I got an awesome response from that feeler so the project will definitely go ahead.

I think currently the following people are tentatively onboard, please let me know if I've missed anyone:
evil_loki
whitecake
blindflower
wondergirl_kate
bluemana
hiritai
r727

And possibly more I don't know about, I actually expect more people will jump on board once we start going.

Ok, so the big question is, what topic do we start with for the first week?
I want it to be something that doesn't scare people off right away, but is still fun.
Thus I was thinking maybe we'd start with telling a funny story from any time in your life or something? The spoken word song and erotica readings sound the most amusing, but I'm afraid might not be the most open start. XD

Here's some suggestions off the top of my head to get you thinking:
- Put on a fake accent and do a poetry reading
- Read a newspaper article in a sexy tone
- Describe an object in front of you as if you're seeing if for the first time and have no idea what it is, see if listeners can guess what it is
- Read out an article or story in a character voice (your own or from a movie/show)

I'll post up the first prompt in a couple of days as I think the weekend is going to be the best chance for most people to do their recordings, so in the meantime, if you have any suggestions then fire away, as a weekly thing we can certainly do any good ones eventually.

So as whitecake posted her Star Wars awesomeness the other day, I figured I'd take a few quick snaps of my current desk setup at work to show you all what kind of shenanigans I get up to as well.

It's a shame I took the photos yesterday and not today, as Wicket has now given up on his battle with Mace Windu and has taken to making out with Yoda instead.

Click for slightly larger blurry pictures because I cbf taking in the DSLR.


Yes the trooper in my wallpaper is playing an electric guitar.

( Cut for Zebra Trooper )

Occasionally characters go missing and end up riding Pokey from Gumby on a level designers desk, or at one point I had a stuffed Chewie riding the Zebra too.
Fun times at Torus Games. :D

So as I finally jumped on that voicepost prompt from a few weeks ago and had a bit of interest from people who'd done it before and those who hadn't, I figured maybe it would be best to expand out the concept a little and give a little structure for anyone who wanted to give it another go.

What I was thinking was maybe (one a week?) I'd post a topic or theme for everyone to post on, and then you'd have that time to prepare and post something.
The key would be the topics, some examples include:
- Tell a funny story that happened to you growing up
- Do a spoken word version of a song
- How do you pronounce certain words, make up a sentence for each
- Read a small except from a piece of erotica

Anyway, I'm sure once we get thinking there'd be heaps of awesome and hilarious topics, and I'm sure it'd be heaps of fun coming up with them. Please feel free to reply with more if you can think of some.

That said, I think this is something that works best in a reasonable sized group, so who'd be up for it?
There's really no obligation, it's all a bit of fun, so if you don't like a topic, you don't need to do it, but it's more fun if you do. XD

What do you think?

So I finally got around to this voice post thing, unfortunately my voice isn't as sweet at Tristan's or as English at Lucy's, but we all make do. XD

Unfortunately voice posting isn't supported in Australia, we just got electricity last week, so you'll have to download it instead:
http://www.hornedhalo.org/files/voicepost.mp3

On the way to Napier on Thursday kawaii_mon and I stopped at a few volcanic hotspots around Rotorua.

( Photomographs! )

That's it for now, Mon took some photos around Napier which I'm sure she'll post sometime soon also :D

Hope you're all doing well!

Greetings all :D

(I wrote this yesterday, but didn't get a chance to post it until today)

If any of you read Mon's journal I'm sure you'll know we're currently in New Zealand on our honeymoon, and having a great time. :D
That said, I figured I'd give a quick run-down of what's been going on, if only so I don't forget it all later.

( Wall-O-Text )
Hope you're all having a good time too, what have you people been up to?

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me!"
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

Interviewed By: alionsheart

1. What do you hate most about your own gender?
I'm not sure I've ever thought a lot about this, but I've never liked the double standards, there's still a lot of ways that the attitude towards men is vastly different to women in society, and that's at best, don't get me started about more indoctrinated parts of the world.

