Ads

So I've added some ads to Triangle Dude and to the blog. Maybe you'll notice them, maybe you won't!

I've always had my own Shop Vorgus Ads on the Triangle Dude website at the bottom, but that doesn't usually do me any good unless someone actually buys some merchandise. There was a brief time when I had Google Adsense ads on the website, but, though I love Google, their ads program is terribly corrupt and easy to get kicked out of. There are tons of complaints about them on the interwebs and eventually I was kicked out too. Ever since I've just had my Shop Vorgus Ads.

I've wanted some form of ads for a while, not to make a bunch of money, but to at least offset the cost of hosting the Triangle Dude Website every month. Heck, it would be great if it could even support itself! :D Maybe one day. Anyway, I've chosen to use bidvertiser ads and tried to add them somewhere on the page that wouldn't be too distracting. If these ads don't work out I might try Project Wonderful ads. And if that doesn't work then I'll probably just dump the ads all together okay!

I will always prefer the site without ads, but if they help support Triangle Dude then so be it.

Giant Attacking Spider Crab Island

Finally, it is done. This one took a little while, but I'm happy with it's epicness. Triangle Dude pirates often find misfortune in my comics. I'm not sure why that is - I'll have to think about it for a moment.

Oh ya, it's because misfortune is funny and so are pirates! Together they are the perfect thing to laugh at. Well I wasn't done with one particular group of pirates. Yes, I saved their lives, but only to throw them back into danger, MWAHAHAHA.

The comic is now up and can be downloaded for gracing the face of your computer desktop.

Also, because this picture is big and epic it is now available on Shop Vorgus as a poster, iPad Protector, and a mouse pad. Cool stuff.

Here's a look at it :D

Om Nom Dude

I put a new Triangle Dude design up in the Shop! It is a very hungry dude willing to eat just about anything you can toss into his enormous pie hole. Check it out in the store HERE

I really have fun drawing Triangle Dudes with giant gaping mouths carved out of the sides of their faces... there's just something silly and delightful about it.

Cleverbot

I've been browsing a lot at Know Your Meme. It is an absolutely hilarious site for all things internet humor. Some of my favorite memes are...



Inglip

60's Spiderman

Milhouse is not a Meme

Internet Husband

Nigel Remix

Hipster Mermaid

Not sure if

Paula Deen Riding Things

Zuckerberg Note Pass

Socially Awkward Penguin

Okay... so there are really too many to name, just check the website out!

I also found Cleverbot through the site and had a couple conversations with it, it can be pretty smart and random and just funny at times.

House Boating!

Holidays is over! Went House Boating with the family on Shuswap Lake.

It was a blast! Swam lots, finished two books, drew a bit, ate foods, played games, and soaked up the sun! I narrowly escaped a sunburn - and I did get over a hundred bites all over ma body. Arms, legs, neck, hands, feet, body, and back... SO ITCHY. It's finally subsiding though... rotten mosquitoes and sand flea watcha-ma-callits.

Spider Crabs are Cool

Triangle Dude has resumed! Back in action after my holiday. We got some hooligan wizards messing up a storm of trouble, trouble I say!

The Wizards

Also, while I was away it was requested for me to do some new sort of epic picture for possible desktop wallpaperness. There was something else I wanted to do, but it didn't feel quite as epic... then after thinking for a bit I decided I might as well revisit the crew of the S.S. Gets Attacked By Octopus.

In the near future I should hopefully get a new picture out tied to that same crew :D

Here's a sketch I did while I was away - it'll give an idea for what'll be coming up!

Time Travel

Currently there is Time Travel storyline going on at Triangle Dude's website! It's a 4-parter with crazy time travel shenanigans.

Time travel and time in general has always been a fascinating thing for me. What is time exactly anyway? A measurement of moments between two distinct moments such as a beginning and an end... something like that!

