss sack growing next to my balls. The coughing fits have resulted in deep muscle pulls in my stomach. so every time I cough now it feels like someone is stretching my organs with meat hooks. Urgent care prescribed me with an antibiotic inhaler, Azithromycin tablets, and an extra strength cough medicine. The cough medicine is great for helping me sleep. Which is good, because I haven't slept in about 3 days now. But that also means that taking it during the day mean that I'm very loopy. I'm beginning to cough up green and brown slime now, so hopefully that's the infection being pushed out. How many god damn infections is my body going to push out?
I wanna say that I'm through the worst of it now as the coughing has slowed down. But the pain is so intense I need 6-10 painkillers a day right now... which I'm sure will result in some serious liver damage if I'm not careful. I'm pretty sure the coughing did a lot of internal damage. Worst still is that our next Art Market is tomorrow, and I'll probably be dropping out as much as I don't want to. T.T Why does being alive need to hurt so much?
I wanna say that I'm through the worst of it now as the coughing has slowed down. But the pain is so intense I need 6-10 painkillers a day right now... which I'm sure will result in some serious liver damage if I'm not careful. I'm pretty sure the coughing did a lot of internal damage. Worst still is that our next Art Market is tomorrow, and I'll probably be dropping out as much as I don't want to. T.T Why does being alive need to hurt so much?
How the Hell is this Possible!?
General | Posted 2 years agoWelp, lucky me, I'm fucking sick, AGAIN!! How the fuck does this keep happening!? I got the flu the week after my birthday. The week after that I had that massive cyst under my balls. And now I'm back to being sick! So not once, not twice, but three times now in a row. I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS SHIT!!! It's a chronic dry cough, which is weird because my coughs are usually very wet thanks to lung cheese in the Spring. You might be thinking, "Just a cough? That's not so bad." Yeah, it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't happening every 5 seconds. As a result of just this cough... my lungs feel like they have holes in them and I can barely breathe, my throat is destroyed so I can barely talk, I'm dizzy and have a constant migraine, and to top it all off my body feels like my bones have disappeared. All that shit just a from a cough. Been like this for 4 days now and I don't know what to do. I probably have an infection again! It's like my body threw the infection out, then it turned around and put on a fake mustache and let itself back into my lungs. Thanks, Body! I can always count on you to betray me every single chance you get.
I seriously don't have time for this shit. Our next Art Market is this Sunday and I'm supposed to be fully moved into the new house by next week. Most of my shit is packed, but if I'm still in this weak kitten state then I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do.
I seriously don't have time for this shit. Our next Art Market is this Sunday and I'm supposed to be fully moved into the new house by next week. Most of my shit is packed, but if I'm still in this weak kitten state then I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do.
Big BIG News!
General | Posted 2 years agoSo uhh... as it turns out.... I will be moving... again. Although this time it will be under better circumstances. I'm not getting kicked out, nor did I have a falling out with my family. But an opportunity has arrived for me to try and leave the nest again. Next month, I will be officially moving in with my best friend Jim and his wife. They need a roommate and although it's only been six months since the big move last September, I'm willing to take the spot. On the one hand I'm excited to no longer be underneath the thumb of my parents. My parents are good people, but no matter what you do, you will always be seen as beneath them. Never as equals so there's that. On the other hand, I'm scared because I've attempted this before and it ended very badly. I've also never lived with these friends before and living with someone is completely different from visiting someone, even frequently.
This will be a dice roll that I suspect won't have too many negatives, but it's still a dice roll nonetheless. Fortunately this time I won't be moving to another State this time. And if things go sour, I'm sure my parents will welcome me back in with open arms. I feel so pathetic. I'm in my mid 30s and feel like I'm still 18, like "Wah wah! How am I gonna live without mommy and daddy making me dinner and doing my laundry!?" Like shut the fuck up, loser. Get over it. So yeah, I've already started packing and will be slowly moving my crap over to the new place. To the people I owe commissions, again I will be working on them to the best of my ability. But this has now become a new variable that will no doubt be taking up a lot of time.
I fucking HATE moving! But at least it's just my crap this time. Hopefully on to greener pastures instead of sinking ships, but only time will tell.
This will be a dice roll that I suspect won't have too many negatives, but it's still a dice roll nonetheless. Fortunately this time I won't be moving to another State this time. And if things go sour, I'm sure my parents will welcome me back in with open arms. I feel so pathetic. I'm in my mid 30s and feel like I'm still 18, like "Wah wah! How am I gonna live without mommy and daddy making me dinner and doing my laundry!?" Like shut the fuck up, loser. Get over it. So yeah, I've already started packing and will be slowly moving my crap over to the new place. To the people I owe commissions, again I will be working on them to the best of my ability. But this has now become a new variable that will no doubt be taking up a lot of time.
I fucking HATE moving! But at least it's just my crap this time. Hopefully on to greener pastures instead of sinking ships, but only time will tell.
My Thoughts on The Mario Movie
General | Posted 2 years agoI saw it on Friday and yeah, it was good. It's refreshing to see a video game movie in which the writers actually PLAYED the damn games. Or at the very least, knew their stuff about it. Ya go to see a fuckin' Resident Evil movie/TV Show and you know for a fact those fuckers have never played a Resident Evil game in their lives. But fuck it, they're gonna make it anyway because money. I also think that this is Illumination's best movie by far. Although that's kinda like comparing a dog turd to a bowl of soup. Which one would you rather eat?
What I liked about it:
-First and foremost, the movie is gorgeous. Mad props to the animators as everything looked really great. This is one of the few movies I actually wouldn't have minded seeing in super special 3D IMAX or whatever. I probably won't, but I'd be super down to see it again at the more expensive ticket.
-Jack Black as Bowser was great, but my god... Charlie Day stole the show as Luigi. He was actually trying and giving it his best. When they inevitably make a sequel, they damn well better have him voice Luigi again. Chris Pratt though... still a terrible choice. But to his credit, you stop noticing after the first five minutes and he's fine. Chris did okay. C- for Chris, he tried I guess.
-They actually remembered that Mario and Luigi are super short in comparison to everything in the Mushroom Kingdom. That's why they need to use the power mushroom to become big. This was something I was sure they were just not going to do or completely forget about. But no! They totally remembered it, so good on them.
-No dumbass Minion shit. I was convinced that they would have some sort of obnoxious Minion equivalent in this movie. They could have just as easily made all the Toads like the Minions, but they really held back. So much so that they didn't even have a cringy Mario related Minion short at the beginning which is what I was at least expecting. Super glad they held back.
-In line with the Minion shit, I thought they would also do a scene where we get a closeup of a male characters bare ass. Because children think that bare asses are hilarious for some reason. But not female asses because that objectifies women. They could have easily had a stupid scene where one of the Toads shows up in a Borat thong and says, "Whoops! This isn't the jacuzzi room!" Or some shit like that. But funny enough, the only ass shots we get are from Peach in her Mariokart outfit. Great on them for that. Really breaking new ground of not worrying about negative articles on Peach's ass. Two big thumbs up on that one.
-They actually used tracks and sounds from the game. Take notes on that Sonic movies! Also the amount of Easter eggs they crammed in this movie is insane. Like, I need to see the movie again and pay close attention to the background because there were a ton of refs to not just Mario, but all sorts of Nintendo properties.
What I didn't like about it:
-If you've seen any YouTube review on this by now, then you're gonna keep hearing this. But the pop song choices were reallllllllllly bad. Ironically enough, one of the most important part about visual entertainment is the music. A song choice will straight up make or break a scene, and it's not to say that these songs are bad... they just didn't fit. The only song in the entire movie that wasn't from the games I felt was alright is when Mario and Luigi are running around the city very early in the film to Beastie Boys: No Sleep Till Brooklyn. This was okay because it was still taking place in the "real world" and Mario and Luigi are plumbers from Brooklyn. But as soon as they got to the Mushroom Kingdom. Throw that shit out the window! "Thunderstruck", "I Need a Hero", "Take on Me." These are great songs, but they don't belong in a damn fantasy Mario world. It'd be like watching a Harry Potter movie and they bust out with "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." The non-diegetic nature of these songs do absolutely nothing for the film except make it worse.
-Peach's face was horrible. I don't know what they were thinking. Peach has such a cute face in the games and they just fucked it up. I guess they were trying to make her look more realistic? But everyone else looked just fine. This feels like Lola Bunny syndrome all over again. "We can't have people sexually attracted to her so just fuck up her face." At least they didn't take her tits away too. What's even more upsetting, for me at least, is I've been seeing toys of Peach lately that have been using that ugly ass face.... Maybe that's why they did it? Nah, the face ain't fucked up on the toy, that's just how she looks in the movie.
-As I mentioned in my likes, Charlie Day was great as Luigi. Which is why it was so disappointing that he was barely in the movie. He spends most of the film locked up in cage and is basically the damsel in distress instead of Peach. I was worried that Peach was going to be a Mary Sue and she was... but that doesn't mean you needed to make Luigi the captured one. Bowser trying to take over all the Kingdoms was enough. You didn't need this tacked on subplot to motivate Mario or whatever. You can still split them up and trying to find each other and all that. Just have Luigi do his own thing instead of being useless.
-Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong... I called it, he did his stupid laugh. You know the laugh; "uhhuthuthuthuthugh" Yeah THAT.... I'm convinced he's contractually obligated in every movie he's in at this point to make that stupid laugh. Doesn't ruin the movie, but as soon as I hear it I'm always like, "Oh that's right... this isn't a character it's just Seth Rogen."
Nitpicks. These are things that are in the movie that were a little dumb. They didn't ruin anything, I just didn't enjoy them:
-Mario hates mushrooms. That way it's super funny that he has to keep eating something he doesn't enjoy. In the 30+ years I've been playing Mario games... I never knew that as one of his character traits. Not that Mario has deep lore, but I'm pretty sure this was just some shit they made up. Also the mushrooms are the only powerup he needs to eat. All the other ones he just touches.
-Mario never use the Fire Flower. Both Peach and Donkey Kong use it, but Mario doesn't. Seemed like a missed opportunity. Now that I think about it. Mario didn't really use many powerups at all in this movie. Weird.
-There's this scene early on in the movie with a dog that is straight up just one of the dogs from Secret Life of Pets. It was really dumb and reminded me that I was watching an Illumination movie. Which is basically just a watered down Dreamworks movie... whereas Dreamworks is already just watered down Pixar. This dog scene goes on WAY too long and only serves to add conflict to a scene that wouldn't have had conflict to begin with. It's really dumb and I hated it.
