what tian has learned: KY Fried Chicken

what tian has learned: KY Fried Chicken

Comic Host Switch

I just switched the hosting of my webcomic from http://different.smackjeeves.com to www.different.comicgenesis.com.

It seems to make a nice little home there.

I am quite proud of my page template, I think that it turned out rather nicely. There are still a few things I need to figure out with it, (Adding a little text box to the bottom page ect.) but it is really quite vamped up all ready.

I even included a little dropdown navigation bar thingy!

So, you should check out the new page and my comic.

Steve's Death

Hello,

I feel horrible.

I swear, I really mean to post!
I just never remember when I am online.

Okay, so, enough with excuses.

What have I been up to all of this time?

Working on my comic. Yes, Different.
I am going to be changing my hosting service either tomorrow or Wednesday to Comic Genesis (Keen Space). So the new URL will be www.different.comicgen.com.

So, for Easter, I got some real ink to use for my comic. I got some Black Magic ink:



Supposedly, this is a really good ink to use for making comics. If you want to see the first page I made with my ink, check out this picture:



So, hopefully I will post a bit more often now. I deeply regret my absence.

Poses practice

Well,

I have been kept extremely busy with the work of my newest comic: Different.

But, I am taking the time to write this post! w00t

So, Today, I am going to head to Live At Graph. It is basically a music talent show at my school. Supposedly, it is really entertaining, but, I'll see soon.

I spent an hour or so last night doing my first poses excercise. It was actually rather fun.

Here is the slopped up page that I practiced with (with some convienent labels added in):



Bye!

Different

I started up a new comic.

I think that this one may actually have something to it!

Here's a clip (more like a logo):



Look at the full comic here: Different

I hope you enjoy.

I am using completely new techniques.

The cool thing is, the comic started just yesterday, and it is already 5 pages long plus a cover! But, it still retains a fairly good quality to the quantity, so all is good.

Pangya!

On the 28th, Tuesday, Asia Soft (the creators of Maple Story) released the BETA version for their newest game called Pangya.

It is an MMORPG, but not the kind that you automatically think about when you hear it. It is a golf game in which you can interact with other players, level up, and buy items.

All you need to do to sign up is get an Asia Soft account, get a Pangya account, and then finally download the game client.

>Yeah, it's really annoying to do all this stuff, but for me it was worth it. (I don't even really like golf that much.)

The best part of this game are its awesome 3D, anime style characters, and detailed scenery.







Go here to sign up!

>My name is Pangyar

Mammoth Cave

Yeah, I traveled to Mammoth Cave yesterday. It was pretty neat.

Mammoth cave is the largest cave in the world, so it was really pretty interesting to visit.

I'll update this post further once I have the pictures available for upload.

Waterfall

Allo!

Yesterday was the first week day of spring break. It started out rather nicely, as we traveled to this waterfall.



It was actually pretty cool to look at considering it was rather close to here.

After visiting the waterfall, we went to get ice cream at Dairy Queen. I got this delicious banana creme pie Blizzard. Yum!

So, break is starting off almost slowly, but tomorrow...
...tomorrow I head out to Kentucky to cave city! I am going to go spelunking in Mammoth Cave! I will report back on either Friday or Thursday night.

Talk to you then!

Charts position>

In the Acid Planet hardcore techno charts, my song reached number 4! It's pretty amazing. On this site, I go by Dessart, because the name Ethyl was already taken. Here'a screen shot:



It's pretty sexy.

Pi Recite

I found a cool article on Yahoo.com's news:

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"SALEM, Va. - A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of Pi — the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal — likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world.


Gaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially place third in national and North American Pi recitation and 12th in the world.

His ranking should be verified by the Pi World Ranking List within two months.

"I'm kind of disappointed, but I guess I did OK," said Gaurav, a junior at Salem High School.

But his mathematical feat won the praise of others, including the math and computer science teacher who got Gaurav interested in it.

"I'm still stunned," said Linda Gooding, one of three contest judges. She then joked, "That's a couple more than I can do."

Gaurav began memorizing Pi while a student in Gooding's class. Gooding holds the competition every year, and said she expected students to learn about 40 digits. Gaurav recited nearly 2,990 the first time.

Gaurav's parents promised him an
Xbox 360 video game console if he had reached his goal. His father, Jogesh Rajav, jokingly offered to get him "an Xbox, but no game."

But Gaurav ultimately turned town his mother Seema's offer to buy him the game system anyway because of their deal.

He will try for the record again in May."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060316/ap_on_sc/pi_prodigy

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I'm jealous. Maybe I should try to enter this contest, too!

The Grow Series

I spent the last few hours playing the Grow games at EyezMaze.com.
Here's what I thought about the three Grow games:

At first, they just seemed a bit silly, and like they had no point or solution. As I played more and more, I began to develop strategies to get my placed items to level up higher. It's quite fascinating, really.

The first thing I played was the original Grow.

