week 20 : He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot

Snazzyham here with another random update. So I’ve decided to completely re-design the technocastle youtube to make it more proffesional. This includes adding an Intro/Outro and a watermark to all the video’s as well as adding a new better looking logo and channel design, look out for this in the coming weeks.

Another thing technocastle related to look forward for is a new podcast that A friend and I are starting that will be distributed under the snazzyham industries name. I’ll tell you more soon.

The final bit of news we have today is the awesomest bit of news. As you know the TechnoCastle family is ever expanding and we have a new Editor! So please welcome aboard Prithvi Vasandani, he has potential to become a great writer and achieve his dream for getting a proficiency award in english . You can also check out his personal blog and follow him on the twitterverse @p_vasandani.

cheerio,

SnazzyHam

More flowers.

Just Flowers.

It’s been a busy and funny week.  Here’s the update :-

Tall Girl is on brief to join us for a threesome soon. Sexually it will work, we’ve had our dry (or is that wet?) run one-on-one and all three together (virtually). I’m not worrying about a hardened heart any more, she is fully appraised of the situation, so I don’t feel like I’m manipulating her in any way. I’m absolved. It’s more fun to play when it’s fair. We’ve talked through all the pros and cons and feelings and what do to if she freaks out. So we’ll have to wait and see and do now. I’m seeing it as a sexy adventure, we’ll start the hike and see where it leads, there’s no pressure or too much of a plan.

Sex toys will be a great part of us playing and we’re going sex toy shopping first plus lots of girlie fun planned before we meet the boy (cocktails, vintage clothes shopping, buying delicious sex snacks from my favourite deli to share later, watching the beautiful gay boys sashay past in Soho that kind of thing).

Some surprises this week – Tall Girl’s husband was very off with me. She looked like she was caught in the headlights so I had to enquire what that was all about. We have to be very careful and discrete about our shennigans for obvious reasons. I assumed he’d picked up on the sexy vibe between me and her and didn’t approve. I may well be a corrupting force (depending on how you see things) but I don’ t want anything coning back to my doorstep – I’m enjoying all my sexual escapades and if I got found out I would most likely end up being sent to an Italian nunnery. I have a fantasy about priests and confessionals and churches but I suspect the reality wouldn’t be so sexy.

Anyway I text her later to check out what’s up. She admits she needs to relax around him and then she says her husband really fancies me. Fuck. Didn’t expect that one. They have been talking about threesome themselves. Oh no. No. No. No. I emphatically say that is never happening to her.  She says she feels the same. Glad we got that cleared up.  I say I have Schmuck and all my filth is with him. Him only. Sometimes (always if it was up to the boy) with others like her to join us if they want – but for me it’s always together with him. Got it. She got it. Now when she is buying sex toys funded by her husband  I know he will be thinking about me and her.  That just makes me laugh.

Then there’s Finance Dad. Very scheming and very cold. He’s very close friends with Tall Girl and her husband, he’s married to Straight Girl. Straight girl’s very glossy and very coporate wife, nice but straight as a die. She likes to flirt with the idea of being a minx in a bid to be alpha femal ,which she is in many ways, but she’s not genuinely sexually deviant or an explorer like me. In the past, Tall Girl had a major crush on Straight Girl and had hoped something might happen – lots of stroking thighs and pinching ass and giggles but nada. I suspect that Tall Girl has been so keen to get her head buried in any pussy that even the slightest flirt would send her over the edge (judging by the events in the churchyard). The long and the short of it is, Financial Dad was at a party recently and I admit I was wasted. It was just one of those evenings that I decided to match every man beer for beer as all the ladies sipped on their wine (so deadly dull I had to do the opposite). I sat next to him and don’t much recall what I said. I do remember him alluding to the fact that Tall Girl was filthy and he watched us intently when we were together – all night. I do know that I mentioned the Torture Garden and how funny it was and then we meandered on to clubbing and Ibizia and the steam room at his pallatial mansion and he said  we could all go there and get naked. I went quiet then and the very clever Barrister Dad on my other side went very equally silent. He then said he was imagining me, Tall Girl and Straight Girl in the steam room. I got up and left the table. It felt as though things were getting tricky. Very tricky indeed.