-Mario only ever says "Mama Mia" in slowmo. I have a feeling that this was a "fix it in post" thing where Chris Pratt did a terrible Mama Mia line and instead of making him try harder, they just slowed it down.
-Mario's actual voice actor is a background character who is basically just an alternate reality version of Mario. Which was another thing I totally called. Like, you already casted him! Just make him the voice! Kids don't give a fuck about celebrities!
Final score: I'd give it a solid 6 or 7/10. Would see it again for sure. Basically this movie is everything I wanted from both Sonic movies. Just have the plot focus on the characters from the actual game. Use music from the actual game. And have a bunch of references to it in the background. They didn't keep cutting back to some live action "Joe" every ten minutes like, "Let's check in on Joe real quick. You came to the Mario movie for JOE, right!?" Looking forward to the inevitable sequel. This movie is make Avatar money right now so there is NO way they won't. Also, make sure to listen to Jack Black's song "Peaches" he did for the movie. It's great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW7bzd8uwyQ&ab_channel=LyricalLemonade
What I liked about it:
-First and foremost, the movie is gorgeous. Mad props to the animators as everything looked really great. This is one of the few movies I actually wouldn't have minded seeing in super special 3D IMAX or whatever. I probably won't, but I'd be super down to see it again at the more expensive ticket.
-Jack Black as Bowser was great, but my god... Charlie Day stole the show as Luigi. He was actually trying and giving it his best. When they inevitably make a sequel, they damn well better have him voice Luigi again. Chris Pratt though... still a terrible choice. But to his credit, you stop noticing after the first five minutes and he's fine. Chris did okay. C- for Chris, he tried I guess.
-They actually remembered that Mario and Luigi are super short in comparison to everything in the Mushroom Kingdom. That's why they need to use the power mushroom to become big. This was something I was sure they were just not going to do or completely forget about. But no! They totally remembered it, so good on them.
-No dumbass Minion shit. I was convinced that they would have some sort of obnoxious Minion equivalent in this movie. They could have just as easily made all the Toads like the Minions, but they really held back. So much so that they didn't even have a cringy Mario related Minion short at the beginning which is what I was at least expecting. Super glad they held back.
-In line with the Minion shit, I thought they would also do a scene where we get a closeup of a male characters bare ass. Because children think that bare asses are hilarious for some reason. But not female asses because that objectifies women. They could have easily had a stupid scene where one of the Toads shows up in a Borat thong and says, "Whoops! This isn't the jacuzzi room!" Or some shit like that. But funny enough, the only ass shots we get are from Peach in her Mariokart outfit. Great on them for that. Really breaking new ground of not worrying about negative articles on Peach's ass. Two big thumbs up on that one.
-They actually used tracks and sounds from the game. Take notes on that Sonic movies! Also the amount of Easter eggs they crammed in this movie is insane. Like, I need to see the movie again and pay close attention to the background because there were a ton of refs to not just Mario, but all sorts of Nintendo properties.
What I didn't like about it:
-If you've seen any YouTube review on this by now, then you're gonna keep hearing this. But the pop song choices were reallllllllllly bad. Ironically enough, one of the most important part about visual entertainment is the music. A song choice will straight up make or break a scene, and it's not to say that these songs are bad... they just didn't fit. The only song in the entire movie that wasn't from the games I felt was alright is when Mario and Luigi are running around the city very early in the film to Beastie Boys: No Sleep Till Brooklyn. This was okay because it was still taking place in the "real world" and Mario and Luigi are plumbers from Brooklyn. But as soon as they got to the Mushroom Kingdom. Throw that shit out the window! "Thunderstruck", "I Need a Hero", "Take on Me." These are great songs, but they don't belong in a damn fantasy Mario world. It'd be like watching a Harry Potter movie and they bust out with "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." The non-diegetic nature of these songs do absolutely nothing for the film except make it worse.
-Peach's face was horrible. I don't know what they were thinking. Peach has such a cute face in the games and they just fucked it up. I guess they were trying to make her look more realistic? But everyone else looked just fine. This feels like Lola Bunny syndrome all over again. "We can't have people sexually attracted to her so just fuck up her face." At least they didn't take her tits away too. What's even more upsetting, for me at least, is I've been seeing toys of Peach lately that have been using that ugly ass face.... Maybe that's why they did it? Nah, the face ain't fucked up on the toy, that's just how she looks in the movie.
-As I mentioned in my likes, Charlie Day was great as Luigi. Which is why it was so disappointing that he was barely in the movie. He spends most of the film locked up in cage and is basically the damsel in distress instead of Peach. I was worried that Peach was going to be a Mary Sue and she was... but that doesn't mean you needed to make Luigi the captured one. Bowser trying to take over all the Kingdoms was enough. You didn't need this tacked on subplot to motivate Mario or whatever. You can still split them up and trying to find each other and all that. Just have Luigi do his own thing instead of being useless.
-Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong... I called it, he did his stupid laugh. You know the laugh; "uhhuthuthuthuthugh" Yeah THAT.... I'm convinced he's contractually obligated in every movie he's in at this point to make that stupid laugh. Doesn't ruin the movie, but as soon as I hear it I'm always like, "Oh that's right... this isn't a character it's just Seth Rogen."
Nitpicks. These are things that are in the movie that were a little dumb. They didn't ruin anything, I just didn't enjoy them:
-Mario hates mushrooms. That way it's super funny that he has to keep eating something he doesn't enjoy. In the 30+ years I've been playing Mario games... I never knew that as one of his character traits. Not that Mario has deep lore, but I'm pretty sure this was just some shit they made up. Also the mushrooms are the only powerup he needs to eat. All the other ones he just touches.
-Mario never use the Fire Flower. Both Peach and Donkey Kong use it, but Mario doesn't. Seemed like a missed opportunity. Now that I think about it. Mario didn't really use many powerups at all in this movie. Weird.
-There's this scene early on in the movie with a dog that is straight up just one of the dogs from Secret Life of Pets. It was really dumb and reminded me that I was watching an Illumination movie. Which is basically just a watered down Dreamworks movie... whereas Dreamworks is already just watered down Pixar. This dog scene goes on WAY too long and only serves to add conflict to a scene that wouldn't have had conflict to begin with. It's really dumb and I hated it.
-Mario only ever says "Mama Mia" in slowmo. I have a feeling that this was a "fix it in post" thing where Chris Pratt did a terrible Mama Mia line and instead of making him try harder, they just slowed it down.
-Mario's actual voice actor is a background character who is basically just an alternate reality version of Mario. Which was another thing I totally called. Like, you already casted him! Just make him the voice! Kids don't give a fuck about celebrities!
Final score: I'd give it a solid 6 or 7/10. Would see it again for sure. Basically this movie is everything I wanted from both Sonic movies. Just have the plot focus on the characters from the actual game. Use music from the actual game. And have a bunch of references to it in the background. They didn't keep cutting back to some live action "Joe" every ten minutes like, "Let's check in on Joe real quick. You came to the Mario movie for JOE, right!?" Looking forward to the inevitable sequel. This movie is make Avatar money right now so there is NO way they won't. Also, make sure to listen to Jack Black's song "Peaches" he did for the movie. It's great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW7bzd8uwyQ&ab_channel=LyricalLemonade
Wellness Update and to Those I Owe Commission
General | Posted 2 years agoSome good news for a change. The antibiotics are working and the abscess is nearly gone. It started leaking the other day which is super gross and means I have an open wound between my legs, but it means that the antibiotics are doing their job and pushing the infection out of my body. Which is great because if it didn't, I would have needed to see a specialist and gone in for surgery. I'm still not out of the woods yet. Hopefully just a couple more days of what's left of my prescription and acne wash and I'll be good as new. Or as good as this shit body is going to get. Humans are disgusting, man. All we do is leak sludge and dead skin and then pretend that we don't. Rotting corpses that haven't died yet. That's all we are.
To the few I owe commissions. I'm sorry they've been taking longer than usual. I hate being the artist who rolls out in a wheelchair in a full body cast anytime commissions are brought up. But this has been a serious problem for the last couple of weeks. I will be getting back to them soon, this week for sure. Please bear with me. Thanks.
To the few I owe commissions. I'm sorry they've been taking longer than usual. I hate being the artist who rolls out in a wheelchair in a full body cast anytime commissions are brought up. But this has been a serious problem for the last couple of weeks. I will be getting back to them soon, this week for sure. Please bear with me. Thanks.
From Bad to Worse (Part 2)
General | Posted 2 years agoSo I took a 45 minute drive out to Canyon Country to an urgent care that would take my insurance today. Was worried they wouldn't, but sure enough they did. So that's good news. Was a really quick and easy process too. If this urgent care was in Palmdale or Lancaster, I would have been there all god damn day. So according to the doctor I saw, she thinks it's an early abscess under the groin that hasn't surfaced yet. Like a big pimple that isn't ready to pop. So even if they tried slicing into it, there's nothing to drain as it's too far deep and the skin is too hard to penetrate. She prescribed me some antibiotics and pain killers and said that they should be ready to pick up back in my town by the time I got back.
All was good and fine, until I reached the Rite Aid back in town. They didn't have my prescription and said to just wait an hour or 2. Sometime the computer blah, blah, blah. Pharmacist excuses. I went home and about 15 minutes later, some other Rite Aid called me and told me my prescription was ready. This particular rite aid was about 25 minutes across town. Wonderful. When I got there, they gave me the antibiotics but no pain killers. They said that was the only prescription they received. Fan-fucking-tastic. Right back where I fucking started. But hopefully the antibiotics work and this shit goes away.
Worst part is that if it persists I'm going to need to see a dermatologist. And in order to see one, I need approval from my primary Medical Clinic... who doesn't answer their phones, has no walk-in clinic, and my primary doctor is only in town once a month. Oh boy! I guess I'll see where I am in a week from now still trying not to cry from the pain. Thanks Doc. ^^
All was good and fine, until I reached the Rite Aid back in town. They didn't have my prescription and said to just wait an hour or 2. Sometime the computer blah, blah, blah. Pharmacist excuses. I went home and about 15 minutes later, some other Rite Aid called me and told me my prescription was ready. This particular rite aid was about 25 minutes across town. Wonderful. When I got there, they gave me the antibiotics but no pain killers. They said that was the only prescription they received. Fan-fucking-tastic. Right back where I fucking started. But hopefully the antibiotics work and this shit goes away.
