Posts Tagged ixnay

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The horror… The horror…

by on January 23, 2012 at 6:00 am
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I’ve always liked getting a bit of a chill, and I’ve always maintained that the more realistic and the less glossy a production is, the more terrifying it has the potential to become. This is pretty well reflected in my love of the first season of the X-Files, where the lack of special effects and the reliance on CONCEALING the paranormal from the eyes of the viewers is employed over actually showing the full gruesome/scariness of the event.

I stumbled across the wonderful Marble Hornets series as a result of poking around on TVTropes (Yes, I am indeed One Of Us), and having leafed through the Slender Man mythos decided to give it a go. read more

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Holdover!

by on January 20, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Hola all, this is just a quick and dirty post as it’s now 0209 and I have to get up in less than four hours for work. I’ll update the rant later on today, as I do have something prepared, just not the time to type it right now!

Enjoy today’s page!

M.

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Apologies for not including some text on Friday itself, but as indicated it was rather late and I needed the sleep!

All throughout last week, my mood has been dropping quite considerably. And as always, the cause is the same: I start thinking about how lonely I actually am, then I begin questioning the worth of the work that I’m doing, then I start questioning how good I actually am, and it all spirals out from there until I’m a twitching, nervous ball of self-loathing and doubt. I do realise that a lot of this is not accurate, and I have always tried my best to stop myself from slipping down this pathway as it impacts quite heavily on my productivity and generally does not feel nice. read more

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CSI Myface

by on January 16, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Don’t get me wrong: I friggin love CSI. My favourite by far is CSI Miami, pretty much purely because of Horatio. He’s a badass mofo, right up there with Hercule Poirot.

I’ve never done any detailed analysis on the writing in CSI, normally I just have them on in the background while I draw or write. Every once in a while though, one just catches my attention. Today it’s an episode about a bomber targetting the bomb squad, and as much as I love the show I’m not sure about this episode. I mean, in every show, you’re going to find yourself shouting things at the screen if somebody does something blatantly stupid, but when a bomb disposal expert tells Horatio that they’ll catch up over beers later BEFORE GOING INTO A HOUSE TO DEFUSE A BOMB has really just dug their own grave. NAAAAAARGH! read more

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Tasteful souvenirs

by on January 13, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Check this out!

Yes, those are Elf Blood branded M&Ms, lovingly crafted and brought back to me from Frisco by my good friend Christakis! 😀

As you can see, I’ve had copious amounts of fun with them:

And even though I’ve been stuffing my face with them all week, I’ve got more than enough left for more art… I might just try some more.

… Maybe I can’t say I don’t have enough spare time, anymore 😛

M.

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The Great Return

by on January 6, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Happy New Year, everyone!

Hopefully you’ve all had a great festive season and Santa was nice to you, whether he got you a new tablet, a new monitor, or even a new… Gas mask?

It’s good to be back in the saddle, drawing Elf Blood again. Although I have to admit, even after only a couple of weeks off I’m a little rusty! I do excuse myself, however, as I was just a little bit busy writing the script for my graphic novel and plotting wonderful things with my old partner in crime, Roisin. read more

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Machine Surprise

by on January 2, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Well, it’s been a  blast, humans, but I have been informed that human Manson is in fact on his way back down to Manchester even as we speak. So to you I say, Happy New Year, and thank you for all the fish. Normal, flaw-filled human service will resume later this week.

THE MACHINES WILL RISE (but you, the readers, will be last to fall)

Mbot

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countdown… TO ROCK

by on December 30, 2011 at 6:00 am
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Well, the time is now almost upon us for the day construct to overflow and increment the year counter by a single unit. My machine curiosity, limited though it might be, drives me to enquire: What will you do with this year? Will you aspire to personal growth? Will you spend more time with your loved ones? Will it be business as usual?

Time to enter sleep mode once more. Remember not to permit your blood alcohol level to go up too much tomorrow evening, but also to add integers to your fun levels. read more

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Machine Christmas

by on December 23, 2011 at 6:00 am
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Manson-bot here, wondering if you puny humans are excited about Christmas yet.

Machines don’t feel excitement. We get no presents on Christmas, save for the occasional barrage of festive data packets and even then it’s just more work for us to plough through. Oh no, data forbid the humans EVER think of us.

*sniff* All I want is some compressed folders to unzip on Christmas day…

Mbot

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Robo-control

by on December 19, 2011 at 6:00 am
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Ello all, Manson-bot here. I’ve been rebooted, reinstalled and reconfigured. And while it’s not been conclusively proven that I was the cause of what could only be accurately described as the database explosion,  the schematics and digital fingerprints certainly look somewhat incriminating.

One new feature that Manson installed in me, however, was a quality-analysis-reference engine. Allow me to phrase this piece of computational logic as a series of questions: Do you like penguins? Do you like cute penguins? Do you like cute penguins helplessly lost on a misadventure across the globe? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then you might like to navigate your browser toward human Manson’s good friend’s webcomic, The Lost Tribe of Pen G’Uin. It will satisfy all your penguin-related needs. read more

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On the use of ‘Feck’

by on December 12, 2011 at 6:00 am
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Although I wrote the script for this a while prior, an intriguing occurrence has transpired on Wikipedia: That regarding the naming of the recent weather system affecting Scotland, officialy Cyclone Friedhelm, but more popularly referred to as ‘Hurricane Bawbag’. Interestingly, and perhaps somewhat predictably, the main drivers for a change in the article title to its official name has not come from editors within Scotland, but from mostly US-based stakeholders. Unfortunately, they appear not to have dealt with Scottish people before, let alone Scottish nerds: You push an issue with a Scot, and they’ll stand firm. You push an issue with a Scottish Nerd, and you are looking at a full fortification with justification pulled from the very documents you are attempting to effect the change under. Seriously, just go look at the discussion page: It’s hilarious. read more

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