Therum wrote another story, titled Everything Went Numb.
It has a bad opening line, but the rest is pretty good. Well, maybe. I honestly don’t know what the heck I just read. Maybe you can go figure it out.
Somehow, I stumbled across BrikWars! today, and yeah, it looks fun/cool, but WOW, look at that art!
The creator of the game, Mike Rayhawk is also apparently an artist, and a pretty good one, at that. His website, with lots of artsy stuff is here: http://www.mikerayhawk.com/ Go look!
Some of my favorites are:
BrikWars! - As the url says, it’s epic. Castles, spaceships, motorcycles, oh my!
The Deadly Spaceman - Featuring the star of the previous one, I just really like the style of this. It has a watercolor pencil feel to it.
Mars Backgrounds - Not one image, but I do like desolate landscapes.
Got a Twitter the other day. Well, started using it the other day. 
http://twitter.com/blandsauce
Today’s song is Purple Haze. I think it’s a good basis for the magenta area.
I just finished The Gunslinger yesterday, and I’m not sure how I feel about it. The plot and setting is something I theoretically should have really liked, but at times it just got too “trippy”. Another problem I had with it is it didn’t have a very satisfying ending; it ends with too many questions and just doesn’t stand well on its own. Which, I suppose isn’t such a terrible thing, being part of a series, but it still bothers me.
The other day, I had some dream about a plant that ate people, but I was the plant. It led me to an idea for a story.
I was thinking some sort of sentient entity (a ghost, spirit, disembodied mind) that lives in a house and absorbs minds into its own. The story would be written from the thing’s point of view, and whenever a new mind is absorbed, the new mind is reflected in the writing, through the writing/speaking style and feelings/opinions of the thing. I’m not sure what kind of plot would work well except for the cliched “people got to a big mansion for he weekend, they die 1-by-1, and for some reason can’t just escape”. An idea for it is to have it split up into the thing’s point of view and the point of view of a reporter or just a person involved that has a journal. And then they’re the last ones to be absorbed, as evidenced by some writing quirk of theirs suddenly showing up in the thing’s narrative.
Something somewhat important, I think, is to get the thing’s vibe right. My tentative thoughts right now are to have it sympathetic, and not malicious. It really thinks that by taking people’s minds, it’s helping them. Or not. I’ll have to think about this more later.
Since I haven’t posted for a bit, you get two songs: Peter Gunn and Paranoid. There was another but I’ve forgotten what.
Don’t have much to say today, but I thought I’d put out that on Lost, I think Ms. Hawking is Daniel’s mother. In fact, I though this back when I saw her the last episode. Before Ben showed up, I thought it was Desmond coming to see her, and it was just “Daniel’s mom”, as I didn’t remember her from before. It also just makes sense.
Today’s song is Good Day Sunshine.
The other day, after seeing an argument in TH chat on the definition of an “Ultra Rare”, and looking back on previous IRC arguments I’ve had, I had an inspiration.
Threaded chat.
I’m not sure how much use there would be for it, but I think I myself would find it useful for bainstorming. I decided to do a search and see if it’s been done already, and found this demo. It’s pretty close to what I envision this working, but has a different purpose. I also want to be able to foce new threads whenever I feel they’re needed, instead of just when interruptions occur. And then make the whole thing daggable and collapsable and all that jazz.
And then, after reading Therum’s short story, Twilight at Carbon Lake, I was struck again with inspiration.
Threaded stories.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, CYOA stories. But I mean something full of footnotes and subfootnotes and subpostfootnotes, etc. It would probably have to be done in an interactive format, like a website. But what I have in mind is something simple, like “He had a weird day.” and then have a few asterisks that you can click, and those footnotes have asterisks as well. For example, the asterisk after “He” would go to a footnote that has his name, like “John Smith”, and the asterisk after “John” would have more detail on him, and the one after “Smith” might give info on his family. And then some things can be traditional encyclopedic or dictionary entries (with foonotes in them, as well). Not sure if it would be enjoyable, though, with all the backtracking it’d need.
Today’s song is “Achilles Last Stand“.
So, I was reading Therum’s blog, and realized I have stuff to say too. But I don’t know what really. I think I’m a lot better with more of a dialogue setting. I need feedback. Not necessarily feedback for the ideas I’m trying to put aross, but how I present them. So, I’m going to try to make more of an effort to post stuff here so it’s not a complete waste of megabytes. Or maybe it’ll be more of a waste. Or the same level of waste, but more megabytes. I think I’m going to add a couple tags, too. “Personal” and “Blandsauce”. “Personal” being me whining about real life, “Blandsauce” introducing and dicussing projects. Maybe something like “Idea”, too, for my theoretical stuff that I’ll probably never get around to (but ask me before you try to steal them). Mostly story plots and such. And then maybe another tag like “Ramblings” or “Musings” for “Drive on a parkway; pak on a driveway” type stuff, because that’s not really “Personal”. Hmm, and I need something for complaining about game design. I was hoping I could get away with just two overarching ones.
Anyways, comments other than the linkspam I’ve been getting would be good. Of course, nobody’ll read this until I get known some other way, and then they’ll use what I say here against me somehow. That’s the way of the world.
Also, need a new theme.
Finished this up recently, thought I’d post about it.
It makes a random inkblot for his face every time you see it. (If it’s not cached, that is.)
Made with PHP and the GD library.
Took me the longest time to get the inkblots looking good, and I’m still not completely happy. My first version had spots looping over themselves and nasty sharp points. I might try turning the inkblot generator into a Identicon-like thing.