RoBoCrois

I haven't done much of anything on here in awhile... Guess I should fix that. It's not for lack of trying, I've just been kind of separated from the internet where I live. That seems to be a theme for me in the last year and counting; isolation. No matter what I do, I seem to be trying to exile myself from anything that cares about me, be it my family or even my closest friends. I even went so far as to pose as something I'm not to creep out someone who cares about me, and I regret it so much. But it's probably too late now, I've left the ball in her court and promptly went home to pout like a child... Maybe I'm just broken that way?... Rad

Finally finished the Mass Effect Trilogy (I can only imagine what it was like without the extended ending), but wow that's how a story in a video game should be done. I particularly like the fact that the end isn't decided by defeating the "end boss", but rather simply a choice made by you as the player. And it's not a simple choice either. Damn good game. I can't even think of the last time I gave any particular care for what happened to any of the characters in a video game I'd played, and I'll admit to not being terribly choked up by the outcome of either Ashley or Kaiden in the first game of the series. But then you hit the second game, a

So it isn't even Christmas yet and I've already been given an awesome present from all of the California family, a 22" HD Cintiq from Wacom. I've got to say it wasn't at all what I was expecting, for starters it truly is huge-gantic (which is a plus in that I can never piss about not having a big enough workable area ever again). Originally I thought it would be just sort of a stand alone pen tablet, with maybe a small amount of internal memory storage which would enable an artist to work from a work space separate from the desktop and then plug it in after you're done to save/upload your work. So with the unboxing done, it comes time to plug