NEWS:

02.23.04 - Terrence Marks:

Sorry I can't stop and talk now. I'm in kind of a hurry, anyhow. But I'll send you a tape from California - Phil Ochs. So be aware the next few comments are pre-written and hopefully will remain accurate in the meantime. And I plan on adding these comments to the archive in the near future. And check out You Say It First. I keep telling people I want to show them my next comic before it comes out, well...sorry (again). The development time on my comics tends to be fairly short. Or rather, I kick around an idea for a few weeks. Then Isabel and I sit down and talk about things. She starts working furiously and within a day or two, we have a comic. So if I told you I'd give you a sneak preview of things, well, try to understand. Thanks.

02.25.04 - Terrence Marks:

We're in California. I'm not really sure what's going on. Chances are in the meantime, I've probably reorganized all the folders on my computer so things make sense. I'm really bad about having two or three music folders, having half of my website folders in one place and the rest free-floating. As is, Spare Parts works a bit differently than ND or UM or YSIF. I should write myself some documentation on things. I *hopefully* have these news things added to the archive by now. Maybe add a "skip news" button or something. I've got a tendency to code things up for one site and not put it on the others; this one especially since it's the most mine of the comics. Maybe add a weekly view to this. The Unlike Minerva archive should be rehabilitated by now - there were a lot of comics I didn't like much and didn't feel represented me. So I've got a better view of things in there now.

02.27.04 - Terrence Marks:

Yes, I'm back to playing Baldur's Gate II. No, my wife doesn't like it too much. My main goal is to go through as much of the Tortured Souls mod as I can, so I'm playing with Minsc, Aeire, Yoshimo, Kachiko, and Sime. I've got everything all tricked out and it's 95% legit. I've cheated myself up a few mind-control prevention items and tweaked the saving throws. It's just easier that way. I don't mind running low on potions. I don't mind sitting back for ten minutes while my guys regenerate. It's when I've got everybody decked in +4 equipment all around, AC -8, and some orc mage casts a confusion spell and my guys get cut down by zombies. Or I'm fighting a half-dozen spiders and get webbed. And poisoned. Repeatedly. So I just sit around taking damage. And what bugs me is that I was cutting through the same enemies in BG1 like a scythe through wheat. And I've got much cooler stuff now. I mean there I was at level 6 with a longsword +2 and maybe a magic shield if I was lucky and they were falling like flies. Now I'm level 14. I'm dual-wielding +4 axes with extra cold and electricity damage. And I'm getting beat by Shadows and Ogre Magi because some guy didn't think they were using their spells "efficiently enough". Or because he thought all the larger enemies needed ranged attack that knock your character unconscious for three rounds and send them across the screen. Or that stone golems need ranged attacks that do 3D10+5 damage twice a round. So I think I need to get into pencil & paper D&D or something. It's just that I want to beat BG2 before I start Neverwinter Nights. I've got a copy of WarCraft III that needs playing. And I want to beat Grim Fandango and Curse of Monkey Island...No, I'm not really new game people. Part of it is that there's so many games to catch up on. This was written before we left and turned out to be entirely inaccurate - TM