I found one I definitely want to download when I can (I lost my debit card n Friday and the replacement hasn't come yet, so currently I can't make any online purchases, which can be annoying) - they have the game where the Giants were down two runs in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, and Pablo Sandoval won in with a three-run home run. That game is a bit of a sore spot for me, actually, because I missed the walk-off. It was late and I was exhausted and it was garbage night, and I didn't think there was any chance. So I finally turned it off and went to take the trash out to the curb. And then I got back upstairs and checked the live update of the game online, and there was the home run. Anyway, yeah, I'll definitely get that. But all the other Giants games are horrible losses. Cifff Lee Dominates The Giants, Cole Hamels Dominates the Giants, Mets 9th inning walk-off, and, worst of all, Ryan Spilborghs Walk-Off 14th Inning Grand Slam, aka the worst loss ever in a non-postseason, non-must win game.
There's not a single Tim Lincecum start, which is pretty annoying. Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels Dominate the Giants, yes, Tim Lincecum Dominates the Pirates, no. Feh.
ETA: they also have Randy Johnson's 300th win. But aside from the milestone, it wasn't a very remarkable game.
Casey and I were talking the other about things that, after eight years together, we don't really understand about each other. The first thing she brought up was baseball - and I can't blame her for that, since my attachment to baseball isn't exactly moderate. "I mean, I know you like it," she said, and I do, but that's not really the point. The point is the emotional attachment I have to it, and to the Giants in particular. Having a strong emotional attachment to something you have no control over whatsoever is a curious thing.
Anyway. I'm off to watch Jonathan Sanchez's no-hitter. Again.
- now playing:MLB.TV Game of the Year MLB.com - Jonathan Sanchez's No-hitter
Hey, I know most of you folks out there are Americans, and since today is American Thanksgiving, I'm basically talking to the Canadians, British, and the Swedes. And some people of statistically-negligible nationalities. Howdy, guys!
Anyway, since basically nobody's home, no new photos for you! Batman will be punching nobody! (Note to self: take photo of Batman punching our turkey tomorrow.) But hey, today we found out what next year's free membership toy is for the Transformers Collectors' Club! It's Hot Shot! In orange! As Dion! Everybody knows I love two things: Hot Shot and orange. Dion's not really on my list, but he'll do.
Now, for the moment, only current subscribers can see art of him by logging into the website. But I had to geek out anyway.
(It's especially mean because outside-of-America folks have to pay ridiculous prices to be in the club, and basically that's all who's reading right now.)
But!
FREE ORANGE HOT SHOT.
(there's a comic in there somewhere)
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The original Lio Convoy is not one of my favorite toys. In fact, he ranks somewhere at the bottom. It's okay. I have a replacement now.The years of Beast Wars were a crazy time. Transformers was finally picking back up after the lackluster performance of Generation 2, so much that Japan thought, hey, maybe we should also make some Beast Wars. And so, for the first time since what felt like forever, there were Japanese-exclusive Transformers toys. And what caught the fandom's eye even more was that Lio Convoy was a guy who looked more like Optimus Prime than your usual Optimus Primal toy. He had a red chest with blue windows and a more traditional Optimus-y head. And so everyone's all yeah, sweet, woo!
He sold online and at BotCon for about $80. This was 1998. I got mine when Hasbro sold some in their prototypical online store for about $25. Sweet deal. Sort of. (He's the robot on the right.)
'Cuz he's not that great of a toy! Due to his mane and his back-flap perched up on his shoulders, you can't even see his friggin' face from most angles. (Do you have any idea how hard it was to get light shining somewhere on his face in that first photograph? Very hard!) And his transformation was awkward and it left you with a mostly immobile lion mode. The back legs were not a pretty sight, either. It just wasn't terribly good. But it looked like Optimus Prime during an age in which we thought we'd never get an Optimus Prime toy ever again. (Oh, little did we know.) Lio Convoy was a popular toy, even at $80.
Um.
Weird, nerdy, fannish reasons. See, after Beast Machines, Optimus Primal returned in a multiversal conflict against Unicron, where battles were fought in countless dimensions. Once Primal is even reported to have traveled to the Unicron Trilogy, where he picked up on how to summon Cyber Keys to unlock battle features. See, my idea is, since Leo Prime's toy is also a Cyber-Key-using toy, that Optimus Primal took Leo Prime with him to the Unicron Trilogy. I have decided, that for my personal canon, that this is a body for Lio Convoy/Leo Prime in that multiversal conflict. And I like that idea, and so I bought him. (I figure that the blue/red Leo Prime from earlier this year is what Leo Prime looked like before Optimus Primal used the Matrix of Purification to rid Leo Prime of the Unicron virus.) That's my story, anyway. 
