It's Only an Achievement to Me--So it Counts for More

[wickedorin]

• Since I seem to be on a very, very slight roll: the Leather Sheikah Bracer/Cuff. Still a ways to go before I get to a certain piece I'm aiming for, but... closer.
  
• And something I made quite a long time ago but only recently got to her final destination, Zaida.

DarkHorse Vendetta sits open before me. Finished as of this morning. Nine years. Nine fucking years. I wanted to finish it six years ago. "Things happened", as they always do. Then my time was eaten up by a plethora of other things. Then I fought Jack over her fate. Over the last three days the rest just came together. Weird. I'm going to leave the rest alone for a couple of days before I go back over it for a final edit. Then release it. Then start re-editing the whole damn thing. *rubs temples* I'd started that before the last great computer crash so doing over half of it over again, plus the rest, is not something that I want to think about. It needs to be done, though. If you ask me what's next, I may kill you. Fair warning.

May as well jump into links, then. Iams cat food recall, because it's important to know.

Here's the remarkably fascinating article on the making of the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack that got me to listen to it in the first place. Great stuff here.

LEGO sniper rifles are seriously fucking awesome. What more description do you need?

I feel that My Four-Year-Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto is an important article. I also feel that people should read the fucking article before they comment, but it seems that many people have ignored me.

Going along with that is Do Violent Games Create Violent Players? It seems that the study quoted "finds violent behaviour in response to games to be directly linked to individual predispositions". I know, let's all pretend to be surprised. Are we done? Cool.

Okay, so here's the unofficial trailer to an as of yet unplanned Mortal Combat movie reboot.

Overachiever For a Day, also known as "What Caring About Gamerscores is the Saddest Fucking Thing Ever".

In praise of seat-of-the-pants storytelling. I'm pretty sure that I've been living this the past three days.

Chances are I've got no G1 fans on here at all, or at least none who are going to know what the hell I'm talking about. But I don't care, I'm interested in the fan-produced TRNS-01 (G1 Arcee). There's also a TRNS-02 for the poor unnamed medic in the movie. You know, the real movie. The history of a Hasbro-produced Arcee is long and full of screaming disappointment (much like Unicron--but at least he got produced generally accurately after a while), so it took fans to do it themselves. Always an interesting concept, I must say. *grin* The idea and design came up years ago, so the fact it's come far enough to actually have a pre-order for real transforming figures is incredible. The fact that I was told of these pre-orders the day after I spent hours going through Transformers pre-production archives doesn't help. I mean... damn, I understand the price for a very limited run toy that only a handful of people are spending all of their time and energy (and money) producing, but... I'm having a bit of a problem with actually pre-ordering Arc--er, TRNS-01. Especially considering that Revoltech Vash and Wolfwood are due to be released in two days that I wasn't going to buy but dammit it's fucking Vash and fucking Wolfwood and I really fucking want a Legato like you would not believe and so I have to support this, right? RIGHT?!?!. Call it a reward for finally finishing the novel and admit to myself that I've easily got the money because otherwise it's invested in games that won't be out until 2011 at earliest, you say? Yes, I may do that.

Now if you'll excuse me, I obviously need to get my ass back to work.

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[lhexa]

DarkHorse Vendetta sits open before me. Finished as of this morning. Nine years. Nine fucking years.

Many congratulations! That's about as long as I've known you.

[wickedorin]

Sort of scary the last 6 chapters or so took so damn long. At least I can partially blame Jack for that...