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So I have managed to get a job and so I do declare that it is time for a new beginning. I have been logging a few hours into Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 of recent times in prep for Mass Effect 3. I am utterly gobsmacked over how different the games are from how I remembered them. Shows how much I cared.
Anyhow, I will be revisiting some reviews as well as writing some new ones. I also have some comics ready for uploading, but with the hard drive from the fried laptop finally restored I have been far too entertained with… lost stuff. Lost stuff that was in the hard drive.
I thought I would take some time into describing my new job; first that is. I am now a barman and trainee cook (not so much chef because I just reheat pre-cooked meals) in a traditional English pub close to where I live. My job consists mostly of standing behind the bar, paying an unnatural amount of attention on the two, separated, rooms for costumers hoping to get a drink.
I have had few problems yet but my discomfort around intoxicated people is not helping. Regardless, the job is enjoyable enough. I seem to have a preference for working in the kitchen, but I am not so adapt that I can simply take an order and just do it. Sad am I.
I wish myself luck on this little adventure. I have been given three months to show whether or not this is a job for me. We will see then.
Woop woop, I’ve uploaded five comics now. I will continue to upload them in this fashion: batch releases with added commentary for the context. For now I will stick to only ink drawings with relatively little editing on Photoshop. I also won’t be adding any watermarks, copyright stickers or sh-t like that. Reason being: I do not own the characters I depict (other than my persona) and so I do not wish to stake claim to it beyond the fact that it is on my blog or DeviantArt account. Then again… if I post it on DeviantArt I think they will extend that watermark thingie and work out just the same. That does make things a little easier.
Enjoy the little that has been added and I hope some of you will stick around until the end of time to see how this blog develops. Should be interesting.
I will also be uploading some of my photography work as stuff that I did in school. But I will most likely upload those on DeviantArt as well. You will find my DeviantArt profile here. I’m not that active on DeviantArt either, but I’ve already got some work up there. They were done using Paint! 
Hello there, to whomever actually reads this dead blog any more. I would like to apologise for my unofficial, and premature hiatus that struck in before I even launched 5 comics.
So here’s the deal: I am an unemployed 20-year-old who has spent my whole life relying on coasting as a means to progress. Not the most productive method to achieve one’s goals, but considering how little pressure I felt in school from an educational point of view, it should be fairly obvious that I would not grow up to be the most hard working member of society. Then came a different time. After I finished school I became a benefit collector who only had a Double Merit in BTEC National Certificate in Arts and Design. And the jobs I looked for were mainly porter jobs and other things I was familiar with growing up. This, again, didn’t exactly change anything; no improvement there.
Now let’s look at this from your point of view: Here is this one guy with 1 comic and one drawing on an online blog who barely even writes in it. Sometimes updates are weeks, or months, apart. He talks about how he wants to draw a webcomic but falls short of actually doing so. No reason to stick around; next blog, here I come.
Fair enough.
I just uploaded my latest review, which is on the JRPG ‘Infinite Undiscovery’. Read that one here, or just click the Soapbox hyperlink on the top-left corner. So that is just a little update but not much more.
Anyways; back to me. I have just finished a work placement at a hotel here in England and that has added a little bit more to my CV. I’ve also been offered to speak with a friend of my Mum’s who apparently knows some people within that industry. Sounds pretty sweet! That does not stop the fact that I will have to call for a rapid reclaim on my jobseekers allowance and send my CV to local hotels in hopes of getting a job. But the whole looking for a job is so hard for me who has problem committing to my own decisions when they relate directly to me. Offer me £20000 a year working in a pub and I will be struggling to get over the fact that I would work for the money, for myself; and by me getting that job, someone else who really wants that job won’t get it. I get like that sometimes.
Working for free or spontaneously feels a lot easier than looking for an offer; maybe some will agree. Anyway, what I wanted to come to is that I have a couple of comics to upload now and I shall take the time to do so before the end of this week (ha ha, as if).
All in all, I see myself having more time on my hand than I thought I did. Just not that much time on a computer. Hell, even using the computer now took me a day or so in waiting and many hours today. What else do I do? Drawing that webcomic sounds like a good idea, right? Well, let’s just see.
A few days has now passed since the alleged rapture would occur – and I’m still breathing on steady ground – and I was so excited to lob up some more of my comics (these were for Mass Effect for those who were wondering). However, I found myself out of luck as no less than 2 weeks ago, I spilled some mother f–king tea all over my laptop and fried the mother f–ker to oblivion.
This is no ordinary laptop either. This was an Acer laptop that I, and my brother together, bought from our school (which had a technology enthusiastic school principle — our dear headmaster). This Acer laptop came with a beautiful 2 years guarantee, should it break it would be swiftly repaired or replaced. This was the first time I had ever owned a computer good enough to run computer games smoothly, and I vowed to never allow anything bad to happen to it. After burning though countless of headphones, external keyboards, mouses and so on, that wonderful Acer laptop always persevered and lived through all hardships. The laptop’s story is almost quite sad and sentimental.
That laptop was brand new, a thing of beauty – my first experience with the Windows XP. First to come off was the colours on the stickers, then game the film on the plastic frame; soon the touch pad’s shine began to dull down, losing its soft surface, then the space button shine faded too. The computer still lived on, it continued to serve me dutifully. Then the start-up time slowed down and accessing files and documents, accessing Internet and programs too. The computer lived on. Then came the first blue screen. By now the computer was 3 years old and had served us dutifully. After a quick and decisive measure to prolong our laptops’ life-span, me and my brother initiated a campaign of regular, monthly de-fragmentations and weekly virus scans. It seemed like the laptop regained some of its original strength and began serving us better than before. It was almost magical to have a computer that didn’t simply decay to time and expectations. This laptop had been given much love and patience, for buying a new computer, to us, seemed like an almost alien concept.
4 years of service and the computer would still serve well. Never in this time had this Acer laptop needed replacement and it was still strong enough to handle anything we wanted to throw at it. Did I mention how many times that sucker had fallen onto the floor? Did I mention how it was left on for says on end? Did I mention that it is a bloody miracle that the laptop was still alive? And now a stupid cup of PG Tips tea destroys it… the world is just not a fair place. Feels bad, man.
To start it all, I find it funny how I managed to keep writing the month as the fifth in the past three updates without noticing. I have corrected that now.
I still have not found a solution to my little problem with uploading my webcomic. I won’t blame ComicPress for any inaccessibility since this little set-back is most likely due to my own lack of fluency with this system. Then again, I don’t mind having to post batch releases for my webcomic anyway – that’s kind of how HiImDaisy does it. In case you have never heard of the aforementioned webcomic, you should totally check ‘em out!
It was from HiImDaisy my inspiration and motivation to start my own webcomic sprung from anyhow. In fact the concept, as a whole, was more or less ‘ripped’ from there if that word is applicable now. Main difference, however, is that my webcomic makes parody of Western games, HiImDaisy does Japanese ones. It dawns on me now that I forgot to add HiImDaisy to my Sqoad Reads list.
To speak of my own webcomic further (called Sqoad Comics mind you) I am currently working on Dead Space – which you’ve likely seen if you’re reading this. I will upload some doodles I made for Jade Empire when I have the time, so that I might share my experience of the game. I am also working on Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins.
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