Worst part is that if it persists I'm going to need to see a dermatologist. And in order to see one, I need approval from my primary Medical Clinic... who doesn't answer their phones, has no walk-in clinic, and my primary doctor is only in town once a month. Oh boy! I guess I'll see where I am in a week from now still trying not to cry from the pain. Thanks Doc. ^^
From Bad to Worse
General | Posted 2 years agoSadly things have only gotten worse since the Universal Trip. I don't know why this year sucks so bad for me or what I did to piss off fate. I really think that Karma works in reverse. So I've been really sick this past week probably with some sort of infection because I've been hacking up green shit, but that's not even the worst of it. On Monday (last week) I noticed that there was a golf ball sized lump on my upper thigh right where my leg collides with my balls. It's hard as a rock, but it wasn't causing me any pain at the time so I let it be. The very next day, pain! Oh boy, my favorite! And the pain only got worse as the days went on. I tried everything I could for just a little bit of levity. Took a hot bath, used cold compresses, used hot compresses, lotion, hemp cream, leg wraps, stretch tape, and worst of all, Icy Hot! Which was the biggest mistake I've ever made. Never ever EVER put Icy Hot near your genitals! All it does is feel like 1000 needles of fire are stabbing you in the sack! I even went so far as stabbing the hard skin hoping it was a cyst that just needed to be drained. But all that did was cause an alarming amount of blood to pour out. Whoops.
The pain has gotten so bad that I nearly cried at work today. So I guess I have no choice. Tomorrow I will taking a 45 minute drive to an urgent care. Why do I need to drive that far? Because that's the only place that will take my medical insurance because Medi-Cal is fucking bullshit.... Sure hope it's cancer for real this time. I'll post a follow up to this when I have more information. ^^
The pain has gotten so bad that I nearly cried at work today. So I guess I have no choice. Tomorrow I will taking a 45 minute drive to an urgent care. Why do I need to drive that far? Because that's the only place that will take my medical insurance because Medi-Cal is fucking bullshit.... Sure hope it's cancer for real this time. I'll post a follow up to this when I have more information. ^^
Fake Products that don't Exist for NIGHTMARE INC.
General | Posted 3 years agoOkay, so if you've been following my comic at all, we are now about to set foot inside the Midnight Store for the first time. What I need for the rest of this issue is to come up with all sorts of things that don't exist that you would buy within an alien/mythological grocery store that doesn't exist. If you have any ideas, please list them bellow, OR if you wanted to do me one better; DRAW the fake props yourself and submit them with a transparent background and I will totally add them to the comic. The "do me one better option" is not necessary, but will 100% guarantee a spot on the background shelves. (Unless of course it's super racist or political. Keep that shit to yourself.) Here's a few ideas I'm already brainstorming with just as examples:
-Soylent Green Potato chips
-Tentacle monster tuna
-Vagina Melons and Dick Bananas
-Squid Ink Sarsaparilla
Doesn't need to be original, I wouldn't mind including made up food/products from cartoons/movies/video games
-Nuka Cola
-Scrab Cakes and Paramite Pies
-Cookie Cat
-Duff Beer
Any ideas, no matter how stupid, will be met with praise and no judgement. (Unless it's political or racist as previously mentioned) Also doesn't need to be exclusively food. Just anything you would potentially buy at a black market WalMart or whatever.
-Soylent Green Potato chips
-Tentacle monster tuna
-Vagina Melons and Dick Bananas
-Squid Ink Sarsaparilla
Doesn't need to be original, I wouldn't mind including made up food/products from cartoons/movies/video games
-Nuka Cola
-Scrab Cakes and Paramite Pies
-Cookie Cat
-Duff Beer
Any ideas, no matter how stupid, will be met with praise and no judgement. (Unless it's political or racist as previously mentioned) Also doesn't need to be exclusively food. Just anything you would potentially buy at a black market WalMart or whatever.
Questions and also Answers
General | Posted 3 years agoSo the car accident journal has been on my front page for about a month now. My car has been fixed since then so I'm tired of looking at it. But I don't have any News I care to wall text about right now. So until I do, I'd like to answer any questions anyone might have about anything. I am an open book and no question is too personal. If I particularly like your question I might just turn it into a drawn response. I'm off to bed now, but I hope to see at least a couple questions for me to answer tomorrow after work. Fire away.
I was in a car accident today
General | Posted 3 years agoMade a post about it on Twitter to show the damage: https://twitter.com/OTACON_XIX/stat.....35465544945666
So yeah, I was in a hit n run this morning on my way to work. I got out of my car after getting hit and looked around to see nobody pull over. I still don't even know where this other car came from or even what it looked like. I was frazzled and upset, but luckily wasn't hurt. Not physically anyway. I filed a police report and despite the Deputy being very supportive and nice, because there were no eye-witnesses, a license plate number, or even knowing what the other car looked like... nothing is going to happen. Luckily for me, my old man is a mechanic, so repairs are already under way. But holy shit, this is yet another expense I do NOT fucking need right now!
I've been alive for 34 years now and this is the first accident I've ever been in. I'm a very defensive driver. It really wasn't a record I ever wanted to have broken. This fucking sucks....
So yeah, I was in a hit n run this morning on my way to work. I got out of my car after getting hit and looked around to see nobody pull over. I still don't even know where this other car came from or even what it looked like. I was frazzled and upset, but luckily wasn't hurt. Not physically anyway. I filed a police report and despite the Deputy being very supportive and nice, because there were no eye-witnesses, a license plate number, or even knowing what the other car looked like... nothing is going to happen. Luckily for me, my old man is a mechanic, so repairs are already under way. But holy shit, this is yet another expense I do NOT fucking need right now!
I've been alive for 34 years now and this is the first accident I've ever been in. I'm a very defensive driver. It really wasn't a record I ever wanted to have broken. This fucking sucks....
Art Plans for 2023
General | Posted 3 years agoI'd like to give a brief rundown of things I want to draw this year. Nothing is set in stone, but depending on any and I'll feedback, it may persuade me to focus on those certain things.
-More Nightmare Inc. pages. Now at a smaller resolution.... thanks FA. My bitching will pass and I will get back into the swing of things soon. Gotta draw more strips of Eliza getting fucked by monsters.
-More porn of Wolf having sex with other people's OC's. It's kinda my thing ya see. Got an OC? Send me a link to them and I'll see what I can do. I'll someday create a mass link image of some kind that people can just freely post their swinger OCs to for potential free art at satisfying my weird fetish.
-art contests? What kind of art contests would you want to see from me?
-YCH. They seem to do okay, so I'll definitely be making some more this year for sure. Maybe switch off between a straight and gay version.
-Rule34. Of course I will be doing what I do best by self inserting my albino elf boi's penis into characters that don't belong. The question is always, WHO? Here's a list of ladies I intend to pornify:
-Rabbit/bunny characters. It's the year of the rabbit, so I gotta go looking for some bunny babes. Judy Hopps for sure, maybe classic Lola too. Any and all bunny character suggestions would be great.
-Poison from Street Fighter
-My Hero Academia ladies. (aged up) More Frog and Blood Yandere.
-Ryoko and Washu from Tenchi Muyo
-Haruko from FLCL
-Steven Universe Gems?? Big maybe on this one. Maybe try someone other than just Peridot?
-More Rouge and Amy from Sonic
-more Mulan, or any other Disney hottie for that matter
-more Marceline.
-more NOODLE. 100% will draw more of her this year
-more Toriel. Surprisingly didn't draw a lot of her in 2022. I'll need to step up my game
-more Midna. While I'm at it, she got NO love from me as I skipped Midna month last year. Gonna need to double down this year!
-Sailor scouts. Been meaning to draw Jupiter since she's my fave, just haven't gotten around to it.
-Raven. Hope to draw another short comic with her since she's non-canonically Wolf's cousin.
-More Nani from Lilo & Stitch. She's become my yearly summer character.
-Splatoon stuff. Should go without saying, but yes. I will be drawing much more squibs. I should do more of Shiver and Frye.
-Big Maybe pile:
Bulma, Jessica Rabbit (fitting for the rabbit thing), Hatsune Miku, Super Sonico, Urbosa, Princess Peach, 2B, and Kim Pine (although Kim will more likely be a positive instead of a maybe)
Any and all ideas and feedback is welcome and appreciated.
-More Nightmare Inc. pages. Now at a smaller resolution.... thanks FA. My bitching will pass and I will get back into the swing of things soon. Gotta draw more strips of Eliza getting fucked by monsters.
-More porn of Wolf having sex with other people's OC's. It's kinda my thing ya see. Got an OC? Send me a link to them and I'll see what I can do. I'll someday create a mass link image of some kind that people can just freely post their swinger OCs to for potential free art at satisfying my weird fetish.
-art contests? What kind of art contests would you want to see from me?
-YCH. They seem to do okay, so I'll definitely be making some more this year for sure. Maybe switch off between a straight and gay version.
-Rule34. Of course I will be doing what I do best by self inserting my albino elf boi's penis into characters that don't belong. The question is always, WHO? Here's a list of ladies I intend to pornify:
-Rabbit/bunny characters. It's the year of the rabbit, so I gotta go looking for some bunny babes. Judy Hopps for sure, maybe classic Lola too. Any and all bunny character suggestions would be great.
-Poison from Street Fighter
-My Hero Academia ladies. (aged up) More Frog and Blood Yandere.
-Ryoko and Washu from Tenchi Muyo
-Haruko from FLCL
-Steven Universe Gems?? Big maybe on this one. Maybe try someone other than just Peridot?
-More Rouge and Amy from Sonic
-more Mulan, or any other Disney hottie for that matter
-more Marceline.
-more NOODLE. 100% will draw more of her this year
-more Toriel. Surprisingly didn't draw a lot of her in 2022. I'll need to step up my game
-more Midna. While I'm at it, she got NO love from me as I skipped Midna month last year. Gonna need to double down this year!
-Sailor scouts. Been meaning to draw Jupiter since she's my fave, just haven't gotten around to it.
-Raven. Hope to draw another short comic with her since she's non-canonically Wolf's cousin.
-More Nani from Lilo & Stitch. She's become my yearly summer character.
