MMOs

I recently got moderately hooked (about 40 hours spent ) on DC Universe Online. This gave me the push to also evaluate few other games, specifically Champions Online and World of Warcraft. 

The UI is significantly worse in both CO and WoW - in fact, CO has a rather similar UI to WoW. However, WoW is TERRIBLY, HORRIBLY boring, unlike CO. 

The reason seems obvious. 

In CO, you start out by thwarting an alien invasion. 

In WoW, you kill a bunch of things, then another bunch of things, then another bunch of things, and so forth. 

Also, in CO as well as DCUO, you start with a movement power - flight, super-speed, parkour, whatnot. In WoW, about one third of the time is spent running s l o w l y back to the quest giver with nothing happening. 

Both CO and WoW use the, in my opinion, rather boring mechanic of target enemy, activate power, wait for recharge, activate power.... 

*Yawn*

Still, I'll probably keep on putting a bit of time in them, at least until I reach level 20 in WoW. 

Sucker Punch

I didn't like it.
It's a sad thing to say about a movie with obvious anime influences, not to mention
STEAMPUNK ZOMBIE NAZIS
but, there you have it.
I just find the injustices shown in the film to be of precisely the sort that makes me want to turn into a beast with a face made out of blades.
That sort of a thing.

Google Web Store

Hooboy.
I'm taking a look at

• Cloud9 IDE - I like it for javascript, and it integrates with Github. Not too shabby, although it's better suited for running on one's own server.
• Sumo Paint, which seems like a really robust paint package, more focused on painter-style stuff, though
• Pixlr editor, which is fairly impressive. Layers, shortcuts and so forth. I think I could do either digipaint or pixel stuff with it. 
• Email Game - I... think I can recommend it.  It's exactly what it says on the tin - it makes a game out of checking your Email. 
• Ajax Animator is so far failing to load.

Pixel painting....

I think I've tried out most of the software available. ASEPRITE is useless to me. Tile Studio isn't horrible, but it's lacking in features.

Grafx2 is at least somewhat usable, a rather nice pixel paint package, especially with limited colors. However, it's not that good for sprites and tiles. Graphicsgale is still close to the best. Paint Shop Pro 9 is very good for this. My experience with Gimp and Photoshop is limited, although I think they're probably pretty good, depending on configuration Paint.net is very nice, surprisingly. So is the new MS Paint. Simple enough?

 Title - and the key - for my last post is 'bits'.

Today's image with grafx2 and touchpad.

*edit* and tweaked in Paint.Net. I do like it for pixel-precision stuff, after all!

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01001000 00011111 01110110 01110001 01101110 01110011 01100100 00011111 01100000 00011111 01100001 01101000 01110011 00011111 01101110 01100101 00011111 01100010 01101110 01100100 00000111 01100011 01100100 00011111 01110110 01100111 01101000 01100010 01100111 00011111 01110011 01110100 01110001 01101101 01110010 00011111 01110110 01100111 01100000 01110011 00011111 01001000 00011111 01110110 01110001 01101000 01110011 01100100 00011111 00011111 01110011 01101110 00011111 01100001 01101000 01110011 01110010 01110011 01110001 01101000 01101101 01100110 00101101

a little post

smaller and smaller...

Soon I'll just communicate in binary dots.

Mouse

I cheated, sort of . I drew big, resized, then fiddled. In my defense, I think the same
strategy is used by nippon ichi artists.

I intended to do more, but I'm kinda busy, I basically stole the time to do even this little drawing.