One of the best things to happen in the history of computer gaming is, without a doubt, modding. For the uninitiated, a mod is a player-created addition to an existing game. In the beginning, modding was crude: replace some sprites, put in new music, and voila, you have Star Wars Doom. Thankfully, over the years [...]
I think the comic today speaks for itself. Our Super Woo adventure has reached its explosive climax, and much will be revealed in the next part. The advantage of running a series nearly two weeks after the event it is inspired from is that when I get really busy, at least I have a plan. [...]
When I drew last Wednesday’s comic, it was intended as a throwaway. You know, mention the super moon, tie-in to running joke that making incorrect statements about astronomical phenomena cause astronomers to pop out of the woodwork like Candyman or Beetlejuice, throw in a zombie Phil Plait. It was in that last step where I [...]
When I was younger and dumber I bought into the notion we have all had at some point. That I am responsible for my own thoughts, and that my consciousness is the homunculus that drives these thoughts and resulting actions. Now it should not be controversial that we cannot control our own thoughts. Things pop [...]
Having grown up in suburbia, I always had a backyard sandbox to play in. When I didn’t have a sandbox, it was because I had a Calvin and Hobbes-esque wooded grove, complete with a babbling brook running through it, to play in. Thinking back on those sandboxes, I find them wonderfully simple and ingenious—after all, [...]
Happy Doubting Thomas Day! I’ll explain later, but first, about the comic. Last friday (Awesome Friday, as it is now known) I mentioned the defecation of the famous Andres Serrano photograph Immersion (Piss Christ). I know defecation isn’t the right word here, but c’mon, you know what I mean. I see you back there, giggling. [...]