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Almost have both my computers back.
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Okay, so this laptop ended up having another problem about a week after it was infected by a computer virus. The problem? My brother tripped over the power cord, causing me to have to get a replacement for it.
As for the other one, which I use for most of my online stuff, like Gaiaonline and things like that has finally been sent to the shop. Turns out that the problem is a faulty logic board which is good, because I was afraid I would loose all my data on the hard drive had that been the problem. In any case, I feel like its been so long since I have been able to get serious about a roleplay on Gaia, since I can't really do everything on this computer. (Including spell check, as you could probably tell from my comipo comics.) I am even starting to miss sifting through thousands of bad roleplays with no good ones in sight! I feel horrible for my disappearance on Gaia, which this time was not due to loss of interest in the RPs I was in, but rather due to my computers not cooperating. And its always during the downtime that I get inspired to run them again.
Happy New Years everyone. I am bored out of my freaking mind right now!!!
As for the other one, which I use for most of my online stuff, like Gaiaonline and things like that has finally been sent to the shop. Turns out that the problem is a faulty logic board which is good, because I was afraid I would loose all my data on the hard drive had that been the problem. In any case, I feel like its been so long since I have been able to get serious about a roleplay on Gaia, since I can't really do everything on this computer. (Including spell check, as you could probably tell from my comipo comics.) I am even starting to miss sifting through thousands of bad roleplays with no good ones in sight! I feel horrible for my disappearance on Gaia, which this time was not due to loss of interest in the RPs I was in, but rather due to my computers not cooperating. And its always during the downtime that I get inspired to run them again.
Happy New Years everyone. I am bored out of my freaking mind right now!!!
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PDF Upload Test Conclusion
3 min read
As Chapter 3 of The Orison draws closer to completion, I decided to give a try at uploading the entire chapter 2 in PDF format to gauge the quality of the entire chapter as a single file. (I would have done chapter 1, but its missing its final pages on account of the fact that Comipo only allows 32 pages per chapter, and Chapter 1 extended to about 35 pages which were never saved, but luckily uploaded onto D/A before they were deleted.) Naturally this came with a large downgrade in quality, but I must confess, I did love seamlessly reading through it without having to click links to flip through the pages. I realize how much easier the story flows that way. So in conclusion, I think I have decided what I am going to do.
Conclusion:
Both! I imagine it gets kinda annoying when I upload 20+ pages at a time into the Comipo group, so what I will be doing is uploading the low quality PDF and submitting it to the group. to keep my mess contained in its own pile. Meanwhile the high quality individual images will still be uploaded (And likely have links provided to them in the PDF descriptions) into the usual folder for The Orison. This will be here for people who don't want to count the pixels in each page, and don't mind flipping through the pages individually via links.
Rambling:
So yeah, I will be trying this when Chapter 3 is uploaded. And on the subject about Chapter 3, I really like how it's coming. In my mind, it is a pretty large step up in terms of lessons learned in how to use Comipo, and the characters too are beginning to deepen. I have had the chance to foreshadow some of the individual story arks, and introduce a few of the planned characters. I never fully plan where each chapter is going to end, merely develop a vague sense of where I want it to end. And its always fun to surprise myself when I learn new things about my own characters, or come up with on the spot explanations which really deepen the story concept, even though that may be the reason I write myself into so many writer's blocks. But that's just the kinda writer I am, and I feel like I'm really in my groove with this chapter.
Conclusion:
Both! I imagine it gets kinda annoying when I upload 20+ pages at a time into the Comipo group, so what I will be doing is uploading the low quality PDF and submitting it to the group. to keep my mess contained in its own pile. Meanwhile the high quality individual images will still be uploaded (And likely have links provided to them in the PDF descriptions) into the usual folder for The Orison. This will be here for people who don't want to count the pixels in each page, and don't mind flipping through the pages individually via links.
Rambling:
So yeah, I will be trying this when Chapter 3 is uploaded. And on the subject about Chapter 3, I really like how it's coming. In my mind, it is a pretty large step up in terms of lessons learned in how to use Comipo, and the characters too are beginning to deepen. I have had the chance to foreshadow some of the individual story arks, and introduce a few of the planned characters. I never fully plan where each chapter is going to end, merely develop a vague sense of where I want it to end. And its always fun to surprise myself when I learn new things about my own characters, or come up with on the spot explanations which really deepen the story concept, even though that may be the reason I write myself into so many writer's blocks. But that's just the kinda writer I am, and I feel like I'm really in my groove with this chapter.
