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Can someone please explain what the big deal about Doom 3 is? Seriously? I must have read like five hundred pages of reviews and comments and movies and so on and I haven't heard of anything at all that sounds like it hasn't already been beaten to death by a half-dozen other "me too" sci-fi first-person shooters. Every review of Doom 3 I've seen lists a score of features that were state-of-the-art when System Shock 3 did them five years ago, and then at the end gives it a rating of, like, nine out of ten, or something. What am I missing here? I'd probably buy it myself, just out of curiosity, if I wasn't having flashbacks to the Quake 3 release.
Page is up. Sorry if you get any pixellation on the text, I had to wrestle with the quality slider a bit.
You know how there's that secret out there, and some people know what it is, but you don't? That sucks, especially when you're like "hey, the secret is that they're happy with themselves", and then you go and be happy with yourself, but that must not have been the secret, cuz' nothing changed. Or maybe what changed is that you're happy with yourself. But you don't know, cuz' you didn't really change yourself anyway, because that's really hard.
Some days I'm convinced I've found it, others...
Apologies for the moroseness in my last entry... we all have off days every now and then, I have no doubt, so I hope you can forgive me :P
Heh, anyway, if you know me irl you probably know of the horrific travel times I have to endure going to and from university (and likely as not, you share them). Well, a couple of mornings ago I was listening to A Rush of Blood to the Head on the bus as it was speeding down the freeway, and... I don't know what it was, the sound of the engine layered under the hauntingly beautiful music, or the way just the right amount of breeze came in through the window, but everything felt right. I started doing what I usually do in these rare occurrences of intense clarity, which is thinking about my life.
I've felt for a long time that while I'm really happy with what I'm doing with Cion, I'm not really getting my feelings through to you guys, not only through the comic, but through what I write here, and I haven't been able to work out why. Maybe I use "I" too much (and I wouldn't - er... that wouldn't surprise me), maybe the way I write is stilted... I'm definitely not like that in real life, but I sometimes feel that I come across that way on the net.
Sitting there thinking about the main reason that I want to write, which is to have a positive effect on other peoples lives through telling a story, I started to see conflict between that and my determination do work on Cion "for myself". This determination was caused by seeing too many comic creators not only pandering to their audience but also running themselves ragged to please others, and I didn't want to get caught in the same trap. It now seems that, while pandering is a problem, it's also a problem if you go too far the other way. I don't want to write Cion only for myself, I want to share it with you guys.
So from now on, while I won't drop out of uni to get the website done earlier, I also won't force myself not to acknowledge that you exist. You all are as much a part of Cion as I am. And I feel a lot better for admitting it.
Now to the news! The text on the page is a bit hard to read (the black on blue), and I should be able to fix it up soon. I've got some interesting ideas for the thought boxes, but I'm not sure whether I'm going to be able to get any of them working. Stay tuned!
Kail has the page done and sent, but things have been super hectic over here and I haven't been able to text it yet. Sorry :| I should have it done by Monday or Tuesday Aus time. In the meantime, have a fixed up page 9!
