The most rambly entry yet.
Originally published at .//Integration. You can comment here or there.
Complete immersion into pop culture entertainment is truly the best medicine. Unless maybe you're addicted to pop culture entertainment. In which case I'd still recommend trying it first. Its a pretty great way to just escape from all of life's drama by burying yourself into other peoples fictional drama.
So yeah thats pretty much how I spent my labor day weekend. Played a lot of Blue Dragon with its classic jRPG-ness. Including the triumphant return of the classic omgthereswaytoomanyFMV'sinthisgame action. Were not talking rendered with the games own graphics engine here either, this is the real thing where the characters and backgrounds are noticeably better in the FMV. Its fun though, I like how they did the job system and the game as a whole is definitely solid.
Then I got the first season of Heroes on DVD so I could finally watch it. If you haven't seen it yet you should cause its so awesome. Hiro is totally the best character in the show. this may just be my opinion, but it is true. And if you don't agree then you're wrong. He's only one who has his own sidekick. The loser guy that hangs out with the cheerleader is not a sidekick hes a luv interest its completely different. And police guy is totally the sidekick to that non-super powered chick lame.
Hmm I wonder if you can find nice digital copies of all those paintings that Issac does. Seems like a good marketing move to sell copies of that comic that Hiro carries around, they already had to make all the art for it, and people would pay cash money for it. I should look into who does the art, I really like the style.
I don't really see myself getting out of this phase I'm in. I'll probably start in on Star trek voyager to see what Nikki is always on about while I wait for the rest of last season's tv to be out on dvd. The office isn't out until the end of the month :(. Then maybe I'll check out Stargate. I've always enjoyed watching that show when I could catch it, and I wouldn't mind figuring out what the Atlantis spin off is all about. But I'm definitely interested in hearing suggestions for cool movies, tv shows and to a lesser extent books and video games I should be checking out. :3
The only real decision I made this entire weekend was that I don't think I'll be continuing doing comics for the foreseeable future. At least not DI, I can't rule out doing some tiny one offs here and there when I'm bored. I'm just not interested in doing web comics. If I'm honest about it I haven't wanted to do them for a long time. I've just tried to force myself to want to because other people enjoyed them. I got what I wanted out of the experience a long time ago. I'd like to think that if I was more regular with my updates and promoted more I could make my comic popular, but I don't really want to put in the amount of effort that would demand. I'm ready to move on to other projects.
Most of which involve siting down and learning a lot of things that I've wanted to learn for a long time now. Things like PHP and Flash. Things more involved in web design. Maybe if I can get flash I can give new life to DI in animated form. I do like the characters and world I've created (and not really shown any of.). Animation would probably suit the characters and style that I like to write in. But that would be way down the road and theres no way I'm doing it all myself. :/ Its on my list of possibilities though.
Man this is a long entry for what boils down to how I'm avoiding life. Well not really avoiding but sorta distracting myself while I determine a way to internalize some things. And since part of the plan is to better myself somehow its really not so bad is it? Sorry for being kinda vaugue about the drama, I've talked about it enough with people at this point and I don't feel like theres anything more to accomplish with that. Its just gonna take me some time to deal with. :/
And also in a completely unrelated note I'm working on building a new theme for my blog. You can watch my progress at http://www.thecomicast.com ( a domain which I had for a different project that sorta fell through. might as well put it to use :P)