How Time Flies

Wow, it's already February 2010! Things have been rolling right along, haven't they? Of course, this month, being Black History Month, you get wonderful events like the opening of the International Civil Rights Museum here in Greensboro, NC. After so many years of waiting to see the doors open, it's great to finally see that dream come true. I remember when they first announced it, I talked with News and Record, the city paper, about what I thought about such a place opening here in the city. Sadly I couldn't be there for the grand opening on February 1, but I did watch it live on TV.

However, many things have happened to lead up to this month, obviously. After all, February doesn't just call out of the sky. The end of last year I was caught up in a whirlwind of activity preparing for Ichiban Con. I had an amazing time and met some equally amazing people. However, it was still a lot of hard work just the same. Though I didn't make an amazing profit at the con, the experience of going to my first con as an artist and not just another con attendee was something I'll always treasure.

Sadly, after IchibanCon, I came down with a sinus infection, and that put me out of commission for a good week or so. After winding back into gear from that, I've been an art-producing machine. Plus, we got 2 nice snow falls: a couple inches just after my birthday and one really huge batch of snow last Friday which of course makes Winter all the more special for me despite my horrible distaste for the cold. Those of you that have been following me on Deviant Art or through my web site itself have probably noticed I posted several times the usual amount of art last night. Things have been rocking around here, and I don't plan to stop the party any time soon.

Though, it's in May, I have Animazement to look forward. So far it doesn't look like I'll have an artist table after all, but I'll certainly have several awesome pieces in the art show. I only ever like posting originals in art shows, so that'll be a blast for whomever gets them.

In the meantime, BioShock 2 is coming out next Wednesday night, and the Game Stop up the street from my house is hosting a midnight release party. I got the Limited Edition copy of the game, and I can hardly wait. I'll try to keep you posted on everything then. I'm off to continue replaying through BioShock and get some more artwork done.

Forgot to Share a bit of Fun

Put this up a couple days ago.

Thought I'd share the Engineer gentleman's duel.

How things are truly solved out on the battlefield!




Also: Had to get my dork on a bit today....

As much of a Captain American fan I am, I had to get it, also because if I had to pick sides, this would be where I stand. That, and it looks so retro.

Well I'll be... The folks at Valve are always at it.

Of course, just when I have to remove the Windows partition from my Mac, there's posts on the Team Fortress 2 Blog about future updates. Something called the 'Guard Dog'.



Now, I've heard some folks thinking it's a new class which I think would be pretty cute. Animals in the service are extremely important. However, After much Engineer-style cursing, ranting, and pondering I've come to a decision that I really don't think they'd make a new class without finishing work on the updates for the existing ones.

Game design wise, there's no reason to do something like that when there are so many gaps in the other classes that haven't gotten updates yet. (CoughcoughEngineercoughcough) These classes are currently very underpowered and are easily steam rolled by a lot of the changes made to the classes that have gotten some weapon updates.

Now, personally, I think it's a weapon, plain and simple. It's got to something like the Razor Back for the Sniper. Now, if I was going to assign it to any class, it would be the Engineer - A proximity alarm that would replace something like the teleporter. Or maybe a Proximity/land mine for the Demoman or Solider to replace the Sticky Bomb or rocket launcher.

After all it's a patent for something. I don't think Saxton Hale would need review to patent a new class. The Announcer, maybe, but not Saxton Hale.