The idea that one could travel between said moments in a non-linear fashion is intriguing, complicated, and paradoxically confusing. It's all good fun though :D

Astronaut Design

I have a new design in the shop? Wow. It's been ages since I've done much art besides Triangle Dude drawing stuffs. I suppose I've been in the mood. I did a little doodley of an astronaut a week or two ago and liked the idea and way it looked. I decided I'd make a go at it and make it look more polished.


I'm happy with the result :) Skeletons are always cool to look at. I like to think there's some sort of crazy radiation or super light out there in space that's acting like an xray on the space explorer... exposing his inner workings. Anywho, here's a link! Astronaut Design.

This is a Triangle Dude Post

It's been a while since I've posted anything about Triangle Dude - but that's alright. He understands. I'm a busy guy - and so is he. He's been up to plenty of shenanigans lately.

I'm proud to say I haven't skipped any days this year so far. I've gotten a comic out every day I was supposed to! Also, it's amazing, but Triangle Dude is closing in on comic #300. The big Three O O. Oh boy.

Triangle Dude has enjoyed about 170,000 visitors with about 430,000 page views from 147 different countries. United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland being the big 5 countries to check out Triangle Dude.

Readership is alright, it was never huge, but I think it's finally recovered after my long hiatus :D

Aren't statistics fun? I think so. Thank you Google Analytics.

Digital Chamber

Hey! I was recently asked to do some artwork for a digital album cover. The music in the album is based off video games! Rpg's to be more precise. Video game music is the bomb. Someone set us up the bomb.

The album is called Digital Chamber and it's available on Bandcamp. The awesome music is by none other than Curtis Zondag. He's done a really good job of creating this music - it sounds like it would be right at home in some epic RPG.

Here's a blurb about the album:

"This album is dedicated to gamers young and old. The digital orchestra recreates the feeling of old role-playing games. Featured in this album is Quest Suite, a 4-part journey filled with peril. Press start and be on your way."

Wicked. Here's some quick sketches I did followed by the completed piece :D

MS Paint Adventures

Today, I have come to tell you about probably one of the most amazing "web comics" I have ever had the pleasure to read. MS Paint Adventures is amazing! I am currently reading "Homestuck" which is the current story in progress.

The comics are based on old school text based adventure games. The "Player," AKA the reader is typing in commands to progress the story and the characters. This is not to say you can actually control the characters or the story - it's just been set up to look that way. Instead of a typical "Next" button to continue to the next page the reader clicks a command which relates to what is currently happening. This was a totally original and creative thing to me and it works very well.

The comic pages usually comprise of an image and some text below it for the reader to read. There is more however, as many pages are also animated gifs and some are even full flash animations with sound. It's quite the experience to read through.


The humour is great and the story is even better. Homestuck's storyline involves numerous characters, time travel, video games, and all sorts of crazy happenings and shenanigans. I haven't finished Homestuck yet, (the comic is still a work in progress at the moment) I'm on about page 2000... and there's still a bit for me to get through before I'm all caught up.

Also, there's some excellent music made by all sorts of people to go along with Homestuck.

Homestuck Vol. 1
Homestuck Vol. 4
Homestuck Vol. 7

There's a lot more out there.

Epic Warhammer Clobbering

Been a while since I posted pictures from a Warhammer battle (to be honest I've just forgotten to bring my camera to any other games). So I finally remebered to bring that camera thingamabob and snapped these pics.

It's a 3000 point game, me and a friend using Chaos and Vampire Count versus my friend's High Elves. As you can see there is a rather large unit on the other side of the table... that would be a 80 squad of High Elf Spearmen! Biggest unit I've ever seen. It's hard to believe that's the whole 3000 point army over there :P but it is.


So later on the Spearmen finally engaged my Grave Guard and were unable to punch through thanks to some Helm of Commandment Magic and the units toughness and armor. Some Chaos chewed through some High Elf Swordmasters and swung in to engage the flank, and some Trolls came in on the other flank... Things don't look good for the High Elves, but it gets worse!


