"Tell me
I'm not alone

Tell me
We are not alone in this world
Fighting against the wind

Do you remember the time
When simple things made you happy?

Do you remember the time
When little things made you laugh?

You know
Life can be simple

You know
Life is simple

Because
The best thing in life is yet to come

Because....
The best is yet to come."

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Six hours in, this is gonna be a doozy.
Would've started on this sooner, but computer is broken (again) and I don't have a Wacom Tablet at home anyway.

The big question is what does the Elder Burch wear below the belt?

Because I'm assuming it's nothing at this point.
Hi resolution link in the "gallery" below.
The 2nd image is funnier if you know the context behind it.

If you were at the HAWP panel at PAX, you'll know they are looking for DVD menu, etc. art. Hit them up with something fierce.

Latest story from Famitsu.


Sorry, Until scans are up this is what you have for the time being. Seeing that these are the only ones that can come to America and the sales of the first were passable, one can hope it'll come soon.

Until then, enjoy the [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWEywsFnFBs"]Ialdabaoth[/url] in the corner, elf girls made for fanservice, FORCED EVASION, and the fisticuff prefering protagonist that resembles Folka.

When I get sleepy, I draw to keep myself awake. And at PAX, with less than 5 hours of sleep a night, being awake was the key. So I drew a lot.

Here's a big mural like thing I did.
Will I ever paint this or do anything crazy with it, who knows?
(BTW, Dan Paladin drew the knight in the mid left)


And here's some quick caricature sketches I did of different Dtoiders whilst failing into a sleepy stupor.
My only regret is I didn't bring my good pens.


If you want sketches done of you without your knowledge as well by a creepy stranger it's as easy as coming to PAX next year. I should find the old pictures I did the year prior.
You can view the images in a larger resolution below.

What's the most important event on the strongest day of the year, September 9th, 2009?
Well, that's easily Cirno day.
A idiotic character from the Touhou series, her popularity has been increasing as of late.

Cirno's Pefect Math class


Cited from Touhou Wiki:
[i] * Cirno is known for her childishness (read: stupidity), so the term "Cirno" is often used instead of "baka"(バカ, fool) as a pun in the Japanese Touhou community. Apparently, even ZUN himself wasn't an exception; in the manual for Phantasmagoria of Flower View, she is labeled as "9. Moron" in an explanation of the game screen's layout...

* Due to the infamous manual screenshot, Cirno has been nicknamed "Nine-ball" or simply "⑨".

* The date "09-09-09" (Wednesday September 9 2009 09:09:09 more specifically) has been named "Cirno day" for obvious reasons. This day everything (for some reason) could be translated into nine. For example: September 9 is the 252th day of the year 2 + 5 + 2 = 9, you need 9 letters to type Wednesday and September and Japan's timezone is +9. Other names for this day include "The strongest day" and "⑨ day". [/i]

Chirumiru PV


Despite dying from Swine Flu, I managed to do a Cirno Drawing in about 30 minutes. Speeded up for your convience. Enjoy.

Cirno in Flash


Many of you wanted to known for awhile how I draw in Flash with a mouse anyway:
Well, it's through a method I call dragging subtraction. I draw lines larger than I need to and with CTRL, I make them the perfect size. Setting the smoothing on your PaintBrush to 100 is recommended as well. I don't use the line tool at all. I recommend drawing out and scanning your original work with pen/pencil first though. Didn't have the time to pre plan this one.

As you can see online, many others are celebrating as well
Cirno Cake

While at PAX, I was completely fine and even on Monday, I had no problems whatsoever.
However, yesterday, I started getting dizzy and having a uncontrollable runny nose. This morning, I woke up with a severe headache and my core temperature has shifted.

As Kotaku has reiterated (and if you want to see folks act like jerks, check the comments, obviously, more people could care less about bad things until it happens to them), officials at PAX have confirmed a case of Swine Flu, and as to be expected, many people, including other D-Toiders have gotten sick.

I'm going into the doctors tommorow if things get worse, what sucks for me is that I have finals next week and this is the last thing I needed. But anyway, I highly recommend getting yourself checked out and staying away from work/school or other people in general.

No need to panic either, swine flu is contagious, dangerous, and a pain to deal with, but if you're taking precautions or treatments, it usually shouldn't affect you with more symptoms than a normal flu.

Here's some basic information:


And now for something far more uplifting:


Also, generic consensus, I'm curious who else from Destructoid or PAX 09 in general got sick in some way or another.
I'll be uploading those pictures I drew at PAX later, I wish you all a good day.

In a project that started all the way back in 2002, the fan translation of Hideo Kojima's classic adventure game, Policenauts is apparently going to be released at 12:00 PM today (despite what the poster may say).


The Policenauts Translation Project Team has been working on this for awhile, and like the Mother 3, Alpha Gaiden, and other translation groups, they deserve a look. I know one of the guys that worked on it from Gattai Subs. (Who are currently subbing Shin Mazinger Z-Hen)
This will be based off the PSX version (which means better graphics and loading I assume).


So here's to something that'll probably take up a lot of my time this coming week.
I'll update if something goes amiss.

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