Al sold his soul to the devil. That never is a good idea. Because of this, I have made the decision to leave the forums for good. I don't want to be posting in the forums of a zombie company, so I guess I'll be leaving now. I won't be gone for good, you can still catch me on the Video Game Sage forums. I am the user named "GameGearGuy," but I guess I should change my username there, so I may. Thanks for the 17 years (!) of fun, but I think it's time to move on to a more trusting forums since Al
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to attempt making homebrew games. Neither of my 2600 games got a nomination in the awards thing. I went back to working on Uncle Hairy's Nosehair, but I don't seem to want to care since nobody else seems to either. You know, just one piece of feedback, like something I could change or do differently, would help immensely. It's not fun sitting here coding for hours if nobody wants to reply to what I've been trying to make.
And then it dawned on me.
So apparently both our cable boxes stopped working. I called the Comcast people and of course they don't work weekends so we'll have to go all weekend without TV. Mom isn't taking this very well. I fired up the Hulu we never use and found something she'll begrudgingly watch. I on the other hand will miss not having TV, but I have my video games and the internet to keep me happy. My meals came so I have something to eat.
I don't know why the cable boxes suddenly stopped working for no
So lots of time yesterday was spent working on my banana joke book. So not to suffer a computer death and losing all my jokes, I have it backed up on an SD card. Right now I am working on the third page. It's quite easy to make tasteful jokes about the banana. But I'm thinking I may make some more jokes about other fruit and make it "the fruit salad joke book." But that's if I can't think of any more banana jokes. Here is a sampling of my jokes I've made so far today.
What’s old, har
I need your help in trying to understand something: the fairy tale of "Rapunzel." You know, sounds simple. But not when you think about it. You know the story, the gal with the really long hair stuck in the high tower and the prince comes along and says "let down your hair!" So he can climb up it...and do what? He can't save the princess if he's stuck up there, too. Sure, he could get down again by climbing down Rapunzel's hair again, but that wouldn't help because she'd still be stuck up there.
I'm still working on Frank the Fruit Fly when the urge strikes. But my new project is a side one. And it's not really a video game at all. It's this:
I've began work on a new joke book. What made me decide to do this? It is nearing Halloween (it's the first day of Fall), so I got out my annual Garfield joke book. It's a Halloween tradition of mine to read it. It's called "Garfield's Big Fat Scary Joke Book." It's a paperback about the size of a Goosebumps book, or a little smaller. So
My blog entry I wrote got flagged for content so I'll start over again.
So apparently my dumb doctor wants to see me about my blood test results. So now I have an appointment for next Friday at 11:45am. I bet he's going to tell me I have diabetes. Well you know what? I don't care! I'm not going to do anything special about it.
I've been having a lot of fun making fonts with this thing. I made one called "Hip 2 Be²" I would have liked to call it "Squaresville" but that name was already taken by a dafont.com author.
But I spent most of yesterday sleeping. I'm trying to turn my life around again so I'm awake at day and asleep at night. So that meant going to sleep after just waking up. I got up and took my pills because my leg was hurting from laying too much. Then I went back to bed and got up at 5 a.m. Hopef
So I was a kid. It all happens to us (well, except for babies.) And, as a kid, I made a whole bunch of stuff. Mostly magazines and comic books. As I grew older, I made more things, mainly video games and crossword puzzles. But I still have the urge to make magazines I had like I was a kid.
I found one of my old magazines I made when I was a kid. I probably made it in the doctor's office waiting to make sure my allergy shot didn't overreact like I did every week. Unfortunately it does
I haven't been working on anything this morning. I woke up at around 8. Then the leafblowers started coming (it's Wednesday) shortly after so I decided to get up. So I did. If anyone likes crosswords, I have been making small ones recently. You can find them here: Mini crosswords. They're not as small as the 5x5 "mini" ones the New York Times does, but they're big enough to have a few different shapes since they're 8x8 ones.
I'm saddened by the death of Tom Smothers. I was just watch
Well, the good news is I don't have diabetes. The bad news is I have to get an ultrasound next week to see if I have fatty liver.
I swear, the lab techs had to poke me at least 5 times to get any blood out of me. And they had to get a lot out of me for my ultrasound next week apparently. It hurt quite a lot, but I guess I should be glad that ultrasounds don't hurt. Mom said it didn't hurt for hers (when she was pregnant with me).
I just wish they would leave me alone is a
For as long as I've been making music compositions, I've always used Anvil Studio. I thought I'd change things up a little and compose a new epic song using a program called "Aria Maestosa". It's similar in that you can place notes on a bar by clicking on it, but there are many other different changes I could use if I could understand them. One of the more frustrating options omitted is you can't change the key signature mid-song. I just spent 45 minutes trying to find a way but I couldn't. So I
I have to give up on another project. This time it's Frank the Fruit Fly. I can't get the health timer to work correctly. So I'm done. I've had it. Working on it any further will not be fruitful because my computer is being a stupid jerk.
