If you haven't noticed already, I pulled down the calendar link I had up earlier than I'd intended (I set a date of December 15th for that take-down), I don't think the extra week or so would have made a difference anyway given the numbers. Kind of hard to hold onto something when all it comes out to in the end is 0. Just one more line item to add to the list of failed projects under my belt to date.
As I promised (at least I think I did), here is the first installment to the holiday story I'm working on. If nothing else, it give you all a taste of my writing style. Hope you enjoy it, and I'll keep you all updated on when the new chapters go up, it's not going to be super long, only three to five chapters actually. Most of the work goes into coding up the pages that the story parts are on, and modding the other pages that connect to them. Unfortunately, I don't have a feedback method (I don't even have my e-mail up) on my personal web site yet, so you'll have to comment here if you're so inclined, or you could e-mail me the link is right over there to the left.
Some new information is out now, I think it's a very light look at some of what to expect in the Version Vibrant release. Another "feature" that's now known is a cap on submissions. I have no valid opinion on that since I'm not prolific enough to worry about it, but I can see a bit of a rough road for TheO in having that. See Adam's blog post for as much of the detail as he provided there.
Those other woodburns have been delayed again. No clue on a new date for them yet.
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kitbug69:
Yeah, seeing those words on the screen of the vid was really something. Hopefully it will serve it's purpose.
Hopefully it won't ever come to the point where I have to post a PM, but till the user block is in place, that will be my policy on handling certain types of PM communications.
So do I.
Yensid:
I noticed that bad link in the e-mail. Actually I caught the posting here on site directly before I got the e-mail, but I did see the bum and corrected links in the e-mails. Pays to be on that mailing list, you get stuff like that once in a while. A lot of people are commenting that the video didn't really say much. Adam himself acknowledged that he didn't really give the AMV director who made the promo vid much to work with. For some reason he's keeping a lot close to the vest on this upgrade, kind of makes me wonder.
Yeah, there are more questions than answers with that user block. I would hope that ideally it would knock out all points of contact, PM, comment, guestbook, and e-mail link, heck it should block the user from being able to access the page and portfolio at all, but that's just my opinion. We won't know till it gets here how it works and how it doesn't work.
Cosplay is not gone yet, but Adam did mention he was thinking about "retiring" it like Articles and
Reviews. See here, here, and here for that info. I make a point of linking those "dead" hubs every chance I get to keep them as alive as I can. I will do the same for Cosplay if it gets the same treatment that the other two got.
Yeah, getting a REGULAR e-newsletter would be nice for the people who don't use RSS to get the news feed from the main site, or read Adam's blog for the site info he does post there. Maybe it's costly to send one out regularly, I don't know how e-mail lists work, but I do know that could be handled more efficiently. If he needs to outsource to someone to take care of that, I'd volunteer to take care of that myself.
Ah, that's helpful information that I'll get right on looking up. Actually physical costs wouldn't be too high, wood's not that expensive, neither are the shipping costs. Time is relative since there are multiple aspects of the projects. I will have to figure out an average of how long it takes me to do a small piece and crunch some numbers from there to estimate the larger ones.
Actually, I was underwhelmed by Tin Man when I saw it. The matriarchal society was a gambit that worked well for the story, I don't think that environment could have been portrayed any other way at all, but with the name it had, it should have addressed that character more than it did, or had a different name. Something I picked up on throughout was that the writers went to too many extremes on both ends of a writing spectrum. Were they paying homage to the original work, or was it a new take on the story? I couldn't tell. The story bounced back and forth between the two concepts with such force that it made my head hurt at times. They should have found one really profound element from the original, and made that the only homage in the whole thing (that does not include character elements that are necessary to give the story it's relation to the original). Throw away stuff like the "lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" bit, just seemed fake and unrealistic in the setting of this take on the story, and actually those kinds of things annoyed me. One other thing that disturbed me was the gratuitous profanity. There were times when bad language was completely inappropriate, yet it was used anyway. That's the hallmark of bad writing, using course language in that manner is a turn off for the program, because to me it reflects the writers' and the director's insecurity about the program to carry itself. It was like they put some of the cursing in there just because they "could do it". What I saw in Tin Man, was a whole lot of wasted potential. There was so much more that could have been done had the people responsible for the script actually stuck to one direction from start to finish.
I've got some decor up, did that the other night. Not sure when the rest is going up though.
the real yojimbo:
Well, now, that would be scary.
AngelBest Dream:
Good to know you're not stressing so much anymore. There's nothing on here that can't wait for another day or two if you get bogged down. And thanks on the woodburns.
When I get the others done I'll upload them and get them in the table with the others.
You said it.
Like I said before, take your time, don't rush, and get some rest. Those messages aren't going anywhere.
Iruka Sensei:
I suppose so, but Hal or Cosmic works better for me.
Yeah, thanks for coming by, and I like the holiday avatar, can't go wrong with the classics.
