To whom it may concern,

Hi, my name is Shane. I've started a community, jrpgs_and_wrpgs, dedicated to the discussion of computer and console role-playing games, both of Japanese and Western origin. This is a really niche genre, and a lot of people who play these games prefer to play mainly these games exclusively. Due to the nature of these games, they can be quite addictive, engrossing, and the object of much obsession. Furthermore, there is no community on LiveJournal dedicated strictly to them. Almost all "RPG communities" on LiveJournal are fan fiction exercises, 'RPing,' collections of Final Fantasy icons, or general fangirl/boyism around a single franchise. There is no real discussion about these games going on, and there very well could and should be. This community is yet a seed, but if you like the idea, I encourage you to join, to encourage all your friends who would like it to join, and for all of us to contribute RPG related reading and discussion. That there is nothing like this currently on LJ is good reason that it could be successful, and it will be if we want it to be. I've been on LJ consistently since 2002, so your moderator will be here to stay, as will this community with your help. Furthermore, I can promise you that I am no control freak, will only mandate enough to keep order and productivity in the community, and will otherwise not be a tight ass, anal retentive fascist with a bunch of silly rules and a god complex. So, if you play JRPGs or WRPGs, please come on over, join, and start posting immediately about whatever RPG-related business your heart desires. I'm eager to find my peers in this.

xoxo,
Shane

(to be cross posted)

Nexus: The Origin earned three Eisner Awards in 1993 — Best Single Issue, Best Writer/Artist Team and Best Penciller — and dozens of four-star write-ups and reviews. This double-sized, definitive issue remains as cutting-edge and relevant as the day of its original release in 1992 — but now features new, remastered coloring as overseen by The Dude himself to realize his original vision!

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I've just found this community so it's my first post here. :)

My webcomic is currently being updated (every friday) with special features for the comic this includes character profiles, pictures, about sections, and loads of other little fun things that goes with the story.

The webcomic itself is still in the works and is being written (by myself) and drawn by cactus_smollet

The webcomic follows the story of Eliza, an eighteen year old girl who finds herself in Victorian England and realises she has a quest to complete before she can go back to the home she misses so dearly.

We also have a making of: blog that explians what we're doing at this moment in time with the comic and gives a good insight into what we're doing in order to make it. :D

Click below to go straight to the Heartstone Odyssey website!

COOL YULE ARTY PARTY

Date: Tomorrow! December 12, 2009
Time: Noon - 6pm
Location: The Lustine Center - 5710 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, MD, 20781

What: Gallery Shows by DC artists. 4 Live bands. Holiday Crafts Festival. DC area Comics, webcomics, and Graphic Novelists.

Click the picture above to see the official press release.



Of course, Interrobang Studios and I will be there, but also a host of other folks from a local indie comics group called the "DC Conspiracy." If you're local, you should come out and see the sights!

I may have posted a questionnaire a few weeks back about graphic novels/web comics a few months ago and possibly something about soemone reading a script. I don't quite remember whether I posted the latter or not because a lot has happened since.

My webcomic is currently being updated (every friday) with special features for the comic this includes character profiles, pictures, about sections, and loads of other little fun things that goes with the story.

The webcomic itself is still in the works and is being written (by myself) and drawn by cactus_smollet

We also have a making of: blog that explians what we're doing at this moment in time with the comic and gives a good insight into what we're doing in order to make it. :D

Click below to go straight to the Heartstone Odyssey website!

So, I have some new comics over at Top Shelf



Hope you like them!

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**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.

And finally some answers to some questions:

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Hey folks, been a while since I posted here but I've been busy. Work coming up in Popgun Volume 4, a long comic coming out with TOR.com in 2010, some proposals and benefit anthology work has kept me away for a bit.

One thing that I was working on a few months ago is currently in competition over at ZUDA.com, and I can use some help. Worst case scenario in this is you get to read a comic so bare with me a moment.

These steps will help a lot.
1)Go to the ZUDA website, and if you don't have an account, create one(you don't get a bunch of spam, only a semi monthly update on what's going on at ZUDA... and all that is, is free comics... it's a freak'n win win folks).
2)Once signed up, go to our comic, give it a read, and vote for us. Along with voting, giving us five stars and adding us to your favorites is a big help also.
3)Spread the word. Marketing in any ZUDA competition is pretty much viral. There are a couple of images in this post, and it would be pretty darn nice if you could help Josh and I spread them around.







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