Kree’s Den

Here’s an update on the stuff I’ve been doing lately (sorry about the lateness Dylan )

The Sudnay before last I went to the Supanova expo at the Brisbane RNA grounds. All the people with fancy game and anime-related tshirts made me feel really boring by comparison. I almost got lost trying to find my way there, but luckily I spotted some cosplayers. God bless cosplayers. I was originally going to get in for free as a voluteer, but stupid gmail put the email I needed into the spam folder so I ended up paying $20 to get in. I spent most of my time volunteering anyway because I felt like it anyway. Next time I go to a game/anime convention I should bring actual money.

I probably should have mentioned sooner that April 9th (last Wednesday) was my birthday. I guess I’m just scatterbrained. I had a birthday party on the weekend and invited some friends around Brisbane. My parents came up to visit and brought their projector (which, by the way, is still here and Carrie has been playing Metroid on it ) Unfortunately a bunch of people couldn’t come so it was just Myth/Jen and one of my friends who lives next door to me. Still, we had a good time We played some Magic the Gathering,
sung to Singstar, and watched Myth’s DVD of Happy Feet. We also ate a lot of cake and snacks

As for presents, Rosheen (Carrie’s girlfriend, our new flatmate) gave me a DVD of “Tales from Earthsea“. I’m waiting for a good time to watch it, since it’s a Studio Ghibli movie and it should be good. Carrie bought me a little plasmaball. It seems to eat up batteries so I should get an adapter for it. I also used a gift card to get a $20 iTunes card and buy Peggle for my iPod. It’s the most awesome game for the iPod ever

Another awesome present was this huge new 22 inch widescreen LCD my Dad gave me It’s 1680×1050 resolution. Sitting it next to my old LCD it’s like having an extra 1.5 monitors I’m overwhelmed by the amount of screen real estate I now have. I don’t even know what to use as a wallpaper XD

I thought I’d better update about what I’ve been doing lately.

First of all, I’ve been hooked on playing flash games on Kongregate. The site adds to the games by offering “Badges” and a point/level system. I’ve worked my way up to Level 5 at the moment Submachine is a fun series of games even without Badges.

It’s like the Xbox Live of online flash games, so to speak. I’ve certainly played some of the games longer than I would have normally just to get a few extra points And apparently they recentally added Cards, which can be collected through weekly challenges, and are for an upcoming collectable card game they have in the works.

I also started using Twitter for some reason. One day I just randomly signed up for it. I’ve sporadically added a few things here and there, but I’m not quite sure what to do with it.

If you have an account at either of these two, let me know and I’ll add you to my list

Yeah I know the layout changed again, I’m going to see if I can customize Comicpress to make a nice site layout with a space for comics.

Edit: I’m fickle, Comicpress doesn’t seem to suit me that much at the moment (especially with a lack of actual comic material), so I’m switching back to the previous layout. Hopefully I’ll get my butt into gear and fix up the previous theme I was working on…

I’ve been updating my wordpress and plugins, and I’ve decided to start using Akismet and Bad Behavior plugins to stop spam. If you find yourself being blocked or such please let me know because I absolutely hate false positives.

On the up side I’ve decided to re-activate trackbacks, here’s hoping that these plugins will stop all those useless spam trackbacks from appearing.

Also, I’ve been thinking about changing the theme to something else instead of this half-finished theme, so don’t be surprised if everything looks different all of a sudden.

Just messing around with Wordpress to try and get things working better.

BTW, I could seriously use tutorials for drawing pixel art background scenes.