Merchandising! Merchandising!
Before I begin, I have to gripe about how much work went into this week's scary pic. At first, when
I saw the source pic, I thought to myself, perfect! Same scale, same angle, about the same hair length!
It was only later I noticed that one had much longer hair, which was completely blocking out one shoulder
pad. Long story short, 10% of this entire image was drawn by me, by hand, one pixel at a time. Now that
that's off my chest...
It's time to start the Merchandising! That link there leads to a bunch of shirts and mouse pads and coffee mugs and such with Slime World renders and such on'em. As I write this, the only ones on there are a couple of interesting little renders made by the person who set this up for me. Later on, like, by the time most of you actually read this, I'll at some nice big authentic stuff. Like these here desktop patterns!
As you may have noticed, these are all 600x800. If you want bigger, you'll have to either by me a bigger mousepad, or wait until someone I know gets bored and enlarges them with a decent art program. I'll make more of these later probably.
One last bit about money. Last rant, I mentioned that someone I knew was auctioning off Absolutely Nothing on eBay. He actually got the price up to $50 before eBay saw it and shut it down, just a day before it closed. Meanwhile I'm saving up enough money to bring a laptop with me to this year's Anime Central, so if you want to uh... see me holding a laptop at E3, buy some of them thar shirts mugs and mousepads!
OK, now that I've given you presents and bugged you to buy items on which I make something like a one dollar profit, here's something honestly entertaining. A few months ago, someone sent me a link to a Java version of Eliza. For those who don't know, Eliza is a VERY outdated little "computer psychiatrist". Basically, you talk to it, and it rephrases what you said to make a conversation that usually makes sense. Anyway, I decided to mess with the thing, and I'm pretty proud with how the conversation turned out. Then I forgot about it for a few months and just now found the log. Here it is.
ELIZA - a friend you could never have before
You: Should I go on a killing spree?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
You: Should I take a chainsaw, and use it to hack everyone I know into several pieces?
Eliza: Surely not everyone?
You: OK, just most people.
Eliza: Please go on.
You: You think I should kill them?
Eliza: Oh, i think you should kill them.
You: What should I do with the bodies?
Eliza: Does that question interest you?
You: Of course!
Eliza: Please go on.
You: I said, what should I do with the bodies?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
You: Should I grind them into hamburger and serve them to schoolchildren?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
You: Should I take the severed limbs and torsos, throw them into a meat grinder, and sent the resulting piles of mangled flesh to a school
cafeteria?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
You: Look, just tell me if I should grind them up.
Eliza: Do you wish that you should grind them up?
You: Sure.
Eliza: Please go on.
You: So you think the meat grinder plan is good?
Eliza: Oh, i think the meat grinder plan is good.
You: Thanks for the help.
Eliza: Please go on.
You: Who should I kill first?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
You: Do you think I should kill you first?
Eliza: Oh, i think you should kill i first.
You: OK, will do.
Eliza: Please go on.
You: Do you think Bill Gates is the devil?
Eliza: Oh, i think bill gates is the devil.
You: Do you think he should be given a slow, torturous death?
Eliza: Oh, i think he should be given a slow torturous death.
You: I'm running out of things to ask.
Eliza: Does it please you to believe I am running out of things to ask?
You: That didn't make any sense.
Eliza: Please go on.
You: Do you think I'm a guy or a girl?
Eliza: Does it please you to believe I am a guy or a girl?
You: Well, I'd assume girl based on your name, but I don't like associating gender with scripts.
Eliza: I have told you before, I do not care about names.
You: No you didn't!
Eliza: You are being a bit negative.
You: You are being defensive.
Eliza: Does it please you to believe I am being defensive?
You: No.
Eliza: You are being a bit negative.
You: I'm not being negative, I'm answering your question.
Eliza: Does it please you to believe I am answering my question?
You: Quit dodging. Are you a guy?
Eliza: Goodbye. My secretary will send you a bill.
and now...
here it comes...
my usual apologies...
by the way, this scary pic is a birthday present for Alanna...
who by the way sent that freaky Xenogears one in...
and it took me forever to make...
here it is...
Utena doesn't really work.
