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01/28/2012
Hello everyone new page for Antares Complex has been uploaded, page 14 is up, go check that out!
Many other updates on the Antares Complex site as well, all technical so expect to see faster pages in the HTML viewer.
01/21/2012
So apparently SOPA has been defeated for the second time, but this time potentially for good. Co-founders backing out, companies running from it. Seems like they didnt' count on their little bullshit plot to get around and get so many people pissed off. I wasn't pissed, but I was sure angry! Because seriously fuck censorship, fuck it in it's nose. But RIGHT on to the updates!
Antares Complex has been updated, page 13 has been added, go check that out.
01/16/2012
You may have noticed a censor bar on the site and you also may know I hate cenorship, well the internet is actually at risk of being censored by big companies. Please take a minute and help stop big businesses from ruining OUR internet by going here: http://americancensorship.org
This is a big deal and it's being voted on by the 24th of January, if you like the internet the way it is fill out the email on the bottom of their page and tell the government you don't want the net censored! This is important, so take the 5 seconds it takes to fill it out
01/14/2012
Interesting week, I'll be sure to make a note in the journal however more of the regular: page 12 of issue 3 for Antares Complex has been added! Maybe 'jumps into action' wasn't an accurate term as she seems to have stomped into action seems to be more close to what she did.
Also, Gx3R is now on Tumblr so you can check us out... HERE
And more art in the art section so go check that out too.
01/07/2012
Happy New Year and happy late birfday to the idiot typing this! Hope you had a decent New Years with no hangovers from booze.
The first new comic page of 2012: page 11 of issue 3 for Antares Complex has been added! Neige says something really cheesy and jumps into action.
12/31/2011
Page 10 of issue 3 for Antares Complex has been added! Neige's grenade stopped by an innocent...
New pic in the art section Neige in a new art style, check it out!
Edit: Another new pic in the art section fanart of the legendary Windsquid from Classic Game Room.
12/19/2011
Gx3R is off for the christmas break, lots of things to do, regular updates to continue Janurary 1st.
Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate!
12/10/2011
Page 09 of issue 3 for Antares Complex has been added! The Aeonis Knight makes his own cover...
New art has been added to the art section, as well as a new wallpaper in the fan section if you're into that whole Banana Pie Lord + Minecraft thing. I preferred the earlier stuff where he'd literally scream in terror at a skeleton peering in but you know that's what counts ...I think.
12/04/2011 - Happy Birthday Gx3R!
Hey there everyone not reading this! A shocking surprise as I was going over some files that Gx3R has officially been live for 6 years! Happy Birthday you oddly named comic website you! Nearly a full month away from my own 26th birthday to boot.
Thanks to all who’ve helped keep this silly ass site going, it’s certainly grown a lot in just the year that it was launched with a new comic series (Antares Complex) an animation (Poop Adventure) , more P1Z comics, new artwork and more to come yet!
I wanted to thank my good friend “Zenny” for his writing skills, voice acting talents and generally being crazy cool. He certainly helped keep Antares Complex a bit more story driven than I would have been able to manage. My friend Gundam for helping with ideas in Antares Complex and his numerous donations to my steam account, I also wanted to blame you for lack of me doing art and instead running people over in Saints Row: The Third! Don’t you know I have no self control with my blood lust?!
12/03/2011
Hope everyone had a great Turkey Day, and if you don't celebrate you should start it just requires you to eat a lot and be with friends, what more could you want?
Page 8 of issue 3 of Antares Complex has been added check it out!
Minor updates to the art section have been done to fix broken code. A reminder: if you find any broken links please let me know via email.
11/24/2011
Happy Turkeyday everyone from Gx3R Comics!
11/19/2011
Latest page for Antares Complex has been added. Neige takes aim on her target check it out!
11/11/11
Early update for Antares Complex, I mean it's 11/11/11 how often does that happen? Stupid I know but why complain, early update! The next page to issue 3 has been added, check it out!
And if you haven't read it already check out the new P1Z Comic here! It involves insurance, when isn't that exciting?