Grow
This one had my interest the least. It is kind of plain, and almost boring. The strategy that I tried out on this one that proved most efficient was that I put the things that came chronologically with time. First the mountains, then the egg, ect.
Here's the screenshot that I got using that strategy:



All in all, this one is okay, but not my favorite in the Grow series.

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Grow Cube
Next, I tried out the Grow Cube. It's basically the same thing as the original Grow, except it is cube form, and there a different items to place. I figured out that placing the beady things last was a good idea, and always put the water in before people. Don't put the ball on until you have the tube at its second stage, unless it will fall. Here's my high score screenshot:


This one was actually kind of exciting, and it kept my interest for a while.

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Grow RPG
This one is my all time favorite in the Grow series. It is just like one of the others, except with a theme, and a small story that takes place at the end. You must place all of the items in the correct order to get the correct story. I actually played it until I figured out the pattern.

The pattern is staying safe with me, though. Don't even ask for it!

Hint>> Think about what need to grow most, and place that first. Some items need to have other items around in order to grow to their full capacity.

Here are some screenshots from the Grow RPG:

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So, make sure you check out the grow series at EyezMaze.com!

Digg

I'm not usre if you would recall or not, but a few weeks ago, I did a post on Katamari Damacy flash games. Well, I just submitted that article to Digg.com about half hour ago, and I have already recieved 3 diggs and one comment. It's awesome dude!

Heh, if you check out my counter, and look at the referrals, you will see that the first two or three pages are completely full of referrals from digg.com.

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My new CD's songs are pretty neat! I have only made three songs so far, but they are getting better and better with each one.

My Musics

I like roast beef. There's one in the oven right now!

New

The theme of yesterday was definately sumed up by the word 'new.'

New haircut = new look

New song/artist look:



It's nice.

I like.

Half Day

Nice.

I like that word, 'nice,' as its own sentence. It really says a lot, but at a strange abstract angle. You know what I mean?

Today, school was released at the early hour of 10:30(am). So, I spent most of the day playing games with my sister. She really likes Midnight Club 2. It's pretty entertaining. We don't really get competitive with it though. We just sorta drive all around the three cities that are available in the game, Paris, Tokyo, and LA. Our favorite place is Paris. (Mainly due to the fact that I know most of the landmarks there, and it is super fun to ramp of le louvre's pyramid.)

So, tomorrow.
Tomorrow, I am meeting up with my cousin, Molly, that lives in Indianapolis. It's pretty exciting when I see her, because it isn't that often. She is the person that got me into anime, so most of the time, we are going to be watching anime.
It's going to rock. She just got the full Love Hina set, and she may be giving me some anime DVDs from her anime obsessed friend.
I'm rather excited.

21:39- Hit Return.
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Unité Test de Français

This sucks.
French unit test tomorrow.
Fortunately, I thought it was today, so I already did tons of studying.

Bleh. I also have a chemistry test tomorrow. Is it cheating to save numbers in the memory of my calculator. Probably is, oh well.

Haha, that's not as bad as what I did once in 8th grade.

Oh man, that Man.

Erasers make great cheating tools. That's the only other time I have ever cheated. I mean, remembering the scientist's name that coined a specific formula is just stupid to remember.

I usually feel completely horrible after cheating.

Maybe not this time though.

Scanner!

Yes! I finally got it!



It's an Epson CX4200 scanner!
I can update my comic now!>>> Beach Aliens

This is awesome.

Here's an excerpt from my comic to entertain your primitive needs:
enjoy <(^-^)>

Katamari Damacy! flash edition

It is time for:
KATAMARI DAMACY!

Okay, I sent out on the Internet in search of Katamari Damacy flash games for you at home to play for free!

I am going to tell you about my favorite 3 Katamari Damacy Flash games available on the Internet! Yay!

Okay, let's begin our countdown:
#3 John Tantalo's Version


Okay, this one was bit boring, and it didn't quite grab my interest. The game play is very simple: arrow keys to steer. So, you pick up paper clips, then batteries, then staplers, and then pretty soon you have made your way up to phones. Once you reach this point, you might as well not even play anymore. The game just goes on infinitely. The phones start to turn into dots, and you too will begin to follow suit.

Overall, this game isn't too great, but it is still a bit relaxing to play.

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#2 Foreverkul Version at Newgrounds


This one is very good! I enjoyed playing it. It lasted a while, had a large variety of objects, and best of all gave you a score!
To play, you just steer around the katamari with the arrow keys, and pick things up (duh). So, one of the best parts of this game is the wonderful background music that you can optionally turn on. Unfortunately though, when it is on and a lot of objects remain, the game gets extremely laggy.

Besides this, you can probably see why this game fell into second place on the countdown.

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#1 Official Namco Katamari Flash Game


Yay, it's finally an official version! That's one of the main reasons that this version falls into slot number 1.

Okay, this one is a bit more complex, so allow me to explain:

You start at a desertish place and you can choose from a series of number of plays. This is the amount of katamari cousins are on the screen at once (you control them all).

Secret: If you click on the little arrow on the top of the pyramid, you unlock a 40 play option.

Now, when the game starts, the sexy music starts to play. This is good.