2. How did you visualise your life 5 years ago, is it anything like it is now?
You know what, it probably is, 5 years ago I was still at Uni, and my plan was always to graduate, get basically the job I have now, and settle down. I don't know why, but that's always been pretty much it. I've never really been much of a player you might say. XD

3. If you could change one thing about yourself in the blink of an eye what would it be and why?
I'd probably choose to be in better shape, it's been a long time since I've done any sport or regular physical activity, it got too hard to balance with Uni, and since then I've really just been lazy. I'm a little dissapointed in myself that I gotten so unfit.

4. Liz is totally hot, can I keep her? I think her and Emlen would be hotness plus ;_;
Haha, certainly not. XD
Unfortunately Liz is all about the ladies, so I think Emlen might just have to fantasize on his own this time. ;)

5. Who would you turn gay for?
Well, Eiji, but a real person, hmmmmmm...
This is going to sound really stereotypical, but I think I'm going to have to go with Brad Pitt, I really don't get why most girls find some guys attractive, but I kind of get it with him, I get the general idea ya know? Plus he seems like a charming motherfucker.

Meet Lisette de Beaumanoir, aka. Liz

I'm going to get smaller eyes to fit this head, and I'm still umm'ing and ahh'ing about what any kind of facial piercing would look like, but this is very much her right now. :D

...
Face-up by Aeryn
Wig modding by Beck
Fangs and eye opening by Healdria

( Political meme )

I think I answered pretty strongly on most questions regarding personal freedoms, which probably explains the big swing towards cultural liberal. XD
Apart from that I'm not too far off the average.

Lisette has shipped :D
Looks like Bella's getting a late Christmas present after all.

I checked the Fairyland order page today out of curiosity and saw that she'd been dispatched from Korea on the 24th, so I expect she'll turn up early next week.
Now I need to get stuck in this weekend and make up sheets for Healdria and Hiritai to do her mods and faceups and then she'll be well on her way to awesomeness.
Her eyes and wig have shipped earlier in the week too, so it's all coming together :D

More details when I finish her "look" sheets :)

I noticed Raila was taking commissions recently, so I jumped on the chibi bandwagon. Figured it was a waste to get just Bella done, so got a nice Phoenix and Eiji couple one done too :D
I'm very happy with the way they came out, especially Bella who's starting to build quite an little art gallery of herself with awesome artists like Arenheim and Spazzly also doing her justice :D
Just a shame I don't have Liz yet, I'll have to get some more done later perhaps :S

Anyway, it made me very excited when I got into work this morning :D

... was pretty terrible XD
Mon, Aeryn and I just watched it fully expecting it to be so, just for the lols, and many lols were had.

Man the acting in that thing was terrible, the entire thing just felt like a low budget straight to DVD student film.
Anyway, I haven't read the books, please don't tell me they're good, I knew what to expect before XD

I will say though, the guy who played Carlisle was pretty amusing, he was the most obvious vampire ever created, and the girl who played Alice was cute.

But oh god, dialogue... wtf, look I know people are awkward, but even if you found a way to do that well, don't do it for EVERY LINE IN THE FILM.

But yes, I lol'd.

Yeah, I'm pretty boring, sorry. It seems I'm really only gay in a supportive fashion.
It's strange, it kind of feels like a cop out considering the amount of gay and bi friends I have, but I just don't like the cock... sorry XD

In other news, despite the exchange rate I bought Lisette today.
Man, now I have to sort out all her accessories and customisations D:

Aeryn, those back tattoos you've had on Eiji and Vin are just temporary tattoos right?
Hmm, I wonder how easy it would be to get some printed, I know work got some done recently with their logo on it...

Hmmmmmm, ideas

I'll do a post soon laying out what I have planned for Lisette.

Urban Dictionary meme:

Go to urbandictionary.com and type in your answer to each question in the search box, then write the FIRST definition it gives you.

1.) Your name:
2.) Your age:
3.) One of your friends:
4.) What should you be doing?
5.) Your favourite colour:
6.) Your birthplace:
7.) Last person you talked to:
8.) Last thing you had to drink:
9.) Your nickname:

( Answers! )

So I got married yesterday...

