First off, I got to go to a drive-in theater! It was epic! You listen to the movie through the radio and it's really nice cuz there's fresh air, you can bring your own snacks, and you get to watch two movies for the price of one. Plus, I was going to the main building to find the bathroom, and I saw that one of the projectors was at ground level. Just out of curiousity, I stuck my hand in the light and made a shadow. Poor Wall-e vanished! Then I was like "OH CRAP!" and ran away!
Then my HTML skills are getting really good! I've made my own webpage template that looks great! When I get around to it, I'm gonna upload my new template onto my site. And then I'm going to buy a domain name, too. I've bean meening to do that.
Anyway my sister wants to get online now, so I gotta go. Hugs to all my friends!
Another bit of downness is that Tora is still jobless. He's at least found a place to stay, but that might not last very long if he doesn't find a job soon. I've sent a prayer for him, and I'm asking that anyone else reading this please do the same.
On a lighter note, I've made quite a bit of progress on both my book and my game. I still can't find a good publishing firm to use, but I should find one soon.
Still don't have any T-shirt sales or comission requests, so that's kinda depressing. I know I don't have much to offer, but at least it's something, and I don't think my prices are too high.
Maybe when I get my stuff published, people will start paying more attention to me. I know I have a few very loyal friends here and there, but I still can't seem to shake the feeling that very few people actually care about me. It's sad to feel that way, and I know it's not entirely true, but I just feel unaprecciated.
Anyway, I'm out of time for today, and possibly all month. Peace out.
To anyone who's wondering, no I'm not dead. If I do die, I have programmed a bot that will inform the web of this so that I don't have to trouble anyone to do it for me.
At the moment, I am using a Mac at Best Buy, and I have to say, this thing is BEAUTIFUL! Everything is so smooth looking, and it all works so fast! If only Windows-written programs would work on it, then I could just screw Windows altogether and move into a Mac.
Speaking of Windows, I'm buying XP soon. Turns out Office Depot still carries it. If this all works out, I'm going to be happy with XP, even if I can't get a Mac.
Then there's the matter of 3DS Max. My teacher gave me a download link, and the trial version alone lasts up to 14 months! Definitely time enough to make some nice animations. Maybe soon I'll have enough money to buy the full version, but it costs over a thousand bucks. Meh, I can possibly get that much money before the trial expires, and if not, well then I'll be on a hiatus until then. Not much more I can do, unless I wanna get into legal trouble.
So while I can, I'm going to every site I'm on and posting what I can before I have to leave. Peace out!
I meant to post this yesterday, but my online time was cut short, so I couldn't.
Anyway, the other day at work, it all seemed very slow and dull until Shrimpy (I won't put her real name online. We'll just say Shrimpy cuz she's so short! ^-^) calls me into the other side. And what do I find there? A big cake with real fancy decorations and frosting words that say "Happy Birthday and Graduation Nick!" You can probably guess how happy I was, but that all turned into sheer embarrassment when everyone started singing at once for me. >o<
Then we're driving along and my sister says she wants Taco Bell for dinner (when does she not?) So we go in, and I see this thing where if you drop in ten cents and land on the green pad, you get a free taco. I have a gambling addiction, so naturally I threw in a dime. First try, I got it! Yes, I was having a very good weekend.
Then there was yesterday. It was a Monday, but I went through it all thinking it was Tuesday, and this morning I was like "Wednsday! Yay! I get to go to anime club today!" Guess what? IT'S TUESDAY NOW! So no anime club, and even worse: I take my first exams today! 0_0 >_< I'm so friggin' scared!
Anyway, time for that funny thing people do in their Livejournals:
a) tell you why I friended you,
b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.,
c) tell you something I like about you,
d) tell you a memory I have of you,
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) tell you my favorite user pic of yours,
g) in return, you must post this in your LJ.
Turns out all the publishing firms worth working with are all too expensive for me to afford. I need money, and my job isn't really helping that much, so I'm going to try raising some money online.
I currently have a new store opened up. http://www.printfection.com/embargo is the URL. Please buy a shirt, or email me at kylontario@gmail.com for art commissions! The prices for artwork are posted below.
Avatar/Portrait: Sketch = $1.00 Ink = $2.00 Color = $5.00
Full Body: Sketch = $3.00 Ink = $5.00 Color = $10.00
Group Pic: Same as full body, but add %50 the price per extra character in the shot.
3D Full Body: Cel Shade = $20.00 Textured = $35.00 Fur Detail = $50.00
Others: Dancing Chibbi GIF = $7.00 Animated 3D = 3D body plus $10.00
I hope these prices seem fair enough. I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to get the 3D stuff done right away, but I can still take a queue for them. I won’t actually take the payment until after I’ve told you your work is completed. When it is, and when I’ve been paid, I will send you the commission.
More shirts are being added as well.
So that's all for now.
It seems a popular thing to ignore me these days, and not just online, but in real life too. IRL I'm constantly getting pushed out of conversations with my "friends" and always seem to end up sitting on the side just listening. Then I have an idea, I finally get a chance to speak, and what happens? I'm interupted and forgotten just like that.
Then there's the stuff online. It's like my posts aren't showing up at all. I post a topic and instead of anyone looking at it, I just watch it sink into the lower pages of never-to-be-readness. And the other topics aren't even filling up that fast. It's just that nobody wants to read what I have to say, or at least it seems that way.