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Stuff
2 min read
Okay, there are two major topics I would like to cover here. One being that my main laptop just died and I need to get it repaired. So if you know me on Gaia online and have been wondering where I have gone, its not that I have abandoned you guys, its more like this computer sucks for using Gaia and stuff. But in my boredome, I have returned my attention to The Orison.
Now to explain my situation of why you haven't seen the second issue, its also not that I have abandoned the story, but rather I hit hardcore writer's block and just didn't know what story I wanted to tell. Add to that, the limited resources of Comipo (I'm still using the japanese version, so I suppose I am less limited than the english version users) make the supernatural folklore that the original story was based on less achievable. But that just means I will likely tweek it and make it less focused on specific yokai creatures and more on unnamed spirits. I did however never intend for my hiatus to be so long. But its time to catch up on the comipo scene as well, and see what other people have been posting.
Now to explain my situation of why you haven't seen the second issue, its also not that I have abandoned the story, but rather I hit hardcore writer's block and just didn't know what story I wanted to tell. Add to that, the limited resources of Comipo (I'm still using the japanese version, so I suppose I am less limited than the english version users) make the supernatural folklore that the original story was based on less achievable. But that just means I will likely tweek it and make it less focused on specific yokai creatures and more on unnamed spirits. I did however never intend for my hiatus to be so long. But its time to catch up on the comipo scene as well, and see what other people have been posting.
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Comipo and it's Pioneers
4 min read
I was a bit surprised at how quickly I got feedback thanks to uploading all 33 images in rapid fire. Being someone who rarely ever uploads anything onto DA and instead lurks around what others are posting, it was a pretty cool feeling getting four subscribers and 8 favorites (Minus every single page favorite by one of my Gaian buddies). Much less all of this in about a single hour.
A quick thank you to everyone who took interest in the first chapter and a special thanks to Dragoshi1 who helped me a lot when I needed it. For those of you who don't know him, Dragoshi is pretty much a pioneer when it came to Comipo. While I was sitting there tapping my fingers waiting for the english release, he was already toiling away at his web comic series "Figured It Out" with just the japanese trial version. Now I am still sort of waiting for the english version, but we both own the full japanese version so the wait is no longer killing me. I may not know what everything says, but I do know my way around the program quite well now, as it is fairly intuitive once you figure out what does what. Dragoshi set a standard which I wanted to meet for the first chapter.
More about the subject of Comipo itself, its basically a manga making software that uses 3-D models. Some may argue that its sort of like cheating, but as I spent 3 years of my life trying to learn how to draw and getting nowhere, I prefer not to look at the program for its artistic views and rather how it could be used to tell a story. I am an author, not an artist. I probably will never commercially sell anything I put out using the program, but what this program means to a writer who has always wanted to get into the manga making scene is the ability to get it down so that if I do find an artist who is willing to work with me in bringing the characters and stories in my head to life, I have a visual reference to show said artist without being misinterpreted. And WITH my un-obscure idea that may have been skewed if I had just used my scatter brained thoughts to describe it to them in person, the artist can use that to suggest his or her own ideas, stories, and characters to augment my own ideas. It takes out a lot of the back and forth "No, I visualized it more like this" from working with people.
Outside of this, Comipo isn't just a program for story telling. As Dragoshi demonstrated here: fav.me/d421xbe it doesn't have to be used for just anime stuff. You can import your own models and even 2D drawings while using Comipo just for panels and word bubbles. (More than half of the images used in Chapter 1 are an example of just dragging an image from a folder into the panel, dropping it, and layering it behind the models.)
Another project I was working on was using the character models I designed in Comipo for The Orison and using them for sprites to make a visual novel with using RPG Maker VX. If you are on the VX community site, then you could probably be looking forward to that being announced pretty soon as well.
Comipo will be out in english this August, but I wouldn't hold that to me. After all, the reason I gave up on the english version in the first place was that two set release dates had passed by. But judging by the fact that they actually had an english video and have done some stuff on Comipo.biz, then I think we could actually expect it pretty soon.
A quick thank you to everyone who took interest in the first chapter and a special thanks to Dragoshi1 who helped me a lot when I needed it. For those of you who don't know him, Dragoshi is pretty much a pioneer when it came to Comipo. While I was sitting there tapping my fingers waiting for the english release, he was already toiling away at his web comic series "Figured It Out" with just the japanese trial version. Now I am still sort of waiting for the english version, but we both own the full japanese version so the wait is no longer killing me. I may not know what everything says, but I do know my way around the program quite well now, as it is fairly intuitive once you figure out what does what. Dragoshi set a standard which I wanted to meet for the first chapter.
