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Posted on Wednesday 27Jul05, at 10:51 pm. | | |
Hello, folks. Dom here. Kite is out this week with a bad case of death so I'll be your rantman for tonight. Hopefully my brand of nonsense will be a little more coherent than his! For those of you who don't know me, I'm the technical man behind SOC.com. I'm rather proud of our webcomics system, which is written from scratch exclusively for Sold Out (As of about a month or so ago, we decided to start calling it "Vanilli", a reference to another famous sell-out, because up until then when talking about working on the coding it all sounded rather vague). You may also (I wish) know me from the hit internet website phenomenon, Digworld.
I have tried to think up topics for this rant and the two best ones I can come up with are "The Future of Sold Out and You" and "I hate Hillary Rodham Clinton."
Let's go with the former.
So we're just now finally getting around to a (slight) redesign of SOC.com, which we've been meaning to do for months. Mainly, the current button links up top were inadequate because we wanted to put in more links, like to the forum and so on, but there isn't enough space, hence, get space. You'd think space would be just all around and easy to grab but, no, it's not that easy. Before you move your images and hypertext in you're going to want to get your insurance in order. If there's a webfire and you're not insured, it could be costly, and not just to you. If it affects neighbouring websites, you can be certain you'll find yourself in eCourt. And if you lose your case you'll have to pay up in eCash. And if you haven't got enough of that you might have to raise it by hanging around in a dark alleyway in the bad part of town, sucking ePenis. Being as we don't want to have to do that we've been very careful to submit all the proper licensing and permit forms to the city council, before undergoing any significant improvements. This is how we serve you, the readers.
Okay, the real reason we've taken so long to get around to this is.... inscrutable. I don't really know why. It seems like we don't really have it together. I don't think Kyle and I usually naturally work greatly together, and we have to on this, so mainly various days consist of Kite asking one of us, "so, do any work on the new site with Dom/Kyle?" with the response of "er, not really, didn't Dom/Kyle have to do that one thing first?" And we never really decided what's going to be what. Our web design tool is Microsoft Paint.
If you visited SOC.com sometime yesterday you might have caught a glimpse of a mockup of what we'll look like in the future. Of course, as usual, prior to the final art being done by Kyle, I first do the "art" for SOC.com... in Microsoft Paint. As you can see, it's not very impressive. I'm now mostly done with that so the ball is in Kyle's court and I guess he'll finish it up sometime. So it is said.
Now then, on another topic, I was just reading the New York Post, a paper I often read because I'm.... what's the word, ah, that's right, illiterate. So bin Laden, this guy, he had a plan, a master plan. A plan to kill thousands of Americans. He also has, sources say, a plan to end the war-- but that one is secret. Apparantly bin Laden was planning to buy lots of cocaine, lethally poison it, and sell it back into the U.S. supply. My favourite part is how supposedly the Columbian drug lords, after much consideration, turned him down, for fear of destroying the market for cocaine.
You gotta wonder, at this rate, what's next for bin Laden? Public service ads? I could see him doing that, recording them live from studio cave. Couldn't you?
Anyway, enjoy Sold Out. I know I do. Isn't today's comic really cool? I especially like the expressions on the faces of the characters, as well as the choice of colouring. It's really masterful, especially the way it reveals a crucial plot point. The art is really shaping up; take a look at earlier strips versus more recent ones. We've got much more awesomeness planned for you guys, so stick around! I understand Super Mario will soon become a character on the strip (If you don't believe me see the cast page).
Until next time,
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All right, I know this might come out as a stupid as hell question, but I'm wanting to find out despite whatever ridicule you might throw at me.
The way the blaster is set up, I'm trying to figure out if (Brain... locked up! Can't remember name...!) the thing formed like with Samus Aran's power suit, or if she slid her arm into it and it just kind've... bends... at the elbow.
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