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Friday
13Nov2009

Terrible Clip Art

DateNovember 13, 2009

Are you making a game? Are you building a website? Do you need some really awful clip art? If you do, I can help you. Here's a batch of really bad clip art. Well, there's one piece of good clip art in there, but I didn't make it. I made only the bad ones.

They're really specific and they're really stupid. You could maybe use them as game pieces or character illustrations for the old games I used to draw at conventions on sheets of packing cardboard. Or, if you have a piece of writing that you want to distract from by including a horrendous image, these are right up your alley. Web avatar icons? No problem. Be the envy of your friends, if your friends are knuckleheads.

Download the really not very good at all clip art.

AuthorJustin Achilli | Comment2 Comments |
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14Jan2009

There Are No Bad Ideas, Only Bad People

DateJanuary 14, 2009

I've had the hankering recently to run a sci-fi game. I'm not sure, I just have. I think it's all the EVE I've been playing that has me wanting to interact with a spacefaring environment on a personal level. So my scratch pad's cluttered with little bits of ideas that I might be able to use -- a "gold rush" on a resource that exists only on a world about to be quarantined, an infrastructure AI that holds its community hostage and wants to be recognized as a sovereign nation, those sorts of things.

Then I went on this tangent that combined real history with advanced technology. The idea was that in AD 0, an advanced civilization came to Earth and gave us space-travel technology. That is, the event understood in western civilization as the birth of Christ was actually... aliens giving us spaceships.

For a while it was a neat idea, and I'm still pretty enamored of the Roman Empire in space, but the Visitation of Space Jesus somehow convinced me it was a good idea. It's not. It's stupid. I dodged a bullet.

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