C.K. Burch's Blog, page 245
November 27, 2014
thecaliforniakings:
King Chad is moving and grooving once more,...
King Chad is moving and grooving once more, dodging bullets and death with the greatest of eas — oh. Well. Maybe not with so much ease.
thecaliforniakings:
Whew! This is it! Braving the last of the...
Whew! This is it! Braving the last of the madness and the terror, Explorer Chris makes his final crawl through the inverted Library, and completes the game experience of Eldritch! Thank you for coming along on this little journey, and if you like Eldritch, you can find it on Steam, or you can click through to the Minor Key Games website and purchase it there.
November 26, 2014
tombraider:
Big updates to Tomb Raider I on iOS!
If you’ve not...
Big updates to Tomb Raider I on iOS!
If you’ve not downloaded the original Tomb Raider for your iPhone yet, now’s the time to do so! Lara’s back for classic action with this most recent update.
So what’s new? The game returns with:
Updated and optimized controls
New and original voice overs for cut scenes
Enhanced original music effects
New languages – Tomb Raider I now supports English, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese
Various gameplay fixes and performance tweaksJump on it! Download Tomb Raider I from the iTunes Store.
OMG this is so fucking cool
"October “Toby” Daye was in many ways my first “real” protagonist. She was complicated, she was sad,..."
October “Toby” Daye was in many ways my first “real” protagonist. She was complicated, she was sad, she was bruised and refusing to break, and she was not afraid to put her duty ahead of her desire to be liked. She bullied her way through the world she was created to inhabit, looking at every complication that stood in her way and saying “No, you move.” After a lifetime spent moving dolls through stories, it was like I finally had a real person to follow and document. I started writing her adventures, and sending them out to people I trusted to read and review. Midway through either the second or the third book—I don’t remember anymore—I got a note from one of my proofers saying “You can’t have Toby do this, she’s always been a little bitchy, but this makes her a total bitch. No one will like her if she does this.”
I panicked. I couldn’t write a series about an unlikeable character! I’d never get published, no one else would ever meet my imaginary friends, and everything I’d worked for my whole life would be over, all because Toby was unlikeable.
Then I took a deep breath, and wrote back to the proofer requesting that they do a find/replace on the .doc, and plug in the name “Harry Dresden” for every instance of “October Daye.” They did, and lo and behold, what had been “bitchy” and “inappropriate” was suddenly “bold” and “assertive.” A male character in the same situation, with the same background, taking the same actions, was completely in the right, justified, and draped with glory. He was a hero. Toby? Toby was an unlikeable bitch.
The proofer withdrew the compliant. I have never forgotten it.
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seanan_mcguire: Characters, criteria, and causation: where the problem lies. (via helavik)
This attitude is why I have read eleven of seananmcguire's books in a month.
(via pluvialcity)
I don’t even know how to be a writer.
(via ktempest)
twostriptechnicolor:
A little something I’ve always wanted to...
A little something I’ve always wanted to do- Special effects from the 1920’s to the 1940’s.
For the sake of sanity, I left off some details of the traveling matte processes…. them’s pretty complicated things!
(Hm I gotta work on my graphic design chops…. gettin kinda rusty)
loitsucrafts:
Celtic Medieval MagicTheGathering deck holder...
Celtic Medieval MagicTheGathering deck holder Jewelry box
Hard paper box ornamented with glass and leather. It is kept locked by a magnet. There’s a little pocket inside. Originally designed it to be a Magic The Gathering card holder, but it can be used as a jewelry box or any-tiny-thing’s container :)
# Item description:
* Wooden box covered with leather.
* Made of up-cycled materials.
* Approximate weight: 270 grams (0.59 lbs).
* Approximate dimensions: 15 x 10 x 10 cm (5,90 x 3,93 x 3,93 inches).
* Materials: Wood, cotton cloth, cardboard, suede leather, leather, aluminium, glass.
* Fits up to 100 double-sleeved cards + approx. 10 different sized dice.PayPal is my preferred method of payment. But for other payment options, such as credit and debit card, visit my shop @ Loitsu Crafts Etsy. Shipping worldwide from Finland. For info regarding shipping & before purchasing this item, please take a little time to read my shop policies.
63 € or 78 USD (international shipping included)
thank-your-lucky-stars:
"Why don’t we talk about the riots that...
"Why don’t we talk about the riots that have been going on on Sunset Strip?"