The first thing you need to realize is that you are controlling the King of All Cosmos's head around the screen. The cousins all follow your head. You have to be careful not to move too slowly, because the cousins will ram into the cursor and loose all of their items. You also have to take caution once your katamari gets fairly large. When this happens, you need to avoid the katamari at all costs. It will roll you right up! If this happens, it's a death wish. You have to left click the mouse to eject everything off of the katamari and start fresh.


So, I hope you enjoyed the Katamari Damacy! flash edition countdown!

Bye!

21.12

Woah, this is awesome. I found the World's simplest game! Oh, how frustrating its wonders are!

Okay, go here: Box Game.

You have to drag the red square around without it touching the blue boxes or the walls.

See if you can beat my record of 21.12 seconds. If you do, tell me. Or, better yet, take a screenshot! That way, there's proof.

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Eh hem, Strategy:
Okay, here's the best strategy I've found.
Right when it starts, move the box down. Right as the path way clears, try to get the box to the upper left-hand corner. You can kinda rest there for a bit. Watch for one of the blue squares to come at you around 10 seconds. Once this happens, you flee. You are now just playing a game of dodgems. Heh. I found it easiest to concentrate on the red square, rather than the blue boxes moving around it.

Review it, dumb Crit!

I wish I could be a critic. That would rock. You could sit around all day and tell people what was wrong with their work. "Yes, the piece is good. All except for that horrendous nose!"

Oh yeah.

On other news, I have been drawing a lot of my comic. My style has finally been refined to look rather nice. Unfortunately, there is the issue with the text. Text. It sucks. I wish that I had better handwritting or something, because I am afraid that the general reader won't be able to figure out what I am trying to say. So, to try to approach this issue, I went to the local Borders and read a book on comic book creating. Right when I opened the book, I went to the section on the text. They recommend:

1. Try to do hand-written, it gives it some personality.
2. If the hand-writting is bad, create a personal font.
3. Use default computer text... Sans.

So, I am trying out number one on the list, first. When this doesn't work out, if so, I will create a font. If I just can't get those fonts working. I suppose I can settle for a little comic sans.

I am kinda liking this hand-written idea. It makes the editing part so much easier. All I have to do is scan, crop, save, and post. No text editing whatsoever.

Alright. If you have been recently to check out the Beach Aliens site, you probably noticed the lack of updates. Nonono, this doesn't mean that I have stopped creating it at all. I am just trying to get my hands on my own personal scanner to use (instead of my brother's). So, I am forced to save up my own cash to get my own. Hopefully, I will have it soon. This way, I can post the 5.5 unscanned pages I have sitting on my desk.

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Since this post is entitled 'Review it, dumb Crit!,' I will (without further adue) now explain. I plan on trying out new things (like Google Pages post) and talking about them here. If you didn't notice, that was kinda the idea behind the past two posts. I find I get way more page hits when I do this. Hehe. I mean, who really wants to read about what I did during my day?

No, don't get me wrong, I will still do some filler-sort posts about me, but the main focus is changing to the idea of criticism. Oh yes, wonderful criticism. Nope, I couldn't find too much interesting, fresh, and new stuff to write about today, but, maybe tomorrow.

When, which is probably soon, I get sick of being a critic, I will just stop writing those crit-ish articles, and come back to my good ol' style of talking mainly about me.

Hope to see you around.

Of Google Pages and Spores

Google Pages
Yes, I tried out Google's new Google Pages Beta deal. It's a great WYSIWYG editor, but if you are strongly attatched to your HTML, Google Pages is not for you.

I found that the best part of Google Pages was the fact that you didn't have to download anything. It was all embedded on their web's (Google Pages). The unfortunate thing in my case is their lack of Opera support. I had to open up Firefox in order to use it. (Don't worry, you die-hard IE fans can still enjoy it, too.)

Another downside, it has some small (most likely soon-to-be-solved) issues. When you publish your site, it takes approximately 10 minutes for the changes to show up. Sometimes, there are strange issues that preventing you from going to the page at all. But, I'm sure, with time, these issues will be solved. I suppose that's why this is still in its BETA stage.

So, if you:
a) have a Gmail account
b) don't have much webpage building experience
c) don't mind putting up with the BETAness

Then, this is a great thing for you to try out.
If you want to see the page I whipped up in a matter of minutes, go here:Google Pages Sample.

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Spore
I am in the local Game Preserve (nerdy, I know) with Ryo on Saturday night, and he tells me about this new game coming out from Maxis (creators of Sims). The game is called Spore. ::Official Site:: Spore is a very cool, extremely innovative idea. You start out as a measly single-celled organism, and you have to evovle and become so advanced that you can actually travel to other people's planet's (with online connection), and interact with them.

This game is bound to be a huge success. It is currently going to be realest for PC, and possibly the XBox 360. I am really hoping that I can find this game on some sort of Play Station console. Whether it's the PS2 or upcoming PS3, I don't care. I just don't want to have anything to do with Xbox, and I don't have a great graphics card on my PC.

So, let's just all hope that this game doesn't require a monthly fee when it is released.

Bye.