My Vampire Lord uses "The Withering" reducing the High Elf Spearmen's toughness to a measly "1" and the Chaos Caster manages to get off "Static seizures" causing a toughness test on the High Elves... needless to say a toughness test where "1" is your only save is... catastrophic! About 60 died, brutal!

Drafting Class

Here's one of my final projects for one of this semester's drafting classes. Basically it was a "paste-up day" where everyone puts together stuff for a final display. This is mine!

I decided to try something a little different and made a three dimensional floor plan for my house as well as put together some snazzy renders. It took a lot of work to make these floor plans, but I'm real happy about 'em - they even have itsy, tiny windows!

Adventure Time Episodes

Anyone remember Adventure Time? I hope so. And if not it's not the end of the world, but if you miss this then it might just be the end of the world! OH NO! Fire, everywhere, just all up the place ya know.

So I promptly watched the first season over and over again and waited for the second season then kind of.. umm... forgot about it... NOOO! But luckily I've found a website where you can watch all the episodes online! :D

There's other cartoons on this site as well, but I've mostly just checked out Adventure Time.

Revit Animation

So my drafting class has been going good and this semester is coming to an end. I've finished my final projects HOORAY! Now, I'd like to share one of them with yous peoples, it's my final animation assignment for one of my classes.

Check it out Here!

Inuyasha... and other Anime!

I've recently been obsessed with watching some anime. It's great - what can I say. I recently finished watching Gundam Wing Double Zero (or something along those lines, honestly there's like a bazillion different Gundam shows!) and also Inuyasha!

Both great! Inuyasha has close to 200 episodes! It's nuts, I don't wanna do the math and think about how much time I spent watching them all over a period of three weeks.

Anyways, I found a great site with lots of anime for you to watch via the internetz!

Check out

TDComics

Tdcomics is going swimmingly! I love saying that word. Swimmingly. I wish I could use it in 60% of my sentences.

So far I've showed no signs of slowing down - still at 2 comics a week. Not bad! Considering how many other projects I got on the go. Oh, plus a video game. What's that? A Triangle Dude video game you ask? Well most certainly perhaps. Only time will tell :D

Anywho, check out some Pokemon inspired Triangle Dude goodness in Catch Em All.

Mario Candy!

My friend got these for me (along with Pokemon Black, yeee!) and they are sweet. Quite literally. Inside these awesome looking tins was candy! I have already consumed all candy, and it was delicious. The mushroom had these little cherry mushrooms in it, and the question box had coins! COINS! (Candy coins)

Transparent Vinyl

Woo! I finally got my STRFKR transparent vinyl record not too long ago! Isn't it fancy with a capital ANCY? Hadn't heard of this band either until recently and I instantly fell for them. It's catchy catchy stuff.


Here's a song, because songs are neato. Rawnald Gregory Erickson

Minecraft Server!

Okay, yes, another Minecraft post. I promise this will be the last for a while! Finally got an isometrically rendered version of the server I play on - it's a friend of a friend's server. Those who are interested the server is: game.zeenixcraft.net

When you first login you'll only be a guest and will only be able to look around. Make an account on the forum if you want actually build stuff etc. This is to deter griefers mostly.


The map is pretty huge, but the whole thing hasn't even been explored yet, we're still a long way off. There's about 6-8 more regular players at the moment, about 12-15 in all.

For a larger view where you can actually zoom in a bit check link out: Zeenixcraft Map

You can see Cascadia in the map! It's dwarfs every other thing on the server and is visible from space! (space being zoomed way way out)

Minecraft - Cascadia!

Cascadia is complete. This thing took forever. Well, it seemed like it. Over three weeks to be more accurate. Not full time of course, I still manage to kind of have a life... (who am I kidding lol).

I built this multiple disc city landscape for people to build houses on. It contains over 112,000 pieces of dirt and over 35,000 pieces of glass. It's all collected and manufactured too. It's on a friend of a friend's server.

Anywho, here's a picture.


There are more pictures here!

Minecraft - OINK

Yes. It's Minecraft. Pigs are funny.