I rarely have nice things to say regarding continuity, using modifiers such as "dreaded" or "despicable" to characterize it. Aside from our general aversion to the concept, which - as we've established - is really quite vile indeed, it's simply not compatible with the way we do things around here. Certainly, we can envision a series of sequential events and transcribe them. However, the moment we commit to something of that nature, invariably something entertaining or revolting occurs and we're forced to make a decision between maintaining some artificial scenario we've invented or covering the events of the industry in real time.
Happy Birthday Aaron!
We have two brand new shirts for sale in our fabulous online store. You can now purchase your very own Twisp and Catsby shirt. Now you can finally show your love for your favorite British cat and his demon sidekick. In keeping with the nonsensical nature of the T&C comics, I suggest you purchase fifty shirts and cover your car with them.
Wow Accounts Contest
We had originally planned to announce the winners of the accounts today, but two wrinkles have appeared in the plan.
An Alternate Lifestyle, Part 1
As is established every time an entry in this genre is released, Gabriel actually played Golf in high school and has retained this coarse habit even to the present day. And, by luring me onto an actual course with tales of high powered carts and mobile refreshment stands, he drew me into his dark world. You've seen his twisted interpretation of my own passtime, but starting today, we will dip into his perverted cesspool for a series of undetermined length.
Xbox Live
I have only one real gripe with Xbox Live and that is that the feedback system is worthless. I play Splinter Cell every night with my friend Robert and we run into jack ass after jack ass. Anyone who has played the game for more than a day knows what I am talking about. These are the guys who start out as spies and then when your turn to play as spies comes up they quit the server.
A bit more on PAX
We sent an invitation to PAX to the editor of a fancy videogame magazine. We thought it was a nice thing to do. He responded saying that there were events like ours all the time and he couldn't make it. It was just another Lan party in his eyes and not worth his time.
Several Tender Updates
There have been some changes and additions at PAX that are, in my estimation, fly.
Nova Wallpaper
I added a new wallpaper based on the Nova drawing I did yesterday to our wallpaper section. You can grab it here if you’re interested.
Obey the Tube!
I just wanted to let everyone know that the Cardboard Showdown website has been updated with a bunch of new stuff. Brenna and Charles have been added to the character roster and a couple new wallpapers are available.
Good Luck
Credit exchanges for Massive games are inimitably useful mechanisms - the notion behind them seems counterintuitive, and we've certainly enjoyed some amusement at their expense. But - if you're a person that thinks of your own time as the prime currency and the various manifestations and products of that time as inherently fungible, it makes a lot of sense to resort to brokers of strange currencies. If somebody takes advantage of your exchange itself, though - if they purposefully manipulate the intangibility of the product you sell - it must be a pain explaining to normal people exactly what it is you do.
NOVA
Lots of you asked for a larger picture of Nova after yesterday’s comic strip. I had some free time today so I went ahead and whipped this up. I hope you like it.
Motorola MPx
I'm still completely fixated on this thing. I saw on Gizmodo that someone managed to purchase an engineering sample of the device, and they proceeded to produce an erotic pictorial of the machine which you can see here. It's starting to look like the name of the device at retail will be MPX300, or something to that effect.
Posters!
Our new posters are now available in our online store. We have a Gabe and Tycho poster as well as a CTS design. Our Twisp and Catsby shirt as well as our Aggro shirt should be popping up in the store very soon as well. Oh, and just to prove that we do listen when you guys ask for something here is a peek at one of the new shirts we will be bringing down to the San Diego comic con this year.
Cool stuff
Did you see the new Star Chamber cards we designed? Tycho posted them late yesterday so if you missed them here they are. I think they turned out really cool.
Hot Future Girl Can Stay
The first time I saw Ghost - this would have been a couple years ago, now - it was one of the most impressive things available on the floor. They took a unit from Starcraft, made a character out of it, and let you experience the galactic conflict of that setting as an individual: dwarfed not only by hulking war technology, but also by the scope and scale of imperial political machinations. At that time, they were really playing up the stealth/platform angle - and that makes sense. Ghosts are, as one might infer, covert operatives.
Star Chamber Cards
Paul from Star Chamber asked us to do a couple cards for their upcoming Incursions expansion, and obviously we jumped at the chance to interject the malevolent Canid into his universe. Here's the cards, if you'd like to see them. Paul was even nice enough to entertain some card concepts.