Pics to come soon I'd expect. XD

But seriously, best day of my life, thank you to everyone who came, and to all those who wished us well but couldn't make it or we couldn't invite.

Now I'm going to let Mon catch up on the interwebs, be back in a few hours XD

Is it wrong that I'm vaguely pleased that the first published game I worked on just got released and is on respectable private torrent trackers already? XD

"Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing."
Stolen from kawaii_mon

( Seriously, the lighting in this house sucks... )

Oh, also I got tagged a while back to do doona_chick's happy letters thing too, so I'll do that while I'm here.

( C would usually follow... )

So I think I was tagged a while back for this but forgot about it, but Mon tagged me as well, so I figure I may as well XD

The rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Then tag 10 people to post this meme on their LJs. Because it is good. Everyone needs a little happiness once in a while.

1. Mon! <3
2. New season of Dexter starting (well pre-air), and I've found the audiobooks
3. Work, I can't imagine doing something for work that I'd enjoy more than making games
4. Street Fighter IV being out in the arcades, I haven't played it much yet, but I'm really enjoying it
5. Couch Warriors is going well, the new venue is great and opportunities are starting to open up
6. I've been bringing my stick in to work recently, I think I'm going to forgo some TF2 to practice a bit more, I'm kind of disappointed with how bad my 3S and AC game has gotten
7. Dolls, I'm finding the hobby really satisfying, and I've been able to channel alot of creative energy into the characters, plus I've met some really awesome people.
8. The HIM version of Wicked Game. I fucking love this song.
9. Mon made pancakes yesterday!
10. I'm hesitant to put the wedding here, it makes me happy, but also stressed, I'll be happy when it's all in swing, but right now I'll just say I'm happy ABOUT it :)

Feel free to ignore, but I tag: batasan, mattlmorris, hyperevade, muffinbitch, imuin, tyliea, darkjoby, captbooyah, antosgx, doona_chick

So curiosity got me and I got suckered in by imuin

Rules
1. Next to each number, write only the name of the person who fits.
2. Answer one question with one name (that may be used again, in my case ;D).
3. Don't tell the questions to anyone who isn't doing the meme. If you want to know the questions, you'll have to commit to doing the meme yourself. At which time I can message you the questions :p

1. darkyoshii
2. kawaii_mon
3. No-one
4. purplejackdaw
5. mystic_plum
6. darkjoby
7. filogrrl
8. zanken
9. kawaii_mon
10. kawaii_mon
11. doona_chick
12. kawaii_mon
13. hiritai
14. imuin / discofever
15. gurumi_sunday
16. benitora
17. imuin
18. No-one?
19. nexus_tolaren
20. crackmanian
21. I'm really only guessing what this means, but: zanken
22. I'm really only guessing what this means, but: mystic_plum
23. kawaii_mon
24. I don't think I know anyone like this :/
25. alionsheart
26. kawaii_mon
27. kawaii_mon
28. batasan
29. kawaii_mon
30. These questions were kind of strange, picking someone from a list is hard :S

So I get a call today at work which took me a good minute to work out what the woman was saying because her indian accent was so thick.
Is it racist that I immediately assumed it was probably a telemarketer, and was preparing to hang up as soon as I made sure? I know that's racial profiling, but unfortunately we used to get those calls alot at the old house, and I've been conditioned to assume XD

Anyway, the call was actually from Federal Express, I thought it was customs, as I couldn't understand what the fuck she was saying, and the general gist of the conversation was that my package had been picked up by customs for being slightly over $1000 and thus I've been selected to be anally abused by Australian Customs.
I had to pay $220.10AUD :(
But on the bright side, the package is the wedding rings, so I'm pretty psyched about that :D

Lots of cool stuff turning up this week, my new arcade stick is also in the country, so should be here soon, which is my birthday present to myself.

Anyway I'm really looking forward to seeing the rings when they show up, I mean I know basically what they'll look like, but I don't wear alot of jewellery, and as this is something I'm going to be wearing for the rest of my life, it's something I'm pretty psyched about.