Another Monday, another look inside my sketchbook. Nothing special this week just lots of doodles.

As a generality I try not to engage in "do you know who I am" antics when it comes to trying to get free shit, I think I've talked about that before. Of course, sometimes "who I am" is the precise reason I can't have something. If you ask me, I've been perfectly reasonable throughout my eighteen year stint - deploying precision rhetorical munitions only when absolutely necessary. It's entirely possible that I called Epic's Mark Rein a "Liar-King" who "scuttled out of a rotting log," but sometimes its vital in a dialogue to suggest that your opponent is some kind of grub. It's... you know. Aristotelian, or whatever.

I don't social media very well but I've heard that Throwback Thursday is a thing. I know generally you're supposed to post an old picture of yourself but I thought I'd embarrass myself by posting old artwork instead. This was the very first drawing I ever did for Kara back in 1997. That's right I tried to woo her with my mad watercolor skills. We're still married though so I guess it worked.

Robert did a fantastic interview over on Geekwire about PAX ticket sales. Obviously with Prime selling out again in record time there's a lot of talk about the systems we use and lots of suggestions. Well Robert breaks down his strategy in this interview and it's pretty interesting.

Tickets to the 5th Annual Child’s Play Invitational are now available! This is always a super fun day on the course and it all benefits Child’s Play. Just like last year we’ll be holding a Mini golf tournament alongside the normal scramble style tournament. You can also get a spectator ticket and just hang out in the shade drinking cocktails and still join everyone at the BBQ afterwards.

At some point it became clear that if I ever wanted to play a videogame with Gabriil again, I'd have to take up Destiny. So I did, purely as a medium of communication. I thought of it as being something like going to a bar I didn't especially like because it was my friend's favorite bar. And maybe I don't have a high opinion of my friend's opinion on this bar. He doesn't even drink, he eats here. On purpose. He only likes this bar because he can sub tots for fries at no additional charge.

"Doomed cycles" form the scaffold off which so many dork narratives hang, and this one - the generational doom - is an especially potent one.

Here's your weekly peek into my sketchbook.

We just recently found an ancient podcast that Tycho and I recorded back in 2008 while working on the RSPD games. A forumer named Adus actually helped us recover it so thanks Adus! We’ve gone ahead and added it to the DLC bonus content section and you can find it at the bottom of this page labeled RSPD podcast. I’m gonna be 100% honest with you and say I have not listened to it so I have no idea if it’s any good. I vaguely remember recording it but for all I know it’s just 15 minutes of us talking about butts.

All of Tycho's dialogue in this strip is either a direct quote from Will Wright or is paraphrased in some way from interviews. I'm sorry: I can't actually write anything funnier than the way people present their revolutionary social media shit. I can detail the loop that resulted in my closing the app, maybe forever. I read an article about the app on a website. Then, I installed the app, and swiped through a number of people's psychologically measurable, Exhibit A type narcissism. Then, I found a thread by the person who had written the article, and it was just a set of links to articles on the website I had found the original article on. Nope! That's on some Ouroboros type shit. Closing up shop.

** UPDATE, SOLD OUT **

I was a weird kid.

The teachers at my son's school are staging some sort of walk out today. I'm guessing it's about class size and money but I'm not really sure. All I know is that since my wife will be at the dentist most of the day I need to stay home with my kid. His little brother still has a school to go to so it's just gonna be Gabe and I at home all afternoon. Last week I got him his own PSN account so we could play games together. This morning he asked if we could just play Destiny all day since no one else would be home. "Son" I said "As your father I can't sit on the couch and play games with you all day just because you got a free day off of school. That's ridiculous. Obviously we will need to take a break for lunch and milkshakes at some point."

Remember what I said about drawing for fun again? Yeah well this is what it looks like:

The joke used to be that if the Internet here wasn't working, Kiko was torrenting several seasons of an anime simultaneously - but it wasn't a joke so much as it was a true fact. It was an awful business, and not simply because of the profound immorality of these acts - the disregard for the edifice of law, which separates man from the hyena. That's what I told him. But it also made it very difficult, if not impossible, to complete my own torrents.

My new year’s resolution this year was to push myself to get better at drawing. I was in a rut and feeling pretty shitty about my art in general. This year my goal was to break through that wall and really try to improve. Part of that meant sketching as much as I could. I’d stopped drawing for fun. I’d gotten into the habit of only drawing when I had a job to do. Now I draw almost every night and I try and force myself to NOT draw things for work. It’s been awesome and while it was hard at first, It’s getting much easier.