I thought nothing more of this. Until recently of course when Straight Girl is sitting next to me at formal event. We are loosely friends but not close in any way. I say to her that I can’t really remember what I talked to her husband about at that party and to apologise to him for that. The messgae being – draw the line.  Then she says  – ‘Yes you told him about the job you used to do’. Now I have only had one career. One. ‘Job?’ ‘Yes’ she whispers with wide eyes. ‘He was very turned on when he got home.’ she says. ‘Really? But I’ve only ever had one job.’ I say to her. So she says almost inaudibly  to me ‘When you used to get paid for getting men to lick your shoes and boots.’ I almost spit out my champagne at this. And I laugh and I laugh. ‘Darling girl’ I say ‘That was just for fun. No one ever paid me for that.’ And I can’t believe that that is what they think. ‘You are filthy’ she says in a sort of admiring and slightly scared way.

‘Will you take him.?’

‘Where?’

‘There?’.

‘No I don’t do it anymore and if I did the answer would still be a no.’

And I think to myself get back into your little financial fuck box Financial Dad. The next time I see him he is all, very purposely, submissive and I understand precisely why. He has me firmly put into a dom box where he imagines I do all sorts for my sport.

As you and Schmuck know this is so very far from the fucking and cumming and filth I so delight in these days. In fact I love being dominated by Schmuck. And sexy fighting him along the way.

As Financial Dad bids me goodbye -  I am sitting -  he asks if I will be returning to their house.

‘No.’

And he bends down and takes my hand and kisses it.  I know what he’s playing at.  Precisely.  He turns my stomach not with butterfies but with bile . I think I will have to re-name him Gimp Boy don’t you?

So lessons learned this week - a) don’t get drunk and talk about the Torture Garden – what’s a laugh for me is sexual fantasy for others b) when you are a sexual person expect the dogs to come to the door but you kick them away quickly to avoid any potential problems c) when getting your threesome together choose someone who can keep their mouth shut for discretion and their mouth open on the night for fun and always be direct about everything with them.

Happy weekend  - F

As another Friday rolls up winter is dawning ever closer. We are still getting some stunning cool but clear and fresh weather – in between heavy rain showers. Coming back to the office from an appointment I spotted a hibiscus bush in full bloom. Found in many countries around the world, in various species this great little flower also has a number of health benefits when drunk in tea form.

For today I just snapped its image.  I recently got a few bits put in the post for my old Rollei 35, so I’m craving some film taking in the near future. Due to this, post editing wise, I felt like giving it a bit of a lo-fi old color film look, so applied several filters/masks in Gimp. Its hard to believe from the photo that it was overcast, dark and wet an hour later!

The weekend begins now.

A green theme with thorns.

GAMES  -  APPS

Games the most illusive word when it comes to a person’s brain, surely education suffers. As age old seen thing about books getting close whenever there been a sound of someone asking you to come to play for a game.

Angry Birds (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now Chrome store is giving you more reasons to shut close those other tabs (in this case let the books be referred to as tabs) and open flash games which unfortunately are going to be replaced by HTML5. But by that time let’s just play around with Chrome’s this shit. Yeah Baby.

Chrome Web Store icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

P.S – Not making any categories of arcade, action, board or flying or shooting. Just putting up best silly games which will keep you away from work for sure. Enjoy the game not the genre.

Wow, striking stupid and silly games but will keep you entertained.

1. SAND - The classic eternal game, I played it long long time back, and now suddenly it reappeared at Chrome Web Store. This is the kind of game which will keep you engrossed for almost an hour no matter how you hate or love playing this, no brain just clicks.

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2. CUT THE ROPE (CANDY) - Deliver the candy to the monster to feed his hunger and it is said feeding hunger is always a noble work, so do it leave your office work on a desk or your study books at rest and feed the monster.

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 I think which you all will surely agree that playing it with touch interface will be more beautiful. 

Anyways, on a laptop or Desktop it’s equally entertaining. Go for it.

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3. ANGRY BIRDS - (How can we forget this) – No way, I wasn’t going to update you about Angry Birds which indeed you are more update than me for sure for this game.