Unfortunately, he still lacks the original Leo Breaker's electronics. Voyager Class toys can't budget in electronics anymore, so those have been left out of this mold for a while. It's too bad, because I loved making him roar. See, if you press the button on Leo Prime's lion forehead, his jaw opens. In the original, this would also turn on his electronics. Oh well. Hey, he still has the talky gimmick, though, even if it doesn't make noises! I love talky gimmicks. They're among my favorite gimmicks.
Leo Prime's also kinda pretty, but that's something that most white-plus-accents decoes easily manage. I also dig the cartoonish eyeliner. They really sell the "I am Lio Convoy" thing.
Mexican markets sell soda, sugar and bread for cheap. And lots and lots of beer.
People who scream Rapture and Anti-Christ have no sense of aesthetics in webdesign.
( I has Slayers sketch. )
He is #4 on the all-time list for MVP votes behind Bonds, Musial, and Williams. This year was a unanimous selection, the first time in the NL since Bonds' 2002 win.
I just remembered that there is this really cool thing I can do with comics and flash that I haven’t seen hide nor hair of since the prototype was first posted to the web. I’ve been wanting to try it since I first saw it, but hadn’t learned Flash yet. And it uses the simplest of Flash’s capabilities, which I now know.
Now I just need to find the time to make it.
It’ll be easier to show you than to explain what I’m talking about. Not sure I can find the link to that prototype, though. It was cool.
Oh, and if anybody uses the term “motion comics” at you, flip them off.
This entry has been crossposted from Drawing Contraption. You may comment here or there, it\'s all the same!
Some of the stuff you will see in this dump:
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Random creatures/monsters/etc
http://pub.tenkuu.net/Images/091116_lj_
Some stuff from work, most of which is also monsters this time around XD;;;
( Rawrrr )
Speaking of Gaia art, there is a blog specifically for the Gaia artists- I posted a few of the animated versions of some of these enemy concepts, plus a few other concepts for other enemies in the game. Plus, you can see how much more awesome the other artists I work with are- I highly recommend @_@b Feel free to check out the site!
http://gaia-artists.blogspot.com/
And speaking about websites- check out the Skullgirls site! http://www.skullgirls.com - We'll be keeping it up to date- and you can now keep up to date with RSS feed owo/ Very useful owobbb
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Damn you, Revenge of the Fallen! You put my beloved Transformers Animated toys on hiatus. But they're finally trickling back! Happy days are here again!Case in point: Electrostatic Soundwave, seen on the right. So it's a Soundwave redeco, big deal. I wouldn't have bought it either, but... see, this Soundwave does not come with Laserbeak, but instead he comes with Ratbat. Ratbat the friggin' keytar.
So this purchase was happening. Soundwave himself is going in a bin, but Ratbat is one of the items in this world I have most coveted. (This version of Soundwave did show up in the cartoon, but as one of several digital duplicates within a virtual world.)
Ratbat is a very thick keytar. He's thick enough that it's a problem for Soundwave to hold him in some poses. The culprit is Ratbat's transformation. From bat to keytar mode, he accordions apart in the middle and doubles up on himself. He looks the same from the back a
s he does from the front, short the bat head. The head is on a shallow ball joint that you have to rotate for transformation, and this also allows you to cock his head to one side in bat mode if you wish. I thought at first that he could swap the side that his head was on, looking at the jointing there, but I don't believe this is so. Sorry, you can only face him one direction, same as Laserbeak.His bat mode has a lot more articulation than I thought he would, even after transforming him the first time. In addition to his balljointed head, each of his wings can rotate at the middle, and you can point the tips up or down almost a full 90 degrees. Of course, he can't really stand if his wings are pointed down 'cuz his legs are tiny. But still, not bad considering his accordion-like transformation.
Ratbat has the same knobs on the face of his instrument mode that Laserbeak does, allowing him to be pegged into Soundwave's inner forearms. Ratbat also has the same-shaped feet as Laserbeak so that Ratbat can also be perched on Soundwave's back or outer forearms in either mode.
Electrostatic Soundwave's wavemate is a silver Jazz. So no, you can't run out and get Arcee or anything. It looks like she and Cybertron mode Ratchet are gonna be Toys"R"Us exclusives anyhow.
Mauer handily catches AL MVP Award | MLB.com: News
All that chanting finally paid off. :-)
Congrats to a guy who seems like a class act and an absolutely amazing baseball player.
- now feeling:
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