More about the subject of Comipo itself, its basically a manga making software that uses 3-D models. Some may argue that its sort of like cheating, but as I spent 3 years of my life trying to learn how to draw and getting nowhere, I prefer not to look at the program for its artistic views and rather how it could be used to tell a story. I am an author, not an artist. I probably will never commercially sell anything I put out using the program, but what this program means to a writer who has always wanted to get into the manga making scene is the ability to get it down so that if I do find an artist who is willing to work with me in bringing the characters and stories in my head to life, I have a visual reference to show said artist without being misinterpreted. And WITH my un-obscure idea that may have been skewed if I had just used my scatter brained thoughts to describe it to them in person, the artist can use that to suggest his or her own ideas, stories, and characters to augment my own ideas. It takes out a lot of the back and forth "No, I visualized it more like this" from working with people.
Outside of this, Comipo isn't just a program for story telling. As Dragoshi demonstrated here: fav.me/d421xbe it doesn't have to be used for just anime stuff. You can import your own models and even 2D drawings while using Comipo just for panels and word bubbles. (More than half of the images used in Chapter 1 are an example of just dragging an image from a folder into the panel, dropping it, and layering it behind the models.)
Another project I was working on was using the character models I designed in Comipo for The Orison and using them for sprites to make a visual novel with using RPG Maker VX. If you are on the VX community site, then you could probably be looking forward to that being announced pretty soon as well.
Comipo will be out in english this August, but I wouldn't hold that to me. After all, the reason I gave up on the english version in the first place was that two set release dates had passed by. But judging by the fact that they actually had an english video and have done some stuff on Comipo.biz, then I think we could actually expect it pretty soon.
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Phobia quiz (Stolen from Jasu)
5 min read
--Stole this Quiz from Kittytheivery's journal
A
[ ] Achluophobia - Fear of darkness.
[ ] Acrophobia - Fear of heights.
[ ] Agliophobia - Fear of pain.
[ ] Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or crowds.
[ ] Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
[ ] Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
[ ] Androphobia - Fear of men.
[ ] Anginophobia - Fear of angina or choking.
[ ] Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers.
[ ] Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
[ ] Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched.
[ ]Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders
[ ] Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
[ ] Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.
[ ] Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
[ ] Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
[ ] Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.
[ ] Autophobia - Fear of being alone.
Total so far: 0
B
[ ] Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.
[ ] Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
[ ] Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep.
[ ] Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians.
[ ] Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
[ ] Botanophobia - Fear of plants.
Total so far: 0
C
[ ] Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
[ ] Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed publicly.
[x] Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors. (Not all mirrors, but for some reason I get a seriously negative vibe around antique mirrors)
[ ] Chionophobia - Fear of snow.
[ ] Chromophobia - Fear of colors.
[ ] Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks.
[ ] Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
[x] Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
[ ] Cyberphobia - Fear of computers.
[ ] Cynophobia - Fear of dogs.
Total so far: 2
D
[ ] Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
[ ] Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.
[ ] Domatophobia - Fear of houses.
[ ] tychiphobia – fear of accidents.
Total so far: 2
E
[ ] Ecophobia - Fear of the home.
[ ] Elurophobia - Fear of cats.
[ ] Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers.
[ ] Equinophobia - Fear of horses.
Total so far: 2
G
[ ] Gophobia - Fear of marriage.
[ ] Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
[ ] Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public.
[ ] Gynophobia - Fear of women.
Total so far: 2
H
[ ] Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
[ ] Hemophobia - Fear of blood.
[ ] Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.
[ ] Hydrophobia - Fear of water.
Total so far: 2
I
[ ] Itrophobia - Fear of doctors.
[] Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
Total so far: 2
K
[ ] Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.
Total so far: 2
L
[ ] Lekophobia - Fear of the color white.
[ ] Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
[ ] Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth.
Total so far: 2
M
[ ] Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.
[ ] Melanophobia - Fear of the color black.
[ ] Microphobia - Fear of small things.
[ ] Mysophobia - Fear of dirt and germs.
Total so far: 2
N
[ ] Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things.
[ ] Noctiphobia - Fear of the night.
[ ] Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals.
Total so far: 2
O
[ ] Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight
[ ] Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
[ ] Ombrophobia - Fear of rain.
[ ] Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes.
[ ] Ornithophobia - Fear of birds.
Total so far: 2
P
[ ] Papyrophobia - Fear of paper.
