Anyway, there will be a real site update soon. I’m typing this on the train back from the San Diego Comic-Con (comiccon.org) listening to some awesome music, reveling in the beauty of the weekend. Saw some old friends, made some new ones. I’ll be doing one of my lame review/writeups that I do for each of the days I was there (Thurs/Fri/Sat) and hopefully posting some pics my friends took as I was an idiot and forgot my camera this year.

I’m deep in the trenches of site-redesign – I’m hoping to have a picture gallery, my blog, a new Wordpress theme I’m sort of designing right now (all a work in progress,) a pet project I’ve been talking about with a couple of friends that will include blogs for both of them and an aggregated blog for the three of us to publish to under the new URL we’re working on. So many ideas, only limited by my knowledge of coding and my utter inability to make good looking site designs (oh yeah, buying a tablet to be hopefully working on some artwork for the site as well.)

As you can tell – I have a huge list of things to do that will be making its way to a hard-copy paper & pen list soon and where I’m going to be slowly chipping away at front and back end things here. Check back and I might have a placeholder up with space for your email addresses so we can email you with updates about the site or just to notify you about when we launch!

-Tyler

I’ve got a lot to go over so hopefully I can get through everything I wanted to cover today; here goes:

Okami covers! Yes, the IGN watermark is not on these and I have to say that they are beautiful. I got them in the mail the other day (was sad to see only 2 then I realized that the original cover, less IGN watermark, is on the back of BOTH) and it was a very nice treat and a long time coming.

Next Mother3 fan translation patch released this week! I’ve not had the time to sit down with this one because I’ve been so busy with school and work and Halloween fast approaching but I do plan on taking most of November to eat turkey and play the English translation. Thanks to Chewy & Mato and the rest of the team over at The Mother3 Fan Translation site – I’ve been looking forward to this for almost 10 years and I’m fucking excited as hell! Also, go buy the Japanese version of the game! Remember it’s illegal to download a ROM unless you own the game!

There is a bunch of information over at the site about the Earthbound (Mother) series – including walkthroughs, an interview with Mother creator Itoi, and a link to a page that the M3FT has been working on in the background.

Continuing with Mother 3 news, a group of people are creating a guide for Mother 3 that imitates the classic guide that came with Earthbound. Complete with pictures of real clay figures similar to the artwork in it’s predecessor and a full walkthrough. For a $20 preorder (guide slated for release in early 2009) it’s certainly worth the price – especially with a free Courage Badge keychain and reduced shipping on Earthbound shirts when you order together!

Alright, on to comics this month. IDW released Ghostbusters: The Other Side this month. So far all I can say is: amazing. I’m a big fan of the artwork, similar to Stuart Immonen’s artwork from the recent issues of Ultimate Spider-Man, and the story is definitely shaping up to be a good ‘un!

I’m going to end this journal with a mention of a book I just started reading, it’s called “Alive in Necropolis” by Doug Dorst. I’m still not sure about where the story is going but it’s been a fun read so far – I should be done in the next couple of weeks, as I get 10 or so pages a night done before I get to bed, and I’m going to make sure I do a full review of the book (probably my first full review of a book outside on an English class. I’d suggest checking it out at your local library or buy it!

Until next time (hopefully less time than it took me to update this last time)

-Tyler

Hopefully a larger update later, I’ll try and have something to say or review (I won’t be doing a Dark Knight review because that movie apparently can do no wrong. Actually I can think of one thing but it’s so whatever-y that it’s not even worth mentioning.)

-Tyler

I need to buy a binder or pad of paper so I can just jot down ideas I have for the blog as I have them. I know about 2, maybe 3 people read this (all my friends, and I love you for that) so I’m not so much doing this for attention as I am just to get thoughts and ideas (and reviews, yes, seems gimicky – but it’s just a way for me to think about things and put them into a little more formal presentation than my normally stream of consciousness first draft posts) down for posterity’s sake.

Other unfortunates: I’m almost 100% that I won’t be going to Comic Con this year, which is a bummer – I was really looking forward to meeting R.K. Milholland, Jennie Breeden, and Felicia Day (with the rest of The Guild)

Even more unfortunates: one of my a-hole friends decided he’d be just that and give me a copy of WoW two days before I started my class. Well, I’m not addicted, but I can see it being a horrible timesink which is not good with the start of my English class. Bugger.

smoochies

-Tyler

There was a post on “Ain’t It Cool” news with a picture of the original Minutemen (like in the comic) in a 1940 lineup – check it out. Man, that is badass! I do have very high hopes for this movie, and I hope that I’m not let down by it. I know they’re leaving out one plot-thread (the pirate comic, for those who’ve read it) and that doesn’t so much bother me because it just added commentary to what was happening in the main comic. Hopefully they’ll film those parts and release it in something like fear.net did with the “30 Days of Night: Blood Trails” shorts.

I’ve also been working on comments today and I’ve decided that the “highlight-author-comments” plugin is nifty, but it’s too restrictive and a little… strange. I’ll be making some changes to the comments page, and hopefully not breaking it too bad to accomplish the look I’d like. It’s strange, I don’t know why I am so hot to trot about making this look awesome because I’m just going to be changing the theme to my own eventually anyway. Oh well, if anyone reads this it’ll be nice for them… or it’ll at least make me less anal about the whole look of this site.

-Tyler

More after the jump.

• making the comment portion of the blog more robust
  • adding the ability to “quote” other comments
  • highlighting my posts in the comments
  • adding a preview button for posts
• working on a completely new theme for the site
  • adding original artwork to hopefully make the site look less sterile
  • (I’m not sterile)
  • working on a few site widgets which I think might be cool
• adding more pages about things I’m into
• hopefully adding a “review” section to the site
• adding pages offering updates on current and past projects I work on (for posterity, mostly)

I also hope to finally get around to purchasing full versions of Ecto and Fetch since I am really lazy about that kind of stuff and I use these programs very often for this site.

Second to last, I’d like to know what people think of all of the links from my site being coded to open in a new window/tab rather than just letting people do that of their own volition. These things matter to me.

And finally I’d like to state that I will never be putting any ads on this site. I personally dislike ads on personal websites (I run the Firefox add-on AdBlock Plus & filterset.g when I browse), I think it looks tacky and takes away from the sites content, I also believe it’s the fastest way to get people away from your sites as I know when I see a bunch of ads on a blog or personal site I usually click out of the site within a minute. I’m not completely against ads though, I know they serve a vital purpose and I unblock sites I frequently visit (and I do click on the ads) because I figure that if I visit them enough I out to check out what they are promoting on their sites.

Thanks to everyone who checks out this site (I know it’s not too many people… or anyone that I don’t know personally) but I have gotten a few comments from people that have found my site through search engines (I’d really like an email on how new people have found this site; just email me at tyler (at) cythusly (dot) com, I don’t bite, promise) I hope to make this a neat site for people who actually care what this nerd has to say.

-Tyler

I’ve also played through Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness Episode 1 and I will post a review soon!

Anyway, now I’m trying a standalone piece of software for OSX called Ecto. Ghostbusters references aside everything seems really well put together, plus there’s some cool plugins for the program.

I also signed up for a Flickr account (way to be super behind on the internets, right?) and set up the already integrated Flickr Helper plugin and I downloaded a Twitter plugin that should send a tweet every time I post along with a link… I think, haven’t tested it out yet.

I think I had other things to post about but I honestly cannot remember what at this point. Anyway, hope the Twitter add-on/plugin thing works. We’ll see!

-Tyler

-Tyler

edit: stupid logo won’t edit properly so it’s almost unreadable… blarg