11/10/2011
BIG DAY EVERYONE, Gx3R's new!! ...And only animation Poop Adventure is now up on Newgrounds.com so click here to check it out! It's the first real animation so you better check it out!
11/5/2011
Finally what no one was waiting for, a new P1Z Comic!!! Player 1 and Zenny take on insurance this week, and it goes really well. Or not. Click to check it out here!
10/29/2011
Happy early Halloween everyone! ...Comic pages go up saturdays so that's when I post these updates so take your early Halloween treat!
That's right you get a treat from Gx3R, the 5th page of issue 03 of Antares Complex! Now get off our lawn and don't egg the building! Don't forget you can view the comic in HTML here. Or here for Flash
Because I talk too much I decided to added a journal backlog.
The Journal-01/27/2012 Apple and me.
Apple and me never saw eye to eye, infact a lot of frustration has come from Apple fanboys approching me from nowhere to insist my device is a load of shit and I should upgrade to a real art machine. This has happened with both total strangers and co-workers mind you. I'm sure you're thinking there was something more to this like I said something or I was being rude. Unless you consider playing a game, painting, browsing the web disruptive then they had no reason to start their marketing speech.
Now I'm a person who stands by "Whatever works for you" I don't care if you prefer Sony or Nintendo, Mac or a PC, it's when someone gets annoying that I'll tell them what's what. Really it makes no sense to care when someone else (especially a stranger) uses a different device, use what you like, that's cool that you like [device]!
My point though isn't that I hate when people insist their favorite stuff is 'better' than mine and isn't subjective, but that's for another journal! This journal is about the what Apple is doing to the web or perhaps the users, I've seen it more and more frequent that apple iphone/pad/pod users are becoming rather vocal about websites using flash because their devices do not support it.
Now here's where I get a bit annoyed and rude; why should anyone cater to you? YOU are the one who chose to purchase a device that doesn't support something that's been around since the 90's. There's a large number of devices that do more for cheaper and are all around better, and honestly I'm glad you want to view my site really, seriously that's awesome. But if you wanted a device to view the internet in it's entirety why didn't you chose a device that does more?
Don't tell me it's the price, I looked into buying a portable device and comparitively, the ipad is far more expensive than other other devices, and just about everything besides a speak and spell does more than the ipad. (I settled on a secondhand laptop, nearly a netbook.)
It's this in your face elitism that drives me nuts, I get that there's a lot of users on the iphone/ipad but when it comes down to raw numbers desktops/laptops still outweigh the number of iphones by a factor of a thousand. And the fact still remains these users bought the device knowing flash, a application widely used on the internet (including things you don't know about like Gmail) is not supported. A lot of websites just don't have the means or the care to cater to someone who decided to buy a product that is known to not support flash because it would disrupt their application sales. You might as well have bought a Cybiko as it probably would surf the web better than one of these devices.
Again, I am not bashing anyone who uses these devices what I simply stating, or perhaps asking is; why do users of the iPad/Pod/Phone feel it's okay for them to purchace a device they know doesn't do it all in terms of web surfing, but then turn around and complain their device doesn't support a site...to the site owner and not Apple. It's not the websites webmaster that's at fault it's apple and really you.
This is like living in a city for years, then deciding one year to buy a bike and getting upset that you never noticed there's no bike lanes despite living there for years and knowing this.
Extra bit: The ipod/pad/phone is a fantastic device with a lot of potential and a lot of use, but the weak statements by them that 'flash is too buggy to let on our device' simply does not stand more than a weak excuse to not support flash because most of the 'apps' on itunes are nothing more than flashgames you can find on newgrounds for free. And to support flash would certainly hurt their money making, and I understand that making money is the ulitmate goal of a business.
But when your competition (laptops/netbooks/android) all support said format and you don't it really makes you look restrictive, dated, and well greedy.
Seriously I had an ipod touch 4 for a while it was a lot of fun (jailbroken) but it was really hard to view much of the internet when they simply refuse to support a basic thing such as Flash which is intergrated into many websites sometimes in the backend that you don't know about. The thing that made me get rid of it in the end was it's restrictive nature (I had to format my ipod to use it, literally out of nowhere so I lost a lot of files that I stored on it).
