Done.

I’ve had a story idea rolling around my head for a long time and I’ve been basically spinning my wheels trying to hone my skills (read: procrastinating and doing a lot of unrelated things) to make it into a webcomic. Had a title picked out and everything that felt tonally relevant to the story and characters. I was going to call it Anywhere But Here; it seemed pertinent to this tone of restless personalities that are distinctly tied to the setting of the piece. I even recently reserved a tumblr url for that name (took me a while to find a variation that wasn’t already occupied).

I should’ve checked to be sure the name wasn’t already taken.

Not only are there several books by that name (I figured this was workable) there’s also a Natalie Portman film that comes up every time you google “Anywhere But Here”.

I spitballed about the pipe dream of someday having the goal of surpassing this movie in terms of google search result priority. And if that ever happened, tweeting at Natalie Portman as if it were something she would have given a crap about and probably she would never see it but it’d be dumb fun inside joke made very outside.

Then I decided to more specifically google “anywhere but here webcomic”

and wouldn’t you know it

In hindsight, you’d think that would’ve been my first step.

It’s some dumb newspaper comic style rag that hasn’t updated since 2006/2008/I don’t actually care when. Not something I’d really want to be accidentally associated with.

And just like that, down crashed any dreams of a fake made-up rivalry with Natalie Portman.

The new Jojo game for the Switch looks pretty rad. 

Just tossed this together.

Highlights: 

The projected total cost of all DLC for Smash Bros for both consoles is $101.23. For only one console it’s between $72-$74.

To just get the fighters and stages would be between $39.41-$56.38

Also, buying in any of the collections saves no money compared to buying the individual collection items separately.

Fun, but specific OC questions

1. What's their full name? If they're an alien and their name is in their native planet's language, have you thought about what it means?

2. Say your OC made a playlist on Spotify. What bands would be on that playlist? Any specific genres?

3. What kind of video games would they play? Any specific titles?

4. What would their favorite cartoons be, and why? What would their favorite characters be?

5. What's their favorite type of weather? Do they like to do anything specific on days when the weather is how they like it?

6. If they're a fan of Hot Chocolate, Tea, or Coffee, how do they like either of those drinks prepared?

7. What kind of animals would they like as a pet? What names would they give their pets if they got any? If they already have pet's what are their names?

8. How does your OC keep track of time? Do they have a planner? A calendar?

9. How do they write? Do they write in cursive? How do they dot their i's and j's? Do they have specific ways that they write certain letters?

10. What's their favorite time of day?

11. What kinds of foods and drinks do they like? Do they like certain foods to be fried? Do they prefer certain foods to be prepared hot/cold?

12. If they were an actual character in an animated film or TV series, who would they be voiced by? Do they have a certain accent that the person would need to perfect?

13. If you are an artist, and if your OC can draw as well, could you replicate what their artstyle looks like? Or, if you can't, could you describe it?

14. If your OC owned a Tumblr blog, what kind of content would they post?

15. How do they type? Do they use emojis? Do abbreviate and shorten words?

16. If your OC was a film director, what kind of movies would they make?

17. If your OC was a musical artist, what genres would they do?

18. What type of singing voice does your OC have?

19. Does your OC like to collect things? What kind of things do they collect?

20. Was your OC inspired by anything? Another character? A person?

This is such a weird decision, especially following the rumors that it would have dual audio. I don't think I'd use it, but it doesn't seem like it'd be that hard to implement? Especially since this means the audio is right there in the game files. And it's not without precedent, Fire Emblem and Xenoblade had dual audio.

Zelda: If You Change Nintendo Switch Settings To Japanese You Can Play With Japanese Text And Voice

It would appear as though The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild won’t support dual audio and text in the way as you would expect.

Some bits from the Nintendo Switch conference.

Now everyone chill.

Pretty sure that frame was meant as a deliberate reference.

now with video accompaniment.

Hello my baby hello my honey hello darkness my old friend