-Splatoon stuff. Should go without saying, but yes. I will be drawing much more squibs. I should do more of Shiver and Frye.
-Big Maybe pile:
Bulma, Jessica Rabbit (fitting for the rabbit thing), Hatsune Miku, Super Sonico, Urbosa, Princess Peach, 2B, and Kim Pine (although Kim will more likely be a positive instead of a maybe)
Any and all ideas and feedback is welcome and appreciated.
Year End Review + Q&A
General | Posted 3 years agoIt's that weird time of year again in that final week in between Christmas and New Years. I always get a weird sinking feeling in my stomach every time. Not because I'm sad that Christmas is over, but more like a "post nut clarity" of the year is wrapping up and I feel as though I didn't accomplish anything. So instead of focusing on the negatives like I always do, how about some positives for a change. Here's what was accomplished this year.
-I didn't have testicular cancer. Biggest one of all that started LAST Christmas and didn't get resolved until March thanks to the usual doctor bullshit. I was officially diagnosed with Diabetes though, which is a huge bummer... but not as life threatening as cancer so I'll be fine. Just gotta watch what I eat.
-I grew a beard. This may be a silly accomplishment to some, but the thing is, I've been trying to grow my facial hair out since I was in high school, and it was always patchy and looked bad. So I gave up until one day I got lazy and just stopped shaving. A female co-worker commented on how good it looked and since I never receive compliments on my physical appearance, I took it to heart. I just got a compliment yesterday from someone on it, so it feels good. I still look at it from a negative view, because it's kinda like saying, "Ya know, you look SO much better with half of your face covered up. The less we see of it, the better...." It completely hides my double chin though, so I do agree that I look better with it.
-Didn't become homeless. This was a pretty big fear for a few months as we were getting kicked out of our old house thanks to inflation and living in California. The most expensive place to live in America besides New York and they decided to raise prices again without also raising minimum wage....
-Found a new place that was double the size and survived the move. Not trying to brag, but this is the most massive house I've ever lived in. There's so much space we don't know what to do with, it's crazy. I also spent $2000.00 on movers that my ungrateful family didn't even thank me for. But it was worth it to not have to move that shit myself.
-Finally got a credit card! After 34 years of living, I have avoided credit up until now. I always paid in debit or cash because in my head I felt like I shouldn't be spending money that I don't have. What nobody tells you though is that if you don't build a credit score, you can't buy a business, a house, or even a car in some cases. Another thing nobody told me is if you do good and pay off the card on time, the bank will just GIVE you bonus money! Had I known that, I would have gotten a credit card decades ago! Holy shit am I stupid. This was a milestone for me.
-I lost about 20 pounds. This one was unexpected. Several co-workers have multiply commented on how I've noticeably lost weight. Which is weird, cuz I haven't altered my eating habits much since being diagnosed with Diabetes. I guess the combination of working and eating less may have something to do with it. I seriously needed to buy a new belt because my old one was at it's final notch.
-Comfortable for now. I really REALLY don't want to jinx this one, but for the first time in... EVER. My family is comfortable and not struggling financially. My dad's auto shop that we use to work at burned down in October not long after the move and I thought we were all fucked, but now he's working from home and making WAY more money so losing his job was the best thing that's ever happed to him. Go figure. My mom is a Hollywood accountant and even though her term is almost over, she's already on board for a new show in early February.
-Still love my job so much. Working a brewery as a porter is the best thing I've ever done. Every week we have concerts, DJ nights, Mexican wrestling, comedy shows, drag shows, and best of all burlesque. My bosses are super nice and don't take shit from customers or entitled musicians. They've taken me out to lunch several times and bought me presents on my birthday and other holidays too. Mot everything is peaches and cream all the time, but the pros definitely outweigh the cons.
That's all I can think of for now. I may come back to this later if I remember anything else.
QUESTIONS!?! Now's the time to ask me ANY question you'd like or even make requests on what you would like to see from me next year. I will answer them as honestly as I can and no question is too personal. I am an open book. If I like the question enough, I may even make it into a drawn answer. Also let me know how your 2022 went if you want. I'd love to hear about it. ^^
-I didn't have testicular cancer. Biggest one of all that started LAST Christmas and didn't get resolved until March thanks to the usual doctor bullshit. I was officially diagnosed with Diabetes though, which is a huge bummer... but not as life threatening as cancer so I'll be fine. Just gotta watch what I eat.
-I grew a beard. This may be a silly accomplishment to some, but the thing is, I've been trying to grow my facial hair out since I was in high school, and it was always patchy and looked bad. So I gave up until one day I got lazy and just stopped shaving. A female co-worker commented on how good it looked and since I never receive compliments on my physical appearance, I took it to heart. I just got a compliment yesterday from someone on it, so it feels good. I still look at it from a negative view, because it's kinda like saying, "Ya know, you look SO much better with half of your face covered up. The less we see of it, the better...." It completely hides my double chin though, so I do agree that I look better with it.
-Didn't become homeless. This was a pretty big fear for a few months as we were getting kicked out of our old house thanks to inflation and living in California. The most expensive place to live in America besides New York and they decided to raise prices again without also raising minimum wage....
-Found a new place that was double the size and survived the move. Not trying to brag, but this is the most massive house I've ever lived in. There's so much space we don't know what to do with, it's crazy. I also spent $2000.00 on movers that my ungrateful family didn't even thank me for. But it was worth it to not have to move that shit myself.
-Finally got a credit card! After 34 years of living, I have avoided credit up until now. I always paid in debit or cash because in my head I felt like I shouldn't be spending money that I don't have. What nobody tells you though is that if you don't build a credit score, you can't buy a business, a house, or even a car in some cases. Another thing nobody told me is if you do good and pay off the card on time, the bank will just GIVE you bonus money! Had I known that, I would have gotten a credit card decades ago! Holy shit am I stupid. This was a milestone for me.
-I lost about 20 pounds. This one was unexpected. Several co-workers have multiply commented on how I've noticeably lost weight. Which is weird, cuz I haven't altered my eating habits much since being diagnosed with Diabetes. I guess the combination of working and eating less may have something to do with it. I seriously needed to buy a new belt because my old one was at it's final notch.
-Comfortable for now. I really REALLY don't want to jinx this one, but for the first time in... EVER. My family is comfortable and not struggling financially. My dad's auto shop that we use to work at burned down in October not long after the move and I thought we were all fucked, but now he's working from home and making WAY more money so losing his job was the best thing that's ever happed to him. Go figure. My mom is a Hollywood accountant and even though her term is almost over, she's already on board for a new show in early February.
-Still love my job so much. Working a brewery as a porter is the best thing I've ever done. Every week we have concerts, DJ nights, Mexican wrestling, comedy shows, drag shows, and best of all burlesque. My bosses are super nice and don't take shit from customers or entitled musicians. They've taken me out to lunch several times and bought me presents on my birthday and other holidays too. Mot everything is peaches and cream all the time, but the pros definitely outweigh the cons.
That's all I can think of for now. I may come back to this later if I remember anything else.
QUESTIONS!?! Now's the time to ask me ANY question you'd like or even make requests on what you would like to see from me next year. I will answer them as honestly as I can and no question is too personal. I am an open book. If I like the question enough, I may even make it into a drawn answer. Also let me know how your 2022 went if you want. I'd love to hear about it. ^^
My Thoughts on God of War Ragnarok (NO SPOILERS)
General | Posted 3 years agoBefore I begin, I'd like to express that I sadly didn't get the best experience possible because this game ran like shit on my PS4, and I'm not sure who to blame. I blame Sony because this isn't the first time this has happened. Nioh and Yakuza 6 both had similar issues and I have a sneaking suspicion that the original PS4 just cannot handle newer games. Which means I should buy a PS5, which even if I wanted to, I can't! It could also just be that my PS4 is dying because I never really turn it off. I always just put it in sleep mode so when the power goes out it screams at me not to unplug it. Whatever the reason, certain cutscenes would lose their sound or occasionally the gameplay conversations would lag causing the characters to talk over each other. It made the dialogue sound more real as a result... but I knew it was a mess up because the subtitles would quickly stack on top of each other. One cutscene in particular crashed the game and wouldn't let me reload to progress, so I had to reinstall the download disk and turn all the bonus visual settings down to zero just to get it to work. What a pain in the ass!
Onto the game. I feel as though every video game holds a very difficult balancing act between fun gameplay and interesting story telling. One is usually sacrificed over the other so it can be the best it can be. We're not playing Super Mario for it's amazing story, nor are we playing Silent Hill because the controls and combat are just so damn fun. God of War Ragnarok is perfectly balanced in it's gameplay and storytelling and I loved it. I obsessed about several video game series that either stayed bland and mediocre, or just got worse as the series progressed (Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed). God of War was sadly not one of those obsessions. Which really sucks because as other games are aging like milk... this series is aging like a fine wine. I really liked God of War 1 and 2, but because 3 was a PS3 exclusive, I ended up never playing it. I still to this day don't know how the the Greek GoW series ended. I know he kills Zeus by the end. That's all I really needed. Then God of War 2018 came out and I thought it couldn't get any better. It got way better.
Improvements from the last game:
-This game is massive! 3 times as big as the first and you get to go to all 9 realms. A few side missions even opened up entirely new areas to explore, making the game even bigger than that.
-Ledge traversing is so much better. Instead of waiting for Atreus to kick a chain down for you, ya just harpoon your blades of chaos into the wall and throw yourself up.
-Boss battles are so much more improved. You only fought 3 bosses in the last game. This game, you are fighting all sorts of different stuff.
Cons
-Traversing still isn't very fun. Most of this game is bogged down by climbing walls or going through narrow passageways that are just glorified loading screens.
-You still can't jump. Such a bold decision in that last game to take away the jump button. Ariel combat could have made a strong return in this, but nah. Kratos is old and has weak knees.
-The puzzle solution input from the characters is very obnoxious. You'll look around for secrets for 3 seconds and your companion will immediately tell you the solution to the puzzle. But when I was struggling with puzzles I needed to look up how to complete... they just stand there like a moron waiting for you to figure it out!