Well whatever that's my thoughts on apples devices, and the problems with that they started with the internet as a whole.
The Journal-01/14/2012
This week has been fairly random with things happening but I'm going to stick to the actual interesting stuff.
Today I decided to clean out the ol' room and see if I could maybe make some decent closet space, well I got to some old sketchbooks and a pile of old drawings from High School and even some middleschool drawings, imagine that. Also they're horribly, horribly bad.
Back then I think I had the same mentality I see a lot of artist do early on, you change 3 things about some character you like, maybe mix some other characters in and it's original! Or No it's Goku with a katana you idiot! I'd kick myself if I could go back in time seriously, I mean this stuff is just copying and I guess that's fair enough except I think I still did it into highschool to a lesser degree granted but it still bothers me.
Either way I decided to scan a lot of it since it was either beat up or getting smudged, I think I'm going to do one of those silly comparison memes where you compare your work till you get to the present and I'll show off how I've gone from shit to less shit.
I'm sure you're thinking "But Mike doesn't that make you feel like that you've gotten better!" or "Keep it as insperational material!" but seeing this just makes me feel like an idiot for ripping things off back then haha.
But in all seriousness going through it made me laugh a whole lot because of just what I thought was okay I'm sure Zenny is going to flip when he sees it himself.
The Journal-12/04/2011- Gx3R's 6th year.
It’s been 6 years since Gx3R was launched, I couldn’t believe it. I was looking over the FAQ section of Gx3R (that’s right, there is one for some reason) and I saw the date and I was stunned. To all those not reading this is the journal where I tell what happened with Gx3R Comics.
The whole thing started back before I was a senior in 2003, I was already into art but I was really getting into computers and making graphics and sites; I found we were required to do a senior project when we got there. To this day I’m still not sure what exactly the purpose this project was, the heads of the senior project had said basically to get a better understanding of the world outside of high school in the job world. So internships, creating something with your hands and some were doing computer stuff, so that all made sense, but I’ll get to why it quickly stopped making sense in a moment.
Third time I’m rewriting this section, man I’m terrible at this! Short story is they denied me because it was a career I had interest in pursuing already, they wanted me to look into ‘alternate options’ and they turned down my appeals and I wound up interning at a gymnastic place. So they cheated me, so I neglected to mention I was the gymnastic centers webmaster and the owner and I were friends, so he had no problem signing my intern papers and the time sheets.
However because of their bizarr-o logic I instead made Gx3R content with my good friend “Zenny” and I think we’re far better for it. We made stuff we wanted that wasn’t censored and stuff we thought others would enjoy. I feel I can say that both “Zenny” and I are proud of the content we put up here, whether it be comedy or serious we try our best.
So, it’s been 6 years of Gx3R with my good friend “Zenny”, I’d like to take this small wall of text to say thanks man. The stuff you’ve helped with made the stuff we created great, or at least offensive enough where only a few think it’s great. Thanks “Zenny” I couldn’t have done this without you, you’ve helped in a lot of ways that I’m not sure I’ve ever been able to communicate and yeah, thanks man. Also my brother Brian/Insomnia, thank you for what you’ve done. You say you know little on what makes a good comic but I’d burn to death from combusting pants if I didn’t say you didn’t help. You do help, you make things make sense and pull them together and with you and Zenny I’m sure Gx3R wouldn’t be nearly as good.
The Journal-11/01/2011- I love my mom, and I wish she wasn't disabled.
My mom has an illness that has disabled her. She's gone from talented artist who's both cheerful and charismatic to barely able to talk more than 2 words and can't even tie her own shoes. She has some form of progressive asphasia (spelled that wrong) and it's been absolutely horrible and painful to watch her degrade more and more. It snuck up on us to be honest, she was always a bit of a clutz so we didn't really see the problem till it's too late.
I wasn't aware till recently, that her condition actually was progressive. I'm not sure it was the harshness of the reality of what was happening but I didn't really notice it any worse than when it had really set in, it was only till I read the doctors report that I understood I guess. It's getting worse, and I write this with tears in my eyes and my heart aching, I'm scared, I know the end result and there IS no stopping that. This illness is just too unknown to really predict what's going to happen next or when.
