(via Drawn)

By Nathan Davis.

Imagining the frogs are little X-Wings can only help.

At some point the things I love doing turned into chores.

Perhaps chores is a bad word; it’s not that I didn’t want to do these things, it was that I wanted to do all of these things and felt I had to allocate and schedule and plan an designate and that detracts from the essence of fun! Why the hell am I getting so worried about time? I’m spending so much time worrying about not doing everything that I’m still not doing everything but the things I am doing I’m not even enjoying!

Luckily during one of my designated leisure periods I had put on some George Carlin for a bit of background entertainment and this particular bit made me stop, smile, and realise that I should worry a hell of a lot less about time:

I’ve been tinkering with a new design on and off for months now so I figured I should just publish what’s here and be done with. The categories need sorting out as do a few other things (some of the image assets went a little crazy but I think I’ve fixed them all).

I’ve actually got a lot of stuff I can post that I’ve done done (woot!) – I’ve put a few pics up on my flickr but I’ll be posting more soon (I’ve actually completed one of my long-gestating projects and have a few more waiting in the wings but for the most part I’m just trying to draw for the hell of it).

Doesn’t look as much like a zombie as it did in my head but I still kinda like it – needs more splatters and some more face (or lack of) to make it proper zombie-esque methinks.

It took me the entire clip to place Doc Mitchell’s voice (Saul from BSG) but the whole cast is worth a look – Chandler, Kristofferson, Perlman (of course), Chuck, Sadler, Odo, Worf, Danny Trejo, Rawls, Cyclops, and Wesley Crusher.

Assuming I can wait until Christmas I would like this, Black Ops and Starcraft 2 please Santa.

(via Laughing Squid)

By Dalton Ghetti

There’s a chick two phones over with a stuffed penguin doll and a poster of some bearded dude with swords

Dr Fox described the game as “un-British” and said it was “shocking that someone would think it acceptable to recreate the acts of the Taliban against British soldiers”.

In other shocking news, children for generations have been re-creating the actions of criminals in the game ‘Cops and Robbers’. Previous games let you play as Nazis and no-one gave a shit, you can play as (generically-named) baddies in Modern Warfare and other games. If they had created a fictional name no-one would care (though then EA wouldn’t have got a load of free press).

I can’t wait until we have a generation of politicians who grew up playing computer games, or even better politicians who still play computer games. They’re games. They’re entertainment. Growing up playing first person shooters is no more likely to send you on a killing spree than growing up playing Go for Broke is to make you recklessly lend money to high-risk borrowers leading to huge losses and ultimately the collapse of large financial institutions requiring vast government bailouts funded by taxpayers. Hang on…