My dog is dying. She won't eat very much. It's a slow and painful death apparently. If I ever get the chance to die, I'd like a fast death with very little suffering. Or a lot. I don't care. What is more suffering? Just as long as I get to die at th
They're predicting an ice storm in my area. One station said we'd get about a half inch of ice on Friday/Saturday. Apparently snow may accompany it. The Weather Channel says 1-3 inches of snow. So I really don't know what's going to happen. We may be safe but I doubt it as apparently most of my state is under a winter storm watch during this time. Who knows? With a half-inch of ice, the power may go out and it would take a few days for us to get power back. Like what happened a couple of years a
So I was looking at comics I drew as a kid. I picked up a certain one, a Mad-like comic book. It had 13 pages (a busy kid!) It was dated Fall 1993. Going through its pages, I found a comic called "Mr. Nimrod." Mr. Nimrod was a talking horse. But I don't remember there being a talking horse in 1993 called "Mr. Nimrod." Mr. Nimrod was in a list of people I made fun of on the cover, and is noted with such names as Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Roseanne, etc. So I'm at a total loss as to who Mr.
So I got an email saying my website provider is changing its nameservers and I need to do something about that since my registrar isn't with them. So I look it up and it's Tucows. So i go to Tucows' webpage and it said if Tucows is my registrar, then I need to contact my website provider for any help. I used the WHOIS lookup and see that my nameservers are corrected to the new ones. I'm guessing why I got that e-mail (hoping why I got that e-mail) is that they told it to send it to anyone whos r
I got bored. I decided to make a cartoon. Welcome to the realm of existence Edgar and bob. I recorded the audio for this and then realized my computer needed to have a stupid update. So I had to stop what I was doing and wait a half-hour for it to update. Why does it do that? WHY? I bought the stupid thing, I would like to have the opportunity to be able to USE IT whenever I want. But nooooo.
When that was done, I then got the opportunity to draw all the stuff used in the thing and p
Not only am I giving up this time, but I am giving up on all other times.
The Odyssey 2 isn't cooperating with me, so I guess I'll give up making games for it ever again. It can't cooperate with me, so I guess I'll have to give up forever on Odyssey 2 game making because it doesn't want to work. And to make sure, I'm going to delete all the programs I use to make Odyssey 2 games. Stupid, but necessary. Because I hate life.
Tomorrow I guess I'll go back to coding Frank the Fruit Fly. At
So stupid PGE (Portland General Electric) has decided I live in a high-risk area for a wildfire starting, so they may shut off my power for 24-48 hours. I highly doubt any wildfire will start around here, and even if it did, I want my f***ing electricity. How many wildfires have started in a metro area ever? Any? So it looks like I may need to bust out my Game Boy and let the rest of the entire world run while I sit here in the dark for no good reason.
You know what I think? I think
Just got back from having my dog put to sleep. Like I said in the pet death thread, it will feel real weird with no dog here, and I doubt we'll get another one. So now it's just mom, me, and the various insects flying around that are in this house now. I doubt I will be able to work much now without my dog for a few days while I get adjusted to a dogless life. I'm trying hard not to cry very much, but there's tears in my eyes and my stomach hurts. And of course they had to mow the lawns today wh
I had a comic idea. It was a wonderful one. It made me chuckle. I wish I remembered it. I went to sleep without writing it down.
So 6 more comics will be on my comic site starting August 21. I made a new icon for it. I've been making these off and on this year. I also worked on My History Teacher Ate Lemons some more.
I had to wait about 40 minutes for my other stupid computer to update. All I wanted to do was scan my page of comics. It made me pine for the days when computers d
I was getting ready to write a blog entry when I noticed my computer needed updating. Why it does who knows, perhaps just to annoy people. I don't want to update my computer any more. Is there a way to turn off checking for updates? It makes my computer unusable for at least 10 minutes every time it feels like annoying me.
Anyway, I was looking through my old CDs and DVDs when I came across a CD that had The Beatles' Rubber Soul and Revolver on the same disc. I only liked a few songs
I can't sleep. So I decided to look through my computer for stuff to do when I came across a comic book I drew 3 years ago of Stupidman. It was only legible because I replaced my horrible handwriting with text. I decided to put what I had on the internet to share with you all. In Issue 1 we had this stupid thing called Covid. So I drew a comic about an evil persistant little guy inspired by Mr. Mxyzptlk called Mr. Divoc.
So now I am going to attempt to sleep. But before I go to sleep
So my light bulb began to flicker. I have one of those weird light bulbs. I got some on amazon and they're supposed to come Saturday. Hopefully my light bulb will last until then. And hopefully I got the right kind. But the flickering it's doing is annoying. I woke up today at about noon and I noticed its beginning. I am wondering if it does that as a warning that it's about to go out or if it would do that regardless.
I do know I had a heck of a time trying to unscrew the light fixt
I woke up and there was a little bit of snow. Or perhaps it's ice that looks like snow. It's about 20 degrees right now and they're saying it will only get to 26 today. I'm in a deep freeze here. And the ice keeps falling. and it won't stop. We have a ton of ice around here. I've never seen anything like this: it being 20 degrees at almost 9 a.m. Perhaps if the electricity goes out I'll go take a walk around my street and see how bad it is.
It's pretty likely the electricity will go
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