[ ] Pathophobia - Fear of disease.
[ ] Pedophobia - Fear of children.
[ ] Philophobia - Fear of love.
[ ] Phobophobia - Fear of being afraid.
[ ] Podophobia - Fear of feet.
[ ] Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple.
[ ] Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns.
[ ] Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying.
[ ] Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.
Total so far: 2
S
[ ] Scolionophobia - Fear of school.
[ ] Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.
[ ] Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation.
[ ] Somniphobia - Fear of sleep.
Total so far: 2
T
[ ] Tachophobia - Fear of speed.
[ ] Technophobia - Fear of technology.
[ ] Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder.
[ ] Trypanophobia - Fear of injections.
Total so far: 2
V-Z
[ ] Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.
[ ] Verminophobia - Fear of germs.
[ ] Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft.
[ ] Xenophobia - Fear of strangers
[ ] Zoophobia - Fear of animals
Total : 2
Well, other than clowns and mirrors, I'm a pretty fearless guy...
A
[ ] Achluophobia - Fear of darkness.
[ ] Acrophobia - Fear of heights.
[ ] Agliophobia - Fear of pain.
[ ] Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or crowds.
[ ] Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
[ ] Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
[ ] Androphobia - Fear of men.
[ ] Anginophobia - Fear of angina or choking.
[ ] Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers.
[ ] Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
[ ] Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched.
[ ]Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders
[ ] Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
[ ] Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.
[ ] Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
[ ] Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
[ ] Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.
[ ] Autophobia - Fear of being alone.
Total so far: 0
B
[ ] Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.
[ ] Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
[ ] Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep.
[ ] Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians.
[ ] Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
[ ] Botanophobia - Fear of plants.
Total so far: 0
C
[ ] Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
[ ] Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed publicly.
[x] Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors. (Not all mirrors, but for some reason I get a seriously negative vibe around antique mirrors)
[ ] Chionophobia - Fear of snow.
[ ] Chromophobia - Fear of colors.
[ ] Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks.
[ ] Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
[x] Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
[ ] Cyberphobia - Fear of computers.
[ ] Cynophobia - Fear of dogs.
Total so far: 2
D
[ ] Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
[ ] Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.
[ ] Domatophobia - Fear of houses.
[ ] tychiphobia – fear of accidents.
Total so far: 2
E
[ ] Ecophobia - Fear of the home.
[ ] Elurophobia - Fear of cats.
[ ] Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers.
[ ] Equinophobia - Fear of horses.
Total so far: 2
G
[ ] Gophobia - Fear of marriage.
[ ] Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
[ ] Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public.
[ ] Gynophobia - Fear of women.
Total so far: 2
H
[ ] Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
[ ] Hemophobia - Fear of blood.
[ ] Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.
[ ] Hydrophobia - Fear of water.
Total so far: 2
I
[ ] Itrophobia - Fear of doctors.
[] Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
Total so far: 2
K
[ ] Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.
Total so far: 2
L
[ ] Lekophobia - Fear of the color white.
[ ] Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
[ ] Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth.
Total so far: 2
M
[ ] Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.
[ ] Melanophobia - Fear of the color black.
[ ] Microphobia - Fear of small things.
[ ] Mysophobia - Fear of dirt and germs.
Total so far: 2
N
[ ] Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things.
[ ] Noctiphobia - Fear of the night.
[ ] Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals.
Total so far: 2
O
[ ] Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight
[ ] Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
[ ] Ombrophobia - Fear of rain.
[ ] Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes.
[ ] Ornithophobia - Fear of birds.
Total so far: 2
P
[ ] Papyrophobia - Fear of paper.
[ ] Pathophobia - Fear of disease.
[ ] Pedophobia - Fear of children.
[ ] Philophobia - Fear of love.
[ ] Phobophobia - Fear of being afraid.
[ ] Podophobia - Fear of feet.
[ ] Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple.
[ ] Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns.
[ ] Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying.
[ ] Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.
Total so far: 2
S
[ ] Scolionophobia - Fear of school.
[ ] Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.
[ ] Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation.
[ ] Somniphobia - Fear of sleep.
Total so far: 2
T
[ ] Tachophobia - Fear of speed.
[ ] Technophobia - Fear of technology.
[ ] Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder.
[ ] Trypanophobia - Fear of injections.
Total so far: 2
V-Z
[ ] Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.
[ ] Verminophobia - Fear of germs.
[ ] Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft.
[ ] Xenophobia - Fear of strangers
[ ] Zoophobia - Fear of animals
Total : 2
Well, other than clowns and mirrors, I'm a pretty fearless guy...
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