The game overall is a masterpiece. It's very hard to talk more about what I liked and didn't like without getting into story spoilers. I will say that the last game was about a broken family grieving over the loss of a loved one completing her final wish. This game is now about 2 broken families that are completely destroyed by the actions of ONE asshole family member in particular. Both of which are things I can empathize with on a personal level. If you were on the fence about getting this game, seriously get it. Took me over 60 hours to beat and I was taking my time. I also didn't 100% the game so I'm sure there's plenty I missed. I'd also like to add that by the end of the game as the final credits rolled, I started to tear up. The last game I beat was Bayonetta 3, and at the end of that game all I could think was, "Oh, I guess it's over now." Bayonetta does a little dance and then it says CONGRATULATIONS!! YOU BEAT THE GAME!!! At the end of God of War Ragnarok, I was fucking crying! I was sad, I was joyful, I was relieved, I was depressed. I wanted the story to keep going! I want so much more! When a fucking video game can swell up these emotions based on fictional characters who don't exist, you know they've done something right!
In conclusion, what started as a series about a blood-thirsty monster who wants everything alive to be dead has now evolved into an empathetic father who helps people, saves lives, and does whatever it takes to protect and do what's best for his son. That's fucking character development. One more thing I'd like to add is how incredible the final credits theme song is. It's called "Blood Upon the Snow" and I've been listening to it over and over again since yesterday. Everything that happened up to this point followed by this song is what erupted the tears. If you have no desire to play this game, seriously listen to this song, it is beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzxwQOzscbA&ab_channel=casw they even managed to sneak the original God of War theme in there at the end. Spectacular.
Final Score: 9/10
The only thing keeping it from that perfect score was sadly my performance issues. If anybody else had similar issues let me know so I can rule out my PS4 being the issue.
Onto the game. I feel as though every video game holds a very difficult balancing act between fun gameplay and interesting story telling. One is usually sacrificed over the other so it can be the best it can be. We're not playing Super Mario for it's amazing story, nor are we playing Silent Hill because the controls and combat are just so damn fun. God of War Ragnarok is perfectly balanced in it's gameplay and storytelling and I loved it. I obsessed about several video game series that either stayed bland and mediocre, or just got worse as the series progressed (Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed). God of War was sadly not one of those obsessions. Which really sucks because as other games are aging like milk... this series is aging like a fine wine. I really liked God of War 1 and 2, but because 3 was a PS3 exclusive, I ended up never playing it. I still to this day don't know how the the Greek GoW series ended. I know he kills Zeus by the end. That's all I really needed. Then God of War 2018 came out and I thought it couldn't get any better. It got way better.
Improvements from the last game:
-This game is massive! 3 times as big as the first and you get to go to all 9 realms. A few side missions even opened up entirely new areas to explore, making the game even bigger than that.
-Ledge traversing is so much better. Instead of waiting for Atreus to kick a chain down for you, ya just harpoon your blades of chaos into the wall and throw yourself up.
-Boss battles are so much more improved. You only fought 3 bosses in the last game. This game, you are fighting all sorts of different stuff.
Cons
-Traversing still isn't very fun. Most of this game is bogged down by climbing walls or going through narrow passageways that are just glorified loading screens.
-You still can't jump. Such a bold decision in that last game to take away the jump button. Ariel combat could have made a strong return in this, but nah. Kratos is old and has weak knees.
-The puzzle solution input from the characters is very obnoxious. You'll look around for secrets for 3 seconds and your companion will immediately tell you the solution to the puzzle. But when I was struggling with puzzles I needed to look up how to complete... they just stand there like a moron waiting for you to figure it out!
The game overall is a masterpiece. It's very hard to talk more about what I liked and didn't like without getting into story spoilers. I will say that the last game was about a broken family grieving over the loss of a loved one completing her final wish. This game is now about 2 broken families that are completely destroyed by the actions of ONE asshole family member in particular. Both of which are things I can empathize with on a personal level. If you were on the fence about getting this game, seriously get it. Took me over 60 hours to beat and I was taking my time. I also didn't 100% the game so I'm sure there's plenty I missed. I'd also like to add that by the end of the game as the final credits rolled, I started to tear up. The last game I beat was Bayonetta 3, and at the end of that game all I could think was, "Oh, I guess it's over now." Bayonetta does a little dance and then it says CONGRATULATIONS!! YOU BEAT THE GAME!!! At the end of God of War Ragnarok, I was fucking crying! I was sad, I was joyful, I was relieved, I was depressed. I wanted the story to keep going! I want so much more! When a fucking video game can swell up these emotions based on fictional characters who don't exist, you know they've done something right!
In conclusion, what started as a series about a blood-thirsty monster who wants everything alive to be dead has now evolved into an empathetic father who helps people, saves lives, and does whatever it takes to protect and do what's best for his son. That's fucking character development. One more thing I'd like to add is how incredible the final credits theme song is. It's called "Blood Upon the Snow" and I've been listening to it over and over again since yesterday. Everything that happened up to this point followed by this song is what erupted the tears. If you have no desire to play this game, seriously listen to this song, it is beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzxwQOzscbA&ab_channel=casw they even managed to sneak the original God of War theme in there at the end. Spectacular.
Final Score: 9/10
The only thing keeping it from that perfect score was sadly my performance issues. If anybody else had similar issues let me know so I can rule out my PS4 being the issue.
My Comics are Completely FUCKED....
General | Posted 3 years agoSo the big FA update happened and everyone seems to be singing the praises of the resolution increase. The limit was 1280x1280, now it's 1920x1920. Hoo ray. Yeah that's cool n all if it wasn't a bold faced LIE. You've all been lied to you fucking suckers! What actually happened is that they fixed the glitch in which you simply click "change submission file" to reupload the image at it's correct resolution. They then forced the higher resolutions behind a subscription paywall, which to me is just a massive middle finger to everyone who's stuck with FA for so long. The site is far from perfect, but the one thing it had going for it is that it was the only site where I could post the full sizes I wanted to a gallery I could call my own. They have now "FIXED" the ONE thing I admired them for and locked it behind a paywall.
I'm sorry... has anyone looked around lately? This site is a fucking ghost town. Nobody comments. Nobody reads journals. Nobody interacts. Nobody goes to streams. We still can't delete comments. We can only cover them up with a newspaper like hiding a dog turd on the carpet. There's nothing more frustrating to me than scrolling through the comments section and seeing "comment hidden by it's owner/Page Owner" because then the only thing I can think is, "What was the comment? Was it mean? Was it nasty? Was it sad? Was it an accident?" Which completely distracts me from the submission itself which is why I clicked on it in the first place. And for fuck sake, we STILL DON'T HAVE THE ABLITY TO UPLOAD WEBM/MP4s!!!
So as I was scrolling through my gallery, it occurred to me the highest suffering of content is going to be my comics. MOST of them are posted at either 3000-4000. This is because I want them to take up the entirety of the screen and keep the text small but still legible. They're all fucked now, and I don't know what to do. As a matter of fact... I've been slowly working on a secret comic here as a side project to my comic Nightmare Inc. which was originally supposed to have the added effect of each page getting longer and longer to illustrate one of my characters falling deeper and deeper into madness. It's totally fucked now and I don't even wanna finish it. My options at this point are A: Continue to post and allow FA to compress it all to shit. B: Cut up the frames and post it at the highest resolution FA will now allow. A friend of mine assured me the limit is 1920 for a square but if you took 420 off the height and added it to the width to get 1500x2340 you should be able to post that. So what was once a simple button click is now a fucking math assignment! Or C: Bite the bullet and pay for FA+.
So here's the thing... $5 a month isn't that bad. But the way I see it is that I live in fucking CALIFORNIA. We are taxed out the ass for everything! Grocery bags cost money here! Also inflation brought everything up, but every other time that happened, so did minimum wage! Not this fuckin' time! And when you add up all of these stupid little microtransactions... suddenly all of your money is gone. So no... I'm not paying a subscription to a website that paywalled a glitch I've been using for over a decade that only updates once every 10 years. Hopefully we'll finally have mp4 support by then after we've moved on to screen holograms or whatever.
I'm very upset about this whole ordeal mainly because it feels like a personal attack. I know it isn't... but we're all self-centered most of the time. This year alone, my health insurance was taken away from me, my house was taken away from me, the move caused all my money to be taken away from me, my favorite online video game (Overwatch) was taken away from me, and now FA... the ONLY site I have left... it's not dead... but holy shit is it trying to be. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. they're all dog shit and I have never made a single friend or commission on any of them.
Bitch-fest rant over. I'm sure I'll forget about it in a week or two....
I'm sorry... has anyone looked around lately? This site is a fucking ghost town. Nobody comments. Nobody reads journals. Nobody interacts. Nobody goes to streams. We still can't delete comments. We can only cover them up with a newspaper like hiding a dog turd on the carpet. There's nothing more frustrating to me than scrolling through the comments section and seeing "comment hidden by it's owner/Page Owner" because then the only thing I can think is, "What was the comment? Was it mean? Was it nasty? Was it sad? Was it an accident?" Which completely distracts me from the submission itself which is why I clicked on it in the first place. And for fuck sake, we STILL DON'T HAVE THE ABLITY TO UPLOAD WEBM/MP4s!!!
So as I was scrolling through my gallery, it occurred to me the highest suffering of content is going to be my comics. MOST of them are posted at either 3000-4000. This is because I want them to take up the entirety of the screen and keep the text small but still legible. They're all fucked now, and I don't know what to do. As a matter of fact... I've been slowly working on a secret comic here as a side project to my comic Nightmare Inc. which was originally supposed to have the added effect of each page getting longer and longer to illustrate one of my characters falling deeper and deeper into madness. It's totally fucked now and I don't even wanna finish it. My options at this point are A: Continue to post and allow FA to compress it all to shit. B: Cut up the frames and post it at the highest resolution FA will now allow. A friend of mine assured me the limit is 1920 for a square but if you took 420 off the height and added it to the width to get 1500x2340 you should be able to post that. So what was once a simple button click is now a fucking math assignment! Or C: Bite the bullet and pay for FA+.
So here's the thing... $5 a month isn't that bad. But the way I see it is that I live in fucking CALIFORNIA. We are taxed out the ass for everything! Grocery bags cost money here! Also inflation brought everything up, but every other time that happened, so did minimum wage! Not this fuckin' time! And when you add up all of these stupid little microtransactions... suddenly all of your money is gone. So no... I'm not paying a subscription to a website that paywalled a glitch I've been using for over a decade that only updates once every 10 years. Hopefully we'll finally have mp4 support by then after we've moved on to screen holograms or whatever.