When I was a child I'd go with my mother and sometimes her sister and my cousin to the Smithtown Nursing home, greeted by white walls and smiles of nurses was just the mask that was beyond the keycard locked door we needed a guard to get into. In this wing were many variations of mentally unstable people and even as a dumb kid I knew things were not okay here. The nurses wore fake smiles and did their best to make things happy but nothing makes it any less painful to see your grandfather a once proud man and a fire fighter sit there helplessly losing his mind to Alzhimers.
I barely knew him as the man he was, but I did see much of him through his letters and photos. He had 7 children, 2 daughters and 5 brothers, it was a crazy house, it was the Poore house, and he, Charles "Pop" Poore was the father of thes crazy kids. And this fireman who risked his life, raised and loved his family slowly over many years lost his memories, abilities and skills. I have a great memory, almost a curse when memories emerge painfully of the nursing home he was put in. I remember early on we'd visit and he'd smile, mom and her sister would talk and they'd hang with him for a few hours and he'd smile, I can't imagine what he was thinking in a stage so late into it, but he was smiling and was happy I guess. Though as time passed the smiles never returned, he was just a shell, and though I didn't fully understand what then was wrong, I'm now basically reliving it with my mother. I'm so angry and scared at what's happening to her...
It's the nursing home all over again, but there's no nurses, her sister visits but it's not the same as back then. She has no one to talk to and make her happy, she tries her best and dammit I do everything I can to make her feel safe and happy. But the pain in my heart and the tears in my eyes right now at what this condition has done to her. All I want is her to be happy. But she's floating down the river next to my grandfathers, it's a different river but the results are all too similar...
If I didn't have my father and especially my brother around me, I really have no idea what I'd do. My brother Brian just keeps pushing, I can tell he's tired and he too just wants things to work out for once and he and I push on to see our goal through. My father, a stubborn protective man clearly hurt by watching his wife slip away in pieces, I can't even imagine the agony he is going through. We try and ease the burden but there's just no easing the weight of a loved one being lost this way.
This site, the comics I make are my escape, what keep me sane...I created this to make me happy firstly but to make others happy. I want readers to come here and see funny P1Z comics or see another universe with crazy shit going on. I just want to see people happy, even typing this bothers me to some extent because I don't like to make my problems go on other people. And don't think for a second I mean my mother is a problem, her condition has ruined her life and all I can do is be there, helpless and just try and make her life less awful.
Honestly I don't even know what I'm typing anymore, today (Halloween at time of typing) has just been abysmal. I saw things that twisted my heart and heard things that fill my eyes with tears. I guess I had to get it out, the only reason I'm typing this and posting is because...I don't know, maybe I hope that some day I can look back at this or that someone reading this knows what I'm talking about and knows that they're not alone I guess.
Either way, I guess at somepoint I have to stop typing and dwelling on this shitty day. Life flows on like a river, fighting it only makes you weaker, go with the flow and make things right is the best you can do.