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I don’t need to say more, enjoy this, download this and let me know if you the unbeaten master at this.

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4. FLIGHT – A flash game which can be loved and then deleted. Trust me on this one it great entertainer and total time waster, which is the plus point indeed.

But then you will kind of start getting bored, as I think the environment is same in the game for long till the end, moreover as my personal experience says it’s like the angry birds, but then it is the environment that’s made up the whole thing in the end. 

So go for it, but don’t cuss me when you will be deleting it or not using it.

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5. TOSS IT –  I know you are getting bored at the office or while studying and also while reading this, so I suggest you to stop reading this right now click on the link and download this app, to play the age old game of Toss the paper in the dustbin, but with wind here playing tricks.

Tricking the wind, through the paper and enjoy the game.

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6. I know this is 6th but it’s an Add-on for you Guys – Download the MINI NINJA’S - I wasn’t able to play this game at this time I am on Linux, but Windows and Mac users can easily go forward to it and seeing the graphics, it looks worth downloading. 

See the screenshot below and link embedded to download the app. 

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Download, enjoy, be happy and please don’t forget to share my this post if you like it and if you hate it then also share it, tell the world how bad I write.

The most obvious visible update is the single window mode option. While the multiple windows never particularly bothered me as much as they seem to bother other people, I’m very grateful for a single window mode, it just makes everything cleaner. There are also image tabs along the top of the screen with a small preview which makes working on multiple images easier.

The first thing I checked when I installed this update is the Preferences, and I was overjoyed to discover that I could finally make use of my RAM (the previous version would only use up to 4GB). Once I increased this setting accordingly I noticed that large texture brushes that used to lag drifted smoothly across the screen.

I’ve not noticed many new features as of yet, however one major new tool is the Cage Transform Tool. I think this will be most useful for photomanipulation, but it could be useful to enforce a perspective or change the shape of a face. After playing around with it, I discovered that it is spectacularly amusing to deform faces and I may use this to help me create caricatures in future.

There are some new textured brushes provided by the wonderful Ramon Miranda, as well as a variety of brush presets to help make the most out of tablet settings. I love textured brushes and anything that simulates traditional media so I’ll definitely try some of these out in my next painting.

You can’t really know a software until you push it to its limits, so I’ll be putting this new GIMP through its paces when I speedpaint Thor.

Over summer, I’ve decided I’m going to record a series of GIMP video tutorials. Let me know in the comments if there’s anything you’d be interested in learning.

I had some excess energy after writing my review on Alexander McQueen. Used GIMP to manipulate the image.

Quickly Riviiana scaled the last hundred feet of the cliff, drawing herself up inside. There lay the eggs, wrapped in feathers and twigs, warm and safe till the mother returned. Ten.. eleven… twelve… Twelve in all, a good amount, but not enough to cover her theft. The priestess had been right, one would not be enough.

With quick hands Riviiana separated eggs from the mound, two dark brown, two light brown, placing them with great care into her pouch. A shadow caught her eye, something that glinted in the sunlight. She moved aside a stray feather and found a large black egg, odd for its size and color. Griffin’s were brown, the females having bright blue wing feathers. Black griffins were extremely rare. This would be her own, the leader of the wing. Carefully, she placed this egg in the bundle, wrapping it with more straw to keep it safe from any jarring motions she would need to make.

I was surprised at how few quality photos of Thor exist, they just didn’t seem to do him justice. I ended up going for a comic style with the face, he deserved to be more rugged. I think the face reminds me of Patrick Brown’s style (unintentional), but I won’t be painting it in his style.

This one might take a while, so I might not get it finished today (and I have a lot of revision to do), but I’ll try and get it finished soon.

Guess I got my SWAGGA Back!!!!

DUDE THATs my butt

NAME – LOGO:

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TITLE BG:

The title screen.  Buttons used: New Game, Options, Quit.

The Title Screen Background in Crimson Memories.

OPTIONS BG:

The options screen.  Player can turn on/off: Debug Mode, Sound and Music; or view the control scheme. Buttons used: On/Off, View, Return.

The Options Screen in Crimson Memories.