I'm very upset about this whole ordeal mainly because it feels like a personal attack. I know it isn't... but we're all self-centered most of the time. This year alone, my health insurance was taken away from me, my house was taken away from me, the move caused all my money to be taken away from me, my favorite online video game (Overwatch) was taken away from me, and now FA... the ONLY site I have left... it's not dead... but holy shit is it trying to be. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. they're all dog shit and I have never made a single friend or commission on any of them.
Bitch-fest rant over. I'm sure I'll forget about it in a week or two....
OTA'S YEARLY CHRISTMAS ORGY 2022
General | Posted 3 years agoIt's that time of year again ladies and gents! Time for yet another fun fuckfest! Okay, so here's how it works for those that don't know. Every year (almost) I draw a FREE orgy picture for Christmas that can potentially have one of your characters take part in the action. All ya gotta do is provide me a Name, Sexual Orientation, and a Ref sheet. That's it! So your comment should look like this:
Wolf FartenTurdTwat
Bi
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18869428/
You can submit as many characters as you like, but know that I will only choose ONE if any at all. Just a few hopefully easy to follow rules.
RULE #1:
NO BITCHING!! What do I mean by bitching? I mean don't get pissy if I don't pick your character. Please no, "AHHH, I DIDN'T GET PICKED!" comments either. I can't stand that shit and someone ALWAYS breaks this rule. This year if anyone breaks it I will BLOCK you!
RULE #2:
No choosing partners. I will match your character up based on their sexual orientation.
RULE #3:
No winged characters or characters with multiple limbs. Wings are just all around bad for orgies. If you submit a character with wings, that doesn't mean they won't have a chance, it just means I will be drawing them without them if I choose them.
And that's it! You have until December 5th to submit. I will post occasional reminders until then for anyone who might miss the journal because lets be honest... we all just kinda skim through the journals. That, and FA is a god damn ghost town at this point. Where the fuck is everybody? Did you all DIE!?
Here's some previous years examples:
2021: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45230707/
2020: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39843778/
2019: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/34354956/
2017: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25856019/
2016: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22094238/
2015: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18603102/
2014: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15309925/
Happy painting!
Wolf FartenTurdTwat
Bi
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18869428/
You can submit as many characters as you like, but know that I will only choose ONE if any at all. Just a few hopefully easy to follow rules.
RULE #1:
NO BITCHING!! What do I mean by bitching? I mean don't get pissy if I don't pick your character. Please no, "AHHH, I DIDN'T GET PICKED!" comments either. I can't stand that shit and someone ALWAYS breaks this rule. This year if anyone breaks it I will BLOCK you!
RULE #2:
No choosing partners. I will match your character up based on their sexual orientation.
RULE #3:
No winged characters or characters with multiple limbs. Wings are just all around bad for orgies. If you submit a character with wings, that doesn't mean they won't have a chance, it just means I will be drawing them without them if I choose them.
And that's it! You have until December 5th to submit. I will post occasional reminders until then for anyone who might miss the journal because lets be honest... we all just kinda skim through the journals. That, and FA is a god damn ghost town at this point. Where the fuck is everybody? Did you all DIE!?
Here's some previous years examples:
2021: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45230707/
2020: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39843778/
2019: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/34354956/
2017: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25856019/
2016: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22094238/
2015: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18603102/
2014: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15309925/
Happy painting!
SILENT HILL and the Laziness of Game Trailers
General | Posted 3 years agoLets go back to the not so distant yester-decade of August 12, 2014. A free demo is released to the PS4 simply titled "P.T." standing for "Playable Trailer." A first person haunted house simulator in which the player is trapped in a repeating hallway. Each time the player redoes the hallway, something has changed for the worst. You're being stalked by a ghost woman named Lisa. She was murdered with a rifle by her husband, shot in the right eye and in the stomach while pregnant. Information that is given to us by radio within the hallway. If the player is clever enough to figure out the repeating rooms puzzle (or, ya know... look it up online) then the player is rewarded with the entire point of P.T. to begin with. A short cutscene featuring a cgi Norman Reedus walking around a foggy town at night. The title comes up as the trailer ends; "SILENT HILLS." Directed and designed by Hideo Kojima, in collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, with monster designs by Junji Ito. HO-LY FUCKING SHIT!! With a holy trinity like that, this game is going to fucking rock! I cannot wait to play it! This is going to be the greatest video game of all time!
We all waited with baited breath on more developing news on SILENT HILLS. But Konami decided that they HATE money, and FIRED Hideo Kojima because he was taking too long on Metal Gear Solid V. Konami shut down SILENT HILLS indefinitely, made Kojima release MGSV as 2 games and left The Phantom Pain unfinished, and what we got instead of SILENT HILLS was Kojima's first solo project; Death Stranding. The final nail in the Silent Hill franchises coffin was Konami insisting that not all was lost. They WERE working on a new Silent Hill game... a Silent Hill Pachinko machine for Japan only. Is this some kind of a sick joke? You didn't finish one game, you cancelled another, and just to rub salt in the wounds you thought THIS would make us all happy? Konami... goodbye. It's over....
Eight years have come and gone since P.T. Everyone was sure that Silent Hill was dead and buried. But since I'm assuming Konami is just barley staying afloat, like all good things... it's NOT aloud to stay dead. We received our first SILENT HILL TRANSMISSION yesterday from Konami showing us what they've been... "hard at work on." So here's what they had to show us.
-SILENT HILL 2 REMAKE
Hey everyone! Remember when we totally fucked up and released that embarrassing HD Remaster of SH 2&3? Well don't you worry because we're making a from the ground up remake of SILENT HILL 2. Not SILENT HILL 1 btw, nope, we're jumping to 2 because that one is everyone's favorite! That's the one with Triangle Face and big boobie nurses! We hope you're all excited to play it again! Only this time there's no fixed camera angles, it's just over the shoulder like all the stupid Resident Evil remakes! We know that's gonna fuck up most of the scares since they so heavily rely on the fixed camera angles forcing your eye to look at certain things... but don't worry. We'll probably just take those scenes out or turn them into cutscenes. What's more scary then a cutscene where you have no say in what the character can and can't do!?
-Silent Hill Townfall
First of all, Townfall isn't even a word and it sounds really stupid. We get a walkie talkie saying a bunch of stuff while cutting back and forth to a red beach. That's it. That's all that happens in this fucking trailer. And then the hosts are just like, "WOW! OH MY GOD IT LOOKS SO GOOD! THAT TRAILER GAVE ME CHILLS!!" Fucking what!? Did we watch the same trailer!?
-Silent Hill: Ascension
Nothing. They showed us nothing. Here's a Silent Hill monster and a text chat. This is a video game I think? The hosts then go on to say that they know how much we love streaming and interacting with our friends during horror games. Ya know, how Silent hill is notorious for being a multiplayer game!? So they're making another Silent Hill multiplayer game I guess because it worked so damn well the first time. Maybe it's just a phone game? I don't fucking know because they didn't show anything! And the stupid hosts just did the same shit! WOW! COOL! CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY IT! THIS IS EXCITING, RIGHT!? YOU'RE ALL EXCITED!
-Silent Hill 2 Movie
Not to be confused with the actual second movie they made based off of Silent Hill 3 that was complete dog shit... but the creator of the first movie will now be working on his second Silent Hill movie based off of Silent Hill 2. Okay, well that's probably the best thing they could have done I suppose. So I guess this is the best news so far.
-SILENT HILL f
This was their closer, so that means it's the one they're most proud of. A Japanese school girl is running from a bunch of red vines. They tangle her up and she floats on a raft to more red vines that turn into flowers. She's then covered in flowers like the girl in Midsommar. More host praise.
I don't get it. Eight years of silence and this is all they had to show? They're working on 4 new games, one of which is a remake, one is a phone game or online only game, and the other 2 are I don't know. And they're also making another movie... but they also didn't have a trailer for that. My point is when you go back and compare how the subtlety and mystery behind P.T. was so inspirational that it created so many copycat games, it was an actual game changer... and it was just a fucking TRAILER! To the embarrassment of Konami stumbling 2 hosts on stage as if it were a fucking Nintendo Direct telling us all how excited we all are for these new vague Silent Hill games with virtually nothing to show. It really makes me think that video games are in trouble. It reminds me of being back in school. I have an important project due, but I didn't even come close to finishing it, so I just fumble through my presentation saying a bunch of nonsense while I wait out the clock. It's fucking tragic at this point.
Hopefully I'm wrong, and this is Konami's phoenix rising from the ashes. But the fact that they're working on not one, not two, but FOUR Silent Hill projects at the same time makes me worry. Quantity over quality is always bad news. I guess all we can do is wait. It's been 8 years... what's a few years more?
Unless they fucking cancel all of them again!
We all waited with baited breath on more developing news on SILENT HILLS. But Konami decided that they HATE money, and FIRED Hideo Kojima because he was taking too long on Metal Gear Solid V. Konami shut down SILENT HILLS indefinitely, made Kojima release MGSV as 2 games and left The Phantom Pain unfinished, and what we got instead of SILENT HILLS was Kojima's first solo project; Death Stranding. The final nail in the Silent Hill franchises coffin was Konami insisting that not all was lost. They WERE working on a new Silent Hill game... a Silent Hill Pachinko machine for Japan only. Is this some kind of a sick joke? You didn't finish one game, you cancelled another, and just to rub salt in the wounds you thought THIS would make us all happy? Konami... goodbye. It's over....
Eight years have come and gone since P.T. Everyone was sure that Silent Hill was dead and buried. But since I'm assuming Konami is just barley staying afloat, like all good things... it's NOT aloud to stay dead. We received our first SILENT HILL TRANSMISSION yesterday from Konami showing us what they've been... "hard at work on." So here's what they had to show us.
-SILENT HILL 2 REMAKE
Hey everyone! Remember when we totally fucked up and released that embarrassing HD Remaster of SH 2&3? Well don't you worry because we're making a from the ground up remake of SILENT HILL 2. Not SILENT HILL 1 btw, nope, we're jumping to 2 because that one is everyone's favorite! That's the one with Triangle Face and big boobie nurses! We hope you're all excited to play it again! Only this time there's no fixed camera angles, it's just over the shoulder like all the stupid Resident Evil remakes! We know that's gonna fuck up most of the scares since they so heavily rely on the fixed camera angles forcing your eye to look at certain things... but don't worry. We'll probably just take those scenes out or turn them into cutscenes. What's more scary then a cutscene where you have no say in what the character can and can't do!?
