Okay, I have a bunch of neat stuff to promote this week.
First off, I did a podcast with Jason Love over at his site, jasonloveslife.com. We talk about the business of webcomics mostly, with stuff on how to promote and market your comic online. Plus you get to hear my rich, chocolaty voice!
Second, I have cool announcement to make!
My good friend Daniele Giardini, an Italian video game designer, just put the finishing touches on his indie game, GOSCURRY, and he actually put Puck in the game as one of the avatar choices for players! This makes Goscurry the first video game to ever feature Puck! It’s only six bucks, and it’s an insanely good game! I plan to do a full review of Goscurry because I love it so much, but let’s put it this way: it’s the hardest fair game ever made, in my opinion.
HARDEST. FAIR GAME. EVER.
You know those murderous sections in Battletoads where you’re riding the unicycles or the speeders? Well, make those harder and randomize them, and you get an idea of how hard we’re talking. It’s beyond Nintendo hard. And yet it’s very, very fair. When you die, it’s always your fault.
So to put it simply, guys, buy it. It’s a great game with endless play value and an insanely catchy soundtrack. And I’ll see YOU on the LEADERBOARDS. (Let me know if you beat my high scores. I challenge you to beat them!)
DECEMBER VOTING INCENTIVE: ROB FORD VS. SATAN?!?
In a competition of evil, which frightening mayor in southern Ontario would actually win? I had to do this. Do you know how often I can pull off a joke about local municipal politics and have an international audience get the joke? Never. Until now.
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK!!!
He might have had a better chance by punching himself in the groin…
Da dum dum TISH!
It’s wasn’t Ikea…but I’ve made that mistake.
Actually, that bedside table doesn’t look very Ikea, but it’s likely more glue than wood nevertheless.
I look forward to hearing your interview with Jason. I had a blast doing it!
It was a blast to have you on the show Michael. I didn’t mention it before, but I am very jealous of your voice talents.
Up with podcasts!
Thanks for being on the show Gecko. It was really fun and I learned a lot.
Well, thanks for having me!
I though that most furniture is still being made from wood … specifically, from sawdust glued together.
Lady Fortune doesn’t consider that wood.
My experience with IKEA is that it’s mostly cardboard with a pseudo-wood veneer. Surprisingly light and pretty tough, actually. And perfectly fitting that they have less wood than a bran muffin.
Now WalMart and Target have that glue-wood that crumbles if they didn’t get the mixture right or it gets wet. I haven’t seen that at IKEA but I haven’t looked hard.
I couldn’t have given a better description if I tried. The stuff in my house is mostly antiques. If you know where to buy it, they’re cheaper than Ikea and, well, when you buy a dresser that’s one hundred and fifty years old and the thing’s still in pretty good shape, you know it’s probably going to last at least another lifetime or two.
Plus, if it’s 150 years old there may be secret hidey-holes with long forgotten treasures!
Not so much with out-of-the-box IKEA.
I’ve never found hidey holes. I once found a vintage Valentine’s Day card behind an old baseboard. That’s the closest I’ve come.
That’s still a treasure.
A buddy bought a super old house about 10 years ago and found newspapers from 1918 stuffed in the walls, for insulation.
Just listening to the podcast now! Hopefully, I’ll learn something and… wow, I really didn’t expect your voice to sound like that, Mr Gecko sir. I think everyone’s British in my head before I get to hear what they’re really like.
Also, excellent use of the phrase ‘You fool!’.
Well, I have low educational value, so not sure whether it’ll be a big learning opportunity, but it’s cool if you give it a listen! And yeah, I’m not British. I’m Canadian. Though I can do a decent John Cleese impersonation when needed.
I haven’t listened, yet (if I can), but I imagine you talking like Gilbert Gottfried*. Just for the funny. 😀
*actually. I hadn’t thought about it until right now.
Wow! Those are some soothing vocal cords you got there. 😀
I had to hunt around Jasons’ site a little bit to find a player.
It’s … a long talk. Not very interesting to those who aren’t actually running a webcomic, I’m afraid.
I only listened to the first 3 minutes before I realized it’s over an hour long.
