What tenerife is REALLY like

Tenerife is a lovely island with beautiful sunshine and it's the perfect place to relax...

Well it would be if it wasn't for the following:

FLIES - Jesus christ I've never seen so many. They seemed to just congregate outside our flat so that everytime we ate there we were bothered by the bugs all the time. Oh and they're fast little buggers too. I think I managed to kill two the entire time I was there and I thought that was an accomplishment.

PIRACY - This wasn't so bad. I just felt the cheapness of the electronics shop nearby was apparant with pirated GBA games. There wasn't any attempt to hide it either. Those 125 in 1 games don't exist officially. Also Chelsea baseball bats! WTF? Chelsea are a FOOTBALL (SOCCER) team, why would they make Baseball bats?

BENDY ROADS AND SUICIDE DRIVERS - WTF? Who decided to make roads up and down mountains with hundreds of bends, some without barriers and a huge drop at the side. What makes things even worse is the fact that drivers there are insane. On those bendy roads where you're being careful scared half to death that you may crash into something or fall off, the locals are speeding! I'm surprised I never saw a crash the way they drive.

WASTELANDS - Half the island seems unfinished. We couldn't even reach our hotel (which was five minutes away from the airport) without seeing what looked like a nuclear bomb site. Not to mention the half finished buildings that just seem abandoned. It's ugly and it spoils what might be a nice island.

NO ITV2 OR CHANNEL FIVE - Wouldn't be so bad if crucial Champions league qualifiers for Man Utd (My fav team) and Everton (my dads fav team) weren't on those channels last wednesday

At least, unlike the COSTA DEL SOL there weren't any pathetic musicians interrupting your meals and having the cheek to ask for money, even though they sound like shit. And if it's not musicians it's a salesman trying to sell you PIRATED movies and CD's or shitty statues. WE DON'T WANT THAT SHIT LOSERS.

Well anyway I'm back in the UK now with the house to myself. Samba will be coming downstairs soon. Though I come back to find TGN fucked, 6 job rejection letters and my good friend The Virus has RSI. Life as normal I guess, messed up.

Never did anything in tenerife, though I have a picture of old miles drawn (did that before I left). I'll colour and shade that soon.

Holiday Annoucement

I'm off to tenerife this Friday, and I'm leaving for Glasgow airport tomorrow night.

I'll be gone for a week, though if I can find a computer with the net I'll check up on things.

In the meantime enjoy Chapter 3 of Two Tribes. A little dialogue heavy but it's really more for setting the scene.

Update 7

My new SA0 cover is more or less finished now. I'm actually quite proud of it, I have my fan file open at my own printout as I type this.

Sorry for not updating Two Tribes or starting Deep Pressure. My family hogged the computer, keeping me up way too long.

BTW have you checked my last post's comments? I got spam! My first comment in ages and it's spam. Wait a minute nobody reads this anyway, oh well.

Update 6 / DA

Sorry I haven't made an official update yet

Pic of Angel Storm Rose and the start of a new SA0 cover page are up on my DA

Speaking of DA it's starting to worry me.

The whole Jark thing didn't bother me too much. I'm not into the DA community it's merely a tool for me to archive artwork for my fics.

However is Mayshing's latest Journal entry is anything to go by then all of DA's members are at risk of legal thievery.

The link there leads to another journal entry that takes apart the DA terms and conditions and shows the truth. I was surprised that DA expect you to agree that THIRD PARTIES can use YOUR art work without the need to ASK YOUR PERMISSION. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that plagurism (unless I've spelt it wrong)?

How can I feel safe knowing that some random company can use my art for their own gain? Ok I admit I'm far from the best artist there, though that's not the point.

What the hell is happening at DeviantART? I've just got settled in and all this shit starts.

Jack thompson, enemy to gaming

I don't know why he's on a crusade against gamers. Perhaps a gamer molested him as a child, the thing is he's a very dangerous man who's a threat to good mature gaming everywhere.

If you don't know Jack Thompson is the idiotic Lawyer who insists any crime that could, even in the slightest, be linked to videogames, is the fault of the developers who make videogames. He's on a crusade to stop t3h evil games being made.

Recently his actions have been:
1. Accusing Rockstar of corrupting America's youth by means of the INDEPENDANT MOD Hot coffee
2. Hit out at EA for having nude models, despite being completely censored by blur, in The sims
3. Hit out at Killer 7 for being twisted, gory and has a sex scene.

1. Hot coffee was not done by Rockstar. It may have been something they did but they since removed it. Now correct me if I'm wrong but if a censor would make a rating higher than what you want because of a feature, you would remove that feature. Surprise Surprise, they did.

They (as in Jack and Hilary Clinton) may have a point about the rating needing to be higher in light of the mod, from "R" to "AO" (Why are American rating systems so much more awkward). But that's it, move on already.

2. Nudity is blurred. Do I have to explain why that's acceptable?

Of course not. Though The Sims is meant to be the gaming equivalent of a reality show. Create characters and see what happens. Now I would like to point out more hysteria regarding a certain housemates actions on Big Brother (UK version). Kinga got drunk and masterbated (or simulated masterbation) with a wine bottle.

People then blamed CHANNEL 4 for showing the acts of housemate in a reality show that is not only about reality but about videotaping everything that happens in that house.

It was also Live. You don't censor out the swearing at footy matches, hell you don't do it on highlight shows.

The point is you can't have Reality and Restrictions. Picking out The sims is a sign of desperation

3. Killer 7 is a game about being weird and twisted. For that reason it is rated Mature/18. The sex scene you talk about contains absolutely no nudity. The girl rides the bloke wearing a skirt covering up any penetration and no boobs are shown. I've seen more nudity in a 15 rated movie. So I really do not see your point.

By LAW minors are not meant to be playing this game.

It's not the developers fault is the store clerks sell the game illegally, or a parent's ignorance brings the game into their child's hands. I was in GAME the other day and there was the kid, couldn't be older than 10, picking out GTA:SA from the pre-owned section. The parent would've bought it for him and I felt like giving her a piece of my mind.

Do they think those symbols mean anything different for games than they do for movies? No they don't. All Developers/publishers/censors can do is rate the product appropriately. If Kids get their hands on these titles then blame is not on them, but on parents/stores.

Any idiot can see that, except of course Jack Thompson.

VGcats and CAD articles on the matter were very funny and showed his ignorance.

Your crusade against gaming must stop Mr Thompson. You don't have any facts and you're angering a community. A community of Hardcore gamers, and trust me that's a very big community.

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UPDATE:

ID badge on DA. Eclipsed is finished, Deep Pressure is planned and Chapter 2 of Two Tribes is up.

Update 5

Done lots of stuff.

on My DA there's a pic of Sonic as Mario and Mario as Sonic, pictures of Metal Joz and Super Joz, A new scrap of a fight between Joz and Sapphire and a 3 Shadows COMIC!

for Fanfiction I've now completed Eclipsed and I'm halfway through Chapter 2 of Two Tribes.

Art update 3

A sketch for Grey and one for Red (Two of the Seven Chaos Demons) are on my DA, alongside a pic of Virus, Joz and Blasphemy.

update 4

Chapters 8 and 9 of Eclipsed are up

There's also a pic of Mecha Tails and Tweeter for SilverenX on my DA