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Magical Art? ~ by Jamie Dykstra ~ 10/15/08
Lately, I've been dabbling with some concept art, part of which is a large area of stonework making up the background. A few days after I started on it, a contractor knocked on our door, said he was moving away and had some left over flagstones to clear out. He gave us a really good price on them and offered to put them in himself. Well, there was a section that did need some work done and it was a great deal, so we took him up on it. As I watched him work, I thought, "Wow, this is really ironic: I'm painting a picture of a stone floor while this guy is putting in a real one." Coincidence? Maybe. I think I'll draw a million dollar check from Ed McMahon for my next project.
Transporting Crabby ~ by Jamie Dykstra ~ 10/2/08
So on the news they're featuring this "hitchhiking crab" that snagged a free ride on the top of a large jellyfish. Some people, including me, are wondering how it got there. But more, I'm wondering why it got there. The news people say it was trying to find cheap transportation across the ocean, but I don't buy it. I think it was trying to find Nem...
April Fools Brings New Diablo 3 Class 'Unveil'2009-10-14Blizzard today--April 1--announced the Archivist, Diablo 3's newest "player class."
Hailing from the dark and dingy studies of Westmarch, the bedraggled Archivist fights not only to save Sanctuary's future but to preserve its past.
Observing the Archivist's powerful Lorenado spell--which chokes enemies with a swirling flurry of pages--we cannot help but recall former World of Warcraft director Jeffrey Kaplan's remarks at the Game Developers Conference that "we need to stop writing a fucking book in our game, because nobody wants to read it."Please install Flash to view this Shackvideo var s1 = new SWFObject('/extras/flow4/player.swf','player','480','272','9');s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');s1.addParam('wmode', 'transparent...
Could South Dakota Proposal Tax Downloadable Content?2009-10-12Could that Bioshock theme pack you purchased on Xbox Live be taxable? What about that World of Warcraft gold you surreptitiously bought from an overseas farming operation?
Good questions. A proposal before the South Dakota legislature could make such downloadable items subject to the same state sales tax that is levied on tangible goods. HB 1017 calls for:...a tax at the same rate as that imposed upon sales of tangible personal property in this state upon the gross receipts of all sales, leases, or rentals of any product transferred electronically.
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