I'm surprised I haven't seen these posted yet, but here they are: another reason to love Atlus.
(if these have already been posted, kindly tell me and I'll hide this)

A few months back I posted some screen shots from the upcoming Watchman game and expressed my displeasure in seeing Alan Moore's work bent over the table and pumped for all its worth, well I find that my faith in Watchmen being a decent movie has been dealt another serious blow. And it's thanks to the following song being included on the soundtrack, while I felt the Smashing Pumpkins song with the announcement trailer was a appropriate I have to wonder about the rest of the choices in music after seeing this:

My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row


That's right --- a cover of a Bob Dylan song by fucking My Chemical Romance. I pray this isn't an indicator of the quality of music that will be in the film. Well, at least if it turns out to be crap I can't say I got my hopes up.

First things first, the winner of my give-away for the uh-oh HAWP shirt is Nebones, for the others that entered, keep reading as I'm giving away another shirt.

In more exciting news, I'm finally putting my shirts up for sale. Every shirt is made with love by me and can be customized by the the buyer as they wish (well, within the limits of what I can do). I want my small business to be community based and I'm hoping that I'll actually have enough support to be able to pull this off. I'm currently taking pre-orders on shirts, which requires no money down, I'd just like to know what designs will be popular and get an idea of how many shirts I'll need to be ordering. If you're interested you can check can go here: http://www.myspace.com/solidgoombagraphics. This has both my pricing and all of the designs I've made to date (except for the poop shirt). If you already know what you'd like then feel free to go ahead and shoot me an email at solidgoombagraphics@gmail.com

As for prices:

Custom Plain Text T-shirt: $13 (add a dollar for front and back text)
Any design that i've already made: $15 (add a dollar to this for custom text)
Custom Hand Print shirt: $18+ (this just depends on how complicated it is to make or how much time making the design takes)

And my celebratory contest:
Simply leave a comment and you're automatically entered to win. I'll draw a winner on December 21st.

And now for some more shirt's I"ve recently made


One of my favs as I love goombas, inspired by the don't tread on me flag


When I say boom boom boom, you say bam bam bam; no pause inbetween, c'mon lets jam


This is for anyone who wants to have teenage girls ripping off their shirt, but probably not in the good way

I was on a shirt making kick this weekend and ended up making four shirts plus two hoodies, most are game related.

As for the HAWP shirt it's easy to see I messed it up, which is why I'm giving it away. Think of it is an uh-oh oreo, sure it's a little screwed up, but it's still there. I rushed it, which unfortunately shows and I plan on making another at a later date.

If you want said HAWP shirt simply post a comment saying that you want it. (It's a size Medium) Tomorrow morning I'll announce a winner along with another announcement for those of you missed out on winning this one. Good luck!


From here it doesn't look to bad


Yea I think the screw up is fairly apparent

oh, and here's the hoodies, both inspired by a Dr. McNinja shirt


I made this one for my friend for Christmas


And my version of the Batman shirt

I'm writing this blog as a reaction to Jim's post earlier today. While I agree with Jim that the live community has been plagued for some time by a certain caste of gamers, I feel he undermined his post by the use of profanities, name calling, and sweeping generalizations. So here I am with a much more positive reaction to people who don't seem to know how to play L4D properly.
You'd think these would be common sense, but as I've discovered playing random games while waiting for my gf and friend to get online they aren't.
(If I missed anything, which I'm sure I did, please suggest it and I'll update the list as I feel necessary and of course give you credit where it is due)

1. Duck!
If you're going to be the first one through every door way then have the common sense to crouch. This way your teammates can actually shoot without having to worry about taking you out along with whatever might pop out. It's as easy as the press of a button and you get the bonus of better accuracy and not having to worry about accidental friendly fire.

2.Stick with the group
I realize that some people like being "in the action" but when you're running ahead of your teammates your putting both you and them at an unnecessary risk that will more than likely result in your team having to save you later. If you must go ahead then take point, but remember rule 1 and never get any further ahead of your team than they can accurately shoot at.

3. You have a melee, use it!
In my time with L4D, I've found that most friendly fire is either the result of people not paying attention to my 1st rule or senselessly shooting when melees are just as effective. Sure you can take the infected down faster by shooting them, but what good does it do when your friend takes more damage from your shots than the infected would have dealt had he taken care of them himself?

4.You don't have to kill special infected to get them off
To an extent this isn't much different than rule 3, but I've noticed most people prefer to kill the special infected that may have a friend unable to move instead of knocking them off. Sure sometimes it's quicker to go ahead and shoot that smoker, but what about if you can't see it? I consider L4D a survival action game (though others might say survival-horror, I really didn't find it that scary) with an emphasis on survival, every bit of health is precious and by trying to go after that smoker while leaving your friend tied up they're loosing it. Just knock the tongue off him and find the zombified Pigpen before his attack recharges.

5.Health is the team's
Look at that, there's four health packs, one for each of you, once you use yours better hope you find another or you're SOL right? Wrong! Don't be stingy with your health if you're sitting at 80% while your friend is bleeding out do the right thing and heal him, if he's worth anything as a teammate he'd do the same for you.

6.Don't use a health pack when pills will do
For me this ties right back into the survival aspect of the game. Both pills and health packs are a commodity, but health packs are in shorter supply. If you're hurt, but not bleeding out use those pills instead of wasting a health pack, you'll be glad you did when you get the message telling you your last knock down means death.

7.Help a downed teammate
This seems like it should be common sense, but I've seen numerous occasions where someone would get incapacitated and instead of taking the five seconds to pick them up the team just left them to die. This is a team game if that's not obvious and you need all four people to be at your peak, so it's in your best interest to make sure everyone makes it through alive.

8.Don't startle the witch!
Another common sense rule that I see a number of people disregard. When the team turns off their flashlights and starts sneaking around, checking every corner for the emotional wreck that is the witch it does them no good for you to do your best Steve Irwin impression and go agitate her.

9.The horde warnings are there for a reason.
I know how tempting it is to do something once someone tells you not to, but you're not winning any friends when you set off the car alarm and alert the horde; plus, the "I didn't know you could set if off by jumping on it," excuse only works once. Also, if your team is gearing up for a big standoff with the horde, don't be a wiseguy and activate whatever it is while everyone has their pants down.

10.There's no "I" in "team"
Yes it's a cliche, I'm fully aware of that, but this is a great governing principle when trying to fight off the infected. I think every one of my other rules can be summed up with this one, when you're doing something think of the other 3 too. Running through a campaign of L4D should bring everyone together so when you get to the final credits everyone can laugh at the statistics and not see, "In memory of ___"

So I made yet another HAWP related shirt, I really like this one, though I messed it up a bit at the top cause I rushed. >.< As a reminder the last day to get in an entry for the Katamari shirt contest is Monday so if you're interested you can find that here Once that contest is over I'll be announcing my next shirt giveaway along with something I'm quite excited about. I also noticed on there is some demand for a "Too Late, Enjoy the Poop!" shirt, I have a design not sure if I want to use it or not and would appreciate any input. I'm currently working on some other game related shirts, but haven't had a chance to finish them yet, I'll post them once I'm done if anyone's interested.




Ok, not video game related, but I love this shirt.