I don't even know if it's worth going on like this. All I want is a little recognition from the people I care about, but the only attention I get is either from strangers I'll never meet again or when I do have my friends' attention, it's always because I have to make some kind of outburst or a thread on the wrong board, or maybe they would just want something from me. It's like I don't matter at all.
And that's how I'm feeling today.
I'm almost to the point where Midi and them are leaving Kyroda (in the story) so things are gonna get pretty crazy from then on! OK, so much for that topic.
Anyway, I've got lots of plans for the story, so I think I'll just let you guys know what some of them are. OK, so first there's the fact that I'm giong to be publishing the whole thing in a book after it's all done. Why? Two reasons:
A. Not everyone in the world reads FictionPress so it's a good way to get my story more well-known.
B. Extra content. In the book I'll be adding bits and pieces to give the story more substance, along with illustrations for the chapters, deleted scenes put back in, and a few other changes made to make the story flow better.
All and all, it's a total overhaul. And please pardon the rhyme. Also the game's coming along OK, but not as good as I'd have hoped. The thing about programming storylines is that you gotta do it over and over for EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER!!!! Yeah, it gets really annoying, but not as annoying as programming doors. At least there's variety in programming characters. Those doors though, they're hell. I'm basically putting in points and room names, placing the doors, and then doing it all over again. And then I gotta program those to react to the story too! Can't have the player going somewhere they haven't reached yet!
Well, I think that's about it. Time to go to class now.
Yeah, that's right! My computer's battery just died! Is that really worth blogging about? No, not really. I'm just doing this so people know that I'm not in the same state as My Computer is!
I'm suspending all projects (game, sotry, comic, etc.) while I take some time to learn C++. I need to get the language down because that's what Teric says the pros use, and since he is a pro, I'm guessing he's right. He is right, right? Noooooooo, he's left. But anyway, I will get back to work later, just not any time soon because this may take a while to learn. But since I got some nice game-based extensions, I'll be able to learn that much more, so I'm good to go!
Bye all!
~Kylo
Well something really cool happened last night: I found my Action Replay DS! YAY! Now I can walk through walls again!
Anyway, I've been thinking about this whole leaving-the-furry-world thing, and I'm not sure if I really wanna stay out much longer. Sure, I'll just be added to the list of furs who left on a whim just to come back, but so what? Heck, I even found a new webcomic yesterday, and I was an instant fan of it. Problem is, there's just too many people in furworld who really, REALLY don't like me, so going back could just mean a huge humiliation that would result in me leaving again and looking even stupider than usual.
Bah, aside from that, the game, comic, and story are all coming along great. And after killing off Rift, I feel so relieved in the lines of stress. Yeah, killing robots from the future really gets you feeling good!
OK, I gotta go now.
LINK
There, now you can watch the video. Not much else to report here, though I am due for an update on some other things. I'll do that later.
Oh, also I got everything restored on my computer! I gotta re-register Game Maker some time, but hey, I got my stuff back! Now if you'll excuse me, I have octoroks to kill. *Immediately loads Zelda OOT on N64 emulator.* W00T! STUFF!
I'm just gonna get back to work now....
I've got chapter 15 done, so I'll post that soon. I've also got a new video, but I can't put that up until tomorrow.
Spring break is gonna suck so bad. I'm gonna be at home all week with no internet access and I can't register GM7 without internet. I was gonna bring my computer to the library today, but my mom threw a fit about it. She acts like I'm gonna suddenly fall backwards for no reason and land in a puddle full of iron filings while carrying the computer in my backpack. That's how paranoid she is, and nothing has ever happened to it at school, nor has anyone tried to steal it, but that's mostly because I like to discuss torture methods with people to freak 'em out, and it seems to be working, so they tend to leave my stuff alone thinking I'll kidnap them, stick them in the basement, give them a thousand paper cuts, and then pour lemon juice in them. I would, too.
I think that may be the longest paragraph I've ever blogged before. No updates on Rock the Hedgehog yet, but I'll work on it. I just wish I could get my stuff registered at least on Saturday so I'm not stuck having to use that crappy converter each time I wanna test my game, even though it does work very well. I should tell the guy who made it it works. He never tested it.
Gotta go to class now. Bye!
~Kylo
Also, I'm working on the new video update for MTS, so that'll be up soon.
Sorry for the short post, but I gotta reinstall Flash now. Bye~!
Anywhoodles, I'm gonna update my story today since I'm way behind on that, and I think I'll work on my comic. Oh, I didn't mention my new comic yet? OK, it's right here: http://rockhedge.smackjeeves.com
I wish I'd heard about Smack Jeeves before when I was doing my old comic. But this new comic is much better because it makes fun of three universes at once!
I think that's all I have to say right now. When I get home, I'm coding like mad!
They figured out why it broke though: the hard drive burned itself. Yeah, that's right, the HP Pavillion can burn itself dead as a Dumbledore-nail.
Moving on, it's been a while since I've really been on any forums other than the school forum, and that's pretty much dead. Megaglomp is blocked, so I can only get there on occasion, and when I do get there, so much has gone by that I feel completely left out. In fact, whenever I'm away from a forum for a long time, I always get the feeling that I wouldn't fit in anymore, or that I just wouldn't be welcomed back, even though I know that's not true in most cases, I still feel that way. Just low self esteem, I guess.
Anyway, I got work to do. Bye for now.
~Kylo
I should have a new video update soon, so hopefully I can post it... well, soon. G2G!
~Kylo
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