Previous News03.01.2009 - Terrence Marks:This month only, we're offering a subscription service. Sign up now and it'll be $4/month for as long as you keep the account active. More news tomorrow or so.02.27.2009 - Terrence Marks:You know how I mentioned projects a while back? Firstly, I'm getting The Nice's forums up again. Secondly, I'm rehabilitating Unlike Minerva's archives. I'm going to be re-doing the main page real soon now. I've got commentary up for the first two weeks , and I'll probably add another two or three every week, time and memory permitting. I probably shouldn't have waited nine years, eleven months before starting this. Mind you, the first six months of Unlike Minerva don't count; I restarted the comic and most everything before isn't canon.02.23.2009 - Isabel Marks:Is anyone still having the short site outages? We haven't noticed ourselves, so hopefully that's a good thing... Terrence also worked around the statistic issues... which is good only for us and only because we're curious. As we don't have banner ads, those numbers don't do too much, but they sure do mean a lot. Thank you for being a reader (and as a result, adding to the numbers).Over the weekend you may have noticed a few small changes to Namir Deiter's front page. We now have several new characters added to the header image's rotation (and updated the old ones) and new small button links to our other comics and sites. ND Unlimited, a directory to all our series, both updating and otherwise, got a much needed update.
You may have also noticed You Say it First's... lack of facelift. I know, sorry... don't worry, like many other much needed things, it's coming.
Pretty sure that's all I have for today's update- hope everyone has a great week!
02.19.2009 - Terrence Marks:No blog post this week. I've got projects.In the meantime, enjoy this video of Caravan performing "Golf Girl", one of their poppier and more popular songs. I had been looking for something like this for a while: the lead singer? Richard Sinclair.
02.18.2009 - Isabel Marks:First, some good news. The Fan Center has gotten another update- this time with a few new fan stories, please check them out! Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to the Fan Center!Now for the bad news... as I'm sure most of you have noticed by now, all out sites have lately been plagued with intermittent outages. These seem to happen most around 11-12PM PST, a time when most of you want to view the site. We've been in contact with our web host about this issue, but as of now there is no news on why it's happening or when it will be fixed. If it happens, try again in a minute or two.
We'll keep you all posted of any news we may have... I'm sorry these things keep happening, thank you so much for your patience!
The other problem we're having is more on our side. since we moved to our current site host we have had no accurate way of checking what our visitor numbers are, which, quite frankly, is a pain. I've asked Terrence to look into it, so the problem is either our host hasn't done something or he hasn't. As I have no idea what's actually going on, I can't say either way.
02.10.2009 - Terrence Marks:Nothing seems to make a week go by faster than trying to write something about it.What've I been up to?Reading (books): Finished Coraline (which we also saw the movie of, and enjoyed). Isabel got me a very nice set of Terry Pratchett books for Christmas; I've gotten as far as Reaper Man so far. I had a smaller set when I was younger. It's funny; I remembered Carrot being the main character in Guards! Guards!. Re-reading it, the main conflict is Vimes vs. Wonse (and, to a lesser extend Vimes vs. Vimes), and Carrot is, like many others, an interesting secondary character but not the focal point that I thought he was.
Reading (manga): I was reading dozens of series at a time. I've put most of them down, so I can actually read something from start to finish. I recently finished Hiatari Ryoukou and Adventure Boys, both by Mitsuru Adachi. Currently reading Nine (which is his first solo series). I've mentioned Mitsuru Adachi before; he's done about a dozen sports romance series. I've read half of them They're about as different as You Say it First and Namir Deiter. So far, Nine is my second-favorite series of his after Rough. We've been reading Gokusen, as well, and picked up the anime. I recommend it, and wonder why the manga hasn't been licensed.
Playing (MMORPG): Trying Lord of the Rings Online. I need to get my thoughts on Asda Story and Final Fantasy XI written out.
Playing (console): Trying to play all the console games we have before getting more. Finished Sly Cooper 2 - would post my thoughts on the ending if I thought it'd be of general interest. Thinking about playing Sly 3, but they changed one of the voice actors. If I wait a month, it'll sound less wrong. Finished Mega Man X, X2, and X3, so that I could unlock Battle & Chase for Isabel, because it's supposed to contain Roll's Theme. It doesn't. Finished Mega Man 9, despite the fact that I gave up on Mega Man 4 when I tried to play through all of them.
I was playing Animal Crossing: City Folk until I found out about Animal Tracks. The idea is that if you run on the same route every time, it'll wear down the grass and create a path. Unfortunately, the grass damage is applied every time the game is loaded and now 80% of our town looks like a desert. I'm playing a lot less now. The idea of a thin trail running from point A to point B is cute. A townful of bare dirt isn't.Playing (handheld): Finished WarioWare: Touched (and by 'finished' I mean I unlocked most things and didn't care to grind for the other 10%). Playing Advance Wars 1, at least until I get a new game that can be played in 15-minute intervals.
02.09.2009 - Terrence Marks:Firstly, the Fan Center was updated! We got some very nice art in and have put it up after keeping it to ourselves for far too long!Secondly, there was a problem with You Say it First's First Day page (which contains the first 22 comics on one modem-unfriendly page). It turns out I missed a quotation mark, so the "Next" link didn't actually show up. I apologize to anyone who tried to read further had to go back to the archive page to get to the rest of the comic. I apologize profusely to anyone who tried to read further but didn't. It is fixed now.