-Silent Hill Townfall
First of all, Townfall isn't even a word and it sounds really stupid. We get a walkie talkie saying a bunch of stuff while cutting back and forth to a red beach. That's it. That's all that happens in this fucking trailer. And then the hosts are just like, "WOW! OH MY GOD IT LOOKS SO GOOD! THAT TRAILER GAVE ME CHILLS!!" Fucking what!? Did we watch the same trailer!?
-Silent Hill: Ascension
Nothing. They showed us nothing. Here's a Silent Hill monster and a text chat. This is a video game I think? The hosts then go on to say that they know how much we love streaming and interacting with our friends during horror games. Ya know, how Silent hill is notorious for being a multiplayer game!? So they're making another Silent Hill multiplayer game I guess because it worked so damn well the first time. Maybe it's just a phone game? I don't fucking know because they didn't show anything! And the stupid hosts just did the same shit! WOW! COOL! CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY IT! THIS IS EXCITING, RIGHT!? YOU'RE ALL EXCITED!
-Silent Hill 2 Movie
Not to be confused with the actual second movie they made based off of Silent Hill 3 that was complete dog shit... but the creator of the first movie will now be working on his second Silent Hill movie based off of Silent Hill 2. Okay, well that's probably the best thing they could have done I suppose. So I guess this is the best news so far.
-SILENT HILL f
This was their closer, so that means it's the one they're most proud of. A Japanese school girl is running from a bunch of red vines. They tangle her up and she floats on a raft to more red vines that turn into flowers. She's then covered in flowers like the girl in Midsommar. More host praise.
I don't get it. Eight years of silence and this is all they had to show? They're working on 4 new games, one of which is a remake, one is a phone game or online only game, and the other 2 are I don't know. And they're also making another movie... but they also didn't have a trailer for that. My point is when you go back and compare how the subtlety and mystery behind P.T. was so inspirational that it created so many copycat games, it was an actual game changer... and it was just a fucking TRAILER! To the embarrassment of Konami stumbling 2 hosts on stage as if it were a fucking Nintendo Direct telling us all how excited we all are for these new vague Silent Hill games with virtually nothing to show. It really makes me think that video games are in trouble. It reminds me of being back in school. I have an important project due, but I didn't even come close to finishing it, so I just fumble through my presentation saying a bunch of nonsense while I wait out the clock. It's fucking tragic at this point.
Hopefully I'm wrong, and this is Konami's phoenix rising from the ashes. But the fact that they're working on not one, not two, but FOUR Silent Hill projects at the same time makes me worry. Quantity over quality is always bad news. I guess all we can do is wait. It's been 8 years... what's a few years more?
Unless they fucking cancel all of them again!
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared TV Show
General | Posted 3 years agohttps://youtu.be/puC4IvrUt6I
Now that we're into October I'm happy to find out that Don't Hug Me I'm Scared finally got it's first season. After over a decade since the start of the YouTube episodes they were finally picked up. Unfortunately, it's a British show... so good luck watching it on TV here. I was really hoping it would get some sort of streaming run, but for now I can only rely on the kindness of YouTube strangers to upload the show in it's entirety and YT not take it down. So watch it while it's still up! I regard the original series as the best thing that has ever been put on YouTube. So much God damn effort goes into each episode from the songs, to the props, to the visuals, to even the animation.
I've been following the creators for a very long time now, and for what feels like forever they kept hinting at a full show. The first teaser dropped about 4 or 5 years ago and then dead silence for a while. Like what the hell happened? Then they had a crossover episode with the "Amazing World of Gumball" which I made sure to seek out immediately. I kind of feel like that episode was their first "Testing the waters" of toned down childrens entertainment. With that being said, this new show is a bit toned down as well. There's still plenty of gore and violence in it, don't get me wrong. But it very much feels like, yeah... this was definitely made for tv. Nothing wrong with that though. I still very much enjoyed this show and I'm just so happy it got made.
Can't wait for season 2. (I guess technically season 3 if we're counting the YT series as season 1) If it happens.
Now that we're into October I'm happy to find out that Don't Hug Me I'm Scared finally got it's first season. After over a decade since the start of the YouTube episodes they were finally picked up. Unfortunately, it's a British show... so good luck watching it on TV here. I was really hoping it would get some sort of streaming run, but for now I can only rely on the kindness of YouTube strangers to upload the show in it's entirety and YT not take it down. So watch it while it's still up! I regard the original series as the best thing that has ever been put on YouTube. So much God damn effort goes into each episode from the songs, to the props, to the visuals, to even the animation.
I've been following the creators for a very long time now, and for what feels like forever they kept hinting at a full show. The first teaser dropped about 4 or 5 years ago and then dead silence for a while. Like what the hell happened? Then they had a crossover episode with the "Amazing World of Gumball" which I made sure to seek out immediately. I kind of feel like that episode was their first "Testing the waters" of toned down childrens entertainment. With that being said, this new show is a bit toned down as well. There's still plenty of gore and violence in it, don't get me wrong. But it very much feels like, yeah... this was definitely made for tv. Nothing wrong with that though. I still very much enjoyed this show and I'm just so happy it got made.
Can't wait for season 2. (I guess technically season 3 if we're counting the YT series as season 1) If it happens.
Life Update: Post Move
General | Posted 3 years agoIt went about as well as I expected. The movers were late because they showed up at the wrong house. My mom lied after telling me that she would switch work days to be here during the move so she could guide them as to where she wanted everything. Instead she left behind a bunch of vague sticky notes I was just supposed to understand such as "dresser" and "ugly dresser" as if I know what the hell the difference is. My dad also stayed behind at the old house to """clean it up""" cuz as we all know the best time to clean a place is right when movers are lifting and shifting everything. Therefore, I was left by myself to guide the movers. Not that I'm incapable of giving orders or taking charge, but I literally had no idea where they were supposed to place everything. It's not MY shit. What was even more infuriating is that my dad and I had a fight a couple nights right before moving day in which he screamed, "IT'S NOT YOUR FUCKING HOUSE!" at me because I was trying to get the keys from the landlord, but he wanted to do it because he's the big strong man of the house. Just a reminder that your parents will NEVER EVER see you as equals. YOU are the child, THEY are the adult. Yet at the same time, I'm also supposed to know where all these things that don't belong to me are going in a house that will never be mine. Okay.
The movers finished at around 11:30pm. My mom got home at around 8pm to tell me what a terrible job the movers did not putting anything in the right place, which really means that "I" put them in the wrong place. My dads tools were also stacked wrong which caused him to throw a baby tantrum which reminded me of how much of a grown adult he is. I also found out later that the movers told him that we did too much prep work as the price that I was quoted at $1800.00 was solely based on everything they saw that was unpacked. I guess they gladly would have packed up all our shit too? With that being said, I was hoping they'd bring down the price a bit, but no... quite the opposite. Because I wanted to pay with a credit card, it was a 6% increase bringing the final price to $1908.00 which I payed in full. They forgot their clipboard, so I didn't even get a physical copy for my records. I then asked if I could get an email confirmation that they gladly sent... in Spanish. I do not speak Spanish. They then proceeded to send me four copies of the same confirmation, all in Spanish. By the fifth copy I said forget it.
I'd say it was at least worth not having to carry anything upstairs as merely walking upstairs is quite a chore now. I haven't lived in a house with stairs in over 18 years now. When I was a kid, stairs were fun because I had limitless energy. As a cynical adult with back, neck, and foot problems though... it's rough. Now that the dust has settled and I'm officially done setting up my room (for now) I can say that things will eventually get back to normal soon. We still have a ton of unpacking to do though so not looking forward to that. I also haven't drawn anything new since the last Splatoon picture. Art needs to start picking up as I'm starting to get withdrawals and it's almost October. Gotta get some spooky stuff in!
Happy painting.
The movers finished at around 11:30pm. My mom got home at around 8pm to tell me what a terrible job the movers did not putting anything in the right place, which really means that "I" put them in the wrong place. My dads tools were also stacked wrong which caused him to throw a baby tantrum which reminded me of how much of a grown adult he is. I also found out later that the movers told him that we did too much prep work as the price that I was quoted at $1800.00 was solely based on everything they saw that was unpacked. I guess they gladly would have packed up all our shit too? With that being said, I was hoping they'd bring down the price a bit, but no... quite the opposite. Because I wanted to pay with a credit card, it was a 6% increase bringing the final price to $1908.00 which I payed in full. They forgot their clipboard, so I didn't even get a physical copy for my records. I then asked if I could get an email confirmation that they gladly sent... in Spanish. I do not speak Spanish. They then proceeded to send me four copies of the same confirmation, all in Spanish. By the fifth copy I said forget it.
I'd say it was at least worth not having to carry anything upstairs as merely walking upstairs is quite a chore now. I haven't lived in a house with stairs in over 18 years now. When I was a kid, stairs were fun because I had limitless energy. As a cynical adult with back, neck, and foot problems though... it's rough. Now that the dust has settled and I'm officially done setting up my room (for now) I can say that things will eventually get back to normal soon. We still have a ton of unpacking to do though so not looking forward to that. I also haven't drawn anything new since the last Splatoon picture. Art needs to start picking up as I'm starting to get withdrawals and it's almost October. Gotta get some spooky stuff in!
Happy painting.
Wake Me Up When September Ends
General | Posted 3 years agoThat's not a joke title by the way, I really do just wanna be in a coma until this month is done and over with.
I didn't say much about the move in my last journal because I'm not looking forward to it. I was really hoping we were going to be staying here at least another year. My folks and I move quite frequently, but we're not use to shedding the hermit shell for at least 4-5 years. We barely made it to 3. The new house we're moving to is much bigger and better and I should be overjoyed, but I'm not.
My depression has been getting more creative lately. Use to be that my brain would just go; "Well you're gonna die someday and there is no afterlife so it's just eternal darkness for the rest of forever. Also at some point the suns gonna explode and then all life that we've discovered in the known universe will cease to exist. You're also gonna die alone because no woman will ever ask you out and you're too much of a chickenshit coward to ask them out either." Like, yeah you're right. You win again, depression.... But as of late all I can think is, well we better not get too comfy at this new place because we're just gonna lose it anyway. Why even unpack?
