9/2/2008 - No Props for Mike!

So Jason worked on the comic all weekend, and he finished his portion of it.  Unfortunately I was in the middle of a video game when he texted me to let me know and I didn't get the message until I logged off and realized it was time for bed. :(
So I'll finish it and put it up tonight.
What game was it that I was playing? Was it spore? Oh no, though I did play that yesterday afternoon (my proto hulks just reached the beginnings of tribal life, they're kinda like primitive umber hulks that like to dance ;)).

The game I was playing last night was Sins of a Solar Empire.   I was going to buy it on Friday, because I read an article over on arts technica, talking about its low system specs, no annoying DRM, and digital distrubtion (I'd seen it in stores but I didn't know if it was any good or not), then I decided not to because I knew I was getting spore on Sunday.  But Saturday they sent me 20% off because I'm a previous customer of theirs so I figured what the heck.  Its awesome!  I started the game, did a tutorial, decided it was too overwhelming for the amount of time I wanted to give it, then wanted to play a game after doing some more work on the new dndorks layout and decided since my gf didn't have time to play more Castle Crashers with me on the xbox360 (awesome game too btw!) I'd go ahead and play some more Sins. 

Short story...I'm hooked.  Its awesome, I'm really looking forward to some of the campaigns.  Real Time Master of Orion effectively, its really great, if you like space civ games, I highly recommend it.

Yup, it's Spore for the DnDorks crew (such as we are at this point).  Pretty fun so far.  I'm still in early "Creature" stage with my blue, tusky vegetarian "Rampusillia".  Maybe I'll play more tonight.  Coincidentally, I saw Sins of a Solar Empire at Target the other day and it caught my eye.  However I quickly realized that it was a strategy game of sorts and I suck at strategy games. :P

We have a new comic up tomorrow, sorry, the holiday held us back.

Thanks all, hope you had a great weekend!

Hey everyone, so earlier this afternoon I played someone who found me on this site over on Poxnora, Warsor.  Here is a screenshot after about 3 turns of battle.

See those demons!!  See the buff dark elf monk?!  The imp, the weird demon with arrows sticking out of it?
None of them are mine, see poor Ethan, Firk diplomat there in the bottom left, green with tentacles?  Yeah hes all alone, the blue spheres were members of his delegation.  And his name wasn't even really Ethan, because I don't have cool runes to rename my characters. :(

sigh...anyways, I'll rebuild, optimize, and try again soon! 

Until then, I went ahead and posted a new incentive on topwebcomics.com for everyone who votes.  This one is a mini comic I modified myself to use in the new site layout.  Which is nearly done, but yet really far from being done. :(



Thanks everyone.

So many people emailed me to let me know that the buzz ad doesn't work anymore with the new site they have.  Well as many of you may know, I manage TWC as well as dndorks, and because I didn't want people to think I was cheating, I had been using buzz. 

Well I don't know the username/password to buzz anymore, since that was mostly Jenn's thing, and I decided I can trust myself to be fair (since we're on page 34) and not manipulate anything on TWC, so I've moved the banner over to TWC.  As part of the conversion, I put up an old incentive from years ago, I recommend checking it out, its pretty funny.  It "may" be up in the comic archives, its hard to tell over so many years, but I don't think so, I think the art was just waiting in the images folder on dndorks.  If I did cheat you guys out of an incentive by giving you one you could easily get to, let me know, I'll find another treat lost in our archives and put it up.

Just don't vote us past maybe rank 25 or so on TWC or people will think we're cheating. ;)

Now I'm going to have to create a new link banner.

Thanks for sticking with us, folks, and thanks for voting.  Things are slowly picking up and we hope to have multi-comic weeks before you know it.

This is a nifty app where you create a little character who has adventures and sends you little tidbits, like journal entries or something from your character, its created by Wizards of the Coast who continues to flex their attempts to enter the modern age with more integration with the web.
One caveat, you have to be logged into Facebook before clicking on the link or it'll take you to a page not found
 http://apps.new.facebook.com/tinyadventures

I thought it was nifty.

Podcast Update
I recently finished listening to Collapse at Hidden Verse 3 3 2, it was excellent!  Check it out. http://www.podiobooks.com/title/collapse-at-hidden-verse-three-three-two  

Also, Episode 1 of Buffy Between the Lines Season 2 came out this week, its fantastic. This season is set after Buffy leaves town after sending Angel to hell, and already I can see myself integrating this season into my mental timeline of the series.  http://buffybetweenthelines.com/