Chuckdee

THANKS Y'ALLS very very much for all the Birthday Wishes!!!

... been busy and I've been neglecting my DA page a bit as of late (hard to gauge where to invest time nowadays with so much damn social media! >__<  ), I gotta get on the ball and start posting again!

Thanks again Y'alls!!!

Carlos

I apologize for not getting back to those of you who sent me "notes" sooner... I had neglected this account for a bit, but I will start answering the notes as free time allows... THANK Y'alls very very much! (:


Carlos.

... thank you very very very much for supporting "Artist Alley" (AND thank you very much for the better chairs 'cause the old ones were Inquisition-style-torture devices!!!) .... the MASSIVE success of SDCC has made it super-mainstream and with all the good comes the (inevitable) bad ... BUT without the Artists working with simple paper and pencil (or it's digital twin) there would be no gazillion dollar franchises paying for gazillion dollar booths.

So thank you DA!!! "Artist Alley" is STILL and will always be SDCC's beating-heart!

peace!

Carlos D'

p.s. ... oh yeah! the big screens are pretty cool too!!!

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Ok, so I FINALLY finished ME3!!!

Right when the game came out, I was smack in the middle of JLA deadlines, so as painful as it was, I had to keep the game in the wrapper and WAIT!…. then I started to see rumblings online of discontent (and some just plain ANGRY) regarding the end… I avoided reading any of them until I could see the ending for myself……

I'm a pretty damn big Mass Effect fan (probably my favorite game... ever), so my own expectations were unrealistically high for the third game, and if I may say so; BIOWARE surpassed (with flying colors!!!) 99.9% of them, and did so in a beautiful, emotional, and existential way…. the last .01% was… an "odd" choice, but nothing that (to me) detracted from how amazing a journey the games were.

I understand where the gripes are coming from regarding the epilogue or ending (whatever you wanna call it), and yeah, I do agree that it ended rather "abruptly" for characters we've been caring for for the last 150+ hours, and also the 'choices' at the end; why bother if they're so similar? ….. BUT as far as storytelling is concerned, I have a hard time thinking of any other movie or game in a loooooong long time that had anywhere near the depth, complexity and emotion that ME3 had… The topics that were being "discussed" in that game were INSANELY complex and handled BEAUTIFULLY throughout, BUT specially in the third one…. damn… I am just jealous that I wasn't part of that creative team!


BRAVO Bioware, you made (and I don't use this word often) a MASTER PIECE of modern story telling!!!

p.s. I'm pretty damn curious to see what Bioware does to the 'ending DLC' they're working on ... I for one, really respect their creative decision to keep the ending the same, but I do hope they give us a bit more details on what happened to all the other characters we came to care for.

let us now discuss!

I have watched Game of Thrones (the season) about ten times now... Breaking Bad, the Walking Dead, Fringe, Boardwalk Empire ... what else.... well, a ton more, BUT I need some suggestions on good shows that serve as 'background noise'.... I'm tired of all my music and I need some 'non-visually-distracting' entertainment.

.......suggestions??? ... and preferably stuff that is better to 'listen to'... otherwise I end up watching the damn thing! heheheh

aaaand thank you very much!