CONTROLS BG:

The controls screen.  Shows the control scheme for Crimson Memories. Buttons used: Return.

The Controls Screen in Crimson Memories.

DUNGEON BGs:

The scrolling backgrounds used during gameplay in Crimson Memories; 4 total.

The Tunnel Area in Crimson Memories.

The Cave Area in Crimson Memories.

The Village Area in Crimson Memories.

The Palace Area in Crimson Memories.

GAME OVER BG:

The background that fades in once the player’s HP reaches 0.

The Game Over Background in Crimson Memories.

CREDITS BG:

The background that fades in once the player makes it past the final encounter.

The Win Background in Crimson Memories.

ARMOR:

The 4 different types of armor the player is expected to be able to equip in Crimson Memories.

Image displayed when type of Armor is hidden to the player.

The Chainmail Armor in Crimson Memories.

The Leather Armor in Crimson Memories.

The Plate Armor in Crimson Memories.

The Scale Armor in Crimson Memories.

ITEMS:

The 3 kinds of status drinks the player is expected to be able to use in Crimson Memories.

Image displayed when type of Item is hidden to the player.

The Elixir Item in Crimson Memories.

The Flask Item in Crimson Memories.

The Potion Item in Crimson Memories.

WEAPONS:

The 7 kinds of Weapons in Crimson Memories that the player is expected to use.  Only 5 of the 7 are used in the demo.

Image displayed when type of Weapon is hidden to the player.

The Dagger Weapon in Crimson Memories.

The Greataxe Weapon in Crimson Memories.

The Greatsword Weapon in Crimson Memories.

The Hammer Weapon in Crimson Memories.

The Longsword Weapon in Crimson Memories.

The Rapier Weapon in Crimson Memories.

The xXSuperSlayer666Xx Weapon in Crimson Memories.

ELEMENTS:

The very first pieces of art that I attempted to create for the game Crimson Memories. Only 3 of the 6 are actually used in the demo we made.

Dark Element in Crimson Memories

Earth Element in Crimson Memories

Fire Element in Crimson Memories

Light Element in Crimson Memories

Water Element in Crimson Memories

Wind Element in Crimson Memories

STATUS AILMENTS:

The last group of Icons that I made for Crimson Memories.  None are used in the demo, as far as I know. Each would adjust the statistics of the player/enemy according to: DEF, ATK, MAG, HIT, EVA, or HP.

Bleed ailment. Lowers player’s HP over time.

Burn ailment in Crimson Memories. Lowers player’s DEF.

Dizzy ailment in Crimson Memories. Lowers player’s HIT.

Poison ailment in Crimson Memories. Lowers player’s MAG & HP over time.

Rage ailment in Crimson Memories. Raises player’s HIT & ATK, but lowers DEF.

Slow ailment in Crimson Memories. Lowers player’s EVA.

Weaken ailment in Crimson Memories. Lowers player’s ATK.

HUD ICONS:

The following were created to open the menus for the player to navigate in Crimson Memories.  Again, of the 5 created, only 2 were used in the demo.

Abilities Menu Icon in Crimson Memories.

Armor Menu Icon in Crimson Memories.

Bestiary Menu Icon in Crimson Memories.

Items Menu Icon in Crimson Memories.

Story Menu Icon in Crimson Memories.

Pros:
• Cage transform - very usefull fox fast fixing of proportions during painting (but it is bit slow)
• Bigger and more user friendly sliders for paint tool options
• Seems to be faster at least for me (lots of peple report slowdowns compared to 2.6 version)

Cons:
• (see edit for info)No pen pressure support! This makes it unusable for painting for now
• Setup of brush seems to be to complicated – there are many little windows that you have to click to change brush behavior

There is hope, that We will have pen pressure in next release of gimp (2.10 I guess). This with improved performance, better blending modes (new gegl engine), more advanced brush dynamics will make gimp the best free Open Source painting software in my opinion.
There is one feature that I wish would be included in gimp – Paint branch just like for Gimp 2.6 GPS. This makes UI much cleaner and adds cool color blending dynamics for brush engine.

Any way here are some old Gimp GPS (and PS for coloring) drawings: