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indigozeal- As you've probably heard through social media if you're into the series, Koji Igarashi has put up a teaser website for the coming Kickstarter to a Castlevania spiritual successor. For such a big announcement - the effective revival of classic Castlevania - it's gotten almost no formal press; SiliconEra reports on every single little teaser post or website Atlus/Aksys/Xseed puts out, yet this gets nuttin'. But in the words of Brad Shoemaker:
There's not a whole lot of text (you'll get more messages, and vague hints on the upcoming game, if you click on stuff over time, in the course of one visit), but it's fun & engaging & injokey in just the right amount, and it reminds me that the NightCry promos would've been so much better-served if they'd gotten someone solid to handle the English-language translation & writing. I'm glad the game got funded, it's got a great team behind it, and I want to see what these folks have up their sleeves, but the spotty translation & writing conjures up associations with those horror games on Steam that Dan & Drew from Giant Bomb are always playing for Quick Looks that debut at $15 and invariably get knocked down to about a quarter of that a couple months afterward. It's a pity, because Clock Tower deserves far better.
- I'm nearing the end of my CSS course, and it's becoming depressingly clear that a) most of basic CSS is designed solely to do the same stuff that HTML could, just in a more obfuscative way that presents a higher barrier to entry for beginners; b) though I know a few neat little tricks now, I don't really know anything that I couldn't do with HTML before (and that's really not saying much); and c) while those few neat little tricks will help a bit, the primary barriers for me in creating a decent-looking website are lack of design & Photoshop skills, not HTML/CSS knowledge, and I am hopeless in working with graphics, so those are almost insurmountable barriers. Maybe I should just go completely low-rez and model my website after early alphanumeric roguelikes instead.
- Things here continue to go horribly. Last week, someone tried deliberately both to sideswipe me off the road and to crash into my vehicle in the space of five seconds, but despite the guy driving right past a cop car while I was on the phone with the dispatcher AND my tailing him to his ultimate destination, the police here were too incompetent to find him & do anything. I also learned that my dog needs an operation that will cost at least $2000 and require eight weeks for recovery - now that good walking & hiking weather has finally arrived after a long, long winter (she loves being outdoors). I will have that Lunar Vheen Hikuusen doujinshi synopsis and more Maboroshi Gekijou coming, but everything around me is trying its hardest to derail itself.
- I discovered today that LiveJournal is running insurance ads on its signup page. Man, I want to get to a more modern platform, but it seems that there are no real alternatives to Blogspot or Wordpress.
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There's not a whole lot of text (you'll get more messages, and vague hints on the upcoming game, if you click on stuff over time, in the course of one visit), but it's fun & engaging & injokey in just the right amount, and it reminds me that the NightCry promos would've been so much better-served if they'd gotten someone solid to handle the English-language translation & writing. I'm glad the game got funded, it's got a great team behind it, and I want to see what these folks have up their sleeves, but the spotty translation & writing conjures up associations with those horror games on Steam that Dan & Drew from Giant Bomb are always playing for Quick Looks that debut at $15 and invariably get knocked down to about a quarter of that a couple months afterward. It's a pity, because Clock Tower deserves far better.
- I'm nearing the end of my CSS course, and it's becoming depressingly clear that a) most of basic CSS is designed solely to do the same stuff that HTML could, just in a more obfuscative way that presents a higher barrier to entry for beginners; b) though I know a few neat little tricks now, I don't really know anything that I couldn't do with HTML before (and that's really not saying much); and c) while those few neat little tricks will help a bit, the primary barriers for me in creating a decent-looking website are lack of design & Photoshop skills, not HTML/CSS knowledge, and I am hopeless in working with graphics, so those are almost insurmountable barriers. Maybe I should just go completely low-rez and model my website after early alphanumeric roguelikes instead.
- Things here continue to go horribly. Last week, someone tried deliberately both to sideswipe me off the road and to crash into my vehicle in the space of five seconds, but despite the guy driving right past a cop car while I was on the phone with the dispatcher AND my tailing him to his ultimate destination, the police here were too incompetent to find him & do anything. I also learned that my dog needs an operation that will cost at least $2000 and require eight weeks for recovery - now that good walking & hiking weather has finally arrived after a long, long winter (she loves being outdoors). I will have that Lunar Vheen Hikuusen doujinshi synopsis and more Maboroshi Gekijou coming, but everything around me is trying its hardest to derail itself.
- I discovered today that LiveJournal is running insurance ads on its signup page. Man, I want to get to a more modern platform, but it seems that there are no real alternatives to Blogspot or Wordpress.
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