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions- The butchered Port review
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Possibly the last great Final Fantasy ever made, a game basically left unknown due to the amazing success of Final Fantasy VII that was left to 'die in obscurity'. However due to ports to the PSP and iOS this game is finally becoming more and more known, however it's in the wrong fucking way. Let me explain; Final Fantasy Tactics is a turn based strategy game released on the Sony Playstation back in 1997/1998 and more recently to the PSP as "War of the Lions" in 2007 and the iOS in 2011. This new title came with some extras, a touched up script, new videos and multiplayer. It sounds great but why do I would I call it shit then? |
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That being said to the point I wanted to get to, people have been playing Tactics "War of The Lions" a PSP/iOS port of the PSOne classic with some added extras such as new classes, characters, new movies, a touched up script(less engrish more Shakespearian talk), widescreen, multiplayer and more. That sounds absolutely amazing... however it's not. The problem with the port of this game is it's bogged down with awful slowdown that happens on every attack in the game. EVERY attack, with skills ranging from 2-12 seconds and this being a turn based game, you're looking at doubling or tripling the time to beat a already lengthy battle. The slowdown is very noticeable and really makes the battles almost tedious with the length of time you have to sit through in the game. In fact on the later iOS platforms the slowdown is replaced by an unstable frame rate. To rub it in more the music has been 'damaged' with midis that were supposed to fade out now just droning on before being cut off. My problem is many people are experiencing this game through this shitty port. Really there's no excuse for such a poor quality port. They put the original F.F.T. on PSP via the PSN and it runs perfectly, but the port War of The Lions just doesn't run right which to be honest makes all the extras worthless. Some argue the extras and portability make up for the technical issues. Bullshit, they ported the original PSOne title and it runs the same as it did on the PSOne. The added classes are difficult to get and aren't worth it, the new characters added in aren't worth it either since you get them late in the game and add nothing to the story, and multiplayer? Waste of time. The fixed script really wasn't needed and the new movies while they are VERY nicely done, they don't add a thing to the story, they're just movies of what happened in the original title. There's some extra battles that were added as well but again, they add nothing to the overall story. The reason I decided to write this was because I have known a few people who liked the title and seen many reviews give War of the Lions a great score. Truth is they either never played the original or it had been a while. After a short showing, they quickly realized how much it was butchered. Honestly I figure play what you want, but just know that there's a better version. Square Enix has forgotten what makes a great game great, they forget the gameplay and depth of story and try to make up for it with polished visuals/videos. Which is sad considering how great their earlier titles were. The only thing I can add to this review to make it more upsetting is that Final Fantasy Tactics was apparently supposed to be part of a trilogy with the first one being subtitled "The Zodiac Brave Story". However due to whatever reason these added titles never were never made. And if you think the Advance titles are the next games? You're mental they have nothing to do with FFTs story and even less to do with it game wise. Summery: Final Fantasy Tactics is a GREAT game, however the port "War of the Lions" was very poorly done with unneeded additions with butchered gameplay. If you wanted to experience Final Fantasy Tactics PROPERLY you can find the original Playstation version on the PSN in the "PSOne Classics" section and it runs amazing. This game is absolutely worth playing, I can't recommend it enough, just avoid the War of the Lions port at all costs. Extra bit: There are two more entries under the "Tactics" series, one for the Gameboy Advance and the other for the NDS. However these games have about as much to do with Tactics as a turd has to do with a bar of gold. Their stories have nothing to do with the series and with the added 'judge system' it just makes battles annoying because of fake challenge.
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Special Thanks to those who have donated:
1/5/2012
Very generous gift from JP who has decided to go the whole hog and send a physical copy of Battlefield 3 for my birthday. You're too kind for your own good JP, then again that's why you're trying to be a doctor I guess. Just make sure not to leave a kniife in someone, and thank you very much man, I'll see you on the battlefield!
12/31/2011-After Xmas
After a generous christmas I have to thank a few people for both christmas gifts and early birthday presents, and they're kind of donations right? Whatever you'd call it!
-Geo thanks for donating RAGE via steam.
-"Gundam" thank you for Renegade Ops+the DLC.
-"Doughboy" thank you for Fallout New Vegas DLC and Hard Reset.
-Clancy thank you for Just Cause 2
I hope you enjoy the gifts back my friends.
11/12/2011
Another donation from "Gundam" thank you for donating Saints Row the Third preorder via steam. I'll back over as many people as possible for you.
9/23/2011
Thanks "Clancy" for donating Sonic Adventure DX via steam. I'd say you're a kind person but you're probably just trying to keep me from work. That's evil, I looked it up.
9/19/2011
Thank you "Gundam" for donating Serious Sam 3:BFE preorder via steam! I'll kill many monsters/aliens/etc for you when it comes out.
6/26/2011
Thanks George Rottkamp for the Antares Complex fan art
check out his deviantart gallery for more awesome artwork!3/21/2011
"JP" Thank you for donating Portal 2 via steam! Good luck in med-school you awesome jerk!
3/08/2011
Thanks "Zenny" for donating 50 dollars! Does it count when it's a member of Gx3R giving cash to another for good luck? Sure it does.