I found out about your podcast through Facebook so I’ve already heard it. ijellyofyourvoice.jpg
And yeah… It’s IKEA. Sad to say, it tends to suck. Not ALL of it is bad, but… Yeah.
As for the game, release it on Steam and I’ll consider it (once I get another Steam wallet – I currently got 18 cents in it ;_;…).
He’s trying for Steam. In fact, you can vote for Goscurry on Steam’s Greenlight! It’d be doing Daniele a big favor!
Wait… I can?
Wheee!
*Runs off to greenlight it*
Knock on plastic…
The gods don’t approve.
well, I don’t do consoles. If it ain’t possible with a PC or a laptop, I ain’t doing it.
It’s possible with a PC or laptop! Really!
I sometimes worry about this child inheriting Colin’s genes. He can remind me of Gilligan at times; quite likeable but lethally vacuous upstairs…more times than not. 😀
Gilligan is a REALLY good comparison. But really, what man doesn’t feel like Gilligan now and then?
Don’t worry, I have the perfect way to fix this.
I’ll use the reasoning of some of the voting base from the previous US Presidential election.
If it’s part wood, then it’s all wood. And if it’s all wood, then I’m going to knock on it. Q.E.D.
Seems solid to me.
Oh yeah, the “wake you up in the middle of the night” machine. I forgot about that part.
My parents were lucky with me; my first few years, we lived in a place with a lot of night time traffic, so it took a LOT to wake me as an infant.
To this day, I can’t fall asleep in a completely quiet room. I have to have some white noise in the background, like wind, or a fan, or an AC, or something.
Yeah, never good to condition a baby to need absolute silence to sleep.
Indian babies, because of asiatic lactose intolerance, suffer much more than others of colic and belly ache…solution? Indian baby carriers, or cradleboards…The tight lacing of the baby relieve the intestinal pain and the baby stop crying and go to sleep as per magic!
Well, scientists still don’t understand the real nature of colic. There are some that claim it’s gastrointestinal, but others dispute that. As it stands, colic is just a term ‘perpetually screaming baby’ syndrome. Anyone who says they’ve got the cure for a colicky baby is probably selling something.
Require wampum plenty…NOT…it’s a fact, the minute you wrap the baby in and tighten the lacing, he fall asleep…DOUBTING THOMAS!
OK it was the great grand son, but every time I saw him cry, he got wrapped in his cradle and instantly fell asleep. I was told it was the usual thing. By the time they get older, they free the baby’s hands to play with toys on the overhead rack and as he get too frisky to be wrapped up, the baby’s colic problem has gone away. And with the big handle, it’s much more handy than the regular baby carrier.
Allegedly the restricted range of motion is akin to that which the infant experienced in the womb – thus comforting.
I wonder if fetuses which are somehow feeling pain, or the mother’s distress, cry in the womb? Wouldn’t be the same due to the amniotic fluid but they seem to start immediately upon breathing. Hmm.
I’ve never heard pregnant ladies’ bellies scream. So I guess that’s a no.
There is no wood of any kind to be found in IKEA tables, its plastic with an identity complex. And Puck and Colin were doomed anyway considering the feeding schedule. Still they have a bright side to look forward too! Puck seems to be retaining her Mom mammaries, so go forth into your milk filled future~!
Yeah, the boobiness factor may diminish slightly, but not entirely. Just based on real-life observations of mine. Because I, uhm, observe … that kind of thing. Though not in a creepy way. Not at all.
Right~
Great comic!!!!
Thank ye kindly!
Yes, IKEA is 90% plastic and pseudo-wood, 6% metal, 4% actual wood.
BAZINGA!
The secret of wood that few Ikea shoppers know: wood is LIGHT and EASY TO CARRY. I hate those tightly packed boxes from Ikea which weigh more than a neutron star. Stupid heavy fake crap.
I like IKEA.
I’d like it more if they sold IKEA brand Cigs and Booze.
(I don’t use either, but it would give them street cred. And I’d LUV to see what silly made-up Swedish Name they’d give them !)
Probably ‘Smoakun’ and ‘Tipsii’, if I were to name them.
GENIUS !!
I don’t think the wood content of the end table was the important factor, actually. It was probably the knock that woke the baby up…
Oh ye who underestimate the magical properties of real wood.