I've been steadily packing over the course of the last 2 months because I knew we were gonna be moving soon. That way, I wouldn't get bummed and overwhelmed by doing it all at once. There was absolutely no point in doing that though, because my mom decided that we ALL will pack the stressful way by doing it all at once, which is how we spent most of the day today. I'm so over moving. I don't wanna do it anymore. So this time I've decided to bite the bullet and hire movers. It's gonna be about $1800 for the cheapest ones I could find. Despite taking the full extent of the bill, this still isn't good enough for the rest of the people in the house as I guess I was also supposed to hire packers as well. I've also been trying to coordinate a day in which the movers will arrive after we receive the new keys. But even that has been exceedingly difficult as everyone is unsure on whether we should be staying here another full month or not. Not to mention I already took a week off of work to focus on this shit. Yet they still act like they're the only ones in the house who have jobs. I'm hiring movers and it's STILL not good enough....
The one thing I've heard over and over again is "Why do you still live with your parents? Your 34. Surely you should leave the nest." Something along those lines. One: I live in California. Living by yourself in LA County is just NOT possible. I'd need to find a good room mate and I have trust issues. Two: My family and I have always functioned better as a unit. We all pay our fair share... some more than others. But we make it work through the good times and the mostly bad times. Three: Nobody else loves me or cares. I don't have any other family. My grandparents are all dead and my aunts and uncles want nothing to do with our side of the family. And as I've said time and time again, I've never been in love. I have 2 good friends in real life, but that's it. So what little love still remains in this family is all I've got.
Art shall continue to be practically non-existent during this time, which sucks because I should be getting a jump start on Halloween and fall pictures which are my favorite. Sorry about that. I'm so sick of this life shit. I just want it to be over.
I didn't say much about the move in my last journal because I'm not looking forward to it. I was really hoping we were going to be staying here at least another year. My folks and I move quite frequently, but we're not use to shedding the hermit shell for at least 4-5 years. We barely made it to 3. The new house we're moving to is much bigger and better and I should be overjoyed, but I'm not.
My depression has been getting more creative lately. Use to be that my brain would just go; "Well you're gonna die someday and there is no afterlife so it's just eternal darkness for the rest of forever. Also at some point the suns gonna explode and then all life that we've discovered in the known universe will cease to exist. You're also gonna die alone because no woman will ever ask you out and you're too much of a chickenshit coward to ask them out either." Like, yeah you're right. You win again, depression.... But as of late all I can think is, well we better not get too comfy at this new place because we're just gonna lose it anyway. Why even unpack?
I've been steadily packing over the course of the last 2 months because I knew we were gonna be moving soon. That way, I wouldn't get bummed and overwhelmed by doing it all at once. There was absolutely no point in doing that though, because my mom decided that we ALL will pack the stressful way by doing it all at once, which is how we spent most of the day today. I'm so over moving. I don't wanna do it anymore. So this time I've decided to bite the bullet and hire movers. It's gonna be about $1800 for the cheapest ones I could find. Despite taking the full extent of the bill, this still isn't good enough for the rest of the people in the house as I guess I was also supposed to hire packers as well. I've also been trying to coordinate a day in which the movers will arrive after we receive the new keys. But even that has been exceedingly difficult as everyone is unsure on whether we should be staying here another full month or not. Not to mention I already took a week off of work to focus on this shit. Yet they still act like they're the only ones in the house who have jobs. I'm hiring movers and it's STILL not good enough....
The one thing I've heard over and over again is "Why do you still live with your parents? Your 34. Surely you should leave the nest." Something along those lines. One: I live in California. Living by yourself in LA County is just NOT possible. I'd need to find a good room mate and I have trust issues. Two: My family and I have always functioned better as a unit. We all pay our fair share... some more than others. But we make it work through the good times and the mostly bad times. Three: Nobody else loves me or cares. I don't have any other family. My grandparents are all dead and my aunts and uncles want nothing to do with our side of the family. And as I've said time and time again, I've never been in love. I have 2 good friends in real life, but that's it. So what little love still remains in this family is all I've got.
Art shall continue to be practically non-existent during this time, which sucks because I should be getting a jump start on Halloween and fall pictures which are my favorite. Sorry about that. I'm so sick of this life shit. I just want it to be over.
Finally! Some Good News
General | Posted 3 years agoWe found a house. We officially start moving on the 15th. All current/future projects will be postponed starting then. If anyone knows anything about hiring movers I'd love any and all info. Thanks!
Vote for Patches! She's our Girl!
General | Posted 3 years agoI'm trying to get our dear brewery kitty Patches featured on a Jones Soda bottle. If any of you could please take a minute to vote I'll love you forever!
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Ant Rant
General | Posted 3 years agoI had a mental breakdown tonight. For the past 2 weeks now I haven't been sleeping... pretty much at all. Not because of the crippling loneliness. Not because of the panic attacks of thinking of the inevitability of death. But because of literally the smallest reason. Ants!
I...
fucking...
HATE...
ants....
If I found a magic lamp, my first wish would be that every ant on the planet would be instantly teleported to the sun. They contribute nothing to our world except for misery... and I don't wanna hear any bumblebee bullshit about how ants are an essential part of our thriving eco system. "Natures little janitors" as I've been told. Fuck that! Ants are yet another confirmation to me that there is no God, because a just and loving creator of the universe would have never let this shit slide. Think of the logic behind a fucking ant for just a second. Does an ant have a soul? When an ant dies does it go to ant Heaven where it gets to eat all the desserts it wants? Does an ant have dreams or ambition or hopes for the future? NO! It only serves 2 functions, protect it's Queen and finding food for the Queen. These pussy-whipped micro assholes ruin everything just for THAT!
Living in California for 99% of my life, the ONE problem that stays consistent no matter where I have been is fucking ANTS. Living where I currently am now, it didn't use to be this bad. They'd get into the kitchen for food. They'd get into the bathroom for water. And that was it. But now they're in my fucking bed. Crawling on my body. And because of that I also will get "phantom crawls" where there's nothing there, but it FEEL like there is, so I cannot sleep. And believe me I've tried many different things; pet and human safe poison sprays, ant traps, peppermint oil, eucalyptus oil, D-Earth, I've tried washing my bed spread and all the pillows. NOTHING works! For every ONE ant I kill, TEN more take it's place. The absolute worst part is that I don't even know where they're coming in from! They just teleport all over in random spots. WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY LOOKING FOR!?! What is so god damn tasty in my fucking bed!? ME!?
And don't get me wrong, I don't HATE all bugs, alright. I try not to kill spiders, or grasshoppers, or praying mantis', or beetles. I especially like beetles, beetles are cool. But ants I kill immediately with no hesitation. With the exception of flies, every other bug has at least some sort of "bug honor" to me. Spiders stay out of the way and take up barely any space in small corners. Beetles won't go inside your house unless it was an accident same goes for grasshoppers and praying mantis.' Even the shitty ones like roaches and house centipedes only come out after all the lights are off. But ants are so fucking brain dead they'll try to eat your food while you're eating it. "What's this? A colossal giant is eating chicken wings? Well those wings smell way too delicious! I'm getting in on this. I'll leave a scent trail so the other 10,000 boys can get in on this too!"
Seriously! Fuck ants! My only regret is that I didn't burn more of them with a magnifying glass when I was a kid.
I...
fucking...
HATE...
ants....
If I found a magic lamp, my first wish would be that every ant on the planet would be instantly teleported to the sun. They contribute nothing to our world except for misery... and I don't wanna hear any bumblebee bullshit about how ants are an essential part of our thriving eco system. "Natures little janitors" as I've been told. Fuck that! Ants are yet another confirmation to me that there is no God, because a just and loving creator of the universe would have never let this shit slide. Think of the logic behind a fucking ant for just a second. Does an ant have a soul? When an ant dies does it go to ant Heaven where it gets to eat all the desserts it wants? Does an ant have dreams or ambition or hopes for the future? NO! It only serves 2 functions, protect it's Queen and finding food for the Queen. These pussy-whipped micro assholes ruin everything just for THAT!
Living in California for 99% of my life, the ONE problem that stays consistent no matter where I have been is fucking ANTS. Living where I currently am now, it didn't use to be this bad. They'd get into the kitchen for food. They'd get into the bathroom for water. And that was it. But now they're in my fucking bed. Crawling on my body. And because of that I also will get "phantom crawls" where there's nothing there, but it FEEL like there is, so I cannot sleep. And believe me I've tried many different things; pet and human safe poison sprays, ant traps, peppermint oil, eucalyptus oil, D-Earth, I've tried washing my bed spread and all the pillows. NOTHING works! For every ONE ant I kill, TEN more take it's place. The absolute worst part is that I don't even know where they're coming in from! They just teleport all over in random spots. WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY LOOKING FOR!?! What is so god damn tasty in my fucking bed!? ME!?
And don't get me wrong, I don't HATE all bugs, alright. I try not to kill spiders, or grasshoppers, or praying mantis', or beetles. I especially like beetles, beetles are cool. But ants I kill immediately with no hesitation. With the exception of flies, every other bug has at least some sort of "bug honor" to me. Spiders stay out of the way and take up barely any space in small corners. Beetles won't go inside your house unless it was an accident same goes for grasshoppers and praying mantis.' Even the shitty ones like roaches and house centipedes only come out after all the lights are off. But ants are so fucking brain dead they'll try to eat your food while you're eating it. "What's this? A colossal giant is eating chicken wings? Well those wings smell way too delicious! I'm getting in on this. I'll leave a scent trail so the other 10,000 boys can get in on this too!"
Seriously! Fuck ants! My only regret is that I didn't burn more of them with a magnifying glass when I was a kid.
Send Me Your OCs for PORN (No Promises)
General | Posted 3 years agoAs August draws near, which is always the hottest month, I'm going to be drawing more beach projects which I'm also using to take my mind off of certain shitty things right now. The somewhat difficult part for me is deciding on what or who to draw. So if you happen to have any characters that you wouldn't mind seeing Wolf's penis inside of, then send them my way. Female, male, herm, etc. I'm good with whatever. Just remember that I make NO promises. Comment below with your character's ref sheet. You can post as many refs as you want but know that only ONE will be selected. (Maybe 2 if I feel like drawing a threesome) and they WILL be having sex with Wolf: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35120298/ If you don't know who Wolf is by now, I really don't know what to tell ya. Anyway, here's hoping the following month won't be too brutal.
This is also for free if that wasn't apparent.
This is also for free if that wasn't apparent.
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